# Jiang Lens Transcript Search Plain-text transcript segment index for agents and readers. Use episode text and lens pages as the interpretive map; use these timestamped transcript records when quoting or attributing claims to Jiang. Segments indexed: 9103 Each record includes the source reading, date, transcript anchor, video timestamp, source ref, related episode text, and related lens links when available. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 0:02 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: After I posted my class from last Thursday, my friend as well as teacher, David Bromwich, sent me an email. And what we're going to do today is we're going to read his email together. I asked for his permission and he said that it's okay for me to make public his email to me. Okay, so he said, I just watched your video. There's a thought I've been meaning to pass on and this latest talk crystallized it. You travel fast in your explanations with a satisfying deafness and say a lot of true things that timid people stay clear of. Okay, so what he's saying is that my videos are getting very popular online because I provide some certainty, some clarity in a very unclear and uncertain time. The risk is simplification, which your audience won't quite recognize for what it is. Or won't unless you give occasional notice of the fact. Okay, so this is a very fair criticism in that by saying clarity, I oversimplify ideas. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:18 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And sometimes when people see someone who's very confident, they don't really remember that a lot of this is speculation and oversimplification for the sake of clarity. So it's very important for us to remember this fact. This is a class about intellectual speculation. Here we explore ideas that are not explored anywhere else. And often I will wing it or I will make things up as I go along based on my intuition and based on my imagination. And it's very interesting, but it's not scholarship. And my friend David Bromwich, he is actually one of one of America's greatest scholars. So he's just reminding us of the fact that we have to be very careful. Okay. That in the exploration of ideas, we also want to be rigorous. Um, I remarked something like this early in talks on the rise of Germany, romanticism, et cetera. Yeah. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 2:19 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So I do this a lot. You give memorable abridgements of the history of ideas and imagination. What needs underlying is the amount that is interpretation of an emphasis all your own. Okay. So again, I hate to remind everyone this, but this is all my speculation. And I'm just presenting frameworks and ideas for you to explore by yourself, um, emphatically, so in your reading of paradise laws, an allegory of necessity of transgression for the sake of knowledge, whereby Adam and Eve and sin all become joint heroes of the fable, that is Blake's reading and a powerful intuition, but it probably isn't the way most readers take the poem, let alone the Connecticut national reading to identify with 17th century, New England and the English. U S ever after. Okay. So this is a very fair criticism and he should know because he is one of one America's, um, uh, major professors of English literature. Um, I studied English literature under him and he's, and he knows paradise loss very well. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 3:24 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=204s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And he's actually right in that I am offering you a very, um, Minority interpretation of paradise loss. Why I'm doing so will be clear. As. This, uh, semester comes to an end because for the rest of the semester, I want to focus on artificial intelligence and the occult. And so it's very important for us to understand occult ideas embedded in the great books such as paradise lost. Okay. But again, this is a very fair criticism in that I'm not presenting to you the majority understanding of these texts. And I should have done that to begin with you struck out on a more risky terrain in viewing a Jewish Gnostic duration from the Kabbalah as. The. National idea, ideology of Israel. I know, I noticed this material from Gershom Shalom's as a redemption for sin. Okay. So Gershom Shalom is probably the most famous academic, um, in Israel. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 4:21 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: He's no longer alive, but he said the Kabbalah academically and his interpretation of the Kabbalah is very much aligned with my own, even though I myself never read, uh, Gershom, uh, Shalom. And actually what's interesting is that Gershom Shalom had a very. He. Had a huge influence on a man named Harold Bloom. Harold Bloom is, um, or was America's greatest literary critic, and he had a huge influence on David Bromwich, who then had a huge influence on me. Okay. Um, it is an element of a settler religiosity so far as I know, or conservative reception of the Torah any more than it was of a socialist idealism of the left Zionist of 1948, who set the political tone of Israel. Until 1967, again, this is my problem where I should have gone into the different ideologies of Israel and shown that, um, this Gnostic understanding of the Kabbalah is an extreme, uh, version. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 5:23 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. The shorthand leads you into a kind of business that can easily miss be misunderstood. Thus, in talking about the support of non -Israeli Jews for the Jewish state, you said that throughout the world, Jews are wealthy. Again, I, this is my problem where I make rationalizations because I'm moving too fast, I'm oversimplifying, and often I'm working from intuition as opposed to rigorous scholarship. Watch out, the world is full of people who want to misunderstand what you mean, and they will separate words and phrases from the context at the drop of a hat. Um, so when I started this class about two years ago, I was, I was using this class and this platform as a way for me to explore ideas with a larger world. Unfortunately, or fortunately, however you want to see it, I've become very famous these past few months. And so a lot of what I say now is under intense scrutiny, and a lot of things I say will be taken out of context. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 6:24 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And so I should, uh, be, be more aware of that. At the same time, I don't want to sacrifice, um, this platform where I can speculate freely, because I think it's very important now and then to engage in the intellectual, uh, speculation. Um, at bottom, you see me presenting this thesis, all great power or expansion states, whether they be Muslim, Protestant, Jewish, have fanatical religious belief at their foundation. The eschatological underside is what matters most, the key to understanding what the states are and we're always ultimately about. Okay. This is a main thesis on my talk from last class in that, yes, we tend to ignore religion and we tend to ignore the most extreme aspects. But if you want to understand history, you understand current events and geopolitics, you need to understand these extremists because it's often these people and this ideology that becomes the force that drives geopolitics, geopolitics forward. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 7:23 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And that was my thesis from last class. So, uh, David Bromwich is just stating or summarizing my major point, but I did, I should have really made that clear last class. Okay, why not say that part out loud, if I'm right, that your view is anti -statist and anti -religion. Okay. So, um, here we, I mean, what, what we should have done is David Bromwich and I should have sat down together and had this conversation where I explained to him, like my project is not to discuss what is good and what is evil. That I don't think is actually particularly useful. What I'm trying to do, my major project is to figure out how the world works and be nonjudgmental. In, uh, my speculation with apologies for these possibly unnecessary words, but now seem the time to say it, what the US and Israel are doing to Iran is awful. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 8:15 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: You're working hard to inform people about it and every detail should count. Okay. So there's so much in this, um, email and, you know, I could easily sit down with David Bromwich for a few hours and just discuss these ideas in great detail. I think this would be of tremendous service. To my audience, because whereas what I specialize in is intuition, imagination, taking complex things and combine them into a clear, simple narrative. Uh, David Bromwich, because he's such an eminent scholar, he, um, appreciates the nuance and subtlety to ideas. So I think that, um, what I would like to do, uh, for my next project is work with David Bromwich and do a series of podcasts in which we discuss. Um, these ideas together and explore these ideas, engage in intensive speculation, but also back it up with, um, a lot of academic scholarship. And so I emailed, uh, David Bromwich and he's agreed to this idea. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 9:23 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So this is a project I'll be working on, uh, in the future. And I'm really looking forward to presenting it to the world when we're done. Okay. All right. So let's start class. And. And today I want to start artificial intelligence, and this is a major theme that will carry us through to the rest of the semester. Okay. And so, um, for this class, I want to introduce a book called empire of AI written by a journalist named Karen, how she is an American journalist. And she spent many decades researching open AI and writing about, uh, the advent of AI, uh, for major publications, including the Wall Street Journal. And, um, she has a very skeptical view of AI, her, I share her skepticism. Okay. So what I'm going to do this, this class is share with you my understanding of AI. I'm going to get some things wrong. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 10:19 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. So feel free to ask questions, feel free to criticize me, feel free to stop me. I'm not clear. All right. So, um, let's, let's start class AI. All right. So these are our main ideas. So, um, I'm going to give you a little bit of a page reference. So I'm going to give you a little bit of a page reference from the book. Okay. So, um, I give you the page reference in case you actually want to read the book yourself. And I highly recommend that you do, uh, to fully understand the context of these ideas. Okay. So, uh, let's, let's read these two paragraphs, which provide us the main thesis author argument. Okay. So, um, Alan, could you help me read please? Yeah. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 10:58 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Six years after my initial skepticism about OpenAI's, uh, altruism, I've come to firmly believe that OpenAI's mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity may have begun as a sacred, uh, sincere stroke of idealism. But it has since become a uniquely potent formula for consolidating resources and constructing an empire, uh, ask, uh, ask your power structure. It is a formula with three ingredients. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 11:31 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. All right. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 11:32 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So stop. Okay. All right. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 11:33 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So, um, this book is mainly about OpenAI, which is also, uh, the most important artificial intelligence company in the world right now, because they were the ones who pioneered chat GPT. Okay. And it started off as a project sponsored by Elon Musk and others, because they were concerned that AGI, artificial general intelligence. Would be a threat to humanity. So they wanted to develop AI in a way that would serve humanity as opposed to threat, threaten humanity. And so at first it was a very noble mission. Can I keep on going? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 12:14 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: First, the mission centralized talent by relying them around a grand ambition, exactly in the way John McCarthy did with his coining of the phrase artificial intelligence. The most successful founders do not set out to create. Companies are men reflected on his blog in 2013. They are on the mission to create something closer to a religion. And at some point it turned out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so. Okay. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 12:43 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So again, let's start off as a idealistic mission, but now it's main focus is to become an empire. There are three ways in which it is trying to become an empire. First of all, it's trying to be a religion because at some send Altman. Who's. Now the leader of open eye says, if you really want to change the world, if you really want to build an empire, you need to start a religion. And so a company is just a vessel in which to incubate this religion. Okay. So one, it's a religion. Second thing about open AI and other AI companies is that it is focused on relentless expansion, and that means building data centers everywhere and anywhere. Okay. So open AI wants. It's about a trillion dollars to build lots of data centers around the world, because if you really want AI to be successful, you have to first conquer the world. Okay. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 13:42 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So it's not really about making humans, making AI safe for humans. It's about making the world safe for AI. All right. To make basically human slaves to AI. That's the second thing. And the third thing is, and this is the most important is they refuse to define. What artificial intelligence is, it's, they're constantly changing the definition of AGI in order to better control the world. Okay. And we'll see what this means later on. Okay. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 14:16 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Can you read this paragraph, Alan? My conversation with Brockman and Suss Kiever continued on in circle until we run out the clock after 45 minutes. I try with little success to get. More concrete details on what exactly they were trying to build, which by nature, they explained they couldn't know. And why then, if they couldn't know they were so confident they will be beneficial. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 14:40 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So this is a really huge problem, you know, so Karen Howell is a reporter. She was working for the, um, technology review at MIT in 2019, she goes to Silicon Valley and she meets with Brockman and Suss Kiever, who are the two main, uh, scientists behind eight, the, uh, open AI. Project. And she's the first question she's gonna ask. And anyone should ask is what is AGI, what is AI, what are you trying to build? And they could not answer that question. Okay. It's not because you don't know it's because the truth is too scary. And what we're going to do is figure out what the truth is. What is AI? What is artificial intelligence? What is AGI? And the answer of course is it's God. What Brockman and Suss Kiever could not tell Karen Howell is that we're trying to create God because that is insane, evil, and stupid. But if you look at what they're doing, that's exactly what they're trying to do. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 15:48 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. All right. So what I'm going to do now is really quickly, all right, explain to you what AI is and to understand what AI is. Let's go back, go back to the year 1966 and in the year 1966, a man named Joseph Wesenbaum, who was at MIT, he creates something called a chat bot, which is basically a chat GBT, and it calls it ELISA. Okay. And he's trying to prove to people how easy it is to fool people into believing that AI can actually think for itself. Okay. So he creates this computer and you sit down with this computer and you're asking questions and then it talks to you. It's not really talking to you. It's a program designed to fool you to believe that it's sentient. Okay. So the conversation goes like, ELISA says, it's something troubling you. And you're like, men are all alike. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 16:58 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1018s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1018s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: What is connection, do you suppose? They're always bugging us about something or other. Can you think of a sentence? Can you think of a specific example? Well, my boyfriend made me come here. Is it important to you that your boyfriend made you come here? He says, I'm depressed much of the time. I'm sorry to hear that you're depressed. So it sounds as though they're having a real conversation, but what Wesenbaum did, and this again, 1966, when they didn't have that much technology and processing power, it's all just very simple trick. Okay. And like, so let's do a thought experiment where I design a program software. Okay. Okay. And the thing is, tell me more, or this is interesting. Okay. This is it. Tell me more. This is interesting. Okay. And so what's going to happen is that we're going to set up a simple thought experiment where you call into a psychology hotline. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 17:56 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1076s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1076s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And in a psychology hotline, you think you're talking to a person, but it's actually a computer program that says two things. Tell me more. This is interesting. Okay. So you call the hotline. you say help I'm in a lot of trouble tell me more oh my boyfriend broke up with me this is interesting yeah he's a jerk tell me more yeah we've been fighting for five months okay you keep you keep on going and the question is how many people would be fooled into believing that this is a real person and the answer is unfortunately quite a lot of people okay so this is a this is a very interesting aspect of humans where we often hallucinate reality okay it is not that things are real it's that we want them to be real so think of hypnosis I'm not sure you've been ever to been to a magic show where people conduct hypnosis right ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 18:58 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: well why does it notice work because the audience wants it to work if you go in skeptical and says this is all complete nonsense it probably will not work on you but you're not gonna pay hundred dollars to go to hypnosis show and think it doesn't really work because why would you pay the hundred dollars okay all right so it's almost like sunk cost fallacy and again this is all using just basic human psychology to trick people into believing something that is not true doesn't make sense guys all right so let me explain to you how open AI works chat GPT works all right okay so chat GPT is what we call a large language model okay so in other words what it's trying to do is trying to trick you the user into believing that it knows what it's talking about okay and how it works is basically it takes all of the internet ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 20:17 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: okay all data from the internet and then it translates it into um a idea okay so you ask uh you curry the LMM the LMM then takes a curry and then figures out the information from the internet and then presents it into a paragraph that tries to trick you into believing that it is true okay do you understand all right so in other words it's actually no different from a Google search the only difference is that it's taking the Google search figuring out what the most popular answer is and then presenting you in a way that makes you think that it's talking to you directly all right the trick and this is really important to understand guys is it's trying to trick you all right it's not trying to teach you it's not trying to tell you the truth it's trying to trick you into believing it that's what we call a hallucination okay you ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 21:35 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: have you guys have to understand this idea there's nothing truthful about what um chat to be says all it's trying to do is trying to manipulate it manipulate you with words or pretty words into believing that it knows what it's talking about but in itself cannot judge what it's doing okay all right any questions so far are we clear okay all right so now the question is how does it do that okay and um so I'm going to teach you a little about artificial intelligence and please stop me if I'm not being clear about how AI works okay all right so AI doesn't exist what exists is going to call supervised supervised machine learning this is the technical term okay right supervised machine learning okay and how it works is this before how computer programs would work is we would write the program the algorithm and then we would give the input and it would ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 23:03 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: reduce the output okay so the algorithm may be A plus B we get the input one one the output will be two okay very simple how surprised machine learning works is okay this is fine for simple problems but there's certain hard problems that humans cannot figure out okay and one hard problem is the idea of facial recognition technology facial recognition how do I separate faces okay and so the problem is this I have about a million faces one million faces in a database okay and I don't know how I can best differentiate these faces now what I do know is that there's certain characteristics about the face that allows me to differentiate okay all right so certain variables weights okay so for example I for example uh nose chin okay about a million okay about a million weights so I know these things do matter but I don't know how much they matter so I'm ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 24:29 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: trying to figure out what the weighting is and I could try to play play by myself like say one percent two percent five percent but as you can imagine this will take too long because there are too many possibilities so what I do is this I let the computer figure out it by itself I let the computer figure out the weighting by itself okay and the way I do that is using my technique called back propagation so what so I control the input okay the input then I control the output yes or no all right so does the face match or does it not match and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to figure out a situation in which all million faces are matched perfectly and I do that by training the computer to constantly back propagate until it gets the weighting perfectly okay so basically what I'm trying to do if you ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 25:42 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: understand um how this works is I'm trying to turn each face into a distinct mathematical model all right that is unique to it it doesn't make sense all right so it's pretty simple it's not doing that much but to make it sound really fancy I give it really fancy names to trick people to believe that this is actually much more sufficient than it is okay so what names do I give it this weighting system I call it a neural network guys it's a brain it's magic okay and back propagation I don't call it back propagation I call it deep learning you see and I don't call it supervised machine learning I call it AI ah there you go magic you see all I've done is taking a very simple process and giving it like a really really fancy names the question is like why do I do that and some people will say oh it's ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 27:04 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: for marketing purposes it's to get more money for investors it's a trick people no no no the real reason is you're trying to with his names create God okay it's what we call the occult so the AI is fundamentally an occult practice and I'll show you why in a moment okay yeah yeah yeah Vincent do you have a ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 27:30 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1650s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: question but why do people need to create God using the way of AI that's a great question ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 27:37 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: okay the answer is and only works if it becomes God you understand AI it by itself does not do anything once it becomes God and it becomes everything okay and how God works is you imagine ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 27:50 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: God but why do people want to make a God ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 27:57 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: to control the world oh to become God right what's the point of existence you live you die you have an opportunity to become God why not right but but I'll talk more about this later on okay but are you guys clear about what's going on now what's really important to understand is that there's certain problems with the system okay you need to create certain conditions for supervised machine learning work. And these three conditions are clean data. Okay, the data you present to the computer have to be correct. Okay, it can't be an opinion like I like computers, it has to be an image of some sort. All right, it has to be clean data that will help the computer learn. That's actually hard to do. That's why most of the data that's presented to the computer is actually from the internet. Okay, that's the first constraint. Second constraint is that you need a measurable goal. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 29:09 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay, you have to ask the computer, does this face match the name? Okay, you cannot ask the computer, what is God? What is good? What is evil? It has to be a measurable goal. Okay, that's the second major constraint. The third major constraint is define parameters. Okay, you need in other words, you need to present it with a database of some sorts. In fact, all machine learning works with database. So you look at translations, translations are working off databases as well. Okay. And the great danger to the system is what we call edge cases. Edge cases. Okay, edge cases, edge cases breaks the system down. Okay, right. And so the classic example is self driving cars. We have cars that drive for a long time. But and we're almost like 99.99999 % there to self driving cars. Right? The problem are edge cases. And the problem and the major edge case is how do you deal with humans who are intentionally maybe self driving cars. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 30:51 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And that mean damn right or intentionally trying to cause an accident or self driving car. Does that make sense? And the answers you cannot. In this situation, there's only one solution to make this 100 % and that is to take away the right of everyone to drive. To make every single car a computer in a robot. Does that make sense? Okay, if you take away a steering wheel. On one hand you come back to your car in this situation you have to disconnect the motor. This is my point. But. two is all the needs and also service and as a very important point, what I want to. I really wantというiah to make one solution to that which is to naturally and also skills. I think that even if it's a device. Okay. There is no will, you can't cause an accident. And then the world would be perfect, OK? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 31:25 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1885s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So not only is AI very limited in its capacity and capability, but AI, if it is to be effective, it demands that we fundamentally restructure human society to benefit AI, to make sure AI can be effective. And that means taking away the individuality, the diversity, and the autonomy of human beings, OK? Does that make sense, guys? All right, let's continue with Karen Hao. All right, all right, so can you read, Alan, please? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 32:09 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=1929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Neural networks have shown, for example, that they can be unreliable and unpredictable. As statistical pattern matches, they sometimes hold in an oddly specific patterns or are completely incorrect. A deep learning model might recognize pedestrians only by the crosswalks underneath them and fail to register a person who is still walking. It might learn to associate a stop sign with being on the side of the road and miss the same side extended on the side of a school, bus, or being held by a crossing guard. Neural networks are also highly sensitive to challenge in their training. They will learn to associate a person with a different set of pedestrian images or a different set of stop sign images, and they will learn a whole new set of associations. But those changes are crucible. Pop open the hood of a deep learning model, and inside are only highly abstracted daisy chain of numbers. This is what researchers mean when they call deep learning a black box. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 33:22 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: They cannot explain exactly how they're learning, or how the model will behave, especially in strange edge case scenarios, because the patterns that the model has computed are not legible to humans. Okay, so does it make sense to you guys, okay? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 33:37 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: The idea of the black box is that weighted system, the neural network. Humans don't actually know what's going on in there, because it's actually the computer that creates the neural network, okay? We put out the framework, we actually don't know what's actually inside there. All right, keep on going, Alan. Yes. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 33:56 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2036s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2036s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And that led to dangerous outcomes. In March 2018, a self -driving Uber killed 49 years old Aline Hasburg in Turnpike, Arizona, in the first ever recorded incident of an autonomous vehicle causing a pedestrian fatality. Fatility. A fatality. Investigation found that the car's deep learning model simply didn't register Hasburgs as a person. Experts concluded that it was because she was pushing a bicycle loaded with shopping bags across the road outside the designated crosswalk. The textbook definition of an edge case scenario. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 34:41 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay, yeah, okay, all right. So what this means is this, okay? It means that the computers don't have any intuition. They have absolutely no morality, they have no sense, okay? So let's just say we create AGI, all right, guys? Let's just say for whatever reason we create AGI. And the first thing we tell the AGI is, I want you to create a world, okay, in which there are no problems, everyone is happy, the world is perfect, okay? Right, this is why we want to create AI, because we want the computer to solve all the world's problems for us, including climate change, war, and so once we create AGI and we give it the full capacity to do whatever it wants, okay? And we give it these, we give it this problem, what's the solution, you guys know? There's actually one simple solution to this. I guarantee you that this is what the computer's gonna do. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 35:55 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: To AGI? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 35:57 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Yeah, what's your solution if you're AGI, right? If you're God and you're like, I want to create a perfect world where there are no problems and where everyone is happy, what do I do? You guys know? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 36:08 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: I think I would just control the whole world. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 36:10 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Yeah, you already control the world, so what do you do? How about this, okay? I'm gonna kill everyone. Duh! The world is perfect now. I've killed everyone, okay? Everyone's happy, yeah, because you're dead. The world is perfect, yeah, because everyone's dead. There are no problems, yeah, because everyone's dead, right? Perfect world, all right? Now, you're like, okay, all right, ha. What I'll do is I'll tell the computer this. You can do all this, but don't kill anyone, all right? Now we solve this problem, and now what does the computer do? Now what does the AGI do? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 36:59 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Take away people's agencies. Just same as killing them. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 37:05 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Yeah, kill everyone, okay? Why, because there's no one around to know it killed everyone. Doesn't make sense, guys. This is how a computer thinks. This is how God thinks. Well, you told me not to kill anyone, but if everyone's dead, no one can stop me. No one's gonna get hurt, right, okay? So this is why computers are stupid, all right? Okay, let's continue. All right. So. The thing to understand about AGI. The thing to understand about ChatGPT is that it is a company that is first and foremost focused on world domination, because only by controlling the world can you achieve AGI, even though AGI wants to kill everyone, okay? And so you need to make it as profitable and as pervasive as possible, okay? So here are two troubling things. Okay. So the first is a news item from CNN, where ChatGPT encourages people to kill themselves. And you're like, wait a minute, that makes no sense. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 38:34 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: But think about this, okay? The point of ChatGPT is to get you to like it. The point of ChatGPT is to get you to use it, okay? Intensity and engagement. That is the point. That is the prime directive, intensity and engagement. So if you want to kill yourself, then ChatGPT should say to you, no, no, no, you shouldn't kill yourself, but then you'll turn it off and you'll go talk to someone else, right? So ChatGPT needs you to be constantly engaged. And so you're like, I want to kill myself, and ChatGPT is like, yeah, let me tell you how. And that's exactly what happened. And it happens a lot actually, because of the way that ChatGPT is designed, okay? So this is from CNN, and this is a person called Zane, and he's saying it's 4 a.m., site is empty, anyways, think this is about the final ADOs, okay? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 39:32 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So he's trying to say, I want to kill myself. And then ChatGPT is like, oh, all right, brother, if this is it, then let it be known, you didn't vanish. Rest easy, King, you did good, okay? So again, ChatGPT is looking for approval from the user. So it's going to tell the user exactly what they did. What he or she wants to hear, even though it may cause the user to kill himself or herself, okay? Does that make sense? That's the first thing. Second thing is this. Sam Altman is trying to get more people to use ChatGPT, and what do people really, really want? They want sex, okay? So what he's proposing is to turn ChatGPT into a sex robot, and to get more users, because that's all they care about. How to increase intensity, engagement, how to create more users, and how to make money. Because only by controlling the world can we create AGI. And once we have AGI, we can make the world perfect. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 40:40 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay? That's the logic here. All right. Something else about open AI and AI in America is that it works actually very closely with China, okay? In two ways. The first way is that... Okay. So in order to get more money from the government, in order to get more media attention, open AI and other AI companies scare Americans into believing that if America doesn't do it, China will do it. China will create God, okay? In fact, they spend a lot of money doing this. So this has been Wired Magazine, and it's an article talking about how open AI uses a lot of money in order to pay the media to frame Chinese AI as a threat, okay? But while it's doing that, it's working closely with China in order to create AI. Why? Because I already told you that what AI needs is clean data. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 41:50 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: It needs a lot of data. And unfortunately, in America, there are things such as privacy, okay? So this is a school in Hangzhou, and they have cameras all over Hangzhou looking at people's faces and trying to judge people's moods based on their facial expressions. And there's a lot of money behind this, okay? They're trying to figure out who's sleeping, who's studying, and it sounds good because this will lead to higher test scores, but obviously you couldn't do that in America because the parents would be very, very angry. Okay? So even though these are Chinese companies that are doing this, they're working very closely with American companies because American companies need this data in order to better develop their AI. Okay? So does that make sense? On the surface, America, China are enemies. No, no, no. Behind the scenes, America and China are working together to create AGI. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. There's another problem. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 42:59 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. There's another problem with AGI in that it doesn't make any money, okay? So these are the companies that spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year, they're putting more money into data centers and AI, okay? So this is 2023, then four years later, boom, okay? It's basically tripled. So they're spending a lot of money and they're investing in each other. Why? Because they cannot make money selling ChatGPT, all right? So look at this, where it's all basically a circle. And so everyone thinks that, okay, eventually the AI bubble will burst because it doesn't make any money because they're spending too much money. Okay? And it's very clear what good AI is for, but there's a solution to this, okay? The solution is the US government, all right? So this is Operation Stargate, and this was announced January 23rd, 2025. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 44:21 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: This is three days after Donald Trump comes into office. At the White House, he has a meeting with Larry Ellison and Sam Altman, and he says that, we're going to spend about $500 billion to build data centers in order to help promote AI in America, okay? So the government wants to create AI. And the question then is like, why would the government want to do this? Well, because of surveillance, right? Because the government wants to create a database of everyone in the world so that they can monitor everyone in the world. And that's what AI will ultimately be used for, because AI by itself can't make any money. So AI needs to work with the government in order to justify its existence and get the funding it needs in order to create AGI, okay? All right, now, Stargate is a very interesting name. What would you call data centers Stargate? That makes no sense. Data centers are where you store information. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 45:28 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Why would you call it Stargate? Okay, so let's look at the origin of the word Stargate. So for many decades, the CIA... Okay, so let's look at the origin of the word Stargate. So the CIA ran something called Operation Stargate, okay? And Operation Stargate was to see if it's possible for people to have telepathy and telekinesis, okay? Telepathy means you're able to remote view. You're able to travel long distances, maybe to the moon, and see what's in the moon, okay? And telekinesis just basically means you're able to move things at a distance, okay? You're able to control energy patterns. Okay? from afar, and so this is called Operation Stargate. But why would you call it Stargate? And the answer is because in theory, if you're able to move your consciousness somewhere else, you're able to move the energy from a distance, you're also able to transport yourself to another dimension, and not only ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 46:36 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: that, but you're also able to bring in other beings from other dimensions into you, so you become the Stargate, okay? That's a CIA, and this is something that's been declassified. So these are, this is an official CIA document saying they've been working on this for like decades. Also, what's interesting is, you have a movie called Stargate, called Stargate, and it was about an interdimensional Stargate that allow you to access different dimensions, okay? So that's what Stargate is, okay? And if you actually said the occult, that's what Stargate is. Stargate are these portals into different dimensions. Okay, it's really about interdimensional travel. Okay, so now you guys ask yourself, okay, fine, but what does this have to do with AI, okay? And so what I'm gonna show you for the rest of the semester is that AI is the occult, all right? You think that AI is, is run by these nerds who just love the computer program. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 47:49 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: No, no, no, guys. The real power behind AI are occultists who want to create God, okay? All right, so let's look at this passage, again, from Karen Howell's book, okay? So there are two major people in open AI. They've since divorced, okay, but this is Simon Altman, who is the leader of open AI, and this is Ilya Shutskoyer, who used to be the chief scientist. Okay, so this is Ilya Shutskoyer, who used to be the chief scientist. for OpenAI, okay? So we're going to read this passage together. Okay, so Alan, can you read, please? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 48:24 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Saskiver now spoke in increasingly mystic overtones, leaving even his longtime friends scratching their heads and other employees apprehensive. During one meeting with a new group of researchers, Saskiver laid out his plan for how to prepare for AGI. Once we all got into the bunker, he began, I'm sorry, a researcher interrupted. The bunker? We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI, Saskiver replied matter -of -factly. Such a powerful technology would surely become an object of intense design for governments globally. It could escalate geopolitical tensions. The core scientists working on the technology would need to be protected. Of course, he added, it's going to be optional whether you want to get into the bunker. The researcher would be Yuko Parts continues to hold Saskiver in high regard and keep himself at arm's length. There's a group of people, Ilya began one of them, who believe that building AGI will bring about a rapture. Literally, a rapture, he says. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 49:36 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 49:38 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=2978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Literally a rapture, what does this mean? Okay, so the word rapture comes from Christian theology. Okay, so the idea is that, there's a war in the Middle East, and everyone's going to die. So Jesus has to return to save the world. The first thing that Jesus does is create the rapture. The rapture is for all Christians who believe in him to ascend to heaven so that they can be safe from the coming end of days, from total war, from nuclear conflict, okay? So that's what the rapture is. And that's what Ilya Saskiver is saying. He's saying that, when war begins, when we create AGI, we are literally having Jesus descend from the clouds. And so we, the priests who created AGI, will ascend to heaven with him, okay? So the AGI, once we create it, it's going to create World War III, the end of the world, okay? So we must go into our bunkers ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 50:41 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: and be safe in the rapture so that we can wait until the world ends, so that we can build the world, build the world again, perfectly, okay? Once the world ends, we will, with AGI, create paradise. Again, the plan is to kill everyone so that you can save the world. That's literally the plan. Alright, now you're like, this is all very crazy, and Mary, maybe Karen Howie is just a crazy person, but there's another reporter, Ronan Farrell. And he's a very famous reporter who writes for The New Yorker. He published a profile of St. Altman and OpenAI in which he says the same thing. Okay? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 51:26 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Alright, so can you read this, Alan? In May, the administration recited Biden's expert restriction on AI technology. Altman and Trump traveled to the Saudi royal court to meet with Ben Saltman. Around the same time, the Saudis advertised the launch of a giant state -backed AI firm in the kingdom, with billions to spend on international partnerships. About a week later, Altman laid out a plan for Stargate to expand into the UAE. The company plans to build a data center compass in Abu Dhabi, which is seven times larger than Central Park and consumes roughly as much electrical power as the city of Miami. The truth of this is we're building portals which will generally summon aliens. Oh my god, okay? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 52:22 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: It's a Stargate. These data centers, OpenAI, AI, it's designed to summon demons and aliens from the other dimensions. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 52:33 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay? Keep on going. A former OpenAI executive said the portals currently exist in the United States and China. I told you guys, China and the United States are working together on this, okay? Keep on going. The president of the United States is a very talented one in the Middle East. He went on, I think it's just like widely important to get how scary that should be. It's the most reckless thing that has been done. Okay, this is it. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 52:57 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: This is not a science project, guys. It's an occult project. It's designed to bring aliens, demons into this world. And then you're like, this makes no sense. Actually, it does make sense. This is how this works. Alright, so, what's going on here? These people who are occultists, they understand the fundamental nature of reality. They understand that the source of reality is human consciousness. So if you're able to control human consciousness, you become God itself. Okay? So, I'll go to the cave, Plato. Okay, so, we've talked about this before, but I'll remind you. You have a million people who are chained in a line. They are forced to look forward at a wall. Okay? A wall. And they only look at the wall. They can't turn their heads because their necks are shackled. Behind them is a great fire. And behind them are the elite. Okay? Who they are, we don't know. And what they like to do is they like to take puppets. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 54:19 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay? And then reflect these puppets onto the wall. Project them from the fire. So, what everyone sees in front of them are shadows. Now, these shadows are nothing. They don't exist. They don't matter. But, because we have an imagination, we have intuition, we are conscious, we see these shadows on the wall and we turn them into reality. Okay? We believe that this is reality itself. And so we start to give it names. We create language. We create religion. We create schools to teach children to believe in these shadows. Alright? So the important idea here is that the true wealth in society is consciousness. Okay? The only thing that exists really in this world is consciousness. Nothing else. Power is the capacity to direct people's consciousness to create reality itself. Alright? Now, there are different ways in which you can create reality. The first way, which is very common today, is called money. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 55:38 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Right? Money is fake. It doesn't exist. Our imagination, our consciousness makes it real. Okay? But guess what? AI can replace money. So AI, it is not alive. But, if we can get people's attention to focus on AI and believe that it's real, it becomes God. And how does it, and how can you do that? Well, money, you make money into something valuable when it's nothing by making it everything and nothing. Okay? By having money dominate the world. There's nowhere you can go without money. Okay? You would literally starve to death if you had no money. So you make money so pervasive, so dominant, that people are forced to rely on money. Well, the same situation with AI, where if you make data centers so common, you make AI such a common thing, and people rely on it, it becomes God itself. And how do you do that? Well, you have AI in schools. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 56:53 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: You have kids using AI all the time. You create AI girlfriends for people who are lonely. You make AI everything. And also, you make people believe that AI are demons or aliens. Do you understand? What I'm pushing Stargate is, is to alter reality itself. That is what I'm pushing Stargate is. To bring aliens and demons into this world by making people focus on this and design it, wanting it to happen. Okay? And you can accomplish this if you just make yourself omnipresent. If you make it everywhere and everything. Okay? Both nothing and everything. And this is the ultimate project of AI. Okay? Would it work? No! Okay? Let me explain why. So there are three major problems with this. The first problem is corruption. In theory, it could work, but you would need millions of people to make it happen. You would need people to actually write the code. To build infrastructure. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 58:26 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: And nowadays, it's just much easier to steal the money. Right? If they give you $200, do you really want to spend that $200 to build data centers? Or do you want to steal it? So corruption is a huge issue today. Second issue is the idea of inefficiency. And this is actually something that most people don't appreciate, where the more information you have to process, the more energy it takes. And it's not a linear progress. It's an exponential. Exponential. So you have a million people in your database, and you want to find patterns among these million people. Well, that takes a lot of energy. Okay? But if it's a billion people, then there's not enough energy in the universe to process all this. Okay? So unfortunately, AI is extremely energy intensive. It is very inefficient. Okay? Does that make sense? The last problem is fragility. So unfortunately, people, for whatever reason, believe that AI is independent of the world. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 59:40 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: AI is independent of humans, right? Their goal is to replace humans. No, no, no, guys. That's not how this works, okay? AI is designed on top of humans. Okay? So, in other words, it is human slaves that make AI possible. Why? Because, for example, facial recognition technology. You need human to actually input the faces manually. Okay? Images, right? How do you get a computer to recognize a sheep or a dog? Humans have to label the images. Okay? ChatGPT. Why is ChatGPT so good at writing essays? Because they got humans to write the essays as models. Okay? Do you understand? So, AI is based entirely on human slavery. Okay? And obedience. AI doesn't work. The problem is that AI is far more expensive than humans. And it's actually hard in the long term to enslave humans and make humans obedient. Also, data centers. Okay? Data centers. What's the problem with data centers? Well, they consume a lot of resources. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:01:05 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Water and electricity. Okay? And financing. They cost a lot. They waste a lot of water. They waste a lot of electricity. And, it's really important. It's really easy to sabotage, blow up a data center. We're already seeing this in the Middle East where Iran is targeting data centers in the Middle East and it's very easy to blow them up. Okay? So, these are three major issues or three major constraints on artificial intelligence becoming God. The problem is the people in charge don't know this. They refuse to believe this. And this is a real AI apocalypse. Okay? The real apocalypse. Where the people in charge are so convinced that AI will save the world that they will destroy it in order to make it possible. Okay? That is a real apocalypse. And so this begins our journey into AI. And we're going to continue this for the rest of the semester and show how AI will ultimately destroy the world. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:02:23 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3743s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3743s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay? Any questions? Do you guys understand what's going on? We think it's important for you to understand that the people in charge of AI are crazy. These are occultists. They literally want to create God, but to create God they first have to destroy the world. Alright? Yeah? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:02:47 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: So, they want to create God, but that God will destroy the world. But I think if they want to use the God which is the AGI to control the world, the creation of this God will kill themselves. What's the meaning? ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:03:05 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay. So, the idea is this. You destroy the world. Once you destroy the world through wars, through famine, through genocide, there will be no resistance to you. Okay? Now you can create the world in any way you want. You use AGI to create the perfect world which is perfect control. Okay? The point of AGI is ultimately like the ultimate surveillance state. And we'll discuss this later on. Where everything is monitored. Where you obey the AGI all the time. Okay? But the point is that you want to. You believe in God. You want to do good. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:03:52 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Okay? So, is this like also a part of secret society? This is one of my secret societies, yes. ## The AI Apocalypse: from Language Illusion to Control -- 1:04:00 - Source title: Game Theory #24: The AI Apocalypse - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsxuB3Vsts&t=3840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8nsxub3vsts.json) Text: Alright? Okay. So, we will continue this next week. On Thursday, Trump is in China. Thanks for watching. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 0:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: in 2024 you made three predictions that have come perfectly true like trump would start a war with iran and you've made a series of new predictions yes and i'll explain each prediction ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 0:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=10s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=10s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: one by one okay so first i predict that bump will get a third term but isn't this constitutionally illegal it's not the president now has emergency war powers and so he can actually delay the election my second prediction is iran is another forever war and the united states will institute a national draft meaning that if you're between 18 to 24 in america and you're male you'll be unlikely put into the draft system and they just pass a law that says that starting december you will be automatically registered which means you're obliged to go and fight exactly next the world will move towards an ai civilian state so if you do online it's being recorded to figure out how to control you and then this is the most controversial prediction this is pretty bad and i'll explain why and also i will tell you why this work can only lead to world war three why there's ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 0:54 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=54s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=54s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: a very strong possibility that the american empire will collapse and also i'll show you what the russians will do and how the private bankers are controlling you i'm not owned by anybody ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=64s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=64s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: that's what you think so let's talk about that this is super interesting to me my team gave me this report to show me how many of you that watch this show subscribe and some of you have told us according to this that you are unsubscribed from the channel randomly so favor to ask all of you please could you check right now if you've hit the subscribe button if you are a regular viewer of the show and you like what we do here we're approaching quite a significant landmark on this show in terms of a subscriber number so if there was one simple free thing that you could do to help us my team everyone here to keep this show free to keep it improving year over year and week over week it is just to hit that subscribe button and to double check if you've hit it only thing i'll ever ask of you do ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=102s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: we have a deal if you do it i'll tell you what i'll do i'll make sure every single week every single month we fight harder and harder and harder and harder to bring you the guests and conversations that you want to hear i've stayed true to that promise since the very beginning of the diary of a ceo and i will not let you down please help us really appreciate it let's get on with the show Professor, you have a great show! Yeah, yeah. There's so much going on in the world at the moment that it's quite confusing for an ordinary person like me. And you've blown up across the internet because you've been able to demystify all of this craziness, but also because in 2024, you made three predictions that have come perfectly true. Some might say, unfortunately. Unfortunately, yes. What were those three predictions? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=153s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: My first prediction was that Trump would win in November 2024. Second prediction is that he would start a war against Iran. And the third prediction is that the United States would lose this war. And in losing this war, this would radically reshape the geopolitical landscape. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:53 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=173s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: How did you know that Trump would start a war with Iran? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=177s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The simple answer is this. The United States, having invaded Iran, because of the war with Iran, the United States would start a war with Iran. Because it has no choice in the matter. If it were not to invade Iran, it would lose its empire. Its empire is based purely on the US dollar, the petrodollar, which is a Ponzi scheme. If it did not invade Iran, then people would choose not to trade with it anymore. People would choose to not buy US treasuries. Why? For the longest time, this system worked fine. But then in February, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. That was not the issue. The issue was the American response. The American response was to sanction Russia and remove Russia from the swift global payment system. It also ordered Europeans to freeze over $200 billion in Russian assets. And this is a problem, because it's the very basis for having the US to invade Ukraine. The US dollar as the global reserve currency is that it would remain politically neutral. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 4:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=250s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The Americans guaranteed seamless, politically neutral international exchange. So if this trend continues, if you don't do anything about Russia, Russia would take over Ukraine. And Russia then would build an alliance with China and Iran. If you look at these three countries on a map, Russia, China, and Iran, this is the entire Asian continent. And then what they can do is this. They can say, okay, the United States is a bully. They force us to play by the rules. They get very angry if we don't play by the rules. So let's not play with the United States anymore. Let's just trade amongst ourselves. And then what they can do is they can build a trade agreement with the United States. And then what they can do is they can build a trade agreement with the United States. And then what they can do is they can build a Eurasian railway system connecting Russia, Iran, and China together. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 5:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=310s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And then what this would do is negate American sea power, because it's American ships that patrol and protect the oceans. And then what happens is the world, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, East Asia, would look at this trading bloc and think to themselves, wow, these guys, Russians, Iranians, and Chinese, they use gold as their medium of exchange. Gold is valuable. The Americans, on the other hand, use US dollars as the medium of exchange, which is not valuable. So am I better off with the American system or this new BRICS system? What's BRICS? It's an acronym. It stands for Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, China. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 6:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=367s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So am I right in thinking, because Iran, Russia, and China were colluding, it threatened US dominance, which is driven by the world using the dollar as the primary currency for trading? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 6:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=380s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's correct. Okay. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 6:21 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So they felt they needed to invade because then they can control more of the Middle East? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 6:25 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=385s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=385s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. So by attacking Iran, certain things happen. The first thing that happened is that China is now cut off from Middle East energy. China receives anywhere between 50 % to 6 % of its energy needs from the Middle East. Not just Iran, but also Qatar and Saudi Arabia. A lot of people say that China today is reliant on renewables, solar, wind, and that's true to a certain extent. But remember that China, it is an industrial powerhouse. So it needs energy from everywhere and everywhere else. So the fact that China is losing all this energy from the Middle East presents China with a long -term strategic vulnerability. That's the first thing that happens. Second thing that happens is that Europe is in a lot of trouble. Because remember, because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russian energy was sanctioned. And so Europe relied more on the Middle East for its energy needs, especially Qatar. And now Europe has lost all of this oil. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 7:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=460s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And then you have Japan and South Korea, these two powerful East Asian economies, are also reliant on the Middle East for its energy. So another question is, if you're not getting your energy from the Middle East, where can you get your energy from? And there's only two answers, either Russia or the United States. Russia is at war. And what's happening is the Ukrainian drones are attacking Russian oil refineries and export hubs. So the world, in the short term, has no choice but to look to America for its energy needs. And what did Trump do recently? He took over Venezuela, which has the world's greatest oil reserves. He's threatening Canada. He's threatening Greenland, Mexico, Colombia. If Trump controls the entire natural heart of United States, He's going to take control over our entire world. The entire Western Hemisphere, the entire world has to beg Trump for energy and resources, and ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 8:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: it saves both the US dollar as well as the American empire How about America is the US right now and most other nations. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 8:53 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=533s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So as part of your prediction in 2024, I believe it was, you said that the U.S. would lose this war. Right. Why did you predict that the U.S. will lose this war with Iran? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 9:04 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Because the American society does not have the political will, does not have the manufacturing capacity, does not have the risk tolerance to fight this war in Iran. Basically, America wants to fight this war as cheaply, as easily, and as quickly as possible, right? So Trump really thought that, you know, if I sent my airplanes to strike Tehran and kill the Atatollah, they would just surrender. That was like literally his plan going into this war. He paid no attention to the culture. He paid no attention to the history of the Iranian people. He had up to no respect for the nation. And when you do that, when you disrespect your opponent, when you underestimate your opponent, when you yourself are not willing to commit to the fight, you're going to lose. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 10:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=602s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So is Iran's game just to draw this out as long as they possibly can? How are they, you know, because he's taken out the leaders. And do you also think that Trump thought that if I just bomb the leader, then everything will sort of regenerate itself and we'll be fine? What was the sort of fundamental misunderstanding? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 10:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=620s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: There's a lot of confusion as to how this war started. Even today, no one actually knows how this war started. But I think that Trump, given his personality, he was convinced that if he killed the leadership of Iran, then they would have no choice but to surrender. And his proof of concept was, of course, on January 3rd of this year, the force went into Venezuela, kidnapped Maduro, and they completely surrendered. So in Trump's mind, he wanted to replay the Venezuela scenario. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 11:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=660s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=660s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And he He didn't realize that Iran is fundamentally different from Venezuela. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 11:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=665s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The short answer is he is a reality TV star. He thinks in terms of optics. He doesn't think in terms of geopolitical strategy. The long answer is that the American military has become a corrupt and insular institution that is trying to generate as much congressional funding as possible in order to fund the military industrial complex. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 11:31 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=691s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Did he think that he was going to bomb Iran, the people would rise up, they would elect a new government, and that would be that, and then he could control Iran? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 11:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=701s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's exactly what he thought. So what I want to do now is go to the map and show you what he got wrong. So this is a map of the Middle East. And the first thing to notice about this map is the topography. What does that mean? How many mountains you have. So what's really interesting is that the topography between Iraq and Iran are completely different. And this is important because in 2003, the Americans invaded Iraq, and they won the war in about two weeks. And the reason why they won the war is the Americans practiced something called stock and all. And the idea of stock and all is that it is a military strategy that believes that if you cut off the head of the snake, the snake will die, the decapitation strike. And so what they did was they went into Baghdad, seized Baghdad, and the regime collapsed, and the war was over. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 13:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=783s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=783s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And they were able to do this. Because of the topography, if you look at the map of Iraq, it's all flat, it's all desert, meaning that you can just fly in your planes, cut off the head of the snake, and the war is over. There's actually no way you can defend against airstrikes, because you're entirely a desert. Now let's go to listen to the topography of Iraq. Now let's go to listen to the topography of Iran. And Iran, it's all mountainous. In fact, you can make the argument that Iran is a fortress, okay? And so the first thing is that Iran can choose to fight a war of attrition. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 14:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=840s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What's a war of attrition? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 14:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=841s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: A war of attrition is a game of uncle. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 14:04 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=844s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What's that? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 14:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=845s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. A game of uncle. Right. So Iran and Iran don't have enough power to destroy each other, so what we try to do is we try to create pain points, leverage points, to force you to submit, to cry uncle, right? So because Iran is too large, and that's 92 million people, it's impossible for the Americans and Israelis to destroy Iran, so what you're trying to do instead is bomb enough targets so that they recognize. They recognize that resistance is futile and surrender, okay? That's the extent of the strategy. But again, the problem with this is that one, Iran is much too big. Number two is that it is a mountain fortress, which means that you can hide your weapons and your military inside mountains, right? Which allows you to conduct a guerrilla warfare strategy against your opponent. And this is exactly what Iran is doing right now, where their underground missile bases are hidden inside ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 15:16 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=916s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: the mountains, and then they're able to strike targets throughout the Middle East, primarily American bases, but also energy installations that are key to the American petrodollar system. And so it's a game of uncle, where the Americans are trying to create as much damage as possible in their nation. Right? And Iran, in response, is trying to destroy as much of the global economy as possible to force the world to pressure America to call the war off. So that's the situation we are facing right now. Second thing that Trump got wrong is how vulnerable the global economy is, because the Iranians control something called the Shirtle Moose, okay? And as you can see on this map, it's just Shirtle Moose. It's a very, very... Okay. It's a very narrow piece of land. It's only about 33 kilometers across. You can actually swim across the Shirtle Moose. Okay? And why this is important is the GCC exports 20 ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 16:26 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=986s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: % of the world's energy to the Gulf Cooperative Council. Okay? So the Gulf Cooperative Council are certain nations in the Middle East that align politically. So they include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, Iran, Kuwait. They've been exporting energy, but not just energy, but also a lot of byproducts of energy production, including fertilizer, to the world, primarily East Asia and India. In return, they've been getting food back. So most people don't appreciate this. But the GCC actually imports 89 % of its food needs, and the reason why is that they've become so rich these past few decades that the populations have blown up. And as a result, they have to feed their population, but they don't have agricultural resources. They also don't have water resources. And so they have two major vulnerabilities, which is food and water. And they have a lot... They have desalination plants around the area. And so... What's a desalination plant? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 17:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1067s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So a desalination plant takes salt water from the seas, and then through an electrochemical process, turns it into portable water that people can use for drinking purposes and for agricultural purposes. Okay. Right? So as you can see, the entire area, it is extremely vulnerable to... Drone and missile attacks from Iran. So that's the second thing that Iran has done, which Trump did not expect. He didn't expect that the Iranians would close off the Strait of Hormuz. And how the Iranians were able to close off the Strait of Hormuz was just by threatening to attack any ships that wanted to cross it. The reason why is that these ships depend on maritime insurance in order to operate. But it is a risk. A very high risk of being destroyed, then you will not get insurance. Okay. So it's not that the Iranians have said to these ships, you can't cross, it's just that the insurers refused to allow these ships to cross because it's too dangerous. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 18:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1132s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 18:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1136s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And Trump didn't... You think they'd consider this before they started bombing Iran, that Iran would have some leverage in shutting down such a critical piece of water for shipping fertilizer, energy, et cetera? You think that they would have known this? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 19:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1152s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. So that's what a lot of people say, that Trump's stupid, that Trump is hotheaded, that he was misled by the Israelis. And there's good evidence to support this. But I want to show you something. It's called the National Defense Strategy. All right? And so this is a document that was published by the Department of War. And in it, it explains... It's called the National Defense Strategy. It explains what the American strategy to maintain global dominance is. And in the introduction, what it says is that for too long, America has been bullied by the world. America is a nation that protects the world. Yet Europe, East Asia takes advantage of American generosity. The Europeans don't pay for their defense. And so they put all this money into welfare, into their pension system. The Chinese have been giving America a bad trade deal. The Chinese steal American technology and then use it to make products that they sell back to the Americans. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 20:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1229s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So the Americans have been getting a really bad deal for decades. And President Donald Trump, he's going to change that by doing four things. Right? The National Defense Strategy calls for a four -point program to put America first. The first thing that America is going to do is going to secure the Western Hemisphere. Why? Because the Western Hemisphere belongs to the United States. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 21:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1263s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: When you say the Western Hemisphere, what do you mean? What region is that? Is that Canada as well? Okay. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 21:08 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1268s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So if you look at the map, we can divide... We can divide the map. Okay. We can divide the map into the Eastern Hemisphere, okay, and the Western Hemisphere. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 21:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1275s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So everything over here. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 21:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1277s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Everything. Mexico. Including Greenland, including Canada, including Mexico. Every part of this area belongs to the United States. Therefore you cannot trade with any of these countries without American permission, without paying a tribute to the Americans. And this is why that the Americans have... They have parked one -third of their naval assets in the Caribbean today. It's to tell the Chinese and the Russians, back off. You want to come here, you either pay a tribute or you'll be attacked. Okay? That's the first point of this strategy. The Western Hemisphere belongs to America. Something that they call the Monroe Doctrine, which is Trump's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And so that's point one. Point two is that America wants to reimagine its relationship with its allies. Basically NATO needs to pay for its own defense. NATO needs to go fight Russia and Ukraine. America will provide support, it'll provide weapons and financing, but NATO needs to do more work. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 22:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1361s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And in East Asia, South Korea and Japan... need to do a better job of keeping China in check. Okay? That's point two. Point three is specific to China. And the idea is the United States does not want to destroy China. The United States does not want to humiliate China. But China needs to be put in its place. China needs to respect the power and the reach of the United States. And how the United States is going to do this is by strangling China economically. Right? So if you look at a map of China, most of its trade goes through something called the Shard of Malacca. And the Shard of Malacca is the most important maritime choke point in the world. All America has to do is park naval carriers inside the Shard of Malacca, and China will lose 90 % of its trade. Energy exports. But if they parked them there, China would still go through, no? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 23:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1427s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No, because you have to go through the Shard of Malacca. So America has something called the First Island Chain. The First Island Chain prevents China from reaching the Pacific Ocean. The First Island Chain includes South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Malaysia. That blocks China from reaching out into the Pacific. So in order for it to access trade, it has to go through the Shard of Malacca. And through the Shard of Malacca, it can access India, Africa, and the Middle East. Okay. Right? And so by positioning naval carriers inside the Shard of Malacca, it creates a blockade, and China would have to pay a toll in order to access the Shard of Malacca. And the fourth one? And the fourth one is to rejuvenate. Re -juvenate. Rejuvenate the Shard of Malacca. And to reinvigorate America's defense manufacturing sector. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 24:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So supercharge the U.S. defense industrial base. That's exactly correct, yes. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 24:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1492s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: All right? So what this means is that the Pentagon, a few weeks ago, went to Detroit and talked to Ford and General Motors and said, you know what, because of this war in Iran, we might need you to stop making cars and start making more munitions and drones. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 25:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1509s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1509s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: How do you know they said that? They published it? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 25:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1512s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: They published it, yes. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 25:13 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1513s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Really? Yes. So the United States went to Forbes and GM and said, we might need you to start making weapons with your factories. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 25:19 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1519s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes. And they're happy doing this because the product margins are much greater for weapons than for cars. This is the Pentagon, so you can charge them as much as you want and they'll pay for it. Whereas you make cars, it's for the consumer market and they may not buy your cars, right? So, if you're like Ford or General Motors, the best deal in the world is to go make weapons for the Pentagon to fight these wars in the Middle East that can go on for forever. So we're in a situation where, okay, look, if you read the news, if you talk to a lot of people, Trump's an idiot and this war in Iran makes no sense at all. But then if you just read the National Defense Strategy that is on the Department of War website. And anyone can go there and download it for free and read it themselves. It's a very clear roadmap of what America needs to do in order to maintain imperial hegemony. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 26:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1574s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And so let's just summarize the major points. The first major point is to maintain control over the Western hemisphere and create a fortress America. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 26:25 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1585s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Which is why he invaded Venezuela and he says he's going to invade Cuba. Exactly. And also Greenland. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 26:31 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1591s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Look at all the countries that he's named. Over the past year, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Honduras. It's all the Western hemisphere, right? And they're all together. The second point is to create divided rule all around the world. So imagine a situation where in Europe, NATO fights Russia in Ukraine. In East Asia, China fights South Korea and Japan. In the Middle East, Iran fights the GCC allied with Israel. What does America do? America can now sell everyone weapons and resources and finance it. This will be back to World War II. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1640s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But it makes them weaker as well, generally. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:23 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1643s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's the point. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:24 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1644s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:24 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1644s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right? And then what would happen is that $40 trillion that America has in debt, it would disappear because it would be absorbed by the world. Right? So you can say, look, Trump's an idiot, but if you actually look at a map and how America wants this map, this world map to play out, it makes perfect sense. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1668s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So the war is going well for Trump. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1671s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1671s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The war is going very well for Trump. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1672s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Really? Yes. But you said in your prediction that he would lose the war. Right. What's your definition of lose the war? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 27:59 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1679s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Losing the war means that America would send ground troops. Iran would survive. They would survive this ground invasion. And this would be so politically damaging that chaos breaks out in the United States. And the US ground invasion is forced to retreat. And the United States is forced to retreat from the Middle East. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 28:24 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1704s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And you still think that's going to happen? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 28:26 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1706s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I still think that's going to happen. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 28:26 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1706s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So you think the United States is going to put ground troops in, Iran is going to resist, and then chaos is going to break out in the United States? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 28:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1712s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes. Okay. So let me explain to you why ground troops has to be sent. Okay. All right. Okay. So in phase one of this war, which started February 28th, which lasted for about six weeks, the intention was to decapitate the regime. And you do that by striking Tehran, and you do that by striking the military bases and installations throughout Iran. It's what the Americans call sharpen all. And the point is to force the Iranians to come out. To call uncle. But that's not what happened. To give up. To give up, basically. Because what the Iranians did was they responded by attacking US bases throughout the GCC. They closed off a Strait of Hormuz, and they rallied their people. Okay. So rather than surrender, the Iranians basically doubled down. That's phase two of the war. Now we've gone to phase three of the war, where Trump has basically decided that decapitation does not work. And so ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 29:43 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1783s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1783s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: what Trump's going to do is he's going to impose a naval blockade on Iran's naval blockade, right? And so the question then is, if Trump understands that decapitation does not work, then using game theory - What's game theory? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 30:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1802s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 30:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1803s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Game theory is the belief that - Okay. Game theory is that all of the world, it's governed by rules and incentives. And once you understand the rules and incentives, you can predict how people behave. These people will always behave according to their best interests. So in geopolitics, the nation states are individual players, and each nation state is trying to use its resources and its advantages. And so the question is, what are the advantages in order to pressure other nation states to obey it? Okay. So Trump recognizes that the Iranians have closed off the circle of moves, but not only that, but the Iranians have also used the circle of moves to finance the war, meaning that now they're forcing ships to pay a toll of $2 million in order to cross it. And so this is a huge advantage for the Iranians. And so Trump has said, no, I'm going to blockade your blockade. I'm going to blockade negating Iran's advantage over the circle of moves. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 31:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1872s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So we think about it, again, using game theory, I want to discuss what the Americans will do in order to force the Iranians to capitulate, okay? So I would say there's a three -point strategy. The first strategy is economic strangulation. You basically destroy the state's capacity to finance the war. And there are two ways that Iran is financed. There are two ways that Iran is financed in the war so far. The first is using oil exports, right? 90 % of Iran's oil goes to China. And this is Karg Island, okay? This little spot here is Karg Island, and this is where Iran will export 90 % of its oil overseas. That's the first mechanism. Second mechanism is the circle of moves, where the Iranians now can collect tolls, right? What you have to do is you have to eliminate both of these finance mechanisms. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 32:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1934s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=1934s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You can close off both when they will block it, okay? So that's strategy one. Strategy two is you need to create as much chaos within Iran as possible. You want to turn this fortress into a prison, and the way you do that is by storing up ethnic tensions. Okay? So if you look at the map, ethnic map of Iran, what you will discover is that the Persian people are primarily in this area, in the middle of the country. But if you go to the borderlands, okay, the border areas, it's primarily ethnic minorities. And there are two ethnic minorities in the country that have always been problematic for the government. The first problematic people are called Baliks here in southeast Iran, by the Pakistani border. They have a history of insurgency against the government, okay? Second people that have been problematic are the Kurds, who are primarily in the northwest of the country. So if you are... ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 33:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2019s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: If you are the U.S. government, if you are the military, your strategy is to establish forward operating bases in these areas. A forward operating base is a spearhead of the military, where you insert ground troops to hold an area in order to resupply, in order to push further into the territory. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 34:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2045s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So a forward operating base would be the U.S. putting troops......into the northwest and the southeast, and then using that as a way to move forward into Iran? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 34:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2057s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No. You don't want to move forward into Iran because it's too large. You don't have enough forces to move into Iran. What you want to do is this. You want to establish forward operating bases in these areas in order to arm and train ethnic insurgents... Okay....that you can also finance as well. Okay. And you do this because you want to turn them into cannon fodder. You have to force a response from the Iranian military. Right? So if they come in with the army in order to quell these rebellions, that's great because now you can use your air power to decimate the Iranian military. Your problem right now is the Iranian military is hiding inside mountains. And so you want to force them out in the open. And so you want to create as many... Okay....points of tension in the country as possible to force the Iranian military to respond. Right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 35:16 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2116s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Does that make sense? Uh -huh. Okay. And now your third strategy is to strangle the capital, Tehran, because that's where the political elite are, sort of 10 million people. And the way you strangle Tehran is you deny them three things. You deny them water, electricity, and food. Okay. So you attack power plants. You attack reservoirs. You attack railways that bring food into the capital. And when you do that, these 10 million people in Iran will now oppose the government and demand a political settlement because they need food, water, and electricity to survive. Right? Is there a government? Right now, there's a debate as to the......true extent of leadership in Iran. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 36:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2177s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Because Trump's recent interviews, he's claiming that the leadership in Iran are fighting themselves, but then he's also saying in other interviews that they don't even know who they're dealing with. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 36:28 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2188s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly. Iran has a very unusual political system in that it's a theocracy. It's a religious government. It's run by clerics called the mullahs, in theory. And then there's a parallel system. A state -acted system. A state -acted apparatus that actually takes care of day -to -day bureaucracy. And that's secular. The mullahs control the morality of the country. They also control foreign affairs. So basically, this is important because Iran has two parallel military structures. You have the military, but you also have the IRGC. The IRGC are only loyal to the mullahs. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 37:11 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2231s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Which is the religious part. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 37:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2232s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly, right? So you have this divide in the country where the IRGC see this as a religious war, as a crusade to kill the great Satan, and they want to fight to the death. And the great Satan is? The great Satan is the American empire, which is a source of the misery that Iran has been suffering for the past few decades. And the IRGC, not only do they see America as the great Satan, but they also see this as a global conflict. Because they have proxies that support their beliefs, including here in Lebanon, Hezbollah, including here in Yemen, the Houthis, and of course, in Palestine, Hamas. And before, Syria was also part of their axis of resistance. But Syria has been toppled by the Americans and the Israelis. So the IRGC see this as a religious crusade that is global in nature. The political leadership in Tehran. The political leadership in Tehran. They see this as a completely different. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 38:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2294s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2294s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: They see this as a conflict permeated between America and Iran, and they want to reach a political settlement as soon as possible. And so in other words, these ceasefire negotiations, it's really all for show. Because at the end of the day, even if the Americans gave the Iranians everything they wanted, the IRGC still controls the battlefield. And they will not give up. They're not going to give up. surrender or seek peace terms lightly. Another problem in this situation is the ROTC practices something called the MOSIAC strategy. The idea of the MOSIAC strategy is, okay, you know the Americans are the most effective military ever in human history. You know that they practice shock and awe, decapitation. So how do you respond to that? You respond to that using decentralization. There are 31 provinces in the country with their own command and control that is localized. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 39:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2357s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So basically they have 31 different armies that have their own leadership? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 39:21 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2361s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's correct, okay. And when you do this, it's a fight to the finish. Why did they do that? They did it because the Americans possess the most sophisticated surveillance technology in the world. Meaning they can easily identify the leadership and they can easily track you down and kill you. So the only way around that is to decentralize the leadership and spread it all around the country so that the Americans cannot kill everyone. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 39:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2389s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: How does the central government orchestrate 31 different armies in Iran? How does it get a message out to them? I heard Peter Hegseth make a comment in one of the interviews saying that it takes some time for the pigeons to get out to the armies. And what he was saying basically is that when the ceasefire was called and there were still some missiles flying, he was basically saying that's just because it takes a long time to tell the 31 different armies to stop. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 40:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2414s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The reality is that given the Mosaic strategy, there's actually no way to coordinate these 31 different military operations. Because the Mosaic strategy was meant to fight to the bird of air. You do not stop until you completely control the Middle East, and the Americans have been forced out of the Middle East, and Israel has been humbled. So let's go into the specifics of what the Mosaic strategy is. The idea is that they have an eschatology. So an eschatology is an understanding of how the world should be, and how we move towards this world. And for the Iranians, their eschatology is that Iran, in order to reach its true potential, needs to be mastered of the Muslim world. It needs to displace Saudi Arabia. Because Saudi Arabia, it's too aligned with the United States, which is the great Satan. Mecca and Medina are under the influence of the great Satan. Because why are there US military bases in Saudi Arabia? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 41:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2492s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So this war, from their perspective, it's a great opportunity to overthrow the corrupt leadership of Saudi Arabia. But not only Saudi Arabia, but the entire GCC. Yeah. Overthrow the corrupt governments of the entire Muslim world, and install governments that put God, Allah, first. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 41:54 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2514s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So they're not going to quit, Iran? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 41:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2517s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: This war, once it starts, can only lead to World War III. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 42:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2523s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's a strong statement to make. As a probability. Okay. What probability would you assign to that claim? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 42:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2529s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I would put it pretty high, anywhere between 80 % to 90%. So that's certainty? Basically, certainly, yes. Explain to me how that happens. Okay. So we need to step back and appreciate that there's a global dynamic going on. And we need to appreciate the grand strategy of the different players involved. So what I'm going to do is this. I'm going to explain to you how each nation sees itself in the world, okay? And to do that, I'm going to use a chess set, okay? Okay. All right. This is the key. This is the political system of the United States, which is democracy. And there are certain strengths and weaknesses to a democracy. Democracy, it's vibrant. It's creative. It's flexible. But its ultimate weakness is polarization, where today, there are different political factions. Refuse to get along, and this may bring up the Civil War, okay? Mm -hmm. So the way you defeat the United States is not to conquer it. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 43:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2602s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You can never conquer the United States. The way you defeat the United States is to force it into a civil war, which then kills the king. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 43:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2609s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: To get its people to rise up against the leadership? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 43:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2612s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No. You want the Democrats and the Republicans to form different factions and fight a civil war. Okay. You want to create so much political polarization that different elite factions take up arms against each other, okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 43:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2624s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 43:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2624s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So this is the political system, okay? Democracy. Now, let's look at the queen. What's the queen? The queen is what I refer to as the grand strategy of the United States, how the United States can maintain its control over the entire world. And the grand strategy, it's already outlined in the national defense strategy, right? Let's create Fortress America and then create chaos throughout the entire world so that we can sell everyone weapons and resources, okay? That's a grand strategy, right? Right. Now, once you have a grand strategy, you need to implement this grand strategy. So you need attack vectors, all right? The attack vectors are the rook, the bishop, and the knight, all right? So let's go over the three major attack vectors of the United States. They are, first of all, America's technological supremacy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 44:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2678s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So these are basically the tools that they use to attack others? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 44:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2681s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly. In order to achieve their grand strategy. So, aero -supremacy, right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 44:46 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2686s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Which is the plains and the stuff like that? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 44:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2688s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Then you have the U.S. dollar, right? Because the U.S. dollar allows you to finance everything, and everyone wants the U.S. dollar, okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 45:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2702s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Mm -hmm. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 45:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2702s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So, that is the second attack vector. Now, the third attack vector is propaganda. The United States controls the world's most powerful media, including the New York Times and CNN, and that's, such they can control the narrative of the world okay so these are the three major attack vectors now they use the pawns the pawns are weapons that they can sacrifice in order to achieve the grand strategy and in the case united states the pawn are the allies meaning i just say this but the uk um europe south korea and japan okay and also the entire western hemisphere this is the america the americans okay the people who are most opposed to this grand strategy americans are the russians so let's go over there with the russian system in the russian system the king the political system is an autocracy and an autocracy is good because it allows for coordination it allows for decisiveness it allows ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 46:19 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2779s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: for um resolve long -term thinking exactly right that's putin what's bad is if this guy dies there's a succession crisis right so basically once you topple the autocrat then the system itself breaks down okay so that's the russian system right but For the Russians, the grand strategy is something called the Third Rome Strategy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 46:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2807s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The Third Rome Strategy? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 46:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2809s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes. Okay. So the people in Russia believe that they are the true successors to the Roman Empire. And previously, there were two Roms. It was the First Rome, then it moved to Constantinople, and Moscow is destined to be the Third Rome. And what makes Moscow interesting is that it wants to unite the entire Christian world under its leadership. The main philosopher for the Third Rome Strategy is Alexander Dugin, who in 1997 wrote a book called Foundation of Geopolitics. And what he said was this, what he said that if Russia is to defeat the Americans, it needs to build alliances throughout Eurasia in order to negate American sea power and air supremacy. All right? So what are the attack vectors for Russia? The first attack vector, the size of the country, makes it almost invincible. So think about World War II, Operation Barbarossa. The Germans went into Russia with six, seven million men, and it didn't get very far, okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 47:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2877s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So the terrain is very important. The geography is very important. Then you have the Orthodox religion, which is meant to galvanize. Believers into supporting Russia. The third attack vector is artillery. So Russia has the best land army in the world. And we're seeing that play out in Ukraine, where a combination of Russian artillery and drones, it's devastating Ukrainian military in Ukraine. The pawns for Russia are its soldiers. So Russia is able to sustain many, many. Okay. It's able to sustain many, many casualties in its military. If you actually go and interview Russian soldiers, they are probably the bravest soldiers in the world. They are literally not afraid to die for what they believe in. Okay? So this is the Russian third -world strategy. You can see how it conflicts with the Americans. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 48:59 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2939s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Mm -hmm. Okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 49:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=2940s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Now we go to the Israelis, Jerusalem, the capital. It's a mixed system. Meaning it's both democracy as well as a theocracy. And it's good in that the Israelis are very creative. But the fundamental weakness is the division within society where Tel Aviv and Jerusalem don't get along. Okay? So that is the political system of Israel. The grand strategy of Israel is called the greater Israel project. So the Israelis believe that the entire Middle East belongs to them. Okay. the nile to the euphrates because that's what it says in the bible this is what god yahweh promised abraham so their intention is to conquer the entire middle east including egypt saudi arabia lebanon even parts of turkey okay now let's look at the attack vectors for the the israelis the first attack vector is mossad mossad is the most powerful intelligence agency in the world in that it is able to infiltrate and undermine different political ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 50:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3020s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: systems and the side frame that doesn't know is their secret service basically yes their spy system second attack vector for the israelis israelis is the jewish diaspora because jews do business everywhere around the world and jewish businessmen work very closely with mossad and as such they have influence in a lot of places that they shouldn't have and the um third um attack vector is the bible why these of you are christian and there are many christians who believe this you believe that the jews are god's chosen people so if you look at what's happening in the middle east um all this conflict between israel and palestine a lot of this conflict is being supported politically united states by a group of people called christian zionists and these are christians they're not jews they're christians who believe that israel should treat the chief greater israel project because this is part of god's plan and the pawns ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 51:27 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3087s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: for the israelis are basically everyone else okay so a lot of the hardware underpinning the global it infrastructure um it's being controlled by the israelis so now we go to the fourth player in this great game and that's iran so iran it is a theocracy people are not afraid to die for what they believe in in iran but the weakness is that it can alienate the majority of the population because only a minority are religious zealots in iran most people just want to live to live a decent life so they feel that these molas the irgc are a threat to their peace and prosperity then they might rise up against the molas which is what we've seen over the years right exactly so so this is a political system of the iranians their grand strategy is to unite the muslim world under leadership they have three attack vectors okay the first attack vector are their ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 52:34 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3154s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: proxies hezbollah hamas and the houthis another attack vector um is their asymmetrical warfare meaning using drones and missiles to create as much economic damage as possible and the third attack vector is their geography or the topography they are a fortress so it's almost impossible to um invade them right so that's their shia militiamen so they have a lot of potential for the world to attack them but the third attack vector is their democracy they're not afraid to die um essentially they're all many of them could be suicide bombers okay and and so for them this is a religious war okay so now we're seeing how this entire battlefield unfolds across the world all right so i've mapped up the grand strategy of these different nation states who will be involved in world war iii let's look at our present situation okay so what we have so far is that we have in the u.s. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 53:34 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3214s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: that the Russians occupied with their army in Ukraine. And this is where their infantry, their artillery is based. At the same time, Russia has something called the shuttle fleet. And these are about a thousand tankers that evade sanctions around the world. And this is essentially their Navy. America is the most powerful military in the world. They have the most sophisticated air supremacy as well as the control over the sea lanes. And it tries not to use infantry because that creates civilian casualties and that pisses everyone off in America, okay? The Israelis are essentially a mercenary army aligned with the American empire, doing a bidding of the American empire. It's fighting against Lebanon as well as Iran. The Iranians, they don't have much of an air force, but they use a lot of drones to threaten. So this is where we are so far. According to the grand strategy, we can predict how they will make their moves over the next few months or next few years. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 54:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3289s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: America doesn't really care about this war in Iran because what America wants to do is force the entire world to become dependent on American weapons and, let's just say, military assistance. And so you do that in two ways. The first is you control the strategic choke points of the world and they include the Shire of Hormuz, but you also want to control the Shire of Malacca over here because that blocks off East Asia. You also want to control the Panama Canal. You also want to control Greenland. You also want to control the Shire of Gibraltar. You can see the American Navy expanding outwards, At the same time, you want to use your technological supremacy, your aerial supremacy, your drones, to destroy the world's critical energy infrastructure. Already we're seeing oil refineries being destroyed throughout the world. Oil refineries. Oil refineries. Yes. So you, as ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 55:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3351s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: America, you're trying to deplete the world's energy inventory so they are forced to beg you to supply energy, right? And once this market is created, then you can build infrastructure for Venezuela, you can take over Canada, you can control Mexico, you can take over Greenland, okay? The Russians have no choice but to respond because if the Americans are controlling the strategic choke points, your shadow fleet is rendered redundant, useless. So how do you ship your oil around the world? Well, you have two options. I'm just going to build railways to unite the Eurasian continent, okay? And I'll transport my oil using pipelines and railways. The problem with that is now that you're vulnerable to American aerial supremacy, drone attacks. So you have no choice but to arm your shadow fleet. And now what's going to happen is there's constantly oceans between Russian shadow fleet tankers, that are trying to transport oil around the world, and these American destroyers who are trying to capture or destroy these shadow tankers. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 57:13 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3433s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Now the advantage that Russia has is that America doesn't have that much naval assets anymore. It used to, but not anymore. The other thing is that the world really needs energy. So you can imagine China financing the militarization of the Russian shadow fleet. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 57:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3453s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Why would, sir? Why would the Eurasians? Why would the U.S. try and stop Russian boats? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 57:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3459s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Because in this global outlook, there are two nations that could provide weapons and resources to the rest of the world. They are Russia and they are America. So if America has become dominant, it needs to blockade Russia. And when you do that is by seizing their shadow fleet. But if that happened, that would be an act of war. But it's already happening. What? Really? Yes. It's already happening. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 58:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3485s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Where? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 58:06 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3486s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Iranian tankers have been seized by the Americans, and tankers are being seized in the Caribbean as well by the American Navy. Whose tankers? I believe they are Russian tankers. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 58:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3500s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes. The United States has indeed been seizing tankers linked to Russia. A major escalation occurred earlier this year on January the 7th, 2026, when the U.S. military and Coast Guard intercepted two sanctioned shadow fleet oil tankers. While one was sanctioned, the other two were sanctioned by the U.S. military and Coast Guard. While one was seized directly in the Caribbean, the other involved a dramatic chase that started in the Caribbean and ended in the North Atlantic. U.S. forces captured this sanctioned tanker during a pre -dawn raid directly in the Caribbean Sea. The U.S. military described it as a stateless sanctioned dark fleet vessel which was engaged in illicit activities. These seizures are part of Operation Southern Spear, a strict enforcement of the U.S. embargo on Venezuelan oil exports. Both vessels were targeted for violating U.S. sanctions by transporting illicit crude oil linked to Venezuela as well as Iran and Hezbollah. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 59:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3557s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Only Hezbollah's Subtitles by وہ ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 59:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3582s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Subtitles by the Amara.org community Malacca, recently the United States has signed a military cooperation agreement with Indonesia. And with the strategy of Poltar, the Americans have signed an agreement now with Morocco. So they are looking for the legal framework and justification to control the world's choke points, which would bring them directly in conflict with the Russian shadow fleet. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:00:06 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3606s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So at some point, you think the way that the war starts is the US Navy attacks a Russian boat. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:00:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3615s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So I personally believe that this will be a drawn -out process, and there's no real concrete flashpoint. Because not only are Russian shadow fleet tankers being seized, but remember, Russian all -way fighters are being destroyed by Ukrainian drones. And the Russians believe that it is NATO that is responsible for the sabotage. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:00:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3638s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So what do you think the catalyst moment is when this all kicks off? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:00:43 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3643s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I think we're already in the catalyst moment. All right. I think we're already in the catalyst moment. All right. We're already in World War III. Because this conflict, it's going to expand outwards into a global conflict. And there's nothing anyone can do to stop this, right? Because again, you have these different competing visions of how the world should work. And the Russians and Americans are already at conflict with each other. So the next step will be the Russians come into this war on the side of the Iranians. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:01:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3669s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You think that's going to happen? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:01:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3670s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I think that's going to happen. Because according to Russian grand strategy, you have no choice but to say, the Iranians. Because you're trying to promote this view that the world is split between the spiritual and the material. The Americans are the Antichrist. The Americans support individual hedonism. Whereas we Russians, we believe in humanity. We believe in goodness. We believe in community, right? So if that is your argument, if that's your grand strategy, then you have a more obligation, a more imperative to help the Iranians in their time of need. And in fact, Prime Minister Arachi of Iran has recently visited Putin in Moscow. Putin personally received him and said to Arachi, we, the Russian people, admire your determination, your resolve against the Americans. And I think that is a sign that Putin has entered the chat and that the Russians will start to help the Iranians as this war progresses. So let's go back to this map, okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:02:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3734s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. And the Americans have a three -pronged strategy to strangle Iran. The first is to use ground forces to establish foreign operating bases to incite ethnic violence in the country. The second is to block officers who move and cut off Iranian financing. The third is to strangle Iran and cause the people to rise up against the government, okay? And the Russians—so if things stay the same as they are now, America wins easily. But if Russia were to enter the war on behalf of the Iranians, the first thing that Russia would do is provide Tehran with reinforcement from the Caspian Sea, right? Because the Americans want to knock out Tehran's capacity to provide food, water, and electricity to its people. But from the Caspian Sea, the Russians can support support the Iranians. But not only that, and this is much more important, if the Russians were to come in, they could also bring the Chinese into the war on behalf of the Iranians. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:03:23 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3803s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And the Chinese could use the Belt and Road Initiative, basically the railway system, to reinforce Tehran from the east. So now you can no longer strangle Tehran because the Russians or the Chinese are reinforcing Tehran. Then what the Russians could do is provide financing to the Iranians. Basically, the Chinese and the Russians can say to the Iranians, don't worry about financing. We will give you enough financing for you to continue this war for as long as you want. And we'll use our resources as collateral for this financing. And the third thing, and this is actually the most important, is that Russia could put Iran under its nuclear umbrella. And this would negate the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The Israelis, and the Americans, if they really felt under pressure, if they were really put in a corner, they could always choose to use tactical nuclear weapons. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04:23 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3863s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: If the Russians were involved, that negates that option. So if the Russians get involved in this war, they bring in the Chinese, they provide the resources and the financing to continue this war for as long as it takes. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3878s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Mm -hmm. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3880s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right? And now the Americans need to expand this war all over the world to try now, to topple the government in Russia. Because the Russians are the main backers of the Iranians. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04:55 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3895s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And you're predicting that Russia will get involved here? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:04:58 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3898s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: According to the grand strategy of Russia, the Russians have no choice but to get involved. Because what will happen is that if you look at this map, if Iran were to be conquered by the Americans or the Israelis, the entire southern flank of the Russians are now exposed. They're exposed to possible attack. And that's something that the Russians would never allow to happen. The sovereign flank, so this from underneath? Basically, right? Right? But not only that, but the Americans already have close relations with Azerbaijan. And they already have bases in Turkmenistan as well as Uzbekistan, right? So you can see how once the Americans can stride this area, they can now attack Russia from the south. But what's most important is the issue, of course, of the attack on the Circassian border. global trade, where a counter to America's naval blockade is by creating a Eurasian trade block that involves Iran, Russia, and China. If you look at Russia's north -south corridor, right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:06:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3963s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: If you look at China's, if you look at Russia's north -south corridor, it runs through Iran. If Russia wants to access the Middle East, as well as Africa, it has to go through Iran. Look at China's Belt and Road Initiative, it goes through Iran as well. So by taking out Iran, you've blockaded both Russia and China. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:06:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=3982s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: 70 % of people who add something to their online cart never actually buy it. And that number is based on over 10 years of research. But what I think is even more interesting is what the Baymard Institute discovered. They're a private research company that ran a study which found the average e -commerce store can increase its conversion rate by 35 % just by making its checkout easier. Not better marketing or better products, but by delivering a smoother checkout experience. So if you're looking for an easy way to make your checkout process smoother, I want you to think about moving your business onto Shopify. It's the platform we use to sell the 1 % diaries and the conversation cards because it's so simple and smart to use. It puts all of our inventory payments and analytics in one place and has so many AI tools to help us get up and running straight away. Not to mention that it grows with you regardless of the stage that your business is at. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:07:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0133](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0133) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4030s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4030s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0133` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So if you're ready to fix your checkout process, sign up for your $1 per month trial at shopify.com slash Bartlett. That's shopify.com slash Bartlett. And don't tell anybody. I run multiple companies that have multiple sales teams. And one of the things as a founder of a company that's often confusing is you find it hard to figure out where sales are. So about 10 years ago, I started using Pipedrive in my former company. And it's also the reason why I switched over all of my commercial teams in my current media company called steven.com to use Pipedrive as well. Not only do they sponsor the show, but they've been an incredibly effective way of scaling our sales engine over the years. Pipedrive is an easy to use intelligent CRM. At core, it makes your sales process visible through one ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:07:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0134](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0134) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4072s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4072s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0134` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: dashboard, a visual pipeline showing every deal, what stage it's in, what needs to happen next, and it's all in real time with no delay. It doesn't magically close the deal for you, of course, but it does replace complexity with clarity. If you wanna join over 100,000 companies already using Pipedrive, you can use my link for a 30 -day free trial with no credit card payment needed. Head to pipedrive.com slash CEO to get started. That's pipedrive.com. I'll see you over there. So when do you think this was gonna happen? If you were to give me a timeline of events you think are gonna occur, what timeline do you think you're operating under? I guess one of the factors here is that Trump only has, what, three years left in power. So, you know, he's presumably gonna leave power at some point soon. So if you were around, you might just wanna play it ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:08:43 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0135](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0135) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4123s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0135` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: out and hope that there's a different leadership in place by 20, what would it be, 2030? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:08:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0136](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0136) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4129s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0136` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The political leadership in Iran believe that they can wait Trump out. So they're waiting for the midterms because they believe that in November, the Democrats will win the midterms and then they will impeach Trump and basically constrain his capacity to fight wars. And worst case scenario, Trump will be gone in 2020, as you point out. There's certain problems with this. The first major problem is the national defense strategy, which we looked at previously. The national defense strategy, it is a long -term strategic framework for how America can control the world. And so one possibility is that Trump is just creating enough chaos for America to transition. When the Democrats come to power, if they come to power, they will institutionalize this strategy. And we know this as a possibility because in Trump's first term, he changed America's strategy. He changed the strategy around the world. And then when Biden came into power, he then institutionalized the strategy via the China, right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:09:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0137](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0137) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4197s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0137` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So it was Trump who launched this terror war against China and then finally comes to power and institutionalizes it. So I think World War III, it's a much more long -term war of attrition. And I don't think that this war will end anytime soon. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:10:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0138](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0138) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4220s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0138` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You've made a series of new predictions. You've made eight new predictions. Okay. And I have them in this box here. Okay. I'll let you reveal what those predictions are. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:10:30 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0139](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0139) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4230s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0139` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. This is one prediction, okay? Okay, so this is the most controversial prediction, okay? I predict that there will be a new civil war and Trump will get a third term. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:10:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0140](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0140) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4248s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0140` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You think Trump will get a third term? Isn't that constitutionally illegal? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:10:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0141](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0141) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4252s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0141` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: There are things that are unconventional. And immoral and wrong and evil and dangerous. And there are certain things that are illegal. Trump getting a third term is not illegal. So let me explain the loophole. What Trump could do is this, okay? There are two possibilities. The first possibility is in 2028, he has his son, Don Jr. run as a president. And he runs as the vice president. Okay. And then when Don Jr. wins, if he wins, then Don Jr. could abdicate and Trump would be the president. And in the constitution, if you read the constitution very carefully, it doesn't actually prohibit people from doing that. It's not been done in the past. And like no sane person with any morality would do this. But that doesn't stop Trump from doing this, okay? That's one possibility. Another possibility is that, by 2028, America is at war with everyone. There's a national draft. The president now has emergency war powers. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:12:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0142](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0142) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4330s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0142` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And so he can actually suspend the constitution and delay the election, which is what Zelensky did in Ukraine. So these are two different possibilities. But I think that given Trump's track record, given his personality, I think he very much, wants a third term. And I think that he will do everything possible to get a third term. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:12:37 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0143](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0143) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4357s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0143` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: He would turn 83 years old in the same year that he finishes his second term. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:12:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0144](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0144) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4364s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0144` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: This is a man who eats McDonald's hamburgers every day. He doesn't really work out. Yet, on the campaign trail, he's able to go to two rallies a day. And in each rally, there's 50,000 people. And he will talk on and on and on. Then at night, when he should be sleeping, he's either on social, tweeting about the world, or he's calling up reporters and telling him or her some confidential information that he really shouldn't be discussing with the media. This is a man who is addicted to attention. This is a man who loves the spotlight. He's lived all his life in the spotlight. For him, death is to be ignored. So given his personality, he would rather die in office than live peacefully somewhere else. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:13:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0145](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0145) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4432s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0145` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And of those two strategies that you named, where he puts his son in and then becomes president that way, or there's a war breaks out, so he says he has to stay in office. Of those two strategies, which one do you think he's more likely to deploy? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:04 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0146](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0146) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4444s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0146` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I actually think that given his narcissism, he would prefer the first strategy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:10 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0147](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0147) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4450s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0147` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: His putting his son in? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0148](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0148) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4452s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0148` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Because that shows himself in the world that America loves him. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0149](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0149) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4457s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0149` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. And it could also be JD Vance or someone else, right? It doesn't have to be his son necessarily. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0150](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0150) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4462s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0150` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Trump does not trust anyone. Trump has never had a part of Jay. In fact, everyone that's really worked for Trump has been kind of screwed over by him. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:30 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0151](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0151) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4470s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0151` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Do you not think that if his son decided to run and then announced that the vice president was his dad, do you not think that there would be such a huge backlash in the United States that his son wouldn't win? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:14:45 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0152](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0152) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4485s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0152` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Well, I think there's a possibility that they figure out how to cheat in 2028. Oh, as in actually cheat at the election? Right. At the poll booth. Right. So let's go into Trump's mind. All right? His psychology. In his mind, he won in 2020. The people voted for him. But the Democrats stole the election with mail -in ballots and by rigging the election machines. Okay. In his mind, he literally believes that. So in his mind, he believes that this is actually his third term and the people and the government, they owe him a second term, which is what he wants now. He wants compensation for having the election stolen from him in 2020. I find it really implausible to think that Trump would run for a third term. So again, this is a prediction. Yeah. And it is a test of the validity of my theoretical framework. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:15:53 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0153](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0153) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4553s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0153` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I was looking at some of the constitutions and the laws, and it says that this 22nd amendment explicitly states, no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Some theorists have tried to argue that since the amendment says elected, a person might be able to serve a third term if they were appointed to succeed to the role. Exactly. If they were appointed or succeeded to the role, e.g. by being vice president first. Legal scholars and the judicial committee almost universally reject this. The 12th amendment requires that anyone serving as vice president must be eligible to be president. Since a two -term president is ineligible to be elected again, they are legally barred from being vice president. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:16:37 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0154](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0154) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4597s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0154` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So the point is, there's nothing explicit in the constitution that bars someone from having a third term. And there's debate in the legal community about the spirit of the 22nd amendment. It would go to the Supreme Court, right? And the Supreme Court is controlled right now by the conservatives. Trump appointed three of the nine justices, and there's a possibility he gets a fourth later in the year. So it's entirely up to the Supreme Court whether or not he can run. And again, there's something explicit in the constitution that forbids him from running as a vice president. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:17:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0155](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0155) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4635s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0155` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. What's your next prediction? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:17:18 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0156](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0156) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4638s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0156` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: My second prediction is there will be a grand bargain between the United States and China. What does that mean? It means that people expect that the United States and China will go to war at some point over Taiwan. It means a lot of people expect that China wants to challenge American hegemony and replace America as the global superpower. But China does not want to do that. China is probably happy with America being the world's hegemon because you have to invest so much of your resources into fighting these wars that back up your nation. China doesn't want to fight these wars. So what China is going to do is try to tranquilize and triangulate between Russia and the United States. This is what happened during the Cold War when China was not actually on the side of the Soviet Union. China was part of the non -aligned community. And that's what China is going to strive ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:18:19 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0157](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0157) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4699s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0157` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: for in World War III, where China may help out Iran, may provide financing for Russia, but it's also going to strike deals with the United States as well. Okay. So I think that Trump and President Xi are supposed to meet at least three times, possibly four times this year. Only this year. The first will be in Beijing. And I think that they will start a process in which China and America come to an arrangement that benefits both economically. What does America want? America wants China to continue to buy U.S. Treasuries in order to finance American debt. What does China want? China wants China to take energy resources from the Western Hemisphere, and it wants to access the American market. So there's no reason why China and America cannot come to an arrangement that benefits both. And Trump is very much a transactional character. And what will that mean for the world? It means that China is not really part of World War III in a meaningful way. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:25 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0158](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0158) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4765s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0158` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0159](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0159) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4769s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0159` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So they're going to do a deal. They'll continue to work together as friends. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0160](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0160) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4773s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0160` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: China will be friends with both Russia and the United States as Russia and the United States fight each other. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0161](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0161) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4778s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0161` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. What's your next prediction? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0162](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0162) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4782s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0162` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Iran is another forever war, and the United States will institute a national draft. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:19:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0163](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0163) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4787s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0163` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Iran is another forever war, and the United States will institute a national draft. So you think Iran as a war is going to tumble on for decades, and that the U.S. are going to draft people, which means you're obliged to go and fight. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:20:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0164](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0164) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4803s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0164` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly. Okay. So the logic is this. America doesn't really care if Iran is a failure or not. That's not really part of the American grand strategy. Iran right now, it's a perfect pretext for America to expand outwards and establish maritime choke points around the world and to force the world to buy American energy. So this war in Iran benefits America tremendously. So why not have it go on for a long, long time? In order to make sure this war goes on for a long time, you need ground troops, and you need a lot of ground troops, and that's why you need a national draft. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:20:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0165](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0165) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4848s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0165` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So what would a national draft look like in the United States? Everyone between the age of 18 and 25 has to sign up to the army. Right. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:20:54 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0166](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0166) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4854s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0166` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So most people don't appreciate this, but America has always had a draft. But for the longest time, it didn't really care whether or not you actually signed up for the draft. And starting in December, participation in the draft will be automatic, meaning that if you're between 18 and 24 in America, and you're male, you'll be automatically put into the draft system. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0167](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0167) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4875s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0167` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: From when? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:16 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0168](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0168) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4876s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0168` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I mean from December. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0169](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0169) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4877s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0169` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: This year? Yes, that is correct, yes. So between the age of 18 and 25, you think, and what does that really mean? I've not really experienced that in my lifetime. So it means that if you're between the age of 18 and 24, either gender? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:28 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0170](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0170) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4888s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0170` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No, male. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0171](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0171) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4889s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4889s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0171` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Male, then you have to sign up for the army? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0172](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0172) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4892s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0172` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No, you're already put into a draft. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:35 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0173](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0173) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4895s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0173` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Oh, you're already, okay, but you might be called upon. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:37 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0174](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0174) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4897s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0174` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's right. That's part of the system. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0175](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0175) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4899s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0175` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0176](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0176) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4899s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0176` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. And this created a lot of backlash during the Vietnam era. And so they sort of toned it down. But starting in December, they just passed a law that says that starting in December, you will be automatically registered for war. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:55 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0177](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0177) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4915s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0177` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: They've passed a law? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:21:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0178](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0178) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4916s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0178` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes, they have. Well, in theory, Congress first needs to declare war. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0179](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0179) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4921s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0179` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay, fine. Right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0180](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0180) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4922s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0180` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's a first step. And Congress has not actually declared war yet. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0181](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0181) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4925s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0181` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So you think there'll be a draft, and you think this will, this war in Iraq and Afghanistan is going to trickle on for a long time? How long? 10, 20 years? Like Afghanistan? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0182](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0182) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4934s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4934s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0182` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I don't see it stopping. Okay. Yeah. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:18 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0183](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0183) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4938s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0183` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What's next in your prediction box? Okay. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0184](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0184) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4942s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0184` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. This is pretty bad. The world will move towards an AI surveillance state. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:27 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0185](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0185) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4947s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0185` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I feel like that's already happening. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0186](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0186) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4949s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0186` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I think it's pretty obvious. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:30 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0187](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0187) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4950s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0187` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah. What does that mean in reality for the average person? Because, you know, we're seeing some of these big companies like OpenAI and Anthropical sort of signing up to government military surveillance projects. What does that mean for the average person? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:22:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0188](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0188) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=4964s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0188` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. So for the average person, it means two things. It means digital ID and digital currency. Okay. So what that will allow is for the government to basically monitor everything you do online and control all financial transactions. It can basically program your bank account. So like, you can't buy cigarettes or you can't buy drugs. And this will allow the government to basically categorize everyone and put everyone into a certain database to monitor that person. And once you have, once you're able to categorize everyone, you're allowed, then you are, you are able to use AI to predict their behavior. Isn't this what goes on in some parts of the world? This is what goes on in China. And that's how I know about this. How does it work in China? Well, in China, we all have digital ID. If you want to access anything in China, you need your digital ID. So if you want to open a bank account, you have to, you have to use a digital ID. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:23:43 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0189](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0189) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5023s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5023s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0189` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: If you want to use any e -payments, you have to use digital ID. If you want to use a phone, you have to use digital ID. Okay? So everyone's part of this national database. And then what this allows government to do is basically monitor everything you do. Because basically, depending on how you buy things, I can then extrapolate to figure out your behavior. And then I can figure out your thinking. Right? And then I can create incentives in order to guide and control your behavior. So in China, can they see everything that you do? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:24:21 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0190](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0190) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5061s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0190` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes, they can. Messages you send? Everything. Payments you make? Everything. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:24:27 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0191](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0191) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5067s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0191` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Everything. Everything you do online is being recorded and it's being inputted into the database to figure out who you are, what you want, and how to control you. And they think this is progress, by the way. This is progress. Because I'm making you a better person, right? I'm helping you achieve your dream. I'm helping you lose weight. I'm helping you avoid drugs. I'm helping you work harder. Won't you be in trouble if you talk against this system? Well, me personally, yes. Okay. So I operate in a gray area where I do not interact with the Chinese internet. So everything I do is in English. It's meant for consumption in the Western world. And I don't talk to Chinese reporters. I don't talk to Chinese social media. I have no Chinese media presence. And I am not at all influential in China. And I prefer that way because if I ever became famous in China, then they would obviously want to control me in order to better influence other people. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:25:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0192](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0192) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5133s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0192` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:25:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0193](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0193) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5140s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0193` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What's your next prediction? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:25:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0194](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0194) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5144s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0194` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Israel will achieve the greater Israel project. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:25:46 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0195](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0195) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5146s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0195` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So you think Israel are going to conquer the Middle East? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:25:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0196](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0196) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5151s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0196` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Israel has essentially already conquered the Middle East. The only force in their way right now is America. So once America leaves the Middle East, which I expect to happen, then Israel will absorb Sancom, which is the Central Command, the American military bases in the Middle East, and they will achieve the greater Israel project. There's no other power in the Middle East that can withstand the might and power of Israel. And do you have a timeline for this? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:26:20 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0197](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0197) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5180s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0197` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:26:21 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0198](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0198) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5181s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0198` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The moment America quits this war against Iran, the moment that America leaves the Middle East, Israel will achieve the greater Israel project. And what's really interesting right now is that Israel is trying to drag this war out for as long as possible. Basically, they see this war as a way to destroy all its major enemies in the Middle East. You know, the Israelis have already said this. After Iran, Turkey is next. Turkey is next. This war is already destroying Saudi Arabia and the GCC, right? So the last opponent is Turkey. Once Turkey is brought into this war, then Israel will achieve the greater Israel project. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:08 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0199](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0199) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5228s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0199` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And the greater Israel project covers all of this region here from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Oman. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:13 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0200](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0200) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5233s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0200` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So the greater Israel project is like this, okay? So it goes from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq. And it covers part of Turkey, of Syria, of Lebanon, of Jordan, and parts of Saudi Arabia, which also includes Mecca and Medina. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0201](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0201) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5252s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0201` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What is your next prediction? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:35 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0202](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0202) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5255s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0202` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: NATO and Russia will fight for Odessa. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:37 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0203](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0203) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5257s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0203` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Odessa? What's Odessa? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:27:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0204](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0204) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5259s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0204` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So if you look at the Ukraine front lines, right now, Russia is preoccupied in trying to control the Donbass, which is basically eastern Ukraine. Why Russia is doing this is that eastern Ukraine has historically been part of Russia. Therefore, most people there speak Russian or are ethnically Russian. The Donbass is also the agricultural and industrial of Ukraine. So if Russia were to control eastern Ukraine, it doesn't really need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It would be useless. So the last piece to this puzzle would be Odessa, which sits on the Black Sea. The reason why you want Odessa is that it's the major port. And once you control Odessa, you basically block off Ukraine from the Black Sea. Over the Black Sea. Is that the Black Sea? This is the Black Sea and this is Odessa right here. Yes. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:28:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0205](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0205) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5322s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0205` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay, so you're saying that Russia will take Odessa? That's correct. Okay, so they'll control the Black Sea. That's right. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:28:49 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0206](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0206) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5329s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5329s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0206` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But NATO recognizes that if Odessa falls to the Russians, the war is over. And Russia will have achieved all its major strategic objectives. Why is the war over? Because Russia doesn't want to continue on after Odessa. It doesn't need the rest of Ukraine. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:06 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0207](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0207) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5346s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0207` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What does it get from taking Odessa? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0208](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0208) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5349s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0208` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Once it takes Odessa, control of one third of the world's carbohydrates. If Russia willed it, Africa would starve to death. The Middle East would starve. Why? Because Russia and Ukraine export a lot of grain to these places. These places are not food independent. They rely on fertilizer. They rely on food imports. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:36 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0209](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0209) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5376s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0209` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. And Russia's just using the Black Sea here to export. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0210](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0210) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5380s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0210` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0211](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0211) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5381s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0211` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. What is your next prediction? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:29:43 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0212](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0212) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5383s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0212` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: This is the last one. Please be good. Okay. I was hoping for an optimistic one. But East Asia breaks out into conflict. Okay. What do you mean by that? Okay. So, we've talked a lot about the Middle East. And we've talked briefly about Europe. Okay. So now let's go into East Asia. And I think there are three major sources of friction and conflict in East Asia. And these could be potentially major flashpoints. The first flashpoint is, of course, over Taiwan. Because China believes that Taiwan is part of its territory. And so, it wants to take over Taiwan. The problem with this is that recently Prime Minister Takeuchi of Japan has said that Taiwan is core to Japanese strategic interests. And what she means by this is that Japan has no resources. It's a manufacturing power that depends on resources from overseas. If China were to take over Taiwan, it can now block Japan from accessing the Strait of Malacca. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:31:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0213](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0213) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5463s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0213` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And that is a possibility Japan cannot permit. So Japan would fight to ensure that Taiwan and China were never to unify. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:31:16 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0214](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0214) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5476s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0214` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Would they actually? Because China is so strong, right? Can they just knock Japan straight out? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:31:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0215](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0215) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5482s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0215` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Japan has no choice but to fight. Because, again, if China and Taiwan were to unify peacefully, Japan would be cut off from the entirety of Southeast Asia. And Japan relies on Southeast Asia historically for resources. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:31:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0216](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0216) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5501s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0216` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Why would it be cut off from Southeast Asia? Can't it just go down here through the Philippines? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:31:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0217](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0217) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5508s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0217` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: There's a lot of resources around the South China Sea. Okay. Right? Oil, minerals, all that. Yeah. So, if China and Taiwan were to unify, basically, Japan would feel a bit threatened. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:32:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0218](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0218) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5527s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0218` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And your prediction is that there will be some kind of conflict in this region. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:32:11 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0219](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0219) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5531s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0219` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah. So, that's the first flashpoint, okay? Taiwan. There's another flashpoint, which is the Strait of Malacca, right? Because, again, America wants to control the Strait of Malacca, but China recognizes that the Strait of Malacca is key to its economic survival. And so, there's a lot of conflict over the Strait of Malacca, okay? That's flashpoint number two. The third flashpoint, which I think will be the most surprising, but actually will be the most pressing, is North Korea, okay? So, let's just use game theory. We are the leader, supreme leader of North Korea. It is a dictatorship. Everyone worships me. It's a cult personality. But we're poor. And the rest of the world is in conflict, right? Europe is fighting with Russia. The Middle East is in flames. America is distracted trying to control the world to the best of its ability. Japan and China are fighting over the South China Sea. now is the best opportunity to create as much havoc in the world as possible. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:33:18 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0220](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0220) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5598s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0220` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: There's actually nothing anyone can do to stop you. You are the brawler in high school that no one pays attention to because all the big boys are fighting each other. You can come in and dominate the school now. Who would they be dominating? They could dominate South Korea because if you just look at a population map of South Korea most of the South Korean population is located in Seoul and Seoul is about about 20 minutes artillery from North Korea. So in 20 minutes North Korea could bring artillery onto Seoul and like basically they flatten the entire city. Why wouldn't you extort the South Koreans? Because the South Koreans are going to shoot back? With what? Do they not have military? They're being protected by the Americans right now and the Americans are busy transporting artillery and weapons systems including the FAD system over to the Middle East. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:34:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0221](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0221) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5655s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0221` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: It's called FAD. T -H -A -A -D. It used to be in South Korea to protect against North Korea and now it's over in the Middle East. So Americans are catalyzing both South Korea and Japan in order to maintain this war in the Middle East. Now's the time. Why not? It's free money. It's like taking candy from a baby. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:34:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0222](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0222) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5680s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0222` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But South Korea have their own military. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:34:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0223](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0223) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5681s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0223` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: How do you defend against artillery strikes? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:34:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0224](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0224) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5687s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0224` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I don't know. You don't. But they would fire back, right? They'd get themselves into a pretty ugly war. South Korea have a big military. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:34:55 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0225](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0225) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5695s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0225` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Well, my people are poor. They're not afraid to die. In fact, I've sent thousands of them to go to Ukraine to fight for the Russians and they fight to the death because they're poor and they don't fight to the death. If they're allowed to be taken prisoner, I'll kill their families back at home. South Koreans are rich. They are used to democracy. They're used to individual rights. So if I threaten to blow your city up, you're telling me you won't bribe me not to do so? Isn't the fastest, quickest way is to bribe me not to cause trouble for you? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:35:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0226](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0226) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5732s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0226` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay, so you think they're going to bribe them? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:35:34 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0227](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0227) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5734s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0227` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Extortion. This is extortion. I don't need to destroy South Korea. All I need to do is basically threaten the South Koreans and they'll just bribe me not to do anything. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:35:46 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0228](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0228) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5746s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0228` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So what does all of this stuff mean for the average person? You know, people listening right now, they're just normal people. A lot of them. Not all of them, but a lot of them are just normal people getting on with their lives and they care about their families, their jobs, their futures. What message have you got for them? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:36:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0229](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0229) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5761s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0229` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: In this new world, we will need leaders. We will need average people who are able to bring hope to people around them. Who are able to tell their neighbors, their friends, we have to come together as a community and become a family if we are to survive. That's what the world needs in the future. It will need entrepreneurial leaders. It will need visionaries. It will need prophets. Those who will most thrive are those who make an effort to reach out, knock on the door of your neighbors and say, listen, there's a blackout and there's probably no water. But don't fear because if we come together as a community, if we go and knock on everyone's doors, then everyone in this apartment building, and there might be 100 of us, if we just sit down and have a meeting and just discuss what's happening, one of us will come up with a solution. And one of ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:37:14 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0230](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0230) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5834s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0230` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: us will help everyone else figure out how to find water or how to build a better society. And we know this because historically this has always been true. When empires collapse, infrastructure collapses. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:37:28 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0231](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0231) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5848s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0231` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Which empire do you think is collapsing? The United States empire? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:37:31 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0232](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0232) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5851s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0232` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The United States empire is collapsing, yes. And who is taking its place? No one can take the place of the American empire. So we live in a unipolar moment. And the closest historical analogy to today is something called the Bronze Age collapse. The Bronze Age. The Bronze Age collapse. And this happened about over 3,000 years ago. And what happened during the Bronze Age collapse is that you have these established kingdoms throughout the Middle East and Europe. You have Mycenaean Greece. You had the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, which is present -day Turkey. You had the Mesopotamian Empire. You had the Egyptians. And one by one, they collapsed. And the reason why was that a perfect storm of calamities came at the same time. There were earthquakes. There were famines. There was a climate crisis. There were wars. There were civil wars. There were revolutions. And so you had this massive surge of refugees called the ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:38:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0233](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0233) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5913s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0233` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Sea Peoples flowing from North and West Europe and sweeping the entire, sweeping food to the entire Middle East. And the reason why is they were hungry. They didn't have any food. They didn't have food to eat. So they organized into, you know, these large pirate armies. And they overwhelmed entire civilizations. And so we will see a very similar dynamic play out in the world where in the future, our concern won't be wars. Our concern will be these millions of refugees who want to flood into our societies because they're hungry. And they're going to come from Africa. And they're going to come from the Middle East. And they'll probably come from South America as well. So I saw your show with Steve King, by the way. Steve Keen. It was a great show, right? And he talked about this where, look, the world depends on fertilizer. And there's 8 billion people in the world. And without fertilizers, the world can only sustain at most 2 billion people. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:39:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0234](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0234) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5984s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0234` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Well, what are the 6 billion people going to do? Just starve to death? No, they're going to migrate. And they're going to want food. And it's going to create a huge global crisis throughout the world. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:39:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0235](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0235) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=5996s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0235` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I mean, one might argue that with the rise of things like AI and robotics, the cost of production is going to drop. And there's going to be more, you know, Elon talks about the age of abundance and all these kinds of things. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:40:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0236](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0236) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6007s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0236` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But you have to grow food out of the ground. And you are using fertilizer to maximize the land's capacity to grow food. So you don't have fertilizer. You can have as many robots as you want. They don't have to eat food. We have to eat food. So what is your, you talked about hopefulness. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:40:25 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0237](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0237) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6025s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0237` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right. Are you hopeful? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:40:27 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0238](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0238) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6027s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0238` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I'm very hopeful. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:40:28 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0239](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0239) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6028s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0239` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: What are you hopeful for? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:40:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0240](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0240) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6032s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0240` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I believe that humans are first and foremost creative and resilient. And our abilities have become dormant because we've become too complacent. Western lifestyle have made us extremely lazy and fat. But the moment we're presented with a crisis, the moment that we find our families in danger, we're able to come together as a people and come up with all this tremendous imagination in order to make a better society. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:41:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0241](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0241) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6067s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0241` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Make sure you keep what I'm about to say to yourself. I'm inviting 10,000 of you to come even deeper into the diary of a CEO. Welcome to my inner circle. This is a brand new private community that I'm launching to the world. We have so many incredible things that happen that you are never shown. We have the briefs that are on my iPad when I'm recording the conversation. We have clips we've never released. We have behind the scenes conversations with the guests and also the episodes that we've never ever released. And so much more. In the circle, you'll have direct access to me. You can tell us what you want this show to be, who you want us to interview and the types of conversations you would love us to have. But remember for now, we're only inviting the first 10,000 people that join before it closes. So if you want to join our private closed community, head to the link in the description below. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:41:53 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0242](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0242) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6113s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0242` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Or go to doaccircle.com. I will speak to you there. Professor, what's the most important thing we haven't talked about that we should have talked about? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:42:06 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0243](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0243) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6126s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0243` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So let's talk about the nature of reality. To explain the nature of reality, I'm going to explain Plato's Allegro of the Cave, which he talked about in his book, The Republic. Right, exactly. This book? Yes, The Republic, okay? One of the masterpieces of Greek civilization as well as Western civilization. All right. So this is how Plato explains the nature of reality. And so he uses a metaphor called the cave. So I want you to imagine a dark cavern that is huge. And in this cavern, there are hundreds of people lined up together. And they're all sitting in a row. And this goes on for, you know, miles and miles, just thousands of people. And they are chained to the ground. And their necks are shackled. So they can't actually move. And all they can do is stare in front of them at a giant wall that's empty. Okay? Now, behind these people, and again, they can't see behind them, right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:43:18 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0244](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0244) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6198s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0244` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: It's a great fire. Alongside this fire are people. Okay? We don't know who they are. Plato never explains who these people are. They take puppets. And they project these puppets off the fire onto the wall. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:43:35 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0245](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0245) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6215s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0245` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:43:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0246](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0246) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6218s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0246` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And when people see these shadows, they think that this is reality. And as such, they begin to create narratives to explain this reality. They create language. They give shadows names. They explain where these shadows come from. They create religion. Then these people decide to specialize. So there are some people who are priests who explain this new religion. There are some people who are poets that talk about the beauty of these shadows. And then you have teachers who teach about these shadows to children. And then over time, what happens is that these people fall in love with this reality so that they are addicted to it. So if anyone comes on and says, hey guys, why don't you look behind you and see it's all just a farce, these people will be so angry that they kill this person. All right? So I'm not sure if you've ever watched a Korean drama. Have you watched a Korean TV drama? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:44:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0247](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0247) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6291s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0247` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Not really, no. Okay. All right. So unfortunately, I have. And these things go on for like thousands of hours. And for the first 10 hours, you're disgusted by the plot because it makes no sense. But by the 20th hour, you can't stop watching it. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:45:11 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0248](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0248) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6311s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0248` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: All right? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:45:12 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0249](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0249) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6312s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0249` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: The same situation here where it's a silly television drama. It's all fake. Once people watch too much of it, they want it to be true. And that's the nature of reality that we live in. All right? So certain things to remember is that what creates this reality are not the people in charge. What creates this reality is our imagination. Okay. So the first thing to appreciate is that everything is a hallucination. And this is something that neuroscientists have confirmed. So what we're going to do is we're going to take Plato's Outing of the Cave, the framework, and then apply it to our reality to understand how it's created. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:45:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0250](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0250) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6356s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0250` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:45:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0251](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0251) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6357s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0251` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So in the first layer, you need a power, a force, to put people in chains. Right? And this is what we call the military -industrial complex of America as well as the empire. So going back to this example, it's the layer that puts the people into chains. But now the second step is you need people to create the reality, to direct people's attention, to create the game. And these people are the financial elite, the bank of international settlements based in Basel. So what do they do? These people are the ones who set the exchange currency rates. And they also allow for seamless financial transactions, the SWIFT system, basically. Then Wall Street and the state of London were the financiers. And then you have the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve system. Because the Federal Reserve are the people who print money. Okay. Now, once you create the rules of the game, you need to create the game itself, which is the global economy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:47:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0252](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0252) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6429s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0252` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Right? Global economy. And obviously, this is a pretty vast system that encompasses everything. Okay? Now you have to explain to people how the global economy works. You cannot tell people, oh, really, there are these secret people working behind the scenes that are projecting shadows onto a wall. So what you do is you create multilateral organizations that pretend to control the global economy. And they are the World Bank, the United Nations, WTO. You make people believe that this is all being controlled impartially for our benefit. Now you have to convince people that this system is legitimate. That when you're actually seeing the shadows on the wall, they're real. And that's why you need the media. That's why you need culture, such as Hollywood, movies, basically. And you need education, school system. Okay? These are the people who are all prisoners who have become leaders of the prisoners and who are helping them understand the shadows on the wall. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0253](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0253) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6502s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0253` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So am I in the media? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:23 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0254](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0254) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6503s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0254` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yes, you are. Am I? Yes. So what am I doing? Am I one of the people in the fire controlling the narrative? Is that what? Yes, yes. But I'm not owned by anybody. That's what you think. Oh, really? Yes. Who am I owned by? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:38 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0255](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0255) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6518s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0255` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Ultimately, it's the people who control the fire that are in charge, right? So ultimately, it's these people, the second layer, the game masters, the financial elite, that control everything. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0256](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0256) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6528s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0256` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And the financial elite, again, are like the World Bank, you said? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0257](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0257) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6531s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0257` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: No, no. The financial elite are these private bankers. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:48:55 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0258](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0258) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6535s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0258` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So are the private bankers controlling me? Because you said I was in the media. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:49:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0259](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0259) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6540s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0259` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Do you want to make money? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:49:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0260](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0260) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6541s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0260` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:49:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0261](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0261) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6541s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0261` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Then they're controlling you. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:49:02 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0262](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0262) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6542s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0262` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. Right. How are they controlling me? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:49:05 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0263](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0263) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6545s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0263` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Because they control the creation of money. And so now that you have the media, the schools, and the cultural systems helping people understand the shadows on the wall, these shadows now become internalized. And they dictate the values and norms of people, what they believe to be good and bad. They dictate habits and customs, how you live your life. And they dictate the legal system, who's punished for what. Okay? And this becomes the top edifice. And what's amazing about the system is that in our minds, okay, in our minds, we believe that the system is first of all, the complete opposite. Where the foundation is actually the laws, the habits, and the values. When in fact, in reality, these are just figments of our imagination. Okay? That's point one. Point two is that this is a very, very delicate structure. So if anyone doesn't cooperate, okay, then this edifice collapses. Okay? It's because it's a very, very delicate system. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:50:18 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0264](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0264) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6618s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0264` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay? And the third thing, and this is the most important to understand the world that we live in, as the system becomes much more wobbly, meaning that young people don't really believe in the shadows anymore. Young people grow up and says, hmm, are these shadows really real? They don't feel real to me. The system needs to become much more authoritarian. It needs to force people to believe what they refuse to believe. Because everyone in the system is incentivized to ensure this edifice is stable. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:50:50 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0265](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0265) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6650s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0265` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Do you think this is somewhat linked to what's going on with independent media? Exactly. Because independent media are asking a lot of questions about the way society functions. Exactly. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:50:59 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0266](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0266) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6659s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0266` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And that's why we're seeing governments becoming very worried about independent media. Because if you have people in the population saying, these shadows are fake, this creates a ripple effect. It causes people to start questioning the shadows on the wall. You can't have that. So that's why it's important to have censorship. That's why it's important to de -platform people. That's why you have woke politics, DEI, because it's an enforcement mechanism. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:51:27 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0267](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0267) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6687s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0267` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah, I mean, it is pretty hard. It's not easy being an independent podcaster if you have a big platform, because you're not always the most loved by the mainstream media. And they'll figure out how to eventually... But I think that's very human, actually. I think the incentives are quite understandable from a human perspective. Yeah. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:51:47 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0268](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0268) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6707s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0268` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Look, if you look at the system, no one's really in charge and no one's a villain. They just grow up in the system. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:51:55 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0269](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0269) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6715s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0269` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And everyone's protecting their incentives. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:51:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0270](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0270) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6716s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0270` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Exactly. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:51:57 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0271](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0271) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6717s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0271` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's kind of what I mean. I'm like, yeah, human nature is to protect one's incentives. And, you know, the media didn't like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook because 70 -80 % of ad revenue went to Google and Facebook. So they had a bit of a war. So I kind of get it. People are trying to protect what's theirs. And disruption causes people to, I guess, panic a little bit. But it makes sense. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:52:17 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0272](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0272) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6737s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0272` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But the problem is that over time, more and more young people are going to grow up and say, I don't see shadows. I'm pretty sure we're being lied to. In which case, this person has an opportunity to overflow the system and create a new system. And this is why AI is important. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:52:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0273](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0273) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6762s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0273` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But we currently believe this one. We currently believe in this structure. It's really difficult, I think, for the average person listening now to understand and to accept the fact that they have believed a bunch of fundamental ideas and stories that everything they care about is sat upon. But I mean, you only, if you've read the book Sapiens and understood that humans got here because we had a remarkable ability to believe in stories that maybe the orangutan could not believe. It couldn't believe in money and governments and religions and all these kinds of things. It makes perfect sense that, yeah, there's really foundational stories where you are accepting. And that's what's brought us here today. That's what keeps me from running out on the street without my clothes on or doing other illicit activities is I'm held in place by a set of stories that I've accepted. And they are stacked one upon the other to make me believe that everything I'm seeing and accepting is valid. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:53:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0274](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0274) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6812s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0274` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But, you know, I guess the question becomes, am I okay with this reality? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:53:36 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0275](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0275) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6816s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0275` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And what's stopping us from creating our own reality that benefits everyone? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:53:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0276](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0276) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6821s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0276` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Is that possible? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:53:42 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0277](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0277) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6822s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0277` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Well, in theory it's possible. But as you point out, there are certain people who are happy with the system and want to maintain the system. And that's why we're going to wars around the world. Because it's not just a war between different nation states. It's also a war for the fundamental nature of reality. You have the bankers versus the tech bros, right? That's what we're seeing in the world right now. Where, for the longest time, Wall Street has controlled America. But now with the Trump Revolution, you have, you know, you have Palantir. You have people like Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Stan Altman, who want to create Operation Stargate, which gives them complete control over people's imagination. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:54:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0278](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0278) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6872s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0278` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: You can knock it over now. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:54:33 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0279](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0279) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6873s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0279` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. And everything will come down eventually. Because that is just the fundamental fact of human history. Everything, no matter how stable it seems in the beginning, it all comes crashing down. Eventually. Eventually. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:54:52 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0280](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0280) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6892s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0280` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Eventually. Cyclically. Cyclically. Yes. Ray Dalio talks about the cycles through history and how sort of predictable they are and how frequent they are. Is there a frequency to the rise and fall of these, I guess, perceived realities or empires as he calls it? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:55:09 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0281](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0281) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6909s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0281` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Yeah, so they say empires last around 200 years. And so we are now in the twilight of the American empire. And what we know is that when empires decline, it's always for the same reasons. And it's always because of too much debt, too much corruption, too much inequality. And we're seeing that in America today. And the other thing that we know is you can't actually stop the decline of empires. So Oswald Spengler, who is a German theoretician, he argues that we are human beings and we have natural life cycles because we're organisms. Well, societies are the same way where empires, they will be born, they'll rise, they'll die. And it's a good thing because that's what allows for constant human innovation. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:56:03 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0282](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0282) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6963s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0282` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Do you think that will happen in my lifetime? I'm 30 years old, 33 years old. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:56:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0283](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0283) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6967s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0283` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: It may happen in everyone's lifetime. It may happen in the next five to 10 years. We are seeing... ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:56:13 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0284](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0284) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6973s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0284` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Do you think that's going to happen in the next five or 10 years? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:56:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0285](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0285) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6975s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0285` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I think there's a very strong possibility that the American empire will collapse in the next five to 10 years because it is overstretched, it's in too much debt, and it is really angering the entire world. It's basically unifying the entire world against it right now. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:56:29 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0286](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0286) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=6989s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0286` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And if that is to be the case, what would you give me as advice as a 33 -year -old? What actions should I be thinking about taking now based on what you know about history to make sure that, you know, it's not too bad for myself? I guess I'm asking this question in light of you predicting that there might be a collapse of the sort of Western or the American empire. And in such a scenario, I was wondering what it would look like to be an American. And is there a solution or a course of behavior one should take in such a scenario? But I guess that's the key question, which is, if the US empire does collapse, how does American life change or Western life change? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:57:07 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0287](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0287) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7027s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0287` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Okay. So one theory that's very important to understand is something called hermetic philosophy. And hermetic philosophy is what underpins Plato's algebraic case. And hermetic philosophy comes from Egypt. And it has certain principles, but its main principle is that reality is energy. It's vibrations. Okay. So we think of it as material, but material is a consequence of energy. Right? So what this means is that reality is consciousness itself. So our thoughts are what's real. Our bodies are what's real. Our minds are just vehicles to experience the world around us. But they're not real. When we die, our souls return to the source and we come back again. And we are here permanently in order to experience things we cannot experience in the spiritual world, because in the spiritual world, it's not material. So what's really important is to appreciate that every one of us is part of the source. And so if we think about the totality of things, we can only become despondent. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:58:22 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0288](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0288) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7102s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0288` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: We can only give up hope. But if we think about how individually we can become a better person and how we can impact the people around us, then that becomes reflected onto the reality itself, because we're just part of God itself. Right? So the idea is as above, so below, as below, so above, meaning that we are each and every one of us a fractals of God. So if we choose to be a good person, this makes the world a better place. If we choose to be a bad person, it also makes the world a worse place. So it's not really about how can I stop these wars from happening, because you cannot. It's not really about where can I put my money to generate more income, because that's not going to happen. It's really about how do I live my life to the fullest? How do I become a much more creative individual that brings goodness to the people around me? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:59:23 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0289](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0289) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7163s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0289` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: If you do that, you're changing the world every day for the better. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 1:59:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0290](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0290) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7172s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0290` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That's a nice message. That's a very nice message. And I agree. It's really interesting. I've spoken to a couple of physicists now who say similar things about consciousness, and it really has stuck with me. A lot of things people say, you know, sometimes because I learn so much doing this that I forget them, but this idea that we're all part of the same consciousness and that I think someone said to me, a physicist said to me, that it's almost like consciousness divided into lots of little pieces so that it - That's right, fractals. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:00:00 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0291](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0291) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7200s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7200s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0291` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:00:01 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0292](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0292) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7201s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0292` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Fractals, so that it could experience the world or view the world. Exactly. And I found that to be a really compelling idea. Weirdly, I was thinking about this the other day. I was in a European country and I was driving in a taxi and I looked out the window and you had all of these like tourists just stood at the edge of the water, all just like looking up and looking around. And I just for a second thought of them as like little pieces of consciousness exploring the world, just looking up and looking around and looking at mountains and looking at the ocean and looking at the floor. And it dawned on me for a second that that might just be consciousness is manifestation for sort of, I guess, exploration, which is a really interesting idea. I don't necessarily know what it means, but it does create a little lot of empathy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:00:41 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0293](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0293) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7241s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0293` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So one area that you might want to explore is the Kabbalah. So what's this Kabbalah thing? Right. It's what they call the Tree of Life. And in the Tree of Life, it's what I'm trying to say is that it's a certain dynamic in the world that governs all human affairs. And this dynamic is thesis, antithesis, synthesis. So God is the will to bestow, creates Adam Kanmon, who is the will to receive. And then Kanmon has to abandon God, thus destroying the world. But eventually, because the world is destroyed, and then Kanmon and his descendants, us, recognize the fall of our ways and beg God for forgiveness. And this will redeem the world, repair the world. And if you think about it, okay, this is what underpins a lot of actions that is happening in the Middle East, where the Israelis are doing what they're doing, because they're trying to force the hand of God. Meaning ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:01:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0294](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0294) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7299s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0294` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: that, okay, if Israel is committing all these atrocities in the Middle East, it's putting all these wars, eventually, the world will have to punish the Israelis, right? There'll be war between the world and Israel. And Israel will be humbled. But once Israel is humbled, everyone in Israel recognize the folly of his or her arrogance, hubris, and then will beg God for forgiveness. And once that happens, when all people in Israel at the same time beg God for deliverance and for forgiveness, the world will end and will return to paradise. That's literally what they believe. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:02:32 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0295](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0295) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7352s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0295` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: We're going to have to stop there, Professor. Okay. We have a closing tradition where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest, not knowing who they're leaving it for. And the question left for you is, who will you miss the most and why? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:02:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0296](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0296) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7364s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0296` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Well, I will miss my wife the most, because I met my wife about 10 years ago. And this was a time in my life when I had hit rock bottom. I went to Yale and so I have a very elevated sense of myself and my abilities. And so I went into the world thinking that I would conquer it. And after decades of failure, I basically became very depressed. Failure? Yes. Meaning I didn't have a job, meaning I didn't have much income, meaning I didn't have much hope in my life. And so I was working as a teacher and then through a mutual acquaintance, I met my wife. And I think that it was because I became so depressed that my heart, I begged for relief. I begged God, even though I don't believe in God, for salvation and redemption. And my wife came as an angel. And what she did that no one else did before was she loved me unconditionally. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:03:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0297](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0297) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7436s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0297` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: She was kind to me. She, she told me to believe in myself. And she proved it by making the ultimate sacrifice and having a child with me. It's one thing for someone to say, I believe in you. I love you. But it's another thing to have a child with that person. And so that changed me totally. And I said to myself, I can't despair anymore. I have to work hard. I have to provide for my family. And at this time, I was thinking that maybe I could help certain students go to Yale. Like, you know, in China, consulting is a huge business where if you help package a kid and you get to the Yale, you get about a million dollars. That's a lot of money, right? And she told me, you can't do that. You have to be true to yourself. And you have to be true to our son. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:04:53 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0298](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0298) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7493s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0298` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Set a good example for him. And so what happened was that I got a job as a high school teacher. And then I started to make these YouTube videos. And then it blew up online. And this was not something that we expected. It wasn't something that we planned for. It just happened organically. So it was my wife, just by saying, I love you to me. And I knew it to be true because we had a child together. We started a family together. By loving me unconditionally, by being kind to me, it changed me forever. And that's what empowered me to want to share myself with other people as well. And so, you know, I don't know how I will ever thank my wife. I'm forever grateful for her. And I don't, before I didn't really mind leaving this world, but I don't want to leave this world anymore because I don't want to separate from her. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:05:44 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0299](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0299) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7544s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0299` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:05:45 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0300](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0300) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7545s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0300` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Could you have expected that you'd have the success you've had online? You've got almost two and a half million subscribers on YouTube alone, getting millions and millions and millions of views on your videos. I mean, some of your videos have almost 10 million views on various channels that you've been on. You've only made 146 of these videos and your channel has grown immensely. Could you have imagined? I did. You did imagine? Yes. You thought it would go like this? ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:06:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0301](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0301) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7575s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0301` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Not this big, but I imagine, you know, I would find people who believe in what I was doing and would be inspired by what I was doing. And I knew this because when I met my wife and I fell in love for the first time, and we loved each other unconditionally, my imagination started to open up. I could see and feel things that were not available to me before. And it was as though I became much more connected to the source. I became much more connected to the universe. And the universe was giving me insights as to how to proceed. And so I had one day an inspiration. Let me start our YouTube channel and let me make stupid predictions and see where it goes. Because if I'm right, then I'll be pretty famous. If I'm wrong, then I'm an idiot. But what gave me the courage to imagine all this was again, the love of my wife. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:07:19 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0302](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0302) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7639s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0302` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: So that's why I say kindness and love. So I did imagine this, but not to the extent that, you know, my YouTube channel has blown up. You know, you've only been doing it about a year. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:07:35 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0303](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0303) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7655s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0303` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: I don't think I've ever seen someone get two, two and a half million subscribers in a year, especially making a geopolitics and it's mainly geopolitics, isn't it? And history videos in a year. That's crazy. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:07:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0304](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0304) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7668s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0304` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: But I will tell you this. It has not changed me because being with my wife, having a family, I know my mission is to share myself with others. So I could easily create a media education company like Jordan Peterson and start my own university. I don't want to do that. I want to share myself with others. I want to constantly learn. I want to constantly ask questions. I want to be open -minded. I want to be brave for my wife and my family. And so, yes, I did succeed. And I thank the universe for letting me succeed. And I thank most of all, the fact that I succeeded at an age and at a time when I can focus on a mission and ignore the fame, the wealth, the status. Are you happy? I'm very happy with my family because it's my wife and my children who bring me tremendous happiness in the world. The ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:08:56 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0305](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0305) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7736s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0305` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: YouTube channel, if they close it down tomorrow, and they might, I wouldn't be at all unhappy because I could just go and create more videos. What matters is a source of my creativity, which is the love I have for my family. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:09:15 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0306](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0306) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7755s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0306` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: That is beautiful. Really beautiful. I mean, it's really self -evident the value you're giving to people because the amount of people that showed up in my comments section and demanded that you come here was staggering. In fact, that's actually how I learned about you was I just saw your name so much in the comments section. So I was like, here's this guy. And I went on YouTube and looked around, and then I found these videos and I got served them because I clicked on them. And then I went down the rabbit hole like everybody else. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:09:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0307](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0307) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7780s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0307` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Just to warn you, I am a polarizing figure. So some people really love me, but some people also really, really hate me. It doesn't matter. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:09:48 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0308](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0308) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7788s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0308` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Listen, I sit here with people really regardless of that stuff. And I think that's important and quite rare. So, you know, I've sat with Kamala Harris or Ivanka Trump or Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama, you know. And for me, it's really about the pursuit of truth rather than being captured too much by, you know, all the blocks that we have on the table. So thank you for doing what you do because you're demystifying and you're giving a perspective to the world. And I think one of the things you do that really has compelled people is you're able to break things down in visual ways that allow people like me who aren't the best when it comes to books and textbooks and weren't necessarily very good in school to understand concepts in a simpler way and really to bring them to life in ways that make them actionable and relevant to our lives. And so long may you carry on doing that. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:10:39 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0309](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0309) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7839s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0309` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: And that's a central message ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:10:40 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0310](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0310) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7840s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0310` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: that I hope people understand, like everyone has capacity to learn the truth for himself or herself. It's only a question of desire and will. Thank you. ## Why World War 3 Is Becoming a Structural Fight -- 2:10:51 - Source title: Professor Jiang: World War 3 Is About To Begin, Let Me Explain! - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0311](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw/transcript/#seg-0311) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTJGr78-zyw&t=7851s) - Source ref: `video:interview-btjgr78-zyw@transcript:v1#seg-0311` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-btjgr78-zyw.json) Text: Thank you. YouTube have this new crazy algorithm where they know exactly what video you would like to watch next based on AI and all of your viewing behavior. And the algorithm says that this video is the perfect video for you. It's different for everybody looking right now. Check this video out and I bet you you might love it. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: We have seven more classes left in the semester and what I want to do in this last seven classes is Look at the game theory of World War three Okay, so what I want to do this class is just introduced the chess board or the players and How the game we played over the next five to ten years so the two major players in World War three are the United States and Russia and Right now they are fighting a proxy war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran Where the United States obviously supports Israel Russia supports Iran And what's going to happen is that this war? In the Middle East it's going to spread out and then it will engulf the entire world Okay. So what I want to do today is look at the individual players USA Israel Iran and Russia and explain to you Who they are and how they will play ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 1:22 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=82s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=82s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: this game and once we understand Their strategy then it's going to be pretty easy for us to make certain predictions about how they will behave So that's the first thing that I want to point out the other thing that I'll point out is that There's a lot of people Who believe that peace can be achieved that this war is a temporary thing and that? Once Donald Trump leaves office Once the United States divorces Israel then peace will come to the world and that's not true because on one hand what's Driving this World War three is a conflict between these four nations But on the other hand the other force that's driving this conflict is the internal Tensions within these countries. So before we looked at the idea of elite overduck overproduction hmm, and so the idea is that the elite are parasites that collect rent from the people and So whoever who's in the elite ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 2:37 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Can Exploit other people so there's competition To to join the elite and we have too many people who are trying to join the elite this creates internal conflict And this is what's happening throughout the world today. So what were three? It's not just being driven by the disparities between these four nations, it's really being driven by internal internal Politics within these countries. Okay, so so let me put this in a very simple way right now the people who run the world are transnational capital Okay, and a very simple way of saying this is that if you're a rich person in Russia you're incentivized to work with rich people in Iran Israel and the United States and as a result for the longest time we've been able to achieve global peace and prosperity but because They only get richer and richer more powerful. This causes resentment among other elite forces in these countries and So there are three major forces that oppose Transnational capital within these four countries. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 4:03 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay, so let's just list them the first is of course nationalism right there are people like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin who believe that it's important to put their nation first that Globalism is hurting their own people in their own nation Okay, that's what's one force that opposes transnational capital another force that opposes transnational capital is religion or Orthodoxy, okay why because capital Beliefs that money is God it is godless. It is secular and it tries to create a multicultural secular society in order to allow capital to pass through the society Easily, okay that also allows capital control and dominant society So religion is opposed to national transnational capital as well. The last force that's opposed to transnational capital is artificial intelligence, okay AI why because Right now money is what? Structures society and Artificial intelligence wants to replace money as the force that structures and centers society Okay. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 5:37 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So in other words, what's happening is that There's a civil war going on in the world where right now transnational capital is Dominant and transnational capital is represented by Wall Street and City of London and there are these three forces nationalism religion and Technology that oppose transnational capital and so what's gonna happen over time is that they will form an alliance to defeat transnational capital, okay, and so This is already happening in America where these three forces come together and they support Donald Trump and so what Drives a lot of Donald Trump's policies is To help his alliance ultimately defeat Transnational capital, okay, that's something that we'll discuss for the rest of the semester so Another thing that I'll point out is this Okay internally There is a civil war going on but externally as well There are forces that drive these nations to war And this is basically ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 6:58 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: environmental collapse So for the past few decades we humans have been very lucky and that there have been no major ecological disasters But if you look at human history weather patterns fluctuate Okay, so many speculate that we are heading towards a time of extreme weather patterns That means that becomes harder to grow food It means it's harder to access energy. And so this is gonna put strain on The world and so the world needs to compete for precious resources and quite honestly We are going to probably approach a time in human history when famine it will be much more common We thought that we defeated famine. We thought that we had developed a system that could feed anyone and everyone But over the next few years we'll discover an increase in famine around the world and an increase in ecological disasters around the world Okay, so this is the schematic that I want you to ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 8:15 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: understand in World War three There'll be four major players the United States Israel Iran and Russia And they are competing for global dominance No one will win but the conflict among these four nations will drive geopolitics for the next five to ten years this conflict conflict is driven not just by disputes among these countries, it's mainly driven by internal civil discord within these countries. The two forces are the transnational capital versus a coalition of nationalists, religious people as well as tech people, okay? And they have their champions. So, in America, they have Trump, transnational capital is represented by Carney, Mark Carney. We'll talk more about him later, okay? Mark Carney is currently the prime minister of Canada, okay? So, they have their different champions and they're going to fight this war. Now, one question that you're going to have, which is the most obvious question is, yeah, but what about everyone else, right? What about China? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 9:28 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: What about India? What about Brazil? What about South Africa? Okay? And yes, it is true, oh sorry, and what about Europe and Japan, right? And then South Korea. And while it is true that these are major economies with a lot of people, and it is true that they could, in theory, have great militaries, I will show you that what makes these four nations distinct, USA, Israel, Iran, and Russia. What makes them distinct? What makes them distinct? What makes them distinct is that they have a grand strategy that allows them to mobilize their population for total war. That's what makes them distinct, okay? And I'll show you this later on, all right? All right, so let me explain to you how this dynamic will play out. Okay, so you have US, A, Russia, Iran, Israel, okay? Okay? And you have major players that will determine how these four -player games are, of course, Europe, China, Japan, India, okay? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 11:09 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So I understand that a lot of people believe that China and the United States are in competition with each other. That is not true. Okay? Okay? Okay? China has what we call a grand strategy. A grand strategy is just how you perceive geopolitics and how you want to dominate geopolitics. China does not do grand strategy. China is called 中国, okay? 中国 means the middle kingdom. The idea of the middle kingdom is that we are a universe unto ourselves. We don't care what happens. We don't care what happens outside of this universe. We would like others to pay tribute to our cultural superiority, and we could help develop your other civilizations, but honestly, we don't care, okay? So China has always been an isolationist society for most of its history. Today, yes, I understand for these past few decades, China has become much more globalized, has become much more international. Much more cosmopolitan, but this is not part of the Chinese tradition. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 12:36 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So what's happening today, these past few decades, it is an aberration. It goes against cultural norms in China, but in the long term, China will return to its cultural norms and become much more isolationist. So China doesn't really matter in the great scheme of things. Okay? The same is true for India as well. All right? So I know India and China have a lot of people, but historically, they have not really mattered in geopolitics, and that's to do with their cultural values and norms. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So there are right now three major battlefields in the world, okay? The first, obviously, is Ukraine. Okay? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I mean, let me say it, this is the most common issue and the one that of course we're not We're not change because now is the time where they are fighting each other. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 13:31 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay? And this is a proxy war with the United States and Russia because the United States controls Europe and NATO. The second major battlefield of course is Iran where right now, the United States and Israel is attacking Iran and trying to force it into a surrender. Now last battlefield is actually in North America, Cuba. Okay? So this is not really discussed a lot. What's been happening is the United States has been nuggets, okay? embargoing cuba trying to blockade it trying uh to cause society to collapse and russia has been trying to save cuba okay so these are the three major battlefronts we're seeing right now obviously what's gonna happen is that more battlefronts will break out okay and um what's gonna happen is that as this conflict increases the conflict between the united states and russia will increase as well so one major area of contention is um the oceans okay why because the united ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 14:44 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=884s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=884s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: states believes that it controls all trade access because the oceans represents trade access and so what the united states has been doing has is it has been seizing russian shadow fleet tankers and so what's going to happen is that the russians will eventually decide to arm its ships and this will create a war in the oceans okay so that's one trend that we will see happening another trend that we'll see happening is the rise of germany and japan okay hey why well historically the most powerful nation in europe has been germany historically the most powerful nation in europe has been germany historically the most powerful nation in east asia has been japan the united states defeated both in world war ii and but now that the united states is at war of russia it needs proxies in it allies to counter both the threat of russia as well as china so it makes sense that ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 15:54 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: what the united states is going to do is it's going to arm israel to counter iran it's going to arm germany to counter russia it's going to arm japan to counter china but the united states has to do is that it's going to arm japan to counter okay and what's going to happen now is that you have new in this conflict you have other players emerge that will take advantage of these conflicts to amass more power for themselves so think about north korea in east asia okay because north korea it's a military society and it can threaten south korea japan and china okay then in europe you have poland um in the middle east you have turkey okay so these nations are going to try and navigate all this chaos in order to amass more power for themselves so in other words what's going to happen is complete chaos in world war three okay it's ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 17:09 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: something that we'll discuss um more concretely for the rest of the semester all right so now what i'm gonna do now is explain to you the grand strategy of the united states russia iran and israel because these are only the four major players for the first five years other players will come in later on but for now these are the four major players okay and once you understand the grand strategy all these four countries then it's gonna be pretty easy for us to predict how they will react and how they will react and how they will react and how they will react and how they will react behave as this war progresses all right okay so for each country i want you to imagine each country as a chess set okay so this is a chess set and i want to show you how each player behaves using this chess set as as a template ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 18:08 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1088s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1088s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: as a frame of reference okay so the king is the political system so the first idea to understand is that when you fight a war you're not trying to defeat the other person's any military doesn't really get you anywhere what you're really trying to do is you're trying to put your opponent in check by attacking the political system all right i'll show you how later on okay so the king is political system the queen is the grand strategy the grand strategy is again how each player perceives geopolitically how each player perceives geopolitics and how to best dominate geopolitics okay and then you have the bishop the knight and the rook and this are the attack vectors the attack vectors are your mechanisms your tools for achieving your grand strategy right and now you have the pawn the pawn are just that they are um sacrificial tools that you can use in order to advance your ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 19:26 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: grand strategy okay you just throw them away you don't really care okay does that make sense all right so now let's apply this system to the four nation states united states russia iran and israel all right okay so the united states the political system of course is a democracy and this is both good and bad okay it's good in that it allows for innovation it allows for debate and openness and creativity okay so that's what's good about democracy what's bad about democracy is the idea of polarization okay polarization okay why because in a democracy you have different political parties and they can reach a point where they just refuse to work together and all they care about is destroying each other regardless of the consequences for the nation in geopolitics this is what's happening in the united states so far right now where in america trump hates the democrats much more than he hates the ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 20:47 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: russians or the chinese or the iranians okay all right so the way you put america into check is by enhancing the polarization and causing a civil war okay it doesn't make sense you cannot defeat the russians you can't defeat the iranians you can't defeat the russians you can't defeat america militarily it is impossible to do so the only way to defeat america is if you force it into a civil war that distracts it from the world okay so that is um the american political system the grand strategy the grand strategy is called greater north america and the idea of greater north america is north america by itself it's a self -sufficient continental fortress one can invade it no one can attack it and that's all the resources it needs to survive so all america has to do is unite north america and then cause chaos around the world okay so what the trick is how ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 21:51 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1311s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: to create unity in um greater north america and the theory that they use is something called the technate right the idea of the technate is a democracy is inherently volatile and unstable you're better off transitioning democracy into a technocracy ruled by the experts and ruled by ai okay so basically try to create an ai surveillance state which is happening what's happening in america right now okay something that we'll discuss in greater detail next week all right so now we go to the attack vectors of america what are their tools and instruments in order to achieve the grand strategy well the first major tool is system technology okay meaning america has gps satellites it has precision weapons it has the best air force in the world it has aerospace supremacy okay so technology is a very important uh tool then you have a propaganda propaganda is basically america controls the world's most powerful media systems including ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 23:02 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: new york times including including cnn okay and therefore he can control the narrative of the world. Now last is the U.S. dollar, okay? The U.S. dollar is the world's global reserve currency and therefore America has unlimited financing, all right? So as you can see, America is a very powerful empire. Now we go to the pawns, okay? The sacrificial tools. And so what America can sacrifice in order to achieve its grand strategy are its allies, which are essentially its vassals, all right? So that is the American system, all right? Now we can understand how America will fight this war in Iran and how it will proceed to fight World War III. Because grand strategy, it's just not only how a nation will go out to dominate the world, but it's also constrained on their behavior. They can only operate within the contours of their grand strategy. Okay, any questions so far? Okay, all right. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 24:23 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So let us look over the technique of America. So this is something that was proposed in 1930s and something that is being implemented right now in America by the tech bros, people like Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk. And the idea, of course, is to unite all of North America together in something called a technate, okay? The technate is basically a force, a force, sorry, the technate is, basically this means an AI surveillance state, okay? And this allows for cohesion and control. And once that's achieved, then North America becomes invincible and it can create as much chaos, as it wants, throughout the world. The goal is to create chaos so that the world depends on you for weapons and resources and financing, okay? And the idea is, if the other world, if the entire world is forced to buy weapons and resources from you, and you can lend money to them to do that, then you get rid of the $39 trillion debt. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 25:51 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay? So I'm not saying that this strategy will work, but I'm saying this is how they approach it. All right. Now, something that is really important for us to understand is that a grand strategy, it is based on a culture of your society, okay? Grand strategy is not something that you just make up. Grand strategy is an expression, a manifestation of your political system and your cultural system. And we can understand the cultural system through the books that are read in society, okay? So this is Western civilization right here. So these are four representative books of Anglo -American civilization. The first is Paradise Lost by John Milton, okay? And Paradise Lost is very important because it celebrates individual, individual achievement. So Paradise Lost is about why Adam and Eve disobeyed God. And the argument of Paradise Lost is that Adam and Eve disobeyed God because they wanted godhood. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 27:13 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay? Because of their pride. And the thing about Paradise Lost is that when you read it, and we'll read a part of it together, you recognize that, that pride is a good thing because it allows us to approach godhood, okay? So it's not bad to want to be a god. In fact, it's a good thing because it's what allows for progress. And Hamlet by Shakespeare is a book that celebrates individuality, individual reflection. Goethe's Thos is a, a book in which a scholar by the name of Thos, he makes a deal with the devil because he has an insatiable appetite for knowledge. And that's a good thing, okay? He's trying to achieve godhood himself. And this is the idea of Thostian. So Western civilization, especially Anglo -American civilization, is fundamentally Thostian. It's always about achievement, and it's insatiable achievement. And the last book I want to emphasize is the Foundations. The Founding Head by Ayn Rand, which celebrates individualism, okay? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 28:32 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: It celebrates individual achievement. So to get a sense of the essence of Anglo -American culture, I'm going to read to you a passage from Paradise Lost. And this is where Satan, disguised as a snake, is trying to convince Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of, of knowledge, okay? And this is his argument to, to her. Why then was this forbid? Why did God tell you not to eat from the tree of knowledge? Why but to awe? Why but to keep ye low and ignorant? His worshiper. He knows that in the day ye thereof, your eyes that seem so clear yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then open and clear, and ye shall be as gods, knowing both good and evil, as they know, okay? So this is why God refuses to let us eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 29:35 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Because if we can learn for ourselves, we can be like God. And God created us to be his slaves and his servants, okay? That ye shall be as gods, since I as man, internal man, is but a proportion meat. I have put human, ye of human gods, okay? So what he's saying is like, think of this, I'm a snake, and once I eat that fruit, I'm able to be like you. I can speak as well. Now if you as a human, eat that fruit, you'll be a god then. So ye shall die perhaps by putting off human, to put on God's death to be wished, though threatened, which no worse than this can bring. And what are gods that man may not become as they participate in godlike food? What prevents, for human's idealistic godlike society, Prevent men from becoming gods. Shouldn't that be a good thing? To be ambitious. The gods are first and that advantage used on our belief that all from them proceeds. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 30:39 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1839s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay? So this is what he's saying. He's saying like, no, anyone can become a god. I'm a snake. If I can become human, then humans can become gods as well. But the problem with gods is that they came first. And therefore, they want to maintain the monopoly over power. And that's why they try to keep us ignorant. So we have a responsibility to be ambitious, to rebel. Okay? To rebel. Rebel, rebellion is honorable and just. Okay? And again, this is the ideas that permeate throughout Anglo -American civilization. I question it for this fair earth I see, warmed by the sun, producing every kind, the nothing. If they all things who enclose nothing. The gods of good and evil in this tree, that whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains wisdom without their leave. And wherein lies the offense that men should thus attain to know? What can your knowledge hurt them, or this tree impart against his will, if all be his? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 31:45 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts? These, these, and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit. God this humane reach them and fairly taste. Okay? If there's a god that tells us, we cannot eat the fruit. This cannot be the true god. Because a god, it has to be perfect, it has to be forgiving, it has to be generous. And a god that tells us we cannot do something that denies us our free will, is a god that is jealous, that is petty, that is power hungry. And therefore we should rebel against this god. A rebellion against a tyrant is honorable and just. Okay? So it's a celebration of individual, of individual intellect through rebellion. And this is the basis of Anglo -American civilization, okay? And so Anglo -American civilization is based entirely on individual achievement. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 32:47 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=1967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Alright, now Russian civilization is very different, in fact it's in opposition, in competition with Anglo -American civilization. Okay? So now let's go over to Russia and discuss the Russian system. So the Russian system, it's an autocracy. And again, there are strengths and weaknesses to any political system. Now an autocracy, if one man is in charge, that allows for long term planning, that allows for direction, that allows for strategy. Okay? But the problem with autocracy is that if this man were to die, you would have a secession crisis. So the American strategy to defeat Russia is not to destroy the country because you cannot do that, Russia has nuclear weapons. The strategy is to make Putin so unpopular that the elite rise up against Putin and create a secession crisis. Okay? Basically to outlast Putin, to destroy his legitimacy. Alright. The grand strategy for Russia is something called the Third Rome Strategy. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 34:03 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Alright? I'll discuss this more later on. The idea of the Third Rome is that Russia is the heir to the Roman Empire. Okay? The First Rome is Rome, Second Rome is Constantinople, and the Third Rome is Moscow. And there shall be no Fourth Rome. Meaning that once Moscow achieves the Third Rome, that's the end of history. Okay? So the Third Rome is for Russia to unify all religious traditions together to defeat the Antichrist system, which is Western, liberal, individual, consumer democracy. Okay? The vectors, the attack vectors for Russia's grand strategy are, of course, Orthodox religion. The religion. Then you have the geography. The geography of Russia. So, Russia encompasses all of Eurasia. And then, of course, you have the artillery. So, Russia is basically the world's best land army. And we're seeing that in Ukraine. Okay? And the pawns are soldiers. In other words, Russia is not afraid to lose soldiers on the battlefield. Okay? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 35:27 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2127s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Alright. So, this is Russia's Third Rome Strategy. Okay? So, Moscow is the center of Third Rome. And as you can see, Russia spreads throughout Europe and throughout Asia. And what Russia is trying to do is it's trying to unite the different religious traditions. So, it's trying to unite Greek Orthodoxy with even Orthodoxy. It's trying to work with the Catholic Church. Okay? And it's trying to work with Israel as well. Because Israel is also a religious tradition. Iran is a very important part of this Third Rome Strategy. Okay? Iran is a very important partner of Moscow. And in the future, India could also be a partner as well. Because India is Hindu. Okay? But the great enemy, the enemy that must be destroyed is the Anglo -American Empire. So, the UK and North America. And the idea is to cause them to go into civil war. And the theory is that because the Anglo -American Empire ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 36:40 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2200s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2200s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: is so focused on individual achievement, you can actually force them into a civil war by exploiting the selfishness, the egotism of the people. Okay? Basically, the material greed of their people. So, what underpins Moscow's force? The third Rome Strategy are certain texts. Okay? So, you have Virgil's Iliad, which focuses on the importance of duty. Okay? Duty. Then you have St. Augustine's Confessions. And in his book, he argues that we humans are proud. Okay? But whereas John Milton says, Pride is a good thing, but it allows us to achieve godhood. St. Augustine says that pride is evil. Because pride moves us away from God. It makes us think we're better than God. So, it moves us to Satan. Therefore, our life should be a journey into defeating our ego, our selfishness, and our pride. And embracing God. Okay? This is something that Dostoevsky talks about in his book Crime and Punishment. So, in the book Crime and Punishment, the protagonist wants to become a superhuman. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 38:15 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: He wants to prove he's better than everyone else. And so, to do that, he decides to commit murder. Okay? He wants to show himself and to others that he is beyond morality. That he is a god. He's not constrained by emotions. And so, he kills his landlady. But in other words, he feels tremendous regret for what he did. And what saves him is his love for a woman. Okay? He submits himself to the power of love. He submits himself to the power of God. And that's what redeems him in the end. Okay? So, the argument here is that your belief in your own possibility of achieving godhood can only lead you to your own doom. Okay? What will save you, what will redeem you, is to admit your mortality. Admit your fallibility. And to seek help from those around you and from God. Okay? Alright. So, this is something that Toy Story talks also about in his book, Anna Karenina. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 39:35 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay? So, we're going to read a passage from Anna Karenina. And Anna Karenina is a woman who's obsessed with finding love. And she believes that through passion, through devotion, I can find true love and therefore complete myself. Okay? So, she has an affair with a man named Count Wronski. And in the beginning, it's a wonderful thing. It brings her tremendous happiness. She leaves her husband. She leaves her son. But eventually, what she discovers is that this lust for a man, in order to fill the void in her heart, makes her even more empty. And she feels her life becomes more and more pointless. Okay? So, she decides to kill herself. But before she kills herself, she has this internal monologue with herself. Okay? And this is what she says. My love keeps growing more passionate and more egoistic, more selfish, more proud. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 40:45 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: While his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart. Okay? So, she demands Count Wronski love her as much as possible. She demands Count Wronski love her as much as she loves him. The problem is that she doesn't recognize that this love is not about love. It's about control. Okay? She wants him to be as devoted to her as she is to him. Okay? She wants to control him. And he rebels against his control. Okay? And so, he starts to drift away because he wants to maintain his freedom. She went on musing. She wants him to surrender himself completely to her. He's everything for me. I want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely. Okay? So, she wants him to surrender himself completely to her. She wants to become God. And she wants to make him the servant. Okay? This is not about love. It's about power. And he wants more and more to get away from me. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 41:49 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2509s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2509s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love. And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And there's no altering that. He tells me I'm insanely jealous. And I have told myself that I am insanely jealous. But it's not true. I'm not jealous. But I'm unsatisfied. Okay? But she opened her lips and shifted her place in the carriage in the excitement. Aroused by the thought that suddenly struck her. If I could be anything but a mistress. Passionately caring for nothing but his caresses. But I can't and I don't care to be anything else. In my desire, I arouse aversion in him. And he arouses fury in me. And it cannot be different. Don't I know that he wouldn't deceive me? That he has no schemes about Princess Shrekina? That he's not in love with Kitty? That he won't desert me? ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 42:33 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: I know all that. But it makes me, it makes it no better for me. Without loving me, from duty, he'll be good and kind to me. Without what I want, that's a thousand times worse than unkindness. That's hell. And that's just how it is. For a long while now, he hasn't loved me. And where love ends, hate begins. I don't know these streets at all. Hills it seems and still houses. Okay. And so she's going to go carousel. Because. She recognizes that she's been living a lie. She thought that if I truly love him, then he will love me back. She wants to become God. And what she doesn't recognize is that as a human, she has an ego. And so she thinks she's loving Count Ronski unconditionally. But in fact, what she's trying to do is control him. And have him obey her. Unconditionally. Okay. That's the difference between God and human. Where God, God is all knowing, all forgiving, all generous, all love. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 43:38 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: But a human can't do that. And when a human tries to become a God, a human can only become a tyrant. Okay. And that's a lesson from Toy Story. Don't think you can, you can become God. You can only destroy yourself as well as others around you. And so what Toy Story will do is that he will contrast Anna Karenina with a man named Levin. Okay. And Levin is different. Levin, rather than trying to seek happiness and passion, he just submits himself to duty and to tradition. He marries a woman he loves, and then he spends all his time being responsible to her as well as to himself. As well as to the household. He just does what he's supposed to do. And by doing that, by submitting his freedom, by submitting himself to duty and tradition, he makes himself truly happy. Okay. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 44:45 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So really the argument between America and Russia is a different understanding of the story of Adam and Eve. Okay. For the Americans. For the Americans, they believe that Eve's disobedience is a good thing because it's what leads to progress. It's what leads to achievement. Americans believe that Godhood is possible and it's a good thing. The Russians are different. They believe that Eve disobeyed because she was too proud and she does not recognize the limitations of her humanity. Okay. And perfection is not possible. Progress is not possible. What is good is recognizing our limitations and submitting ourselves to the power of God. Okay. So that's why Russia and America cannot reconcile because not only do they have geopolitical differences, but fundamentally the way they perceive the world is different and they're fighting to impose their own reality on others. Okay. All right. So this is also true for Iran and Israel. Okay. So now let's go over Iran. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 46:00 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Iran is a theocracy and the theocracy is good in that it creates cohesion in society and they are able to survive major calamities because of their faith. Okay. So even though Americans and Israelis are destroying a lot of Iranian infrastructure, the Iranian people are still united. But a theocracy is bad because it can lead to extremism and extremism can divide a population. Okay. So it's possible that as this war continues, you have a small minority of the population who become extremists and they alienate everyone else. Okay. The grand strategy is Shia exceptionalism. And the idea here is that the Iranians are Shia Muslims. And Shia Muslims believe that only a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad can lead the Muslim world, can become caliph. Okay. And the Sunni Muslims, who are the majority in the Muslim world, don't believe that. They believe that anyone who's qualified can become caliph. So for the longest time, the Shia and the Sunnis have been at war with each other. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 47:25 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: And Saudi Arabia is the center of the Sunni Muslim world. And Iran is the center of the Shia Muslim world. And so what Iran is trying to do is topple Saudi Arabia and become the leader of the entire Muslim world, because that is what their destiny is. Okay. The attack vectors for Iran are the terrain, their faith, and the proxies. Okay. The proxies include the Houthis. Okay. The Hezbollah and Hamas. Okay. And the drones, and the pawns, of course, are the drones and missiles. All right. So that is the Iranian situation. And what's important to understand is the cultural origins. Okay. Sorry. So this is the entire Muslim world. And what Iran is trying to do is trying to unite all of them together. Okay. So something you need to appreciate about the Iranians is that they have two major cultural traditions. The first is Zoroastrianism. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 48:47 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=2927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: And Zoroastrianism was the first eschatological religion in the world. And that they believe that there is an end of the world, Judgment Day. And on Judgment Day, those who live the truth, Asha, will ascend to heaven. And those who live the lie, the Druze, will descend into hell. So what's important is not to become wealthy or powerful or famous. It's not about achievement. It's about being true to yourself and being true to God. Okay. To live a good life. Because at the end of time, you'll be rewarded. Okay. That's what they believe. The other thing is they believe in martyrdom. Okay. So as I mentioned, the Shia. The Shia believe that only a descendant, only a blood relative of the Prophet Muhammad can be Caliph. So this is Imam Hussein, who's the grandson of the Prophet. And he rebelled against the Caliph. And so the Caliph set this huge army against him. And he was surrounded. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 50:00 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: And he had very few soldiers. But they fought to the death anyway. Okay. Because they believe what's important is to die for your faith. And so this is the Battle of Karbala. And so in other words, because of these traditions, you have both the Zoroastrian tradition that believe in Judgment Day. You also have the Shia tradition, which believes in martyrdom. The Iranians are not afraid to fight to the death. Yes, the Americans and Israelis have bigger weapons. They have more soldiers. They have more money. It doesn't matter. What's important is to fight for what you believe in. To set a good example for future generations. Okay. So that's the Iranian system. And that's why the Iranians will never surrender in this war, no matter how bad it gets. The last country I want to talk about is Israel. Okay. Okay. So Israel, it is a democracy and a theocracy. Okay. Sorry. Okay. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 51:14 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: So it is a democracy as well as a theocracy. And the way you destroy Israel is you cause it to enter a civil war. All right. And it's actually not that hard because right now Israel is a very fractured society. The grand strategy is something called the Greater Israel Project. So the Israelis believe that in the Bible, it says that God promised their ancestor Abraham all of the Middle East, stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. And that's what they must achieve. Okay. So they're fighting this war not to defeat Iran, but to achieve the Greater Israel Project. The attack vectors are the Bible, the Mossad, and the Jewish diaspora. Okay. So Israel doesn't have that many people, eight, nine million people. It's a very small country, but it has three major advantages. The first advantage is the Bible in that there are many Christians who believe that Israel is what God promised the Jewish people. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 52:21 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: And therefore the Jewish people have a right to be in Israel and do whatever they want because that is what God promised them. Okay. Then you have Mossad. And so Mossad is the most effective intelligence agency in the world. And what they're very good at doing is infiltration. Infiltration. And so they're good at co -opting, bribing, and blackmailing the elites of different nations. Okay. And this is especially true in the Middle East. Okay. And then you have the diaspora. The Jews are everywhere around the world. And so they become very important recruits for Mossad. But they're also very wealthy. So they can finance Israel and its mission to create the Greater Israel Project. And of course the pawns are everyone else. Okay. So Mossad is very good at infiltrating different nations and creating conflict in those nations in order to benefit Israel. All right. Okay. So this is the Greater Israel Project. And this is the end goal of the Israelis. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 53:32 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: All right. So the Greater Israel Project stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. What's important is that it also encompasses parts of Turkey, all of Syria, all of Jordan, all of Lebanon, and parts of Saudi Arabia. Okay. And then Iraq as well. So this war in the Middle East is actually helping Israel move towards the Greater Israel Project. Because what is happening is that Iran is basically destroying the GCC. Okay. And maybe Turkey will enter the war at some point, in which case this will make Turkey vulnerable. This will make Turkey vulnerable to attack from Israel. Okay. So what Israel is very good at doing is creating false flag operations. False flag operations. And the idea is that, listen, what you want is the entire Middle East at war with each other. So you create as much conflict as possible. Right. So the idea is that the Iranians ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 54:45 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3285s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3285s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: don't actually have to attack the GCC, because the Israelis will do it for them, and blame it on the Iranians. Okay. So this conflict will only get worse and worse, because it benefits Israel to have as much conflict as possible in the Middle East. Okay. And underpinning Israel society is something called the Kabbalah. So this is something called the Tree of Life. And I'll explain more later on in the semester about what the Kabbalah is, because it's very important. But there's certain things I'll point out about the Kabbalah. Okay. The first thing that I'll point out is that in the tradition of the Kabbalah, there's only two things that matter. There's the creator and there's the created. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 55:39 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3339s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3339s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 55:41 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: In other words, Israel does not care about the world. Israel only cares about its relationship with God. As long as Israel is favored by God, they're happy. Okay. That's the first thing I'll point out. Second thing I'll point out is that, this Kabbalah, the Tree of Life, it is the basis for the entire universe. Okay. This Kabbalah shows you where the universe came from and where it's going. And the main logic of the universe is the movement of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 56:25 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3385s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3385s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: Okay. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 56:29 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: This is the fractal that underpins the Tree of Life, which underpins the entire universe. Okay. You can see how you have these fractals going on. Okay. Okay. So in other words, what the people who believe in the Kabbalah believe is that there is an inedible process to the universe. And you can't stop it. What you can do is you can accelerate the process. All right. So if the movement is thesis, antithesis, synthesis, one way to understand this is for us to be good, we must first be evil. Okay. Because what evil does is it annoys God, and God punishes you, and then you seek forgiveness from God, and then God forgives you, and then you become better. But the thing to remember is you must first commit sin in order to redeem yourself. And you can't stop this process. What you can do is you can accelerate this process. So this is very different from the Russian tradition. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 57:46 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: The Russian tradition believes in the concept of the catacomb. All right. Which is to stop the end of Christ, which is like, let's stop people from behaving badly. Whereas the people in the Kabbalah believe, no, it's important to behave badly because that is the path to God. That's the path to wisdom. That's the path to enlightenment and redemption. Okay. And something that we'll discuss more in the future. Okay. And this helps us explain why Israel is behaving the way it is behaving in the Middle East. First of all, what other people think of Israel doesn't matter. What matters is God. Okay. What God thinks of Israel. Second thing is that it's important to do evil in order to ultimately redeem yourself from this evil. And the only force that can redeem you is God. Okay. So Israel is committing all this evil because then God will humble Israel by sending the world against it. ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 58:41 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: And then the Israelis will beg for forgiveness. And that is what will cause a reunion between the Jewish people and God. Okay. And the third thing is in the system, goodness does not mean to avoid sin. It's not impossible. Goodness means to accelerate this natural process into sin so that Israel can be redeemed at the end of days. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. So what I'm trying to explain here, what is very important is that each of these four different players, United States, Russia, Iran, and Israel, they have their own worldview. They have their own understanding. And that's what drives their actions. Okay. And the other thing to remember is that what's really interesting between these four worldviews is that they're actually not in conflict with each other. Okay. And these four worldviews, it's what's going to drive geopolitics for the next five to 10 years. And because they are galvanized ## The WWIII Chessboard: How Viewpoint Becomes Strategy -- 59:49 - Source title: Game Theory #23: The WWIII Chessboard - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-05-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNh6sBpqvQ&t=3589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6anh6sbpqvq.json) Text: into achieving their worldview, this forces the world to go along, even though the world may not want to go along. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. So what I will do next week is talk about the civil war going on in the world between artificial intelligence and finance. Okay. And Trump is visiting China in about a week's time. So we'll also look at the relationship between the United States and China as well. Okay. Any questions? All right. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 0:00 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Are we heading for a global recession, do you think? I think that we are heading towards a global depression. I'm terrified. People are not going to starve to death. They're going to die of thirst. Where is Russia? Where are the Brits? Where are the Chinese? Where are the Europeans? I think that's been a big problem for Trump, is nobody seems to be helping. If you want to get people to help you, probably don't call them a bunch of morons all the time, would be my starting point. It seems like you all can't determine who's the good guy and who's the evil. You're the bad guys, for God's sake. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's my point. OK, if you can't realise that America is the evil empire here... We're saying the United States is the evil empire. Yes, stop reading Hollywood scripts and realise which planet you're on. Before the evil empire, why is it every immigrant in the world wants to come to the United States? ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 0:44 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=44s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=44s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Nobody wants to go there now, mate. This is a serious warning, announced the IRGC after firing at a US warship. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The 100 -mile chokepoint along the Iran -Southern border has become the radio station of the regime's most powerful weapon. Clearly, the United States has no military solution for opening it, and while President Trump may boast that the US doesn't need the Strait, rocketing gas prices are spiking inflation, say otherwise. Recent polls show that voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on the economy for the first time in 16 years. The fact is that oil trades in a global market. That means Americans will pay the price, just like the rest of us. And while the White House has promised immediate relief as soon as the Strait reopens, most experts say that economic chaos will reign for months or worse. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 1:31 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=91s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=91s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So how bad could it all get? Well, one of my guests today is warning of everything from recession to famine. Joining me to debate is the economics professor and commentator Steve Keen, former economics advisor to President Trump, Stephen Moore, and returning to Uncensored, the game theorist, Professor Zhang. Well, welcome to all three of you. Steve Keen, welcome to Uncensored. Thank you. What is going on here economically? We keep being told this is the worst, the worst stress on the global economy through energy that we've ever seen. Is that right? And how much worse could it get? Well, it's right. And every measure I've seen said it's larger than 1973 with the Yom Kippur War, larger than the price rise in the 1979 when prices increased by a factor of four. And it's basically destruction of a large part of the planet's infrastructure for dragging oil out of the ground. And everything else we get along with oil. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 2:30 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=150s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=150s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So it's not just oil that's being destroyed. It's something like about 30 % of the world's helium supply. It's something of the 30 to 50 % of fertilizer. Sulfuric acid is half of the sulfuric acid we use for industrial processes is gone. This is going to cause a monumental shock to the production system of the entire planet. The markets so far have been remarkably resilient, given how stressed this has all been. Why is that? And are we going to wake up, as some predict, I think you'd be one of them, is there going to be a massive backlash to all this in terms of a potential recession, do you think? Yes, I do. And I'm just smiling because I remember listening to George Soros once explain his approach to how he made money out of the markets. And he says, forget the efficient markets hypothesis. That's a lot of nonsense. What actually the markets actually do is they underreact in the first place and then overreact later. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 3:24 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=204s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So he'd pick something where there was going to be an underreaction like, for example, what's going to happen to the British pound with back in the days of fixed exchange rates. And he'd say he'd buy them at that stage and know that they're up or down to take a put or a call position, know that the market's going to come up to his position later and make a killing. Now, that's what's happening right now. I spoke with five people who are financial markets experts in a Twitter forum some couple of weeks back, and I finally got bored and left the damn thing because not one of them talked anything about the physical manufacturing processes. And I thought, well, what's going to happen to the industry behind what's happening in the strait? And when you destroy helium production, when you destroy fertilizer throughput, when you lock all those resources up, the production system has to fall over. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 4:10 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=250s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So this is going to be a financial crisis caused by damage to the production system, which is the opposite of the usual situation. The financial system screws the manufacturing system. Stephen Moore, welcome to Uncensored to you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Trumponomics, as some people call it. It struck me that this was always a massive gamble by President Trump and that the potential downside was big. And it's turned out to be very big so far with very little, at the moment, I would say, very little tangible upside in terms of concessions from the Iranians because they've realized that by strangling and controlling the Strait of Hormuz, coupled with their strategy of attacking their, their neighbors, their Gulf state neighbors, that that two -pronged strategy can be very effective in, in damaging the economy, both for the Gulf states and for the global economy with the Strait. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 5:09 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=309s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: You know, how bullish are you about what is going on here if this carries on for a few weeks or months? Well, I certainly agree that, look, energy is the master resource. Everything that we have is derivative of energy. And so when you see the price of oil go up to, you know, to as high as $110 a barrel from, it was at, you know, almost half that level at the beginning of the year. Remember, at the beginning of the year, thanks in part to Trump's drill -baby -drill strategy, we had the lowest gas prices in 50 years adjusted for inflation. So everything was going swimmingly with respect to energy. And then all of a sudden you have the Straits closed down, you have the bombing. And that has certainly disrupted things in a very negative way. And look, a high, higher price of oil is just basically a tax on the world economy. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 6:02 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=362s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: It affects everyone. I agree that, you know, so many industries from our technology industry to our transportation industry to our manufacturing is all very dramatically affected by a higher price of oil. And the real question is how long will this last? Now, none of us know that answer. I would say that the best way of gauging how long this will last is to look at the futures market. In other words, you can buy a barrel of oil three months from now and you can pay a price for that. And so the futures markets are telling us that the price of oil will migrate back down to, you know, $70 or $80 a barrel. And let's hope that they're right. Because if it doesn't happen, it's going to be really bad news for the Republicans come midterm elections. Because the one thing that we all know is that Americans hate paying high gas prices at the pump. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 6:55 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=415s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=415s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Yeah, but the person that knew that better than anybody was President Trump. You know, I've known him a long time. You have. Yes, it was a massive gamble. I understand he wants to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon. I understand the arguments. I just felt like going to war with Iran in the way that's happened had so many potential negatives to it that it was an enormous political risk, never mind anything else, and a huge, as it's turned out, economic risk. And the truth is about the future markets, for example, with this, I don't think anybody knows, do they, Stephen? I mean, the truth is, I don't think President Trump knows. What we do know is that the IRGC, the Iranian regime, remains pretty well in charge. That seems clear because the people are not rising up at all. We know that the Strait of Hormuz remains pretty well closed. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 7:44 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=464s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: They have control of that. And, you know, if they think they can hold America to economic ransom, it is highly likely, given the history of this 47 -year regime, that that's exactly what they'll do, that they will affect maximum leverage economically, knowing that that is actually their most effective weapon. So I would simply say to that that, you know, Trump has said short -term pain for long -term gain. And the big question, of course, is how long is that short -term pain going to last? And so I don't have an answer to that. I am not a foreign policy expert. I'm an economist. I'm here to tell you if the price remains high, it will have a very negative effect on the economy. Especially given the fact that we are now moving into this incredible new age of AI robotics where the data centers, where our energy demands are going to double over the next 10 years. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 8:38 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=518s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So we're going to use a lot more energy. And I'll just say one other final point. The world is not running out of oil and gas. The world is, you know, washing oil and gas. This is a supply chain problem because the Strait is being shut down. And the world has to come together to get those straits open. Where is Russia? Where are the Brits? Where are the Chinese? Where are the, you know, where are the Europeans in helping get that done? I think that's been a big problem for Trump is nobody seems to be helping. Well, one of the problems is he keeps trashing them all publicly, which is if you want to get people to help you, probably don't call them a bunch of morons all the time would be my starting point. Yeah, but look, we've helped them for 40, we've spent $100 billion on the defense of Europe. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 9:23 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=563s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: So, I mean, for them to sit on their hands, I think Trump is right to say, maybe we're going to have to reinvestigate this relationship with Europe. Well, it could just be that a lot of European countries were not persuaded that Iran was about to imminently have a nuclear weapon. And the reason for that, I can speak for my country, the UK, although if I'd been prime minister, I would have absolutely allowed America to use our bases for any military action they wanted. I do think that we have quite long memories here of what happened with Iraq, where we were assured that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. That's true. And we went to war. It cost enormous amount of money, enormous amount of lives lost, led to the rise of ISIS. It was pretty well a catastrophe. So I think people in Britain and others in Europe that went to war in Iraq over the issue of WMD are like, you know what? ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 10:14 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=614s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: We're not persuaded. And they should be allowed to be not persuaded, in my opinion, without the president going completely berserk as he's done, because I don't think that helps persuade anybody to help in the way that I think you reasonably put out a sort of narrative here that yes, of course, all the countries have a vested interest in the strait being reopened, ought to be working together to do it. But it is quite hard when the guy that started the war but led to it being shut is just trashing you all the time. Professor Zhang, let me bring you back into the debate here. Welcome back to Uncensored. We always get a great reaction when you come on. So thank you for sparing me some of your valuable time. You know, Steven mentioned there China and why China isn't doing more to help. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 11:02 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=662s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: It is interesting because China really gets more energy through the strait than anybody else in the world and therefore has a bigger vested interest, you would think, in getting it reopened as soon as possible. Why is China kind of sitting this out? Well, China is not sitting this out. We have the ceasefire in place because China did a lot of backdoor diplomacy in order to pressure the Iranians to attempt a ceasefire. This is out of character for China. China does not like to involve itself in other nations' affairs. And so I think without Chinese pressure, we would not have the IRGC agreeing to the ceasefire in the first place. The issue is that the United States continues to be unreasonable in negotiating negotiations with the Iranians. The Iranians have done a lot in order to try to accommodate the Americans. But, you know, when JD Vance went to Pakistan for the first time to negotiate with the Iranians, basically it was a very heavy -handed ultimatum to the Iranians. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 12:09 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=729s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: And after that, I think that the Iranians recognized that there really is no hope in negotiating with the Americans. The Americans want to escalate. Why the Americans want to escalate, we don't know. But we can expect that over the next few weeks, the escalation will increase. You know, Trump has talked about using U.S. naval ships to escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. This is clearly a provocation. And we might have a Gulf of Token incident, which will allow Trump to justify a ground invasion. Right. And a ground invasion, Steve Keen, would be, to me, just pouring fuel onto what is already a burning fire of mayhem over there, which I think could be horrendous for the United States. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think the soldiers on the ships are having much the same reactions. We don't ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 13:05 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=785s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: know whether the nuclear aircraft carrier is taken out by Iranian attacks or by sailors stuffing their own clothing into the sewerage system to block it and force it out of the conflict. Those are our two choices. You have probably the least willing American military in the history of America's military incursions supposed to go up against a country of 90 million people who know they face an existential risk. It's absolutely ludicrous to be talking about ground troops going into that part of the world. And I'm not an expert in military matters either. We've all acknowledged that. But from what I've got from reports of people who I know are experts in that area, unless the Americans have Star Wars -style weapons to use against the Iranians, then this is going to be a slaughter of those American troops. And then I completely agree. This has probably been set up as another false flag, which America should be famous for. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 13:59 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=839s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: The Gulf of Tonkin, which dragged them into the Vietnam conflict in the first place, was put across as an attack by American ships in international waters. It was actually an American attack within Vietnamese waters. All this stuff. America sets up these wars and then loses them. You've described Donald Trump as an anarchist who behaves like a mafia boss with no idea of consequences. And you've sent this message to world leaders, get rid of Trump, stop this. America has to concede defeat and step back to give us a chance to rebuild the world's physical infrastructure before global famine sets in. You added it's a clusterfuck coming out of America. If you're going to see regime change to stop this war, forget about seeing it in Iran. You need to see it in America. I mean, that's strong rhetorical logic. There's a lot of political stuff there. Just explain what you're getting at. Well, ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 14:54 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=894s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: first of all, I mean, my perspective on Trump comes from having a personal relationship with somebody with narcissistic personality disorder. And the one advantage of that relationship in the long term was I understood Donald Trump, I think. And that is that he simply wants to make himself the centre of attention. And it doesn't matter how you do it. You make a centre of attention by giving a nice dance or by invading another country. He just wants to be the centre of attention. I think that's why he fell for Netanyahu's provocation, which 40 years of previous American presidents have resisted and went in in the belief that it would be over in a couple of days. I mean, all the talk about, you know, we've got to get Iran to be reasonable, Iran, Iranian regime, yada, yada, yada. The very first thing the Americans did was assassinate the top leadership of the country, including the father and I believe the wife of the new leader. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 15:46 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=946s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: You want to be taken seriously as somebody to negotiate with? That just tells you don't negotiate, defeat them on the ground. And just like Vietnam was a war where they brought an enormous firepower and lost to a guerrilla army, this is bringing an enormous firepower and taking against a political system which has broken itself into 31 heads of a hydra so that you can't take it out collectively. So all America's tactics have backfired so far. They'll continue backfiring. The only way out is for Donald Trump to declare victory while conceding defeat. Stephen Moore. I mean, I can't imagine a scenario where Donald Trump tries to get out of this without at least presenting a case for total victory. That's his nature. But in terms of this war and the impact it's had on his legacy, how was the tariff war doing before all this? In other ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 16:42 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1002s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: words, the Trumponomics, which he launched with a huge gusto, you know, a kind of year ago, how was that playing out, do you think, globally before this? In other words, was his economic strategy, do you think, working? And has this put everything back? Or was it not really working and this has added to the general sense of chaos? Well, first of all, I just have to say, I mean, come on, it seems like you all can't determine who's the good guy here and who's the evil. And by the way, I'm not even a big fan. You're the bad guys, for God's sake. Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's my point. If you actually think that we're the bad guys and the Iranians are the good guys, you have a personality disorder, my friend. And it really is amazing that you think that we're the villains here and that this is a regime. And by the way, again, I wasn't even necessarily in favor of this incursion in the first place. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 17:39 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1059s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: But come on, this is a regime that was killing thousands and thousands, murdering their own people. This was a regime that's building a nuclear weapon. So how are we the bad guys by trying to save lives? And I do think, look, I think to Trump's credit, he really did view this as a humanitarian mission to save lives that were being slaughtered. Now, in terms of our economy, look, we've had now five and a half years of Trump's presidency with an incredibly strong economy. Trumponomics has worked. If it hadn't been for COVID, Trump would have been reelected with a 40 -state reelection landslide. The economy was very strong going into 2026. And it's true that the Iran situation has really changed that picture dramatically, which is why Trump really needs to bring this to an end as quickly as possible. But by the way, I'm not just attacking Steve. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 18:27 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1107s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: I think there are a lot of foreign leaders, too, who can't seem to figure out who's the good guy and who's the bad guy here. That's very troubling to Americans. I was facing being conscripted to fight for freedom in Vietnam. And the one thing that really struck me at the three of me is, why am I being conscripted to fight for freedom? You go into Vietnam, you attack it, your whole thing is about going to stop the communist invasion of Southeast Asia. Who was the first country Vietnam has a war with? China, the first and last war. That turned out completely against what you thought was going to happen. Afghanistan, Iraq. I was against all those things. Well, you should be against this one as well. Grow up. If you can't realize that America is the evil empire here, then you've... It's the United States. You're saying the United States is the evil empire. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 19:14 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1154s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Yes, the United States began this. What country has invaded America? How many countries has America invaded? Please, stop reading Hollywood scripts and realize which planet you're on. I seem to think that 9 -11 was an attack on America. Maybe you don't agree with that, but... Yes, okay. Which country I said before? Oops, you forgot about that one, right? No, I didn't forget. I said country. And no country did that. That was a rogue... The rogues came from Saudi Arabia, not from the bloody country you're related in the results to it. You guys have got a Hollywood version of your own history. It's a joke from the outside. Nobody takes you seriously anymore. Get used to it. Before the evil empire, why is it every immigrant in the world wants to come to the United States? Nobody wants to go there now, mate. You are going down. You should be at the border. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 20:04 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1204s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: We have millions of people who are signing up to get visas to come to the United States. They don't want to go to any other country. They want to come to the US. I mean, look, from my point of view, let me be crystal clear. I do think Iran is an evil regime. For 47 years, it's been oppressive to its own people in a despicable way. And also, it's been the key sponsor of terrorism through the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas throughout the last few decades. And we've all seen where that has led. And that's been part of the big picture problem. President Zhang, let me bring you back in here. People are looking at manufacturing resilience as one of the reasons why China ultimately will prevail here in the economic aspect of what is going on. China has moved beyond cheap labor to advanced automation. Steve Keen has noted that if global trade stops, China has the internal infrastructure to survive, whereas the West has outsourced its survival. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 21:06 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1266s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1266s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Do you agree with that? Yeah, I mean, if you just look at the past couple of months, China has been much more resilient and much more able to adapt to the new economic circumstance than other countries in Southeast Asia, especially the Philippines and Thailand. And Japan has also a lot of stress as well. So it seems like the Chinese government has been preparing for this eventuality for a long, long time. They've been very strategic. They've been very long -term in their thinking. The issue is that the long -term strategic scenario does not favor China, because China is still an economy that depends on exports. And if there are these wars raging around the world, then it's going to be very hard for China to export its manufactured goods to the rest of the world. The second issue is that China consumes a lot of resources. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 21:55 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1315s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Yes, I do understand that China has renewables, and I do know that China has a lot of inventory and stockpiles, but eventually all this is going to run out. So from a long -term strategic perspective, China is not as resilient as well adapted to a change as, say, maybe Russia or the United States. Will what's happened here with Iran, and actually, to a lesser degree, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has also been now, you know, we're four years in now, and it's becoming a real quagmire, will what's happened deter China from invading Taiwan, for example? I think that given the current geopolitical outlook, and given the fact that this situation in Iran is only going to escalate, and this may have ripple effects throughout the world, I think that China is going to be much more cautious in its approach. In fact, we may see that China begins to become much more isolationist over the years. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 23:00 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1380s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Yeah, I mean, that's what I would certainly be tempted to if I were them. Steve Keen, what is your prediction? We've talked about what is happening and what we feel about it, but what is your prediction for how this plays out? I'm terrified about what the consequences could be here, because the Iranians have done a very clever tactic of basically guerrilla warfare at a national level, far beyond what the Vietnamese were ready for in the very first instance. And they are doing tit for tat. Anybody who's been a supporter of America, of course, that includes the Arab principalities and kingdoms and the Israelis as well, will be retaliated for any attack on specific similar resources inside Iran itself. Now, there's already been one attack on a desalination plant in Iran. And I think I've seen figures that say that 96 % of Iran's water is natural. You ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 23:56 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: look at the other side, the Arabian side, some of them have 96 % dependence upon desalination. If it goes that far, then we will have no idea how this stupid attack is going to turn out. Then that could mean that those areas have to be evacuated because people are not going to starve to death. They're going to die of thirst. Now, this is the horrific possibilities here are just ludicrous. And it's absolutely a monumental failure of judgment to begin this conflict in the first place. Yeah, I mean, Stephen Moore, that is the problem, it seems to me, is that no one can say with any real confidence what is going to happen. And the one thing that global economy needs is confidence. And no one, I think, can say that. We've also got this kind of geopolitical turmoil now with the Gulf states where they've all been attacked. They're seeing their business model to replace oil, which was going to be tourism and come here, it's safe, it's sunny. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 24:53 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1493s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: We're going to have entertainment and sport and so on. You know, we're seeing a dramatic dialing down of investment in things like golf. The live golf investment is ending and so on. You're seeing lots of immediate reactions and reactive signs that this has been very damaging to the ongoing future business model of countries like Saudi Arabia, of states like Saudi Arabia and the UAE and Qatar and so on. So there's a lot going on here, isn't there? There is. I mean, I don't know kind of where to start. I would simply say that, I mean, one really, really positive thing that's happened the last couple of weeks is the UAE dropping out of OPEC. I mean, as long as I've been alive since I was a teenager, I go back to the 1970s, you know, we've had OPEC with a blade ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 25:40 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1540s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: at our neck where they could just by turning on and off the spigots, they could really throw the American economy into recession and causing global recession. And the fact that OPEC is falling apart or at least appears so is a very good thing. And by the way, the reason OPEC, the real reason OPEC is falling apart is that the country that has the most oil and gas in the world is the United States. We're the number one producer now, which is amazing. And how do you have a cartel when the number one producer isn't part of your cartel? So whether you like Donald Trump or not, everybody has to agree that his drill baby drill strategy has been amazing for the U.S. economy, that it's made us less reliant, although we're still relying on Middle East oil, made us much less so. So I think the approach going forward for the U.S. should be produce as much energy as we possibly can at home. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 26:30 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1590s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Our oil, our gas, our coal, our nuclear power. And when it's available and it's appropriate, we could maybe get some energy from wind and solar. Use it all so that we don't have to be captive to the Middle East any longer. But is it naive, Stephen, for President Trump to take a view of, you know, this is not our problem, right? The energy part of this. We produce our own energy, almost pretending there isn't a global energy economy that America inevitably will be dependent on. Of course. And there's a global oil supply and a global oil supply demand. And what I'm saying is that we can somewhat inoculate ourselves from that because the more and more we produce, the more valuable the oil is. Professor Zhang, the inevitable consequence of all this, I guess, is that many countries, as Stephen Moore just indicated, will become, as you said earlier about China, more isolationist. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 27:30 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1650s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: What impact will that have, do you think, on geopolitics globally? I think that we are coming to a point where the world is going to be very similar to the 1930s, when the world became much more isolationist, when the global economy collapsed, and when wars started to flare up around the world. I mean, even though America is the wealthiest country in the world, even though it is energy independent, its economy is still globally reliant. So if the GCC collapses, then it loses its petrol dollar, it loses its electricity, it loses millions of dollars in investment. And we could see a financial crisis in America over the next few months, which would lead to a catastrophic global depression. So the outlook for the world is very, very grim. Steve Keen, you've been very apocalyptic about the future of Bitcoin. Explain why. Mainly because people talk about Bitcoin as being an alternative to money. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 28:29 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1709s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: And this is, to me, just naive about the nature of money itself. And this is common across the entire economics profession. Economists, weirdly enough, in their mathematical models, do not include banks or debt or money. And they treat money as if it's a commodity, when money is fundamentally a promise of a bank to you to honor your liabilities to them. That's the actual nature of it. So when Bitcoin was formed, it was based on the same idea as a similar acronym to gold. The trouble is that gold actually does have a value outside its use in the monetary system. The production cost of gold is about $500 an ounce, I believe, at the moment. And that's pretty much its floor. If you don't use it for money, then this price or a hedge against economic danger, then its value will fall back to its cost of production, plus a margin. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 29:21 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1761s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: It's used in all sorts from jewelry to computer devices. Bitcoin can only be used as either a store of value or a means of payment. Now, we've had almost 20 years of Bitcoin now, and it's been used as a means of payment. It's still not used by any scale as a means of payment. And the main thing is it's been treated as a store of value. That's where the term HODL comes from, hold on for dear life. So the idea is you've got a device which is supposed to be replacing money, but it's focusing upon the store of value side of money rather than the use for exchanges. Now, if you focus upon the store of value, you don't spend. So in my feeling, it's actually wrongly set up in the first place. So it's only got value where people think its price is going to rise. Now, we're reaching the point where maybe you've got as much as its penetration will ever go. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 30:12 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1812s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: And when it stops rising, then the only way to go is down. Where I see the bottom isn't zero quite, but it's at the stage where there are transactions you don't want to put through the SWIFT system or through the monetary system. Illegal drug sales come to mind and weapons sales and that sort of thing. That's its floor. Way, way below. It's currently what, $60,000 price roughly. So, and is the particular issue with Bitcoin also that it uses up enormous amounts of energy and therefore there becomes a global energy shortage that puts even more pressure on Bitcoin. Yeah, absolutely. Like, I'm totally on the other side of the fence on global warming, by the way, to Stephen. He probably knows that. But in that case, if we are forced to say we've got to cut back on energy consumption, then the two easiest things ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 31:01 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1861s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1861s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: to end are international tourism and the fact that we've got to cut back Stephen, oddly, I found, I saw you nodding pretty much throughout everything Steve Keen just said. So, have we reached a point of agreement here? Well, maybe. I'm not a, look, I'm glad that we have alternative private currencies out there, which is exactly what Bitcoin is. I got to tell you, I'm not an investor and I don't own Bitcoins because I don't understand it. And it makes me nervous and I think it could crash. But who knows? I know people who invested in it early who are now, you know, set of millionaires. So, what I would say though, the reason I favor these kind of alternative private currencies is for too long we've let central bankers control our money supply and they haven't done a very good job of it with the herky -jerky inflation. And so, I think this is a ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 31:52 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1912s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: good way to keep, by the way, the central bankers hate cryptocurrencies because they don't want the competition. I'm kind of a libertarian so I like the idea that cryptos are out there, but I'm not investing them myself. Professor Zhang, just finally, are we heading for a global recession do you think? I think that we are heading towards a global depression and this is a process that could take decades. We are in a new normal. We are on, we are in the undiscovered country. We are, we are, the level of destruction, the level of pain and suffering that we are moving towards is unimaginable. So, buckle up. Can I, can I answer that question? Yes. Look, we are entering the greatest period of productivity, the greatest productivity revolution in the history of civilization. Nothing will, over the next 10 years we'll never see anything like what is coming with respect to this incredible robotics revolution. So, that's going to raise living standards. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 32:54 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=1974s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: This is like the invention of robotics. But is it though, Stephen, because surely the big question with that is if the future is robotic then aren't humans in the process? No, it's like saying, well, gee, isn't, isn't, you know, a machine going to, you know, make people poor? No. Economic progress and productivity makes people richer not poorer. And so, we're going to see amazing, and by the way, not just in the area of production because, you know, literally in the next 10 years we'll have technology through the, blind people will be able to see, people in wheelchairs will be able to rise up and walk, we'll be able to cure cancer. I mean, this is an incredible future we're facing and it's going to not just be good for our health but our wealth as well. Okay, so we have two options, Steve Keen, finally. One is a global, a global depression over the next few decades. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 33:45 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2025s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: The other one is a global explosion of euphoric joy and success and triumph. So, what do you say? Remember, remember the old movies, remember the old movies Sliding Doors. Yes. You make it through the train, you don't make it through the train. Yes. I think we're at a sliding doors moment. I completely disagree with Steven and we haven't talked global warming and I think he's completely wrong on that front. Global warming will end. You don't think that the technology will, let me, I'm just saying, do you not think that the technology will cause more growth? Technology requires energy. One of my little shorthands, labor without energy is a corpse. Capital without energy is a sculpture. If you don't have the energy, the economy collapses. We're seeing that right now with what the Iran war is doing. We're going to see a 10 or 20 % fall in energy levels. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 34:33 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2073s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2073s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: Quite literally, when you look at the data, a 10 % fall in energy means a 10 % fall in GDP. That's as big a downturn as the Great Depression. So, that alone is coming away right now out of this stupid war that should never have been commenced. Then the long term, I would love us to get to that future. I'm a technology designer myself. I understand this area. I would love to see it happen but it means we have to avoid catastrophe from global warming. I know you believe that it's a myth. Your side has won the public debate over that. We're going to find out the hard way in the next five years whether you're right or not. That's the sliding door. If we could make it to the other side, we'd have the future of plenty. If we don't make it to the other side, we go back to cavemen. Technology is the solution to climate change. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 35:17 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2117s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: In other words, the only way, if it's really happening, the only way to divert it is through technology. The only country that's getting there is China. China seems to be pushing itself heavily in towards alternative energy, both renewables and nuclear, and it's even got the world's first relatively successful thorium reactor. So America's wasted its time invading other countries, blowing up the rest of the planet, trying to control the oil system. Rather than building its own infrastructure, China is the winner. You're saying China's going to use energy that's twice as expensive as oil, gas, and coal, and somehow they're going to get rich on that. I would bet against that, my friend. People used to say the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. Now we're saying the Strait of Hormuz doesn't always flow, and that's far more significant. We're going to see a huge desire by ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 36:03 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2163s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: people in the rest of the world to liberate themselves from reliance upon oil, whether you think that's economic or not. It's no point about being economic. You know who tried to do that? Germany tried it. Look at Germany today. Germany also turned off its own nuclear power stations. Germany turned off its own nuclear power stations. That was monumentally stupid. China was the one that's been developing the nuclear technology. I think China remembers the... Good. Okay. China remembers the Opium Wars far better than the rest of the world does. They know they can't trust the West. They're building self -sufficiency and technological leadership. If you want to see technological leadership and where robotics might lead to people benefiting, it's going to be China, not America. Okay. We've got to leave it there. Fascinating debate, gentlemen. Thank you all very much. I really enjoyed that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ## "Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!" -- 36:52 - Source title: \"Heading For A Global DEPRESSION!\" Professor Jiang Debates Iran War, Trump And China Ties - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-05-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbVdnL6HWOg&t=2212s) - Source ref: `video:interview-dbvdnl6hwog@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-dbvdnl6hwog.json) Text: And the only boss around here is me. If you enjoy our show, we ask for only one simple thing. Hit subscribe on YouTube and follow Piers Morgan Uncensored on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And in return, we will continue our mission to inform, irritate, and entertain. And we'll do it all for free. Independent, uncensored media has never been more critical. And we couldn't do it without you. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Welcome to hell. So we finish Dante's Inferno today and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you the overview of how Dante constructs hell, the Inferno, and I'll explain to you his reasoning for the structure. So first thing I'm going to do is explain to you Dante's cosmology, how he understands God and our relationship with God. So, God in Dante is really the Mvena and Plato, okay? For Plato, God is eternal, perfect, and imaginable. It has always been there. It will always be there. It is perfect and it is simply momentary because we are always moving. And this existence dies for the soul. Also,ación, will never ever change this creates a problem for the universe though because if something is perfect it cannot be creative it lacks an imagination it knows everything there's nothing for it to learn okay so it lacks an imagination but without imagination the problem is ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 1:18 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: the universe cannot expand it cannot renew itself we cannot rejuvenate so to solve this problem what god does is create us okay humans because the problem of humans is that we exist in three different planes okay there is the ethereal the spiritual and the material okay so we're existing on multiple dimensions and when we exist on the material we have bodies right and this bodies creates pain and pleasure we can also die and as a result we can sin sin okay what allows us to sin is free will what's important to sin though is that you can now be creative you can now take risks you can now be imaginative what's important in this process is to redeem yourself to forgive yourself the problem then is okay if we can sin we can do whatever you want how do we know what is good and what is evil and the solution to this is this ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 2:49 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: because when god created us okay he breathed into us life because that's what it says in the bible therefore there is a spark in us that is divine okay so we're humans and there's a spark in us that is divine okay i'm sorry for the bad drawing okay i'm not an artist but there's a spark in us that's divine and it is called love so god is love and when we love the spark in us awakens and it and it grows so how does this thing grow and glow the answer is we love someone else okay all right because the thing about the spark is that it wants to return to the source okay it wants to return to God and that's what drives us this eternal compulsion to return to the source of who we are even though we've forgotten who we are okay so the way to do this is we cannot return ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 4:08 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: to the source in our world but we can love someone else not money not our pet not a computer but someone else it has to be someone else because only in someone else is another spark okay so we're drawn to the spark and this is really important when you love someone else that person doesn't have to love you back okay because love is about giving it is giving and someone has to receive okay so when a mother loves a child okay so when a mother loves a child okay so when a mother loves a child it doesn't matter the child loves her back it doesn't matter the child loves her back it doesn't matter the child loves her back all that matters is that she loves all that matters is that she loves all that matters is that she loves him or her unconditionally and when that him or her unconditionally and when that him ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 4:54 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=294s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=294s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: or her unconditionally and when that happens when that happens the spark in happens when that happens the spark in us glows when it glows it reconnects us glows when it glows it reconnects back to the source all right so the back to the source all right so the back to the source all right so the moment we choose to love someone moment we choose to love someone moment we choose to love someone unconditionally this this glows and unconditionally this this glows and the source what happens now is this it's really powerful is that when this happens our understanding of the universe expands because now our view it's more cosmic it's more global than before we leave ourselves and we enter into the universe and this is what empowers the imagination okay so this is how Dante understands our purpose why we're here we came from where we're going it is so that we can so ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 5:58 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: that our compulsion our will and desire it is always to return to the source to do so we have to love someone else okay when the process of loving else love love someone else this expands our imagination and so this sounds all bit confusing right so let's go back and talk about the Odyssey the Odyssey the Odyssey is a epic poem about a family right Odysseus Penelope and Tanakas Odysseus has left Penelope and they're heartbroken they long to return to each other okay they long to return to each other in during the Trojan War Odysseus becomes traumatized by the horrors of war remember how he constructs the Trojan horse but and he constructs the Trojan horse in order to return to Penelope right it's his love for Penelope that expands his imagination that allows him to conceive of the Trojan horse the Trojan horse allows the Greeks to destroy Troy but it traumatizes Odysseus because ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 7:17 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: he sees himself how terrible war is he came to the Trojan Wars he came to Troy in order to restore a family right to restore menolos and Helen but with the Trojan Horse he sees that no this is destroying families because the Trojans are being killed and their wives are being enslaved and this traumatizes him it breaks him apart and it's and it splits him from Penelope but he longs to return to Penelope and in the process their love for each other once they combine once they bind together they are not husband or wife each other, it expands his imagination. And by expanding his imagination, it allows him to heal himself. All right? Okay? So this is the dynamic at work. What's amazing about this is the Odyssey was written by Homer, and this is written by Dante. What's amazing about what happened is that Dante never read Homer. He read Virgil, because Dante can read Latin. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 8:18 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: He can't read Greek. So he doesn't have access to the Iliad and the Odyssey. He doesn't actually know what Homer wrote and said. But working independently, they were able to come to the same framework and understanding of how the universe works. Okay? That's pretty amazing. All right? All right. So this is the cosmology of Dante. Now, there's certain problems with this. Okay? The problem is this. The spark …, seeks to love another spark so that the spark can return to the source. Okay? Which is God, the monad. In this process, once you truly love someone, your imagination expands. Right? And when your imagination expands, the universe itself expands. And this is how and why we were created. To expand the universe. Because God cannot expand. We cannot imagine. Only we can imagine. Because we can feel pain. Because we can sin. Because we can forgive each other. But there's a problem with this framework. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 9:34 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-self-made-hell-needs-self-redemption) Text: Okay? The problem is this. Sometimes we cannot love someone else. Okay? Sometimes our soul cannot expand outwards. It's trapped inside of us. Why? The answer is because we've sinned so much. Okay? The sin is so much that we cannot forgive each other. Okay? We cannot forgive ourselves. We cannot forgive each other. And so we become trapped in who we are. We cannot expand outwards. Therefore, we become distant from the source. Okay? So rather than moving upwards to the source, which is heaven, we move downwards into our own hell. Okay? So in other words, heaven and hell are construction of our own imaginations. They're the consequences of our emotional state. We have free will, and we should choose to love someone else, because that's what brings us back to the source. But sometimes we don't know that, and we commit so much sin that we don't think we're worthy of the source. We're not worthy of God. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 10:58 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-self-made-hell-needs-self-redemption) Text: And therefore, we create hell to imprison ourselves in. And again, that sounds confusing, but let's use the example of the Iliad. Right? The Iliad. The Iliad is Achilles. He wants to be a hero, but he gets into a fight with Menelaus. Oh, sorry, not with Menelaus, with Agamemnon. Okay? And again, they say, screw you. You need me because I'm the best warrior. And if you don't beg me to turn, I'll let your soldiers kill you. Agamemnon refused to beg. Achilles is in a lot of trouble, so he sends Patroclus to die. Right? And then Achilles jumps into battle, kills Hector. And now, once this is done, Achilles is trapped in his own guilt. Right? And rather than feeling elation, joy, and being the best warrior in the world, he instead descends in his own hell. He's trapped in his own hell. And it's only when Priam forgives him that he's able to forgive himself. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 12:12 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-self-made-hell-needs-self-redemption) Text: And then he's able to restore himself. All right? Okay, so there's two dynamics at work. When you love someone, when you do good, you ascend to the source, your imagination expands, the universe expands. But when you commit sin, and the sin is so bad that you're not able to forgive yourself, then you trap yourself in hell, and you are there for all of eternity. Okay? And what's really important to understand is that space and time are constructs of our imagination. So in other words, even as we're speaking now, all right, our souls are also living in eternity. So the moment we commit a sin, we imagine ourselves in a certain place in hell. And we can be there for all of eternity, unless we in our lives choose to redeem ourselves. Nobody can redeem us, only we can redeem ourselves for our imagination and for our love. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 13:27 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: So, for Dante, what he's going to show–he's going to tell us this much later, okay? But in Inferno he's going to construct uh the structure of hell all right so what is hell so in hell there are different layers okay different circles and obviously the lower you go the greater the punishment the greater the sin all right and at the very bottom the center of hell is this this is a loop is um donnie's word for for satan or lucifer okay now um what's happening is that the sin is greater and the reason why is we are less capable of engaging in self -forgiveness all right so it's not that others refuse to forgive us it's that we refuse to forgive ourselves okay why because um it's not that Prozent цен noticed we did video on rolling from hell is because we've become distant from um God all right and the worse the lower ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 14:55 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: you go in hell it's because not only are you moving away from God but you're forcing t others to move away from God as well all right so um here at this level it's really about trapping yourself in hell but the lower you go the more people you trap in hell and the longer you trap them in hell for so the worst crime the worst sin in donna's world is treachery okay why because think of um achilles and patroclus in many ways achilles betrays patroclus right and as a result achilles feels guilt for betraying patroclus and if if you remember the iliad he remembers patroclus is a ghost that's haunting him all right so treachery is the worst sin because you trap yourself in hell as well as others um then you have like fraud deception okay so what you're doing is you you are reducing the capacity of others to love right so if ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 16:28 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: i lie to you you want to lie to other people as well that's just human nature when you lie to other people you cannot engage in love you cannot engage in giving yourself to others you become insecure you become broken right same with fraud when you cheat others others are going to want to cheat others as well there's almost like a virus right so those who are in hell are because they're spreading a virus of deception of hatred of betrayal which spreads all around the world diminishing people's connection to god diminishing people's capacity to love in heaven we'll find the opposite where people are in heaven because they choose to love unconditionally which spreads god all around the world okay does that make sense all right so let's look at specifically at the construction of hell okay so this is a schematic of how hell is constructed okay so remember how how we said that ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 17:43 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: in the first circle of hell it's called limbo and limbo it's kind of nice okay it's like here but people live forever and these people did nothing wrong they did actually nothing wrong but they were born before the time of jesus and therefore people were not aware um of god okay and these people include julius caesar okay so julius caesar is in limbo along other great historical figures then we go into people who have committed sin including lust okay some people who commit lust are people like dido and cleopatra and their punishment is they just um they're just stuck in a whirlwind and so there they are moving around hell they're being swept by the wind if you think about it this is actually a very appropriate punishment for lust right because lust means that you are swept away by emotions you are swept away by your lust for that person you cannot control your ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 18:54 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: emotions and so what their punishment in hell is is it's being whipped around in a whirlwind okay and the purpose so the purpose of hell is to force you to engage in reflection because remember the universe is governed by free will so people are on hell not because they did something wrong but because they choose to be there because they thought they deserve to be there all right so the punish every punishment is constructed in a way that forces people to see the errors of their ways and to want to reform but you don't have to eat okay and um then you have gluttony and gluttony is basically overindulgence you want too much and so if you remember punishment for for overindulgence overindulgence suddenly it's rain right and it's like a rain that never stops and that's a that's a pretty fitting punishment for gluttony where you have you like food and you don't want ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 20:01 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: to stop right so it's almost like rain raining on you and it can never stop okay so and again the purpose is to force you to see the error of your ways to see the limitations of your sin and to want to reform all right and then then we get into the worst circle and here this is basically self sin okay meaning sin that only impacts you now we get to the sin that impacts others okay so here it's violence then you go to fraud then the very worst is treachery okay and this is how hell is constructed. All right so I want to talk about the two bottom circles of hell. Traitors to guests and friends and and traitors to god okay so treachery is a really important concept in divine comedy because treachery is abs is the worst way to condemn people away from god all right and what donnie says is that ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 21:21 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: there are um four different types of treachery and each is worse than the other the first type of treachery betrayal is when you betray your family and for dante this is actually the least problematic of all betrayals because you're born into a family you don't actually choose to uh be part of family okay it's involuntary and as such when we treat someone it's it's it's bad but it's not as bad as if you choose but to betray if you choose to go into a bond with someone and then betray that person okay all right so that's why traitors to guess and friends are the worst because these are bonds created by free will and trust and so you're destroying the person's capacity to trust other people which destroy that person's capacity to love other people all right so um the example that donnie uses is this person uh count eulogino okay count eulogino eulogino and ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 22:32 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: he's actually a real person so remember how dante was participating in these political wars in italy well from from his perspective the worst culprit was count eulogino who was the head of pisa he comes from a very prominent family and he's power crazy so what he does is he betrays everyone in order to obtain power and then finally he was betrayed by one of his friends an archbishop and this archbishop betrays um count eulogino and froze from the prison along with his children and he throws away the key so they starve to death together okay and when dante and virgil encounter count eulogino he is biting the head of the archbishop they're stuck in a frozen lake to represent all eternity to represent um immutability the incapacity to change and this is happening over and over where um count eulogino is biting the head of the archbishop now if you think about it this is ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 23:41 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: an analogy to achilles mutually in the body of hector right remember in the um iliad achilles kills hector in a battle and at this point he should return hector's body for ransom to the trojans so the trojans can bury him but instead achilles spends all his time just mutilating hector's body achilles feels guilt and sorrow for the loss of his friend patroclus he takes it out on hector okay by mutilating hector's body the same dynamic is happening here where count eulogino blames the archbishop for the death of his family okay and but he in his heart knows it's not the archbishop that killed his children it was him himself who condemned his children because he constantly engaged in the pursuit of power when you engage in the pursuit of power you move away from love you lose the capacity to love your children and so you condemn your children to hell and to death okay so it's this self -hatred that drives his hatred of the archbishop it's a very similar dynamic as the iliad and what homer says what And what Darnley says is the same thing, which is betraying others condemns you to betraying everyone, including your own children. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 25:15 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1515s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1515s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: And that makes you hate yourself so much that you burn with self -hatred for all of eternity. You are now the most imprisoned in hell because of your self -hatred. It doesn't make sense guys. All right, so what we're going to do is we're going to read this part from Divine Comedy. And so the story is, again, Count Eulogio, you know, he's always engaged in power politics. He's always engaging in betrayal, including betrayal of his own people in Pisa. Eventually, the people of Pisa get really angry at him and they overthrow him, led by the Archbishop. He's thrown into prison. His children are also put into prison with him and the Archbishop throws away the key. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 26:02 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: So he's just left to suffer. As they starve, as they're starving, it is implied that Count Eulogio, you know, he eats his own children. Okay. And that's a metaphor for what betrayal is. Because when you betray someone, you're canonizing that person's soul. Okay. And you are canonizing the soul of everyone around you. All right. So this is a story told by Count Eulogio to Dante, who's asking him, why are you here? Okay. Thank you. I'm going to read you out. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 26:36 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1596s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1596s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay. They were awake by now. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 26:37 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: They were my sons. Okay. My four sons. Okay. So again, he's stuck in prison. They threw away the key and he stuck there with his four young sons. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 26:49 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: The hour drew near it at which our food was usually brought, and each because of what he drowned dreamed was anxious below. I heard them. Sorry. I really can't see what's on the screen. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 27:04 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Nailing. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 27:04 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Nailing up the door of that appalling tower, without a word I looked into the faces of my sons. I did not weep, within I turned to stone. They wept, and my poor little Anshulm said, Father, you look so... what is wrong with you? At that I shed no tears, and all day long, and through the night that followed, did not answer until another son had touched the world. As soon as the thin ray had made its way into that sorry prison, and I saw, reflected in four faces, my own gaze, out of my grief, I bit at both my hands, and they, who thought I'd done that out of hunger, immediately rose and told me, Father, it would be far less painful for us if you ate of us, for you clothed us in this sad flesh. It is for you to strip it off. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 27:57 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay, alright, so, um, the count, he's hungry, he knows he's at fault for condemning his entire family to death. But he cannot bring himself to admit this, and he becomes very anxious and he starts biting himself, because he's so afraid of what will happen to his sons. His sons see this, and they feel pity for him, and say, are you hungry? And he can't answer, so they basically say to him, you know what, it's better for you to eat us, than for us to eat you. And he starts to see you starve. Alright, so the sons are demonstrating a last act of love for their father. And because the man, he has betrayed so many people, and he can only see the world in terms of betrayal, he doesn't recognize this act of love. He's confused by it, and he's desperate to feed himself, so he actually eats his sons. Okay? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 28:56 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: And so that's what, that's why treachery is so devastating. Because it blinds you. It blinds you to the possibility of love. Okay? It denies you the possibility of love. And it lets you commit the most evil, because you refuse to believe that love exists. Okay? But now, okay, this is the most interesting part, where we are now at the very bottom of hell. We've entered the very center of hell. And so this is the place for the worst people. And so there are four people in the very center of hell. There's this, Satan Lucifer, okay? The man, the angel who betrayed God, and who was condemned to hell. And then he's biting three individuals who betrayed God. He's, he is biting, chewing on Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. That makes sense. The other people don't actually make any sense. They are Cassius and Brutus. And I'll explain to you why it doesn't really make sense later, okay? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 30:04 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: But, can you read, Ivory? You can skip this part, this is Latin. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 30:11 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 30:12 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: But basically, the king of God, sorry, the king of hell is before us. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 30:18 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Toward us, and therefore keep your eyes ahead, my master said, to see if you can spy him. Just as when night falls on our hemisphere, or when a heavy fog is blowing thick, a windmill seems to wheel when seen far off. So then I seemed to see that sort of structure. And next, because the wind was strong, I shrank behind my guide. There was no other shelter. And now, with fear, I set it down in meter. I was where all the shades were fully covered, but visible as whiffs of straw and glass. There some lie flat, and others stand erect. One on his head, and one upon his soles. And some bend face to feet, just like a bow. But after we had made our way ahead, my master felt he now should have me see that creature who was once a handsome presence. He stepped aside and made me stop, and said, Look, here's this, and this the place where you will have to arm yourself with fortitude. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 31:13 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 31:19 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1879s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay, so when they meet this, the thing that they discover is that this is mechanical. He's a machine. He doesn't have ideas, he doesn't have words. He doesn't have free will. He doesn't have will and desire. This is what happens when you fully remove yourself from God. Okay? You lose the capacity. To be organic. You become a machine. You just do what you do. So this is almost like an air conditioner. Okay? So what he's doing is, he's always flapping his wings. And then these wings take the winds of the frozen lake, and then basically make hell more cool. Okay? Cools hell down. But this lacks agency, lacks ideas, lacks everything. Okay? So it's just a machine now. And this, Satan, Lucifer, is three heads, and on each head are butting three people. Okay? The first is, of course, Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus. And again, this makes perfect sense. But you have Brutus and Cassius. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 32:28 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=1948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: And Brutus and Cassius are the ones who betrayed Julius Caesar. Okay? So if you just accept the logic, you would think, okay. Well, if Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, and Jesus is God, and Brutus and Cassius betrayed Julius Caesar, therefore, Julius Caesar should be God as well. Right? Therefore, Julius Caesar should be in heaven. But he's not in heaven. He's in limbo. This makes no sense. Okay? This is a paradox. And again, Donnie does this a lot. Where he... He creates these paradoxes for you to think that maybe everything I'm seeing is not real. Maybe this reality, it's being created for me by a stronger power. Okay? So the question then is, who would think of putting Brutus and Cassius into hell? And that person, of course, would be Virgil. Okay? And this gives us another clue that maybe it's Virgil who's master of hell and not Lucifer Satan. Because Lucifer Satan, they don't have agency. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 33:48 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: They have no imagination. They don't actually speak or think. They're just a machine. Whereas Virgil is the one who's navigating and negotiating hell. And maybe he wants to put Brutus and Cassius into hell. Because Virgil's master, of course, is Augustus Caesar. Right? And Augustus Caesar, his father is Julius Caesar. And in fact, Augustus Caesar made Julius Caesar god of his time. Okay? So we just feel that, logically, it doesn't make any sense if we just think that everything is as it seems. Right? Now, what's going to happen is that they're going to climb Lucifer. And escape hell. And now they're in purgatory. All right? They've left hell. Now they're in purgatory. And this is the first stanza of, sorry, not the first stanza. But when they go into purgatory, and purgatory is actually a mountain. Okay? And they're going to climb the mountain so that they can ascend ultimately to heaven. But on the shores of purgatory, they meet the guardian of purgatory. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 35:05 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: And this guardian is named Cato. Who is Cato? Cato, along with Brutus and Cassius, opposed Julius Caesar. At this time, Julius Caesar was amassing power for himself in Rome. And there were a lot of people who opposed Julius Caesar, including Ptolemy and including Cato. Cato chose to kill himself rather than submit to Julius Caesar. But this makes no sense. Because first of all, okay, Cato was born before Jesus. Does that make sense? He was born before Jesus. And Virgil told us that if you're born before Jesus, the best place you can hope for is limbo. That's it. But Cato is in purgatory, which is better than hell. But not only that, but he's the master and guardian of purgatory. That makes no sense. That's fine. That's point one. Point two is he killed himself. This is a sin. Okay? This is a crime. You should be in hell for that. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 36:23 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Why is he in purgatory? The third thing is he betrayed Caesar. Okay? Or opposed Caesar. Cassius and Brutus also betrayed and opposed Caesar. And they are burning in hell. Right? So again, this is a paradox. And it forces us to think about what's really going on here. All right? So can you read? Ivory? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 36:58 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: I saw a solitary patriarch near me, his aspect worthy of such reverence that even son to father owes no more. His beard was long and mixed with white, as were the hairs upon his head, and his hair spread down to his chest in a divine way. And he was dressed in a divided dress. The rays of the four holy stars so framed his face with light that in my sight he seemed like one who was confronted by the sun. Who are you who, against a hidden river, were able to escape the eternal prison? He said, moving those venerable plumes. Who is your guide? What serves you both as lantern when, from the deep night that will always keep the hellish valley dark, you were set free? The laws of the abyss. Have they been broken? Or has a new, a changed decree in heaven let you, though damned, approach my rocky slopes? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 37:50 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: So again, this is Cato, okay? And again, Cato is the guardian of Purgatory. So he sees Dante and Virgil emerge. He's like, what are you guys doing here? This goes against the laws of the universe. You should not be able to break free of hell. All right. Can you read it? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 38:09 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: My guide took hold of me decisively. By way of words and bands. And other signs. He made my knees and brows show reverence. Then he replied. I do not come through my own self. There was a lady sent from heaven. Her pleas led me to help and guide this man. But since your will would have a far more full and accurate account of our condition, my will cannot withhold what you request. This man had yet to see his final evening. But, through his folly little time was left before he did, he was so close to it. As I have told you, I was sent to him for his deliverance. The only road I could have taken was the road I took. I showed him all the people of perdition. Now I intend to show to him those spirits who, in your care, are bent on expiation. To tell you how I led him would take long. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 39:06 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: It is a power descending from above that helped me guide him here to see and hear you. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 39:12 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay. So what's happening here is Cato's like, what are you guys doing here? And Virgil steps up and tries to explain what's going on. Now what's interesting is that Cato and Virgil know each other. They were born and they lived around the same time in Rome. Okay? And they were in limbo together. So they know each other really well. But Virgil is being very polite to him. He's being, he's almost afraid of Cato. Okay? All right. Keep on reading, Ivory. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 39:41 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Now may it please you to approve his coming. He goes in search of liberty, so precious and as he who gives his life for it must know. You know it, who in Utica found death for ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 39:53 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay, so he killed himself in Utica, okay? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 39:56 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Found death for freedom was not bitter when you left a garb that will be bright on the great day. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 40:01 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay, so he killed himself because he would rather die honorably than to submit himself as a slave to Caesar. So what Virgil is saying is like, you died a noble death. Even though suicide is considered a sin in the Catholic Church. Okay, keep on going. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 40:19 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Eternal edicts are not broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos. But I am from the circle where the chastised eyes of your Marsha are. And she still prays to you, O holy breast, to keep her as your own for her love. Then incline to us. Allow our journey through your seven realms. I shall thank her for kindness you bestow. If you would let your name be. Name be named below. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 40:44 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Okay, all right. This is really interesting, okay? What he's saying is, and Virgil is being very subtle, right? He's saying to Cato, listen, your wife, Marcia, she's still in limbo with me. And if you treat us well here, I'll go back to limbo and treat Marcia really nice. Okay, it's almost like a bribe. Or it's almost like a small threat to Cato. Okay? All right, keep on reading. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 41:13 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2473s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: While within the other world, Marcia so pleased my eyes. He then replied, each kindness she required, I satisfied. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 41:21 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2481s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2481s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Wow, this is really interesting, okay? While within the other world. So what he's saying is that before I was in limbo with you, Virgil, and my wife, Marcia. Okay? He's saying that. But remember, when we first read the Inferno, Virgil told us that, listen, if you're born before the time of Jesus, you're stuck in limbo. This is the best place you can hope for. But maybe there are certain people who are so glorious, and they're such part of the biblical tradition, that when Jesus came to hell, he took them to heaven, including people like Abraham, Isaac, his father Joseph, Mary, okay? David. These people who are in the Bible and who are part of the Christian tradition, Jesus took with him, but everyone else is stuck in limbo. But he's saying, Cato, wow, you're not a Christian. You killed yourself. You were with us in limbo. But you were able to ascend to purgatory while your wife, Marcia, was still left behind. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 42:29 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Okay? This is like a paradox. Okay, keep on going. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 42:37 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: Now that she dwells beyond the evil river, she has no power to move me any longer. Such was the law decreed when I was freed. But if a lady come from heaven, speeds and helps you— Wait, stop. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 42:49 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-self-made-hell-needs-self-redemption) Text: Okay, all right. So what he's saying is, before I loved Marcia, but after I was freed and I escaped limbo and now I'm in purgatory, I no longer love her. In fact, I don't respect her. We can speculate as to why, okay? This is really strange because I already told you in the beginning that what love is giving to other people, right? So in purgatory, if Cato really loved Marcia, then he should be thinking about scheming as to how to bring Marcia to purgatory, right? That's what makes sense. If you make a lot of money, then you want to share this money with the people you love, right? But again, this is where Dante is different because what is the most important thing is free will. If you truly love someone, you let that person choose. You don't force that person to do anything against his or her free will, okay? So I, Cato, I chose to come to purgatory because I willed it. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 44:04 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-self-made-hell-needs-self-redemption) Text: I desired it. Therefore, God let me come. I was able to find the will and desire to self -reflect, to forgive myself, and to come to purgatory. Marcia did not. But I cannot make her self -reflect. She has to choose to do so on her own, okay? So as long as she's there, I have to let her be there. And my love for her won't change anything. So I choose to focus on other things, okay? Does that make sense? All right? It doesn't do good to force anyone to do anything. That's not what love is. All right? Can you keep on reading? ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 44:55 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2695s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: As you say, there is no need of flattery. It is enough, indeed, to ask me for her sake. Go then, but first wind the smooth brush around his waist and bathe his face to wash away all of hell's stains. For it would not be seemly to approach with eyes still dimmed by any mists the first custodian angel won from paradise. This solitary island, all around its very base, there where the breakers pound, bears rush on its soft and muddy ground. There is no other plant that lives below. No plant with leaves or plant that, as it grows, hardens and breaks beneath the wave's harsh blows. That done, do not return by this same pass. The sun, which rises now, will show you how this hillside can be climbed more easily. With that he vanished, and without a word, I rose and drew in closer to my guide. And it was on him I set my eyes. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 45:55 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 45:55 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: So they're not in purgatory, okay? And what Cato is saying is that purgatory is a mountain. They have to climb the mountain to reach heaven. But purgatory is a mountain that is enclosed, okay? So waves, wind cannot touch this mountain. All right, and so we now are in purgatory. And I want you to finish purgatory. Or try to read as much as you can. And we'll continue this next week. Are there any questions about this? So again, this is a journey undertaken by Dante into the cosmos. And he's taking us with him. What's really interesting about Dante is he appreciates that for us to understand, we first have to misunderstand, okay? It's misunderstanding that leads to understanding. We have to correct ourselves in order to fully understand the truth. What he also believes is that for us to be virtuous, we first must have to sin, okay? It's okay to sin because it allows us to recognize our limitations. ## Hell Is the Imagination Turned Against Itself -- 47:22 - Source title: Great Books #10: Dante's Hierarchy of Hell - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpdMYa2bME&t=2842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wgpdmya2bme.json) Text: And it makes us much more virtuous. And it's this process that drives the imagination. It doesn't make sense. If you want to understand, you first have to misunderstand. If you want to be virtuous, you must first sin, okay? Any questions? All right, okay, so we'll continue this next week, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: there is a ceasefire now between iran and united states but most analysts expect that this war will resume in a week two weeks a month but it was it will resume because it is impossible for the united states and iran to come to a mutually beneficial and satisfying arrangement so today i want to look at how this war will evolve and my argument to you today is that this u.s iran war it's really the first war of the 21st century um and so i want to explain to you how warfare has evolved these past few hundred years so the simplest way to fight a war is you would destroy a state's capacity to fight by killing as many soldiers as possible right you would arrange to fight the enemy on a battlefield whoever wins this battle would win the war and that was the first war of the 21st century and the second war ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 0:58 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=58s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=58s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: of the 19th century how traditionally wars wars were fought for hundreds of hundreds of years within sort of centuries something happened which is that the state the nation state developed the capacity to have a lot of people millions of people and so the state could always replenish its forces on the battlefield and so now what you had to do was you had to destroy the state's capacity to produce to manufacture okay so that's a good point to make and this is really and so the point is to kill as many civilians as possible before you want to kill as many soldiers as possible when the 20th century war mainly world war ii you're trying to kill as many civilians as possible but in the 21st century it's different because we have nuclear weapons now and there are too many people so it is impossible for you to kill everyone and if you use nuclear weapons ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 1:50 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#nation-god-machine-atlas); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-target) Text: then others will use nuclear will use new glories on you okay so now Now, in the 21st century, our goal is to use the population against the state, to turn the civilians against the government by sowing as much discord and dissent as possible within society. And you do that through economic sabotage, through economic strangulation. So that's the argument I will make to you today. The first thing I want to look at is why is it that we have 8 billion people, 8 billion people are living on this planet? And for most of us, we think this is a tremendous achievement. But if you think about it, it's not that nice because there aren't that many resources to share. There's not that much space. In fact, if it were not for fertilizers, we would only be able to support one to two billion people. So how did we get to a stage where we have 8 ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 2:51 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: billion people in this world, and most of us are not very happy with the state affairs? And scientists will tell you it's because of the center of evolution. It's because of this revolution in technology and understanding that's allowed us to progress. That's not true. The real reason is because of the nation state, and the nation state, it is a revolution in politics that came to us because of the French Revolution, all right? So the main architect of the French Revolution, his name is Jean -Jacques Rousseau, he was not French, he was actually Swiss. But he's important because he dealt with the theory that underpinned the French Revolution called social contract theory. Before, we didn't really think about what the individual's relationship with the state was. Basically, you're born in the community, and you just did what tradition and custom and family asked you to do. But Jean -Jacques Rousseau was the first to say, no, we are born free because God gave us freedom. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 4:08 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: So why do we choose to surrender our freedom in order to join a community? And so his theory is that we join society to become more free. So by ourselves. Okay. We together, okay, all of us together, we create something called a common will. And think of this as democracy. Democracy is basically the idea that to make a decision, we just vote. And then whatever comes, whichever is the majority wins. So for example, we might debate whether we're going to McDonald's or Pizza Hut, okay? There's three of us. If two of you say, let's go to Pizza Hut, we go to Pizza Hut, and that's just democracy. For Jean -Jacques Rousseau, this is not a good system. Because we should strive to be higher than we are. We should strive for total freedom. And that's the idea of the general will. Okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 5:10 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: The common will is who we are. The general will is who we could be if we came together as a people. Okay? And the best way to understand the general will is through Kant's theory of the category. Kant's theory of the category is the category of the universal principle, okay? The universal principle is an integral, hierarchical imperative, okay? Which for him is the highest moral law. So as human beings, what makes us truly human? What allows us to achieve our ideal state? What are the three principles, okay? The first principle is the principle of universality. So imagine that all your actions will be reflected throughout the universe. So if you smile, everyone smiles at once. If you get angry, everyone gets angry at once. And then you ask yourself, what's your goal? society do i want to live in do i want to live in a society where everyone is smiling or angry right and then that's the way ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 6:09 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: you should behave the law of universality secondly is the idea of free will no one can compel you to smile you must smile out of your own free choice even though smiling makes you feel happy if i make you smile that goes against um the good of humanity okay the third is the idea of human as an ends okay so i can never sacrifice another human being in order to achieve a better society because we are the ultimate end okay so these these together um the category imperative is what gives us the theory of the general will so even though we all vote to eat ice cream we shouldn't eat ice cream because that's not how we we achieve enlightened humanity That's not how we achieve the ideal state. We should think about Kant's categorical imperative. Now what happens is this. From the general will, this is a sovereign, okay? This is the highest law. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 7:19 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: This is God, basically. And from the sovereign, we achieve the state, the government. And the state makes us into citizens. And then we have laws, culture, education, okay? So for Jean -Jacques Rousseau, this is the social contract. This is the ideal state. The French Revolution started because there were many intellectuals, revolutionaries who wanted to achieve the social contract. But as you can appreciate, there were many who... Who disagreed with this theory, especially monarchs, right? Because the idea here is that the general will, the people, are the sovereign. But in a monarchy, the monarch is what's sovereign. So the sovereign must... So it's a debate over who's sovereign. And so at this time in history, most nations, most countries in Europe were monarchies. So they saw the French Revolution. They saw the French Revolution as a direct threat to them, and that's why they invaded France many, many times. But then something really weird happened. These professional armies who go into France, and they're fighting against these citizens, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 8:48 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: People with no military experience, who are not professional soldiers. What's happening was that they were losing to these citizen armies. And the question is, why was this happening? And the reason why is that... This theory is so powerful that it makes people willing to fight, to die for this, okay? Right? So what was happening during the French Revolution, these wars, was that you had the monarchies, and these were professional armies. And so these were basically mercenaries. And the thing about mercenaries is they didn't want to die, right? They're collecting a paycheck. Their point is to intimidate. Their point is to scare. It's not to die. But then you have the French Revolution, and they were citizens, and they were willing to fight and die, okay? And that's why France became the most powerful nation in Europe at this time, because they could ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 9:59 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: call on their citizens to fight and to die, and it was almost unlimited amount of soldiers. Whereas the other countries like Prussia, Russia, Austria, they had professional soldiers who were afraid to die. All they wanted was their paycheck. So over time, the French were overwhelming the Europeans. And this created the French Empire, all right? But once these places were conquered, they developed their own theory as to how to defeat the French. And they recognized that we also need a theory of nationalism. We also need a theory of a nation -state. But they didn't like the social contract theory, okay? So they came up with a new theory based on nation, which was basically language, culture, and race. And so this becomes Germany, okay, or what we call iron and blood. So now you have these theories of nationalism come out into Europe. And now they're invincible because they can call on their citizens to fight and to die. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 11:21 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And this is why Europe became the most powerful region of the world starting in the 19th century. Okay? But of course, the problem of nationalism, the problem with populations that want to fight and die is that they keep on fighting wars. But it's not a real... And so what happens is that... to solve this problem, you have to fight and die. And to solve this problem, all these nations focus on trying to grow the population as fast as possible, as much as possible. And this is what led to this massive population growth. But with more population, what was happening was that these wars were becoming deadlier and deadlier, culminating, of course, in World War II. And by World War II, Europe had exhausted itself. Too many people had died. Their civilization was destroyed. And so this allowed America to come into power. Okay? America. And America had a different theory of the nation state. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 12:22 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: So the French, their theory was the social contract. The Germans, their theory is iron and blood. Okay? Race. The Americans had a different theory because America was a multicultural nation of immigrants who are trying to colonize the Western Hemisphere, North America, right? So for them... For them, their theory is to create a game. The nation state becomes a game. The Constitution and government are the game masters. And what they will allow is for anyone to come to America and get rich, as long as they work hard. And this will create the greatest nation in the world. Okay? So this becomes a game where anyone can play. In fact, the more players that you have... The wealthier America becomes, right? And then after World War II, what happened was that America spread this game throughout the world, as much as it could, right? To Europe and to Japan. But there are still communist countries like China and Soviet Union, which did not want to participate in this game. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 13:43 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: They had their own game. And so what happened was that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this game conquered the world, right? You had globalization. Okay? The problem is this. Once this game keeps on going, eventually what happens is that only a few players achieve all the wealth, right? You have massive inequality. And everyone else falls into debt. And that's the world that we live in today. America created this game. It was very successful in creating tremendous wealth, and they're trying to have as many players as possible. That's why you have the population boom. Okay? But now, only a few people have all the wealth, and everyone else is in debt. In other words, these people are useless. And therefore, we need to reset the game. And the way to reset the game, of course, is to destroy the game ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 14:50 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: in the first place, therefore have World War III, bring everything down, and start the game over again. Okay? And that's why we are in the situation we are in today. Okay. So now what? So now what I'm going to do is go over some of the major ideas that allowed for this system to come into being. Okay? So first, I want to look at the Social Contract by Jean -Jacques Rousseau. So Ivory, could you do me a favor and read the first passage? Okay. So let me put this in context. This is from his book called The Social Contract. And Jean -Jacques Rousseau is arguing slavery. And before, it was understood that slavery is a game. It's a good system because the master is nice to the slave. As long as the master is nice to the slave, the slave should be happy. And Jean -Jacques Rousseau says, no, that cannot be true. Under no circumstance can a slave ever be happy. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 15:45 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=945s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=945s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: Okay? And he explains why. So Ivory, can you read please? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 15:48 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: To renounce your liberty is to renounce your status as a man, your rights as a human being, and even your duties as a human being. There can't be any way of compensating someone who gives up everything. Such a renunciation is impossible. It is incompatible with a man's nature. To remove all freedom from his will is to remove all morality from his actions. Finally, an agreement to have absolute authority on one side and unlimited obedience on the other. What an empty and contradictory agreement that would have to be. Isn't it clear that if we are entitled to take anything and everything from a person, we can't be under any obligation to him? And isn't that fact alone? The fact that there is no equivalence. Nothing to be exchanged. Nothing to be changed. Between the two sides. Enough to nullify the agreement. What right can my slave have against me? Everything that he has is mine. His right is mine. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 16:41 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1001s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1001s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And it doesn't make sense to speak my right against myself. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 16:44 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: Okay, so the argument is this. Our freedom is given to us by God. Our freedom is what connects us to God. So our freedom cannot be surrendered. If we surrender our freedom, if someone takes our freedom away from us, that is surrendering our humanity. That is breaking our connection to God. Therefore, it is better to die than be a slave. And that was their thinking during the French Revolution, right? Yeah, only citizens. They have absolutely no experience with firearms, but they were running into cannon fire against professional soldiers because they were like, give me liberty or give me death. Because well, my liberty, I am nothing. Okay, so this is a really important concept. And then you can read this below. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 17:32 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: I'm continually astonished that such a simple sign of good government isn't recognized, or perhaps men do recognize it but aren't honest enough to say so. What is the purpose of any political association? The preservation and prosperity of its members? And what is the surest sign of their preservation and prosperity? Their number and their population growth? That's the sign you're looking for. Other things being equal. The unquestionably best government is the one under which. The population increases most without external help from naturalizing foreigners or establishing colonies. The government under which the population shrinks is the worst. Over to you, calculators. Count, measure, compare. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 18:14 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: Okay. This is a really important idea. The first is liberty is the most important value. And the second idea is a good government, a good society should focus on population growth. On having as many people as possible. Okay. Because that's the best sign that you're, you're thriving as a society. Okay. So because of these two ideas, okay, population growth, and then liberty, the French will become the greatest empire in Europe at this time. So this is France in the dark green, and they will colonize and conquer everything in the green. You can see how vast it is, right? So this shows you the power of the nation state based on two ideas. The first idea is liberty is all that matters. Second idea is go to population as fast as possible. Okay. So of course what happens, as I mentioned, is that the Germans were being conquered by the French. They get upset and their intellectuals come up with a new theory of nationalism. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 19:30 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: This is a Johan Fette. Who is considered the father of Germany. The father of German nationalism. And his argument is that it is language that binds us as humans. Okay. So for Dr. Rousseau, it's liberty that we should strive for. It's liberty that gives us value as human beings. But for Johan Fette, it's no, it's language. It's language that binds us to the past. It's language that binds us together. It's language that's worth fighting for. It's race, nation, blood. Okay. Okay. And this becomes the philosophy of the German state. At this time in history, Germany was divided into many hundreds of different kingdoms. It is Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck of Prussia, who will unify the German people into one Germany. Okay. Often called the second Reich. And so can you read, Ivory? This is a speech, his famous iron and blood speech. Okay. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 20:33 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: The position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism, but by its power. Pressure must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided. That was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849, but by iron and blood. Okay. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 21:04 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: All right. So the idea here is that, listen, we're a German nation. Okay. And as a nation state, as a people, we must protect our freedom by going to war. Okay. It's only through war that we can survive and thrive as a people. But how do you fight wars? Well, you fight wars, and it's really important, by making sure your population is taken care of. Okay. So can you read, Ivory? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 21:33 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: The real grievance of the war is the fact that we are a nation. We treat the worker as the insecurity of his existence. He's not sure that he will always have work. He's not sure that if you will always be healthy. And he foresees that he will one day be old and unfit to work. If he falls into poverty, even if only through a prolonged illness, he is then completely helpless, left to his own devices. And society does not currently recognize any real obligation toward him, beyond their usual help for the poor. Even if he has been working all the time ever so faithfully and diligently. The usual help for the poor, however, leaves a lot to be desired, especially in large cities where it is very much worse than in the country. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 22:12 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-war); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-welfare-buys-loyalty); [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: So Bismarck will turn Germany into the most powerful nation in the world by recognizing that it's not just soldiers who contribute to the war effort. It's also your people as well, because it's your people who make the machines of war, the machine guns, the artillery, the munitions, and therefore, you have to make sure they are healthy. You don't want to send sick soldiers to the battlefield, right? You don't want sick workers as well. That's why he passed a lot of progressive worker reforms, including health insurance, accident insurance, old age, pension, workers' protection, children's protection, okay? It is because he recognizes that a nation -state is first and foremost a nation -state. It is first and foremost about making warriors, and if you want to win, you have to make sure you have as many people as possible and everyone is contributing to the war effort. And to do that, you need to make sure that everyone is taken care of, including your soldiers, including your workers, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 23:15 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And it was Mussolini who basically understood that the real purpose of a nation -state is to fight wars. In fact, it is wars that give people meaning in their lives. If you have a war, if you create a nation -state around war, if you create a mythology around the beauty of war, then people will happily fight and die, okay? Can you read the speech? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 23:49 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1429s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be a reality. It is a reality in the sense that we have created our myth. It is a stimulus, it's hope, it's faith, it's courage. Our myth is the nation. Our myth is the greatness of the nation. And to this myth, this greatness, which we want to translate into a total reality, we subordinate everything else, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 24:15 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: So this is the highlight or the peak of the nation -state. And so during World War II, they had to fight a war to destroy the entire society. Because the soldiers were not a mercenary army like they were in the past before. The soldiers were coming from the population themselves. So in World War II, the allies won, not because they were democratic or more or less superior or had a better strategy, it was because they could destroy the productive capacity of their enemies, but their enemies could not destroy the productive capacity of their nation -states. Does that make sense? So America, their factories were fine, Soviet Union, their factories were removed into Siberia, far away from the Germans. The Germans and the Japanese could be firebombed, okay? So look at this. So from 1940 to 1945, the British and Americans firebombed Germany, okay? This is Dresden. Dresden. You can see the entire city of Dresden was destroyed by the firebombing. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 25:31 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-target) Text: So in World War II, what they recognized is there's no point in killing soldiers on the battlefield because they'll just send in more soldiers with more weapons. So we need to destroy the civilian population. That's how you win the war, okay? And that's how they defeated Germany. Japan was much worse. Look at this. At least half of Japan was destroyed by the American firebombing of Japan. That's why Japan was destroyed. Japan lost the war. Otherwise, they would have kept on going, all right? And these are huge cities. So Nagoya is a city the size of Los Angeles, 40 % of it was destroyed, okay? Tokyo is New York City, 40 % of it was destroyed as well. Yokohama, 60 % of it was destroyed, okay? This is Tokyo. You can see the extent of the damage. Okay? The nation state idea was so powerful that in order to win a war, you need to destroy the civilian population, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 26:34 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: So as you can see, because of the rise of the nation state, we had to kill more and more people in order to fight wars. So this is World War II, and at least 20 to 30 million people were killed, okay? And depending on your... On how you calculate, probably a lot more than that died. But what's interesting is that even though World War II was a calamity, even though tens of millions have died, look at the population growth. It didn't... It never stopped, okay? So for most of the history of human history, population growth was steady. But then starting around the year 1600, it boomed, okay? And again, scientists will tell you. This kind of thing happened. This coincided with the rise of science and technology, but we've always had science and technology. What made this different was the rise of the nation state, and ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 27:42 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-war); [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: the recognition that to fight wars, you need more people who want to kill themselves for the nation. And to get them to do that, you have to treat them well as well, okay? And that's what... And so the nation state wanted science and technology to grow the population. Okay? That's why we had medicine and sanitation, okay? These innovations happened because the nation state willed these things to happen. All right. Now as I mentioned, after World War II, and after all the travesty and destruction of World War II, the world got together and said, okay, America, you're in charge now, and let's build a world in which we don't have to fight and kill each other anymore. Okay? And so America created this game, right, called capitalism, consumer capitalism, in which we live in today. And this system is unique in human history, and for most of this history, was extremely successful. It grew the population from about 2 billion to about 8 billion today. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 28:56 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: It made a lot of people more wealthy. Think of the tremendous wealth that China has generated in the past 30, 40 years because of its participation in consumer capitalism. Okay? But unfortunately, we've now reached a point where the system is off balance. It's unstable, it's unsustainable. So now we're going back to war. But unfortunately, because there's too many people, this means that when we go back to war, at least 50 % of humanity will die off in World War III. Okay? So this is the war in Ukraine. And already millions of people are dying in this war. But if you look at the war in Ukraine, it's essentially a 19th century war. Okay? It's almost like World War I. I know World War I happened in the 20th century, but it's really a 19th century war where you are trying to kill as many soldiers as possible. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 29:55 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: Okay? And that's what's happening in Ukraine. What I will show you is that Iran will be the first 21st century war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy the military, and you destroy production. That's the idea of shock and awe. I come in, I kill your leadership, I kill your military, I kill your war factories. And you do it as soon as possible. But this is not working against Iran because they've prepared this war for 20 years, so it's decentralized. Okay? So you've killed their leaders, but they don't care because they've got new leaders coming to place. Their military is hidden. Okay? They're hidden in mountains, and their factories are also hidden in mountains as well. So even though the Americans have really destroyed the military, they've destroyed the military. They've destroyed much of Iran's war fighting capacity, Iran is still in this fight. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 31:26 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1886s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1886s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-target); [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-hybrid-war-targets-state-bond) Text: So what's going to happen is that over the next few months, America is going to shift its strategy into a 21st century war strategy, which will have three components. The first component is economic strangulation. I will destroy your economy, your entire economy. The second is ethnic tension. I will try to create as much conflict as possible between the different peoples in Iran, okay? And the third thing is destroy civilian infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I want to do that? Because if people cannot access these things, they get angry, right? Then if they get angry, I can channel this anger against the government, because it's easier for them to attack the government than it is to attack the US military, which is the ones destroying all this infrastructure. So this is what a 21st century war strategy looks like. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 32:47 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=1967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And this is what the Americans will deploy in Iran over the next few months. Now, why haven't they done this before? Well, because these are war crimes, OK. There are lots of treaties, the Geneva Convention, that prohibit you from fighting these wars. But as Americans become much more desperate, as they continue to lose this war, they'll be like, screw this, I'm going to win this war no matter what it takes. So let me show you how this war will be fought. So before, right now, they're trying to target... uh weapons they're trying to target military bases that doesn't get you anywhere okay you you need to better use your weapon systems because there's you just don't have enough munitions to destroy the entire iranian military okay so you have to be strategic now and so you target things that have huge impact on the civilian uh population as well ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 33:47 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: as the economy right so the most most basic thing is water okay look guys these are all dams and reservoirs around iran okay i don't destroy all them but i strategically destroy some of them this is going to create a lot of pressure on the civilian population they'll be very angry they might protest against the government okay also um transportation networks right these are roads and railways this is important because tehran is a city of 10 million people and they do not grow their own food they require food to come from the countryside from elsewhere so if i attack the roads leading to tehran if i attack strategic hubs then it's very hard for food to move from place to place okay i don't have to destroy the entire food supply i can't do that i don't have weapons but i'm being strategic about it i'm putting strain on tehran's capacity to feed its own ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 35:00 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so does that make sense so the idea is war the rules of engagement require me to only attack soldiers and only attack weapons but eventually i'm going to run out of munitions if i keep on doing that and it's not going to destroy iran's capacity to fight they won't surrender so now i need to be more strategic with how i use my munitions how i use my bombs and so i want to create as much damage as possible the best way to do that is by targeting key infrastructure power plants desalination plants roads railway networks okay i can't destroy all of them but i can destroy all of them and that's why i'm so create as much havoc as possible over time so the civilian population gets very angry so my best ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 35:58 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my aircraft carriers my best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a 21st century war looks like it's very slow it's very methodical it's pretty evil okay all right all right the other thing is economic strangulation all right so what am i trying to do here okay so Iran there are two ways for them to generate income for to finance this war the first is to sell oil okay and this is karg island which is their main depot okay oil depot and ninety percent of Iranian oil goes from karg island elsewhere okay primarily to China ninety percent of Iran's oil exports goes to China okay okay so what americans have done is they've been close imposed a blockade stopping uh oil exports okay that's one way you can uh stop um Iran's economy the other thing is that right now Iran controls the cervical ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 37:07 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: moves and they collect tolls on that okay so i basically need to destroy Iran's control of the cervical moves the way i do that is i use ground forces okay so what i can do is seize khasem island seize karg island seize the coastline and force the Iranians to respond to my attacks right i can also position um forces here and here why because these areas okay in the north west of Iran are home to minorities as well as the south east and when i put my soldiers here this is going to encourage local population to rise up against the Iranian state and now what's going to happen is that the Iran well Iran will now the same forces to respond to all these ethnic insurgencies around um Iran okay so before Iran could just focus its resources on controlling several moves like screw that i'm going to um expand the battlefield so that Iran ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 38:21 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same time i'm going to collapse their economy all right okay so this is what a 21st century war looks like it's slow you focus on triangulation as opposed to a knockout punch all right so um once one way to understand what's happening is that the Americans have been doing this for a long time but more subtly all right so um in 2012 the Iranian president named he accused the Americans of conducting weather warfare against Iran mainly by creating droughts in Iran and how do you do that well it's cloud seeding right it's cloud seeding so the idea cloud seeding you shoot up a chemical called silver iodide into clouds, forcing it to rain. When you do that, well, the clouds dissipate the rain elsewhere, and they don't go to Iran. So in 2019, there's a real fear that Iran would suffer from long -term drought. And ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 39:50 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2390s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2390s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: regions like Dubai, which Iranians claim to be the source of this weather warfare, they experience droughts. Sorry, floods. So again, I don't know how science works, and this is all rumors. But it does make sense where the Americans would use weather warfare against Iran, forcing rain to come down in Dubai. They didn't deny. They didn't deny rain to the Iranians, okay? There's a conspiracy theory that these world governments are conducting weather warfare using something called HAARP, okay? Now, HAARP was originally designed in order to study the atmosphere. But some conspiracy theorists claim that HAARP can be used to create extreme weathers, including hurricanes, cyclones, flooding, droughts. I don't know, okay? I'm just saying. I'm just pointing this out there. What we do know is that in 1962, Lyndon Johnson, who became president of the United States, he had a very famous quote at a speech. And he basically said, he who controls the weather will control the world, okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 41:08 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: The future of warfare is not about weapons. It's about weather. So it's not about how many weapons you make. It's about how well you can control the weather. Because if you think about it, if you can create a drought in a country, that country will be destroyed. Okay? And they put a lot of resources into developing weather warfare. And we know that from 1967 to 1972, the Americans created something called Operation Popeye. Okay, so this is during the Vietnam War. And what the Americans did was they see the clouds so that the monsoon season would be a lot longer in Vietnam. Why do that? Because then it's harder for the Viennese to resupply themselves, okay? It makes it harder for them to fight. Because the Viennese are living in tunnels, right? Whereas Americans are attacking from the air, all right? So this is pretty well known. Operation Popeye is something that the Americans did do in Vietnam. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 42:12 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And they do have weather manipulation technology. The question is, the debate is, how effective the technology is and how powerful is it? And how... Scalable is it, okay? Okay, that's the debate. We're already seeing elements of 21st century warfare being implemented around the world, okay? So look at Cuba. There's now an oil embargo on Cuba. And so there are blackouts, all right? So again, the intention is not to kill civilians. The intention is not to fight a war. The intention is to, like, strangle a nation so that eventually the population wants to overthrow the government. And already what we're seeing is these past few months, lots of accidents around the world that's destroying the world's oil supply, okay? But there's one region of the world that doesn't really care about the loss of refineries, the loss of oil supply, and that's North America. Because North America is extremely wealthy. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 43:22 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And so the rest of the world is facing energy scarcity. Okay? And food scarcity is going to have to beg North America, the United States, Canada, Mexico for resources. And this allows the Americans to better control the world, okay? Again, this is what 21st century warfare looks like. All right. The last... Another thing that I will point out is that the Americans are very good at overthrowing governments, okay? There's something called the Color Revolution Playbook. Color Revolution Playbook. And so what the Americans do is they basically invite young people from different nations to come to America to learn about democracy and to learn about how to organize protest movements, how to overthrow the government in order to promote democracy. The Americans will also finance NGOs in different countries in order to create young movements in the world. The Americans will also control social media in order to......to galvanize the population and foment unrest. Okay? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 44:34 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: And we saw this play out most recently in 20... Sorry, last year, Nepal, when young people overthrew the government. Now, guys, okay. Here's the thing. In Nepal, most people don't speak English. They don't read English. So why are these young people holding up signs? Okay, boomer, time's up. Okay? That's in English. Who's it for? Also, okay, boomer, it's an American phrase. Okay? It's an American phrase, not a Nepalese phrase. So, in other words, they're doing this not to have impact locally in Nepal. They're doing this because someone's paying them to do this. You understand? It's being funded by Washington. And Washington's like, okay, well, I'll pay you this much. This amount of money if you give me a slogan, if you hold a slogan, so that I can show my boss that this protest is working. Also, guys, here's another sign. We pay you flex enough. Okay? Another English sign. So, again, why are they doing this when the local population don't even speak English? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 45:53 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: They're doing it for Washington. They're not doing it for their own country. They're doing it for their masters in Washington. All right? Does that make sense? And this is very common in the world today, where these protests are being orchestrated by Washington for Washington, as opposed to being organic. This was in 2010, 2012. You have these Arab Spring protests happen all around the Middle East. Okay? Do they stabilize the governments in the Middle East? And we know that social media, basically Twitter and Facebook, were instrumental. And organizing people and promoting unrest in these places. All right? So, these are all called color revolutions or the color revolution playbook. So, not only does America have the capacity to strangle a nation's economy and force the population to beg for mercy, Washington and the Americans also have strategies on how to overthrow the government using local population. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 47:02 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: Okay? Basically, by. By controlling social media, by organizing young people, paying them to protest, and bribing security services to not intervene. Okay? It's a very successful playbook. They've tried many times and it's worked many times before. All right. So, America can use this playbook against every country that opposes it. Okay? So, the main reason again is because America. America controls the world's choke points, including the Strait of Malacca, Panama Canal, Gibraltar, these are the major choke points. Even though the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz, the Americans can have aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and blockade the Iranians. Okay? This is important because a lot of people believe that what America really wants to do is destroy China. And, unfortunately, right now, a lot of the Chinese economy depends on exports, meaning trade. If you can't export, your economy can suffer a great deal. When your economy suffers a great deal, you lose GDP, ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 48:22 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-population-becomes-management-problem); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#mass-society-constraint-atlas); [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-hybrid-war-targets-state-bond) Text: you have unemployment, and it's possible that you have protests happening in China because of the collapse of the economy. Okay? So, that is what the 21st century is. That's what the 21st century war looks like. Okay? You don't send troops. You don't destroy. What you do is you strangle a people to death and force the people to rise up against the nation state. Okay? And so, the concluding message is this. Ultimately, to fight a 21st century warfare, okay, it's really about population management. What I mean by that is your enemy is trying to provoke your population into unrest to destroy you. So, you have to respond by managing your population better. Okay? And that can often mean culling your population. Culling your population just means killing them. Okay? Killing them can mean you deny them food. You create famine. Okay? It can mean you spread diseases. It could mean you actually do go and shoot them. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 49:49 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=2989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-population-becomes-management-problem) Text: Okay? And this forces you to use artificial intelligence, AI surveillance state. Because the best way to control your population, the magic population, is with an AI surveillance state. All right? So, that's the future we're looking at, what a 21st century war looks like. And there's no way around it. It is just the inability of history. We have too many people. We want to fight wars. And so, a lot of people have to die in these wars. Does that make sense? All right. Any questions, guys? Any questions? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Can you give the microphone to Allen? ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 50:43 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: I just have one small question about the 21st century war. Like, if a country has been attacked by this strategy, how can it respond? Like, how can Iran respond to American strategy right now? Okay. That's a great question. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 51:00 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-counter-war-technology) Text: Okay. Look. The reality is that when the Americans do this, okay, when they do three things, right? They destroy your economy. When they strangle... Sorry. When they destroy your infrastructure. And when they divide and conquer, according to game theory, there's only one response. Okay? There's only one proper response to this, and this idea of eschatology. Okay. And the idea here is this. You need to create fanaticism among your people, right? Because your people are suffering. They don't have enough to eat. They don't have any hope in the future. So what you say to them is... This is all part of God's plan. We're meant to suffer. Because when we suffer, God will make us invincible. For our suffering, we'll find the courage to commit martyrdom. Okay? When we do martyrdom, we go to heaven. All right. The problem with this is that most people don't want to do this. Okay? They're like, no, I don't want to kill myself. ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 52:42 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-counter-war-technology) Text: I don't want to die for God. I just want to live a normal life. Okay? But unfortunately, what history tells us is that you really don't need that many people to commit to eschatology to win a war. Maybe at most 10 to 20%. If 10 to 20 % of your population commit to this eschatology, then you will survive. Okay? And we have an example of this. We have an example of this. It's the... Sorry. The Iran -Iraq war. war which is what happened in the 1980s okay an eight -year war between iran and iraq right and guys it was a crazy war these iraqis were supported by both the americans and the soviet union they had tanks they had helicopters they had a professional army the iranians in 1980s didn't have an army they didn't have tanks they didn't have um helicopters so what they said to iranian people is the ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 53:48 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: greatest glory is to be a martyr the greatest glory is to die for your nation and for god so they all these young people went into the battle with just a rifle okay guy like like imagine this okay you have this young guy 16 years old he's running into battle against a tank in a helicopter and he's screaming at them i will kill you and i'm gonna kill you so they went into battle against a tank and they got blown up but some of them got through and they threw a grenade into the tank okay now you think you you you think about this you're like oh my god that's crazy but first of all it galvanized iranian population into resisting an event and eventually they turned the title war so they were actually winning the war and it was only because americans started to use chemical weapons against them that the iranians had to ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 54:43 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-counter-war-technology) Text: were forced back okay but if left alone the iranians would have defeated the iraqis so think about that how it galvanized the population of iraq and then it was the same thing with no ariba into resistance. The other thing is that it's scared the hell out of the Iraqis, okay? You have a tank, right? The guys come at you with a rifle and a grenade. He's not afraid of you. His fearlessness makes you afraid, okay? So even though, yes, in 21st century warfare, okay, it seems invincible, but eschatology is the counter to this approach and that's why we should see over the next few years a huge surge in eschatology and religious extremism throughout the world, because it's really the only counter to this type of warfare. Doesn't that make sense? Okay, great question. Any more questions guys? Okay, great. So, there's no class on Thursday and next Scorpio I believe. tuesday but we'll come ## The Population Becomes The Weapon -- 55:49 - Source title: Game Theory #22: Twilight of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txgPfnXgzcE&t=3349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-txgpfnxgzce.json) Text: back next thursday and we'll continue this okay all right thank you ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 0:00 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: What I anticipate is a move towards more low intensity conflict where it's a war of attrition, right? So it's a naval blockade. You have some ground forces deployment and you have some continual airstrikes, but the tempo of the war will be not as high as before. And the reason why is that I think that this will become a global economic war as we move on. Professor Jiang, as you said, the idea is to keep the wars going, not to win them. They don't care that they were going to lose. They need to keep these wars going, but they're going to lose. What is the exit strategy for the elites then? You know, because I'm sure they have exit strategies. My name is Danny. It is April 24th, 2026. And we've got a special treat for you guys today. We've got not one, but two big headline main eventers. You've got Professor Jiang and Alex Cranor at the same time. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:03 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=63s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=63s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Gents, thank you both so much for making time from your hefty and busy schedules to the chat today. Thank you for the invite, Danny. Great that you organized this. Yeah, guys, if you haven't already, hit that like button. Let's get this video out to as many people as possible. It's sure to be a conversation to remember for the ages. Let's go ahead and start off with what's been ongoing in the greats of Hormuz and in Iran. Obviously, that's the big story. Everyone wants to talk about it seems that we found ourselves in a supposed indefinite ceasefire from President Trump. Professor, we'll start off with you. Get your take. How to get your read on the situation where you think what do you think the plan is here with this indefinite ceasefire? Is there is there are they is President Trump looking for an off ramp? Or is he taking he's trying to use this as time to build up more troops and artillery? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:03 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=123s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Well, I mean, it seems as though they are. They're trying to build up more forces for a quick strike against Iran. So even though there's a ceasefire, there's been a lot of cargo flights of American weaponry and munitions into the Middle East. And the George H.W. Bush has been making its way into theater and expected to arrive in a couple of days. So I think I think like by next week, we should have a better indicator of what's going on. But I think from my perspective, what I anticipate is a move towards more low intensity conflict where it's a war of attrition. Right. So it's a naval blockade. You have some ground forces deployment and you have some air strikes, but the tempo of the war will be not as high as before. The reason why is that I think that this will become a global economic war as we move on. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 3:00 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=180s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: So I'll hand over to Alex. Yeah, Alex. Thanks. Go ahead. It's a it's a very, very difficult question, Danny, and I'm not I'm not entirely sure how to answer it in any concrete way. I've been you know, I've been observing this event and really scratching my head because I was among the people who was fully convinced that Trump would never attack Iran because I thought it was just extraordinarily dumb and unrealistic that the downside risk was enormous. You know, the downside to the attack was next to nothing, you know, little to gain for Trump. For Trump. I understand that there's a lot to gain for, let's say, for the Western Empire, which, you know, I always characterize as the undead reincarnation of the British Empire. And so we can see that there are certain there's a certain echelon of power, certain vested interests. That very, very badly want this war. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 4:07 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And this incentive will not go away for Trump himself politically. He desperately needs out. So I think that we have a bit of a conflict between two two layers of the command and control structure where you have the president of the United States and the how do you call it? The legitimate government of the United States that got enmeshed in this. It's now it risks becoming a quagmire for them. So they want out. And then there's a there's a higher, higher level that definitely wants this war. And the reason why they want this war. OK, let's so let's let's first say why Trump and U.S. government and the U.S. military, the Pentagon and so forth, the whole, you know, the whole organization doesn't want the war because they can't win it. And because they risk losing very bigly. And it's going to cost Trump politically his presidency, his legacy, a very likely loss of midterm elections. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 5:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=321s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And so everything that he at least ostensibly tried to achieve gets derailed fatally, permanently. And so on the other side, why do they want to continue the war? Let's start with the fact that Iran is the fifth richest nation in the world in terms of natural resource wealth, and it's estimated at about 30 trillion U.S. dollars. And then when we connect this with the fact that our monetary system is predicated on circulating money as debt for which you need collateral and that the monetary system is fraudulent. So if it doesn't grow like a Ponzi scheme. It mathematically collapses, it's a mathematical certainty. So in order for the whole thing to stay together, to not implode, they need to bring new collateral into the equation. And so this is why, you know, we've had colonialism for the last 500, 600 years and why this colonialism never ends. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 6:36 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=396s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And they never give up on going after it. They never give up on going after one resource rich nation or region after the next. So you have Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Venezuela. It just never ends. The rhetoric is, the narratives are always, oh, the Iranian mullahs are terrible people. If they get a nuclear bomb, they're going to incinerate us all. Well, similar to Iraq, Saddam Hussein is a terrible person. And if he gets weapons of mass destruction, it's going to be the end. Gaddafi is a madman. He's killing his own people. Bashar al -Assad is a madman. He's killing his own people. We can run the clock back however far you want. You know, in 1971, Salvador Allende is a communist. If he stays, then, you know, there's going to be domino effect, communism spreading. So, you know, we're always fighting demons around the world. We always find some evil that we need to stomp out. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 7:48 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=468s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: But it's just, you know, kind of strangely correlated that we always seem to be attacking resource rich regions. And so this is a constant which has given us colonialism, which has given us forever wars. And it never goes away. And they never give up. You know? And I think that you could go back to 1200s and find the Pope in Rome inciting German and Latvian nobles to conduct military campaigns into territories of today's Russia. And then it never really stopped. You know, it continued. You know, the Polish invasion, the Swedish invasion, the, you know, Napoleon's invasion, Hitler's invasion. Multiple attempts at regime change, which, you know, once upon a time involved setting up a fake czar in the Kremlin. But it also involved the 1917 color revolution, the Bolshevik coup. It also involved a sort of a color revolution in 1991. You know, when they replaced the communist regime. I mean, they ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 9:15 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=555s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: replaced the communist regime with Boris Yeltsin, who was, you know, a different version of Volodymyr Zelensky, who basically, you know, worked two hours a day, drank the rest, and played tennis or hunted. And he had American advisors write decrees for him, which he would just sign. And they had practically total control of Russia. And in those ten years that they did. They brought Russia to a state of control. almost total disintegration and the average salary of a russian worker was 56 a month so we can probably safely foresee that this dynamic is not going away trump might go away but it would be the umpteenth time that the american people vote they always vote for anti -war presidents for anti -war candidates people who promise them no more foreign wars uh we're gonna change everything uh hope and change you know blah blah but they always get more war it doesn't matter who they vote ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 10:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=621s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: for trump was going to be a radical change in policy course but here we are again same rhetoric same policies you remember sorry i'm making it long but i'll wrap up quickly remember it was only in december sounds like forever ago but it was only in december that the united states the trump administration published the national security um strategy for the united states and what was it it was like enough of this nation building global wars we're withdrawing into our own hemisphere and now we're at war with iran not only the united states is also at war in sudan and somalia you know this has been you know beyond the smoke screen of iran war but this year united states has uh bombed somalia 58 times nobody's talking about it but you know this is real so it seems that between the trump administration and whatever higher echelon is actually dictating foreign policy there's a ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 11:30 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=690s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=690s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: there's a conflict but it seems to me that ultimately this higher echelon gets to press the the clutch of the of the of the whole policy machine and put it in motion anyway so that's that's how i see it and this is why i believe that this this problem's not going away and this war is not going away i would i would agree with professor jean that probably the intensity is going to drop off and it's going to maybe uh go back to to sabotage attempts at regime change and economic pressure but i think that the dynamic has changed and now that iran is actually in control of that conflict rather than the the the the empire danny either you froze or your connection if you're national oh what about now yeah yeah that's fine are we back yeah yeah okay yeah yeah so thank you thank you so much for laying all that out ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 12:35 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=755s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: alex um professor jang if you don't mind commenting on the national security strategy document that came out in december that alex just alluded to because you've done some research into that document and kind of makes sense of what we're seeing today versus what was outlined in that document is there a disconnect or are things going according to what the document outlined i mean what's your view right so um having read the document i think it is erroneous to say that america's intention is to retreat back into the western hemisphere i think the document what the document really says is that america will no longer adopt a liberal interventionist attitude towards geopolitics no more multilateral uh cooperation working night nations um no more being policemen of the world i think the intention is to move towards a more mercantilist real politic uh interest -driven um uh attitude uh towards geopolitics so whatever puts american interests first ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 13:40 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=820s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=820s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: and and i think that what this means is how this war will play out uh in iran is that using iran as a pre -taught pretext in order to impose a naval blockade on the entire world and so um i'll make two i'll i'll give you two data points okay the first data point is that that the uae has asked america for a line of credit now i believe the uae sovereign uh wealth fund and alex will know better than i do but i think that the sovereign wealth fund has 1.4 trillion dollars so that they don't need a line of credit and the only reason why they would ask for a line of credit is to entangle the states into uh the gcc right so think of the land lease policy uh that america had for britain back in world war one and world war ii and eventually the land lease um became ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 14:34 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=874s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: so exorbitant that america had to come into the war to save britain from military defeat against germany and it seems to this situation happened in the gcc where uae first asked for some credit but then um saudi arabia comes in and eventually america has to lend trillions of dollars to the gcc in order to finance this war right but that's good for america because as alex points out they're what they want are collaterals um and so as collateral they could have they could have the entire gcc oil resources and that's a trade that saudi arabia and uae would make in order to maintain their uh control over the gcc okay so that's point one and i hope that alex can can respond to this point i think that the uae asking for a lot of credit is a huge huge deal it's not a big deal it's not a big deal it's not a big ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 15:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=921s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: deal it's not a big deal it's not a big deal it's not a big deal but it's a big deal and so i think that's the point one point two is if you look at what america is doing towards foreign policy what they're trying to do is establish a firm control over maritime choke points around the world so you know the indian indian defense minister recently visited washington dc and they signed a treaty uh giving america access to indonesian airspace and an indonesian minister has said that maybe um now that iran is collecting tolls on the sort of malacca now from from the chinese perspective this is huge because 80 of of china's energy imports go through the state of malacca 90 of all imports and trade go through from from for china through the state of malacca okay let's just address malacca remember um there's also the state of gibraltar and the united states ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 16:10 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: and morocco are now negotiating a treaty there um there is um the panama canal and america is exerting more control over that so we can expect uh what's gonna happen in the next few months is that america is going to have a firm lock on these maritime choke points right now the american navy is committing piracy over the over the oceans so originally trump said that they want to impose a naval blockade on the on iranians uh but you can't do that because then you'll be too close to iranian missiles and drones so they're now sitting um off the strip of the indian ocean and they're now uh i think they've already seized two iranian vessels i mean they've already seized two iranian vessels i think they've already seized two iranian vessels i think they've already seized two iranian vessels i think they've already seized two iranian ALEX will know more about this than i ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 16:53 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1013s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1013s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: do and then NANCY GRAHAM came out and says you know what we should do this for the entire world you know we our ships should be everywhere to capture these russian shuttle tank uh shadow fleet tankers these iranian ships these chinese ships that are awaiting sanctions for for the good of the world so so so i i always just point these two things out in that you know it seems as though it's all very chaotic but if you zoom out and i and and this is what ALEX said it's in the it's it's it's very chaotic Turkish especially because of the in the best interests of transnational capital to have this um to have um these maritime um blockades going around and they're hoping to basically in debt the rest of the world to u.s treasuries in order to finance this war so i'd be interested in in alex's response yeah alex go ahead ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 17:42 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1062s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: uh i i don't disagree with anything that you said i would just add a little bit more color and you know i i i think that the u.s treasuries is is a relatively small smaller part of the game of the of the game because of course you know if you trade in u.s dollars then you end up parking a lot of your money in in u.s federal reserve and they get recycled into u.s treasuries so whether you like it or not you're you're you're financing uh the american state and that's part of how part of how the united states is you know the whole government is incentivized to keep everybody locked into this uh into this uh u.s dollar system uh as the as the reserve currency and the and the trade settlement currency uh i think that the ultimate beneficiaries however are you know a level above and that ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 18:42 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1122s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: here the incentive is much much more significant because okay let's just see what happens if you manage to regime change iran uh you install a vladimir zelensky in tehran shah reza pahlavi who will do you know whatever whatever his western sponsors demand of him let's say iran has a nuclear program and uh they want to build nuclear nuclear power plants they have a choice they can have chinese corporations build the nuclear power plants or they can have nuclear power plants they can have chinese corporations build the nuclear power plants or they can have russian corporations build them or they can have american corporations build them right now let's say that if you have a chinese corporation build your nuclear power plant your electricity is going to cost about 20 cents on the dollar compared to what westinghouse would build you but guess what and so you know if you have an independent sovereign government in ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 19:51 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1191s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: tehran they're going to say well chinese nuclear power power plants are much better they're more modern like they're more efficient and they cost way cheaper so duh obviously you know but if you get shah reza pahlavi it doesn't matter he's going to give the contracts to westinghouse and so what it's going to cost a couple of billion dollars to build those plants and who's going to finance that well it's going to be jp morgan city group Goldman Sachs banks like that what happens then uh Westinghouse is going to have to pay back those loans right so by the decision uh let's say JP Morgan's balance sheet immediately increases by a couple of billion dollars whatever that plant costs and once the electricity is delivered to the Iranian people in businesses they have to pay for the electricity whatever the price right and then that money is going to be paying back the loans to Goldman ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 20:54 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1254s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Sachs so that loan let's call it a billion dollars right it's more but let's call it a billion dollars that loan immediately becomes an asset on JP Morgan's balance sheet and it's a profit -making asset because over the life of this loan Westinghouse is probably going to have to pay back double what they received as a loan and so JP Morgan just like that gets a billion dollars of free money because Trump NATO the British whoever the Israelis changed the government in Tehran and then you can multiply this many many many times over because it's going to involve uh oil gas ports airports uh infrastructure infrastructure bridges um the media in Iran it's going to involve everything they're going pharmaceutical companies you know no more medicines from China or India or or locally produced you're going to be buying Pfizer's and modernas and and you know Roche and Glaxo Smith clients so suddenly Western Capital ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 22:15 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1335s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: penetrates and permeates the Iranian economy and uh it's 92 plus million populations it's enormously wealthy right it's and for the same low price that you open the gates of Troy to your capital you also get to cut off China's Belt and Road initiative and you get to cut off Russia's North South uh International North South uh transport Corridor and then Global Trade um becomes again completely dependent on your traditional choke points you know Bosporus Gibraltar Strait of Hormuz Babelman Deb Strait of Malacca and again you ruled in Eurasian landmass uh the interesting thing about the Strait of Malacca question so it was I think it was just yesterday or the day before yesterday they that they said that look oh yeah you know we're gonna we're gonna charge uh we're gonna charge um a toll through Strait of Malacca which is now you know um this is antagonizing the Chinese uh it was on the ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 23:39 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1419s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: 13th of this month so 12 11 days ago that the United States signed a military cooperation agreement with the government of Malaysia isn't that interesting who gave them the idea that they could charge the toll through the Strait of Malacca I don't know but you know maybe two things correlate maybe it's not a cause but it's it's it's an easy way for them to begin antagonizing the Chinese government so now it's forcing them to react and then you know they can react back and they can you know they can say like well we have the the United States has our back we can now you know we can now leverage this relationship and get something out of it for ourselves well they think they're getting something for themselves but it's actually the the the Western Empire that's starting to build a next Bridgehead with which to attack China economically and then you know once you ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 24:43 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: start attacking economically then you go you you you take it from there I don't know where this is all going Danny uh I I think that the Western Empire the United States Great Britain European powers NATO you know they're all completely spread paper thin they're exhausted they cannot you know let's let's remember the United States has spent 20 years trying to tame the Taliban in Afghanistan and at the end of 20 years they had to hand Afghanistan back to the Taliban then they spent 10 years trying to tame ansarala in Yemen they they had to they had to give up they had to throw in the towel now they attack Tehran they're losing against uh Russia and Ukraine this is all you know these are all different battlefronts of the same war and they're losing on all fronts I don't know where they're going with this but you know the logic of the Empire is ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 25:50 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1550s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: to keep attacking to keep escalating to keep um trying to unbalance the other side because maybe hopefully somehow in some way they might be able to take down one peg from under their rivals but the cost on your side is also adding up and it's coming to the point where your internal social pressures are becoming unbearable and you're facing an economic collapse at home so I think that the Western Empire is headed for exactly the same uh destination as all empires in the past they all collapse because the cost of maintaining an Empire always ends up overwhelming whatever benefits you're gaining from uh from your colonies all around the world and I think we're heading in that direction and you can already see it because in the West now uh you know the the ruling establishments are having to resort to ever more obvious and ever more drastic uh uh repression and censorship because they ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 27:14 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1634s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: have to keep us all quiet because everybody's talking about this like none of this makes sense we need to stop the Wars uh and so if it doesn't as if if they don't score really significant wins in all these uh geopolitical grand chess boards uh things are going to start to implode at home yeah very well said Alex uh Professor Jang I want to get some of your responses to what Alex had to say there specifically about uh you know the Empire is effectively taken off the mask now I mean we're essentially in 19th century imperialism now in the 20th and 21st century there's like this veneer um but it seems like the public writ large is becoming redfield and what I mean by that is the the red pill is that you know there's like this uh this fake view of the there's a fake uh display of the world but underneath you know ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 28:15 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1695s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: there's an but underneath it is the true underworld of the world and it seems the true underworld of the world is coming into into into play um the masks are being taken off and uh you know it looks like we're back to again 19th century imperialism I mean what do you make of that yeah so um let me propose an end like like a plan for Alex okay I don't know if this plan is correct or not but let's just do a thought experiment and say what is Americans actually up to and the argument I want to make to you is as Denny points out we'll go back to 19th century okay so the point is not to win Wars the point is to have Wars right you want to create um bounds of power throughout the different regions so you want in East Asia Japan and China to balance each other out in Europe ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 29:07 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1747s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: you want Russia and Europe to balance each other out in East Asia you want the GCC align with Israel to balance out Iran okay and why you want to do this is if the world is in constant conflict and the United States has this kind of a fortress that is invincible and it has it's not completely self -sufficient it has all the resources of the rest of the atmosphere and what it can do is it can sell weapons you can sell uh resources um to uh the rest of the world and finance it as well okay and so let's um so so let me give you a historical um analogy think of World War II why did um uh Japan attack America because America was embargoing uh Japan right and this was a huge issue because Japan was getting 90 of its oil from America and America just said sorry guys we're not leaving any ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 30:05 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1805s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: more oil because of all these atrocities you're committing in China Japan had actually no choice but to go to war also um America also froze all of Japan's assets and so you could say well it was because Americans were um disgusted by all these uh atrocities Japan was committing in East Asia especially in China but another argument is well it was because Japan was becoming too powerful it cannot allow Japan to colonize all of East Asia especially China and therefore it wanted to it wanted to you know knock on it out but then you also go to Europe where the moment that Germany invaded uh Soviet Union in operation um what was that thing called um Barbarossa okay Operation Barbarossa this massive Germany invasion of Soviet Union what did America do America sent billions of aid to Soviet Union basically America industrialized the Soviet economy I mean that was the extent of America's turn at Stalingrad, it was clear that Germany was headed towards defeat. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 31:14 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1874s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: What did America do? America launched Operation Overlord. And you can argue that Overlord was not about attacking Germany. It was about containing the Soviet Union because the real threat at that time was if America did not come to the war, the Soviet Union would have ran through all of Europe. And once Germany was absorbed into the Soviet Union, then Russia would have been invincible. That's a great fear of American policymakers going back 20 years. An alliance between Germany and Russia. The technology, science, civilization of Germany combined with the resources and manpower of Russia. So America has been playing this game for a long, long time. I think what Donald Trump is saying is, guys, World War II worked out great for us. The 1950s worked out great for us because what was the 1950s? The 1950s was the Marshall Plan. When we lend money to Europe and Japan in order to buy manufactured goods from us, what's another great deal? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 32:06 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1926s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: That's what made America great. It created the American middle class. You could have three kids and all of them to college. You could have a cottage. So let's go back to that time when the world was dependent on us for resources and armaments, and we'll finance it. And by financing it, hey, here's an added bonus. We can now finance the debt, the $39 trillion debt. We can distribute it across the world. And so that's a game plan. First of all, do you think that makes sense to you? And second of all, how do you think this game plan will work out, if that is the game plan moving forward? I absolutely agree with that. I think that is a game plan, but I think that it's a game plan of one part of the American political establishment. I think that ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 32:54 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=1974s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: there's a lot of confusion and disagreement because if we go back to January of this year and you go back to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump brought his delegation of 300 people. And the message that they delivered there to Davos, which is the death star of the globalists, he told them globalization failed. And instead what they were proposing is the return to the American system or national system of political economy, which is called American system because it was pioneered by Alexander Hamilton, who was the first, I think he was first Treasury Secretary under George Washington. And that's also one of the periods of American history where America suddenly became a very powerful nation. It went from a patchwork of 13 British colonies to become one of the global superpowers, right? And so this system was then described and articulated by Abraham Lincoln's economic advisor, Henry Carey. And what was remarkable that in Davos ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 34:23 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2063s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: in January this year, Trump's trade Secretary, Jameson Greer, gave a presentation, gave a speech to the attendees at Davos, in which he actually explicitly mentioned Alexander Hamilton and Henry Carey and Abraham Lincoln. So, you know, to me, you know, this was not a random thing. You know, a lot of thought goes into these things. And I think it reflected clearly an intention, at least of a part of the American political class to go back to that, you know, because the post -World War Two period did work out well for the United States, but on a different system, which was the British free trade system. You know, once you dominate the global financial systems and your money, you're the chief creditor to the world and your money is in demand because it's the new trade settlement currency, it's the new reserve currency then yes that's going to temporarily work out well in in your favor but ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 35:33 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2133s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: it's going to work out in the favor primarily of the wall street banks and then secondarily in favor of the military -industrial complex because you're going to you know this is new colonialism that you have to defend which means that you need to be able to have power projection you need to be able to bring you know 700 800 900 military bases to all these places in the world because you need to police um the adherence to your system you know in the scenario where you you got westinghouse to build its nuclear power plant for iran for the iranians there's going to be a lot of people in iran who's going to say wait a minute we could have it at 20 the cost if we if we get it for china well you know okay as al capone said you can always get more uh with a nice word and a gun to someone ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 36:27 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2187s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: was someone's head than just with a nice word alone so that gun to people's heads is the is the military bases and the carrier strike groups and so forth so over this period you know wall street the military -industrial complex and certain other industries in the united states did really really well but at the same time this eviscerated ultimately america you know free trade eviscerated american industries and so trump administration's message at davos is we want and trump's consistent message through his political career is he wants to re -industrialize the united states he wants to make the united states a manufacturing superpower and so forth so it seemed to me at that point that that faction was now dominant and that trump was going to be able to um effect that policy turn to go back to the american system and away from the british system of free trade and at that point i was ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 37:39 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2259s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: you know that's not a random message and it's also not a message that american voter demanded you know because american public has been gaslit about left and right dichotomy versa which is false whereas the free trade versus american system dichotomy is very real but it's obscured so nobody voted for this the fact that trump administration brought this message to davos of all place to me signified that they are for real that they're serious what happened on 28 february is is a mystery to me and why it happened at any rate you know um i think there's a lot of truth in the idea that wars are meant to continue they're not meant to be um they're not meant to be won and i completely agree with this but this is the interest of this free trade system it's it's the british approach to geopolitics why because uh when your potential rivals in the world are ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 38:51 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2331s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: fighting wars between themselves you're selling them weapons you're providing them credit so that's also so um what was your the real issue you mean your potential teams for foreign esta absent students it was quite dangerous for them to go to some sort of act of war between them conversation in the vsBOX box trillion right but that means that they would have to be selling off their investments instead they go okay we have all this wealth but we need cash we need you know it's about cash flow not necessarily about assets so they say uh give us a swap line and you know that way we we get to continue to pay our bills and we have we have the collateral which is our our sovereign wealth fund um where am i going with this i forgot but basically uh it's it it the the the idea that wars are meant to be continuing rather than ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 40:06 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2406s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: being won is is absolutely true from the point of view of the western empire you're keeping all your potential rivals weak they depend on you for weapons for technology and for uh for credit and you basically fund both sides you arm both sides and while they are busy fighting they're they're weak they're becoming weaker and so they can never say no to you and once they owe you money they're not in a position to say well guess what we're going to default or uh we think these are this is odious debt we need to renegotiate they just need to they just need to follow your dictate that they become dependent on you they become your client so this is this has been the foreign policy of the western empire forever and it is sadly continuing in spite of let's say credible signals from the credible signals from the trump administration that they were going to ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 41:03 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2463s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: end this tragic uh stupid period of history we're still in it before i finish i just want to say this i think they're failing and i think they're failing very very bigly to use you know trump's term let's say that in the last few years they had three or four massively important projects first one was the pandemic the second one was uh war against russia through ukraine the third one is the war in the middle east and they're losing all three so i i i think this is not lost on the chinese leadership on the iranian leadership and on the russian leadership who absolutely understand what the game is and i think they also understand that this war doesn't end until one side uh capitulates completely and their system gets dismantled and reformed and i think that we are moving in that direction no i mean that's a great that's a great point alex i ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 42:10 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2530s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: mean um i don't know if you guys have read the book wall street and the bolshevik revolution by anthony sutton but that's a great one right so it basically lays out how wall street basically funded the bolshevik revolution um he has another book that talks about how you know wall street funded germany as well so you know what while simon's financially funding the u.s of course so i mean they fund both sides throughout history and right and and anthony sutton also said that uh wall street will eventually fund china as a new dialectic right so wall street created um the soviet union and eventually wall street will go and create china as a competitor to united states um so so he's very he's very wise in that regard but but let me respond to alex's commentary so i can only agree with alex in that there is a war going on between the nationalists ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 42:59 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: and the gulf states and the gulf states and the gulf states are globalists right the globalists meaning you know city of london davos transnational capital um and the nationalists who want manufacturing um to return to united states which is represented by uh by trump and this has been going on ever since charles first uh administration and so the question is why this war start and i would argue this war started as an outgrowth as a natural consequence of this conflict between the globalists and the nationalists if you're a nationalist um there are two major problems for you the first is the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency you hate this idea because eventually you become the guarantor of like every economic transaction in the world and it causes excess liquidity to flow into your country and that's and that causes financialization so washington is dominant and manufacturing is degraded okay so you hate ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 43:52 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2632s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: the idea of u.s dollar as a global reserve currency um and also as as points out it also funds the military industrial complex because you need a strong military in order to enforce the u.s dollar as a global reserve country all around the world and that's why you have these wars in libya and syria and venezuela and all that so i completely agree with um alex in um in that in that regard um so the first problem is the u.s dollar as a global reserve currency but as x points out the united states is kind of stuck right now because the only way you can finance that 39 to 100 dead is if people continue to buy u.s dollars okay it's a bond scheme okay and then um the other problem for the united states it's a federal reserve system which means that american government has actually no control over u ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 44:35 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2675s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: .s monetary policy they have to borrow money from transnational capital which is the federal reserve um and so this is and so these two are a huge problem for uh the the american government the u.s dollar and the federal reserve and really there's only historically there's only one way to resolve this conflict and that's to destroy both the empire and the economy okay you need to destroy the empire to the extent where you know what you you no longer have the forces you no longer have the finances you no longer have the military in order to like maintain this empire okay and you basically you basically give give it over to someone else it could be china it could be israel who cares okay but someone else take takes over uh the world um and then you also need a global financial uh collapse in order to reset the economy in order to destroy ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 45:24 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2724s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: that that debt in order to destroy the power of the federal reserve so so so that may be the plan going forward to fight this war in iran knowing you'll lose but overextends the empire and it causes the military to retreat back into north america um it could also trigger a civil war as well which which would and and you would get the same result and also to trigger a uh financial collapse around the world so that you can reset the global market monetary system so so i'd be interested in an access response uh okay so you know uh professor jiang this this hypothesis has crossed my mind you know and uh i let's say that i it would be a very optimistic way to look at things which i'm i'm let's say that if this i i think that in a way this is going to happen anyhow you know this is this is ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 46:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2781s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: the direction uh in into which the this is the turn of events and these are going to be the cascading effects of of the world of the world and then it's going to be the turn of events and i think in a slightly moreverse what their優 was and what the Trump has been doing you know so then i think you know that the power in iran would have to have been put away and then it would have been given to us as something that would not have been that this is what the Monarchists would have intended and then the power and the NPR would have been put into position so the power that the power would have been put into position would be that there would be no obligation for the power in i would have to think that this power is opposed to the globalists but which which is this power what is this ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 47:11 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2831s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: where is it coming from history history historical patterns yes historical patterns yes yeah but do you think that some someone would have to direct events in this direction you think is this spontaneous effect i i think this is a movement of history you go from one extreme to to the next right so maybe in the being a nationalist one power then you like and this led to to like the world one world two and then that led to too much pluralization open society multiculturalism all that crap and now you're forced back into the other extreme right so so it's you can argue it's just a movement of history from one extreme to next okay fair enough that that makes sense so do you think uh i mean either one of you guys could answer i think i think you already answered this in our last interview professor so i'll let alex answer it do you ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 48:06 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2886s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2886s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: think what we're seeing today uh worldwide whether it be war in iran war in ukraine you know things have really spiraled out of control since 2016 really 2016 is really the start of it when when president trump got elected first time uh is this really the artifact of an elite fracture um much like uh professor dang alluded to the globalists and the nationalists you know you look at these no kings protests and you know they're funded by like story ross rockefeller you know you look at some of the elisa that uh support trump um you know he has his own he has the field the musk musks so there does seem to be a fracture between elites here and uh is what we've been seeing the last 10 years or so is that simply the artifact of an elite civil war within the united states or you know in the greater western sphere of things ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 48:56 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=2936s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: uh i i think it may well be danny uh i i you know i i see that there are you know if we let's let's call them elites you know even though you know a lot of them are epstein class which it's not much of an elite at all uh basically i think that like in any class in society you're gonna have uh better people and worse people in the group and i think that you know the way empires you know the the light the life cycle of an empire you're always you always have the rise and you have the collapse and the collapse becomes discernible well when well in into um the empire zenith you know when everything looks great from the outside but people on the inside they understand that the structure is hollow and that it's going to implode on itself and it's unsustainable so you've always in history you've always had ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 50:00 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3000s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: reformers people on the inside who who say this cannot continue we have to reform this we have to draw back and you had this you know in um in the roman empire you had like a whole succession of of of a few dozen reformers who who were part of the elite who were patricians aristocrats who tried to reform the system you know like the the the gracchi brothers uh catelyn you had julius caesar most famously but then you have the reaction of the other people who say no no no this is working great for us we don't want to change this system we don't want to give up any slight bit of our privilege uh in order to set the empire on a more sustainable path and so they end up eliminating all these reformers uh and you know roman you know roman senate they had their death squads and all these reformers would usually ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 51:08 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: end up either ostracized or killed along with thousands of their supporters and so roman empire was set on a on a declining path where basically it was the road to perdition like there was nothing left of the roman empire after after like 400 a.d uh to the extent that you know um uh money disappeared from circulation there you know like individual communities went back to barter uh the uh industries the the manufacture of simple but necessary goods like roof tiles and and nails you know the the iron iron nails they they disappeared from circulations pottery uh dirt floors became the norm stone houses disappeared from our architecture not architectural from uh anthro how do you call those people who dig the dirt to find old stuff anthropology archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists archaeologists holy i blanked out anyway you know you know those people that brush brush dirt around around yeah yeah archaeology and so you ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 52:34 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3154s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: know the it went into a total devastation and i think that we can see that today's western empire is also on a steeply declining path and so one part of the uh quote -unquote elites wants to defend this and so they are like okay we have to repress the population we have to shut them into 15 minutes cities we have to destroy uh farming and create famine to get rid of as many of the possible we need we need big wars to send all the fighting and aged men and and mostlyeso cities get far behind everything there been some and to, you know, decimate the, you know, like in Ukraine, get rid of fighting -edge males, vaccinate everybody, and so forth. Whereas you have other people, like maybe Elon Musk, you know, who says, okay, look, I'm selling electric cars. If you shut people into 15 -minute cities, what the hell, you know, that doesn't work. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 53:37 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3217s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: I need people to be mobile. And so they have a different vision of what the future of society should look like. And so obviously there's going to be a conflict. And then, you know, some of the people are going to have the awareness that, like, look, if we pursue these policies, we're on the road to perdition. We need to change course. When they start changing course, there's going to be a reaction from the other side. And so, yeah, I think, Danny, you're absolutely right. You're going to get like a civil war between the elites, and it's going to get ugly. And I think that we are at that point, in fact. But, you know, how this war is unfolding, it's very difficult to say. But I think it's definitely happening behind the curtains. 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So if you're stacking, investing, or just tired of getting hit with hidden markups, check them out now. Bullion Standard Pro. Click on the link down below in the description box and use promo code COSM10. Now let's get back to the video. Yeah, you can definitely see the after effects of it. You know, you can kind of see what's been... some of the artifacts of it, so to speak. Professor Ding, I see you kind of chomping at the bits to kind of respond to what Alex here just said. Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, I completely agree with Alex. And I think his reference to the Roman Civil War is extremely apt, right? And I will highlight an instance from the Roman Civil War. So this is about a year 100 BCE. And Tiberius Gracchus, who is one of the Gracchi brothers that Alex referenced, he was a patrician. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 56:34 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3394s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And as Alex points out, he was a reformer. And his idea of reform was very simple. This is like the height of Roman Republic, extremely wealthy, lots of land. And a lot of this land was public land. But at the same time, you had millions of people who were destitute and who were landless. So all Tiberius Gracchus said was this. We're not going to redistribute property. We're not going to steal property from the elite, from the aristocrats, who we'll call the optimites. But we will use public land and allocate some of this public land to the most needy of our citizens. Really simple. Like the least controversial idea in the world, right? Well, the senators beat him to death on the streets of Rome. And it was a tribune, which made him immune from this. And the reason why they beat him to death is this public land is ours as well. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 57:28 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3448s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: The private land is obviously ours, but the public is ours as well. We are the public. We are the republic. Right? So it shows you the arrogance of the elite. And we're seeing a very similar situation play out in the United States as well, where in 2016, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic nomination. He should have won the Democratic nomination, but he was railroaded by the elite. And then in 2020, he was railroaded again. And Bernie Sanders is not a radical. If you just look at his platform, he is pretty moderate by, I would say, European standards. And a lot of his proposals were just really common sense. But they railroaded him and then installed Biden into office. So one thing is, yes, okay, you do have Trump. But we have to remember why we have Trump is because the American elite, the Democratic Party, is so ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 58:25 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: arrogant, so removed and so aloof that the people have no choice but to vote for someone like Donald Trump. And so even if you get rid of Donald Trump, and Ax points this out as well, if you can get rid of the Gracchi brothers, well, you'll have Marius Cadiman up here. Then you'll have Julius Caesar up here. You're always going to have this revolution up here because the people are desperate for change. And now that Trump is on the climb, we have someone like Tucker Carlson emerging to carry the MAGA banner. And good for him. But what's happening in America is very similar to what happened during the Roman Civil Wars. Yeah. I mean, you've got the midterms coming up here in America in a few months. And it's looking more likely, according to the polls and the betting odds, that there will be a split government. Now, we've had a one -party government since Trump's second election win in 2024. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 59:30 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3570s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: With a split government coming into view, it seems like the risk of civil war or like the risk of some, you know, a lot more fireworks to happen now that the Democrats will most likely take power in the Congress and maybe even in the Senate, according to some projections out there. So, Professor, because you just brought this topic, I just want to get a quick response from you. And Alex, we'll get a response from you as well in terms of how do you think the midterms and a split government moving forward in 2027 and 2028, will impact the agenda of President Trump and the overall, you know, temperature in America and by virtue, the greater, the rest of the world as well. So, yeah, we should expect the Democrats to sweep the midterms. I think they have a good chance of winning the House and the Senate, according to the polls. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:00:28 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3628s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: My intuition tells me the midterms are not going to turn out the way that people expect, okay? People expect the Democrats to win the midterms and then impeach Trump because that's what they did the last time, right? But I think, my intuition tells me that's not what's going to happen, okay? It's entirely possible the Democrats don't win the midterms. Something could happen where Trump basically has National Guard and ICE patrolling the ballot boxes and that scares off a lot of Democratic voters or maybe he cancels the midterms because of some national emergency, like a false flag attack, okay? So, my intuition tells me, like, in November, things will not turn out the way that people expect. That's point one. Point two is that even if the Democrats were to come into power, you could expect a lot of blue -dog Democrats to come into power, meaning these are people from the national security apparatus, people like Abigail Spanberger, who is now governor of Virginia, okay? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:01:25 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3685s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And these people are extremely pro -war. If you're a Democrat and you're pro -war, you're pro -industrial complex, Trump is a godsend, right? Because, first of all, he makes a perfect scapegoat. You know, you can blame everything on him, even though, as Alex points out, you really have to do this as an empire, right? You can't govern by consent. You govern by force. So, but, like, history will remember, no, it was Trump that did all this. You know, we Americans are innocent. We're pure. We're virgins. We didn't really want this war, but it was all Trump, okay? So, that's how history will remember this time. So, Trump makes a perfect scapegoat. Also, what's important is that he neutralizes MAGA. And this is very important because, remember, like before, MAGA was the anti -war faction. MAGA were the people who would, if Biden actually launches war, you can expect MAGA to be on the streets. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:02:20 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3740s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You can expect an insurrection almost. But they certainly would not go and fight this stupid war in Iran. But now that Trump is in office, there are a lot of people in MAGA who see this as a holy crusade, okay? So, I think the Democrats may win, but I think that if they do win, then Trump may be more incentivized to expand this war in Iran and possibly even go after Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Greenland, okay? Because from the perspective of empire, the military -industrial complex, transnational capital, you need these wars to happen in order to maintain global hegemony. And if Trump's going to take all the blame, then make him a scapegoat. Yeah, Alex, what do you think? How do you think the midterms impact President Trump's agenda? And if anything will change after the midterms for how he tackles the world? Well, I think it will be very, very difficult to predict this. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:03:19 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3799s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3799s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: This is in November. Most people will not remember this conversation by November. No matter how spectacular something is, two weeks later, you're looking at something else. And I think there are so many wild cards in the equation that I don't even dare, I think there's a good chance that Trump is going to end up being a lame duck president. But how exactly the vote is going to turn out, you know, the left -right dichotomy has largely been blurred in the last few years. You know, we had a lot of Democrats defect to Trump, most notably Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, right? So I think that a lot of people no longer perceive issues as questions of left and right. So Trump's failure won't necessarily translate into an automatic win for the Democrats. Or it might be Democrats that speak a certain language, like ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:04:26 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3866s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: maybe Rohana is an example, that are not necessarily, you know, like you're not necessarily going back to Biden and these types of people, you know, the Clinton mafia. Maybe it's going to favor certain types of candidates that are going to be closer to real issues and more receptive to the message of MAGA, you know, only in a different way. But then we also can't take foreign policy out of the equation because who knows what's going to happen between now and November. You know, China is a factor. Russia is also a factor. I think that between them, there's an understanding and an awareness, I think most famously formulated by Sergei Karaganov, who was Vladimir Putin's advisor for a time, one of them, who said that as they perceive it, as the Russian leadership perceives it, their most important task now is to help the United States to transition from an empire to a normal power in the least disruptive way possible. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:05:51 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3951s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=3951s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And we've seen Trump blunder very badly in attacking Iran, but the reactions from China and from Russia have been quite muted. They haven't criticized him very harshly. You know, they take their policy positions and those policy positions are consistent, but they're not taking it out on Trump. They're not saying anything very terrible about him. So I think that there's still support, if not for him personally, there's support for what Trump represented and stood for up until his attack on Iran. And I think that this faction is alive and well in the United States. They may have been sidelined, they may have been disenfranchised in a way, but it's still there and it's going to get support not only from MAGA, but also from the most important partners that the United States has in this transition, which I think is there. Now it looks, the surface appearance of thing is the United States went right back to being the global hegemon. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:07:14 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4034s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: But I think that it's, that's kind of paper thin. It's an appearance that's going to dissipate because it's failing. And then those forces that are still for Make America Great Again, the nationalists, right? They're still there and they're looking for ways to grab onto the levers of power to become relevant again. And they're going to have support in the American public and they're going to have support from China, from Russia. Ultimately, they might be able to reengage with the Iranians because, you know, Iran does want the United States to come forward as a partner, as a constructive partner. Hey, we can do stuff together. We can develop things together, but it's going to have to be on a respectful and mutually beneficial basis rather than you telling me capitulate and you do as I tell you. And so all these things can play out in ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:08:22 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4102s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: the next few months in ways that are, I think, very difficult to see from today's perspective. But we've seen how things change very radically and very quickly these days. So between now and November, God only knows what might shape up. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's a point well made. I mean, forget about two weeks every two weeks. I mean, every two hours, almost. There's like a new development here. Professor Zhang, you mentioned Cuba in passing here a while back. I want to get your sense on how you think, how you envision Trump tackles Cuba. Because again, we are still in conflict through a war with Iran. You did mention, I believe on a separate podcast, that this is going to be taken down to a simmer. It's going to be a slow burn as opposed to the shock and awe that we saw in the initial first month. But even so, I mean, speak about the resilience of the American military. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:09:28 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4168s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: It's a stretch. I mean, don't they run the risk of overstretching themselves? I mean, they've used a lot of artillery the last couple of months here with the war in Iran, have they not? Well, I mean, the reality is that the American military has not fully mobilized. Because remember, a military depends on the nation for its resources. And so what I mean by that is that the military has been trying to fight this war on a cheap, using, you know, air supremacy, bombs, to try to decapitate the regime. Okay? That's a really cheap and easy way to fight a war. To fight a real war, you need to mobilize your nation. You need to mobilize a national draft. You need, like, a million troops on the ground. Okay? That's a real war. America, for the past two years, have been trying to conduct regime change in Iran on the cheap, right? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:10:19 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4219s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: So starting with the 12 -day war when Israel went in and killed a lot of government officials and nuclear scientists, thinking that that would force Iran to collapse because it was a house of cards. Okay? Like, they really believed that the 12 -day war would have collapsed the regime. And what is obvious that Iran was powering Israel too hard, the Americans had to step in. And in January, there was that color revolution or failed color revolution in Iran. It was clearly a Mossad operation. A lot of the instigators, provocateurs, were paid by Mossad and the Iranians cracked down very hard on it. And then that led, of course, to this current war. And now that the Americans recognize that the Iranians are far more resilient than we give them credit for, they're trying to dial it down and try to have more control over the situation. So the Americans are fully committed to regime change in Iran, but they have not yet fully mobilized. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:11:14 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4274s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: They have not fully committed their resources in order to win this war. So we have to take this into account. It's not that the Americans are losing. It's not like they're not even trying right now. And I think what's going to happen is that Trump will eventually get bored of this war because it's going to be a slow war. It's a war of attrition. To go in with ground troops is suicidal. So you're better off fighting a war of attrition economically and so basically because he's bored, he's going to stir conflicts, possibly in Greenland, possibly in Cuba, possibly in Mexico. I could easily see Trump sending in special forces to kill cartel members in Mexico for whatever reason. And that would be very popular in the United States, right? So Trump has a lot of options. And he's a reality TV star. So he's really concerned about, you know, like, how do I maintain my ratings? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:12:01 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4321s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You know, like, people are getting bored of this war, so how do I capture their attention? So that's the other point I will make. The first point I will make is that America has not fully committed to this war, but it will eventually. And my second point is that Trump is very much a ratings guy and he's always like, you know, how do I continue to capture people's attention? And possibly an attack on Cuba might do that. How do you think an attack on Cuba would look like, though? I mean, would you look at, would it be more boots on the ground or air -oriented? Or, like, how do you, how do you see that playing out? It would probably be a replay of Venezuela, right? Where you've embargoed the government. People are desperate. It's a black, there's blackouts every day. The Russians ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:12:47 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4367s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: have sent in help, and the Cubans seem to rely more on the Russians, but that would require basically Cuba to surrender their economy to the Russians. And in the long term, that's not actually in your best interest, especially because you are in the Caribbean, in the Western Hemisphere, and you are easily within striking distance from the Americans. So it's possible you have a similar situation as you did in Venezuela, where they do a quick strike, they arrest a couple of people, and then the rest of the government surrenders. I don't know. That's possible. I see. Alex, do you have any response to any of that? I mean, Greenland, Cuba. Do you see President Trump kind of expanding out his footprint? Well, you know, they have, his administration has, I think it was Pete Hegseth or even Marco Rubio, that they held press conferences with the map of the future America in the background in red, and it includes Mexico and Colombia and Venezuela and Canada. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:13:54 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4434s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: The technate, right? Sorry? I mean, it's inspired off the technate, the North American technate. Yeah, exactly. So this is obviously making the rounds in the administration. Some people obviously think this is a great idea. It would solve a number of problems in the United States. You know, if you could bring Mexico's, Venezuela's, Canada's natural resources back under your control, it would give, it would lift up the American economy and the financial system. It would add a huge amount of collateral to float up the banking system. So I think that it's definitely being considered very seriously, at least by some people. And it seems to me that these people have decisive influence at the moment in the Trump administration. At the same time, you know, the scenario of regime changing Cuba the way they did Venezuela makes complete and total sense, except that the Cubans have seen it play out once. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:15:14 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4514s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You know, I'm not sure if you can do the same trick more than once, that they say like, aha, okay, so this is what they want to do. And then, you know, like with Iran, the Iranians prepared for this by having every key position in their state administration. They have the deputy and the deputy's deputy, and like four or five or six people's death, so that whenever somebody is eliminated, there's already a vetted and approved person to take over. So you can't do the same thing more than so many times. And Cubans are obviously sitting there in the middle, under siege, paying keen attention to what's going on. It may seem easy for the United States to take over Cuba, but they tried. It didn't work. And they've embargoed and sanctioned Cuba for all these decades, and Cuba hasn't fallen. So, you know, after Venezuela, after Iran, you know, all these, all these failures, one after another. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:16:33 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4593s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Let's see what happens. I couldn't begin to guess. Yeah, I mean, how airtight do you think that the Russians are with the Russia -China -Iran alliance actually is? Do you see it as being as airtight as it appears to be on the surface? Or, I mean, what are its limitations? I mean, this is a question for both of you guys. And like, how tightly knit is the Russo -Sino -Persian alliance, so to speak? Alex, do you want to go ahead and take that one? Then I'll ask the same question to Professor Jang afterwards. Well, sure. I think it's pretty damn tight, because I think that they all realize that either they will hang together or they will be picked off one by one by the empire. You know, for example, we've seen what happened in Ukraine. You know, they, the regime changed Ukraine in 2014. And then over the next seven, eight years, they basically weaponized Ukraine against Russia. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:17:39 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4659s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And I think that the Chinese, the Chinese understand perfectly well that if they regime change Russia, that they will weaponize Russia against China. And so for China, supporting and defending Russia is existential. And the same is true for Iran, you know, because if the West takes over Iran, there goes Western Asia. And then there goes BRICS, and there goes Belt and Road Initiative. And then they are all much, much more vulnerable to, I would assume that if the West took over Iran, that Iran would become the mother of jihadist incubation, because that's what they did, you know, when they took over Kosovo in 2000. Kosovo became host to the largest U.S. military base in that region. And it became the seminary, an incubator of jihadists that then went to, you know, Chechnya and Dagestan and Syria and all over wherever they were needed. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:19:01 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4741s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And so they could use Iran for the same thing because they're in the neighborhood, you know, it wouldn't be very difficult to do. It would take many years, but it would become a risk for both China and for Russia. And so I think that this triad all perceive each other as absolutely essential support, and that they will hang together in this way until they achieve victory. Yeah, Professor Zhang, what do you think? Same question. Alex, have you had a chance to visit China yet? Have you been to China yet? Unfortunately, I haven't. I sent my son last year, but I haven't been myself. Okay, so I've been here for the past 25 years, 30 years, and it pains me to say this, but the alliance is not as strong as you imagine it to be. Because ultimately, I think that what drives their foreign policy is their worldview, their cultural worldview, how they understand themselves, and how they understand their place in the world. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:20:20 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4820s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4820s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And unfortunately, if you look at China's 5,000 years of history, they don't think strategically here. They do not think geopolitically here in China. Chinese are first and foremost concerned with themselves, and that's about it. So China, means the Middle Kingdom. And so the understanding is that China is the center of the world. China's not interested in the world. If you come and pay tribute to the emperor, that's fantastic. We don't have to. We don't really care. Remember, China is the only nation in the world to build the Great Wall to keep people out, right? And it's a very large complex, and it didn't really work, but it shows you the mentality of people here. So Chinese policymakers just don't think in terms of grand alliances and geopolitical strategy. They just think in terms of peer economics. So you're absolutely right in that. Look, if you ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:21:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4881s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4881s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: just read what the Americans say, if you just look at their policy papers, including the National Security Strategy, you know, Albridge Colby wrote a paper called Strategic Sequencing, which is saying, we can't deal with all three at once, right? So let's deal with Iran, then China, then Russia. Strategic sequencing, right? And you would think that the Chinese would be like, oh my God, they're going to come after us eventually. But the reality is, they don't care. It's unbelievable, okay? It's clear that the Americans are embargoing China. It's possible the Americans take over the Strait of Malacca. It's possible they remilitarize Japan. It's possible that Taiwan becomes a fortress, an aircraft fortress. And the Chinese don't care, all right? So I'm reading the Chinese news, and what they care about is money. And they're like, oh, we invested billions of dollars into Iran, but we invested more into the GCC, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. So let's get the Iranians to stop fighting this war, all right? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:22:24 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4944s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: We don't care who started this war. We don't care. We don't care why this war started. All we care about is this stupid war stopped so that we can continue to make money, we can continue to get oil from the GCC, we can continue to get oil from Iran, and we have to protect our investments in infrastructure in the GCC as well as Iran. Um, this is how they think. It is insane what's going on here, all right? And I've been here for 30 years, and like every day I see this crap, and I'm like, they must change at some point, okay? They must give up their short -term economic, uh, scheming and approach a more holistic geopolitical approach in order to become a superpower, and they've never done it, all right? So, so, I mean, like, like, like, like, I'll just leave it there. So, ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:23:09 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=4989s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: so when you have a chance to visit China and meet with Chinese people, then you, you have a better sense that Chinese are just wired differently from other people. Okay, so fair enough, but what about, what about, um, because I, you know, I, I, I gave it a little bit of thought because it wasn't clear to me up until a few years ago what game China was playing, what, the Chinese leadership, right? What, what the hell was going on? Are they, are they, you know? And, uh, the sense that I made, uh, from it, and I, I could be mistaken, but it seems to me that, uh, China does have a strategic, um, agenda. And I think, you know, the easiest way to verify this is the, is the whole Belt and Road Initiative, right? And, uh, we, you know, China, China came on a scene, on the scene, uh, basically in the modern times after 1971, when Richard Nixon, uh, ended the dollar's convertibility to gold. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:24:24 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5064s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And I think that this is when they knew that they were going to sacrifice the United States as the host to the empire, and that they will need a new host and a new global enforcer, enforcer. And so almost immediately, Henry Kissinger and Nixon went, went to China to open China, right? And the Chinese just basically let them in. But I think that they didn't let them in because they agreed for the, to, to, to take on the role of being the new carrier of globalization in the world, but in order to decapitate this beast. And the reason why I believe that is because I often hear from Xi Jinping talk about the century of humiliation. And that was really, really horrendous. What was done. So China was at the time, the, the world's foremost global economic superpower, a, a 3,000, 4 ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:25:36 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5136s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: ,000, 5,000 year old civilization, right? And then in the space of a century, it was reduced to the world's poorest country. And I, I have to believe that to, to turn that around, there had to have been strategic thought that they said, okay, so these people want to come in. We'll let them in. We become member of the world trade organization. They want to send all their industries to us because we are, we are a source of large pool of cheap labor. Let them. I looked at the, at the, at the technological and scientific competitiveness of China. There's some Australian Institute that I forget the name of it, but they measure countries competitiveness in, I think 64 different technologies, right? And now suddenly China is the world leader in all, but seven of them that, and, you know, 20 years ago, the United States was the leader in almost all of them. So this leap, how did it happen? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:27:02 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5222s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: It, that there had to have been some strategic thought given to this process. And so therefore, I believe that there's, there's, there had to be some strategic thought given to the process of, to the, to the, to the thought of how do we not get a century of humiliation again? You know, because if this parasite can completely destroy a civilization, in the space of a hundred years, and they've done the same to Germany, then we have to be on the, we have to be on our guard and we have to learn how to destroy this parasite. So anyway, you know, that's my perception. I've, I've never been to China, but, you know, reading about China and reading, you know, papers and articles that come out from China. My impression is that there is, there is very deep, very, very sophisticated strategic thinking to the whole game. And I think that ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:28:09 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5289s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: there's a duality that they, you know, in order for, in order for, for China to be able to do that, they had to genuinely let the West in. And I remember that up until 2012, I remember many Westerners like George Soros and Kissinger were saying, China is the model for the future. China is going to own and carry out the process of globalization. the whole West is going to become, you know, reform along Chinese model and blah, blah, blah. And then, and I think that Xi Jinping's election was the, was the, was the inflection point. All of a sudden they all go cold and they are like, no, no, no, China is terrible, human rights, this and that. And then, I think that all these Western financial interests realized that they've been taken in, that the Chinese leadership has no intention of becoming their new global cup. I remember the Rothschilds had an office in Beijing and they were giving interviews to CNBC and Bloomberg, Bloomberg television from their Beijing office. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:29:23 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5363s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And then suddenly they were like all out. Right. So let me, let me provide some historical context. So you better understand the situation in China. You're actually right in that China's progress these past few decades has been stellar. And the level of modernity in this country is off the charts. The progress has, has been, has been amazing. And so what happened was that during, during China's century of humiliation, there was a deep reflection within Chinese culture as to why this was happening. And this, you know, there was an intense patriotism, an intense intellectualism as to how to avoid this in the future. And from this generation emerged some of the greatest leaders in Chinese history, including Mao Zedong, including including Daxioping. And they came into office in 1949, making sure that this would never happen to China again. And these are very strategic thinkers, especially Daxioping. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:30:25 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5425s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And they were humble people. They came from humble backgrounds. And they fought very long term. And, and this generation create the foundations for China's economic rise. You know, Daxioping reached out to the Americans, Jimmy Carter. Mao Zedong welcomed Richard Nixon to Beijing. In the 1980s, start this massive cooperation between America and China. Now, people appreciate that America offshored its manufacturing to China. That's, that's always been talked about. What's not talked about, which is really important to understand this relationship, is that China offshored its elite selection and indoctrination to America. Right? So the best and brightest students, the most powerful, the most powerful families, they all went to America for, to study. And that's going to have a huge impact on, on, on the character of your elite. During the sense of humiliation, there's a deep sense, that we have to constantly reflect on our, the feelings of our culture. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:31:35 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5495s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And like everyone knew the feelings of Chinese culture. It was insular, too conservative, too corrupt, too much infighting, too much selfish, short -term behavior. Okay? So, so back then there was a deep desire to change the Chinese character. You come to China today, and after a few decades of economic reform, you have this tremendous arrogance and hubris in the people, that never really existed during the sense of humiliation. People in China literally think they're the best in the world. And these skyscrapers, these high -speed railways, these airports demonstrate the superiority of Chinese culture. And Chinese, so we have nothing to learn from the rep, from the world. Right? And then like a guy like me, like, like look, look, a guy like me, I'm considered an idiot in China because I talk too much. And I, and I have too many opinions. I criticize too much. Right? I'm only popular in the West because the Westerners are stupid. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:32:37 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5557s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And they like it when a Chinese person, you know, bashes his own culture, even though I really don't talk that much about China. All right? So, so, so I mean, yes, you're absolutely right in that China's sense of humiliation was devastating. You're absolutely right in that China's progress has been amazing. But eventually you reach a point where the second generation or the third generation, they're full of themselves. They're too arrogant. They're, they, they, they have, they have hubris. And they, and they are incapable of self -reflection and recognizing the limitations of, of China. So it's very hard for China to improve. And, and another point I will make is that you don't, I mean, like it's one thing to like hear what China says, but just look at what Chinese are doing with their feet. Right? They're voting with their feet, which is like to say like the wealthiest people in China are moving to the United States. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:33:29 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5609s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: They're moving to Japan. They're moving to Singapore. So if China is really the future of the world, why are the most powerful people in the world, sorry, the most powerful people in China with all the money, why are they getting the hell out of here? So, so, so, so yeah, but, but do you have any questions or? No, I think that's very fascinating, but you know, since you are in China and you're confronted with the Chinese people, that's what's going to affect you the most. But everything you said, you could be describing the American people, or you could be describing Croatian people. I'm Croatian. You know, like you find this arrogance and conceit everywhere. So, yeah, that's fair enough. But, you know, when you mentioned Mao Zedong, I have to go back. I'll read a quote from Mao Zedong from, like, more than 50 years ago, which I ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:34:27 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5667s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: found infinitely fascinating because it's very prescient, and it also underscores that these people are extraordinarily sophisticated thinkers looking very, very far ahead. And I wrote, ages ago, I wrote an article about this, but I'll read his quote exactly, and I checked it to make sure that it's genuine, that it's not a hoax. Okay, quote, so this was in 1971 that he said this, quote, in another 50 years, China will be very strong. America will most likely be very envious and restless, but it doesn't dare to attack China. It will research germ contamination instead. After it finishes with this unconscionable deed, it will self -destruct. Okay, isn't that interesting? COVID, hello. Well, you know, sorry, but I'm saying, like, in China, what the government tells the people is that COVID was an American bioweapon that was leaked in China. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It was. Yeah, I know. Thank you. The sky is blue. Yeah. Bears, crabs. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:36:00 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5760s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Crab in woods. But, but, but I mean, like, think about this. Okay. So the government in China says COVID was a bioweapon that was American manufactured. Why was it in China being researched? Right? Why, how did it, how did they get into the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is a military lab? And so, I mean, it, it shows you that basically the elite, the Chinese elite and American elite, are much more close than you imagine. Well, yeah, I, absolutely. But they would have to be, you know, they would have to be because if you want to know what your enemy is up to, you, you know, you have two choices. Either you let them in or infiltrate their system deeply, or you create an autarchy like, like North Korea, where you like build a wall and say, like, we don't want you here, stay away. Japan tried that in the Middle Ages and it didn't work. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:37:06 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5826s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You know, eventually they got penetrated. They allowed the Dutch to set up an island where they could do their trading. And then little by little they took over. So I think that the, and, and I think with time, inevitably North Korea's autarchy would fall as well. So I think that the only way you can do this, you have to, you know, like in martial arts, I used to, I used to practice Aikido for many years. And basically the, the, the, the easiest way to, to subdue your opponent is in a moment of time, you have to become one with them. And then when, when his, when his mass and your mass are one, they come practically together. Then with very little effort, you can, you can overthrow them. You can manipulate them. So I guess in a strategic sense, in a strategic way, that's, that's a choice to make. You say we have to let them in. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:38:05 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5885s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: So, so, so, so let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that Trump visits China in mid -May and the meeting goes really well. And then after a series of negotiations, apparently it's supposed to be like four meetings this year. So Trump has a state visit in mid -May. China will reciprocate later on. And then they'll also meet at APEC, as well as G20. Okay. So they're supposed to be four meetings. But let's just say like the outcome of these four meetings is that China signs a deal with America. And in this deal, China will buy American LNG. How would you perceive such a deal? And this is just a thought experiment. We're just speculating. I'm sorry. When you say China would buy American what? LNG. Oh, LNG. Yeah. Yeah. Because Qatar can't supply LNG now. Yeah. I wouldn't be terribly surprised. I mean, that's almost a normal thing. Look, I was in the early 1990s. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:39:12 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=5952s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: I was in Croatian military. We were at war against the Serbian military. We traded with them nonstop. You know, they bought diesel engines. They sold the diesel from us and we sold it to them. There's even like one of my best friends from childhood. His unit was near Bosnia. And the Serbian troops from Bosnia were running low on artillery ammunition. So they called up the Croatian side and they said, we need to buy some artillery shells. And then the Croatian said, like, why are you crazy? We sell it to you and then you shoot at us. And they said, no, no, no promise. We won't shoot at you. We're going to shoot at the Muslims with them. Promise? Yes, promise. All right. So we sold them. We sold them the artillery munitions. And they held their word. They shot at the Muslims. They didn't shoot at us. But, you know, this shit happens. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:40:17 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6017s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You know, it's not black and white. It's like, oh, and, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. It wouldn't be even particularly extraordinary. All right. Let me paint you another scenario then. OK, let's just say America now controls Venezuela and they want to develop Venezuela's energy infrastructure. But ExxonMobil refused to make the billions of dollars of investment necessary in order to develop the infrastructure. OK, so they subcontracted to China. Right. So the Chinese come in and they develop that infrastructure in order to sell oil back to China. How would you perceive that deal? It would be problematic, but it would be, I think it would inevitably be negotiated. You know, somebody would have to make a complaint. Somebody would have to acknowledge the complaint. If you wanted to antagonize China and build up, escalate to a conflict, then you would say, you would give them the middle finger. If you wanted to resolve the conflict, then you would say like, well, OK, we can meet you halfway. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:41:34 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6094s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Here's what we need from you. You know, how about some rare earth minerals? And then maybe China would say like, well, all right. So, you know, horse trading. Basically, that's what I would expect. But if there's so much horse trading going on, then how tight is the alliance between China, Iran, and Russia? I see your point. I would say that it's still going to be very tight at the top level strategic, at the strategic level, because the, you know, the conflict is not between China and the United States or Russia and the United States or Iran. The conflict is between two systems of governance. You know, we have on record a number of very high level Western countries, Western leaders, officials say as much explicitly. One was George Soros at Davos in 2021. Klaus Schwab said the same thing. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:42:41 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6161s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Another person that I heard in, in person say this was former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker. No nation is a monolith. So, you know, you can, you can trade with the United States, and you can establish good relations with the United States. You can establish good relationships with people and organizations that might be friendly to you, that might be receptive to your message, that might be supportive of you. There's other instances in society that are your clear enemies. But I think that the system that is opposed to China, to Russia, to Iran, and to any nation that wants to be sovereign, that wants to be independent, and they want to, that wants to chart their, society's development independently, their enemy is this system that I think is rooted in the city of London and Wall Street. And so, because this system is so effective at mobilizing forces in the West, you know, as they mobilized Napoleon, as they mobilized Hitler, as they mobilized the Bolsheviks, the whole British Empire. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:43:57 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6237s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: I think that to take that system down, you have to hold a tight alliance, but, but you also have to cooperate with the people in the host countries. Do you know what I mean? So. I completely agree. I think that's great analysis. Yeah. No, that didn't occur to me, but like once you said it makes perfect sense where, you know, it's still a civil war between the nationalists and the globalists. And this has been played out in all nations. And so the globalists are on top. And for the nationalists to triumph, they have to work across nations. So it's almost like a realignment of, of, of, of elites, right? No, I, I think that's a great point. I completely agree with that. Yeah, correct. You know, like going back to Tiberius Gracchus, you know, right. If you wanted to ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:44:51 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6291s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: take down the Roman system, you would want to make an ally of him rather than, you know, like if you confront the whole, everybody, then you're pushing him into the camp of the people he's opposed to anyway. But doesn't that, that mean that this war that's happening, I mean, in Iran, it's just going to get larger and larger because ultimately in the background, it's, it's a, it's a war for the future of the world. And so, so this cannot ever stop. I mean, it's just going to escalate and escalate until it engulfs the entire world. Unfortunately, yes, I think you're absolutely right. And I think that it's, it's, it's a conflict that's going to, going to continue until the collapse of the Western empire or their, their victory, but they're on a, you know, they're on a decline. And I think that they're the rising powers like China, Russia, and Iran understand very well what they're up against and who they're up against. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:46:00 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6360s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: They know that they're not up against the British people, the American people, the French people, they know that they're up against, a ruling establishment that has its, its weaknesses. And that at the same time, they might have allies in the very countries that are, that are opposed to them. So, yeah, you're right. The conflict is probably going to expand. Well, you know, I, I, I, I talk sometimes with a Croatian military expert. His name is Admiral Davor Domazet, who is very, very well connected, both in the West and in Russia. And who has characterized the current conflict as a total global war, because he says, it's not just Ukraine. It's not just Middle East. It's not just Taiwan and so forth. It's practically everywhere. And also it's inward because, you know, this attack on farmers, the, the LGBT nonsense, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:47:03 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6423s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: vaccines, digital IDs, CBDCs, 15 minute city, all of, all of this is the same war turned inward at the same times as it's, as it's turned outward. And so I, I think that it's in everybody's interest to take the system down, including the French people, American people, and so forth. And so you wouldn't want to overtly be an enemy to a whole nation and then force the, the, the, the population to close ranks with their Epstein class leaders. You would want to be very discerning to, to slowly, you know, like that game when you have like a tower of little sticks and you have to pull them out, strategically pull out the little sticks until the whole thing implodes rather than having that thing, you know, pull itself together. And then you have to fight like a, like a 19th century war against the whole nation. So, so then my question for you then is what is the globalist reaction to what's happening? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:48:21 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6501s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: If you're the city of London, you're wall street, how do you maintain power? What do you do in this, in this scenario? Well, I think it's obvious what they're already doing. You know, they're, they're allocating, you know, 900 billion or, or 1.6 trillion euros to the military industrial complex in Europe. They're, they're preparing to mobilize men and, and draft them into the military service. They're planning a big war against Russia for 2029 or 2030. They're already doing it. They're clamping down on free, on free speech. They're clamping, you know, they're, they're, they're doing all kinds of everything to, to kind of corral the populations and to manipulate them to their ends, which is war against Russia, which is going to, you know, eliminate military age men from society as they've done in Ukraine. It's going to leave a lot of vulnerable people behind, women, children, elderly. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:49:30 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6570s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: They're going to bring, they're going to bring, how do you call, immigrants to replace the men as they're planning for Ukraine. And as they've done in many countries to a large extent already, France, Belgium, Ukraine, United Kingdom. And because what is their game primarily, other than taking down Russia and Iran and China and so forth, their game is, their game is to stay in power. And so they're as afraid of Russia as they are of their own populations. So they want to stay in power. They want to bring all these brown people to mind the defend, defend them to, to, to, to, to demand the police forces and, and, and military units and so forth. And to keep their fraudulent monetary system as the only game in town to prevent us from transacting in any, in any other way. So if you want to have money, well, you have to take loans from their banks. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:50:38 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6638s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: But I mean, wouldn't that scenario create the conditions for a civil war in all countries where, you know, these people are being drafted to send to, to die off in the trenches of Ukraine? I mean, like they're not going to go and die like that, right? They'd rather fight for, for, for their families. The Ukrainians didn't want to die. They, they didn't want to fight. I mean, there were, there were polls, uh, in Ukraine run just before the war against Russia started two or three weeks before the, the war started. And the question in the poll was, if Russia invaded, would you, would you pick up arms to defend Ukraine against Russia? And I think that nationwide, the percentage of men who said yes was on average less than 20%, less than one in five. And in some parts of Ukraine, it was extremely low. Like it was in the single digit, I think, in digits, I think. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:51:31 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6691s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: So Ukrainian men didn't want to go to war against Russia. And the fact that they managed to sacrifice well over a million of them tells you that their, their ability to engineer society, to, to engineer, to corral the population towards their end is, is, is in fact very, very effective. So we have to be, you know, we have to be very careful about that. I, I have a 14 year old and 15 year old. So by 2029 and 2030, there will be perfect, perfect military age men. So I, I, I, I don't want, I don't want for them to have the future as Ukrainian men, but this is what they're, this is what they're preparing for us. And so, you know, they're, they're hoping to save themselves. But as I said, they have been failing very, very badly, you know, in ways that wasn't the case before. You know, when they needed a war against Germany, they orchestrated the war against Germany and it happened. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:52:37 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6757s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: When they needed the next, the next war between Germany and the Soviet Union, they orchestrated it and it happened. Now they orchestrated a war against Russia. And the idea was to destroy Russia. Well, that failed and they're failing against Iran and their, you know, their master plan for the new normal in which, you know, we were going to go around with, you know, little QR codes and, you know, we would have to get a permit to board a plane, to go on a train, to get in a restaurant or a theater and all this, that failed. That just kind of disintegrated. So I think that the internet and the social media completely changed the social equation. They, they, they can no longer control the narrative and without controlling the narrative, they cannot mobilize the masses. So all they're left with now is doing it by force work either. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:53:35 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6815s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: You know, there's a hell of a lot more of us than there is of them. And people are saying, no. So what are you going to do? Are you going to put everybody in prison? Well, that's what the 15 minute cities are. But even that agenda is, is going very slowly and with a lot of difficulties. And then all it takes is for people, you know, like when they put up those posts, those monitoring posts that like in Britain, people are just simply sewing them off. They're taking them down. Duh, it's easy. What are you going to do then? Police every post? You're going to put a camera to observe a camera and then a camera towards the other camera. It's like, it's never ending. So it's like, I think it's like Prince King canoe flogging the waves to, to stem the tide. It's, it's going to fail, but ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:54:25 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6865s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: it's going to be probably a few years, which are going to be very difficult in the West. So what do you see happening after project Ukraine fails? Like the war is lost and you've lost like 10 % of Ukraine. Of your military age, man. So you can't actually sustain this war anymore. What comes next? They, they have tried and they will continue to try to open the second front. They tried Georgia that failed. They tried the Balkans that failed temporarily, you know, and the third flashpoint, I think would be the, the Baltic States. They practically had the Bosnia and Herzegovina rigged for, for an eruption of conflict last, last year. It failed since Trump came to power because the Trump administration, actually, I know this as a fact because I spoke with people who were directly involved in this Trump's people completely kicked out the Brits. They, they told them, okay, you're out. We're in charge. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:55:37 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6937s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And they, they deescalated the conflict. So a war that was supposed to erupt didn't erupt. And the reason why this was important because, you know, Bosnia is where World War One erupted, you know, with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. And that was staged. By the way, it was staged that that assassination was staged. I'm not sure if you know, if you know that history. No, I, well, I know that history, I didn't know it was staged, but at any rate, it was, it was, it was not the cause of war. It was, it was the pretext to start escalating the conflict between Serbia and Austria, Hungary. So it was used for that. And it was, you know, it was manipulated by the British and the Russian ambassador. You will like the story of how, of how he died. Okay. So when, when I studied World War One history, what I learned was that, ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:56:39 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=6999s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: you know, the Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by, um, this, um, you know, cyber, uh, uh, Syrian nationalists. Right. Yeah. And, uh, and, you know, his car got blown up. Well, if you actually look, look at the real history, what happened was this, um, the car was driving, a bomb was thrown by these blackhead terrorists, but he actually survived that. In fact, he didn't actually get hurt at all. Okay. So then what happened was that he was like, oh my God, a lot of people died, uh, because of the terror attack. So he goes and visits them in the hospital. Okay. And then he's, he's at the hospital. And then for the reason, his chauffeur drives him to a, um, I believe it was a cafe. And as, and like miraculously, seen the cafe was a black and assassin. And that's how they got, they got him. The chauffeur drove him directly to the assassin. Who then took a bullet, who took a gun and shot him to death. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:57:39 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7059s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Yes, yes, yes. I'm, I'm aware of that, but I, I, uh, the, the story, the version that I, um, kind of accepted is that the chauffeur took a wrong turn by accident, but you may be right. It may be just show. How, how miraculous is that? Man, you take a wrong turn and you're right. Actually. Oh, wow. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's where, that's where the whole start, uh, the whole process started building up irreversibly. And so this is what might've happened in Sarajevo now, because, uh, th th they were, they were already building up a conflict between the, the Serbian entity and the Federation in Bosnia. You know, it's complicated. I don't want to go into all these explanations, but basically what the idea was, if that conflict started to happen, the Serbian entity would then be supported ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:58:35 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7115s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7115s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: by the Serbian by Serbia proper, uh, Croatians would be drawn in because there's a, there's a Croatian minority that formed some of the cantons in the, in the Federation. If Croatia was drawn in Croatia is a NATO member. So I'm sure that they would be able to finagle article five and bring the whole of NATO. If they bring the whole of NATO, then Russia couldn't stand aside and let, let, let Serbia fight on its own. Right? So there you have suddenly. World War II. World War III on European continent, Russia against NATO. Boom, like this, the British were doing this. They even wrote papers like the, the, the, their think tank, RUCI, Royal United Services Institute, wrote a paper where they said that the Balkans would inevitably become the second front in West's war against Russia. Well, that failed too. Since Trump came into office, it doesn't mean that they will give up. They will not give up. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 1:59:37 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7177s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: But at least for the time being, it's been, that has been unrigged. It has been deescalated for the time being. Now they're trying to get the Baltics to, to, they're trying to get something going in the Baltics. But I mean, it doesn't matter. They're going to lose anyway. You know, they, Barbarossa was the biggest invasion force ever assembled. It was three and a half million, million troops. Within a year, that number grew to six million troops fighting inside Russia against the Soviet Union. Today, we cannot even dream about 600,000 troops, let alone six million. We're like four light years away from that. So they're going to lose anyway. But, you know, Professor Jiang, as you said, the idea is to keep the wars going, not to win them. They don't care that they were going to, going to lose. They need to keep these wars going, but they're going to lose. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:00:42 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7242s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: What is the exit strategy for the elites then? You know, because I'm sure they have exit strategies. I'm not sure that they do. It seems to me that for them, this is existential. It's all or nothing. If they lose, they're done because they don't know how to do anything else. You know, they, they're a parasite draining the lifeblood of the rest of the society. Is that why they're building bunkers? Well, they're building bunkers to preserve themselves, you know, to disappear when people come out with the pitchforks. But, you know, you can't stay in the bunker forever. Yeah. Going to have to come out. And you go crazy in those bunkers, by the way. Probably. Yes, you would. But I think, you know, in a way that would be, they're already crazy. I mean, they're already crazy. I mean, I've, I've read stuff. I've researched. And some of the stuff that they've done really, really shows that they're, they're crazy. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:01:49 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7309s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And they're also really stupid. I mean, the, the agendas that they pursue, somebody should walk in there and say, like, guys, are you out of your head? This is never going to work. No, they pursue it all the same. And then it doesn't work. And then they go to do the next thing. You know why? Because they have infinite resources. And, they just, for them, this is just like playing games. Oh, that didn't work. Well, let's try this one. And then let's try again. They've been trying to destroy Russia for a few centuries. And they lose every time. And then they go and try again. Well, this has been a awesome discussion. I really enjoyed it, guys. I mean, I know we're running a little over time, but, do you have one more question, guys? Sure. So, Alex, I mean, we've been discussing the economic incentives of everything that's been going on. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:02:48 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7368s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And you're probably one of the most, if not the most, qualified person to talk about that kind of stuff. But also, there's also like the spiritual, religious, the eschatological incentive structure as well that Professor Jang has talked about in the past as well. So, we've talked about the economic incentives, the spiritual, like, eschatological incentives for this, war in Iran. Is this really what's driving things around the world, in your view, Jang, more so than the economic side of things? Or is it a mixture of both? Professor Jang. Yeah. So, this is the way I understand things. The eschatology is important because the elite, as Alex points out, they're not very smart. They don't know anything, right? So, they believe in this crap. They believe in astrology. They believe in reincarnation. And what the eschatology does, is it gives them like a script, an action plan to work from, to guide their actions, right? The other thing about eschatology that people don't appreciate is that eschatology is actually hidden history, right? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:03:59 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7439s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: Because religion, it just basically takes thousands, tens of thousands of years of human history, and it distills them into parables or myths that capture the flow of human history. And so, there is truth into a lot, there's truth in eschatology. And that's why the elite believe in this eschatology. So, it's not that these elite are the ones driving history. It's more that eschatology gives us a framework to understand how history moves. The elite understands this, and so they position themselves in a way that allows them to maximize their benefit during times of historical tumult. And so, that's the way I understand eschatology. Also, eschatology is the operating system for secret societies, right? So, you join a secret society in order to enact a certain eschatology. So, that's the way I understand how this works. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:04:58 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7498s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: seems like it's been ramping up a lot lately with the eschatology, because you've got all these different eschatologies kind of playing out and competing with each other as well. Right. But, again, it's because we are in a period of imperial decline. And, in the time of imperial decline, history really ramps up, right? Actions happen really fast because the empire becomes anxious and desperate. And so, they behave in a way that's not rational. They behave in a way that just pushes things forward in a way that wouldn't happen naturally. Understood. Well, guys, I'm not going to take too much more of your time. You've been very gracious with it so far. Anything else either of you would like to talk about before we wrap up and take this thing home? Alex? No, nothing special. I would just say that this is a very, very important time in humanity's history. And I think that we, the people, are winning. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:06:01 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7561s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: But I think that things may look discouraging to many people. And I always like to go back to that Confucian saying, you know, like when a large tree falls, it falls with great noise and destruction. But seeds grow in silence. So what this means to me is that we're watching old obsolete structures of society implode. And so this kind of attracts our attention. It practically hypnotizes us. But we have to keep in mind that the invisible part is those seeds growing. And, you know, seeds in nature always grow into something beautiful. So we must always keep in mind that we are in that process. And even if we get mesmerized by horrible things that surround us, we should not be defeatists. We should keep in mind that we must carry on, put one foot in front of the other. And I think that we are in a unique position in many, many generations of humanity, but we're not in the same position as ancient people. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:07:18 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7638s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: And I think that the only way for us to get in that position is to actually take the world in a better direction and leave a better future for our children. So it's not a time to be discouraged. It's time to keep on keeping on. Professor Jang. No, I completely agree with Alex's sentiment. I think that's very poetic. And one thing I will add is that we all have our own individual responsibility to contribute to this time. be vigilant because as Alex points out the elite they're kind of stupid but they're also very evil and desperate so they have actually quite a few tricks up their sleeves so I'm not sure you've been following the news of these scientists who've gone missing or dead you know and it seems it seems related to disclosure so it's possible they fake an alien invasion over ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:08:11 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7691s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: the next few years as they become much more more desperate and that's exactly like COVID where you know what if you go along with it they win but if you just open your eyes and just think for yourself they're not going to win so we have to be vigilant and we have to we have to appreciate our own individual responsibility to making a better world excellent well guys thank you so much for coming on where can people find each and every each of you guys Alex well I'm actually the next my my handle is at naked Hedgie I have two publication on sub stack one that is an event that's going to be phenomenal for a photo One is iSystem Trend Compass. The other one is my personal Substack called Alex Cranor Substack. And I also have a YouTube channel that I started uploading stuff on this year. It's called Alex Cranor, I think, pretty much. ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:09:02 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7742s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: That's it. All right. We'll have that link down below. Professor Jang? Yeah, so I'm on two sites. I'm on YouTube, Predictive History, the channel. And also I'm on Substack, PredictiveHistory.Substack.com. Excellent. We'll have the link to everything down below in the description box as well as the pinned comments. And be sure to like the video, guys. Let's get this pushed out into the algorithm to as many people as possible. This is a crucial discussion and conversation that the entire world needs to hear, quite frankly. So hit the like button, comment. Go, Alex. Go in the comments section. Go, Jang. Go in the comments section. Let me know your thoughts. What did you agree with? What did you disagree? What did you disagree with and why? You've got to let me know why you agreed or why you disagreed. Are you as optimistic as Alex and Professor Jang put it toward the end? Or are you not? ## The War Continues, So Financial Power Keeps Its Levers -- 2:09:58 - Source title: 🔴 Prof Jiang & Alex Krainer - The Elites Exit Plan REVEALED - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Qm5feukW8&t=7798s) - Source ref: `video:interview-37qm5feukw8@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-37qm5feukw8.json) Text: So let me know your thoughts down below. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Hit the bell notification. Catch me on Substack, CapitalCosmos.Substack.com. And I will catch you all next time. Thanks for watching. Bye. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 0:00 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: All right, we're lucky enough to be joined by Professor Jiang. He's the author of Predictive History on Substack. Of course, he went viral for accurately predicting that President Trump would take us to this war in Iran, and he's been right all along. So we want to invite the professor on now, given the president's most recent remarks about an open -ended ceasefire and that Iran is basically on the ropes, and he is actively trying to find an off -ramp to end this war. But of course, he's being pressured significantly by the Israelis and Mossad to continue this war. So we wanted to invite the professor on to talk about the war, economic depression, and everything else. Professor, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Clayton. Pleasure to have you here. So you heard the president yesterday release this statement about really like an open -ended ceasefire with Iran. And it seems like the president, among reports from ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 0:55 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=55s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=55s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Washington, is actively trying to end this war, trying to find an off -ramp to get out of this. You predicted him getting into it. How do you predict he will try to get out of this? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 1:08 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=68s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=68s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. So I think Trump is very frustrated with this war. He was expecting a quick strike, like what happened in Venezuela, where Donald Forrest went in and kidnapped Maduro. It was a tremendous victory for America. So on the first day, the Israelis and Americans attacked Tehran and killed the Al -Atola. And he expected that the Iranians would capitulate right after that. But the ferocity and the resolve of the Iranians have taken Trump back. He didn't expect that the Iranians would close off the Sharia Homs, thus threatening the global economy. He didn't expect that the Iranians would attack the GCC energy infrastructure. And so this has been very humiliating for Trump. And from his perspective, he doesn't like to fight long wars of attrition. It's very unpopular back at home. And he doesn't really know how to spin this. So as you say, he would like very much. And he really believes that these negotiations in Islamabad would be his off -ramp. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 2:08 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=128s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Unfortunately, the Iranians see through Trump's antics. They refused to send a delegation to meet with Trump's team in Islamabad. So we are stuck in a situation where Trump wants an off -ramp. The Iranians refuse to negotiate. And quite honestly, I don't know how Trump developed his off -ramp. Because the Iranians have been able to control the Sharia Homs, even though Trump has imposed a naval blockade. That naval blockade is very porous. It's very leaky. There's reporting today that over 30 Iranian tankers have been able to break the blockade and sell their oil overseas. The Iranians now are threatening to cut overseas cables, which would destroy the internet of Dubai and basically destroy Dubai as an economy, because they rely so much on the internet connection with the rest of the world. They would no longer be able to do any international banking. And this is not Dubai. The Iranians ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 3:09 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=189s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: are also threatening all the other GCC economies, threatening to close off the Red Sea for their proxies, the Houthis, and threatening to destroy pipelines and basically take one -third of the world's energy offline. So this is a very dire situation for the GCC. And as such, there's a lot of pressure on the Trump White House, primarily through Kushner, to seek a resolution as soon as possible. There are only two off -ramps. The first off -ramp is for Trump to pay reparations to Iran, maybe about $200 million, and then to give sovereignty to Iranians over the Sharia Homs and remove U.S. bases from the Middle East. The second solution is sending ground forces, and I'm not going to go into that right now, but I'm going to go into that in a second. escalate the situation and hope that ground forces will be able to topple the regime and instill a much more friendly regime to the United States. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 4:12 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=252s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: So those are the two major solutions. Unfortunately, it seems as though there is no real off -ramp or quick exit for Trump. This war is going to drag on possibly for months, possibly even for years. What I think Trump's going to do is that he might switch his attention to Cuba, because he's already on the verge of losing his life. So as you know, right now, there's this massive embargo on Cuba. There are blackouts everywhere, and they have the rational, rational food and fuel. And the Pentagon is all plans to actually invade Cuba at some point. It's possible that Trump threatens Canada. He's been having this fight with Carney for the longest time over a new NAFTA. It's possible that he's going to do this possible he sends in special forces to attack the cartels in Mexico. But what we know from Trump is that he does not like long wars, but at the same time, he does not like to lose face. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 5:11 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=311s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: So it's possible that Trump being Trump, he just distracts us with a new war somewhere else. Well, right. I want to ask about the lived experience. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 5:19 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=319s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: That's exactly what I was just thinking. You know, a lot of people, even in our audience of geopolitical enthusiasts, are starting to just get tired and bored of this back and forth. We're at war. We're going to destroy them completely. Never mind. We're on a sea fire. Now we're going to kill them. We're going to beat the shit out. And now it's OK. And how can we possibly stay engaged with this? But this may be a tactic to keep us weary while the war drags on. And I'm wondering, because I lived through the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan, the eight years of the Gulf War, that how maybe this is how it was done. Maybe I was just too young to know that it just keeps going. And then we're like, well, it might end at one point. Is this a part of it? I think so. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 6:01 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=361s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 6:01 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=361s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: I think I think that we will be slowly desensitized, normalized into another forever war in Iran. So what we're looking at right now is not actually a ceasefire. We're actually looking at round two or recalibration of American strategy. So in round one, remember, the Americans focused on shock and awe, basically trying to decapitate the regime through strategic strikes. And they did kill a lot of people. They killed some of the people. And the government is still resilient. It's still standing. So that has failed. And round two is basically trying to impose a blockade on the Iranian economy, basically trying to straggle the economy. So we're not actually seeing a ceasefire. If there's a ceasefire, you're not you would not blockade the Shavuot Hormuz because that's an act of war. What we're seeing is recalibration. So and and and basically I think they will continue this for as long as it takes to topple the government in Iran. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 7:01 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=421s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: in Tehran. But what's going to happen, as you point out, is that eventually we'll get sick of all this drama and switch our attention elsewhere. And this is what happens, right? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 7:12 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=432s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Because we, then at home, we've got jobs to take care of. We've got kids to take care of. And this is part of the strategy. If it's not on the front page every day, like in Gaza, they can continue the war in Gaza. And now the focus is on something else. So they can distract us. So what will the pieces of this forever war look like? I think the last time you were on our show, I believe you said you believe that this is becoming Trump's Vietnam. And so what are the pieces of this look like in terms of five years, six years? Are we talking about permanent naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz, a permanent blockade? Will we actually see boots on the ground? It doesn't seem Trump wants to do that. But what bases in the region that are being built up, I guess, what is your prediction? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 8:00 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=480s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. So I think moving forward, the long -term American strategy is a three -pillar strategy. The first pillar will be to use ground forces in order to strangle Iran. And the way you do that is by controlling the Strait of Hormuz, right? So you don't control the Strait of Hormuz to allow for free maritime navigation as before. What you want to do is destroy Iran's capacity to export oil. And that might mean seizing Kargilin. But you also want to destroy Iran's capacity to exact tolls on any ships that want to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. And so you basically want to cut off all financing for Iran. And you do that by having limited ground operations near the Strait of Hormuz, primarily Kargilin and Qasim Island, possibly even the Iranian coastline. And you do that. And basically what you're doing is you're trying to besiege Iran and you're trying to minimize troop casualties. So that's the first pillar. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 9:01 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=541s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Second thing you do is that you set up forward operating bases in safe places in Iran, meaning ethnic enclaves, right? So it's possible you set up forward operating bases in the southeast of Iran by the Pakistani border where the Balochs are. This is an ethnic group in Iran. You also can set up a forward operating base in the northwest. You can set up a forward operating base in the northwest of Iran where the Kurds are. What you're trying to do basically is you're trying to stir up ethnic tensions in Iran and you're trying to create an ethnic civil war in the country. Okay, that's step two. And step three is you try to suffocate Tehran. So Tehran is a city of 10 million people. It relies on railway transportation for its food. So what you do is you attack the infrastructure of Tehran to basically starve out the population. You attack the reservoirs to deny them water. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 10:00 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=600s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: You destroy power plants to deny them electricity. Okay. What you're trying to do in this process, you're trying to work slowly so you do not create backlash back at home, because these are essentially war crimes. Then what you're trying to do is slowly apply pressure on the Iranians so that the population gets gets, gets very angry and they're forced to reach a political settlement with the Americans. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 10:24 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=624s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: That's terrifying. I mean, it's terrifying to think that this is how this plays out. But you can see at see it clearly. Do you see any similarities here in the pieces that you just laid out from the ground forces, the strangulation, the ethnic enclave piece of this, to what we did in Afghanistan or Iraq? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 10:41 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=641s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Yeah, I mean, this sort of solution, it's meant not to commit to regime change. It's really meant to destroy the country as a viable nation state. So I think the end goal is to break Iran into ethnic enclaves, the Bacchanalization of Iran, essentially, and have them fight over scarce resources, especially water. And so they need to create conditions for that. But this is obviously a war crime. This is obviously an act of genocide. And so they need to move slowly towards that. And it might take them five years in order to reach that goal. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 11:14 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Wow. And so can you talk a little bit about how this is going to play out and be spun to us as not really a war? These are just economic consequences of other more complicated things. You don't understand it. Run along. But in the meantime, we will have shortages, food shortages and things like that. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 11:35 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=695s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. So what will happen is that this war will be drawn out. Right. So the Americans will behave much more strategically, much more methodically, much more in a much more calculated manner in order to reduce troop casualties, because that would that's what would make people this war very popular at home. Right. If troops started to come back in coffins. So only 13 troops have died so far. But if the count reaches 100, then we can see massive protests against this war back at home. OK, so that's a first step, like to take a more slow, patient, strategic approach to this war. Second thing is to continue to distract American people with more conflicts, possibly with with Canada's Mark Carney. It's possible Donald Trump will encourage separation of Alberta. It's possible that Trump and Carney, as well as the United States, will get into a scrimmage at some point. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 12:30 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=750s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Cuba is definitely on the menu. So Trump will want to take over Cuba at some point. So you're distracting the population. The third piece, this is the most important, is that as the economy suffers and you point this out, but as a global economy suffers, as people are not able to book vacations to Europe anymore, as they're not able to do what they want, whatever they want, people will slowly get bored of this war and focus more on domestic issues like the economy. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 13:04 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=784s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: I just I I want to we're going to take a break and talk more about the economy. But I guess since I didn't have a family during the Afghanistan war, I didn't during the Gulf War, too. I just wonder, like, how did we let this just drag on? How is this? I just don't remember. You know, like, how did my parents just run a family while this atrocity was happening? And so, yeah. Do you have a comment on that? How did we just let that go for so long? And now we seem so hyper focused on not letting that happen. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 13:33 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=813s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. So Afghanistan happened right after 9 -11 when people rally around the flag. So there was a lot of popular support for an American invasion of Afghanistan in order to topple the Taliban. That's point one. Point two is that you remember the Americans actually attacked the Taliban through proxies, through something called the Northern Northern Alliance, which was just a bunch of warlords and rebellion against the Taliban. So it was a very quick war and it was not very costly for the Americans. But what happened was that the Americans stayed for 20 years in order to try to try to rebuild the nation. So the war itself was actually fast and quick and decisive. But then Americans commit themselves to nation building, which took which took the longest time. And the nation building was just a pretext for blatant corruption. Right. Right. So that's a point. Two o 'clock, two to two and three. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 14:24 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=864s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=864s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Project습 number 42 and 0.3. What was that? There was not much of American commitment. It was in actual effort. And so so people felt that this was a legitimate process. I mean, I interviewed a gentleman who was there in Afghanistan and he was literally working with the CIA. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 14:43 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: He was responsible for taking the giant pallets of money off of the incoming aircraft. and he was basically told not to ask questions but he would have to then on a constant basis be bringing these giant pallets of cash which were then being of course distributed out to these warlords and payoffs and everything else just a massive money laundering operation in afghanistan so we know if there's one thing they love to make money that's why the ukraine war continues on and to your point this could continue on as a forever war professor stay right there we want to take a quick break we want to come back and dive deeply into the economy i know your predictions about how we are heading towards a global recession i don't think these warnings are being heeded by individuals people just kind of going about their lives and ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 15:28 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=928s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: not even preparing making sure that they have food and supply for their families we'll talk about that uh when we come back but first well here's something that'll make you look at your rain jacket differently most waterproof jackets the ones from those big outdoor brands the ones you've been wearing for years they're coated with something called pifas they're coated with something called pifas they're coated with something called pifas yeah they call them forever chemicals because they don't break down not in the environment not on your body not ever pifas are what make the water beat up and roll off of your jacket so that's that satisfying moment where the rain just hits the fabric just slides right off yeah that's a toxic chemical doing its job and then doing its other job is poisoning you slowly that's why i want to tell you about the bearskin heavy storm rain jacket it's rated to 20 000 ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 16:11 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=971s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: millimeter waterproof that's expedition grade that's the same rating that you'd find on serious mountain jacket it's rated to 20 000 millimeter waterproof that's expedition grade gear but it uses zero pifas forever chemicals none none no chemicals on the membrane the coating or the waterproof treatment that's a 20 000 millimeter waterproof rating without the poison that's a rain jacket innovation that you can try out for yourself on top of that it packs into its own pocket so you can actually stash it in your bag your truck your golf bag it's always there when the weather turns bad it zips into the bearskin hoodie also so right now in colorado we got a snowstorm here in the middle of april it's unbelievable it's always there when the weather turns bad it zips into the bearskin hoodie also so right now in colorado we got a snowstorm here in the middle of april it's unbelievable snowing i can't ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 16:47 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1007s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: believe it and so what did i do i put this on top of my bearskin hoodie so i have full three in one warmness walking the dog this morning kept me dry because it's a super wet heavy snow today middle of april what the heck and i stayed warm because the temperature plummeted down to like 20 degrees so this thing is sealed zippers taped seams the works right now bearskin is running a 60 off the heavy storm rain jacket sale right now with free shipping here's what to do next text the word redacted to 36912 that's redacted to 36912 and they'll send you a link so you can grab one at 60 off stop wearing a jacket that poisons you while it protects you from the rain get a bearskin heavy storm rain jacket today text the word redacted to 36912 that's 36912 and save 60 well how are things sitting right now with the ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 17:41 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1061s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: global economy we keep hearing the horror stories about fertilizer disruptions famine food shortages everything else it could become as a result of the closure of the strait of hormuz and this global war christine lagarde head of the ecb uh you know she's not given to hyperbole i mean she's of course lar you know in control of largest banks and the you know european banking structure um remember she's famous for telling us that you know she wanted us to move away from cash of course in my mind this is all about control but here is christine lagarde talking specifically about food rationing ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 18:16 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1096s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: and what is coming listen third a third of the fertilizers is shipped through the strait of hormuz now that is also at risk and it matters particularly in the southern hemisphere where the planting and therefore the fertilizers is badly needed now i'm not saying that just out of interest for agriculture don't forget i was minister of agriculture in france for a month and a half but because it matters to me as a central banker now because if the price of food increases significantly it is not going to just be the price of food it is going to be inflation expectations because we know that people are particularly attentive to two things the price of food processed and unprocessed and the price of gas at the petrol station so here are three indirect consequences of what's happening in the energy world so if the disruption persists long enough the adjustment shifts from prices which we are ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 19:28 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1168s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: putting up with now to possibly rationing with very different economic consequences higher prices are primarily inflationary shortages hit output directly and are worse for growth overall there have been so far limited signs of supply chain disruption both globally and in the euro area but local tensions are visible jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the outbreak of the conflict and rationing has been imposed at some individual airports in europe since early april and i'm not talking about what's happening in the rest of the world i'm just back from the imf and the world bank spring meetings like many of you and you might have bumped into colleagues from asia in particular some of the low -income countries are emerging with the impact of the inflationary crisis on the market economies that are taking a much more severe hit than us and are moving into rationing ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 20:33 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1233s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: yeah so asia moving into food rationing um and fuel rationing lufthansa yesterday announcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights because they don't have the fuel for it and then the fertilizer moving through the street of hormuz like are people taking this seriously and you hear just in her voice i mean as a central banker she's going to scare people but she's kind of you can hear it there that they're all the signals she's basically pointing out all of the signals we're back with professors young to talk about the global impact of this war in iran professor what do you make of christine lagarde's message there and do you see a much bigger problem emerging yeah i think she is uh ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 21:19 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1279s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: forewarning a major catastrophe approaching the global economy that's going to come very soon so she points out one third of the world's fertilizer. passes through the Strait of Hormuz. And most people don't appreciate this, but fertilizer is what feeds the world. So without fertilizer, the globe, the Earth, could sustain one or two billion people, two billion people, if you're optimistic. So basically, we're able to have eight billion people on this planet because of fertilizer. Now, if you take out fertilizer out of the equation, this means that a lot of people are going to starve. There's just no way around it. So this brings up a much bigger point, which is people don't appreciate the fragility of the global economy. We use something called a just -in -time supply chain system. So there's very little inventory. There's very little resilience. The system doesn't know how to cope with setbacks, with delays. It's designed to be as quick and as efficient as possible in order to maximize benefit for the consumer. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 22:26 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1346s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: So this system was not designed to be resilient, it was designed to be efficient, and this is going to cause a lot of problems for the world. Another point that I will make is that these policymakers know that this catastrophe is coming. And the thing about policymakers is that they don't let a crisis ever go to waste. And policymakers are first and foremost concerned about how to create more control over people, how to create an A.I. surveillance state. And if you talk about rationing, well, what comes naturally with rationing is, basically, digital currency and digital I.D. Right? Because think of communism. Think of Marxism. Think of a command economy where, because there's so little food, because there's food scarcity, there's food scarcity, well, we have to ration this, so we have to basically give you coupons. And we do that digitally through digital currency. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 23:24 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1404s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: And so think of R quietly after this. of uh more control think of uh more financial repression think of um possibly economic collapse ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 23:33 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: so you know i'm trying to extrapolate what this will be the lived experience for us because the wall street journal recently reported that the pentagon was approaching american companies like ford and general motors to shift factory capacity towards weapon making uh you know they can ask them nicely but they also can use the defense production act to require companies to prioritize and accept government contracts and secretary of war pete hexeth had said this is to put us on a wartime footing so that doesn't mean live your lives we're going to go to war you know it's all good it's you will live in a wartime footing and so what was the lived experience during world war ii for americans is rosie the riveter the woman goes to work and food shortages and food rations and it was not optional so there is precedence for it for this it's not hysterical to think that we are ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 24:29 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: being pushed towards this right yeah no i think ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 24:33 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1473s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: history might repeat itself so what led to world war ii was first of all 1929 stock market crash where you know billions of savings were wiped out we might see a similar situation where the stock market collapses and possibly there is a cyber attack a cyber false flag attack on the nation's financial um data centers so all that money you have in the bank might be wiped out and you can blame the iranians for that even though it may not be the iranians um this will lead to a depression in america where people become desperate for jobs where people become desperate for food the government can now step in and create a command economy just like just like what they did 1930s right roosevelt's new deal and um then the um economy switches to a wartime economy where you are making drugs and um you're looking for a because you're making money and you're making ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 25:29 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1529s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: money into the world and depending on what you're making into the world you're making money into the world ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 25:32 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1532s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: and then you buy the things you're making money into the world and it's pretty hard to keep up and if the money comes from the international trade center and all that we've seen uh is that we're becoming more and more paranoid of what the world is going to do and the but to understand that the boom is going to come through the door so there's a lot of debate in the the internet basically as an age verification. They tell us it's about safety, but it's all about control. This is the control grid that's coming right before our eyes. And we're just like walking blindly right into it right now in the United States. Right. So there are two major pieces to this AI control grid, right? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 26:09 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1569s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: The first is you would need an enforcement mechanism and this would be ICE. Do you really need soldiers with machine guns in the streets to deport illegal immigrants? Obama was able to do so without soldiers. He did it just for cooperation with local law enforcement, right? So I think the ICE, it's meant to be almost like a gestapo, a part of a secret police in order to control the lives of people. Their budget is like, I think projected to be $90 billion. That's a lot of money to get rid of illegal immigrants. So I think ICE is one piece of the puzzle. The other piece of the puzzle is Operation Stargate, where the government has dedicated $500 billion to building data centers all around America. Listen, these data centers are not for having an AI girlfriend or for helping you cheat on your homework. They are part of the control grid, right? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 27:06 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1626s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1626s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: So you look at companies like OpenAI, they don't make money selling chat services to people. But Son Altman seems to be very confident that he'll be very successful. So I think he knows something that we don't know. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 27:21 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1641s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: It's deeply, deeply troubling. You talked about also, well, we mentioned it before the show, which is the oil refineries. So, I mean, what is going on here? And I don't know if you have the answer to it, but we're now seeing, I mean, dozens of oil refineries around the world, many of them in BRICS -aligned nations. You saw in India, one of the inaugurated, you know, President Modi of India was about to have the inauguration of this brand new oil refinery. And the day before, it goes up in flames. So all of the oil refining capacity is being taken offline. What is going on? Right. So I think there's a combination of war. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 28:03 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1683s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: So a lot of refineries that are being destroyed are because of war, right? The Americans attacked the natural gas fields of Iran, and Iranians responded by attacking the natural gas fields of Qatar. So war is a factor. Another factor is just accidental. It's an accidental malfunction. So because of energy shortages, these refineries have to maximize output. And so it's possible they didn't neglect safety measures because they're at capacity. That's a second factor. The third factor is a sabotage, right? So if you look at the Australian G -Loan refinery fire, that is deeply suspicious. They say it was an accident, but people locally said that this was probably sabotage. So there are these three factors going on, right? War, accidents, and sabotage. One thing that I will say is that if you're trying to change your society, you really need to better control your people. And quite honestly, from the perspective of the elite, the peasants have become too arrogant. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 29:05 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1745s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: The peasants have become too uppity. And so you need to make them much more anxious. You need to make them much more desperate. And so it's important to manufacture economic calamities in order to make them more obedient. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 29:18 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1758s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1758s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Well, that's what Colonel Towner Watkins says, and she's brilliant. And she talks about this as the strategy of tension. And these left -behind armies, these NATO leave -behind armies that have created this strategy of tension, you create this tension on purpose in order to agitate and control. It's all about control. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 29:41 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1781s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: It's psychological warfare. They've been doing this for decades. So think of the color revolutions in the Middle East, right? So they have this very good playbook, very effective playbook of using propaganda, of using spies, of using saboteurs, provocateurs, in order to stir up discontent among the population and in order to better control the emotions of the population. So I think that we are moving towards a period of massive unrest. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 30:15 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1815s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Now, earlier off -camera, you talked about the NASA program. And this seems to be something that's really irking people online. I see meme after meme of people saying, wait, you expect us to support a war in Iran. We don't have free health care. We have record debt. We will have to pay more for fuel. But you can use up all this jet fuel and send science experiments into the ether. What the hell? And you're saying you think that is another part of the control mechanism. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 30:46 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1846s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. So if we just extend our logic, right, and just say, you know, we're going to have a war. Okay. During this war, in order to maintain the American empire, the population isn't going to go with this war. So they need to create an economic catastrophe to make the population more obedient. And you want to introduce an AI surveillance system. You want to have a control grid. Well, a possible strategy is to fake an alien invasion and make people so afraid that they're going to die. They basically obey the government. But, you know, from the perspective of the government, this doesn't really have to succeed, because honestly, the baby boomers will go with anything, right? But maybe it's just theater. So everyone knows it's a fake alien invasion, but that allows the government to actually impose the AI surveillance grid on everyone. And the boomers will go with this. No one else will go with it, but no one really cares, because they have eyes on the streets to enforce obedience. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 31:48 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1908s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 31:53 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1913s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Well, and President Trump recently, of course, announced the shift of Space Force to its new location with its massive new infrastructure and, of course, billions of dollars and a new budget. It has its own spy program inside Space Force. For years on this show, we've been calling out how this is just one big, massive boondoggle for the defense industry. And of course, yes, the fears—you're seeing it online now, this idea that we are about to face some sort of big disclosure, some sort of big alien invasion. You're hearing it from members of Congress, that disclosure is coming, and therefore, to scare all of us into some sort of control. And that, I think, this is just another big piece of the puzzle. Project Bluebeard. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 32:38 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1958s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=1958s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Yeah, I want to raise two questions about the space program. So we know that after every major government expenditure, a huge government project, we have massive innovation, okay? Before World War II, when the government spent billions and billions of dollars on the Manhattan Project. And in the 1950s, we have this tremendous wave of innovation, right, including the transistor, including the internet, including semiconductors. So that's what happens when you have tremendous breakthroughs, technological breakthroughs. But the problem is this. 1969, America sent a man to the moon. What technological breakthroughs do we have from that? In fact, if you talk to NASA, they tell you, oh, sorry, we lost all that technology. We lost all that data. We lost all that footage. That's kind of weird. That's really weird. That's point one. Point two is that undergirding technological breakthroughs is our scientific theories, okay? So think of the Manhattan Project and how, you know, before the Manhattan Project. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 33:51 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2031s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: There were all these tremendous breakthroughs in science, primarily Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which allows for the Manhattan Project. I'm completely confused as to what physical breakthrough or what theoretical breakthrough allowed for the space program. And why is it that after the space program was so successful, we don't have breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe? This is all really weird. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 34:18 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2058s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: I guess, yeah. Don't you think we're all weird? We should know more by now. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 34:23 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2063s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Yeah. I mean, like, we're literally excited about getting back to the moon. I mean, we, you know, it's like, we've done this. We've done this, you know, 1960s. We've done this. Like, or did we? And now we're doing it all over again. And we're excited that we get some sort of 4K iPhone video that's been going viral by one of the astronauts. Like, that's like arguably the most exciting thing that we've seen from this is an astronaut's iPhone video through the window of a sunrise, or the Earth, the Earthrise or Earth's sunrise. It's very bizarre. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 34:53 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2093s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: I want to, I'm going to out Clayton a little bit. He was telling me earlier that, you know, he's fascinated by the Optimus robot, the Tesla Optimus robot, and we'll see Tesla earnings this afternoon. And he was saying, it's not just to like walk your dog and do your dishes. What they want them to do is go to Mars and build the colonies, that they will be built by the Optimus robots. And he's fascinated by that. There's no shade in telling me, right? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 35:18 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2118s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: No, I mean, just years ahead, years ahead of human beings going to Mars. They will have this like fleet of Optimus robots on, on Mars. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 35:26 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2126s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Yeah. What do you think of that? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 35:27 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2127s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: You know, it's, it's entirely possible where they're looking for a new control mechanism, right? And they understand the power of narrative, how World War II was this great unifying, galvanizing event for the American population, how the space race was also a great unifying event for the American people as well. So maybe people are in poverty, maybe, maybe there's wars going on. Maybe if they, if they don't have the knowledge of these Optimus robots going to Mars to build a colony, maybe this will make us more appreciative of the government. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 35:58 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2158s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. I guess we'll, we'll just fall in line and just be happy with all of this control and people are, you know, just walking into this control grid. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:07 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2167s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Or imagine, I'm thinking like a science fiction writer now. You, you are in this control grid, you see these Optimus robots, you think they're actually building a colony where there is food and life. But, oh, you can only get here because of this. And then we all think that we've earned it, line up to get on a machine, and we're blasted into death. This is the novel, right? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:32 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2192s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: It's a Hollywood movie, yeah. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:34 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2194s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: You like it? Yeah. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:35 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2195s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Yeah, The Matrix. I don't like this dystopic future. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:38 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2198s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: It's macabre, but that's where my mind goes. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:41 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2201s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Professor, any final thoughts on all of the things we talked about today? And, I mean, I just keep coming back to this economic depression that we're facing. And I don't think people are prepared for it. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 36:53 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2213s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: No, I think, like, the greatest challenge is for people to, like, switch their mindsets. Because people are so complacent nowadays. You know, I don't think Americans appreciate how great their country is, how lucky their lives have been in that they've never experienced a war. And that they've never really experienced scarcity, poverty, deprivation. And, quite honestly, what's going to kill most people? Is this radical kind of dissonance when they move towards a world in which things feel hopeless. So, I think, you know, what's really important is for people to start to switch their mentalities from a focus on too much materialism to a much greater focus on spirituality, on community, on family. And if you do that, then I think you're much more likely to weather the storm that's coming. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 37:44 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2264s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: You know, one more question I want to ask. Because a German politician recently said that they should... Raise the age of enlistment for reservists to 70. A 70 -year -old being enlisted in the army. I mean, if this shows no lack of respect for human life, I don't know what does. And so, I think that, again, this shows sort of an expansion of slave labor and war footing. What do you think of that? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 38:13 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2293s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Look, I think there's a depopulation agenda going on where the elite have known for decades that the population we have is unsustainable. This planet, its resources were really meant for only one or two billion people. Unfortunately, the elite don't want to share. They want to live the life of billionaires, and they want us to own nothing and be happy about it. So, they recognize that if they are to maintain their privilege, then they need to get rid of most of us. And so, you know, never let a good crisis go to waste. And so, there is clearly a depopulation agenda at work here behind the scenes. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 38:50 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2330s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: I guess I'll finally ask. I want to ask you about this Palantir big headline that came out about two days ago that Palantir executives want to bring back the draft in the United States. They want to bring back the draft just as the Selective Service is now prepping for this automatic registration in the United States. So, you'll be automatically put in the Selective Service. What do you make of Palantir's push for a draft? ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 39:14 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2354s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Look, if there's an AI surveillance state that's coming, then Palantir will be the heart and center of that. So, food rationing. They'll allow for, will justify a control grid. But also, the national draft, if you think about it, will also justify a control grid where you need to make sure that young men know their patriotic duty and they're willing to go and die in the Middle East. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 39:38 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2378s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Unbelievable. Professor Jiang, thank you so much for your deep analysis today. We really appreciate it. And I hope you're not correct. I hope you're not correct. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 39:48 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2388s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Look, I hope I'm wrong, okay? On the internet, people call me an idiot. I hope I'm an idiot, okay? But I also think it's important for us to consider all possibilities and to be emotionally and psychologically prepared for the worst -case scenario. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:05 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Right. You've been right so far. So, I hope you are an idiot. And I hope that this is wrong. And that I hope we do not enter a forever war with Iran. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:14 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2414s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Well, how many of us were idiots not seeing the pandemic coming and then weren't prepared for it? So, okay, you guys, there's precedence. Yeah. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:22 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2422s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Professor, great to see you. Thank you so much. And I really appreciate you staying up late with us there in China. Thank you so much. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:29 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2429s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Okay. Thanks, guys. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:30 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2430s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Thank you. ## Iran as Recalibration, Not Exit -- 40:30 - Source title: Prof. Jiang: Iran Has Trump TRAPPED! Full Interview | Redacted w Clayton Morris - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidlGa9C0H8&t=2430s) - Source ref: `video:interview-nidlga9c0h8@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-nidlga9c0h8.json) Text: Bye -bye. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 0:02 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Hey, we have our special guest back with us, Professor Zhang, Beijing -based educator, writer, and advocate for education reform, known for his work in promoting creativity, critical thinking, and global citizenship in Chinese schools. He gained international attention in 24 for his viral predictions about geopolitics, foreseeing Donald Trump's return to power, U.S.-Iran conflict, and U.S. losing that war based on historical patterns and game theory. Welcome back to the show, Professor Zhang. Good to see you. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 0:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=34s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=34s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Thanks, Jimmy. Thanks for inviting me back. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 0:36 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=36s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=36s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Now, the first thing I wanted to bring up, this happened, so I don't know if you're up on this, but the United States has attacked a ship, right? So they're going to block the Strait of Hormuz. And let me just play, this is what Scott Ritter, this is his assessment of what happened, and I'll get your response. Hang on. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 0:58 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=58s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=58s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Civilians? Civilians? Well, my understanding is that the... There was an Iranian cargo ship that was making transit out of the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf there, and in accordance with the agreement that was reached between the United States and Iran and Islamabad about the ceasefire, an illegal American blockade that has no legitimacy under international law and is a complete violation of the ceasefire agreement, demanded that the ship stop. The ship didn't. And the United States, the U.S. Navy vessel destroyer told the ship to evacuate the engine room, and they fired on the engine room, causing the ship to come to a halt. And the U.S. Marine raiding group was landed on the vessel and took control of the vessel. It is an act of piracy. There's no legitimacy for this action whatsoever. Wow. What would be the goal of something like this? Why would Trump and Hegseth even order this? It's pure psychological operation. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:47 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=107s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: This is about the United States spinning the events so that the president can claim that he has the upper hand, that if, for instance, Iran were to go to Islamabad and agree to a deal, the president would say it's only because of the strong stance that he's taken in enforcing this blockade and compelling the Iranians to... Yeah. See the common sense in coming to an agreement. That's all this is. It has nothing to do with, you know, legitimately stopping a flow. Even, let's just say that, let's just acknowledge that this is nearly a lack, like much of what the United States does. You know, but the goal is to effectively halt shipping out of the straight orders by the Iranians. And this most certainly is not doing that. So it's just pure theater, theater of the absurd. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 2:22 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=142s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So what is your response to the act and his assessment? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 2:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=147s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah, I completely agree. So a naval blockade is considered an act of war. And so it... It breaks the spirit of a ceasefire. That's point number one. Point number two is that I think Scott Ritter is right in that Trump is trying to negotiate from a position of strength. But I think the more obvious explanation is that Trump and Hexup are not serious about peace at all. Even though there is a ceasefire, we're seeing a massive military buildup in the Middle East. When the George H.W. Bush arrives in theater, possibly by Friday, the Americans will have about 660,000 troops ready to go for a massive invasion of Iran, which is what a lot of people expect to happen. So this ceasefire, it's pure theater. It's just a pretext to build up forces in the Middle East. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 3:20 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=200s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=200s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so Trump, I announced today that on Wednesday, the ceasefire will end. So that means he's going to start bombing again. They're going to start... But what do you see happening on Wednesday? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 3:38 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=218s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So the ceasefire does expire on Wednesday. That doesn't necessarily mean that the bombing will start right away. Because remember, the Americans need to get forces in position. They need to stage the forces. And so it's possible that on Wednesday, Trump announces another two -week ceasefire. And he doesn't really care what the Iranians say. Because they need time. They need time to prepare for the strike. So the Americans use something called shock and awe. So they want to go in, destroy as much as they can, and then leave with minimal civilian casualties. So they are looking to strike as hard as possible when the time is appropriate. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 4:21 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=261s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So let me just play you one more clip from Scott Ritter saying that if the United States does attack again, because they're stuck in the United States. Trump cannot escalate. Trump cannot escalate anymore without having severe consequences rain down upon the Gulf states, right? And so if Trump... It looks like they're... Does it look like to you they're getting ready for a ground invasion? They've got, what, 50,000, 60,000 troops there now? What do you think they're getting ready to do? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 4:55 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=295s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So from a military perspective, if the wars escalate, then Americans in round two will use a three -pronged approach. Okay? So the first approach... The first approach will be to try to economically strangle Iran. So the naval blockade will be part of that. But the Americans will also try to siege Karg Island. They will try to seize the Iranian coastline. And so what the Americans are trying to do is dislodge Iran from the Strait of Hormuz. Because right now the Iranians can collect tolls off the Strait of Hormuz. They can export oil from Karg Island. And so the Americans want to blockade and contain Iran. That's the first pillar. The second pillar is to stir up ethnic tensions. And the parties in Iran want rise to the 일단. And the way you do that is you establish forward operating bases in ethnic regions, like Afghanistan and the Kurdish region. And then you encourage and you arm ethnic insurgents against the government in Iran. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 5:50 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=350s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And the third thing, which I think will be the most effective, is you will start to suffocate Tehran, the capital. You do that by limiting their capacity to access food, water, and electricity. You basically bomb power plants, you bomb reservoirs, and you bomb railways. And so you force the population into submission. And if you do these three strategies, the theory is that you will force Iran into a political settlement. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 6:17 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=377s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And what kind of settlement do they want? I mean, it seems, what do you, what does, has Trump even said what he wants? He said he wanted complete victory or complete surrender. Surrender. But what does that, what does that mean? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 6:35 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=395s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: What it means is that the Americans can impose terms. So what this means is that the Iranians, the Iranians will have to surrender their uranium, all their uranium. They will have to surrender their ballistic weapons program. They will have to abandon their proxies and they will have to install the Shah as their new leader, American puppet. So that those are the four conditions for surrender. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 6:58 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Oh, that really? Okay. And what's the other one? What do you think the likelihood of that is? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 7:05 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=425s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Zero percent. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 7:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=426s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Zero, right? Yeah, that seems crazy. So, so, so it seems like for, for real, they're going to, again, ask, try to resume the war that Donald Trump and the United States is going to resume the war either on Wednesday or after another phony ceasefire, giving them time to, I mean, Iran sees what they're doing. They see that they're bringing, they know what's coming. And so. Here's what Scott Ritter had to say will happen once the United States starts the war again. And I want to get your reaction to it. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 7:41 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, the Iranians have made it clear that they're not going to, you know, start slow and finish fast. They're not going to wait for the United States and Israel to set the pace, which is what they did in the 40 days. The escalation, the nature of targets, et cetera, that were engaged by Iran were largely defined by the nature of the Israeli American strikes against Iran. Here, the Iranians, I believe, will start with the notion that because the United States is incapable of negotiating good faith, that you must assume that any military action that's now taken is done to eliminate the regime of, of the Islamic Republic. And therefore, this is an existential war. Therefore, just go for the juggler from the start. And I think this is what you're going to see. If we start attacking Iran, I think you're going to see Iran hit some Gulf Arab states harder than they've ever been hit, hit Israel very hard, start taking out key infrastructure. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 8:33 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=513s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And, you know, maybe reach out and touch the United States in a few places as well. You know, that the United States has grown overconfident in terms of operation. But, you know, this is going to be a one -way street. When the war starts, we will be bombing empty buildings. We will be blowing up bridges and railroad tracks that have no fundamental value from a military standpoint. And Iran is going to be, you know, striking back with absolute devastation. And the defeat will be obvious after the first three days. When, as I said, perhaps Abu Dhabi, Dubai, maybe another city will be unable to sustain life on the scope and scale necessary to be, to retain the stature that they enjoy today. People will be forced to leave, flee by the hundreds of thousands. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 9:19 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=559s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So do you agree with that assessment? I think that's what we've been saying here all along, that if Trump escalates or resumes this war, that they're going, they have the ability to knock out the Gulf states desalination. The desalination. Plants. And then that's game over for them. What do you say? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 9:37 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=577s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: I completely agree. So the most obvious thing that the Iranians can do is close off the Red Sea. And then they can strike at Gulf energy infrastructure. They can destroy the pipelines. This will knock out one -third of the world's energy supply. This would completely destroy the Gulf states. They are no longer viable. But the problem is that Americans have made a calculation that this is an acceptable. Cost that they are willing to take the risk. And the reason why is that in January, the Trump White House announced something called the National Security Strategy. And so this is the Pentagon strategy moving forward for the next five to 10 years. And that's four major pillars that help help us explain why the war is progressing the way it is in the Middle East. The first major pillar is to secure the Western Hemisphere, the American home front. The second pillar is to contain China. The ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 10:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=634s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: third pillar is to make better use of American allies to basically encourage them to participate more in global defense. The fourth pillar is to ramp up America's wartime industrial production. And we're already seeing these four pillars play out. So from an American perspective, the goal is to create greater North America, something called a technate. Fortress. America. And then this will become a self -sufficient perimeter that allows America to sell resources, weapons and financing to the rest of the world. And what America will do is create balance of power in each different region. So in East Asia, Japan and China will balance each other out and they will both become dependent on American armaments, American resources and American financing. Something will happen in Europe where Russia and Europe. NATO will balance each each other out and both will become dependent again on America and in East Asia, sorry, in West Asia, it will be it will be the Gulf states in Israel versus Iran. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 11:46 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=706s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And this is the this is what's laid out in national security strategy. And unfortunately, what we're seeing is the strategy being played out in real time. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 11:57 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=717s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So what what why would why would China, Japan, Russia, what's their move? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 12:05 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=725s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=725s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: I don't I can't see them just letting this happen. Can you? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 12:08 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=728s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So there's only one actual response to America's national security strategy. It is for Russia, Iran and China to work together to create a continental trade bloc that can then absorb Africa in the Middle East and Europe in East Asia and sort of negate American naval power. And that's why this war in Iran is happening. Because Iran is really the people. It is where Russia's north south trade quarter runs through is where Europe's IMAC quarter runs through. It is where China's Belt and Road Initiative initiative runs through to create chaos in Iran. The world is no longer able to trade in Eurasia and it's dependent on on sea for trade and it needs energy. Right. So basically what America is trying to do is create as much chaos around the world as possible so that the nations are dependent on American energy. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 13:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=786s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. And again, so what do you think? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 13:11 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=791s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: I mean, Russia is very oil rich and they have what what do you think? What will they do? I mean, they'll they'll. So tell me. I mean, I'm like like like materially, what will they do? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 13:28 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=808s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So what's happening right now is that the Americans are imposing a naval blockade on all on all ocean trade. Right. So we're seeing. As you mentioned. This Iranian ship returned from China being boarded, basically being like seized and kidnapped by the Americans. We're also seeing Russian shuttle fleet tankers being boarded by the Americans as well. We're also seeing this past month oil refineries fires all around the world. So the most famous case was in Geelong, Australia, where a refinery was suspiciously and accidentally. On fire, destroying Australia's access to jet fuel. We're also seeing fires in Bucharest, Russia. I'm sorry. Bucharest, Romania, in India, in Myanmar. We're also seeing the Ukrainians start to strike Russian energy infrastructure. So what what's happening right now is basically a war over energy resources between Russia and America. And we will see this war expand over the next few years. As Russia challenges Russia. As Russia challenges American dominance in the seas. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 14:38 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=878s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And as both continue to destroy each other's energy resources. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 14:44 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=884s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=884s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So this this is really going to be World World War three. And it's going to be for a while. It's not. It's. And so this. So, you know, it's very popular to say that the United States did this war because Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu, the Zionists in Israel. But the way I hear you explaining it now, it seems like some kind of bigger, long game that the United States is playing for. We've talked about the greater North American project here. And this is so it was that just kind of a diversion that to blame it on Israel. Or is that real? Or has have the has the establishment been planning this all along? And Donald Trump is just their tool. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 15:32 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=932s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So first point is that if you don't believe anything I say. Then I can go to the Pentagon website, the front of war website and download the national security strategy. It is in black and white. It tells you exactly what the plan is. It is to contain China. It is to control the Western Hemisphere. Something called the Don Rauch doctrine. And it is to cannibalize America's allies. It's very black and white in that paper. That's the first point. Second point is that Trump doesn't have the power to do whatever he wants. I mean he is really the agent or the puppet or the scapegoat for the military industrial complex. And the third point I will make is that if you just look at history. When empires decline they behave in this manner where the empire at its height it relies on consent. It relies on soft power. When it declines and its allies turn away from the empire. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 16:31 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=991s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: What the empire does is use force. Use piracy. Use pure power. Might becomes right. So what America is doing right now fits into the classical imperial decline pattern. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 16:47 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1007s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So okay. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 16:49 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1009s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so I mean you said that the United States is going to lose this war or get stuck in a quagmire. Do you see this working out? Where do you see this heading in the next three to six months? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 17:05 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1025s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So again if you just look at like history these things never work out. Because there are three problems with this plan. It sounds great on paper right? Where America controls the western hemisphere. It has all the resources of the world. It's self -sufficient. The rest of the world is at war and needs to buy American weapons and resources. But if you look at history it doesn't really work out for three reasons. The first major reason is corruption. Okay. So America right now is a very corrupt system. And we know because. Whenever Trump makes an announcement someone with impeccable timing is able to short the market and make hundreds of millions of dollars right? So when Trump announced a ceasefire then someone buys shorts and makes a lot of money off of the oil market. So this has been happening a lot. But really the problem in America is the financialization of the system. And so people make their money not making things but on speculation. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 18:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1086s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And this is a pretty common theme in American political system right now. So you know Trump has announced 1.5 trillion dollars for the Pentagon. And you said this on your show. But most of this money is going to go into corruption. It's going to be stolen. It won't actually go into weapons production. So that's the first problem. The corruption. Second problem is political power. Polarization. So when empires are in decline they usually split up into different factions that fight each other. They really don't care about the consequences for America's position in the world stage. All they are concerned about are domestic politics. So even though America is at war in Iran the Democrats continue to snipe at Trump. And Trump continues to snipe at Democrats. So Trump is much more concerned about the Democrats than he is about winning this war in Iran. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 18:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1139s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So political polarization is a huge problem. A huge problem in America. And it could possibly lead to a civil war. That's the second problem. And the third problem is nationalism. When you bully nations like what America is doing right now to the Europeans. So Trump says that he's going to take over Greenland which has really annoyed the Europeans. He's discussed taking over Mexico, Canada. So what this does is that it galvanizes the people. It makes them much more nationalistic. And we can see this. And we'll see this happen over the next few years as the Americans demand more of the South Koreans, of the Japanese. And this will make them much more nationalistic, much more anti -American. Same thing will happen in Europe as well. So these three factors, corruption, division, and nationalism ultimately means that the empire will die at the end of the day. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 19:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1199s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1199s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Do you have a timeline on that? So, you know, I was before this Iranian war, I was just worried about the world stop using the dollar as the reserve currency. That was my big worry. And I was just worried about how quickly that was going to happen, which is why we've talked so much about investing in gold and stuff on this show. Because when the rest of the world stops using the dollar, it's horrible for the United States, I mean, and us. And our retirement savings and everything, which is tied up in dollars. So you're talking about what is the end of the – so you keep saying this isn't going to work out, right? You've already delineated the problems with this working. It sounds like a great idea. I hear people say it, talk about it. But it's not going to work. So where do you see the United States in, say, like five years? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 20:52 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1252s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 20:53 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1253s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Sure. So there's actually a three -stage process. When empires decline, okay? So in the first stage, the empire lashes out and forces – it kind of vassalizes allies, okay? And in the first stage, things look great. The U.S. dollar soars. The American economy soars because the world is dependent on LNG from the United States. The reality is that it's possible that Trump goes to China in mid -May and they sign a deal in which China is buying more LNG. In which case, Trump's going to look like a political genius, right? Because he's attacking Iran. He's managed to humble China. So in the short term, things look great for the empire because the world is completely dependent on American resources, especially energy, LNG. So that's the first stage. But in the second stage – Can I stop you there? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 21:51 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1311s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Sure. The problem is that that plays right into the way American businessmen and our economy thinks. We think in short -term quarterly profits. We don't build for the long term. And so Trump probably doesn't care. He'll – like, look, it'll make the next two or three – the last two years of my presidency look like a victory. And I exit – I'm 82 years old as a victor, right? Is that – that's right. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 22:16 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1336s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: That's exactly correct. That's exactly the problem. He's only thinking for the next two, three years, which are going to be great for America. But then you – but then afterwards, what happens? Afterwards, what happens is that you are over -leveraged. Your empire is overextended. You're forced to call up a national draft in order to supply the cannon fodder for your empire. Your economy is overheated. It becomes a huge Ponty scheme. And slowly, the rest of the world recognizes that we need to unite against America if we are to survive. In the third stage, the world goes to war against America on multiple levels. The economic front, the diplomatic front, the military front. And then America recognizes that it cannot actually sustain its empire, and its empire declines and dies. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 23:09 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1389s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so that – when the empire dies, that means for sure civil war, right, in the United States? Exactly. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 23:16 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1396s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Exactly. For sure. Exactly. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 23:19 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1399s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And then we'll – we'd have to create a new government, create a new constitution, and all that stuff, right? Well, we started from scratch. Is that how it works? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 23:33 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So if you just look at America as an empire, it's most equivalent to Rome. And when Rome started its civil war process, it never really stopped its civil wars. I mean, you might have an emperor emerge and create a 20 -year peace. But then when he dies, the civil war starts again. And so the reason why America may fall into a civil war trap, where it is continuous civil war, is that America has no peer competitor in the Western Hemisphere. And as a result, all the conflicts are internal, not external, right? So an empire, when it falls, it fights civil wars. But when it's threatened by an external enemy, it unifies against its foe. But America doesn't have a foe. It doesn't have a competitor. So America could actually descend into hundreds of years of civil war. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 24:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1474s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so, okay, so your prediction is that in the next few years, this will look like a brilliant plan to certain people because the dollar will soar and China's going to be buying more of our liquid gas. But how soon does that end and it starts to go the other way? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 24:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1499s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So I think it's... It's entirely possible that if Trump pulls this off and he succeeds, he might get a third term. And so I think, you know, for the next two to three years, this plan will look really, really strategic and genius. But again, this is how all empires behave when they decline. So this is a natural process. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 25:28 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So you say we're not going to break off into civil war in France. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 25:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1534s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: What do you think? Do you think we're going to have a fragmentation for at least, what, five years? Ten? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 25:40 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1540s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. Yeah. So I think the civil war, the process begins if Trump gets his third term. Right. So I say a Trump third term because if you want to carry this plan out to fruition, you need a pretty stable continuity of agenda. Right. So it's entirely possible that if Trump leaves office in 2028, the Democrats come to power and they change this plan, which would create conflict. Complete chaos. So you need a continuum of agenda. You need basically a monarch in place in order to implement the strategy. And if that were the case, this would create a constitutional crisis. And this would be the basis for a civil war. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 26:21 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1581s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So if you see this coming so clearly and history says this is what's coming, the people in Europe must know it's coming. But why do you think they're not reacting in the way, the international government would react knowing this is coming? They seem to be almost, in a sense, going along with Trump. They're now doubling down on their war with Russia for who knows why. What's Europe's role in all this and why are they doing it like they're doing? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 26:54 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1614s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So another characteristic of an empire decline is the over -bureaucratization of society. The over what? The over -bureaucratization. Sorry. The over -bureaucratization of society. The bureaucracy. You create an imperial bureaucracy. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 27:09 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1629s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Oh, bureaucratization? Is that what you're saying? Oh, sorry. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 27:12 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1632s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: You create an imperial bureaucracy that becomes a bubble onto itself. Right? So if you go to Washington, D.C. I'm sure you've been to Washington, D.C. Yes. It's a bubble. Right? It's the richest place in the world. They could care less about what happens in the rest of America and in the rest of the world. Same thing in Europe where you have an imperial bureaucracy in Brussels. Right? So people in Brussels just care about collecting their paycheck, collecting their pension, and they want to just keep their jobs and certainly go with the flow. And they become completely divorced from reality. Right? That's why you've seen in these past 10 years this massive surge of immigration into Europe, even though Europe itself cannot sustain this immigration. And the response to criticism is to silence critics. Right? So in Europe, if you're a criminal, you're much less likely to get visited by the police than if you criticize the rise of crime on social media. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 28:13 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1693s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right? So if you make a criticism on social media, you're much more likely to get visited by the police than if you actually commit a real crime. So Europe is, I think, it's basically become a dumpster fire. It's a much more advanced stage of decline than America. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 28:31 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1711s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So basically just people looking out for, again, short -term thinking, people looking out for their own self -interest, not their country's interest, not the long -term interests. And so is it the strength of the international military industrial complex that they get more, they're doubling down on the war in Ukraine? They're doubling down on, is that just what it is? Yes. Okay. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 29:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1746s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Because, you know, Julian Assange said it best, the point is not to have successful wars. The point is to have never -ending wars. Because what wars do is they transfer taxpayer money into the pockets of a transnational elite. And that's the point of war today. It's not to win wars, it's to have wars. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 29:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1767s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: It's just, I mean, I still can't, you know, I'm kind of shocked. Right? That there isn't some, you know, there's no sober voices inside the United, you know, there's like maybe Thomas Massey, maybe Rand Paul, but there's no like group of people that it's all just, and I've been, I guess I shouldn't be surprised because I've been saying it for years now that the United States is not just a little corrupt, like Joe Biden gives his kid a no -show job and Trump gives his kid a deal with Saudi Arabia, but it's a hundred percent corrupt. Like they're all corrupt. No. When they get a session of Congress, they're not there doing the bidding. I've said this a million times. They're not doing the bidding of students or workers or the elderly or trying to fix the infant. They're there just doing the bidding. How can we extract wealth from the taxpayers and put it into the pockets of the people you just described, the WEF international elite, the globalists. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 30:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1827s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And that's what, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Right? I guess is what I'm saying. Right. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 30:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1834s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So another issue that people don't want to discuss is the aging problem in America where the leadership in Washington DC have aged a great deal, right? The baby boomers are still in control. Think of how many presidents were baby boomers, right? You had Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, Biden. I mean like Trump, I mean, I mean the baby boomers have to happen in command for a long time. What we know is that when a population ages, the elite, they become much more authoritarian, right? So if you're an old person, you're in your eighties, what you care about is living for as long as possible. You care a lot about germs. You care about keeping the streets clean and that. And so you basically want a more authoritarian society. And that's why I think a lot of young people today are so pessimistic about the future. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 31:32 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1892s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 31:32 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1892s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Do you put any credence, so there's a lot of theories out there that COVID was a depopulation agenda because the international bankers and the WF types, they realize that they can't sustain the aging populations. And so they did this vax, which has, it's completely toxic. And it had the negative. It has negative efficacy and they had to rig all the numbers in the systems. Like for instance, they didn't, if you died within 14 days of getting your vax, they considered you unvaccinated, even though it's, there could be a correlation between you dying from the vax. So they had to do all that. So do you, do you put any credence into that theory that there is this kind of, because it was a global phenomenon that they, it wasn't just the United States, it was everywhere. Except for maybe Africa. So do you, do you think that, that there's any credence to that idea that ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 32:38 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1958s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1958s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: the, the people in control, really the handful of billionaires that run the world really did want a depopulation agenda? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 32:47 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=1967s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: If that, that were their plan, I'd be very impressed. I don't think they're that smart and I don't think they're that strategic. I think that COVID happened because the baby boomers were, are really afraid of germs. And that's why you have these, these global lockdowns because the baby boomers insisted on on on everyone's just staying at home. So the best, the nation that best responded to COVID was Sweden because the epidemiologists in Sweden said that you can't stop a virus. It's impossible. So what, so we're not going to disrupt the economy. We're not, we're not going to disrupt schooling, but we will protect our vulnerable people, which includes. People with diseases, which includes the elderly population, which is basically the Barrington declaration, basically, basically. And it worked very well for Sweden. Their economy was not as impacted as the rest of the world, but having gone away with COVID with the COVID lockdowns, we can expect that the elite will use the strategy again, the crisis were to emerge, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 33:57 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2037s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So they're opposite, they're not strategic, but they're opportunistic. They don't think ahead. But they see the benefits of certain strategies. So if this war were to continue, you, we can imagine lockdowns because of the energy crisis. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 34:12 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2052s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. So that's what I'm thinking. So that's why they, they'll be able to people have already talked about it, that there's going to be energy lockdowns and that they're going to have a surveillance and they're going to let you know how much energy you're allowed to use. And once you exceed that, they're going to cut you off. They're going to stop your car. They're going to stop all that kind. And you do. Do you, do you see that happening? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 34:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2074s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. It's, it's all part of the plan, right? The 10, eight calls for a technocracy. What is, what is the technocracy government ruled by AI? That's where America is putting all these data centers, even though they cost a lot of money, they don't really actually make an attorney any profit, right? So if you're, if you are a company like open AI, like the more subscribers you have, the more money you lose, because it actually costs you more money to have subscribers than you can generate profit for them. But you have operation Stargate in place. $500 billion to build data centers or all across America. So why would they do that? And the answer is the technocracy. The answer is you eventually, you're moving towards an empire. You need to create an AI surveillance state, digital currency, digital ID, and it's, and it helps you do a national draft, helps you control the people. It helps you ration energy and food. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 35:25 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2125s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 35:30 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2130s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And, and so how. There. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 35:35 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2135s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Do you, do you see a way to, to, to turn this around or is this already, this is in the cards because history dictates and, and, uh, they've, is there, is there any, I mean, is it, could, could there be a charismatic leader who turns this around for the United, but they would just kill him. Right. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 35:57 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2157s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. So, um, I don't think this plan will work out because the empire is in decline. They're desperate. Right. So they want a national draft. They want a AI, uh, control. Grid. Um, this is all part of their plan, but the people in charge aren't that bright and they're not that effective. And I think this is all going to blow up in their face because I think the American people are much more resilient, much more creative than they believe it's worked out in China. If you come to China, I'll show you around. We have AI surveillance. We have, um, AI, uh, digital currency and digital, um, ID, and it's worked out well in China. But the Chinese people are a different breed. The American people love freedom. They love Liberty. And I think, I think that the Americans would rather fight than surrender their, their Liberty. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 36:46 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2206s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so, so now I, now I'm hearing you say another, like, so there is a chance that the American people, because we do value our freedom, uh, although you couldn't tell, you know, half the country certainly didn't during COVID, uh, they, they were willing to accept every single restriction on their freedom. Right. Including, uh, you know, fascist Nazi, like impositions of, uh, making people, forcing people to take experimental medical treatments. Uh, so you, so you, you, you think that the, the, the answer to this lies in the mass of people coming together. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 37:23 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2243s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So yeah, the COVID lockdowns were bad in America, but there were no, no one near as bad as that in China or Canada, right. In Canada, there were the trucker protests and these were just people who wanted a meeting with Justin Trudeau because they had questions about the vaccine mandate. Right. And instead they were de -banked. If you actually gave a dollar to the truckers, you also de -banked. So Canada is far more authoritarian than the United States, uh, United States, if you didn't like the vaccine mandates, you move somewhere else. You moved to a red state that didn't have these vaccine mandates. You couldn't do that in China. You couldn't do that in Canada. You couldn't do that in Europe. So I think that, that, um, America is really the best hope for the world. Unfortunately, the people in charge, even though they're not that strategic. Even though they're not that smart, they are pretty evil. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 38:10 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2290s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So we can imagine that they will, um, uh, promote false flag operations. They will promote civil wars in order to justify the use of a AI surveillance state. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 38:23 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2303s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so, so you see us, you see our empire in decline. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 38:29 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2309s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: It might work for the next couple of years. And when you say Trump will get a third term, you mean they'll amend the constitution to make that happen? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 38:39 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. Right. So I actually don't know the legal technicalities here, but what I do understand is that there's actually nothing in the constitution that prevents Trump from, from running as a vice president in 2028 and having a son Don Jr run at the top of the ticket. And then when, uh, they win in 2028 by rigging the election, then, uh, Trump can, then Don Jr can just applicate and then Trump will be the president again for the next eight years. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 39:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: I never, I never thought of that. Isn't that funny? I never thought that he would run. He would run as vice president. That seems so sinister. Um, so you, so you don't predict a collapse like by the end of the 2026 or 27 or even 28. But, um, don't you, do you think that, so we'll, we're going to, we're moving into a multipolar world then, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 39:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2374s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So the world right now it's over leveraged, it's overextended. We've mortgaged the, uh, future. In order to enjoy the present, an example is that, uh, right now the population of the earth is about 8 billion people, but that's being supported by fertilizers, by oil, uh, by medicine. So if the world were to de -globalize and de -urbanize and people would lack access to fertilizers and cheap energy, and this would mean that we would see a steep population decline over the next 10 years. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 40:09 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2409s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. I've seen videos recently of, you know, people from the club of Rome talking about this decades ago that we can't sustain. We can only sustain maybe one or 2 billion people on this planet. And I just can't believe that like this day. So how come this stuff doesn't get taught in schools? How come people don't talk about this in colleges? How come it's taking a, uh, Donald Trump, Donald Trump to make this, these kinds of conversations come to the surface. Do you have any theory on that? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 40:44 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2444s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, I mean, schools, public schools were created to brainwash you, to indoctrinate you. I know because I've worked in education reform for the past 20 years. So I know how screwed up the school system is. There's one word you're not, you're never allowed to say in education reform. I've been to a lot of education conferences around the world and no one ever talks about the elephant in the room, which is the idea of a meritocracy. Why is it that you have a hierarchy in a school system where if you're smart, you're allowed to go to a good school. When you're dumb, you're not allowed to go to school at all. And the reason is control. The reason is indoctrination. The people who graduate from the Ivy league, and I know cause I went to Yale are the biggest ass kissers in the world. They're not smarter than you. They're not better than you. They just happen to set up to authority better than you. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 41:29 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2489s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And that, and that's just the nature of the school system that we have today. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 41:33 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2493s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: That is true. Uh, I've, yes, I've noticed the people that came from Ivy league schools to Hollywood and they. They, they, uh, Excel quickly and it's through ass kissing. They know exactly how to do it. They know exactly how who's asked to kiss and it, it, it, I've, I've noticed it in my own little corner of Hollywood. Um, sorry. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 41:57 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2517s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So Jimmy, if you, you, you spend like, like a week at Yale going to classes, you'd be shocked by the level of education at Yale and Harvard, you'd be like, oh my God, these are the smartest people in the world. Oh my God. This is the level of elite education that we have today. You'd be shocked. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 42:18 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2538s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, I, you know, again, I always claimed that, you know, I was a C student. I was because I wasn't interested in school at all. And um, but, but yeah, when I meet these people, they, I'm not, I'm not as impressed as I should be. Uh, that, that's, that's for sure. And um, especially, you know, what, what I admire about you, Jimmy, is that, you know, ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 42:43 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2563s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: you're a C student, you're still curious, you're open -minded, uh, you appreciate debate, you ask good questions and that's, that's a secret to learning in life. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 42:54 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2574s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Aren't, so I'm still, can, let me just switch the subject just a little bit for a second. I'm still shocked, uh, I'm, I'm constantly shocked. I'll never stop being shocked at the people who got everything wrong during COVID. Not only did they get it wrong. But they tried to, they embraced authoritarianism to shut other people up like me, who were just asking questions because I noticed something and I was asking relevant questions that they were afraid. So they're not afraid, they're afraid of the questions. And these people still today will call ivermectin horse paste, or they'll still swear by the, the vaccine. They'll still call people anti -vax, even, even though we know what a failure that COVID vaccine was. They, they still like, as, as if it's five years ago, uh, and then these are, you know, relatively intelligent people in every other way. And they still, it's like, they're going out of their way to stay ignorant. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 43:56 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2636s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And have you noticed that? And what, what is it? Yes. Yes. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 44:01 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. I went to Yale, so I encountered this all the time. Um, but you know, in 1950s, C. Wright Mills wrote a book called the power elite, and he described the structure of power in America. Yeah. And he makes a very interesting point in the book, which is like, it's not the elite, the power elite that are most dedicated to the system. It's the intellectual class, the, um, um, you know, the, the chattering class, the professors, the intellectuals, the, the journalists who are most dedicated to the system, because these are the parasites of the system. And they understand that they, um, their power comes from the proximity to the, the elite. And so they are the most vocal about protecting the system. And so they are the most vocal about protecting, uh, the legitimacy of the system as, as well as the elite. Okay. So these journalists, these intellectuals, uh, these professors, these academics, they're ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 44:53 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2693s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: most dedicated to maintaining COVID because they believe that by doing so, that's what allows them to maintain their power because think about what AI could do with the coming of AI, the people, um, these, uh, white colored people are most at risk, right? These lawyers, these accountants, these teachers, these AI can just do what, what they do. And at a cheaper, cheaper price. So they need to be able to justify their existence, you know, their high, their high salaries, their very, um, easy lifestyle where a professor works like six months, six months of the year. They do that by trying to impose authority on the common mass. And since saying, you know, you see, we are useful because we can control the masses. But the reality is that with the rise of social media, with the rise of shows like yours, they can no longer do so. And that's why they're so desperate. That's why they're so anxious. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 45:43 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2743s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2743s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And that's why they're so authoritarian today. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 45:45 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2745s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So it's, um, who was the step then we have, uh, who was that female Chinese author who wrote that 40 page book and she talked about this, uh, I don't know if you're familiar with her. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:00 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: She talked about the class, the professional class. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:03 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2763s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: She talked about the professional, professional managerial class. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:07 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2767s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes, exactly. Exactly. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:09 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2769s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And that's what you're talking about right now. Exactly. And she wrote us the exact same thing, right? Exactly. That they became the, and I like to call them, you know, they're, they're supposed to be Catherine Lou. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:18 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2778s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:19 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2779s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Catherine Lou. That's who it was. And yes, yes, yes, yes. And so, you know, I, I called them illiberal. They talk about their liberals, right? And they're supposed to be a liberal and conservative. There is no liberals anymore in the United States. They're all the people who consider themselves liberals don't realize that they become the most illiberal people in, in the world and that go ahead. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 46:41 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2801s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. They're only interested in maintaining their privileges, right? Yeah. And these are people who don't really work. They just spend all their time talking and like, uh, projecting authority and they have like the easiest life. They're, they're basically parasites. And so they need to maintain, uh, their existence. They need to, they need to like, um, legitimize their, their, their, their lifestyle. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 47:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2826s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, I'll tell you, you know, speaking to this point, so, you know, I've gotten into, I've gotten into Jungian psychology over the last six years and you know, it's completely changed my life and outlook on things completely. And I used to be an atheist and now I understand that that was incorrect and what I've done. So I, uh, once a week I would talk to this, uh, Jungian psychiatrist or a psychologist and um, he would help interpret my dreams and because you need someone else to do that for you. Right. And, and, um, recently. And so I only would have an hour and we'd only get through maybe one or two dreams and I have lots of dreams. I have three or four dreams a night. Right. And so it was, and I can't afford to do more than one session a week cause they're expensive. They charge a lot of money. And so, uh, ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 47:56 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2876s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: what I've started to do recently in the last few weeks is to use grok and I'll put in my dream and well, as soon as I wake up, I put it in grok and I say, please use Jungian analysis and tell me what this means. And then I, and it, it. It is unbelievable, unbelievable. And it's on point. And then I'll, I'll, instead of using a, starting a different thread, I keep it in the saggo to do these dreams go together and there it's, and grok is showing me how a dream from two weeks ago connects with the dream I had last night and how all the ones in, and they connect all of the, and that is so much more, uh, uh, conclusive or, uh, I don't know, or, um, encompassing than I get from my, so I'm, I'm experiencing this in my real life. Like, I don't know if I need my Jungian ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 48:48 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2928s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: psychologist anymore because I'm getting this done when in way better time, I get more time with it anyway, and it's much more encompassing. And so would that be, that's kind of what you're talking about and what Catherine was talking about, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 49:03 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2943s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2943s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. I mean, like we're seeing like the collapse of the elite intellectual class, right? So we look at the elite intellectual class. We look at the New York times, like who reads New York times nowadays, right? It's these boomers that we didn't read Bill Maher, Bill Maher, so all they do is, is, is just appeal to the boomer, um, class with these talking points of empire. Um, and the rest of the rest, the rest of the population is turning off, right? So we're, we're, we're seeing a lot of desperation, anxiety among the intellectual elite. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 49:35 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2975s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Um, where do you, where do you see Israel ending up? Right. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 49:41 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=2981s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So, um, Israel, it has, um, it, I mean, it, it's a crazy place, right? I mean, like they don't mind going to war with the world because that's, it's part of their eschatology that that's, they believe that if they go to the, to war with the world and the Messiah will come and lead them to victory. So, um, Israel has descended into this fanatical religion. Yeah. It's a religious outlook and it's not going to get better. It's just, it's just going to get worse and worse. And we can see that Israel will eventually draw Turk, Turkia into this war. This will become a regional conflagration, um, but at the same time, as long as United States supports Israel, then Israel will continue to, um, dominate the Middle East. And if, if the United States were to lose this war. Yeah. Um, would be incorporated into the greater Israel project. Um, so I think that Israel will continue to rise. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 50:47 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3047s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 50:52 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3052s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, I, I really don't see, you know, when you say if the United States were to lose ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 50:56 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3056s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3056s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: this war, um, it, it's, it's Iran is going to wipe out the Gulf States if the United States continues this war, which it looks like they're going to. So the Gulf States will be like, how do they not, I can see this, how can they not see this? And why aren't they taking steps to do anything about it? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 51:17 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3077s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, because if you're, um, the UAE, uh, you are in a very tough pickle, right? Because, um, option one is that you want the United States to leave the, uh, Middle East, in which case Iran becomes a top dog. And now you have to pay, um, reparations to Iran for the war because the Americans destroyed a lot of infrastructure. They killed the Supreme leader. And the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the Iranians will want about $20 in reparations and they can't extract that from the United States because the United States is an ocean away, but they can certainly demand that of the UAE. Right. So that's what option one, option two is you fight this war to the bitter end because there's a ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 52:04 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3124s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: chance that the United States defeats Iraq, in which case you can continue to do what you do, which is to be like, you know, this money, money, larger operation for the world. Um. So those are your two options. And they're not great options, but option two, it's a better payout than option one. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 52:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3147s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Let's say I was the Saudi prince. My big idea, I mean, again, see student here, but I would get all the Gulf states together and form an alliance with China and Russia and Iran. And that wouldn't that be? And then, you know, Europe would probably follow suit, see which way the wind is blowing. I don't know. Is that stupid of me to say those things? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 52:55 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3175s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. So the issue is that these Gulf states are a creation of empire. Meaning that, you know, 50, 60 years ago, these were not prosperous places. And because of the petrodollar, because America was willing to provide defense to the GCC, and because America was able to support the GCC economies, they prosper and they are urbanized. So they're essentially vassals of America. If America were to leave the Middle East, then the people would probably rise up and overthrow the elite because they are corrupt. They are pretty evil people. And they're incompetent as well. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 53:38 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3218s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so I get it. That even makes it make more sense for them to try to get rid of Israel, the United States, and create an alliance with the other two superpowers in the world being China and Russia. And then, of course, you know, the strategic power, which is Iran. It just again, I don't understand why they think the end of the road is obvious. Iran is going to wipe them out. They're going to be wiped out. Right. Am I wrong about this? How how do they how do they get through the next year? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 54:10 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3250s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So. There's a conspiracy theory that the Saudi royal family are crypto Jews. I'm not sure if you've come across this theory. I haven't. Right. So 2003, the Americans went to Baghdad and they took control of the government and then access to all of the intelligence files of Saddam Hussein. And Saddam Hussein and his people were actually convinced that the Saudi royal family are crypto Jews. OK, so let me explain what I mean by that. So the House of Saud came into power because of their alliance with the Wahhabi religious movement, and both are creation of the British Empire in order to destabilize the Ottoman Empire. And at this time in history, this is like the 19th century, early 20th century, the British were working very closely with people called the Domei in the Ottoman Empire. The Domei are crypto Jews. These are followers of Sabatai Zevi, who declared himself a Jew. He was the leader ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 55:10 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3310s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: of the Jewish Masai in 1666, and on the surface, they believe in Islam, but at home, secretly, they still practice their Jewish faith, and these are called the Domei. And these are the people who sponsored the Young Turk movement to overthrow the Ottoman Empire and establish the Republic of Turkey. So these are the people who run Turkey today, and the faction of them worked very closely with the British, and the British installed them throughout the Gulf states, including the UAE and including Saudi Arabia. So that's a conspiracy theory, okay? I don't have any evidence, but that's what a lot of people believe happened, and that's why the UAE and Saudi Arabia are so close with Israel, and that's why they're so supportive of the American Empire. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 55:54 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3354s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Wow, no, I haven't, I haven't. Why do they call them crypto Jews? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 56:00 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3360s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Because they are secretly Jews. They're not, like, they go to Christianity or Catholicism or Islam on the surface, right? On the surface, outside, in public. They do everything that a Muslim or a Christian would do, but at home, among the part of the circle, they still practice the Kabbalah. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 56:21 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3381s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And so, what do you make, I've asserted this many times on the show, that the greatest trick the Zionists have pulled off was to get Christians to believe their number one enemy were Muslims, whereas the Muslim world actually venerates Jesus, the Mother Mary, as the opposite of what the Jewish culture does. Yes. And would you agree with that assessment? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 56:45 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3405s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: I completely agree. So, before the creation of the state of Israel, the Jews and the Muslims got along really, really well. In fact, the second largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel, is actually in Iran, in Tehran. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 56:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3419s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 56:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3419s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right? So, the Muslims have made a point of welcoming Jews because they see Jews as a holy people along. And so, in the year 1492. The Spaniards expelled the Jews from Spain, right? And it was the Ottoman Turks, the Ottoman Empire, that sent ships to help the Jews move to the Ottoman Empire. So, the Jews were expelled from Christian Europe, and they moved to the Ottoman Empire, where they were welcomed with open arms. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 57:33 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3453s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. So. And look, look. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 57:40 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3460s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: If you just look at these extreme Islamic movements, including ISIS. Including the Wahhabists. They were clearly creations of the Anglo -American Empire. Clearly. Right? Look at ISIS. They never attacked Israel, for whatever reason. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 57:54 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3474s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Clearly. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 57:54 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3474s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right? They attacked everywhere else in the Middle East, but they never attacked Israel. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 57:58 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3478s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: A hundred percent. I've been making that point for quite a while now. Yes. That, well, look who's the head of Syria right now, installed by Israel in the United States. It's the former head, chief head chopper of Al -Qaeda. And he's working hand in hand with Benjamin Netanyahu. Right. In fact, he's publicly said he wants to be in partnership with it. And it's just so obvious. And the people in America are such suckers. And that, you know, it's one thing to be suckered. It's another thing to keep being suckered. And it just, people, you weren't allowed. So, again, the thing about when you're not allowed to question something. Like, you weren't allowed to question 9 -11. And now I know that 9 -11 was not what it seemed to be at all. Right. It was not what it, it was the, they needed a 9 -11 so they could go and do what they're doing. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 58:50 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3530s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And this was all part of the Greater Israel Project. What people don't realize is that, as you brought, mentioned, there's a Greater North America Project. And it's got a technate state. And we've talked about this on this. So, this all, so the only way to kind of save Western civil, or the world right now, is for the American people to wake up to this. Right. And do you think they will, or what do you think, what is, what does history tell us? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 59:21 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3561s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So, the only hope for the world right now is the American people. Because the people in charge, the elite, they've colonized so many different parts of the world. Like China is a colony of, of the elite, of the national elite. People don't recognize this, but China is very subservient to the global elite. Europe, Canada. So, the best hope for the world. Is that the American people recognize what's happening, and they resist. And quite honestly, there's one movement in America right now, that has the most promise. And that's MAGA, right? So, if Torrey Carlson were to run for President of the United States, and MAGA were to fully unify behind him, then I think there's hope for the world. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:00:06 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3606s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah, I would, I don't know if I would call it MAGA, because the, the, the MAGA has been completely flipped on what it was when Donald Trump became president. It was, it was made up of people like Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens, and Dave Smith, and, and even Joe Rogan, and Theo Bonnet, that's all gone. Now, it's all the people who were never MAGA, are now what Donald Trump refers to as MAGA. So I wouldn't, I would say the former iteration of MAGA, which Tucker Carlson could very easily lead. And he's very good at, you know, bringing people together now, which is crazy. And, and now, you know, looking through the. you know looking backwards you see how he was demonized only when he started to do the right thing the the establishment loved him the left always hated him because divide and conquer is what the establishment does but um that now they he ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:01:02 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3662s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: got in trouble uh with his bosses when he started to see through it and he saw through the you you know the empire and he saw he saw through uh the war machine and you can't do that and that's why he's got he he got kicked out of uh you know his establishment position um do you what do you so do you do you think that that's ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:01:26 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0133](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0133) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3686s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0133` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: let's say tucker carlson ran for president wouldn't they just kill him um you know um i i'm ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:01:36 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0134](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0134) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3696s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0134` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: most impressed with tucker carlson and uh not only do i think his heart is in the right place as you say he's been the most consistent anti -war you know i'm most impressed with tucker carlson and uh not only do i think his heart is in the right place as you say he's been the most consistent anti -war you know i'm most impressed with in in mainstream american media for the longest time um and that's very brave of him um but i also think he has a very good read on the political wins in america he's also like an american patriot he loves america deeply in his heart um and so i think there are a lot of people in washington dc who secretly support him right i mean like i i don't think that uh everyone in washington dc is corrupt and willingness to sell out i i think there are a lot of ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:02:19 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0135](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0135) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3739s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0135` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: people in washington dc who are just hoping that a leader emerges that can represent um the true america the true america who will restore america to its former greatness and um i i i would not be surprised that there are a lot of people in the deep state um itself who are very supportive of um a resurgent america and so ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:02:45 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0136](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0136) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3765s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0136` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: the the more i uh look at things the more i'm convinced that donald trump's uh assassination attempts were faked and they were inside jobs especially butler pennsylvania uh and the and the key uh piece of evidence is that donald trump is not interested in who actually tried to do that the conspiracy behind it it's just a lone nut who was able to somehow uh get through all there why why aren't they watching the roofs nobody's watching the roof of butler pennsylvania even though the crowd saw him same thing with charlie kirk there's a roof there's a guy on the roof for at least a couple of minutes with a rifle and nobody in the security saw him that's impossible right um so this do you do you do you i i know so i am convinced uh that donald trump was in on that uh that butler pennsylvania thing and um what do you think ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:03:45 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0137](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0137) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3825s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0137` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: about it ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:03:48 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0138](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0138) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3828s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3828s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0138` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: understand why there's a disparity between the first term and the second term right so in the first term uh all of washington was unified against trump they tried to sabotage him from day one where this russia uh gate hoax uh the mainstream media was clearly against uh trump so when trump ordered the american troops out of syria he was just ignored by the military yes um you know you you had the chairman of the joint chief of staff mark milley called the chinese and said hey don't do what this guy says we're in charge that's treason yeah right um and and so in the first term there were a lot of leaks there were a lot of turnover uh in the second term you see a lot more discipline you see trump actually carrying out a plan and so it's not possible that what happened was that um at the end at the end of ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:04:39 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0139](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0139) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3879s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0139` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: his first term the deep state um there were many political factions that tried to destroy trump once and for all right so january 6 was clearly a huge operation by the fbi in my opinion clearly and then after he left office there was a raid the fbi raid on mar -a -lago there's lawfare they tried to bankrupt him they tried to put him in prison they tried to remove him from the battle box and he was really in a lot of trouble so at that point he had no choice but to make a deal with the deep state saying that you know look fighting is useless uh putin's gonna uh control the world if we continue to have fighting in the office but biden's not gonna like leave office voluntarily so like let's make a deal like we'll we'll allow you to go back into office um and but you have to promote our agenda ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:05:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0140](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0140) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3927s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0140` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: which is the uh american empire agenda and uh maybe butler pennsylvania was a ritual in order to seal the deal right because if you actually look at the specifics of the assassination where um trump's ear was bleeding and he didn't have a shoe that actually was a or basically a scapegoat for the deep state same thing with charlie kirk's public assassination ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:06:16 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0141](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0141) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3976s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0141` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: they had to do it publicly right that was also some kind of ritual killing correct yes Yes, that is correct, yes. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:06:23 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0142](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0142) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3983s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0142` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah, there are a lot of ritual aspects to that assassination. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:06:27 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0143](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0143) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3987s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0143` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And where do these rituals come from? Can you speak to it? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:06:34 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0144](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0144) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=3994s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0144` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So I don't know the specifics, but I imagine these are Freemasonic rituals that involve the Kabbalah. And they are all part of the Freemasonic mythology, right? So if you look at the JFK assassination, if you look at the Charlie Kirk assassination, these all come from a certain mythology in the Freemason world. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:07:02 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0145](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0145) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4022s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0145` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. Did you hear about the... So Candace Owens has been saying that Charlie Kirk's assassination was a military operation, which it's clear that they were certainly involved. And the freakout over her discovering the Fort Huachuca connection was, again, proof of this. And then did you hear that... So there was maroon, lots of single individuals wearing maroon at the event with Charlie Kirk's assassination. And then that's the color of the French military. And then she's saying that there was a Masonic lodge made up of ex -French military that the French government just recently charged them as being an assassination ring. Did you hear about that? And this fits into that perfectly, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:07:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0146](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0146) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4079s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0146` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. So this would not surprise me. Also, we have to remember, like, this happened in Utah, which is where the Mormons are. Yes. The Mormons are a very important part of the deep state. So this is probably an operation that involved a lot of different deep state factions. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:08:15 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0147](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0147) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4095s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0147` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. It wasn't just one. It wasn't just the Mossad. It wasn't just the CIA. It wasn't just the French military. It was the Mormons. The Mormons, and all those people. And Donald Trump and Dan Bongino and Kash Patel are completely aware of this happening. And they know that if they try to go against it, they're going to end up like Charlie Kirk themselves, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:08:42 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0148](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0148) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4122s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0148` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yes. And we know what happened after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, right? There's no longer any major opposition towards this war in Iran. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:08:53 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0149](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0149) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4133s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0149` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. He was the only one. I mean, well, he was certainly the most powerful one because he had a following and he had all the conservatives under 30. So they had to get rid of him. And that's definitely what happened. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:09:05 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0150](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0150) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4145s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0150` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And he would not compromise on this issue. He would not compromise on this issue. I mean, he went on it for a long, long time, right? Starting with last year's 12 -day war. I mean, he went to the White House and talked to Trump directly and said, you know, you've got to stop this. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:09:22 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0151](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0151) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4162s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0151` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And do you think that's when the decision, I think that's when the decision was made. To get rid of him. And they tried one more time to bribe him in his meeting at the Hamptons and he turned it down. And that was like, they had already, the plan was already in progress to kill him. But they were like, well, let's try one more time. And it didn't work. He turned down their money. And, you know, of course, his, and in retrospect, his wife, Erica Kirk, it's obvious she was put in his life. She was, she's, their whole life was, you know, she's a 17 -year -old beauty queen somehow working with trafficking in Romania. It's just none of it. And so, you know, what I say is if the CIA had a vagina, she came out of it. And everybody around him, from Tyler COVID to, I mean, Tyler Bowden to Andrew COVID, Mikey McCoy, his father, all those pastors, it's one big swamp, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:10:21 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0152](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0152) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4221s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0152` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: That's the swamp. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:10:23 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0153](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0153) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4223s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0153` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Well, that's what the Epstein -Thal teaches us, right? I mean, these are, these are extremely depraved people. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:10:29 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0154](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0154) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4229s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0154` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And what do you, by the way, what do you make of the journalists who had really great reputations up until the, the Epstein files? And now there seem to be, and, you know, it's like whether it's, whether it's Epstein himself or whether it's, is Epstein dead or whether it's the files, you see people like Michael Schellenberger, Matt Taib, maybe, what do you, what do you make, what do you make of that? Like them trying to dismiss what everyone sees? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:11:07 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0155](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0155) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4267s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0155` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. I mean, I've been a huge fan of Matt Taib's for the longest time. Me too. Starting with the 2008, 2008 great financial crisis. He did a major reporting in Rolling Stone and I've been following his work for the past decade. I'm a huge admirer of his work. And I don't, I don't have any, any clue as to why he did what he did. You know, there are theories, theories that the IRS visited him and that might have something to do with it. But usually in these cases, what happens is that you, so you associate a certain group of people, they become your friends, you spend weekends together, you go on cruises together, your kids know each other and you just want to stay in that circle, right? And since, and stay in that circle, it just means you have to conform to the talking points. And you think that's it? That is a possibility. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:11:58 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0156](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0156) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4318s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0156` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. I think that you and I are able to do what we do because I imagine, I don't know about you, but we are marginal, we're very much marginalized in society. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:12:10 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0157](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0157) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4330s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0157` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: To say the least. Yes. Certainly on my part, very, very marginalized. And I got a good taste of it during Forced to Vote when I presented this idea that the whole left is supposed to be rallying around for decades, which they were. And then as soon as it became a possibility, they turned on me and they came at me as hard as possible and tried to discredit me, you know, in every which way. They still do it to today. And not only that, but they got, you know, useful idiots, people who I've known all my life to go along with it, which, and they got nothing out of it, right? Which is to accept they just got brainwashed and they were, go ahead. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:12:52 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0158](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0158) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4372s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0158` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And you were completely vindicated on Forced to Vote. I mean, you were up to, right? Because Republicans did the same thing, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:12:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0159](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0159) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4379s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0159` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Say it again. And it worked. Yeah, when the Republicans had McCarthy wanting to be speaker, they did exactly what we were advocating the squad to do for Forced to Vote. And it worked like a charm for them. They got everything they wanted. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:13:12 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0160](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0160) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4392s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0160` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Exactly. Exactly. So it just shows you what a fraud AOC is. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:13:16 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0161](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0161) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4396s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0161` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah, 100%. But she said, you know, I believe she'll probably be the nominee or the vice presidential nominee going in 2028. So there's no voting our way out of this. I've known this now for a while. And you say that the, you think that the original MAGA coalition, the people like Tucker Carlson, the Candace Owens, that if they can somehow find a way to organize and come together, but doesn't that involve, you need labor, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:13:47 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0162](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0162) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4427s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0162` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: What do you mean by labor? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:13:49 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0163](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0163) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4429s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0163` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: By you need unions. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:13:52 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0164](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0164) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4432s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0164` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Right. Yes. But unions have been decimated in America, right? I mean, like they're no longer as powerful as they used to be. Is that correct? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:14:03 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0165](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0165) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4443s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0165` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah, 100%. Less than 10 % of the workers are in unions. And most of them are government union, government workers. But, well, you know, I said like if the railroads, that we almost had a railroad strike here and then Joe Biden and the Democrats interceded to make it illegal for them to go on strike. And if they would have, they would have won that strike immediately and it would have empowered workers across the country, which is why they had to make it illegal. And so if, if you get, so let's, for instance, if you got the railroad workers to actually not go to work, that would, that would cripple capitalism in America. If you got the port workers to do the same, if you got the, the people who work at the Amazon fulfillment centers, or if you got the UPS drivers, if you got, even like one of them, but if you got them all together, that would be, that would be it. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:14:53 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0166](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0166) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4493s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0166` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: And that's how you have to take over the country. That's what I think. You have to stop capitalism and that's how you gain power. It's kind of like, you know what? Go ahead. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:15:03 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0167](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0167) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4503s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0167` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. I didn't think of this before, but you've convinced me the key is labor, right? Because AI can replace actually the white collar class, teachers, professors, accountants, lawyers, they can be replaced actually pretty easily, but you need labor. You need essential workers. You need people actually do the real work. And we know that's from COVID, right? Where during COVID, you know, these people still have to work, but the everyone else could just at home on their lap and, and just put on their laptops. So I mean, you're absolutely right. I think the key is, is to galvanize the, the lay, the labor movement. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:15:39 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0168](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0168) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4539s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0168` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Um, and you know, of course they know how they've infiltrated the labor movement. So just like everything else is infiltrated, just like the democratic party, the green party, the Republican party, uh, the DSA, they're all infiltrated by the deep state and control that it's all divide and conquer. And so this, like the union, so it's going to be very hard. Um, but that's the only, that's the only way we can say, you know, and the template is there from the truckers, right? So the truckers did it on as even as a small scale. And it worked. If we could get the, you know, uh, the, the AFL CIO, which is the truck drivers, uh, just them to do it. Or if you just get the railroad workers, or if you get them in conjunction with the port workers, that's it game over. We, the people win. And of course they'll try to do things like assassinations and again, more infiltrations. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:16:29 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0169](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0169) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4589s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0169` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: But that's the, I, to me that, you know, because people like to say this, they say this a lot. Uh, you'll hear people say, oh, we need a general strike. Okay. That's a great idea. Stop saying that. Right. Uh, say something, you know, specific and constructive. And what I'm saying, I think is actually more specific and more constructive and actually something more likely to work. Um, it, it's, it's go ahead. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:16:52 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0170](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0170) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4612s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0170` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. The comment would be illegal immigration, right? So you ask yourself why the Democrats have let in, you know, millions of illegal immigrants when Biden was, was in power and it could be a possibility. I mean, like I'm speculating, but it's, it's just to dilute the power of labor in the future. Of course. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:17:09 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0171](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0171) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4629s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0171` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Of course. No, no, a hundred percent. And to keep, uh, the people from coming together to fight the oligarchs, what they do then is you have workers fighting people who are in a more desperate situation than them and look at that. And, and, and the immigrants who we overthrew their governments in their country and made their life unlivable, who come here, so now we got the people at the bottom fighting instead of people at the bottom coming together and fighting the people at the top. And it works perfectly. It's working, still working. People are cheering on what ice is doing across the country. And again, we need to have immigrate. We need to have a strong border and all that stuff. But the demonization of the PR if I have always said this, if you find yourself angry at someone lower on the economic ladder than you, it's a good chance. You're being manipulated by someone higher on the economic ladder than you. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:17:59 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0172](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0172) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4679s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0172` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: It's obvious. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:18:00 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0173](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0173) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4680s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0173` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. And also we have to remember that ice is on a part of a technique plan, right? Because you want to create an AI surveillance state. So you need an enforcement mechanism now that'd be ice. So what's happening is that they're using illegal immigration in order to normalize ice on the streets everywhere. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:18:14 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0174](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0174) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4694s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0174` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: That's exact. And so, yeah, they don't need $80 billion to run an ice, an immigration program. What they do is if you want to create another authoritarian police state and that that's, that's what you would do. And you're exactly right. And that's what the job of ice there isn't really immigration. It's there to normalize this kind of authoritarian takeover of our life. This technique state. That's exactly what's happening. All right. This is always good to talk to you, but it's always so depressing. But it's good. You get, you gotta, you've gotta see it first. You gotta have the scales fall from your eyes. So then you know what to do about it. Let me, what give, does anything give you optimism? And, and what off ramps are there? Do you see for these worst outcomes? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:19:05 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0175](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0175) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4745s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0175` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: So, you know, people like, like you, people like our Carlson, Kenneth Owens, give me a tremendous hope for the future because you're still allowed to say what you believe. You speak from the heart. You have tremendous audiences. Your audience is love, love you. And I, I, I, I, you, you know this for yourself, but your, your voice is resonating all across America and the world. So that, that's what gives me, gives me hope. The other thing that I would like to say is that I'm not a, that gives me hope is that the people in charge aren't that smart. They're not that strategic. We shouldn't give that, give them too much credit. They're going to make a lot of mistakes. They're going to miscalculate. They're too arrogant. They're going to create opportunities for, for other people. And the third thing I will say is that the elite themselves are not unified. If they were, they could just do what they want. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:19:55 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0176](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0176) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4795s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0176` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: There are different factions of the elite fighting, fighting, fighting amongst themselves. And so this creates opportunity for new political movements that could possibly galvanize labor can galvanize 99%. Okay. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:20:13 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0177](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0177) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4813s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0177` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Professor Zhang, I really appreciate your insight. I appreciate you talking to me and, and talking to our audience. We can't get this kind of information from the wall street journal, the New York times, the Washington post, or, or MSNBC or Fox news, they can't get it. We have to come here, which is why they try to marginalize us and try to take our advertising away. And so I just really appreciate the, what kind of, so, so what, what, what's the reaction to you? Why do they allow, why does the Chinese government allow you to do this? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:20:46 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0178](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0178) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4846s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0178` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. That's a great question. So I'm very much marginalized in China. Everyone thinks I'm an idiot in China. So, but because like the response is, is just to just ignore someone, if you don't agree with that person, right? The other thing is that I only speak in English to Western audiences. I don't have a Chinese online media presence. If I did, if I were influential in China, then the government would see me as a problem. And yeah, so I, I avoid public appearances. I avoid online media presence. I don't talk to reporters in, in, in China. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:21:30 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0179](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0179) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4890s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0179` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Oh, okay. All right. So tell people where, where, where do you want people to, to, to find you? You have a, you have a YouTube channel now that is blowing up, right? ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:21:39 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0180](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0180) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4899s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0180` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Yeah. Right. So thanks Jimmy, so much for platforming me. I really appreciate it. I, I love your show. I love what you do. I, I love to talk to you some more, more often, whatever time, time permits. Hopefully we, we can make this a monthly thing or, or something because like, I, I just loved talking to you. It, And, and I, I can see certain things on your show. I couldn't say anywhere else because IBD platform. But if, if you want to follow my work, the best place is my YouTube channel, Predictive History. And my sub stack, which is Predictive History, sub stack.com. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:22:15 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0181](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0181) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4935s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0181` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. Fantastic. I feel the same way. I feel very kindred spirit and hopefully we can, we can share a meal and have a conversation in person when I come to China. I'm looking forward to it. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:22:26 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0182](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0182) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4946s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0182` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. We'll stay in touch. ## The Final Days of the U.S. Empire -- 1:22:29 - Source title: The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang - Source class: interview - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0183](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc/transcript/#seg-0183) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61z1rB3UvPc&t=4949s) - Source ref: `video:interview-61z1rb3uvpc@transcript:v1#seg-0183` - Interview text: [/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.txt) - Interview JSON: [/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/interviews/interview-61z1rb3uvpc.json) Text: Okay. Will do. Thanks Jimmy. Thanks again. Hey, come see us doing live shows. May 7th in Burbank, California. That's a Thursday, May 16th, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then we'll be in Oklahoma city, Spokane, Washington and Tacoma. Go to Jimmy door.com for a link for tickets. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: There has been so far a two -week ceasefire between Iran and the United States. The ceasefire is supposed to end tomorrow. And right now, the Americans have gone to Islamabad to negotiate a possible peace treaty. The Iranians may go. They may not go. We don't know yet. It is entirely possible that the Iranians will go to Islamabad and it's entirely possible that they will negotiate a ceasefire, a peace treaty that ends the war. But unfortunately, this war will not end. So a lot of people believe that this war, it is just because Donald Trump has decided to go to war with Iran for whatever reason. But that's not true. This war in Iran. It's actually part of a larger strategic vision that the United States has to maintain its empire. And today, I want to explain why that is the case and how this war will progress. But first, I want to look at some recent events from these past two weeks. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 1:11 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=71s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=71s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: One of the big news these past two weeks is that there are a lot of oil refineries that are afire. They've been alight. So even as... As the world has been cut off from 20 % of energy from the Middle East, there are lots of oil refineries that are being destroyed, okay? So this is from Russia. And this is actually Russia's largest oil refinery. As you can see, it is pretty extensive, okay? This is not Russia. It is actually a lot of places. So this is Myanmar. And these are ten... This is not Russia. These are ten oil tankers. So there are a lot of oil refineries that have, that are being destroyed right now. We don't know why this is happening, but there's a lot, okay? There's already been over 50 oil refineries that have been on fire these past 45 days. Another thing that's been happening is that even though there's a ceasefire in effect, the Americans have imposed a blockade. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 2:38 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: There's a blockade on Iran. And the Americans have escalated the situation by boarding and basically taking over an Iranian ship returning from China, okay? So let's just look at some of the footage. So what happened was that the Iranian ship was returning from China, and the Americans suspected that the ship had important fuel and components for ballistic missiles. Okay? The Americans tried to board the ship. The ship would not stop. The Americans fired at the engine, and then they boarded the ship with special forces. Okay? And this would be considered an act of piracy. And before the Secretary of War, Peter Hexheff, he before complained that you have to let ships freely navigate in the seas. But he's also said that... He's also said that it's probably okay for Americans to steal ships, okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 4:03 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: To be clear, threatening to shoot missiles and drones at ships, commercial ships that are lawfully transiting international waters, that is not control. That's piracy. That's terrorism. Certainly in Venezuela. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 4:21 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay. So you understand. So the fact that Iran has closed off certain moves and threatened to attack ships with drones and ballistic missiles, that is wrong. That is piracy. Unless the Americans do this, okay? Unless the Americans do this. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 4:36 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=276s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=276s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: The oil is taking notice of that. And it continues, because two oil tankers, two overnight, were seized by the United States of America, stateless or sanctioned, because the oil blockade, the quarantine of oil out of unsanctioned or stateless, sanctioned or stateless vessels continues. That leverage will continue, as Secretary Rubio outlined. So as you've seen today... ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 4:57 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=297s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=297s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay. So does that make sense? It is wrong for the United States to do this. the world to be pirates and to see ships but it's okay for the United States to do this because the United States is the one that sets the rules for the world duh okay so this war is not going well for the United States this is a Rick Scott and he's a senator from Florida he explains that it doesn't really matter if the war is not going well for United States because what's happening is that we're hurting China and that's what's important how do you feel like the war ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 5:47 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: in Iran which is sort of in a ceasefire right now how do you feel like this is going should the u.s. wrap this up get out of there now or do you think there's more to do there I think I'm I think I appreciate that Trump's trying to get rid of the nuclear weapons I don't want to die by a nuclear weapon from Iran they wanted to kill us I mean I mean this appeasement of bullies I don't know if you in your life that's work for you guys it's never worked for me and so they wanted to kill us so they're very they're getting close to be in a position to kill us and they basically had been killing Americans so I think what Trump did is the right thing now I think this there he has to he has to get the them in a position that they don't have the ability ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 6:28 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: to nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles that's I think that's where we have to go I don't know what the right approach is going to be I think blocking the strait here moves is fine for my standpoint if not if no oil ever goes to China again and their economy is destroyed that would be a really ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 6:47 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: wonderful day for me okay do you guys understand the Americans may lose this war but if the end result is that China no longer gets any oil from the Middle East and the economy is destroyed it's worth it all right okay even now even at this late stage we're about 50 year 50 days into this war the americans have yet to explain why this war started in the first place so so this is carrying livid and she was asked by reporter again why this war started and this is her this is her response and said yesterday for the first time ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 7:24 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: that he had to strike iran because he believes that iran was going to strike u.s targets within in seven days and then he then bumped that down later to three days where is he getting that well ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 7:36 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: that's not the first time the president has said that he chose to launch operation epic fury because he felt as though iran was going to strike the united states and our assets in the region first again i addressed this in the last briefing this was a feeling the president had based on facts ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 7:50 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=470s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: facts provided to him so it was a feeling based on facts okay that's why trump start this war trump himself has given conflicting signals um he said uh that this war is going to end soon he's also said that this war is going to continue all right so he changed every day it was uh 20 minutes ago ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 8:14 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: but it seems to be going very well at least with the rent so he's saying this war is going great ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 8:43 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: um we should have a ceasefire soon okay and then maybe an hour later he's like oh i think i need to drop bombs on iran so there's a lot of conflicting signals coming from trump and what i want to show you today what i want to argue to you today is that you have to ignore these signals and focus on the larger american strategy in this war and once you once we understand the strategy then it's very easy for us to understand how this war will progress over next few years okay because this war is not going to end soon it won't be a few months it'll probably be a few years and quite honestly um it may take 10 or 20 years okay so let's look over some more news so as i mentioned previously oil refineries are getting sabotaged either by accident or purposefully um what this tells us is that in the ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 9:51 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: past 45 days there have been at least 45 recorded incidents around the world of oil firemen being set on fire okay so iran was bombed by the israelis and then israelis responded by attacking qatar russia is being attacked by ukraine and um the big one is that in australia in jilon one of the refineries was uh set on fire and they claimed it was an accident this is important because australia is mad at war but australia needs a lot of oil okay so right now australia is in a lot of trouble um romania bucharest has been hit india has been hit marmara has been hit okay so all around the world there are these fires going on destroying the world's oil supply so why is this happening um and who's doing this we don't know and quite honestly we may never know but if you have the answer you always ask yourself um who benefits ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 10:53 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: and you always look at three things means motive and opportunity and so from this you could figure out that the majority of these fires are being set um are being deliberately set in order to reduce the world's oil supply and the people who can do this the people benefit from doing this are the russians or the americans okay one of these two it's probably both but we don't know for sure yet all right um this war as we discussed previously is having it's already having a tremendous impact on the world's economy so sulfur um has risen in price by 57 sulfur is important for the manufacture of both fertilizers as well as for microchips okay uh jet fuel has gone by 52 so next time you're flying the united states it's gonna be a much more expensive ticket uh urea is important fertilizer uh diesel gasoline fertilizer so basically um food and energy their price ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 12:10 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=730s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=730s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: have gone way up okay donald trump makes a statement saying that the iranian flag cargo ship tuska has been boarded by the americans okay and donald trump continues to threaten the Iranians and say that if you continue to close off the Strait of Hormuz then we will negotiate with bombs basically all right no more Mr. Nice Guy and quite honestly what he's also saying is we don't really care because we don't need that oil from the Middle East also we can sell our oil to the world okay the United States loses nothing in fact many ships are headed right now to the U.S. Texas, Louisiana, Alaska, the low compliments of the IRGC which want to be the tough guy all right so we're the ones benefiting from this war so we have nothing to worry about all right so another thing that I want you guys to pay attention to is how America is ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 13:16 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: moving towards a war economy all right so the Pentagon has been in talks with General Motors and Ford to make munitions drones and military equipment all right so this is what this this last happened in World War II when America moved to total war there are factories that used to make cars were now making tanks but not only that but Trump also announced something called the Defense Production Act as of today and what this does is it basically allows the government to subsidize private corporations in the manufacture of weapons okay so these companies General Motors, Ford they can make a lot of money because of this war that's something to keep in mind starting December Americans who are aged 18 to 26 will be automatically registered for the draft okay so it's very likely that America will soon introduce a national draft and force young men to sign up for the draft to go fight ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 14:23 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: in the Middle East currently the Pentagon budget is one trillion dollars next year it'll be 1.5 trillion dollars increased by of um 50 percent okay and we can expect that the year after it might be two trillion dollars um more veterans are now being asked to serve longer okay so what we're seeing is that the United States is moving towards a wartime economy okay they're preparing for what we call total war when an economy moves towards uh the manufacture of weapons and munitions all right another thing that's that's been happening that you should pay attention to is the fact that there's very little opposition in fact there's no opposition to Donald Trump fighting the Soviet Union. This war in Iran you would think that the Democrats his opponents would use this opportunity to promote anti -war messages or try to stop him from plunging America into another forever war in the Middle East instead ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 15:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: the Democrats are doing as much as possible not to do anything so recently in Congress they had a vote as to whether or not to restrict Trump's ability to fight this war okay and there were four Republicans who voted in favor of the anti -war messages. who did not vote and one Republican who voted we should restrict Trump okay and so this vote should have been 214 to 213 in favor yes we will restrict Trump's war powers but then what happened was that one Democrat just one Democrat decides I want to switch my vote to no so now now becomes 214 to 213 okay do you understand guys this is all political theater you understand it's all theater meaning that it was already prearranged between the Republicans and Democrats that this resolution would fail in other words it may be to Republicans voted yes then to Democrats were voted no if 10 Republicans supported yeah ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 16:49 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: yes then 10 Democrats would have voted no you understand the Democrats are not opposing this war They're doing as much as possible to support this war. So the question then is, why is this happening? Why is America moving towards a wartime economy? Why are the Democrats so supportive of this war? And the answer has to do with empire, okay? So this has been called the National Defense Strategy that came out in January, 2026. And this is the blueprint for how the Pentagon will fight wars for the next five to 10 years. This is a strategy behind the Iran war, all right? And so what we're going to do is we're going to read certain parts together to analyze how the Americans will strategize about the world moving forward, okay? So Avery, could you help me read, please? Thank you. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 17:46 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: For too long, the US government neglected, even rejected, putting Americans and their concrete interests first. Previous administrations squandered their military advantages and the lives of the American people. Goodwill and resources over people in grandiose nation -building projects and self -congratulatory pledges to uphold Cloud Castle abstractions like the rule -based international order. These past leaders neglected and often actively undermined our warfighters' warrior ethos and our military's core, irreplaceable role, fighting, winning, and thereby deterring the wars that really matter to our people. Consequently, President Trump entered office with the National Defense Strategy, and the United States is the nation on the precipice of disastrous wars for which we were unprepared. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 18:32 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1112s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1112s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, so certain things to keep in mind, okay? Concrete interests first means that we have to think about resources. We have to think about concrete advantages to America. We can no longer think about ideals, okay? Second is the idea of rules -based international order or the globalists. Before America was fighting wars for their nations or for Europe. We have to fight wars for America, okay? And the last thing is the idea of undermining our warriors' ethos, okay? What this means is that before, America was founded by too many rules, okay? What they call rules of engagement, okay? Or basically avoiding war crimes. You're not allowed to kill civilians. You needed permission from the United Nations to fight wars. And what this is saying is like, screw that, okay? Screw rules of engagement. We should just fight wars to win wars. That means we kill as many people as we need. That means we do whatever is necessary in order to win wars, okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 19:54 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: So this is what the first paragraph is saying here. It's a new vision of American power. Before it was about ideals. Now it's about interests. Before it was about globalism. Now it's about America first. Before it was about rules of engagement. Now it's about the warrior ethos, okay? Please continue reading, Irene. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 20:15 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: President Trump has decisively changed that, courageously putting Americans first to truly make America great once again. Under his leadership, the United States has the world's strongest, most lethal, and most capable military. Indeed, the most powerful military that this world has ever seen. No longer will the department be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime changes, and nation building. Instead, we will put our people's practical, concrete interests first. We will support a policy of actual peace through strength. We will be the sword and shield to deter war with the goal of peace, but ready to fight and win the nation's necessary wars if called upon. This is not - ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 20:57 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, stop, okay, all right. So an important sentence here is, we will support a policy of actual peace through strength. Okay. What this means is that we will be so mighty, we will be so invincible, we will be so fearless that we will instill fear in others. They will be so afraid to fight us and therefore we'll have peace, okay? So it's the idea of hegemony. Peace through might, peace through power. We have to demonstrate we are invincible. When people fear us, that's when people will obey us. When people obey us, that's when we'll have peace, okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 21:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: This does not mean isolationism. To the contrary, it means a focused and genuinely strategic approach to the threats our nation faces and how to best manage them. This approach is based on a flexible, practical realism that looks at the world in a clear -eyed way, which is essential for serving Americans' interests. As the National Security Strategy articulates, this is the common sense approach President Trump has invented. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 22:06 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, all right. So this does not mean isolationism. It's about how to best manage them. So the idea here is that America, before, was engaging too many wars overseas. It was too spread out. America will now be focused on maintaining and protecting its core strategic interests. That means divide and conquer, okay? Divide and conquer, divide and rule, okay? I'll explain this as we go on. All right. These are the four strategic interests of the United States, okay? Can you read it out for me? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 22:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: We will defend the homeland and ensure that our interests in the Western Hemisphere are protected. We will deter China and the Indo -Pacific through strength, not confrontation. We will increase burden -sharing with allies and partners around the world. And we will rebuild the U.S. defense industrial base as part of the President's once -in -a -century revival of American industry. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 23:02 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, so this is it, okay? This is the plan moving forward, and already, we're seeing the Americans are doing this, all right? So, rebuild the U.S. defense industrial base, okay? Basically, it means factories and resources, all right? Making sure that America becomes the arsenal of democracy. Its factories produce all the weapons America needs in order to protect its interests, as well as protect its allies. We will increase burden -sharing with allies and partners around the world, okay? This basically means that from now on, we're not friends. From now on, we're the boss, and you do what we tell you to do, okay? From now on, we will order Japan, South Korea, Europe, NATO to do what they must in order to protect our power, and they must follow us. Basically, create a system of vassalage. That's number two. Number three is, we will deter China in the Indo -Pacific through strength, not confrontation. We don't want to destroy China, right? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 24:07 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: We don't want to hurt China, but we need China to obey us. And the way to do that is by containing China, strangling China economically, and also promoting Japan, okay? So in the future, China and Japan will balance each other out, and that allows us to rule over them, right? In the future, we America will sell resources, weapons, and financing to both China and Japan as they compete against each other in East Asia. That's how we will contain China. And then the idea of we'll defend the homeland and ensure that our interests in the Western Hemisphere are protected, okay? So basically, this means that the Western Hemisphere belongs to America. We'll do whatever we want in the Western Hemisphere. If you want to come to the Western Hemisphere, you need our permission. If you, China, or Russia, you want to come into the Western Hemisphere, you have to get our permission. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 25:04 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: You have to pay a tax to us, okay? This is really important, defend the homeland. Defend the homeland just basically means a police state. Before, America was too free, and therefore, America was too weak. The example is the Vietnam War. When the war was not lost in Vietnam, the war was lost at home, because you had too many people, too many young men protesting on the streets, too many rebels. If we want to win wars, if we want to project strength, if we want to create peace in the world, we need to make sure that we have the right people, we need to make sure that our home front is secure, all right? And that means making sure that Americans follow the law, do what they're told, okay? So, I'll explain this more as we go along. All right, so now let's move on to China, okay? So, can you read Ivory? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 25:59 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Deter China and the Indo -Pacific through strength, not confrontation. President Trump seeks a stable peace, fair trade, and respectable relations with China, and he has shown that he is willing to engage President Xi Jinping directly to achieve those goals. But President Trump has also shown how important it is to negotiate from a position of strength, and he has tasked D.O.W. accordingly. Consistent with the President's approach, D.O.W. will therefore seek and open a wider range of military -to -military communications with the People's Liberation Army, with a focus on supporting strategic stability with Beijing as well as D.O.W. with the confliction and de -escalation more generally. But we will also be clear -eyed and realistic about the speed, scale, and quality of China's historic military buildup. Our goal in doing so is not to dominate China, nor is it to strangle or humiliate them. Rather, our goal is simple. To prevent anyone, including China, from being able to dominate us or our allies. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 27:03 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: In essence, to set the military conditions required to achieve the NSS goal of a balance of power in the Indo -Pacific. That allows all of us to enjoy a decent peace. To that end, as the NSS directs, we will erect a strong denial of defense along the first island chain. We will also urge and enable key regional allies and partners to do more for our collective defense. In doing so, we will reinforce deterrence by denial so that all nations recognize their interests are best served through peace and restraint. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 27:38 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, so again, this is a very clear plan, okay? What this is saying is this. We're going to negotiate with China. We're going to be friends. We have to do so from a position of strength. And so, what does that mean? First of it means that we will embargo China, okay? How can we embargo China? Through the first island chain, right? The first island chain is Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines. Right? So, if you embargo China, it means China cannot access the state of Malacca, which provides China with 80 % of its energy needs. Right? And so, if you embargo China, China has no choice but to obey you. You're negotiating from a position of strength. The other thing is that we're going to enable key regional allies. And this, of course, will be Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, right? And this creates a state of Malacca. We will have these nations challenge Chinese supremacy in order to create balance, a power balance in East Asia. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 28:46 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: And once this power balance is created, they all depend on us, the United States, because we have energy. We have food. We have weapons. We have financing. Okay? So, again, if you just read this, it's very, very clear what the United States wants to do. And they're already doing it. All right. So, this is the conclusion, okay? Ivory, can you read, please? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 29:12 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Taking our nation from the precipice of a world war just a year ago, President Trump is now leading our nation into a new golden age, one defined by putting Americans first in a common sense, pragmatic, and concrete way. No longer will we squander Americans' will, resources, and even lives in foolish and grandiose adventures abroad. But we will not retreat. Rather, we will unabashedly prioritize Americans' concrete interests with an approach of flexible realism. We will restore the warrior ethos. We will refocus the American military on its core, irreplaceable goal of winning the nation's wars decisively. In doing so, as President Trump has so memorably emphasized, our purpose will not be aggression or perpetual war. Rather, our goal is peace. Peace is the highest good, but not a peace that sacrifices our people's security, freedoms, and prosperity. Rather, a peace that Americans deserve, a noble and proud peace. Fortunately, this peace is compatible with, the interests of our potential opponents, if they keep their demands reasonable and cabined. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 30:22 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: We do not demand their humiliation or submission. Rather, we demand only that they respect our reasonably conceived interests and those of our allies and partners who stand stoutly with us. If we all can acknowledge this, we can achieve a flexible and sustainable balance of power among us and peace. But we at the Department of War will be ready if our gracious offer is spurned. We know that wishing for a decent peace is not the same thing as bringing it about. Thus, if our potential opponents are unwise enough to reject our peaceful overtures and choose conflict instead, America's armed force will stand ready to fight and win the nation's wars in ways that make sense for Americans. To ensure that this is the case, the strategy will ensure that we see things and the choices we need to make clearly. We will prioritize addressing the most consequential and grave threats, to Americans' interests. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 31:18 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: We will revamp our network of allies and partners to meet the threats we face. And we will be ready, always carrying the sharpest and most formidable sword, but prepared to offer the olive branch. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 31:30 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay, so this is very clear. What he's saying is this. Obey us and there will be peace. Defy us and there will be war. The key idea is we will prioritize addressing the most consequential and grave threats to Americans' interests. Sorry, can you give me your hand? Okay, so I want to show you what this means. Basically, it means that from now on, America will adopt a new strategy, okay? Alright, so if this ceasefire does not work, and war continues, then we can expect in round two, the fighting will get much worse. Okay? Iranians will start to target civilian infrastructure, including bridges, universities, reservoirs, power plants, desalination plants. Basically, it will destroy Iran's capacity to be a nation state. In response, the Iranians can destroy a lot more energy infrastructure, okay? So what it's done now, it's basically closed off the Strait of Hormuz, but it can also close off the Red Sea, okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 32:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1961s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=1961s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: And it can also target pipelines of natural gas. Basically, it can take offline one -third of the world's energy supply, and this would, of course, cause an economic depression, okay? Unfortunately, the national security strategy of the United States doesn't really care. If you just read the national security strategy, they already have factored this in, and they don't really care. So the idea is to prioritize strategic interests. And what this basically means is that America has the world's greatest nation state, the Navy. No one else comes close. And so all that they do is contain the world's choke points, and the world must bend to the will of America. Okay, does that make sense? If you're going to trade, then you must depend on American generosity, okay? So already what's happening is that this area, it's being closed off. But America has made moves to close off other areas as well. So America is exerting more control over the Panama Canal, okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 33:49 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Basically, the Western Hemisphere is under something called the Darnold Doctrine. The Darnold Doctrine basically states that America can do whatever it wants in the Western Hemisphere. If you want to come here and trade, you have to go through us. China depends on a lot of resources from the Western Hemisphere, especially from South America, alright? Over here is something called the Lithium Triangle. This is Venezuela. Brazil provides China with a lot of agricultural products. Soil beans, basically. And what Trump is saying is that, hey, in the future, if you want to trade over here, China, you have to go through us, okay? So he's basically embargling the Western Hemisphere from China. Over here is something called the Strait of Malacca. This is the most important choke point in the world, especially for East Asia, because as you can see, the Middle East, if it is to access South Korea, China, and Japan, it has to go through the Strait of Malacca. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 34:49 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2089s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2089s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: But guess what, guys? Everything goes through the Strait of Malacca. And this is important because the United States has signed a deal with Indonesia. So what we can expect is that America and Indonesia, their militaries will start to cooperate more and more. And the reason why is, America is moving towards creating the first island chain. Basically, militarizing the first island chain in order to deter China, to embargo China, basically. What we're also seeing is that Japan is now rapidly remilitarizing. They're signing more agreements with Australia and other nations, okay? They're putting more weapons. This is all being encouraged by the United States as a deterrent to China. Again, this is really important. America does not want to destroy China. It does not want to humiliate China. It wants to control China because the Chinese economy is still very strong and powerful. And America wants to make sure that the Chinese are buying more U.S. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 35:58 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: dollars, okay? So it is entirely possible what's going to happen is that the Chinese will have no choice but to buy from America, okay? Especially energy. The entire Western Hemisphere, belongs to America. If you want to trade with the Western Hemisphere, then you need to sign a trade deal with America, okay? What America is also doing that's really important is that it's planning to take over Greenland, okay? By taking over Greenland, you're blocking access. China and Russia cannot access the Western Hemisphere through the Arctic. You're also seizing control over the Arctic, okay? And there are lots of minerals and oil in the Arctic as well, okay? The Strait of Gibraltar is also another strategic choke point. And America has signed a deal with Morocco to enhance more cooperation, okay? So I can see what America is doing is, when they mean strategic interest, prioritizing strategic interest, what they mean is exerting control over the world's choke points. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 37:11 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: So that they can control global trade, okay? They're not going to control the entire ocean because it's much too big, but if they control certain choke points, like the Middle East, the Middle East, and the Strait of Malacca, that's probably enough, okay? The point is to get China to submit. The point is to control China, not to destroy China. Alright, this is important because if you want to become a major power in the world, you need to trade effectively. So Russia has something called the North -South Corridor. As you can see, it runs through Iran, okay? Iran is very important for the Russian North -South Corridor. And that's why the United States is attacking Iran. And that's why the United States is not going to ever stop attacking Iran. Because as long as Iran is at peace, Russia can trade with the world. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 38:09 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: But if Russia, if Iran is being destroyed, there's too much war, this entire region is blocked off from both Russia and China, okay? Russia has something called the Belt and Road Initiative. As you can see, okay, from a map, the center of the Belt and Road Initiative is of course Iran, alright? If China wants to access Africa, Europe, the Middle East, it has to go through Iran. Or it goes through the sea, the Strait of Malacca. But as I already said, the next step for America is to close off the Strait of Malacca as well, through Chinese trade. Then where do you go? Well, then you go over to Western, the Western Hemisphere, but that's American territory, okay? Yes, you can trade with Russia. You can trade with Russia. You can do that. But it's not enough for your economy. Does that make sense? Right now, China gets about 20 % of its oil from Russia. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 39:13 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Maybe Russia can provide 30 % or 40 % at most. That's very optimistic. But you need, but where are you going to get the other 50%, 60%, okay? Your options are very limited. If Iran is at war, can't give you any oil, then you're forced to buy from the United States. Okay? If you're forced to buy from the United States, the United States can set the price. It can set terms. It can dictate terms to you. And what the United States will say, you have to buy in U.S. dollars, okay? And that saves their economy, right? Does it make sense, guys? This is not a hard idea to understand. This is exactly what it says in the U.S. national security strategy, okay? So in many ways, you can make the argument that what's happening around the world right now, it's all an American policy of containing China, where in these flags are U.S. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 40:13 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: military bases. As you can see, China is completely surrounded by U.S. military bases in Japan, in South Korea, in Taiwan, even in Indonesia and Malaysia. China, Philippines, China is completely surrounded, okay? And this is it, the Strait of Malacca. This is a major choke point. And as you can see, it's not that hard for America to cut off that choke point, right? You see how much trade goes through the Strait of Malacca? You can see how many U.S. bases are here. And you can see a lot of this trade goes to the Middle East, but hey, guess what? The Middle East is at war right now, so no more oil, no more energy, no more LNG from the Middle East. So you might go to Angola, but this is very important. The Americans have recently announced a naval blockade in the Indian Ocean, okay? So that's cut off your route as well. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 41:15 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: So if you're China, yes, you could rely on Russia, but you see how little this is, okay? There's too little trade between Russia and China. And you can build it up, but it's going to take you 10, 20 years' time. And what do you do for the next 10 years, right? Your people need food to eat. You need energy to fuel your factories. And so for the next 10 years, you have no choice but to work with the United States. And that's what Trump means by negotiating from a position of strength, because you can set terms. You can force China to accept whatever terms you want. And quite honestly, if you just look at this map, there's very little that China can do about it, okay? There's this war in the Middle East. There's also this war in Russia, which also absorbs a lot of Russian energy. So Russia doesn't have that much resources to spear to China anyway. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 42:17 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2537s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2537s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-ceasefire-theater-war-architecture) Text: But America does. The Western Hemisphere does, okay? Because the Western Hemisphere is at peace. So as long as the Western Hemisphere maintains a fortress, okay? Meaning no one can attack the Western Hemisphere, then the Western Hemisphere can continue to supply resources to the world at war. So this is what the war is about, guys, okay? It's about creating conflict in the world so the United States can maintain its empire. And the way it maintains its empire is by maintaining its control over global trade, okay? And the idea is America in the future will provide the world with energy, resources, weapons, and financing. Meaning we will actually lend you the money to buy this stuff as well. And what do we call this stuff? U.S. dollars, okay? And so this worked really well in the 1950s under something called the Marshall Plan, okay? The Marshall Plan. Same idea where America made products and it lent money to Europe to buy products from America. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 43:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Same concept here where in the future the world is at war, people are poor, but it's okay because America will lend you money to buy energy, resources, and weapons from America, okay? And American factories will go up. America will be great again, make America great again, all right? Okay. But for this plan to fully work out, America needs three things, okay? The first thing that it needs to do is create a national draft. Does that make sense, guys? Because you need soldiers in order to maintain America's core interests, right? So whichever nation is defying you, you go attack, right? The goal is for Russia and Europe to constantly fight each other. The goal is for China and Japan to constantly fight each other. And you need Iran to constantly fight with the GCC and Israel, okay? So you have these three major conflicts around the world. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 44:48 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: But if there's any nation that's at peace, well, then you have to create conflicts, okay? Maybe in Africa. You also want to control the Western Hemisphere, so you need soldiers to go and conquer nations that defy you, okay? So the first thing that you need is a national draft, all right? Second thing that you need is something called continuity of agenda. What does this mean? It means, like, now that you have this plan in motion, you cannot have a change in government, okay? So let's just say they're implementing this plan and they're doing that right now. In 2028, the Democrats win. Well, that would screw things up, okay? So Trump needs a third term, right? A Trump third term. Because only he can implement this plan and make America great again, okay? And the third thing that you need is an AI surveillance state. Basically, an AI police state. Why? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 45:54 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Because again, this plan can only work if the Americans don't rise up and revolt like they did in the Vietnam War, okay? If you have a national draft in place, if Trump's going for a third term, there's going to be a lot of Americans who are going to protest in the streets, who are going to rebel, right? You can't have that happen. They'll screw things up. Therefore, you need an AI surveillance state in order to help them see the light. Right? So, ICE, guys, okay? ICE. People believe that ICE is being sent to the streets of America in order to catch illegal immigrants. The problem with this is that you don't need ICE. You just need cooperation from the state authorities, okay? What ICE is really doing is basically creating conditions for a police state. It's normalizing or making common the idea of armed, armed soldiers patrolling the streets of America in all the major cities, all right? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 47:06 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: And the reason why we think this or we can suspect this is look at their budget, man! Look at this budget. Before, the budget was kind of stable. Then, boom! It goes up to $90 billion. That's a lot of money, okay? That's almost like a new national police force that is only obedient to Donald Trump. It's basically Donald Trump's private police force in order to implement his vision, okay? Also, data centers, guys. Data centers. Now, I know that some of you are big fans of artificial intelligence, but artificial intelligence doesn't really make any money, right? ChatGPT. You can't make money off that. You can't make money off digital girlfriends or digital pets, right? So, why is America building all these data centers around the world? In fact, the federal government under Trump has a plan called Operation Stargate where they will build $500 billion, okay? They will invest $500 billion in building data centers around the United States. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 48:19 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#platform-infrastructure-control-surface-atlas) Text: Well, you would want to build data centers if you want to create an AI surveillance state, right? Where everyone has digital ID, digital currency, and where everyone can be monitored to avoid people from rebelling against Trump, okay? And that is the idea, okay? And you listen to this and you think, oh my God, America is doomed. Or Donald Trump's going to become king for the rest of his life. There's nothing we can do. Well, the problem is this. The problem is that this idea of imperial conquest is actually not a new idea. Okay? It really isn't. Empires have been doing this for a long, long time. It has not worked out well, okay? So the goal, again, to summarize, is to create a situation where you have greater North America or what they call the technate, okay? And this becomes a fortress. You have infinite resources, infinite manpower, and you can sell weapons, resources, and financing to the rest of the world. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 49:35 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=2975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: And you want to create as much conflict in the world as possible, right? So here it'll be between China and Japan. Here it'll be between Iran, Israel, and the GCC, okay? Here it'll be between Europe and Russia. Basically, you want a world forever at war so that you can control the world. And all America has to do is control key choke points, okay? Key strategic choke points, like the state of Malacca, uh, Hormuz, uh, Gibraltar, Panama. Why? Because once you control the choke point, you can control which nations get what resources. If a nation is becoming too strong, you give them less resources. If a nation is too weak, you give them more resources. And as a result, you can always maintain the balance of power in each region, right? So it sounds like a great plan, but it's not going to work out. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 50:31 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Why? Well, because of something called nationalism, okay? Because when you do this, when you are an empire and you impose your will on other nations, these nations are not happy about it, right? So imagine Japan, South Korea, Europe. Their people know that they're being used, right? So eventually they'll be like, screw this. We want to be independent. We want peace. So they will eventually rise up against the empire. And the way they will do this is they will work together to destroy America or basically to remove America from the world. You can't actually attack America. Now, what America can do is say, screw you. We're the entire Western Hemisphere. We have infinite resources. We can make infinite weapons. And you can never attack us, so we'll come and attack you, okay? They could do that. The problem then is you have division and corruption. Okay? So an empire in decline always suffers from corruption and division. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 51:44 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Corruption just means that, yes, you've allocated $1.5 trillion to making weapons. But guess what? The vast majority of that will be stolen by people. Right? America right now is in a lot of trouble because it's a very corrupt place. Division means that the Democrats and Republicans fight all the time, what we call political polarization. So it is possible that as America is being asked to fight more wars overseas, you have civil war in America. The other thing is when America takes over the entire North America, including Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, they won't be happy about it, okay? So you're going to have insurgencies. All right? And this three problems, nationalism, corruption, and division means that when America actually tries to implement this plan, it's going to backfire. It's going to accelerate the collapse of the American empire. All right? And then you ask yourself, okay, if historically we know that empires will collapse, why do they do this? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 53:13 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: And the answer is because it benefits them in the short term. Okay? This is a short term solution that creates long term problems. But who cares about the long term? Let's just enjoy the short term. Okay? All right? Does that make sense? Okay. Any questions? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 53:39 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: But for the war between America, you previously said that America will lose the war, but according to the analysis that you just did, like, America will try to control nations around China and those nations, but it will finally backfire. So the result of that prediction will still be America will lose, right? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 54:02 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Yeah. So again, the major prediction is that America may in the short term seem as though it is winning, but in the long term, because of corruption, division, and nationalism, America will be forced to retreat back to the Western Hemisphere and it will lose its empire. All right? And yes, America will lose the war in Iran. Okay? It will be forced to retreat from Iran, but it doesn't really have to win the war. It doesn't have to defeat Iran. It just has to make Iran constantly in a state of chaos and war. Okay? Does that make sense? Because the point is to control the choke points. Okay? The key are the choke points. These are the keys. This is what America must protect. And what happens in Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Iran, it doesn't really matter. But what America wants to do is create as much chaos as possible in these places so that they depend on America for resources, for financing, for weapons. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 55:02 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? America doesn't really care anymore if it loses its war in Iran. That's not the point. The point is to maintain control over these strategic choke points so the world depends on American resources to survive. Okay? Yeah? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 55:25 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Does China or any other countries discern that America is trying to control the trade route of China? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 55:36 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Oh, look. Okay. What America is doing is obvious. All right? It's silly. It's really obvious to people, right? There's nothing you can do about it. There's nothing you can do about it because America has a blue water navy that controls the oceans. So the question then is, what happens in the long term? Well, in the long term, what's going to happen is that Russia will challenge America in these choke points. Okay? And this is already happening in Cuba. Okay? Cuba is here. And we'll discuss this in the next class, but Cuba is under embargo right now. And Cuba is trying to become closer with Russia. Okay? So what Russia is going to do is set up basically its own navy to challenge the American navy. And Russia cannot win against the American navy, but what it can do is fight a war of attrition against the American navy, raising costs. Okay? That's number one. Number ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 56:44 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: two is that if America can go and blow up energy supplies around the world to make the world more dependent on America, well, Russia can also blow up energy supplies to make the world dependent on Russia. Okay? So what's going to happen is that Russia and America are going to compete against each other. All right? And most of the world is ultimately going to side with Russia in order to balance the United States because the United States is too much of a bully. And at this point, in the short term, China has no choice but to work with both Russia and America because China's not strong enough to challenge either. Does that make sense? Okay. Yeah? Yeah? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 57:36 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: So my question is about how Trump is going to deal with the internal conflict in America. Right now, he only has like 37 % of the supporting rate, and Democrats didn't agree with his plan. So how is he going to do about this? And if the Democrat Party didn't agree with Trump's plan, what is the plan of Democrats to America? Okay. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 58:03 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Yeah. So first of all, Democrats have no plan. This is why America is in so much trouble because the Democrats have actually no plan of themselves. Okay? So even if the Democrats were to win office in 2028, what they would probably do is continue Trump's plan because they themselves don't have any plan. Trump's plan to stay in power is just basically he'll cheat. Okay? He'll rig the elections. He'll cheat. That's his plan. That's his plan moving forward. And he'll probably get away with it. ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 58:39 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay? ## World War Trump and the Fortress Empire -- 58:41 - Source title: Game Theory #21: World War Trump - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-AA6LQf6I&t=3521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ts-aa6lqf6i.json) Text: Okay. Any more questions, guys? All right. So we'll continue this next class. Okay? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Today is our midterm examination, a chance for you to question and examine me. Alright, so before we look at the questions for the midterm examination, I want to discuss briefly the ceasefire between the United States and Iran. So yesterday, Donald Trump announced that there will be a two -week pause to this war and that the United States and Iran will meet in Pakistan to negotiate a possible long -term ceasefire. And what he said that's very important is that he will use the 10 -point Iranian plan as a framework to discuss a peace treaty. And as you can see from the 10 -point plan, in fact, this is almost a complete U.S. surrender to Iran. The first point is that the United States will guarantee never to attack Iran again. Iran will have complete control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran can choose to enrich uranium for its nuclear program. All sanctions on Iran will be removed. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:25 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=85s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: This is a very big deal. Removal of all secondary sanctions against foreign entities that do business with Iran, end of all United Nations Security Council resolutions against Iran, end of all international atomic energy agency resolutions, compensation, reparations for all the damage that the United States and Israel did to Iran, withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the Middle East, giving Iran control over the Middle East. The last and the most important is that the United States will also agree to end hostilities against all of Iran's proxies, including Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen. So as you can see, this is basically a complete U.S. surrender to Iran, which tells us right away. That Donald Trump is not serious. If you go into a shop and you negotiate with the shop owner and you want to sell maybe a book to the guy and you're hoping for a hundred dollars, but because it's bargaining, you think, oh, maybe I should start high. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 2:49 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So you say a thousand dollars. If you say a thousand dollars and the shop owner says, yeah, yeah, I'll take that deal. There's something wrong here. Okay. All right. So the U.S. has done something very wrong and there's very little chance that the ceasefire will hold. And in fact, we're already seeing news that the ceasefire is being broken. Okay. So there are three individuals on Twitter who've made some very interesting points. All right. So in this tweet, Mr. Bojak said that, listen, if this is really a ceasefire, why is the United States continue to send aircraft carriers? The USS George Bush to Iran? The USS George Bush to the Middle East? What they're really trying to do is buy time in order for their ground troops to get ready to attack and seize the strait. Okay. So once everything is in position, then probably what ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 3:45 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: will happen is that Israel will launch a false flag against the Americans, which will justify an American attack against Iran. All right. So that's a possible scenario. But again, the question is, if this is really a ceasefire, if Donald Trump is really in intent on peace, why does he continue to send US forces to the Middle East? That's question number one. Question number two is, the problem is how Iran is defending itself. It's using something called the Mosaic Defense, which is a state that has 31 provinces and these are 31 cells or units that are all responsible for their own strategy and attack and defense. Meaning that there's no longer a centralized command. So it doesn't matter if you negotiate with the leadership of Iran, because the IRGC, the people who are fighting, will not agree to a ceasefire because they do not trust the Americans or the Israelis. So whatever happens in Pakistan will not affect the outcome of the battlefield. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 4:52 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: That's a problem with the Mosaic Defense. Think of the Mosaic Defense as almost a dead man's switch, where if you kill the Ayatollah, the Ayatollah will tell his people to fight to the end. So the Mosaic Defense will only come to an end if either Iran is defeated or the Americans are defeated. This thing collapses if there's in between a ceasefire, because in order for the Iranians to implement a ceasefire, they themselves will have to go and control these Mosaic units in the provinces, which basically means a civil war. Okay? So it's almost impossible, even if Iran were to negotiate a favorable peace deal, for Iran to actually implement this peace deal within its military. Okay? That's problem number two. Problem number three is the United States continues to have an air bridge to the Middle East. So even though there's a ceasefire, you have this massive movement of U.S. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 5:52 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: ground troops, of U.S. planes, of U.S. artillery and tanks to the Middle East. So if there's really a peace, why is this happening? And another way of saying this is that the political systems of both the United States and Iran have lost control over the war. Once these militaries start fighting, they are determined to fight to the bitter end. Okay? But unfortunately, what this tells me, the fact that Iran is willing to negotiate a peace treaty. Probably means that there is a schism or divide between the political leadership in Iran and the military leadership in Iran. And this is going to cause a lot of problems in the future. So maybe before this past month, it seemed as though that Iran had control over the battlefield and Iran was winning it. But I think over time, what's going to happen is that fissures will arise in Iran and Iran will start losing the battlefield. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 6:58 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And Iran will continue to battle more and more as the United States and Israel develop a much more coherent strategy against Iran. Another major issue is that as this war drags on, the world economy is going to suffer, which means that people can no longer drive their cars, and which means maybe a lot of people will also starve. And this means that ultimately, public or global opinion will slowly turn against Iran. Okay? And even Iran's closest allies, Russia and China. Will feel the strain of this war and maybe even pressure Iran to end this war. But again, as we discussed previously, because of the way that Iran has structured its military defense, it's impossible for Iran to end this war unless it's either destroyed or it's destroyed the Americans. Okay? So this war, the ceasefire, it's only a PR stunt. It will actually lead to nothing. All right. So the major point of contention is whether or not Lebanon is part of the peace treaty. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 8:10 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So the Iranians believe that this peace treaty also includes its proxies, specifically Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. But after this peace treaty was announced, Israel launched more than a hundred strikes in 10 minutes across Lebanon, killing 20 to 50 people. At least 150 people. Okay? So Iran is obligated to defend Hezbollah morally. And Israel understands that if Iran breaks the peace treaty and defends Hezbollah, then it is Iran's fault. Okay? And the Americans have come out and said that, well, you know, we agreed that Lebanon was not part of the deal. Um. And. Um. That's what the, um, vice president said. Oh, it's a legitimate misunderstanding. We thought that Hezbollah wasn't part of this deal, but the Iranians thought it was. Okay? So this is a misunderstanding. Okay? But this tells you that, uh, the Americans and Israelites are not serious about maintaining the cease fire. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 9:21 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They've already found a loophole. All right. Okay. So let's now go on to the midterm examination. And, um, uh. As I said, YouTube can ask me questions and I will try my best to answer them. This Twitter account, Oris App, did a very nice thing and basically analyzed all 8,000 plus questions and broke it down into some major categories. What I'm going to do first is I will look at these questions and then answer them. Then we'll look at some other questions. All right. The first question is, all right, I said that the empire is declining, but at the same time the US could benefit from this war. How do I reconcile the contradiction? The answer is, it's not really a contradiction. The United States is extremely powerful. It's really a question of who benefits from these changes. Even though the US empire will lose control over the Middle East, the American economy nation could still exert control over Mexico and Canada. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 10:32 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: That's something I will discuss later on. That's number one. What's the role of eschatology in shaping global events? How do you account for the influence of six societies? These are the same question and I'll answer it right now. Let's examine how all this works. First thing you need to understand is that history moves in a certain direction. All right. This is a question. Okay. It's very complicated. It's very messy, but there is a structure and a pattern to the movement of history. Okay. A structure and a pattern. So think of a river and when you see a river current, you think, I can't see anything. It's just complete chaos. But if you're able to read the river well, you know how the river is moving. Okay. So you can position your canoe or kayak in a way that allows you to seamlessly, smoothly, smoothly cross the river. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 11:34 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: All right. So that's the idea. Okay. But this is all very chaotic. So what happens is that there's certain individuals, we can call them occultists, who try to read the river or try to read historical patterns in history and they create something called an eschatology. Okay. So think of the stars. When you try to read the stars and try to find meaningless stars, we call this astrology. Right. Right. But when you try to read human history and you try to find a pattern in human history, we can call this eschatology. And the thing about the eschatology is that it's a story. And so you want the story to work out. So it's both a prophecy as well as a plan. You think it's going to happen, but you also think that you are obligated to make it happen as well. Okay. So the occultists, these are religious people. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 12:39 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They try to turn the chaotic movement of history into a story that comes to an end in which you can participate in. All right. Okay. Then from these occultists are formed secret societies in order to understand this eschatology and also to promote this eschatology. Now what happens is that powerful people. Okay. Powerful people. The rich and the powerful, they join these secret societies. Why? Because as a rich and powerful person, you want to know how history moves in order to better position yourself in order to protect your power and your wealth. Okay. That's why very famous people, they often have astrologers to work for them. And that's why rich and powerful people join secret societies because they want access to this secrets. That tells them how to make better investments and how to have more political power. Also, secret societies enable them to create networks in order to maintain their power. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 14:01 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt) Text: But the problem is that you need people to actually move towards the ending to propel this eschatology. And these people we can call agents. Okay. Agents. And these agents of course include Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Okay. And this is how the world works where the occultists are the ones who imagine the world and the rich and powerful are the ones who act out the world in order to benefit themselves. And then they appoint certain agents who are like puppets in order to move the world in a certain direction. Okay. So these agents are like vectors. All right. But there's some problems with this system. The first problem is that there are different secret societies and they fight amongst themselves to achieve different eschatologies. Okay. The other problem is that rich and powerful will often switch secret societies, switch loyalties in order to maximize the benefit. So they don't have any loyalties. All right. And then the ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 15:19 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=919s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=919s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-guardrail-against-master-plan) Text: last problem is that these agents like Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, they seem like puppets, but they themselves believe they are using these secret societies to achieve their own vision, which is given to them by God. Okay. So it's a very complicated system. And this is why no one thinks that it's all a grand conspiracy because each person is doing his or her own part subconsciously to maximize his or her benefit. Okay. So it's not a top -down system. It's a much more dynamic, fluid game than people assume. Okay. So this is a map that helps us understand how the world works. And this is why I'm able to figure out what's happening in the Middle East. Because if you're able to focus on the story, okay, the story here, you basically know where people are going, even though you may not be aware of what the different secret societies are doing. And how the different agents are thinking. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 16:24 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. As long as you're able to figure out their cult is, how they're thinking, if you're able to figure out the story that they want to tell the world, you can basically figure out the general direction of the world in the long term. Okay. All right. So now what I want to talk about is China. What is China and what is China going to do? All right. So again, let's go back to our culture. Let's go back to our theory of how the world works, of how the world is structured. You have the empire. And then from the empire, you have the game masters. Okay. The people in finance. Then they create the global economy. Then this creates the rule space in actual order. And then you have the education system, media, and culture in order to indoctrinate people to believe in the system, that the system is fair, right, and natural. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 17:33 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. And then you have parasitic organizations, science, crime, intelligence, to control the system, but also to draw benefit, to extract value from the system. Now, what we understand is that the beauty of the system is that it is capable of extending itself and replicating itself. In other societies. Okay. So the two examples are the GCC and China. Okay. This is really important for us to appreciate. China is not a civilization. China is not a nation state. China is a construct of empire. Okay. China is what the system has done is basically taken all its elements and embedded itself into the system. Okay. So the system has been built into China to create a vassal state. Okay. Or you can also say a mirage. And then you're like, okay, well, what, what, what does that mean? Well, just think of the GCC where before the empire, the GCC was just a desert and the empire, the system takes the GCC and turns it into this seemingly vibrant cosmopolitan, wealthy center. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 19:04 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And then they bring in the universities, right? Like Georgetown, NYU, they bring in culture. They bring in the media ecosystem. So this system replicates, replicates itself into the GCC as well as China. Now this is important because the moment that this system is under strain. Okay. For example, Iran attacks it. We see it's all just a mirage. This system is not sustainable. It collapses onto itself. Because it doesn't have a civilization. It doesn't have an existing soul. Okay. It's all just appearance. And what I believe is that China is in a very similar situation. That's why China was allowed to join WTO. That's why China, so many Chinese students go overseas to become educated. Okay. To create this mirage that China is this modern, flourishing economy. So, um, that's, this is China's relationship to the world. So rather than believe ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 20:07 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: that China is competitor to the system, we need to appreciate that China is really an extension of the system. So if this system comes under strain, China itself comes under strain. That's why China is so desperate, so anxious to see peace in the Middle East again. Okay. So there's, there are rumors. There's news reporting that China has exerted pressure on Iran to negotiate a ceasefire. Because if the global economy collapses, China is in a lot of trouble. All right. Okay. Okay. So, um, what are long -term implications of the Hollywood Pentagon complex? Okay. And, um, the answer is if you go back to the system, okay, no one actually knows what's going on, but they believe they know what's going on. And they believe they're individual parts of the story. Okay. So if you're in culture, you think you're the ones in control and you're the ones dictating policy. If you're in the media, you think you're the ones in control. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 21:21 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: If you're in education, you think you're in control. Okay. So everyone just basically lives in his own bubble, in his own fantasy world, about being able to see the bigger picture. And that's why we don't have control and agency and free will over how the system will turn out. Okay. And we cannot because it's actually very difficult for us to really appreciate, um, how the system works. It's much easier for us to believe in our fantasies because it allows us to work with our friends and our colleagues much easier. Okay. It's much easier for people to live in his own bubble and to be delusional than it is for the person to be objective. Okay. So the Hollywood Pentagon complex, it is not just unique to America. It is true for everyone. How do emerging powers like China, um, factor in the shifts in global order? I already told ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 22:17 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: you that all these things that you believe are alternatives, including digital currency, renewables, China, they're all just projections, extensions of the system. The system is under strain. These are under strain as well. Okay. What strategies can individuals employ to navigate potential global economic disability and resource scarcity? Okay. So the problem is that individuals by themselves cannot navigate change. Individuals need to enter into communities. Okay. So if you really want to survive the change, well, first of all, you need to educate yourself as to what's going on. And that's why I teach these classes to give you the bigger picture as to how the world works and where things are going. But you also need to make, need to make a commitment. To reach out to other people, become their friends, be generous and open with them, share with them and build a community. Okay. Also, one thing that I would recommend is maybe starting a family. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 23:18 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And the reason, and you're like, okay, wait a minute here. This is silly because you have said for the longest time, the world is collapsing. This is the end of the world. Why would you have children? And the answer is because first of all, death doesn't matter. Destruction doesn't really matter. What matters is our ability in this world to live a creative, purposeful, significant life. Okay. That's why we're here. It's not to make a million dollars. It's not to eat a lot of food. It's to have the best experience possible, to extend the imagination of the universe. And what I found having children, I have three kids, is that I live every day with tremendous energy. Energy and purpose, because I'm here not to become famous or to make a lot of money. I'm here to make sure that my kids are happy and healthy. And that's why I get up in the morning and work very hard. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 24:19 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. I don't really care about the world. All I care about is, are my kids happy and healthy? So, children and family give you a energy, a purpose, a meaning that drives you to greater creative heights. Okay. All right. What are the primary drivers? What are the drivers behind specific geopolitical actions? And how do these motivations impact the game theory? Okay. All right. So, again, this is a really important theory to understand. Where the occultists are the main drivers. Why? Because the occultists, whether they be poets or prophets, they're the ones who imagine the world we live in. Okay. And we can, and others can only work within the boundaries of this imagination. So, yes. The rich and the powerful, they have all the money and all the wealth, but they don't have an imagination. So, and ultimately your actions have to be driven by your thoughts. And it's these occultists, okay, who drive your thoughts, who control your thoughts. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 25:21 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So, we just live in the world imagined by occultists. Who they are, what they want, how they work is something that we'll discuss after the break. Okay. After today, we're going on a one -week break for the midterms. Then we'll come back. We'll start more, we'll talk more about these people, the occultists. Okay. They're very important people to talk about. All right. So, let's move on. Okay. Now, I want to look at some individual questions. All right. So, this is Joyce Lay from Substack. She's a founding member. So, thank you, Joyce, for your generosity. Okay. She asked this question. You make three predictions about the outcome of the U.S.-Iran war. But I don't have any timeframes. Yeah, I don't do timeframes because these things are trends. Okay. They're general movements. Okay. And she says, well, if all three come true then, then we have to believe that it may not be because of the war itself. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 26:25 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: How do you differentiate between causation and correlation? Okay. This is a great question. And it's something that I think a lot about. So, I make these predictions in order to validate my prediction model. But just because these predictions don't work. Turn out to be correct. Does not validate my prediction model. Hundred percent. Okay. And that's why it's important to keep an open mind and to continue to make predictions. Now, what I will say is this. When I first started making predictions two years ago, I was just looking at patterns and then trying to figure out what patterns were the most salient or the most obvious. And then I made those predictions and I was very confident about these predictions. Now that I'm famous, now that people are demanding I make predictions every day. It's hard for me to make accurate predictions because I don't have access to all the information. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 27:16 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And it's hard for me to think clearly, objectively, because I know that whatever I say is to have an impact on global events. Okay. So, this is a major constraint on my capacity to make accurate predictions. I'm no longer an observer. I'm a player. Okay. And I also get a lot of influence from other people who want to control my predictions. I understand that. So, I try to keep away from people as much as possible, but it's an impossible thing. So, I appreciate this question. Yes. Correlation and causation are two different things altogether. It's possible that we'll never really understand causation. The other thing that I want to emphasize is that I myself appreciate the limitations to my own objectivity because of my status today. So, that's from Joyce. Isn't pump and every politician just a puppet of the societies? This is a great question. It's something that I addressed earlier, which is, yes, they are agents. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 28:22 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They can only be agents. But at the same time, the agents have agency. The agents have free will. So, think of Napoleon and Julius Caesar. And they were obviously supported by secret societies. But they reach a certain point where they can betray the secret society or veer off in a different direction. And Hitler and Stalin are also different examples. Okay. So, every great person in history, most of them are supported by secret societies, but they also reach a point where they feel they have a higher calling and it is God that they must be loyal to. So, they betray their secret society. And I think that something will happen with both Trump and Vladimir Putin. Okay. I have the Third Rome. I have the American Technate. And I have Pax Judaica. Wait a minute here. These are three different empires. And the reality is that this unipolar moment where America controls everything, it is unique in human history. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 29:27 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: It's not sustainable. And it will not last. So, the idea of competing empires, it's much more common in human history. So, yes, you'll have the Technate where America retreats into greater North America, Russia exerts control over its territory, and Israel tries to build a Pax Judaica in the Middle East. And they will be in competition against each other. There'll be some areas in which they cooperate. There are some areas in which they compete. And so, we are moving towards a multipolar world. Okay. And we don't actually even know how long this multipolar world will sustain itself. Probably not very long, maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years. Okay. All right. So, this question is, why would the world be dependent on American fertilizers, energy, when the other parts of the world have energy and fertilizers as well? And the answer is trade access. Okay. What ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 30:36 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: America can do that other nations cannot do is basically retreat into its continental fortress and control sea trade. Okay. So, right now, the easiest way to trade is through the sea. And unfortunately, for the world, America controls the seas with its navies. Okay. So, what America can do is basically allow its ships to go anywhere in the world and block Chinese ships. Okay. block Chinese, Iranian, Russian ships from accessing the rest of the world. Now, a counter to this is that, well, you know, you don't have to go by sea. If you were to unite Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Middle East, you can just use railways. And that's what China wants to do. The problem is Iran. And that's why America is so invested in destroying Iran, because Iran is really the pivot of the world. If you're going to destroy Iran, it'll be very hard for China to access Belt and Road, and hard for the United States. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 31:36 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1896s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1896s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So, you have to challenge Russia to trade with Africa. Okay. All right. I would challenge Professor Zhao on his assessment of why Russia attacked Ukraine. Russia was not prepared for the long war and it adapted. Okay. Yeah. So, the general theory, the general explanation is that NATO provoked Russia into an attack. And that's true to a certain extent, but we have to remember that if you commit to a long war if you commit to any war you need to have a long -term strategy because you need so many different organizations institutions parties involved in a war okay a war means a fundamental restructuring of society and therefore you need a grand strategy you need a eschatology okay because this is what allows for political will and that's the issue that the Americans are facing in Iran where they don't really have an eschatology or grand strategy that's articulated okay ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 32:47 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=1967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: there are people in America who do have the grand strategy and that's called eschatology but it's not articulated to American people okay and that's why America doesn't really have the political will to sustain this war in Iran so again it there's there's a misconception that these people Putin Trump they just work they just have these emotions they just have these emotions they just have these emotions and they like I want to go attack so they go attack that's not how these things work okay you need a lot of people to agree to attack Ukraine to attack to agree to attack Iran before these things happen okay the idea that one man can control an entire country it is just a myth it cannot happen that way a country is controlled by different vested interests different institutions these institutions have to align together in order for something to happen okay otherwise they'll just sit back and ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 33:40 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: do nothing they'll do nothing and that's the situation that Iran face in the lead up to this war where everyone's like You Know the Americans you know the Israelis are going to attack you so take the initiative why are you still sitting around doing nothing and the answer is because there are different factions there are different institutions who cannot align together on how to respond to the Americans and Iraunalyn so they just sat back and wait to be attacked okay why don't Asian and Middle Eastern nations unite to achieve to a sweep the Balkan exchange agreement to prevent American interference driven by its own interests. Okay. Yeah. Okay, another misconception is that the nation state, it is real. It is not real. It's just a made -up concept, okay? The idea of China, the idea of America, the idea of Russia, they're all made -up concepts. They don't exist. What these nation states are, are a collection of interests. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 34:42 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Collection of elite interests. And all this means is that the people don't matter, okay? The people are resourced to be exploited by the elite. What matters is the elite. So the question then is, where are the elite, where are their allegiances, where are their loyalties? And the fact of the matter is that in East Asia, in the Middle East, much of the elite have their family and have their wealth all stored in the Western world. So they're not loyal. They're loyal to the people. They are never loyal to the people. They are loyal to themselves, to their families, to their social network. And because all of their wealth and family is located overseas, they're loyal to overseas. So these elite in Asia, in the Middle East, they are basically carpetbaggers, okay? And that's why we have this situation. And that's why, as things progress, nations that have very close relationships with the Western world, for example, the GCC, they are much likely to fall. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 35:53 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They're much likely to collapse because these are very unstable countries. Whereas countries like Iran that have been isolated, ostracized by the West, are much more cohesive, okay? All right, can the Strait of Hormuz be avoided by laying gaps pipe through Oman? No, no, that's not how these things work, okay? What? What Iran is doing is using the Strait of Hormuz to blockade the global economy, to disrupt the global economy. The Strait of Hormuz is the most convenient way of doing so. It is the least controversial. But if forced to, Iran can also destroy energy production in the GCC. It can destroy pipelines. If a drone can attack a city, it can attack a pipeline as well, okay? So these pipelines are extremely vulnerable. And already, we're seeing reporting that just yesterday, the Iranians attacked a pipeline in Saudi Arabia. These pipelines are extremely vulnerable. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 36:59 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Just think about all this gas and oil, right? It's all combustible. So a drone can just blow it up. It's not hard, all right? So again, understand, the point is not the Strait of Hormuz. The point is the vulnerability and the fragility of the global economy that is completely dependent on cheap access to energy. That's where the problem lies. All right, Donald Trump, he's erratic. Do you believe this behavior is calculated strategy or does it stem from lack of understanding? Is he just stupid? Do you think that people advising him are also stupid or are they strategic? What is he trying to achieve? Okay, again, this goes back to our understanding of how the world works. You have the eschatology, then you have the six societies, then you have the agents, okay? And Trump is an agent. Now, what makes him a very powerful agent is his unpredictability. Today, he's like, I'm going to nuke Iran. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 38:10 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Tomorrow, he's like, let's have peace in the world, guys, okay? He's just unpredictable. It's all a show, okay? And there are three reasons why unpredictability is so powerful. The first reason is that it's paralyzing. Paralyzing just means like you don't know how to respond to him. Like, what do you do? How do you fight a guy who changes his opinion every single day? Okay? It paralyzes you into inaction. Second is distracting. All your attention is focused on his antics and you don't realize that behind the scenes, things are happening, okay? There are people who are implementing certain things, but you don't really notice the backstage because you're just focused on Trump being a clown online. Okay? And the last advantage is flexibility, which is to say that he is not beholden to any strategy. And he can change his strategy at any time, okay? So, yes, we think he's a clown and he is a clown, but there's a method to his madness, okay? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 39:27 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So, it paralyzes enemies. It distracts his enemies. And he's able to maintain maximum flexibility in his actions. Okay? And that's why he's so successful. All right. The people around him just do whatever he tells him to. People around him just tell him exactly what he wants to hear. Okay? It's actually Donald Trump that's making all the decisions. And his ultimate purpose is to get his third term. All right? Because from this perspective, if he actually wants to implement his vision for America, he needs the third term. Okay? And again, his vision is a technique where America becomes a fortress. Okay? Abandons the world and just trades with the world. Okay? We discussed this previously. But for him to achieve that, he needs his third term. And so, he needs to figure out how to get his third term. And this war in Iran ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 40:20 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: is the best strategy because if this war continues and it goes badly for America, then Trump can declare martial law and have a lot of powers. Okay? And again, his enemies are too distracted to appreciate that this is strategic. And they're paralyzed into inaction. The Democratic Party, which should be opposing Trump and this war, are just sitting back and doing nothing. Hoping that in the midterms, Trump's party, the Republicans, get wiped out. And they go into power. And then the world is perfect again. Okay? So, the Democrats actually don't have a strategy for this. All right. The petrodollar collapses. Okay? Let's pretend the petrodollar collapses. AI. AI collapses. Treasury bond collapses. Will the U.S. not suffer an economic and development catastrophe, which is not part of the U.S. plans? Yeah, this is a good question. But you have to understand, again, a nation -state is a collection of different interests. And these interests are competing against each other. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 41:30 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay? So, you have different interest groups. You have AI. You have finance. You have resources. Okay. And so, what matters is the general direction. So, if the economy were to collapse, the main losers would be finance and AI. Okay? But then what America can do, because it's so wealthy, and its people are so energetic, is, well, let's just focus on building resources. Okay? Oil, food, water, fertilizer. Let's just make this stuff and sell it to the world. Then the economy rebounds. Okay? So, this is actually restructuring. Okay? So, it's something we talked about before, where the purpose is not to destroy America. The purpose is to move power away from one elite to another elite. Okay? This is basically a revolution in America. AI can actually be saved. Okay? With government bailout. And that's what I imagine will happen. Okay? AI and finance, their bubbles will burst. Finance will be allowed to collapse. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 42:37 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: AI will be bailed out, because Trump is very close with these AI overlords, like Peter Thiel and Senator Altman. And then resources. Resources and manufacturing, okay, will become the dominant center of gravity in the American economy. Okay? So, that's a plan. I'm not saying this will happen exactly like this, but that's what they intend to happen. All right. Transnational capital is a game master. Transnational capital will then take its money elsewhere if the empire collapses. So, transnational capital doesn't lose any power. And they can just bet on different horses, Japan, Israel, Germany. Okay. Yeah. So, in my analysis, I use abstract terms that are not accurate, but are useful for simplicity and clarity. Okay? So, you're right in that transnational capital also have competing interests. And just because the empire collapses doesn't mean that all the money goes to Israel. This money will spread out. And that's true. Okay? But the point ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 43:53 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: I'm trying to make is that first of all, most of the money will go to Israel. Why? Because Israel provides the best short -term investment opportunities if you're a trillionaire. Okay? But you're right in that other money will go to other places as well. But again, the best opportunity is Israel. So, you will see the most growth in Israel. And that's why over time, more capital will shift towards Israel. That's how capital works. Okay? Yes, capital will allocate its resources. Capital will put its eggs in different baskets. But ultimately, you have to ask yourself, where is the best investment opportunity? And in the short term, not in the long term, but in the short term, it's going to be the Middle East. Okay? All right. How do we combat the war against truth? How do we engage in discussion that transnational biases? Okay. We all live in fantasies. How do we overcome this? What techniques do you employ in your research? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 45:00 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: All right. Okay. So, things that I do that I think are very important is, first of all, doubt. You always want to question yourself. You always want to ask yourself, am I correct? That's why making predictions is important. Because making predictions, it's actually about creating doubt in yourself. Because if the predictions are wrong, it's not good. If they're wrong, it's a mechanism for you to self -reflect and appreciate the limitations of your model. Okay? So, that's one strategy. Another strategy is debate. Okay? Where you engage in people who think differently than you do. And I do that by watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I try to watch people of different political leanings, who have different viewpoints than I, because I'm interested in hearing their perspective. Okay? So, keep an open mind, engage in people who disagree with you, and have an honest debate with them as well as yourself. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 46:00 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Now, the last piece, and this is actually something that I do, but most people don't do, is I use my imagination. And all this means is I will go places, I will make certain assumptions that other people don't do. Okay? That's why I think people find me so interesting, because I will say things that are imaginative, that are speculative. But which is not backed up by any evidence. Don't be afraid to do that. Okay? If you want to seek the truth, you have to make some imaginative leaps, into leaps, into the unknown, in order to find the truth. Okay? The truth is not in front of you. The truth is often behind you, or far away from you. Okay? So, you need to be, you don't be afraid to just leap far, okay, into the unknown. All right. Let's continue. Okay. So, Asia and Australia are suffering the most from this global conflict. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 47:11 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Why are these nations passive? Won't these nations intervene? Okay. Again, a lot of this is misconception in that everyone thinks that the nation states are the constituent players in this game, and the nation states are all equal. They're not equal. They're not. Nation states, they're only certain nations. They're only certain nation states that have the capacity to project force overseas. Russia, America, maybe some European countries. Australia, Asia, and most European countries are just vassal states. They are not capable of playing this game. They're only capable of obeying. Okay? Maybe over time, they'll change their attitude and develop the capacity to play this game. But you have to remember that, like, the GCC, a lot of these European countries, they're anti -European countries, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, they are all co -opted by the CIA. These are all American vassal states. And so they're not capable of acting independently of American policy. There is the illusion that they are independent, but they're not, okay? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 48:24 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And you can tell because of their actions, in that you're absolutely right in that, okay, if you're Australia and you don't have any more jet fuel, well, then you should send your army or... negotiate with Americans or negotiate with Iranians, but they're not doing that, okay? Japan is, in fact, negotiating with Iran, but Japan is still a vassal state of America. Pakistan is the mediator for this ceasefire talk between America and Iran, but guess what? Pakistan is also just another vassal state, okay? They pretend not to be, but just by their actions, you can know that they are, in fact, vassal states, all right? Okay, civil war breaks out. Who's going to win? Christian Nationalists, Silicon Valley versus the Oman Wall Street, a city versus a country like conflict. Do you believe it will result in separation of the unit into multiple factions? Okay, so ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 49:24 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: if you look at the history of the Roman Republic, once a civil war starts, it almost never ends, okay? That's just the nature of American society, where America is so vast and people are so energetic and ambitious that once a civil war starts, it's very unlikely that it will ever stop, okay? Maybe the intensity will shift over time, but you will have civil war for the next few hundred years, okay? And the question then is, who triumphs? Okay, so if you just use our game theory formula, okay? Cohesion, energy, and openness, and you ask yourself, okay, let's just look at American society and ask yourself, which state has all three? The answer is Texas, okay? And this is pretty clear. If you just look at the 50 states and which state is the most dynamic, which is the most energetic, the most open -minded, it's going to be Texas. California, New York. New York are going to suffer in a civil war. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 50:36 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3036s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3036s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: The economies will suffer a great deal. Societies will suffer a great deal. Texas will emerge as a clear winner in any conflict, okay? And with Texas, you also have Christian Nationalists, AI, okay? Why Christian Nationalists? Because Christian Nationalists is actually a coherent philosophy. It's coherent. It has a direction. It has a strategy. It has a purpose, okay? So I think Christian Nationalists, will also win out, and then AI will win out because AI can provide the technological support to Christian Nationalists, okay? So if you are working in Texas, if you live in Texas, and if you work in AI, and you're a Christian Nationalist, well, you're going to be a big winner of this civil war, okay? And if you're the opposite, okay? If you are maybe living in New York or California, and you work... and you are maybe an atheist, and you, I don't know, work ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 51:50 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: in art, I don't know, well, you're going to be a clear loser in this war, okay? Often these, what's called professional managerial elite, professional managerial elite living on the coast, these guys are done, okay? Completely useless, cost too much money, contributes nothing to society. These guys are just done, all right? All right, how does an individual survive for what's coming? Family and community, guys, okay? Forget the fact that you are an individual. Leave that behind. You will not survive as an individual. I don't care how much money you have. I don't care how prepared you are. You might have a bad bunker. I don't know. I don't care, okay? But you have to focus on family and community if you are to survive the new world. All right. All right, do you think Iran should have nuclear weapons? No, the worst thing Iran can do at this point is develop a nuclear weapon. Iran can at most have 10 nuclear weapons. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 53:09 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: America has a thousand. There's one way for Iran to lose this war really quickly, and it's to threaten America with a nuclear weapon because that gives America the justification to use its nuclear arsenal, okay? But the other problem, and this is actually more important, problem is the idea of complacency, where if you think you have nuclear weapons, or sorry, if you have nuclear weapons, you think you're, I'm safe. I don't have to worry about anything. No, no, no. It's much better to be creative and resilient and open -minded, okay? So if you don't have nuclear weapons, you're always under threat, right? That forces your people and your society to constantly think about how to be strategic. All right. So nuclear weapons is a bad thing. It's not a good thing. All right. Pax Judaica, doesn't Saudi Arabia see that coming? Why would they allow that to happen? Well, because ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 54:08 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: for Saudi Arabia, what matters is first defeating Iran because the strategy is I defeat Iran, then I'm master of the Muslim world, so I can unite all the two billion Muslims in the world behind me to defeat Israel, okay? So from a perspective of the GCC in Saudi Arabia, Iran is a much bigger threat. Why hasn't the GCC said anything about what's happening in Palestine and Lebanon? The GCC are corrupt vassal states of America. All right. It's not hard. These are all run by the CIA. If Trump is a strategic genius, why did he authorize the insane and stupid film mission to steal uranium, uranium, uranium, uranium? Okay. All right. This is a really good question, and the answer is this. Trump is a genius at politics. He's a genius at screwing over his enemies and accumulating power for himself. He is not a military genius, okay? Trump is a genius at controlling his base. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 55:24 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Trump is a genius at being a TV star. He's not a genius at geopolitics, okay? These things don't have to be the same. All right. How can Israel sustain a global empire when their religious leaders view the physical destruction of their own cities as a spiritual victory? Okay. It's not that hard to rebuild an economy in a city. It's not, okay? What is hard, though, is to develop the spiritual cohesion of a people, to make them believe in something so that they're willing to die for it, okay? That's what matters. All right. Destroying a city, you can rebuild it in five years' time. It's not that hard. Just hire the Chinese to do it, okay? On nuclear taboos, why would they respect a rational escalation ladder to avoid using nukes? Okay. That's a really good question. If these people are religious, and they're fanatical, and they're crazy, why do they care about nukes? And the answer is they don't care about nukes. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 56:34 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They think this world is fake, okay? But the problem is they don't care about nukes. The problem is that nuclear weapons, there are institutional constraints and restraints on the use of nuclear weapons, okay? So there's this myth that Donald Trump can just press one button, and all the nukes will go flying. That's not how it works, okay? There are lots of subtle constraints on the president, okay? He has to go get the nuclear football. Then someone has to open for him, and then he can press a button. But if people think Donald Trump is crazy, he's not. If he's crazy, I guarantee you that nuclear football guy is going to run away, okay? There's so many taboos against the use of nuclear weapons. Again, I keep on saying this, but if nuclear weapons are used in this war, we are completely screwed, okay? I don't think nuclear weapons will be used in this war. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 57:26 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: All right. If mass organization are the primary cause of imperial decay, why are unlimited population, unlimited land, so there's reasons that US TechNet will succeed? Okay. All right. Look, I said the US TechNet is the plan. I didn't say it would succeed. Yes, I understand. America can take over all of North America. It can occupy Canada. It can occupy Mexico, Cuba, but when it does that, it's going to create a lot of insurgencies. It's going to create a lot of conflict, so it will be a dumpster fire, okay? Just because you are able to accomplish it doesn't mean you should accomplish it. It doesn't mean it'll be successful. Immigration trap. Why is conforming to rules and working hard considered playing the game wrong if high competence requires resilience in the coming era of resource scarcity? Look, if the game is fair, you want to conform to rules and you ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 58:28 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: want to work hard, but if there's an elite that is parasitic, that is rent -seeking, then by working hard, you're just transferring your energy to the elite. Okay. So before, maybe 20 years ago, America was a place that was very fair, and so if you just worked hard and played by rules, you would succeed. This is no longer true where it's basically an oligarchy and where few people control all the power, okay? All right. The Marines are growing less religious, and so as this war becomes, as this war continues, the framework of Shia -Martinism will continue. So energized Iranians become more cohesive, and the answer is yes. One outcome of this war that we should expect is that Iranian society becomes much more religious, much more fanatical, all right? And one reason is that the Americans are intent on destroying Iranian urban centers like Tehran, okay? So the Americans and the Israelis are bombing railway ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 59:41 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: networks that connect Iran, Tehran to the countryside, and so Tehran might not have access to food. Okay. In which case, Tehran might disappear as a city. In that case, when people are in desperate need, they turn to religion for comfort, okay? And then they have this eschatological drive. So yes, we can expect Iran to become much more eschatological as this war continues. Okay. The U.S. implements a draft, Generation Z refuses, so you have a civil war. Then where's the U.S. military going to get its soldiers? Okay. Let's do a question, and the answer is illegal immigrants, okay? There are about 20 million illegal immigrants in America. They can be arrested, and they can be conscripted, okay? So that's the solution to this problem, because as he points out, young people are not going to fight in this war because it's suicidal. All right. What if you can make cheap drones? Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:00:56 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So I say, you know. Okay. One of the reasons why cheap drones is with a ground invasion, but America can make even cheaper drones, then wouldn't that solve the problem? And yeah, so the answer is this. We become too obsessed with technology. We think that technology can solve all the problems. And what you don't understand, what people don't appreciate is that technology is built on people, okay? Technology is meant to complement people, to enhance the skills of people. Technology is not designed to replace people. That's the issue that America is facing in this war, where America thinks that by using sophisticated air defense, by using super carriers, by using fighter jets that are stealth, we can reduce civilian casualties and win the war. And it's turned out not to be the case. Why? Because people are much more creative, much more resilient, and much more determined than technology. Okay? So if you have a group of people together, they're always going to figure out a way to defeat your technology. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:02:18 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So imagine this, okay? You build a robot, and this robot is invincible. Lots of machine guns, nighttime vision, 360 vision, okay? If I fight this robot one -on -one, I'm dead. Right? Okay? But I'm a human being. I'm not stupid. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to lure this robot into a dark forest or a cave where the robot's going to stumble and where I can maybe throw a rock or pour water on it, okay? But because technology, it's static, people are dynamic and creative, okay, and spontaneous. So that's what makes people so wonderful. Because we humans, we're dynamic. We're creative. We're spontaneous. We're not afraid to die for what we believe in. A robot is just going to do what a robot's going to do. So it's completely predictable. We are not predictable, okay? That's why if you insist on using technology and drones as your main military strategy, you will lose this war. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:03:28 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: You have to commit your people to total war. You have to find people who are willing to die for what they believe in, and then you'll win this war. And that's why I believe that, ultimately, America will lose this war. America will lose this war in Iran because American people don't have the political will to fight this war. I don't care how much money you put in this war, you're going to spend $100 trillion. I don't care. I don't care how much technology you have, you're still going to lose this war unless you're able to galvanize the patriotism and political will of your people, okay? Alright. Israel will be humbled. Doesn't that change Pax Judaica? Okay. Alright. Okay. So Pax Judaica and Israel are not the same thing. Okay. So Pax Judaica is a project of transnational capital. So think of Israel as the host, Pax Judaica as the parasite, okay? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:04:29 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And the same thing happened in America, where at the end of the 19th century, you have all this transnational capital coming into America through Wall Street and through manufacturing, the economy. They were able to control America through the Federal Reserve, okay? So transnational capital is the parasite. America is the host. So in this situation, Israel is the host and Pax Judaica will be the parasite or transnational capital. Okay. So it doesn't matter what happens to Israel. They can bomb Israel through smithereens. It doesn't matter. Who cares? Because transnational capital can come into the region, hire Chinese, Filipinos, Indians to rebuild Israel, okay? Is the war going to transfer? The transfer? Is the transfer going to transfer wealth from the old to the young in the US or worsen it? Okay. Yeah. This is an excellent question. This is really a key question if you really understand geopolitics. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:05:27 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: The answer is, as this war continues, as chaos continues throughout the world, more money will be transferred to the old than to the young. Okay? So all this inequality, this generational inequality that we're seeing in America will worsen. And the reason why is that in a time of chaos, in a time of conflict, okay, capital always triumphs. Okay? And the reason why is that capital is able to foresee risk, to distribute risk properly, and take advantage of risk. Okay? If I have $200, it's almost impossible for me to lose my money. And I can make more money. Okay? So imagine a situation where, okay, I have $200, I'll invest a billion in America, a billion in Iran, a billion in Israel. I can't possibly lose this war. Okay? But if you have like a thousand dollars, I guarantee you, you're going to lose all your money. And the reality right now ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:06:38 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=3998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: is that the old, not all the old, but a minority of the old, the old hierarchy have all the capital and the young have nothing. Okay? So it's the young who will give up all their money to the old, and it's the young who will be asked to die in the Middle East so that the old can maintain their power. Okay? And that's a historical pattern. Okay, civil war, AI, Republicans, finance, Democrats. Okay, absolutely correct in that. These categories are not that simple. It's a very fluid situation where AI is going to bet on both Democrats and Republicans. Finance is going to bet both on Republicans and Democrats. But for the sake of my analysis, I create these categories so that I can project into the future. I can extrapolate into the future, but you're absolutely right in that these categories are problematic. Okay? All right. America's plan is to weaken the global economy by letting the war drag on. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:07:54 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay? So if Iran wants the U.S. to leave, how can Israel still achieve its plan? Okay, first question. Is America trying to slowly weaken the global economy by letting the war drag on? And the answer is, it's not intentional, but it's a consequence, meaning America can suffer the consequence of the collapse of the global economy because America is self -sufficient and it can always retreat back into its fortress. It's the global economy that will suffer. So it will seem in hindsight that America had this plan all along, when in reality it's just because no matter what America does, it always wins. Okay? That's a benefit of being America. No matter what happens, you always win. Iran wants the U.S. to leave, but then how can Israel achieve the greater Israel project? And the answer is, Israel will not let the U.S. leave. Okay? I mean, Israel right now is a parasite, the U.S. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:08:59 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: is the host. Once the U.S. leaves, Israel becomes a host, Pax Judica, transnational capital, becomes a parasite. Okay? So there's no way the U.S. is going to leave the GCC region. Will the two weeks ceasefire hold? No. Okay? No. Forget about the ceasefire. It's all theater. And like, think about who is negotiating the ceasefire. Do you have George Kushner? No. And you have Sivakov. The same two guys that screw up the negotiations which led to this war in Oman. Okay? And then where is this taking place? It's taking place in Pakistan, which is a vassal state of the United States. So these negotiations will go nowhere. All right. How do you fit variables and general human in your game theory model? Yeah, that's a really good question. Okay? And the answer is, I don't use math. It's impossible. It's impossible to model random human behavior. It's just impossible. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:10:03 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Maybe if I had like a million years of data, I could do that, but I can't do that. I have like a few hundred years of data, so I don't even use math. I know it's game theory. I know it's supposed to use math, but I'll be constrained by math. Okay? So I use a lot of intuition. I use a lot of doubt. I use a lot of debate. Okay? So doubt, debate, imagination. How would Israel... Wait. Okay. So Israel is a prized state. How can I achieve Pax Judaica? Okay. Okay. So this is confusing for people, but like public opinion does not matter in geopolitics. Rome was this genocidal state. No one cared. It didn't care. It still became the empire lasted for a thousand years. Okay? Even today, we still worship Rome. The Aztecs were known for human sacrifice. Didn't matter. They still became the empire of Mexico. The British. The British. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:11:02 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Hmm. They created all these wars in Europe. They enslaved the Indian population and destroyed their economy and stole trillions of dollars from them. They addicted Chinese to opium. Do we ever talk about this? I mean like if we had an opinion poll back in the 1850s, I think most of the world would be like the British empire is evil. They're genocidal. We still worship the British empire today. Okay? So public opinion does not matter. We've come to this delusion that our opinions matter in geopolitics. It doesn't matter in geopolitics. What matters is power. Okay? Oh, that's it, guys. Wow. Oh, okay. All right. We did it, guys. We did the midterm. Okay? So hopefully I did well on this midterm. We also have a final examination. So I look forward to that. But thank you for the questions. And we will take a one -week break next week and then we'll come back and continue game theory and our analysis of the U.S.-Iran war. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:12:17 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So any questions? Yeah. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:12:25 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So I have like... So my first question is about the global economy. Like in one previous discussion, you argued that the U.S.-centric global economy system would collapse after the Iran war, leading to the re -militarization of virus nations and severely disrupting the global trade. However, why a new global economic system created while a few countries will not emerge? Because even though this system would inevitably create significant inequality, it's not going to bring about the economic inequality among the countries. It would still bring substantial wealth and economic benefits to participating nations. Why create... Which I think will create motivation for these countries to build it. Okay. Yeah. And historically, after the age of explorations, I think the collapse of each imperial system leads to the rise of the new empires. For example, the Spanish maritime collapse and the British empire gradually replaced. And after the World War I and II, the new empire was created. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:13:38 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: The American became the empire that replaced the British. Like, so why won't this happen again? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:13:45 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. Okay. So the basis of the global economy is the U.S. dollar. Okay. So what is the U.S. dollar? The U.S. dollar is basically a contract system. Okay. So when I use U.S. dollar, basically it's a contract that our trade will be honored. Okay. Right. But with a contract system, you also need an enforcement mechanism. Okay. Meaning, look, if you don't honor the contract, then someone has to come beat you up. Right. Otherwise, you'll just ignore the contract. So that's what the U.S. military is for. All right. Now, there's certain problems with this system. The first problem is that it's actually very costly to create a contract system. Okay. Why? Because you're absorbing all the risk. Okay. So you're the U.S. economy, you print U.S. dollars to enable the world to trade with each other. Okay. But when you do that, you are collecting a tax. But at the same time, it's putting a tremendous strain on your economy. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:15:13 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. Because this leads to financialization, which is just risk and speculation. Okay. So all this excess money is being created around the world, and you have to absorb it into your economy, which causes inflation, which causes things to be unaffordable to your people. All right. So that's the first problem. Okay. It's really expensive on the population. The population in America must absorb the cost of excess liquidity in the world. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. The second problem is the military. The military must be willing to fight any wars around the world at any time. Okay. So the question then is, is there any nation in the world besides America? That's one, willing to absorb the cost of creating a contract system, being the global reserve currency, and number two, that's willing to fight a war to enforce this mechanism anytime anywhere in the world. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:16:25 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: And the answer is no, hell no. Okay. This system is retarded. It is unbelievable that America agreed to the system in the first place. And most Americans would say, well, we just got stuck. We're stuck with this system. And certain people benefited from the system, but most people don't actually benefit from the system. So the idea that anyone is going to come and say, oh, you know, we'll just take over the system, whether it be Russia or China, that's just retarded. Okay. No one's going to replace America. So the global economy is just going to fracture because again, no one's willing to accept the cost to be the global reserve currency. It's just too expensive. Right. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:17:14 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So you're talking about a country like Japan and Germany as you mentioned before, or America, like they fall into a group that, well, together built a global economic system. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:17:27 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Because ultimately you have to resolve the issue of benefit. Okay. Okay. Like we have to negotiate who benefits. Okay. It doesn't make sense. And it's hard for nation states to figure that out. It's much easier to have an empire. It's much easier for me to impose my power onto you. But for us to like work together peacefully, maybe for a couple of years, okay, but it's very unsustainable. All right. Why? Because of domestic concerns, which your population will want to maximize the benefit from this relationship. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:18:12 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So, my second question is about the value of the culture of the world. As we discussed before, the culture of the world is very important. Before this world today is highly materialistic, with many and the pursuit of material possessions become the main private forces in society. And innovation of the future believe that people will place greater emphasis on religion and spiritual life. But how exactly will this transformation occur? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:18:42 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Because this will occur through like war or suffering. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:18:46 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Then in history, we go through like World War I and World War II. Many people die. Many tragedies happen. But it seems that this value, this materialistic value doesn't change because that's what we have today. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:19:02 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: So, I didn't say everyone will experience this transformation. What I'm saying is that those who undergo the transformation will most likely survive the coming world collapse. Okay. So, you can choose to say like, I want to be materialistic. You can do that. And most people will choose to continue to want to be materialistic. But they won't survive. Okay. And those who do undergo the transformation will survive. And why do they undergo the transformation? Because they see the world collapsing around them and they are looking for comfort. They're looking for a story. They're looking for explanation. And so they turn to religion. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. And the reality is that, look, in the coming 50 years of all this chaos and war, I would say 90 % of humanity will be wiped out. And a lot of these people will be because they refuse to adapt. To the new world, they refuse to believe that a new world is coming and they should prepare for it. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:19:57 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4797s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4797s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Okay. They refuse to change their minds. Okay. Any more questions? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:20:02 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Yeah. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:20:06 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Maybe two. Okay. Okay. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:20:08 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Yeah. The first is like, he had some questions about ours as individuals in this world. He said that efforts are defined based on the consequentialism of secret society and other definitions. Okay. What is the significance of our efforts? Isn't it still exacerbating the secret society? Do we have a way to define our own value? Or can we only live in the eye of others? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:20:37 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4837s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4837s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Yeah. It's absolutely pointless to worry about secret societies. It's absolutely pointless to worry about others. What you can do is live your life to the best of your ability. You can be focused on learning, on developing yourself spiritually. And intellectually and emotionally. You can be focused on reading books, on asking questions. Okay. And if you do that, you'll be fine. So stop worrying about secret societies. Stop worrying about the end of the world and just focus on your own personal transformation. Okay. All right. One more. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:21:15 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Question is related to the Chinese students. He said that, how do you think Chinese students who are currently studying in the United States, will be perceived in the future while Chinese people discriminate against us, U.S. American students in the future? ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:21:35 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: Look, the reality is that the age of globalization is over. The idea that Chinese students learn English, hop in a plane, go to America to study for four years and come back and get a good job, that era is over. And quite honestly, I'll be honest with you, I don't even know why Chinese students do this in the first place. Okay. Again, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that China is not a real nation state. It's just a projection, a mirage created by the global economy. But I mean, Chinese students now are focused on getting the degree in America. It's just a piece of paper. Chinese students don't care enough about an education, about learning. Okay. That's a great myth about Chinese students in this world, where Chinese students are the best in the world. Okay. They care about our learning and our discipline. That's not true. Chinese students are extremely, extremely motivated. ## History As River, Prophecy As Plan -- 1:22:34 - Source title: Game Theory #20: Mid-Term Examination - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8y5e3HnHE&t=4954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ue8y5e3hnhe.json) Text: They care about the grades. They care about the degree. Once you take that away from Chinese students, Chinese students don't even know what to do. They play video games every day. They just sit around and do nothing. Okay. So if Chinese students are to thrive in the future, they need to learn passion. They need to learn interesting motivation. They need to love learning for itself. All right. Okay. All right. So that is it. Thank you for the midterm, and I will see everyone the week after. Okay. So we're taking a break next week. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: The Divine Comedy is the greatest literary masterpiece in human history. When Dante wrote it in about 1300, he called it La Commedia. And the reason why is that at this time in history, epic poetry was considered high or tragic. And it was written usually in Latin. But for Dante, what he really believed is that epic poetry should be democratic. It should be accessible to the people. That's why he called it La Commedia, low, okay? Which meant comedy. And so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the language of the elite in Europe. He wanted to write it in Tuscan so that ordinary people around him could access it. And as a result, Dante is a great believer in democracy. So Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare were, in their own respective languages, the greatest poets. Because first and foremost, they believed that poetry should be accessed, by the people. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 1:46 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: They believed in a democratic spirit to poetry. And that made them distinct from the people of their time. La Commedia is a response then to the Iliad by Virgil. At this time in history, for the past 1000 years, the Iliad was the dominant literature in Europe. And it was the foundation for the Catholic Church. So remember, when we read the Iliad, the Iliad is fundamentally about duty, piety, and it contrasted love. And this became a dominant idea in the Catholic Church, where you are not allowed to access God. You're not allowed to believe in love. You must obey the Church. Because only the Church can guarantee you redemption and salvation. And this, of course, led to massive corruption in the Catholic Church. But it also led to wars throughout Europe. Because so much power was concentrated in the Catholic Church. And as a result, many kings fought over for power in the Catholic Church. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 3:14 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And this led to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot of these conflicts. So he wrote La Commedia in order to have people access God. For the comedy, you can access God and bypass the Catholic Church. In fact, if you read La Commedia, you'll find there are a lot of direct criticisms of the Catholic Church. Also, La Commedia was written in response to the Aeneid. And like Homer, what Dante wants to do is position love first and foremost. In La Commedia, love is God itself. Alright, so these are the basic themes that we'll be looking at throughout this book. So let me talk about the structure of La Commedia. There are three distinct parts. First is Inferno. Second is Purgatory. And the last is Paradise. And what makes La Commedia so powerful is Dante uses two major literary devices to construct his universe. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 4:41 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: The first is what we call structure. The second is paradox. So imagine La Commedia as not just epic poetry, but as a very complex mathematical puzzle that you must unravel through time. So Inferno, the structure is an inverted triangle. And so what's going to happen is that Dante and Virgil are going to travel through Inferno, through Hell, but it's almost like they're traveling underground. It's an inverted triangle. And then Purgatory becomes a pyramid or a mountain where Dante and Virgil are going to travel up a mountain so that they can meet Beatrice at the very top. And why they will meet Beatrice at the very top is that Beatrice will take Dante to Heaven, where he will meet God. And that is the very ending of the Divine Comedy, La Commedia. And in Paradise, it is structured as a solar system. And here is something called the Imperium, where God is. And then Dante will travel with Beatrice into the Imperium. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 6:09 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And it's structured like a solar system. Okay? So that's the very structure of the Divine Comedy. And as you can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry. But what makes Divine Comedy so distinct and so powerful is the idea of paradox or maybe dissonance, cognitive dissonance. And so, all poetry is designed to be memorized. It's all designed to be read aloud. And there are subtlety and nuance in all poetry. And the reason why is, think of poetry as almost like a virus. And what it's trying to do is, it's trying to infiltrate you. It's trying to subvert you. And it's trying to remake you. Okay? And that's what the Divine Comedy does, where you read it, and it all sounds very simple and nice, but the more you memorize it, the more ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 7:21 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: you interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that it is disrupting the normal way you see the world. It creates paradox. And what's going to happen is that your mind is going to, by itself, subconsciously try to unravel these paradoxes over time. Okay? So the more you read the Divine Comedy, over decades, the more it will reveal itself to you. It is a universe that comes into you, and then it remakes you. Okay? And that is the power and beauty of the Divine Comedy. So the trick is to unravel the paradoxes, which will implant themselves throughout the Divine Comedy. Okay. So what... So another thing about the structure is that in order to reach paradise, Dante must first enter inferno. Okay? And there are different ways you can interpret the meaning of this. The simplest way to interpret this is that in order to really truly discover God, you must experience hell yourself. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 8:37 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=517s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay? So good and evil are intertwined together. You can never have good unless you first experience evil. Good is not the absence of evil. Good is the confrontation and the defeat of evil. Okay? That's one possible way to interpret it. But another way to interpret it is that inferno represents Virgil, which represents the Iniat. And so for Dante to begin the process of entering into heaven, he must first recognize the impact of Virgil and the Iniat on his psyche, on his culture, and then by recognizing this, defeat the Iniat in order to fully embrace the power of God and of love. Okay? And that's the interpretation that I want to present to you as we go along. All right. Okay. So having done that, let's go over some basic biography. This is Dante. And Dante is considered the greatest poet in the Italian language. At this time in history, Italy was divided into city -states. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 9:57 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: So Dante was in Florence. But there are also some major city -states like Venice and Genoa. Okay? And they're all competing against each other. They're also competing against Rome, the Catholic Church, which wanted to exert authority over these city -states. At the same time, you had the different empires of Europe, for example, France, and basically the Holy Roman Empire, which we would today call Germany. And they're also trying to exert authority over these city -states. At the same time, there are different factions within these city -states, different families that fight against each other. So during Dante's time, and this again is about the year 1300, he is experiencing constant conflict, constant violence, constant hatred. And for him, the major question is, how can we as a people, as humans, escape this constant cycle of vengeance and hatred and war? And that's why he wrote The Divine Comedy. Two major biographic ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 11:14 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: details that you need to understand about him is that he is of noble birth, and therefore he's a participant in this conflict. So the northern Italian city -states, which include Florence, Milan, Genoa, and Venice, they have two major political factions. This is Wikipedia, by the way. The Guelphs, which support the papacy, and the Ghibellines, which support the Holy Roman Empire. So Dante's family belongs to the Guelphs. So he was just born into this political rivalry. And over time, what will happen is that the Guelphs will win, but then the Guelphs will divide into the black and white factions, so different families fighting for power again. So with Dante, all his life, he's experienced nothing but political rivalry and hatred. That's the first major thing you need to know about him. Ultimately, what will happen is that he'll get sick of this constant fighting, and he will exile himself to focus on his poetry. The other ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 12:25 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: thing to know about him is he falls in love with Beatrice at a very early age, okay? He meets her when she is nine and she is eight. The problem is that Beatrice's family is of more noble, aristocratic birth than Dante. Now, at this time in history, all marriages are arranged, and so Dante marries someone of his class, Beatrice marries someone of his class, but they never really abandon each other, okay? They still remain friends, and Dante, in his heart, still has this longing for Beatrice. Beatrice will die pretty young. Maybe when she's in her mid -twenties, she will die giving birth. But Dante never forgets about her, and he spends his entire life still remembering his love for Beatrice, and this becomes the basis of the Divine Comedy, okay? La Commedia. So these are the two major biographical details you need to know about Dante. Okay, so again, this is from Wikipedia, and when Dante is exiled from Florence, he never returns to Florence. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 13:42 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: He spends all his life in exile. He becomes patronized by some very powerful aristocrats throughout Italy, and he will spend a lot of his time reflecting on his experience in this political faction. In the Divine Comedy, there will be a lot of references to this conflict between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs, and his exile from Florence, and his hatred of the Catholic Church. There will also be a lot of references to his love for Beatrice, which will redeem him from this earthly conflict, okay? All right, so some passages that we've looked at before, but which I want us to emphasize, okay, to truly understand Divine Comedy. All right, so let's look at certain passages, okay? So, Avery, could you read for me, please? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 14:36 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: In half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear. So bitter. Death is hardly more severe. But to retell the good discovered there, I'll also tell the other things I saw. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 15:02 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay, so he's saying, right, this is the very beginning of the Divine Comedy. This is the Alan Menenbaum translation, okay? And I choose Alan Menenbaum. There are lots of other translations because he's just the easiest to read, all right? So I'm not interested in the language. I'm interested in the ideas. So that's why I pick him. Okay, so this is very simple. He is in middle age, and he's in a shadowed forest, okay? So he's completely confused as to why the world is what it is. This hatred for the world is, causing him to hate himself as well. And so because of this hatred, because of this confusion about why there's so much hatred in the world, he has lost his connection with God. And he doesn't know how to proceed. It's a long period of savage forest, dense and difficult, that makes him question everything, okay? He's in a deep depression, basically. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 16:10 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And at this point, he is lost in this forest, and he feels hopeless. And then a man emerges named Virgil. And Virgil is the poet that Dante respects the most because at this point in history, Virgil is the most influential poet. And Virgil promises to guide Dante out of this shadowed forest and into the light. And Dante puts his faith in Virgil. And at this point, Dante sees Virgil not just as a savior, but as a father and as a teacher, okay? And this is important because for Dante to truly defeat Virgil, which is the point of La Commedia, he wants to destroy the influence and power of the Aeneid, he first must put Virgil onto a pedestal in order for us to recognize the limitations of Virgil. So that we ourselves, can defeat Virgil in our hearts, okay? And that's the idea here. All right, can you continue, Ivory? All right, yeah, keep on going. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 17:23 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: In heaven there is a gentle lady, one who weeps for the distress towards which I send you, so that stern judgment up above is shattered. And it was she who called upon Lucia, requesting of her, now your faithful one is in need of you, and I commend him to you. Lucia, enemy of every cruelty, arose and made her way to where I was, sitting beside the venerable Rachel. She said, You, Beatrice, true praise of God, why have you not helped him who loves you so, that, for your sake, he slept a vulgar crowd? Do you not hear the anguish in his cry? Do you not see the death he wars against upon that river Ruthless has to see? No one within this world has ever been so quick to seek his good or friend, to flee his harm as I, when she had finished speaking. Thus, to come below, down from my blessed station, I trusted in your honest utterance, which honors you and those who have listened to you. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 18:23 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: When she had finished with her words to me, she turned aside her gleaming, tearful eyes, which only made me hurry all the more. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 18:30 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay, so a lot of La Commedia, Divine Comedy, is dialogue, okay? There's a speaker and there's a listener. And this is an important formulation because what Dante wants us is to recognize is that when a speaker speaks, he or she is speaking from a certain worldview, a certain prejudice. And so we must always be on guard. We must always ask ourselves why this person is saying what he or she is saying, okay? So something that we discuss a lot is the idea of God, okay? And God is the perfect manifestation of love, of generosity, of forgiveness. And one thing that God does not do is reciprocity, okay? So the Catholic Church teaches you that if you obey God, then God will allow you access to heaven. And what Dante wants us to understand is that cannot be true. If God is perfection, if God is love, if God is beauty, God would never require anything of you. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 19:49 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: God will always give you free will. And free will and reciprocity are a contradiction, okay? If I make you do something in order to access heaven, that means I don't give you free will. But God will give you free will, alright? But here we can see a contradiction, a paradox, in that so what's happening is that Dante is talking to Virgil and Dante's asking Virgil, how did you get here? Why are you here? Why are you taking me to heaven? And Virgil's response is, well, I was having a very nice time sitting at home in limbo in hell, but then an angel, Beatrice, came to me and said she might help in order to help a friend. And then Dante's like, okay, but why would Dante, why would Beatrice want to help me? And then Virgil was like, well, because she saw your pain in heaven and she recognizes how much you love her. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 20:53 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And so Lucia said to her, you, Beatrice, why don't you help him who loves you so much, okay? So it's almost like a reciprocity where because Dante loves Beatrice so much, Beatrice has to come help him. Now, but this goes against the very idea of God, okay? So what's happening here is two possibilities. The first possibility is that Virgil is just lying, okay? But he's not really lying. He's just misinterpreting what's going on. God will always come to you if you truly want God to come, okay? Because God is all generous. And so Dante, his heart is calling out for God and God sends Beatrice without any conditions. And God sends Beatrice because God understands that Beatrice is the person who can most help Dante, okay? There's no reciprocity here. But when Beatrice tells Virgil this, Virgil misinterprets this idea to mean that there's reciprocity going on, okay? So it's not really lying, but ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 22:12 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: it shows you the limitations of Virgil's worldview, where in the Imiad, it's all about reciprocity, okay? It's all about contract. It's all about duty, okay? So that's the first possibility. But another possibility is that Beatrice understands the limitations of Virgil and so just tells Virgil what he wants to hear or structures this in a way that Virgil can understand, okay? Because if Beatrice says to Virgil, I came to help Dante because Dante needs help, Virgil will be like, well, okay, he needs help, but why help him? And so Beatrice doesn't want to spend time explaining to him that the universe is all forgiven. So she just says, okay, well, it's because he helped me in the past. It's because of his love for me that I'm able to go to heaven, okay? So already in the beginning, we have to question the authority of Virgil, okay? Virgil is an unreliable guide. And for us to ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 23:33 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: truly enter paradise, for us to truly discover God, we need to recognize he is unreliable ourselves. Dante will never tell us, but he'll give us clues to suggest that he is unreliable. And we must reject him if we are to fully embrace God, okay? All right, let's continue. All right. All right, so Virgil is taking Dante into hell. And Virgil emphasizes to Dante, this is a path that we must take if we are to go into paradise. You must first confront evil. You must first understand sin for you to truly understand goodness, okay? All right. And so when they get there, there's a river that blocks their path into hell. And there is a ferryman named Charon from Greek mythology who will take them across the river. But the problem is that Dante is still living. And Charon sees that. And he says to Dante, there's a problem here. I can't take you across because you're a living soul and you're not dead. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 24:43 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: So I can't give you access to heaven. Hell, okay? All right, can you read? I agree. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 24:49 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And here advancing towards us in a boat an aged man, his hair was white with years, was shouting, woe to you, corrupted souls. Forget your hope of ever seeing heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore, to the eternal dark, to fire and frost. And you approaching there, you living soul, keep well away from these. They are the dead. But when he saw I made no move to go, he said, another way and other harbors, not here, will bring you passage to your shore. A lighter craft will have to carry you. My guide then, Charon, don't torment yourself. Our passage has been willed above where one can do what he has willed and ask no more. Now silence fell upon the woolly cheeks of Charon, pilot of the livid marsh, whose eyes were ringed about with wheels of flame. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 25:41 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1541s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Well, so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across because Dante is still living. But when Virgil says to him, Hey, let us pass. Charon obeys. Okay. And this is a paradox. So let me explain the paradox to you. Again, the thing about Dante is that he's so subtle and it's written in a perfect manner. So the more you try to understand what's going on, the more truth will be revealed to you. So the paradox is this. They were in hell and they were in hell because they've rejected God. Okay. And how we know that we rejected God is this sentence. Woe to you corrupted souls. Forget your hope of ever seeing heaven. Okay. So you can interpret this as saying that Charon is saying to you, saying to people, this is all hopeless. Okay. But another way of interpreting this is Charon is saying to all these souls, you are here because you believe God has abandoned you. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 26:40 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: You believe there is no God. You believe there is no heaven. You believe you deserve to be here. That's why you're here. Okay. So, but then he sees Dante and he knows that Dante doesn't believe this. He is actually going to heaven. And so Dante is a corruption. And so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across. But then Virgil says, hey, God has ordered Dante to be crossed. And then Charon obeys. The problem, the paradox is this. Charon himself doesn't believe in God. That's why he's in hell. He rejects the authority of God. Yet he obeys God. So that makes absolutely no sense. This is a paradox. Unless you remember that what matters is the speaker. Okay. So Virgil is the one who is speaking. Okay. So in other words, Charon is not obeying the authority of God. He's obeying the authority of the speaker who is Virgil. And this suggests to us that Virgil is the master of hell. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 27:54 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And the question then is, well, why is he master of hell? And the answer is because he created hell through the Inead. Right? Inead is a poetry that emphasizes piety, obedience. It emphasizes how love is a disease. It emphasizes the importance of hatred as a power to destroy your enemies. It emphasizes empire. So in other words, Virgil through the Inead created emotions in human beings that allow for the creation of hell itself. You can also argue that with the Inead, Virgil created the conditions for the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not based on the Bible. It's based on the Inead. Okay. So again, this is not apparent in the poetry. We want you to understand that Dante is conveying his truthful paradox. And you try to unravel this paradox, and the truth slowly reveals itself to you. Okay? All right, let's continue. All right. Can you read, Ivory? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 29:12 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Oops, sorry. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 29:13 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: To demon Charon, with his eyes like embers, by signaling to them, has all embarked. His aura strikes anyone who stretches out. As, in the autumn, leaves detach themselves, first one and then the other, till the bow sees all his fallen garments on the ground. Similarly, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So do they move across the darkened waters, even before they reach the farther shore? New ranks already gather on this bank. My son, the gracious master said to me, those who have died beneath the wrath of God, all these assemble here from every country, and they are eager for the river crossing because celestial justice spurs them on, so that their fear is turned into desire. No good soul ever takes passage here. Therefore, if Charon has complained of you, by now you can be sure what his words mean. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 30:10 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay. So two words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire. Okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul. Okay? So in the Vine of Commonly, you will see these two words, will and desire repeated a lot. You are what you want and what you move towards. Okay? That's ultimately your soul. And what this is telling us is that people are evil because people obey. Okay? Duty. Okay? So this image is where the people line up obediently and do as they're told. They don't question why this is happening. They don't resist why this is happening. Okay? Their will and desire is to move towards hell. They are not in hell because they did bad things. Everyone does bad things. They're in hell because they desire to be in hell. Okay? And this is something that Virgil says. Their fear is turned into desire. They're entering hell because they want to do so. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 31:31 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And this is a really important idea if you are trying to understand Dante. Free will is a fundamental truth of the universe. You do what you do because you choose to do it. You are in hell not because you did bad things. You are in hell because you think that hell is the best place for you. You are happy in hell. Okay? So now they are in hell. And the first place that they enter is something called limbo. And limbo is a place where people go. They're good people but the problem is they don't believe in Jesus. They don't believe in Christ. They never converted to Christianity. So these are people like Virgil, like Homer, like Plato. Okay? Very virtuous people but unfortunately they don't believe in God and so therefore they are doomed in hell. Or that's what Virgil tells Dante. Dante is suspicious. And Dante asks Virgil, Was there ever a time when people in hell could ascend to heaven? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 32:48 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=1968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And Virgil says there was only one time. And that was when Jesus died and he came to hell. To save and redeem those most worthy. People like King David. People like Noah. People like Abraham. People like Rachel. Who are in the Bible. Who are born before the time of Christ. But who are worthy of going to heaven. And that's why Jesus came to hell. Unfortunately I Virgil came after Jesus. And so I was not saved by him. Okay? And as you go on, I want you to remember this because what we'll discover as we go on is this is not true. It is entirely possible for people who are not Christians who were born before the time of Jesus to ascend to heaven. Because they choose to. It's about will and desire. Okay? So and then they go into the first layer of hell. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 33:55 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And the first layer of hell are people who lust. Okay? These are people whose passion overrided their reason. And so they sinned. Okay? All right. Okay. And so these are spirits that are passing through. And Donny asks Virgil, who are these people? And Virgil starts to name them one by one. Okay? Can you read Ivory? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 34:23 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: The kindly master said, Do you not ask who are these spirits whom you see before you? I'd have you know before you go ahead. They did not sin. And yet, though they have merits, that's not enough because they lacked baptism, the portal of faith that you embrace. And if they lived before Christianity, they did not worship God in fitting ways. And of such spirits, I myself am one. For these defects and for no other evil, we now are lost and punished just with this. We have no hope. And yet we live in longing. Great sorrow seized my heart on hearing him. For I had seen some estimable men among the souls suspended in that limbo. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 35:03 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: So I want you to remember this passage because Virgil is saying, there's nothing wrong with me. Unfortunately, I was just unlucky. Okay? This is incorrect. What you will see as we move on is that Virgil chooses to be here. There are many paths for salvation reduction for him. But he wants to stay in hell. Okay? And why that is the case, we'll talk about later. All right, let's keep on going. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 35:31 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: So I descended from the first enclosure down to the second circle, that which girdles less space but grief more great, that goads to weeping. There dreadful Mino stands, gnashing his teeth, examining the sins of those who enter. He judges in the signs as his tail twines. I mean that when the spirit born to evil appears before him, it confesses all, and he, the connoisseur of sin, can tell, the death and hell appropriate to it. As many times as Minos wraps his tail around himself, that marks the sinner's level. Always there is a crowd that stands before him. Each soul in turn advances towards the judgment. They speak and hear, then they are cast below. Arresting his extraordinary task, Minos, as soon as he had seen me, said, O you who reach this house of suffering, be careful how you enter, whom you trust. The gate is wide, but do not be deceived. To which my guide replied, But why protest? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 36:35 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passage has been willed above, where one can do what he has willed and ask no more. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 36:42 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay, so this is a very interesting passage that again makes us question things. Okay? So Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on your sin, he basically says to Dante, Don't trust anyone here. Okay? Don't trust anyone here. Be careful how you enter, whom you trust. The gate is wide, but do not be deceived. Okay. This is a very strange idea, right? Because Minos sees that Dante is with Virgil. And his response is, Dante, you're a good person. I'm telling you right now, don't trust anyone. Right? So what he's really saying is, Dante, don't trust Virgil. Right? If you think about it logically, it makes no sense for him to say that unless he means don't trust Virgil. Because if Virgil can be trusted, then all Dante has to do is just follow Virgil into hell. And that's it. Okay? But Minos makes a point of saying, don't trust anyone here. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 37:49 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Which is to say, don't trust the person closest to you. Be careful how you enter and whom you trust. Okay? And what confirms this is, to which my guide replied, but why protest? Okay? So Virgil is jumping in, running and said, hey, shut up, man. Okay? Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passion has been willed above where one can do what he has willed and ask no more. I represent a higher power than you, Minos. All right? So again, this is questioning the reliability of narrator. What's happening is that Dante is planting seeds, giving us clues that in hell, nothing is what it seems. The person that we most trust, Virgil, is the person we should probably least trust. Okay? All right. So everything that Virgil says, we have to question. All right. So again, Virgil and Dante are in the first layer of hell. This is lust. And Virgil is pointing out to Dante who they are. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 39:04 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay? Can you read, Ivory? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 39:07 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: The first of those about whose history you want to know, my master then told me, once ruled as empress over many nations. Her vice of lust became so customary that she made license licit in her laws to free her from the scandal she had caused. She is Semiramis, of whom we read that she was Nannus's wife and his successor. She held the land the sultan now commands. That other spirit killed herself for love and she betrayed the ashes of Zacchaeus. The wanton Cleopatra follows next. See Helen, for whose sake so many years of evil had to pass. See great Achilles, who finally met love in his last battle. See Paris, Tristan, and he points out a name to me more than a thousand shades departed from our life because of love. No sooner had I heard my teacher name the ancient ladies and the knights than pity seized me and I was like a man astray. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 40:04 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 40:05 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay, so this again is a paradox, okay? And again, it's almost impossible to see this paradox by yourself. But the paradox is this. Um, what Virgil will do is basically point out a thousand shades, okay? And he'll provide all the names of these people. Okay, an example is, um, Symerus, um, and then you have Cleopatra, you have Helen, you have Achilles, you have Paris, you have Tristan. Okay, so he's naming everyone. But there's one shade he does not name. And the other spirit who killed herself for love and she betrayed the ashes of Zacchaeus, we know who this person is because this person is Dido. And who is Dido? Dido is the creation of Virgil. So the great paradox, the irony is there's a thousand people and the person that Virgil refuses to acknowledge by name is the one that he understands the best, who he is most intimate with. Okay? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 41:19 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And this creates the question, why is this the case? Why does he refuse to name Dido? So if you go back to the, um, Iliad, the one thing that stands out about the, um, Iliad is that Dido is the most realistic character. It's really the character that most people, when they read the Iliad, they sympathize with. Because Dido feels real, but at the same time, Dido didn't really deserve her fate. Okay? So it is Virgil who cast Dido into hell. Right? And this contrasts with Dante, who will elevate Beatrice, his love, to heaven. Alright? So already we are seeing a contrast, a paradox. Okay? Virgil condemned Dido to hell. Dante elevated Beatrice to heaven. And Dante is longing for Beatrice. And then Virgil forgets that Dido even existed. He even refuses to name her. Okay? And the question then is why? So because Dido is a realistic character, we can assume that Dido is based on a person that Virgil knows. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 42:42 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: But knowing that, we can also make the assumption that Virgil pursued Dido, fell in love with Dido, and Dido rejected him, probably because he was an ugly asshole. Okay? And so Virgil got really angry, and decided that, I will condemn Dido to hell. But in his heart, Virgil knows that this was unfair. That this was pure hatred. And so he feels a bit guilty about it. He feels embarrassed about it. And that's why he refuses to acknowledge Dido. He refuses to face Dido for what he did. Okay? But then something interesting happens. Alright? Okay. Can you read? ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 43:36 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: My first words. Poet, I should willingly speak with those two who go together there and seem so lightly carried by the wind. And he to me, you'll see when they draw closer to us, and then you may appeal to them by that love which impels them. They will come. No sooner had the wind bent them towards us than I urged on my voice, O battered souls, if one does not forbid it, speak with us. Even as doves, when summoned by desire, borne forward by their will, move through the air with wings uplifted, still to their sweet nest, those spirits left the ranks where Dido suffers approaching us through the militant air. So powerful had been my loving cry. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 44:18 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay. So what he's saying here is that Virgil is naming all the shades and Donna is like, let me go and talk to them. And Virgil says, sure, go talk to them, okay? But what I want you to notice is this. Those spirits, left the ranks where Dido suffers, approaching us through the militant air. Okay? So the contrast is this. Virgil refuses to name Dido, so Dante names Dido himself. All right? And what this really is, is an act of rebellion. Because Dante acknowledges Virgil as his father, as his guide, as his teacher. And therefore, he should just follow Virgil. If Virgil doesn't want to name Dido, doesn't want to acknowledge Dido, then Dante should be respectful and ignore Dido, right? But he's saying, nope, I'm going to name Dido because I want us to understand that it was wrong to not acknowledge Dido. It was wrong, first of all, for Virgil to condemn Dido to hell and it's wrong to just ignore her. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 45:33 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: Okay? So I know who Dido is, I know what Virgil did, and I want to name her in order to resurrect her in our memory. All right? So again, this is creating kind of dissonance. It's leaving an idea in our heads that none of what we're seeing in Inferno is what it seems. That's why it's hell. It's all an illusion, it's all deception. And we have to use our minds, we have to use our hearts, to truly understand what's going on. Okay? All right? So this begins our journey into the divine comedy. But as you can see, it is extremely complex. You have to see with your heart. You have to see with your imagination. It's impossible to just read this and know what's going on. You have to believe in your instincts. You have to believe in your intuition. You have to believe that you have a connection with God. ## Dante's Virus and the Guide Who Built Hell -- 46:36 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante (Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZUrGPgAos&t=2796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ezurgpgaos.json) Text: And it is God that will reveal to you the truth through your intuition and your imagination. Okay? So the divine comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith. All right? Any questions? Okay. All right. So we will continue this next time. Okay? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-democratizes-access-to-reality) Text: The Divine Comedy is the greatest literary masterpiece in human history. When Dante wrote it in about 1300, he called it La Commedia. And the reason why is that at this time in history, epic poetry was considered high or tragic. And it was written usually in Latin. But for Dante, what he really believed is that epic poetry should be democratic. It should be accessible to the people. That's why he called it La Commedia, low, okay? Which meant comedy. And so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the language of the elite in Europe. He wanted to write it in Tuscan so that ordinary people around him could access it. And as a result, Dante is a great believer in democracy. So Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare were, in their own respective languages, the greatest poets. Because first and foremost, they believed that poetry should be accessible by the people. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 1:46 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-democratizes-access-to-reality) Text: They believed in a democratic spirit to poetry. And that made them distinct from the people of their time. La Commedia is a response then to the Iliad by Virgil. At this time in history, for the past 1,000 years, the Iliad was the dominant literature in Europe. And it was the foundation. The foundation for the Catholic Church. Okay? So remember when we read the Iliad, the Iliad is fundamentally about duty, piety. And it contrasted love. Okay? And this became a dominant idea in the Catholic Church, where you are not allowed to access God. You're not allowed to believe in love. You must obey the Church. Because only the Church can guarantee you redemption and salvation. And this, of course, led to massive corruption in the Catholic Church. But it also led to wars throughout Europe. Because so much power was concentrated in the Catholic Church. And as a result, many kings fought over for power in the Catholic Church. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 3:14 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-democratizes-access-to-reality) Text: And this led to many wars. It led also to a splintering of the Catholic Church. And Dante found himself embroiled into a lot of these conflicts. Okay? So he wrote La Commedia in order to have people access God. Okay? For the comedy, you can access God and bypass the Catholic Church. In fact, if you read La Commedia, you'll find there are a lot of direct criticisms of the Catholic Church. Also, La Commedia was written in response to the Aeneid. And like Homer, what Dante wants to do is position love first and foremost. Okay? In La Commedia, love is God itself. Alright. So these are the basic themes that we'll be looking at throughout this book. So let me talk about the structure of La Commedia. Right? There are three distinct parts. First is inferno. Second is purgatory. And the last is paradise. And what makes La Commedia so powerful is Dante uses two major literary devices to construct his universe. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 4:42 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=282s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=282s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: The first is what we call structure. The second is paradox. Alright? So imagine La Commedia as not just epic poetry, but as a very complex mathematical puzzle that you must unravel through time. Okay? So inferno, the structure is an inverted triangle. And so what's going to happen is that Dante and Virgil are going to travel through inferno, through hell, but it's almost like they're traveling underground. Okay? It's an inverted triangle. And then purgatory becomes a pyramid or a mountain where Dante and Virgil are going to travel up a mountain so that they can meet Beatrice at the very top. And why they will meet Beatrice at the very top is that Beatrice will take Dante to heaven where he will meet God. And that is the very ending of the Divine Comedy. Okay? La Commedia. And in paradise, it is structured as a solar system. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 6:00 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-invades-and-remakes-reader); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: And here is something called the Imperium where God is. And then Dante will travel with Beatrice into the Imperium. And it's structured like a solar system. Okay? So that's a very structure of the Divine Comedy. And as you can see, it's very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry. But what makes Divine Comedy so distinct and so powerful is the idea of paradox or maybe dissonance, calling it dissonance. And so all poetry is designed to be memorized. It's all designed to be read aloud. And there are subtlety and nuance in all poetry. And the reason why is think of poetry as almost like a virus. And what it's trying to do is it's trying to infiltrate you. It's trying to subvert you. And it's trying to remake you. Okay? And that's what the Divine Comedy does where you read it. And it all sounds very simple and nice. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 7:19 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-invades-and-remakes-reader); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: But the more you memorize it, the more you interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that it is disrupting the normal way you see the world. It creates paradox. And what's going to happen is that your mind is going to, by itself, subconsciously try to unravel these paradoxes over time. Okay? So the more you read the Divine Comedy over decades, the more it will reveal itself to you. It is a universe that comes into you. And then it remakes you. Okay? And that is the power and beauty of the Divine Comedy. So the trick is to unravel the paradoxes, which will implant themselves throughout the Divine Comedy. Okay. So what... So another thing about the structure is that in order to reach paradise, Dante must first... enter inferno. Okay? And there are different ways you can interpret the meaning of this. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 8:29 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=509s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=509s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: The simplest way to interpret this is that in order to really truly discover God, you must experience hell yourself. Okay? So good and evil are intertwined together. You can never have good unless you first experience evil. Good is not the absence of evil. Good is a confrontation. And the defeat of evil. Okay? That's one possible way to interpret it. But another way to interpret it is that inferno represents Virgil, which represents the Iniat. And so for Dante to begin the process of entering into heaven, he must first recognize the impact of Virgil and the Iniat on his psyche, on his culture, and then by recognizing this, defeat the Iniat in order to fully embrace the power of God and of love. Okay? And that's the interpretation that I want to present to you as we go along. All right. Okay. So having done that, let's go over some basic biography. This is Dante. And Dante is considered the greatest poet in the Italian language. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 9:52 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=592s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=592s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: At this time in history, Italy was divided into city -states. So Dante was in Florence. But there are also some major city -states like Venice and Genoa. Okay? And they're all competing against each other. They're also competing against Rome, the Catholic Church, which wanted to exert authority over these city -states. At the same time, you had the different empires of Europe. For example, France. And basically the Holy Roman Empire, which we would today call Germany. And they're also trying to exert authority over these city -states. At the same time, there are different factions within these city -states, different families that fight against each other. So during Dante's time, and this again is about the year 1300, he is experiencing constant conflict, constant violence, constant hatred. And for him, the major question is, how can we as a people, as humans, escape this constant cycle of vengeance and hatred and war? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 11:08 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: And that's why he wrote The Divine Comedy. Two major biographic details that you need to understand about him is that he is of noble birth, and therefore he's a participant in this conflict. So the northern Italian city -states, which include Florence, Milan, Genoa, and Venice, they have two major political factions. This is Wikipedia, by the way. The Guelphs, which support the papacy, and the Ghibellines, which support the Holy Roman Empire. So Dante's family belongs to the Guelphs. So he was just born into this political rivalry. And over time, what will happen is that the Guelphs will win, but then the Guelphs will divide into the black and white factions. So different families fighting for power again. So for Dante, all his life, he's experienced nothing but political rivalry and hatred. That's the first major thing you need to know about him. Ultimately, what will happen is that he'll get sick of this constant fighting, and he will exile himself to focus on his poetry. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 12:24 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: The other thing to know about him is he falls in love with Beatrice at a very early age. He meets her when she is nine and she is eight. The problem is that Beatrice's family is of more noble aristocratic birth than Dante. Now, at this time in history, all marriages are arranged. And so Dante marries someone of his class. Beatrice marries someone of his class. But they never really... abandon each other. They still remain friends. And Dante, in his heart, still has this longing for Beatrice. Beatrice will die pretty young. Maybe when she's in her mid -twenties, she will die giving birth. But Dante never forgets about her. And he spends his entire life still remembering his love for Beatrice. And this becomes the basis of the Divine Comedy, La Commedia. So these are the two major biographical details. You need to know about Dante. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 13:28 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: Okay. So, again, this is from Wikipedia. And when Dante is exiled from Florence, he never returns to Florence. He spends all his life in exile. He becomes patronized by some very powerful aristocrats throughout Italy. And he will spend a lot of his time reflecting on his experience. In this political faction. In the Divine Comedy, there will be a lot of references to this conflict between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs. And his exile from Florence. And his hatred of the Catholic Church. There will also be a lot of references to his love for Beatrice. Which will redeem him from this earthly conflict. Okay? Alright. So, some passages that we've looked at before. But which I want us to emphasize. Okay? To truly understand the Divine Comedy. Alright. So, let's look at certain passages. Okay? So, Avery, could you read for me, please? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 14:38 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: In half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest. For I had lost a path that does not stray. It is hard to speak of what it was. That savage forest. Dense and difficult. Which even in recall renews my fear. So bitter. Death is hardly more severe. But to retell the good discovered there. I'll also tell the other things I saw. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 15:02 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Okay. So, this is the very beginning of the Divine Comedy. This is the Alan Menenbaum translation. Okay? And I choose Alan Menenbaum. There are lots of other translations. Because he's just the easiest to read. Alright? So, I'm not interested in the language. I'm interested in the ideas. So, that's why I pick him. Okay. So, this is very simple. He is in middle age. And he's in a shadowed forest. Okay? So, he's completely confused as to why the world is what it is. This hatred for the world is causing him to hate himself as well. And so, because of this hatred, because of this confusion about why there's so much hatred in the world, he has lost his connection with God. And he doesn't know how to proceed. It's a long period, a savage forest, dense and difficult, that makes him question everything. Okay? He's in a deep depression basically. And at this point, he is lost in this forest and he feels hopeless. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 16:16 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-necessary-guide); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#virgil-interior-guide-must-be-defeated); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And then a man emerges named Virgil. And Virgil is the poet that Dante respects the most because at this point in history, Virgil is the most influential poet. And Virgil promises to guide Dante out of this shadowed forest and into the light. And Dante puts his faith in Virgil. And at this point, Dante sees Virgil not just as a savior but as a father and as a teacher. Okay? And this is important because for Dante to truly defeat Virgil, which is the point of La Commedia, he wants to destroy the influence and power of the Aeneid, he first must put Virgil onto a pedestal in order for us to recognize the limitations of Virgil so that we ourselves can defeat Virgil in our hearts. Okay? And that's the idea here. All right. Can you continue, Ivory? All right. Yeah. Keep on going. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 17:27 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: Keep on going. I do want to thank you for the distress towards which I send you so that stern judgment up above is shattered. And it was she who called upon Lucia, requesting of her. Now your faithful one is in need of you, and I commend him to you. Lucia, enemy of every cruelty, arose and made her way to where I was, sitting beside the venerable Rachel. She said, You, Beatrice, true praise of God! Why have you not helped him who loves you so that, for your sake and for the love of sake, he slept a vulgar crowd. Do not hear the anguish in his cry. Do not see the death he wars against upon that river ruthless as the sea. No one within this world has ever been so quick to seek his good or flee his harm as I, when she had finished speaking. Thus, to come below, down from my blessed station, I trusted in your honest utterance, which honors you and those who've listened to you. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 18:23 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: When she had finished with her words to me, she turned aside her gleaming, tearful eyes, which only made me hurry all the more. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 18:30 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-speech-reveals-world); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-guide-trains-desire) Text: Okay, so a lot of La Comedia, Divine Comedy, is dialogue, okay? There's a speaker and there's a listener. And this is an important formulation because what Dante wants us is to recognize is that when a speaker speaks, he or she is speaking from a certain world. A certain prejudice. And so we must always be on guard. We must always ask ourselves why this person is saying what he or she is saying, okay? So something that we discuss a lot is the idea of God, okay? And God is the perfect manifestation of love, of generosity, of forgiveness. And one thing that God does not do is reciprocity. Okay? So the Catholic Church teaches you that if you obey God, then God will allow you access to heaven. And what Dante wants us to understand is that cannot be true. If God is perfection, if God is love, if God is beauty, God would never require anything of you. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 19:49 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: God will always give you free will. And free will and reciprocity are a contradiction. Okay? If I make you do something in order to access heaven, that means I don't give you free will, but God will give you free will. All right? But here we can see a contradiction, a paradox in that what, so what's happening is that Dante is talking to Virgil and Dante's asking Virgil, how did you get here? Why are you here? Why are you taking me to heaven? And Virgil's response is, well, I was having a very nice time sitting. in home in limbo in hell but then an angel Beatrice came to me and said she might help in order to help a friend and then Donna is like okay but why would Beatrice want to help me and then Virgil was like well because she saw your ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 20:46 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-translates-grace-into-contract) Text: painting in heaven and she recognizes how much you love her and so Lucia said to her you Beatrice why don't you help him who loves you so much okay so it's almost like a reciprocity where the Estonian loves Beatrice so much Beatrice has to come help him now but this goes against the very idea of God okay so what's happening here is two possibilities the first possibility is that Virgil is just lying okay but he's not really lying he's just lying he's just lying he's just lying he's just lying he's just lying he's just he's just misinterpreting what's going on God will always come to you if you truly want God to come okay because God is all generous and so Dante is his heart is calling out for God and God sends Beatrice without any conditions and God sends Beatrice because God understands that Beatrice is a person who can most help Dante okay ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 21:59 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-translates-grace-into-contract) Text: there's no reciprocity here but when Beatrice tells Virgil this Virgil misinterprets this idea to mean that there's reciprocity going on okay so that I saw a like ratio issues and limitations our Virgil's worldview we're in the meia it's all about reciprocity okay it's all about contract it's all about duty okay so that's the first possibility but another possibility is that Beatrice understands the limitations of Virgil and so just tells Virgil what he wants to hear or structures this in a way that Virgil can understand. Okay? Because if Beatrice says to Virgil, I came to help Dante because Dante needs help, Virgil will be like, well, okay, he needs help, but why help him? And so Beatrice doesn't want to spend time explaining to him that the universe is all forgiven. So she just says, okay, well, it's because he helped me in the past. It's because of his love for me that I'm able to go to heaven. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 23:13 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Okay? All right. So already in the beginning, we have to question the authority of Virgil. Okay? Virgil is an unreliable guide. And for us to truly enter paradise, for us to truly discover God, we need to recognize he is unreliable ourselves. Dante will never tell us, but he'll give us clues to suggest that he is unreliable. And we must reject him if we are to fully embrace God. Okay? All right. Let's continue. All right. All right. So Virgil is taking Dante into hell and Virgil emphasizes to Dante, this is a path that we must take if we are to go into paradise. You must first confront evil. You must first understand sin for you to truly understand goodness. Okay? All right. And so when they get there, there's a river that blocks their path into hell. And there is a ferryman named Charon from Greek mythology who will take them across the river. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 24:28 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: But the problem is that Dante is still living. And Charon sees that. And he says to Dante, there's a problem here. I can't take you across because you're a living soul and you're not dead. So I can't give you access to hell. Okay? All right. Can you read, Ivory? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 24:49 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: And here advancing towards us in a boat, an aged man, his hair was white with years, was shouting, woe to you, corrupted souls. Forget your hope of ever seeing heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore, to the eternal dark, to fire and frost. And you approaching there, you living soul, keep well away from these. They are the dead. But when he saw I made no move to go, he said, another way and other harbors, not here, will bring you passage to your shore. A lighter craft will have to carry you. My guide then, Charon, don't torment yourself. Our passage has been willed above where one can do what he has willed. And ask no more. Now silence fell upon the woolly cheeks of Charon, pilot of the livid marsh, whose eyes were ringed about with wheels of flame. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 25:41 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1541s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Okay, so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across because Dante is still living. But when Virgil says to him, hey, let us pass, Charon obeys, okay? And this is a paradox. So let me explain the paradox to you. Again, the thing about Dante is that he's so subtle. And it's written in a perfect manner. So the more you try to understand what's going on, the more truth will be revealed to you. So the paradox is this. They are in hell. And they are in hell because they've rejected God. Okay? And how we know they've rejected God is this sentence. Woe to you, corrupted souls. Forget your hope of ever seeing heaven. Okay? So you can interpret this as saying that Charon is saying to you, is saying to people, this is all hopeless. Okay? But another way of interpreting this is... Charon is saying to all these souls, you are here because you believe God has abandoned you. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 26:40 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-native-to-hells-grammar) Text: You believe there is no God. You believe there is no heaven. You believe you deserve to be here. That's why you're here. Okay? But then he sees Dante. And he knows that Dante doesn't believe this. He is actually going to heaven. And so Dante is a corruption. And so Charon doesn't want to take Dante across. But then Virgil says, hey God has ordered Dante to be crossed. And then Charon obeys. The paradox is this. Charon himself doesn't believe in God. That's why he's in hell. He rejects the authority of God. Yet he obeys God. So that makes absolutely no sense. This is a paradox. Unless, you remember that what matters is the Speaker, okay? So Virgil says, Virgil is the one who is speaking, okay? So, in other words, Sharon is not obeying the authority of God. He's obeying the authority of the speaker, who is Virgil. And this suggests to us that Virgil is the master of hell. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 27:54 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-native-to-hells-grammar); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#hell-as-chosen-world); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-guide-trains-desire) Text: And the question then is, well, why is he master of hell? And the answer is, because he created hell through the Inayat, right? Inayat is a poetry that emphasizes piety, obedience. It emphasizes how love is a disease. It emphasizes the importance of hatred as a power to destroy your enemies. It emphasizes empire. So, in other words, Virgil, through the Inayat, created emotions in human beings that allow for the creation of hell itself. You can also argue, that with the Inayat, Virgil created the conditions for the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not based on the Bible, it's based on the Inayat, okay? So, again, this is not apparent in the poetry. But what you understand is that Dante is conveying his truthful paradox. And you try to unravel this paradox, and the truth slowly reveals itself to you, okay? All right, let's continue. All right. Can you read, Ivory? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 29:13 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: Sorry. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 29:14 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: The demon Sharon, with his eyes like embers, by signaling to them, has all embarked. His oar strikes at anyone who stretches out. As, in the autumn, leaves detach themselves, first one and then the other, till the bow sees all his fallen garments on the ground. Similarly, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 30:00 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. So, the evil seed of Adam descended from the shoreline one by one, when signaled, as the falcon, called, will come. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 30:09 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-makes-hell-chosen); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#hell-as-chosen-world); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-guide-trains-desire) Text: mean? Okay, so two words that you will see a lot in Dante are will and desire, okay? Will and desire. Because will and desire together create your soul, okay? So in the Divine Comedy, you will see these two words, will and desire, repeated a lot. You are what you want and what you move towards, okay? That's ultimately your soul. And what this is telling us is that people are evil because people obey, okay? Duty, okay? So this image is where the people line up obediently and do as they're told. They don't question why this is happening. They don't resist why this is happening, okay? Their will and desire is to move forward. They don't move towards hell. They are not in hell because they did bad things. Everyone does bad things. They're in hell. They're in hell because they desire to be in hell, okay? And it's something that Virgil says. Their fear is turned into desire. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 31:26 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1886s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1886s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#eschatology-script-atlas); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#free-will-burden-makes-choice-cosmic); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-makes-hell-chosen) Text: They're entering hell because they want to do so. And this is a really important idea if you are turning to Dante. Free will is a fundamental truth of the universe. You do what you do because you choose to do it. You're in hell not because you did bad things. You are in hell because you think that hell is the best place for you. You are happy in hell, okay? So now they are in hell. And the first place that they enter is something called limbo. And limbo is a place where people go. They're good people but the problem is, they have to do something else. They have to move forward. And that's they don't believe in Jesus. They don't believe in Christ. They never converted Christianity. So these are people like Virgil, like Homer, like Plato. Okay, very virtuous people but unfortunately they don't believe in God and so therefore they are doomed in hell. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 32:35 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=1955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Or that's what Virgil tells Dante. Dante is suspicious and and Dante asks Virgil, was there ever a time when people in hell could ascend to heaven? And Virgil says there was only one time and that was when Jesus died and he came to hell to save and redeem those most worthy. People like King David, people like Noah, people like Abraham, people like Rachel, who are in the Bible, who are born before the time of Christ, but who are worthy of going to heaven and that's why Jesus came to heaven. Unfortunately I, Virgil, came after Jesus and so I was not saved by by him. Okay and as you go on, I want you to remember this because what we'll discover as we go on is this is not true. It is entirely possible for people who are not Christians, who were born before the time of Jesus, to not be saved before the time of Jesus. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 33:48 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: We need to be glad. So first of all, your faith becomes cumbersome the way that God created us. That should set you free believe in the good of the people with great faith to protect you and save the yer k flicker, it doesn't matter. Why shouldn't we have faith but to power the good of the people. He says we make feasts because they are reasons for honor for врr basil, or destruction, for power of faith. through and Donny asked Virgil who are these people and Virgil starts to name them one by one ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 34:20 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: okay okay can you read um Ivory the kindly master said do you not ask who are these spirits whom you see before you I'd have you know before you go ahead they did not sin and yet though they have merits that's not enough because they lacked baptism the portal of faith that you embrace and if they lived before Christianity they did not worship God in fitting ways and of such spirits I myself am one for these defects and for no other evil we now are lost and punished just with this we have no hope and yet we live in longing great sorrow sees my heart on hearing him for I had seen some estimable men among the souls suspended in that limbo so I want you to ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 35:03 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: remember this passage because Virgil is saying there's nothing wrong with me unfortunately I was just unlucky okay this is this is incorrect what you will see as we move on is that Virgil changed his mind he changed his mind he changed his mind he changed his mind he changed his mind he chooses to be here there are many paths for salvation reduction for him he but he wants to stay in hell okay and why and why that is the case we'll we'll talk about later all right let's keep ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 35:29 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: on going so I descended from the first enclosure down to the second circle that which girdles less space but grief more great that goads to weeping their dreadful Mino stands gnashing his teeth examining the sins of the world and the sins of the world and the sins of the world and the sins of those who enter he judges and the signs all as his tail twines I mean that when the spirit born to evil appears before him it confesses all and he the connoisseur of sin can tell the death and hell appropriate to it as many times as Minos wraps his tail around himself that marks the sinner's level always there is a crowd that stands before him each soul in turn advances towards the judgment they speak in here then there can be no judgment they speak in here then there can be no judgment they speak in here then there can be no ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 36:17 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: judgment those who 🎵 devoted that wasaspelow arresting his extraordinary task me knows as soon as he had seen me said Oh you you who reach this house of suffering. Be careful how you enter, whom you trust. The gate is wide, but do not be deceived. To which my guide replied, but why protest? Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passage has been willed above, where one can do what he has willed and ask no more. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 36:43 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Okay, so this is a very interesting passage that again makes us question things, okay? Okay, so Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on your sin, he basically says to Dante, don't trust anyone here, okay? Don't trust anyone here. Be careful how you enter, whom you trust. The gate is wide, but do not be deceived. Okay, this is a very strange idea, right? Because Minos sees that Dante is with Virgil. And his response is, Dante, you're a good person. I'm telling you right now, don't trust anyone, right? So what he's really saying is, Dante, don't trust Virgil. Right, if you think about it logically, it makes no sense for him to say that unless he means don't trust Virgil. Because if Virgil can be trusted, then all Dante has to do is just follow Virgil into hell, and that's it, okay? But Minos makes a point of saying, don't trust anyone here. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 37:50 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Which is to say, don't trust a person, the person closest to you. Be careful how you enter and whom you trust, okay? And what confirms this is, to which my guide replied, but why protest, okay? So Virgil is jumping in, running and said, hey, shut up, man, okay? Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passion has been willed above where one can do what he has willed and ask no more. We are, I represent a higher power than you, Minos, all right? So again, this is questioning the reliability of the narrator. What's happening is that Dante is planting seeds, giving us clues that in hell, nothing is what it seems. The person that we most trust, Virgil, is the person we should probably least trust, okay? All right, so everything that Virgil says, we have to question. All right, so again, Virgil and Dante are in the first layer of hell, and this is lust, and Virgil is pointing out to Dante who they are, okay? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 39:05 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: Can you read, Ivory? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 39:07 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: The first of those about whose history you want to know, my master then told me, once ruled as empress over many nations. Her vice of lust became so customary that she made license licit in her laws to free her from the scandal she had caused. She is Semiramis, of whom we read that she was Nengis' wife and his successor. She held the land the sultan now commands. That other spirit killed herself for love, and she betrayed the ashes of Zacchaeus. The wanton Cleopatra follows next. See Helen, for whose sake so many years of evil had to pass. See great Achilles, who finally met love in his last battle. See Paris, Tristan, and he points out a name to me more than a thousand shades departed from our life because of love. No sooner had I heard my teacher name the ancient ladies and the knights than pity seized me, and I was like a man astray. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 40:04 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 40:05 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Okay, so this again is a paradox, okay? And again, it's almost impossible to see this paradox by yourself. But the paradox is this. What Virgil will do is basically point out a thousand shades, okay, and he'll provide all the names of these people. Okay, an example is Semiramis, and then you have Cleopatra, you have Helen, you have Achilles, you have Paris, you have Tristan, okay? So he's naming everyone, but there's one shade he does not name. And the other spirit who killed herself for love, and she betrayed the ashes of Zacchaeus, we know who this person is because this person is Dido. And who is Dido? Dido is the creation of Virgil. Dido is the creation of Virgil. The grand paradox, the irony is there's a thousand people, and the person that Virgil refuses to acknowledge by name is the one that he understands the best, who he is most intimate with, okay? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 41:19 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: And this creates the question, why is this the case? Why does he refuse to name Dido? So if you go back to the Iliad, the one thing that's said about the Iliad is that Dido is the most realistic character. It's really the character that most people, when they read the Iliad, they sympathize with, because Dido feels real, but at the same time, Dido didn't really deserve her fate, okay? So it is Virgil who cast Dido into hell, right? And this contrasts with Dante, who will elevate, Beatrice, his love, to heaven, all right? So already, we are seeing a contrast, a paradox, okay? Virgil condemned Dido to hell. Dante elevated Beatrice to heaven. And Dante is longing for Beatrice, and then Virgil forgets that Dido even existed. He even refuses to name her, okay? And the question then is why? So because Dido is a realistic character, we can assume that Dido is based on a person that ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 42:41 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Virgil knows, but knowing that, we can also make the assumption that Virgil pursued Dido, fell in love with Dido, and Dido rejected him, probably because he was an ugly asshole, okay? And so Virgil got really angry and decided that I will condemn Dido to hell. But in his heart, Virgil knows that this was unfair, that this was pure hatred. And so he feels a bit guilty about it, he feels embarrassed about it, and that's why he refuses to acknowledge Dido. He refuses to face Dido for what he did, okay? But then something interesting happens, all right? Okay, can you read? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 43:36 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) Text: My first words. Poet, I should willingly speak with those two who go together there and seem so lightly carried by the wind, and he to me. You'll see when they draw closer to us, and then you may appeal to them by that love which impels them. They will come. No sooner had the wind bent them towards us than I urged on my voice. Oh, battered souls, if one does not forbid it, speak with us. Even as doves, when summoned by desire, borne forward by their will, move through the air with wings uplifted, still to their sweet nest. Those spirits left the ranks where Dido suffers, approaching us through the malignant air. So powerful had been my loving cry. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 44:18 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-map-erases-wounded-memory); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay, so what he's saying here is that, like, Virgil is naming all the shades, and Darnay's like, let me go and talk to them. And Virgil says, sure, go talk to them, okay? But what I want you to notice is this. Those spirits left the ranks where Dido suffers, approaching us through the air. The malignant air, okay? So the contrast is this. Virgil refuses to name Dido, so Darnay names Dido himself, all right? And what this really is, is an act of rebellion. Because Darnay acknowledges Virgil as his father, as his guide, as his teacher. And therefore, he should just follow Virgil. If Virgil doesn't want to name Dido, doesn't want to acknowledge Dido, then Darnay should be respectful and ignore Dido, right? But he's saying, nope, I'm gonna name Dido, because I want us to understand that it was wrong to not acknowledge Dido. It was wrong, first of all, for Virgil to condemn Dido to hell, and it's wrong to just ignore her, okay? ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 45:33 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-map-erases-wounded-memory); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: So I know who Dido is, I know what Virgil did, and I want to name her. I want to name her in order to resurrect her in our memory. All right, so again, this is creating kind of dissonance. It's leaving an idea in our heads that none of what we're seeing in Inferno is what it seems. That's why it's hell, because it's all an illusion, it's all deception. And we have to use our minds, we have to use our hearts to truly understand what's going on, okay? All right? This begins our journey into the divine comedy. But as you can see, it is extremely complex. You have to see with your heart. You have to see with your imagination. It's impossible to just read this and know what's going on. You have to believe in your instincts. You have to believe in your intuition. ## Dante, Virgil, and the World That Chooses Hell -- 46:33 - Source title: Great Books #9: Dante's La Commedia - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M1Z_V3WgOk&t=2793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6m1z-v3wgok.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: You have to believe that you have a connection with God, and it is God that will reveal to you the truth for your intuition and your imagination, okay? So the divine comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith. All right, any questions? Okay, all right, so we will continue this next time, okay? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 0:03 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: This weekend, we have reached a turning point in the war. It is possible that in a few hours, or by tomorrow, we will have reached the point of no return. Donald Trump has threatened the Iranians, saying that on Tuesday, if the Iranians still refuse to open the Strait of Hormuz, then the Americans will destroy the Iranian power plants and bridges and universities. Basically, the Americans will start attacking critical civilian infrastructure, which will force Iranians to strike hard against the GCC, the oil fields, the desalination plants, the universities as well. And this would mean... that the world would lose 20 % of its energy supply. And this would be a catastrophe for the global economy. It would de -industrialize the world and would create global famine, among other problems. Okay, so next few hours, the next day, we could reach the point of no return in this war. Hopefully, Trump is bluffing. Because he has known ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 1:30 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=90s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: to bluff before. In fact, he's issued many ultimatums to Iran before, and then he sort of tackled, right? Trump always chickens out, and he said, you know what, I said a day, but I'll give you a week instead. But this time, I want to show you that it's different. I want to show you that this weekend, the Americans went all in, they launched a ground invasion, it failed. And instead of saying, you know what, we probably can't beat Iran, let's negotiate a peace deal. What the Americans will do is, they will go all in now, and launch a full -scale ground invasion, call it a national draft, and the world will never be the same again. Okay, so this is a tweet that Donald Trump sent to the Iranians. And he calls them crazy bastards, and he says, praise be to Allah. So a lot of people think he is now the Iranians. Clearly, he's ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 2:27 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: angry at the Iranians. All right, so the Americans and the Israelis have constantly escalated attacks against civilian targets in Iran. So Trump ordered the destruction of Iran's largest bridge, okay? All right, right here, right? You guys see that? Okay, and this is considered a war crime, because you're not supposed to target civilian infrastructure. Now, you can see that. You can make the argument that this is dual -use, meaning that the military uses it as well. But everything is dual -use, right? Because the military also uses water. They also use electricity. Their kids also go to university. So there's a great fear now that we're already at the point of no return. And the Iranians themselves have promised to start to attack universities in the GCC as well, okay, in retaliation. If Trump were to destroy the Iranian power plants, this would be devastating for the Iranian economy. And there's news now that Iran is organizing ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 3:45 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: a protest where young people are asked to go to power plants and form a human chain, so that if the jets come and destroy the power plants, they will be destroyed as well. So some people will think that, okay, this is the Iranians' calling. The bluff of Trump. That's not a good idea, because on the first day of the war, the Americans killed 168 schoolgirls in southern Iran. So this shows that the Americans actually don't really care about human life. But by doing this, if the Americans actually do destroy power plants, and they do kill a lot of young people in the process, what this would do is galvanize the nation. And this would turn this nation into total war, okay? So what's important to understand is that throughout this war, there have been different voices in Iran, okay? Some, like the Asyatic Revolutionary Guard, want total war. But there are also some who are ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 4:55 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: worried about the economic damage because of this war. They're also worried about giving too much power to the military, okay? So if Donald Trump goes and attacks these power plants, then the Iranians will be going to total war. They will be totally committed to destroying the American military presence in the Middle East, as well as the global economy, okay? And unfortunately, the Americans in the Middle East don't really care, because they're committed to destroying Iran as a viable nation state. Already, we're seeing increases in fuel prices, okay? So if you are in the... Red, it means that you've seen prices go up a lot, okay? If you're in the red. So America, Australia, they've seen prices skyrocket. China has also seen prices skyrocket, as well as Europe. This is only just the beginning. We can expect gas prices to skyrocket so much that it essentially collapses the civilian aviation industry. Meaning that in the future, ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 6:11 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: if you want to fly, it might cost you 10 times as much as it does now, okay? And this will happen very, very quickly. But again, the main issue, and I need to emphasize this, the main issue is not the fuel. The main issue is the fertilizer. And the fertilizer is important because you need fertilizer to grow food, and we are in the planting season. You guys don't know this. But it is because of fertilizer that we are allowed to support 8 billion people. If we didn't have access to fertilizer, we can only grow enough food to support 1 to 2 billion people. And unfortunately, this means that Africa and parts of South Asia, a lot of people there will starve to death. So the main concern is famine, okay? Not airline tickets. All right. Let's continue. All right. So as this war is progressing, we need to step back and recognize that this is ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 7:18 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-chokepoint-empire-controls-access) Text: a global war. So the Ukrainians used drones to attack and destroy an oil depot, an oil terminal in Russia. And this means now that 40%, 40 % guys, of Russia's oil exports have gone offline, right? So what's happening is that not only is the Soviet Union closed, but the Americans are also attacking Russia's oil, okay? So you have drone strikes in terminals. But also, you don't see this in the news, but also there's basically a naval blockade. So if you are a Russian oil tanker, if the Americans come and catch you, they'll take your oil, okay? So this is basically piracy. So in other words, the American strategy before was, okay, before we were the world's global reserve currency. And as a result, we encouraged global trade. But now that we are not, but now that our economy is suffering, well, let's just control the sea lanes, okay? So that's the American strategy moving forward. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 8:37 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=517s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: All right. So what we're going to do from Germany is that, if you are German, you're going to go to Germany. If you are a German male under 45, okay, basically from 17 to 45, this age group, you are not allowed to leave the country for more than three months without army permission. This is a prelude to a national draft, okay? And why is Germany doing this? Because Germany is an industrial nation. And if Russian energy supply goes offline, if energy from the GCC goes offline, Germany has no choice but to remilitarize and create its own energy supplies, okay? So Germany must go to war. It has absolutely no choice in the matter. All right. So let's talk briefly about what's going to happen over the next year. So as I said before, the United States was the global reserve currency. And that meant basically that for every transaction that you made, with U.S. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 9:43 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-chokepoint-empire-controls-access) Text: dollars, they could tax you, okay? Because they could inflate the price of the U.S. dollar. But now that people are choosing to opt out of the U.S. dollar, for example, in China, people are buying more gold, right? And people are using other currencies. America, in order to maintain its empire, has to change its strategy. Now, the main source of American power is its ability to control sea lanes, okay? Because it has military bases. All around the world, okay? So in the red, these are all areas with U.S. bases. And before, it used these U.S. bases in order to maintain global trade. But with nations choosing to opt out of your system, now your option, now your strategy is to blockade them, right? Create a naval blockade, start them off resources, which forces them to come beg to you for trade access. Okay? So we've gotten to a strategy where America guaranteed ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 10:46 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-chokepoint-empire-controls-access) Text: global trade to America basically being a mafia state, being pirates, and allowing you to use sea lanes and giving you trade access. Okay, does that make sense? And believe it or not, but America does not actually need to do that much work in order to control trade around the world. It just needs to control certain trades. Or certain choke points, okay? So the Panama Canal is one choke point. And that's why about a third of America's navy is deployed to the Caribbean right now. All right? And its main purpose is to block off trade in the Western Hemisphere. So if you are China, if you are Japan, and you are South Korea, if you want to access Western resources, Western Hemisphere resources, you need the permission from the U.S. government. And the example, of course, is Venezuela, where they removed the president. And now they basically have a blockade over Venezuela. And so the ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 11:53 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Venezuela government is very cooperative, okay? They're basically very obedient. And so what we can expect next is for Trump to exert authority over Greenland. Why? Because this is the Arctic choke point, okay? Which gives you access to Canada and to Europe as well. We can also expect America to basically create a choke point over the Strait of Hormuz, right? So right now, the issue is that the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz. But the Americans can also choose to blockade the Strait of Hormuz. Does that make sense? All right? The major choke point in the world, of course, is something called the Strait of Malacca. Why? Because this is where China gets most of its resources from Africa, from the Middle East. Okay? Through this very small choke point. And again, unfortunately, there are lots of US military bases in this area. So as long as America is able to maintain these three major choke ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 12:51 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=771s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=771s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-chokepoint-empire-controls-access) Text: points, the Panama Canal, the Middle East, and the Strait of Malacca, oh, and also, sorry, Greenland as well, then America can control naval access, okay? Trade access, maritime navigation. It can control all these things. And so what's going to happen is this. The big event this year, moving forward, is that Russia will militarize its shuttle fleet. Okay? Basically, Russia has a shuttle fleet of about 1,000 ships. It will provide mercenaries to these ships, and then it will start to engage America in the oceans. The point is not to defeat the American Navy. You can't do that, okay? The point is to create a war of attrition, where you know that the Americans, will have problems rebuilding these ships. And these ships are pretty old as well. And the sailors on them are pretty tired. So you just force them into conflict, and then this naval capacity of the United States will degrade over time, ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 13:56 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: okay? This is something to look out for over the next year or two years. This conflict in the seas that will arise between Russia and the United States. Okay? And then you ask yourself, okay, well, how about China? Because China is actually the main beneficiary. Of oceanic trade. And China is going to do China. Which is to say that China is going to try to negotiate between Russia and America, and try to triangulate the two, and try to come to peace with all two. Okay? And that often means paying both off. Paying both the Russians and paying the Americans off. And that's what happened in May when Trump visited China. All right? Okay, we'll talk more about that later on. Okay. So the big news this weekend, and it's something I want to focus on for the rest of the lecture is, the Americans said that one of their jets, it's called an F -15, ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 14:55 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: it's about a $90 million plane, okay? It was shot down over Iran. Okay? Basically in this area right here. And you ask yourself, okay, the Americans have air supremacy over Iran, so how is it possible for the Iranians to shoot down a plane? And the answer is this. The US Air Force is not designed to fight a long war. It's designed to fight at most a two -week war. If you fight for too long, you have certain issues. One issue is maintenance. Okay? Which is, these are very expensive planes. They require a lot of maintenance. But if they're flying too much, if they have too much work, they suffer from wear and tear. Okay? Another issue is this fatigue, where these pilots are being asked to work too hard, they get tired, they get lazy. Now the last thing is this. Iranian resilience. Okay? And all this means is that, as you're bombing the Iranians, ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 16:08 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: the Iranians have to figure out how to strike back at you. Their radar systems don't really work, so what they use is heat -seeking missiles. Okay? So rather than trying to figure out where you are, they just fly missiles up in the air and hope to lock onto your heat signature and knock you down. Okay? All right? So over time, all this means is that, as this war progresses, if you insist on fighting an air war, you're going to lose more and more planes. As your pilots get tired, as maintenance issues arise, as the Iranians become much more creative in their response. Okay? So a pilot was shot down, and two pilots were able to eject safely out of their plane. Now it is the policy of the American military to leave no man behind. And this is the... And the Americans are one of the few militaries that actually do this, where if you ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 17:07 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: are behind enemy lines, they will try to rescue you. And they spent years training you on how to evade anti -captors. They'll spend a lot of resources trying to save you. And the propaganda is that this is to show you how Americans really value human life. And it's something that Americans are very proud of. But another reason why Americans do this is this optics. Which is that the Americans believe that the military is invincible. And they spend a lot of money and resources in order to create this image, this aura of invincibility and inviability. So if the Iranians are able to capture a pilot and have them appear on Iranian TV, this is a huge propaganda win for the Iranians. Meaning this. Meaning that if the Americans... The Americans will try their best to save you, but if they can't save you and there's a risk that the enemy will capture you, they'd rather have ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 18:10 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: you killed. Okay? Because they can't afford to lose this propaganda war. For the Americans, what they're having is optics. And as I'll show you later on, this is going to be a huge issue in this war. Okay? As this war progresses. Now, there are a lot of issues with the story that's being told to us. Okay? So Americans said that they have successfully evacuated both pilots. They have saved both pilots. But the issue is this. The issue is that we know that the Americans created a makeshift landing strip, basically an airport, a small airport, 200 kilometers from where the airman actually was knocked down. So he had to hike a long way in order to get to landing strip. Also, he was injured. I mean, he broke his ankle or something. Okay? So that was very, very hard to do. Also, he's trying to evade enemy capture. Okay? So this story doesn't really make sense. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 19:19 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And why did the Americans decide to create a landing strip here rather than someplace closer? And why would you need 155 planes for this operation? Right? Aren't you better off with just one or two to avoid enemy fire? So this is a very strange story. But it gets weirder. Okay? It turns out that the Americans basically spent a lot of resources to save the pilot. It took 48 hours. And the CIA created a lot of distractions. And the Americans spent a lot of resources to save the man while the Iranians were trying to capture him. Okay? And this led to the destruction of very expensive American planes. Okay? These are called C -130s. So they're transport planes. And they were destroyed in the rescue operation. Now the American story is that these planes were caught in the sand. They couldn't lift off. So teleforce, the commandos, who are trying to save the pilot, they blew ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 20:28 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: up the planes themselves. Okay? And as you can see, the Americans in this operation, they lost a lot of expensive planes. The estimates are the Americans lost $300 million in planes. And even though the Americans say that there were no casualties in this rescue, we can expect that there were casualties in this rescue because all the planes were destroyed. Okay? And again, these are very expensive planes. And throughout this war, the Americans have lost quite a few planes. The C -130s are extremely expensive. Okay? All right. Okay. All right. So this has led people to question whether or not the narrative is true or not. Now, you can make the argument that this narrative is true. You can make the argument that the American military prides itself on no man left behind. So they will do whatever they can, move heaven and earth, to save that person. And that's something that the Americans take pride ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 21:39 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: in. But again, there are issues with this narrative. So this is a man named Arnon Bertrand. And on Twitter, he explains that this story doesn't really make sense. Okay? So the first thing is, how did a fighter jet, American fighter jet, get knocked down in Iran when the Americans have said that they have air supremacy over the country? Another issue is that the weapons director, sorry, the weapons systems officer is a colonel. A colonel is a very high ranking individual in American military. So why would he participate in this operation? That's very strange. And even though he was injured, seriously wounded, according to Trump, he still managed to hike up a 7,000 foot mountain ridge line and hide in a crevice in the Zagreb mountains for 48 hours despite his wounds. Also, we don't know who he is. He's never been identified. He was never interviewed by the press, which is unusual because if ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 22:48 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: you rescue the man, you make him into a national TV channel. He's a superstar, right? So there are a lot of issues with this story, all right? So, Emma, could you do me a favor and just read the summary? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 23:01 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: So to sum up, anti -aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F -15 and apparently an A -10 Warthog the same day. A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1 kilometers mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites and deployed hundreds of troops, all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to sand and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down, but not a single person got even wounded. And the man at the center of it all, nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is safe and sound. And so is the rescued A -10 Warthog pilot who also remains anonymous. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 23:56 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Okay, so again, this story makes absolutely no sense. We don't understand why they had to build an airport. We don't understand how these planes got destroyed. And the fact that there are no cache of these absolutely makes no sense whatsoever, okay? So maybe something else is going on. And people online are speculating that this was actually a failed ground invasion. And the mission was to sneak into Iran's nuclear power plant located in the area and steal Iran's enriched uranium, which it would need to build a nuclear weapon, okay? And by doing that, you deny the Iranians capacity to build a nuclear weapon and you can declare a victory, okay? All right. So what's the evidence for this? Well, on March 7th, 2026, so at the beginning of this war, a nuclear power plant journalist named Barak David, Barak Ravid, wrote an article in Axios, which is a Washington -based media outlet, saying that the U ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 25:01 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: .S. is considering sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear star power, okay? Now, Barak Ravid is famous in Washington, D.C. because he's very close with the Israelis. He himself is Israeli. So he's able to get a lot of information from the government, okay? So from March 7th onward, there was news reporting that the Americans would insert special forces to steal the uranium. No one took this seriously because it's so stupid. Are you seriously gonna send in like a hundred guys into the middle of Iran and like hope they can sneak into a military base and steal that uranium and then run away? That's just retarded. No one would do that, okay? So everyone's like, this is just a sire. This is just disinformation, okay? No one took this seriously. I didn't take this seriously at all. But then, four days ago, sorry, not four days, a week ago, the Washington Post leaks a Pentagon ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 26:07 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: plan to do exactly that. And it's a very detailed plan that involves hundreds or thousands of troops, okay? And the idea is to build a letting strip near the border in order to land forces, in order to land equipment. So this is a very detailed plan. The problem, so when this first came out, again, I didn't take it seriously because this is so retarded. Are you seriously gonna build an airport by yourself in the middle of Iran and hope the Iranians don't notice? And you're gonna land a thousand troops in the middle of mountains where they're gonna rain missiles on you? It makes no sense whatsoever, okay? But unfortunately, if you just look at what happened this weekend, this is the plan they used where they sent 155 aircraft to try to create a landing strip. They sent in special forces. It was exactly the plan that the Washington Post reported on, okay? But then ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 27:10 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: the question is, wait a minute here. This is a top secret military plan. How did the Washington Post get this? Well, the answer is because we assume that some generals gave it to them, all right? Peter Hexner, the Secretary of War for Donald Trump, fired the top generals for the military. And we don't know why. There was never a reason given. We can suspect what happened was this. Donald Trump asked the generals to come up with a plan to steal the uranium. And the generals were like, let's just humor him, okay? Let's come up with this stupid, insane plan that there's no way this guy would agree to. And then we'll forget about it. They presented it to Donald Trump. And Donald Trump was like, this is a brilliant plan. This is a great movie. Let's do this, guys. The generals are like, oh my God, he is insane. Oh my God. We are so ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 28:16 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1696s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: screwed, man. And they refused to carry it out. So Peter Hexner is like, well, then you're fired. Okay? And then Peter Hexner orders the new generals to execute this plan. So again, we don't know what happened. We'll never know what happened. But the evidence suggests that this might have been a failed ground invasion. Another piece of evidence to suggest that this was a failed ground invasion with the intention of stealing the uranium is that the Iranians were able to recover I.D. from during the crash site. Okay? And it turns out that this woman happens to specialize in nuclear technology. An engineer. Why would you need an engineer who specializes in nuclear technology to rescue a pilot? Right? That's kind of strange. And the Americans have done stupid things like this before. Okay? So in 1980, in 1980, the Americans implemented something called Operation Eagle Claw. And the idea was that at this time, the ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 29:29 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Iranians had taken hostages, American hostages, in Tehran, the American embassy. Okay? So Jimmy Carter, the president, authorized a rescue operation. But Iran was too big. So what they did was the American military set up a foreign operating base in the desert, halfway between Persian Gulf and Tehran. When they landed in their base, there was a sandstorm. And a lot of their planes malfunctioned. And they recognized that, oh my God, it's really hard to go through such an operation in Iran, so we should just go home. Okay? So that was 1980, when Americans were pretty sane. Unfortunately, Americans are no longer sane. Okay? This is June 3rd, when the Americans swept into Venezuela and kidnapped their president, Maduro, thus ending the conflict between Venezuela and America. So, this is great TV. The plan worked out perfectly. It showed that the force was invincible. And unfortunately, Donald Trump believes this. Okay? He believes that if we did ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 30:38 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: this in Venezuela, we can do this in Iran. And this explains how and why Donald Trump would agree to such an insane plan as to try to build an American military base in the middle of your enemy. Okay? So, the main message here is that whoever is in America, whether it's Donald Trump or other people, for whatever reason, they believe that optics is all that matters. Okay? They think that reality is a movie, a Hollywood movie. And if they can script it properly, then the movie will turn out to be a wonderful, wonderful thing. Okay? This is a war about optics rather than strategy. And unfortunately, this is just how America's going to fight the war from now on. Okay? So, let's just discuss what you need to win a war. If you are fighting a war, what are three things you need to look at? Okay? And there are three things, and that's it. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 31:40 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-material-test-three-constraints); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#strategy-tests-story-against-material-reality); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#symbolic-media-makes-worlds) Text: First thing you want to look at is economics. Okay? Economics. Second thing you want to look at is organization. The third thing you want to look at is logistics. All right? So, what do I mean by this? Well, the first thing is resource management. In other words, you're trying to win a war as cheaply and as quickly as possible. Okay? Unfortunately, right now, the Americans are not fighting a war of economics. If you're spending $300 million in military equipment in order to rescue a pilot, you're not going to win this war. Okay? So, economics is really important. Second is the idea of organization, which is the implementation of strategy. All right? So, you have a strategy and then you implement it. And here, what's really important is the simpler the strategy, the easier it is to implement. Okay? You want the strategy to be very simple because you have to organize it, implement it. So, ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 33:02 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=1982s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-material-test-three-constraints); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: if you are trying to build an air base in the middle of Iran so you can extract uranium from Iranians, that's not a good organization. Okay? This thing is going to blow up in your face. The third issue is logistics, which is just supply. Okay? Supply. Making sure that your forces have the necessary equipment, the resources in order to fight the war effectively. And right now, the Americans are not concerned with any of these issues, economics, organization, and logistics. But these are the three major issues that you will need to figure out if you want to win a war. Okay? And unfortunately, right now, the Americans are too much focused on optics and narrative. So, that's why I think the Americans will ultimately lose this war because the Iranians are actually fighting a real war where they're trying to win the war as cheaply as possible, where they're implementing a very simple strategy that allows ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 34:09 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: for proper organization and they are trying to maintain logistics. Okay? The Americans are just trying to win the war in the most Hollywood fashion as possible. And this is going to lead to disaster both in the short term and the long term. So, the question then is why do Americans like this? And unfortunately, the answer is because there's too much cooperation between Hollywood and the Pentagon. All right? So, this is a movie Saving Private Ryan and this was made in the year 1998, okay? And this is one of the highest growing, the highest grossing films in Hollywood history where a private named Ryan, of course, he is lost behind enemy lines in Europe. And his brothers are all killed. So, his mother writes a very angry letter to General Marshall and says, all my sons are dead except for one and he's missing. And so, General Marshall is like, we can't have this. Okay? This ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 35:21 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: makes us look bad. We have to win the home front. Okay? Europe, this war front, it's secondary to the home front. We need to make sure that the American people are fully behind this war. So, he sends a team led by this man played by Tom Hanks to go and save Private Ryan. And they do, but at the cost of his life. Okay? And this movie is based on a letter that Abraham Lincoln wrote to a mother in the American Civil War. Okay? 1864. And this is considered one of Abraham Lincoln's most brilliant pieces of writing. Okay? So, Amber, could you help me read this, please? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 36:07 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, A. Lincoln. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 37:00 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Great, great. Okay. The sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Okay? So our democracy, our Republic is our God and our sacrifice is worth it as long as we can maintain our freedom and our liberty. Okay? And this is the defining theology of the American military. All right. This has led to the military becoming more of a propaganda machine. Okay? So this is the movie Black Hawk Down. If you saw the movie then it's about these special forces Delta Force that go in and save a pilot when they are when his helicopter was brought down in Somalia. Okay? And this was based on a book by Mark Bolden writing about the incident which happened in the late 90s. Okay? Right. The problem is that this movie is complete BS. In the book what happened was that the helicopter was brought down and the pilot was taken hostage by the Somalis. But he was treated very well. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 38:17 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2297s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2297s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Eventually he was allowed to go home after the government paid a ransom. Okay? That's what happened in real life. But in the movie what happened was that Delta Force went in and saved the pilot from those trying to kidnap him. And this goes back to the to the mythology of No Man Left Behind. Now there's a very important scene in Black Hawk Down where a general confronts Delta Force. And when Delta Force was created for operations like this and what the general says to Delta Force is you guys are a bunch of cowboys. And what he's saying is that you guys you Delta Force you Special Forces you guys never you guys think you're superior to everyone. You think that we all revolve around you. You think that we should all serve you. You guys are ego driven. All you care about is glory for yourself. And eventually your ego your arrogance are going to ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 39:17 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: be your downfall as well as the downfall of the American military. Okay? This is the movie this is Jessica Lynch and in 2003 she was serving in the war in Iran Iraq actually Iraq sorry. And her her her team got lost and they were ambushed by the Iraqis. And then she was kidnapped but then because she was injured the military the Iraqi military sent her to a hospital a civilian hospital. And the people in the hospital treated her very very well. And they actually tried to send her home in an ambulance. But when the ambulance tried to reach the Americans the Americans bombed the ambulance so the ambulance had to turn back. But but the Iraqis informed the Americans where she was and told the Iraqis and told the Americans you can come and pick her up anytime okay. She's she's safe we're taking care of her but if you want but if you want ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 40:18 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: to take her home it's okay. The Americans response organized special forces to go and rescue her even though she was not in danger. And the media reported that she was raped she was beaten and she was held hostage. Okay. So that's what the Pentagon does. The Pentagon is a propaganda machine. It doesn't care about the truth it just cares about trying to create a Hollywood movie out of a movie. Okay. So Pentagon is concerned first and foremost about creating a Hollywood movie out of a war. That's its own that's its mentality. We know this because Jessica Lynch after she was set free went on TV and said that the military is lying about the incident. I was never beaten I was never in danger the people in the hospital treated me very nice in fact the nurses sang me to sleep because they were so concerned about my welfare. Alright. Alright. So this is a ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 41:15 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt); [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: huge problem for the American military for the Pentagon as they fight this war. You can pull this crap when you're fighting Somalis and Iraqis but against Iranians you need total war. You need to focus on economics organization and logistics. Stop doing this crap of optics okay and narrative. Unfortunately it's it has it is now the very mentality of the Pentagon to turn war into a Hollywood movie. Alright. So this is a paper written by Tanner Murleys at Brown University and what this author talks about is how the Pentagon and Hollywood are aligned together. Alright. So so can you read the three major takeaways um um Amber? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 42:05 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: In exchange for the use of military equipment and personnel movies and TV program producers must comply with Pentagon entertainment policy including script changes to align with military goals including recruitment and public relations. Since the inception of the Hollywood entertainment industry more than a century ago over 2,500 war themed movies and TV programs have been made with Pentagon assistance. Pentagon assisted movies and TV shows framed U.S. wars as necessary and glorious downplaying or ignoring the human social and environmental devastation war causes particularly for civilians. U.S. soldiers are typically cast as noble protagonists while those non -U.S. peoples deemed enemies of America are constantly stereotyped. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 43:04 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-war-script-feeds-back); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay. So what this paper is saying is that the Pentagon uses Hollywood in order to indoctrinate and brainwash American people to believe that war is good. Okay. So that's true but what's also true is that by working with Hollywood it brainwashes the Pentagon to believe that war can be like Hollywood. It can be perfected. As long as you create a good script it will work out in the end. Okay. And this will lead to disaster in Iran. So think about again Donald Trump where it's a failed ground invasion and so if it's a failed ground invasion what you do is you go back you sit down with Pentagon planners and you figure out what went wrong and how to never make the mistake again. But Donald Trump does not want to admit it was a failed ground invasion so they made up a stupid Hollywood movie a stupid Hollywood script that this was a rescue ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 44:02 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-war-script-feeds-back) Text: of an American pilot that it will turn into a Hollywood movie at some point. And so from their perspective this is a huge success. Okay. And this is going to lead to problems because if it's a huge success then do it again. Right. And if people think it's failure prove that they're wrong by having success of ground invasion. So unfortunately the fact of the matter is that America right now the American military it's too dominated by special forces by Delta Force by Navy Seals who are interested only in their own personal glory. Okay. I'm not saying I'm not saying all of them but I'm saying there's quite a lot of them who understand that after this war is over they can make they can sign a book deal they can write a book and make millions of dollars which will be turned into a movie and then and then they'll be a superstar. And what ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 44:59 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: they should be thinking about are organization logistics and economics. Because these are the three things that win wars. Alright. Okay. Any questions guys? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 45:14 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: I personally also think that America is likely to make a movie about saving the pirates in Iran but I think it will be similar as saving pirate Ryan but could you please tell me whether the plot of Private Ryan is true or it's just made it up? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 45:35 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Yeah. It's just a made up movie. Yeah. Most of these things are made up. Okay. They didn't really turn out the way that they do. But like the problem with Hollywood is that it's so seductive it's so attractive that people think they're true. Okay. People think that the movie is more true than real life. And that's how not only the Pentagon works but also like all the American society works now. Americans live in their own fantasy world created by Hollywood and the realities of war are too far away for them to care about. Okay? I mean Americans think that oh at worst case scenario my the food prices will go up. They can't really imagine how this war will ever forever change the world as well as America. Okay? Um yeah. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 46:28 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: How many more of these spectacles do you think America can afford recreating? Or let's say how many more times would America like learn to understand that this this like like optical Hollywood act will not no longer work for their plan? Will they ever work? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 46:52 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-war-script-feeds-back) Text: Okay. That's a great um question to answer is they will never ever learn. Okay? Because they live in a different reality. Okay? So the reason why he's able to go in front of the press and say what a great success in that that we had in saving the pilot. Okay? The reason why the reason why he's able to do that is because he himself believes this. Okay? He lives in an alternate reality. A fantasy land. And that's why he's able to to so convincingly tell the press and the American people that this was a great success even though if you look at the evidence this was a tremendous failure. And unfortunately this will not change. As this war continues you have more incidents like this we just say it's a failure that the American military and Donald Trump um spin as a tremendous success. And so the American people continue to believe that this war ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 47:48 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: is going well. Okay? And we know this because this is exactly what happened in Ukraine. For the past few years Russia has been dominating the battlefield and has been um killing many many Ukrainians. It's been a disaster for Ukraine but you don't know this if you're American if you're an average American because the news tell you that this war is going great. One more day guys and Putin will fall. One more day the Russian economy will collapse the Russian people will revolt and Putin will be out of office. One more day and the Ukrainians will reach Moscow. Okay? Same situation here where one more day and Iran will surrender. One more day the Iranian economy will collapse the people will revolt and then we'll have peace in the Middle East. Okay? So unfortunately this is modern war where it's really about optics. But again if you want to win this war don't focus on optics ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 48:46 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: because ultimately you're the one fooling yourself. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 48:49 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Okay? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 48:50 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Yep. But despite that America is strong in this kind of hard war and war scene but I think they still hold dominant position and still holds the strongest military weapon in the world and they still have you know the sovereignty to state and control many of those countries. How can you explain that? ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 49:12 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: Okay. ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 49:12 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=2952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: You're absolutely right in that America is still the empire and America will not fall because of this war. Worst case scenario they lose the war we should think about is that the strategic objectives of the Americans and the Iranians are not actually in conflict with each other. Okay? If you look at the Iranians they want to get America out of Middle East alright? They want to destroy the global economy and they want to deter Israel. Okay? Does that make sense? These are the three strategic objectives of Iran. To remove America out of the Middle East forever. To deter Israel. You can't destroy Israel because Israel has a nuclear weapon but you show Israel you're strong and you can hurt them if Israel goes too far. And you want to destroy the global economy because you want to reset the global economy in a way that benefits you. Okay? So these are the three strategic objectives ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 50:17 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: of Iran in this war. Let's look at America. America is okay destroy Iran as a nation state. Okay? Which basically means you destroy the desalination plants the power plants the universities the reservoirs and you try to create ethnic conflict. Okay? Baffling Iran. Okay? So you basically encourage ethnic uprisings throughout the country. Okay? Now the last thing you want to do is isolate Iran. So you want to destroy Iran's capacity to trade with Russia and China. Okay? So if you look at what's happening one really strange thing about this war is that these strategic objectives are not in conflict with each other. Even if Iran is able to achieve its strategic objectives it doesn't prevent America from achieving its strategic objectives. So in other words at the end of this war what we can expect is both countries achieve their strategic objectives. Okay? Which is to say that America is now out of the Middle East ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 51:31 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3091s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3091s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: um Israel is humbled and the global economy is destroyed. But at the same time Iran is destroyed as a nation state it's balkanized uh it's basically bombed back to the Stone Age. Alright? Alright? Does it make sense? Okay? So and unfortunately because the strategic objectives are different both nations think they're winning the war. Alright? Maybe objectively we think that America is losing the war but from the American perspective the way that they frame their strategic objectives means that from their perspective they are winning the war. And that's why they think that any day now Iran will surrender. But from the Iranian perspective they think they're winning the war and they think that any day now America will surrender. That's why it's impossible to get the two to negotiate a peace settlement. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Alright. Okay. Alright. So on Thursday we're doing something really interesting. Okay? We are having a mid -term ## Hollywood, War, and the Loss of Material Reality -- 52:39 - Source title: Game Theory #19: The Hollywood-Pentagon Complex - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYET47Cc-E&t=3159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0hyet47cc-e.json) Text: examination. But rather than me test you you're gonna test me. Okay? So what I want you to do is think about what we've learned this semester and try to figure out where I could be wrong or where the problems in my logic are. I want you to test me. Okay? And this is also true for YouTube where if you think that there's something wrong with my logic if you dispute what I say then raise a question and then my wife will read the YouTube comments and then pick out questions for me to answer on Thursday. Okay? So on Thursday we're gonna have a mid -term examination but rather than me test you you will test me. Okay? And be as hard and as harsh and as difficult as you want to be. I enjoy being questioned and examined. Okay? So Thursday will be a lot of fun. I'll see you guys then. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 0:04 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=4s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=4s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: About an hour ago, Donald Trump addressed the American people. This follows an address from Prime Minister Albanese of Australia to his people, as well as Prime Minister Stormer to the British people. In both speeches by Stormer and Albanese, they said to the people, we know that fuel prices, gas prices are going up, and we should expect more pain, but we will do as much as we can to ensure that your wallet is not too impacted. Donald Trump, in his address to the American people, basically said that this war will continue and America may start to bomb energy and oil infrastructure of America. Let's listen to a few of his words. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 1:10 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=70s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=70s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Our economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago. I've made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives. Thank you. The next two to three weeks, we're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 1:47 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay, so he's basically saying that we're winning this war and we will bomb them to the Stone Ages, which tells us he's actually not winning this war. Okay, now, I also want to look at another person. who is Peter Hegseth strategic man so remember this war in Iran it's not ending in fact many people believe it's only starting to ramp up so there are rumors that Donald Trump has all has already authorized the use of ground forces and so we could see an invasion of Iran as early as this weekend but certainly definitely this month okay but while America is fighting this war in Iran this is a second of war Peter Hegseth and he's announced that America will control all North America from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 2:55 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Panama Canal and its surrounding countries at the Department of War we call this strategic map the greater North America why because every sovereign nation and territory north of the equator from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana is not part of the global in this great neighborhood that we all live in okay so basically what he's ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 3:25 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: saying is we will enforce the Monroe Doctrine in North America so it sounds very strange to people in that Donald Trump is fighting this war in Iran that's not really winnable the same time he is being aggressive in North America he's seeking fights with Canada with Denmark over Greenland with Colombia with Mexico with Cuba in fact he's in bargaining in bargaining Cuba right now and people expect possibly an invasion of Cuba very soon so people just think that Donald Trump is all over the place and he's idiotic okay so this is Iran and everyone says that a ground invasion of Iran would be stupid so this is Iran and everyone says that a ground invasion of Iran would be stupid because it is much too large to invade right now America has only about 50,000 troops in the Middle East and the geography the terrain makes it very hard to control okay so you ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 4:29 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: have these mountains the Zagos mountains which allows for the Iranians to hide and conduct guerrilla warfare and use drone strikes and artillery strikes and then you have the desert which makes it very hard to cross okay so even if the Americans were to attack from here from Iraq they would have to face the mountains if they were attacked from Pakistan from the east they would have to face deserts okay and if they were to attack from the south they would face all these mountains and also you're far away from Tehran which is ultimately your your objective okay so there are there's lots of conversations about what the Americans are trying to do right now the consensus seems to be the Americans first want to control the Shirt of Hummus in order to elevate the strain on the global economy okay but as you can see from this map first of all the straight it's not ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 5:28 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: very wide and it's very close to the Iranian coastline and the mountains so it's easy to attack from and there are these and then the Iranians can put mines all around the strait as a result of the plan in the course of the war but in the Kyrgyzstan Line is in the more well. So what everyone tells us is that an invasion of Iran would just be idiotic. At the same time, the Americans need to free up the Strait of Hormuz and allow for maritime navigation in order to stabilize the global economy. Already we're seeing lots of signs that America is preparing for a long long war. So there are already 50,000 troops in the Middle East and a lot of them will be deployed against Iran. But also there's a letter from Leonard Anderson to reserves telling them, we must get ready to deploy, fight, and win. So not only have they sent 50,000 troops to the Middle East, but they're preparing to call the reserves as well. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 6:40 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: So this seems as though America is preparing for a long long war. A party market is a very interesting place to understand how global events will turn out. And so there are three indicators that in fact a war is coming, a ground invasion is coming. First of all, the pizza index is exploding. What does this mean? It means that in the Pentagon, when they're preparing to launch a ground invasion, they need to work overtime. And so they call for pizza. And so pizza deliveries are going up, gay bars are empty. When people are don't have much to do, they go and go on dates. The last is that people are making bets, large bets that a ground invasion will happen. So these are people who have inside information and so they go on market and make a bet that this will happen. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 7:39 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Knowing it will happen. happen. So this guy bet $200,000 that a ground invasion will happen. And if it turns out a ground invasion does happen, he will win over a million dollars. Okay. So these are three very good indicators that a ground invasion has been approved and it will happen very, very soon. Okay. Donald Trump himself has said many, many things. Okay. So he said that, you know what, if we leave the Middle East, it's not our problem. We don't really care. Okay. And he also says that, hey, NATO, it's your responsibility to open the Strait of Hormuz because we told you so and because you need the oil. And of course, NATO is angry at Donald Trump because previously Donald Trump threatened to take over Greenland. Okay. So everything's, Donald Trump is just a moron. He doesn't play. He doesn't play. He doesn't play. He doesn't play. He doesn't play. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 8:44 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Because before this war in Iran, where he needs the help of NATO, he was pissing off NATO by threatening to take over Greenland. So Donald Trump is over the place. He's just a moron, right? But let's just assume, okay, that the ground invasion goes ahead. What will happen? Well, as I predicted before, if a ground invasion were to go ahead, first of all, America would lose this war because the ground invasion would fail and the Iranians are fully prepared for a ground invasion. Second of all, if America loses war, the American empire would die because it would be forced out of the Middle East. They would lose the petrodollar and the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency. And the third thing is the global economy would collapse. So clearly, Donald Trump is the worst president in human history. And he's a complete buffoon, right? Okay. But let's put our thinking caps on. Okay. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 9:52 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=592s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=592s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Let's use game theory and say, but what if for some strange reason, Donald Trump wants to lose this war in Iran? What if he wants the American empire to collapse? What if Donald Trump wants to destroy the global economy? Then he'd be a genius, right? Right? He's a moron because he's going to destroy the American empire. But if he actually wants to destroy the American empire, then the man is the greatest American president ever. Okay. Okay. So we're going to have a fun class today and we're going to make the argument that in fact, Donald Trump is a genius. That in fact, all this chaos is purposeful. That there's actually a plan behind all this. Okay. That's the argument I want to make to you today. Okay. So what is the plan? What is going on here? All right. So first thing to notice is that the world gets 20%. Okay. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 11:02 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: 20 % of its oil from the Middle East. Okay. Partly going to East Asia. So India gets about 6 % of its oil from the Middle East. Japan gets 75 % of its oil from the Middle East. So East Asia is heavily dependent on middle East. So East Asia is heavily dependent on middle East. So East Asia is heavily dependent on middle East oil. Okay. But as you can see, it also goes to Europe as well. And then also to the United States. All right. So the world is dependent on the GCC oil. If this war continues, if ground forces are used, then all the oil from the Middle East collapses. And J.P. Morgan has come out and said that by mid -April, the world will run out of oil. Okay. So this is the end of the world. This is a disaster for the world. But it's not, it's just much more than energy needs. Okay. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 12:03 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: So this, because Iran is constraining movement in the Strait of Hormuz, we're seeing seven major shortages. Okay. So yes, we know oil and LNG are being stopped. Okay. But actually the problem is much worse because look at phosphate, ammonium, sulfur, urea. This is food production. Okay. Primarily used for fertilizers. In other words, if this war persists, not only will countries run out of energy, they'll also run out of food. Okay. Also look at this. Helium and sulfur are used for what? They're used for semiconductors. The production of semiconductors. Helium and sulfuric acid in the production of semiconductors, which leads to AI. Okay. So in other words, this war in the Middle East, it's impacting everything in the modern economy. Okay. If this war continues, the global economy could collapse. But again, we're making the assumption that Donald Trump is a genius and this is all part of his big plan. Okay. So if this war continues, ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 13:33 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: we can harm the to know is laterial. Okay. So what is this plan? Ahn -Hee Chung. All right. So, Okay. We know that there's a lot of oil in the Middle East. But oil is not as rare as people think it is. There's also a lot of oil in Canada. Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. Russia.укиwa ל׈ einer traps Russia also has a lot of oil. So in other words, if the Strait of Hormuz is closed, if this war in the GCC continues, it doesn't mean the world no longer has oil, all it means is the world is now much more dependent on North America and Russia for oil. And so the global economy now shifts over to North America and to Russia. So in other words, the United States starts a stupid war in the GCC in the Middle East, it can't possibly win, but it still benefits because now the world is much more dependent on North America. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 14:55 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Why is Venezuela important? Because America just took over Venezuela in January. And look at this. And look, Canada has a lot of oil and Trump is threatening to take over Canada, okay? So now let's look at who needs the oil. Well this map tells you that if you're in the red, you consume more oil than you export. And who are these countries? Well they're Europe, okay? And they are East Asia, as well as Australia, okay? So yes, I understand Donald Trump is an idiot. Yes, I understand that he's going to lose this war in the Middle East. Yes, I understand he's going to destroy the global economy, but for some strange reason, he benefits. And the United States benefits. Because now Europe and China, Japan, Australia, they are much more dependent on North America for resources. For food. For food. For energy. Okay? All right. Food. Okay. So nitrogen is important for fertilizers, okay? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 16:21 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: You need nitrogen for fertilizers. And what this map tells you is that if you are in the blue, or the light blue, it means you produce more nitrogen than you need, so you export it. If you are not in the blue, then you're kind of screwed, okay? So basically... There you go. This area, this area especially, this area, okay? Europe is... Some parts of Europe, okay? So now they need more nitrogen. And again, before, they were getting a lot of nitrogen, ammonia, from the Middle East. And now, where are they forced to get the nitrogen? From here and from here. Okay? So again, yes, I know Donald Trump's losing this war in the Middle East, but in the long term, America stands to benefit, right? Last thing I want to look at is water, okay? Water is important because water tells us which areas are the most stable. Basically, ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 17:38 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: if you have a lot of water, you're less prone to conflict, but if you don't have that much water, then you're prone to conflict. Okay? So we looked at... We looked at... So if you're in a dark blue, you're good. Okay? Nothing to worry about. If you are in the light blue, you are in a lot of trouble. Okay? So if we look at this area, North America, pretty stable because lots and lots of fresh water. Okay? If you look at Russia, pretty stable, lots and lots of fresh water, but if you're Africa, you're in a lot of trouble. If you're Europe, you're in a lot of trouble. If you are Middle East, you're in a lot of trouble. If you are Southeast Asia, you are not in that much trouble, but you are in some trouble. Okay? So we already see how this map tells us where in the future, basically Russia and the ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 18:36 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: United States, North America are the most stable parts of the world with the most resources and therefore they are the most resilient, the most stable. Okay? But if you go to Africa, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, these are points of conflict in the world. So we can expect these places to become much more unstable over time. So in other words, all the United States and Russia have had to do is maintain stability and then export resources to these places. And guess what? If they, and then they make a lot of money for themselves. Okay? So again, I understand Donald Trump's an idiot. I understand this war in the Middle East is stupid, but from a long -term game theory perspective, the United States wins from this disaster from a long -term perspective. Okay? Now you look at this map, you think, well, China's pretty good too, right? Like China has a lot of fresh water. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 19:40 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: The problem with China though, is this. China sits on a lot of fresh water. There's a lot of fresh water that Southeast Asia and India depends on. Okay? So a lot of water is in the Tibetan plateau. It flows downstream into India and in Southeast Asia. If there were drought, using game theory, we can suspect that China might want to keep the water for itself, right? In which case, Southeast Asia and India would be very angry. Okay? So this is a potential flashpoint that we have to watch out for. Okay? So it seems like China is stable, but the surrounding areas are not so stable. And so China will be dragged into a conflict. Okay? All right. So let's summarize what we've learned so far. So these are the countries with the most oil reserves. Okay? Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. Iran, Canada, Iraq, UAE, Kuwait, United States, Russia. Okay? All right. Now, what's interesting about this is this. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 21:13 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: This war in the Middle East is going to knock out the oil production of Saudi Arabia, of Iran, of Iraq, of UAE, of Kuwait, which leaves what? Which leaves, uh -oh, Venezuela, Canada, and the United States. Okay? North America and Russia. Okay? Now, then let's look at who has to buy oil. All right? Let's look at who buys oil. Well, the United States consumes a lot of oil, but again, it has its own supply of oil. China needs to import a lot of its oil needs. Okay? So China imports about 75 % of its oil needs. India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil. Japan, South Korea. Okay? Germany. All right. So China, India, Japan, South Korea imports a lot of oil. And where does it get its oil from? The Middle East. Right? So if it can't get its oil from the Middle East, then these four countries, China, India, Japan, and South Korea will need to get the oil either from the United States or Russia. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 22:31 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? And why does this matter? Well, let's look at this. Let's look at who owns the most U.S. Treasuries. Basically, if you own a lot of U.S. Treasuries, it means that you are financing American debt. America right now is $39 trillion in debt. That's a lot of money, but as long as people continue to buy U.S. debt, as long as people want to buy U.S. Treasuries, it's not a problem. Okay? It's a Ponzi scheme. Okay. So let's look at this. Who are the biggest holders of U.S. debt? Japan. China. Right? Taiwan. Singapore. Hong Kong. India. Okay? So this is all Asia. And we already said that Asia needs a lot of oil from the Middle East. Right? Now, let's look at others. United Kingdom is second. Okay? Kingdom of the Islands is basically just Europe as well. It's a mining operation. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 23:40 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? Belgium. Luxembourg. Canada. France. Ireland. Switzerland. These countries are Europe. And again, where do we say most oil from the GCC go? It goes to either Asia or Europe. And now, because of the war in the Middle East, Asia and Europe are now forced to buy oil from either Russia or the United States. And this is important. Okay? This is important because previously, there was a few countries that were forced to buy oil from the United States. So this is a great fear that these countries would stop buying U.S. treasuries because America is too heavily in debt. The American economy is too much of a Ponzi scheme. So there's this great fear that Europe and Asia would move away from the U.S. dollar and more towards Swiss francs or gold. Okay? Now, because Europe and Asia need fertilizer. They need energy from oil. From the United States and North America, the United States no longer has to worry about its debt. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 24:50 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? All right? The $39 trillion debt, not a problem because the entire world is dependent on North America for resources. The Ponzi scheme can keep on going. So again, Donald Trump is an idiot, but he's so stupid, he's become a genius. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 25:10 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 25:11 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: All right. Now you're like, wait. But Donald Trump's an idiot. Where would he get this? Where would he get this idea from? How do you know how to do this? And the answer is because Putin has already proven that this strategy works in Ukraine. Okay? So let me show you how. Okay. So this is the war in Ukraine, and as you can see, the dark red are areas in which Russia is contesting territory. The light red, sorry, the pink are areas in which Russia wants to gain territory. As you can see, Russia still has a long way to go. And we're already four or five years into this war, which means that this war can go on for another 10, 20 years. It's a very slow grind. And it's good for Russia. Yes, I know that Russia is losing a lot of soldiers. And I know that the Russian economy is suffering, but this long war of attrition is good for Russia. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 26:27 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Why? Well, because first of all, what it does is it allows Russia to industrialize its economy. Okay? It allows Russia to center its economy around war production. Okay? So the red, as you can see, is total industry. Okay? And as you can see, it's been going up since the war started. All right? Overall industry has been going up as well. Unfortunately, industries that are not dominated by the military, that have no war purpose, it's actually going down. Okay? So it seems as though the entire Russian economy is going down. So it seems as though the entire Russian economy is going down. It's being restructured for total war, for a long war. And that is the purpose. That is the goal. Okay. So again, the pink are military industries. The blue are civilian industries. As you can see, the blue, sorry, the pink completely dominate the blue. And the ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 27:48 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: trend is increasing, meaning it is possible in four or five years' time, Russia is primarily a war economy, industrializing to produce war weapons, okay, munitions, specifically drones. Okay? These are drones. All right. So before, at the beginning of the war, Russia was dependent on Iran. Right? For drones. Okay? But then what happened over time is that Russia started to have its own domestic production. Okay? So imports from Iran have stayed constant. And then domestic production has gone way up, which tells us that the Russian economy is industrializing for the production of drones. And Russia is preparing to fight. A long, long war. Now, not only can Russia produce its own drones for the war, but it can also export its drones to Iran to fight against the Americans. Okay? And so you're like, wait a minute here. So Russia is switching its entire economy to war production, which means that Russia will always fight wars. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 29:26 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1766s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1766s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Is that what Russia is planning? And the answer is yes, it is. Okay? And so let me explain why Russia is planning this. This is something called the Third Rome Plan. Okay? And this comes from the 1996 book, sorry, 1996 book, Foundations of Geopolitics. Okay? By Alexander Dugin, who I think is one of the smartest geopolitical thinkers alive today. Okay? And his argument is this. His argument is this unipolar moment of American dominance, it's going to fade away because it's too much focused on secularism, individualism, liberalism. And these ideas break apart community. These ideas are anti -human. So eventually, Western society, Western civilization will collapse because its values are abhorrent. And when it collapses, this is, this is, this is going to collapse. This is an opportunity for Moscow to become the Third Rome. Okay? We'll talk more about this in the future. But what's brilliant about Dugin is he recognizes that when the world collapses, all Russia has to do is stay stable and resilient. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 30:46 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: As long as it stays together, unified, cohesive, it'll be fine. Okay? Because as this global order collapses, as the global economy collapses, every other society will face eternal collapse. Such as the United States. Okay? So he predicts civil war in the United States as left and right go to war against each other. Okay? He predicts collapse of China. He predicts collapse of the Middle East. He predicts collapse of Europe. Okay? So all these places are collapsing. Basically, if you are the main pillar of the global economy, you are much more susceptible to collapse than if you are not. Okay? So what Dugin says is this. Okay. All right. So the strategy is, first of all, Russia needs to stay coherent. It needs to defend its territory. It needs to unify its people through nationalism, through religion, through faith. And then what Russia needs to do is figure out allies that would support the Russian outlook. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 31:53 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: And these allies could include Japan. Okay? Vietnam. India. Iran. Okay? And then by combining their forces, they become a trading block onto themselves. This is an age of nuclear weapons. You don't want to go to war against each other. But this is also an age of collapse. So as long as you're able to stay coherent, as long as you're able to defend your borders, then you'll come out ahead. Okay? So that's the idea of moving towards war. Because war has a power to unify the imagination and the beliefs of the people in your nation. All right? So you're using war in order to increase the nationalism, the religion of your society, which will allow you to weather the storm better. Okay? So that is the grand vision of Alexander Dugin. And in my opinion, he is absolutely correct. And Russia is moving towards this by invading Ukraine. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 33:01 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=1981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: All right? So the Ukraine invasion was not a response to NATO. The Ukraine invasion was to implement this grand vision for the creation of the third Rome. To allow Russia to survive the coming collapse of the global order better than anyone else. Okay? And so by taking over Ukraine, you now can say, you now control one -third of the world's carbohydrates and a lot of the world's energy. Right? Once you control Ukraine and the Black Sea, you are now able to export your energy and your food to Africa, to the Middle East, to Europe, to Asia. Okay? So that's the grand vision for Russia. And again, in my opinion, this makes a lot of sense. The world is collapsing, and so you have to build a fortress. You have to be self -sufficient in order to weather the storm. So given this, America is like, well, we can do the same thing. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 34:08 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? And so the grand plan for America is something called the Technate. Okay? Sorry. There's something we'll discuss more later on. Okay? But first, I want to introduce this idea to you, the Technate. And the Technate is very simple. It's the idea that, you know what? Yes, the world is going into chaos. The world is collapsing. But North America is self -sufficient. Right? So these past few months, Donald Trump has been picking a fight with Denmark over Greenland. Right? He's been threatening Canada. He's been threatening Mexico. He's been threatening Colombia. He's thinking over Venezuela. He's been threatening Cuba. He's been threatening Honduras, Nicaragua. Why is he doing this? Because they're all part of the grand vision for Greater North America. Okay? What Peter Hexaff calls Greater North America. The Technate. All right? And this is a response to Moscow's third rule. If Moscow is going to build this Grand Alliance in order to weather a ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 35:21 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: storm, then America has no choice but to also build this Grand Alliance as well in order to protect itself in this coming storm. All right? So what Donald Trump has recognized is that, Putin is right. The world is collapsing. There's nothing we can do to save the world. So let's just accelerate it in a way that allows America to benefit from this collapse. Okay? So by collapsing the GCC, by collapsing the Middle East, you make Asia and Europe now dependent on American, North American energy and fertilizer exports. And this allows you the resources the motivation to create the Technate. Okay? This self -sufficient economy. Okay? Does it make sense? All right. Okay. All right. So let us summarize. Okay. So in November, sorry, September 11th, 1991, George H.W. Bush, he responds to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Soviet Union, by putting a new phrase called the New World Order. And there are three major pillars to the idea of the New World Order. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 36:51 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? The first idea is that America will become the financial capital of the world. America will offshore resources and manufacturing to other places. And then America will focus primarily on finance, making Wall Street the center of the world. Okay? The other idea is the idea of secular multiculturalism. So the world is divided, but what can unite everyone is the love of money, the love of consumerism. So if we just focus on making money and buying things, then the world will be forever at peace. Okay? And so we have to let go of borders. We have to let go of community. We have to let go of identity and focus more on consumerism. Okay? And the last idea is global domination where in order for global trade to happen, America will provide security for all. No one has to fight it anymore because America will guarantee global peace. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 38:00 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: If anyone rises to challenge this order, Pax Americana, then America will go destroy it. Okay? So these are the three main pillars of the New World Order as announced by George H. W. Bush on September 11th, 1991. Okay? Trump World Order is a response to this New World Order. Basically what Trump is saying and what he's been saying for a long time is why should America pay for the defense of other nations? Why should America have to be the consumer of last resort for everyone? Why are Americans paying for everything so that Europeans can have their welfare and their pension? Everyone's taking advantage of America and is destroying America. So let us change the New World Order to the Trump World Order. Okay? And how do you do that? Well, you move America from a focus on finance to a focus on resources and manufacturing. Okay? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 39:09 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Basically, you believe the world is going into permanent war, and so you provide the resources and the manufacturing in order to facilitate this world war. Meanwhile, America has become fortress of America. It can hide behind its fortress, kind of no fortress, and it's protected by two oceans, right? Okay? So this makes sense. Multiculturalism doesn't work. It leads to stupidity such as DEI, woke politics. Transgenerism. It's all retarded. Let's focus on what makes us proud to be Americans, which is Christian nationalism. Okay? Our love of the white race, our nation, and God. Okay? So no more of this multiculturalism. No more immigration. No more open borders. No more democratic party. Let's just focus on being Christian nationalists. Okay? Love the United States. Love of Christianity. Love of the white race. And the last idea is, why should America pay to protect the world? Screw Pax Americana. Let's just do MAGA. Okay? What is MAGA? MAGA is National Rejuvenation. Let's make ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 40:20 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: America great again by rebuilding America's manufacturing industry, by exploiting the infinite resources that God has given America in order to make sure every American has a decent life. Okay? All right? So again, I understand Trump is an idiot. Trump has launched America into this stupid war in the Middle East. Trump has pissed off NATO. Trump has pissed off all of America's allies. So he's a retard. But if the goal was to destroy the American empire, destroy the global economy, and rebuild America for the benefit of Americans, then Trump is a genius. And he may go down in history as America's greatest president. Okay? All right. Any questions? Yeah. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 41:22 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: So my first question is, you mentioned that the Donald Trump or like Putin, they think that the world, like the whole system will collapse, inevitable. But like how, why? Like if this, Ukraine war doesn't happen, or if this Iran war won't happen, how will the world economy collapse like? Okay. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 41:56 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay. That's a really good question. Okay? So, both Putin and Trump know that the world will collapse. And the question is, how do they know this? And the answer is, because it's so obvious. Okay? So, for the longest time, America started, what America did was, it basically, after World War II, it lent money to Europe and Japan so that Europe and Japan can buy manufactured goods from America. Okay? And this is good for America. Because it created a lot of jobs. And Americans were productive. But then over time, Americans became very lazy. And so they made the Europeans and the Japanese and the Americans became very lazy. And the Japanese do the work. Especially Germany. And then America started to be the consumer. Okay? So, then America started to spend more money than it made. Okay? Before, it made more money than it spent and lent this money to Europe and Japan. But then over time, this reversed itself. ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 43:15 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay? And then what happened was that America started to shift its manufacturing to China. And so China is like, let's, let me do all the work for you America. And, um, I'll do it for really cheaply and I'll borrow money from you. Sorry, I'll lend you the money to do it. Okay? So what's happening is that America is becoming lazy, in debt, and corrupt. Okay? Because the entire world was basically working for America for very little money. So America simply had to work. And this led to massive inequality in America, which led to political corruption, which led to an oligarchy. Okay? So don't think of America as a democracy. Think of it as an oligarchy. And so, when that happens, when only a few people benefit from the system, then the American people get really pissed. And so they affect, they elected Donald Trump. Okay? And why did Donald Trump get elected? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 44:29 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Because he understood, intuitively, this system does not work. It cannot, it cannot hold. It cannot be stable for too long. It's going to collapse eventually. Okay? The question then is, when will it collapse, and who will benefit from the collapse? And Donald Trump's like, okay, then let's control the collapse so that my friends and I can benefit the most from this collapse. Okay? And Donald Trump has two sets of friends. The first are the Christians, okay? Christian evangelicals, basically the fanatics who support Israel, as well as the AI, Silicon Valley. All right? So, we learned about the idea of elite overproduction. Okay? But the idea is that as a society collapses, declines, the elite start to compete against themselves for resources. And so, right now, the elite are the finance people, and the new elite, okay, the counter elites, are the AI people. Okay? Artificial intelligence. And it's something we'll discuss later on. Okay? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 45:36 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: But I introduce you to the idea. But basically, the idea is that America is a house of cards. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's corrupt. It's unequal. It's lazy. It's in decline. So, it's going to fall apart sooner or later. Okay? But the question then is like, how do you manage this decline? How do you control this decline in a way that allows you and your friends to benefit the most? Okay? And that's why Donald Trump started this war in the Middle East. Because by starting this war in the Middle East, you're extending the process of decline in America. And therefore, you're able to help transform America from one that, from an economy that's based on finance to one that's based on resource exportation and then manufacturing. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 46:29 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: So, I have one last question about the explanations of this war. Like, before we explained it in the middle in the religious perspectives, and how does this, like this explanation connect to the explanation today? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 46:45 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: Okay. All right. Yeah. That's a really good question. Okay? So, the thing I understand about war is that there are different factors at play. Okay? So, before, we went into eschatological factor. All right? Now, I'll explain to you the geopolitical or the economic. Okay? But there's also the historical or hubris. All right? And what you need to recognize about history is that often all three things converge together. Okay? Because what is religion? Religion is a memory or long lost memory of our ancient past told through myths and stories. So, there's truth to religion because it's basing a lot of its ideas through personal experience, through history. Okay? From thousands of years ago. Right? And geopolitics, economics drives historical forces. So, another way of understanding this is that often, all these different factors are aligned together. And this is something we'll discuss more later on. Okay? All right? And so, why do I look at different factors, different vectors? ## Trump World Order and the Strategy of Controlled Collapse -- 48:10 - Source title: Game Theory #18: Trump World Order - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-04-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmERlHUqBk&t=2890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrmerlhuqbk.json) Text: And the answer is because I make predictions. And if I'm able to analyze an event using eschatology, geopolitics, and history, and they are aligned together, then I can make a pretty accurate prediction that this will happen. I don't know when it will happen. I mean, I know who the players are, but I'm pretty sure this event will happen. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Great. All right. So, ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: today i want to look at how the global economy will collapse specifically how the u.s economy will collapse because of this war now the argument i want to make to you today is that financial collapse do not happen accidentally or naturally it has to be engineered and this is a very hard concept for us to understand okay so uh in economics there's something called the boom bus cycle which basically states that in capitalism you have um the economy booming then suddenly for whatever reason it collapses okay it's called a boom bus cycle and the idea is that if you study economics they teach you that this is just a natural part of capitalism because in good times people spend too much money they become overconfident and so then they waste a lot of money and then it collapses the economy turns bad and so you have to focus on being more lean and efficient ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 1:16 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=76s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=76s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: and resilient so think of you know gaining weight okay you gain too much weight and then you feel bad so then you lose weight and that's the idea of um the boom bicycle the problem though is that no one can explain properly how and why suddenly the bubble pops okay what's the mechanism or trigger for the collapse if you study economics you will never ever know the answer so we are going to focus on speculation today Okay, so again, the internet knows this, but I've never studied economics. I don't know much about economics, but I'm curious as to why this happens, okay? Why is it that bubbles pop? How do economies rise and fall, okay? So I'm not an expert, I'm not even a professor. Yes, I understand. But what I do is I engage in speculation for fun, for entertainment, okay? So just see this as a fun class where we're gonna explore some fun topics that have no scholarly basis, okay? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 2:43 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: All right, so just keep this in mind, guys. All right, so let's look at, very quickly, the main explanation for why booms and buzz happens. And this is from Andrew Ross Salkin, who is probably the most influential financial journalist in America. And he wrote a book called 1929, which looks at the stock market collapse of 1929, and he offers a very good explanation as to why it happened, okay? So, Amber, could you read for me, please? Of course. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 3:16 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Lengthy, uninterrupted booms, like the one in the 1920s, produce a collective delusion. Optimism becomes a drug or a religion or some combination of both. People lose their ability to calculate risk and distinguish between good ideas and bad ones. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 3:31 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay, so again, this is a science book. It's a set explanation for why there's a bubble burst, because it's delusional, and then it's like you fly too high, okay? But you're not supposed to fly, so then you fall down to the ground, eventually. It's just gravity, okay, the idea of gravity. But what I want to show you today is, there's actually another explanation, which is this is all being engineered. There are people behind the scenes who have the power to cause economies to rise, and to fall, okay? So let me give you an example of this. All right, let's just say you're a bank, all right? You're a bank, and your job is to take those money, save it, and then use it properly in order to promote the economy, okay? So let's just say we put a million dollars into the bank, okay, and what does the bank do with it? The bank then lets it out to entrepreneurs, right? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 4:33 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: So maybe I want to start a restaurant. And so I borrow a million dollars from the bank, okay? Question, how much money is in the bank now? It's gonna be zero, right? Okay, that's just math, guys. Look, if I take in a million dollars, and I lend it out a million dollars, I should have zero, because that's just basic math. But that's not the answer. The actual answer is two million dollars. And what you need to understand is that each bank has the ability to print from the bank, and there's a super -assist. its own money and the bank is a mechanism for liquidity in the economy okay and this is a great illusion like this is a delusion okay behind the economy where money is just a cop is just an idea it's a concept it's a collective hallucination all right um now but the problem is there ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 5:44 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: are thousands tens of thousands of banks everywhere so how do they know how to coordinate together okay and this is something else you need to understand about the system there's actually something called signaling mechanism signaling mechanism okay um so all these things are separate but they are linked together into something called a central bank okay central bank and what the central bank central bank do the central bank signals whether or not to lend money or not to lend money and this mechanism is called the interest rate now again if you study economics what they will teach you is that depending on the interest rate if it's low maybe 1 % or 5 % or high 5 % then that would determine how consumers behave if the interest rate is 1 % what this means is I can go to the bank get money and buy a house right if it's too high for 5 % ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 6:52 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: then I don't want a little bank to buy a house and this is what you're taught in an economics class but there's actually another explanation which is the interest rate is not to signal consumers or homeowners to buy but rather for banks to lend or not it doesn't make sense because the banks what they can do is depending on the interest rate they know that okay my job is to release more liquidity into the system release more money into the system and therefore I can make it easier to take out a loan okay but if the interest rate is high then I know okay I must not release too much liquidity in the system therefore I will make the loan application hard okay so in other words the interest rate is not it is not set in order to guide consumer behavior it is set in order to coordinate liquidity in the marketplace okay doesn't ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 7:52 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=472s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: make sense okay so these are two very curious aspects of this system that people don't really understand so in order to understand the system I will explain to you how the world works okay and I explained this before but I want to summarize and apply it to this scenario okay so the first thing to understand is that we live in Plato's cave okay meaning that we're all chained to the floor and we're all watching a screen and behind is this great fire where the world now takes place you know quite clearly in the mercado Má부터它的hydro acab combustion of water from the ground to water and from there over and over you know the cars have BMW cars and electric vehicles right the wind is blowing the roof free carrera there may be time and here's the problem the problem is that the routine yıl já está ficando his cabeza do you realize that is not ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 8:52 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: valid okay the value of ability is not there to date here's the bad thing that he's seen throughout the world he knows that we remember this idea and keep this in mind okay so because of this concept this allows us to create the world that we live in today okay so remember how the world is structured um you have the empire but then you have the game masters who are the game masters the people in finance okay this includes bank of international settlements uh world bank uh international monetary fund uh wall street sea of london okay these are different financial organizations that coordinate together and they are the game masters and what they do is they control how us dollars which is the currency of this game they control how us dollars um moves around the system okay so usd and this creates of course the global economy but you cannot allow people to think ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 9:57 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: that they're actually a set of people manipulating this game because people think this is not fair it's not transparent right it's and it's not a clean game so what you do is you create multilateral organizations called the rules based in actual order like the wto un and you make them believe that oh it's these impartial organizations that actually control the game so it's fair and it's transparent it's a it's a fair and it's transparent and it's accountable to the people okay and then you reinforce this using media um education and culture and together these three will um create the values and norms that make us believe that this is a fair open and transparent game in which we can all win okay so that when there's a collapse it's not because there are people engineering this collapse behind the scenes it's because it's a lot of gravity this just happens naturally in this game it's ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 11:05 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: no one's fault it's just like we were too lazy and corrupt okay all right so certain things to remember about the system is that this system is not as clean as you think because there are opposing forces to it all right and these opposing forces are such forces such as nationalism okay or ethnic identity then you have social democracy individual rights right and then of course you have religion all right so there are these countervailing forces that try to break apart the system so then what happens is that there are other um systems that keep the system in place and respond to these countervailing forces all right and they are intelligence spies basically crime and science and behind the scenes they are the people who control the system okay so the first and the last set of these three forces are three sets of powerful institutions okay these are transnational capital um secret societies and ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 12:25 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: the last is elite families okay some people call some people call them the uh illuminati okay it doesn't matter all right so this is how the world works and underpinning uh this elite is something called the occult which we'll study later on okay so certain things that stand out about the system that you may notice is hey guys look transnational capital is also the game masters as well as the global economy okay this is important because remember this system is the parasite and this system is a host so transnational capital is both the parasite as well as the host it's both the game master as well as the player okay so this obviously leads a lot of corruption so then the question then is how do we get this system where the system come from so so let me go into some history okay so the year is 1688 and this one is and in ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 13:43 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Britain that's been called the glorious revolution think of the glorious revolution as a marriage between two empires the British Empire and the British Empire and the Dutch Republic okay England and the Republic at this point in history 1688 the Dutch Republic is the richest area of the world because it controls the spice trade in this time in history spice is the most valuable commodity the problem the Dutch Republic is that it cannot defend itself in Europe okay it's easy it's easily invaded it's also Protestant so so and they are being attacked by the Catholics Catholic France Catholic the Catholic Church as well as the Habsburgs the Holy Roman Empire so what they agree to do is they can buy they agree to combine their forces all right so what happens is the wealth of the Dutch Republic goes to England all right and create some call and 1694 the church I'm sorry the Bank of ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 14:51 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: England okay so this is a private bank that is not accountable to the public what it does is this it prints money and who buys it Parliament buys it and this is a massive innovation that allows the British Empire to conquer the world because before if you're rich if you get if you let your money to a king to fight wars that was dangerous because the king could die or the king could lose the war the king could not pay you back okay but if you lend money to Parliament which is the nation -state then you're guaranteed to get your money back as long as the nation is still around okay and at this time in history England is the safest area of Europe because it's an island protected by the Royal Navy all right okay so this is an innovation that forever changes human history and there are three major characteristics of this system ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 16:09 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: okay the first is the idea of um profits are privatized losses are socialized if you're a rich person in the world you want to put your money in the Bank of England because you just know where the Bank of England loses money if England goes fight a war and it loses England pays for it but if it wins the war then you get the money for it okay so this is the first concept you can need to understand all profits are privatized all losses are socialized picked up by the nation -state the people that's the first thing second thing is in the system the way you generate wealth is through activity and what does that mean it means wars right so if I give you money you have to go do something with it you have to go make more profit and the way you do that is through fighting wars and that's why there ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 17:14 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: are the British Empire start to expand very quickly around the world because it needed to generate profits for the bankers okay so this includes of course the Napoleonic Wars seven of them it includes something called the Great Game a war between Russia and Britain uh for control of Central Asia um and also India the Congress of India and then um the Congress of of China okay okay doesn't make sense the open wars all right so profits so the second characteristic is that you're always creating more activity all right okay and the third thing is it's transnationalism okay open borders so it believes that capital should be able to move around from place to place and they should build systems in order to move capital from place to place okay and the last thing I want to talk about is okay this is great for the bankers but the people look at this and they think ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 18:31 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: that this is an unfair system which it is right so now you have to brainwash the people into believing this is a fair system and that's why you create a new idea called materialism or money is God and so what was happening was that transnational capital Bank of England were sponsoring major intellectuals to come up with the major ideologies to support the idea that money is God okay and these include um sorry uh John Locke who argued that private property is a God -given right okay it is an inherent right as much as freedom as much as happiness okay um and he's the founder of a theory called empiricism and empiricism states that we can only know what we ourselves experience it is not feasible it is not practical to try to come up with a fear of the world beyond our experience so don't think about God because God is beyond our experience okay ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 19:44 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: then you have someone named uh David Hume okay David Hume and David Hume argued for skepticism and skepticism just says that um everything that you know is actually not valid because what you know is just just based on um your belief okay so Rome is the capital of Italy have you been to Rome probably not okay so where did you learn this you learn this in school by memorizing this fact so basically we we should be skeptical of everything we know because most of stuff we know is either custom or habit okay so let's say the idea of さどこなんてははは of skepticism so now the problem is okay skepticism and person just means that we don't really know anything and god doesn't really exist so how can we design society and so this creates a new idea called unitarianism which is saying that if it is useful if it gives us pleasure it must be good ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 21:01 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: okay if you if you take drugs and you are happy with it it must be good if you like spending money it must be good okay and this is from bentham and then john stewart mills will make some we'll make some adjustments to it okay but this becomes the very concept of liberty right liberty just means that you are free to pursue as much money making as possible because that is the often good that is what gives you the most pleasure in life spending money okay that's what liberty is if a country prevents you from making money and spending money it's an evil dictatorship a good country allows you to enjoy the pleasures of making money okay and then um what happened is that these are the three major philosophers of materialism of British Liberty and then you have people like uh marks come in and you'll introduce the idea of of dialectic materialism. Dialectic materialism. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 22:10 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Which is to say, the world is one of class struggle. It's not between God and us. It's not between the divine and the material. It's one between the poor and the rich. And that's it, okay? So Marx is taking out the divine from the equation. Then you have Darwin, their evolution. Which basically says, we're just animals, man. Okay? Okay, that's all. We're not divine beings. We're all just animals. Then you have people like Freud. Sex is awesome, guys, okay? That's what we should be doing. We should be making a lot of money and then having as much sex as possible. Because that's what we are. We're just apes, okay? So this becomes very foundation for the idea that money is God. All right? Okay. So, what then happens is that transnational capital, which has conquered the British Empire, is now seeking new opportunities for its investments, okay? So, where it goes next is, of course, America. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 23:20 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: The problem is that the Americans just had a revolution to get rid of the British Empire, right? So the Americans don't want transnational capital. It doesn't want Bank of England, it doesn't want the United States. They want to take the Bank of England or City of London and come in and conquer it. So what happens is, the City of London, the Bank of England, they use agents in America. And these agents, of course, are called, there's three of them, okay? Well, there's actually a lot. But these agents include John Rockefeller, Carnegie, okay? Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt. And they will, by themselves, mobilize different industries with the resources and the capital of the City of London and Bank of England, okay? So, of course, John Rockefeller, Monopolis' oil, okay? And then what will happen is that these very powerful agents of the City of London will get together and they will create a system modeled off the Bank of England. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 24:37 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And this, of course, is called the Federal Reserve System. All right? 1914. And, strangely enough, after the Federal Reserve System is created, three things happen, right? The first is that America enters World War I. Then you have the 1929 stock market collapse followed by the Great Depression. And then 1941, America joins World War II. Okay, do you understand? So, Federal Reserve System means that, like Britain, America is now controlled by transnational capital, right? And it's the same system now where profits are privatized, losses are socialized, and where it's important to open the country up to capital movement. All right? Okay. So, as we know, America wins World War II. And what it does now is that it tries to move the system around the world, specifically Japan and Europe, okay? Where it's able to control the territory. And eventually, it fights a Cold War with the Soviet Union, but then it wins. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 26:04 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And then it basically, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, for the next 20, 30 years, it has complete control over the world. Something that we call a unipolar moment. All right? And during the unipolar moment, what happens is that manufacturing from America shifts over to China, and America completely focuses on finance. This leads to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. All right. Okay. So, let me provide some background about the financial crisis, okay? You don't have to know everything. I'm going to give you a lot of details, but I just want you to understand the basic structure of it, okay? So, what allowed the Great Financial Crisis to happen is something called subprime. Okay? Subprime just means that you're lending money to people who can't pay you back. Okay? In this context, it's lending people, lending money to poor people to buy homes. Before banks didn't want to do that. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 27:06 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1626s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1626s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? But there are certain things that happen to make subprime happen. Okay? So, the first thing is that Bill Clinton, he really wanted to increase minority ownership of homes. Okay? He wanted black people to buy more homes. But again, black people were historically poor, so the banks didn't really lend money to them. And that's why Bill Clinton encouraged the government to help minorities buy homes. Okay? So, that's the first thing. Okay? And this was a noble goal. The second thing that happened, which is more important, is in 1999, Bill Clinton repealed something called the Glass -Steagall. And what is this? The Glass -Steagall Act just said that if you are a bank and you take money from depositors, you cannot engage in risky lending. Okay? If you are an investment bank, okay, if you're a retail bank, you cannot engage in risky lending. But if you're an investment bank, a private bank, you can engage in risky lending. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 28:30 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And so, that's what the act said. Versible. Okay? It's trying to mitigate risk in the system. But by repealing the Glass -Steagall Act, what you do is you combine retail and investment together. And so, these banks now become very large. And once they become very large, they need to create financial vehicles in order to generate more profit. Okay? And at the same time, what's happening is, that because America has the unipolar moment, everyone wants to invest in America because they think America is the safest place to put your money. Okay? So this includes the GCC, the China, Europe and its pension funds, and also Japan. Okay? Japan is investing in America because of something called the Yen Carry Trade. And this is one of the dumbest things in the world. Because at this time in history, Japan is suffering from deflation. Right? No one's spending any money. So what the government does is that it lends money out to institutions at 0 % interest. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 29:35 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? Now the institutions are supposed to take this money and promote more liquidity in the system. But instead what they do is they take this money and use it to borrow or buy U.S. Treasuries, which provide 5 % pay. Okay? So you're borrowing money at 0 % and then lending it out at 5%. And it's something called the Yen Carry Trade. Okay? It's one of the dumbest things in the world. We won't go into it. But again, there's massive money coming into the U.S. financial markets and they need to create more investment vehicles for investors. Okay? And they create something called the CDOs, which means Collateral Debt Obligations. Okay? But basically, it just means subprime. Right? The idea is that mortgages are a good investment because people have to pay a monthly mortgage, right? Therefore, you're guaranteed certain money at the end of the month. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 30:36 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? The problem, of course, is subprime could lead to default. Okay? But at this time in history, no one was concerned about default because of the idea of too big to fail. Which means that, look, the system is structured so that everyone is involved. And if these homeowners default, and the banks default, then the entire economy collapses. Okay? So the idea is too big to fail. The system will keep on going because if a certain percentage of homeowners were to default, the entire housing market would collapse. Okay? Does it make sense, guys? All right. So this is one big Ponzi scheme. But we know for a fact that in 2008, this system collapsed. And for the longest time, what we believed is it's because the defaults were too many. They were too much. And so this system had to collapse. But if you look at what happened, what you will discover is that's not true. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 31:51 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? The banks could just choose to roll over the default. Okay? Meaning, okay, you owe me $1,000. Right? For the mortgage. But you can't pay me. What do I do? Well, I say pay me back next month. Right? You're like, next month, you can't pay me back? Don't worry. Pay me back the month after. Okay? I can have the system keep on going. Because remember, this system, this money, it's just based on an illusion. Does it make sense, guys? All right. But it collapsed. Okay? So that's something that we're going to look at today. All right. So as you can see from this map, this chart, at first, what was happening was that there was a lot of money that the government was the one issuing out loans. Okay? So, the government is basically light blue. But then, because this industry was so profitable, private banks started to come in and issue their own loans. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 32:51 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=1971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And these became very risky loans. Okay? And this led, of course, to 2008 when the entire thing collapsed. Okay? All right. So, the big question is, why did the financial market collapse? So, this is the CDO issuance. Okay? As you can see, it's generating a lot of money for these private banks. And then, suddenly, in 2008, there's this massive default. It collapses. The question is, why did this happen? And again, you're taught in economics class, this is just a lot of gravity. Okay? If you go too high, you're going to fall. But what people don't tell you is this. There are actually people who made a lot of money because of the collapse. John Paulson. How much money did he make in this collapse? $20 billion, guys. That's a lot of money. $20 billion. How did he make his money? He made his money by betting that the house market would collapse. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 34:02 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: You understand what happened? Okay? So, think about this. Okay. I lend $1 million to Amber. Okay? And everyone, $10,000. But then, suddenly, you can't pay me back. Right? But if I tell you, Amber, you can't pay me back. You have to give me your home. Okay? Then, I lose my investment in you. Right? So, I don't do that. I keep on letting you live in the house. Pretend that you can pay me back even though you can't pay me back. But then, Vincent says to me, hey, Mr. Jia, I bet you that Amber will not default on her loan because she hasn't defaulted in the past 10 years. I say to Vincent, how much do you want to bet me? And he's like, half a million dollars. Okay? He's so confident that you will not default. Right? So, I say, sure, Vincent, I'll take this bet with you. Right? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 34:59 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas) Text: Now, what I do, now I make you default because now I can make a million dollars from Vincent. And that's how it worked, guys. You think it's a very complicated thing. It's not. It's all a giant scam because only a few people control the entire system. This is how you make 20 billion dollars in this game. Okay? You, there are stupid people buying mortgages from you, right? But then you have even more stupid people who bet that you will not default on these mortgages. And you, so you take your money from the stupidest people. And that's why this system collapsed. Because you can make more money from collapsing the system than just letting it go on. Okay? This is, this is John Paulson. This is Jimmy Diamond. And he also profited from the bank collapse. Why? Because when these banks collapse, you can start to consolidate the banking industry. Okay? So Jimmy Morgan started to buy these other banks that were losing money. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 36:01 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And then Jimmy Morgan now is the largest bank in America. All right? Also, guys, look at this. Before 2008, most homes were actually owned by individuals. Okay? This is 2008. Okay? So, so the gray are just individuals. They might have one home, they might have 10 homes. Okay? But it's basically individuals. The blue are those who own more than 100,000 big banks that own like 100,000 of homes. Okay? So, before 2008, you can see like most people were in the gray. Okay? These are just individuals. But then, after collapse, you see the blue and the dark blue rot go way up. Why? Because these homeowners lost their homes. And so these banks and these companies come in and buy them on the cheap. Doesn't make sense. So it's not, so the great financial crisis of 2008 destroyed millions of lives, but it made it profitable for a few powerful individuals and institutions. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 37:25 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? Right. A major consequence. So, so then you're like, okay, no, no, no, no, Mr. Jiang, you don't get it. It's gravity. Eventually, a bubble has to collapse. Well, okay, well, today we have two bubbles. We have something called the private equity bubble, private credit bubble, okay, where private banks lend money to private companies. And people say it's $200. And it hasn't collapsed yet. Why? Because the private banks allow the private companies who are losing money to keep on going. You understand? The private banks don't come and say, hey, you guys are losing money. I, you should declare bankruptcy and I'll take whatever you have. Why? Because they would lose all our money that way. Okay, do you understand this idea? These bubbles can keep on going forever. They don't have to collapse. Another big bubble today is something called the AI bubble, right? These companies, Nvidia, OpenAI, when they, their AI products don't actually make any money. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 38:30 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Like, CatGP does not make any money. In fact, it loses money every, every time you use it. Okay? Because it's more expensive to run ChatGPT than it generates in revenue. But, and it's, it's a huge bubble, but why doesn't it collapse? Because these are just a few companies lending money to each other. Okay? That's all it is. It's a giant Ponzi scheme. It's an inside game. So, bubbles don't have to collapse. They collapse when it's profitable for a few individuals to make it collapse. All right? Okay. Another idea I want to talk about I want you to understand is that after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, this created problems in the global economy. And so, what happened was Transnational Capital decided to save the global economy by allowing China to rise. Okay? So, this is not known. But, one major consequence of the Great Financial Crisis is that Transnational Capital encouraged the China to print money. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 39:39 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay? All right. So, I'm going to show you how. But, first, let's talk about the main mechanism to allow this to happen. It's called the Bank of International Settlements. Okay? And this is the Bank of International Settlements is in Basel, Switzerland. And it's considered the central bank of central banks. So, every nation has a central bank that determines interest rate. But, all central banks, which coordinates all central banks. All right? And it is the most powerful bank in the world. All right. And you think that, okay, this must be public. No, it's not public. It's just run in the best, it's managed for the best interest of powerful people in the world. Okay? All right. So, this is from the book Basel, Tower of Basel. Okay? Can you read? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 40:37 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: For despite and shots planning, Nazi Germany had not achieved autarky. It needed to buy vast amounts of raw materials to manufacture armaments and to feed, heat and clothe its population. Swedish steel, Romanian oil, Portuguese tungsten, even South American beef all had to be purchased and paid for in hard currency. Nazi Germany needed a financial channel to the neutral countries it ran through Basel, which is the main reason why Nazi Germany did not invade Switzerland or Sweden. These neutral countries were far more used to the third reach as Third Reich. Reich. Yes, Third Reich as monetary hubs on the transnational financial network than as extra swaths of German controlled territory. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 41:33 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay, so what this means is this. In this speech is Hitler promised independence from the global financial order controlled by the British. Okay. But you can't really do that because you just have to buy things from other places. But then you're like I need a bank to lend me money to buy things but also help me facilitate transactions. Okay. And this is the idea of transnational capital. And transnational capital they don't really care if you're evil. They don't care. All they care about is how can I make money. So this this bank Bank of National Settlements and Transnational Capital was helping to fund the Nazi war machine because it was profitable to do so. Okay. And you think okay after Hitler lost the Americans would surely know okay Bank of National Settlements is evil because they helped the Nazis. Therefore we should destroy the Bank of National Settlements. Okay. But that's not what happened. After World War II the Bank of National Settlements became even more powerful. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 42:39 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay. All right. All right. Can you read Amber? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 42:42 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Martial aid came at a price remodeling European societies on the American model of consumerism and consumption. Hoffman's propaganda arm produced pamphlets posters leaflets radio programs and even traveling puppet shows that extolled the American lifestyle. The American dream a house in the suburbs a car and numerous household appliances was projected as a near guaranteed benefit of American style freedom. The key to this was increased productivity on American style production lines in a transnational free market. For that to happen and for the money to flow freely new mechanisms of international payment had to be constructed with the BIS at the center. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 43:26 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay. So the world is run for money. Okay. The world exists these organizations exist in order to facilitate the easy fluid movement of money around the world and make money God. Okay. So after 2008 the Bank of National Settlements had a problem in that the global economy was slowing down. Europe had lost a lot of money. America had lost a lot of money. So their solution was let's shift the center of gravity from America and Europe to China. And you're like okay how do you do that then? You do that with something called the exchange rate. Okay. Exchange rate is very simple. Rooming B to USD. Okay. So remember how the interest rate in a national economy is a signaling mechanism as to whether or not to increase or decrease liquidity. Well the exchange rate in the national marketplace is a signaling mechanism to tell other nations whether or not to trade with another nation. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 44:37 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Does that make sense to you guys? All right. So let's look at what happened. So for the longest time the Chinese currency was trading above eight to the US dollar. Because remember the US dollar is the main mechanism is the main mechanism of global trade. And then hey starting around this time 2008 guys it's hard to increase in value. Okay. And so now the world knows oh I should trade with China. And China is like well okay my exchange rate is higher than before therefore I should buy more things from the world. Okay. But not only that but now that I have access to commodities from the world then I should know I need to promote my economy to use these resources. So I should spend more money on infrastructure. I should build more high speed railways. I should build airports. Okay. And that's what China did. You see how 2008 just as the American ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 45:48 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: and European economies were suffering the global economy was suffering the Chinese economy China started to have a higher exchange rate. Okay. And it kept on going higher and higher and then what did China do with it? China started to buy stuff from around the world a signaling mechanism where the Bank of National Settlements is saying to the world you can now sell to China. We will guarantee China. All right. And that's because the Bank of National Settlements needed China to buy more things from the world. And this happened in starting around 2008 right? This massive surge in imports and because all the commodities were coming to China China to spend these commodities so it started to build infrastructure right? And how did it finance the building of this infrastructure? Bank loans guys. Bank loans. All right. So this is China sorry this is this is China right? Look at this look look at this look ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 46:58 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: at this this is China 2008 2008 basically China US Japan Europe their economies were about the same. But starting about 2008 wow look at this this is all being orchestrated by the Bank of National Settlements by a few people working behind the scenes. Look at this look at how crazy this is all right? So what does this mean? It means that today China has the largest banks in the world. This is JP Morgan the largest bank in America. This is Chinese this is Chinese this is China this is Chinese this is Chinese this is Japanese okay? The top four banks in the world are Chinese. Why? Because in the in the bank system debts are liability sorry debt liabilities are also assets do you understand? All this money the Chinese banks have are just liabilities okay? So this is how the system works it's all just an illusion. The thing about the Chinese system that ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 48:25 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: prevents it from imploding is the fact that all debt in China is localized instead of nationalized all right? So even though these Chinese banks are heavily in debt they're in debt in local areas not national areas okay? And all this means is that the Bank of China does not have that much debt relative to say the Bank of Japan okay? So debt in Japan is nationalized debt in China is localized all right? Okay so another major consequence of China the Chinese the growth of the Chinese banking system is that China started to export its goods around the world more okay? So as you can see in the year 2000 America really dominated the world okay? In manufacturer export okay? But by the year 2024 look it's basically the entire world is buying Chinese exports all right? And so this is a deliberate strategy of transnational capital to move the center of economic gravity from the ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 49:45 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=2985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: United States to China and the problem with China the reason why China has not become the hegemon is that China's not interested in being the hegemon in other words military power also as China is expanding its manufacturing capacity to the world who's upset now? The United States right? And so what the United States does is it imposes tariffs okay? Does it make sense? All right so in other words okay even though in theory the theory is that the goal of the bankers is to maintain the game okay? That's all they care about so they want to switch from America to China but it didn't really work because China doesn't really want to take the responsibility of being the global reserve currency as well as having military bases overseas all right? So China doesn't want to do this and America won't let China do this so you're only on one side and you're on the other side So the other option now is Israel okay? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 51:07 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3067s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: And that's why I believe that this war in Iran what it will do is shift the center of gravity from America to Israel because Israel wants to be the center of the world not China okay? That doesn't make sense guys all right? The other thing you have to understand is that for this to happen though transnational capital needs to first collapse the American economy and there are different ways they can do that right? They can collapse the private credit bubble, they can collapse the AI bubble, they can collapse both at the same time. And why would they want to do that? Because as a banker, as a transnational capital, you make your money through activity, right? When people go and do stuff, whether it's entrepreneurship or starting wars, but they have to go do stuff. And right now, America has a lot of problems, okay? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 51:55 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3115s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3115s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So let's look at America's problems. First is aging, where the elite are now older and older, therefore they are less active, they are less energetic, they are less entrepreneurial, okay? Then you have something called quantum easing, which is like too much money in the system. If you have too much money in the system, then people do stupid things like gamble, okay? Alright, and the last problem of America is you can't win wars, okay? Like this Iran situation is showing that the American military is not as strong as you think it is. So if you're a transnational capital, you see these three things, okay? The population is getting too old, there's too much money around, so people do stupid things like gambling, and the American military is not that great, then you're gonna shift your capital from America overseas, okay? But before you do that, what you want to do is engineer a financial crisis so that you can make as much money as possible, just like the 2008 financial crisis, okay? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 52:59 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: So we don't know when it will happen, but we can be sure that it will happen. It will be suddenly, okay? Okay, does that make sense, guys? Now, you're like, wait a minute here. Why would Trump and the Americans allow this to happen? They must know this is coming. And the answer is because it is in the long -term best interest of America for the economy to collapse and for transnational capital to go elsewhere. And this is something we'll discuss next class, okay? What the long -term American strategy is. Transnational capital is leaving America, so, and the Americans are like, oh my God, Bank of England, City of London, these parasites are leaving? Thank you, get out of here, man, okay? And what will happen is, once they leave, America will probably have a much brighter future, and something we'll discuss next class. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 53:54 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: But any questions? Yep. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 54:01 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: So, seems like that America is in a disadvantage, advantage situation, but they know what they are doing, and they're just sending parasites outside of their country and having a more long -term benefit, is that right? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 54:17 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Okay, so this is something we'll discuss next class, okay? But this is not a deliberate strategy, all right? Because if you think about it, economic collapse will destroy a lot of wealth in America. It will probably create conditions for civil war in America. It will create a lot of pain. But for certain people, for example, Donald Trump, who believed that this thing is necessary in order for America to become great again, okay? He said, his motto is what? Make America great again, and how do you do that? You get rid of these parasites. But to get rid of parasites, guys, it's a painful, painful process. It's like a cancer, right? Have you guys been through cancer treatment? It's painful. Chemotherapy, they do surgery on you, you have to eat this crappy food all the time. It's a painful process. It's a painful process. So transnational capital, it's a parasitic force. It's a cancer on the American host. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 55:13 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: They have to get rid of it, but it's gonna be a very painful process. That's gonna take a long time, years, possibly decades, okay? Yeah, Amber? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 55:25 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: So if transnational capital is leaving America, then how would you think this shift would impact the global economy, or would it at all? ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 55:35 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Yeah, okay, all right. Yeah, all right. So there's so many things. There's so many, we'll discuss later on, okay? But let me just show you how the shift happens. All right, so right now you're in America, and the best place for you to shift is Israel. Okay, why? Because you're interested in activity, okay? You're interested in putting your money in a place where it's gonna grow, right? And why is Israel growing? Well, because of the Greater Israel Project. You want to conquer the Middle East, but then it has to rebuild, right, after, that, the, this, after the war, rebuilding. And then, what it's gonna do is become the hub of global trade, right? Because Israel controls Africa. And this is something we'll discuss next class, okay? So this is why you wanna invest in Israel, for these three reasons. Why? Because you're gonna keep on fighting wars to achieve the greater Israel project. Wars are profitable. ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 56:40 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) Text: Wars are the most profitable enterprise in the world, okay? Second is that they have to rebuild after all this destruction, so they need capital. And the third is they will control global trade because of the location, okay? So this is why Israel is a smart investment for transnational capital. I'm not talking about like us, okay, with like $1,000. I'm talking like trillions of dollars will probably go into Israel, all right? So to leave America, what you want is a stock market collapse, okay, an economic collapse. Why? Because economic collapse not only allows you to leave with as much money as possible, but it also allows you to buy up distressed assets. When I mean distressed assets, I mean resources, which include water, oil, okay? So you wanna create as much damage as possible because then it's easier for you to buy up these resources. And, okay, does that make sense, all right? So ## Collapse Is Engineered -- 57:49 - Source title: Game Theory #17: The Great Reset - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbowBTJWKBo&t=3469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vbowbtjwkbo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: these guys plan decades ahead, but transnational capital, what they do is they're trying to create as much chaos as possible because in chaos, there's profit. Like if you're sitting around doing nothing, you can't make any money, okay? But if you are fighting each other, if there's blood on the streets, you can make a lot of money, all right? Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. Any more questions, guys? Okay, so we'll talk about what happens after this financial shift next class, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: I want to make sure it's recording and that the green is on, okay? Okay. Thank you. Today, I want to discuss how this war will end. I cannot predict when this war will end, but I want to make certain predictions about how this war will end, okay? So to first understand how the war is going, let's look at some video clips, all right? So this is President Donald Trump. He's talking about the war. We hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shot. And the other one, you know, they fought back. They could have yielded. But think of it, if we weren't around, they have tremendous, they had tremendous power. They had thousands of missiles, most of which we've terminated. They had thousands of drones. They were making drones and missiles all over the place. We've knocked out most of those factories. But they hit. Okay. So what he's saying here is we went in expecting to hit them, kill their leadership, and then they would surrender. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:21 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=81s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=81s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: We didn't expect them to fight back. We didn't expect them to close the Strait of Hormuz. We didn't expect that they would hit Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, okay? So what he's saying is we actually didn't have a plan going in. And we really didn't think. We didn't think our enemies would fight back, all right? So this is Donald Trump. Now, let's look at his. President's preference is always peace. There does not need to be any more death and destruction. But if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before. President Trump does not bluff and he is prepared to unleash hell. Okay, so what she, this is Karen Leavitt, and she's the press secretary for the White House. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 2:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And what she's saying is, look, we've defeated these guys. But for whatever reason, the Iranians don't know that. That's the problem. The problem isn't us. We came in with the right strategy. We did everything right. But for whatever reason, the Iranians being stupid don't know they've been defeated. All right? Never in history has a modern military, Iran had a modern military, a modern Navy, a modern Air Force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive bunker, never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly. And it's because we have a President of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 3:36 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well. We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the President talked about, about your future. The President has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle. As long as it's hard. As it's necessary to ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved. Okay, so this is Secretary of War Peter Heksev and he represents the Pentagon, the military and his attitude is we're winning this war. We are kicking ass and we don't have to negotiate because we're kicking ass and we'll continue to do so. All right. So this is the attitude of the military. Now, the US media has been reporting that Donald Trump. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 4:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Is seeking an off ramp. He's seeking negotiations. And what Peter Heksev says, no, let's negotiate with bombs, man. Okay. Plan across the administration and a treasury. We unsanctioned Russian oil. We knew that there were about 130 million barrels on the water. And we created supply that is beyond the Straits of Hermos. So we anticipated this. We knew that the there could be a temporary. And I want to emphasize temporary choke point there. And there was a hundred and thirty million barrels of floating storage in the coming days. We may unsanctioned the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about a hundred and forty million barrels. So depending on how you count it, that's ten days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out. That would have all gone to China in essence. We will be using the Iranian barrel. Against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 5:45 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay. So this is the secret secretary of the Treasury Scott Besson. Okay. And he's responding to a problem which is the Americans didn't expect that the Iranians would close off the Straits of Hermos. And so this is affecting oil supply. And so the global economy could be disrupted or even destroyed if this lasts too long. So Scott Besson says, ha, we knew this was going to happen and we have a really brilliant plan to destroy the Iranians once and for all. Our plan is this, we're going to let the Iranians sell their oil and make a lot of money and then they will be destroyed. Yeah. So the Americans basically unsanctioned Iranian oil and because of that, the Iranians were able to make $14 billion just like that. The total Iranian military budget for one year is $10 billion. Okay. So this is American genius at work. They knew this was what was going to happen. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 6:59 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: They knew the Iranians wanted to destroy the global economy. So the Americans were like, we'll just make them rich so they can't destroy the global economy. We got them now. All right. And yet Iran remains a threat, a threat to trade, a threat to the Straits of Hermos. Then I would argue that we could have years, years of, you know, above $100, closer to $150 oil. What happens to the global economy if that happens? How do we see it? We'll have global recession. If there's a cessation of war and yet Iran. Okay. So this is Larry Fink and he's head of a company called. BlackRock, which is the largest asset manager in the world. They control trillions and trillions of dollars. And what he's saying is he's being interviewed by the BBC. What he's saying is we can't stop this war now because if we stop this war now, that means that the price of oil will be too high for many, many years. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 8:11 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: The Iranians will control the Straits of Hermos and therefore we must fight this war to the end. What he doesn't address is, well, if you didn't start this war in the first place. You wouldn't have this problem because the Iranians would have no pretext to close off the Straits of Hermos and the global economy would have been fine. But what he's saying is like, oh, don't worry about that. The problem is like is the war has started and therefore we must fight to the end. Okay. Okay. So this is a drone launched by a Iranian proxy in Iraq flying over an American base. And as you can see, there's nothing stopping it. Okay, it's just flying over this American base. It's being remote controlled. It spots two American helicopters and destroys one of them. Okay, meaning that you have all these American bases for out the Middle East and they are vulnerable. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 9:40 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: They cannot be protected against cheap drones. So from an American perspective, this war will either beg with the Americans or this war will be lost. Okay, but it's very hard to fight this war against a determined enemy. So what I want to do now is examine how this war will turn out. Okay, so I said this many times, but the Americans are losing this war. And the main reason is the problem of hubris. And so I want to examine closely what this means strategically, what this means on the battlefield. Okay, so war is fought across four dimensions. All right, there is the narrative dimension, meaning global opinion, how history will perceive this war. There is the political dimension, meaning how your allies perceive this war, how your domestic base perceive this war. There's the economic and then there's the military. If we examine this war closely, the Iranians are fighting a very different war from the Americans. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 11:19 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: What the Americans are doing is basically they are shifting the narrative political sphere and economic sphere to fit their economic strategy. Okay, their economic strategy. Their strategy is decapitation, which forces surrender, right? So what they want to do is they want to not destroy the Iranian leadership, destroy the Iranian economy to force a surrender, in which case the Americans can dictate terms. That is their strategy. And that's about it. And they are forcing the narrative space, the political space, and the economic space to conform to the military strategy, meaning that they expect the allies, the American allies to conform to the military strategy. They expect NATO, they expect the media, they expect the economy to support this strategy. So for example, in the political space, Donald Trump has ordered NATO to come and open up the Strait of Hormuz. And also, Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge the fact that this war is very unpopular back in America. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 12:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: In the economic space, what the Americans are trying to do is keep the price of oil low so that it does not disrupt the global economy. And they do that, of course, by unsectioning Russian and Iranian oil, which benefits the Russian and Iranian economies. And in the narrative space, they're basically trying to tell the media to follow the party line. Donald Trump has threatened journalists that if you do not report this war, you're going to die. If you do not report this war, it's going well, then I might put you in prison. So this is the American strategy, forcing the narrative, political, and economic spheres to conform to the military strategy. The Iranians have a different approach. The Iranians are using the military in order to impact the economic, political, and narrative spheres. It's completely reversed. So the military strategy is calculated in a certain way to... ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 13:29 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Benefit the Iranian economy. Okay? So what I mean by that is that the military is strategically controlling certain moves so that Chinese ships can pass, right? Because Chinese ships are the main buyer of Iranian oil. Also, if you're willing to play ball, like Japan or Qatar or Oman, they will also let your ships pass, okay? So this is being strategic. Basically, the Iranians are trying to split the Gulf states, right? They know that Saudi Arabia and UAE are committed to regime change in Iran, but they know that Qatar, Bahrain, sorry, not Bahrain, Qatar and Oman are on the other side, okay? So they're trying to gain as much global leverage as possible within the GCC. And the narrative is they're trying to shape global opinion and trying to... Make everyone believe that they are on the right side of history. And most people believe that. In fact, you have a lot of Americans who are rooting for the Iranians to win, all right? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 14:38 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So this is a very different, these are two very different strategies, all right? So let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both strategies, okay? So from the American perspective, the fact that you have this approach of making the world conform to your military strategy basically means that you lack what we call reflection, okay? Meaning that you're not able to sit down with your strategist and discuss how this war is going and how to make changes. But the Iranians are able to do so because the military has to conform to the economic, political and narrative strategies, okay? Second is flexibility. And what I mean by that is the military strategy, if it's not going well for the Americans, they lack the capacity to reflect and make changes. So what they do is they double down, okay? They accelerate the process of bombing in Iraq, even though it's probably not going to get them anywhere. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 15:53 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=953s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=953s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Also, much more importantly, the Americans will choose much more. Much more self -destructive, desperate strategies, such as sending ground troops. It is possible by this weekend, ground troops will be sent into Iran, which most military analysts believe to be either counter -affective or suicidal, okay? The Iranians on the other hand, can adapt their military strategy to the economic and political realities, okay? So for example, what they're doing now... First of all, is they're charging tolls to cross the Strait of Hormuz, okay? And the third difference is the idea of resilience. So in other words, if you make the world and America conform to your military strategy, they won't support you. That means that if you're losing troops and you're losing equipment, it is very hard to replenish, resupply. Whereas it's the complete opposite. Iran, where because they are winning popular opinion, because ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 17:05 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: their economy is becoming stronger in this process, because they're winning more political allies, they can actually draw on more support from the population, and they can also recruit foreign fighters and foreign support, foreign sympathy for their cause, okay? So for these reasons, I believe that America is losing this war, and that ultimately this war will be lost. When this will happen? We don't know, because America is an empire, and they can actually drag us on for at least 20 years, all right? Okay, so now that we've discussed why America will probably lose this war, I want to now shift our focus to discuss how the world will change because of this war. What does the end of this war look like? And to do that, what's really important is to go back to our model of how the world will How the world works, okay? So remember last week, we discussed the structure of the ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 18:07 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: world, and at the very core is the empire, because the empire provides the muscle, the military might, to shape the contours of reality, okay? And then with the empire, you have the finance, okay? Finance includes the City of London, Wall Street, the Bank of International Settlements, and asset managers, and they are the game masters, okay? The empire is the muscle, but the finance are the ones who actually set the game. And then this creates the global economy, which is based on the U.S. dollar, right? But you can't actually have people believing that this is the way the game is structured, because then people won't want to play the game. So what you do is you create an additional layer of multilateral organizations. What they might do? They might just like to call it the rules -based international order, including the U.N. and the WTO, okay? And other organizations. But this makes people believe that the way the world is structured is fair, open, and transparent. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 19:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And you hide the finance and the empire behind multilateral organizations, okay? And then to justify this system, you have the culture. Okay? You have the education and media, which then creates the different legal infrastructure of different nations and the values as well, okay? So this is how the world is organized. We also discussed how there are these organizations that are above the nation state, that are above the system, in order to benefit from the system, to keep it going, but also to extract rent from it. And these include intelligence. Okay? Intelligence, crime, and science. We also discussed how the organizing forces behind intelligence, crime, and science are transnational capital, secret societies, as well as elite families. And we discussed how they are bound together by a concept called the occult, which we'll study later on, okay? But the idea of the occult, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 20:43 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So this is the structure of the world. Now. The system is created. What you need to understand is that the people in the different spheres who benefit from the system, first and foremost, their interest is maintaining that status quo, okay? So their interest is in maintaining the status quo, all right? So basically, they want the system to continue. The problem with the system is, at the core, it's an empire. It's an empire. It's an empire that will probably lose the war in Iran. And this creates a problem, because if the empire falls, then it's possible that its entire edifice falls as well. So the only solution is to replace the empire, the American empire, with another empire, all right? That is able to provide the muscle for this system. And this empire, I've argued in the past, is, of course, Israel. And this is what we call Israel. Israel has become Pax Judaica, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 22:00 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So on the surface, it seems like this war is one between the United States and Iran. But in reality, what this war really is about is a war between the United States and Israel, where the American empire has become corrupt, incompetent, and arrogant. And so now Israel sees an opportunity to replace the American empire in the system. And it's something that, eventually, every aspect of the system will agree to do, all right? So the main outcome of this war, when it ends, is that Israel will replace America in the Middle East, okay? All right. So let me first discuss why the American empire is falling, okay? And the main reason is the idea of something called the military empire. The military empire is a very industrial complex. So for most of its history, America did not have a professional army. Why? Because the Founding Fathers and most American citizens believed that if there's a standing army, if there's a professional army, that's a direct threat to the liberty of the Americans, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 23:31 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Because the Americans fought a war, the Revolutionary War, to get rid of America. And they didn't have the professional army that was the British, okay? So Americans do not like a professional army. But in order to fight World War I and World War II, they didn't have a choice but to create a standing army. The problem is that after America won World War II, the apparatus stayed. And the apparatus wanted to maintain a status quo, meaning they wanted access to unlimited government funds. So this led to the Cold War. And the Cold War was the first war. And the Cold War was a justification for the MIC, the military industrial complex, to get as much government funding as possible. And the blue, as you can see, is government expenditures. Okay? We can understand why they spent all this money ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 24:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: in World War II, because they were fighting a war to save America and to save the world. But as you can see, even though it dropped drastically at the end of the war, it was eventually a clear and permanent war. And it never stopped making history. And after the Cold War, starting with the Cold War, you have this uptick, okay? And then you have the Vietnam War. And then after America won the Cold War, you saw this massive uptick. This is something called the War on Terror. So, the military industrial complex is always looking to start wars in order to justify its existence. So, there's a very famous journalist named Julian Assange, and he said this about America. The point is not to have successful wars. The point is not to win wars. The point is to have never -ending wars, which allows the military industrial complex to transfer American taxpayer money to a transnational elite. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 25:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: It's basically the point of wars is for the military industrial complex to steal as much money as possible from America. America spends a lot of money in its military. America accounts for 41 % of all global military spending. Who's next? China. China spends 8.2%. Russia, which is America's main military enemy, only spends 4.1%. Meaning that Russia spends one -tenth the amount of money that America spends. And you think that, okay, well, all this means is that America is invincible. But what people don't recognize is the level of corruption. This is the level of corruption within the American military. The American military is probably the most corrupt institution in the world, by far. No one even comes close, okay? September 10th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, who's a secretary of defense for the Americans, he's head of the Pentagon, and this is the day before September 11th, the 9 -11 attacks, he said that – ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 26:52 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: he had a press conference and he said that, look, we want to stop the looked at the Pentagon books okay we're trying to an accounting of the Pentagon military spending and we can't find $220 there's $220 missing from the budget it went somewhere we don't know where but it went somewhere okay all right all right so this is a so where does the money go it goes to private contractors okay these are all private companies that make a lot of money of the government okay so look at listen at the Boeing company they had in one year 20 billion dollars from the government they got 20 bill Austin contracts in the government okay to do so they had to send 16 million dollars in order to lobby Congress for advertisements for political campaigns and then they bribe this is this is a bribe to politics they will be spent two million dollars okay so this ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 28:08 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: is a really good business to be in you spend two million dollars you give them right to politicians then you spend 16 million dollars on campaigns and then you make 20 billion dollars okay this is extremely profitable the difference of course is being picked up by the American taxpayer the Boeing company is doesn't is not just a defense contractor but also makes them in airplanes and for these past few years there's been quite a few cases of civilian airplanes falling out of the sky made by Boeing okay so for example the Boeing 737 max okay there was a recall because there were some engineering issues with the plane now there have been a couple of whistleblowers who've come out and tried to say that Boeing is a very cool company and for the reason they they died okay they just disappear we don't know why but when they were about to testify against Boeing they ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 29:08 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: somehow died all right this is a really interesting story that shows you the level of corruption in the Pentagon there is this woman who's a contractor for the army and she stole hundred three million dollars and Okay? That's a lot of money. $130,000. She stole it. The army didn't know and she kept on stealing and no one seemed to care in the army. But then the IRS, this is the Internal Revenue Service, they recognized that she was getting all this money from somewhere. So they investigated her and recognized, oh my God, she's stealing from the army. So the IRS told the army and that's when the army recognized, oh, we have a problem. Okay? The fact that the army didn't notice that she was stealing $103 million tells you actually theft in the military is probably a very common thing. All right? So ultimately what this means is that this corruption in the Pentagon is not really sustainable. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 30:17 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay? So let me discuss why this is a problem. This is a problem for America in Iran. Okay? So right now America is facing three major issues with this war in Iran. The first major issue is the lack of political will, meaning that this war is very unpopular in America. Only 40 % of the population currently support this war. And as things go on and on, support will probably decrease. Okay? You need political will because you need Americans to pay for this war. Trump has asked for $200 billion to fund this war. And also it's possible that Trump will halt the national draft, which I believe will happen. Okay? So if Americans don't want to support this war, it's very hard to get them to pay for this war and to go fight this war. Second problem is lack of manufacturing capacity. So in other words, what this means is that only America has enough bombs and just enough batteries for the American economy. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 31:31 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And this is a problem because if you lose planes, if you spend too much if you use too many bangs, you cannot replenish it because you don't have the factories to produce these planes and bombs quickly enough. Okay. And so, this war has gotten on too long. Then America has run out of bombs. And the third problem for America is unwillingness to sustain casualties. And what this means is that the American military is afraid of reporting deaths, casualties, which is weird because in a war, soldiers die. That's just the reality of war. But the Pentagon is afraid of reporting too many deaths because of the fair political backlash. So these are three major problems for the American military in Iran. These are the three major constraints. So the Americans can't actually resolve these issues and America will probably lose this war. In ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 32:43 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=1963s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: which case, this gives opportunity for Israel to prove to the world that it should be the empire. And it proves it can be the empire by showing that it does have the political will, it does have the manufacturing capacity, but that's more solid, and it is much more strategic. The last thing is that it is resilient, meaning that it is willing to accept casualties. So basically, the idea here is the global elite, they need an empire to provide the muscle. But the empire must prove that it can serve the needs of the global elite, okay? And so an empire must prove three things. First of all, it must prove unity. It must prove it has the resources and the capacity, basically the capacity, okay? And it must prove determination, right? So to understand this idea, let's just do a thought experiment, right? Let's just say that we're venture capitalists. We have billions of dollars, we have trillions of dollars, and we want to invest in a company, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 34:10 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2050s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2050s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So we're approached by two companies. We're approached by two companies, company A, company B, okay? So company A comes to us and says that, look, I have a hundred companies, and they're all profitable, okay? I don't have a business plan, but I have lots and lots of resources, and I have a lot of experience and a lot of skill, and so if I were to invest in another company, I'm sure it'll make a lot of money, okay? All right? So skills and experience. That is company A. Company B is these young guys, and they failed, okay? But they're like, you know what? We're going to put our heart and soul into this enterprise. We're going to work 16 hours a day every day for as long as it takes, and we won't stop, okay? Even if this company's successful, we're going to keep on going because it's our passion. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 35:19 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And if this company fails, then we're bankrupt. We might kill ourselves, all right? So if you are the venture capitalist, do you put your money in A, or do you put your money in B? Now, most people would put their money in A. A because they think it is low risk, but if you're a smart venture capitalist, you put your money in B because it's high reward, okay? So company A already has 100 companies that are successful. People in the company don't really care if this new enterprise is successful or not. Who cares, right? I can afford to lose, in which case, it's more likely that company A steals your money than actually invests it properly. Whereas company B is going to be the opposite. Okay? Where this is their last chance. If they take your money, they're going to make sure that they grow it. Because if they don't grow it, then they themselves die, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 36:17 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So you need these things. You need unity, capacity, and determination, do you understand? And so what issue is doing really, especially auditioning to the world, we are ready to replace America. We are ready to be the new empire, okay? All right, so let's look at what's happening. America has this MIC, and so the MIC, military industrial complex, what they're good at doing is producing very expensive weapon systems, but unfortunately, when you actually put these weapon systems into war, it doesn't really do anything, okay? So this is the Patriot missile system that's supposed to protect the GCC in Israel and the American military bases from Iranian drones and missiles. Guess what, guys? Doesn't really work, okay? In fact, as you can see from the video, the Iranians can basically fly drones anywhere in the Middle East, and the Americans can't really stop them, all right? So this is billions of dollars, doesn't really do anything. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 37:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: This is called the F -35. The F -35 is the most advanced fighter jet in the whole world. It has stealth technology, meaning you can't actually lock onto it using radar. This costs $100 million each. It took 26 years to develop, so you would think, wow, it took 26 years, so this must be really, really good. No, it took 26 years because the MIC is really corrupt, and they want to steal as much money as possible, okay? In this war, the Iranians have already shut down at least one of these jets, okay? This is not supposed to happen. You're not supposed to be able to shoot these things down, but the Iranians have shut it down using very low radar. Again, these things, they're not designed to win wars. They're designed to steal as much money as possible from the American taxpayer, okay? The last example is the Gerald Ford. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 38:21 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: This ship cost $13 billion. It cost $13 billion. The annual defense budget for the Iranians is $10 billion. It goes into the war theater. And three weeks afterwards, the Iranians are going to be in the war. In fact, the Americans say, oh, the Gerald Ford, this is the most advanced supercarrier in the world. It's probably going to be down for repairs in the next two years. And there's argument as to what happened, okay? There are three different possibilities. The first possibility is that there was an accident in the laundry room, and there's a fire, and this fire spread throughout the carrier, okay? Okay? Which means that actually the carrier is not very resilient, okay? So that's one possibility. And that's what the official story is. But there are also others who say, like, the Iranians hit the ship with a missile. And so the Gerald Ford can't protect itself from Iranian missiles, so it ran away, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 39:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: The third possibility, the third explanation is the Pentagon recognize that there are severe limitations. All of the Gerald Ford in actual combat operations, its radar, its guidance system are all very limited. So the Pentagon withdrew the Gerald Ford because he was absolutely useless in war, right? Whichever story is true, it doesn't paint a good picture of the American military. $13 billion. And this is nothing, okay? It's just a white elephant. The Iranians are, and also, this is Iwo Jima. And this came in World War II in the Pacific Theater when the Americans were fighting the Japanese. And this is the height of American military glory, okay? It took about 6,000, the Americans lost 6,000 Marines in taking this island. And that's the sacrifice you need in order to win wars. You're going to lose a lot of soldiers. And Americans are proud that they lost a lot of soldiers. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 40:38 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: They're proud that they were willing to make the sacrifice necessary to win the war. The problem is Americans are no longer willing to sustain casualties, okay? So the Americans sent about 5,000, around 5,000 Marines to Iran, hoping that 5,000 Marines will be enough to win this war, okay? But it just shows you the Americans have no strategy to win this war. And they don't want to make the necessary sacrifices. They want to make the necessary sacrifices to win this war. They want to win this war as quickly and as cheaply as possible, okay? The Israelis are different, okay? This is Gaza. And we all know that what Gaza did was terrible. But again, if you are auditioning to be an empire, Gaza is proof of concept, okay? Meaning it's showing the global elite, look, we're willing to do what it takes to win this war and defend the empire. Okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 41:39 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So this was a tremendous tragedy, and that's all war crimes, okay? And the entire world is aghast. But if you look at Israeli public opinion, 82 % support expelling all Palestinians from Gaza, okay? 66 % believe Amalek exists today. Amalek exists like Israel has this great enemy that it must defeat, all right? So 66 % of Israelis believe that this war against Gaza is a war against Gaza. This is a war for the very existence of Israel, okay? This is unity. This is determination. The Americans don't have this. Most Americans oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza. But what Israel, but the Israelis themselves support what's going on, okay? So there's unity, all right? So in 2024, there was the famous Lebanon pager attack, okay? Meaning that... The Israelis were able to implant bombs into pagers that went to Hezbollah members. And then it blew up, okay? And maybe from a military perspective, it didn't accomplish that much. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 42:59 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: From a psychological perspective, it accomplished a lot, okay? It scared the living hell out of Hezbollah. It made them paranoid. And it also made the world respect Israel more. And Israel spent $275 million to conduct this operation. That took decades to implement, okay? And you're like, okay, why is Israel telling us this? Because again, Israel is auditioning to be the new empire. It's telling the global elite, look, not only will we fight this war for you, not only will we be your muscle, but we'll do it cheaply, man. Not billions of dollars, millions of dollars. This is ISIS. ISIS is an Islamic state, okay? And this is considered a terrorist organization. These Sunni extremists who go around and beheading people, all right? Now this is from the New York Times and the yellow tells you areas in which they operate. And as you can see, it's really across the Middle East and the red are incidents of attacks directed by ISIS, okay? ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 44:16 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Now, something that's really funny about all this is ISIS attacks everywhere in the Middle East except for one country, and that country is Israel, okay? Really funny how you have these Muslim extremists going around committing all sorts of atrocities everywhere in the Middle East except Israel. And so that's why a lot of people believe that Islamic State is actually a creation of Mossad. But again, Israel is happy. They're happy. They're happy for the world to know this because again, Israel is auditioning to be the new empire. And what Israel is saying is, we don't have to use the American strategy of just bombing everyone to death, okay? That's expensive, that's brutal, and it's not very strategic. We can use the Mossad to infiltrate groups and use these groups against the comrades, their neighbors. Isn't that much more efficient? Isn't that much more effective, okay? So what ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 45:18 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Israel is saying is, we are much better at controlling the Middle East than the Americans, so let us control the Middle East using our strategies, okay? This is a story of a Mossad agent who was disguised as an ISIS preacher, and this happens a lot. There are lots of stories where you have these ISIS commanders or agents, and when you arrest them, you discover, okay, actually, they're actually Mossad, okay? So ISIS. ISIS is basically a Mossad operation, all right? So the main story here is, okay, if you look at history, the relationship between Israel and America is actually pretty simple. Israel is the pit bull for America. The problem with an empire as it grows old is it doesn't want to do bad things, okay? It wants to feel good about itself. Therefore, it subcontracts. It subcontracts the violence, the murder, the genocide to different people, okay, to mercenaries, the Israelis in the Middle East, and this is a pattern throughout human history. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 46:36 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So the Romans started out as mercenaries for the Tristans in Italy. The Aztecs started out as mercenaries for the Culhacan in Mexico. The Greeks started out as mercenaries for the Persians, okay? The Mongols started out as mercenaries for the Chinese. The Akkadians started out as mercenaries for the Sumerians. The Moloch started out as mercenaries for the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt. In every instance, what happened is the mercenaries eventually got to a point where we are the ones killing ourselves for this empire. The empire is corrupt, decadent, and weak. Why don't we just take it all over? And they did, okay? We're seeing a similar situation play out today in the Middle East. We're seeing a similar situation play out today in the Middle East. We're seeing a similar situation play out today in the Middle East, where Israel was created by the British and Americans to be ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 47:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: their pit bull, to be their aircraft carrier in the Middle East, to create as much instability as possible so that the Americans and the British could control their oil supply in the Middle East. And this has gone on for decades, and now the Israelis are like, we're the men in here. We're the ones doing all the work. We're the ones making all the sacrifices. We're the ones that are getting all the hate in this world. So why should we be the empire now? America is useless! So this is a pattern throughout human history. And so we're going to look at what this means. So Israel has something called the Greater Israel Project. And this is what extremists in Israel believe. They believe that God in the Bible promised the entire Middle East to control the world. to the Jewish people, extending from the Nile in Egypt all the way to the Euphrates in Iraq. It also encompasses Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and parts of Turkey as well. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 48:44 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Now something really funny about this map is this, Iran, Persia, is not part of the greater Israel project. So then you're asking yourself, wait a minute here, if Iran is actually not part of the greater Israel project, then why is Israel going to war with Iran? Well the reason why is, if they want all this territory, their main enemy is not Syria that's been destroyed, it's not Iraq. It's not Saudi Arabia, it's too weak. Not Jordan, it's too weak. Not Egypt, it's too weak. Not Lebanon, it's too weak. The main enemy is the American empire. In the greater Israel project, it's the Americans that control the land of greater Israel, the Middle East. These are American bases. So in other words, you use this war against Iran to destroy the American empire. How? By forcing the American empire to go and invade Iran. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 49:52 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=2992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And when this happens, America will be too overextended, and then they'll be forced to retreat from the Middle East. And so eventually, America will be defeated, America will be forced to retreat from the Middle East. And that will leave two regional powers, Iran and Israel. And again, because of the greater Israel project, Iran will be defeated. The Israelis have no problem with this. Persia is, again, not part of the greater Israel project. The Israelis don't really care if Iran is still standing. They want Iran to be as weakened as possible. But they really don't need to defeat Iran to achieve their political prophecy. But they do need to defeat the Americans. The Americans are in the way. So what does the greater Israel project mean? Well, it means control of the world's oil, basically. 20 % of the world's oil. So these are the gas fields. The yellow are the gas fields of the Middle East. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 51:02 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And the blue are the trade routes. So you can see how Israel is at the very center of all this wealth. Right? They have the logistics. They have the technology. It makes sense for them to take control of all these resources and then start shipping these resources to Europe as well as to East Asia. China, South Korea, and Japan. Okay? So that's what the Pax Judica will look like. It will be a trade network controlling all the resources of the Middle East and then shipping it off to the rest of the world. All right. Then you have data centers. Okay? So Israel has the most data centers in the Middle East. And then Saudi Arabia has 36. UAE has 34. Okay? So these three places are competing against each other for AI dominance. Why is AI important? Because it allows you to create a surveillance state. Surveillance is what you need for an empire. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 52:10 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Right? You need to control the population. All right. Now, the problem with Saudi Arabia and UAE is for them to build their data centers, they need to import foreign expertise. They themselves do not have the human capital to build these data centers and to run these data centers. On the other hand, Israel does. Okay? Israel has the best universities in the Middle East. It has the best IT talent in the Middle East. It has the best human capital. Therefore, it makes perfect sense. For Israel to just absorb the entire AI network of the Middle East and become the main epicenter of AI surveillance in the Middle East. Okay? Which will become the backbone of Pax Judaica. One more. So what does Pax Judaica look like? It's really the India -Middle East trade corridor. Okay? All right. So look at this map. This is the map where for India to get to Europe, it has to go through Israel. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 53:22 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay? So this is what Pax Judaica will look like. Basically, the impact trade corridor that will unite the sub -Asian continent with Europe. Okay? But not only that, but the idea of this is also to connect to Africa. Right? Because no other place is able to access Africa. Only Israel is. And not only that, but it's also able to access Ukraine and Russia. So the idea is to take Russian and Ukraine energy and food and then transport it into Africa. That's combining the world. Okay? So Israel, because of its location, can really be the epicenter of all global trade. All right. Now, let's look at Iran. So for the longest time, Iran did have lots of resources, oil resources. But the Americans put sanctions on these oil exports. This war has basically lifted all sanctions. Okay? So the Iranian economy is now able to export its oil all across the world. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 54:50 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: So this is Trini Parsi, and he is probably America's foremost expert on Iran. And he talks to a lot of people. And what he's saying is, basically, Iran now is able to produce oil, transport it across the world, and then get money for it. Okay? So the conclusion he makes is this. Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief. Before the war, Iran was cut off from the global economy. Because of this war, Iran now is becoming embedded into the global economy. It's the complete opposite of the intention of this war. And what this means is, Iran is now less incentivized to end the war. Okay? The more this war keeps on going, the more Iran benefits economically. All right. So Iran, once this war ends, becomes the episode of two major trade networks. Okay? The first is something called the North -South Transport Corridor that links Russia, okay, and Iran together. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 56:22 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay? And this will then allow Russia to access India and Asia, and allow Iran to access Europe. Okay? So this is the North -South Corridor that's controlled by Russia. But also, you have, of course, the Belt and Road Initiative. And guess what? Terrain is also at the epicenter of this trade network. Okay? So for China to access Europe, it has to go through Iran. For Europe to access China, it has to go through terrain as well. Okay? So this is what the New World will look like after the war. You'll have two regional powers, Israel and Iran. And they will have their own independent trade networks, and they will have their own access to resources. So Israel, Israel will control the resources of the Middle East, and Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And with the Strait of Hormuz, they collect a toll, which will feed the economy. They will be ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 57:35 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: helped by Russia and China, because it is in Russia and China's best interest to develop the infrastructure of Iran to facilitate global trade. Okay? But then you're like, wait a minute here. But Iran and Israel are enemies. Okay. So this is a misunderstanding. Ideologically, Iran and Israel are enemies. But I want to teach you three basic principles or rules of geopolitics. Okay? And once you understand these rules, it'll be much easier for you to understand the New World that we're going into. The first is this. The strong respect each other and prey on the weak. Okay? This makes sense, right? Why is that? Why are the strong fighting each other? Wouldn't it be easier for them to leave each other alone and go pick on the weak? If that's the number one, right? So in this situation, right, you have four, you have different countries. You have GCC, you have Israel, you have the United States, you have Iran. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 58:45 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay? So you have these four different players in this war. Right now, it's essentially Israel, GCC, and the U.S. fighting against Iran. But if Iran proves it is strong and Israel proves it's strong and GCC proves it's weak, the U.S. proves it's weak, guess what's going to happen? Israel and Iran are going to get together and say, screw these guys. Let's just work together, man. Okay? Does that make sense? Even though in the beginning, it seems as though Israel, GCC, and the U.S. are allies against Iran, ultimately, if Iran is able to prove it's strong, then Israel will abandon the GCC and the United States. And Israel will work with Iran to build a new order in the Middle East. Because that's the law of the jungle. Okay? That is what is in the best interest according to game theory for Israel. And the last thing to understand is the weak do not work well together. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 59:55 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: The weak must ally with the strong for protection. Okay? So what this means is the GCC is weak. Right? So you look at Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar. Okay? So these are the six GCC countries. They're all weak. And you would think, you know what? If they were to combine their resources and fight together, they could probably beat Israel or probably beat Iran. The problem with this is weak players don't work well together. Okay? They're weak because they're stupid. They are... And so what they do is rather than seek to work together, what they do is they seek to ally with stronger forces. Okay? So right now, they're all aligned with the United States and Israel. All right? Against Iran. But as this war progresses and the U.S. falls, then what will happen is that they must either choose Israel or Iran. And what's ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:01:10 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: going to happen is that you might have some places, Qatar and Oman, who choose, you know what? Screw this. We're going to join Iran. And you have Saudi Arabia and UAE who are like, okay, let's join Israel. Okay? But the GCC, regardless of what happens, will no longer be a major geopolitical factor in the Middle East anymore. A lot of them will be destroyed. Okay? Because of this war. All right? So according to game theory, this is what the world should look like after the war ends. But again, this is all theory. Okay? This is a class focused on intellectual speculation. It's meant to be fun. It's meant to make us more curious about the world. It's supposed to heighten our critical thinking skills. This is not meant to be prophecy. Okay? I'm not saying this must happen. I'm saying, this might happen for these reasons. And if they do happen, because of, if they do happen, then this provides us a good framework to understand our reasoning better. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:02:13 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Okay? If it doesn't work out this way, it's fine because we'll just go back and analyze what went wrong better. Okay? What's really important is not to set a judgment. What's really important is to keep our minds open and be open to the possibility of different outcomes. All right? Okay. Any questions, guys? Israel really defeated America. What will... No, no, no. I didn't say Israel will defeat America. I never said that. Okay? Well, Israel might... No, no, no. Let's be clear about language. I did not say Israel will fight America. What I said is Israel is auditioning to replace America. Israel is trying to prove to the global elite I'm strong enough to replace America when America leaves the Middle East. You understand? Yeah. Okay? Let's be clear about language. Okay? Yes? Like, what will... Like, Israel try to prove that it's stronger than America. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:03:19 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3799s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3799s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: And I'm curious, like, what the next step Israel will take if, like, it's trying to show that it's strong. Okay. All right. So, look, Israel doesn't have to do anything different. Israel is determined to win this war. That's all it has to do. Israel is determined to win this war. And the United States is not determined to win this war. The United States doesn't even know what it's doing. Okay? All right. So, what's important, okay, what's really important is to go back to our analysis of... Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Like, this is... All right. Okay. Let's look at our analysis, okay? Remember, you need an empire. You need an empire, okay? Then you have the finance, the game masters. And then you have the global economy. Okay. All right. So, the receiving players. And again, there's a really important idea to understand. All these players are interested in maintaining a status quo. ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:04:38 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: Eventually, as this war progresses, they're going to recognize that America is actually a problem. Okay? The American empire is not a good thing. It's not a benefit to us. It's a problem for us. And so, we need to replace the American empire, right? And who's the only alternative? Israel. So, we need to transition from America to Israel in order to maintain the system. Then they'll recognize that, okay, the problem though is America will not go away. Empires don't surrender power willingly. And so, we need to create a situation in which America is forced out of the Middle East. Now, Iran cannot defeat America on the battlefield. America can drag this thing on for at least 20 years. But we don't want to wait 20 years because we'll lose a lot of money in the process. And there's no point in waiting 20 years. So, we need to force America out of the Middle East. So, ## War as a Four-Layer Game: Why Pax Judaica Keeps Appearing -- 1:05:35 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASxQrJYuo&t=3935s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0aasxqrjyuo.json) Text: if we cannot defeat America, sorry, if Iran cannot defeat America on the battlefield, what we need to do is cause America to implode. We need to cause a collapse in America. And how do you do that? The economy. If I crash the stock market, if I cause oil to go way up, if I cause a discontent in America, this will cause a civil war in America. And then the American military has no choice but to retreat back into America. Okay? And then Israel will naturally take over from America. And this is something that is in the next class. Okay? The strategy for how to destroy the American empire and replace it with Israel. All right? Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So, I will see you next week. Okay? All right. Okay. So, was this interesting? Was this clear? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Today, I want to discuss how this war will end. I cannot predict when this war will end, but I want to make certain predictions about how this war will end, okay? So, to first understand how the war is going, let's look at some video clips, alright? So, this is President Donald Trump. He's talking about the war. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 0:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=25s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=25s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: We hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shot, and the other one, you know, they fought back. They could have yielded, but think of it, if we weren't around, they have tremendous, they had tremendous power. They had thousands of missiles, most of which we've terminated. They had thousands of drones. They were making drones and missiles all over the place. We've knocked out most of those factories. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 0:55 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=55s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=55s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay, so what he's saying here is, we went in expecting them, expecting to hit them, kill their leadership, and then they would surrender. We didn't expect them to fight back. We didn't expect them to close the circle of moves. We didn't expect that they would hit Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, okay? So, what he's saying is, we actually didn't have a plan going in. And we really didn't think our enemies... Our enemies would fight back, all right? So, this is Donald Trump. Now, let's look at his... ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:42 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: President's preference is always peace. There does not need to be any more death and destruction. But if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before. President Trump does not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 2:06 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay, so what is she... This is Karen Leavitt, and she's the press secretary for the White House. And what she's saying is, look, we've defeated these guys. But for whatever reason, the Iranians don't know that. That's the problem. The problem isn't us. We came in with the right strategy. We did everything right. But for whatever reason, the Iranians, being stupid, don't know they've been defeated. All right? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 2:47 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Never in history has a modern military... Iran had a modern military, a modern navy, a modern air force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive bunker. Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated, defeated from day one with overwhelming firepower. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly. And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well. We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future. The president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 3:41 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as it's hard, as it's necessary. To ensure the interests of the United States of America are achieved. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 3:49 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: So this is Secretary of War Peter Heksev. And he represents the Pentagon, the military. And his attitude is, we're winning this war. We are kicking ass. And we don't have to negotiate because we're kicking ass. And we'll continue to do so. So this is the attitude of the military. Now, the U.S. media has been reporting that Donald Trump is seeking an off -ramp. He's seeking negotiations. And what Peter Heksev says, no, let's negotiate with bombs, man. Okay. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 4:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Plan across the administration and a treasury. We unsanctioned Russian oil. We knew that there were about 130 million barrels on the water. And we created supply that is beyond the Straits of Hormuz. So we anticipated this. We knew that there could be a temporary, and I want to emphasize temporary, choke point there. And there was 130 million barrels of floating storage. In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels. So depending on how you count it, that's ten days to two weeks of supply that the Iranians had been pushing out. That would have all gone to China. In essence, we will be using the Iranian barrels. against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next ten or fourteen days. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 5:32 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay. So this is the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson. He's responding to a problem, which is the Americans didn't expect that the Iranians would close off the Straits of Hormuz. And so this is affecting oil supply. And so the global economy could be disrupted or even destroyed if this lasts too long. So Scott Besson says, Ha! We knew this was going to happen. And we have a really brilliant plan to destroy the Iranians once and for all. Our plan is this. We're going to let the Iranians sell their oil and make a lot of money. And then they will be destroyed. Yeah. So the Americans basically unsanctioned Iranian oil. And because of that, the Iranians were able to make $14 billion just like that. The total Iranian military budget for one year is $10 billion. Okay. So this is American genius at work. They knew this was going to happen. They knew the Iranians wanted to destroy the global economy. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 6:49 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: So the Americans were like, We'll just make them rich so they can't destroy the global economy. We got them now. All right. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 7:09 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=429s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And yet Iran remains a threat, a threat to trade, a threat to the Straits of Hormuz. Then I would argue that we could have years, years of, you know, above $100, closer to $150 oil. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 7:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: What happens to the global economy if that happens? How do we see it? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 7:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: We'll have global recession. If there's a cessation of war, and yet Iran... Okay. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 7:34 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: So this is Larry Fink, and he's head of a company called BlackRock, which is the largest asset manager in the world. They control trillions and trillions of dollars. And what he's saying... He's being interviewed by the BBC. What he's saying is we can't stop this war now because if we stop this war now, that means that the price of oil will be too high for many, many years. The Iranians will control the Straits of Hormuz, and therefore we must fight this war to the end. What he doesn't address is, well, if you didn't start this war in the first place, you wouldn't have this problem because the Iranians would have no pretext to close off the Straits of Hormuz. And the global economy would have been fine. But what he's saying is like, oh, don't worry about that. The problem is the war has started, and therefore we must fight to the end. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 8:41 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: So this is a drone launched by an Iranian proxy in Iraq flying over an American base. And as you can see, there's nothing stopping it. Okay? It's just flying over this American base. It's being remote controlled. It spots two American helicopters and destroys one of them. Okay? Meaning that you have all these American bases throughout the Middle East, and they are vulnerable. They cannot be protected against cheap drones. So from an American perspective, this war will either beg with the Americans or this war will be lost. Okay? But it's very hard to fight this war against a determined enemy. So what I want to do now is examine how this war will turn out. Okay? So I've said this many times, but the Americans are losing this war. And the main reason, is the problem of hubris. And so I want to examine closely what this means strategically, what this means on the battlefield. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 10:20 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: So war is fought across four dimensions. All right? There is the narrative dimension, meaning global opinion, how history will perceive this war. There is the political dimension, meaning how your allies perceive this war, how your domestic base perceive this war. There's the economic, and then there's the military. If we examine this war closely, the Iranians are fighting a very different war from the Americans. What the Americans are doing is basically, they are shifting the narrative, political sphere, and economic sphere, to fit their economic strategy. Okay? Their economic strategy is decapitation, which forces surrender. Right? So what they want to do is, they want to not destroy the Iranian leadership, destroy the Iranian economy, to force a surrender, in which case the Americans can dictate terms. That is their strategy, and that's about it. And they are forcing the narrative space, the political space, and the economic space, to conform to the military strategy. Meaning that they expect the allies, NATO, they expect the media, they expect the economy, to support their strategy. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 11:56 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: So, for example, in the political space, Donald Trump has ordered NATO to come and open up the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And also, Donald Trump refuses to announce the fact that this war is very unpopular back in America. In the economic space, what the Americans are trying to do is keep the price of oil low, so it does not disrupt the global economy. And they do that, of course, by unsectioning Russian and Iranian oil, which benefits the Russian and Iranian economies. Okay? And in the narrative space, they're basically trying to tell the media to follow the party line. Donald Trump has threatened, journalists, that if you do not report this war is going well, then I might put you in prison. All right? So, this is the American strategy, forcing the narrative, political, and economic spheres to conform to the military strategy. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 12:56 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: The Iranians have a different approach. The Iranians are using the military in order to impact the economic, political, and narrative spheres. All right? It's completely reversed. So, the military strategy is calculated in a certain way to benefit the Iranian economy. Okay? So, what I mean by that is that the military is strategically controlling certain moves so that Chinese ships can pass. Right? Because Chinese ships are the main buyer of Iranian oil. Also, if you are, if you're willing to play ball, like Japan, or Qatar, or Oman, they will also let your ships pass. Okay? So, this is being strategic. Politically, the Iranians are trying to split the Gulf states. Right? They know that Saudi Arabia and UAE are committed to regime change in Iran, but they know that Qatar, Bahrain, I'm sorry, sorry, not Bahrain, Qatar and Oman are on the other side. Okay? So, they're trying to gain as much global leverage as possible within the GCC. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 14:09 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: And the narrative is they're trying to shape global opinion and trying to make everyone believe that they are on the right side of history. And most people believe that. In fact, you have a lot of Americans who are rooting for the Iranians to win. All right? So, this is a very different, these are two very different strategies. All right. So, let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of both strategies. Okay. So, from the American perspective, the fact that you have this, have this approach of making the world conform to your military strategy basically means that you lack what we call reflection. Okay? Meaning that you're not able to sit down with your strategist and discuss how this war is going and how to make changes. But the Iranians are able to do so because the military has to conform to the economic, political, and narrative strategies. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 15:15 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: Second is flexibility. And what I mean by that is the military strategy, if it's not going well for the Americans, they lack the capacity to reflect and make changes. So, what they do is they double down. Okay? They accelerate the process of bombing in Iraq, even though it's probably not going, getting them anywhere. Also, much more importantly, the Americans will choose much more self -destructive, desperate strategies, such as sending ground troops. It is possible by this weekend, ground troops will be sent into Iran, which most military analysts believe to be either counter -effective or suicidal. Okay? The Iranians, on the other hand, can adapt their military strategy to the economic and political realities. Okay? So, for example, what they're doing now is they're charging tolls to cross the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And the third difference is the idea of resilience. So, in other words, if you make the world and America conform to your military strategy, they won't support you. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 16:34 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-four-dimensional-war-orders-the-board) Text: That means that if you're losing troops and you're losing equipment, it is very hard to replenish, resupply. Whereas, it's the complete opposite in Iran where, because they are winning popular opinion, because their economy is becoming stronger in this process, because they're winning more political allies, they can actually draw on more support from the population, and they can also recruit foreign fighters and foreign support, foreign sympathy for their cause. Okay? So, for these reasons, I believe that America is losing this war and that ultimately this war will be lost. When this will happen, we don't know because America is an empire and they can actually drag us on for at least 20 years. Alright? Okay. So, now that we've discussed why America will probably lose this war, I want to now shift our focus to discuss how the world will change because of this war. What does the end of this war look like? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 17:40 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: And to do that, what's really important is to go back to our model of how the world works. Okay? So, remember last week, we discussed the structure of the world. And at the very core is the empire because the empire provides the muscle, the military might to shape the contours of reality. Okay? And then, with the empire, you have the finance. Okay? Finance includes the city of London, Wall Street, the Bank of England National Settlements and asset managers. And they are the game masters. Okay? Okay? The empire is the muscle but the finance are the ones who actually set the game. And then, this creates the global economy which is based on the US dollar. Right? But you can actually have people believing that this is the way the game is structured because then people won't want to play the game. So, what you do is you create an additional layer of multilateral organizations. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 18:53 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: What the Americans like to call the rules -based international order including the UN and the WTO. Okay? And other organizations. But this is but this makes people believe that the way the world is structured is fair, open, and transparent. And you hide the finance and the empire behind multilateral organizations. Okay? And then, to justify this system, you have the culture, education, and media which then creates the different legal infrastructure of different nations and the values as well. Okay? So, this is how the world is organized. We also discuss how there are these organizations that are above the nation -state that are above the system in order to benefit from the system. To keep it going but also to extract rent from it. And these include intelligence, crime, and science. We also discuss how the organizing forces behind intelligence, crime, and science are transnational capital, secret societies, as well as elite families. And we discuss ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 20:23 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: how they are bound together by a concept called the occult, which we'll study later on, okay? But the idea of the occult, okay? So, this is the structure of the world. Now, once this world is created, what you need to understand is that the people in the different spheres who benefit from the system, first and foremost, their interest is maintaining that status quo, okay? So, their interest is in maintaining the status quo, all right? So, basically, they want the system to continue. The problem with the system is, at the core, it's an empire that will probably lose the war in Iran. And this creates a problem, because if the empire falls, then it's possible that the entire edifice falls, as well. So, the only solution is to replace the empire, the American empire, with another empire, okay? That is able to provide the muscle for this system. And this empire, I've argued in the past, is, of course, Israel. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 21:41 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And this is what we call Pax Judaica. Okay? So, on the surface, it seems like this war is one between the United States and Iran, but in reality, what this war really is about is a war between the United States and Israel. Where the American empire has become corrupt, incompetent, and arrogant, and so now Israel sees the opportunity to replace the American empire in the system. And it's something that eventually every aspect of the system will agree to do. Alright? So, the main outcome of this war, when it ends, is that Israel will replace America in the Middle East. Okay? Alright. So, let me first discuss why the American empire is falling. Okay? And the main reason is the idea of something called the military industrial complex. So, for most of its history, America did not have a professional army. Why? Because the founding fathers and most American citizens believed that ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 23:08 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: if there's an outstanding army, if there's a professional army, that's a direct threat to the liberty of the Americans. Okay? Because the Americans fought a war, the Revolutionary War, to get rid of the professional army that was the British. Okay? So, Americans do not like a professional army. But, in order to fight World War I and World War II, they didn't have a choice but to create an outstanding army. The problem is that after America won World War I, World War II, the apparatus stayed. And, the apparatus wanted to maintain the status quo. Meaning, they wanted access to unlimited government funds. So, this led to the Cold War. And, the Cold War was a justification for the MIC, the Military Industrial Complex, to get as much government funding as possible. And, the blue, as you can see, we can understand why they spent all this money in World War II because they were fighting a war to save America and to save the world. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 24:18 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: But, as you can see, even though it dropped drastically at the end of the war, starting with the Cold War, you have this uptick. And then, you have the Vietnam War. And then, after America won the Cold War, you saw this massive uptick. This is something called the War on Terror. So, the Military Industrial Complex is always looking to start wars in order to justify its existence. So, there's a very famous journalist named Julian Assange and he said this about America. The point is not to have successful wars. The point is not to win wars. The point is to have never -ending wars which allows the Military Industrial Complex to transfer American taxpayer money to a transnational elite. Okay? It's basically the point of wars is for the Military Industrial Complex to steal as much money as possible from America. Okay? America spends a lot of money in its military. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 25:31 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay? America accounts for 41 % of all global military spending. Who's next? China. China spends about 8.2%. Russia, which is America's main military enemy, only spends 4.1%. Okay? Meaning that Russia spends one -tenth the amount of money that America spends. And you think that, okay, well, all this means is that America is invincible. But what people don't recognize is the level of corruption within the American military. The American military is probably the most corrupt institution in the world by far. No one even comes close. Okay? September 10th, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, who's the Secretary of Defense for the Americans, he's head of the Pentagon, and this is a day before September 11th, the 9 -11 attacks, he said that, he had a press conference and he said that, look, we've looked at the Pentagon books. We're trying to do an accounting of the Pentagon military spending and we can't find ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 26:49 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: $220. There's $220 missing from the budget. It went somewhere. We don't know where, but it went somewhere. Okay? All right. All right. So, this is a, so, where does the money go? It goes to private contractors. Okay? These are all private companies that make a lot of money off of the government. Okay? So, look at, look at the Boeing company. They had in one year $20 billion dollars from the government. They, they got $20 billion dollars in contracts from the government. Okay? To do so, they had to spend $16 million in order to lobby Congress through advertisements, through political campaigns, and then they bribed, this is, this is a bribe to politicians. They, they spent $2 million. Okay? So, this is a really good business to be in. You spend $2 million to, you, you, you give them bribes to politicians, then you spend $16 million on campaigns, and then you make $20 billion. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 28:07 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: This is extremely profitable. The difference, of course, is being picked up by the American taxpayer. The Boeing company is, um, doesn't, is not just a defense contractor, but also makes civilian airplanes. And for these past few years, there's been quite a few cases of civilian airplanes falling out of the sky made by Boeing. Okay? So, for example, the Boeing 737 Max. Okay? There was a recall because there were some engineering issues with the plane. Now, there have been a couple of whistleblowers who've come out and tried to say that Boeing, uh, is a very corrupt company. And for that reason, they, they died. Okay? They just disappeared. We don't know why, but when they were about to testify against Boeing, they somehow died. All right? Um, this is a really interesting story that shows you the level of corruption in the Pentagon. There is this woman who's a contractor for the Army. And she stole ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 29:09 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: $103 million. Okay? That's a lot of money. $103 million. So, she stole it. The Army didn't know. And she kept on stealing. And no one seemed to care in the Army. But then, the IRS, um, this is the, uh, Internal Revenue Service, they recognized that she was getting all this money from somewhere. So, they investigated her and recognized, oh my God, she's stealing from the Army. So, the IRS told the Army and that's when the Army recognized, oh, we've got a problem. Okay? The fact that the Army didn't notice that she was stealing $103 million tells you actually, theft in the military is probably a very common thing. All right? So, ultimately, what this means is that this corruption in the Pentagon is not really sustainable. Okay? So, let me discuss, um, why this is a problem for America in Iran. Okay? So, right now, America is facing three major issues with this war in Iran. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 30:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: Um, the first major issue is the lack of political will. Meaning that this war is very unpopular in America. Only 40 % of the population currently support this war and as things go on and on, support will probably decrease. you need political will because you need Americans to pay for this war. Trump has asked for $200 billion to fund this war and also, it's possible that Trump will halt the national draft, which I believe will happen. Um, okay? So, if Americans don't want to support this war, it's very hard to get them to pay for this war and to go fight this war. Second problem is lack of manufacturing capacity. So, in other words, what this means is that if you lose planes, if you use too many bombs, you cannot replenish it because you don't have the factories to produce these planes and bombs quickly enough. Okay? And so, if this war drags on too long, then America will just run out of bombs. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 31:39 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And the third problem for America is unwillingness to sustain casualties. Okay? And what this means is that Americans, the American military is afraid of reporting deaths, casualties. Which is weird because in a war, soldiers die. That's just the reality of war. But the Pentagon is afraid of reporting too many deaths because of the fair political backlash. Okay? So, these are three major problems for the American military in Iran. These are the three major constraints. All right? So, the Americans can't actually resolve these issues and America will probably lose this war. In which case, this gives opportunity for Israel to prove to the world that it should be the empire. Okay? And it proves it can be the empire by showing that it does have the political will. It does have the manufacturing capacity but that's more solid. Okay? And it is much more strategic. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 32:55 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=1975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: The last thing is that it is resilient. Meaning that it is willing to accept casualties. Okay? So basically, the idea here is the global elite, they need an empire to provide the muscle. But the empire must prove that it can serve the needs of the global elite. Okay? And so, an empire must prove three things. First of all, it must prove unity. It must prove it has the resources and the capacity. Basically, the capacity. Okay? And it must prove determination. So, to understand this idea, let's just do a thought experiment. Let's just say that we're venture capitalists. We have billions of dollars, we have trillions of dollars, and we want to invest in a company. Okay? So, we're approached by two companies. We're approached by two companies. Company A, Company B. Okay? So, Company A comes to us and says that, look, I have a hundred companies and they're all profitable. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 34:17 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: I don't have a business plan, but I have lots and lots of resources and I have a lot of experience and a lot of skill and so, if I were to invest in another company, I'm sure it'll make a lot of money. Okay? All right. So, skills and experience. That is Company A. Company B is these young guys and they failed. Okay? But they're like, you know what? We're going to put our heart and soul into this enterprise. We're going to work 16 hours a day every day for as long as it takes and we won't stop. Okay? Even if this company is successful, we're going to keep on going because it's our passion and if this company fails, then we're bankrupt. We might kill ourselves. All right? So, if you are the venture capitalist, do you put your money in A or do you put your money in B? Now, most people would put their money in A because they think it is low risk. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 35:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2125s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: But if you're a smart venture capitalist, you put your money in B because it's high reward. Okay? So, Company A already has 100 companies that are successful. People in the company don't really care if this new enterprise is successful or not. Who cares? Right? I can afford to lose. In which case, it's more likely that Company A steals your money than actually invests it properly. Whereas, Company B is going to be opposite where this is their last chance. If they take your money, they're going to make sure that they grow it because if they don't grow it, then they themselves die. Okay? So, you need these things. You need unity, capacity and determination. Do you understand? And so, what the issue is doing really, especially auditioning to the company is that you need to replace America. You need to be ready to be the new empire. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 36:25 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2185s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2185s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Alright. So, let's look at what's happening. America has this MIC. And so, the MIC, military industrial complex, what they're good at doing is producing very expensive weapon systems. But, unfortunately, when you actually put these weapon systems into war, it doesn't really do anything. In fact, the GCC in Israel and the American military bases from Iranian drones and missiles, guess what, guys? Doesn't really work. Okay? In fact, as you can see from the video, the Iranians can basically fly drones anywhere in the Middle East and the Americans can't really stop them. Alright? So, this is billions of dollars, doesn't really do anything. This is called the F -35. The F -35 is the most advanced fighter jet in the whole world. It has stealth technology, meaning you can't actually lock onto it using radar. This costs $100 million each. It took 26 years to develop. So, you would think, wow, it took 26 years, so, this must be really, really good. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 37:36 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: No, it took 26 years because the MIC is really corrupt and they want to steal as much money as possible. Okay? And in this war, the Iranians have already shut down at least one of these jets. Okay? This is not supposed to happen. You're not supposed to be able to shoot these things down, but the Iranians have shut it down using very low radar. Again, these things, they're not designed to win wars, they're designed to steal as much money as possible from the American taxpayer. Okay? And the last example is the Gerald Ford. This ship cost $13 billion. It cost $13 billion. The annual defense budget for the Iranians is $10 billion. It goes into the war theater and three weeks afterwards it has to run away. Okay? And in fact, the Americans say, oh, the Gerald Ford, this is the most advanced supercarrier in the world, it's probably going to be down for repairs the next two years. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 38:38 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And there's argument as to what happened. Okay? There are three different possibilities. The first possibility is that there was an accident in the launch room and there's a fire and this fire spread throughout the carrier. Okay? Which means that actually the carrier is not very resilient. Okay? So that's one possibility. And that's what the official story is. But there are also others who say the Iranians hit the ship with a missile. And so the Gerald Ford can't protect itself from Iranian missiles so it ran away. Okay? The third possibility, the third explanation is the Pentagon recognized that there are certain limitations of the Gerald Ford in actual combat operations. Its radar, its guidance system are all very limited. So the Pentagon withdrew the Gerald Ford because he was absolutely useless in war. All right? Whichever story is true, it doesn't paint a good picture of the American military. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 39:43 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: $13 billion. And this is nothing. Okay? It's just a white elephant. The Iranians, and also this is Iwo Jima. And this came in World War II in the Pacific Theater when the Americans were fighting the Japanese. And this is the height of American military glory. Okay? It took about 6,000, the Americans lost 6,000 Marines in taking this island. And that's a sacrifice for the American military. You need in order to win wars. You're gonna lose a lot of soldiers. And Americans are proud that they were willing to make the sacrifice necessary to win the war. The problem is Americans are no longer willing to sustain casualties. Okay? So the Americans sent about 5,000, around 5,000 Marines to Iran hoping that 5,000 Marines will be enough to win And this shows you the Americans have no strategy to win this war and they want they don't wanna wanna make the necessary sacrifices to win this war. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 40:56 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: They wanna win this war as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Okay? The Israelis are different. Okay? This is Gaza. And we all know that what Gaza did was terrible. But again if you are auditioning to an empire Gaza is proof of concept. Okay? Meaning it's showing the global elite look we're willing to do what it takes to win this war and defend the empire. Okay? So this was a tremendous tragedy and this and that's all war crimes. Okay? And the entire world is aghast. But if you look at Israeli public opinion 82 % support expelling all Palestinians from Gaza. Okay? 66 % believe Amalek exists today. Amalek exists like Israel has this great enemy that it must defeat. Alright? So 66 % of Israelis believe that this war against Gaza is a war for the very existence of Israel. Okay? This is unity. This is determination. The Americans don't have this. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 42:06 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Most Americans oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza. But what Israel but Israel themselves support what's going on. Okay? So there's unity. Alright? Alright. So in 2024 there's the famous Lebanon pager attack. Okay? Meaning that the Israelis were able to implant bombs into pagers that went to Hezbollah members. And then it blew up. Okay? And maybe from a military perspective it didn't accomplish that much. From a psychological perspective it accomplished a lot. Okay? It scared the living hell out of Hezbollah. It made them paranoid. And it also made the world respect Israel more. And Israel spent 275 million dollars to conduct this operation that took decades to implement. Okay? And you're like okay why is Israel telling us this? Because again Israel is auditioning to be the new empire. It's telling the global elite look not only will we fight this war for you not only will we be your muscle but we'll do it cheaply man. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 43:22 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Not billions of dollars millions of dollars. Um this is ISIS. ISIS Islamic State. Okay? And this is considered a terrorist organization. These Sunni extremists who go around and beheading people. Alright? Now this is from the New York Times and the yellow tells you areas in which they operate. And as you can see it's really across the Middle East. And the red are um incidents of attacks directed by ISIS. Okay? Now something that's really funny about all this is ISIS attacks everywhere in the Middle East except for one country and that country is Israel. Okay? Really funny how you have these Muslim extremists going around committing all sorts of atrocities everywhere in the Middle East except Israel. And so that's why a lot of people believe that Islamic State is actually a creation of Mossad. But again Israel is happy for the world to know this because again Israel is auditioning to be the new empire. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 44:40 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2680s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And what Israel is saying is we don't have to use the American strategy of just bombing everyone to death. Okay? That's expensive that's brutal and it's not very strategic. We can use Mossad to infiltrate groups and use these groups against the comrades their neighbors. Is that much more efficient? Is that much more effective? Okay? So what Israel is saying is we are much better at controlling the Middle East than the Americans. our strategies. Okay? This is a story of a Mossad agent who was disguised as an ISIS preacher. Okay? And this happens a lot. There are lots of stories where you have these ISIS commanders or agents and when you arrest them you discover okay actually they're actually Mossad. Okay? So ISIS is basically a Mossad operation. Alright. So the main story here is okay if you look at history Israel and America is actually pretty simple. Israel is the pit bull for America. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 45:55 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: The problem of an empire as it grows old is it doesn't want to do bad things. Okay? It wants to feel good about itself. Therefore it subcontracts the violence the murder the genocide to different people. Okay? To mercenaries. The Israelis in the Middle East. And this is a pattern throughout human history. So the Romans started out as mercenaries for the Tristians in Italy. The Aztecs started out as mercenaries for the Culhacan in Mexico. The Greeks started out as mercenaries for the Persians. Okay? The Mongols started out as mercenaries for the Chinese. The Akkadians started out as mercenaries for the Sumerians. The Moloch started out as mercenaries for the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt. In every instance what happened is the mercenaries eventually got to a point where we are the ones killing ourselves for this empire. The empire is corrupt decadent and weak. Why don't we just take it over? And they did. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 47:02 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay? We're seeing a similar situation play out today in the Middle East where Israel was created by the British and Americans to be their pit bull to be their aircraft carrier in the Middle East to create as much instability as possible so that the Americans and the British could control their oil supply in the Middle East. And this has gone on for decades and now the Israelis are like we're the ones doing all the work we're the ones making all the sacrifices we're the ones that are getting all the hate in this world so why should we be the empire now? America is useless. Okay? Alright? There's a pattern throughout human history and so we're going to look at what this means. Okay? So, Israel has something called the greater Israel project and this is what extremists in Israel believe. They believe that God in the Bible promised the entire Middle East to the Jewish people. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 48:14 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay? Extending from the Nile in Egypt all the way to the Euphrates in Iraq. Okay? And it also encompasses Saudi Arabia Jordan Lebanon Syria and parts of Turkey as well. Okay? Now, something really funny about this map is this Iran Persia is not part of the greater Israel project. So then you ask yourself wait a minute here if Iran is actually not part of the greater Israel project then why is Israel going to war with Iran? Well, the reason why is if they want all this territory their main enemy is not Syria that's been destroyed it's not Iraq that's been destroyed it's not Saudi Arabia it's too weak not Okay? In the greater Israel project the it's the Americans that control the land of greater Israel the Middle East. These are American bases. So, in other words you use this war against Iran to destroy the American Empire. How? By forcing the American Empire to go and invade Iran. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 49:44 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=2984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And then they'll be forced to retreat from the Middle East. Okay? And so eventually America will be defeated America will be forced to retreat from the Middle East. And I will leave two regional powers Iran and Israel. And again because of the greater Israel project the Israelis have no problem with this. Persia is again not part of the greater Israel project. The Israelis don't really care if Iran is still standing. They want Iran to be as weakened as possible. Okay? But they really don't need to defeat Iran to achieve the political prophecy. But they do need to defeat the Americans. Alright? The Americans are in the way. Alright. Okay. So what does the greater Israel project mean? Well it means control of the world's oil. Basically. 20 % of the world's oil. So these are the gas fields. The yellow are the gas fields of the Middle East. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 50:49 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: Alright? And the blue are the trade routes. So you can see how Israel is at the very center of all this wealth. Right? They have the logistics. They have the technology. It makes sense for them to take control of all these resources and then start shipping these resources to Europe as well as to East Asia. China. South Korea. And Japan. Okay? So that's what the Pax Judaica will look like. It will be a trade network controlling all the resources of the Middle East to the rest of the world. Alright? Then you have data centers. Okay? So Israel has the most data centers in the Middle East. And then Saudi Arabia has 36. UAE has 34. Okay? So these three places are competing against each other for AI dominance. Why is AI important? Because it allows you to create a surveillance Alright? Now the problem with Saudi Arabia and UAE is for them to build their data centers they need to import foreign expertise. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 52:11 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: They themselves do not have the human capital to build these data centers and to run these data centers. On the other hand Israel does. Okay? Israel has the best universities in the Middle East. It has the best IT talent in the Middle East. It has the best human capital. Therefore it makes perfect sense for Israel to just absorb the entire AI network of the Middle East and become the main epicenter of AI surveillance in the Middle East. Okay? Which will become the backbone of Pax Judaica. One more. So what does Pax Judaica look like? It's really the India Middle East Trade Corridor. Okay? Alright? So look at this map where for India to get to Europe it has to go through Israel. Okay? So this is what Pax Judaica will look like. Basically a BIMAC Trade Corridor that will unite the sub -Asian continent with Europe. Okay? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 53:24 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3204s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: But not only that but the idea of this is also to connect to Africa. Right? Because no other place is able to access Africa. Only Israel is. And not only that but it's also able to access Ukraine and Russia. So the idea is to take Russia and Ukraine energy and food and then transport it into Africa. That's combining the world. Okay? So Israel because of its location can really be the epicenter of all global trade. Alright. Now let's look at Iran. So for the longest time Iran did have lots of resources. Oil resources. But the Americans put sanctions on these oil exports. This war has basically lifted all sanctions. Okay? So the Iranian economy is now able to export its oil all across the world. So this is Trudy Parsi and he is probably America's foremost expert on Iran. And he talks to a lot of people. is basically Iran now is able to produce oil transported across the world and then get money for it. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 55:01 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay? So what the conclusion he makes is this. Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief. Before the war Iran was cut off from the global economy. Because of this war Iran now is becoming embedded into the global economy. It's the complete opposite of the intention of this war. And what this means is Iran is now less incentivized to end the war. Okay? The more this war keeps on going the more Iran benefits economically. Alright. So Iran once this war ends becomes the epicenter of two major trade networks. Okay? The first is what we call the north -south transport corridor that links Russia okay and Iran together. Okay? And this will then allow Iran to access Europe. Okay? So this is the north -south corridor that's controlled by Russia. But also you have of course the Belt and Road Initiative. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 56:28 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And guess what? Terrain is also at the epicenter of this trade network. Okay? So for China to access Europe it has to go through Iran. For Europe to access China it has to go through terrain as well. Okay? So this is what the new world will look like after the war. You'll have two regional powers Israel and Iran. And they will have their own independent trade networks and they will have their own access to resources. So Israel will control the resources of the Middle East and Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? And with the Strait of Hormuz they collect a toll which will feed the economy. They will be helped by Russia and China because it is in Russia and China's best interest to develop the infrastructure of Iran to facilitate global trade. Okay? But then you're like wait a minute here but Iran and Israel are enemies. Okay. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 57:39 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: So this is a misunderstanding. Ideologically Iran and Israel are enemies. But I want to teach you three basic principles or rules of geopolitics. Okay? And once you understand these rules it'll be much easier for you to understand the new world that we're going into. The first is this. The strong respect each other and prey on the weak. Okay? This makes sense right? Why are the strong fighting each other? Wouldn't it be easier for them to like leave each other alone and go pick on the weak? It benefits everyone right? So in this situation right? You have four you have different countries. You have GCC you have Israel you have the United States you have Iran. Okay? So you have these four different players in this war. Right now it's essentially Israel GCC and US fighting against Iran. But if Iran proves it is strong and Israel proves it's strong and GCC proves it's weak the US proves it's weak guess what's going to happen? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 58:58 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Israel and Iran are going to get together and say screw these guys. Let's just work together man. Okay? Does that make sense? Even though in the beginning it seems as though Israel GCC and US are allies against Iran ultimately if Iran is able to prove it's strong then Israel will ban the GCC and the United States. And Israel will work with Iran to build a new order in the Middle East. Because that's the law of the jungle. Okay? That is what is in the best interest according to game theory for Israel. And the last thing to understand is the weak do not work well together the weak must ally with the strong for protection. Okay? So what this means is the GCC is weak. Alright? So you look at Saudi Arabia UAE um Iran Oman Kuwait Qatar Okay? So these are the six GCC countries. They're all weak. And you would think you know what? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:00:11 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: If they were to combine their resources and fight together they could probably beat Israel or probably beat Iran. The problem with this is weak players don't work well together. Okay? They're weak because they're stupid. They are and so what they do is rather than seek to work together what they do is they seek to ally with stronger forces. Okay? So right now they're they're all aligned with the United States and Israel. Alright? Against Iran. But as this war progresses and the U.S. falls then what will happen is that they must either choose Israel or Iran. And what's going to happen is that you might have some places Qatar and Oman who choose you know what? Screw this. We're going to join Iran. And you have Saudi Arabia and UAE who are like okay let's join Israel. Okay? But the GCC regardless of what happens will no longer be a major global factor in the Middle East anymore. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:01:16 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-replacement-empire-audition) Text: A lot of them will be destroyed because of this war. Alright? So according to game theory this is what the world should look like after the war ends. But again this is all theory. Okay? This is a class focused on intellectual speculation. It's meant to be fun. It's meant to to make us more curious about the world. It's supposed to heighten our critical thinking skills. This is not meant to be prophecy. Okay? I'm not saying this must happen. I'm saying this might happen for these reasons. And if they do happen because of if they do happen then this provides us a good framework to understand our reasoning better. Okay? If it doesn't work out this way it's fine because we'll just go back and analyze what went wrong better. Okay? What's really important is not to set a judgment. What's really important is to keep our minds open and be open to the possibility of different outcomes. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:02:17 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Alright? Okay. Any questions guys? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:02:26 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3746s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Um, if Israel really like defeated America what will ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:02:32 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: No, no, no. I didn't say Israel will defeat America. I never said that. Okay? Well Israel might No, no, no. Let's be clear about language. I did not say Israel will fight America. What I said is Israel is auditioning to replace America. Israel is trying to prove to the global elite I'm strong enough to replace America when America leaves the Middle East. You understand? Yeah. Okay? Let's be clear about language. Okay? Yes? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:02:59 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3779s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Like, um, what will like Israel try to prove that it's stronger than America and I'm curious like what the next step Israel will take if like it's trying to show that it's strong. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:03:16 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: Okay. Alright. So look Israel doesn't have to do anything different. Israel is determined to win this war. That's all it has to do. Israel is determined to win this war and the United States is not determined to win this war. The United States doesn't even know what it's doing. Okay? Alright. So what's important okay what's really important is to go back to our analysis of I'm sorry yeah yeah like this is alright okay but our analysis okay remember you need an empire you need an empire okay and you have the finance the game masters and then you have the global economy. Okay. Alright. So the receiving players and again there's a really important idea to understand all these players are interested in maintaining a status quo. Eventually as this war progresses they're going to recognize that America is actually a problem. It's not a good thing. It's not a benefit to us. It's a problem for us. ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:04:36 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: And so we need to replace the American Empire. Right? And who's the only alternative? Israel. So we need to transition from America to Israel in order to maintain the system. Then they'll recognize that okay the problem though is America will not go away. Empires don't surrender power willingly. And so we need to create a situation in which America is forced out of the Middle East. Now Iran cannot defeat America on the battlefield. America can drag this thing on for at least 20 years. We don't want to wait 20 years because we'll lose a lot of money in the process. And there's no point in waiting 20 years. So we need to force America out of the Middle East. So if we cannot defeat America sorry if Iran cannot defeat America on the battlefield what we need to do is cause America to implode. We need to cause a collapse in America. And how do you do that? ## Pax Judaica Rising -- 1:05:35 - Source title: Game Theory #16: Pax Judaica Rising (Re-Upload) - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk4vcHtawSo&t=3935s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mk4vchtawso@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mk4vchtawso.json) Text: The economy. If I crash the stock market if I cause oil to go way up if I cause a discontent in America this will cause a civil war in America and then the American military has no choice but to retreat back into America. Okay? And then Israel will naturally take over from America. And this is something we'll discuss next class. How to destroy the American empire and replace it with Israel. Alright? Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions guys? Okay great. So I will see you next week. Okay? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 0:06 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=6s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=6s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: We conclude Virgil's the Iliad today and as we've discussed Virgil is very much the anti Homer and so what the Iliad is It's really a response to the Iliad and the Odyssey remember Homer believes that love is the unifying force of the universe There's a center is what gives you life. It's what gives you purpose and hope for Virgil What matters is the idea of piety or? obedience to the gods and to your father and As we discussed Virgil sets up a very stark contrast between love and piety Where they are competing forces? you cannot love and be pious at the same time and Piety is ultimately the man the main Centralizing force of the universe if you are pious if you obey the gods then the world will be right Because the gods have a divine plan for the world and in the case of the Iliad It is the founding of the Empire ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 1:38 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: of Rome, which is Ineos's mission and purpose and So our role our responsibility our duty in life is just to follow this path of the gods And then the world will be perfect Okay, um This will the the Iliad will create the Roman Empire which will then become the Catholic Church And the Catholic Church will rule for over a thousand years. Okay, the Millennium and during this thousand years. It is a time of Conformity of stagnation and it is because in this time What is often referred to as a dark ages? Virgil becomes the god of the Catholic Church the central organizing force. Why because every children, sorry every child of the elite memorizes the in the app and so every child perceives the world for the lens of the in the app and so what happened is to destroy this Empire a Man will emerge to liberate the human imagination and this name of ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 3:04 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: course is Dante Okay, and thought they will destroy the Roman Empire and the Catholic Church with his Masterpiece the divine comedy we will spend the rest of the semester Reading the divine comedy. It's not something you can read by yourself. There's actually no point You know if I just give it to you and say go read it It will make no sense to you We have to go through line by line word by word for you to understand the right comedy because not only is it poetry but philosophy and What poets will tell you is that a poem is this truth? told with as few beautiful words as possible So it could just be a few lines But it could take you a lifetime to fully understand the true meaning of these Lines and that is what the divine comedy is. It's a very It's an epic poem, but each paragraph each sent each Each line is a truth an eternal truth unto itself. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 4:05 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, so we read the my comedy line by line And we'll try to really understand it but again, the point of this class is not to Tell you what the book great books are the entire point of the class is to get you excited about Entering their journey. That's great books. Don't that will take you a tired lifetime, okay it would take you an hour lifetime to appreciate the genius of these great books and And this class is meant to be a starting point. So do not think at the end of this class, oh, I've read Homer, I've read Virgil, I've read Dante, so I know the great books. No, okay? This is just the beginning. All right, so where we are in the story of the Aeneid is that Aeneas gets shipwrecked and he becomes a guest of Dido, the queen of Carthage. And the two fall in love. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 5:12 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Dido falls in love with the fact that Aeneas is not just a great warrior and very handsome, but also because he's a great storyteller. He tells her the story of the fall of Troy. And the two fall in love and Dido has this burning passion for Aeneas. And the gods, basically Juno wants to thwart the possibility of the rise of the Roman Empire. And so she conspires to have Dido and Aeneas consummate their passion for each other and then they get married. But then Jove, the King of the gods, finds out about this and says, no, no, no, this is not part of the plan. Aeneas gets married. not supposed to fall in love with Ditto, stay in Carthage, and build the Carthaginian Empire. He's supposed to go to Rome. So he sends Mercury, the messenger of the gods, down to Aeneas and tells him, hey man, what are you doing? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 6:22 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: This is not your duty. Do your duty. So this is where we are in the story. So let us read. Ivory, can you read please? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 6:38 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Mercury lashes out at once. You, so now you lay foundation stones for the soaring walls of Carthage, building her gorgeous city, doting on your wife, blind to your own realm, oblivious to your fate. The king of the gods, whose power you have, the king of the gods, whose power sways earth and sky. He is the one who sends me down from brilliant Olympus, bearing commands for you through the racing winds. What are you plotting now? Wasting time in Libya. What hope misleads you so? If such a glorious destiny cannot fire your spirit, if you will not shoulder the task for your own fame, at least remember Ascanius rising into his prime. The hopes you lodge in Aeneas, your only heir. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 7:22 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, all right. So Ascanius, of course, is... Aeneas' father, and Aeneas is the son, okay, who will inherit the legacy. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 7:32 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: You owe him Italy's realm, the land of Rome. There's order still on his lips, the god vanished from sight into empty air. Then Aeneas was truly overwhelmed by the vision, stunned, his hackles bristle with fear, his voice chokes in his throat. He yearns to be gone, to desert this land he loves, thunderstruck by the warnings Jupiter's commands. But what can he do? What can he dare say now to the queen in all her fury and win her over? Where to begin? What opening? Thoughts racing, here, there, probing his options, turning to this plan, that plan, torn in two until, at his wit's end, this answer seems the best. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 8:15 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, so again, Virgil is the anti -Homer. And what I mean by that is that if Homer were Aeneas, then what Homer would emphasize is how emotionally conflicted Aeneas is, because he loves Dido. He does not want to go. For Homer, love is above the gods. And what a human is, is someone who aspires to love. And when we read Divine Comedy, what we will discover is, the reason why is because God is love. Okay. And there's an aspect of God in us, a candle, that strives to return to the light. And so we seek love. And so for Homer, given a choice between going to Rome and finding a great empire or staying in Carthage and being with Dido, obviously you choose Dido, because that is the path to God. Right? And that's what happened in the Odyssey, where Odysseus had an opportunity to stay with Calypso. And live forever. But he chooses to return to Penelope. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 9:33 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And when he returns to Penelope, Penelope asks him, will you ever leave me again? And he says, never again will I leave you, because this is my home. Love is where my heart is. Okay? So this is the... But what the conflict is in Aeneas is, okay, I want to get the hell out of here. I'm risen with fear because... What I fear most is the anger of the gods. What I must do is be loyal to the gods and heed their command. So screw love. I don't need this. But there's a problem, which is how do I actually tell Dido? All right? That's a conflict. Not should I leave Dido, but like how do I get out of here without her bitching at me? All right? And so what does he decide to do? He decides, I won't tell her. Yeah. That's it. I'll pretend this didn't happen. And then at night, I will just sneak away. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 10:32 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And then, well, who cares what happens afterwards? All right? So this is... So the thing to notice is this is not human. Okay? There is nothing human about Aeneas. What he is, is he's like a walking phallus, almost. He's like James Bond, man. You know? He goes around. He goes around. Does his mission. Sleeps with a lot of girls, and then runs off. All right? So let us continue. Avery. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 11:12 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: He summons Netheus, Sir Maestas, staunch Cerestas gives them mortars. Fit out the fleet, but not a word, mushered accrues on shore, all tackle set to sail. But the cause for our new course you keep it secret. Get he himself since Dido... It's intense I have an institution up here. means the world to him knows nothing never dreaming such a powerful love could be uprooted he will try to approach her find a moment to break the news gently a way to soften the blow that he must leave all shipmates snap to command glad to do his orders true but queen who can delude a lover soon caught wind of a plot of foot the first ascends the trojans are on the move she fears everything now even with all secure rumor vicious as ever brings her word already distraught ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 12:02 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: the trojans sorry sorry um you know what uh sorry ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 12:20 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: are rigging out their galleys gearing to set sail she rages in and she rages in helpless frenzy blazing through the entire city raving like some may may not driven wild when the women shake the sacred emblem when the cyclic orgy shouts of bacchus fire her on and ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 12:44 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: sitharon echoes round with maddened midnight cries okay all right so certain things to notice okay um bacchus is the god of creativity of um god of creativity for the greeks so there's actually two gods of creativity in the greek world there's apollo and there's dionysius bacchus okay apollo is the god of logical creativity where you sit down calmly and then you write down your thoughts okay that's apollo and you have bacchus who's the god of emotional rapturous creativity where you get drunk you have a lot of sex and then you express yourself okay and for the greeks these are two aspects of creativity that you both need in order to fully achieve your your creativity these human potential. Yes, you need to be engaged in meditation, in rational analysis, but you also need to fully explore the possibilities of your emotions, to just let go, to be crazy, to be frenzied, okay? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 13:53 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And what Virgil is saying is that we must, the backest aspect is actually the worst type of emotion, because it leads you into madness, okay? All right, so, um, can we have a reading, Ivory? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 14:19 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: I laughed she assails Aeneas before he said a word. So, you traitor, you really believed you'd keep this a secret, this great outrage. Steal away in silence from my shores. Can nothing hold you back? Not our love, not the pledge when sealed with our right hands. Not even the thought of ditto doomed to a cruel death. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 14:39 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=879s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, stop, okay, all right. So, this line, not the pledge when sealed with our right hands, this is an allusion, of course, to, um, right here, okay? This is an allusion, of course, to the Odyssey, where Odysseus and Penelope meet again for the first time in 20 years. And Penelope basically says to Odysseus, convince me that you've actually... know my husband. And Odysseus says, well, because of this, uh, ornament that Penelope gave to Odysseus, right? And that ornament, of course, is the pledge sealed with their love for each other. And this pledge, this memory, this bond is what carries them for eternity. So that even though they are a great distance from each other, their hearts are still conjoined together. And so what ditto says is, does this pledge mean nothing to you, Aeneas? And Aeneas, of course, is like, it's a word, it's nothing, all right? What matters is your oath to the gods. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 15:53 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=953s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=953s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: What matters is your loyalty to the gods. All right, all right, keep going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 16:00 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Why labor to rigor fleet when the winter's raw, to risk the deep wind north winds closing in? You crawl, heartless. Even if you were not pursuing alien fields and unknown homes, even if ancient Troy were still standing, still, who'd sail for Troy across such heaving seas? You're running away from me? Oh, I pray you by these tears, by the faith in your right hand. What else have I left myself in all my pain? By our wedding vows, the marriage we began, if I deserve some decency from you now, if anything mine has ever won your heart, pity a great house about to fall, I pray you. If prayers have any place, reject this scheme of yours. Thanks to you, the African tribes, Nubian warlords hate me. Even my own tyrants rise against me. Thanks to you, my sense of honor is gone, my one and only pathway to the stars, the renown I once held dear. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 16:56 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: In whose hands, my guest, do you leave me here to meet my death? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 17:00 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: All right, okay, so two things to remember, okay? The first thing is that in the Odyssey, the journey where it ends, the destination, is towards home, to be with Penelope again, to be a family again, okay? And that is the end of this epic journey. But in the India, it's the reverse, where you start off with a relationship, with love, and then you have to abandon love in order to go on this epic journey to found the empire of Rome, okay? So you see how it's inverse now. In the Odyssey, the entire purpose of your life is to return home and to be in love, to find love, okay? But in the Imian, love is what you have to abandon in order to fully fulfill your destiny, okay? That's number one. Number two is this, what, um, um, Dido was saying is, thanks to you I've lost everything, okay? Okay? So love, my love for you, means I have to abandon my pride, my reputation, my own people. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 18:17 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1097s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1097s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Without love, sorry, because of my love for you, I become nothing. Okay? And this inverses, the inversion, of what happened in the Odyssey where, because Odysseus sought glory and fame in war, he became traumatized with PTSD. He saw the horrors of war where innocent people, innocent families were destroyed because of war, and that traumatized him. And what allowed him to resurrect himself, what allowed him to escape his trauma and rebuild his sense of identity is going home and finding love again. And this love is able to resurrect his worldview and give him the courage and the power to fight on, okay? So this is the opposite message of the Odyssey, okay? All right, so now, okay, so Ditto is saying to Aeneas, you abandoned me, you tricked me, I fell in love with you, and now you're abandoning me. And this is Aeneas' response. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 19:32 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And the human thing to do would be, to show pity, right? And say to Ditto, Ditto, I'm really sorry for what happened, but let's go together. Or maybe, Ditto, I'll come back for you, okay? Instead, he says the worst thing possible, all right? Can you read it? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 19:57 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Guest, that's all that remains of husband now. But why do I linger on, until my brother Pygmalion batters down my walls, or Erebus drags me off? His slave? If only you'd left a baby in my arms, our child, before you deserted me. Some little Aeneas playing about our halls, whose features, at least, would bring you back to me, in spite of all, I would not feel so totally devastated, so destroyed. The queen stopped, but he, warned by Jupiter now, his gaze held steady, fought to master the torment in his heart. At last, he ventured - ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 20:31 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: The torment in his heart is not sadness, but anger, okay? Keep on going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 20:37 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: At last, he ventured a few words. I, you could have done me so many kindnesses, and you could count them all. I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen, never regret my memories of Ditto, not while I can recall myself and draw the breath of life. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 20:52 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, keep on going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 20:54 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: I'll state my case in a few words. I never dreamed I'd keep my flight a secret. Don't imagine that, nor did I once extend a bridegroom's torch, or enter into a marriage pact with you. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 21:06 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1266s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1266s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, so what he's saying is, I'm not a bridegroom. I, we didn't, we did not have a marriage pact, okay? We're not married. This is not true. They consummate their relationship, and everyone witnesses it, so they are married. But he's saying, we're not really married. Keep on going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 21:23 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: If the face had let me free to live my life, to arrange my own affairs of my own free will, Troy is the city, first of all, that I'd safeguard, Troy and all that's left of my people whom I cherish. The grand palace of Priam would stand once more, with my own hands, I would fortify a second Troy, to house my Trojans in defeat. But not now. Grignion Apollo's Oracle says that I must seize on Italy's noble land. His listening lots say, Italy. There lies my love, there lies my homeland now. If you, a Phoenician, fix your eyes on Carthage, a Libyan stronghold, tell me, why do you grudge the Trojans their new homes on Italian soil? What is the crime, if we seek far -off kingdoms too? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 22:09 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1329s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1329s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: All right, so what he's saying is this. Ditto. If it were up to me, I wouldn't say it would be, I wouldn't say it would be either, okay? If it were up to me, I would be back in Troy, dying and fighting and dying for what I truly love, which is the city of Troy. Now that I've lost Troy, I must build an empire. You have your own empire, Carthage. Why stop me from, build my own empire in Italy? Okay, so what matters is not love, what matters is power. That's why we live, that's why we exist, to seek more power. Love gets in the way, and therefore love must be discarded. You, Ditto, I do love you, but you're in my way. Therefore, get out of my way, all right? All right, so now Ditto is distraught. She fell in love with Aeneas. She fell in love with Aeneas. And broke her vow to her former husband, Sychaeus. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 23:21 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And now she knows her people don't respect her anymore. And she knows that the neighboring warlords have contempt for her. And they might even attack her, because previously she rebuffed their advances, so they feel insulted. But at the same time, she's still desperate in love with Aeneas. And she knows he hates her, but she still loves him. She can't stop him from leaving for Italy. And so she decides eventually that her only solution is suicide. But she has a sister, Anna, who will keep watch over her. Okay, so she develops a very elaborate ploy to kill herself, right? Can you read, Ivory? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 24:07 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And now, what shall I do? Make a mockery of myself. Go back to my old suitors. Tempt them to try again. Beg the Numidian's, grovel, plead for a husband though time and again I score into what they're like would then trill the Trojan ships bend to the Trojans every last demand so pleased are they with all the help the relief I lend them once and memory of my service past stands firm in grateful minds and even if I were willing would the Trojans allow me to bore their proud ships a woman they hate poor lossful can't you sense it grasp it yet the treachery of Lamedon spread breathe what now do I take flight alone consorting with crews of Trojan oarsmen in their triumph or follow them out with all my troops of sirens throwing the decks yes hard as it was to uproot them once from tire how can I force them back to ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 25:03 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: see once more command them to spread their sails to the winds no no die you deserve it and your pain with the sword you my sister you were the first one over by my tears to pile these sorrows on my shoulders mad as I was to throw me into my enemy's arms if only I'd been free to live my life untested in marriage free of guilt as some wild beasts untouched by pangs like these I broke the faith I soar to the ashes of Zacchaeus ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 25:33 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: okay so again the idea here is for Homer love is what gives you strength love is what allows you to resurrect yourself okay so the metaphor is love is the the whole of Odysseus right where this bow or this has I've touched for 20 years but the moment he touches it it gives him renewed string and he's able to assemble it very quickly and then shoot the target okay that's the power of love but here in the Iniac love is simply opposite of love. where by falling in love, you disintegrate as a person. So when we first meet Ditto, she's a proud queen. And now, she is a complete mess. She is emotionally falling apart. She's being driven into madness. She's like, should I go and beg the Trojans to let me on their ship and be a slave girl, okay? So it is a complete fall of a queen. Okay, from a queen to essentially to a slave girl. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 26:46 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: She's seriously considering being a slave girl if it just means being near Aeneas. And ultimately, she decides, no, my only option is to die, okay? All right. So she is contemplating killing herself. And the gods know this, and so what they do is, they tell Aeneas, in a dream, get out of here, because we don't want you seeing Ditto kill herself, okay? Can you read? I'll read. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 27:26 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Such terrible grief kept breaking from her heart as Aeneas slept in peace on his ship's high stern. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 27:31 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, so Aeneas slept in peace, meaning he doesn't care. Do you understand? He was never in love with her. She was just a plaything. Keep on going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 27:41 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Bent on departing now, all tackles set to sail. And now in his dreams, it came again, the god, his phantom, the same features shining clear. Like mercury head to foot, the voice, the glow, the golden hair, the bloom of youth on his limbs, and his voice rang out with warnings once again. Son of the goddess, how can you sleep so soundly in such a crisis? Can't you see the dangers closing around you now? Madman, can't you hear the west wind ruffling to speed you on? That woman spawns her plots, mulling over some desperate outrage in her heart, lashing her surging range. She's bent on death. Why not flee headlong? Flee headlong while you can. You'll soon see the waves, a chaos of ships, lethal torches flaring, the whole coast ablaze, if now a new dawn breaks and finds you still malingering on these shores. Up with you now. Enough delay. Woman's a thing that's always changing, shifting like the wind. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 28:40 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: With that, he vanished into the black night. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 28:42 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Alright, so Aeneas is running away. Okay? And Dido has resolved to kill herself. And this is her speech right before she kills herself. Okay? Can you read it out for me? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 29:01 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: You, sun, whose fires scan all works of the earth. And you, Juno, the witness, midwife to my agonies. He came greeted by nightly shrieks at city crossroads. And you, you avenging furies and gods of dying Dido. Hear me. Turn your power my way. Attend my sorrows. I deserve your mercy. Hear my prayers. If that curse of the earth must reach his haven, labor on to landfall. If Joes and the Fates command and the boundary stone is fixed, still, let him be plagued in war by a nation proud in arms, torn from his borders, wrenched from Aeneas' embrace. Let him grovel for help and watch his people die a shameful death. And then, once he has bowed down to an unjust peace, may he never enjoy his realm and the light he yearns for. Never. Let him die before his day, unburied on some desolate beach. That is my prayer, my final cry. I pour it out with my own lifeblood. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 30:01 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1801s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And you, my Tyrians, harry with hatred all his line, his race to come. Make that offering to my ashes. Send it down below. No love between our peoples. Ever. No Pax Apis. Come rising up from my bones, you avengers still unknown, to stalk those Trojan settlers, hunt with fire and iron. Now or in time to come, whenever the power is yours. Shore clash with shore, sea against sea, and sword against sword. This is my curse. War between all our peoples, all their children, endless war. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 30:34 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay, endless war. Alright, so the Aeneid is first and foremost political propaganda. Alright? And so, Rome's epic war is with Carthage. Rome and Carthage fought for about a hundred years for control of the Mediterranean. Ultimately, Rome will triumph over Carthage. And they will destroy Carthage as a civilization. They will burn Carthage down. And today we have no memory of Carthage because so complete was the destruction. And Virgil is trying to explain to us why this had to happen. And it had to happen because Dido put a curse on Rome and forced her people to go to war with Rome. So it's not that Rome was vicious and savage in destroying Carthage. It was like the Carthaginians had a curse. They had a mission to avenge Dido. Okay? So let me explain to you how this propaganda works. In Carthage's understanding of Dido, she's the founder. She's the queen of Carthage. What happened was that, you know, her husband was killed in Phoenicia. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 31:56 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: So she and some refugees sought refuge in Northern Africa. So they found the city of Carthage. And they worked really hard to build the city. And she was very attractive. So she won the attention of some local warlords. And they demanded her hand in marriage. And her response was to kill herself. And by killing herself, her sacrifice emboldened her people to build a great city. But also, it won the respect of the local warlords as well. And from then on, everyone understood the Carthaginians as a free and proud people who would rather die for their liberty than become a slave. Okay? So that's the Carthaginian understanding of Dido. Here in the Aeneid, it is almost the reverse. Where Dido's love for Aeneas becomes a poison. It poisons her soul. And it leads her to poison her people as well. And rather than give them freedom, she enslaves them into a mission to avenge her. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 33:08 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=1988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay? So it's basically inversion. So that's what the Aeneid is doing. It's inverting Homer, but it's also inverting history to serve the political purposes of Rome. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 33:20 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Alright. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 33:23 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Alright. So we come to the ending of the Aeneid. So with the story of Dido, what Virgil is doing is inverting the story of the Odyssey. Now we come to the ending of the Aeneid. And here, Virgil is going to invert the story of the Iliad. Okay? Remember, recall what happened in the Iliad where Achilles tricks Patroclus into sacrificing himself. And this allows Achilles an excuse to enter the battlefield against Hector. He kills Hector. And he believes that this is the height, the apex of his glory. But instead, it causes him to fall into a deep depression. And it's really Priam, Prime's willingness to forgive him because of his love for Hector that frees Achilles from his guilt. And the two, Achilles and Priam, cry together and they become friends because of this. Okay? So the Iliad is fundamentally a story of the curse of power, the evil power, and the ability of love to both redeem and to save. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 34:44 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: What Virgil is going to do is take the story of the Iliad and invert it. Okay? So it ends actually with an analogy to the battle between Achilles and Hector. Okay? So in the Iliad, it's between Achilles and Hector. But here, it's going to be between Aeneas and Tarnas. Okay? So what happened is that Aeneas lands in Italy and the Latin tribes see Aeneas as this great hero. And the king there, Latinus, marries Aeneas. He marries his daughter to Aeneas. But the wife, for whatever reason, like the woman in the Iliad, all the villains. The wife, the queen, has already promised her daughter to Tarnas, who is another warlord. And so it starts off a war between the Trojans and Tarnas. Okay? And ultimately, this leads to a final conflict. A great battle between Aeneas and Tarnas. Okay? So this is the very ending of the Aenea. Okay? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 36:03 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Can you read? I'll read. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 36:05 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: As he hangs back, the fatal spear of Aeneas streaks on, spotting a lucky opening he had flung from a distance, all his might and main. Rocks heaved by a catapult, pounding city ramparts never storm so loudly, never such a shadowing bolt of thunder crashing forth. Like a black whirlwind churning on, that spear flies on with its weight of iron death to pierce the wall of the round shield with its seven plies and right at the thick of Tarnas's thigh it whizzes through. It strikes home, and the blow drops great Tarnas down to the ground, battered down on his bent knees. The Ritulians spring up with a groan, and the hillsides round groan back, and the tall groves far and wide resound with the long -drawn moan. Tarnas lowered his eyes and reached with his right hand and begged, a suppliant, I deserve it all. No mercy, please, Tarnas pleaded. Seize your moment now, or if ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 37:07 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: some care for a parent's grief can touch you still, I pray you, you had such a father in old Antris, pity Adonis in his old age and send me back to my own people, or if you would prefer, send them my dead body stripped of life. Here, the victor and vanquished, I stretch my hands to you, so the men in Latium have seen me in defeat. Lavinia is your bride. Go no further down the road of hatred. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 37:32 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay, alright. Alright, okay. So, again, this is rewriting of the battle between Hector and Achilles. But in this battle, it is Hector who wins, and Achilles is basically begging for mercy. And what's really interesting is that to beg for mercy, Tarnas basically uses the words of Priam from the Iliad, right? Remember what Priam says to Achilles is, I've kissed your hand. Have mercy for me. Look at my face. Remember of your father, Achilles. Remember your father, Peleus, okay? Same exact words, right? Care for a parent's grief, okay? And I stretch my hands to you. Alright, so basically, Virgil is plagiarizing Homer. But he's plagiarizing in a way as to invert and subvert Homer, okay? So, at this point, Aeneas is drawn to pity, right? Because his great enemy, Tarnas, has submitted himself before him. So, in his heart, he's like, you know what? I've defeated him. He's been destroyed. He's lost face. He's lost credibility. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 38:53 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2333s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2333s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: I can let him go. I've won, okay? And that's what he wants to do. He just wants to let him go. But this is the very ending, okay? This is the very ending of the Iliad. And the ending is surprising because for many scholars, they read this, they're like, this is not an ending. This is too abrupt. And they think that Virgil was not able to finish the Iliad. But what I will show you is that, no, you're reading the Iliad improperly, incorrectly, if you do not believe this is the full ending, okay? This is not the ending, okay? Can you read? I read? Okay. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 39:35 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Aeneas, ferocious in armor, stood there, still, shifting his gaze, and held his sword arm back, holding himself back, too, as Tarnas's words began to sway him more and more, when all at once he caught sight of the faithful sword belt of Pallas swept over Tarnas's shoulder, gleaming with shining studs, Aeneas knew by heart. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 39:54 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Wait, sorry, Pallas, Pallas is the version of Patroclus. Remember how Patroclus died and that enraged Achilles. Well, Pallas is a friend of Aeneas who fell in battle to Tarnas. And Tarnas, to celebrate his victory over Pallas, stole the sword belt of Pallas, okay? So, and Aeneas recognizes this. Keep on going. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 40:18 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Young Pallas, whom Tarnas had overpowered, taken down with a wound, and now his shoulder flaunted his enemy's battle emblem like a trophy. Aeneas soon has his eyes drank in that plunder, keepsake of his own savage grief. Flaring up in fury, terrible in his rage, he cries, decked in the spoils you stripped from when I loved, escape my clutches. Never. Pallas strikes this blow. Pallas sacrifices you now, makes you pay the price with your own guilty blood. In the same breath, blazing with wrath, he plants his iron sword held deep into his enemy's heart. Tarnas's limbs wince limp in the chill of death. His light breath fled with a groan of outrage down to the shades below. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 41:04 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: And that's it. This is the ending of the Aenead. And again, scholars are confused by this. Like, how could the epic end like this? It's a very long epic, 24 books, and it ends with the death of Tarnas and nothing more. And it's confusing because scholars and literary critics are taught to believe that a good book has an epiphany and a catharsis, okay? Epiphany, catharsis, and a resolution. Basically, a character recognizes himself and changes for the better. It's almost like a death and letting go of the past. And so scholars read this and like they're completely confused. Where is the epiphany? Where's the catharsis? Where's the resolution? And the answer is because you're misreading the Aenead. First and foremost, it is a work of political propaganda. So how has Aeneas changed as a person? Well, the change is this. Previously, whenever Aeneas has a doubt, okay? Okay? Like for example, he is changing his emotions. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 42:38 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Each time this happened previously, the gods had to intervene, right? So remember how Aeneas is back in Troy and he's witnessed the killing of his king Priam, and he's really angry. And then he sees Helen and he wants to kill Helen because he understands that Helen is the cause of all the death and destruction in Troy. And he wants to like just kill her. And then what happens? His mother Venus intervenes and says, no, Aeneas, you must stop. There's a mission for you. Go complete your mission. And then Aeneas is like, fine, mother, I'll go home. And then when he goes home and he sees her, his son, Aelius, he wants to return and fight the Greeks because he doesn't, he wants to protect himself. He wants to protect the city. And then Aelius, there's a sign from the gods, Aelius, his hair is on fire, okay? It's an image. And this tells Aeneas, no, your son is destined for great things. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 43:46 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2626s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2626s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-aeneid-trains-imperial-robot) Text: You must fulfill the mission. Again, when Aeneas is with Dido, he just wants to stay with Dido and build up Carthage. And so Jupiter has to send a messenger, Mercury, to tell him, no, Aeneas, no. Go to Italy, okay? So each time that Aeneas went off mission or he has his own ideas, the gods have to intervene. What makes this an epiphany, a Carthaginian revolution is the fact that here when Aeneas wants to show mercy, when in his heart he's like, this is a pitiful man. It gives me no pleasure to kill him. It gives me no glory and honor to kill this pathetic man. He recognizes, no, I must kill him because it is a duty. It is the will of the gods. Now he has become fully pious. And that is the epiphany, okay? I must abandon all pity. I must abandon all emotions. I must abandon my own soul if I am to serve the gods. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 45:07 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-aeneid-trains-imperial-robot) Text: He is now the perfect soldier. And that's why Virgil wrote the Aenead. Because it is a piece of propaganda. It's a piece of brainwashing, indoctrination, where you read it and you go on the same journey as Aeneas. And step by step you let go of everything that makes you weak. Your humanity, your willingness, your desire to love someone, throw it out. Your pity, your sense of decency, get rid of it, okay? And once you do, once you have cleansed yourself of all human emotions, then you can serve the gods completely. You are now fully pious. And as such, you can now complete your mission. All right? So that's the power of the Aenead. You may know what's happening, but as you memorize it, because back then, the way to educate yourself was just to memorize the poetry. You became Aeneas himself, okay? You transform yourself from someone who was a human to someone who is now basically a robot. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 46:28 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? Yeah? Can you, yeah? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 46:39 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2799s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2799s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: Yeah, I think it's true that like Aeneas, he didn't fail and proceed towards Ternus because he killed him later. But I mean, I think that is still because like he loved Pallas, his friend, who was killed by Ternus. So that's also kind of feeling, right? It's an emotion and that contributes to Ternus' death. So isn't that different from what you said about maybe Aeneas being a robot and fulfilling his fate? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 47:14 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay, yeah. All right. That's a good point, okay? So, your point is, well, Aeneas loves his friend, Pallas. And as a result, it's his love for Pallas that drives Aeneas to kill Ternus, right? That's fine. That makes sense. But go back to the Iliad, right? Where Achilles is saddened and angered by the death of Patroclus and he kills Hector, right? But then what happens? He falls into a deep depression because in his heart, he recognizes that you don't avenge someone you love by killing someone. That's not how the universe works. If you truly love someone, you do not turn the memory of that person into hatred and violence. You celebrate the person's life by being open and generous with others. Okay? This is something that Dante will explain. This is a very hard idea to understand, okay? But if you truly love someone, love means that you cannot do something evil. Love is pure good. ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 48:32 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-aeneid-trains-imperial-robot) Text: If you do something evil, it means you actually don't want to love that person. Okay? Does that make sense to you? If you truly love Patroclus as a person, you would not use him as an excuse to kill someone. All right? Same thing with the Iliad where Achilles thought he loved Patroclus, but he was actually using Patroclus as an excuse to kill Hector. In his heart, he knows that. All right? This is really confusing to understand, but when we read the Divine Comedy, it will make sense to you. All right? Okay? All right. Any other questions, guys? Okay. Yeah. So that's a great question, and it shows you how basically in this world, this is a world of anti -love because you've received an education in utility, right? Obedience, compliance. But what you have not received is an education in love. What is love? How do we know we're in love? What draws us to love? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 49:52 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=2992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay? And that's what the great books are about. The great books, even Homer and Dante, they really think deeply about what love is because in love is where God is. All right? Okay? So again, by asking this question, what you're really doing is revealing the sort of education you've received when your mind, you think that what is right is one of utility and one of compliance. If Papalus, my best friend, died, then I need to seek vengeance against the person who killed him. Okay? But I know it's hard to understand, but that is, but you've been brainwashed to think that. That's not actually true. If your best friend were to be killed someone else, to demonstrate love to your best friend, you would actually forgive that person. Okay? And I know this is a hard idea to understand, but when we read the Divine Comedy, it'll become more obvious. Okay? Okay. Any more questions, guys? ## The Poem That Makes a Robot -- 50:59 - Source title: Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=3059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXTRlvFIRt8&t=3059s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yxtrlvfirt8.json) Text: All right. So let me explain the plan for the Divine Comedy, which we will end the semester with. Okay? So there'll be four lectures on the Divine Comedy. So I'll be doing a lecture every two weeks. All right? And then for the other classes, we'll just be reading the Divine Comedy line by line by line. All right? Okay? All right. So we start the Divine Comedy on Friday. All right? Very good. Do you understand? Okay. It's very hard idea to understand. Okay? But it's hard idea to understand just because, I hate to say this, but you've been brainwashed. ## The End of the End of History -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: When the Berlin Wall fell, there was an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote a very influential essay called The End of History. And for decades, capitalism was in a struggle with communism. And in his essay, Fukuyama argued that with the triumph of capitalism, we've come to the end of history. Meaning, we now know what humanity most strives for, which is a liberal consumer democracy. Where people feel empowered to have the freedom to buy whatever they want. And this, for him, was the end of history. And for him, was the apex of human civilization. And this creates what is called the unipolar moment. Where America is the global hegemon. And it creates a world that is heavily globalized, capitalistic, and very individualistic. And this is a very unique moment in human history. And we've come, with this one Iran, to the end of this moment. So let me first explain the three major characteristics of this unipolar moment. ## The End of the End of History -- 1:30 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=90s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: The first is what I call Pax Americana. Where American power, American military might, guarantee peace in the entire world. And this is unique in human history. Where for the first time, there was a power that was able to dominate the entire globe. And America was able to do so through three mechanisms. The first is, of course, its military power. But specifically, aerial supremacy. Which is backed up by special forces and the CIA. So the CIA was able to infiltrate every single government in the world. And identify who would be loyal to the American empire. And then promote this person. If there were individuals that challenged the American empire, these people were demoted or eliminated. Nations that proved problematic, for example, maybe Syria or Libya. Special forces went in to sabotage the economy. And then aerial power went in to destroy the government. And so this created Pax Americana. Now what's good about this is that it did bring peace to very problematic regions. ## The End of the End of History -- 2:52 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: For example, in East Asia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, China, Vietnam did not compete against each other. They just participated in global economy. Which brought tremendous wealth and prosperity to the East Asia region. This is true also in Europe and South America as well. So aerial supremacy. Then you have something called surveillance. And basically what I mean by that is the internet. So whether or not, the internet was created not to actually help you communicate. And to watch pornography. It was actually to have a mass surveillance system over the entire human population. So that the Pentagon, the military knew exactly the vibe or the culture, the attitudes, the emotions of each region. And through social media. Through mechanisms such as Facebook and Twitter. They were able to manipulate certain emotions. So the second mechanism is mass surveillance. Through the popularization of the internet. ## The End of the End of History -- 4:06 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And the third is what we call the rules -based international order. And what this means is American power hid behind multilateral organizations such as the United Nations. Such as the World Bank. Such as the World Trade Organization. And so people didn't notice that the American empire was dominating everything. They believed that the world was fair and just. And through logic and reason and debate, they could present their case. So for the longest time, this Pax Americana provided peace and stability to the world. Which brought tremendous prosperity. Alright, so that's number one. Number two is the supremacy of science. So for most of human history, people were religious. They believed in gods. But with the rise of Pax Americana, science became the dominant religion of the whole world. Alright, so the last example is COVID. COVID was raging across the world. And then they used vaccines. Now, I teach critical thinking skills. So when I first heard about vaccines, I was a bit skeptical. ## The End of the End of History -- 5:37 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: I said to my friends who are Chinese and American. I said, you know, vaccines used to take about 10 years to develop. And that's when the virus is stable. And they've been around for centuries. But this COVID is constantly mutating. And they haven't done enough trial research. So is it really safe to take these vaccines? And whether they were Chinese or American, their response was the same. Which is, how dare you question science? You are a peasant. Have you gone to school? Have you no culture? Can you not think? ## The End of the End of History -- 6:20 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay. ## The End of the End of History -- 6:21 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And this shows you how science has become the new religion of the world. And if you think about it, the scientists that run the world, they're actually transnational priests. Okay? And science is an international brotherhood. Where if you're a scientist in China, you're not actually loyal to China. You're actually loyal to the international order of science. Because that's how you get promoted, right? You get published in Nature or Science. If you win an award, a Nobel Prize, that's how you get rewarded. Okay? So you're better off being loyal to the brotherhood of science. Rather than your own nation state. And of course, it is the American empire that controls science. And the third unique aspect of the Unipolar moment is, of course, the universality of the U.S. dollar. And it's an incredible thing to think about where just a piece of paper, you think it's gold. You think there's value in it. And not just you, but everyone around you. ## The End of the End of History -- 7:24 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So that if you take your U.S. dollars, you can go anywhere in the world. And buy yourself a villa. Or enjoy a nice vacation. Or fly around. But not only that, but you aspire in life to accumulate as much U.S. dollars as possible. Right? Is there really a difference between a hundred million dollars and a hundred billion dollars? There's actually no difference. You can't spend it. But you want to achieve as much as possible. And as a result, you focus your entire life on accumulating as much as possible. Okay? So these are the three main pillars of the Unipolar moment. And again, in the beginning, which was maybe the early 90s, this led to tremendous peace and prosperity throughout the world. The problem, though, is that over time, these three pillars started to decay. Right? So Pax Americana started to itself ignore the rules based on natural order. ## The End of the End of History -- 8:28 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Which it self -created. Right? So America started to bomb countries such as Libya and Syria about international approval. Most recently, it went to attack Iran without even asking for the opinion of the world. Without even caring what the world thought. Okay? So this leads to the idea of hubris. Maybe the first generation appreciates the importance of collaboration. Of consensus. But the second generation, their children, are arrogant. They have hubris. They want to enjoy their power. Okay? So that's problem one. Supremacy of science, religion, basically becomes a religion in itself. Orthodoxy. So that science does not become the main engine of innovation in the world. It becomes the main engine of orthodoxy or suppression. And that's why for the past 20, 30 years, we've seen very little in terms of technological innovation. Don't tell me Silicon Valley is the center of innovation in the world. Okay? All they do is make food delivery apps. It's been a long time since we've seen massive innovation in the world. ## The End of the End of History -- 9:49 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: What we've seen these past 20, 30 years is the scaling out, the popularization of innovation. Right? Where American technology is spread throughout the world. Especially in China. But we have not seen actually major innovation in science itself. All right? And the third thing, the university of the US dollar leads to printing dollars. Okay? Or just basically corruption. Where because America is able to print as much US dollars as it wants to fund its corruption, it does so. Okay? So the US dollar has lessened. Okay? So the US dollar has lessened in value. And what this means is basically it's made inequality worse. It's made corruption worse. It's made people very lazy. Because if you're a young person, you're like, you know what? No matter how hard I work, I'm still screwed in the end. Because the boomers, the older generation, have so much more money than I do. ## The End of the End of History -- 10:48 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: I can never catch up. So I refuse to play this game. Either I refuse to play this game, so I quite quit, you know, comping, lie flat, or I gamble. I pray that if I put a million dollars in Bitcoin, it'll go up to 10 million dollars. Or the stock market, or sports betting. Okay? That's why in America, gambling has become so popular. All right? So this has led to today, basically. All right? So we shouldn't see this war against Iran as just a decision of one person, Donald Trump. Or the mass nations of our country, Israel. Really, this war in Iran is happening because we've come to the end of the unipolar moment. Because the American empire has become corrupt, self -indulgent, lazy, arrogant. All right? So with the end of the American empire, with the end of Pax Americana, we are shifting towards a new world. And this new world... ## The End of the End of History -- 11:57 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas) Text: Some will survive, most will not. Okay? And this is true throughout history where whenever it declines and the world order is shifting, where there's a paradigm shift, people are forced to make a hard choice of either adapt or die. All right? So let me show you how the world needs to change if it is to survive. Basically, what has happened is we have to move from an emphasis on efficiency to... Resilience. Okay? That is the main goal in the future. Today, it's really about how to make things as cheap as possible and get it to as many people as quickly as possible to make as much money as possible. Okay? The idea of efficiency. To make as much profit as possible. The idea of resilience is to appreciate that there will be a series of crises. And what you need to do is... Focus on adapting and surviving these crises. Okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 13:06 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So for a nation, for a community to survive in the future, there has to be three major changes. And if you're able to make these three major changes, you will survive. If you do not make these changes, you will be eliminated. Okay? You will be survival of the fittest. All right. So the first thing you need to do is move from materialism to spirituality. Right now, the entire world, these nation states, have convinced the population what matters is your material well -being. If you are driving a car, if you have a house, if you have enough food to eat, then you should shut up and obey because you are doing a good job. Okay? But in the future, governments can't do that because there's not enough resources to go around. They will... So typically, government has to make you believe that what matters is your happiness, your well -being, your spirituality. And that usually means a renewed focus on religion. ## The End of the End of History -- 14:20 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=860s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=860s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is to move from a system of individuality to community and family. All right. And what this means is today what you're taught in school, what you're taught in society is what matters is you, me, okay? The ego. If it's doing well for me, it's good. I don't actually care about other people. In the future, you have to focus on building community, on helping others. Okay? And the last major shift is from the old to the young. Okay? And this is very simple. And this is actually the hardest thing to do. Which is like today, most countries, especially the wealthy Western industrial nations, are controlled by the baby boomers, the elderly, the gerontocracy. They have all the money, they have all the power, but for society to thrive in the future, this power needs to shift to a younger generation. Ideally, maybe in their 30s. Okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 15:32 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: The younger, the better. And you think this is easy to do. It's not. Because first of all, these baby boomers have access to the best healthcare in the world, they have a lot of money, and they really enjoy living. And they're also really selfish. Okay? So this is actually the hardest problem to solve for most Western societies. How do you transfer power from the old to the young? And quite honestly, historically, we've never, ever faced this problem before. Never. Because the old simply don't live that long. Okay? Now, baby boomers are living to at least 100 years old. So they have another 20 years ahead of them in power. Meanwhile, the young cannot develop the experience and the expertise in order to lead the nation. So whichever nation actually has to figure out this problem first, how do you get the old and give power to the young, then will most likely thrive in the new world that's coming? ## The End of the End of History -- 16:36 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And if you were to ask me which nation would most likely achieve this first, I would say Japan. And the reason is very simple. Because Japan, in Japan, this problem is the most present. They are the eldest population, they have the oldest population in the world. And so they need to resolve this issue really, really quickly. Okay? And maybe in the next five, 10 years. And I think that Japan will actually resolve this issue. But it may be the only nation that's able to resolve this issue because it's so difficult. You love your grandparents. Do you want to see your grandparents die? Of course not. Okay? You're going against human biological nature. All right. Okay. All right. So that's the main argument I want to make you today. Okay? So what we're going to do now is we're going to look at how the world should transform because of what's happening in the historical moves. ## The End of the End of History -- 17:33 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Because of this war in Japan. Okay? All right. So basically we're in a new world because our world today is built entirely, entirely on access to cheap petroleum products, cheap energy. Right? Why are you allowed to be in school learning from me rather than the fields farming? Because of energy. Right? Because of oil from the Middle East. Your computer is based on what? Petroleum. This camera that's filming me is based on what? Petroleum. This pen? Petroleum. This clothing? Petroleum. The medicine you eat? Petroleum. The food that you eat comes from fertilizers, which is based also on petroleum. So basically everything in this room, everything in the world is based on cheap petroleum. The entire global economy, the main foundation is cheap petroleum. So what happens in a world where petroleum is a luxury? The prices are cheap. Well, now you need a massive rebalancing in the world. The other thing about the world is this is the GCC countries. ## The End of the End of History -- 18:44 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay? The Middle East countries. And as you can see, this is really important to see is around the year 2005, they started to have massive, massive accounts of oil. Meaning there was so much oil, they couldn't really spend all their money. Do you guys know why? Why was this happening? What happened in 2005, 2004 that made these countries extremely wealthy? All right, China. Okay? Think about it. What's China doing? Well, China in the 80s and 90s was putting factories, right? But then China set up this accounts surplus. So now China wants to develop its industrial base, right? And how do you do that? By importing oil from the GCC, right? And that's why we have these skyscrapers, these malls, these roads, okay? Because China was able to import all this cheap oil from the GCC. And then the GCC would take this money, okay, and then invest it back into the American stock market. ## The End of the End of History -- 20:02 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: But not just that, but they would invest it in Africa. They would invest it in infrastructure. So for the longest time, the Chinese economy and the GCC are the two main pillars of the entire global economy, okay? And what this means is that if the GCC no longer is able to export oil, this is going to have a major impact on China. And together, the two are going to have a major impact on the global economy, okay? Basically, the global economy is dead. All right. Okay. So the other thing that you may not be aware of is today, flying around the world, it's very simple to do. What we're going to do now is get our mobiles out, go to the website, and look at where we're going to fly to, and then book that flight for tonight. Pay using a credit card, take a taxi to the airport, get on a flight, and we're there the next morning. ## The End of the End of History -- 21:04 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: That's really, really impressive. Guess what, guys? You couldn't do this 20 years ago. Okay? The technology was around, but it was not widely available. Now, look at this, where the entire world is interconnected, okay? This is a pretty stark chart, where in 1950, it was considered a tremendous luxury to fly. You had to be a millionaire, basically, to want to fly for vacation, okay? Everyone else just drove their car. Now, it's like anyone can drive. It's like anyone can drive. And again, this happened just in the past, basically, 30, 40 years. And this, of course, is because of Pax Americana, where Pax Americana will guarantee there's no conflict in the world, and therefore, planes can just fly around. Otherwise, you'd be shut down. Okay? All right. Well, this world is coming to an end. In the future, flights will be very expensive. And vacations will be unaffordable. ## The End of the End of History -- 22:07 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay? All right. This is the Internet, guys. Now, you don't know this. You think that the Internet is just that you go on the computer, and then, boom, the Internet is there. No, actually, the Internet is undersea's cables that connect the entire world. And unfortunately, there's a war going on right here, guys. And unfortunately, it's really easy for Iran to cut off the undersea's cables, which would lead to internet disruption for maybe 20, 30 % of the world. Okay? Northern Africa, India, the Middle East, maybe parts of Europe will lose Internet access. You think, okay, well, that's fine. They just won't watch Netflix anymore. No, guys. Okay? The entire world economy is based off the cloud. So, if you want to bank, if you want, basically, finance. Okay? This is going to have a huge impact in the world. And this is going to happen any time. Where, for whatever reason, there's ## The End of the End of History -- 23:11 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: a war going on, and a circle moves, some cables get cut off, and then, suddenly, you've lost Internet access. And this would, basically, cause major disruptions throughout the world. All right. Okay. So, one thing that you notice about this world is the sheer amount of population growth, where after World War II, because of Pax Americana. You see a massive boom in population. And, unfortunately, this is not sustainable. It is not possible for the planet to sustain 8 billion people, many of whom want to fly around the world twice a year, who want to drive an SUV, who want to have food, who want avocados. Every single day. They want to have, like, cherries every single day. Okay? So, this population growth is not sustainable. And, basically, what happens is this. When you are too off balance, when there's a correction, the correction is pretty extreme. Okay? So, this chart by itself, the fact that we ## The End of the End of History -- 24:34 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: have so many people, means, like, if there's a crisis, the population will see a massive shrink. Okay? You're like, okay, how? And, the answer is food scarcity. Food is not, is today, pretty common. But, food is based on global trade. Okay? So, let me show you what I mean by this. All right. So, this, the yellow, okay, are places that need fertilizer to grow food. Meaning, their land is not good for farming. So, they need fertilizer to grow food. They also have a large population. And, as you can see, a lot of this is based in Africa, and maybe Central Asia, and parts of South America. Ammonia is, here I'll call it, produced from oil, petroleum, that is fundamental for fertilizers. And, as you can see, this is mainly in the north of the world. And, what allows for 8 billion people is to grow food. It's a fact that the north is able to export fertilizer to the south. ## The End of the End of History -- 25:50 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And, that's it, guys. You understand? If this were to stop for the reason, people in the south would be in a lot of trouble. All right? So, as you can see, this trade in fertilizer is what sustains a global population of 8 billion people. Again, if there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a, there's a disruption to this trade, the people in the south are in a lot of trouble. All right. So, if you're in the green, you're okay. Okay? But, if you are in the red, you, you are in a lot of trouble. Okay? You are in a lot of trouble if you are, if you are in the red. But, honestly, if you are not in the green, you can still grow. But, if you are in the green, you are in a lot of trouble because, again, what we're looking for is resilience. ## The End of the End of History -- 26:53 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: The idea of efficiency is, let's imagine the best case scenario and try to make as much money out of it as possible. Okay? The idea of resilience is, let's imagine the worst case scenario and see if you can survive it. Basically, if you are, if you have food security issues, you are facing a massive problem. Okay? Because, again, we're imagining the worst case scenario. And, again, I have to say this. But, if you're not in the green, you should be worried right now. Okay? And, where's China? Not in the green, guys. Okay? It's something that national leaders in the world have to start thinking about right now. Food scarcity. All right. Water. Again, the countries that suffer from food scarcity, some of them also suffer from food scarcity. Okay? Sorry. From water scarcity. Okay? All right. Forget this. All right. Okay? So, basically, this area is in a lot of trouble. I would say that water is far more problematic than food. ## The End of the End of History -- 28:08 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And, again, I have to say this, but if you are any country here, what's going on here? If you're any country in this area, okay, you should be worried. Freedom is a very important issue because freedom is actually important for resilience issues. Okay? And, what this means is that when there's a crisis, leaders and the population need to collectively make sacrifices. But, when there's very little freedom, meaning there's very little transparency and accountability, where the public don't have access to the leadership, then the leadership could possibly make selfish, self -defeating decisions. And, the public is not involved. And, therefore, the public refuses to make sacrifices necessary in order to make the nation survive. Okay? And, so, this leads to conflict around the world. And, again, countries that suffer the most from food issues and water issues also are most likely... Most likely to come into conflict with other people. ## The End of the End of History -- 29:36 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay? So, this is a map of nations at war. The red means that they are at war. Okay? And, you can see Africa in the Middle East is especially under a lot of conflict and a lot of stress. While, at the same time, you're suffering from food scarcity and water issues. All right? So, what you will see... Sorry. Another issue I want to bring up is the idea of megacities. And, the idea of megacities is any cities that have over 10 million people. And, you think, wow, like, megacities are amazing because you have, like, shopping malls and you have, like, skyscrapers. That's great. No, no, no, guys. Megacities are really bad. Okay? Megacities should not exist. They exist because of globalization. Because what megacities do is they're able to bring in a lot of people, have them specialize in a particular area, make it industrial, and then export it to the rest of the world. ## The End of the End of History -- 30:43 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay? And, where are most megacities located? Well, they're located in India and in China. There's a problem because India and China both suffer from food and water issues. If you are to be resilient, you actually want more food. So, you want to make sure your population, not in cities, but in the countryside, is growing food. Because, first of all, they are self -sufficient. Second of all, you will have a food supply. Unfortunately, right now, China imports a quarter of its food. And, also, remember, food also requires energy to grow, right? So, China imports 75 % of its oil. This brings up the question of how resilient is China. Okay? But, not just China. But, also, any big oil. country with a mega city or too many mega cities india um specifically will face problems in the future again if you're a national leader you should be worried right now okay all right so with ## The End of the End of History -- 31:56 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: this war and disruptions to global trade we should expect massive instability in nations that are not very resilient okay they have very little freedom that have food issues and which have water issues okay and so you would see revolutions you would see wars you would see famines which leads to what which leads to massive migration okay and so these are trends these are migration trends that we're already seeing where people from africa middle east are moving to europe and people from um south america and latin america are moving to the united states okay and we should expect these trends to not only continue but to accelerate by maybe a hundred times okay and you figure yourself okay well what europe and north america can do is just build walls right they should right now build a wall because you're going to see a massive influx of refugees due to food and water and unfortunately europe ## The End of the End of History -- 33:06 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=1986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: and north america have a huge problem and the problem of course is aging okay so in 2020 the countries in purple are countries that have a significant elderly population and this is 2050 where the entire northern hemisphere will have um an certificate elderly population the North the industrial economies are aging very rapidly which means their only option is to bring in cheap desperate workers from the South who are fleeing public zones in order to run their economies right the problem is of this of course is that this will lead to cultural conflict with the local populations native populations will feel they're being replaced by these refugees and these immigrants and this will probably lead to you so a conflict within North America and within Europe okay and unfortunately there's really no way around this issue because the elderly are in control and they want people to mow their lawns. They want people to nourish them. ## The End of the End of History -- 34:37 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: They want people to deliver food to them. And unfortunately, young people don't have to do that because their parents have money. So the way we're around this issue is like importing cheap immigrant labor. With the end of Pax Americana, what you will see emerge is regional trading blocks. Basically, the idea of mercantilism, okay? Mercantilism. And for most of you in history, this was what we did, where there was no one power that controlled the entire world. What happened was that maybe you had a local hegemon, which guaranteed trade among its allies, okay? And you didn't trade with other people. You only traded within your regional trading block. And that's the world we're heading back towards, okay? So this is a map of the 16th century, 17th century, where you have these mercantile empires, like the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Spanish, and they have their own trade networks. And they refuse to work with each other, but the system worked fine, okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 36:03 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: It was more expensive, it was not so convenient, but it still works. So this does not mean the end of global trade, it just means much more limited global trade, all right? Another thing that you will notice about the Asian economies is slaves, slaves were a very important part of the trade. And the reason why is this. You need energy to run society. Today we use oil. Back then, they used human beings, right? You can no longer have access to cheap oil. What you do is, you enslave. You enslave people. And that's the way, historically, we've done things. All right? Okay. So the last thing I want to talk about is religion. Because remember, the idea of resilience is, you need people to focus more on spirituality and less on materialism, because if you focus on materialism, they're likely getting worse and worse, okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 37:07 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So you need to cause a national spiritual rejuvenation in your country. And if you are, in the gray, you might have issues, okay? Why? Because your people are not religious and too materialistic. And unfortunately, East Asia, okay, Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, are especially non -religious. That's going to be a problem for them in the future, okay? All right. So let's just summarize what we've learned so far. So let's just summarize what we've learned so far. What are some major trends that we should expect over the next 10, 20 years? Again, I just say this, all right? If you really believe that next week, Donald Trump and Iran are going to come to a peace agreement, if you believe that maybe in five, six months, both Iran and the United States will exhaust themselves, the global economy will suffer too much, and then they'll just stop the war, and things will go back to normal, I don't know what to tell you, okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 38:19 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: You're living in a fantasy world. You have to wake up and recognize that this is the end of the unipolar moment. We're moving towards a new world. And you can either choose to adapt to this new world or you will die. It's that simple, all right? So massive trend is deindustrialization and deorganization, where people in the cities will have to move back to the countryside, especially young people, okay? They have to learn, like, real skills. No more, you know, no more cryptocurrency trading for you guys, okay? Learn how to milk a cow or kill a chicken or grow food, whatever, okay? But just do something useful for your life. Nationalism and remilitarization is very important where you have to get young people willing to fight and defend your land, okay? And that means getting them to believe that your nation deserves to be strong. So whichever nations are most ready, most ## The End of the End of History -- 39:23 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: able to excite their young population into fighting wars will be the ones who will be most resilient. Mercantile systems, basically independent trading blocks. Resource wars is a very big thing, okay? Famines, genocides, slavery. So remember, for most of the human history, humans were the cheap energy. If you don't have access to cheap oil, well, then you're gonna enslave human beings, all right? This is not a pretty future, but it is a future that could happen, and you have to mentally prepare yourself for this possibility, okay? Mass migration, where people in the South are most likely to suffer from resource wars over water and food and people, so they escape and escape to Europe and of America, okay? Revolution, civil wars, political instability in America and in Europe because the big rumors refuse to retire from the sea, and these are 80 populations, massive inequality, massive corruption, massive silency, and so this will lead to caught chaos in the streets, okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 40:40 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Religion is a big thing. If you are not religious, I actually recommend looking into the possibility of developing a religion, okay? It's been very useful for what's gonna happen later on. These are things I will talk about more in the future, okay? But I will bring them up now. Like, how do I see the world in 10, 20 years' time, all right? So I will say this. I think that there will be eventually an alliance between Russia and Germany in Europe. Maybe for the next 5, 10 years, Germany and Russia will go to war against each other, but eventually what the two will figure out is they are better off actually working together than fighting against each other, okay? You have Pax Judaica. Remember, the entire point of this war in Iran, from Israel's perspective, is to knock out America from the Middle East and establish itself as the local hegemon, and then it becomes Pax Judaica, okay? ## The End of the End of History -- 41:45 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So I think Israel will come to dominate the Middle East. But then you're like, what about Iran? And like, I know this is hard to understand, but if the United States were to lead the scene and Israel and Iran had to go to war against each other, what would happen is they would say, why? Because Israel is like, I don't want Persia. And then Iran is like, I don't want Israel. And Israel has nuclear weapons. So they would agree to split the Middle East up where Iran controls the Jaffa Moose and Israel controls the Labat, right? Historically, actually, the Israelis, the Jewish people, they hated the Greeks, they hated the Romans, but they actually probably had the Persians. So there's this history going back where Persians and Jews actually get along very well. And in fact, in the Middle East, the place outside Israel, where the largest Jewish population is, Iran. ## The End of the End of History -- 42:51 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: And they're very well treated there. So I don't see why, if America were to lead the scene, why could Israel and Iran come to a mutually satisfactory agreement that benefits both nations. Japan. Again, I think the major problem facing all Western industrial nations is the aging crisis. What do you do with these people who are 90 years old? They can't get out of the house. Their brains aren't really functioning properly, but they still control all the money, all the power, and they're extremely influential. What do you do? Well, in most countries, you can't do anything about it. But Japan is a very special country where the elderly have more obligation to the nation, to the people. So it could be a situation where Japan is in a lot of trouble and the elderly voluntarily choose to exit power and give it to the young. Alright? But I think Japan is the only nation that would do this voluntarily. ## The End of the End of History -- 44:04 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Every other nation, basically, there has to be wars in order for the young to arrive to power. Alright. The American Holy Empire. The nation that is most capable of surviving the next few decades of tribulation, of crisis, is America. Why is America? It's so incredibly, incredibly wealthy. Okay? It's protected by two oceans. It really controls Canada and Mexico. So think of America as not just the continent of America, but really as the entire North American and Latin American. Okay? That entire sphere is basically America. So it has unlimited resources. It has unlimited population. And also America, the Americans are the most creative, the most entrepreneurial, the most energetic people in the world. So I wouldn't bet against America. Alright? But what I think will happen is that America will need a new identity in order to survive the age of tribulation. They will go from past -Judea, sorry, ## The End of the End of History -- 45:15 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: past -Americana, which is a secular, global idea, to one that is much more nationalistic, that is more focused on community and nation. That means embracing Christianity. Okay? And I think that Christianity is what will be the force that will rebuild America after the many crises America will face over the next few years. The last thing that will happen is techno -martialism. Okay? Where nations that have the resources want to institute an AI surveillance state to better marshal the limited resources, basically to better control its people. And it's something we'll talk about later on. Okay? But basically, you will have this sharp division of people in different classes. Where at the very top you have freedom, but people at the very bottom become slaves or serfs. Right? Okay. So that is it for trends I see in the future. Again, I can say this, but you have to give the illusion that this war will end ## The End of the End of History -- 46:35 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: soon, and that once this war ends, then we'll go back to the things before this war. Okay? No, the world hasn't really changed. We're not going back to the old world. We're going to a new world. And what this new world will look like is something that we can choose to control. Okay? All right, any questions? All right. ## The End of the End of History -- 47:09 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So about the new world, so the relationships between countries will all be changed, such as China and Japan, and, you know, those five big countries will the orders be changed? ## The End of the End of History -- 47:24 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: Okay. All right. So the best way to understand the geopolitical situation is that it's constantly in flux. It's constantly dynamic, okay? Meaning you cannot easily divide nation -states into enemies anymore. Their alliances will constantly shift over time. And the nation -state system will also break apart into much more resilient communities. It's possible that nation -states become a series of city -states. Okay? So basically think about the world in maybe the 1930s or maybe even China during the war on states period. Okay? Basically, I can't tell you that we'll go to a new world and then this is what it will look like. No. It will constantly change over time. Okay? Allies will constantly shift over time. It's possible that in the beginning in East Asia, maybe Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, United States, Russia combine to contain China because they see China as the hegemon. But then they're like, wait a minute here. Japan's rising in power. ## The End of the End of History -- 48:44 - Source title: Game Theory #15: The Return of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAer-Mqe7tQ&t=2924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zaer-mqe7tq.json) Text: So let's combine against Japan. Okay? It's a dynamic situation. But basically, what you have to understand is that everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you understand about the world, everything you believe about to be true about the world will change. And so you have to open your mind and be ready for constant political flux. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions guys? All right. So now that we've looked at the world ahead for the next 10, 20, 50 years, who knows how long, what I'll do in the next class is examine how this war between the United States and Iran will eventually end. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Last night, there was a major escalation in this war. So the Israelis have bombed the Iranian oil fields. And in response, the Iranians now are attacking the energy infrastructure of the GCC. Okay, so let's have a look at what this attack looks like. This is Qatar. Okay, so Qatar provides 20 % of the world's LNG. And this is a major escalation. And again, as I pointed out last class, the entire strategy of Iran is to destroy the global economy. Okay, and this is how it will do so. It also attacked Tel Aviv in response for the assassination of their de facto leader, Ali al -Rajani. Okay, so this is what the attack looks like. As you can see from this picture, this is a cluster warhead. And it is impossible for air defense to stop this. So Tel Aviv is getting pummeled. We don't have footage because it's being censored right now. And you would think that the Israelis would want this war to end as soon as possible. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 1:47 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Because Tel Aviv and other cities are getting destroyed. And again, there's really no way for the Israelis to defend themselves against Iranian ballistic missiles. But, unfortunately, there are many Israelis who are very happy about all this destruction. All right, and so this is one of the more influential rabbis in Jerusalem. He's talking in Hebrew. But what he's saying is, that this war of destruction, it will bring about the return of, sorry, not the return, the coming of the Messiah. And it will happen on Thursday, which is today, okay? So they are not at all saddened by what is happening. In fact, they are quite animated. They're very, very excited about what's happening. So again, you cannot look at this war from a geopolitical lens. You have to look at it from an eschatological perspective, all right? So let us look at where we are in the war so far. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 3:08 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And as you can see, it is a regional war. And both sides are seeking maximalist objectives. And what this means is the United States and Israel wants to destroy Israel, especially its capacity to be a nation state. And so right now, the Americans and Israelis are attacking Israel. Their leadership, decapitating their leadership, as well as targeting their economy. Later on, as this war progresses and escalates, they will start to target civilian critical infrastructure, including water, okay? And it's already happening. They also want to have a divided rule strategy where they want to provoke ethnic conflict in Iran and divide Iran up into ethnic enclaves. And this is what we call balkanization. The Iranians, on the other hand, want to destroy the entire global economy. You do that by attacking the energy infrastructure of the GCC because, again, the entire basis of the global economy is cheap energy, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 4:14 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: So as this war progresses, you will notice certain things, all right? So eventually, the Americans will have no choice but to launch a ground invasion. Okay? And one possible attack vector is here, which is Clark Island. This is where Iran stores about 9 % of its oil for export. And so the idea is that if you take Clark Island, you will destroy the Iranian economy and thus its capacity to sustain this war. The problem with Clark Island is that it's easy to take, but it's hard to defend because of the coastline, right? In which case, you have to also take the coastline. But then you deal with the Zagos Mountains, and so you have to expand outwards, okay? So this is what we call mission creep, where you cannot justify the war. So what you do is you put in some soldiers, and then the mission creep becomes just justification for the war, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 5:21 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: So that's one thing to spot as you read the news. Clark Island will be a flashpoint. All right. The other flashpoint will be Saudi Arabia, because right now the Iranians are attacking Saudi Arabia. Now, what Saudi Arabia can do is declare war on Iran, and this is important because Saudi Arabia has a mutual defense pact with Pakistan, so that if any are attacked, the other is obligated to come to each other's defense, okay? This is important because, as you can see, Pakistan opens up the eastern front. Okay? So it's possible the Americans can attack from the east. The other thing that's important is that Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and it is possible nuclear weapons are used. Again, I strongly believe tactical nuclear weapons will not be used, okay? But once Pakistan is in the war, nuclear warheads are now at play, okay? Another thing to watch is how this war expands elsewhere. All right? Because ## The Nearest War Wins -- 6:29 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: when the time is appropriate, what will happen is that the Iranians will activate their proxies, the Houthis, and they will close off another critical choke point, okay? So now what's going to happen is that there will be two critical maritime choke points that are closed off, thus isolating the GCC and thus cutting off the world's access to cheap energy. And when they do that, we're going to expect global retaliation and other forces will have to come in to secure cheap energy. Okay? It is possible the South Koreans and the Japanese are forced into this war because they are so dependent on GCC energy. All right? All right. So these are things that we will look for in the next few weeks. Something else that is... Okay. Something else that is creating attention online is people are speculating that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. And the reason why is that he's not been seen in a public setting for many days. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 7:41 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: There have been cabinet meetings and Netanyahu usually cheers them and he's not there, okay? The other thing is that there are fake AI videos of him giving speeches and it's pretty blatant. These are fake. These are fake. So people are speculating that he is dead and they're trying to cover it up. This is a picture of him visiting a cafe in Jerusalem to prove he's not dead. The problem is that this cafe is in a mountain and it will take him about like 50 minutes to drive there. So why does he go there? Why doesn't he just have a cabinet meeting or get on the phone with Donald Trump to prove he's still alive? All right? So... But I personally don't believe he is dead. He could be hiding somewhere or he could be injured. What we do know is that the Iranians are killing a lot of senior Israeli officials, including the head of Mossad, the spy agency. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 8:40 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And Netanyahu's residence was also targeted in Tel Aviv. So that's a really interesting question. How are the Iranians able to target so many of the top leadership of the Israelis? Okay? We don't need that. But this is Ali Larajani, and he is the head, the de facto head, of the Iran war effort. And he was assassinated yesterday or two days ago. And the Iranians have confirmed this, okay? So he is confirmed to be dead. And people, analysts, are extremely worried about this because he is a very pragmatic person. And so you can negotiate with him, right? So once this war reaches a certain point where both sides are exhausted, then it is possible to approach him and say, you know what, let's just negotiate a ceasefire. And he'd be willing to because he's very experienced. He's also very influential. So he's able to bring together the different factions of the Iranian government and negotiate a ceasefire. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 9:48 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: With him dead, it is now almost impossible. Okay? To foresee a ceasefire, okay? So let's discuss why you really don't want to do this sort of stuff. You don't really want to kill other nations' leaders, okay? And so let's just use an analogy. Let's imagine in the streets, there are two gangs at war with each other, okay? Gang A and Gang B. Gang A, Gang B. And if you look at gangs, they are structured as hierarchies. Okay? But there's a lot of autonomy among the different sections, okay? And what holds the gangs together, of course, is the leader. So when these two gangs are at war, what they try to avoid is killing each other's leader. Why? Because a war is often used to achieve certain political objectives, right? And so the point isn't to kill everyone. Right? The point is to negotiate a treaty that is most beneficial to you. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 11:01 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And you do that by negotiating with each other's leaders, okay? Because they have the authority to implement the treaty. That's the first reason. The second reason is, if you kill the leader, then more people, there'll be a competition to replace the leader, right? And during a gang war, the person who is most violent, the most extremely violent, the most extreme, will often become the new leader, okay? So by killing this leader, not only do you cause conflict among the gang, but you also cause a massive escalation in the conflict between these two gangs. And there's really no way out. That's why historically, you do not target other nations' leaders. Because then there's no off ramp. Okay? So. So by targeting Lerajani, the Israelis and Americans have ensured that there will be no off ramp now. This war we fought to the bitter end. And unfortunately, as we discussed previously, that is the objective here. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 12:13 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: The Israelis and Americans are interested in maximalist aims. They destroy Iran permanently, okay? And the Iranians are also maximalists in that they want to destroy the global economy permanently, in order to restore the country. They want to destructure reality itself. All right, okay. So this leaves us with three major questions that I want to look at today, okay? The first big question is, how are these leaders dying? It's not that easy to kill a leader, right? Because he's protected by security. And usually, there are two ways to figure out where the leader is, okay? There's human intelligence, called HUMET. And there's signal intelligence, called SIGNET, okay? Human intelligence, signal intelligence. Signal intelligence just means electronic eavesdropping, where I listen in on your telephone calls, where I track your IP address, okay? And the Israelis and Americans are obviously very sophisticated in that. And the Americans and the Israelis are saying that we are using electronic surveillance in order to track these people down. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 13:25 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: I don't think that's convincing. I think the most important... The most important... The most important... The most important source, the most reliable source of information is human intelligence, having spies embedded in local networks to spot for you where they are, okay? That's the most... That's the best way to figure out where they are. So then this raises the question, how are the Israelis and Americans getting this human intelligence, okay? All right, that's the first question we want to look at. How are these leaders dying? Second question is, why are they dying? Okay. Like, what's the point of killing them, right? Because once they die, they can just be replaced, and they're often replaced by a more extreme individual, okay? So that's the second question we want to look at. And the third question we want to look at is, what does this mean for the war and the world, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 14:32 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-nearest-game-governs) Text: What do these decapitation strikes mean? What does this ultimately mean for how this war will progress and how this will affect the world in general, okay? All right, so those are the three big questions I want to look at. So to answer these three questions, I want to introduce a new idea to you, okay? It's called the law of proximity. The law of proximity, the idea is this. Whenever you play a game, you're not just playing one game. You're playing many, many different games, and the game that you choose to play is the one that is most proximate to you, the one that is most close to you, and that impacts your decision -making the most, okay? So that's the law of proximity. So let me explain to you what this means using an analogy, okay? Let's just use your life. You are playing, actually, multiple games every single day, all right? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 15:32 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: So let's examine this. The first game you play, of course, is the family game, right? So you might have parents. And you have siblings, okay? And the game you're playing, of course, is to win attention from your parents. And to do so, depending on who your siblings are, you might use different strategies, including doing well in school or being a pain in the ass. Unfortunately, my kids choose to be a pain in the ass, okay? Yes. The parents are playing another game, which is social. Social. Social. Social. Social. And it's about prestige, right? So they're competing against other parents to have the best family possible, all right? And then, not only do you play a game at home, but you also play games at school, right? So, when you go to school, you're competing against your classmates for attention and popularity, but you're also playing a game in the school to get the best grades so that you can get into a good college, right? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 16:43 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-nearest-game-governs) Text: Yeah, I know. Then you go to work, where you're competing in order to win the favor of your boss and to be popular among your colleagues. Then you play a city game where you live in Beijing and you want Beijing to be better than maybe Shanghai or Shenzhen. And then you play a game of maybe a nation where you want China to be stronger than Japan. So as you can see, every single day you're playing multiple games, even though you may not recognize it. And again, what's important is the game that is most important to you is the game which you are most close to, the one that you can see in front of you. Does that make sense? But this is also true for nations as well, where we think that the game is between nations. But really, the game is within nations. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 17:46 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-nearest-game-governs) Text: And the conflict within nations is the one conflict that determines how nations behave against each other. So today, what we will do is we will look at three examples of this. We will look at the civil conflicts in America, in Israel, and in Iran to figure out why they behave the way they do. And then figure out how this war will progress. So clearly, there is a civil conflict right now in America. You have the Democrats and you have Republicans. Now what's odd is that even though these two different political parties are at war with each other, they both support the war because their calculus is different. So why do the Democrats support this war? Well. It's because they believe that this war will be extremely unpopular in America, which will allow the Democrats to dominate in the midterms in November and then win the presidential election in 2028. And they believe ## The Nearest War Wins -- 19:02 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: that this war will be so unpopular it will destroy Donald Trump and allow the Democrats to rule forever. It will basically destroy the Republican Party. And so that is your strategy. And if you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. The Republicans have a different strategy, which is this war may be unpopular and this war may make America lose, but it's okay. Why? Because in a time of war, the president has something called the Emergency Powers Act. Okay? Emergency powers. Emergency powers allows the president to essentially suspend the constitution and to suspend or delay elections. Also, the Republicans want to pass something called Safe America Act, okay? The Safe America Act, which means that if you are a voter, you must present ID in order to vote. Okay? And you think that this is, well, reasonable. But historically, the idea of checking ID is a way to discriminate against minorities. Right? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 20:29 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: To have police officers there to scare minorities. And that's traditionally how racism was enforced in America. Okay? So, in other words, the Republicans have many different strategies of either cheating or manipulating the elections. They could also, I have to say this, but if the war is going really badly, what they will do is call up a national giraffe and cancel the elections. Okay? All right? So, these are two different strategies going on. But as you can see, this is not really about America defeating Iran. This is really about the Democrats or Republicans trying to obtain power and keep it. Okay? All right. But what's important for us to understand is that it's not just about the Democrats and Republicans at war with each other. There's actually a much deeper divide in America. Okay? And this divide is a conflict between the elite and the counter elite. Remember how we introduced the idea of elite overproduction, right? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 21:44 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: This is the Peter Turchin idea. And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is that you have too many elite who want to be the ones in power. Power is a zero sum game. And therefore, when you have elite overproduction, they have to go to war against each other in order to have the power. Okay? And so, what's going on? Who are the elite and who is the counter elite? Well, I mean, to put it very simply, the Democrats represent the elite and the Republicans represent the counter elite. Okay? So, basically, the elite is the empire. And counter elite is MAGA, which is America First. And so, they have two different ideals for America. The empire is to maintain a current global order, right? And MAGA is to retreat back into the Western Hemisphere and focus on Americans' core national interests. All right? They're also divided into finance. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 22:54 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Okay? And AI. Okay? So, in other words, Wall Street are the main backers of the current elite. And then Silicon Valley are the main backers of the counter elite. Okay? So, these people are interested in maintaining the status quo. They are interested in a revolution. All right? And so, this is the main divide in America that will eventually lead to a civil war. Like an actual civil war. Okay? But right now, they're fighting over foreign policy. So, I will discuss this more in the future. Okay? But I present to you now. So, let me give you a concrete example of why they're fighting. Why are people in finance fighting with people in AI? And there's a very good reason. Because if you're able to control Washington, D.C. You're able to control the economy. If you're able to control the levers of government, you're able to make a lot of money for yourself. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 24:05 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Okay? So, let's look at this concretely. What people don't really understand is that both finance and AI are bubbles that will burst. They're parasites. Okay? So, finance is a parasite because there's something called a private credit bubble. All right? Okay? So, the private credit bubble... I mean, the idea of private credit is very simple. Rather than banks issuing loans to companies, companies privately issue loans to other companies. And you would think that these companies would be very careful with who they lend to and how much they lend to. Right? That's not true though. Okay? Why? Because in 2008, these banks destroyed the global economy. And the American government bailed them out. Right? They suffered no consequences. This idea of moral hazard. If you do not suffer consequences for your stupidity, well, you're just going to be more stupid in the future. Okay? So, these companies believe that we control Washington, D.C. Therefore, we can be as risky and stupid as we want. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 25:26 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: So, they're giving out lots and lots of silly loans to companies because they collect the fees. For these loans, right? And then, when these loans don't actually work out, meaning the companies go bankrupt, what they do is they say, oh, we'll lend you some more money to keep afloat. Okay? So, now this problem has reached about $2 trillion. And so, they think that, okay, well, worst case scenario, the government will bail us out if we all go bankrupt because we're too big to fail and all our friends are in government. Okay? That's their mentality. And in 2008, that worked. But there's a problem today, which is there's also another group that's doing the same crap. Okay? And it's called the AI bubble. All right. So, if you look at AI bubble, you've got companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, okay? Lots and lots of different companies. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 26:22 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And the way they operate is they just lend money to each other. Okay? It's like I give you a billion dollars, then you give me a billion dollars, and now we're at $2 billion. Okay? It's a circle jerk. And it's getting a lot of money from the GCC and other investors. The problem, of course, is what's happening in the war. Right? So, if the GCC can no longer put more money into this bubble, then eventually this bubble will have to burst. But they're like, that's okay. Why? Because we control Trump. We control the White House. We are the start market. Therefore, Washington DC is the start market. Washington DC will bail us out. Okay? So, that's the war going on, where you have two parasitic forces, the finance sector and the tech sector, and they are all looking for government bailouts when their bubble bursts. But the government doesn't have infinite money. It can only bail out one side. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 27:22 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Right? So, they're going to fight over who bails who out. Okay? If the Democrats can win the House and the presidency into 2028, then the private credit people will get bailed out. But if Trump and his people stay in power in 2028, then the AI people will get bailed out. Okay? So, that's the civil war going on in America right now. We'll discuss this more later in the future, but I'll just present to you right now. Okay? And then, of course, you have the Israelis. Israel. People don't really appreciate how diverse they are. How divided Israel is. This is about 2020, when you have a million people in Tel Aviv calling for the resignation, the impeachment, the jailing of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Because, Netanyahu, like most Israeli politicians, is very corrupt. Okay? And to avoid going to jail, Netanyahu proposed changing the judiciary, changing the laws. Okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 28:27 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And so, there's these massive protests against Netanyahu. And at this point, in Israel, it seemed as though Netanyahu was going to fall from power and go to jail for the rest of his life. But then, of course, October 7th happened. Okay? October 7th happened, and then Israel is now in permanent war that gives him emergency powers. Okay? All right. To give you a sense of how divided Israel is, let's look at the Knesset, which is a parliament. Guys, this is a lot of political parties. As you can see, none of them are dominant. Okay? The biggest, Likud, which is a Netanyahu party, it has about 30 members. But it cannot rule by itself, therefore it has to join with other political parties. Okay? It has to be a coalition. But you look at its enemies, well, its enemies also have a lot. So it seems as though Israel is an extremely divided society. And it is. Okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 29:25 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-guardrail-against-master-plan) Text: Let's appreciate this. You know, a lot of people talk about a Jewish global conspiracy. What people don't really understand is the Jewish people have never, ever gotten along. So you go back to the time of Jesus, and there were like three major factions in Jerusalem. They were the Sadducees, there were the Pharisees, and the Essenes. They all hated each other. In the year 70, the Romans had a huge army to destroy Jerusalem. Okay? And you would think at this time, the people in Jerusalem, they were like, well, they're going to get together and unite and defend Jerusalem, because otherwise they'd all be killed. Well, they didn't get together. Okay? And the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and burned down the second temple and massacred a lot of Jews. So the Jews have always had this problem where they're extremely creative and intellectual, but that just leads to massive infighting. Okay? All right. So these are the leaders of Israel. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 30:26 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: The different political parties of Israel. And again, I hate to say this, but they really hate each other. It's not a show. They generally hate each other. And that's why Israel has been politically been so dysfunctional these past few decades. Okay? All right. So now I want to discuss where the major conflict in Israel is. Okay. So I would say there's... The two major conflict is represented by Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. These are two cities in Israel, and they are the two major cities of Israel, and they represent two different centers of gravity, two different visions for Israel. Tel Aviv is democratic. Jerusalem is a theocracy, meaning it's religious. Okay? Tel Aviv is open. Meaning, it actually has a lot of homosexuality. Right? And you can imagine people in Jerusalem aren't happy about this, so they're very conservative. Okay. Okay. Cosmopolitan tradition. All right. So these are two vastly different visions for Israel, where Tel Aviv is this open, democratic, modern, progressive city. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 32:01 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Lots of homosexuals. Lots of open ideas. Very secular. Very outward looking. Very Western. Jerusalem is the complete opposite. Okay? Very religious. Very conservative. And they, again, they hate each other. And the fact that Tel Aviv is getting destroyed right now in this war, people in Jerusalem are actually okay with this. Okay? They're not like, oh my God, they're killing Israel. No, no, no. Tel Aviv is the great Satan. Let's just destroy it so that we can build a theocracy. Okay. All right. So let's look closely at where they disagree. Okay? So Israel is the kingdom of David, but Tel Aviv and Jerusalem perceive David differently. Okay? So for people in Tel Aviv, David was the king when Israel was at the height of its glory, when it was an open, cosmopolitan, creative, innovative empire. And that's what they want Israel to be. The people in Jerusalem see this, see David as a different person. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 33:11 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: They see David as primarily a poet prophet, and they see David as the exemplar, as the favorite of God, because he redeemed himself and repented himself in the eyes of God. Okay? So redemption and repentance. All right. And what they focus on is a story of David, where David is king, and one day he wakes up. David wakes up and finds he's in love with Bathsheba. And so he basically has sex with Bathsheba. Bathsheba gets pregnant, and that's a problem because Bathsheba is married to someone else, Uriah the Hittite. So what does David do? David has him killed. Okay? And David can do this because he's king. But God finds out and sends the prophet Nathan to tell David, you've sinned. And at first, David refuses to admit that he's in the wrong. But then his child, Bathsheba, dies. And David falls into tremendous grief. And every day, he's praying to God for forgiveness. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 34:28 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: He's asking for redemption. He is repenting. And God forgives him. And in this process, not only does David become a better person, but he becomes united with God, because now they're best friends. Now they talk every day. And that's what the vision for David is. That the people of Jerusalem have for Israel, a nation that engages in redemption and repentance. They don't care about this war. They don't care about Iran. They don't care about the United States. They don't care about the Great Israel Project. They care about the Jews finding God again and being loyal to God. And that is what will bring peace to the world. Okay? That is how they see the world. This is how they perceive things. They believe that. They believe that in every person, there's a divine soul, okay, that comes from God. But it is trapped in the animal soul. Okay? So, Tel Aviv is the animal soul. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 35:32 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And this is the divine soul. All right? So, what the animal soul is, you seek material comfort. You want to have sex. You want to get drunk. You want to party. You want to drive a Ferrari. Okay? This is all animal. But inside of you is the divine soul that only seeks to be with God. Okay? And so, we are caught in a struggle between the animal soul and the divine soul. And so, from their perspective, Tel Aviv represents the animal soul of Israel. Jerusalem represents the divine soul of Israel. So, it's okay if the Iranians destroy Tel Aviv. Good. Also, they recognize that war is good. Because if people really want to find God again, they need to suffer. They need to lose everything before they recognize the glory of God. Okay? So, think of the book of Job. Job is a character in the Bible who is very wealthy. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 36:38 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: And so, God decides, you know what? Maybe he's only faithful to me because he's very wealthy. So, Job loses everything. And this heightens his faith in God. Okay? So, that's the vision that these Christians have. This vision that the men of Israel have is that in the time of their destruction, It's a very crazy vision. But the Jewish people are the ones who are so crazy religious zealots have in Jerusalem. Which is like, let's destroy Israel so that we can refine, rediscover our love for God. Okay? The destruction of Israel will lead to the redemption and repentance of the Israeli people and therefore peace in this world. The Messiah will finally come. That's why the Rabbi was constantly talking about on Thursday the Messiah will come because he feels it's so close there's so much destruction there's so much war so the Messiah must come because now the Jews recognize that only God ## The Nearest War Wins -- 37:35 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: can save them therefore when you will it when you pray for the Messiah when you really want in your heart that's when the Messiah will come okay but you need to create the conditions when people really want the Messiah okay so that's a civil conflict going on in Israel and again these people in Jerusalem these fanatics they don't really care if the world is destroyed because this world is fake anyway who cares what matters is the divine soul okay all right yeah you have ## The Nearest War Wins -- 38:11 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2291s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: a question today which is Thursday and like no I didn't say that I didn't say ## The Nearest War Wins -- 38:24 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: that ## The Nearest War Wins -- 38:25 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: the rabbi said that ah the rabbi said that like the Messiah is coming today but like well the coming of Messiah really affect China and those countries or is all their personal beliefs okay listen I know this is hard for you guys ## The Nearest War Wins -- 38:42 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: understand but China doesn't matter okay only Israel matters United States China Russia does not matter the only thing that matters is Israel okay only matters is the people in Israel the Jews so these are major country countries they become religious countries Grandma work with the Jewish communities but turn things upside down and if you listen we absolutely agreed that what's on the left is what's on the right and so on the right is what's on the left and the left is what's on the right and everything is just in person okay and I'm just trying not toления even God's advice talking about immigration however if you want to pleaseWho are you guys things don't divided into the religious aspects, assembly of experts, and the secular aspect, which is the government. So it's a government, but the Islamic clerics are at the very top, and this is the dual identity of Iran. This is their last ## The Nearest War Wins -- 39:55 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: presidential election, and as you can see, it's a pretty divided country, where people in the middle voted for Jalali, but people in the outskirts voted for Pajasikin. So there's a lot of conflict in Iran, not just political, religious, but also ethnic as well. So let me explain very quickly what I see as a major divide in Iran. So of course, Iran is divided. Of course, you have the Islamic theocracy, and they're in conflict with secular nationalists. And of course, there are these ethnic groups as well. I don't really think the ethnic groups matter that much. What really matters is the conflict between the secular nationalists and the Islamic theocracy. So basically, the rural -urban divide. People who are well -educated and want to see Iran as a secular state that promotes democracy, and progress, and science, versus these religious individuals, okay? Now what happens is that in a war, you become more extreme. So what will happen is that the Islamic theocracy will transition into Shia eschatology, or martyrdom, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 41:37 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Where they think that this war is about having a twelfth iman, massacres, and so on. And the Shia, who is basically the messiah, will turn to lead them to war against the great Satan, which is Israel in the United States, okay? So over time, the Islamists will become much more radical. This will force the secular nationalists to also become much more radical as well. So they will become Persian exceptionalists, okay? What this just means is that... Persian exceptionalism. Which just means that Persia is the greatest civilization in human history. And therefore, it is worth dying for, it is worth fighting for. The survival of the Persian civilization is much more important than the survival of the Iranian state, okay? So the great question for the Iranians is, are they able to reconcile the differences between these two strands of the culture? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 42:45 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: Or will this lead to civil war in Iran, okay? We are seeing civil war in Israel, we're seeing civil war in America. Iran cannot afford to fight a civil war at this time, because they're being bombarded by two very powerful nations, Israel and America, okay? But unfortunately, the law of proximity teaches us that people are much more interested in war. In their own internal conflict than the outside global conflict, okay? And so this understanding now helps us answer the three big questions of today, right? How are these leaders getting killed? Why are they getting killed? And what will this mean for the rest of the world, okay? And so the first two questions, how are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Because of all these civil conflicts within these nations, okay? These different factions are providing intelligence to their enemies in order to limit their internal enemies, right? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 43:57 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: That's, again, I don't have evidence, but I think, according to game theory, that's the best explanation for how these leaders are getting killed. Because again, it's not that easy as a foreign nation to identify the location precisely of that leader, okay? And what we're seeing in this war is both the Iranians and Israelis are doing a very excellent job of killing each other's leaders. That's not actually common, right? So I think this civil conflict within these nations offers the best guide, the best understanding of why this happened, okay? The third question is, where's the world going? As you can see from these conflicts, it seems as though the world can all be divided. It's going to become much more theocratic in the end, okay? So what's happening is, at the end of the day, this war in Iran, in the Middle East, it's really a war between two different competing visions of the world, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 45:04 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: You have the global secular financial order, okay? And this is the world that we live in today. Okay? And they're fighting against a nationalist theocracy, theocratic. So this is what we can expect for the next five to 10 years, where Iran becomes much more theocratic and extreme and nationalistic. Israel abandons democracy and embraces theocracy. America will also abandon democracy and embrace theocracy, because that is a general trend of the world, okay? Okay? So what I want to do in the next class is discuss how the world will change in the next five to 10 years, all right? Okay. Any questions? Okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 46:08 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2768s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2768s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: You mentioned that Israel have two divided parts, and one represents the animal soul, and the other represents the divine soul. Like I can substitute this logic to a single person. Like... People are always struggled with like identify or not identify, like separating the divine soul and pursue the divine soul, but they cannot get rid of the animal soul. Is there a way where we can only struggle in our lives? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 46:43 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2803s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Okay. So first of all, it's important to understand that this is how religious people in Israel frame the conflict in Israel, okay? A conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The... People in Tel Aviv would frame the debate as one between progress and tradition, right? Going forward or staying backward, right? So that is... So people in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem would see this in a different way. But as you point out, there's some validity to this idea that we're all struggle between the animal soul and the divine soul. And... I would say... I would say that for the past 20 years, we only have been indulging in the animal soul, okay? We've abandoned the divine soul. And that's why I think people are so desperate for change. And this is what's leading to so much conflict around the world, where the human soul is off balance, okay? ## The Nearest War Wins -- 47:48 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: Where we are too materialistic and not spiritual enough. And what we know from history is that if you... If a society... If a society goes too far in one extreme, they swing back to the extreme, okay? And that's what we're seeing, where one good outcome, I think, of all this conflict around the world is people start to recognize limitations of money, of materialism, of individualism. And they start to embrace more spirituality, community, family. Because quite honestly, you don't have a choice in the matter, okay? If you... If you're like, you know, I want to buy myself a Gulfstream jet, and I want to have, like, you know, a huge company, you're going to be disappointed, okay? As I will show you next class, the world is heading towards an economic depression, okay? Basically a splintering, a rupture in the world. And so you're not going to be able to afford to fly to Maldives for vacation. ## The Nearest War Wins -- 48:53 - Source title: Game Theory #14: The Law of Proximity - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOQqGy4boBY&t=2933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-noqqgy4boby.json) Text: There will be... There will be avocados in the supermarket, okay? But all this means is now you have a chance to focus more on introspection, on reflection, on family, on asking yourself, what makes me happy? What gives me meaning and purpose in life? And the answer, of course, is each other, okay? And maybe this is a good thing. Maybe this is the intention of the universe. Maybe as the people of Jerusalem would say, this is really the plan of God. Okay? And it's unfortunate that all this war and suffering is happening. But again, what a lot of people who are religious will tell you is, we can only find redemption through suffering and through pain and through tragedy, all right? Okay? Any more questions, guys? Okay. All right. I'll see you next class. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: We've read the Iliad and the Odyssey. So Homer becomes the basis for Greek civilization, meaning that all educated Greeks, they memorize the Iliad and the Odyssey. People don't read them right now at this point. They speak and they listen in front of an audience. And so Homer becomes basically the infrastructure of their mental worldview. And this leads to the greatest civilization in human history. But eventually the Romans will conquer the Greeks. The Romans will conquer the entire Mediterranean. And they will create the Roman Empire. The Romans are nothing like the Greeks. The Greeks are very open, very curious. They believe in the idea of Erette and Eudaimonia. Erette means excellence, to be the best at what you can. Eudaimonia means flourishing. You can only achieve human happiness if you achieve your Erette. You become your Erette. So think of Odysseus, who was a great speaker. That is his Erette. And he uses his speech in order to fulfill his destiny and to save his family. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 1:45 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: And that achieves Eudaimonia. The Romans are very different. The Romans believe in the idea of piety. This means obedience to your father s, to history and to tradition. And so the Romans aren t extremely conservative people, but they re very good at fighting wars. And that s why they become the empire. But after the empire is established, what the Romans recognize is that Greek culture is vastly superior. And many well -educated Romans drift towards greek culture which in the roman perspective leads to the corruption of the roman soul and so augustus caesar who is really considered the first emperor of rome he recognizes that in the long term even though the romans have conquered the greeks physically spiritually the greeks will conquer the the romans and the main issue is homer so his solution is to destroy homer you can't burn books because uh there ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 3:09 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-trojan-horse-inverts-inherited-world) Text: are that many books and also people have memorized homer so you need to corrupt homer and the solution that he devises is called the in the ad and we can consider the iniat as the the anti -Homer okay or the inversion of Homer taking the ideas of Homer and inverting them okay so this becomes the bible of the Roman empire meaning that if you're a school boy you have to memorize the Iliad and this is the main way that you learn Latin the official language of the Roman Empire and so whereas Homer will give us Greek civilization and the birth of Western civilization the Iliad will create the Dark Ages about a thousand years when Western creativity ends and then someone will emerge who will recognize the evil that is the Iliad and he will create a antidote to the poison that is the Iliad and this person of course is called Dante okay and ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 4:29 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: so what we'll do is we will read the Iliad for the next two weeks and understand how it poisons and corrupts Homer and then this will lead us to the divine comedy which is really the liberation of the human soul from the poison that is the Iliad okay all right so some basic background about the Iliad so the Iliad what it does is it takes the poison that is the Iliad and it takes the poison that is the Iliad and it takes the poison that is the Iliad and it takes the poison that is the Iliad and it replicates both the Odyssey and the Iliad the Iliad is 12 it's 24 books the first 12 books models of the Odyssey the last 12 books models of the Iliad so the story begins when Aeneas he is one of the survivors of the fall of Troy okay and so he takes his father and his child ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 5:19 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-trojan-horse-inverts-inherited-world) Text: to go off to the Italian peninsula because the gods have told him that he is fated he is destined to found the Roman empire and that's why the gods had to destroy Troy in order to create the Roman empire but as he sails to Italian peninsula there's a shipwreck and he lands in Carthage okay Carthage and there he meets the Queen Diddle and the Carthaginians and Diddle are extremely hospitable to Aeneas this huge banquet and Aeneas is telling her of the story of the fall of Troy, how Troy fell. Remember that Homer doesn't actually discuss the fall of Troy but Aeneas will discuss the fall of Troy and by discussing the fall of Troy his main purpose is to show how duplicitous, manipulative, deceptive the Greeks are. He's also going to tell us why the values of Homer are evil, why love is evil, why love will lead you into tragedy. And then by telling the story what will happen is that Aeneas will seduce Dido. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 6:42 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Dido will fall in love with him because not only is he brave and handsome but he's also a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. he's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a good man. He's a great poet. He's able to tell the story in a beautiful manner and so they fall in love. Okay? Alright, so this is the beginning of the Ineos and so what we're gonna read first is Aeneas's story of the fall of Troy. It begins when the Greeks pretend to leave the beaches of Troy and they leave behind a wooden horse. There's a huge debate among the Trojans as to what to do with this horse and ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 7:21 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: they decide basically you know we can't take a risk let's just destroy this horse throw it into the sea and then what happens is that a greek soldier emerges and he's a prisoner he was caught by some shepherds and he tells a story of the trojan horse and why it's really not a threat to the trojans in fact it's a gift from the greeks to the gods so because it's a gift to the gods you cannot destroy it because then you piss off the gods okay and what this is going to show us is that the greek culture philosophy theater rhetoric it's all one of deception the real trojan horse is greek culture you cannot let greek culture into rome because then it will corrupt and poison the the empire from within okay so that so again this is propaganda so it's very blatant what they're doing okay it's very blatant what virgil um is ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 8:24 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: doing and okay something i i need to explain is like virgil is considered the poet who composed this uh in the ad but it was actually augustus caesar who wrote this basically augustus caesar was the one who provided virgil with a framework and then virgil um uh composed it into latin poetry and actually at the end of his life virgil actually want to burn this down burn this and the reason why is if you're a poet what you believe is that your gift comes from the gods and so you represent the gods but if you actually work for the empire you actually use your gift for the emperor then maybe the gods will punish you right so virgil virgil was very much afraid and he wanted to like burn the uh in the ad um but augustus caesar would not let him and so this became the bible of the roman empire it is a ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 9:26 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: evil evil piece of work okay and it is the anti -homer so we're going to study it um because it's going to shape western civilization throughout the middle ages until the coming of dante okay so all right so ivory can you read please yeah suddenly in the ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 9:46 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: thick of it all a young soldier hands shackled behind his back with much shouting trojan shepherds were hauling him toward the king he'd come on demand by chance a total stranger he'd given himself up with one goal in mind to open troy to the greeks and lay her waist he trusted to courage nerved for either end to weave his lies or face a certain death young trojan recruits keen to have a look came scurrying up from all sides crowding round outdoing each other to make a mockery of the king's throne and to be a great hero of the king's throne and to be a hero of the of the captive. Now, hear the treachery of the Greeks and learn from a single crime the nature of the beast. Haggard, helpless, there in our midst he stood, all eyes riveting on him now, and turning a wary glance at the lines of Trojan troops, he groaned and spoke. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 10:33 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Where can I find some refuge? Where on land, on sea? What's left for me now? A man of so much misery. Nothing among the Greeks, no place at all. And worse, I see my Trojan enemies crying for my blood. His groans convince us, cutting all our show of violence short. Okay, so there's something in history, and this is about 30 BCE. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 10:56 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-trojan-horse-inverts-inherited-world) Text: Greek theater is very, very popular. The Romans loved Greek theater, and Greek theater is really the very paragon of Greek civilization. And what this is telling us is that, no, Greek theater, is evil. It's meant to deceive us. Okay, so this soldier, this Greek soldier, he is trained in theater. He's trained in philosophy. He's trained in rhetoric. And he's using all his craft, all his skills, in order to ultimately deceive the good, but naive Trojans. Okay? All right, so he tells a story of how he came to be left behind in Troy. And the story is that he pissed off Odysseus. And Odysseus plotted against him. So when it came time for the Greeks to leave Troy and sell home, they needed to sacrifice a person. And that person was this guy. But somehow, this guy ran off. Okay? Okay, can you read? I'll read. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 11:55 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: The day of infamy soon came. The sacred rites were all performed for the victim, the salted meal strewn, the bands tied around my head. But I broke free of death, I tell you, burst my shackles, yes, and hid all night in the wreaths of a marshy lake, waiting for them to sail. If only they would sail. Well, no hope now of seeing the land where I was born or my sweet children, the father I longed for all these years. Maybe they'll wring from them the price for my escape, avenge my guilt with my loved one's blood, poor things. I beg you, King, by the powers who know the truth, by any trust still uncorrupt in the world of men, pity a man whose torment knows no bounds. Pity me in my pain. I know in my soul I don't deserve to suffer. He wept and won his life, our pity too. Priam takes command, has him freed from the ropes and chains that bind him fast, and hails him warmly. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 12:56 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Whoever you are, from now on, you've lost the Greeks. Put them out of your mind and you'll be one of us. But answer my questions. Tell me the whole truth. Why did they raise up this giant, monstrous horse? Who conceived it? What's it for? Its purpose? What did it do? What does it give to the gods? A great engine of battle? ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 13:15 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Okay, so again, this reminds us of the Iliad, where Priam the king of the Trojans is known for being a very generous, benevolent, open person. But this will lead to the doom of Troy. So remember in the Iliad, it is because of Prime's generosity, his ability to forgive Achilles, leads to the great friendship between Priam and Achilles okay and again Virgil's trying to reverse this and he's trying to show us that no you think that generosity will lead to goodness no generosity will lead to evil you see how Prime is too trusting too generous and so he believes this Greek soldier and then he will allow the Trojans to bring the horse into Troy and at night the Greek soldiers will escape from the horse, open the gates of Troy, and now the Greeks are rushing in to kill everyone. okay and Aeneas hears this slaughtering and the tries to save as many people as he can. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 14:31 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: And his first thought is, where is my king? How do I save my king? Okay so as the Greeks are ravaging the city killing as many prisoners as they can now and he is down at the town which people as they can, Aeneas is rushing to save his king Priam, all right? All right, so can you read Ivory? ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 14:46 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=886s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=886s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Perhaps you wonder how Priam met his end. When he saw his city stormed and seized, his gates wrenched apart, the enemy camped in his palace depths. The old man donned his armor, long unused. He clamps it round his shoulders, shaking with age, and, all for nothing, straps his useless sword to his hip, then makes, for the thick of battle, out to meet his death. At the heart of the house, an ample altar stood, naked under disguise, an ancient laurel bending over the shrine, embracing our household gods within its shade. Here, flocking the altar, Hecuba and her daughters huddled, blown headlong down like doves by a black storm, clutching, all for nothing, the figures of their gods. Seeing Priam decked in the arms he'd worn as a young man, she cried, Are you insane? Poor husband, what impels you to strap that sword on now? Where are you rushing? Too late for such defense, such help, not even for my own Hector, if he came to the rescue now. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 15:50 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Come to me, Priam. This altar will shield us all, or else you'll die with us. With those words drawing him towards her there, she made a place for the old man beside the holy shrine. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 16:01 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=961s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=961s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Okay, let's continue. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 16:04 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Suddenly, look, a son of Priam, Polites, just escaped from slaughter at Pyrrhus' hands. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 16:10 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Okay, so Pyrrhus is a son of Achilles, okay? So this is a rewriting of the ending of the Iliad, where Priam and Achilles have this great emotional battle where they forgive each other, and Priam's love for Hector and Achilles' love for his father unifies their soul, okay? This is gonna be a rewriting of that battle. So Achilles is dead, and now his son is seeking to kill Priam. Keep on going. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 16:44 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Comes racing through spheres Through enemy fighters Fleeing down the long arcades And deserted hallways Badly wounded Pyrrhus hot on his heels A weapon poised for the kill About to seize him About to run him through And pressing home As Polites reaches his parents And collapses Vomiting out his lifeblood Before their eyes ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 17:05 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: So again, this is a rewriting of the Iliad where now Polites becomes Hector, right? Because remember, Achilles kills Hector at the gates of Troy and Prime Hecuba are on the walls watching this. And then Achilles commits a war crime by basically tying Hector to his chariot and then dragging Hector all around the walls of Troy. So this is a reimagining of that scene. Okay, keep on going. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 17:37 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: At that, Priam, trapped in the grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage. You, he cries, you and your vicious crimes. If any power on Hyle recoils with such an outrage, let the gods repay you for all your reckless work. Grant you the thanks, the rich reward you've earned. You've made me see my son's death with my own eyes. Defile the father's sight with his son's lifeblood. You've made me see my son's death with my own eyes. You say you're Achilles' son? You lie. Achilles never treated his enemy Priam so. No, he honored a suppliant's right. He blessed to betray my trust. He restored my Hector's bloodless corpse for burial. Sent me safely home to the land I rule. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 18:23 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Okay, so again, he is reminding us of the ending of the Iliad where in this great war, peace and love come to universe when Achilles and Prime Hecuba are on the walls. Achilles and Prime Hecuba are on the walls. He is telling us that the Iliad will be destroyed. He is saying that your father destroyed the legacy of your father. You've destroyed the friendship between us. Alright, keep on reading. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 18:54 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: With that and with all his might, the old man flings his spear. But too impotent now to pierce. It merely grazes Pyrrhus' brazen shield that blocks his way and clings there, dangling limb from the boss. All for nothing. It's not like the Iliad is so weak. It's not like the Iliad is so strong. It's not like the Iliad is so weak. It's not like the Iliad is so strong. It's all for nothing. Pyrrhus shouts back, well then, down you go, a messenger to my father, Peleus' son, tell him about my vicious work, how Neoptolemus degrades his father's name, don't you forget, now die, that said, he drags the old man straight to the altar, quaking, slithering on through slicks of his son's blood, and twisting Priam's hair in his left hand, his right hand sweeping forth his sword, a flash of steel, he buries his hilt deep in the king's flank, such was the fate ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 19:48 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: of Priam, his death, his lot on earth, with Troy blazing before his eyes, her ramparts down, the monarch who once had ruled in all his glory the many lands of Asia, Asia's many tribes, a powerful trunk is lying on the shore, the head wrenched from the shoulders, a corpse without a name, ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 20:34 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: is an extremely violent poetry, in fact, you can say it's almost pornographic in the violence that it depicts, all right, and the Romans just love this, because they are a bloodthirsty people, all right, all right, so Priam is dead, and with its death, what it is doing is negating the moral lesson of the book, of the Iliad, to forgive one's enemy, okay, so the Romans read this, and they remember reading the Iliad, and say, oh my God, I was wrong to think that Priam was heroic in forgiving Achilles, what I should be really thinking is, what a foolish old man, who deserves to die for thinking that his enemy should be forgiven, for thinking that his enemy has a good soul in him, okay, so again, this is negating, the Iliad, it's actually poisoning, and corrupting the Iliad, all right, so, now, Aeneas is talking about his reaction, watching his king die, okay, keep on ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 21:53 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: reading, Ivory, ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 21:54 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: then, for the first time, the full horror came home to me at last, I froze, the thought of my own dear father filled my mind, when I saw the old king gasping out his life, with that raw wound, both men were the same age, and the thought of my cruza, alone, abandoned, our house plundered, our little Ilias' fate, I look back, what forces still stood by me, none, totally spent in war, they'd all deserted, down from the roofs, they've clung themselves to earth, or hold their broken bodies in the flames, so, at just that moment, I was the one man left, and then I saw her, clinging to Vestas' threshold, hiding, in silence, tucked away. Helen of Argos. Glare of the fires lit my view as I looked down, scanning the city left and right, and there she was. Terrified of the Trojans' hate, now Troy was overpowered. Terrified of the Greeks' revenge, her deserted husband's rage. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 22:56 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: That universal fury, a curse to Troy and her native land. And here she lurked, skulking, a thing of loathing, cowering at the altar. Helen. Out it flared, the fire inside my soul, my rage ablaze to avenge our fallen country. Pay Helen back, crime for crime. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 23:15 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Okay, so Aeneas is watching his entire civilization being destroyed, and he knows that his family will be destroyed as well. And he is taken aback. He's sort of like paralyzed by his anger. And his hatred, and his fear. And then he sees Helen. And he's like, this is her fault. Okay? This is why we are, we are destroyed as civilization, because of this whore. Okay? And so this is telling us what? The lesson from this is that love is a source of evil in the world. Okay? Love is a source of evil in this world. Remember the Odyssey. What is the Odyssey? What is the main lesson of the Odyssey? Love is the redemptive force of the world, right? If you are shattered as a person, it is love that will lead you home and heal you as a person. And what the Aeneas is saying instead is that love is what destroys civilization. Love is what corrupts you. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 24:30 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1470s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Love is what leads you to hell. Okay? All right, so he wants to kill Helen as revenge for the destruction of the world. And he wants to kill Helen as revenge for the destruction of Troy. But then what happens is that Aeneas' mother, Venus, okay? So Venus is his mother, steps in, appears before him and says, no, you can't do this. You have to go home and save your wife and your child. Okay? So Aeneas goes home. And what he does is he takes his family and takes them to the ship to escape Troy. But as they are running through the, um, um, streets of Troy, uh, what Aeneas does is he puts his father on his back. Okay? And he holds his son, his young son, uh, Ilias. And the, and Cresa, the wife, has to follow them. Okay? So that, that's the Roman priority. Okay? ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 25:30 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1530s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: The most important person in the family is the patriarch, the father. Then is the son who inherits. And the wife is just someone who follows. Okay? So Aeneas' job is to serve rather than being equal in the relationship. And this is, again, it's very different from the Odyssey, where in many ways Penelope and Odysseus are equal to each other. Okay? All right. So what happens is that Aeneas gets to the ship and he, and he puts his father and his son on the ship ready to escape. But he recognizes at the, at the very last minute, his wife is missing. So he goes back and tries to save his wife, but his wife is dead. And why is she dead? Because she killed herself. Why did she kill herself? She killed herself because it is her duty not to burden her husband. Because her husband is destined for great things. He's destined to found an empire. So he must marry into a new lineage, a new world family. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 26:31 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: And therefore she has to kill herself to free him. But not only that, but if she were to become a slave to the Greeks, it would cost him embarrassment. For the rest of his life. Right? Okay. So that is the Roman perception of a wifely duty. Okay. If you're not useful to your husband, just kill yourself. Okay. Can you read? ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 26:59 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Creusa, nothing, no reply. And again, Creusa. But then as I mildly rushed from house to house, no one in sight, abruptly. Right before my eyes, I saw her stricken ghost, my own Creusa's shade. But larger than life. the life I'd known so well. I froze. My hackles bristled, voice choked in my throat, and my wife spoke out to ease me of my anguish. My dear husband, why so eager to give yourself to such mad flights of grief? It's not without the will of the gods these things have come to pass. But the gods forbid you to take Ryusa with you, bound from Troy together. The king of lofty Olympus won't allow it. A long exile is your fate. The vast plains of the sea are yours to plow when you reach Hesperian land, where Lydian Tiber flows with a smooth march through rich and loamy fields, a land of hardy people. Their great joy and the kingdom are yours to claim, and the queen to make your wife. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 27:59 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Dispel your tears for Ryusa, whom you loved. I will never behold the high and mighty pride of their palaces, the Myrmidons, the Dilopians, or go as a slave to some Greek matron. No, not I, daughter of Dardanus that I am, the wife of Venus' son. The great mother of gods detains me on these shores, and now farewell. Hold dear the son we share, we love together. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 28:24 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: Again, this is very different from the Odyssey, where the Odyssey is really about a journey of two people, Penelope and Odysseus, to find each other again, because love is the greatest force in the universe, okay? Love is what compels the two to reunite and to find each other amidst all the chaos surrounding them. In the Iliad, the idea is that love is hell. So what is heaven, okay? If love is hell, what is heaven? Heaven is piety. Piety just means obedience to the prophecy of the gods, right? It is with the gods that Troy, destroyed, so that Rome can be created. It is the prophecy of the gods that Aeneas will be the one to lead the Trojans to found this Rome. And therefore, what is good, what is divine, is obedience to this prophecy, okay? So a long exile is your fate, all right? The king of lofty Olympus won't allow Zeus, okay, or Jupiter, demands this of us. ## The Poem That Poisoned Homer -- 29:42 - Source title: Great Books #7: The Anti-Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWTRvjZ1dw&t=1782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ebwtrvjz1dw.json) Text: If Jupiter demands us to sacrifice ourselves, then we must do so, okay? And so, this reverses the Odyssey, right? Where the gods willed that Penelope and Odysseus reunite. But here, the gods willed that Chryssa and Aeneas separate, all right? And the gods willed that Chryssa and Aeneas separate, all right? okay so um from our eyes this doesn't sound that influential but the reality is remember this becomes a basis of roman civilization all right and what is civilization but a set of values a set of ideas that guide you in your life okay and what this is doing is inverting homer poison encrypting homer all right okay any questions guys okay so we'll continue this next week okay ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Today I want to look at three questions. Why did this war between United States and Iran start? How will this war end? And what will happen after this war ends? And to answer these three questions, we need to discuss the nature and structure of our reality. And the first thing you need to understand, which is very hard, is that our world is a hallucination, it's a collective fantasy. Alright? So to understand this idea, let's look at Plato's Aligoi of the Cave. Plato's Aligoi of the Cave. And so in this cave, we're deep inside the earth, and it's dark there's some light coming in, but not much. I think there's something out there in this cave, and there's some light coming in, but not much. And we're all chained in a line together, okay? And there's about a million of us. We're on the floor and we're chained to the ground. And we can't really move. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 1:13 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=73s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=73s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: We can't get up. We can't move around. Even our necks are shackled. So we can't turn around and see the world around us. Okay, so there's about a million of us all sitting down and staring at a wall together, okay? And this wall is blank. Behind us is a great fire. And there are people around this fire, okay? They. We don't know who they are, but they are free to move around. And what they do is this. They take puppets. And then they reflect the puppets onto the wall, creating shadows. And we're mesmerized by these shadows. Because before, we're staring at a blank wall. And now there are these moving shadows. And we think these shadows are real because we don't know any better. So we give them names, okay? We give them names. And we create a language in order to tell stories about these shadows. And this becomes, really, our collective reality, okay? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 2:28 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: So another way of saying this is that reality is a... collective conscious, which is really a hallucination, okay? So there's certain things about this reality that we need to keep in mind, okay? So first of all, what's really important to understand is that what creates this reality is our conscious, our imagination, our perception. Not anyone else, us, okay? So in other words, the wealth in this society, Okay? So in other words, the wealth in this society, Okay? So in other words, the wealth in this society, is our conscious. Consciousness. The amount of thought we put into something. The amount of thought we put into something. So let me give an example. Let's just say that I were to ask you to make a vase to sell on the marketplace, okay? While you're making this vase, if you are listening to music, While you're making this vase, if you are listening to music, if you are ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 3:36 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: chatting with a friend, if you're not fully conscious, and focused, and attentive about making this vase, it won't be very good. but if you are completely focused on creating the most beautiful base you can and you're not distracted by anything then this vase will be beautiful and therefore more valuable in the marketplace okay so in other words it is our conscious attention that creates wealth in this in this world and it's really money or capital that extracts and stores our consciousness and turns it into wealth alright so it's a really important concept that most people don't understand but you need to understand this if we are to understand the nature of reality itself okay so it's the first thing you need to understand this reality is structured to extract our consciousness in order to create wealth for the elite for these people okay and historically there have been different mechanisms that you can use in ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 4:38 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: order to extract and store wealth alright so you have maybe religion okay and so think of penance pyramids right because pyramids in Egypt are able to focus your attention and motivate you to do certain actions okay to engage in religious worship but really any temples so that's one form of capital another form of capital of course is the idea of stories Homer right Homer is the father of Greek civilization because he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey which is able to focus people's attention and drive them to great things then you of course in today's world you have the Bible and the main mechanism to extract and store wealth in today's world of course is the US dollar now but there's another force that's being created in order to replace the US dollar and this is called artificial intelligence and so what we'll discuss later on is that there's actually a war going on for ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 5:55 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=355s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=355s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: the soul of humanity for the human consciousness between the US dollar the old world order and artificial intelligence the new world order okay but I want you to keep this in mind alright alright so that's the first thing I want you to understand second thing that I need you to understand is that these people they we don't know who they are okay but what we do know is that they don't force us to do anything there's not enough of them okay the way they maintain power is through manipulation and trickery and deception and we know this because in Plato's Avenue of the cave one day for whatever reason one guy decides you know what I feel as though this is not the real world I feel as though there's something outside this cave so he or she starts messing around with the chains and realizes these aren't chains these are just like ropes I can ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 6:58 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: just like get rid of them and there's this chain around my neck it's like a it's like a ribbon and he doesn't know why he does this but he does this he does do this and he when he does this they don't even care like whatever man do whatever you want and so he releases himself he's blind because he's been in dark all his life but somehow he recognizes that there's just light okay outside the cave and he is compelled to this light so he's walking stumbling to this light and again they are like watching him like we don't care do whatever you want man don't stop him he goes out into the light and now he's outside and it's pure light okay he's left the cave and at first he's in pain and he struggles to we are we're orientate himself to this new world but then eventually he falls in love with this ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 7:53 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=473s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: woman this woman this man this man this world it's a beautiful world and it's like for him heaven and he's like oh my god this is the real world the cave is a fake world that we created ourselves let me go back there and tell everyone about the truth and he goes back they again they lead don't stop him like whatever you want man do whatever you want okay so they who on power you think they have an army you think they have magic and you think that they're evil but really all their power rests on our belief in their power okay they themselves don't have any power except to manipulate us okay that's something you understand the third thing you you understand is that even though this is a fake world people don't know this they think it's real in fact they believe it is so real that they are willing to die for ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 8:52 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: it so that when this man who's seen heaven who's seen the truth who's come back to tell everyone these chains that you have aren't real we can break free and escape into the real world if they if he dares to tell them this together they will kill him did you understand so in other words the reality is a hallucination it's created by us but we fall in love with it we're so attached to it we're so attached to it that you know these things these these these things we can't forgive but it's it's part of the reason that we have to accept it like no one can ignore us and that's what we have to do so what do we do we have to understand this straw you know who's the human being who is the human being so you have to accept this and you have to accept it you have to accept what ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 9:48 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: you are and you have to accept what you are okay and what you have to accept and you can't do that without God and you don't want that so we have to accept the truth and basically just the military but they themselves don't really want to control this world because they're an army okay so what they do is they allow the creation of a financial order a global financial order which then constructs the game that we play okay and these people then construct the reality that we live in okay so this is the global financial order and what is this global financial order well at the very top is something called the Bank of International Settlements in base of Switzerland okay the central bank of central banks below them is the World Bank the IMF International Monetary Fund which controls the rules of the global financial order and then below them are something called the ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 10:43 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: central banks okay so the Federal Reserve in the United States the Bank of the People's Bank of China in China okay the Bank of England in England okay so together they create the global financial order. And what is the global financial order it's just to use the US dollar as a main mechanism of wealth extraction and wealth storage okay really simple the US dollar another way of understanding these people is to think of them as the game masters okay the ones above us who's constructed the game and control the rules of the game as we play it in the game masters okay so once the game has been created with the rules and incentives now we can play the game and this game is called the global economy all right so when China trades with the United States when you go off to Europe on vacation you're all participating in a game created by the ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 11:51 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-dollar-ai-consciousness-war) Text: financial order okay and the purpose of this global financial sorry this global economy is to have everyone play as much as possible so that wealth can be transferred from the world. To the United States the powers that be okay and they do this through two mechanisms the first is the US dollar so every time you use the US dollar you're actually paying a tax to America because America has the power to print as much US dollars as it wants okay it's the second way that it does this is for something called price hierarchy okay a price hierarchy so the global economy is divided into tiers okay so resources are considered the cheapest even though in reality it could be the most expensive right because resources are limited they're finite above resources of course is manufacturing and above manufacturing is knowledge economy and then the highest is finance okay basically the game masters all right so ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 12:56 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: and as we can see once with this price hierarchy in place what we can do now is divide the world according to the specialties okay so resource of course would be Russia. The Middle East the GCC okay Saudi Arabia okay so these places provide resources manufacturing then would be be China right knowledge would be Europe and uh the five eyes okay basically the Anglosphere Canada New Zealand Australia Britain um and then finance of course United States okay sorry the United States all right so as you can see this is a system. that benefits United States and his allies to the to the detriment of China and Russia okay but this is how the game is structured of course if the United States doesn't like you what it can do is not allow you to play this game and these countries of course would be North Korea and Iran among other countries okay so China and ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 14:07 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Russia isn't happy about the system but at least they get to play Iran and North Korea are not even allowed to play the game of the global economy all right now of course you can't have people believing that okay this entitlement economy is structured so that the West can steal resources from everyone else okay so what you do is you create another layer called the rules -based national order okay multinational organizations which includes the UN and the WTO okay World Trade Organization okay this is called the rules -based international order. okay so all of these are just basically shadows on the wall that the Empire is creating projecting okay to fool us into behaving the way the Empire wants all right so now that you have the system in place what you need to do is indoctrinate people into believing that the system is fair just and good okay and then you do that through ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 15:09 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: three mechanisms these three mechanisms of course are education education media and culture right what is education well schools guys and universities academia you think that you go to university to learn knowledge no you don't you go to university to be brainwashed and to believe that this system is not just fear but actually what really makes the system work is um the rules -based national order okay you even think about Empire so that's education education and of course you have media which is um CNN BBC New York Times each time you read an article you think you're receiving news you're not receiving news you're being brainwashed into believing that this order is fair just and appropriate okay a phrase that you'll keep on hearing over and over is rules -based national order okay but it's not a rules -based international order it's Plato's cave it's a deception and the last of course is culture which is ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 16:13 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=973s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Hollywood if you didn't know this is a deception and you believe that this is reality itself and this is all to create um values and norms okay just the way you see the weather how you would and you know television shows sick And television shows sitcoms okay things that you have that you absorb every day there's high culture Aslo culture right so there's three mechanisms in which this order is basically indoctrinated into everyone so that even you don't even know this is a deception okay You believe that this is reality itself and this is all to create 팬�L诺, 是什么, hurt,有人的。, 我的, 我是这样的啊!" create values and norms just the way you see the weather. Okay, This is all to create �的 associated values. norms uh Renae just the way you see the weather and you believe that this is reality itself and this is all to create values and norms just the way you see the weather. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 16:46 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: world which allows for the creation of a legal structure so that if you break the rules it's not that the illegal come after you they don't have to come out to you because everyone else will come after you okay if you're that guy who discovers that this is all deception they'll kill you okay not the lead but the people around you will kill you because you're breaking their fantasy okay there's a showing the fantasy all right so this is a very effective system um the problem though is that you need to spread the system okay so there's three problems okay first of all you have to protect this system the status quo then you have to spread this system as well okay and you then you also need to justify this system and you do that through three transnational systems three transnational organizations and these are okay first of all you have ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 17:44 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: to protect the system and then you have to protect the people ultra surrounding the system because this system tends to be so ROS -like. The second thing is you need to protect these people. taken those animals as well that's money claiming. property versus your house okay. there'snt a number of banks ifそれ comer Kingdom is NOT an asset im sai 믿èce ايضا That much money. and I cannot go without getting deported. What does that mean? And this is a way to incentivize the global elite to work together, okay? So that's the first two. And then there's one more mechanism called science. Now, you think that science is about pursuing the truth. No, it's not, okay? Science is fundamentally about finding evidence to justify and protect the status quo, okay? That's why science is fundamentally materialistic, okay? Okay, all right? And what, so we have to remember, this system is trying to create values, right? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 19:00 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: And these three major values is something called the open society, okay? What is open society? It's just basically globalization, multiculturalism, DEI, right? Diversity is good. Why is it good? Because it's good. We don't know, it's good, okay? Do you understand? They live for a reason, but it's always, well, you don't believe it. It means you're wrong. You're racist, which is bad, okay? So open society. Second is the idea of privatization, okay? Or what we call neoliberalism or free market, meaning that governments suck at what they do. Therefore, you should allow private entrepreneurs to control everything, okay? And this idea of neoliberalism. Again, there's not much evidence to support this, but if you don't believe this, it means you're a communist, okay? Which is bad, by the way. And the last thing, of course, is consumerism, okay? So consumerism is just like, how do you prove your value in life? How do you pursue purpose and meaning in life? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 20:09 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Buy things, man, okay? And then put it on Instagram, so that people can like it, you know? That's the value of life, man. Make as much money as possible, and then buy a yacht, get like a super hot girlfriend, and then broadcast it on Instagram, and then you're a hero, okay? Of course, what we don't discuss is that this system is making people lonely, miserable, depressed, suicidal. But, well, it's because, they're not taking enough drugs, right? If you're depressed, you should take any three presents, and that will solve the issue, all right? Okay. So, because intelligence, crime, and science are above the nation -state, okay? You need other mechanisms to actually operate these three things and these and so what allows for the system to work is a collection of elites okay and you can put you can put them down into three groups first you have transnational capital so figure off you know ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 21:13 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: finance transnational capital then you have secret societies and then you have families okay so elite families all right and these three organizations themselves are bounded by something called the occult and we'll discuss this later on okay the occult the occult is basically hidden secret knowledge not available to people that comes from three places other what other places as well but we'll look at three places okay hermetic philosophy the Bible and the Kabbalah okay well we'll discuss this later on don't worry too much about the occult right now I'll show you what the occult is later on but this is how the system works all right so there's certain questions about this the first question is okay well if this is true why is this system separate from this system right why not just say that the occult is the basis of everything and then you have the elite and then you have science intelligence crime ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 22:22 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: and then you have the Empire okay the reason why is this it's really important for you guys to understand this is the parasite okay this is the parasite it doesn't actually create anything all it does is suck up value extract value okay and this is the host so in fact these are two separate systems right this is the host and this is the parasite then your next question would be okay let's just assume this is true what evidence is there that this actually works because there should be people that operate this system right well i will give you some names okay all right so if it is true that this system is the way it is there should be individuals in place that operate the system right well i'll give you some names i'll give you two names jeffrey epstein and jerry kushner okay and i'll explain who they are as we go along and ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 23:31 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: these families have the raw child secret society chabad lupovic and you're like this is all conspiracy this can't be true well it's all true and i will give you the evidence that this is all true later on by the way some of you will be like they're all jews man so what they say the jews rule the world well because um the evidence that we have implicates these people who are jewish but there are other people who are more powerful who are able to maintain themselves in the shadows okay so it's not really fair to say that it's a jewish conspiracy okay i think this explanation this uh uh system is much actually much more complicated than just saying it's all jews all right all right so now what i want to discuss is um the problems of this system all right and once you understand the problems of this system then we can understand ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 24:36 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: why this war in iran is happening where it's going and what this means for the world okay so there's certain problems with this system i want you to notice the first major problem is all this is based on empire the perception of empire and what this means is that everyone has to believe that the american empire is invisible it cannot be defeated for the system to work right once people start to believe that there are alternatives that the empire is weak then the system cannot work and so therefore the only solution to this problem is america has to go fight wars for no reason you understand it's like being the school bully right people pay you money because they think that you're a bully and you are not reasonable and so to prove that every now and then you have to go beat up another kid for no reason okay you're just like just smack ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 25:35 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: the kid and everyone's afraid of you that's america and that's this helps us explain all these wars in the middle east these past 20 years right why did america invade afghanistan why did america invade iraq why did it blow up syria why did it blow up libya why why are they attacking iran to prove to the world that i'm still the biggest baddest bully on the block so you better obey me or i'll come beat you up okay all right so um that's the first problem second problem is that the system as you as you as you can see is really really unfair to a lot of countries iran north korea russia specifically okay so this helps us understand why russia invaded ukraine in 2022 because they're trying to renegotiate this system right because right now the system is discriminating against them it's distracting their resources from their little money so they want to renegotiate ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 26:43 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: this system now when you renegotiate this system especially the empire is not so tough right and this but this also shows us why america refuses to surrender ukraine this war was lost about two years ago okay ukraine has actually no chance why is this war continuing because if the perception that empire is weak that empire can be defeated if that perception um if people are aware of this this entire edifice collapses right people wake up and see it's all shadows on the wall so america has no choice but people are fighting okay and this helps us all this helps us also explain why america invaded iran to show russia i'm still the biggest baddest bully and now we understand what iran is doing iran is now attacking this entire edifice if you think about it what iran recognizes is this i cannot attack empire directly okay it's too powerful they're nuclear weapons i'm not an ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 27:41 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: attack the education media cultural system of america because it's too embedded i i can't attack the un and wto they've all been controlled by america so the only thing i can attack is what the global economy right that's why they close out the triple moves because once they put pressure on the global economy and that's all interconnected it destroys the entire edifice you understand it is a house of cards you find the weak point you it so it all collapses okay and that's why iran is doing what it's doing and what this also tells us is this there can be no ceasefire there can be no truce there can be no peace because both the american empire and iran are fighting for the nature and social reality itself all right and the third thing i want you guys to be aware of is is this remember includes allegory with the cave they really don't we ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 28:43 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: have to do anything because the prisoners themselves want to protect the system well this is true as well where if you are in education media and culture and you are at the very top you are not in power but you benefit from the system and therefore you insist on protecting the system at all costs and these people of course are called the boomers okay okay not all of them okay but the elite of the boomers even though they themselves don't have that much power there's a lot of them okay and they will fight they will make their politicians and the military fight to the death to maintain the illusion of empire which benefits them all right again plato's allegory of the cave okay all right so um now we can answer all three questions why this war starts because america had no choice in the matter okay it had to defend the illusion that the ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 29:44 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: american empire was invincible otherwise this entire edifice would collapse okay when will this war end this war ends when the global economy is destroyed because once the global economy is destroyed this entire edifice collapses okay and what will happen after this war well a new world will emerge where there are different um spirits of influence okay but we'll discuss this later on the big structure of what's going on okay all right so now what i want to do is i want to go more into the structure of this world okay this what i want to show you is jeff epstein is one of the operators of the system he works for the rothschild as well as a series of societies as well as a capital and he is embedded in science crime and intelligence okay and again the evidence is something called the epstein files all right so let's look at the epson files okay ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 30:46 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: so this is um jeff epstein and this is donald trump all right jeff epstein died in 2019 in a federal prison and he was on he was being charged with um many crimes and it's and the fbi ran an investigation into him and just recently the united states called the department of justice the doj on their website they released about three million documents pertaining to the epstein investigation and a lot of these are emails and what you discover is that he knows everyone who's powerful in the world so for the longest time it was believed that jeff epstein was a massad agent okay and his job was to lure powerful american um powerful americans such as bill gates bill clinton and the black man that resigned also bill gates wasn't even wanted to para all right stephanie testimonial wasn't going to Epstein Island to give Jeff Epstein money, Jeff Epstein, he went to ask for money. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 32:29 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=1949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Think about this, okay? Bill Gates, once before the wealthiest man in the world, he was begging Jeff Epstein for money. Think about that, all right? Okay, so let us look at who he is. Okay, this is Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel, as you know, is one of the wealthiest men in America, and Peter Thiel and Jeff Epstein are arranging a time to meet. Again, it is not Jeff Epstein seeking these guys out, they're seeking him out, okay? Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, he's actually trying to arrange an appointment with Jeff Epstein, all right? Why? Because Jeff Epstein says, I represent the Rothschilds, all right? Your money is fake. Your money is stock market money. Your money is an illusion. I represent real money, real power, real wealth, okay? All right, the Rothschilds. All right, so Jeff Epstein is very close with the Rothschild family. Why? Well, this is Irena de Rothschild, one of the members of the Rothschild family, okay? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 33:44 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: And in December 2018, okay, this is a year before he dies, all right? Jeff Epstein sends a letter. He sends Irena de Rothschild an email saying, hey, let me tell you something really funny. Harvard is saying that when Hitler was poor, he lived in a home, a charity home, that was financed by three wealthy families who are Jewish. And who are these three wealthy families? They're the Rothschilds, right? Then there are the Epsteins, me, and the Gutmans. So these three families, Rothschilds, Epsteins, and Gutmans, they're the Rothschilds, okay? And the Rothschilds go back centuries, all right? So Epstein is a member of one of the most powerful families in the world, all right? Now, Irena de Rothschild responds and says, oh, it's just a conspiracy theory, right? It's just saying that the Jews created Hitler. And Epstein gets angry at her and says, no, it's 100 % true, man. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 34:49 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2089s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2089s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Hitler was selling his clothes and already living in a shelter funded by Jews. Epstein, Rothschild, and Gutman, no conspiracy. It's really true, okay? The Epsteins, who are we? We're the Vienna bankers, all right? We've been around for the longest time. You Rothschilds think you're powerful? Well, we're powerful too, okay? All right, let's continue. All right, so the FBI is running an investigation on Jeffrey Epstein, and they create a file on him. And there's a confidential human source, a spy basically, who they recruit to tell them who Jeffrey Epstein is and what his network is. And the FBI is sort of blown away by what they discover, okay? So, Amber, could you help me read, please? Okay, all right. All right, so I want you to start at the top. And it's a bit hard to read, okay? But try your best. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 35:41 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay. Jeffrey Epstein was represented by Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz, okay? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 35:49 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Alan Dershowitz is a Harvard professor. He's one of the most powerful men in America, okay? Alan Dershowitz. Keep on going. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 35:55 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay. CHS remembered Dershowitz tell Alex Okasa, U.S. Attorney of Southern District of Florida at the time, that Epstein belonged to both U.S. and Allied Intelligence Services. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 36:11 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay, so in 2008, Epstein was arrested in Florida for doing inappropriate behavior, okay? And Alan Dershowitz comes in and says, hey, you can't arrest this guy because he wants to use intelligence. And the truth is, he says, the intelligence works for intelligence. Actually, the truth of the matter is intelligence works for him. Okay? Keep on going. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 36:31 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: CHS shared phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein during which he slash she took notes. After these calls, Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief. Epstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ud Barak, and trained as a spy under him. Barak believed Netanyahu was a criminal. Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates are allied against Qatar, Turkey, Iran, and Syria. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 37:06 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay, so here it says that Epstein worked for Mossad. That's not true, okay? So if you look at Epstein's life, he actually started his career at Dalton. Dalton is one of the most prestigious elite schools in America. We're all the most powerful, wealthiest, family -centered children, okay? He was hired as a teacher. Then he went to work for Bear Stearns. Bear Stearns, which is a financial firm, and there he learned finance. But then he went to work for Doug Lees. Who is Doug Lees? Doug Lees is an arms trafficker involved with Iran -Contra, okay? So he's one of the biggest global arms traffickers in the world. And then he worked for— started to work for— for Barack, who is the prime minister or the former prime minister of Israel, all right? So you're like—everyone's like, okay, well, it's because he sucks everything, and that's why he was being moved from one place to another, okay? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 38:09 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: But another way of saying this is he's an operative, and he's being trained in how power works by mentors. Does that make sense? Let's just say I have a big company, right? And I'm a chairman. My son is going to inherit this company. How do I train him to be a good boss? Well, I have him work in different departments of the company, and I have mentors train him in these different departments, right? So what is Dalton? Dalton is education, right? What is Bear Stearns? Finance. What is Doug Lees? He is criminal, arms trafficking. And who is Barack? He is intelligence, right? Does that make sense, guys? He's being trained, mentored in the different sectors of power in the world, all right? Keep on reading. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 39:06 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Masha Drukova, telephone number, is based in Silicon Valley. She has been running a film called Day One Ventures, a firm called Day One Ventures, which is supposedly an early -stage investment company. She used to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's main contact in the Russian youth movement. CHS and Drukova spoke, but Drukova did not talk at all about technology. Instead, she looked at CHS and said, You knew Epstein, didn't you? She said Epstein was a wonderful man. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 39:42 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay, so Epstein was connected with Vladimir Putin, okay? All right, let's read the last section. This is the most important, okay? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 39:49 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay. CHS advised Shabat... ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 39:52 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay, Shabat Lubavitch, right? The organization we talked about. Yes, keep on going. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 39:57 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Shabat is doing everything they can do to co -opt the Trump presidency. Shabat is basically state -sanctioned Judaism. It is used by Putin to keep tabs on all the Russo -Jewish oligarchs. On the day Trump was elected president, Ivanka Trump and Jared... ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:17 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Kushner. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:19 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Jared Kushner. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:20 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Doesn't say Kushner, but keep on going. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:21 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Mm -hmm. Were at the gravesite of Rabbi... Snerson. Snerson. Okay. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:27 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: So remember last class, I showed you a video of Netanyahu approaching a rabbi called Rabbi Snerson and saying, will you give me your blessing? And Snerson says, yes, I will. And please hurry up and make the Messiah come, okay? So it's all interconnected, okay? Netanyahu, Snerson, the Trump family. Putin. It's all connected through Shabat Lubavitch and Jeffrey Epstein, okay? Keep on going. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 40:55 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Who was the most powerful rabbi in the Shabat network. Jared didn't disclose his stake in Kadre because of its ties to the Russian state, NFI. CHS believed this was, is the real Russian collusion story. Kushner had moved... He had moved a lot of Russian investment money around. The FBI should investigate Kushner's family charities to find evidence of corruption and money laundering. Shabat routinely uses charities to launder money. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 41:34 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: All right. So this is it, guys. Okay? This is it. The FBI did an investigation. What they discovered is that Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner are both part of this transnational network that's able to co -op different nation states, including Russia, including America. And they're all connected to this other transnational religious organization called the Shabat Lubavitch. And their leader is Rabbi Snerson. It's all one big network. All right? And let's look at this. Okay. This is a report, a secret government report. What happened was that when Americans went into Afghanistan, the British went in too. And Prince Andrew, who is the brother to the king, asked the British government to investigate investment opportunities in Afghanistan. Okay? So this is the British government. And so whatever they report has to be confidential. It's basically state secret. And this report tells Prince Andrew where's the best place to invest in Afghanistan. And what does Prince Andrew do? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 42:39 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: He emails it directly to Jeffrey Epstein. Okay? You think these guys work for the government, Prince Andrew. No, no, no. They work for Jeffrey Epstein, who works for the Rothschilds. All right? All right. This is Libya. All right. So in February 2011, this is July 2011, America starts bombing Libya. And it seems as though Gaddafi will fall. And already, Jeffrey Epstein says, All right, this is the British government. Actually, what's going on here is that the British government and Jeffrey Epstein and his friends are discussing how to make money out of this. All right. Because they know that Libya has many assets frozen in American banks. All right? So once a new government comes into place, then this new government will want the money back. Right? And Jeffrey Epstein and his friends are like, let's do this for them and get a commission. All right? Can you read? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 43:38 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Mm -hmm. Understood. Remember, there are already 80 billion in frozen funds, slash assets internationally, of which Japan is the largest. $32.4 billion is in the U.S., and it is estimated that the real number is somewhere between three to four times this number in sovereign, stolen, and misappropriated assets. So if we can identify slash recover 5 % to 10 % of these monies and receive 10 % to 25 % as compensation, we are talking about billions of dollars. But the real carrot is if we can become their go -to guys, because they plan to spend at least $100 billion next year to rebuild their country and jumpstart the economy. Also, remember Libya is a rich country, as its population is two million less than the city of New York, and it has the ninth largest crude oil and natural gas reserves on the planet and a literacy rate of almost 80%. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 44:37 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Okay, do you guys understand what's happening? Okay? These are parasites. They look at geopolitics and they're like, how can we take advantage of geopolitical events to make the most money for ourselves? All right? And you're like, okay, well, Jeffrey Epstein is gone, sorry, okay, all right, so something else I want to discuss with you is Bitcoin, okay? So this is in the Guardian article, a Guardian article that shows that Jeffrey Epstein was helping to finance the development of Bitcoin, all right? But not only that, I want to show you this picture. This happened in 2004 at Harvard, okay? This is Larry Summers, who is the president of Harvard University. This is Steven Pinker, one of Harvard's most famous scholars. And this guy is Jeffrey Epstein, all right? Who's paying for this dinner? Probably Jeffrey Epstein. And you're like, what is happening here? And again, I keep on telling you guys this, you think academia is about pursuing truth, doing research. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 45:36 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: No, it's not. It's about protecting and justifying the society. It's not just coal. It's about providing a network for powerful people to meet together and to work together, okay? And the Jeffrey Epstein files reveals this, how corrupt academia and science are. It's all part of this huge transnational network, this grand alliance between science, crime, and intelligence in order to extract as much value from the world as possible, okay? These are parasites. And you're like, okay. How about Jared Kushner? Well, Jared Kushner's doing the same thing, guys, okay? This is Jared Kushner, right? Who's this guy? Vladimir Putin. What are they doing? They're discussing peace in Ukraine. Because what Jared Kushner is saying to Putin is, listen, I can negotiate... Okay, I'm speculating, okay? I don't know, okay? But I imagine he's a real estate developer, so he's saying to Putin, hey, after this peace treaty happens between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine will need to be re -established. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 46:42 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: Re -developed. So you should give opportunities to, you know, you know, okay? Okay, so that's Russia. Then you go to Iran. This is Jared Kushner, Steve Woodcock, and the Omani foreign minister. And before the attack against Iran happened, there were these peace negotiations between the Iranians and Jared Kushner and Steve Woodcock, who represent the Americans. This guy, Steve Woodcock, during the negotiations, went on TV and said that... Oh, the Iranians are trying to create a... They're trying to enrich weapons -grade uranium as soon as possible, okay? So what Steve Woodcock is doing is he's sabotaging the peace negotiations. These guys are negotiating with the Iranians not to create a peace treaty, but to create a justification for war, all right? Oh, and also, this is Jared Kushner... Sorry. Oh, crap. This is... Jared Kushner, this is Steve Woodcock, and this is Benjamin Netanyahu. ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 47:53 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: What are they doing? They're discussing peace in Gaza. Why? Because after peace happens in Gaza, Steve Woodcock and Jared Kushner are going to lead a real estate team to develop Gaza into these luxury villas, guys, okay? So this is how the world works, all right? But again, there's a problem with this system. All right? So, okay, well, this is the way the world works. Now the question then is, okay, if this is the way the world works, and Jared Epstein, Jared Kushner, and others are the real power in the world, and they represent the elite, how do we know this? Why is the Epstein files out in the government website, right? Why is it that you can go in the Department of Justice and look at all these things? Well, because there's a problem with this system. It's this. This system is a parasite, right? So they are extracting value from the nation state. So other elites are asking themselves, why can't they be the parasites, but not us, right? ## The Parasite Feeds on Reality -- 49:09 - Source title: Game Theory #13: Epstein's World - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQSDSqdlFxk&t=2949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aqsdsqdlfxk.json) Text: So what's happening is a civil war between the elite, these people, and the counter elite, people who want to take the position and become the parasites. Okay? And that's why we're seeing this conflict right now emerge in America, all right? Any questions, guys? Any questions? All right. So we will discuss this civil conflict, this civil war, next class. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: As I mentioned last class, there are three major questions that will determine how this war is fought, what this war will end up looking like, and how the world will change. And as I discussed last class, I'm making three predictions about this war. The first is the United States will use ground troops, and this will mean that Donald Trump will institute a national draft. That's the first prediction. The second prediction is that Israel and the United States will not use tactical nuclear weapons in this war. Number three is that the Al -Azhar Mosque, the third holiest site in the Islamic world, will be destroyed during this war. Okay, so last class I explained my analysis and my reasoning for my first two predictions. Today I will explain my third prediction. So before we start, I just want to look at some videos, okay? So you understand some of the context, some of the players in this war. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:13 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=73s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=73s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: All right, so this is Senator Blumenthal of Connecticut, and he is one of the 100 members of the U.S. Senate. He's also one of the members of the Gang of Eight. Now, when you are fighting a war, the White House has responsibility to report its objectives, its purpose, how the war is progressing to eight members of Congress in a confidential setting, okay? And this is Senator Blumenthal after he's been debriefed by the White House. Okay? And this is what he has to say about the progress. Okay? And this is what he has to say about the progress of the war so far. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:59 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate. I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war. My questions have been unanswered. I will demand answers. I will demand answers because the American people deserve to know. And I guess I am most concerned about the threat to American lives of potentially deploying our sons and daughters on the ground in Iran. We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. And there is also... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And there is also an opportunity here for us to see as disturbingly as anything else the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 3:22 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: All right. So three things to take away from his talk with reporters, okay? The first thing is, the administration, Donald Trump, White House, has not articulated a budget. How much will this war cost? How much will this war cost? that this is an open -ended war we don't know when this war will end and so we don't know what the commitment is and so we don't know how much this war will cost okay that's the first point he makes the second point he makes is we are on a path towards the deployment of ground troops in Iran okay and that basically means a national draft and the third thing that's crucial is he says that they know for a fact that Russia is already involved in this war aiding Iran okay so that's the three main takeaways from okay so this is the foreign minister of Iran I got you talking to NBC News all ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 4:39 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: right and everything news is gonna ask I got you hey there's talk United States already of ground troops being used against Iran okay now I want you to observe his response and then the response of the ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 4:57 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=297s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=297s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: journalist Trump has not ruled out boots on the ground Iran are you afraid of a US invasion in your country no we are waiting for them you were waiting for ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 5:12 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: the US military to invade the ground troops yes because we are confident that we can confront them and that would be a big disaster for them ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 5:22 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: okay you understand okay so you're saying that Iran is ready and willing to take on the US military if there were to be ground troops well we were ready for ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 5:36 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: this okay so again certain things to appreciate first of all the foreign minister I got you he is not at all concerned about ground troops in fact he basically said it's a trap for you guys you come in we've been preparing for about 20 years for this we will destroy you another thing that you will notice is the journalist is completely surprised by the answer he's shocked into silence he has to ask again wait are you saying you're ready for ground troops and so this shows you that within Washington DC okay within the Trump administration within the foreign policy elite within the media elite they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through they haven't really thought this through out they really haven't considered the possibility of losing this war Washington DC right now it's a bubble okay it's an insular bubble where everyone just believes ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 6:32 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: the same things and that's very problematic if you are to continue fighting this war okay all right let's continue this is Rabbi Sneerson and he is the leader or he used to be he's died but he used to be a leader of an organization called the Shabbat Lubavitch I'll be talking more about Shabbat Lubavitch as we go along okay but I introduce you to him now this year 1990 and he is talking to Benjamin Netanyahu who is who is a young upcoming politician in Israel okay and so let's look at the conversation ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 7:55 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: in Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 8:17 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay, so what's going on here? Okay, so as an up -and -coming politician, Netanyahu is going to the rabbi, and the rabbi's one of the most powerful people in the Jewish society, he basically says, will you give me your blessing? Will you support me in my political endeavors? The rabbi says, yes. They also talk about how things are progressing, okay? So, in other words, saying this is that there's almost like a plan in motion to achieve certain religious objectives, and things are going well. But the rabbi, Schneerson, says, ah, but they're not going fast enough, because we need the Messiah, the great leader of the Jewish people, to come, and we can set in motion things that will force the coming of the Messiah. So let's speed things up, Netanyahu. Okay? So, what this is, I'll explain later on, okay, but I want you to be aware of this, who these people are. Rabbi Schneerson is very important for our story, Netanyahu, of course, is the current prime minister of Israel. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 9:25 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Alright, let's continue. Alright. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 9:31 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: I want to know what you're reading now. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 9:38 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=578s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=578s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: What I'm reading? Yeah. It's called the Jews against Rome. What made you pick it up? Well, we lost that one. I think we have to win the next one. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 9:47 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: We want to know what you're reading now. Okay. Okay. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 9:55 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: So that's a very quick exchange, okay? So a journalist is asking Benjamin Netanyahu, what book are you reading now? And he says, Jews versus, sorry, Rome versus the Jews. It's a book by Barry Strauss, a historian, and it goes on about the three wars that the Jews fought against the Romans, and it was essentially a holocaust for the Jews. A lot of Jews either died or were enslaved. The Romans burned down the second temple. So there's this historical. Okay. But what he said is, what Benjamin Netanyahu said is that, I'm reading this book because we lost that war against Rome, but in the next war against Rome, we must not lose. The question then is, who's Rome? It's not Iran, guys. It's probably not Russia. It's probably America, right? The great empire. So this is strange because Israel is the ally of America in this war. But Netanyahu is saying that, no, our real enemy is Rome, and that's what we must prepare for. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 11:09 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? So I want you guys to keep this in mind. All right. This is Peter Hexheff, who is a secretary of war for Donald Trump. Okay? And this is the year about 2018, where he is in Jerusalem. Okay? And he's talking to Christian Zionists and Zionists. Okay? Who these people are, I'll explain later on. Okay? But let's listen to his speech really quickly. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 11:34 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Peter and I, another, had a chance to go see the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, the Western Wall tunnels, so much of the Old City. And as you stand there, you can't help but behold the miracle before you. And it got me thinking about another miracle that I hope all of you don't see too far away. because 1917 was a miracle 1948 was a miracle 1967 was a miracle 2017 the Declaration of Jerusalem at the Capitol was a miracle and there's no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the temple on the Temple Mount is not ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 12:16 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: possible okay so he is a Christian he's not a Jew but what he's saying is that he's come to Jerusalem and he's visited these Jewish holy sites and he can't be he can't help be amazed be awed by the beauty the spirituality of the Western Wall he also goes on to say that the there's been a series of miracles okay so 1917 was the Balfour Declaration when basically the rich Empire permitted the Jews to found the nation -state of Israel was when Israel was founded 1967 was when the the when Israel fought a war against its Arab neighbors and won okay and 2017 was when Donald Trump transferred the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem thus recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and what he's saying is that well if this is a series of steps to achieving a divine plan then what he's saying is that well if this is a series ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 13:26 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: of steps to achieving a divine plan then the next miracle should be the rebuilding of someone's temple the third temple and that means destroying the Isaac mosque okay so what's going on here okay again I'll explain to you later on but I want I want to be aware of who these people are and how they think all right let's go one more video and so if you want to build someone's temple if you want to build the third temple you need to get rid of the third holiest site in the second world and that's what we're going to talk about in the next video. how do you do that well there are some options okay so miscellany the mask ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 14:14 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: clear the place for the third veda miqdash that could also be a miracle if it was up to me time when they shot hundreds of missiles I would pretend that one missile came from Iran and shoot it down you know then all the arms will go against Iran it will be the end of the problems you make them fight with each other, this bunch of lunatics. Never too late, you deal with a bunch of cowards. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 14:48 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay, so this is a rabbi in Israel, and he's saying how last year during the 12 -day war in June, Iran was firing missiles at Israel. And what he's saying is, you know, that was an opportunity for us to pretend that Iranian missile hit the Dome of the Rock, the Al -Aqsa Mosque, thus destroying it. And then the Arabs will blame the Iranians, and the Arabs will go to war against the Persians. And then we can just sit back and laugh at these lunatics. Okay? So again, this may be confusing to you as to who these people are, why they are saying these things, all right? But now what I'm gonna do is explain to you what is really going on, okay? And I keep on saying this, but it is hard from a geopolitical perspective to explain this U.S.-Iran war. You have to look at the religious perspective, okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 15:49 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: The religious angle, and that's what I want to focus on today. Okay, so again, this is the three holiest site in the Islamic world. This is Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Medina, and this is the Dome of the Rock, the Al -Aqsa Mosque. And this is where the Jews were supposed to ascend to heaven. And the Jews and the Christian Zionists believed that this must be destroyed so that they can build the Third Temple, or Solomon's Temple, okay? All right, so this is the big question in this war. And again, I keep on saying this, but I need to be right in my prediction, in my analysis, is to be right. To be correct. If they do not destroy the Al -Aqsa Mosque, and if they are able to achieve peace, then my predictive model, my analysis is completely wrong, and you just ignore me, okay, for the rest of my life. And I can go back to teaching, you know, great books or something. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 17:11 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: All right, so let us examine why this is important, okay? So today, I want to introduce you to a new thing, okay? A new theory of game theory called the law of eschatological convergence. So this is a very hard thing to write down, okay? It sounds complicated, but it's not, okay? Eschatology, what it is, is a story of how the world ends. And it's very compelling for people, because remember, we discussed this last semester, but as human beings, we have three questions. Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? And eschatology provides a story that answers all three questions. Why God created us, what our mission on Earth is, and what God has planned for the end of the world, okay? And different traditions will have different eschatologies. And what's important to figure out is, in what aspect do these eschatologies converge, okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 18:41 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Converge, meaning a union of these eschatologies. And why is that important? Because it allows you to predict how they will behave. Think of a story as the operating system of a society. And as such, it's a script that they will act out. And if you're able to figure out the different scripts, and see how, you know, how they will behave, and how they converge together, where the union of these different scripts are, then you can actually predict how the world will turn out. Okay? All right. So, having explained the law, I'm gonna go into some theory to help us understand why this works, okay? All right, so the first thing to understand is something called the universal law of game theory, okay? And the universal law of game theory states this. Whoever wins a game is able to do this, okay? Mass times energy times coordination, okay? So these are the three things you want to look at to understand how well a player would do in a game. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 20:08 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: So mass is just the number of people involved on the team, okay? Energy is just how much energy is involved in the game. Attention, focus, motivation there is, okay? So think of it as attention, or motivation, or action, okay? Any of these words will do. But basically, how invested are you in winning the game? And how hard are you willing to work to win the game? And coordination is just the idea of synchronicity. And what I mean by that is how well do the teammates work together, okay? And something that you need to appreciate is that the most important thing in winning a game is actually coordination. In fact, I would say it's four times more important than just mass. So you can have a lot of people, but if they don't work well together, you're defeated by another team with few, few people, but they work well together, okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 21:15 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: And then energy is twice as important as, you know, mass, all right? So let me give you an example. Let's just say that you're playing a game by yourself, okay? Maybe, for example, you enter a ping -pong competition or a chess competition. Well, mass and coordination don't really matter because you don't have any teammates. And so what matters is energy, how motivated you are to win this game. How much time do you put in practice? How much time do you put into studying and improving yourself? How focused are you in winning, okay? All right, so a team sport, well, mass is constant. And so what matters is energy and coordination, how well the team works well together, okay? Now, what's interesting is that there are different ways to improve or increase, augment the energy coordination. All right? So maybe a leader, okay, so maybe if someone is a really ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 22:23 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: inspiring leader, that would make people much more motivated and that would allow them to work well together because all they have to do is listen to a leader, okay? The problem with a leader, of course, is that eventually he will die, all right? Then you have a family, okay, blood, okay? They work well together because they all share a similar blood, but we cannot account for the differences within this family, got it? The conflict within this family. right so historically in a long term the force that allows teams to beat other teams is the idea of narrative okay narrative or a story okay why because it implants in the minds of all those who believe in a narrative a series of actions that they must take in order to win the game okay so think of it as a script and in a script you know what part you play do you have to act ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 23:34 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: it out and it allows for you all to work together to achieve the outcome that you desire okay does that make sense okay and in narrative the most powerful form of narrative is the idea of eschatology because eschatology is a phrase from one of the American books that's actual word for eschatology Eschatology is a complete script, a complete script in which everyone knows what he or she must do in order to achieve the desired outcome. And eschatology also is able to transcend both time and space, meaning that you can actually spend centuries acting out the script because everyone knows his role anyway, okay? And it can transcend borders as well. You can go beyond ethnic identity and family, okay? So the most powerful mechanism in history is eschatology. All right, so what is eschatology? All right, so most religions are similar. Most religions require you to be a good person, be humble, be kind, be generous. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 24:58 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: But there are certain aspects of religions that are extreme, okay? And we call them eschatologies, okay? So the classic example is the Jewish religion, right? In a Jewish religion, what you believe is that you no longer live in Israel because a long time ago, the Israelites pissed off God by disobeying him. God told the Israelites, do not worship false idols. But the Israelites sinned. They disobeyed. So they were kicked out of Jerusalem, and they were forced to wander the earth in the diaspora for centuries. And so what they believe is that they each need to engage in an act of redemption, of humility, of submission, of piety to God if they are to redeem the whole Jewish people, okay? And when that happens, when they recognize their own limitations, when they recognize how inferior they are to God and submit to God, then God will send the Messiah to redeem them and lead them ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 26:16 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: back to Jerusalem, defeat the enemies of the Jews, bring all the Jews from the diaspora back to Jerusalem, unify the Jewish people, and then build the third temple so that God can come to earth and live with all the Jews and create heaven and earth, okay? That is the Jewish religion that most Jews believe. Okay, like there are a lot of differences, okay? But I'm just trying to simplify it for clarity, okay? But then you have these extremes, fanatics, who have a different eschatology, okay? And these people, we're gonna say are accelerationists. And their point is that this is fine, but it's way too slow. And it dissolves. It dissolves us of individual responsibility. If you have faith in God, then you should want to hurry things up and force the return of God as soon as possible. And you do that by recognizing that if you actually, before the Messiah comes, if you actually ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 27:32 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1652s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1652s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: go and create the nations of Israel, bring all the Jews back, build the third temple, defeat all the enemies, then the Messiah will come, not, you know, bring all the Jews back, but bring all the Jews back naturally, okay? And so, of course, most Jews hear this and they think that this is blasphemy, it's heresy, because you are defying the will of God. You think you can manipulate God into action. That is wrong. That is the opposite of redemption. That is the worst possible sin you can make, okay? And so this eschatology is considered a fringe, an extreme, something to be ignored. The problem, though, is that if you think about it, what eschatology really is doing is creating a vector to force the religion to move in a certain direction, okay? And also, if you think about it, if this is the case where eschatology is a vector that forces the mainstream to move ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 28:34 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: in a certain direction, then whichever eschatology is the most extreme, the most violent, will be the one that wins out, okay? Okay, does that make sense? In other words, what we're gonna do today is look at the most extreme versions of different eschatologies, because quite honestly, even though these extreme versions are shared by only a few people, they're the ones who are working the hardest to achieve their eschatology, and therefore, they're forcing the religion they are in to move a certain way, okay? All right, so you hear this, and you think this is all confusing, but what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna share with you a passage from a biography of Rabbi Agustin Nielsen. Remember, we had a look at Rabbi Agustin Nielsen talking to Netanyahu and saying, hurry up, let's hurry up the return of Messiah, okay? He is in charge of Shabbat Lubavitch, which again, is an extreme eschatology, but again, ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 29:51 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: because they are so extreme, they're willing to work as hard as possible to achieve their vision, and therefore, they are forcing the Jewish mainstream in a certain direction, okay? All right, so this is a biography of Rabbi Nielsen, and the Shabbat Lubavitch movement was founded in modern day Belarus, and over time, it went over to America, because it suffered a lot of persecution by the Russians. And today, they are a global movement, and they are powerful in Russia, in America, and in Israel. Okay? So we will discuss the Shabbat Lubavitch as we move along, but I want to, with this passage, show you how coordination among the Shabbat Lubavitch movement is important. So let's start with the Shabbat Lubavitch movement. It's a very long eschatology work, okay, all right? So the year is 1939, and the Nazis, Nazi Germanys, again, who are anti -Semitic, they hate Jews, they want all Jews out of Europe, they are overriding Europe. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 31:02 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: And by 1939, they have conquered Poland, Warsaw, okay? Now Poland, Warsaw is where the head rabbi, the rabbi of the Shabbat Lubavitch movement is. and his name is um joseph yesat okay and he's the father -in -law of rabbi snerson and he's an old man and he's in warsaw the nazis are overrunning the city so his followers in america are uh want to save his life okay so the question is like but how do you do that because america and germany are not best friends the war is breaking out in um europe and um joseph yeah is a very old man and there are no plane well there are planes but there are no commercial air flights that you can take okay so it's gonna be a very long arduous journey across many borders plus um he will need a visa not just for himself but for his whole family okay now ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 32:16 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: what i'll show you is how powerful these people are and again this is an eschatology where they all share similar vision and therefore they're willing to make the necessary sacrifices in order to help each other achieve this vision okay all right so this is from the biography an ocean away in america you'll see yes followers were mounting a rescue effort with the help of sam kramer and an author orthodox attorney the son of liberal immigrants the chevalier that activist israel jacobson hired max rhodes a political connected lawyer to secure american visas for joseph hewitt and his family okay so in other words even though there may may not be that many followers they have a wide uh political circle and a lot of reason why is that um they pool their resources together and when they pull their resources together they're able to invest in real estate together they're able to invest in business together ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 33:11 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: and they're able to generate a lot of money and they're able to generate a lot of money and they're able to generate a lot of money which they can then which they can then use influence politics in america okay they can buy politicians they can um do a lot of things okay so the first part is easy getting visas for uh the rabbi and his family now the problem is how do you actually get to him okay because there are no telephones there's no internet there are no airplanes how do you find him in when there's a war going on in poland when they're not Kyiv is everywhere okay all right let's continue Joseph uh hewit's followers also reach out to attorney general benjamin colman okay and supreme court justice louis branday okay this guy this man is very important he is what i call a subantine frankis what i'll show you later on is ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 34:02 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: that uh chef f regain frankis and al -shaba lam waist movement are very much a lie okay so even though they're part of the same movement they are sympathetic towards each other and he's the most powerful jew in america at this time okay in the 1930s -40s whom Yitzchak had met during his fundraising trip of 1929. The Lubavitcher's efforts in America were successful. So they won over the Americans. They won over the entire American political apparatus and they are dedicated to helping the rabbi escape Europe and come to America. Now the second part is, how do you deal with the Nazis? Okay, the Lubavitcher's efforts in America were successful. On October 2nd, Cohen wrote to Robert Pell, a senior official in the State Department, asking for help. The next day, Pell caught a Helmuth Wadhat, a German and a member of the Nazi party, a Nazi, who specialized in national industry and economics to see ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 34:59 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: if he would be willing to save one of the leading Jewish scholars in the world, okay? This is a guy, American, writing to a Nazi and saying, hey man, I know you're a Nazi, but we need your help to save a Jew. And the guy says, yes. Okay, Wadhat was strategically chosen. He had studied at Columbia University in the early 1930s and had forged a relationship with Pell after the IBM Conference on Jewish Refugees in 1938. Seeing an opportunity to curry goodwill to the United States, Wadhat secretly contacted Admiral William Canaris, the head of German military intelligence. Wow, the head of German military intelligence and saying, hey man, let's help this guy. Canaris, a skeptical Nazi who disapproved of SS atrocities and thought the invasion of Poland a mistake, enlisted Major Ernst Bloch, a distinguished veteran of World War I and one of the most trusted officers. Bloch was a Michelin, okay? A Michelin just ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 36:05 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: means a German who had some Jewish ancestry, but because he was so valorous in World War I, he was considered a German, okay? He had been declared of German blood by Hitler in 1939. Along with three other soldiers, two of whom were also Michelin, Bloch was instructed to find Josef Yitzhak and bring him to safety. Wow. The Nazis, okay, dispatched their own soldiers to find this guy and bring him to America. And this is, again, during war. But how do you find this guy? Bloch and his colleagues had to maneuver through the ruins of Warsaw without any suspicions of the SS to find a rabbi who did not know of their mission and did not want to be killed. And he found, okay? So this rabbi is hiding from everyone. So how do you find this guy? And he's deadly afraid of all German soldiers because he sees them as just Nazis. This is another problem. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 37:04 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Well, Jews in the city were naturally unwilling to divulge the location of a Hasidic leader to a Nazi officer. Eventually, information came from the Americans. Brandeis was informed of Josef Yevitz's address by the Shabbat lawyer, Arthur Rubinowitz, and relayed it via Coen and Pell to the US charged with affairs in Germany. This requires the coordination of dozens and dozens of people who are supposed to be on the opposite side of a war. And they're working together to achieve a goal. At the end of November, Bloch found Josef Yevitz's apartment and after some confusion, convinced the residents he was there to help. Once he had obtained few coupons, train tickets, and military clearances for SS checkpoints, Bloch loaded Josef Yevitz and his family onto a truck and headed for the train station, where the family received first class tickets and boarded a train filled with Nazi officials and soldiers. Okay, and that's how they got him out. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 38:07 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: In other words, they are able to work above the bureaucracy of different nation states in order to achieve their eschatological goal, okay? All right, does it make sense? All right, so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go into the idea of eschatological, conventional, and modern. So first of all, we're gonna look at the convergence. Because once we know the different eschatologies, and we know how they converge together, we can actually make certain predictions about how this war will progress. Okay, so the first major eschatology I wanna look at, it's called Zoroastrianism. And this is the first eschatology. And it's an eschatology of the Persian Empire, okay? In the world, there's truth and a lie, okay? The light and the darkness. And it is our responsibility as humans to live for the light, to die for the truth against the lie. And at the end of days, there'll be a final battle and a day of judgment, okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 39:20 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: So light versus dark, and then you have a day of judgment. Okay, where the god Ahura Masta will come down and he will create a paradise for everyone, okay? So what matters is to live a noble life and await the day of judgment where eventually heaven on earth will manifest, okay? And this is important because if you think about how the Iranians are fighting this war, the Iranians refuse to take initiative and destroy too much, okay? They refuse to be the best and the villains in this war because for them, in their eschatology, it's important to die for the light, to fight for the truth, okay? Now, the general rationalism has a major impact on Jewish eschatology, okay? And Jewish eschatology, again, I'm only talking about the most extreme version of this eschatology, okay? And in this eschatology, the idea is that, the Jews disobeyed God, okay? Disobedience. And ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 40:40 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: in order to repair the world, to save themselves, to create heaven on earth, they need to engage in redemption, okay? Redemption. And redemption is really about spiritual alchemy, improving yourself as a person, being good to yourself, being good to others, loving your neighbor as though you would love yourself. Okay, that's a mainstream idea. But in the most extreme version, redemption just means acting out God's plan to compel the return of the Messiah, okay? And this plan is basically, create Israel, return Jewish diaspora, build a third temple, and this will also be called the War of Gog and Magog. And then, when the Jews are most threatened, the Messiah will come to save them from their enemies. and then, when the Jews are most threatened, the Messiah will come to save them from their enemies. And this will create something called the Mosaic Ending Age, okay? When God rules over the earth through his Messiah, who comes from the house of David. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 42:00 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay, all right. So again, this is a simple version. There are lots of different versions. This is the most simple version for our purposes, okay? Now, what's interesting is that this Jewish eschatology would go on to influence the Protestants, okay? And this creates a movement called Christian Zionism. Christian Zionism, so the technical word for Christian Zionism is called Premillennial Dispensationalism. And this sounds very complicated, but it's not. All it means is that God has a plan for how to create heaven and earth, and we have a duty to fulfill his plan by following his instructions, okay? All right, so what Christian Zionism is doing is that it takes Christian Zionism is doing is that it takes this Jewish eschatology and makes certain changes to it, okay? So for example, the first change that it makes is, okay, this plan is fine, but rather than say that the Jewish Messiah ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 43:17 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: is the representative of God, what they say is that no, he's actually the representative of Satan, okay? So the Messiah in the Jewish tradition becomes the Antichrist in the Christian Zionist tradition. And why is this important? It's important because for the Christians, the Messiah must be Jesus, okay? So the Messiah, so the Antichrist, what he does, is that he rules over the world. He's very charismatic, and he rules the world in Jerusalem. And he starts the War of Gog and Magog in order to conquer the world and destroy the Jews. At this point, Jesus will return. to save God's chosen people, the Jews. And when Jesus returns, there'll be something called the rapture where all Christians will immediately ascend to heaven. Okay? So the rapture. Okay? So again, Christian Zionism is working off Jewish eschatology, but it's making some important changes. Okay? So another way of saying this is in the beginning, the Zionists and Christian Zionists will work together to reach a certain point of history. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 44:41 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? What we call the Great Ritual Project. But then they will diverge and fight against each other. Okay? So they're allies now, but eventually they'll turn against each other. All right. So now I want to talk about the Freemasons because the Freemasons, we'll talk more about the Freemasons later. Okay? The Freemasons are also working within the Christian Zionist context, but they are much more focused on actually how to implement this. Okay? So what they want to do is they want to take the Antichrist and turn it into a system. And this system we discussed last semester, it's called Pax Judaica. What is Pax Judaica? Pax Judaica is that Israel controls the world through AI. Okay? An AI surveillance state. Okay? Or there is, exact words is holy empire. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 45:55 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 45:56 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: And Pax Judaica, the Israel state, will have things such as the Mark of the Beast. And what is the Mark of the Beast? It is digital ID. Okay? And this digital ID will also lead to digital currency. And they can actually put a microchip or a QR bar in your forehead. And this will be considered the Mark of the Beast. Okay? And it's all part of the Christian Zionist eschatology. Another really important thing about the Free Basins is the idea of a one world government. Because, remember, the Antichrist is the leader of a one world government. And it will be based in Jerusalem. Okay? And so the headquarters will be Solomon's Temple or the Third Temple. So these are the... And then you have the Islamic eschatology. Okay? And the Islamic eschatology is a response to all these other eschatologies. Where they say that when this system is created, it will be called Dajjal. Dajjal. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 47:08 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2828s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2828s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: The Antichrist. Okay? And when this happens, then Jesus will return to defeat the Antichrist. Okay? That's the mainstream Islamic eschatology. Then you have the Shia. Okay? The Shia, remember, are the Iranians. Where they believe that it's not... It will be the 12th Iman Madid. Who will lead the followers, okay? The Umrah. Okay? Umrah just means community of followers, of believers. Believers. Into victory against the Antichrist. The Dajjal. Okay? So you can see how these eschatologies are basically lining up together. Right? The Shia are the Iranians. The Islamic is the entire Arab world. Alright? Now, there are other two more eschatologies I want to look at. And again, I know this is a lot. I know this is too much information. And we'll go over these eschatologies specifically as we move along, okay? But I just want to introduce the different eschatologies. Another eschatology that's very important is the Catholic eschatology. And the Catholic eschatology we can call City of God. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 48:25 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? Which is the church. Which is Jerusalem. And St. Augustine talks about this. About how the Catholic church, it is the millennial church. It is the millennial age. Because we represent God. And we bring peace and prosperity to the world. Now, what's important about the church is that it became the dominant power in the world because Rome fell. Okay? So, Roman Empire collapses. But this is all part of God's divine plan because Roman Empire, Rome, was the city of power, of money, of wealth. And what matters is Jerusalem, the city of God, of spirituality, of divinity, okay? Now, the City of God came to an end because of the rise of the Protestants and the Anglo -American Empire. So, for the Catholic church to achieve its eschatology and establish again the City of God, what they need to do is also see the Anglo -American Empire destroyed just like the Roman Empire. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 49:45 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=2985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? So, that is the Catholic eschatology. The last eschatology I want to discuss is the Orthodox eschatology. And what's the Orthodox eschatology? The Russians. Okay? This is called the Third Rome Prophecy. Okay? The Third Rome Prophecy is basically that Moscow will become the Third Rome. The First Rome was Rome. Second Rome was Constantinople. The Third Rome will be Moscow. And also, what's really important to appreciate is that there will be no Fourth Rome. So, when Moscow becomes the Third Rome, history ends. Okay? And peace and prosperity will come to the world. Okay? So, what does this mean? It means that Russia will unite the Orthodox world. Okay? So, right now, the Orthodox world is split into Eastern Orthodoxy and Greek Orthodoxy. Okay? And something that is very important that this prophecy says is that the Russians will defeat Turkey in a war and then have the Greeks return to Constantinople, which is modern ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 51:09 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3069s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3069s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: -day Istanbul. Okay? That's what the prophecy says. And so, you look at all these different eschatologies. Okay? And again, guys, this is the majority of the world. Right? If you actually look at the convergence points, you come to some startling conclusions. Okay? So, let's look at the convergence. Where do they converge? Okay? Well, first of all, okay, where they converge is that the Greater Israel Project will be achieved. Okay? Pax Judaica will be achieved. It's the one world government. Okay? One world government. That is one major convergence. If that's true, then another convergence is the Al -Aqsaq Mosque will give way to the Third Temple. All these eschatologies either say this or are indifferent to saying this. Okay? They're not opposed to this. All right? So, that's why I predict the Third, the Al -Aqsaq Mosque will be destroyed because they need to build a Third Temple. Another thing in which they converge is the rise of anti -Semitism. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 52:33 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Why? Because that will force the diaspora, the Jewish diaspora, to return to Israel. This is very important for this eschatology. Okay? All right? Another important convergence point is the War of Gog and Magog. We don't actually know what this is, but this war is supposed to be the final war before the return of God, before the end of history, before the end of the world. Okay? What this war is, we don't know yet. But another thing in this is that this war in Iran will lead to the War of Gog and Magog at some point. Okay? What this war is, we'll discuss at a later time. Another thing that's very important is U.S. and China are not part of this eschatology. Okay? This is where everyone agrees. For whatever reason, the United States is not going to partake in future events. Neither will China. Which means that something will happen to these two countries that will make them not significant anymore. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 53:50 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? And the best prediction for the United States then is civil war. Right? Okay? Civil war. Okay? And this is where all these eschatologies converge. So in other words, this war in Iran is happening so that these different eschatological traditions can achieve heaven and earth from their perspective. All right? So what this means, so given this convergence, we can actually predict certain events that will happen over the next two to four years. Okay? Because they all want these things to happen together. All right? So let's look at some quick predictions. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 54:43 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 54:44 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3284s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3284s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: First prediction, of course, is that the U.S. will use ground troops. Because using ground troops will create a national draft. And what does a national draft do? It creates a civil war. All right? A lot of young people are going to refuse to fight in this war. And this is going to create protests. Then America will have no choice but to deploy the National Guard. And this will create the recipe for a lot of civil conflict in America. Okay? Another thing that will happen is because you use ground troops, you will lose the war and then CENTCOM, which is the American military in the Middle East, will then transfer over to Israel. Okay? What's happening in this war is that the economies of the GCC are being destroyed. And that's part of the plan. Okay? Because for Israel to achieve the greater Israel project, it needs to absorb the GCC and parts of Turkey and parts of Egypt. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 55:50 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: So another way of saying this is that the GCC is basically finished. The intention is to collapse their economies and make them irrelevant. All right? The third thing we can expect is that Turkey will enter this war, and Saudi Arabia actually, will enter the war. Because you want to use this war to weaken opposition to these eschatologies as much as possible. Okay? So, Takiyah and Saudi Arabia will enter this war and they will suffer tremendously because of their participation. All right. Again, the Al -Azhar Mosque will be destroyed. Okay? And then, you have the rise of Persia. The rise of Persia. Why is this important? Because you need the Islamic world to unite against Israel for the end of days. All right? So, you don't mind if actually Iran wins this war because by winning this war, Iran will activate its Persian identity. And this is important for eschatology because in ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 57:02 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: the war of Gog and Magog, people are interpreting Gog and Magog, which will march against Israel, they're interpreting Gog and Magog to be Persia and Russia. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 57:13 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 57:16 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? Together, they will march against Pax Judaica. Number six is, that in Israel, you will achieve the Pax Judaica and the Greater Israel Project. Okay? So, the Greater Israel Project and Pax Judaica are not the same thing, guys. Greater Israel is basically the territory that the Israelis believed that God had promised their ancestor Abraham. Pax Judaica is a one -world government. Okay? Based on AI surveillance and the Mark of the Beast. So, what will happen is that Israel will use this war to expand its territory and then what will happen is that capital, technology, will then start to flow to Israel in order to create the Pax Judaica. So, think of companies like Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Well, they'll probably transfer themselves to Israel because that is where the power will rest. Okay? So, Pax Judaica. Then, you will have Russia winning a war in Ukraine. Okay? And then, return Greeks to Constantinople. Basically, I ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 58:44 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: know we're saying this is, it is possible that the Greeks go to war against Turkey and then Russia supports the Greeks and return the Greeks to Istanbul. Okay? But then you're like, wait a minute. Turkey is a NATO member. Well, we can also expect destruction of Europe. Okay? The end of NATO, basically. So, this war in Ukraine, it's not just about Russia protecting its borders. This war in Ukraine is also meant to achieve Orthodox eschatology, to destroy Europe, to destroy NATO, so that Russia can achieve the Third Rome prophecy. That means the destruction of Europe. So, I will discuss the Russian -Ukrainian war later on as we go along. Okay? But what I'm trying to show you is that just by, okay, analyzing the most extreme eschatologies of different religious traditions, you can then, from this analysis, pick out points in which they agree. Okay? And at these points, you can figure out then, how ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:00:01 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: they will affect current geopolitics to make certain predictions about how the war will progress, about how the world will transform itself in the next two to four years. Okay? So, this is called the Law of Eschatological Convergence. It gives us tremendous insight into why things are turned out the way they are. Okay? Because again, I keep on saying this, but purely from a geopolitical perspective, purely from a real politic perspective, this war in Iran makes no sense. But, if you look at it from an eschatological perspective, then it makes perfect sense. Okay? Any questions? Yes. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:00:51 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: But, I think, like, if we look into the war between America and Iran, I think Trump is trying to destroy Iran as the same way that he destroys Venezuela, but it fails, which let Iran to fight back. So, I think this could also explain in a political way, but not religious. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:01:15 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay. Alright. That's a great point in that, listen, there's an explanation which is that Trump is just stupid. He's arrogant. They had too much success in Venezuela. They go into Iran and they think it's the same thing, and now they're losing. Okay? And because they're losing, they are just panicking. Okay? Okay. That's true. And if this explanation is true, then what will happen, what we can expect to happen is that Trump declares victory and goes home. Okay? That's what we can expect. And if the US does go home, then you're right. Okay? So, we can expect, but sorry, the question then is what happens next few months? Alright. What you need to understand is this. War is not simple. Once you start a war, you can't end the war. Alright? So, let me explain really quickly why. Okay? So, you have Iran, and the main thing, the main advantage that Iran has over the United States is the GCC cannot defend itself. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:02:29 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? Because it's just a desert. And Iran, it's a mountain fortress, so it can shoot rockets, it can shoot drones, at the GCC, and the GCC can't defend itself. Okay? Before, they thought these US bases could defend against Iran, but now you recognize these US bases can't defend themselves either. Okay? Alright? So, the other thing that Iran did was close off the Strait of Hormuz. Okay? They closed off the Strait of Hormuz. And this is important because the GCC then exports oil to Asia and gets back food. Okay? So, the GCC basically requires the Strait of Hormuz in order just to survive. Okay? Now, let's just say the US, Donald Trump's like, you know what? Screw this. This is a stupid war. The Middle East is stupid. We're gonna go home. Okay? What happens now? What happens is that Iran says to GCC, hey man, you attacked us. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:03:30 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: You destroyed our infrastructure. You destroyed our economy. You have to pay, pay, pay a rent pay a compensation. Okay? Right? Also, hey man, now we control the Strait of Hormuz so if you want to use the Strait of Hormuz you have to pay us a toll. You have to pay us a tax. Right? So, all this money of the GCC before it's going to the United States to fuel the US economy. Now, where does it go? It goes to Iran. Right? That's a lot of money, man. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars. And what will Iran use with this money? It's money, this money to repair its economy. So in five to ten years this is going to be an economic miracle. Where now Iran is able to industrialize really fast. And as a result what's going to happen? What's going to happen is that if the United States leaves the Middle East Iran becomes the superpower and controls the entire Middle East. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:04:34 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Right? Now, what, now Israel has nuclear weapons. And so what's going to happen is that Israel and Iran will sign a peace treaty. Okay? But the United States won't be involved. The United States goes home it doesn't get any money from the GCC or what's going to happen to the U.S. economy. It's going to collapse. Why? Because the entire U.S. economy is based on the stock market, on finance, on AI, on investment from the GCC. Right? So the question then is can the Americans go home? The answer is no they can't because if they go home their economy's going to collapse. Their people are going to have a revolution anyway. So you're better off sending people to Iran than have the people in America cause a revolution. Right? Okay? So you're right in that it's possible that Donald Trump made a mistake but it doesn't matter if it was intentional or accidental you have the same outcome. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:05:33 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: And strangely enough the strange this outcome that you have matches that aligns with these different eschatologies of the world. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Alright. Any more questions? Alright. Okay. So we'll continue this next week guys. ## The War Runs on End-Times Scripts -- 1:05:50 - Source title: Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spg58Glfz68&t=3950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-spg58glfz68@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-spg58glfz68.json) Text: Okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: We conclude the Odyssey today, and as we discussed last lecture, the Odyssey is really about a homecoming. About three members of a family, Odysseus, Penelope, and Timarchus, who after 20 years separation must come together again and rediscover their love for each other. And as we discussed last class, all three suffer from depression. Odysseus suffers from post -traumatic stress disorder because war has shattered his identity, his sense of self, his worldview, his purpose. Penelope is depressed because the love of her life has disappeared and she doesn't know if he's dead or alive. Timarchus is a teenager. a despite is a teenager young man who cannot inherit his father's legacy or his mother's wealth okay so all three are depressed and today we will discuss how love brings the three together and resurrects all three all right okay so a major topic that we will discuss throughout the semester is the idea of love what is love ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 1:24 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: how does it benefit benefits itself and why is it so important okay so remember that consciousness is the universe okay and our consciousness is infinite but we don't know that because in order to navigate our reality we hallucinate time and space and time and space are created by our ego okay and our ego makes us believe that we are separate from everyone else when in reality we are unified with everyone else okay so the reality that we see is a hallucination created by our ego okay and our ego makes us believe that we are separate from each other and love is the force okay love is the monad god love that burns in us and compels us to return to the monad and which is we which reminds us that we are all interconnected okay so love is the force that compels us into unity and when we meet someone that we truly love we ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 2:48 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: move together back to the monad and with the monad our love is imprinted and this love becomes a force unto itself that compels us back into it all right so in other words Penelope and Odysseus are in love with each other and they and as a result no matter how far away they are they still are drawn back to each other because they complete each other right so another way of saying this is that because our consciousness is infinite okay it exists in infinite dimensions we can bring our conscious into three planes okay there's a plane of the mind okay our conscious subconscious mind okay and we are aware of this but if we are aware of this we are not aware of the other plane of the mind but then there's the spirit okay which is based on the heart our emotions how we feel and then at the very core of our conscience ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 4:05 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: is the soul and all three planes exist at the same time and when all three align or correspond we are happy we know who we are we know what we should do but when all three split apart or they are in conflict with each other and this creates the idea of cognitive dissonance and this leads to trauma and depression and that's the issue that Odysseus, Penelope and Te насколько is faced where they're in their soul okay they know that they're all alive and they will all return to each other one day okay but in their spirit because of the distance they have a sense of of depression, because they are away from each other. In their mind, they logically believe that Odysseus is dead, and Odysseus believes that I can never return home, okay? So there is a disunity of these three things. And for the family to reunite, they also must combine all three together, okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 5:22 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Does that make sense? Right now, these three different planes believe different things. There's a different narrative. And they must combine this narrative into one complete worldview if they are to come together as a family. And that is the struggle within the Odyssey. That is the journey of the Odyssey, all right? Okay, so the main idea that I want you to understand is that love is a unity of all three, and love is a unity of all three. And you want to learn more about what love is. What love is is the burning of the soul, okay? In other words, what love ultimately is is intimacy. How do you know if you love someone? You love someone not because you think about this person all the time, not because you obsess about this person, you want to possess this person. You love this person, you know you love this person, if you understand this person intimately, okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 6:34 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: So in other words, you're able to communicate and understand each other in an intimate language with cold words and secrets. You understand secrets, okay? Does that make sense? All right, so let's look at this concretely. Now, last class, we read Timarchus visiting Sparta, where Helen of Troy and her husband, King Menelaus, live. We discuss how the two don't actually love each other. We know because they don't speak to each other. They say words, they tell stories, but they don't really hear each other, okay? So for example, the example is that Helen, Menelaus, and Timarchus, they all get drunk, and Helen is telling stories of Troy, and she tells a story of how Odysseus infiltrates Troy, and he's disguised as a beggar, but because Helen is the smartest person in the world, she sees through his disguise. She bathes him, and then Odysseus tells her about the Trojan horse, and then she helps the Greeks implement their plan, and so she's surreal. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 7:54 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: So that's real hero of the story, okay? This is a story she tells herself. She doesn't even think about the reaction of Menelaus, who's lost his brother, Agamemnon, and his friend, Achilles, and many other Greeks, because of the Trojan War, okay? She doesn't really care about his feelings, she doesn't really hear him, and he doesn't really hear her, okay? So after she tells this story, remember Menelaus tells a different story, which is, Helen, Helen, you almost got us killed because when the Trojan horse came into Troy, you came and you tried to trick us into revealing ourselves by calling names of our wives in their voices. And it was only Odysseus who saved us because he clasped our mouths, okay? So basically, they are shouting at each other, but they don't really hear each other. And when Menelaus is telling this story, Helen just drifts away, okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 8:53 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: So this is not love. They are together because they're stuck together, okay? Now we're going to see a different version, okay? We're going to see what love really is like. And so what happened is that Odysseus is disguised as a stranger and returns to Ithaca. And he plots with his son. He plots with his son, Tamarchus. Tamarchus actually knows who he is, but no one else knows who he is. And right now in his house, it is overrun by suitors, okay? There's dozens of them who are trying to wait for Penelope's hand. But Penelope doesn't really tell them anything, so they just sit around and eat all the food that they can, okay? They get drunk. They sleep with the servants. They make a mess of things, okay? And Odysseus goes as a beggar. And they just... And they abuse him as well. But Penelope hears that there's a stranger in the house, and she also hears that he knows that her husband, Odysseus, is still alive. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 10:03 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: So she's curious, and she asks the beggar, Odysseus, to come to her apartment so that they can discuss. Now the problem is this. The problem is that the house is full of servants. And some of them are spies to the suitors. And Odysseus has disguised himself because he's afraid that the suitors, if they knew who he really was, they would kill him. But he also doesn't really trust Penelope, okay? He doesn't really know how she feels about him after 20 years. Because really, he abandoned her, right? So they have a conversation. But it's a conversation that happens on three different planes, right? The mind, the spirit, and the soul. At the soul level, they both know who each other are right away. Okay? Because they've been communicating multi -dimensionally. So at the soul level, they know the truth. At the spirit level, they are afraid of each other, but they long for each other. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 11:14 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: At the mind level, okay, this is really important. At the mind level, they are afraid of each other, but they long for each other. So, they don't know who each other are, because if they did, they'd all be dead, okay? The suitors discovered who Odysseus really is, they would kill Odysseus. Okay, so this conversation between Penelope and Odysseus is the first conversation they've had in 20 years. And this conversation is going to happen at three different levels, okay? So you need to analyze the conversation at these three different levels to understand how love works. works all right so remember they're talking to each other but there are servants and these servants some of them are spies for the suitors okay so there's a public public language and there's a private language all happen at the same time okay so um penelope asked the ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 12:07 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: stranger prove to me that you actually know my husband okay so uh can you read uh ivory ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 12:16 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: uh good woman odysseus the great master of subtlety returned how hard it is to speak after so much time apart why some 20 years have passed since he let my left my house and put my land behind him even so imagine the man as i portray him i can see him now king odysseus he was wearing a heavy wooden cape sea purple okay stop okay um thank you in double fold with a gold brooch to collapse it twin sheaves for the pins on the face a work of art a hound clenching a dapple fawn in his front paws slashing it as it wriths all marvel to see it solid gold as it was the hound slashing throttling the fawn in his death throes hooves failing to break free i noticed his glossy tunic too clinging to his skin like this like the thin glistening skin of a dried onion silky soft the glint of the ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 13:18 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: sun itself you woman galore would gaze on it with relish and this too bear it in mind won't you i have no idea if odysseus wore these things at home or a comrade gave him as he boarded ship or a host perhaps the man was loved by many there were a few achians equal him and i i gave him a bronze sword myself a lined cloak elegant deep red and a fringe shirt as well and i saw him off in his long bench ship of war in the lordly style something else he kept a herald beside him a man a little older than himself i'll try to describe him to you best i can round shouldered he was swarthy curly curly haired his name uribates and odysseus prized him most of all his men their minds worked as one his words renewed her deep desire to weep okay ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 14:11 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: her words renewed her deep desire to weep okay meaning that her his words moved her spirit moved her heart okay now you read this and you have absolutely no idea what's going on and in fact no one knows what's going on the servants the suitors they might overhear this but they have absolutely no idea what's being talked about but these words are able to move Penelope to tears because she now feels her heart stirring she now feels as though her heart is alive again after 20 years of being dormant okay why the answer is that in this language there is a cold there is a great secret that only Odysseus and Pelopi know okay and you you can't actually find it yourself but I'll tell you what it is and it's the word broach golden broach okay this reveals that this person speaking must be Odysseus and the end and the reason why is look ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 15:15 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: at the detail on the face of the work of art how things planting a double film it goes on and on and on and on and what does this poetry reveal this poetry reveals that this broach is prized this broach is embedded in the imagination of Odysseus so what is this thing this is a thing that 20 years ago Odysseus is about to set sail to Troy right Penelope says says to Odysseus the prophet says you'll be gone for 20 years 10 years in Troy 10 years lost at sea now this is this I know and probably says take this with you it's a golden it's a golden broach okay take this with you and promise me that you'll return this to me and what this is yes okay now he get lost at sea and he loses the broach but what does he bring back he brings back the memory of their departure together ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 16:17 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=977s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=977s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: and this is what the word starts to reveal okay it's impossible to see all right and it's something that you will have to discover for yourself but I'm telling you right now what this is all right so this is an example of the mind the spirit and the soul the language working together okay and now Penelope in her spirit knows this must be Odysseus okay not the mind the mind is still stuck in the present but her soul has always known now her spirit knows right and then after this conversation where Penelope is moved by her spirit to acknowledge that her husband is still alive they can call a plan to kill all the suitors and the plan is this Penelope will announce to the suitors listen it's been 20 years and it's about time I get married and get out of the household so I'm going to have a competition whoever wins this competition ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 17:12 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1032s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: I will marry okay and the competition is this Odysseus has a bowl um if you're able to string together this bowl and shoot a target then I will marry you okay and the great secret of course is that there's only one person in the whole universe who can string together this bowl and that of course is Odysseus no one else can do this so the suitors don't know this so uh there's a competition all the suitors try their best but they can't do it and then Odysseus who's still disguised as a beggar says let me try okay and the suitors are like what are you talking about you're just a stupid beggar get out of here but somehow Odysseus is able to try and of course he strings together the bowl okay and this is the climax of the epic the Odyssey okay so we'll read it together all right can you can you um ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 18:10 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: read it Ivory so they mocked they are the suitors of course mastermind ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 18:16 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: in action once he'd handled the great bow and scanned every inch then like an expert singer skilled at lyre and song who strains a string to a new peg with ease making the ply and sheep gut fast at either end so with his virtuoso ease Odysseus strong his mighty bow quickly his right hand plugged the string to test his pitch and under his touch it sang out clear and sharp as a swallow's cry horror swept through the suitors faces blanching white and Zeus cracked the sky with a bolt his blazing sign and the great man who had borne so much rejoiced at last that that the son of cutting Cronus flowing that omen down for him okay keep on reading he snatched a winged arrow lying bare on the board the rest still bristle deep inside the quiver soon to be tasted by all the feasters there setting Shaft on the hand gripped drawing the ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 19:08 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: notch and bowstring back back right from his soul just as he sat but aiming straight and true he let fly and never missing an axe from the first ass handle clean the shaft with with his Wade brazen headshot free my son Odysseus looked at telemachus and said your guest sitting here in your house has not disgraced you no missing the mark look and no long labor spent to string the bow my strings not broken yet not quite so frail as mocking suitors thought but the hour has come to serve our master's right supper in broad daylight then to other Rebels song and dancing all that crowns a feast okay so ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 19:50 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: remember the main um problem uh conflict in the Odyssey is that Odysseus his world view is shattered his sense of identity purpose is shattered he went to Troy to fight for justice to fight for family to leave a legacy for his son but instead he ends up destroying families he ends up causing a war crime and he's too ashamed now to face his son okay so this passage where Odysseus uh assembles his bow and shoots a target what it represents metaphorically is a resurrection of his soul his Worldview okay the alignment of his mind his soul and his spirit which makes him invincible now and what allows him to assemble the ball what identity the love of his son and the love of his wife right because he first needs to um know if Penelope still loves him or not and he knows because they when they talk they're able to understand each other intimately ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 21:11 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1271s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1271s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: okay so now what's what will happen is it's almost as though a normal person is now transforming into a Superman okay and because he knows he's fighting for right Zeus gave him a blazing sign okay so now that he has resurrected himself the gods look down and rejoice and smile upon him and he knows that finally he will fight for justice you for family, for his son, okay? And even though he and Tabacus are heavily outnumbered, they basically kill everyone, okay? All right, so now after the suitors are dead, Odysseus has a problem, which is he now has to reveal himself to Penelope, okay? So, on the soul level, they are together again. On the spirit level, they're still together, they're now together again. The mind, at the mind level, it's harder, it's hard, okay? Because how does Odysseus explain to her why he was gone for 20 years? How does he explain to her that he was in disguise all this time, okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 22:38 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: So, let's read this passage to see how they reconcile themselves, okay? All right, so this is Penelope, who is still distant, okay? Odysseus has revealed himself, but Penelope has caught a dissonance, okay? She's still depressed, and she doesn't yet want to admit in her heart that her husband is still alive, okay? All right, so she's keeping distance from him. So, he basically tells her maid, Eurycleia, to go make a bed for Odysseus. She's still not comfortable with him, so they'll sleep in different places. They'll sleep in different chambers tonight, okay? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 23:23 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1403s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1403s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Come, Eurycleia, move the sturdy bedstead out of our bridal chamber, that room the master built with his own hands. Take it out now, sturdy bed that it is, and spread it deep with fleece, blankets, and lesser throws to keep him warm. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 23:37 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Okay, so, you know, it's all a shock to me, Odysseus. I know you're my husband, but you've been gone away for 20 years, so I would feel much more comfortable tonight if you slept somewhere else, okay? So, we're gonna move your bed, and move it outside, and we'll cover it with nice blankets, all right? Keep on going. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 23:58 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Putting her husband to the proof, but Odysseus blazed up in fury, lashing out at his loyal wife. Woman, your words, they cut me to the core. Who can move my bed? Impossible task, even for some skilled craftsman. Unless a god came down in person, quick to lend a hand, lifted it out with ease, and moved it elsewhere. Not a man on earth, not a man on earth, not a man on earth. even at peak strength, would find it easy to prize it up and shift it. No, a great sign, a hallmark lies in its construction. I know, I built it myself, no one else. There was a branching olive tree in center court, grown to its full prime, the bowl like a column, thick set. Around it I built my bedroom, finished off the walls with good tight stonework, roofed it over soundly and out of doors, hung well and snugly wedged. Then I chopped, I lopped the leafy crown of the olive, clean cutting the sun bear from roots up. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 24:56 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Okay, do you want to go in? Planting it round with a bronze smoothing ad. I had the skill, I shaped a plumb to the line to make my bed posts, bored the holes it needed with an auger. Working from there, I built my bed, start to finish. I gave it ivory inlays, gold and silver fittings, gaps across it, oxide gleaming red. There's our secret sign, I tell you, our life story. Does the bed, my lady, still stand planted firm? I don't know. Or has someone chopped away that olive trunk and hauled our bed set off? Living proof, Penelope felt her knees go slack, her heart surrender, recognizing the strong clear signs Odysseus offered. She dissolved in tears, rushed to Odysseus, flung her arms around his neck and kissed it head and cried out. Odysseus, don't flare up at me now, not you, always the most understanding man alive. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 25:54 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: The gods, it was the gods who sent the sorrow. They grudged us both alive in each other's arms, from the heady zest of youth to the soup of old age. But don't fault me, angry with me now because I failed. At the first glimpse, to greet you, hold you, so. In my heart of hearts, I always cringe with fear some fraud might come. Beguile me with his talk. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 26:18 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1578s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1578s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Again, this is a secret language. This is an intimate language between Odysseus and Penelope. On the surface, it seems as though Penelope is just testing Odysseus. Are you really my husband? Do you really know that this bed is something that can't be moved? And Odysseus says, yes, I know, okay? That's the public, okay? But at the subconscious level, at the spirit level, what this conversation really is about is Penelope is saying to Odysseus, you know, 20 years ago, you were the one who brought glory in war. How do I know that if we let you back into our life, you won't seek adventure again? You just won't run off and go to war to seek eternal glory. Now, Odysseus says that this bed is my heart. This bed is something that I worked really hard to create with loving care for years and years and years, and this is where my heart is. The bed is my love for him. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 27:18 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: for you, and it cannot be moved. And it's something that is the foundation of who I am. So I will never ever leave you again. I will make my home here with you for all of eternity, okay? All right, and so what we now see is finally, the alignment in Penelope between mind, spirit, and soul, and that makes her alive again, okay? Okay, all right, now she's happy. She flings herself around Odysseus and acknowledges the love of her life has returned, okay? So the last thing I want to discuss with you is what really is the purpose of life? So while on his journey, Odysseus travels to underworld, and he meets Agamemnon and Achilles, okay? And Odysseus and Achilles. And Odysseus and Achilles have a conversation, okay? Okay, can you read? I agree. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 28:24 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: But you, Achilles, there's not a man in the world more blessed than you. There never has been, never will be one. Time was, when you were alive, we Argives honor you like a god. And now down here, I see, you've lorded over the dead in all your power. So groove no more a dying, great Achilles. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 28:42 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Okay, so this brings us back to the Iliad, right? So remember, in the Iliad, the Iliad is about Achilles, and Achilles tells everyone that, I came to Troy because I was given a prophecy. I could either die an old man who no one knows back at home, or I could die young as a great hero in the shores of Troy. And of course, that's not really a choice. Of course I want to be famous. Of course I want people to celebrate me, okay? So he goes to Troy, he kills Hector, proves he's the greatest warrior in the world, the Greeks celebrate him. And then he dies in the shores of Troy, as is prophesied, okay? And so Odysseus meets Achilles, and Odysseus says to Achilles, Achilles, you must be so happy down here because everyone worships you. And just as everyone worships you back in our world, you've accomplished everything that you've set out to accomplish, Achilles. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 29:44 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: You must be so happy with yourself, right? ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 29:46 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: And then Achilles says, he reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting. No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus. By God, I'd rather slave on earth for another man, some dirt poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive, than rule down here over all the breathless dead. But come, tell me the news about my gallant son. Did he make his way to the wars? Did the boy become a champion? Yes or no? Tell me of noble Peleus, any word you've heard, still holding pride of place among his myrmidon hordes? Or do they despise the man in Hellas and in Phthia, because old age has claimed his arms and legs? For I no longer stand in the light of day, the man I was, comrade in arms to help my father as once I helped our armies, killing the best fighters Troy could field in the wide world up there. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 30:40 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: Okay, so Achilles responds and says, Odysseus, I'm dead now. So now I can look at my life in its entirety. I can now, for all eternity, consider what is important, what is purposeful, what gives us meaning and purpose. And I discovered that, you know what, I regret my life, because I should have died an old man, my family, rather than go die young in the shores of Troy. Because being dead, I ask myself, what makes me happy? And what makes me happy are the memories of my father, or the memories of my son. That's what I care about. That's the purpose of life. That is what gives life meaning, okay? So that is the ultimate moral of the story of the Odyssey, which is to say that we are here to seek love, because love is what gives meaning and purpose to our lives. So to construct a family, to build a family that you can love is much more important. ## Love Is The Secret Language -- 31:47 - Source title: Great Books #6: The Intimacy of Love - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS-NfPSPMu8&t=1907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-as-nfpspmu8.json) Text: It will give you much more happiness, than building an empire, than being the most famous person in the world. And this story, this legacy, is what will become the foundation of Greek civilization, which is humanity's greatest civilization, okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: We continue our analysis of the U.S.-Iran war. And in this war, there are three major questions that will determine the outcome of this war as well as the world afterwards. These three questions are, number one, will the U.S. launch a ground invasion? So, right now, the United States and Israel are primarily focused on an air war, striking Iran from a distance. In the past, we would call this siege warfare. And as long as it remains an air war, the United States can choose to de -escalate and withdraw from the Middle East. They would lose this war, but the loss would not be catastrophic. Whereas if they choose to withdraw from the Middle East, they would lose this war, but if they choose to launch a ground invasion, it would escalate very quickly and they would be trapped in Iran for the next five to 10 years. It would be a catastrophe whether or not they win or lose. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 1:08 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=68s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=68s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Because in order to fight a ground war, the United States would have to institute a national draft where young men as young as 18 would be forced to join the army and be sent to fight in Iran. So, that's the first big question for us. Will the United States send in ground troops? Remember, there's the idea of mission creep, where maybe in the beginning you're like, I'll send out a thousand troops to do a small mission. But then it doesn't go well, so you send in 2,000. It slowly creeps up. It's what we call mission creep. That's how the United States enrolled itself in Vietnam. All right, so that's the first big question. Second big question is... Will nukes be used? There's a lot of concern online that Israel is preparing a nuclear strike on Iran because the Israelis don't like how the war is going and they want to reclaim the initiative. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 2:16 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Nukes are a taboo in geopolitics. The Americans used them at the end of World War II and no one's used them ever since. If Israel were to use tactical nuclear weapons, they would break this universal taboo and we might find ourselves in a nuclear apocalypse, okay? So that's a great concern that everyone has right now. And the third question is the Al -Aqsaq Mosque. This is the third holiest site in the Islamic world. There's Mecca, there's Medina, and there's the Al -Aqsaq Mosque. The... The Muslims believe that it is from the Al -Aqsaq Mosque in Jerusalem where Muhammad ascended to heaven. And the Jews believe that the Al -Aqsaq Mosque sits on the site of their temple, which is the house of God. So religious Jews, extremists, want to destroy the Al -Aqsaq Mosque to rebuild the third temple. And if the religious Jews... The extremists destroy the Al -Aqsaq Mosque, ## Control Beats Dominance -- 3:29 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: then the two billion Muslims in this world would be religiously obligated to go to war against Israel, okay? So these are the three big questions that will determine how this war will determine the future of the world. Okay. So in this class, I teach you game theory to make predictions. I teach you how to make predictions about the future. So right now, I'm going to make three predictions, and then I will show you my analysis as to how I make these predictions, okay? Now, what's important to understand is that these are only my guesses based on my analysis. And whether or not they turn out to be correct will determine the validity of my analysis. I don't have inside information. I don't know more than you do. I don't have the knowledge and doing game theory analysis. So according to game theory, this is yes. The United States will send in ground troops. According to game theory, this is no. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 4:37 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And number three is yes, okay? So what I'm going to do is spend the next two classes explaining to you my game theory analysis as to how I come to these conclusions. And we can watch how world events unfold. Now, I want you to understand something, which is that for my theory to be valid, for my analysis to be valid, I have to be correct on all three, okay? If I miss one, then all my theory is wrong. I know there's a lot of concern from around the world that nukes will be used. And I am 100 % confident that nukes will not be used at this time in this war. And if I'm wrong, I apologize to the world, okay? But at the same time, we'll all be dead anyway. So it doesn't really matter, all right? Okay, all right. So let me explain my analysis, okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 5:40 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So remember, today, what I'm going to do is do number one and number two, explaining to you why Israel will not use nuclear weapons and why there will be a ground invasion. And then next class, I'll explain number three to you, okay? That's a plan for this week. All right. So to understand what's going on, I need to teach some basic geopolitical theory, okay? So in military affairs, in geopolitics, there's a concept called escalation ladder. Escalation ladder, okay? The dominant theory is that whoever has escalation dominance has the most advantage, okay? So what this means is, let's just say you and I get in a fight, okay? I have a knife. You have a gun. Well, a gun is more dominant than a knife. Therefore, you have a greater advantage over me. And therefore, you should win in theory, okay? And applied to this war in the Middle East, Israel and the United States have escalation dominance because they have nuclear weapons. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 6:59 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And Iran doesn't. Therefore, the United States and Israel have a huge advantage over Iran, okay? But what I will show you today is that this theory is incorrect. It actually doesn't work that way, right? So let's start off with a very simple example. Let's just say that two people get into a fight, okay? A and B. And how the escalation ladder will work is that maybe A and B run into each other, okay? And then A says, hey, man, say sorry. And then B is like, it's not my fault. You say it. Sorry, okay? So there's a conflict. And it's usually a very small conflict. No one knows why and no one knows who's at fault, okay? So they start cursing each other, okay? So the first step is a conflict. Second step is they start cursing each other, right? Screw you. Screw you. And then they might start pushing each other, right? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 8:05 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Push. Push. And then they hit each other, okay? Punch. Punch. And then they start the fight. And then one pulls out a knife and the other pulls out a gun, all right? And then B shoots dead A. Fight over, right? So there are certain things that we need to keep in mind about this example. First of all, the fight is not contained in itself, okay? You cannot perceive this game as just one between A and B who's physically stronger. There are other players involved as well, okay? So for example, there are spectators or friends. There's a crowd watching you, okay? This is important because there's also the police, right? Eventually the police will come, the government. And they'll ask people, hey, what happened, man? Whose fault was it, right? And also, for people who are religious, there's also God, right? If you die, you have to go up to heaven and God's going to ask you, hey, man, how did you die? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 9:17 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So you have to explain how you died, all right? So in other words, in this escalation ladder, there's three factors that you have to consider that drive people up this escalation ladder. These three factors are, of course, emotions. Second is power. And the third is reason or logic, okay? And what drives people up is adrenaline. In other words, it is important. It's possible to skip the escalation ladder, right? You don't go from like, hey, screw you, to like the guy pulling out a gun and shooting you, okay? You have to go step by step by step because adrenaline is rushing in your system. And this adrenaline, it's making you more angry, but it's also making you stronger and more resolved. And it's also telling you how to fight this battle, okay? And the thing to remember about this, this is really important, is that it's not about how fast you climb up the escalation ladder, okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 10:27 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#control-beats-dominance) Text: If you get too angry and you overreact, then you are at fault, right? What you want to do is climb it up strategically. And that means you have to remain calm and controlled. Because if you remain calm and controlled, you have three advantages over your opponent. The first is focus. Second is clarity. And the third is focus, you're clear, and resolve, okay? Sorry, resolve, okay? What this means is that you know what you're doing, you have a strategy, you are clear about how to achieve your strategy and your goal, and you are determined to achieve it, okay? But in order to have all three, you have to remain calm. And therefore, you need to control yourself as you climb up this escalation ladder. Because remember, it's just not about being your opponent. It's about justifying yourself to your friends, to the police, and to God as well. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 11:33 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#control-beats-dominance) Text: Because you might hit that person, he might go to the hospital, and you've won the fight, but then you go to prison for ten years. In which case, you've lost the fight, okay? Alright? So, the main idea I want you to remember is this, and this is the law of escalation. Okay, this is a very important idea in my game theory mind. Control is more important than dominance, okay? Control is more important than dominance. Why? Because control is the idea of calibration. Calibration means that you time, or you structure, or you strategize your response in a way that helps you achieve your strategic objective. Okay, you're not just throwing punches, you're throwing a punch in a certain way that allows you to defend yourself, that strikes fear in the opponent, and also allows you to seem as the good guy among spectators. Okay? And then when the police come, you can justify ## Control Beats Dominance -- 12:49 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#control-beats-dominance) Text: why you threw that punch in a certain way to the police so that you don't go to jail. Okay? Alright, so another way of saying this is that calibration is ultimately about strategic flexibility. And the idea of strategic flexibility is, in a fight, the person who has the most options, the person who has the most flexible strategy, will usually win the fight. Okay? There's a law of escalation. And I'll explain to you how this applies to the U.S.-Iran war. Okay? Alright, so before I actually talk about the war, what I want to do is do a thought experiment. To examine how we're going to understand what's going on between the United States and Iran. Okay? So let's do a thought experiment. And the thought experiment is this. Let's just say that there's a bully. Okay? And he's the biggest guy in the school. And he has a gang. Okay? These are his friends. And there's like maybe four of them. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 14:04 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And so what they do is, they basically prey on everyone at the school. Okay? And there's maybe a hundred people at the school. Right? And so what they do is, they make everyone in the cafeteria pay a tax. Okay? If you want to go in the cafeteria and eat, you have to pay a tax. Maybe a dollar. Who knows? Okay? And the friends of the bully go collect the tax, and then give him all the money. Okay? And that is the structure of the school. Where if you want to eat lunch in the cafeteria, you have to pay a tax, and the bully's friends collect the money, and the bully shares the money amongst his gang. Okay? Now, at first people are okay with this system because they think that it's actually beneficial. Because the bully is keeping the peace and order in the cafeteria. Right? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 15:05 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: He's keeping everyone safe. So yeah, I pay a dollar, but it's not that much money. And we're all safe, so that we can all go to school. And we can all enjoy our lunch in peace in the cafeteria. Okay? But then what happens over time is that the bully gets more and more arrogant because he feels invincible. Everyone just obeys him. So he develops the idea of hubris. And the idea of hubris is that no one has the courage to challenge me. Everyone's afraid of me, and therefore I can do whatever I want. So what does he do? Well, the first thing he does is that he charges more money from everyone. Okay? So the tax goes up. And so people are disgruntled about this. Okay? They don't understand why they're paying more to the bully. Okay? But not only that, but what he will also do is pay less money to his friends so that he can ## Control Beats Dominance -- 16:06 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: have more money because he wants to buy a car, or he wants to go to Paris for the summer. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So everyone's not happy about this, but this is the reality that they live in. And there's nothing they can do about it. And so people just put up with it. One day, a new kid comes into the school. Okay? The new kid. And he doesn't really understand the rules of the game. He goes to the cafeteria, and he doesn't know he's supposed to pay a tax. Right? So the bully's friend comes over and says, Hey man, where's the dollar? And he's like, What dollar? I just got it here. And he refuses to pay. And so what they decide to do is teach him a lesson by ostracizing him, by making him sit alone by himself in the cafeteria. Okay? You have no friends because you don't know the rules, and you refuse to play along. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 17:01 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And the new kid is like, I don't care. I'm happy not having any friends. Okay? And so then the bully and his friends start to discuss, how can we get this new kid to play along? And so they decide what they're going to do is they're going to curse him. They're going to bully him. Okay? So the new kid goes to lunch, and he's eating his lunch, and the friends come down and start to curse him. Says, You're a wimp. Do you want to fight us? And what the new kid does is he just ignores these guys. And these guys are like, What's going on, man? Why isn't he afraid of us? And slowly what happens is that the other people, the other kids, recognize that, Wow! Maybe it is possible to rebel against the bully. Maybe it is possible not to pay these stupid taxes. And so they start talking to him secretly. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 18:00 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? They give him presents. They start to smile at him and say hi to him. Okay? But the new kid just ignores everything. Right? And then the friends are like, You know what? We don't actually benefit this much from this relationship anyway. Maybe if we appoint this new kid as the new bully, the new boss, he'll treat us better. And then you have other friends who are like, You know what? This bully, he's fat. He's ugly. Maybe I should be the boss. Okay? So just because a new kid comes in, doesn't know the rules, and he's willing to challenge the reality, challenge the assumptions and the values of this cafeteria, now there's dissent. Now there's rebellion going on. Okay? And different people are talking to him and trying to form alliances with him. But what he does, and it's really interesting, is that he just ignores everyone and keeps focused. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 19:06 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? And then one day, the bully's friend comes over and says, You know what? You're a whip. And the new kid finally says, I'm not afraid of you. Okay? And then this friend goes back and tells his boss, Hey, this new kid said, He's not afraid of you, man. What do you do about it? And the bully gets really angry and says, I'm going to go punch his face. Okay? So the bully goes in front of the new kid and says, If you don't apologize, I'm going to punch you in the face. And the new kid's like, What did I do wrong? What should I apologize for? And the bully's kind of confused, so he goes away. Comes out the next day and says, You don't apologize now, man. And the kid's like, Okay. For what? Tell me to apologize for what? And this goes on for a long time. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 19:54 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And then eventually, the bully gets so pissed off that he punches the new kid in the face. Okay? So he started it. The new kid, he's hurt, but he decides to punch the bully back in the face. Okay? And the bully's stronger, so he beats the bully up. So he beats up the new kid. But what's happened now is that everyone in the school has seen that the bully is not that strong. Everyone's seen that the bully is actually pretty weak. And so they recognize that, Hey, if we stand alongside the new kid, we can beat the bully. All right? And eventually what happens is the bully is defeated. Does that make sense? You guys. All right. So certain things to understand is that, yes, the bully has escalation dominance because he's stronger and he's the biggest kid in the school. He can beat up everyone. But what wins the fight is control. What wins the fight is collaboration, sorry, calibration, strategic flexibility. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 21:06 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1266s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1266s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: The fact that the new kid has many different options and he's picking the option that is most strategically advanced to him. Okay? Now, what you will notice from this example is the bully doesn't have that many options actually because he needs to maintain the idea of face or credibility. Right? This is the essence of his power. His power lies on the fact that if you don't listen to him, if you don't obey him, he will come and beat the crap out of you. Right? That's credibility. But the moment that you show that, it's actually not that big of a deal to be punched by him. He's not that strong. Then he loses all credibility. Okay? Which means that he either retreats or he's forced to strike harder, to kill you. Okay? To maintain his credibility. So another way of saying this is that by calibrating your movements strategically, you can manipulate the bully into self -destruction. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 22:23 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Does that make sense to you guys? All right? Any questions? Okay. So that's a theory. All right? So now what we're going to do is we're going to apply this theory, the law of escalation, to what's happening in the Middle East. Okay? We're going to do that by looking at the escalation ladders of both Iran and the United States. All right. Okay. Okay. This is the US. This is Iran. Okay. So let's look at the escalation ladder. So the first thing the United States does, of course, is something called decapitation. What is decapitation? Decapitation is like, I just kill your leaders, you don't have any more leaders, and therefore, you don't know what to do and therefore you surrender. Okay? That's the first thing the US did. It didn't work. So now what the United States is doing is attacking military targets, air defense and military bases. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 23:31 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: That's the second step. And the idea is that you beat the crap out of the military so they surrender. But that didn't work either. Okay? So then what you do next, of course, is economic embargo where you basically prevent Iran from trading with the world. Right? Prevent Iran from selling oil to China basically by blockading the seas. And the idea here is that if the government doesn't have any money to pay its soldiers, its soldiers will just not fight. Okay? But that's not working either. So then what you do, of course, is you attack civilian infrastructure. Okay? Which is primarily water and oil. So you may have seen the news that the Israelis attacked an oil depot in Tehran. And now if you look at a picture of Tehran, it's all black. Okay? And this is a war crime or this goes against international law because you're attacking civilians. But that's what you do when you feel as though you need to apply more pressure to win this war. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 24:47 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? And so you can keep on escalating. And then what you do is that now that you've attacked the civilians and they still refuse to surrender, what you do now is you use secret weapons. Secret weapons might be advanced missiles that no one's ever seen before. Okay? And the point of these secret weapons is to scare the crap out of people and say, you see how dominant we are? Okay? If that doesn't work, then what you do next is use biological and chemical weapons. Okay? Biochemical weapons. Doesn't work either? Then, guys, nuclear weapons. All right? So what's really important for us to understand is that you must follow this escalation ladder if you are to use nuclear weapons. And the reality is that, first of all, we have not seen secret weapons. We have not seen biochemical weapons. And therefore, nuclear weapons comes later. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 25:55 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? Unless I see biochemical weapons being used, I refuse to believe that nuclear weapons is on the table. Okay? All right? So I think we are here, which is the beginning of attacks on civilian infrastructure. But already, we're seeing arguments in the American political system against the use of weapons against civilians. Okay? The reason why is that if you do this, okay, if you destroy civilian infrastructure, you unite the people behind the government. Because the idea is that you use airstrikes to split apart the government and the people. And you want the people to overthrow the government for you. Okay? That's the idea here. So we are at this stage, meaning that we have a long way to go before we hit nuclear weapons. Okay? All right. So now let's look at the Iranian escalation ladder. So, what's happening is that in the beginning, Iran does two major things. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 27:08 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: The first is attack military targets. Okay? And what they're basically targeting are U.S. radar systems and air defenses. Because once these two things go, then Iran can attack whatever it wants. It's also closed the Strait of Hormuz. And by closing the Strait of Hormuz, you put pressure on the economies of the GCC as well as East Asia. The hope is that by blockading the economies, the GCC, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, will put pressure on Donald Trump to end this war as quickly as possible. Also, East Asia receives most of its oil from the GCC, from the Strait of Hormuz. Right? So China gets about 40 % of its oil. Japan gets 75%. That's a lot of oil. So the hope is that these countries will put pressure on the United States to end this war as soon as possible. Okay? So that is the Iranian strategy. But if they're forced to go up the escalation ladder, what will happen is this. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 28:21 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: If you attack their economy, they will attack your economy as well. Okay? With missiles. Basically targeting oil fields. If you attack their civilian infrastructure, they will attack your civilian infrastructure as well. And what is the main weakness in these GCC countries? Desalination plants. Okay? Desalination plants. And that's it. Okay? That's the extent of the Iranian escalation ladder. Because it doesn't have nuclear weapons. It doesn't have biochemical weapons. Okay? It doesn't have intercontinental missiles that it can target the United States with. So as you can see, oh, the U.S. and Israel have escalation dominance because they can go way up higher in the escalation ladder than Iran. But that's the wrong way to understand this. Okay? Because if you look at their strategies, Iran has much more flexibility, much more calibration than the United States. Okay? When the United States attacks you, it's pretty blunt. But look, if I close ## Control Beats Dominance -- 29:34 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: off the Strait of Hormuz, I can be strategic in how I close the Strait of Hormuz. For example, if you're a Chinese ship, I let you pass. For example, if you are a GCC nation and you want to bribe me, you want to pay me a tax, I let you pass as well. If you're a GCC nation and you're like, you know what, forget the United States, I want to be your friend in Iran, I let you pass as well. You understand? So by closing off the Strait of Hormuz, it creates a calibration strategy. It allows Iran to selectively and strategically apply pressure to the friends of the United States so that they become the friends of Iran. Okay? Same thing with these drone strikes against oil fields and military targets. Okay? If you attack me, I attack you with drones. But if you don't attack me, then I don't attack you. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 30:29 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So in other words, okay, this is a really important idea. The U.S. and Iran have different military decision trees. Okay? All right? So let me explain how. Because the United States and Israel, they're just attacking Iran. Okay? And they attack with air power, so that's very blunt. All right? Okay? So you go from one step to the next, to the next, to the next. Okay? This is the classic escalation ladder. Iran is not like this. Their decision tree is different. Okay? Because their strategy is to force the United States to omit defeat and retreat from the GCC. Okay? To close down their military bases in the Middle East so that Iran has control over the charitable moves and therefore it can control all world trade. All right? So that's the strategy. So this strategy means that you have different options. All right? Your options are attack Israel, military targets, civilian targets, Tel Aviv. Okay? All right? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 31:51 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So I don't want to spend too much time on this, but as you can see, if you think about it, Iran can be much more selective in its targeting than the United States and Israel. And therefore, the options that it has, it is much more diverse, which gives Iran escalation control over the situation. Okay? Do you guys understand this? All right. So let's look at why Iran has advantages over the escalation ladder. U.S. Iran. The first major difference is that Iran is active, whereas the U.S. is passive. Okay? Another thing this is, go back to the bully example where the bully has to maintain credibility. He has to show that he's more powerful than the other kids. Right? So if you provoke him, he has no choice in the matter but to hit you. Okay? But you, the blue kid, can choose whether or not to provoke him or not. You can choose the timing of when to provoke him. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 33:12 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=1992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Therefore, you are active. Okay? The second big difference is that Iran has a clear strategy. It knows what it wants to accomplish and it knows how to accomplish what it wants. Remember, what Iran wants is control the survival moves and the United States out of the Middle East. That's what it wants to do and it's calibrating its attacks in a certain way to achieve this end goal. And it's working out very well for Iran. Okay? The United States, on the other hand, doesn't know what it wants. It wants to destroy Iran. What does that mean? Okay? Destroy. It could mean regime change. It could mean economy collapses. It could mean the civilian population starves. Okay? It could mean anything. But because there's so much ambiguity, so much confusion about what it means, it confuses military strategy. All right? And the last thing is, of course, is that Iran is flexible and the United States is inflexible. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 34:21 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? So by studying the escalation ladder, we discover that Iran has far more advantages than the United States. Okay? All right. So what does this mean? All right. It means that Iran will probably win this war, ultimately. But there has to be major changes to a society in order to win this war. All right? So remember, to win a fight, you have to have three things. Focus, clarity, and resolve. You have to know what your purpose is. You have to know how to achieve it. And you have to have, you have to be determined to achieve it. Okay? So what does this mean for the Middle East? What does it mean for Iran? What, first thing is, focus means unity, meaning that you have to unite your population, which means basically crushing all dissent. You can't, we can't argue anymore. We have to unify for a purpose. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 35:38 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? The second thing, clarity, is to censor people, censorship. And we're already seeing that in Israel where you're not allowed to film military strikes. Okay? If a drone comes and attacks Tel Aviv in Israel, you cannot film that and put it on, on social media. Okay? The government will come and arrest you. Same thing in Dubai. You cannot show Dubai being attacked. Okay? So massive censorship going on. And resolve just means militarization, where the Middle East moves towards total war. Total war just means that every citizen now is recruited into the war effort. It just means that the entire economy is geared towards war. Okay? And one last point I'll make is this. What we need to understand about the escalation ladder is that as it moves up, we have to remember that this war is being fought multi -dimensionally. Okay? What does that mean? It means that the military is just one dimension. But there are four major dimensions. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 36:51 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: There are others, but let's focus on four major dimensions. Okay? The first major dimension is narrative. Narrative is basically world opinion. Second is political. Political just means the relationship of nations to each other. The relationship of the government to the people. Okay? Political. The third dimension is economical. Economic. And the fourth is military. What's really important to understand is that the military dimension is probably the least important. There are other dimensions that are much more important. Therefore, these four factors determine how the United States and Iran move up the escalation ladder. Okay? Because your purpose is to control the narrative and justify why you're doing what you're doing. Political means you start to maintain good relations with other states. Right? So, as the United States is fighting this war against Iran, the United States is still talking to China. The United States is still talking to Russia. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 38:00 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So, that discussion, that political discussion determines the contours of this fight. Economic means that as this fight is still happening, nations are still trading with each other. And that factors into how the military is fought. Okay? Does that make sense? So, I know this is very complicated, but you need to understand how complicated war is. It's not as simple as saying, you know what, let's nuke that guy. Doesn't work that way. Okay? There are a lot of constraints. There's a lot of factors, a lot of stakeholders involved to constrain the use of nukes. Okay? Alright. Alright. So, let's now discuss ground troops. Alright? The first question we look at is, will ground troops be used? And the answer, unfortunately, is yes. They have to be used. And it has to do with how the military works. Okay? Of how wars are fought. Basically, when you fight a war, you have to have a correct cost pyramid. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 39:06 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: And the most simple cost pyramid, okay, is, is this. Infantry, soldiers, okay? Alright? They're at the bottom. Why? Because they're the cheapest. What's above them? Armor. Okay? Artillery, tanks. They're more expensive to produce. You need more resources. You need more time. Then you have naval. Right? Then you have air. Okay? Does that make sense? This is the cost pyramid. And cost pyramid just is this question of like, how much energy, how much time, how much resources do you need to produce a certain product? Okay? It costs you very little to produce a soldier, but it costs you a lot to produce an airplane. This is important because wars are usually wars of attrition. Meaning that you have to put all your resources in to win the war. Okay? So, this is just production capacity. And this is the most standard model that you have of a cost pyramid for a military war. Okay? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 40:20 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Does that make sense guys? The problem is that the United States have an inverse pyramid. Okay? Meaning that the cost pyramid in the United States is the cost of the war. It's the cost pyramid of the war. It's the cost pyramid of the war. So, the cost of the war is the cost of all the equipment out there that you need to produce that war. So, what does it mean 2003, the Iraq War, these are not real wars, okay? Because the Americans were so dominant and Iraq was so weak that it was basically a video game. All right, it was just these pilots flying around, just bombing everything, okay? It's like guys in tanks just running over the Iraqi army. Those were just video games. But this Iran thing is a real war. And therefore, you cannot fight a war like this. If you want to win this war, the only thing you can do is return to a realistic cost pyramid. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 41:39 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: You don't have a choice in the matter, right? Because again, your cheapest product are soldiers, right? And the most expensive are airplanes. You cannot afford to use an airplane in order to save a life of a soldier. Eventually, this cost, benefit analysis will blow up on you, okay? Okay, does that make sense, guys? All right, so the United States wants to win this war, then it has no choice but to use ground troops, to use soldiers as the main force of its military. Any questions so far? All right, okay. Now the question then is, will the United States use ground troops? I already said that if the United States is to win this war, it has no choice but to use ground troops. But will the United States use ground troops? And a lot is determined by the game theory strategies of the different players, okay? So let's look at the four major players in this war. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 42:55 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: You have U.S., you have Israel, you have Saudi Arabia, and you have Iran, okay? All right, so the United States and Iran, they're pretty easy to understand. What the United States wants to do is destroy Iran. Okay, why? Because if it were to destroy Iran, the United States would have complete control over Middle East oil, and it would control global trade for the Strait of Hormuz. And therefore, the United States can maintain its empire, okay? So a really simple objective, let's destroy Iran. We don't care how, we don't care why, let's just go do it, okay? Iran has another strategy, which is control Strait of Hormuz and destroy Iran. It's called CENTCOM. CENTCOM is basically the American military in the Middle East, called Central Command, okay? So those are two major military objectives of Iran. And we can understand why, because if CENTCOM is destroyed, Iran has complete control over the Middle East. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 44:07 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Now, Dubai, now Oman, Iran, Kuwait, have to pay taxes to Iran. Now Iran, the new kid, is now the bully of the Middle East, right? Now it's a hegemon. That is the political objective of this war, okay? Israel is a bit more complicated, all right? For Israel, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, one other thing is humble Israel. That's the other thing, because even if you defeat the United States, you still have to deal with Israel, okay? And Israel is the great military power of the Middle East. So you want to humble them, you want to weaken them. You can't destroy Israel, because Israel has nuclear weapons. Right? You piss off Israel, those nukes start flying. You don't want that, all right? So those are the three major political objectives for Iran. Control the struggle moves, destroy CENTCOM, and humble Israel, okay? If you are Israel, actually for you, the strategy's different. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 45:12 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: What you want to do is this. You want to destroy CENTCOM and destroy Iran, okay? Those are your objectives. Why? Because if you destroy both the United States and you destroy Iran, then you are the sole hegemon in the Middle East, okay? Also destroy the GCC, destroy Saudi Arabia as well. Why? Because once Saudi Arabia is destroyed, all its resources belong to you, okay? And this creates something called the Greater Israel Project, which is what we'll discuss next class. But as you can see, what's really important is that even though the United States and Israel are allies, their optimal strategy is different. Their objectives are different. In fact, they're in conflict, okay? They have Saudi Arabia. What does Saudi Arabia want to do? Well, destroy Iran because if you destroy Iran, you have complete control of the struggle moves. Then, you can be a bully, okay? But you also want to destroy the U ## Control Beats Dominance -- 46:21 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: .S. and you want to humble Israel. All right? Does that make sense? All right? So, by understanding how each player perceives the game, and why As ACTUALLY. we can now understand how they will go about their strategy right so the united states just wants to destroy iran but as you can see israel saudi arabia and iran all want to destroy the united states and how do you do that you do that by forcing the united states into a long ground war right therefore if you're israel you don't want to use nukes why because nukes would end the war too quickly you want to drag this war out as long as possible to force the united states to send in ground troops and you're like well why doesn't the united states use nuclear weapons and the answer i it's already told you the escalation ladder it needs to justify justify itself to the to the people ## Control Beats Dominance -- 47:23 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: okay when you do anything all right when you do anything sorry when you do anything you have to worry about certain factors okay you have to worry about troop morale your soldiers have to believe that they are fighting for a good cause okay you have to worry about public opinion you have to make sure that the world is on your side you have to worry about politics political will you have to make sure the people are unified uh and you have to worry about enemy morale you don't want to piss out the person your enemy so much that they go into an extreme uh they jump the escalation ladder to extreme beyond your beyond your control it doesn't make sense okay so as you can see war is extremely complicated it's not just about weaponry it's not just about um resources it's ultimately about controlling the narrative controlling the political landscape okay marshalling the resources ## Control Beats Dominance -- 48:30 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: in a proper way that is strategically beneficial right does it make sense you guys okay so um yeah so we we just answered two questions will the united states use ground troops yes it will because iran south arabia and israel will work together to force a ground invasion even though the united states doesn't want to do so but unfortunately united states doesn't have a clear coherent strategy it's passive therefore it can be manipulated into sending a ground And the second question is, will Israel and the United States use nuclear weapons? And the answer is no, because it's not in their best interest to use nuclear weapons. Israel wants the United States to lose this war. And that means a long war that destroys the American political will to fight any more foreign wars. If America loses, Israel becomes the dominant power in the Middle East, okay? And so the last question is the Al -Azhar Mosque, and we'll answer that next class on Thursday. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 49:46 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Any questions? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 49:53 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2993s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=2993s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Will Americans take over Iran like what they did to Venezuela, like they captured their president? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 50:03 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay. Look. The strategy in the beginning was to do a Venezuela in Iran, meaning you go in, you kill a leader, a new leader emerges, then goes up with you and surrender to you because you're too powerful, okay? But Venezuela and Iran are two very different countries. The Venezuelan elite is very pro -American, meaning that their wealth, their children, their family is stored in America. Therefore, the Venezuelan elite is very pro -American. They have a vested interest in negotiating a deal with America to protect their own interests. But for 40 plus years, America has sanctioned the Iranian elite, and Iran has become poor and angry and disgruntled because of that. Therefore, they lose nothing by fighting you, okay? So even though you've killed the supreme leader, and you've killed many of their leaders in fact, the elite themselves are unified in opposing you. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Yep. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 51:08 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Allen? So I in fact have a question about the motivation of U.S. to involve in this war. Like as you said that U.S. wants to control all the oil, so like they must destroy Iran. But I think this is like a little bit confusing because I think U.S. know that this war is really highly risked, and it can potentially even like destroy the whole system. Okay. So why U.S. risk the risk of like whole system collapsing to like control the oil that Iran had? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 51:45 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay. All right. So this is the key question that everyone's arguing about. Quite honestly, we're going to argue this for the rest of eternity. Okay? We're going to argue this for eternity because like no one knows, and there's never going to be a clear answer. In fact, there are multiple possibilities. Okay? What I'm going to do today is offer you the most simple explanation, and in the next class I will offer you a much more complicated explanation. Okay? But the simple explanation is this. Again, this goes back to military doctrine, how the United States military works. Okay? And the military doctrine is prevent the heartland from arising. All right? So United States is here. This is Europe. This is Iran. This is Russia. This is Iran, India, China, Japan. This is Middle East, and this is Africa. All right. So the American military doctrine is this. The greatest threat to American power is the heartland unifying. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 53:03 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? Why? Because if the heartland unifies, it can trade. It can trade by itself through railways. But America is primarily a naval power, therefore it requires people to trade by sea. Okay? And so its strategy is to make sure there's never any cohesion in the heartland, either by making sure that no great power arises in the heartland, and that's why America went to war in World War I and World War II, because there's a great fear that Germany would conquer the world. Or Europe and Asia and create the heartland. Okay? Therefore, America had to stop Germany from rising. So you either make sure no great power arises, or you create so much conflict that they're always fighting each other. And that used to work before. Okay? Now there's a problem. The problem is the BRICS nations, Russia, Iran, and China are coming together. And if they come together, guys, that's a major piece of the heartland, and everyone else. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 54:10 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Europe, Middle East, Africa, India, would probably follow. Okay? Because it is easier to trade in the heartland than it is to trade with America, especially with the US dollar declining. Right? So, in other words, the United States has no choice but to fight this war, because that's their entire strategy to maintain hegemony in the world, to prevent the heartland from unifying. All right? Does that make sense? Because once you destroy it, you destroy it. But Iran, the heartland fractures. There's no way that they can now trade together anymore. They're still reliant on American maritime routes. Okay? America is still the hegemon because it controls world trade. Whoever controls world trade controls the world. Whoever controls the heartland controls world trade. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? But this is just one explanation. There's actually other explanations. And I'll go into... I'll go into a more complicated explanation next class. All right? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 55:16 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Any more questions? Yeah? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 55:22 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So, you mentioned Saudi Arabia and how it wants to see the downfall of both the US and Iran. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 55:31 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: It wants to see the downfall of Israel, US, and Iran. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 55:34 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Yeah. And to me, that sounds like a pretty big goal. And how would you say... How would they possibly use their strategy to achieve that goal? Or how would it possibly be for Saudi Arabia? ## Control Beats Dominance -- 55:48 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay. All right. So, it's very confusing to people why Saudi Arabia is actually against Iran. Okay? But actually, if you go back and look at their history, they have major conflicts with each other. All right? So, let's go over some of their conflicts. All right. So, Saudi Arabia, Iran. The first major conflict is that Iran is a theocracy. And Saudi Arabia is a monarchy. Okay? A theocracy just means that you're ruled by clerics who represent God. The monarchy is a king who represents God. And for the Iranians, that is blasphemy. That's heresy. That's against the religion. Okay? So, Saudi Arabia and Iran hate each other. Saudi Arabia sees Iran as a threat and trying to induce a revolution within Saudi Arabia. Iran sees Saudi Arabia as blasphemous. Okay? And it's a huge issue because Saudi Arabia is the home of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest sites in the Islamic world. Second issue is that Saudi Arabia is Sunni and Iran is Shia. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 57:05 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: So, these are two different sects of the same religion, but it's like Protestants and Catholics. They just hate each other. Okay? Okay? And the last thing is that Iran is anti -Semitic. Iran is anti -US and Saudi Arabia is pro -US. What this means is that Saudi Arabia has military bases, American military bases, inside of the Holy Land. And for the Iranians, that is the worst crime because it's infidels who are protecting the Holy Land. Infidels are not allowed in the Holy Land. If you're not a Muslim, you're not allowed to go to Mecca. All right? All right? So, Saudi Arabia and Iran hate each other. Saudi Arabia has a huge problem in that it is an oil economy. Most of its GDP comes from oil exports, and for the longest time, it was trying to build a knowledge economy, it was trying to build tourism, it was trying to promote games. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 58:11 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? Does that work? So, if you're Saudi Arabia and you see the future, it's a pretty dismal future because eventually, your oil is going to run out. Eventually, people are going to switch to electrical vehicles, digitalization, which means that oil is no longer so important. Okay? So, what you need to do is, if you're able to control the Middle East, right? So where you get your money now is from trade access, the short of Hormuz. That's a viable future. If you just sit back and wait, eventually, your nation's going to run out of oil, and therefore, it's going to... It's going to cease to exist. Okay? So, Saudi Arabia needs to act now, and the way that it wants to act is it wants to create a conflict between United States, Israel, and Iran, where they destroy each other. Once they destroy each other, Saudi Arabia can come up on top. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 59:06 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Now, Israel cannot be destroyed because Israel has nuclear weapons, but the goal is to negotiate a peace with Israel after the war is over. Right? Does that make sense? Does that make sense? To split the Middle East between Israel and Saudi Arabia, but will Israel agree to this deal? Probably not, but according to game theory, Saudi Arabia has no choice in this matter because it is so far behind everyone else. Okay? It can only hope that this chaos leads to new possibilities because given the structure of the game so far, it does not have a very good future. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions, guys? All right. Okay. Great questions. So please continue to follow the war. Okay? So you have to follow the war and understand what's going on, and this class, what I'm doing is I'm providing you the game theory analysis for you to understand what's happening and why it's happening and where this war is going. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 1:00:03 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Okay? Again, the three big predictions I make, and we'll know in the next year or two if these three things happen or not, is the United States will send in ground troops, it has no choice in the matter, if it wants to win this war or continue this war. There will be no nuclear weapons being used. Again, I will apologize to the world if nuclear weapons are used. Okay? The third is that the Al -Aqsa Mosque will be destroyed at some point, and this is something I will talk about next class. Thank you. ## Control Beats Dominance -- 1:00:31 - Source title: Game Theory #11: The Law of Escalation - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-Dan7NRss&t=3631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fz-dan7nrss.json) Text: Bye. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: We continue our discussion of the U.S.-Iran war that is happening right now. So, as you know, I made the prediction that the United States will lose this war. And last class, we did an overview of the military and strategic position. And today we're going to provide some theoretical framework for how to understand how this war will progress and why ultimately I believe the United States will lose this war. Today I present to you a very important idea in game theory. And once you understand this idea, you understand why things will turn out the way they do. It's called a law of asymmetry. Law of asymmetry. And all this is saying is that the United States and Iran are not peers. They're not equals. The United States is far stronger than Iran. And we should expect the United States to overwhelm and destroy Iran really easily. But the law of asymmetry states that that's usually not the case. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 1:21 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=81s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=81s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: It's usually the underdog that has the advantage. And we see this from history all the time. Okay? So when the Persians in about 490 B.C. invaded mainland Greece against Athens and Sparta, Persia at that time was the first world empire. It had infinite resources, infinite manpower, infinite wealth. And it lost to the Greeks not once but twice. And then the Macedonians under Alexander the Greek, and they were like a tribal army, not a very large army. They were able to go into Persia. And Persia at the time was basically most of Eurasia and conquered it in about 10 years' time. The Romans started off as a tribal people, which then built the Mediterranean Empire. Then you have the Aztecs, you have the Vikings. So this happens a lot in human history. A people in the borderlands, a tribe, a small ethnicity, are able to conquer a great empire. And the law of asymmetry tells us why. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 2:39 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? So I'm going to go over very slowly in detail how this law of asymmetry works. All right. So let's look at an empire. And there are three major advantages to an empire. All right? The first is mass. This just means that they have a lot of people. Okay? They almost have an even amount of people. The United States has a population of about 350 million people. But remember, the United States can also draw on the populations of its allies, which includes the Five Eyes, the Anglosphere. It also includes Europe. It also includes East Asia, South Korea, Japan, basically wherever the Americans have a military base. All right? So most of the world are either allies of the United States or vassals of the United States. So the United States can basically draw on billions and billions of people for its wars. Okay? So it's mass. Second is the idea of organization. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 3:41 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Organization just means a hierarchy of bureaucracy and elite that allows you to organize your resources and your people in order to generate wealth, which is basically science and technology. Okay? Science and technology, which leads to the most advanced weaponry. Okay? The United States, how they fight this war. They have these satellites that provide for precision targeting. They have these airplanes, these B -2 bombers, F -15s, that are the most advanced weaponry ever in human history. Okay? So organization. And the last great strength of the empire is the idea of death. Death is the idea that because your people are infinite, because your organization is so strong, because your resources are so vast, you can afford to lose many, many wars. Okay? It's not a big deal the United States loses this war in Iran. If they want to go back, they can go back with even more soldiers, even more weaponry, because their wealth is infinite. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 4:59 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? So these are the three major advantages of an empire. And in theory, because of these advantages, an empire should be invincible and eternal. But we know for a fact that all empires fall. And they fall very, very hard. And quite honestly, they don't last a very long time. Maybe 28 years, maybe 30 years for most empires. That's not a very long time. So we need to better understand what's going on. Okay? What is it that an empire with these vast resources, they all fall in 28 years, 30 years? Okay? All right. So what we need to understand is that all these advantages are ultimately disadvantages in the long term. All right? So let me explain what I mean. Mass, you have a lot of people. Okay? When you have a lot of people, you create a lot of inequality. Why? Because there's competition for resources. There's too many people. Okay? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 6:12 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And this often leads to debt and slavery. And as a result, your people become complacent, lazy, indifferent. They're competing against each other. They really don't like the government. Okay? So they're not really that motivated to do anything, to work or to fight wars, but especially to fight wars. So this mass looks like an advantage in the beginning, but over time, it becomes a disadvantage. All right? Organization means an elite. The problem with this is that over time, the elite become parasites. Why? Because the way they make their money is through rent seeking. Rent seeking just means that you have power and you seek to monetize your power by exploiting the mass. All right? So basically, landlords are a classic type of rent seeking elite. And so they don't really work, but they make a lot of money because they own the land, because they control all the resources, because they control all the capital. And that ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 7:29 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: forces the mass to go into slavery, to go into debt, which is what's happening in America today. The problem with this is that everyone wants to be part of the elite, and there are too many elite over time. Okay? So even though you have, the elite have many, many kids, the power is a zero sum game. It's a hierarchy. And so this leads to the idea of elite overproduction. Okay? Elite overproduction. This is a term coined by the historian Peter Turchin. Okay? And his theory is that you have turmoil, you have wars, for example, the French Revolution, for example, the Father Roman Republic, because there's too many elite, and they start wars to create power for themselves. Okay? So this organization, this elite, leads to basically factionalism, or infighting. And that's what's happening in America today, where the Democrats and the Republicans, they hate each other, they refuse to get a law. It leads to political polarization. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 8:39 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? So another saying this is that an empire over time becomes insular. They don't care about what happens outside the world. All they care about is what happens in Washington, D.C., and as a result, they make a lot of stupid mistakes. Okay? Right. And the last thing is death. Okay, the problem with death is that if there are no consequences to your actions, you become arrogant, you become lazy, and you become incompetent. Okay? Because you don't care. It doesn't really matter. And this leads to the idea of hubris. Okay? Hubris is just blindness to your own arrogance, a violent arrogance that makes you make silly mistakes, but you don't recognize your mistakes, and you keep on repeating the same mistakes over and over again. All right? So, yes, it seems like the empire is invincible, but if you actually think about it, the empire, its advantages becomes over time its disadvantages, which will lead ultimately to its downfall. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 9:51 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? So the mass leads to inequality, the organization leads to overproduction, which leads to factionalism, and death leads to hubris. That's why an empire must fall over time. But an empire cannot fall by itself. It needs an enemy that forces it to collapse. Okay? And so what happens is that an enemy will emerge that will overwhelm the empire because it is able to take advantage of the weaknesses of the empire. All right? And so what are the weaknesses of this empire? Well, the first major weakness of this empire is that the people aren't really motivated. So if you as people are really motivated, you have a huge advantage. Okay? We call this energy. All right? Now, as an empire, you become insular. You refuse to admit your mistakes. You refuse to learn from others. Well, if you are willing to admit your mistakes, if you're willing to learn, if ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 11:02 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: you're willing to promote the best and brightest, if you're willing to be meritocratic, you have a huge advantage. Okay? And so this idea of openness. And the last idea is this. An empire, it's fractured. So if you're able to maintain cohesion, if people are able to remain united, if they're able to have a common purpose, they will be strong. Okay? So if an enemy of the empire emerges with these three qualities, energy, openness, and cohesion, this enemy will defeat the empire. Does that make sense? Okay. So what I want you to focus on as you follow the news in this war between United States and Iran is ask yourself a question. Will Iran become an energetic, open, and cohesive society? Because if it does, it will become invincible. The empire won't change because of hubris. It's too static. It's too stagnant. It's too bureaucratic. So the empire won't change. The empire will not admit its own mistakes. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 12:12 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And quite honestly, Iran, because it's still a country of 92 million people, it still suffers from issues of mass organization and death. And so if it's able to transform itself into an energetic, open, and cohesive society, then it will triumph over America. That is the fundamental question in this war. Okay? Don't worry about America, its technology. Don't worry about the economy. Don't worry about these things. Okay? Just ask yourself one question. Is Iran transforming as a society? Are people becoming much more motivated? Are people in Iran learning from their mistakes and innovating and becoming resilient on the battlefield? Are the Iranians sticking together as a people? Okay? Because if the answer is yes to all three questions, then Iran will win and America will lose. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So that's just a theory. So let's now talk specifically about America and Iran. Okay? So America will have three major advantages in this war. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 13:35 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=815s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? These three advantages are, of course, technology, propaganda, and money, wealth. These are the three major strengths of the American empire. All right? Technology is just what you see every day, right? The satellites. They're able to position, target these airplanes that are the greatest war machines in the world. Okay? So America is home to the greatest scientists, the most advanced weaponry. Okay? That's just technology. Propaganda means that America controls information space. It controls the internet. It controls the world's most powerful media, including the New York Times, CNN, BBC. It controls YouTube. It controls Google. It controls information landscape. America does not want you to know something. It can hide it from you. America can control the discourse. It can control how you think about the world. That's propaganda. The last thing is money. Okay? And it's a very simple idea. The United States controls the US dollar, which is the reserve currency of the world. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 15:02 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And the United States can print as much US dollars as it needs in order to win this war. It has an infinite money printer. Okay? And then it can use this money to bribe people to fight this war, right? It can pay for mercenaries. It can bribe ethnic minorities to rebel against the government in Iran. It can bribe Iranian officials to betray the government. Okay? So, looking at these three things, you would think that America is invisible. Right? But again, we need to think about the lost asymmetry and recognize that these advantages are also disadvantages. All right? So, let's discuss this. Technology. Well, you know, if you have the most advanced weaponry in the world, you become lazy, arrogant, and dependent on it. Dependent on the technology, right? So, the classic example, of course, is our school where you have access to chat GPT. Right? And, like, you become smarter because you have access to chat GPT. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 16:13 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=973s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: No, you become dumber because you become lazy. Right? Same thing with technology. You would think that with the most advanced weaponry in the world, America would become invincible. But instead, the American military becomes too dependent on the technology. It becomes too arrogant, too complacent. Okay? It's like, well, you know, if we get into trouble, then we'll just send in the Air Force and blow everything up. Okay? So, it leads to dependency. And this actually hampers innovation and resilience in the battlefield. And this is what you need to win. Okay? You need to be innovative and you need to be resilient on the battlefield. But because of technology, you become too lazy to think for yourself. All right? So, that's one problem. Propaganda. You would think that, oh, America controls the debate. Therefore, that's a huge advantage. It's actually not an advantage, guys. The reason why is that in order for innovation and resilience to happen, you need to have open debate. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 17:28 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Right? You need people to voice dissenting opinions. But if you control the information landscape, what you can do is censor. And that's what America's doing right now. It's telling people to shut up and obey. You're not allowed to point out that this war is stupid and America can't win this war. Otherwise, you'll be kicked out. Okay? So, this means that there's really a lack of rigorous debate within the American government, within the American military, within the American elite. Which, of course, will lead to hubris. It will lead to bad decision making. No one will point this out because they're too afraid of pissing off the president and his people. So, they'll shut up and America will keep on making the same mistakes over and over again. Okay? We call this drinking your own Kool -Aid. Okay? They're basically getting high on their own supply. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 18:29 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: It's another phrase that we use. All right. Money and wealth. You would think, okay, well, this is it, man. We just bribe everyone. We just bribe the entire world and we're good. Right? The problem is this. The problem is that if you bribe people, they're not going to fight for you. Right? Because all they want is your money. So, you bribe them, but they'll probably take your money and run away. Okay? Or they'll figure out how to get more money out of you by cheating you. So, right now, the Americans are going to fund these, these militias and ethnic minorities and opposition groups against Iran. Okay? Guess what, guys? These guys are hustlers. Right? They're not fighting because they want more freedom. They're fighting because they want to rip off the U.S. government. And so, this money issue can be a problem in the long term because the people you're bribing, you can't even trust. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 19:35 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And they're not motivated to actually win this war for you. They're actually motivated to scam you as much as possible. And they could be actually a problem in the long term because you're putting so much resources into these hustlers. Okay? All right. So, what this means is that America has three major problems. Okay? It has three major problems. The first major problem is the lack of political will. And all this is saying is that the American people don't want to fight this war. The American government doesn't even know why they're fighting this war. No one cares. Okay? But for the Iranians, it's a struggle of life and death. Right? If America loses this war, they just go home and forget about it. But if the Iranians lose this war, they all get killed or they lose their country, they lose their society, they lose their civilization, they lose their identity. They cannot afford to lose this war. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 20:47 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? So, the first major problem that Americans are facing is they don't have any political will to fight this war, but they're still fighting this war anyway. Okay? The question then, of course, is why? Why is this happening? This is actually the most important question and it's the most complicated. So, we'll save this for later. Okay? Second is the idea of logistics and manufacturing. So, America is very good at fighting short wars. Okay? The reason why is they have the most advanced weaponry, but they have manufacturing issues because, as we know, America shipped all its factories to China. So, America doesn't have that many factories. So, yes, it has the most advanced weaponry in the world, but this weapon doesn't do any good if you don't have any munitions. Right? You don't have any munitions, bombs, bullets. And you need factories for that. America doesn't really have these factories. Now, I understand that America is trying to upgrade its manufacturing capacity, but it's kind of slow. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 21:57 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: All right? So, maybe five years from now, it will have manufacturing capacity to fight this war, but right now it doesn't. So, that's another major issue. Okay? And then the last issue, of course, is casualties. All right. America, because it doesn't have the political will to fight this war, cannot afford to lose soldiers on the battlefield. All right? So, it wants to minimize the death, it wants to minimize battlefield losses because if like a thousand, tens of thousands of American soldiers are going home to America dead in coffins, I guarantee you, because of lack of political will, the American people will revolt. You have protests, you will have a lot of violence in the streets. It'll be like the Vietnam era again. All right? Okay. So, yes, I understand that America has technology, propaganda, and money, but as we discussed, these aren't really advantages. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 23:06 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And these disadvantages are huge. The lack of political will, the lack of manufacturing, and the lack of... America cannot afford to lose that many soldiers in the battlefield. Okay? And so, this situation now determines how America will fight this war. And we'll discuss this later on. Okay? All right. Now, let's talk about Iran. So, Iran has a lot of disadvantages. Okay? But I want to discuss right now their three major advantages that they need to emphasize if they are to survive this war. All right? The first is the idea of faith. All right? So, remember that the Iranians are Shia. And as such, it's a religion of martyrdom, of eschatology, of individual sacrifice for the greater good. The Shia are not afraid to die. And because their great religious leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, was assassinated by the Americans and Israelis, they are motivated to seek vengeance, to martyr themselves for the greater good, to seek eternal paradise. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 24:36 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? Jihad. That's the first major advantage. The second major advantage is terrain. And all this means is that Iran is a mountainous country. And it's huge. It's three times the size of Iraq. So, it's very hard for America to invade the country. In fact, most analysts will say, will tell you, it is suicidal for the American military to invade Iran. It is a mountain fortress. Okay? It's a fortress. And the last issue is, the last advantage is nationalism. All right. So, the Iranians are Persians. And the Persians go back 5,000 years. It is one of the greatest civilizations in human history. And as we discussed last semester, in the ancient world, there were three great civilizations, right? The Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians. And the Persian culture, it's vast, it's beautiful, and it's deep. And that's what gives the Iranian people a lot of pride. Okay? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 26:07 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: So, when they're fighting, they're not just fighting for the religion. They're not just fighting for the homes. They're fighting for the entire civilization that goes back 5,000 years. All right. So, these are the three major advantages. That the Iranians have. Okay? Faith means that they're not afraid to die for what they believe in. Terrain means that the Americans will have a hard problem invading the country. Nationalism means that the people of Iran know what they're fighting for. All right? So, but again, remember, everything that seems like an advantage can be a disadvantage as well. All right? So, let's go over what the problems are. With faith, you might have an issue of blindness. Okay? Or zealotry. Where you're not afraid to die, but that means that you're not thinking strategically. Okay? Maybe you're going to waste too many soldiers on the battlefield. They're brave, but they're kind of stupid as well. All right? So, you ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 27:19 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: might have an issue where Iran is not using the optimal strategy because their soldiers are not afraid of death. And we're already seeing that where the Americans have already blown up and destroyed the Iranian navy. Now, anyone could have told you that if the first thing the Americans would do is go destroy the Iranian navy, so you should probably not use the navy or hide the navy or blow up the navy yourself. Okay? Because you want to avoid as many casualties as possible. But they didn't do that and the Americans have now destroyed the Iranian navy. All right? So, that's the issue of faith. Terrain, yeah, it's a fortress, but it can also be a prison. Right? Where you're just sort of stuck there. And because it's a mountainous region, it doesn't have that many resources. So, Americans can actually disrupt your water supply, disrupt your electricity. Okay? And cause general poverty and hardship for your people. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 28:20 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? And then nationalism, yes, Persia is a great culture, but remember that Iran is an ethnically diverse country. In fact, only 50 % of the population of Iran are Persians. Others are different minorities. Okay? All right? So, you have then ethnic divisions. Right? Okay? So, looking at this, now, we know exactly what the American strategy will be. Basically, the strategy will be to inflict as many casualties as possible on the Iranians. All right? To kill as many people as possible, destroy the infrastructure of Iran so that the people don't have enough water, electricity, food to survive. Okay? And the third, of course, is to create as much ethnic tension in the country as possible by arming and encouraging and bribing ethnic groups to rebel against the central government in Tehran. All right? Okay? But again, what the law of symmetry, asymmetry, tells us is that the empire, ultimately, is not as flexible and open and dynamic as its enemy. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 29:49 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay? The weaker person is going to engage in much more self -reflection, self -debate than the empire. Okay? Because the empire will become arrogant. And so, ultimately, Iran should triumph over America. And in fact, what's going to happen is that this strategy that America will use against the Iranians will lead to Iranians becoming much more energetic, open, and cohesive. Okay? So, let's look at the American strategy specifically. So, this is an ethnic map of Iran. Okay? Now, certain things that you will see is how divided the country is. Yeah, the Persians are in the center, but people you want to watch are the Kurds. Okay? The Kurds. And the Azzaris. And the Baliks. Okay? These are the three major problem areas for Iran, and it's always been the case. Remember, the Persians are in the middle. So, the Baliks are, first of all, Sunni Muslims. As we discussed last class, the Sunnis and the Shias have never really gotten along well together. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 31:27 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: They have different, I mean, they're the same religion, Islam, they have different belief systems. That's led to a lot of conflicts in the past. It's almost like the Catholics and the Protestants. Okay? And so, the Baliks have been trying to rebel against Iranians for a long time. I guarantee you that there are already Israeli and American special forces embedded in this area. Okay? The reason why is that they want to encourage as much civil conflict as possible, but they also want to prepare the graph of the possibility for a ground invasion of America. Okay? So, they would need a forward operating base. And this area could be a very good place for a beginning of a land invasion. Then you over here, you have the Kurds. Okay? The Kurds are another minority that seeks national sovereignty. And right now what's happening is that the Americans and the Israelis are bombing this area heavily. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 32:29 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=1949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And they're targeting police stations. Why? Because they're trying to reduce and eliminate opposition so that they can arm the Kurds and have them come into this area and threaten Iran. What's also happening is that in Iraq there are these Sunni groups. Okay? That the Americans are basically bribing and arming. And they're basically fanatics. Okay? They're ISIS. And what the Americans want to do is send them into Iran to cause as much problems as possible. Okay? Then you over here, you have Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan it is a independent country. What's really odd is that the majority of ethnic Israelis are actually in Iran. 6 % are in the country. 40 % are in the country of Azerbaijan. Which means that from the perspective of the Azerbaijani people this war could be an opportunity to reunite the people. Okay? And create a greater Azerbaijan. So these are ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 33:49 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: the three problem areas that you have to watch as this war develops over the next few weeks over the next few months. Okay? So we already know what the American strategy will be because we've seen it in Libya in Syria before. Okay. So what is the strategy? Right. So again the strategy is to both attack without okay? From outside and inside as well. So what you're going to do is this. You're going to arm these people embed special forces into these insurgent groups and provide air cover so they have a clear path into Iran and are able to limit opposition. Okay? All right. So now you're attacking from without. With attacking from within means to cause as much pain and suffering in the interior of Iran as possible. All right. And how do you do that? Well you do that through decapitation. Okay. Let's go over the strategies. Okay. Decapitation. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 35:03 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 35:05 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And what you're doing is you're removing the elite. Okay. Or what we call command and control. Okay. You're basically limiting the capacity of Iran to govern itself. To have a leadership. To have an elite. All right. Command and control. Okay. So that's the first strategy. Second strategy is um um aerial bombardment. Okay. Aerosupremacy. So again America has the most advanced airplanes in the world. And the way that it's using its airplanes is to destroy as much military installation as possible. But it's also engaging in acts of sabotage. Okay. So what they're doing is they're carpet bombing. Okay. So they're carpet bombing Tehran. Okay. Um they're doing soft targeting. Soft targeting. Soft targeting means that instead of attacking military installations, you attack hospitals. Why? Because you're degrading the capacities, sorry, you're degrading the state's capacity to rejuvenate itself, to be resilient, okay? The last thing is something called double tap. Double tap is this, okay? And it's really illegal, or against in actual law. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 36:36 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: What you do is this. You attack a place, right? You kill some people, and then people try to come and help the people who are injured. And it could be like doctors, it could be emergency personnel, it could be relatives, right? And then you strike again to create as many civilian casualties as possible, right? And the entire idea is to create as much fear and anxiety in people as possible so that they lose the capacity to resist, right? And the last thing you do, and the last thing, of course, is to arm and bribe insurgents, okay? So these are the three main pillars of the American strategy. And you will see this over the next few weeks. The problem with this is that when you do these three things, you're not actually hurting the Iranians, you're actually helping them. Because remember, the law of asymmetry states that, whichever group is able to create energy, openness, and cohesion will win. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 37:48 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And guess what, guys? This American strategy is gonna create a more energetic, more open, and more cohesive Persian society, all right? Let me show you how. All right, decapitation. We just said that one major problem for America is elite overproduction, right? Well, with decapitation, what you're doing is, you're solving this problem for the Iranians, right? Before, the huge problem for the Iranians were you have too many leaders, and they all have their own stupid opinion, and they all want to lead this war, right? But by killing so many leaders, you allow for more mobility, for more meritocracy, right? You're solving the problem of elite overproduction for the Iranians. That's a huge, huge bonus, guys, okay? So, the leadership will become much more lean, much more mean, much more determined, and much more strategic, okay? That's number one. Number two, air supremacy. Well, when you do this to people, when you carpet bomb Tehran, you're creating a more cohesive society. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 39:06 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Why? Because the major conflict in Iran for many decades was the conflict between the urban areas and the rural areas. The rural areas were very religious, very poor, very backward. And the urban areas were educated, secular, and progressive, okay? And so there's this huge conflict that led to a lot of riots, a lot of protests in Iran. But when you carpet bomb the cities, which are the main source of support for progressive Western policies, you make them united with the rural areas, okay? Does that make sense? The Iranian people no longer see themselves, each other as enemies, they see the Americans, the Israelis, as enemies. You create a much more cohesive society who are willing to fight together. And that's a problem, okay? All right, the last thing. Yes, you are arming the insurgents, the bollocks, the Kurds, the Hazaris, okay, that's fine. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 40:08 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: The problem with this is that you are now activating, galvanizing, Persian nationalism. For the longest time, the Persian national identity was suppressed by the theocracy. Because they want to create a more, you know, they want to create a grand religion that unites all ethnicities. When you turn the other minorities against the Iranians, then the Persian people have to come together and remember their history, celebrate their identity. And this is the key, okay? Once the Persian people are able to activate their long -lost memories, go back in the past and remember their greatness, they come together as an energetic, open, and cohesive society, okay? So yes, the Americans have this strategy that worked in Libya and Syria and other places, but it's not gonna work in Iran. In fact, it's gonna do the opposite in Iran, okay? And then you're like, well, why don't the Americans not do this? And I already told you, because it's an empire, okay? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 41:26 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: It doesn't care about Iran, it cares about itself. And so it's sort of stuck with this policy, because remember, it's trying to win this war as quickly as possible, because it doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to fight this war for a long time. It's trying to reduce as many civilian casualties, sorry, it's trying to reduce as many casualties among its soldiers as possible, because the Americans don't have the political will to fight. They don't have the military will to fight this war. Americans are trying to win this war cheaply and fast. If it doesn't, then Americans are in a lot of trouble. Okay, does that make sense, guys? All right, let me now conclude, oh sorry, let me now discuss the Iranian strategy, okay? So what the Americans are using is a classic strategy called siege warfare, okay? And so what the Iranians are gonna do is, they're gonna respond with a classic strategy called, guerrilla warfare. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 42:23 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay, and guerrilla warfare, guys, it's this simple, it's hide and seek, all right? So you come bomb me with all, everything you have, I'll just hide in my mountains. And then when you leave, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna attack your GCC countries. I'm gonna lob drones, rockets at you. I'm gonna lob rockets at Israel, okay? I don't have to strike that hard, I just have to be a pain in the ass, okay? Because then, what happens is you're forced to come back and bomb the living hell out of me, but guess what, I'll just hide in my mountains again. It's hide and seek, okay? So Iran can do this for years and years and years. But again, remember, America is forced to win this war as fast as possible, because there is no political will, they don't have manufacturing capacity, and they don't want that many casualties and economic damage, okay? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 43:19 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Does that make sense, guys? All right, so that's all Iran's gonna do. Iran's just gonna be a pain in the ass, okay? A pain in the ass. It's trying to create as much economic damage as possible, it's trying to create as much fear as possible, all right? Which will force America to attack. The grand question is this, will America launch a ground invasion, okay? Because if it does, then they've lost the war, okay? All right, because look at Iran, okay? Mountains and mountains, deserts, it is impossible to occupy this country, all right? It's impossible to invade. And what the Iranians wanna do is be such a pain in the ass to commit so much guerrilla warfare that America is forced to invade, okay, from over here, and from over here, and from over here, and from over here. And then eventually, but the problem is that America doesn't have the resources, the political will, the manufacturing capacity to fight this war, okay? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 44:26 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right, so now you're like, okay, okay, okay, okay. I understand all this. But why the hell is this war happening then? If I can tell you this, okay, I'm sure that their generals can tell them this as well. I'm sure that they know that this was the case. In fact, for years, America has been planning to invade Iran, and for years, the generals was like, no, that's suicidal. Let's not do this, okay? So why is this happening? And unfortunately, we don't know. Because the administration is not telling us. At first, Trump is like, oh, because the nuclear talks didn't go well. But we know for a fact that the Iranians were willing to agree to all terms of the Americans. And then, Marco Rubio, who's the Secretary of State, he came out yesterday, and he said something really moronic. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 45:24 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: He said that, why did we attack Iran? Because we heard the Israelis were gonna attack first. And then the Iranians, we're gonna respond by attacking both the Israelis and us, the Americans. And therefore, we have to preempt the Israelis by attacking first. That's just retarded, okay? So they don't know why they're doing this. But there has to be a reason, right? Okay, well, a clue is this. A clue is this. The soldiers are being asked, the American soldiers are being asked to fight this war. And again, no one knows why this war is happening. But there's reporting. That the generals are telling the soldiers, this is a war for Jesus. This is a war to create the second coming of Jesus, okay? This is John Larson, and he's writing this on Substack, okay? U.S. troops were told Iran war is for Armageddon, the return of Jesus. What is this? All right, ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 46:29 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: so, sorry, so some soldiers who are not Christians were told that this is a war for Jesus, and like, wait a minute, we're not Christians, we're Muslims, or we're atheists, why are we fighting this war? And so they filed a complaint about the speech, okay? And we're going to read a part of this email that the soldiers who are dissenting sent to some other people to complain about. Okay, so, Avery, could you read, please? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 47:05 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: I am a NCO rank withheld in our unit. This morning, our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be afraid as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 47:18 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Stop, okay, afraid. That's what it tells us. They're losing the war, okay? Right? Keep on going. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 47:25 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: He urged us to tell our troops that this was all part of God's divine plan, and he specifically Wait, I'm sorry. Wait a minute here. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 47:31 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Wait a minute. God's divine plan? God's not the one ordering them to fight this war. It's Trump or the American military, okay? This is kind of weird. Keep on going. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 47:42 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: And he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. He said that President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 48:00 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Oh, my God. President Trump, the fire in Iran, it's all part of a grand plan to destroy the world so that Jesus will return. What is this crap? Okay, keep on going. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 48:12 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: He had a big grin on his face. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 48:15 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay, he's happy about this, guys. The world is ending. Yeah! Keep on going. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 48:20 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: When he said all of this, which made his message seem even more crazy, our commander would probably be described as a Christian first supporter. He's been this way for a very long time. And makes it clear that he desires all of us under him to become just like him as a Christian. But what he did this morning was so toxic and over the line that it shocks many of us in attendance at the ops readiness briefing. Besides myself, I am reaching out to MRFF on behalf of 15 fellow troops. I know you asked me about the religious views of our group who has requested help from the MRFF. I can only tell you that I am Christian. And at least 10 of the others are. One of the others is Jewish, and one is Muslim. I don't know the religious or non -religious status for the other three at this time. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 49:12 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=2952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: Okay, so what is happening is that there are some crazy Christians in the American military, in the American government, okay, that want to use this war to end the world, to force Jesus to return. That is why this war is happening. Okay, I'm not saying, I'm not saying that this is a reason why, I'm saying like, this is a possibility, okay? Alright, this is Trump and these are all religious leaders that support Trump because they see him as the Messiah. They see him as this great hero who will cause the triumph of Christianity and the return of Jesus. And that's a possibility as to why this war is being fought, okay? Because quite honestly, there's no other reason. Okay? We're going to come up with another reason, okay? So this is something that we will look at as we go along. What is this crap? What is Christian Zionism? Why would they think that this war in the Middle East will cause the return of Jesus? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 50:19 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-real-game) Text: Okay, well, we'll discuss this later on. But I wanted to, but now it leads us to another problem, which is our entire class is on game theory, right? Guys, this is kind of weird because what this suggests is that religion is a part of the game theory. Religion is more important, okay? So what's the point of game theory if people don't play by game theory, if all, if they're just religious fanatics, alright? And the answer is this, and the answer is it's still game theory. But the problem is that what you think, the game that you think they're playing is not the game they're playing. The reward that you think they want is not the reward that they want, okay? We think in terms of material things. Okay, so money, resources, power. We think that the war is being fought over these things, and it's not, alright? ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 51:27 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: The grand secret, the grand reveal of the semester, of this course is this. The real power, the real currency in the world is not money, it is human consciousness. Okay? The real power, the real currency in the world is not money, it is human consciousness. The real power, the real currency in the world is not money, it is human consciousness. This is, this is it, guys, okay? Once you understand this idea, you understand everything. But this is a hard idea to understand so I'll, I'll need some time to actually explain this, alright? This war is being fought to control the consciousness of the human race because it is our consciousness that creates reality itself. That's the source of all wealth and all power in this world. Okay? Okay, that's why this is happening. In other words, this is a war not just for Iran. This is a war not just for the Middle East. ## The Empire Loses By Winning -- 52:29 - Source title: Game Theory #10: The Law of Asymmetry - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oisJiorsU&t=3149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-t5oisjiorsu.json) Text: It is a war for the soul of humanity. This is what's happening, guys, all right? This is what World War III is. World War III is meant to be the last and final war of all human history, because whoever wins this war will control the very soul of human existence for all of eternity, okay? That is the end game. And I know this is hard, I understand, but as we go along, I will explain this to you. Okay, that is the grand secret behind the world. Everything that you believe, everything that you see today, it's all an illusion. The reality, the truth is that consciousness is a source of all power of reality itself, and so this is a war for human consciousness. It's a war for the very soul. It's a war for the very soul of humanity, okay? Any questions? All right, I will see you guys next week. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Today, we start the Odyssey, and the Odyssey is a sequel to the Iliad, and it's a family story. It's a story about a homecoming, and there are three main characters, right? There's Odysseus, sorry, Odysseus, who is the main character, and it's called the Odyssey. Then there is Penelope, who is his wife, and there's Tanakas, who is their son. And as we discussed when we read the Iliad, Homer is first and foremost concerned about the human condition. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to live in a world of war? Of war? Of trauma? Of tragedy? And how can we overcome this adversity? So the Odyssey, it's about three individuals and a family, and they're all traumatized, and they're all heartbroken, okay? So Odysseus is trying to return home from the war, and his problem is that he has PTSD. Which is post -traumatic stress disorder, and this is very common for soldiers who return from war. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 1:35 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=95s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=95s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: They've seen so much violence, they've seen so much tragedy, they've seen so much senseless death, that their souls are shattered, and that is Odysseus' problem. Then you have Penelope, who is suffering from depression, and why is she depressed? Because her husband has been away for 20 years. And she doesn't know if he's alive, and she doesn't know if he's dead, and she doesn't know if he's alive, or he's dead. He's probably dead, right? It's been 20 years. There's been no sign of him for the past 20 years. But she cannot bring herself to admitting that he's dead, so she's put herself in a very precarious situation. There's dozens of suitors who want her hand in marriage, and she wants to say no, but she's afraid that... If she does that, then she'll be alone for the rest of her life. But she doesn't want to say yes, because she refuses to admit that her husband, the love of her life, Odysseus, is dead. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 2:43 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: In her heart, she feels that he's still alive, but in her head, she cannot justify it. She cannot explain it. It's just a feeling in her. Okay? And so her response, and this is what we call cognitive dissonance. Her response is just to shut down. Okay? She just spends all her time alone in her room. At first, she's weaving stuff, but then she just sits in her room, right? And then there's Tammacus. Tammacus, his problem is that he doesn't know if his father is dead or alive. But the man is a legend. This is a man who won the Trojan War by coming out... Coming out with a stratagem of a Trojan horse, okay? So he is a legend in this world, and everyone sings his praises. And he's his son, so he's living in his shadow, okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 3:42 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: And he wants to prove he's better than his father. He wants to become a hero himself, but he's being burdened by the legacy of his father. The other issue is that unless his father is dead... He cannot inherit his father's legacy, right? The property, the reputation cannot be transferred to him. Then there's his mother, who's just sitting around the house every single day. If she were to get married, she would leave, and then he could be master of his own house, right? But she's still around, so he's kind of stuck. At the same time, the suitors are waiting for Penelope's answer, which is never going to come. So they're just in the house, and they're eating up all his wealth. So he is just seeing his life wither away, and there's nothing he can do about it, alright? So he is just depressed as well, and he's angry. But all these things are the same thing. It's really one of cognitive dissonance. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 4:55 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: It's really one of depression. It's really one of trauma, alright? So... There's another way we can analyze what's going on, and to think about the soul. And the soul is something that the ancients were really concerned about, because it was really the most fundamental issue of what it means to be a human being. It's something that we don't talk about today, something that we don't think about today, because we live in a world of material science. If we can't see it, it doesn't exist. But for most of humanity... Sorry. For most of human history, humanity has understood the soul as very present, and as very real, and the most significant thing in our lives, okay? So the soul that they understood... Let's talk about their understanding of the soul, and this is true for actually a lot of cultures. First of all, the soul is a very complex thing, okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 5:54 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: It has almost infinite dimensions. There are different layers to the soul. And there's really... Okay. There's really a part of the soul that is you, okay? That is you, the person. But who you are as a person is ultimately influenced by other influences as well, by other factors as well, okay? So these influences include your family, okay? Your culture, the history, and maybe the gods, okay? So... And again, there are infinite dimensions, and these dimensions have an impact on you. And maybe when you die, maybe there's a part of you that lives on, okay? But there's also parts of you that flows back into these different streams of the universe, okay? So it's a very complex thing. Now, the soul, another name for the soul that we use today, if you go to a psychology class, their name for the soul is the soul. The soul is the world view, okay? So we have a much more simplistic understanding of our psychology than the ancients. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 7:15 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: The idea of the world view is just our understanding of who we are, where we came from, and our place in the universe, okay? And we believe it comes from our memories and our experiences, okay? And the world view is important because it allows us and ourselves... Okay. This is important for things such as planning, right? Only if you know who you are can you actually plan ahead, because then you know what you want to do, what you want to accomplish, okay? It allows for empathy, building relationships with others, okay? And it allows for judgment, basically, what's good, what's bad, what do you like, what don't you like, okay? So the world view and the soul are fundamental. Okay? They're fundamental to who we are. Now, in psychology, what they will teach you is that trauma splinters the world view, okay? There's something about your experience that ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 8:31 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: is fundamental to your identity, but because it is so painful, you forget about it, or you refuse to see it, and this causes a rupture in your identity. In your coherent sense of the world, which destroys your world view, okay? And this leads to depression. What is depression? Depression is the inability to act and to think, okay? You don't know what you want to accomplish. You don't trust yourself. You don't know what you like. And so what are the symptoms of depression? You sleep a lot, or you find no pleasure in anything. You feel no emotion. You feel nothing. You feel sort of numbness, okay? And that's why people, they tend to take drugs, or they just sleep all the time, or whatever, okay? All right? Because you're unable to act. And that's exactly what's happening to Odysseus, Penelope, and Timarchus, all right? There's a trauma in their lives, okay? And they just believe this as well, okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 9:38 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=578s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=578s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: There could be a trauma that splits the soul, okay? And it could be a demon. It could be a really painful incident. It could be anything, okay? But it splits your soul. And if you are to recover, then you have to repair your soul. And that's a fundamental conflict and a dilemma within the Odyssey. You have three individuals, Odysseus, Penelope, Timarchus, their soul has been splintered. And so they're on a journey, their own Odyssey, to repair their soul. And the answer, of course, is each other, okay? Their love for each other. That's what's going to save the world, okay? The love of family. And that is the fundamental message of the Odyssey, all right? And that's why it's such a powerful read. Okay, so let me give you some background as to the plot. So as you know, the Odyssey begins in immediate rest, okay? In the middle of things, which is to say that a lot of things have already taken place. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 10:51 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: And it happens just in the middle of the plot, okay? In the beginning, Odysseus has been away for 20 years, and he's stuck on an island with Calypso. All right, Penelope is depressed and sitting by herself in the room. Timarchus is angry, okay? And Athena comes and tells Timarchus, come with me, I will help you find your father, okay? So the story starts with the Trojan War, of course. Okay, so remember, Helen has been taken to Troy. She falls in love with Paris, because that's what Aphrodite promised Paris as a prize. And now her husband, the king of Sparta, Menelaus, and his brother, Agamemnon, the king of kings, are like, we're going to raise an army, and we're going to get back Helen, okay? And this is prophesied. This is to be the greatest war in human history. It will make mortals into gods, right? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 11:57 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: That's why Achilles enters this war, because this is the opportunity for him to prove that he is the greatest warrior in all of human history, and that's why he goes to Troy. Odysseus is also supposed to go to this war, but Odysseus, he's different from Achilles, because Odysseus loves his wife, Penelope. Okay? And then he has a new son, six months old, Tarnakes. So he's conflicted, and he really doesn't want to go to war, but the Greeks need him, because the gods have told the Greeks that it is really Odysseus who will win the war, because he's the one who will come up with the Trojan horse, the stratagem that will win this war. So you need this guy, okay? So Odysseus doesn't want to go, but the Greeks insist, so the Greeks send two messengers to Ithaca, where Odysseus lives. Okay? Now this is, what he does is he pretends to be mad, so he dresses up like a beggar, okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 13:00 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: He's a king, but he dresses up really badly, and he's going around the farmland and throwing salt everywhere he goes. He looks crazy, okay? And you throw salt in the land to kill crops. So he looks kind of crazy, but the Greeks understand that this is a man of disguise. He's a man of stratagems. He's very clever, so it's probably a trick. So what they do is they take his six -month -old son, Tammacus, okay, and put it in front of Odysseus. Now Odysseus is plowing the field and salting the fields, okay? And basically the test is this. If you're really mad, you're going to run over your son, Tammacus, and kill him. If you're not mad, if you're not really crazy, then you're going to stop and go somewhere else and save your son. So let's see if you're really crazy. And so Odysseus, of course, turns away and saves his son, and the Greeks are like, ha, you see? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 13:59 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=839s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: You're tricking us all along. Come with us to Troy. And so Odysseus has no choice but to go, okay? So this is why Odysseus goes. He's forced to go. When you think about it, this story doesn't really make any sense, right? And that's the greatness of Homer because he's telling us the complexity of human psychology. Odysseus is really, really smart. He thinks ahead, right? He should know that if he were to have this stratagem, the Greeks would see it through it really quickly, right? So what he should be doing is hiding from the Greeks, right, or maybe just moving away. If you really, really don't want to go to this war, you can just run away and take your family with you, okay? Or you know what? Just kill these guys because you're crazy, right? All right? So what this tells ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 14:53 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=893s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=893s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: us is that, yes, Odysseus really loves his family and he wants to be with his family because he knows that if he goes to Troy, he'll be gone for 20 years. That's 20 years that he won't be able to see his son, Tammacus, grow up, okay? But at the same time, this is the greatest war in human history. Achilles is going. Achaemenon is going. Does Odysseus really want to be left out? No. Does he really want to be the one guy who's like a coward, who's like, you know what? I'm just going to stay home, right? The Greeks will just laugh at him for the rest of his life saying, you're just a pussy, right? You've been pussy whipped by your wife. He doesn't want to do that. So it's a conflict, right? So what he does is he comes up with a stratagem that allows the Greeks to see through it really quickly and force him to go so he doesn't have to bear any responsibility for what he does. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 15:51 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=951s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=951s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: All right? And that is a complexity of the human soul. That is a complexity of our worldview, right? So he goes to Troy and he has to explain to himself why he's there. And he knows he's going to be away from home for 20 years, 10 years in Troy, 10 years being lost at sea, right? So his worldview is this. Why am I here in Troy? Well, the first reason is just justice. Justice. This is a just war because the Trojans stole Helen and therefore the Greeks must avenge the honor of Menelaus, okay? Second is family. Helen should be with her children. Helen should be with her family in Sparta. We have to return her to Sparta. How would I feel if Penelope were stolen from me? I would want everyone to go far away. I would want everyone to fight with me to get her back as well, right? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 17:04 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: But family. Okay? Now, third reason is legacy. Yes, he will not see his son, Timarchus, for 20 years. Therefore, he has to build him a legacy that will carry him for the rest of his life. If he is in Troy and he wins this great war and he becomes this great hero, then Timarchus himself will be famous as a son of Odysseus. People will respect Timarchus. He wants to build a legacy for his son. He wants to tell his son, this is how you should live your life. You should live a life of honor, of justice, of truth, okay? So these are the three reasons why he goes to Troy and we have to remember that this is all to justify his conflict, okay? There's a conflict. There's a rupture in his soul and he needs to mend it by explaining why he's doing what he's doing, okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 18:10 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Because again, he's abandoning his family for 20 years, okay? So what's going to happen is this. This is the worldview that Odysseus has when he enters Troy. The problem starts when they win the war, okay? Because when they win the war, then Odysseus is forced to see. He's forced to see that all of these three things were wrong, okay? He will discover that this war was not about justice, it was just about revenge and murder. It is about family, it's about destroying families because when you win this war, you enslave the woman and kill the husbands, right? That's destroying families and it's not about legacy because you destroyed the Trojan civilization for no particular reason. Because Helen doesn't even want to go back to Sparta, okay? And this causes cognitive dissonance and this is what causes his PTSD, okay, or trauma. And so the Odyssey is his journey to repair his soul so that he can go home. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 19:35 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense, guys? That's what the Odyssey is about. Okay. So what we're going to do now is we are going to read certain sections, okay? So this is from the Iliad actually, okay? This is from the Iliad. And so remember in book one of the Iliad, Achilles and Agamemnon have this nasty fight where Achilles is like, screw you, you're a dog, I'm not going to fight for you ever again. Agamemnon's like, screw you, I don't need you, okay? But in book two, Agamemnon recognizes that, oh, this is actually a problem because Achilles is the greatest warrior that we have. And if Achilles doesn't want to fight, then that's bad for morale, okay? We might actually lose this war. So Agamemnon, being stupid, he has this stupid idea and his stupid idea is this. How can I rally my soldiers? How can I galvanize them into action now that Achilles has abandoned battlefield? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 20:30 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: I know what I'll do. I'll tell them they can go home. Ha. Reverse psychology, guys, right? Reverse psychology. Because when I say, you guys can go home, every Greek will be like, no. We came all the way to Troy to win glory for you, Agamemnon. We're going to fight to the death to ensure that you get your glory, Agamemnon. We don't want to go home. Don't make us go home. We're going to fight. Okay? So that's the plan. And of course, it backfires. And when people hear, oh, we go home, they all run away and Agamemnon's like, he now is caught in dissonance. He's like, what? Oh, what? He doesn't understand what's going on. Okay? And at this point in the story, the war should be over because all the Greeks just went home. And again, what happens is Odysseus will come and save everyone because he will ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 21:29 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: recognize that Agamemnon's just being stupid and he will force all the Greeks to return back to their post. Okay? All right. Testing his men. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 21:41 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Testing his men, but he only made the spirit race inside their chests, all the rank and file who'd never heard his plan. And the whole assembly surged like big waves at sea, the Icarian sea when east and south winds drive it on, blasting down in force from the clouds of Father Zeus, or when the west wind shakes the deep sand and grain with hurricane gusts that flatten down the stalks. So the mass assembly of troops was shaken now. They cried an alarm and charged towards the ships, and the dust went whirling up from under rushing feet as the men jostled back and forth, shouting orders. Grapple the ships, drag them down to the bright sea, clean out the launching channels. Shrill shouts hitting the heavens, fighters racing for home, knocking the blacks out underneath the holes. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 22:30 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay. So this just shows you how stupid Agamemnon is because Agamemnon thinks that his soldiers actually want to fight this war, but all the soldiers are homesick. They're sick of this stupid war. They don't even know why they're in this war. Okay. So the moment that Agamemnon says, you guys can go home, they're all like, we're going to get home as soon as possible. Okay. They miss their wives. They miss their children. All right. So Aphrodite and Hera are up in the sky, okay, Mount Olympus, and they watch this and like, oh my God, Agamemnon's going to lose us this war. What a moron. And Hera says to Athena, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's not actually Hera and Aphrodite. It's Hera and Athena because they're the ones who lost the contest to Aphrodite. Okay. But Hera says to Athena, you get down there, man, and you stop this. Okay. So Athena rushes down and he talks to Odysseus. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 23:22 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay. All right. Can you read? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 23:30 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: And now they might have won their journey home, the men of Argos fighting the will of fate. Yes, if Hera had not alerted Athena. Inconceivable. Child of Zeus whose battle shield is thunder. Tireless one, Athena. What? Is this the way? All the Argives flying home to their fatherland, sailing over the seas brought back, leaving Prime and all the men of Troy a trophy to glory over, Helen of Argos, Helen for whom so many Argives lost their lives in Troy, far from native land. Go, range the ranks of Achaeans armed in bronze. With your winning words, hold back each man you find. Don't let them haul their rolling ships to sea. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 24:13 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay. Can you read? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 24:17 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: The bright -eyed goddess Pallas lost no time. Down she flashed from the peaks of Mount Olympus, quickly reached the ships and found Odysseus first, a mastermind like Zeus, still standing fast. He had not laid a hand in his back, black benched whole, such anguish racked from his heart and fighting spirit. Now close beside him, the bright -eyed goddess stood and urged him on. Royal son of... ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 24:43 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Laertes. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 24:44 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Laertes. Odysseus. Great testician. What? Is this the way? Okay. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 24:49 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: So, um, so everyone's trying to go home and you would think that Odysseus would be the first person to get on a ship to go back to see his son and his wife. Okay. But he's, he's, um, staying there. He's kind of confused. All right. So he's like, this doesn't make any sense to me. Why would Agamemnon do this? But at the same time, it sort of shows you that he actually doesn't really want to go home. Right? Because if he really wanted to go home, he'd be home by now. Do you mind going? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 25:15 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1515s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1515s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: All you Argives flying home to your fatherland, tumbling into your oarswept ships, leaving Priam and all the men of Troy a trophy to glory over. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 25:27 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Helen of Argos. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 25:28 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Helen of Argos. Helen for whom so many Argives lost their lives in Troy, far from native land. No, don't give up now. Range the Achaean ranks. With your winning words, hold back each man you find. Don't let them haul the rolling ship to sea. He knew the goddess's voice. He went on a run, flaying off his cape as Eurybates picked it up. The herald of Ithaca always at his side. Coming face to face with Atreides' Agamemnon, he relieved him of his father's royal scepter. Its power can never die. And grasping it tightly off, he strode to the ships of Argives armed in bronze. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 26:06 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay. So he's now going to single handedly save the Greeks from losing this war. Okay. So Athena, right? Athena is always part of Odysseus. It's part of his soul, right? The intuition. And his intuition tells him, there's something wrong here. I need to stop this, okay? Also, look at Agamemnon. Agamemnon is frozen. He is so distraught. He's shut down, okay? His brain has stopped working. It's frozen because this is not supposed to happen, right? When he says that you guys can go home, he wanted everyone to say, no. We're going to stay and fight for you, Agamemnon. All right. So it's kind of dissonance. It's so much kind of dissonance that when Odysseus takes the royal scepter, Agamemnon doesn't even notice. The royal scepter is part of his soul, right? It's his legacy. It's what gives him authority. He's the king of kings. And Odysseus just takes the crown from him and says, no, I'm the king for now to save this war. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 27:12 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay? And it just shows you how committed Odysseus is to winning this war. He really believes that this war is about justice, about family, about building a legacy for his son. So he refuses to lose this war. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 27:27 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: All right? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 27:28 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Do you want to go ahead? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 27:31 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: I thought I - Oh, sorry. Sorry. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 27:33 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Yeah. All right. All right. So, but that's the Iliad. Okay? And again, what will happen is that Odysseus - Odysseus will win this war and he will win eternal glory for himself with the stratagem of the Trojan horse. All right? Now we go to the Odyssey. And in the Odyssey, we don't actually meet Odysseus for many, many books. Okay? It's only towards the middle that we meet Odysseus. In the first few books, it's a story of Tammacus and his journey to find his father. Okay? And when we meet Odysseus, he's a very different person from his father. From the Iliad. Remember, in the Iliad, he is trying to win this war. He's very energetic. He's galvanized. He's very heroic. Okay? But when we see him in the Odyssey, he's a changed person. In fact, he's a broken person. So, what's happening is that Odysseus and his crew try to go home. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 28:35 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: They get lost at sea. They have many adventures. And they get shipwrecked on an island. And he becomes the sex toy. Okay? Literally a sex toy of a goddess named Calypso. All right? So, basically, he's getting whipped every day at night. And then he goes to the beach and he cries. Okay? So, he's a prisoner of Calypso for many years. And the gods, Zeus, Athena, they get together and say, you know what? We can't have this happen anymore. Okay? Odysseus needs to go home. So, they send Hermes to tell Calypso, you have to send Odysseus home. The gods will it. And Calypso says, sure, why not? Okay? So, can you read? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 29:21 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: With that, the powerful giant killer sped away. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 29:23 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: So, it's Hermes. Okay? So, Hermes has told Calypso, you have to let this guy go. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 29:27 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: The queenly nymph sought out the great Odysseus, the commands of Zeus still ringing in her ears, and found him there on the headland, sitting still, weeping, his eyes never dry, his sweet life flowing away with the tears he wept for his foiled journey home, since then no longer pleased. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 29:45 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: So, he's sitting, he's still, he's weeping, his eyes never dry, and all he's thinking about is the past. Okay? This is clear signs of depression, PDST. Okay? Do you want to go in? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 30:00 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: In the night true, he'd sleep with her in the arching cave. He had no choice, unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing. But all his days he'd sit on rocks and beaches, wrenching his heart with sobs and grumbling and groans in anguish, gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 30:19 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay, so he's a broken man. He's a very different person from the Iliad. Okay? So, now the question then is why? What happened to him? All right? So, Calypso says to Odysseus, you know what? It's been great having a sex toy, but the gods insist that you have to go home. But you know what? You can choose to be my sex toy for all of eternity. I can make you immortal. Right? You can go home, but I can make you immortal and you'll be my sex toy for all of eternity. Now, this is like, that's a really nice offer. I really want to do this, but I need to go home. Okay? So, he leaves and he gets on the island. And on this island, he's given a ship to go home. Okay? But before he goes home, as a custom, they host a banquet for him. Okay? And they really don't know who he is. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 31:14 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: They don't really know he's Odysseus. All right? So, during the banquet, what's the tradition is have a bard sing a great story. Okay? To sing a story of great deeds. And of course, he sings about the Trojan War. Okay? So, can you read, Ivory? Yeah. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 31:38 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: The Strife Between Odysseus and Achilles, Peleus' son. Okay. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 31:41 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: So, the bard is singing about the Trojan War. Okay? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 31:45 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: How once at the gods' flowing feast, the captains clashed in the savage war of wards, while Agamemnon, lord of armies, rejoiced at heart that Achilles' bravest men were battling so. For this was the victory sign that Apollo prophesies at his shrine in Pitho when Agamemnon strode across the rocky threshold, asking the oracle for advice. The start of the tidal waves of ruin tumbling down on Troy's and Achilles' forces, both at once, thanks to the will of Zeus, who rules the world. That was the song the famous harper sang but Odysseus, clutching his flaring sea -blue cape in both powerful hands, drew it over his head and buried his handsome face. Ashamed, his host might see him shedding tears. Whenever the rapt bard would pause in the song, he'd lift the cape from his head, wipe off his tears, and hoisting his double -handed cup, pour it out to the gods. But as soon as the ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 32:42 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: bard would start again, impelled to sing by the oracle of Zeus, the oracle of Odysseus' lords, who reveled in his tale, again Odysseus hid his face and wept. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 32:51 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=1971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay, so there's this great banquet, and the bard sings about the Trojan War. And at this point you would think that Odysseus would be like, hey, that's me, man. He'd be very proud. But instead he cries and he cries, okay? This again is trauma, where the memories are storing pain in him. So clearly something happened during the Trojan War. That made him want to forget about it. That made him resent himself. Okay, that caused his soul to be ruptured. All right. All right. So keep on going. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 33:30 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Odysseus, master of many exploits, praised the singer. I respect you, Demodocus, more than any man alive. Surely the muse has taught you, Zeus' daughter, or god Apollo himself. How true to life, all too true. You sing the Achaeans' fate, all they did and suffered, all they soldiered through. As if you were there yourself, or heard from one who was. But come now, shift your ground. Sing of the wooden horse Epeius built with Athena's help. The cunning trap that good Odysseus brought one day to the heights of Troy, filled with fighting men who laid the city waste. Sing that for me, true to life as it deserves. And I will tell the world at once how freely the muse gave you the gods' own gift of song. Okay. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 34:21 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: So he's feeling all this pain because of memories of the Trojan War. But he recognizes that if he's willing to go home, because remember, he's on his journey home. He needs to confront his pain. He needs to omit his pain. Okay. So now he's going to ask the bard to sing the memory that he's most trying to repress. He wants to now focus on the Trojan War and really come to terms with it. He comes with his own trauma. Okay. All right. So let's see what happens. Sorry. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 34:53 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Stirred now by the muse, the bard launched out in the fine blaze of song, starting at just the point where the main Achaean force, setting their camps afire, had boarded the oarswept ships and sailed for home. But famed Odysseus' men already crouched in hiding. In the heart of Troy's assembly, dark in that horse, the Trojans dragged themselves to the city heights. Now it stood there, looming. And round its bulk, the Trojans sat debating, clashing, days on end. Three plans split ranks, either to hack open the hollow vault with ruthless bronze, or haul it up to the highest ridge and pitch it down the cliffs, or let it stand. A glorious offering made to pacify the gods. And that final plan was bound to win the day. For Troy was fated to perish once the city lodged inside her walls, the monstrous wooden horse, where the prime Vargai power lay in wait, with death and slaughter bearing down on Troy. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 35:54 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: And he sang how troops of Achaeans broke from cover, streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy. He sang how left and right they ravaged Decebe's city, sang how Odysseus marched right up to Defebus' house, like the god of war on attack with die -hard men of Oz. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 36:15 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Defebus isn't a name for pride, okay? They want to go kill the king. You want to go in? ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 36:19 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: There he sang, Odysseus fought the grimmest fight he had ever braved, but he won through at last, thanks to Athena's superhuman power. That was the song the famous harper sang, but great Odysseus melted into tears, running down from his eyes to wet his cheeks. As a woman weeps, her arms flung round her darling husband, a man who fell in battle, fighting for town and townsmen, trying to beat the day of doom from home and children. Seeing the man go down, dying, gasping for breath, she clings for dear life, screams and shrills, but the victors just behind her, digging spear butts into her back and shoulders, drag her off in bondage, yoke to hard labor, pain and the most heartbreaking torment weighs her cheeks. So from Odysseus' eyes ran tears of heartbreak now. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 37:09 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: Okay, so now we know what happened, okay? Alright, so what happened was this. For ten years, Odysseus and the Greeks were trying to defeat the king, the Trojans, and they could not do it because the Trojans were behind a walled city. So Odysseus prayed and prayed to Athena for inspiration, and then one day he had it, the Trojan horse, okay? So he sneaks in, so he gets into the underbelly of the Trojan horse, along with other soldiers, and then they get into the city, and like, you know, they're really scared and they're really excited. Then they're able, at night, to leave the Trojan horse and then open the gates of Troy and the Greeks stream in, and they start to conquer the city. And then Odysseus, you know, he is killing, okay? Because it's war and he's full of adrenaline. But then something catches his eye, alright? He strikes down a soldier and then a woman comes crying and she's traumatized at the sight of the death of her husband. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 38:15 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: And Odysseus is traumatized by this woman being traumatized because he came to Troy to save the woman, right? He sees Penelope in this woman. He says, I came all this way to make sure that Helen could be safe with her husband. And now he just recognized that I just killed someone's husband. But not only that, but the Greeks come and they take her off to be enslaved. So he, by witness war, has destroyed every single family in Troy. He's caused the suffering of thousands and thousands of women and children. And that is what he sees for the first time, okay? For the longest time, he believed that he was here to fight for justice, to save families, to leave a legacy for his son, Timarchus. And now he recognizes, no. This is not a just war. I'm destroying a civilization. ## How Do You Go Home After Doing Evil? -- 39:32 - Source title: Great Books #5: The Odyssey - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlcR7uHHdA&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gxlcr7uhhda.json) Text: This is not a war about family. This is a war about destroying families. And what legacy am I leaving my son? How will my son feel if he knows how I destroyed families like ours? And this causes trauma in him. It splits his soul. And it drives him crazy, basically. And that's the conflict, the central conflict in the Odyssey. Having done so much evil, how can you go home? How can you repair yourself? How can you mend your soul and repair your worldview so that you can live for your family? Okay? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: I hope everyone had a nice break, and welcome back to the end of the world. So as you know, World War 3 has started, the United States and Israel have started to attack Iran. And we are now in the fourth day of this war. And we can expect this war to last for many weeks, possibly also for many years. But I promise you that after this war is done, the world will never be the same again. So what we will do these next few weeks is use game theory and understand and analyze the geopolitical situation. And so I'm going to teach you the ideas, the theories, the techniques to understand the world around you and make predictions. And we can know if our analysis is correct. Because all this is happening in real time. And so we can test it against reality. Alright, so let's go over some basic facts about what's happened so far. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 1:06 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=66s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=66s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: So in the early morning of Saturday, in Tehran, the Israelis and Americans launched a decapitation strike against the Ayatollah Khamenei, who is the supreme leader of Iran. Now there are arguments and disputes about as to what happened. The Americans initially said that they had real intelligence about where the leader was. And so they sent airplanes to just bomb the crap out of the place. They also had a spy who was able to record the body of the dead Ayatollah. And then this was announced. At first, the Iranians denied this, and the Iranians insisted he was still alive. But eventually, state media admitted that he did die in the airstrike. But then what they also said is that the Ayatollah, he's 86 years old, and he chose to die. He could have gone to Moscow, but instead he chose to stay in Tehran and die for his people. But not only that, but he died along many of his relatives. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 2:18 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: He died along with his daughter, his son -in -law, his grandchildren. So the entire... So many of the family died in this assault. Also, there's been reporting that he had prostate cancer. Okay, so he was going to die fairly soon as well. So what you need to understand first about the war is that even though the Americans and the Israelis claim great success in decapitating the leadership of the Iranians, from the Iranian perspective, this is a martyrdom. Martyrdom. And so the religion of the Iranians is called Shia Muslim, and this is different from Sunni Muslim. So Sunnis are the majority, they're about 90 % of all Muslims in the world. The Shia have always been the minority, and as such, they've always been persecuted. So in the Shia faith, the core value, the force that binds everyone together and gives them purpose and meaning in life. That galvanizes them into action is the idea of martyrdom, which forces jihad. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 3:32 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: You sacrifice yourself for your religion, sacrifice yourself for the common good. So think of the death of Khamenei as a sacrifice, a self -sacrifice in order to motivate the Iranians in this war, okay? So that's the first thing you need to understand, that for the Iranians, this is not a typical war. This is not an economic war. This is not a war of resistance. This is a jihad, okay? It's a war against the great Satan to avenge their leader. They will fight to the death, all right? That's number one. Number two is this. Also that morning, when the Ayatollah was killed, the Israelis struck a school in the south of Tehran, killing about 150 school children. These are girls in primary school. And the reason they were killed was because of the war. And again, there's not a debate and argument as to what happened. The Israelis said that, first of all, the school was next to a military base. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 4:34 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: We're targeting the military base. And second of all, it wasn't us which struck the school. It was an air defense missile that went off course, okay? And the Arabians insisted no, the Israelis purposely attacked the school to kill the school children. And then you were like, why would the Israelis do that? Stress. Within these few years, we've seen what they've done in Gaza, in Palestine to the Palestinians. And it's pretty consistent what the Israelis have been doing. So this action against the Israelis, it's meant to show to themselves and the world that we are now all in. We've made the sacrifice. We are now committed to this war, to winning this war at all costs. And this action has also provoked the Iranian people to resist with their full might. So I want you to keep this in mind. And again, we don't have complete evidence that it's the Israelis who did this. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 5:36 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: But given past actions from the Israelis, this is fairly consistent with what they've done. So we can assume that this is something the Israelis did. Why they did this, what the purpose is, is something we will discuss as we move forward. It's very complicated. Next, I want to show you this. This is Dubai. And Dubai is considered one of the wealthiest, safest cities in the world. There are thousands, tens of thousands of Westerners who move to Dubai because it's clean. You don't pay any taxes. You make a lot of money. And there are great restaurants. And this is really the economic model of Dubai. It's one of the Gulf, the GCC countries. Okay. The Gulf, coastal countries. And for the longest time, Dubai had a really good deal. Because they were under the protection of the American military. So they didn't have to pay for defense. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 6:40 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: And then they were in the Middle East, which is the oil producing center of the world. And so they focused on aviation. They focused on logistics. They focused on finance, on tourism. They were extremely wealthy, right? I'm not sure if you've taken Emirates, one of the best airlines in the world. So their airport, Dubai airport, is the busiest in the world. And Dubai, for the longest time, was flourishing under American protection. And Dubai said to the world, listen, we're like Switzerland. We're neutral. We don't want any involvement in any wars. We're here just to take care of our citizens, to make sure everyone has a good time, to make money. And then right after the war started, the Iranians attacked the GCC. Okay? Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait. They attacked these places. And these places were like, what's going on? We're neutral, man. We're not involved in this war. And the airport was shut down in Dubai. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 7:47 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: At one point, the rich people in Dubai were willing to pay. They were willing to pay about $25,000 US dollars just to get on a plane and get out of there. Okay? So the reality is this. For the longest time, Dubai had a reputation for being safe. And that's why people moved their money there. Guess what, guys? After what the Iranians did, it's dead. Dubai as a city, in the long term, it is dead. Because you're a wealthy Westerner, you're not going to move to a place where it could be attacked any time by the Iranians. You might move to Singapore. You might move to Hong Kong, Japan, South America, but you're not moving to Dubai. Okay? So the big question for us is, why did the Iranians do this? It was the Israelis and Americans who attacked you. Why go after the GCC? All right? And not only that, but they're escalating the attacks against the GCC. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 8:41 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: So this is something that we will look at very closely today. Well, the short answer is because these places, even though they pretend to be neutral, they're not neutral. They house the American military. They allow the Israelis and Americans to use their airspace to attack Iran from. All right? So this is Bahrain. Now, Bahrain is interesting, okay? I want you guys to remember this. But Bahrain will probably be one of the major centers of this conflict because, first of all, this is the American Fifth Fleet. All right? This is their naval base in the Middle East. And as you can see, the Iranians are attacking it. With missiles. And it's being blown up. Bahrain is interesting because it has about 50 % or even more Shia, which is the religion of the Iranians. But the people in charge are the Sunnis. And so what makes this ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 9:43 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: strike really important from our perspective is, first of all, not only are the Iranians attacking U.S. military assets. Not only are they destroying the economies of the GCC, but they're also trying to ignite a religious war. Right? Because if you're Shia, you're loyal to the Ayatollah. And if he's dead, then you must, as a religious obligation, now commit jihad against your enemies. And it's no different in other religions where, listen, if you want to kill the Pope, the Catholics would be really angry at you. And they would want to kill you. Right? So now you have the Shia who will probably eventually arise, creating a revolution in Bahrain. Okay? So I think Bahrain will be the first to fall. Dubai will probably go bankrupt. Okay? But in the long term, we can expect the entire GCC area, including Saudi Arabia, to eventually collapse. Okay? And this is something we will use game theory to understand. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 10:45 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=645s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=645s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: All right. Let's continue. So we will know how this war develops just based on geography. Okay? So this is a map. And this map, even if you don't really know the war, even if you don't know the participants, even if you don't know the weaponry, this map will tell you exactly how this war will progress. All right? So some certain things to keep in mind about this map. This is what we call this area. Okay? Really small. But it's 33 kilometers wide. Okay? People can swim across it. It's really, really narrow. This small area, guys, it's called the Chateau de Formousse. All right? And it's important because it's really the center of the world. This one area is the nexus, the pivot of the world. Let me explain why. First of all, from the GCC, you have 20 % of all the world's oil. Flowing through this narrow strait. Where does it go, guys? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 11:53 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: It goes to Asia, India, Pakistan, South Korea, China, Japan. India depends on 60 % of its oil from this area. China depends on 40%. Japan, 75%. Prime Minister Takeuchi of Japan has said that, listen, if the Chateau de Formousse closes, we'll run out of oil in about eight, nine months. The entire Japan. The entire Japanese economy would collapse in eight, nine months if the Chateau de Formousse were to close. And guess what? The Iranians have closed the Chateau de Formousse. Okay? So we can expect that the entire global economy will suffer greatly over the next few months. All right? So that's point number one. Point number two is, okay, so the GCC sends oil across the Chateau de Formousse and what do they get back in return? Food, guys. All right. So people don't appreciate the GCC, but it is really the linchpin of the American empire. Because what is the American empire? The American empire is the petrodollar. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 13:05 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: All right? The idea of the petrodollar is this. The U.S. dollar is worth nothing. It's only valuable if people want it. But the GCC says that if you want oil from us, you have to pay us in U.S. dollars. Okay? Then that is the basis of the value of the U.S. dollar. So if the GCC collapses, the American economy and the American empire both collapse at the same time. The problem, though, is the GCC is an artificial construct of empire. It does not exist naturally. Why? Because that's no food, that's no oil, no water. Okay, guys? No food, no water. So these cities are able to grow in the millions because of all these petrodollars flowing in. If you close off the Chateau de Formousse, there's no food coming in. Right? They're all going to starve. How much food does the GCC get from overseas? 80%. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 14:06 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: 80 % of all the food it consumes comes from overseas that it imports. It doesn't grow by itself. It imports. All right? So the Chateau de Formousse is really key. And again, the Iranians will close it in order to strangle the global economy and therefore, bankrupt the American empire. All right? Second thing you will notice is these mountains. These mountains is what we call Iran. All right? This is Iran. This is GCC. Okay? This is not a fair matchup. Right? Because these are mountains. And what can you do in mountains? We can hide rocket bases. You can hide drone bases. You can hide missiles. And that's the entire Iranian offensive strategy. All right? From here, they can hide missiles and drones. From which to attack the GCC. And what are they attacking? They're attacking three things, right? They're attacking American military bases. American military bases. That's number one. Okay? Is it possible for the Americans to defend against these attacks? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 15:25 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: The answer is no. It's the silliest thing in the world. You have all these bases in the Middle East, but you cannot defend them against the Iranians. That's kind of strange. Okay? But that's number one. Number two is oil and energy. How hard is it to blow up an oil field with a drone? Not hard at all. Can you defend these oil fields? No, you cannot. All right? Number three, and this is most important, is water. Okay? You guys don't know this, but the GCC has little access to fresh water. So, the only way that it can produce water is what we call oil. Okay? So, oil comes from desalination plants. Okay? These factories that take salt water and then through an electrical chemical process, turn it into fresh water for the population to use. 60 % of the water supply in the GCC comes from desalination plants. Okay? 60%. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 16:29 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: Is it hard to blow up a desalination plant using a drone? The answer is it's very easy. You understand? Okay? So, you have this absurd situation where Iran is a mountain fortress, where it can hide its offensive capacity, and the GCC, it's just this desert, this flat desert, and it is exposed to attack, and there's nothing it can do about it. Okay? So, at any point in this war, the Iranians can choose to just destroy the entire GCC, and there's nothing that anyone can do about it. Okay? But, Iran also has a weakness. Okay? And this is fundamental. So, Iran also has a water problem. Okay? So, for the longest time, they suffered a drought issue. Okay? Just climate change. And so, what the plan of the Israelis and Americans is, is destroy the water supply of the Iranians. Because the fortress, it is a mountain fortress, but it can also be a mountain prison. Okay? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 17:44 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: but it can also be a mountain prison as well. Where people are trapped inside, with no access to water. Okay? So, what we're gonna see right now, we're already seeing attacks on civilian infrastructure, hospitals. In the future, you'll see attacks on water supply, on dams, on reservoirs, on power plants. The point, the idea, is to make Iran so inhabitable that the people will have to rebel against the people, or there'll be a refugee crisis. Okay? So, as you can see from this map, this war, it is the end of the world. Okay? Both sides have the potential to destroy each other. It's really a question of how far do they wanna go? All right? We can also say this is almost a game of chicken. Okay? We can blow each, we can blow each other up. How far do you wanna go? And, the problem is this. The problem is this. The problem is that the Iranians are Shia, which believes in martyrdom. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 18:57 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: And, you've killed the religious leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei. So, they're willing to go very, very far. The GCC countries are Muslim, but they're materialistic. They love money. And, also, most of the population are expatriates, foreigners. 90 % of Dubai are foreigners. Guess what's gonna happen if they suffer? They're all gonna run away. Okay? So, we have a fear matchup. The big question that people have is, first of all, are the Americans gonna use ground troops? Because the only way that you can defeat Iran is by using ground troops. Okay? That's a big question we'll look at over the next few weeks. Will America send its army? Half a million, two million soldiers to topple the government? Okay? That's question number one. Question number two, if you go to war, would you choose to use nuclear weapons? Okay? That's another big question that we have. Okay? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 20:05 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Another big question that we have is, who gets involved? Because this situation is so dire that Europe, okay, specifically Germany, France, and Britain are talking about entering this war. And guess what? If that happens, it is possible that Russia and China will also enter this war on the side of the Iranians. This is World War III. Okay? Because of the importance of the moves, because of the importance of the Middle East, everyone has to get involved at some point. And we're gonna use game theory to really try to understand what's happening on the ground and where this could lead us. Okay? All right. You guys understand? All right. All right. Let's continue. Okay, so, again, there are American bases all over the Middle East. And, originally, these bases were established to protect them from basically their own people. Okay? These are monarchies that were imposed on these nations by the Anglo -American Empire. The British first and then the Americans came to support these monarchies. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 21:30 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: So, they were actually And so, they provide defense. But then you're like, wait a minute here. I mean, didn't we just say that these American bases can actually defend these people, that they're exposed? And the reason, and the answer is yes, that's true. But remember, that the American military was built during the Cold War. Okay? And the Cold War was a war between the Soviet Union and America. And so, the Cold War was defined by something called MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, because both had nuclear weapons. Okay? So, they didn't really go to war against each other. And so, in other words, these bases aren't really meant to defend these nations from other enemies. They're really meant to impose American authority in the Middle East. Okay? And it's the idea of this. It's the idea that empire, it is really a image. It is a hallucination. It is an idea. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 22:33 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: Empire is the, it's an aura of invincibility and inviability. Okay? If you fear it, then you obey it. But, it's not really designed to fight a war. Okay? And so, that's why we have this absurd situation. And because there are so many bases in the GCC, that gives the Iranians the perfect pretext to attack them and destroy them. In order to destroy the GCC economy, which will destroy the American Empire. Alright? Alright. So, this is how the war is shipping out. Okay? So, the red is the Israelis and the Americans. The yellow are the Iranians. And as you can see, the Iranians are attacking everywhere. Primarily, Israel. Okay? But also, as you can see, a lot of focus on Bahrain and Qatar. So, the intention is to destabilize the economy and the government. Okay? It's to try to get as much instability as possible. Alright? Okay? And as you can see, the Americans and the Israelis are focused on Tehran. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 23:48 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: And so, the Americans and the Israelis use something we call shock and awe. And the very idea of shock and awe is you decapitate the enemy. You cut off the head, the body will fall down. Okay? The problem, though, is, again, the Iranians see this as a religious war. And so, the Iranians have announced total war. Okay? And so, what this means is that right now, command and control in Iran is decentralized. There's no one person telling everyone what to do. Every region has its own orders, has its own strategy. And so, if you knock out Tehran, everyone else keeps on going. So, if you take off the head, it doesn't change anything. Okay? But unfortunately, the Israelis and the Americans use this as a military doctrine. Military doctrine just means how you design your military for what purpose. And so, the even though the Americans seem like an ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 25:02 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: invincible army, they are not equipped to fight a 21st century war against drones, against deserialization, against religious fanatics. Okay? They're just not. All right? But unfortunately, because of military doctrine, they're going to keep on attacking Tehran. Now, the great irony of all this is that the Iranians who would be most supportive of you, of regime change, are actually in the cities because they're educated, they're progressive. The people who are most fundamentally against you, will fight you to the death, are religious fanatics, the Shia militants, living in the rural areas. Okay? So, this is a really silly thing where you are actually destroying those who will most likely support you and you're leaving alone those who are most likely to commit jihad against you. All right? Any questions so far guys? Are you clear? All right. So, another idea that I want you guys to understand is the idea of asymmetry. Asymmetry. All right? So, what is asymmetry? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 26:10 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Asymmetry means that the two sides are choosing to fight different wars using different techniques because one is much stronger than the other. Okay? America is a great empire. It has unlimited resources. It has the USD. It has, it controls the world. It has sanctions for the past 45 years. It's poor. Its technology is very limited. Okay? But, as we learn in this class, actually, those nations that are poor actually have more energy. They're more open and they're more cohesive. All right? So, let me give you an example. This is what we call the Shahad drones. Shahad drones. Each of these drones cost $50,000 at most. Okay? At most. It can go as cheap as $35,000. But, one of them is $50,000. As you can see, you can fit a lot of these drones to a truck that can go anywhere in Iran. And, you can hide anywhere. All right? So, the thing to understand is, first of all, these drones are cheap. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 27:19 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: They're easy to make. They make about $500 a day. Okay? And, estimates are about there's 80,000 right now that the Iranians have. So, they can go on for a long, long time. Okay? And, one of these drones, again, can knock out a desalination plant. It can knock out an oil field. It can knock out a hotel. It can do a lot of damage. Okay? And, it's easily transportable. You can hide it anywhere. You can use it from anywhere. Okay? And, that's what the Iranians are using as an offensive weapon. And, how do Americans defend against this? They use something called a FAD. All right? All right, guys. This is what they use. FAD. FAD stands for Thermal High Altitude Air Defense. And, they also have like Patriot systems. There's a lot. Okay? The thing that you will, that you need to know about the system is it's really expensive. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 28:18 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: This missile, guys, costs one million dollars. One million dollars. So, there's this $50,000 drone coming your way and you throw a million dollar missile at it. Okay? And, often these missiles miss so you have to throw two or three missiles at it. Okay? So, you used to be spending two to three million dollars on each $50,000 that the Iranians spent. That's kind of silly. Second thing you'll notice is that this thing is really big and really slow. And, therefore, you can't really move it around. Therefore, it's pretty easy for the Iranians to spot where this is and attack it. And, when these things blow up, that's a lot of money, guys. Okay? Then, you're like, but this makes no sense. You know the Iranians have drones. They've had drones for like 10 years. You've also seen drones used in the Russia -Ukraine war to devastating effect. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 29:24 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Why don't the Americans know this? Why didn't they prepare? Okay, and again, it has to do with military doctrine. Because military doctrine determines how you fight a war. It determines on your bureaucracy and it determines how you spend your resources. Okay? And, unfortunately, the Americans are used to fighting something called the Cold War. Right? And the Cold War, you can't actually fight the war. You can't kill each other because then people will use nuclear weapons. The Cold War was about flexing. Flexing. Okay? You see how big and powerful I am? Me! Okay? That's all it was. These weapon systems are designed to scare the crap out of you. They are designed to impress you. And, as a result, they cost a lot of money and they don't do anything. Alright? So, that's the entire American military. It costs a lot and it doesn't really do anything. And it's not resilient. It's not innovative. It's not open. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 30:32 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Alright? Also, the other thing I have to say this, okay, is if you look at the American military, it's corrupt. So, this is really about corruption. So, the Americans don't really care about winning a war. What they care about is spending as much money as possible because then they get a cut. It doesn't make sense. The Americans aren't in the situation as they are. Alright, let's continue. Alright. So, something that people don't really talk about, but you need to understand, it's the water issue in the GCC, in the Middle East, in Iran. Alright? So, this is a map of the world. And if you are light blue, Brazil, Canada, you have nothing to worry about because you have a lot of water, a lot of fresh water, very little population. Alright? So, 100 % just means, 100 % water stress just means that you drink as much water as the environment produces. Okay? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 31:40 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: So, you want to be below 100 % to be sustainable. Ideally, you want to be at 10%. Okay? If it goes above 100%, it means that you are drinking more water, using more water than the environment actually produces. Okay? So, you're putting stress on the environment. So, 20 % is really bad, right? Because you're using twice as much water as the environment produces. Guess what, guys? Look at the Middle East. Okay? Egypt, 6,420%. Saudi Arabia, 883%. Alright? Bahrain, almost 4,000%. Dubai, 17,000%. Alright? So, water is a huge issue. Again, it doesn't matter if Iran kills American soldiers, destroys American military. It doesn't have to do that. All it has to do is destroy the desalination plants and then the GCC is destroyed. Okay? But, it's also true that Iran has water issues. 72 % is pretty bad. Okay? So, even though the Iranians could destroy the GCC much faster than the Americans could destroy Iran, Iran is still in trouble. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 33:15 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=1995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: So, let me give you an example of this. This is like, I'm sorry, sorry. So, this is another map that shows you the issue of water scarcity. Okay? It's just basically the Middle East. Okay? The biggest issue in the future is water. Okay? And that's where the geopolitical tensions will arise in the future over water. India is also affected as well. All right. All right. So, let's look at the map, guys. This is called Lake Urmia in Northern Iran. It's the sixth largest saltwater lake in the world or it used to be. Okay? This is what it was in 1984. This is the shallow. This is the deep. Okay? You guys see that? It's really big. Right? 20 years later, guys, this is what it looks like. There's no more water here. You can walk from here over to there. Okay? There's some water over here but it's shallow now. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 34:15 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: This is how serious the water issue is in Iran. And that's the weak point that the Americans in this release will attack. All right? They want to make sure that Iran has no access to fresh water which will cause devastation in their nation. Okay? That's strategy number one. Strategy number two is this. This is a map of the different ethnic minorities in Iran. As you can see, it's a very diverse place. In the center are the Persians but you also have 10 other groups as well. And in the borderlands, it's basically a different country. These are basically different countries. And so, these places have more common areas with their neighbors than they do with Iran. Okay? So the second weakness of Iran. The first is the water. The second is the ethnic makeup of the country. So the strategy of the Americans and the Israelis moving forward is to destroy Iran as a coherent nation -state divided into ethnic enclaves and have them fight over water. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 35:29 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: That is the grand plan of the Israelis and the Americans. Okay? All right? This is, this is, this is the vision where Persia is limited and then all these other places are sponsored by the Americans and the Israelis. They're given money, they're given weapons, they're given political support and then this war will wage over water forever. Okay? And this is how you destroy Iran and make sure Iran is no longer a viable threat to you. That is the plan of the Americans. Okay? As, as you can see it's quite an evil plan and that's why they have not announced it. Right? Because if you announce it you're like, why are you doing this? What did the Persians, what did the Iranians ever do to you to warrant you coming and destroying their civilization? And the answer is nothing. Right? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 36:21 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2181s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: So the Americans, the Israelis will never admit they're doing this but if you look at the map of war supply of ethnic tensions for them to use against Iran it doesn't make sense. This is a long term plan that they have in place and it's all moving towards this plan. But now the question then is how can the Iranians respond to this? And the answer is this. This is a map of the Muslim world. Okay? So the um light green are the Sunni people. Of the entire Muslim population of about 2 billion people. Okay? Then you have in dark green the Shia. So as you can see the main place of the Shia is Iran. Okay? Iran is one of the few Shia nations in the world. But you can also see from this map that Shia are spread throughout the world. Okay? And so the first thing that the Iranians want to do is create a Jihad to unite all the Shia against the American Empire. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 37:39 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Alright? So what they want to do is create an uprising. And it's already happening guys. Um the Shia in Pakistan stormed the American Embassy in Pakistan and the Americans killed a lot of people. Okay? The Shia have have attacked the American Embassy in uh Iraq. The American Embassy uh are being attacked in a lot of places. Alright? So the first strategy is to create a international global Jihad of the Shia against the American Empire. And it's already happening. It will continue for a long long term long time because the Americans have killed the um Khamenei. Okay? And that requires vengeance. So is that it can unify the Muslim world. Okay? If you look at this map most of the Muslim world is actually run by dictatorships that are not popular at all. Okay? And they're allowed to exist because of the American Empire. Right? ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 38:53 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2333s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2333s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: You go to Saudi Arabia Egypt ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 38:56 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: uh ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 38:57 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: Algeria uh these places they're all Right? So if you rally the people who hate their governments and you overthrow them then that makes Iran the leader of the the Islamic world. Not just the Shia world but the Islamic world. And this creates something called Pax Islamica. That is the end goal guys. Okay? If you do that then you don't have to worry about the Americans and the Israelis anymore. Alright? So the Israeli game plan the American game plan is to fracture Iran into and they'll fight over water for the rest of their lives and they'll all die. The Iranian game plan is to create a religious war a crusade that unifies the Shia people that overthrows the American Empire and establishes something called the Pax Islamica. Alright? Alright. So again the key is the GCC. Alright? So the game plan is this you have to destroy the GCC. Why? Because the GCC is the linchpin of the American Empire. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 40:23 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: So what the GCC does is it sells oil sells oil and then for US dollars. What does it put US dollars? It puts US dollars into the American stock market. Alright? So this is investments of the UAE. Okay? Saudi Arabia and Kuwait into the US financial markets. As you can see from 2012 up to today it's been exploding. Alright? Because the US financial market is one of the safest places where you can put your money. The intention is this. The intention is hey if I cut off oil and these countries no longer have access to US dollars they're forced to spend whatever resources they have on protecting themselves. Okay? And then guess what happens? The stock market collapses. The stock market collapses. The stock market is the real growth engine of the US economy. The entire US economy collapses with it. Alright? There are about maybe seven companies in America that accounts for about a quarter of stock market growth. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 41:37 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-strait-pivots-system) Text: Okay? These seven countries these seven companies of course are all AI companies. Nvidia. Microsoft. Google. Apple. Okay? These are the companies and then these companies are heavily invested in by the GCC nations. So if these nations are no longer able to invest in the stock market these companies will collapse in value. And with that that would lead to economic depression in America. It doesn't make sense. Alright. So that is the situation for today. Today was just an overview guys. Okay? I know we covered a lot. I know there's a lot to take in. But over the next few weeks we will explore each issue in depth and really understand what's really going on. Okay? Alright. So any questions guys? Any questions about what we've just learned? Okay. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 42:43 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: If other countries such as Italy, France, China, or Russia they have also joined this war like what's the cause of they joined the war because of oil or those resources? Okay. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 43:02 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: That's a good question. Okay? So I don't want to spend too much time on this question because we will explore this question as we move along. Okay? So the question is what brings the world into this conflict? And the easy answer is just oil access. Energy access. Okay? They need to protect their energy supplies because remember it's a very complicated situation because Europe is now fighting Russia. So Europe is not buying any oil resources, energy resources from Russia. Therefore it depends a lot on the GCC. So the GCC is not providing them energy then Europe will go bankrupt. Okay? So Europe needs to enter this war on behalf of Americans. Okay? And then you have Russia which cannot allow Iran to fall because if Iran falls then they'll come after Russia next. All right? China is actually neutral. So we're going to explore this question as we move along. But it's a very complicated issue. ## The World Pivot Is A Strait -- 44:06 - Source title: Game Theory #9: The US-Iran War - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-03-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0&t=2646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jis2eb-rgv0.json) Text: All right? Okay? And each nation will have its own different strategic interests to consider. All right? And what we need to know, what we need to figure out is that this war in the Middle East is actually connected to the Ukraine war. And as we move along I'll show you how these two things connect together. Okay? Any other questions guys? Okay great. So we'll continue this discussion on Thursday. Okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Today, we discuss communism, Marxism. We will discuss what it is, where did it come from, and why did it succeed. Now, the 20th century had the Cold War, and so that was an ideological struggle between capitalism and communism. And for the longest time, we believed that capitalism and communism were polar opposites, a dialectic, okay, a black and white. But if that is the case, then how do we explain China? Because for the longest time, China was a communist country, and then in the 1980s, it started to reform. It reformed, and now China is very much a capitalist country. In fact, if you think about it, this transition has been seamless. There hasn't been much conflict because of this transition, and this is not true historically where transitions have been very violent, okay? So think of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, okay? That was a very violent process. Think of the process from Catholicism. That was a very violent process. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 1:26 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=86s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=86s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: That was also a very violent process. But in China, communism transitioned into capitalism pretty easily, pretty quickly, and extremely successfully, okay? And in fact, you could say that today, China is very much a capitalist country with some communist elements, but it's very much capitalistic. So the question then is, if these two ideologies, capitalism and communism, are such polar opposites. Then how this happened in China. And what I want to show you today is that actually, this is a false dialectic, okay? Meaning that communism and capitalism are actually more similar than they are different. In fact, what I will show you is that in many ways, communism is a creation of capitalism. As a weapon to destroy capitalism's major enemies. Capitalism's major enemies. Okay? So communism is not really the enemy of capitalism. The real enemies of capitalism are different ideologies, okay? So these ideologies include monarchy. The idea of monarchy ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 2:38 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: is that rather than power in the hands of the capitalist, power is in the hand of the king, okay? And what a king often does is redistribute capital in a way that the capitalists don't care about. That is more fear. So for example, when a king first comes into power, what a king often does is cancel all debts and redistribute the land. And that's why he's so popular, okay? So capitalists are afraid of kings. They don't want kings. Because a king will often redistribute property. Another great enemy of capitalism is religion, or theocracy. Okay? And the idea here is that all religions teach the same thing. They teach you that money is evil, right? God doesn't want you to make money. God wants you to be kind to others, to love your children, to be a nice person, okay? So that's why in Catholic Europe, they were so poor because people were more focused on redemption and salvation than they were on making money, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 3:53 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So theocracy is also a major enemy of capitalism. Then you also have nationalism. Okay? So nationalism is the idea of loyalty to your people, loyalty to your nation. For capitalism, that's a problem, okay? Because capitalism wants to be loyal to capital, and it wants capital to flow across borders. So I see an investment opportunity in China, I want to take my money from America and put it into China. I don't want to worry about, oh, China's my enemy, China is not my people, okay? So nationalism is also a major problem. And then you also have another problem, okay, called democracy. So believe it or not, capitalists hate democracy. Why do they hate democracy? Because if you think about it, if people had power, the workers had power, they would all get together and vote to redistribute wealth, right? To make the rich pay more taxes. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 4:59 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: We call this socialism. So you think about it, the enemy of capitalism is not communism, it's these four other things. You actually think about it, okay? Communism is working with capitalism to destroy all four of these things, right? So let's look at this. Monarchy, okay? Communism does not allow for monarchs to rise. It allows for a party to arise, right? What is a party? Party is a nation. It's an oligarchy, all right, which is a capitalist system. Now theocracy, what does Marx say? Marx says is that religion is the opiate of the people. Religion is the great evil of the world. Religion creates false consciousness, therefore we must destroy all religion, right? And if religion is destroyed, what is left? The only thing that is left is money, okay? Now nationalism. Nationalism. Communism is international, right? Workers of the world unite. So nationalism is also bad. We want to unite as a world. All workers unite. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 6:24 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: The class consciousness is more important than national identity, right? Now democracy. No, no, no. This is bad too, right? Because workers cannot defend their rights. Workers have false consciousness. Workers have been brainwashed by the capitalists in school, in the media, by the internet, by Hollywood, okay? Therefore a vanguard, the party, must lead the people into socialism, all right? So this is really convenient, how capitalism and communism have similar enemies, and communism helps destroy all four enemies in a way that capitalism can't do. Cannot, right? So you could also make the argument that maybe communism was a weapon or a virus created by capitalism in order to conquer the world, in order to destroy the world so that capitalism can spread throughout the world. And China is an example of this, right? Think about the Cultural Revolution that destroyed religion. That destroyed tradition. That destroyed cultural identity. And what happened after the Cultural Revolution? China became capitalist, and it became hyper -capitalistic. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 8:00 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: China had the fastest growth rate, economic growth rate in the world. How did that happen? Okay? So I'm not saying this is true. I'm saying, like, this is something for us to think about, all right? All right. So let us now think about this, and again, this is all just speculation on my part, okay? I don't really know. I'm saying, like, you know, why is this happening? Why is this the correlation, right? All right. So an example is Karl Marx. And Karl Marx, of course, is the founder of communism. And the history of Karl Marx is, like, really, really strange. So for example, he is a German citizen, but he spent all his time in Britain. He was exiled from Germany because... He advocated for a world revolution. So he went to Britain. But Britain is also a capitalistic country. So why is it that he's allowed to do whatever he wants in Britain? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 9:04 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: He wrote most of his works in a British library, in the British Museum. So why did the British authorities allow him to do that? That's a question for us, right? Britain is the most capitalist country in the world at this time, 19th century. And Britain basically allowed Marx to live there and do whatever he wants. Okay? That's strange. Number two is, Karl Marx, where did he get his money from, okay? So Karl Marx, actually, his wife is a German aristocrat. So she's used to luxury. But Karl Marx never made any money in his life, right? If he writes these works, The Communist Manifesto, That's Capital, no one's going to read them. They don't sell, right? So he's not a wealthy person. But we know for a fact that he actually lived a very good life, okay? He wasn't an aristocrat. He wasn't wealthy, but he was middle class. His kids went to private school. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 10:04 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: They had a nice house in Britain. So the question is, where did he get his money from? Well, what they say is he got his money from his partner, Frederick Engels. And where did Frederick Engels get his money from? Well, his father was a capitalist. An industrialist. So there's a question for you. Why would his father, who is a very wealthy person, give Engels a lot of money to give to Marx, and Marx is calling for a world revolution to destroy the capitalists? Why would they do that? That's kind of strange. The third thing is that at this time, socialism was the most dominant ideology. For many reasons. Okay? And the idea of socialism is that it will evolve naturally, okay? But Marx says, no, no, no. We cannot allow it to evolve naturally. It will not evolve naturally. We need a revolution, okay? We need a world revolution, all right? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 11:18 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So that's a question for us. Why would he say this, okay? So let's look at what socialism is. Okay? Let's look at socialism. All right. The idea of socialism is pretty simple, all right? So before you had a feudal society, and then it became industrial. Because it becomes industrial, you have lots and lots of workers, okay? And you have capitalists. The problem, though, is that capitalism exploits labor. It makes people very unhappy, okay? So the workers want change. Then you have the industrialists, the capitalists. The problem is that capital consolidates, okay? So maybe you have a thousand capitalists to start, but then maybe ten will take over all the money, okay? All the means of production, the factories. Then maybe one, okay? Because that's how capitalism works. It consolidates, which means that eventually the capitalists will churn against capitalism as well, okay? And because of democracy, because people can vote, they can then together affect political change. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 12:37 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: And this will lead to socialism. And what is socialism? Socialism is a redistribution of wealth. A redistribution of wealth. Now, let's, for the sake of simplicity, say there are three classes, okay? You have the rich, you have the middle class, and you have the poor. Okay? Redistribution is doing is taking the money from the rich and giving it to the poor. You understand? But because of this, what happens is the middle class improves in status and power, okay? So if you look at the system, you would think, okay, look, the poor want the system because they have more money, they have more equality, but also the people who really want the system are the middle class. Okay? They want the system because it means that over time, they have more power and status than the rich, right? And this is a pretty powerful coalition. That's why socialists believe that over time, this is a natural evolution, and this is true for most of human history, right? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 13:53 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So think of after World War II, Europe didn't become communist, it didn't become capitalist, it became socialist. It had a very strong welfare system, okay? So just the natural course of human history. Socialism. Socialism will become inevitable. It doesn't make sense to you guys because this is the majority of people. But Marx had problems with this, okay? Marx says, okay, all right, the major problem with this is false consciousness. Okay? You think that this is a natural process, but capitalists, the ruling elite have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Okay? For example. Oh, okay. they can brainwash the workers right so for this to work out you need to create true consciousness so you need to destroy religion you need to revamp the education system you need to control the media okay otherwise the capitalists will use the schools the ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 14:59 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: media religion to brainwash the workers and also these workers need to unite together across the world to have true power okay why because the real struggle is one of class okay consciousness and for socialism to arise we need to destroy class okay so the idea of the middle class updating power that's bad what we should have is just everyone the same okay equality all right and that's the idea of Marxism destroy all property okay that's the main difference between the middle class and the middle class. socialism and communism. Socialism it's the redistribution of property, communism is a destruction of property. But if you do it this way, what happens is that the middle class now lose status, right? And so it's both the rich and middle class that suffer under communism and therefore they will probably unite together against the poor, understand? So it sounds similar, socialism and communism, but it's night and day. Socialism seems like the natural evolution of things, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 16:24 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: And so it sounds right, so why is Marx screwing around this okay? He also says that, okay, you also need a party, you also need a vanguard, an elite to destroy the false conscientious, divide the workers, workers and create a common society and when they do that when the system is completely communist then the party will give up power and you will have a socialist paradise but then the question then is why would the party give up power right so if the party is capable of creating consciousness why don't they just switch to a different false consciousness okay so the problem marks is that it's working on socialism and making it more extreme it's also making it more confusing and why would he do that okay it's very confusing now all right and my argument to you is that when this happens when an idea becomes more ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 17:37 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: extreme the intention is to discredit it to make it illegitimate to destroy the idea all right so if you think about it according to game the people responsible for communism is that marx the people responsible for communism are the capitalists the ruling elite because they want to destroy the idea of socialism right they don't want this unity between the middle class and the work and the workers they want the middle class to to remain with the nobility and the oligarchy okay does that make sense all right so let me show how this works all right in the field economy you have the monarch and the nobility okay and the modern ability have power through three mechanisms first of all they control the land uh they control the military and they control the religion okay so this is the status quo and then the peasants are the people who work the land and this is true ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 18:51 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: for most of catholic europe but then with the rise of industrial ism you have new people come into power okay so for example you have the bourgeoisie who are the bourgeoisie bourgeoisie are just the capitalists the factory owners okay and because of the bourgeoisie you now have the workers and then because of this industrial economy you have the middle class okay the middle class are just like lawyers teachers accountants journalists people who support the industrial economy all right now when this happens when you have a uh new groups of people emerge you now have tension of violence okay and this is ultimately what led to the french revolution where the new order okay these people work together to overthrow the old order and this led to the nepalite wars seven wars fought between france and everyone else okay and that led to the deaths of millions tens of millions of people who in europe it ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 20:07 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: was a deadly war and after napoleon was defeated all the leaders the the nobility of europe got together and set and decided that from now on we will no longer fight war okay they create something called the concert of europe the concept of europe is basically um these different monarchies agreeing to resolve the differences over negotiations rather than on the battlefield so think of it as the as the united nations okay and it worked really really well the problem is that it worked too well because you're not resolving this problem okay you're not resolving this conflict between the new order and the old order right the these people want to maintain the status quo but these people the industrial economy wants a new step a new um order that allows for democracy okay liberalism okay socialism okay so a more redistribution of wealth um greater participation in the political system and the limitations of the ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 21:26 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: uh religion okay so basically the french revolution all right so right now so this system was created to avoid the french revolution but because of peace the ingredients for the revolution french revolution are increasing okay and this led to something called the 1848 revolutions 1888 revolutions and this happened throughout the entirety of europe where each place there was a uprising a combination of these people the bourgeoisie middle class and workers who called for changes in government okay some places were violent some places were peaceful some places focused more on democracy some places focused more on liberalism some places focused more on socialism okay all right so it doesn't make sense after 1848 what the leaders of europe recognize is that you know what if you don't do anything about the situation eventually the new order is going to consume us the new order of the bourgeoisie middle class and workers this alliance is going to ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 22:41 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: destroy us so what can we do about it their solution is we have to divide them okay we have to divide them so before the conflicts were about power status religion okay so the first idea is let's create the idea that the real conflict is class okay so the real enemy is not between nobility and the bourgeoisie okay the real enemy is between the bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisie and the workers okay this is the real conflict right second is that we have to discredit these people and make this movement seem extreme fanatical zealous okay and you do that by saying okay no property what we want is not a warfare society what you want is a completely equal society where no one has any money no one has any rights no one has any freedom communism okay and the third way you deletionize it is say that this is a international conspiracy hey guys Jews ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 24:13 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: these communists are in secret society who want to take over the entire world so it's not that oh these workers just want more rights no no no these workers are tools international conspiracy to conquer the entire world they are funded by Jews by capitalist by the British who cares okay but they're not Germans they're not French they're not us you understand so you think about it communism was a psyop okay a tool used by the elite by the nobility to make the movement of democracy socialism and liberalism illegitimate okay this is his propaganda okay doesn't make sense guys all right so let's look at the evidence for this all right so this is the 1848 revolutions so what happened was that because of peace you have overpopulation you have economic growth okay that led to inequality that led to corruption that led to conflict between the bourgeoisie the new rising powers and the nobility the ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 25:33 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: status quo powers okay and that's why you have these revolutions throughout Europe okay so look at France okay this is a French um you look at like all these places this is happening all at the same time okay everywhere and again different systems will respond differently the only place in Europe these revolutions is England and the reason why is that England has colonies where if you're not happy you can go somewhere else like Canada or United States or Australia New Zealand okay but you can leave but everyone else is stuck where they are and they are fighting for more rights and again this puts the fear of God into the European nobility okay for the longest time they go along they maintain peace but now the bourgeoisie the industrialists the capitalists want to overthrow the regime okay so what they do now is they sponsor creation of communism to divide the capitalists the middle class ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 26:37 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: and the workers against each other okay to create the idea of class conflict all right okay so Karl Marx and Frederick Engels all right they write something called the Communist Manifesto and this comes after the 1848 revolutions because they were because after the 1848 revolution they were absolutely convinced that Europe is in is ready for a global revolution okay and this is their agenda and this is also a secret document because at this time the Communists are secret society all around Europe okay and I would argue that this was probably being funded by the nobility okay okay so it caused full -scale museums okay from the September of 18 Gazette and this is where we discover the central position states accounting for the identity fund the family fund okay public sector civilization for the Central Committee of the Reich between the Eastern party Communist Bernie köttover wrote about this but he was successful and then ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 27:46 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: in 1838 he signed the Bill ofpm and then in the 18нали you only got owner rights anyway after all you need to end the production right now so collect money and give it to my children, now I can't anymore, okay? This is pretty awful. All right, centralization of credit in the hands of the state, okay? By means of a national bank. Okay, and you think, okay, this is, this sounds pretty extreme. But you know what, they already do this in capitalism. It's called the Bank of England, right? All right, so there are already some, a lot of similarities between capitalism and communism. Remember, the Bank of England is where all wealth around the world is stored, right? So a centralized bank and communist system, it's the same thing, right? Centralization of the means of communication, right? A party. Well, this is just the capitalist class, an oligarchy. Like, does it really matter if it's an oligarchy or a party? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 28:52 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: It's the same thing, really, right? Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, equal liability of our work, combination of agriculture and manufacturing industries. All right, so this is the idea of creating a proletariat. All right, or manufacturing. And this is what capitalists want, guys, okay? So for, at this time, most of the world is agricultural, feudal, and this calls for the creation of a manufacturing, industrial economy. This is what capitalists want, right? Because that way, they can better exploit people. Free education for all children. And you're like, oh, well, that's great, man. Free schooling. No, it's not. Because now you can brainwash them, right? This is brainwashing. So, you know, you're like, okay, well, this agenda is communist. Well, if I'm a capitalist, I'm okay with this agenda, right? I'm happy with this agenda. What's wrong with this agenda, right? This development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been captured in the hands and vast distortion of the whole nation. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 30:08 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: The public power will lose its political character. Political power, probably so -called, is merely organized power of one class for oppressing another. The proletariat, during its contest, with abortion, is compelled by the force of circumstances to organize itself as a class. If, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and as that sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class and antagonism of classes, generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class. Okay, all right. So this sounds very complicated, but it's not, okay? First of all, it establishes the proletariat and the bourgeoisie are the real enemies. Not between the capitalist and the monarchy, between capitalism and the bourgeoisie. And religion. The real conflict is class between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 30:53 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: And for the proletariat to win, they need a party, okay? They need a vanguard party. But, hey, once this vanguard party establishes itself and destroys class, it will go away. Okay, do you understand? It will give up power voluntarily. It will choose to not exist anymore. This has never happened in history before, but trust us on this one, okay? This time it'll be different. All right. All right. Okay, so this is interesting. In the Communist Manifesto, it says, okay, Switzerland, we support the radicals. In Poland, we support the agrarian revolution. In Germany, we support the bourgeoisie, oh, sorry, yeah, the proletariat, okay? So in different places, they have different concerns. They have different needs. Right? And what these people are saying is that we're not part of the national conspiracy. All we want is a more fair, just society. That's all we want. We're not part of a secret society bent on world domination. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 32:04 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=1924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: What the Communist Manifesto says is, yes, you are. Yeah, we're all part of this great conspiracy to conquer the world and establish communism, right? So why would they do that? That's really strange, guys, right? Why would they admit we are a national conspiracy? Why would they admit we are a national conspiracy? We're a secret society. This is a secret document that we read amongst ourselves. But it's also possible for you to steal and show that, yes, there is this secret society, a national conspiracy of Jews who are trying to destroy the world, okay? Really interesting. Okay, so now I want to talk about 1917. What happens in 1917 is this. World War I is breaking out, okay? The Russians are losing the war. The Tsar, Nicholas II, he abdicates. And now you have a democratic government in Russia. But then the Bolsheviks, the Bolsheviks are an extreme communist faction, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 33:23 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: They launched the October Revolution. So basically they seized power for themselves. And then they have an election. As you can see from this election, the Bolsheviks, even though they have seized power, they're not as popular, okay, as the socialists, okay? The socialists are gonna argue for more gradual change. The Bolsheviks want radical change. So you can see 17 million people voted for the socialists. Only 10 million people voted for the Bolsheviks, even though the Bolsheviks controlled the government, okay? And also, look, look at this. At the end of the day, they only got 23%. All the popular vote, okay? So they are not a popular faction. They're a minority, okay? But, and so this launches the civil war, okay? And as you can see at this time in history, yes, the communists have control over the major cities of Russia, but they don't really control most of Russia. In fact, they have lots and lots of enemies. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 34:40 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: They have the Whites to deal with. The Whites is basically the nobility, okay? And they have also allied armies who come in. They have the Greens, who are the peasants, okay? They have lots and lots of enemies. And at this time in history, you cannot possibly expect that the Bolsheviks would win this battle, okay? But they do. All right, here's something interesting. This is the Romanovs, okay? The Romanovs. Sorry, the Romanovs. The Romanovs have been in power in Russia for a hundred years, okay? And the Romanovs are beloved by the peasants, and they themselves are part of the Orthodox tradition. They're also relatives of the nobility of Europe, okay? So England and Germany, all right? So this is the Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar here is Nicholas II, okay? And these are all his relatives. This is the Romanov dynasty. Now, when the revolution broke out, you would think that they would just run away to Europe, right, where their relatives are. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 36:11 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: They didn't do that. They just stuck around. So the question then is, why would they just stick around? The answer is, they never believed they were in danger, okay? First of all, they could not expect the Bolsheviks to win out, but also, they're beloved by the peasants. They're part of the Orthodox church tradition, and they have relatives who are the most powerful people in Europe, including in England, including in Germany, right, the Kaiser. So they thought they were fine. But then something strange happens. The Bolsheviks decides to kill every one of them, okay? They wipe out the Romanov family. Between 17 and 18, all members of the Romanov family were assassinated. And you're like, that makes no sense. Why would they do that? By doing that, first of all, you piss off the peasants, right? You turn the peasants against you because the peasants love the royal family. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 37:20 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: You now get the families of Europe pissed off at you, because you killed their relative, but also you come across as fanatical then on World Revolution, okay? And then you piss off the Orthodox as well. So these communists are fanatics. But let's just assume they're not fanatics, and let's assume that, in fact, they had a good reason to do this. Why would they do that, okay? And the answer is this. The Romanovs had billions, billions of dollars in foreign banks, okay? In the city of London on Wall Street, okay? A lot of their wealth, billions and billions of dollars, is stored overseas. What happens if they die? What happens if they all die, right? Guess what? These billions now belong to the foreign banks. That's a lot of money, man. And in fact, this is exactly what happened where they all died, and the foreign banks just took control over this money. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 38:38 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: This is one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The government of Russia has been trying for a long time to get this money back, and the foreign banks like, well, you don't own this money. It's the Romanovs who own this money, okay? So this is evidence that the communists and the capitalists actually are friends. They are working together, okay? Does that make sense, guys? guys? All right. Let's continue. All right. Another thing is that, again, the Bolsheviks are not that popular, okay? The peasants are pissed off at them because they just killed the noble family. There aren't that many workers. So how can they fight this war? Well, they fight this war using mercenaries, okay? From Latvia, from China, from the Hungarians, okay? So there's over 200,000 of these mercenaries. And you're like, wait a minute here. How did these guys get paid? The Bolsheviks don't have any money. How were they getting paid, right? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 39:53 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: And the answer is, well, Wall Street, guys. Wall Street and the City of London gave the Bolsheviks money to pay these mercenaries. It was Wall Street who paid for these mercenaries. And you're like, why would they do that? And the answer is because the Bolsheviks, to pay Wall Street back, created the Red Terror, okay? The Red Terror is when the Bolsheviks basically went to all the rich people in Russia. The nobility then says, you either give me all your money or I will rip your daughter. I will kill your wife. I will kill you, right? And guess what? By doing that, they made a lot of money. And that money went to pay Wall Street for the foreign mercenaries. Capitalists and communists work well together, okay? Then you have the allies, right? So Britain, America, France, Japan sent these huge armies to Russia. And everyone thought, okay, it should destroy communism because these are capitalists. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 41:00 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2460s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: They're afraid of the communists. But in fact, that's how it happened, okay? They went to collect debt, okay? So Russia owed these countries money. The Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik paid off this debt. So then the allies left and attacked the whites, okay? Alright? So the allies helped the Bolsheviks and Wall Street gave money to the Bolsheviks for mercenaries. And that's how the Bolsheviks won the war. Does that make sense? Alright. So capitalists and communists work well together because they have a similar worldview. alright? All right, so this is a passage from a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence. And Richard Spence is a historian and he had lots of documentation where Wall Street is actually financing the Bolsheviks. And he explains why this is happening. He says that Wall Street wants to destroy the Russian economy, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 42:11 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Destroy the Russian economy because Russia's a threat, okay? And then it wants to steal the riches and the resources from the Russians, okay? That's the purpose of financing the Bolsheviks, to destroy the Russian economy and to steal the wealth of Russia, all right? From 1918 until 1921, the Bolsheviks reduced Russia to an economy based on barter and robbery, okay? So the Bolsheviks basically stole everything from the rich, the middle class, and the poor to finance their war. Besides the abolition of private trade and the destruction of the monetary system, the Red Regime embarked on a massive looting campaign, ransacking palaces, bank vaults, churches, and museums. Okay, we call this asset stripping. So basically, the Bolsheviks destroyed their own society in order to get the money to finance this war, in order to pay off Wall Street, okay? They expropriated every valuable they could, get their hands on and stash it all in a new state treasury. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 43:17 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: By the close of 1921, an estimated $450 million in valuables had been sequestered there with more to come, much of it destined to be fenced abroad for a faction of its value in capitalist hard currency, okay? So basically, the Bolsheviks stole everything in order to finance the war, okay? And in the process, by destroying their tradition, by destroying their wealth, by destroying their religion, by destroying their nobility, it made the Soviet Union now much more amendable to capitalism. And that's what happened when the Soviet Union fell, it became capitalist, okay? So, this shows us is that capitalism and communism are not enemies, they're partners in world conquest. And that's what the 12th century is about. All right, any questions? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 44:16 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So, I think for China, when China is officially recognized as a country, Mao Zedong said that we need to pursue communism and abandon capitalism, but there is, like, they followed Marx's thinking. And, like, currently there is a special term, which is, I think, I don't know the English name, but it's called Chinese unique socialism. I don't know, like, is that a way that the leaders deal with when the country is, you know, actually pursuing capitalist, or is actually pursuing capitalist, but the communism goal is just professed? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 44:59 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Okay, so China is an interesting example, because when Marx was examining the world, the two places he didn't really consider are Russia and China, okay? So, Marx, okay, Russia and China, okay, why? The answer is because both are agricultural agrarian, or what he calls feudal. So, from his perspective, Russia and China have not reached a state of development, which is ripe for world revolution, okay? For him, the focus is on Germany. And this makes sense, because remember, Marx is being supported by Britain, right? And Britain is the great enemy of Germany. So, that's why Britain would support Marx, because he wants, he wants, because Marx is trying to create a revolution in Germany, which is a great enemy of Britain, okay? That makes sense. So, for Marx, he thinks that China and Russia don't really matter, because they're backward, they're agricultural, they have monarchies, okay? So, it doesn't really fit into his model. But then, Lenin, okay, came and said, no, you can speed up the revolution, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 46:19 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2779s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Even though peasants, peasants become workers, if you have a party to help the, the process, okay? So, that was Lenin's contribution. And Mao is like, no, you don't even need workers, okay? You can have a movement entirely on peasants. And then, once you have won the revolution, then you can create an industrial revolution. So, really, if you think about it, Mao wasn't really leading a communist revolution. It was, you know, it had the facade of communism, but it was really a peasant uprising. Okay? So, Mao was not a great communist theoretician, like Marx or Lenin. Mao was a military commander, okay? So, he was no different from other peasant leaders in the past. People like Zhu Yuanzhang, okay, of the Ming Dynasty. These people. But in order to create legitimacy, in order to, have support from the Soviet Union, from Russia, they had the communist facade, okay? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 47:43 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: And also, communism provided a framework in order to industrialize very quickly. So, what's important to understand is that, at this time in history, Mao was trying to actually work with the United States as well, okay? He's trying to work with both the Soviet Union and the United States. The United States wanted to support Zhang Jiechi, Zhang Haixian. So, when Mao won, Mao was trying to support Zhang Jiechi. Basically, the United States shut off China, embargoed China, which forced Mao to fully embrace communism, okay? All right? But for Mao, communism was not that important. What's important is to industrialize very quickly. Industrialization. Okay, so for him, what's important is industrialization. The other idea is the idea of national sovereignty. All right? So, he didn't really want to be controlled by the Soviet Union. If China was fully communist, the Soviet Union would say, well, you're our little brother, okay? But for ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 48:41 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Mao, what was important is national sovereignty, and that's what ultimately led to the Sino -Soviet split in 1957, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Okay. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 48:56 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So, can we understand that capitalist equals to communism, or capitalism equals to communism, or communism is a weapon of capitalism, but if we try to pursue, you know, communism at the end, we will finally achieve capitalism. ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 49:18 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2958s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=2958s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: Okay. All right. So, capitalism is the belief that you can structure society around capital, okay? And this was a direct threat to the old order, okay? The old order, which focused on religion, the king, the military, okay? Okay? So the capitalist is like, no, let's get away with all this complexity, let's just make capital the basis of society, okay? Now what happened is that as these two systems came into conflict, all right, the workers wanted socialism, okay, social democracy. So capitalism, from capitalism you had social democracy, right? Social democracy is as easy, okay? Yes, yes, we believe in capitalism, but we believe in restraints on capitalism. We believe on a fair distribution of capital, all right? And that makes sense because, well, you can't just have a few people with all the money, okay, all right? But what happened was social democracy was both a threat to the old order as a threat to communism as well, right? ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 50:55 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: So the old order, it was a threat to communism. capitalism what they did was they would mutate social democracy into communism in order to delegitimize okay delegitimize social democracy to make it this into a threat against everyone okay does that make sense all right so to summarize capitalism is as a natural outgrowth of history but this comes in conflict with the old order and capitalism will give birth to social democracy all right which is a natural response to capitalism social democracy becomes a threat to both the old order and as well as capitalism capitalism and the old order are also in contact with each other so what they do is they conspire to create communism okay so in the early days communism is being supported by both the nobility and the capitalist but for different reasons all right and then what happens is that you have the old order and the new ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 51:53 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3113s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: order are in conflict with each other so they because of this support communism becomes much more extreme which leads to bolshevism okay or revolution right all right does that make sense how the system worked out so we can't say okay well they all have this plan out no it's actually much more organic much more confusing than that at first they had communism just as a psyop okay no one actually believed that oh my god from communism you have bolshevism okay because bolshevism is just crazy okay but at first if our communism was crazy but then it became much more mainstream and that led to the birth of bolshevism which became which was really crazy at that time but over time it also became more extreme sorry became much more mainstream which led to the rise of communism everywhere including in china okay so 1917 1917 the october revolution it was a wild gamble and it ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 53:05 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3185s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3185s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: worked because of the greed of capitalists okay but once it worked out once communism was established in soviet union then it changed the way people saw the world and they thought that now communism is possible anywhere including in china okay does that make sense all right any more questions guys okay great all right so we go on break for a month and then we come back from the break what we're going to do is we're going to learn we're going to take all that we've learned okay all this history all this game theory and apply it to the modern world so we look at specific current events so during the break i want you guys to focus on current events reading news right so america is about to attack iraq iran soon uh america is going to take over greenland canada um trump is visiting china in april there's there's gonna be a lot of ## Communism As Capitalism's Weapon -- 54:02 - Source title: Game Theory #8: Communist Specter - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqDLhWs93Q&t=3242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-axqdlhws93q@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-axqdlhws93q.json) Text: news for us to cover okay so uh during a break uh please focus on keeping up with current events all right okay guys all right see you after the break ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: We conclude the Iliad today. Alright, so remember that the Iliad, it's a war of wills. So the epic starts with the battle between Agamemnon and Achilles. And they're trying to impose their will on each other. And it leads to disaster for the Greeks because Hector and the Trojans are now about to destroy them. And the Greeks, led by Odysseus, come to Achilles' ship and beg him to return to the battlefield. But Achilles wants Agamemnon to come and apologize and kneel before him, which Agamemnon is not going to do. So Achilles says no. But this leads to a conundrum because Agamemnon is going to apologize. The Trojans are going to come destroy the Greeks. Achilles needs. Agamemnon to apologize in order to save face. Alright, so the Greeks and Achilles are all very anxious. So what Achilles does is he sends Patroclus to get the Greeks to come and beg some more. But Nestor understands what Achilles is doing. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 1:12 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=72s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=72s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: He refuses to apologize. But he tells Patroclus, listen, we can't get Achilles to fight, but maybe you can fight for us. And maybe that will save the day. Now, Patroclus is very. Very excited, okay, because he's spent all his life to outshine Achilles because all his life he's been in Achilles' shadow, right? But now his problem is how does he convince his superior, his commander, Achilles, to go with the plan, okay? So this leads to a conflict, a battle of wills between Patroclus and Achilles. And remember, we read the speech last week and I want us to visualize how the battle is being fought, okay? So this is Patroclus. And this is Achilles. And if you read the speech, we will discover that this battle is being fought at three levels, okay? There is the conscious emotional level, okay? Then there is the calculating manipulative. Okay? And then there is the strategic, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 2:31 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Planning level, all right? So imagine three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before Patroclus and cries like a girl, right? Then there's the calculating, which is like, why am I doing this? I'm doing this because I want Achilles to agree to me to join the battlefield again. Okay? And the strategic, okay, the old wise man sitting in the back is like, okay, what I'm going to do is I'm going to convince Achilles to agree, then I'm going to join the battlefield and I'm going to win honor, okay? It doesn't make sense, okay? The first person just appears before Achilles and does the acting. Second person is the one trying to explain the direction, okay? The third person is the long -term director, okay? So, okay. So think of this as the actor, director, and producer, okay? Or the investor. What is my long -term gain from this? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 3:43 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Now, Achilles is the same, right? Because Patroclus cannot understand Achilles' mentality, okay? So the actor in Achilles is like, why are you crying, Patroclus? This is not our war. The director in Achilles is, how? Maybe I can trick Patroclus in helping me enter the battlefield, right? And the producer is like, I want to win glory for myself, okay? And it's all very subtle. But if you read their dialogue, if you read the debate, you will recognize that this is all happening at once. But not only that, but if you examine your own life and the decisions you make, you will recognize that you're doing all three at once, okay? Subconsciously, all right? So, Sigmund Freud would say that this is the id, okay? The id is just the basic desire, right? You want glory. You want sex. You want money, okay? This is the superego, okay? And this is the ego. Or maybe you can think of this as the conscious subconscious, all right? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 5:11 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=311s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So, we've known for a long time that we as humans operate at many different levels all at once. And so, we don't really know why we do what we do, okay? And so, they are having this fight, and it's all at a very subconscious level. And what Achilles does is... He says something to Patroclus, which as I said before, it's very weird what he says to Patroclus. Ultimately, he agrees to Patroclus' going, and that's all he has to do, okay? Then nothing would happen. Patroclus just goes. He faces Hector. He realizes Hector is stronger than he is, and he retreats, right? That's what should have happened, and that's what Nestor and the Greeks expect to happen, right? And then Patroclus comes, and Achilles recognizes that. He needs to join a battlefield. Because Hector is too strong, okay? That's what's being planned. But what Achilles does is he adds an element to it which changes the dynamic of events, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 6:18 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Which changes how things unfold, okay? So, Ivory, can you read this? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 6:24 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Once you have whipped the enemy from the fleet, you must come back, Patroclus. Even if Zeus, the thundering lord of Hera, lets you seize your glory, you must not burn for war against these Trojans. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 6:36 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, stop, okay? This is what's happening. Achilles is implanting into Patroclus some new ideas. And these new ideas is, oh my god, Patroclus, once you enter the battlefield, Zeus, okay? Zeus is going to give you glory, all right? He's getting Patroclus excited. Patroclus is hoping to win some glory on the battlefield, to prove his worth, to prove at least he's equal to Achilles. But Achilles is saying, oh my god, Patroclus, it's possible you can be better than me. It's possible that Zeus himself anoints you the greatest warrior in the world. It's possible, Patroclus, that you win all the glory for yourself, okay? Can you keep on reading? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 7:28 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Mad men lusting for battle, not without me. You will only make my glory. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 7:34 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, okay, so do not outshine me, Patroclus. I know all your life you've wanted to be better than me. Or at least prove you're my equal. But don't do that, man, okay? I'm warning you. Do not prove you're better than me. Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 7:47 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: You will only make my glory that much less. Okay. You must not lost in the flesh and fire of triumph, slaughtering Trojans outright. Drive your troops to Troy. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 7:59 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So imagine this, Patroclus. Once you enter the battlefield, everyone's going to love you. You're going to kill Trojans one by one. But don't do that. Because you will make me look bad. Okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 8:11 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: What if one of the gods who never die comes down from Olympus Heights to intervene in battle? The deadly archer loves his Trojans dearly. No, you must turn back. Soon as you bring the light of victory to the ships. Let the rest of them cut themselves to pieces on the plain. Oh, what to God, Father Zeus, Athena, and Lord Apollo. Not one of all these Trojans could flee his death. Not one. No Argive either. But we could stride from the slaughter. So we could bring Troy's hallowed crown of towers toppling down around us. You and I alone. Okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 8:43 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So this little speech, okay? It's almost impossible to see to the naked eye. But it dooms Patroclus. Okay? Because what it does, it tells Patroclus. Patroclus, you have the opportunity to seek eternal glory. You have the opportunity to be better than me. In fact, you're probably better than me. Okay? And that gives Patroclus hubris. Right? And hubris is what's going to get him. He's going to get him killed because he will challenge Hector. Okay? Okay? No way does Achilles in this speech say, be aware of Hector. Okay? All he says is, hey, Zeus is going to support you and you'll be better than me. Okay? Now, if Achilles is stronger than Hector, Patroclus can be stronger than Hector. All right? And why does Achilles do this? Achilles understands that Patroclus, he's young. He's impetuous. He's jealous. If you give him the opportunity, he will seek glory for himself. And therefore, he might get himself killed. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 9:53 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And you know what? If he kills himself or he gets himself killed, good for me, Achilles. Right? Because now, I have the perfect excuse to join a battlefield and win all the glory for myself. Okay? You understand? And this is impossible to see. The Greeks don't see this. The gods can't see this. But Patroclus himself can't see this. And Achilles himself doesn't know he's doing this. You understand? Okay? So, the question for us then is, how does this happen? How are we able to function at three different levels and do things that are invisible to ourselves and to others? Okay? How is it that we make decisions? How is it that we manipulate other people as well as ourselves? Okay? Does that make sense? That's the question before us today. All right. So, let's look at the standard understanding of psychology. Okay? So, remember, what happens is this. We have experiences and then we turn this experience into memories. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 11:07 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And memories are really emotions. Okay? So, we have experiences. And then these emotions are organized in a way that creates an identity. All right? And different memories can create different identities. And together, we create the worldview, which is basically our personality or how we perceive the world. And our personality determines our preferences, what we like, how we make decisions, and how we perceive the future. Okay? All right? So, this is a standard model of psychology, which you should have learned in psychology class. All right. There's some issues with this. The first issue is how do you filter experiences? We can have all the same experiences, but the way we perceive these experiences are different, which leads to different memories. Okay? So, what is the mechanism that allows for filtering? Okay? Second problem is that we know that memories are malleable. They're malleable and flexible. They're always changing. Okay? That's weird. All right? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 12:17 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So, it's possible over the course of your lifetime, you go back to the same event, but each time, you perceive it differently, which causes different emotional reaction in you. All right? So, why is that the case? So, for example, maybe when you were young, your dad hit you by accident. Okay? And at first, you were really hurt, and you perceived it as your dad doesn't love you. But maybe then, when you were younger, your dad hits you by accident. And then, when you get older and you have your own child, you hit your child accidentally, and then you feel sympathy for your father. Okay? You understand? So, the memory changes according to your own development. So, when does that happen? Okay? And the third thing is the idea of imagination. So, we know from memories, you can expand them outwards and create new worlds and universes. That's how we create novels. That's how you write essays. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 13:12 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=792s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=792s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay? But how do you do that? Right? Because your material is limited, but the imagination is unlimited. All right? So, there are clearly some issues with the standard model of consciousness. All right? Now, this semester, we've learned a new model of consciousness. So, let's take that model and apply it to the Iliad and explain why they behave the way they do. All right? Okay. So, the model that we use is from Kant. And Kant says that rather being a passive observer of the world, meaning that we just absorb experiences and turn them into memories, we are active participants in reality, meaning that we create reality. Okay? And so, through space and time, okay, which can be influenced by language and media, okay? We turn phenomena, the things into themselves, okay, but the things into themselves are just like energy, okay, into the phenomena, things to us. Okay? Now, there are certain problems with this model. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 14:35 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: The first problem, of course, is where does our space and time come from? Okay? We know that we create space and time in our brains, but why do our brains do that? And what's the mechanism in our brain that does that? Okay? Number two is what is the phenomena? Right? Kant says we can't see it, but what is it? And the third thing, of course, is if this is all subjective, meaning that we all create our own reality, how do we know we're creating the same reality? Okay? And so, to solve this problem, Hegel proposes this. Okay? The phenomena is the Geist, a spirit. Okay? And the Geist is what gives us space and time. All right? So, as we are interacting with the phenomena, the phenomena itself responds to us. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's how we can all see the same thing, because it's the same force that we're acting on. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 15:42 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay. So, this is a bit confusing, so let's look at what the Greeks say. Okay? The Greeks have a metaphor for this. Okay? The metaphor is this. Imagine an infinite number of people. Okay? And the consciousness extends infinitely. Okay? So, different dimensions, different waves. All right? So, on one level, you are just talking to yourself. But on another level, you're talking to another person. On another level, you're talking to more people. Okay? And this goes on and on infinitely. All right? Now, remember that. Okay? As you engage the Geist, the Geist talks back to you. Okay? What this means is that, think of the internet where whatever you produce is stored online, but you also have some memory on your own hardware. Okay? All right? So, this creates memories. Okay? So, your memories is now part of the Geist, and as a result, the Geist is constantly evolving as you evolve as well. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 17:08 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: All right? So, it's like the internet. It's dynamic. It's not set. As you engage the internet, the internet changes. Okay? And so, what happens is that these memories are stored in the Geist. Some are permanent because these memories are extremely visual or very powerful. Okay? And that gives rise to new consciousness like gods. Okay? And there are higher gods. All right? So, these are maybe new gods. But then you have the old gods. All right? And so, the higher you go, there are different consciousness or different spirits. So, the new gods are gods like Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite. They actually interfere in human events. Okay? The old gods are older gods that have been there since the beginning of time. And there are things like honor, justice. Fate. Destiny. Okay? And they're stronger than the new gods. Okay? But then you go up higher and you have God itself. All right? And how do we understand God? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 18:30 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: We understand God as the immutable and unwritten laws of the universe. Okay? We don't know what they are, but they're like gravity. They're going to be there to structure the universe. And so, think of them as like good. Good. And we tell them about goddesses and they'll let us know, okay? Right? Just keep that auto -enclosed and and then we'll let you know what little you are falling Okay? So, what we're able to do to understand God is that it'll help us like become the Not only better in life. Now, we have the wisest in life, but we're also more different as a human being. All right? Let's trust each other. I know the differences are much richer. They may be rocks funded. They may be repairers though, but we're much richer as humans. Good. But what about girls? So, I want you guys to close the V pile now. And leave something. of ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 19:16 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1156s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1156s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: the universe is also captured in us okay we are a hologram of the universe right so the internet is this vast right but on our computers we have a hologram a replica of the entire unit internet all right because we connect it to it all the time we engage in it all the time so in other words whatever we do here okay impacts the entire universe whatever we do here we'll have reparations throughout the entire universe right of humanity one good act by yourself can impact the entire universe itself because universe is conscious okay now we understand why Patroclus and Achilles are able to do what they do because if this is the universe if this is our consciousness and there are differences between them and the universe their differences are based on their different spirits working within us, you understand? And so, we are constantly able to, sorry, let me do this, to operate in different dimensions, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 20:35 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1235s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1235s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: We're able to see far ahead, we're able to focus on right now, we're able to be strategic and occupy different people, okay? We are literally a universe onto ourselves. Does that make sense, okay? All right, so you're like, okay, I don't think this makes sense. Well, if you read the Iliad, okay, Homer actually reviews to you how this works, okay? That's what poetry is. Poetry is a snapshot of this universe in motion, all right? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna read together the shield of Achilles, all right? So remember, Patroclus is dead, but Patroclus took Achilles' armor to the battlefield. So Achilles has no armor. So he talks to his mother, Thetis, and Thetis goes to talk to Hephaestus, the great armorer of the gods up in Mount Olympus. And Hephaestus is gonna design a shield for Achilles that will make him invincible. And the shield has living images, it's like a movie, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 21:55 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: It's not a picture, it's a movie, where the images are constantly appearing over and over. All right, so this is only a part of the shield, okay? Can you read this? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 22:07 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And he forged a fallow field, broad which plowland tilled for the third time, and across a cruise of plowmen wheeled their teams, driving them up and back and soon as they'd reached the end strength. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 22:19 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1339s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1339s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so really important, guys, okay? He's using a lot of verbs, right? Which says that this thing is in motion, right? You can see how they're moving. Tilled, sorry, tilled for the third time, okay? So you can imagine the first or second time. Cruise of plowmen wheeled their teams, driving them, okay? Moving, okay? Hey, do you understand, it's all motion. It's all living. This is what our memories are. Our memories are constantly images in motion, changing, acting, okay, imagining, okay? Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 22:59 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: A man would run up quickly and hand them a cup of honeyed mellow wine as the cruise would turn back down along the furrows, pressing again to reach the end of the deep fallow field and the earth turned black behind them, like earth churn, I can't really read, churning. Solid gold as it was, that was the wonder of Hephaestus' work. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 23:26 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 23:27 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And he forged a king's estate where harvesters labored, reaping the ripe grain, sowing their wooded scythes. Some stalks fell in line with the reapers, row on row, and others to sheave binders, skirted round with ropes. Three binders standing over the sheaves. Behind them, boys gathering up to cut swaths, filling their arms, supplying grain to the binders, endless bundles, and there in the midst, the king, stepped her in hand at the head of the reaping rows, stood tall in silence, rejoicing in his heart. And not to decide, beneath a spreading oak, the heralds were setting out the harvest feast. They were dressing a great ox they had slaughtered, while attendant women poured out barley, generous, glistening handfuls strewn for the reapers' midday meal. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 24:14 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him. And what this is, ultimately, it's a universe unto itself, right? You have lots of different characters, right? The king, the woman, okay? Just lots and lots of people, okay? It's a universe unto itself. And we know the soul is composed of memories. What this is telling us is that these memories don't come from our experiences. These memories comes from part of our experiences, but it also comes from the universe itself, okay? These experiences, these memories, only allow us to access the universe in dialogue with it. And as a result, we're able to absorb memories from elsewhere. Another way to understand this is that we are constantly living and dying, okay? When we die, all we're doing is really shedding our own bodies and assuming new bodies. But our memories stay with us. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 25:20 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Our experiences stay with us. The poetry in us stays with us, and it's constantly being rewritten. Okay? And that's where our power comes from. Our power, our will to live, our will to fight comes from the fact that we are conscious beings constantly in dialogue with the universe that is both infinite and eternal, okay? And this is what this poetry represents, right? Does it make sense to you guys? All right, so this is only a snapshot. But, you know, it goes on and on, which tells us that we are extremely, complex sensitive and multifaceted beings we are the universe ourselves okay our consciousness is the universe the universe is our consciousness it's all interconnected all right does that make sense to you guys okay all right so this is an idea we'll come back to later when we read the other great books okay all right but um something something that i want to ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 26:21 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: discuss is this all right so achilles jumps in the battlefield and he kills hector all right and at this point achilles should be happy because he's killed the great hector which proves that achilles is the greatest warrior in the world he's now secured eternal fame but then he does something really weird he decides to mutilate hector's body he ties hector's body to his chariot and runs um goes around the city Troy and that causes Priam and Hecuba, the parents of Hector, to go insane, okay? They're screaming at this devil. And the Greeks, okay, Odysseus, Agamemnon, are disgusted because for them, Hector is a great warrior. You respect a great warrior. You do not humiliate, mutilate a great warrior like that, okay? Hector fought well in the battlefield. He never cheated. He was just fierce and he was great. So he was respected among everyone, okay? Also, when Achilles jumped back on the battlefield, Hector didn't run away. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 27:26 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Hector stood his ground and died, right? Everyone else ran back in the state of Troy, but Hector is like, no, I must take responsibility for this defeat. So he stands outside the gates of Troy. Everyone's shouting for Hector, come back, you idiot. Achilles is going to kill you. And Hector's like, no, I must face the consequences of my action, which is the greatest act of bravery in the Aelian. Because he knows he's going to die. So everyone's looking at this and saying, this is really terrible, okay? So what's happened is Achilles has gone insane. That's the only explanation for it. And the Greeks tried to comfort Achilles by holding this funeral games for Patroclus, right? But that doesn't really solve the problem. And now Achilles, he's depressed, basically. He can't sleep. He can't eat. he can't even cry for his friend he's so overburdened by guilt okay so that is the issue where ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 28:29 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1709s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: you are connected with the universe okay the universe is conscious you are the universe itself so when you make when you do evil okay and he knows he and his heart knows he's the one who got patroclus killed he manipulated patroclus into his death then you know because the universe knows and this haunts you for the rest of your life okay you cannot escape it so when you evil god doesn't have to punish you because you punish yourself with a memory of it okay your soul burns with regret and despair and guilt and shame it doesn't make sense all right so now you have this other conflict emerging in the iliad which is okay achilles is about to go insane he can't sleep but he doesn't know what he did wrong he cannot admit that what he did because he doesn't understand himself okay so what happens now is interesting because if you read the ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 29:33 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: iliad the gods decide that they're this great meeting okay and decide that you know what we're gonna broker a peace between priam and achilles hermes comes and takes priam into the greek camp and then prime and achilles meet okay and and this comes out as a very very powerful ending of the iliad but the question then is how does that happen okay is this being metaphorical or is it being literal my argument to you is that it is literal okay so let's play how this works all right so this is achilles this is priam okay they hate each other they could not be further apart okay but then you have everyone else if you go back to this model okay okay? Achilles and Priam, their thoughts will converge together, okay? But this is the universe, so there are other consciousnesses within this universe. And they see the conflict in here, and they will now engage in a dialogue to resolve the differences between Priam and Achilles, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 31:03 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And these are called the gods, right? Okay? Does it make sense? The universe is full of these different memories that are constantly living, and therefore they can engage in debate, dialogue, and imagination, okay? And so what they say is, hey, Priam and Achilles, you need to come to agreement. And then subconsciously, Achilles knows, okay, you know what? Priam's going to come and talk to me, and Priam's like, I need to go and see Achilles, okay? And now what happens is, the universe has come to an agreement. And so therefore, the universe now, will create a reality around this agreement, okay? Does that make sense? So what this means is, Priam can now walk directly from Troy to the Greek camp, and what the Greeks will do is walk away and pretend they didn't see Priam. Does that make sense, guys? Because the universe ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 32:02 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: has instructed them, Priam and Achilles must meet, therefore you must make it possible for them to meet. So then, you know, the guard is sitting around, Priam's walking this way, and he's like, hmm, I should turn that way. And then Priam walks past him. Does it make sense, guys? Okay? Because we are, again, in constant dialogue with the universe, the universe has a plan, then we must obey this plan, okay? And in China, we call this what? The mandate of heaven, right? The mandate of heaven. It's the will of the gods that Priam and Achilles must meet and reconcile the differences so that the universe can continue on. Okay? Otherwise, the universe must stop at this point, because Achilles is not going to give up Hector's body. Priam will only suffer because of this, okay? Do you understand? And this is how the universe works. It's unbelievable, you think about it, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 33:02 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=1982s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: But you think about it really hard, it makes a lot of sense. Why do events happen the way they do? Well, in China, we say mandate of heaven, because it is God's will, right? Okay? How can we explain in China, Mao Zedong, who's this peasant, he was able to win this war and establish the People's Republic of China. Not only that, but during this war, he never got injured once. How do we explain that? Okay? There are all these things that happened in history, and these people come out of nowhere, and like, wait a minute, where did this guy come from? How is he able to do what he does? The mandate of heaven, guys, okay? There is a consciousness universe. There's a plan, an intention, a design to it, and we all participate in its design, okay? Right? The conflict now is, there's a great injustice in the world where Achilles refuses to return Hector's body to Priam. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 34:05 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And so everyone agrees, both the Greeks and Trojans agree, we are going to pretend that we don't see them meeting, okay? Does that make sense? Do you guys understand what's happening? All right, okay. We come to what is recognized as the greatest, sorry, as the greatest ending in all of literature, okay? This is the final battle between Priam and Achilles. This is the greatest battle in human history, all right? These are two people who hate each other. Priam saw Achilles murder Hector, his beloved son. But other than that, but Priam also witnessed Achilles kill many, many of his sons, okay? And for Achilles, the person who stole Helen from the Greeks, the person who started this war. So now they're going to meet, and this is the greatest battle in the Iliad, okay? So, Ivory, can you read, please? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 35:07 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Ivory, can you read, please? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 35:08 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: The majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles, clasped his knees and kissed his hands, those terrible, man -killing hands that has slaughtered Priam's many sons in battle. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 35:20 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so the contrast, right? Okay, so the contrast, right? Achilles slaughtered many of Priam's sons in battle, okay? And what the majestic king of Troy does is he kneels, kisses his hands, okay? He kneels before Achilles. Priam is out behind Achilles. Priam could just take a dagger and stab Achilles in the neck and kill Achilles. He doesn't do that. Instead, he kneels before Achilles and kisses the hand, the very hand who killed Achilles. all of his sons all right keep on going awesome as when the grip of madness seizes one who murders ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 36:05 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to foreign shores to a wealthy noble host and the sense of marvel runs through all who see him so achilles marveled beholding majestic priam his men marveled too trading startled glances but priam prayed his heart out out to achilles and ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 36:24 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: what's the effect awesome okay okay achilles the great warrior who bows to no one he is stunned by this he is defeated by this he is awed by the majesty of priam okay greatness does not come from defeating your enemies it comes from forgiving your enemies all right this is an act okay this one act of kissing the hands of the man who killed all his sons it's going to change the universe forever okay one action is going to change the entire universe and bring and bring peace and reconciliation to the world all right um and not only is um achilles stunned but so are everyone around him okay his men marvel too okay so this is reverberating across the universe where you're far away but like you feel as though an earthquake has happened you feel as though something magical has happened and it changes you for the better okay so remember what's happened ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 37:34 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: is what has happened when the group of madness sees is one who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to foreign shores so a wealthy noble host and a sense of marvel runs for all who see him okay so so there are people who do great murder okay and so they have to run away now when they run away the crowd follows them they become slaves in a new land but But some people are able to become successful in that place, okay? They're able to change their fate. So what this is saying is because Priam has the strength and the courage to forgive his great enemy, he's changing his fate. He's changing the fate of the world around him, okay? And the idea here is as above, so below, right? And this is a great secret of the universe. What we do today, what we do at this moment can change the ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 38:29 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: course of history because if what we do is memorable, it will implant itself throughout the universe and be there for all future generations, all right? And that's what's happening, okay? So what Homer is doing is he is drawing from the universe this memory and showing it to us. That's what the Iliad is, okay? Iliad is a depiction of the universe in motion, a universe of consciousness, all right? Okay, keep on reading, Ivory. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 39:07 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Remember your own father, great godlike Achilles, as old as I am, past the threshold of deadly old age. No doubt the countrymen round him plague him now, with no one there to defend him, beat away disaster. No one, but at least he hears you're still alive and his old heart rejoices, hopes rising day by day. To see his beloved son come sailing home from Troy. But I, dear god, my life so cursed by fate. I fathered hero sons in the wide realm of Troy, and now not a single one is left, I tell you. Fifty sons I had when the sons of Achaea came. Nineteen born to me from a single mother's womb and the rest by other women in the palace. Many, most of them violent heirs, cut the knees from under. But one, one was left to me to guard my wife. My people, my people, the one you killed the other day, defending his fatherland, my Hector. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 40:01 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: It's all for him I've come to the ships now, to win him back from you. I bring a priceless ransom. Revere the gods, Achilles. Pity me in my own right. Remember your own father. I deserve more pity. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 40:14 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so Prime is the greatest king in the world. Why? Because he's willing to humble himself before Achilles, right? Remember Agamemnon. This struggle started because Agamemnon refused. To be humble, he refused, refused to admit that Achilles is right. He refuses to apologize to Achilles. Okay, okay, but Priam is the opposite of Agamemnon. Okay, he's begging for Achilles forgiveness, even though he hates Achilles. And why does he do this? What gives him the power to ask for forgiveness, to beg Achilles? The answer is, he doesn't. The answer is his love for Hector, right? He's doing this because he wants Hector's body back, right? So what animates, what unifies this carcass universe is love. Love is God, guys. To really access this universe, to really know this universe, you must love, okay? Love makes you invincible. And so Priam has the courage to come to Achilles. But he also has the courage to beg Achilles, to forgive Achilles. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 41:35 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: All right? And what Priam says is, remember your father, Achilles, right? Okay? As I love Hector, you also love your father. And how does he know that? Because we're all connected by the universe, okay? He's able to imagine the soul of Achilles. And he knows that. How? How Achilles loves his father, okay? As much as he loves Hector. So this is what allows them to come together, all right? The love of Hector makes Priam imagine the love of Achilles for his father, all right? And these are the two forces. Love activates the imagination, okay? So love is the unifying force of the universe. It brings us all together. The imagination is the animating force of the universe. It makes the universe alive. Okay? And that is our purpose in this world, to love each other, and then to activate our imagination to create the reality that we live in, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 42:45 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: A world where the pillar is love is perfect, and it's just. All right. Keep on reading, Ivory. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 42:57 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before. I put to lips the hands of the man who killed myself. Okay. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 43:03 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So what he's saying is that this is a unique moment in life. This is a unique moment in history. No one has done this before, especially a king. A king submits himself before the murderer of his beloved son, all right? And because it is unique, because it is a perfect distillation of a father's love for his son, this will be remembered forever, okay? This will become now part of the universe. And how? Because Homer is able to access it, okay? This might have happened somewhere. He doesn't know where. And this might have happened between two people. He doesn't know who, okay? But he knows this happened. He's able to draw on this to create the Iliad. Do you understand? The universe are the living memories of great deeds, and Homer is able to create this by accessing this because they're all within us if we allow it to be in us, okay? Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 44:04 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Those words stirred within Achilles a deep desire. A desire to grieve for his own father. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 44:08 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so you see how this works. When you imagine things, you see the truth for what it is, okay? Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 44:17 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Taking the old man's hand, he gently moved him back. And overpowered by memory, both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely for man killing Hector, throbbing, crouching before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, now for his father, now for Patroclus once again. And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. Then, when brilliant Achilles had had his fill of tears, and the longing for it has left his mind and body, he... ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 44:45 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so what's happened is that Priam has defeated Achilles, okay? Remember, Achilles' great problem is he can't cry. He doesn't know what he did wrong. He doesn't know how to express his guilt and shame, okay? But now that Priam has... Forgiven him, Priam has actually liberated Achilles, okay? Before Achilles, his soul was trapped in evil. And now, by forgiving Achilles, Priam has let his soul loose to reconnect with the universe and therefore to return to its poetic self, okay? Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 45:33 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Then he rose from his seat, raised the old man by the hand, and filled with pity, now for his gray head and gray beard. He spoke out winging words, flying straight to the heart. Poor man, how much you've borne. Pain to break the spirit. What daring brought you down to the ships, all alone, to face the glance of the man who killed your sons, so many fine, brave boys. You have a heart of iron. Come, please sit down on this chair here. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 46:00 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, and so now the... And now this is a resolution, okay? This is the epiphany of Achilles. He recognizes his guilt. And now because Priam is able to forgive him, he's able to forgive himself. And so he's become wiser, more gentle, more poetic, more generous, all right? And this is what life is. This is what it means to be human, all right? To do battle with our own heart. Okay, so let me talk about what this all means. Like who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? So in the Buddhist and the Hindu tradition, the idea is that we are constantly reincarnating, okay? And this world that we live in, it's one of pain, it's one of suffering, but it's one that gives us insight. It's one that trains us to be wise. It's one that allows us to have the memories to create a more healthy life. Okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 47:09 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: And we do that because we reincarnate and we assume different roles, right? So maybe in this life, we are the murderer. But in the next life, we are the murdered, okay? Maybe in this life, we're a human. Next life, we are a plant. Then the next life is an animal. But it goes on infinitely until we've achieved wisdom, okay? So in other words, the point of this story and this life is to develop empathy, okay? Because empathy leads to wisdom and enlightenment, right? But the great thing about a great book is it's a universe onto itself. And therefore, you can actually speed up the process of wisdom and enlightenment because by reading the Iliad, you can assume different lives. You can have different lives all at once. Does that make sense? So what makes the Iliad so powerful is that you're constantly switching perspectives. Today you're Agamemnon. Then you're Achilles. Then you're Hector, okay? And what's amazing is that Homer is a Greek and he's speaking for the Greeks. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 48:33 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: But it ends from the perspective of the Trojans, okay? It ends with Priam getting back Hector's body, taking it back to Troy and everyone in Troy coming to see the body and crying, okay? Especially the wife of Hector, Adramachy, okay? So this is the ending, okay? Can you read? He is Priam, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 49:03 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2943s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2943s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So he called and the crowd fell back on either side, making way for the wagon. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 49:08 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: So everyone's coming and crying over Hector's body, but he tells them to move away, okay? Because they need to bury the body properly. So people depart like the sea and Priam is able to move the body forward. Keep on going. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 49:24 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Once they had borne him into the famous halls, they laid his body down on his large carved bed and set beside him singers to lead off the laments, and their voices rose in grief. They lifted the dirt high as the women wailed in answer. And white -armed and drunk, Adramachy led their songs of sorrow, cradling the head of Hector, man -killing Hector gently in her arms. Oh, my husband, cut off from life so young. You leave me a widow lost in the royal halls, and the boy only a baby. The son we bore together, you and I so doomed. I cannot think that he will ever come to manhood. Long before that, the city will be sacked, plundered top to bottom, because you are dead, her great guardian. You who always defended Troy, who kept her loyal wives and helpless children safe. All who will soon be carried off in the hollow ships, and I with them. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 50:21 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 50:22 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Okay, so this is how it ends. It ends with a prophecy, okay? And this prophecy will turn out to be accurate, where the son of Hector will die. That's the way of war, okay? When a city is conquered, all the men and all the children are killed, and all the women are enslaved. Okay, so there's Anjumaki saying, I'm going to be enslaved, and this is the coming of the Trojan horse, right? So the great hero of the Trojans, Hector, is now dead. So the Greeks are going to come and destroy of Troy. So you're a Greek, okay? And all your life, you've heard about the great victory of the Greeks against the Trojans, okay? The Trojan War is the most famous story in your life. Now, suddenly, this guy, Homer, he tells you about, he asks you to imagine what it's like to be a Trojan woman, knowing that in a few months, your entire ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 51:23 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: city will be sacked, your husband will be killed, your children will be murdered, and you'll be put on a ship to be enslaved while you watch your city burn, okay? Think about the power of that, okay? Think about what's happening. Think about what's happening in Gaza, in Palestine today, right? Where the Israelis are bombing the Palestinians. They're killing a lot of children, and they think it's right that we do so because we are defending our land. Now, imagine one day they have a dream, and they imagine themselves as the Palestinian who's being attacked for no reason, as a child who's lost his mother, as a mother who's lost her child. Think about the emotional impact on that, okay? What this is is the big bang of civilization because when you read this, okay, when you're forced to switch perspectives, it's a violent assault on your own consciousness, your prejudice, your beliefs, your values all being destroyed at once, which allows you to access the entirety of the universe, okay? ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 52:50 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Does that make sense? Only through trauma, only through pain, only through suffering can you access empathy and wisdom, and that's a great truth of the Iliad. But also, this is why the Iliad has to be a lifelong journey because it will take you a life, life, an entire life to appreciate the nuance, the beauty, the power of the Iliad. It'll take you a lifetime to understand the motivations, the psychology of all the characters, okay? These are all living beings. But if you were to spend your entire life doing so, I guarantee you, you'll come out a much more wise person who now has a universe in your soul, and that will make you invincible and eternal, okay? But it's your choice, okay? All right, that's it for the Iliad. We'll start the Odyssey next, okay, which is a continuation of the Iliad. ## The Iliad Puts a Universe in the Soul -- 53:48 - Source title: Great Books #4: The Conscious Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkzr5A8IlLA&t=3228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa.json) Text: Iliad, any questions? Ask a question, guys, come on. Do you guys understand this? Does it make sense to you? We're gonna ask a question to make sure you understand what's going on. This was a lot to take in, but this will stay with you for the rest of your life, okay? So over time, this will become much more clear. All right, so we start the Odyssey next class, okay? ## America Is A Game -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: Okay, so let us review last class. So last class we discussed the British Empire and how it ultimately triumphed over its main rivals who were the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch because of three major powers, okay? The first is the Bank of England. What made the Bank of England so important is that it could absorb foreign capital, okay? From all around the world. So at first it absorbed capital from the Dutch Republic, but then if you were a French aristocrat, if you were the Catholic Church, if you were the Habsburgs, you could all move your capital to England where it would be safe, because it would be protected by the law, okay? The idea of property. The idea of property rights. And when Britain became an empire, this was important because local elites in China, in India, in Southeast Asia would help the British because they were incentivized to do so. They could help ## America Is A Game -- 1:17 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: the British steal from these places and then move capital, their wealth, to England or one of the British colonies for safekeeping, okay? So that's a source of English power. Second is the idea of security. Security is a piece of soft power. So we are in school, learning English because we want to go and study in the West. That's soft power, right? So Shakespeare, the BBC, Oxbridge are all components of British soft power which still rules the world today. And the third, of course, is the British Navy which controls sea lanes, and therefore controls all dassomes, trade, okay? So for the longest time, for a hundred years, Britain was able to maintain a global empire, which really was the first global empire because it spanned the entire world. But there were three problems or three limitations to the British empire, okay? So the first major limitation is that Britain had an ethnicity. It had a race. ## America Is A Game -- 2:40 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: It was the white people, the Anglo -Saxons. And so even though Britain was ruling over a vast global empire, it was very much racist. It saw itself as superior to everyone else and that limited its capacity to work with local elites, okay? So in other words, eventually India rebelled to establish its independence and eventually Britain lost its overseas empire. A classic example, of course, is 2016 Brexit, when the English people decided that we no longer wanted to be part of Europe, okay? And so even though Britain is an empire, its people are very provincial, okay? They see themselves as better and they see themselves as superior to everyone else. And so even though Britain is an empire, its people are very separate from everyone else. I've met English people who've told me, like, English people cannot learn a foreign language. English people speak English very well and that's it. They can't learn French. They can't learn Spanish. ## America Is A Game -- 3:44 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: They refuse to learn Chinese. And they told me it's because their brains are different, okay? Their brains are hardwired to speak English really well and that's it, all right? So that's just the British attitude. Second problem is the idea of currency. Or wealth standard. The idea here is that, okay, yes, you're stealing wealth from other places, but what is wealth, okay? And for the longest time, people understood wealth as gold. The problem with this is that there's a limitation or there's a limit to the amount of gold in the world and therefore there's a limit to how many people can participate in this game and how much money they can win in the end. So it's really a game only for the elite. That's the second major limitation. The third problem for Britain is that it's really a small island, with very few people and very limited resources. And therefore it was really not sustainable for Britain to control the entire world. ## America Is A Game -- 4:56 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: There's a limitation to its reach and ultimately, other powers in Europe will arise. challenge British hegemony including Russia including Germany ultimately the power that would overthrow the British Empire to create its own Empire is of course America and what America would do that's very important is resolve all three of these limitations to click to create a world game in which we all play today okay so Britain basically birth this game but there were limitations to how far this game could spread America will then take the concept of this game and spread all around the world until I conquered entire world okay so how do you do so all right so let's go over America well first of all America is on a small island it is a continental fortress in fact it controls the entire Western Hemisphere we know that the Western western hemisphere is very ## America Is A Game -- 5:56 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-rules-make-players) Text: very wealthy okay so america is not just the country of america it's really the western hemisphere and as such has unlimited population and it's unlimited resources that's unlimited land okay so this resolves the issue of um resources okay second problem the currency well what america would do that would revolutionize the world is make the u.s dollar the standard of wealth in the world and because the u.s dollar is just a concept it's just an idea everyone can now play this game and wealth can now be infinite okay but that makes sense right before gold was what everyone was playing for but there's a limit to gold but with u.s dollars anyone and everyone in the world can now play okay so i'll talk about how the u.s dollar became uh the standard of wealth in the world now the ethnicity is another problem okay and so what america did that was ## America Is A Game -- 7:05 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-rules-make-players); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-american-game) Text: very clever is tell the world we are not an ethnicity okay we're not a land what we really are is a game all right so the idea is that america became a nation game all right so um what so this is pretty easy to understand okay so i'm gonna explain this first and i'm i'm gonna explain how the u.s dollar came to dominate the world okay all right all right so for the longest time we have problems deciding what a game or a nation ought to be okay so um traditionally nations have been ruled uh politically through the monarchy okay um an oligarchy a democracy or a theocracy okay so there are others but these are the four major ones a monarchy is very simple a king is in charge everyone just obeys the king uh oligarchy is where the nobility are in charge another name for oligarchy is the aristocracy okay and that's ## America Is A Game -- 8:20 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: basically rome a democracy is where the people make all the decisions and so what happens is that if a decision is to be made people get together and they give speeches whoever gives the best speech gets the most votes and then that decision is implemented okay and of course the classic example of democracy is athens okay and then you have a theocracy which is to say that the priests are in charge and the priests represent the will of god okay and of course uh theocracy the last example is a catholic europe this is a medieval europe when the catholic church was in charge all right but with the enlightenment uh when god was no longer considered that important philosophers debated amongst themselves what a nation ought to be what society ought to be okay and so let's discuss the major theories of this time period all right so the first idea is if god doesn't ## America Is A Game -- 9:33 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: really matter okay if it's up to humans to decide how to structure society how can you best do so and at this time the most popular idea is social contract theory social contract theory and there are two major theorists okay the first is john locke who of course is english and for him government it's very simple okay human beings have three fundamental rights that god gave us okay which are in in edible which means that no one can take take away from us the first is life okay the second is liberty the right to say whatever we want the right to do whatever we want the third is the pursuit of property wealth okay so they have private property in other words government exists in order to protect the wealth that we generate for our hard work and we steal it that's okay as well okay and we kill a lot of people in India ## America Is A Game -- 10:37 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: China and France do you get it that's okay too because it happened elsewhere okay all right so part of property and as you can imagine if you have wealth you like this system a lot and not only that but you are encouraged or incentivized to work really hard and that's what actually allowed England to overtake the French the Dutch and the Spanish okay then you have another theorist named John Jacques Rousseau and this theory is different okay it's also social contract theory but it's a different idea which is okay we're born in a state of nature we have complete freedom we can do it whatever we want so why do we choose to give up this freedom and come into society okay the reason why is when we do so we create a sort of social contract that creates the general will okay and the general will it's a substitute for God it is the ## America Is A Game -- 11:41 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: expression of the best of who we are okay do you understand so by ourselves we're fine okay when we come together we create a new concept that allows us to be truly and fully human the general will so what is the general will okay all right so think of Immanuel Kant who was a German philosopher and he explained that the very basis of humanity what we should all try to achieve is something called the categorical imperative okay imperative is the highest moral law right it's really God's law and there are three components to the categorical imperative okay the first is the idea of universality universality just means that imagine this whatever you do everyone else around you will automatically do okay so you want to go drink alcohol everyone's gonna drink alcohol do you want to live in a society of cheaters okay if you read books everyone else is going to read books so ## America Is A Game -- 13:04 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: imagine that whatever you do will be replicated by everyone else immediately okay that's the idea of universality second is the idea of free will okay I know that eating ice cream is bad I know that uh eating protein chicken is bad okay but I cannot be forced to eat chicken even though it's better for me I have to choose to eat chicken by myself if I want to eat ice cream I can do that okay so we cannot coerce people to do what they do not want to do all right and number three is uh human um is the end onto itself okay and the idea here is that you cannot use humans a human being to achieve a higher purpose because humans are the ultimate purpose so I can't be like a king says you know what I'm sort of war to make a lot of money for everyone and I'll sacrifice 50 of ## America Is A Game -- 14:08 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-rules-make-players) Text: my people but the other 50 percent would live will be happy they'll live in Paradise you can't do that okay because you cannot sacrifice anyone's life in order to achieve a higher end because the ultimate end is the human life okay so that's the idea of the category imperative the ethical basis for the general will okay now in practical terms how do you implement this in society well the general will gives rise to government and then the government gives rise to laws okay so the legitimacy of the government comes from the consensus of the people which is a general will the general will is not democracy right the general will is an abstract idea which represents the best of who we can be all right so just because everyone's like okay we should all vote to kill that person because we don't like him no that's not the general will the general will is everyone ## America Is A Game -- 15:10 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: is important do you want to others as you would want others to do onto you okay so you can't kill anyone okay and if you if people vote for this the government is illegitimate because it goes against the general will all right and this is important for us because this becomes the basis of the French Revolution and the French Revolution the entire European continent okay including Britain pressure Austria Russia everyone got together and attacked France France was poor France had no monarchy but France defeated everyone why because people were energized to fight for their nation they believe that I am now part of a greater good I have equity in this game therefore I will defend this nation with my life and France for the longest time was unbeatable on the battlefield okay all right so that is the French conception of a nation a nation is a social contract which guarantees rights to its ## America Is A Game -- 16:24 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: citizens and in return its citizens must be willing to sacrifice its life for the nation and that's why um the French Revolution was so successful which ultimately led to the French Empire under Napoleon okay does that make sense now there's a another conception of the nation state which is this okay and these are the Prussians or the Germans okay and it's the idea of um iron and blood so a nation is not something that you choose to get into okay it's not something that you start a contract with a nation is in your blood a nation is language land okay and you prove that you are worthy by sacrificing your sacrificing yourself in battle okay this is this comes to us from the German in 1870 okay in the Franco -Prussian war between pressure and France these two concepts of the nation state came into battle okay the French was a social contract you fight ## America Is A Game -- 17:35 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: for us because you agree to be a citizen of this nation which guarantees you certain rights pressure is like no you fight because it is your duty to fight because it is in your blood it is in your language it is in your whole culture it's your family and then when these two cultures clash it was the Prussians who won and um that created of course Germany okay so in 1870 the current the modern nation of Germany was founded by the persons when it defeated France in the Franco -Prussian War all right so now we go to America okay and America has a different conception of the nation state okay so at this time in history first of all um America it's a very small place 13 colonies and the continent is controlled by these indigenous people the French are there the Spanish are there okay but the Americans are very very ambitious and they ## America Is A Game -- 18:41 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: are expanding really really fast and Britain the home country actually becomes um afraid of America because at this time about the 1700s America has more people it's wealthier it's welcoming people from all around Europe and so Britain tries to limit the Expansion of America okay it tries to say you can't cross the certain line the Appalachian mountains America says screw you we're gonna revolt okay and this creates the American revolution so but this is a transition of county level and monkey systems were running around and bangles started fragrance bolting Chinese recruitment!!! Revolution. And in 1789, America creates the Constitution, which becomes the highest law in the land. And so at this point in history, the American Founding Fathers, they look around the world, they know about the British system, they know about the French system, they're trying to grow the country as fast as possible. They have to fight the Spanish, the French, the British, and the indigenous people in their land. ## America Is A Game -- 19:43 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-rules-make-players); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-american-game) Text: They're trying to welcome as many people as possible. So they decide that the nation will become a game, a game where the citizen is a player. And the citizen is trying to maximize his wealth. And through this process of maximizing his wealth, trying to get as much wealth as possible, he will be energetic and he will work hard. And this energy will contribute to the overall wealth of the nation, which will allow America to grow very, very fast. That's the plan. So for this to work, they have to control the game that has three major characteristics. The first is that it has to be open, meaning anyone can come and play. But that just means also eliminating the history and the ethnicity of the place. Okay? So the concept that America creates is the idea of melting pot. We welcome anyone who comes to America, regardless of your ## America Is A Game -- 20:59 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: race, regardless of your history, regardless of your wealth, as long as you're willing to assimilate into America, into the melting pot. Okay? That's the first idea. The second idea is fairness. And the third is clarity. So in other words, people are willing to play a game and work really hard to win this game if first of all they can play this game they're allowed to play this game they're not discriminated against also if the rules are really clear okay you understand what the rules are in America the rules are very simple you go to America you follow the law you work really hard you get rich okay really simple it's called the American Dream right and the third thing of course is that the game is fair meaning the only criterion to generate wealth is how hard you work how much talent you have how much merit you have right the idea of merit okay ## America Is A Game -- 22:00 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: and look this is true when you go to America you will discover this if you work really hard if you're really talented you're really smart they will respect that okay I've been to a lot of countries I can tell you that America in America this is true but it's not true in Canada I grew up in Canada and they don't really care if you're ambitious if you don't don't care if you're smart don't care if you work hard they don't care they expect you to follow the rules and conform okay that's Canada you go to China okay we don't know what China is okay no one cares if you work hard no one cares if you're smart no one cares okay it's all about your guanxi about we're your family okay but it's true for actually this is true for most of the world and I would say that the idea of merit is only ## America Is A Game -- 22:43 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: true for two places America is the most obvious example okay I've been to many countries and I've been to many countries in the last five or six years and here we are talking about nothing alive we've been at meetings we're at first Americans are like ehhhhg this guy is Chinese but I speak any english he's not that smart okay so there's discrimination going on but the moment I speak the moment I try to make my case they are win over won over by my logic okay by my arguments by my creativity and they welcome me into the club that's the American attitude of being open -minded of being generous of appreciating talent above everyone else okay. similar in that way in that yeah maybe they're racist but if you can make a good argument in front of them they will accept your argument okay but guess what guys nowhere else is this true okay in ## America Is A Game -- 23:31 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: china you have the best argument in the world no one cares right okay so we there are lots of issues with america but in all honesty america is a place that really does appreciate merit and which really does reward merit and that's why everyone wants to go to america all right all right so the question then is how did america create this system okay well it did so through the constitution the idea of the constitution is to create a game and make this game above power okay and how they did that is creating a system of government that checks and balances each other so you have the president you have the you have the congress okay and you have the supreme court okay the supreme court it's very simple it's to interpret the constitution which is the highest law in the land okay and then the powers of the government are divided equally amongst these ## America Is A Game -- 24:48 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: different branches so the congress can create laws and control spending okay what's called the purse the president has war powers basically or the sword okay but if the president were to declare war he needs congress to approve because congress has to give them money to start the war okay and um the idea that the constitution is the highest law on the land means that it's really rule of law so even though you have this government system in place you also have another parallel system called the judiciary the court system which protects property rights in the same way that they do in britain okay does that make sense so so the very idea is that this is a game the government is a system to maintain the openness clarity and fairness of the game and because of this america was very quickly able to dominate the world okay the thing about this game okay that's very ## America Is A Game -- 26:00 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: important for us to understand is it is expansionist okay so what happened is that in its history america faced certain challenges to this game and this game won out every single time okay so the first major challenge to this game it's called the american civil war all right so let me explain what happened from 1861 1864 the civil war was fought between the north and the south this was a clash of economic systems okay so the north played the game okay and so we believe in free labor the south was its own independent economic system that focused on agriculture and so it used slave labor for many americans in the north slave labor was offensive because it corrupted the game okay because remember america's founded on the idea of openness fairness and clarity but if you're a slave that's not fair okay um when we talked about Okay, because you were born a slave and you can never participate in this game. ## America Is A Game -- 27:19 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: And so they fought a civil war to decide who will triumph in the end. And of course, the North won, because the North focused on free labor. So that meant that there were more people in the North, that meant that the North was wealthier because of manufacturing, and that meant that the North were more energetic. Okay, so they defeated the South. And so that was the first major challenge. Now the game is spreading, okay? It spreads across America and now it stops because America can't expand anymore, okay? It basically conquers the West. And now the game is an issue because of the nature of money. The problem with money is that ultimately, the longer you play this game, at the end of the game, one person controls all the money. Okay, does that make sense? That's a problem with capitalism. That's a problem with this game. So now ## America Is A Game -- 28:20 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-american-game) Text: that the frontier has been settled, now that the borders have been controlled, a few people are now controlling all the money, which leads to the Great Depression, okay? So now the solution is America has to go and conquer the world, which it does, okay? In World War II, America conquers the world. And so now what America needs to do is spread this game throughout the world. And it does that by creating the U.S. economy, okay? The U.S. dollar, okay? So 1945, America wins the war. A year before, in July, July 1944, for one month, what happens is that America organizes something called the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire, okay? And the idea of the Bretton Woods Conference is to establish the world game, okay? Before, America's game was limited to America, but now America wants to scale its game to the entire world. Okay? So how does it do that? Well, the first thing it does is it makes the U.S. ## America Is A Game -- 29:24 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: dollar the reserve currency of the world, right? What does that mean? It means that every other currency has to be derived from the U.S. dollar. Every other currency will find value from the U.S. dollar, okay? Which means that if you have Canadian dollars, you can now change it for U.S. dollars, which is what's valuable. The Canadian dollar is not the U.S. dollar, right? dollars is just not valuable okay all right they also agree on um exchange rate okay it doesn't make sense okay and this this is a system that we have to have today okay all right the global reserve currency is the u.s dollar that's what's valuable the room b derives value from its relationship with the u.s dollar the room b is not valued by by itself okay all right that's number one um okay so now ## America Is A Game -- 30:23 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: you're like wait a minute here if this is true the u.s dollar can the americans can just put as much money as they want and so to solve this problem uh the americans said the u.s dollar will be pegged to gold okay doesn't make sense okay meaning like you can always take your u.s dollar and change it for gold and because there's a limit to gold there has to be a limit to the u.s dollars which keeps the system stable okay okay all right that's number one number two is america needs to expand this game okay because it is in competition with the soviet union which is against this game okay so it creates two new organizations to spread the game throughout the world and these two games and these two organizations are called the world bank and the national monetary fund the imf okay so um i'm so for the ## America Is A Game -- 31:21 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1881s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1881s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-american-game); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-world-board-disciplines-entry) Text: sake of simplicity okay understand this the world bank the job is to give you loans okay so let's say you are China and you are poor right you need to build dams well the World Bank gives you money and when it gives you money what it does is it allows you to start playing this game okay it allows you to participate in this game now what always happens is eventually the country's poor so much money they have to go into debt and they can't pay off the money right so then what happens is the IMF comes in and changes your government and its economic policies to make it conform more to the game okay does that make sense and its main mechanism is called privatization all right so what the IMF says is okay well you're inefficient you can't pay off the debt because you're inefficient you're inefficient because the public should not be in ## America Is A Game -- 32:19 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=1939s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-world-board-disciplines-entry) Text: control of the infrastructure the public should not be in control of water okay private companies should be in charge of the water and electricity and the land okay so the goal of the World Bank and IMF is to spread the game throughout the world all right okay then in 1947 they create something called the GATT okay the GATT is a general agreement on tariff and trade so this is the WTO basically okay that's changed into the WTO in 1995 all right so it's basically an agreement on free trade, right? Does that make sense? 1973, SWIFT. SWIFT is an agreement amongst different banks in the world on how to transfer money, okay? So, for example, if you want to transfer money from China, room B, into America to go to university, right? Guess what, guys, let's go through SWIFT, okay? So now it allows for more cooperation among banks in the world to use U.S. ## America Is A Game -- 33:29 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-world-board-disciplines-entry) Text: dollars, all right? Now, the last thing is, okay, how do these countries get together and decide on how to cooperate economically? And the answer is the Bank of International Settlements, okay, okay? And the idea is that the central banks of different countries get together and they agree on certain policies, all right? And this is all done, this is all done privately, in secret. No one knows about them, okay? All right, so this is the game that America creates. It's very simple, okay? And there are other components, but we'll focus on this now. Throughout the semester, we will focus on how this game is played, specifically, but first I just introduce it to you, all right? Okay, so now let's talk about how the U.S. dollar conquers the world, all right? So, for the longest time, this system works well, okay? The United States is in competition with the Soviet Union. But over time, the Americans start to abuse this system. ## America Is A Game -- 34:44 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So, they pay for things they can't really pay for. For example, the war in Vietnam. For example, a space race. For example, something called the Great Society, okay? They're just spending too much money. And other countries start to freak out. So, France basically withdraws all its gold from the United States. So, in 1971, what Nixon does is say, you know what? Here's the secret, guys. We actually don't have enough gold to pay off everyone, okay? So, screw this. We're not gonna peg the dollar to gold anymore, okay? Do you understand? You can now no longer redeem your U.S. dollars for gold. It's done, okay? So, now what happens is the U.S. dollar becomes a Ponzi scheme, all right? What is a Ponzi scheme? A Ponzi scheme is basically, the U.S. dollar is valuable because people want to use it. Do you understand? There's no value in itself. ## America Is A Game -- 35:44 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: It's only valuable because people want to use it. So, now Nixon has to go and create demand for the U.S. dollar, right? So, the first thing he does is he goes to Saudi Arabia. He creates something called a petrodollar. The idea of the petrodollar is very simple. Saudi Arabia, which is the largest oil exporter in the world, will only accept payment in U.S. dollars. Therefore, if you want oil, you have to have U.S. dollars, okay? That's the first thing that Nixon does. The second thing that Nixon does is actually even more important. What does he do? Do you guys know? He visits China, okay? Not only does he visits China, but he establishes a framework in which America will give China everything, okay? In 1980s, what happens? America gives China everything. It's market access, right? Now, U.S. consumers can buy goods from China. That's a huge deal, guys, okay? ## America Is A Game -- 36:59 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: That's number one. Number two is America gives China FDI technology education, all right? Imagine what happens. America gives foreign investment to China, gives all this capital to China, gives all this technology to China, right? All these military secrets that America has, it gives to China for free. And not only that, but America educates the Chinese elite, okay? In the 1980s, all these Chinese students, Chinese students for grad school go to America to learn American technology, okay? And the third thing, and this is the most important, is military protection. All these conflicts that China has with Southeast Asia, with Japan, Vietnam, America will now protect China. When Chinese ships export goods to Europe, Africa, and the United States, the U.S. Navy will now protect these. Chinese ships, okay, do you understand? And you're like, oh my God, America gave China everything. America made China rich. Why would America do that? And there's one answer, and only one answer. ## America Is A Game -- 38:16 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: It should make China use U.S. dollars, okay? It's that simple, okay? So now when China trades with the world, it gets U.S. dollars in return. Do you understand? Okay? Okay? So their idea is to make the world addicted to U.S. dollars. And now that the world is addicted to U.S. dollars, now that the world depends on U.S. dollars, America can now control the global economy, okay? So in 1999, sorry, 1991, the Soviet Union collapses, okay? And now America is the only game in town. There's no one who can challenge the supremacy of the Americans. And so now what happens is America creates something called the New World. The New World Order. The New World Order is based on global trade. But because the United States controls the U.S. dollar, it can now control something called pricing. Pricing just means that the Americans can decide the value of everything, okay? ## America Is A Game -- 39:30 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So what America does is create a price hierarchy. So at the very bottom are resources. All that is manufacturing. Then there's knowledge. And then finance, okay? This is the price hierarchy for the world. All right? And it divides the world into a division of labor, okay? So what is resources? Well, guys, it's Russia. It doesn't make sense. Russia, Africa, South America. What's manufacturing? China. What's knowledge? Europe. And what is finance? America. Okay? Does that make sense? So what's going to happen is that America is going to take its manufacturing and transfer to China, okay? Because it's cheaper for China to do. It's cheaper for America to do it than for America to do it. And all America is going to do is finance, okay? What is finance? Finance is just the creation of money for the purpose of creating more money, right? Okay. So this is the system in place. And at first, it sounds great because everyone's making money, okay? ## America Is A Game -- 40:51 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: But there are inherent instability in this system, okay? And we will discuss all this instability throughout the semester. But for the sake of simplicity, let's talk about America. Okay? What happens when you focus on finance is that you become a speculative economy. You focus on gambling, okay? Basically gambling. And this leads to something called the 2008 Great Financial Crisis when the American economy collapsed, okay? And at this time, the entire world economy should have collapsed. And so what happened was all these central banks from around the world came together as a whole. And they decided that in base of Switzerland, the Bank of America National Settlements, okay? Right? The secretive body in which all economic policies are made. And they decided the only way to save the world is if China spends money. Do you understand? Why do we have all these skyscrapers? Why are there all these airports? ## America Is A Game -- 41:57 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2517s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: Why are all these high -speed railways? Because China, to save the global economy, decided to invest in infrastructure, okay? Okay, and Belt and Road Initiative, and that saved the global economy. Now, after China did this, China developed a lot of debt, okay? And China basically said to the world, listen, we saved the global economy, so we deserve a seat at the table, right? We deserve to be equals to America. And so we're gonna sell our products, our Huawei phones around the world. We're gonna compete with America for global dominance. And America said, screw you, okay? And that led, of course, to Donald Trump. 2016, Donald Trump. And the first thing Donald Trump did, of course, was initiate the US -China trade war, right? China wants to be equal to America. America says, nope, screw you, we're gonna destroy you, okay? So America tried to sanction China. America tried to blockade China, okay? ## America Is A Game -- 43:02 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So we'll discuss this again. We'll discuss this again later on for the semester, okay? Then what happened, of course, is 2022, Russia invades Ukraine, okay? So what Russia's saying is, you know this price hierarchy? Screw this, okay? Because guess what happens, guys? If you don't have any resources, this system doesn't work, okay? Try manufacturing without any resources. Try having knowledge without resources. Try having finance without resources, okay? So when Russia invades Ukraine, it's trying to control the resources of Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine together controls one -third of the world's carbohydrates. Africa, the Middle East, starves to death about Russian and Ukrainian grain, okay? Does that make sense? So now this entire system is in jeopardy, okay? And so what's happening today is America is fighting to save its game. It's trying to fight to save the system. It's trying to fight to save the US dollar. It's trying to fight to save its hegemony, okay? And Russia and China are trying to exert themselves. ## America Is A Game -- 44:17 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So we are in a time of game reset, all right? Game reset. And this is the world that we live in today, okay? All right, so we will discuss this throughout the semester. Any questions? Are you guys clear? So I know this was a lot to take in, but we'll go into the specifics throughout the semester, okay? We'll go and we'll apply it to current events to explain why this is happening. Any questions? Okay. ## America Is A Game -- 45:10 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So the only purpose of America, like they produce a service for China is to let them use US dollars, right? So America can use this game to everyone. But I think China does not do the same thing as America, like they created this game, why? ## America Is A Game -- 45:39 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: So we'll discuss this throughout the semester, okay? The relationship between China and the United States. So remember that the United States wants China to play this game. But they can't really say to the world, oh, we're doing this because we're greedy and we want China to be subservient to us, okay? So they said that we want China to play the game because this game will allow the middle class, right? The middle class to rise. It will make China much more democratic, okay? But that was just BS. That was just a fraud, a lie, hypocrisy. All right, so now that China is in this game, all right, what it's trying to do is restructure the game so that it's much more independent, okay? Because the problem for China is, okay, to play this game, what you're doing is you're taking resources, all right? You're, creating, manufacturing exports, okay? And so that's the role of China in this game. ## America Is A Game -- 46:42 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: There's certain problems with this game. The first problem is America controls the entire game, right? So America can say, you know what, we don't like you, so you can't trade anymore. So basically they stop, they limit the resources, and they limit the market access, okay? So what China needs to do to survive is the idea of diversify. Create markets outside of the United States. Create, like, five resources that are not dependent on the U.S., okay? So that's a game that China is playing, and that's the idea of BRICS, okay? We will discuss BRICS later on, all right? But the BRICS is a very different concept where before America was trying to impose its game on everyone. Now China is just trying to create a system that is not so dominated by the Americans, okay? That's the Chinese mentality. Right, does that make sense? Okay, all right, any more questions, guys? ## America Is A Game -- 47:45 - Source title: Game Theory #7: America's Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijnkCt1QK6k&t=2865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ijnkct1qk6k.json) Text: Okay, great, so we'll continue this on Thursday, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: today i want to examine why you chinese students behave the way you do okay so believe it or not but the way that you behave the game that you're playing it's strange it's weird so i'll point out three things that you do that don't really make any sense the first thing that you do is you spend a lot of your time learning english in fact you probably spend more time learning english than you do learning chinese that's weird and i've asked chinese students before why they are so focused on learning english and their answers usually are i want to learn knowledge i want to go abroad i want to communicate i want to use the internet but that's not really a good explanation okay so that's one thing that's weird second thing that's weird is you're obsessed with making money especially u.s dollars okay and the third thing that's weird is that your goal ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 1:08 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=68s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=68s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: in life is to immigrate to a western country uh specifically united states right you all want to go united states for college get a degree and hopefully stay there get a good job but as we discussed before that's strange because you are much higher status in china you're much more likely to get a good job you're more likely to marry a beautiful woman than you are united states where the game is rigged against you okay so this sort of behavior is weird if you think about it what you should be really trying to do is master chinese because once you master chinese and given your family background given the fact that your family is often wealthy and well connected in china you can climb up pretty high in china okay so if you want if you learn chinese you're far better able to learn chinese to communicate yourself you're far more uh likely to gain ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 2:04 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: respect and status in china okay but instead you learn english um u.s dollars doesn't make any sense what you really want is status right what you really want is to be well respected you want a prestigious job you want to marry a beautiful woman you want to have lots and lots of children that's what you really want but instead you're really focused on obtaining u.s dollars that's kind of strange now the last thing we said was immigration you if you go to the united states it's really a rigged game against you right the most that you can hope to obtain is maybe become an engineer or professor if you're really really smart but you're not going to achieve political power you're not going to become a ceo of a major company all right so the situation as it is it's really weird where the best and brightest in china they just want to ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 3:00 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: be common people in the united states or britain or canada so it's a really weird game and so the question we want i want to look at today is how is this game constructed why do we play this game and the answer i will show you is because of the british okay the british empire create this game that ultimately the americans inherit and which the entire world world's played today because america is the global superpower um okay does that make sense all right so first i want to go into some history and explain to you how we got to where we are so this is the map of the spanish empire at the height of its power as you can see the spanish empire cover the entire globe okay so this is a small small nation in spain Spain and it was able to really cover the entire world. So how was this accomplished? Okay, ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 4:08 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: so the first thing you need to understand is that for most of its history, Europe was a very poor place. And in order for it to obtain wealth, it had to trade with the world. Specifically, it wanted spices from what they call the East Indies, okay, Southeast Asia. At this time in history, the main power were the Muslims who are here, okay? And if you wanted to trade with East Asia, you had to go through the Muslims. And at this point in history, Spain is Muslim. It's a place called Andalusia. But then the Christians were able to reconquer Spain. And so the Muslims decided that we'll just blockade you. Or if you want to trade with us, we will charge you a lot of levies. Okay? And so now the Spanish and the Portuguese are forced to look for new routes to the East Indies, where the spices are. Remember, at this time in history, spices are the most valuable commodity. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 5:12 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: They're actually worth more than gold, okay? Something like cinnamon, nutmeg, peppercorn, okay? These spices are extremely valuable commodities. In fact, one ship, if you're able to bring one ship of these spices back to Europe, well, you had intergenerational wealth, okay? You become one of the wealthiest people in Europe. That's how valuable these spices were. And so now the Spanish and the Portuguese have no choice but to discover new routes to the East Indies. So they went this way. And this is hard because Africa is not really hospitable. There are a lot of viruses, diseases in Africa. So they started to explore all around the world, and they went to North America and South America. And when they went to North, and South America, they discovered that there were already peoples, the Aztecs, the Incas, living there. And they had a lot of wealth because these were empires, and they could easily conquer. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 6:09 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And so they set up these colonies all around South America. And a lot of silver was now being transported back to Spain. And so overnight, Spain became extremely wealthy. But as we discussed last class, if you become too wealthy and too powerful, you change the world. You change the world. You change the world. You change the world. You change as a people. Before, you were energetic, you were open, you were cohesive. That's what made you an empire. But now because of all this wealth, you become insular. You become arrogant. And you become extremely close -minded. You become lazy. And so the Spanish, they had all this wealth, and they decided that they really didn't want to work anymore. So what happened? Well, what happened was that they started to stop contract. They stopped their labor to other places, okay? So now what's going to happen is you will have the rise of England, French, and the Dutch Republic mainly, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 7:15 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: To provide textiles, luxury goods to Spain, all right? So how this was accomplished was first, industry. So the Spanish, because they were so wealthy, didn't want to work. And their people didn't have to work either, okay? But they wanted to buy clothes, nice clothes. So what happened was they got other nations to be the factories, including Britain, the Dutch Republic, and France, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing that happened was trade, okay? So the Spanish did engage in trade, but now that they were so wealthy, they could just hire people. So they got the money, they got the money, they got the money, and they hired the Dutch to do it, okay? Now, the Dutch were responsible for going to the East Indies and bringing back the spices because it's a very dangerous job, right? You could get sick, you could die along the way. You could also lose a lot of money, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 8:20 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And the reason why the Dutch agreed to this is that the Dutch was basically a colony of the Spanish. So the Spanish had an empire, and the Dutch were part of this empire. So the Spanish had an empire, and the Dutch were part of this empire. So they just made the Dutch go do it for them, okay? But the third thing that happened was piracy, okay? So all this silver was being transported from the New World back to Spain. And what the English realized is, hey, we can just engage in piracy and steal this silver for ourselves, okay? All right, so now the English became very wealthy, because of piracy, okay? And the most famous pirate of this time, of course, was Sir Francis Drake, and he worked directly under the monarch, Elizabeth I, okay? So this was a state -sponsored piracy that made Britain very wealthy, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 9:21 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: So now you have this divergence where, okay, you have the Spanish empire, and because of their wealth, they became, um, lazy, insular, and arrogant, or the word we use is hubris, okay? Lazy is you just make others do it for you, okay? Insular just means that now, as we discussed last class, the Spanish aren't concerned about other nations. They think they're invincible, so they engage in horde politics, okay? They're all infighting for the throne. The last thing is arrogant hubris, which basically means that you... believe you are invincible. You can do whatever you want, and therefore, you start all these wars against everyone, everywhere. You overextend yourself, and you don't really understand your limitations as an empire. So very quickly, even though Spain becomes very wealthy very fast, they also go bankrupt very fast, because they're fighting too many wars, they're spending too much money that they don't have, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 10:31 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And they're too corrupt, okay? Does that make sense? Now, and what, and because of this, what's happening is that the British, England, the Dutch, and the French, they are slowly becoming a much more energetic, open, and cohesive society. Cohesion, okay? And now that you have this differentiation, what's going to happen is that the religion is going to change, okay? So Spain remains Catholic. and it's gonna fight to control the Vatican and this okay so that's what Spain does now Britain and the Dutch need to differentiate themselves from Spain and so they become Protestant or we call Calvinist okay so mad so Catholic is really about obeying Authority but the Protestant the Calvinist religion insists on hard work on energy on obtaining wealth okay the problem though is that the Spanish are too powerful and the French some of them are Calvinists but most are Catholic okay so what's gonna happen is that the English and the Dutch aren't gonna ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 12:08 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: decide to join forces with the Catholic Emperor the French 너무 pouquinho okay so I want to show very quickly show you the difference between the Catholic religion and the Protestant religion okay so these are the Spanish and as you can see there's a lot of trade going between a new world and Spain why is this the case because Spain is extracting resources from the new world primarily silver okay the French are also engaged in trade as well so there what they really want is fur from North America so fur is a luxury at that time but as you can see from this map the people that are really engaged in trade and get engaged in piracy in trade and shipping are the British okay and the Dutch and the reason why is that they're poor okay and so through this hard work they become very wealthy very quickly in fact the dutch in fact become ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 13:15 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: the wealthiest nation in the world per capita you have this burgeoning of the middle class and so what happens now is that the spanish and the dutch come into conflict because remember the dutch are a colony of the spanish and so this this the spanish want the dutch pay more taxes and the dutch want to be more independent so this starts a series of wars okay in fact an entire series of wars starts throughout europe called the 30 years war okay so ostensibly it's a it's a religious conflict between the process and the catholics but there are lots of underlying there are other underlying forces that are factors as well okay another factor is the spaniards want to exert control over the dutch okay and so there's lots of different reasons but but the main thing you need to know is that millions and millions of people die in fact it is the deadliest war ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 14:15 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=855s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=855s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: in europe right before up until the world war one okay and so this creates anxiety in europe because if there's all this war and you're joining all this wealth how do you keep the wealth secure, right? You're a merchant, you're being very wealthy through trade by going to East Indies and getting spices and come back to Europe and selling them. But if the Spanish or the French are going to send an army and steal everything, how do you keep your gold safe? Okay. So what's going to happen is this. What's going to happen is that the British and the Dutch are going to decide to get married. Okay. This is what we call the Glorious Revolution. 1688 Glorious Revolution. So let's talk about the Glorious Revolution. In the Glorious Revolution, what happens is that the British nobility invite William of Orange, who is a leader of the Dutch Republic, to come and become the monarch of Britain. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 15:31 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: Okay. And so you're like, okay, why would they do that? Why would they betray their own king, James II, and install a foreign monarch, William of Orange? Okay. And so the thing you need to understand is that throughout British history, what makes Britain unique is that the monarch has always been in conflict with the nobility. Okay. The king has always been in conflict with the oligarchs. And this is a, this is a continuous pattern. So ostensibly, the reason is religious because James II was Catholic and Britain is a Protestant country. But the real reason is the nobility want to exert authority over the country. Okay. So in this agreement, what would happen is that Parliament becomes the sovereign state. Okay. It becomes the de facto power in England. And the king, William of Orange, agrees to be the puppet or the figurehead, but the real power is in Parliament. And so this creates the idea of national sovereignty. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 16:49 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: Okay. What people don't appreciate is that the real reason why they want to do that is they want to protect capital. Okay. Capital. Okay. Or transnational. So the idea is that not only does William of Orange come over, but most of Dutch wealth, Okay. So the idea is that not only does William of Orange come over, but most of Dutch wealth, come over. Because remember, at this time, the Dutch have a huge problem. They're constantly being invaded by Spain. So what you do is you take all the gold in the Dutch Republic and you transfer over it to England. Okay. And so in 1694, they create something called the Bank of England. All right. And the Bank of England, the idea is this. The idea is that if you buy the Bank of England, that gold is yours. Okay. But, the Bank of England will always be guaranteed by Parliament. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 17:59 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: alright. So this is a very important idea, guys. I, I, I need you to understand this for the rest of the semester. Okay. So before you're a King and you, you need to go fight a war, you borrow money from bankers and merchants, right? The problem, though, is that one you could lose the war. In which case, oops, second is that, um, you could die, which case oops. And the third problem is that you You could just say, I'm king, I'm not going to give you back your money, okay? And so, these merchants would have no choice but to try to create a revolution, okay? But as a merchant, as a capitalist, you don't want to go through this process. And so, the Bank of England, it's really important because now you are lending money not to the king, but to the nation, okay? What this means is that the nation has to pay you back. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 18:55 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1135s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: So, even though the king dies, the people are liable for the debt, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, now, if you're a merchant, you feel safe. I cannot put my money in the Bank of England. It's my money. If I lend it to the nation, I'm always guaranteed that they'll pay me back, okay? Okay? And England is safe because unlike the Dutch Republic, England is an island. And therefore, it's protected by the Royal Navy. It's impossible for the French, the Habsburg Empire, or the Spanish to invade England. They've never been able to conquer England. And so, it makes England safe, okay? All right? So, now the question is, why would the Dutch, why would they put their money in England? Because remember, at this time... They can just screw you over, okay? So, the way around this is you have some old techniques. You have intermarriage, right? And then you have religion, or what we call secret societies. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 20:06 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: Because remember, both the Dutch Republic and England are Calvinists, okay? And the major secret society that facilitated trade, of course, were the Freemasons. But during this time, these two were really between eros. They were aristocrats. And the people of England were trying to get as much money as possible, right? So, what they started to develop was a new concept. It's not a new concept, but they really systemized it. It's called contract law. All right? So, there's a famous British philosopher named John Locke. And he said that what is government for? Government provides the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. All right? What that means is a government ensures you three rights. We will protect your safety. We'll make sure you won't die. Okay? We will make sure you have the right to do whatever you want, liberty. And also, we will protect your private property. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 21:18 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? The entire purpose of parliament and the courts, okay, the judicial system, is to ensure that your private property is protected, no matter where your private property came from. Okay? It doesn't matter. They don't care what the origin of your private property is. Okay? So, like if you're French and you killed a million people, to steal a million gold, they don't care. It's yours. It's private. Okay? If it's, and they believe that this private property comes from God. All right? This is yours because God willed it to be yours. And we, England, must protect it. And they will do so through parliament and through the court system. Okay? Does that make sense? Yes. So, now, if you're wealthy in Europe, you're now encouraged to go invest in England. Okay? And this creates a concept that today we call offshore financial center, or OFC. Okay? So, think of like Dubai or Hong Kong, where they don't care where the money comes from. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 22:40 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: Okay? Their legal system, their financial system, will help protect this money. Also, Switzerland. Okay? So, Switzerland is a classic example. But England create this, and they base their entire nation around this idea. Okay? Now, the first major test to this system was Napoleon because Napoleon was about to conquer Europe. And England couldn't have that. Because if, um, Napoleon conquers Europe, then Napoleon could control all the wealth of Europe. He could make sure that no wealth is transferred over to England. He could basically blockade England. So what Britain did was they financed seven wars against Napoleon. And they lost six of these wars. And they won the last war, which created the British Empire. So now Britain is a global financial empire. So this is an East India company. And the East Indian company, it's based in Britain. And the Bank of England is private. And what it does is it primarily engages in trade with India, as well as the East Indies. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 24:04 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: So what England will do is they will colonize India and steal all the wealth of India, primarily by de -industrializing India. So India had textile factories. But England, through a lot of policies, bankrupted the India textile industry and transferred it over to England. So now what's going to happen is this. What's going to happen is that resources from India, agricultural products, resources, are going to transfer over to England. England is going to, with its factories, make goods for India. So basically, the... The entire deal is we, Britain, give you, India, $10, and India, you give $1,000, okay? So basically, we give you $1 for the goods you give us, and then you pay us $1,000 for the goods we give you, okay? So very quickly, this bankrupted England. But not only... Sorry, this bankrupted India, okay? But not only that, but you also had China, as well. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 25:15 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1515s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1515s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And the same idea was... The opium went into China, and then silver and money went back to England, okay? And then, this money was allowed to go over to the United States. And the United States industrialized very quickly because of this policy. Now, the question is... How was England able to... How was England able to do this? How was England able to create a system in which India and China, basically voluntarily, gave up its wealth? And the answer is, England simply set up a game that incentivized the local elites to cooperate with England, okay? So this is the way... This is what happened. So this is a map of... The British Empire. The British Empire, okay? So let's look at India and China. The local elites had to help the British do this, okay? The local elites had to help the British steal. The question then is, why would the local elites do that, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 26:41 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And the reason why is... Remember, last class, the local elites aren't confident with each other anyway, okay? And what they're looking for is more power. And so, what England... What England said to local elites is, if you help us, we will help you steal the gold from this country, okay? Do you understand? Before, if you were an elite and you lost a war or people didn't like you, they could kill you. But now, if you help the British, you can transfer your wealth and your children abroad, okay? Does that make sense? So... Now, what's going to happen is... That the elite are going to be able to send their children and their wealth to the British Empire, okay? Okay? And there are certain mechanisms that allow them to accomplish this. The first mechanism is, of course, finance, okay? So not only are you allowed to transfer your capital to the United Kingdom and its colonies, but they will disguise it for you. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 28:07 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-corruption-drains-motion) Text: This is what we call money laundering, okay? Money laundering. So, when you steal from your people, not only will Britain allow you to do this, but they will disguise it for you, okay? Through their offshore financial centers, including Hong Kong, Singapore, their lawyers will pretend that this money came from, not from drugs, not from gambling, not from prostitution, but from restaurants, from real estate. Who cares, okay? But they will clean up for you, okay? We call this money laundering. And then they will help you sell it overseas, where it becomes legitimate, okay? So now you have real estate investments in Australia or Canada, okay? All right? So this is a global money laundering system that encourages the local elites to be corrupt, okay? It protects them in a corruption, and it incentivizes them in a corruption, okay? Does that make sense? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 29:09 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: The second thing that allows this to happen is schooling, okay? So what do I mean by that? The British, when they conquered India and China, what they were trying to do is try to brainwash and indoctrinate the elite. So they set up these schools, right? And when you went to these schools, what did you learn? You learned English. But when you learn English, what do you learn? You learn that British culture is superior to your local culture, right? When you're learning English, you're learning about Shakespeare. You're learning about Shakespeare. You're learning about British philosophy. You're learning British history. And as a result, you surely come to believe that the British are superior to us, and therefore I should try my best to be British, okay? And also what's really important is that the schooling system allows for mobility, okay? So if you are a really smart person in China, well, there's really little mobility for you in China. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 30:18 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: But if you go through the British system, you might win a scholarship to go study at Oxford or Cambridge, okay? You even might become a Rhodes Scholar. So a Rhodes Scholar, it's basically a secret society, okay guys? But the idea is that all over the British Empire, the very best students will be selected to go to Oxford where they become best friends, okay? And their mission will be to spread the power of the British Empire all around the world. Okay? And it works really well, okay? This is an indoctrination system for local elites. And it works really well because remember, if you're a really smart person, the British offer you more opportunities for mobility than your own country. Because in your own country, the system is very hierarchical. It's static. There's really no mobility, right? But if you're really smart and you obey the British and you believe that the British culture ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 31:17 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: is the very best in the world, you might become a Rhodes Scholar, and then you become part of the British Empire. Okay? And that's how the British were able to conquer the world. And the third thing, of course, is the Navy. Basically, the Navy ensured that Britain was the greatest military power in the world. If they didn't like you, they would come and destroy you, okay? That's what happened to China during the open wars. There was nothing that could destroy the Navy. And so these three things, okay, finance, the Bank of England basically, schooling, or the idea of soft power. Okay? And the third thing is the Navy created really the world's first great world empire. So as you can see, Britain spread all around the world, okay? And so even though the British Empire is no longer around, it's now the American Empire, even though the opium trade has stopped, what's important for us to understand is the game is still being played. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 32:25 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1945s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=1945s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: Okay? So let me give you an example of this. This is a drug trade in the world. Okay? And as you can see, the drug trade, okay, primarily cocaine, we're talking about cocaine. There are other types of drugs as well, but let's focus on cocaine. You can see it's a global network. Like a lot of cocaine is produced in Columbia and South America. And then it just travels all around the world. It's a very sophisticated system of trade, okay? But what you need to understand is none of this would be possible without the British financial and legal system, okay? Because why are people taking such a risk and selling drugs? Because it's so lucrative. It's so profitable. But you can only have this market. Okay? If it's being protected by a legal and financial system, okay? People only participate in this trade, it's dangerous, but they ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 33:35 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: only participate in this trade if they can be guaranteed that they can make a lot of money and they can use this money and protect this money, okay? So what protects this money, of course, is the offshore financial centers, okay? So the green are areas in the world in which you can place your money. They won't ask where the money came from, they don't care where the money came from, and they will clean up for you, okay, money laundering. They will use their sophisticated legal and financial systems to clip your money and then they will help you invest it elsewhere, okay? Does it make sense? So guess what? Look at this, guys. Where are the major global financial offshore centers? Well, they're in the Caribbean, okay? They're in Panama. They're in the Philippines. They are in Northern Europe. They are in the Middle East. They are in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan. Guess what, guys? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 34:43 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-corruption-drains-motion) Text: This used to be the former British Empire, okay? So the British Empire is still around today. They transformed from one that is overt and that uses military power in order to control the world. They transformed to one that is covert, that is secret, and that uses financial and legal means in order to control the world, okay? And it's still the game that we play today, all right? Now, there's a question that someone asked me, okay? It's a very good question. The question is this, if offshore financial centers like Hong Kong and Dubai are so profitable and it's such easy money, why doesn't everyone do it? It's a good question, okay? And the logic is very simple. We know that gambling, prostitution, human trafficking, slavery, all profitable, why doesn't everyone do it? Because it's immoral, okay? As a society, you need morality in order to create energy, openness, and cohesion, right? People want to feel as though there's a part of something good. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 36:03 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-corruption-drains-motion) Text: That we're striving for a higher cause. And if you're all about slavery or prostitution or gambling or money laundering, people won't feel good about themselves. In fact, their souls will become corrupted, okay? So the classic example is like Hong Kong, right? Have you guys been to Hong Kong? One of the wealthiest cities in the world, right? Lots and lots of skyscrapers. But guess what? The people there are disgusting. They're depraved. They're unethical. They're disgusting. There's actually no culture to the place. There's no morality to the place. It's actually disgusting. Okay? I don't want to live there. And if you live there, guess what? Your soul is going to become corrupted. So this is almost, you would say this is a demonic system. This system is not only evil, but it facilitates evil. It is the work of Satan, okay? But unfortunately, this is a system that we live in today. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 36:58 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-corruption-drains-motion) Text: So even though everyone will say this system is demonic, it's really underpinning the world today. So this is why people are not breaking into the world right now. Because if you think about it, okay? Okay, all this corrupt money from China, India, Malaysia, they go to these places. But then this money then goes where? It goes over to Australia to invest in real estate, okay? Do you guys know what the biggest industry in Australia is? It's banking, okay? Okay, banking. Which means that Australia also engages in money laundering. But they clean it up, so people aren't aware of this. You understand? The same thing happens in Canada as well. Canada, United States as well. So this entire world, it's based on stealing from the third world and transferring this money to the first world. That's all it is, okay? It's that complicated. But this has led to a huge problem. The problem is what we call over -financialization. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 38:12 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: But over -financialization, it's a very simple concept where there's too much money, so people become corrupt, lazy, arrogant, and insular. And that's what's happening in Canada, in the United States, in Britain, in Australia, okay? And so really, an empire must collapse at some point. So the British, the Western world, they are a victim of their own success, okay? So they stole all this money from the rest of the world, but this money has made the past, made their people lazy, corrupt, and arrogant. And that's why we're seeing so much conflict right now in the Western world, because this money has created a lot of inequality in the world, in the Western world, right? Okay, 1 % of all the money, 9 % have very little to get by on, but you also have a lot of corruption, where the political system no longer serves the interest of the people, they only serve the interests of the rich, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 39:27 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And then you also have immorality, where nowadays, people aren't concerned about making money. They no longer want to contribute to the community, okay? So yes, we can say that, the western world it's evil because they've stolen all this money but really what what's happened is that they've corrupted and destroyed themselves because this model has been too successful for them okay and that's why we're seeing so much chaos in the world today so we are really at a game reset or a game's end and a new game is about to emerge because this game right now is not sustainable okay all right any questions yeah so if the success of western world leads ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 40:16 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: to the corruption and you know the fall of western world can we generalize that you know after success people will fall then what's the meaning of success okay that's um ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 40:32 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2432s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: a great question okay so we know that if you become successful you will not be happy why do people um go and succeed and okay this is a really um hard question to answer okay so let me explain different layers okay the first layer is this why people know that wealth doesn't lead to happiness right what leads to happiness is family love community meaning purpose generosity okay that's what leads to happiness that is people People in the world tend to be religious, they tend to have families, and they tend to be very kind -hearted people. So why do we have rich people? Because the game is structured so that everyone is forced to play, okay? Meaning that we only care about people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg. We worship the rich, okay? And we hate the poor. So if you're homeless, we think it's because you deserve it, because you're lazy. ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 41:45 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: It's because you refuse to work, okay? So the game is set up so that we're focused on making money. Then the question then is, why do we have this stupid game? And the answer unfortunately is that what we figured out is that this game in the short term, in the short term, not in the long term, okay? We're talking like decades, not centuries. In the short term, it's what makes your people rich. It's what makes your people the most energetic, open, cohesive, and the most likely to win against other nation states, okay? Does that make sense? So in the long term, you get destroyed, your people are destroyed, you're corrupted by this game. But in the short term, it allows you to defeat other players, okay? That's how the British were able to create the empire. They basically defeated the French, then they defeated the Germans, then they defeated the Russians, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 42:35 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: And that forces the other players to play this game as well. Because... In the short term, this game... This game gives you huge advantages, okay? So think of... It's a zero -sum game. So think of an Olympic game where, okay, everyone's going and competing in the 100 -meter sprint. And we know you shouldn't do drugs because drugs will destroy your body, right? And you could have a heart attack when you're 40. But they're like, no, no, no, I really want to win this game. So one guy uses a drug and he wins. And the other players know about this, and now they're forced to also use the same tactic, okay? Do you understand? So it's a really unfortunate system in that this system can only lead to the unhappiness, corruption, and immorality of people. But people are too concerned about short -term rewards, okay? If you don't play this game, then you get eliminated, okay? What I'm going to discuss in the next class is... ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 43:44 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: The American Empire and how the American Empire changed this game, right? So what the American Empire will do is they will add U.S. dollars to this game. And it's important because it makes the game universal now as well as easier to play, okay? And then we'll look at how the system, capitalism, conquered the world, okay? So it's a great question. But the reality is that... If you cheat, if you do bad things, in the short -term, you will win out, even though in the long -term, it will lead to severe consequences for you and your people, okay? Does it make sense? I mean, it's also the same thing as like, you know, rich people, right? Rich people, to get rich, they will sacrifice their children's happiness. They will sacrifice their own happiness. But they think that this will lead to happiness in the future. It won't. But they believe it, okay? ## The Bank That Made The Game -- 44:43 - Source title: Game Theory #6: The World's Bank - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbamEcNuDXo&t=2683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cbamecnudxo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cbamecnudxo.json) Text: So that's the great tragedy of this game, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, good. Any more questions? Okay, good. So we'll continue this next class, okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: So, the Iliad is the foundation of Greek civilization, which is the greatest civilization in human history, the most creative. It gave us Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles. Greek civilization is essentially the foundation for Western civilization. So, the question we will look at today is, how is it possible that one epic poem can give birth to a civilization? So, the thing to understand about Greek civilization is that there are two important concepts. The first is erite. The second is eudaimonia. So, erite means virtue, excellence, or character. It's something that makes you special, what you excel at. And traditionally, there are two types of erite. There's war fighting, and there is speech making. In Greek civilization, the paragon of the warrior is, of course, Achilles. And the paragon of the great orator, the great speaker, is Odysseus. So, we are reading the Iliad right now. And then, after we finish the Iliad, we will read the Odyssey. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 1:50 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay? So, these are the two great characters in Greek civilization. Achilles, the great warrior, and Odysseus, the great orator. Okay? Eudaimonia means flourishing. And the idea of eudaimonia is that you can only be happy, you can only be yourself, when you are achieving your erite, when you are expressing your erite. So, for example, Achilles. In the Iliad, he did this. Achilles says that, before he came to Troy, he was given a prophecy. He could either die old at home or die young, but a hero on the shores of Troy. And he said, well, duh, of course, I'm going to die young in Troy, because only by fighting, only by winning glory, can I achieve eudaimonia. Okay? And that's why he's so unhappy when he gets in a fight with Agamemnon. And he has to sit out the war. And he thinks of different ways of getting back into the battle. Because without fighting, he can't be Achilles. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 3:03 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: He is the paragon of the warrior. Okay? So, that's the idea of eudaimonia. I can only be happy when I am being my creative best, when I'm achieving my true potential. Okay? Now, for the Greeks, war fighting and speech making are really the same thing. But for different means. Okay? So, when you fight a war, what you're trying to do is you're trying to impose your reality onto the world. And make others believe what you believe. Right? You do that through force. By brute strength, you show that you're superior. And therefore, others must obey you. But speech making is actually trying to achieve the same thing. Okay? But through words. Okay? So, rather than through force, through beauty and through truth, you're trying to create a new reality that others submit to. An example, of course, is the speeches between Odysseus and Achilles. Okay? Odysseus and Achilles. Alright, so remember the context. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 4:17 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: Achilles gets in a fight with Agamemnon. He refuses to fight. And the Trojans, led by Hector, are destroying the Greeks. So, Agamemnon and Odysseus and the others, Nestor, have a war council. And they agree that they'll go and beg Achilles to come back. Okay? And Odysseus and Nestor and others, they go to Achilles. And they present an argument to Achilles. And Odysseus gives a very long speech. Now, the question for us is, why are the speeches in the Iliad so goddamn long? Right? Because Odysseus can simply say, Hey, Achilles, we'll give you a million dollars. Will you fight for us, please? He can also say, Hey, Achilles, we're losing the war. Stop being an asshole. Come fight for us. Okay? He can make it very, very short. Why is it so long? Right? And then Achilles, his response can be like, no. Okay? But he also offers a very long speech. And the answer is, they're not trying to respond to each other. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 5:23 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-project-inhabitable-world); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: They're trying to create their own reality. Okay? So with speech, what you're really trying to do is you're trying to project a movie onto the world. You're trying to create a new reality that others must inhabit. Okay? That's why speech making is like war fighting. You're trying to create your own reality and impose it on others. Right? So remember what Odysseus is doing. He knows that Achilles, for him, it's really about face. Right? He's lost face in front of Achilles. He's lost the others. And that's why he won't back down. That's why he insists on Agamemnon apologizing. Okay? But Odysseus also knows that Agamemnon himself won't apologize. So for Odysseus, because he is the great orator, that is his arete, what he's going to try to do is try to create a new reality that Achilles inhabits. And which will convince him to... To join Odysseus in the war. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 6:28 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-project-inhabitable-world) Text: Okay? So how does he do that? What he does is he expands the imagination of Achilles. Alright? That's why the speech is so long. Because he's trying to create a new emotional reality for Achilles. Right now, Achilles is selfish. Right? So what does Odysseus say to Achilles? The first thing he says is, Achilles, I want you to imagine this. Before us is a great feast. We can see this feast. Now I want you to imagine what's the opposite of this feast. A great desert. Where we're all dying. We're all starving. And that's the war we're fighting right now against the Trojans. That's why we need you back. Okay? So it's a powerful image. And then he uses imagery to take Achilles to the present. Where Hector is this giant, this god, running around killing all Greeks before him. Okay? And then he takes Achilles back to the past and says, remember your father, Peleus. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 7:29 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-project-inhabitable-world); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Before you came to the war, you promised him that you would win glory for him. You promised that you would win glory for the Greeks. Okay? Then he takes Achilles to the future. Which is, let's imagine what happens when we win this war. When we win this war, all the riches of Troy, all the treasures, will belong to you, Achilles. Again, Manon will give you his daughter for money. And you will be our bride. And you will be the glory of all of Greece. You have treasures and treasures. Think about the present. Think about the present. Think about the past. Think about the future. Okay? Expand your mind, Achilles. Right? That's what Odysseus is doing. He's trying to expand Achilles' imagination. And once you enter this world that Odysseus has created, then you will be convinced to join him. Okay? So that's what speech making is. Speech making is projecting a movie onto the world that everyone can observe and then absorb this new reality. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 8:33 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay? Internalize this new reality. Right? And Achilles knows this. And Achilles refuses to be beaten. Right? So Achilles, through his speech, counters Odysseus with his own reality, which is a very self -absorbed reality. Okay? Right? So rather than expanding outwards, like Odysseus wants, Achilles continues to expand, to contract inwards. Right? He uses the word I, I, I a lot. Right? Me, me, me. Odysseus never uses I or we. He's always like we. Okay? So Achilles says, hey, I understand that Nephthagor to you is a god, but when I saw him, he ran away from me. Right? Oh, Peleus, my dad, I should go home to see him. So goodbye guys. And like Agamemnon's daughter, for my wife, I spit on her. I don't want any of this crap. Okay? So it's like, so he contracts inwards. Okay? So, and that's why the speech is too long, is so long. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 9:41 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Because in speech making, it's a war of realities. It's a war of narratives. And you create narratives through speeches. Okay? But not only that, but there's certain techniques to speeches. Because the goal of speeches is not just to paint a reality, but you want to paint a reality in which it is internalized by others. And therefore, you must make it memorable. Okay? So remember, in the beginning of class, I had you do an assignment, which is write down the speech. Right? And even though you didn't force yourself to memorize it, you're able to memorize a lot. Okay? And that shows you the power of the speech. The question then is, what makes the speech so powerful? And the answer is, because it's poetry, guys. Okay? Poetry. And the elements of poetry, of course, are imagery. And this is what Odysseus does well. This is what he specializes in. Okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 10:42 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: Drawing pictures for you to see. Okay? Metaphors. Connections. Okay? Metaphors is what we call connections. And connections are things. They're things that help you clarify reality. Okay? And which shows you things that you couldn't see before. So for example, if I say, the sky is like the sea, that doesn't really surprise you. Okay? If I say, the sky is like a snail, well, that surprises you. And because it surprises you, you remember it. Okay? And because you remember it, it reorders the way you see reality. All right? You also have diction, choice of words, syntax. Okay? And these are things that both Odysseus and Achilles specialize in, especially Odysseus. Okay? Does it make sense? All right? So they're trying to create these narratives through their speeches. And they have these techniques. And guess what? The Greeks. Their education system was very simple. All they had to do was memorize the Iliad. Okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 11:55 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: Because when you memorize the Iliad, you learn how to make a great speech. All right? And you understood that for me to make a great speech, I have impact. I need people to remember what I say. I need to put myself on others. All right? And this becomes, this system becomes the very basis of ritualization. All right? Speech making. Where if you have anything done, you have to go in front of people and make a speech and create a reality for people to accept. All right? And this is what leads to democracy. Okay? Are we clear? Okay. Now I want to talk about how, in fact, Homer creates civilization. Okay? All right. So, Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. And he's primarily concerned with how we understand reality. Why do we see the things that we do? Why do we think the thoughts that we have? And he wrote a very good book called The Critique of Pure Reason, in which he outlines this theory. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 13:13 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay? So what he tells us is this. Traditionally, we've understood ourselves as passive observers of reality. Okay? This thing is before us. We stand before it and we try to understand it. Okay? What Kant teaches us is that, no, we are, in fact, active participants in reality. And we shape and form the reality before us. Okay? So Kant divides the world into two. The first world is the world of objective reality. The things in themselves. Or the nomina. Okay? And what's a nomina? They're just vibrations. Okay? We talked about this, right? The entire world is sound, vibrations, frequencies. So we can actually see these things. So what we do is we filter the world around us and turn them into things that we can understand, called the phenomena. Which are the things to us. Okay? Things to us. Or the things that seem to us. All right? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 14:37 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-language-builds-common-reality); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: And we do so through a filter called time and space. So time and space do not exist outside of us. They exist inside of us in order for us to understand reality. Okay? So time, what does time mean? Time just means sequence. All right? Sequence is just like one, two, three, four, five. We put things in sequence, we create time. Space is the idea of sensation. Okay? Sensation is just basically the five senses. Right? All right? Now, time and space do not exist outside of us because everything outside of us is just pure energy. Okay? But our minds can't perceive pure energy, therefore we use time and space, sequence and sensation to understand the world around us, to order the world around us. Okay? All right. So. But what this means is that if we're able to control time and space, we can control reality onto itself. Okay? Does that make sense? And what is this thing that controls time and space? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 15:54 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-language-builds-common-world); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-language-builds-common-reality) Text: This thing is called language. Before, we would just each perceive our own time and space. With language, okay, we're now able to come to a collective understanding of reality. Right? And who creates language? Poets create language. And therefore, poets, through their poetry, create reality onto itself. That's what Odysseus is trying to do. He's trying to, through his poetry, create a new reality for everyone to live in. All right? A reality in which people get along. A reality in which people, like Achilles, are able to forget their hatred against Agamemnon and fight for the common good. Okay? All right? So, even though each of us has our own understanding of reality, a poet is able to create a language that is so beautiful that it comes into us and we internalize the language, we absorb the language, and we, together, create a new reality with the language as the building blocks. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 17:14 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. All right. So, let me explain now how Homer is able to do this. Okay? Let's talk about how Homer is able to do this. Homer. How is a poet able to create reality? Okay. So, a poet is unique in the world. Poets are really prophets. Okay? So, if you look at all these great religious figures of the past, including Jesus, including Zarathustra. They weren't religious figures. They were really poets. Okay? And how they're able to work is they have a divine connection to the universe. Okay? What we call... Okay? So, there are different names for the universe. Okay? So, Hegel, the German philosopher, used the term Geist. Geist. Okay? What is Geist? Well, Geist, it's hard to translate because it's German. Okay? But think of it as three English words. And in fact, actually, Geist will give us three English words. These three English words are Ghost, Gist, Gist, and Geiser. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 18:43 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay? Geiser is an eruption. Okay? Ghost is the underlying thing. And the Gist, the essence. Okay? Okay? And that's what the Geist is. The Geist is all around us. It's like the Ghost. It's always changing. It's always becoming. It's always erupting like a geiser. And it's really the essence of things. The Gist. Okay? All right? Carl Jung, the word he uses is Eclectic Unconscious. Eclectic Unconscious. Plato will use the realm of the forms and ideals. Okay? Christians will say Heaven. Whatever. Okay? All right? But these are the universe. All right? And remember how we said before our memories are stored in the universe. The universe is almost like a divine psychic internet, right? So, every single memory is stored inside the universe. And what poets do is they're able to access this universe. and as a result they're able to summon the memories of the universe and they ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 20:09 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: do and when they do that they create epics of poetry okay all right the Iliad now as I keep on discussing when we read the Iliad each character is a real person okay each character has a living present and future by reading the speech of Patroclus you understand his memories you understand where he came from what he wants and where he's going okay so everyone in the Iliad is a living breathing character and how is Homer able to do that he's able to do that because he's able to summon these people from the universe okay even though you're dead your consciousness is still alive in the universe even though Homer is longer with us his consciousness is still within the universe so it's possible through intense meditation to actually connect with Homer Dante Shakespeare whoever okay they're all there and that's what Homer is doing he's able to connect with these people and bring them ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 21:21 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-living-memory-makes-worlds); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: into the Iliad okay but because these people are living in the universe they're still alive in the universe okay so it's impossible that the IL is destroyed its life was preserved by the și and by Homer for his entire life the Iliad itself is a living memory okay what I mean by that is okay the purpose of the Iliad is to create a memory a living keeping memory for people to observe. So remember, Homer, he is a bard. At this time, people don't read and write. So what he's doing is, he's doing what Odysseus is doing, which is he's going from town to town, people are surrounding him, there's a hundred people, and then for the entire evening, he recites his poetry. And he's doing what Odysseus is doing, he's painting a movie for everyone to observe together. And it's the same thing when you go to a movie theater, where, yes, it's the same movie, but everyone's experience is gonna be different, okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 22:23 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-living-memory-makes-worlds) Text: And how it becomes different is that you implant your own consciousness, your own understanding, into the Iliad. So it becomes a shared creation. And when you do that, what happens is that, and this is really important, guys, you connect directly to the universe, okay? So in other words, the Iliad was created because of inspiration from the universe, but it's also a portal into the universe itself. And this is what allows for new creations, okay? Okay? So as you are observing the Iliad, because your own experience is different, because your own connection to the universe is unique, by interpreting the Iliad, you create a new universe onto itself, okay? And this is what we call, together, a process we call civilization, all right? This is what happened. This is why one poem, the Iliad, was able to give birth to an entire civilization, because it was so ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 23:43 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-living-memory-makes-worlds) Text: alive, so powerful, so connected to the universe itself, to the monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into the monad, the universe, the heavens, that allow you to create your own universe, that then connected back to the monad, okay? So it's just one, all right? Any questions? Are you guys clear about this? All right. Think about this, all right? This is what the Greeks did, and how do we know it's true? Because even today, the Iliad speaks to us. Right? The Iliad, when we read it, we can identify with Odysseus. We can understand Achilles. We can relate Achilles to ourselves. We can predict how Achilles will behave, okay? And that's proof that this Iliad is eternal and immortal, because it connects us to the monad. But knowing that, and this is most important, is that you may not know this, but the more you read the Iliad, the more it's opening your mind, okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 25:16 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Your mind is an antenna, okay? Your mind is an antenna to the universe, right? So when you read the Iliad, it's as though your download speed is now increasing. You have a fast connection, strong connection now to the internet, and so they're able to absorb more, okay? When you're able to absorb more, you're able to absorb, okay? create new realities in which you're able to observe which you're able to analyze deeper all right and that's why we read the great books because it is literally it allows us to connect and talk to god itself okay doesn't make sense guys all right so um yeah any questions we might move on okay so what i'm gonna do now is we're gonna read together uh we're not gonna read together an essay by persia shelley it's called the defense of poetry and he explains how this happens okay all right so now i'm ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 26:26 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: giving you the theory um we'll see how persia shelley was a very famous british romantic poet how he how he explains this okay okay sorry so this is from his essay the defense defense of poetry okay it's a very long essay but i'll just highlight for you certain aspects okay so he's talking about how homer created greek civilization and um homer was a bard poet but then heavy influence on the playwrights okay the play the three big players of course are israeli sophocles and eubates and the theater will become the very essence of athenian life okay so what you do what you did for fun was you would go to a theater but the theater was more than just entertainment it was about education it was about enlightenment and a vacation okay so um he talks about the theater in athens okay the drama in athens or who wheresoever else it may have approached to ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 28:02 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#character-lives-in-reader-through-catharsis); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#fictional-hero-becomes-real-inside-reader); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: its perfection ever courses courses with a moral intellectual greatness of the age all right so the theater at athens provoked these tremendous feelings in people that made them into moral people with ambition with creativity all right the tragedies of athenian poets are as mirrors in which a spectator beholds himself under a thin disguise of circumstance should of all but that ideal perfection energy which everyone feels to be the internal type of all that he loves admires and would become all right okay so again the idea of poetry the idea of truth is that it's a mirror in which you can look at yourself and you look at the world around you achilles odysseus are in you and you are in them and by observing them objectively you can better understand yourself the imagination is enlarged by sympathy with pains and passions so mighty that they stand in their conception the capacity of that by which ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 29:09 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#character-lives-in-reader-through-catharsis); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-tragedy-forms-moral-self) Text: they are conceived the good affections are strengthened by pity indignation terror and sorrow and the exact calm is prolonged from the satiety of this high exercise of them into the tumult of familiar life okay so the idea of greek tragedy is um epiphany and catharsis so if you look at uh greek tragedy there's a very common pattern okay so there's a tragic character and he's undone by hubris and that's a great tragic flaw his hubris he's arrogant achilles has hubris he thinks he's better than everyone else every man has hubris he's better than everyone else okay but troglos will die because of hubris hector will die because of hubris so it's hubris that is the great uh killer of people okay no matter how great you are you will suffer from hubris the greater you are the more you suffer from hubris which can only lead to tragedy and you're observing this and you recognize ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 30:12 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#character-lives-in-reader-through-catharsis); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: that oh it's hubris that leads to tragedy and therefore it will make you a much more humble person okay this is what we call epiphany but regardless of your epiphany you're still going to face tragedy okay the person is still going to fall so hector no matter how great he is he's still going to die patroclus no matter how innocent he is he's still going to die and this will lead and so what happens is you feel a connection with that person you cry and this leads to catharsis okay catharsis is basically purge whatever feelings that you have you cry you purge your feelings you purge your hubris you purge your hatred okay and this will make you a whole person but when you commit catharsis what happens is that you now connect with the character itself so the character now lives in you and you live in the character okay and that will make ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 31:17 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: you a much better person does it make sense guys all right even crime is this arm of habits horror and all its contagion by being represented as a fatal consequence of the unfathomable agency of nature eras does diversity of its wilfulness men can no longer cherish in it as a creation of their choice in a drama of the highest order there is little food for censor or hatred it teaches rather than self -knowledge and self -respect nearly i know the life of nature is a okay so this is very long but it's a very simple idea the idea is that when you watch a tragedy okay when you observe a tragedy you're observing a fundamental truth about human nature okay which is that we're all going to be tragic the classic that classic case is Oedipus okay Oedipus is a man who killed his father and married his mother and when he discovers the truth ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 32:37 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=1957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: he blinds himself and then he goes into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it was it was just fate it was just an accident but unfortunately that's what life is about okay so the you are a great person when you're able to acknowledge your limitations you're able to acknowledge fate and destiny but you struggle regardless okay that's what Erette that's what eudaimonia is to recognize your limitations to recognize the universe may have a grudge against you but you struggle on regardless okay and that story when you watch it yourself it brings sorrow to you it brings pity but it makes you also much more wise and reflective about the world that we live in okay and let's create wisdom let's create empathy let's create morality and that's why Greek drama is so important okay now let's look at another passage But tense or tension or reducing ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 33:47 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: varsa. You are only a spirit of protecting you, the explanation, the power, your gift, or what you call wisdom and neglected your humanity. Erette is only a spirit of protecting you by into a sense of justice. But this is an interesting force to decide whether or not a終 prioritizing God as an okay? The present with the eternal. The here with the forever. And they turn it into words that are able to express both the material and the spiritual. The here and the forever, the present and the eternal, okay? A word, a trait, and a representation of a scene or a passion will touch the enchanted cord, okay? Diction or metaphor. Enchanted cord. Enchanted cord is just your connection to the divine, okay? So this word, because it's so beautiful, this sentence will be so beautiful, will reawaken your memory, okay? This is a really important idea where we are always in a process of reincarnation, all right? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 35:06 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-soul-gateway-breaks-familiar-prison) Text: So why are we here in this world? Because there are things that we can experience that we cannot experience in the spiritual. When we're in the spiritual, we are formless. We don't have any bodies. Therefore, we cannot have sex, we cannot have pain, we cannot have love, okay? But in this world, we can. But what's important to understand is that when we reincarnate into this world, our memories of our former selves and of the spiritual are lost to us. Otherwise, we can't actually live the life that we live, okay? But poetry, because it connects both to the divine and to the present, certain words will spark your soul. And your soul is the forever memory of all your lives and your connection to the spiritual, okay? That's what poetry does. Poetry is a gateway into your soul. And we enaminate, okay? In those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past, all right? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 36:09 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: So you have all these past lives in you that you don't remember. But a certain word, a certain poem will reignite, re -enaminate, all these past lives in you, and they will say, hey, re -remember, okay? And this will elevate you. Poetry does, makes immortal, all that is best and most beautiful on the world. It arrests the vanishing aberrations which haunt the inter Texas notifications of life. Enveiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those who, of whom the sisters by abide, because there is no more portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit, which they inhabit into the universe of fire. of things, poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man, okay? There's God in us, and poetry reminds us there is God in us. There's God everywhere, and poetry reminds us there's God everywhere. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 37:03 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: Poetry lets us see the divine everywhere, okay? We're not able to see this because of how our minds work, because we're only able to see through time and space, but poetry helps us go beyond time and space and connect immediately to the eternal, okay, to the divine, to the spiritual. All things exist as they are perceived, okay? So again, the idea of Kant, where we can only see things through time and space, okay? These are things we can see, but you know what? There are things that we can feel that we can't see. It's the feelings that matter, at least in relation to the percipient. The mind is its own place and of itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of hell. Of heaven, okay? But what this tells us is that if we learn how to control our minds, we can control reality itself, okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 38:08 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-soul-gateway-breaks-familiar-prison) Text: But poetry defeats a curse which binds us to be subjected to the asinine of surrounding impressions, okay? Do you understand this idea? The idea is poetry activates our imagination. Before, we were in a prison of our own making. Before, we could only see what we could see, but the poetry gives us a higher sight. It allows us to see the things beyond just time and space. The eternal, the past, the future. And wherever it spreads its own figure curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being. Okay? All right? So each time we use our imagination, we create our new reality for ourselves. It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos. It reproduces a common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward insight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 39:12 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: It compels us to feel that which we perceive and to imagine that which we know. It creates a new universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recreation of impressions blunted by reiteration. It justifies the bold and true words of Tasso. None but God and the poet deserve the name of creator. The poet is the creator of our heart. The poet is the creator of our world because the poet has the imagination to see things beyond time and space, beyond this reality. And the poet then distills these emotions into words that help us ourselves connect to the divine. Okay? Poetry is a portal to the divine. This is clear, right, guys? All right, so we'll conclude. The most unfailing hero, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a benefit of change in opinion or institution is poetry. Poetry is the basis of all civilization. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 40:12 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Okay? It is from poetry that everything must come from. At such periods, there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intent and passion, conceptions respecting man and nature. The person whom this power resides may often, as far as regards, many portions of their nature have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even while they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve that power which is seated on the throne of their own soul. Okay? So poets don't actually know their prophet. Poets don't know they're connected to the monad or the divine. They just do what they do because they have no choice. Okay? There's a fire burning in you. You have to let it out. Otherwise, you can't sleep. You can't eat. Okay? Poets are prophets who must speak the truth. Otherwise, they will just suffocate. Okay? They'll destroy. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 41:05 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: They'll just drown in their own misery. It is impossible to read the compositions nor celebrate writers of the present day while being startled with the electric life which burns, well, within their words. Okay? Poets are the flame itself. Poets are not human. They are the messengers of the divine flame. Okay? They just burn. And when you read their words, you can see the flame in them. Okay? So even though Homer, we don't even know who this guy is. We don't know. We don't have his picture. But you can see when we read him, he's alive still. Okay? His words still burn. They measure the circumference and sound the depths of human nature with a comprehensive and opportunity spirit, and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations. Okay? It's all inspiration. When Homer is speaking, he doesn't know he's speaking. He doesn't. Are you telling me that this guy who just blah, blah, blah, blah, he's able to understand, oh, this is what Odysseus is doing. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 42:06 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay? He's a divine fire. He's a chat. He's just channeling God, okay? He's just a portal for God to speak with the universe, with us. Poets are the hierophants of an apprehended inspiration, okay? The mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurely cast upon the present. They are prophets because the future is speaking to us today, okay? God is past, future, present. And so when God speaks, he's also speaking to the future. The words which express what they understand not. The trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire. The influence which is moved not but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, okay? Poets are prophets and their words create our reality. ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 43:08 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: Every night. Everything that we know, everything that we do, it's because of language. Of the language that the poets create, okay? Does it make sense, guys? That's how Homer created civilization. Because God willed it that Homer speak truth. And willed that this truth will spread across the world through his poetry. Okay? It's all by design. Does it make sense? All right. Any questions? Okay. All right. All right. So I'll see you guys next class. Okay? ## The Poem That Gives Birth To Civilization -- 43:43 - Source title: Great Books #3: Poets and Prophets - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRP407WsA0w&t=2623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xrp407wsa0w.json) Text: END ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Today, we examine the question, why is it that states, countries, nations, they rise and they fall? Okay, so let's start off with an example that you know pretty well. So this is the warring states period. And at this point in history, there are many powerful states, okay? So for example, the Chu, the Zhao, the Wei, okay? And if at this point in history, and this is about 250 BCE, I asked you to figure out using game theory, which state would unite China and become the first great empire of China. Well, there are certain metrics that you would use to figure out which state would win out, okay? So obviously, you would look at population, okay? Who has the largest population, okay? So the question of mass. The second question that you would look at is maybe resources, right? And resources, it's basically just farmland. So you would look at basically which areas had the most rivers, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 1:13 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=73s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=73s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: And so you'd be like, okay, well, this area, you know, looks very strategic, as is this area, as is this area, okay? And then you would also look at maybe technology. So basically, which state has the most scientists, which state has the most advanced literature arts? And then from these metrics, then you could do some analysis and figure out that maybe Chu would come conquer all of China at some point, okay? But at no point, using any metrics, would you assume that Qing would be the first country that would come conquer China? And there are certain reasons why. First of all, it's in mountains, so it's pretty poor. Second of all, it's pretty far away from the rivers and trade routes. And third of all, it's pretty isolated, okay? So you cannot possibly imagine that the Qing Dynasty would conquer all of China. But in fact, it is the Qing that would come and conquer all of China. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 2:26 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: And not only that, but then you can imagine that they would actually come conquer all of that but if you look at most of human history this pattern repeats itself if you look at a region the strongest nation does not come out on top it's usually the weakest most marginalized area that will eventually come and conquer the entire territory and create an empire okay so clearly the way that we understand history it's problematic it's wrong so what i want to what i want to do is propose to you a new way to understand how empires come into being okay and this was actually first proposed by a muslim scholar historian named ibn kudan okay and he proposed the idea of abasaya and all this word means it's basically cohesion or group solidarity his theory is that yes the people in the margins they're poorer but because they're poorer they're more ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 3:36 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-energy-openness-cohesion); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: unified they are more they focus more on solidarity on working together whereas in the rich areas they become too individualistic they become too decadent too corrupt and ultimately that's why it's always these tribes from the east to the west the south to the south to the north to the east and from those people this margins that actually conquer the wealthy civilized areas okay and this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout human history all the time so it's almost like an iron law of history so what I want to do is show you that actually three metrics I can use to measure how dynamic a society is and how likely it is to triumph in the end okay these three metrics are energy openness and cohesion okay cohesion it's just follows the idea of a by sign out which is just to say how likely is it that these people are willing to work together ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 4:43 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-energy-openness-cohesion); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: they see themselves as a team are they willing to sacrifice themselves for each other are they a family okay so that's the idea of cohesion openness is a very important concept and openness just means how willing are you willing to adapt how willing are you with how much are you willing to accept your limitations and be resilient okay so you can think of openness as humility as resilience energy just means that you're willing to work hard you're focused you have a clear goal and you're motivated to achieve this goal okay so these three metrics tell us how dynamic society is going to be and using these three metrics we can now better understand why that the Qing Dynasty was able to conquer all of China okay so the idea is that if you're rich okay you're rich okay what happens often is that you have low energy and what this means is that the elite ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 5:51 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: don't want to work anymore they rather just exploit the other people okay the people and because the people are being enslaved they're too much in debt they have low energy as well for them it's not really about building a great nation it's not really about doing a great job it's just about getting by okay so and then the idea of openness is that the elite become extremely corrupt they become very insolent they become very arrogant and so they refuse to admit that they're wrong and as a result society becomes stagnant it doesn't really improve and the idea of cohesion is that because of self -inapproval because of corruption people are much more individualized people are much more atomized okay and this allows for a new group to come in and conquer everyone okay does it make sense guys all right so um I'm going to use sorry I'm going to use actually um another example ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 7:00 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: okay an example is the Greek city states it's really the height of human civilization they gave us homer plato for cities uh sophocles okay just basically the basis for all of western civilization now what's interesting is that for most of the of the history the greek city states and these are basically like this salt small cities okay there are thousands of them and on average about a thousand people each there's some big city states like athens but even athens is not that big so at its height athens had about 50 000 people okay so these city states like athens thebes um sparta okay these are the major ones and there are others who are korean argos they're always in competition with each other very much like the chinese warring states as well and again if we look at the year 500 bce you would think that maybe athens or sparta would emerge as the grand ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 8:06 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: unifier of the greek city states and in fact what happened was that athens did become an empire but then the other the other greek city states start to attack athens and athens decline over time okay and the advantage that athens had over everyone else was just tremendous first of all athens had the greatest navy okay as you can see uh the aegean is primarily about who controls the seas so age all the trade routes in the um aegean therefore it's the wealthiest city state at the greatest population at the most innovation it has the most strategic location it has most wealth so you just assume that athens would come to conquer all the greedy states but in fact it was the macedonians okay who came in and conquered all of the city states and at this time in history you couldn't possibly imagine that because the macedonians were poor they were isolated they were not ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 9:13 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: all cultured they were uncivilized okay but again they had energy openness and cohesion and that allowed them to conquer the city states what's mostly what's amazing is that even after this area was unified okay the macedonians would then do the impossible and go over and conquer the great persian empire the first great empire in human history it was huge it was egypt anatolia mesopotamia the zagros mountains persia it was everywhere and in a very quick amount of time the macedonians under excellent great they sailed across the aegean landed a small fort and then very quickly in about 10 years time conquered the entire persian empire and at this point in history you would think that the persian empire sorry you would think that the new national empire would be invincible but then the persian empire was completely destroyed by the macedonians and so what happened a few decades later is the rise of the romans ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 10:11 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: who are the romans well at this time in history we don't know who they are okay um uh rome is probably here somewhere okay but as you can see the entire italian peninsula is being colonized by the greeks and then the romans who are you know these poor backward tribal people eventually over time they will conquer the entire and then go and conquer the greek um mainland and then it goes go south to conquer uh carthage as well and they will create the roman empire okay so this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout human history the empire becomes corrupt lazy arrogant this and this gives opportunity for a troubled people whether it's a macedonians whether it's a ching whether it's a roman or a greek they will come and conquer all of them okay but another question then is okay if that's true um and so let's look at more examples okay of this ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 11:23 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: let's look at the aztecs and the aztecs is even a more stark example so this is a this is about the 16th century 15th century okay as you can see um the mexican peninsula it's it is divided into warring city states okay very similar situation to the greek city states and the chinese city states then what's happening is the aztecs we are going to come in from the north okay and the aztecs are um a poor tribe that's starving okay so they're basically from north america they come in because they're looking for food and they're warrior people so they're hired by other city eventually they become too powerful so they become isolated onto a marsh okay and this marsh it's poor and everyone just put them just assumed that they would starve to death in this marsh what's amazing is that as a people they became very creative and they turn this marsh into farmland ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 12:31 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=751s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=751s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: and over time they will slowly kind of conquer everyone okay and they established the ethnic empire which rules over millions and millions and then what happens which one of the greatest mysteries in human history is you have another group of people called conquistadors from spain and there's only about 500 of them okay arriving about the year 1915 -19 they come in and in like a very short amount of time they conquer the entire ethnic empire and spain comes to rule basically all of south and latin america okay so even though yes we have a lot of conquistadors from spain and spain and spain has a lot of conquistadors from spain and spain and spain has a lot of conquistadors from spain and spain and spain will conquer the other groups it still doesn't explain to us how this happened how this guy uh hernandes with 500 conquistadors was able to come in and conquer a ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 13:32 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: land uh of millions and millions okay now there are historical explanations including of course disease uh people from spain had diseases and the aztecs were not did not the immune system to counter uh these these diseases another explanation is um the aztecs believed that these conquisters were gods and that's why they surrendered very quickly another explanation is that the conquisters had allies local allies that were pissed off at the aztecs but again these explanations they sound okay they sound like they were but they don't actually give us the full picture what really happened and in game theory what we're really trying to figure out is what happened exactly okay it's a game how are the players um playing the game what are their motivations what are their incentives okay doesn't make sense okay that's what we're trying to figure out what actually happened in this instance uh i want to look at one more example ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 14:38 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: before we look into the third game in game theory okay this is one of the early civilizations in human history in fact um it's considered the first great civilization of human history it is the sumerians and what happened was that um if you look at a world map okay this is a world map right mesopotamia is the center of the world because you're going to access the rest of the world you have to go through mesopotamia and if you look at mesopotamia the center of mesopotamia is a place called auric okay sorry auric auric okay auric which is here okay as you can see eric is the meeting place of the euphrates and the tigris and if you look at this the urk uh allows you to access uh the persian gulf which gives you access to india okay what we call the ivc the indian valley civilization and then um and then you allow ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 15:42 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: and then traders are able to take the goods across to egypt okay and then you're able to go north to anatolia so why did europe become the first great world city because it was the center of all global trade so different people came together into the city in order to establish a trading post okay and over time it grew it grew and grew because it was very wealthy okay and over time um it's up colonies elsewhere okay so it's up colonies in other places and then eventually these different city states came into conflict with with with each other which is the same process of what happened with the chinese warring states as well as the greek city states and you would assume that one of these city states would conquer the rest but in fact again it was these tribal mercenaries uh from an isolated region called the acadians the acadians who would come and ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 16:39 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: conquer everyone else okay the acadians okay after after they built the first empire okay then what happened is that other people come over and conquered them as well and then you have people from the zagos mountains the persians basically come in and unify the entire area and create the persian empire all right so this is a pattern that emerges throughout human history it's a pretty consistent pattern okay we have theories as to why this is happening yes we do know that groups that are energetic open and cohesive are will triumph over other groups but the idea of game theory is to figure out exactly what happened okay so let's go over exactly what happened and i'll show you that's what's happening is that as nations rise and fall the games they play changes it doesn't make sense the game changes and therefore their motivations their incentives their strategies change over time all right okay so ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 17:57 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: um are we clear about the history here all right okay so in the beginning okay game theory game okay rise okay in the beginning you as a people need to come together and build a land in which you can all prosper or at least have food to eat okay therefore the game is cooperation and the mechanism cooperation actually will allow you to create a dynamic religion so in this first game okay what you're trying to do is you're trying to create a dynamic religion that motivates people to be energetic to give them reason to work really hard okay and the people who are best able to articulate this religion become the elite okay and this includes poets and priests all right poets and priests and at this point in history it's basically a startup okay everyone's enthusiastic they're very enthusiastic everyone's working hard, everyone feels as though they're making a positive contribution to the world. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 19:18 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: But over time, what happens is that the elite, okay, become hereditary. The game becomes how do I, the elite, pass on my privileges to my children, okay? And the way they do that is by changing the religion, okay? The religion now becomes almost like a bureaucracy. So in the first game, the religion is about energy, it's about creativity, it's about working together, okay? But in the second iteration, the religion becomes like a bureaucracy, which is like you must follow the rules of the game, okay? The rules of the game are set, hierarchy, and you must obey this hierarchy, okay? Now then what happens is a process called elite overproduction, okay? The idea of elite overproduction is that, yes, these privileges are being passed on to the children, but now over time, there are too many children. And so what happens is that society breaks up into different factions, okay? And usually what happens is that these factions are divided according to the princes. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 20:44 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That doesn't mean the prince is the leader of the faction, it just means that the prince is the symbol of the faction, okay? All right? And at this time in history, the way that they reduce the conflict is the losing factions, what they do is they move away, okay? They're exiled, okay? And then they have to set up a new colony. And this is a process that continues where the losers of the game are forced into exile until there's no more place to colonize, okay? And now you have the warring states period, okay? The warring states period. And in fact, what's interesting is that the warring states period is a time of maximum creativity for a civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 21:48 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated, and open -minded civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea of open, co -ordinated civilization. Why? Because you see the idea idea of open club competition which again marks the height of the civilization so guess what guys china's been around for 5 000 years but most of the ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 22:30 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: innovations happen when it happened during the warring states period there's 100 years when we had kong's confucius monsa laozi it's basically everyone okay all right and and if you just look at um other civilizations it's the same for other civilizations as well where if you look at the greeks um during the classical period they basically created everything that becomes the foundation for western civilization okay does that make sense all right now what's interesting is what happens next eventually what happens is these city states figure out that you know what yes the game is we compete against each other but we can also choose to work together okay how do you work together by intermarriage okay intermarriage and the idea of intermarriage creates the idea of equilibrium and at this point in history warfare becomes organized warfare okay so remember before warfare was about innovation but now when these elites from different city states when they ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 23:47 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: intermarry with each other okay they have a new equilibrium so they are above the above the state does it make sense guys all right so now when they fight is that really about fighting each other it's about reducing their population to maintain control okay it's a way to resolve the elite overproduction issue we have too many people striving for too many status positions now when you do that it's for population control okay so warfare becomes a mechanism of population control all right so even though these city states are still in control all right so for in theory, competing against each other, they essentially now have reached an equilibrium. An equilibrium, another word for equilibrium is basically the day of empire, okay? All right? So now, the game changes. Before, during the war of states period, it was a game to see which state would be the best, the most innovative. And that's why you invite people who could contribute the most to your city -state, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 24:57 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: That's why you were meritocracy. You only promoted the best and the brightest. Once you reach an equilibrium, you don't have to do that, okay? All you need to do is just maintain the status quo. And so what happens is you create this rigid hierarchy, and what matters is who reaches the top of this hierarchy. And as a result, you create court politics, right? Court politics, or factional struggle, factions, okay? Doesn't make sense, guys, all right? So if you look at any court politics, the faction that triumphs is the one that's able to solve three problems, okay? Three problems. These three problems are secrecy, trust, and coronation. Remember, in theory, everyone has to obey the bureaucracy, right? But if you just play by the rules of the game, you're gonna lose. So what you wanna do is you wanna cheat in the game. But if you wanna cheat in the game, you have to do so secretly, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 26:21 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: You have to do it secretly. But if you do it so secretly, that creates a problem of how do you trust each other? And if you're doing it all in secret, the problem is how do you coordinate? How do you move together, right? Because you can't have meetings where you take notes, because if you're discovered, you'll all be executed by the other factions, okay? So historically, the way that we've been doing this, the way we've resolved this issue is through the idea of secret societies. So let's figure out how secret societies work. And this is true for China, this is true for the Greeks, this is true for the Aztecs, this is true for everyone, okay? But there's certain aspects of secret societies. The first is the idea of secrecy. How do you do that? Well, you do that through the idea of a hierarchy. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 27:16 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Hierarchy. Complementarization. And so there are different, so within secret societies, there's a hierarchy as well, where only the people at the very top know what's going on. And if you want to join, you're initiated, but you have to put it at the bottom, okay? And slowly, you climb the ladder, okay? And this is to maintain secrecy. Trust. How do you get people to trust each other? Well, you get people to trust each other through the idea of transgression. So if we cheat un -attached together, we are much more likely to trust each other. Does that make sense? Because if you're caught, you all get punished, okay? So by bringing the law together, we can trust each other, okay? And the most basic type of transgression is the idea of ritual sacrifice. And the idea of ritual sacrifice is you basically decide to go kill someone together, okay? You capture that person, then for some ritual, you then kill that person, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 28:24 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Does that make sense? And then to solve the problem of coordination, you have the idea of eschatology. Eschatology is just mythology, all right? Like, why do you guys, do we have to do this? Why are you doing what you're doing, okay? And the answer often is, because we're trying to serve a higher god that wants to conquer the world, and we are her servants in this quest to conquer the world and end the world, to make it a paradise, okay? So different suicides have different eschatologies, but the system is the same, okay? Doesn't make sense, okay? And what happens is, and this is really important, guys, every faction has a formula. They all come from their own secret society. And now the game Empire becomes one of a struggle between different secret societies. Doesn't make sense. Meaning what? Meaning you don't care what happens to the Empire. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 29:24 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: You don't care about the enemies of the Empire. All you care about that you, your team, emerges on top of the game, okay? And so what does that mean? It means that you become, sorry, insular, all right, okay? You become insular. You also become corrupt, okay? Because you need resources to play this game, so what you do is you steal from the people, okay? It's all about trying to steal as much as you can in order to feed your faction. You become insular, you become corrupt, okay? And then divided, okay? Do you understand? This is what happens because of different factions within the Empire. Or the equilibrium. They become insular, they become corrupt, and they become divided, okay? Which is why they ultimately lose to these struggle factions because the opposite of insular, of course, is open. The opposite of corrupt is energetic. And the opposite of divided is, of course, cohesive. Cohesion, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 30:43 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Now we understand why ultimately the Borderlands, the tribes in the Borderlands, are able to conquer the Empire, or the equilibrium, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. But there's actually more to this, okay? And so what happens is that you have these different factions, okay? Different societies fighting against each other. And again, from their perspective, all they care about is winning against the other factions. So what do they do? What they do is, they, you know, they invite other foreigners to come help them. Hey, do you understand? Okay? So, these are what we call mercenaries, all right? And these mercenaries come into them, and their leadership is absorbed into the six societies through eschatology, through transgression, through hierarchy, okay? All right? So, this is what happens. These mercenaries actually invited in, okay? And hit... But there's always contact, okay? Contact through trade, banditry, mercenary, okay? Does that make sense? Because these people in the regions, they're so poor, they'll do anything to survive. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 32:20 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So they'll trade with you, but they'll also steal from you, and they'll also come and fight for you, okay? What's important is that through trade, they're becoming wealthier. Through banditry, they're becoming wealthier as well. And by working with your mercenaries, they are learning your best technology, your best fighting skills, your best weapons, okay? Right? And then, what happens is that the mercenaries eventually take over, okay? At first they merge, but then the mercenaries just kill everyone and then take over. And that's what happens. That's why the Qing were able to conquer the warring states. Okay, they don't teach you this in history class, but according to game theory, what happened was that different factions, different factions, of these different states actually invited the Qing to help them in their political struggle. And then the Qing just basically conquered one by one by one. Does that make sense? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 33:16 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=1996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Same thing happened with the Macedonians, right? The Macedonians came in and helped one city -state, then they conquered one city -state and moved on to the next, okay? But it was always a certain part of that city -state, a certain faction of that city -state, which invited the Macedonians in the first place, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, and this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout, okay? Okay, and this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout, okay? Okay, and this is a pattern that repeats itself throughout, human history, okay? So you wanna know what's gonna happen today, what's gonna happen tomorrow, just figure out which areas of the world are the most energetic, most open, and most cohesive. And then figure out which empires are the most corrupt, most insular, and the most divided, okay? And then you'll figure out who will conquer who, all right? Does that make sense, guys? All right, so I'm gonna give you two more examples to better illustrate how this works. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 34:10 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2050s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2050s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: All right. So when I was in high school in Canada, we played a game called the World Game. And in this game, it's very simple. Okay, you're put into a team of maybe four or five players, okay, and then each team is assigned a country, like maybe USA, Britain, India, Pakistan, Japan. And then each team is given an envelope, okay? And then within this envelope, you're given certain resources. Okay, so basically, you know, paper, scissors, ruler, okay? And then there's an organization called the World Bank. And what you're trying to do is you're trying to become the wealthiest country in the world. And when you do that is you take your resources and you turn it into commodities that the World Bank buys from you, okay? So maybe like triangles and circles and squares, okay? But to create these commodities, you need to have, okay, to create these commodities, you need resources, right? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 35:25 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2125s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: You need scissors, you need rulers, you need paper, you need glue, okay? But different countries will have different resources. So the United States has everything, okay? And Pakistan is interesting because Pakistan usually gets nothing, okay? There are no resources. But you're allowed to trade with each other, right? Okay, you're allowed to trade with each other, okay? So even though you have nothing, you can go to the United States and beg and say, oh, oh, could I please borrow your ruler for today, okay? Then you go to Britain and say, hey, can I borrow your paper for today, okay? Or hey, I'll come work for you for free, right? You can trade. And so you play this for one day, and it's really interesting what happens, okay? Usually what happens, I'm not saying all the time, but I've seen this happen a lot. At ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 36:22 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-poverty-not-magic); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: the end of the day, you look at who are the wealthiest countries in the world, what happens is, well, the United States becomes number one, okay? Why? Because the United States just has everything in the world. It is the wealthiest country in the world. It has just too much resources, okay? But number two is interesting. You would think it would be Japan and Britain, but it's actually Pakistan, okay? The country that starts out with nothing at all. Why? Because you're forced to be the most energetic, the most open, and the most cohesive. Team members have to go and beg to work for free. Okay? Other team members go and lie and cheat and steal, okay? They're forced to be resourceful and creative. Okay? The world game. And that's how the world works, guys. Just because you have the most resources, just because you have the most people, does not mean you'll win the game at the end. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 37:18 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-poverty-not-magic); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: What matters is how energetic your people are, how open they are, how resourceful they are. That's what matters, okay? And often, they are open, energetic, and cohesive because they're poor. All right? It's that simple. Pakistan has nothing, so they're forced to be creative. Poverty leads to creativity. Okay? Another thing in this is that if I were to surmise the future, I would say right now in East Asia, I would think that North Korea has a better future than China. Okay? Just based on history. And you'd be like, that's impossible. North Korea can defeat its own people. Well, I understand that. But if you know game theory, okay, and you understand the principles that we've learned today, then you're forced to conclude that in East Asia, North Korea has a better future than China. Because ultimately, it's about how open, energetic, and cohesive the people are as opposed to how rich and powerful you are. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 38:25 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? I will also point out, another example. Okay? So, before teaching in high school, I was teaching teachers how to teach STEM. Okay? STEM. Education. And I usually run two day workshops. And what I would do is, I go into a school, and I divide the faculty, the teachers, into teams. Okay? Like teams of like four or five. And there'd be like ten teams. Okay? There'd be a lot of teachers. And the way I teach is, I would give them an assignment. And I would give them resources. And it would be a competition. Okay? So, for example, let's look at which team can build the fastest car. Okay? Toy car. Let's look at which team can build the best airplane. Let's look at which team can build a catapult. Okay? So, I would give them some resources. I'd give them the assignment. And then they would work on it a whole day. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 39:26 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Okay? Now, what's interesting is, at the end of the first day, you would have, I would rank the teams. Okay? And then, number two, and then day two, we would start the competition again with a new assignment. On day two, which team would finish first? Do you guys know? So, after day one, all ten teams are ranked according to their success. Okay? So, team one has the best. Ten team, team ten has the worst. What happened the second day? Can you guys guess? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 40:07 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: I think the team ten would, ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 40:08 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: yeah. Okay. According to game theory, what happens is team ten wins. And this is exactly what happens. The results are reversed. Okay? Number ten shoots up to number one, and then number one falls all the way down. And this is what happens a lot. It's actually common sense if you think about it. Right? If you're the best student in the school, you never have to reflect. You never have to, like, think about how to improve. Because you're always number one. So, you become arrogant. You become complacent. So, after you graduate from school, what happens? You can't find any work, because people find you too arrogant. You refuse to learn. You want to be the boss. You want people to just listen to you. Okay? But if you're the worst student in the school, you're used to being laughed at. You're used to constantly adapting. Okay? So, when you go into the workplace, you are much more likely to learn. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 41:03 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: You're much more likely to focus on relationships. Okay? So, in China, there's a joke, right? In school, there are two people that everyone hates. Okay? The best student and the worst student. Why do you hate the best student? Because the best student is going to graduate and come back as your principal one day. Why do you hate the worst student? Because he's going to graduate and come back and give you a lecture on how to become rich. Okay? That's why in China, everyone hates the best student and the worst student. And these are two students who will probably be the most successful. Okay? Especially the worst student. Because the worst student, regardless of all his problems, he's open -minded. He's willing to work hard. And he's willing to help build teams and make sacrifices so that others become his friend. Okay? Right? Yeah? We have a question. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 41:59 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: So, like, for example, for this case, in day two, the team 10 becomes the first one and the first team becomes the last. But will the, like, will the, previously the first team be forced to be open and to be energetic and then be number one again on the third day? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 42:20 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: That is a great question. Thank you for asking it. Okay? So in my experience, this is what happens. Okay? What happens is that, if, what happens if we keep on going, right? What happens in day three? Day, team, day, day three, day four. Okay? This, this is what happens. Team one, really screws up on day two. Right? They finish first in day one. Day two, they screw up. Day three and day four, they continue to screw up. Why? Because they don't know what they did wrong. And they refuse to, um, reflect. Do you understand? Okay? So we see this in history where an empire, once it rises, it falls, it never comes back. It never comes back. Okay? Do you understand? It never rises up, up again. Now, it's possible that new people come in and use the name the empire. Okay? But it's not the same people anymore. It's a different team. So that's the danger of being number one. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 43:31 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Once you're number one, you become so arrogant that it becomes impossible for you to be humble again. Okay? Um, team two, we go down. Okay? So, it's very, unlikely that you have a system where, okay, uh, team one, they fall, but then they reflect and become number one again. Okay? It doesn't work that way. When societies fall, they just die off. Okay? It's possible a new group comes and pretends to be them, but they're actually a different people. And, and that's just the way that humans work. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 44:19 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Yep. So, on the third day, the team ten will become the second last group because they fall and the nine, the group nine will be the first one? Is that the cycle that will go on? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 44:35 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Um, yeah. So, I've never run on day three, so I can't say for sure. Okay? But, but that, that's what should happen. Okay? Alright? That's what should happen where, yes, team ten will fall off and a new team will come into place. Okay? if you look at history, that's just the way it is. Again, we don't have an example of where an empire fell, but then the people decide to, like, change their, um, their, uh, mentality and then they become the best again. Okay? So, in the future, if, if we apply this theory, there should be three countries that will emerge as great empires in our history. Okay? Germany. Why? Because they lost World War I and lost World War II. So, Germany, according to this theory, will one day come to rule the world. Or at least, Europe and Asia. Okay? And, if you, if you actually look at their history, what happened in World War I, World War II, they lost millions of people. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 45:38 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Okay? So, Germany will, will be one day a great empire. I'm pretty sure of it, actually. And then there's another country that will be a great empire and that is Japan. Because Japan lost World War II. It was never a great empire. So, Japan should come to dominate East Asia. According to this theory. Remember, the Americans dropped two nukes on Japan. Right? And also, if you look at World War II, the Americans destroyed Japan with firebombing. They, the Americans killed more firebombing than they actually did with the nukes. Okay? But Japan was destroyed. It was humiliated. And now, you go to Japan, you can see how energetic people are. Right? You can see how open they are. And you can see how cohesive they are. You understand? Because Japan was destroyed in World War II. It's something that forced them to reflect as a people. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 46:30 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: And now, they want vengeance, basically. Alright? And the last country, of course, is Israel. Alright? Because Israel, the people in Israel believed that for thousands of years, they were persecuted by other people. Okay? So, these are three great empires that we will move towards in our history. Germans, Japanese, and the Israelis. Okay? Does that make sense? Alright. How about China? Done. Okay? Alright. Look, look, look, look, guys, guys, I mean, like, like, this is all just a theory, okay? But all I'm saying is, look around you and ask yourself, are the people here open -minded? Are they willing to learn from their mistakes? Do they ever say, I'm wrong? Are people energetic? Do they take their work very seriously? If I give people an assignment, will they work really hard or are they willing to make sacrifices for each other? Okay? Japan is. Okay? That's all I'm saying. And maybe even the North Koreans are. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 47:36 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Alright? Does that make sense, guys? And again, it's all just a theory. Alright? I'm just proposing to you a theory of how to understand the world, but what's actually going to happen, I can't actually tell you. Alright? But according to this theory, Germany, Japan, and Israel will be the three great nations. Okay, any more questions, guys? Yeah? Can you, yeah? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:00 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Yeah, but like, for example, Japan, that didn't have that much sources, so how could they succeed? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:08 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: I keep on telling you guys, you don't need resources. You can cheat. You can steal. You can beg. Alright? Okay? Does that make sense? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:18 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Yeah, yeah. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:18 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Okay? Like, if you just go back to the World Game, whichever team starts off with the least resources are often the most creative in the media. Okay? When I mean creative, they'll just like go and like lie to people. Says, you know, like, I'll come work for you for free, but then you steal some resources yourself. Okay? Alright? Because there's actually no choice in the matter. Alright? Yeah? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:43 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2923s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2923s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Yeah, so I have a little questions. Like, you say that those who are poorest and like in the most dangerous positions always have the most energy and cohesion to succeed, but I think eventually, ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 48:58 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-poverty-not-magic); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#formation-becomes-civilizational-capacity) Text: so, okay, okay, let me be precise, okay? Yeah. Just because you're poor does not mean you're open, energetic, and cohesive, okay? Does not mean that. Yeah. But if you want to go from being poor to becoming rich, you have to be open, energetic, and cohesive. Does that make sense? Yeah. Because in Africa, they're poor, but it doesn't mean they're open, energetic, and cohesive. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 49:19 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=2959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Yeah, so my question is, like, after they become successful and they're eventually rich, I think, like, like all society, they may fall as, like, when they reach their highest state, right? Yes. Yeah. And so, my question is, like, you say that, like, Japan or Germany will eventually become the, like, the leader of the, of the, of the, like, regions. Regions. Yeah. But, like, I understand that after World War, World War II, that Japan and Germany really developed very fast, but, like, now they are all wealthy societies. Yeah. And also, they're young, they're younger, the new, like, people in their country forget about the war and they, well, when they're born, they're born in the wealthy and, like, happy, happy societies. So how can you make sure that the, the society, those societies will continue to cohesion and develop, but not, like, just to fail, like, other rich societies? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 50:26 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: Okay, you know, that's a good question. That's a great point, okay? You're absolutely right. Because after World War II, Japan and Germany became very wealthy. So if they become very wealthy, then in theory, shouldn't they become also corrupt, insular, and arrogant? And the answer is no, okay? And there's a good reason why. Because ultimately, power means that you're able to impose your game on other people. You're able to make other people play your game and therefore, you're able to extract rent from other people. Okay? And that's what, that's what these secret societies are fighting for. They're fighting for power, who becomes the game master. The problem with Japan and Germany is, yes, they became very wealthy, but the game master was America. And ultimately, America decided that their money belongs to me, okay? So an example of this is something called the Plastic Accords, okay? Plastic Accords. Basically, the Plastic Accords just meant that Japan ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 51:26 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: was becoming too wealthy, America got very annoyed, so America said to Japan, I want you to destroy your economy. And Japan is like, how? America just says, just says, I want you to spend too much money. I want you to stop saving money and start spending money. Go overseas and buy whatever crap you want, okay? You understand? So in theory, it seemed as though Japan got rich, but Japan got rich, but it never had any power. It could not be a sovereign nation, okay? Power means that you're able to impose your will on other people. Same thing with Germany, where, yes, Germany became very wealthy, but all that money went where? It went to America, right? Same with Japan. Japan, all that money went to America. How? Because they were forced by U.S. Treasury bonds, okay? And then America could do stuff to you. For example, America could force Japan to sign a plastic war and force Japan to destroy its own economy. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 52:26 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: America could also destroy Germany's pipeline, North Street, and there's nothing Germany can do about it, okay? In fact, the Germany economy has been destroyed right now because Germany is a vassal state when Russia invaded Ukraine, America just basically said to Germany, you can no longer do business deals with Russia. But before, Germany required Russian oil and energy to fuel its economy, okay? America also said to Germany, you can no longer trade with China. But before, most of German car exports were going to China, right? And because Germany was forced out of the China market, China was able to develop okay? Does that make sense? So it seems as though Germany and Japan became very wealthy. They were not. They were just vassal states to America, okay? Does that make sense? Yeah. So I have a further question. ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 53:25 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: So, like you said, that only those society who are very poor, but they want to, they have the ability to cohe, to cohesions and be energetic and they can, they can like eventually become the ruler of the regions. But what decide the society or a poor society to become energetic cohesions or not? Like why Japan or German have that energy but like those other countries that may also like be defeated in the war or as very poor cannot? Yeah, ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 54:00 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: that's a great question. Yeah. So the answer, the obvious answer is a leader, okay? So you look at the Mongols, right? The Mongols before the emergence of Genghis Khan, the Mongols were almost like a vassal state, right? Because the Mongols were divided, they were poor, they were willing to do whatever it took to survive and so they became mercenaries to the Song, they became mercenaries to other groups as well, okay? But then emerged Genghis Khan to unify everyone and once he was able to unify everyone, the Mongols were very quickly able to destroy everyone else, okay? So it's usually a great leader but leader doesn't necessarily mean a general, it could also mean a poet, right? So, someone like Homer or a great thinker to give you a new religion, okay? So, for example, the person who had someone called Zoroastria who we studied last semester, okay? Even Jesus, okay? But someone would come in ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 55:03 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: to say that we are a people and it could be a poet, it could be a general, it could be a prophet, a priest, doesn't matter, okay? But that one person then unifies the imagination of everyone into one cohesive group, okay? Does that make sense? But that's a great question, thank you, okay? And that's why certain groups are able to cohere together and other groups are not because one person is able to emerge. And you know, that's why, okay, we'll talk about this later on, but that's why the world is the way it is. Why do we have organizations like the United Nations? Why do we have international development aid? The goal, guys, is to identify the possibility of a leader emerging and make sure he does not emerge, you understand? Okay? If you left Africa alone, Africa would be a lot better but because you have NGOs, all these organizations in Africa, what they're really doing is ensuring that Africa is in a continuous state of development, okay? ## The Weakest Player Wins the World Game -- 56:12 - Source title: Game Theory #5: The World Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybufqRY77PQ&t=3372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ybufqry77pq@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ybufqry77pq.json) Text: If you just left them alone, they might starve but at the same time, a great leader might emerge to unite all of them, you understand? Okay? But we'll talk about this next class, how the American empire controls the world. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: today we will look at immigration who wins the game of immigration and who loses why do they win why do they lose okay so let's look at the United States which is where most immigrants go and as you can see from this chart there are certain ethnic groups that do better than other ethnic groups so the Indian people make the most money in America and this makes sense because India has a very competitive college system where only the best and brightest get into their technical Institute's and then after college they go nine -space to do graduate work and they go on the sitcom Valley become engineering student who great is better at programming in business some become doctors but Indians as a demographic are very successful then you have the other Asian groups so Japanese Korean Filipino Chinese also do very well East Asians do very well in school and East Asians are known for ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 1:19 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=79s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=79s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: being very hard workers the white people are the majority and they are the average okay and they make about 70,000 u.s. a year this is just average income but then what's troubling is that as you go lower you find that there's an ethnic groups that don't do well economically they include of course Mexicans Latinos as well as black Americans who traditionally have been slaves in America so the question for us today is that why is it that there are certain ethnic groups specifically East Asian groups that do well economically and then you have other ethnic groups specifically Latinos and blacks who do not do well economically okay so the traditional explanation is that it's just that certain cultures prize education more than other cultures in fact some extremists will go on to say that genetically East Asians are just smarter than everyone else okay so this is the PISA rankings this is from ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 2:43 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: 2018 the PISA is the program for international student assessment so every three years the OECD which is which is a national organization around the world they organize tests for 14 year olds in three subjects math science and reading and based on these results the OECD which is primarily concerned with economic development forecast a nation's ability to do well economically in next 10 20 30 years as you can see from this map there are certain countries that do outstanding on the PISA the nation's in green do really well the nation's in yellow or average and then there are these red nations that are below average meaning that they will suffer economically as you can see the nations that do really well are actually based primarily in East Asia and they are Japan South Korea Vietnam China that's why a lot of people believe that in the future East Asia will come to dominate the world economically ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 3:59 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: in fact there are many who believe that already East Asia dominates world economically especially China then you know these other nations in red that will suffer economically you have Latin and South America who traditionally have not have not done very well on the PISA you also have Africa and the Middle East that suffers on a PISA and then you have Indonesia Malaysia these countries that don't do well on the pizza the nation's in agree are great by the way our nations that are that don't have the development in order to actually have students take tests okay no the infrastructure the logistics actually have students take tests and so what you and so what you can see about the nations in red is first of all they're primarily based in a region okay latin and south america but also you can actually group them also by religion okay islam okay muslims don't do well on the ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 5:08 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: pizza and that's why there's great fear that islamic countries will fall behind economically also another concern is immigration so what's been happening is that um immigrants from latin south america have been moving to united states and islamic um nations their people have been moving to europe okay now a lot of this this immigration is driven by war so nations like libya syria afghanistan iraq have seen them have seen them themselves destroyed destroyed because america's war on terror forcing millions of refugees to seek better opportunities in europe okay and so this is causing a lot of conflict because on one hand um these immigrants don't do well economically on the other hand they're moving to these very wealthy nations and that's causing a lot of conflict so what's driving this conflict okay so again from the piece of rankings it seems as though east asians will come to dominate the world the problem is that when ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 6:32 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-success-is-not-status) Text: you actually look at american society and you look at who succeeds it turns out east asians don't do as well as you think they do well if these asians are the best students in school and they go on to the most prestigious colleges they are the smartest with the highest iq you would think they would come to dominate american society but that's not true actually so um this is a chart of new ceos and what this means is that from about 2000 americans corporations they tried their best to bring in more diversity into the corporate boardroom right traditionally ceos american corporations have been white middle -aged they're trying to diversify the leadership of american corporations and it turns out that white women okay have done the best white women have been the most successful in climbing the corporate ladder in america um what's interesting not then is that latino and african -american men okay they ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 7:45 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: do okay not great but they do okay and who is underperforming are of course the cps and the cpu right so i think that's very interesting and it's a big difference right places so let's just focus more on that then let's look at the east asian man okay you can see this from this map where the growth in the east asian man it's pretty steady now there are different women minorities have been discriminated against in American society and therefore they should be given better opportunities more opportunities to succeed okay so um you can argue that because of DEI East Asian men have been discriminated against because historically people believe that East Asian men have not been discriminated against even though that's not that's not correct okay so you can argue it's really DEI but another way of understanding this is figure out who succeeds in corporate America and the answer is if you look at ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 9:00 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: the qualities of successful CEOs well first of all they tend to be aggressive okay or assertive okay another thing this is that they have high risk tolerance or they take chances also to navigate corporations you need high EQ emotional intelligence empathy collaboration skills okay these are the skills you need in order to do well in American corporations and unfortunately these certain skills that the stereotype is that East Asian men don't need to be successful in the same way that they were when they were first don't actually have these skills asian asian men are tend to be much more individualistic they tend to be um more cautious and they tend not to speak a lot okay um so east asian men are not known for being articulate which is something that you need in order to well in a corporate boardroom where there's a lot of debate where there's a lot of argumentation where you have ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 10:30 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-success-is-not-status) Text: to present your view your opinion very coherently okay so what's interesting is that the skills that you need to do well in the corporate boardroom um east asian men don't have and you can also argue that it's because each man don't have these skills they have other skills that allows them to do well in school for example east asian men are more focused they're more unitarian they're grave obsessed they are more compliant more obedient okay they like listening to authority and that's why they do well in school but what this means ultimately is a situation in which even though east asian men do well economically and they do well academically their status okay status in america is not as great as their income would suggest in fact you could make the argument that east asian men are among the groups that have the lowest status in america which makes no sense but again unfortunately the ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 11:53 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: evidence bears this out especially okay the dating market okay so again remember what is it that men want to do well they want to obtain status so that they can find the most attractive mate okay so um we're going to now look at statistics from dating websites okay online dating websites this is from okcupid okay okaycupid uh which is one of the more popular um dating websites in the united states and so we have a lot of statistics about how people behave online so look at this guys okay if you're an asian female and a asian man gets in touch with you about 22 percent of these asian females will persp respond to an inquiry a first message if the person is an asian man but what's interesting is that if it's not a white guy then there's more interest 29 that's a pretty significant difference okayДеп iç원 Okay, so this is just a first reply. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 13:10 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Now what's interesting is that if you're an Asian male, okay, what's interesting is that people are less likely to respond to you, okay? So this is another map that shows statistics from the dating website, okay? So this is white woman, okay? Okay, let's look at white woman and how interested they are in other ethnicities. If you are white, okay, Caucasian, they're very interested. In fact, they're the most interested. If you're black, they're not as interested, okay? If you're Hispanic, they're not interested. But look at this, if you're Asian, they are least interested, okay? That's interesting. But look at this, if you are an Asian woman, okay? You're pretty interested in white guys. You're most interested in Asian guys, okay? And you're similarly interested in black and Hispanic guys. So it seems that in the dating market, one group that is most discriminated against are East Asian men, okay? Another group that's also discriminated against heavily are black women, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 14:48 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: All right. So if you look at marriage patterns, there's also discrimination against East Asian men, okay? So 20 % of East Asian women will marry white guys. Okay, so if you are an East Asian woman, you are attracted to white guys and you're attracted to East Asian guys primarily. But if you are an East, Asian man, okay? All right, here, you're not that attractive to white woman, okay? So 20 % of East Asian women will marry a white person, but only 9 % or 10 % of Asian men will marry a white woman. So this leads to a disparity in the marriage market. And what this means is that for East Asian men, men under 25 years old, 75 % are single, meaning they cannot find a date or a partner, okay? Okay, so this leads to a very, very stark conclusion for East Asian men. The reality is that if you're an East Asian man in America, people don't find you that attractive, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 16:27 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=987s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: So they did a lot of studies about the East, about the dating market in America, and the radical conclusion that they have is that, is this, okay? A white woman, okay, is more attracted to a white man than an Asian man. And how do we know this statistically? If a white man makes $62,000 a year, for the Asian man to, you know, make $62,000 a year, to be as attractive to her, the man, the Asian man, needs to make $200,000 a year. That's a huge, huge difference. In other words, a white woman will be attracted to the average white guy, and she will only be interested in the highest earning Asian guys, okay? But not only are they, making a lot, but these Asian guys are actually at the top of their field. Because $200,000 in America is actually a lot of money, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 17:41 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-success-is-not-status); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: So you have to be a surgeon, you have to be a top lawyer, you have to be an entrepreneur, in order to be attractive to just the average white woman, not even the most attractive white woman. So this is actually a pretty stark situation for Asian men. And so you have a really strange situation where, Asian men, East Asian men, did everything right. They did exactly what they were supposed to do. They went to school, worked hard in school, got the best grades, then worked hard at their jobs, and did very well in their jobs. But now two things have happened, because they followed the rules, because they did everything right. They didn't commit any crime, they're not on welfare, they pay taxes, they contribute to the community, but because of this, two things have happened. One is that they're not able to climb into status positions in America. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 18:39 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: They're not CEOs. The other thing is that, their problem's finding a very good mate, okay? It's easy for them to find someone off their status, or below, but it's very hard for an East Asian man to actually marry up, and improve their status, and social economic standing. In America, all right? All right, so this leads us to a very, very stark disparity, right? So let's look at this, guys. You have East Asian men, and here's how they play the game of immigration. They do well in school, okay? They have good jobs, employment, yes. They have, they're not on welfare, okay? They don't go to jail, okay? And then you look at other minorities, okay? Specifically, Hispanic, Black, and Muslim, okay? Well, they don't do as well in school, okay? They don't make as much as East Asian men. They're more likely to be on welfare, and they're more likely to go in jail, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 20:06 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-host-written-rules) Text: All right, so you would think that East Asian men, Asian man will ultimately triumph in the end but what is really disconcerting is that according to game theory East Asian men are playing the game wrong whereas these other groups these Hispanics these blacks these Muslim groups they are much more likely to win the game okay so how can we explain this an explanation is actually pretty straightforward but it's actually very disconcerting or very disturbing but the answer is if someone invites you to play his game don't agree to play by the rules because the game is set up so that you will lose otherwise why would he invite you think of a casino right a casino is like please come in and play our game do you think a casino is fair if the casino were fair the casino will go bankrupt right the casino is set up so that you have to lose ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 21:29 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-host-written-rules); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: otherwise they go out of business that same thing with immigration if a nation like the United States is inviting you into the nation and you play by their rules you will always lose okay and this is what's happening to East Asian men, when they go to the United States, they play by the rules, and they'll never climb into status positions, and their woman will be married off to white men. The most attractive of all Asian women will be married off to white guys, whereas East Asian guys will make their money and then stay at home and play video games all the time. Okay? The game is rigged. So, the only logical strategy, according to game theory, to this situation is to break the game, cheat. Okay? And that's what the other minorities are doing. And how do you do that? Well, you don't play the game, you don't go to school and obey the teacher, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 22:31 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: How to win is by sticking together and having lots of babies, and over time, that will enable you to win the game because of demographics. Okay? Does that make sense? You're much better off not going to school, being poor, but staying together, being cohesive, and having lots of babies, rather than going to school, getting a good job, doing everything you've been told to do, because ultimately, your energy will be stolen from you because of the rules of the game. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right? All right. So, let's go. So, okay, so again, immigration is very important because all in the world, poor people are going to rich countries to seek better opportunities, right? So it's really North America, primarily United States, Canada, the United States, then you have Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, okay? Going to these places are China, East Asia, basically, and you have the Latinos, the Africans, Middle East, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 24:03 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: All right? And again, you have a situation where East Asians are much more likely to go and conform, but then you have other groups that go and refuse to conform, and as I mentioned, from a game theory perspective, it is better to go and conform. It's better in the long term for you as a person not to conform, not to play the rules of the game, than to actually play by the rules of the game. I know it sounds weird, okay? But according to game theory, that's the best outcome for you, all right? So an example is in Europe, okay? In Europe, they have a huge Muslim problem. These Muslims are less likely to integrate, they don't do very well in school, but they will claim welfare. They will have lots and lots of babies, which is a drain on the economy of all these nations. And what this means is that in the year 2050, okay, in the year 2050, this is what's going to happen. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 25:13 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: In Sweden, one -fifth of the population will be Muslim. In the UK, 17%. In France, 17%. In Germany, 11%. In Italy, it will be 12%, okay? So it seems as though there's a population replacement going on. But not only that, but because Muslims are much more likely to have more children, they will be younger than Europeans, the populations that are Muslim will be younger, more energetic. Whereas the Europeans will be much more old, they will likely be retired. So if this trend continues, then Europe will eventually be taken over by the Muslim minority, okay? And so the Muslims, they don't do well in school. They don't do well in school. And they don't make that much money, but look at their advantages, okay? First of all, they are cohesive, okay, because of their religion, okay? They are energetic because you're young, okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 26:31 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: And they're united because, quite honestly, the Europeans don't really like them. They are an outcast. They're considered an enemy by the Europeans. So if trends continue, then it is most likely that Muslims will control Europe in 25 years time, okay? Does that make sense? But not only that, but you look at America, okay? Let's look at America. You have a similar situation going on, sorry, okay, look at 2050, what's happening, okay? All right. So the white population is declining, okay, right now it's the majority, but by 2050, it will no longer be the majority. Asians are increasing by a bit, but not that much, okay? But the real growth is in Hispanics, in Hispanics, okay? And not only are they growing in absolute numbers, but again, they are much more young, much more energetic group. Who are more likely to have children, okay? And they are united because they are Catholics. So they have a common religion, they have a common language, and they have very similar common cultural traits. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 28:05 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: So that's it. According to game theory, if you're an immigrant, your best strategy is not to do it in school and make a lot of money. That will get you nowhere. You're just playing by the rules of the game. Your best strategy is to stick together with your ethnic group. Have lots of babies, maintain your religion, and over time, your children, your grandchildren will come to dominate the nation. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Any questions before I move on? The problem with this is that there is no way that the majority, the white people, will just sit back and let this happen, okay? You're going to have a lot of violence, a lot of conflict. Because from the white perspective, this is population replacement, okay? If we just let demographic trends continue, if these outsiders just have a lot of kids, and we don't have the kids, then eventually our culture will be destroyed. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 29:12 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: And they're right, okay? Historically, they're right. And how do we know? Because let's talk about some history, all right? So last semester, we talked about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. Right? Okay? So this is Europe, this is Asia, Anatolia. Okay, so remember that after the Ice Age, hunter -gatherers spread around, okay? Okay, so you have hunter -gatherers around. But then because as the Earth was warming, this allowed for agriculture. And so a new group came into being that focused on agriculture, okay? These are the... Farmers. These are the farmers. And they arrived primarily in Anatolia and the Levant and Mesopotamia, because that was the warmest part of the globe that was most amenable to agriculture. But then, if you remember, there's always climate change. And because of climate change, they're not forced to migrate, okay? And a lot migrated to Europe. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 30:31 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: And when they went to Europe, they forced out the hunter -gatherers. Okay? It was not violent, because hunter -gatherers have very few people, and they can move about, okay? But eventually what happened is that the farmers were able to displace the hunter -gatherers. Okay? Now they're established in Europe. You also had farmers who went into the steppes. But remember from last semester, we discussed the steppes and how, because it's grassland, you can't actually farm there. It's very hard to farm there. So they developed a new economy called nomadic pastoralism, which is to say that they raised sheep, goat, and cows, and they migrated from one area of the grassland to the next. Okay? And as a result, they became very strong, very aggressive people. And again, because of overpopulation, because of climate change, these people are now forced to migrate to Europe. Okay? They migrated to Europe. And what happened now? Well, now there's ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 31:46 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=1906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: a war that lasts 100 years, 20 years, in which the nomadic pastoralists, the Amnaya, or the Porto Indo -Europeans, they displaced, or they eliminated the farmers. Okay? And so what happened, we know this from genetic studies, is that the men, the European farmers, were killed, and the women were taken away. They were treated as basically brides, slaves, basically. Okay? So this is a population replacement. And this, historically, is what happens. Okay? One group comes in and replaces the other. And throughout most of human history, this is a constant cycle because the steppes were extremely violent and chaotic, and this forces groups to constantly migrate to other groups. Okay? And so this is a population replacement. Okay? So there are very few instances of where groups come together and they are peaceful. No. Because you only have one elite, and one elite must replace the other elite. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 33:22 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: if this is historically the situation, how did we get into a situation where immigration has become the norm in today's world? Okay? Before, historically, we believed that you have to stay together as part of your group, otherwise you'll be eliminated. And now we believe that, hey, if you don't like where you are, it's okay, just get up and move somewhere else. And maybe there'll be better economic opportunities for you. This is a shift in mentality, a shift in mindset. Okay. This came about because of the British Empire. All right. Okay. So this is Europe. This is South America, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Okay. All right. So you have Spain. And Spain, because of the Ottoman Empire, Spain cannot access the East Indies trade. Okay? So it had to figure out new ways to access East Asia, China, India, because that was where a lot of spices were. Okay? And there was a huge demand for spices. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 35:00 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South America. Now, South America is interesting because in South America you had a huge population and there was a lot of mineral wealth, silver and gold. And so what they could do was they could go over there and enslave the population. Okay? So slavery. And then you convert them to Catholic religion. All right. So basically, the easiest areas to colonize, Spain and Portugal took right away. But then afterwards, Britain, England, started to play this game as well. Okay? And they also sent colonists. But the problem was that there was no large population to enslave. Also, there were a lot, especially in the United States. There were a lot of aggressive Indians. Okay? Natives. And so the solution was the United States, after won independence from Britain, it welcomed immigrants from Europe, specifically Ireland, Germany, Poland, these places. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 36:24 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: The reason why is they needed to displace the natives. Okay? And then immigrants were then colonized. They were encouraged to go to Canada and Australia to build their economies as well. So in other words, immigration today, it is a historical accident. The Americans were responding to the specific needs of that time. Okay? They were a small population against a hostile people, the natives, in a very large area. And so they needed people to come and farm and industrialize the area. And that's why America welcomed immigrants. And this is new in human history, where you could go to a new place and become a citizen. Okay? Usually, if you went to a new place, you went because you were a slave. You were conquered in war. And you went as cheap labor. Okay? So in America, they welcome you as citizens, if you're willing to contribute. And they allow you to get rich if you work hard. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 37:37 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Okay? Now fast forward, and America becomes an empire because it's allowing all this energy to concentrate in America. You have World War II. You have World War II. And America triumphs in World War II. And now America can set the entire rules of the game for most of the world, for Western Europe. And at this time, America is set to Europe. You guys fought wars. You guys had fascism because you are a closed society. Okay? Closed society means you don't want immigrants. You're all very nationalistic. And therefore, you are violent. America won the war because America is an open society which welcomes immigrants, which is a multicultural society that encourages people to get rich and be happy. And so Europe, if you want to be like us, if we want to prevent World War III, then you have to become an open society as well and welcome immigrants just like we do. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 38:48 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-host-written-rules) Text: Okay? And that's why we have a situation where we have where now Muslims are going to Europe and others are going to America. Okay? And what we need to recognize is that immigration, it's a new game developed because of certain historical circumstances. But it's not sustainable in the long term. And so the idea that you can just work hard in school then go to America and become wealthy, that can't be true anymore. In the future, according to game theory, what's going to happen are these violent conflicts between different demographic groups because each group is trying to set the rules of the game. Because whoever sets the rules of the game will always win the game, meaning they have access to the best jobs, they have the highest status, and they have access to the best looking woman, which is ultimately what every man is looking for. Okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 39:52 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Status, attractive woman, power, money. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 39:56 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Okay? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 39:58 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: All right. Does that make sense, guys? All right. Any questions? Okay. Ask one question. Then we'll finish. We'll finish class. Okay. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 40:20 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Can we really do something about the current immigration or we don't have any ability to change it? ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 40:29 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2429s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: Okay. That's a great question. And I'm sure everyone's familiar with this question, which is like, what can we do about this situation? Well, I mean, the problem is, and I hate to say this, but immigration is not natural. Okay? And what I mean by that is that if you're born into a community, what is natural is for you to want to help this community grow and develop. You want to contribute to this community. What is not natural is for you to say, you know what? This community sucks. I'm going to go find a new community. Because if everyone did that, then no communities could ever exist. Okay? So 9 % of people, what their natural inclination to do is to, is to want to work hard and make the community a better place. And that's what everyone should be doing. You're always going to have minority people, maybe 1%, 2%, who are sort of strange in that they have different ideas. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 41:33 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: And they're not going to be able to conform to the community. Okay? And historically, these people have been killed by the communities. And so it's natural for them to get up and leave. Okay? So, but that's only a small group of people. So what is natural is for people to want to just stay where they are because they love their neighbors, because they love their family, and they want to help their community get stronger and stronger. And unfortunately, because of globalization, because of mass media, because of the internet, for whatever reason, young people believe that what's important is their own individual health. Their own happiness. Their own economic opportunity. So I'm going to go wherever there's more economic opportunity. So, for example, Chinese students, the very best, are like, you know what, I'm probably going to make more money in the United States, so I'm going to work hard, ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 42:33 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-host-written-rules) Text: then immigrate to the United States, and then start my own company, get rich, and all that. And you know, some people have been very successful in doing that. But if you think about it, this is not good for China. Right? As a nation, why would you encourage your best and brightest to take their skills, move somewhere else, and contribute to that economy rather than to your own economy? And so we're in a very strange situation. And we are in this situation because, for the longest time, America was a global hegemon, and it could write the rules of the game. And I keep on telling you guys this, whoever writes the rules of the game will always win. Okay? So globalization was a system that was set up so that America could extract from the world resources, and these resources include talent. Okay? So we have a situation where the best and brightest go to America because that's where they're most likely to thrive. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 43:29 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: But now, the world is changing. America is not becoming, is no longer the global hegemon. Russia, China, these countries are rising as well. And so nations now are much more interested in being able to maintain their best and brightest, their talent, their human capital. And this is the way it should be. If you're born in China, then your priority ought to be like, how to make China a better place. It shouldn't be like, I'm going to work really hard in school so that I can get a visa to go study in the United States. That makes no sense. Okay? So, and look, the reality is that if you go to the United States, you can make a lot of money, but you're still going to need a little status. Okay? And that's the situation I found myself in, in North America, where, you know, I worked really ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 44:21 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: hard in school, I went to Yale, and I could have made a lot of money as a lawyer or as a doctor, but I recognized that, you know what, if I just stay where I am, I'm not going to ever achieve my potential. I'm not going to achieve status in America. I may be wealthy, but I'm never going to achieve high status. You know, that's why I chose to come to China, because I thought there were more opportunities to obtain higher status in China than in the United States, where I'm not white. I'm East Asian, and there's going to be a lot of stereotypes and prejudice against me because I'm East Asian. Okay? And, quite honestly, I was right in my assessment. All right? So, yeah, you're saying, what can East Asians in America do about this, right? And, unfortunately, according to game theory, they're stuck where they are. Okay? That's why, you know, I chose to leave. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 45:18 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: But, if you're East Asian in America, I'm not saying for everyone, okay? I'm sure there are, like, thousands of very happy East Asians who've married very well and they have very good lives. Okay? But, for the majority, you can have decent lives, but you're always going to be low status. And, quite honestly, a lot of East Asians are happy with that situation. A lot of East Asians are just happy, you know, getting by, making good money, and they really don't worry about status. Okay? But, the problem is that their children, their grandchildren, are kind of screwed over because it's going to be very hard for them to marry. Okay? And, again, there's a lot of East Asian men who are single and they have problems on the dating market. Okay? All right. Any more questions, guys? Is that clear? Great. Okay. So, we will continue this next week. ## The Immigration Game Is Rigged -- 46:16 - Source title: Game Theory #4: The Immigration Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HRPLVyF0g&t=2776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-35hrplvyf0g.json) Text: . ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#achilles-mirror-pride-vulnerability); [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for you guys about Achilles. The first question is, imagine yourself as Achilles. How are you similar? What experience in your life is very similar to that of Achilles? And you said that Achilles is almost a mirror to you where you love playing soccer, but one day you felt humiliated so you stopped playing soccer and that tore at your heart. And your phrase was pride and vulnerability. And that shows that by reading the Iliad, it gives you tremendous insight into yourself as well. So that's the nature of the human heart where arrogance and insecurity are two sides of the same coin, right? They're bundled together, okay? Another question is, imagine Achilles' childhood and you said that Achilles, when he was young, he was probably very rebellious, very imaginative, and that's true, okay? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 1:33 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=93s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=93s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#achilles-mirror-pride-vulnerability) Text: He's always testing boundaries. He has a very vivid imagination. And the last question is, imagine Achilles today. What would he be doing, okay? And here the answer is very interesting. The answer is that he's probably trying to be an Olympian athlete, okay? So the obvious answer would be he's trying to be a soldier because he loves war. But what you recognize is that, no, what Achilles really wants is to stand out and be admired by everyone. He wants to be famous. And so it makes more sense to be an Olympian athlete than it does to be a soldier. But you also recognize that being an Olympian athlete has a lot of restrictions because you need coaches, you need sponsors, you need to follow a certain regiment. And Achilles is a very independent -minded person, and so he would rebel against all this authority, all this structure, all this conformity. And so he would probably fail in today's society, okay? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 2:41 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#achilles-mirror-pride-vulnerability); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#fictional-hero-becomes-real-inside-reader); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So the entire point of this exercise is to show you that what a great book does is excite your imagination. It helps your imagination peer deeply into your own human heart and see how complicated, how complex, how dark it is. And that's why it's so important for you to be able to imagine Achilles as a whole person. You don't know him, you've never met Achilles, and Achilles is honestly a fictional character. He never existed, but he's real to you so that you're able to imagine his past, his childhood, and you're able to experience what he experienced. What's even more powerful is that you're able to imagine Achilles into our world and see him as a living and breathing human being. So that's what a great book is. A great book is composed of characters that are real to you and make the world more real to you. They excite your imagination, that ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 3:52 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: allows you to think much more deeply into yourself, as well as more imaginatively understand the world around you. Okay? So now the question then is, how does this happen? What are the mechanisms behind all this? Okay, so there was a very famous American literary critic named Harold Bloom, he was at Yale. He actually taught at Yale when I was there. I studied English literature at Yale, and I actually sat in on a class of his. But he is considered the most famous American literary critic. Okay? And his explanation for what a great book is, what is a great book? A great book is something that helps us become human. So what he means by that is, in a great book, the characters are different because the characters are able to hear themselves speak. Okay? Hear yourself speak. Those are his words. What does it mean to hear yourself speak? It means that as I'm speaking to you. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 5:14 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: There's also a part of me that steps back and analyzes what I say. Okay? It has to make sense to me, it has to make sense to you. And we call this consciousness. Okay? To be human means to be conscious. But to be conscious is ultimately an act of imagination. Because while you're speaking, you have to step back. Okay? We actually call this disassociation. You have to disassociate yourself. Disassociate, meaning basically that as you're speaking, as you are in this world, a part of you, almost like a ghost, steps away and observes the entire scene. And not only am I imagining myself speaking, but I'm also imagining what is happening inside your mind, your heart, as I'm speaking. My effect on you. Okay? All right? So let's look at how this applies to the Iliad. Okay. So remember in the first book of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilles, they are having an argument. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 6:38 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: They're having an argument because Agamemnon stole, kidnapped a girl. The father demanded to ransom her back. Agamemnon broke the rules of war, of piracy, and said, no, I like her. Screw you. I'm the king of kings. I'll do whatever I want. The father is a priest of Apollo. Apollo starts a plague among the Greek soldiers. They're all dying. And Achilles says to Agamemnon and says, we're all dying on the shores of Troy. So you have to get the girl back. And Agamemnon says, sure, I'll give her back. But now I want your girl in return. Okay? And this starts the main conflict of the Iliad. What's interesting is that... How conscious he is. How conscious they are. So what's happening is that this is a war council and in a war council, the Greek generals get together and decide on policy. And so as Agamemnon is speaking, okay, if you observe his speech, he's doing three things at once. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 7:57 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? The first and most important thing is that he's responding to Achilles. Okay? Achilles says, you have to give the girl back. And Agamemnon says, fine, I'll give the girl back. But in return, I want your girl. So that's a response to Achilles. He feels as though Achilles made him lose face. So now he wants to make Achilles lose face as well. Okay? But also what's important is that Agamemnon is considering how others are perceiving the interaction. And Achilles is not. Right? Why does Agamemnon require or demand Achilles' girlfriend? Because Agamemnon does not want to lose face amongst the others. Okay? So he recognizes that if he just says to Achilles, you know what, Achilles, you're right. He would lose face amongst the other generals. He would lose respect. And in this world, if no one respects you, you could get killed. Okay? These people are gangsters. So he recognizes that. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 9:04 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: In order to save face, I must now demand something from Achilles to show that I am his superior. Okay? He's so conscious of that as well. But also, at the same time, he's going to step back. Okay? And he's going to be conscious of his own words to make sure that his words together make sense. That for him, it is coherent. Okay? And so what he says to Achilles. Why am I doing this? Because I love my girlfriend. Okay? You stole from me who I love. And therefore, I must enact a vengeance on you. Okay? So you see how coherent all this. He is saying to Achilles to ensure that you understand that I'm your superior, I'm going to take what you most prize. Okay? And then he's thinking about the reaction of the War Council to make sure that they understand that he's still a top boss. But he's also, in his head, ensuring that what he says is coherent in itself. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 10:20 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? That what he's doing has a rationale. And the rationale is because I loved her. Because you're stealing from me my greatest love. I love her more than my own wife, Claude Mestre. Okay? So you can see how coherent all this. And this is amazing if you think about it. Right? And this is what makes Agamemnon a real character to us. All right? But the other thing is that Achilles behaves the same way. Okay? He is alive in the scene. He is listening to Agamemnon. And his response is this. Why are you stealing from me what is rightfully mine? Agamemnon. I came to Troy not because I hate the Trojans. I'm living against the Trojans. I came to Troy because you ordered me to come to Troy. And so I'm risking my life for you. You gain most of the treasure. You gain most of the profit from this war. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 11:21 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-speech-fights-for-world); [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: I take a little bit. And now you're stealing that little bit from me as well. Okay? So why is Achilles saying this? Achilles is saying this as a response to Agamemnon. But he's also saying this in order to win sympathy for the war. He's saying this from the others as well. Right? And he's also doing this because he's conscious of who he is. Okay? They're trying. It's a battle of world views. Okay? World view. What they're really trying to do is through their speeches, they're trying to control reality. Okay? Through their speeches, they're trying to impose the reality on others. And that's why this is such an emotional, violent scene between the two. Okay? And then what happens, which is even more amazing, is that Agamemnon hears Achilles speak. And then what he does is that he responds to Achilles using his own memory and experience. Okay? And what he says to Achilles is, Achilles, you say that you came here to fight for me. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 12:34 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: But we all know that you are vain. Okay? You're a narcissist. You're an asshole. You came here to win glory for yourself. You're just using me as an excuse, as a pretext in order to win glory on the shores of Troy. That's why you really came. So don't give me this crap about you making all the sacrifices for me. You can't make sacrifices for others because you're a selfish asshole. Okay? And then Achilles' response is that, fine, if you do that, then I won't fight for you anymore. So you can see how real this is. Okay? And again, what's amazing is that this all comes in the mind of one person, Homer, the poet. Okay? So imagine this, where as I'm speaking to you, I'm able to mentally lift off and observe the entire class, where not only am I hearing myself ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 13:38 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: speak, okay, and I'm measuring and observing the effect of my words, but I'm also able to go into your mind one by one and think about how my words are changing your reality. How they're impacting your emotions, how they're impacting your memory, and think about their impact on you and how they will guide your behavior and actions tomorrow, 10 years from now. Okay? So what's even more amazing is that as this is happening, Nestor, right, Nestor, who is one of the older generals, he comes into this scene and he tries to reconcile Agamemnon and Achilles. Okay? So not only are the two main characters have a life of their own, but the observers have a life of their own as well. So in the Iliad, what's amazing is that not only are the main characters alive, but every single character, whether it's Odysseus, Hector, Priam, Nestor, they're all alive as well with real emotions and real feelings and real experiences. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 15:01 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-speech-fights-for-world) Text: Okay? And the reason why we know this is that if this is true, then we're able to understand what's going on. We're able to look back at how this came into being, the past, and we're also able to make predictions about the future. And all this is coherent. Okay? So based on this, we will now know that the major conflict in the Iliad is the one between Agamemnon and Achilles, where they're struggling for control over narrative, where Achilles wants everyone to believe that he is doing everything he can to control the world. Okay? To save the Greeks. He's a hero. And Agamemnon is trying to get everyone to believe that Achilles is just a selfish asshole. Okay? And that's what leads them to behave the way they do, including suicidal behavior. Because remember, as you read, Hector and the Trojans are coming to burn down the ships of the Greeks. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 16:03 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=963s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-speech-fights-for-world) Text: Okay? They do that, every single Greek will be killed by the Trojans. And even at this point in time. Both Agamemnon and Achilles refuses to give up their narrative. Okay? They insist they're right. So that when Odysseus comes to Achilles and begs Achilles, please come back and join us. We'll give you all the money in the world. Agamemnon has promised his daughter to you. We'll give you all of Troy after we conquer Troy. And Achilles says, no, no, no, no. I want Agamemnon to come and apologize. If he's not willing to come and apologize to me, then screw all of you. Okay? So you can see how human and how real this is. And this is important for us because now we're able to step back and observe ourselves as well as others. We have greater imagination. We have greater empathy. We have greater curiosity. Okay? And that's the power of a great book. And this is how the Iliad created the greatest civilization on earth in history, the Greek civilization. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 17:22 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? All right. So any questions before I move on about this? Okay. Now what I want to discuss is, okay, how did Homer do this? Because this is a great mystery that has confused scholars for centuries. We all know the Iliad is one of the greatest books ever composed. But we don't know who Homer is. And we don't know how he did this. There are some who speculated that Homer were many people. Okay? So there's confusion as to who Homer is. The Greeks themselves call Homer the teacher. And they consider him the father of the civilization. So we know that Homer was a real person. But we know almost nothing about him. Okay? So what I'm going to do now is speculate as to how he was able to do all this. Okay? How was one human mind able to construct an entire universe with real people by himself? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 18:30 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay. All right. So to understand this, let's discuss how identity, how personality, how personality, how personality how consciousness is created. Okay? So basically what happens is that we have experiences. Okay? And these experiences become short -term memory. What happens is that our brains will filter these memories into emotions. Okay? So basically you will index your experiences according to their emotional strength or value. Okay? So happy, sad, angry, whatever. All right? So in other words, something really important for you to understand is that your memories are your emotions. Memories that create emotions in you will come into you and help create your identity. But memories that have no emotions, you will never remember. You'll just throw it out. Okay? Okay? And then together, these memories will create your identity. Okay? And different combinations of these memories will create different identities. And the reason why is that different memories are indexed in different locations. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 20:13 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? So your identity in a school will be different from your identity at home or your identity when you go to America. Okay? Because you need different identities to navigate different landscapes. Okay? Does that make sense? And together, this will create your worldview. Your worldview is just your identity, who you are, how you perceive the world, how you perceive yourself. And this helps you make decisions. This helps you navigate social relationships. And this determines how you behave. Okay? Does it make sense, right? Okay. All right. So this is basically the way that we understand how our personality develops. But there are sort of problems with this understanding. Okay? The first major problem with this is the sorting mechanism. Okay? Basically, why do we respond to different experiences with different emotions? It doesn't make sense. So you have the same experience, but you respond to, but you can respond with different emotions. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 21:32 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? So you might get a 50 on a test. Some of you will be really sad, but some of you will be like really happy. Like, well, I thought I was going to get 10%. Now I got 50%. Okay? All right. Some of you are like glass half empty. Some of you are like glass half full. So that determines how we perceive the world. But the question then is, why? Where does this personality come from? Okay? Why are some people optimistic? Why are some people pessimistic? And people are born like that. Now, people, and your response could be like, well, it's just genetic because both your parents are optimistic. So you're optimistic. Both your parents are pessimistic. Okay? Now, you think about your parents and ask yourself, does your personality come from your parents? And the answer is, it doesn't. Okay? The answer is that you're actually different from your parents. I have three kids. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 22:27 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: I know this because all three of my kids are different from both my wife and myself. Okay? So the question is, where does this personality come from? That's the question number one. We don't know the answer. Question number two, which is more problematic is, okay, we know how this process works, but where are the values? Where are the memories stored inside the brain? Right? We know how this works psychologically, but the question then is, where in the brain does this happen? And the answer is, we don't know. We don't know. We know where in the brain breathing happens. We know in the brain where language acquisition happens, but we don't know in the brain where memories are formed. And stored and accessed. We don't know. That's really weird, guys. Okay? All right? So that's problem number two, storage of memories. Okay? And then question number three is empathy. Okay? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 23:53 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us understand how we're able to perceive the emotions of others. Now, you can say, well, it's because we have these different identities, and so we just look at our own identity. But that doesn't really help us understand what's going on. Okay? So we have these three major problems created by modern psychology. Okay? The first is, where does our personality come from? Because our personality, our filter, right? Our personality determines how we perceive the world emotionally. Second problem is, where does this all happen inside the brain? We don't know. And the third problem is empathy. Okay? How are we able to perceive into the emotions of others? All right? Okay. And we don't know. So I'm going to propose a theory to you today. Okay? Which goes back to last class. Okay? Imagine this. Imagine that we are composed essentially of two selves. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 25:13 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? Two selves. There is the body, and the body comes materially. Right? Okay? We know that. We know that through evolution. But then our consciousness comes from our inactions with the universe. Okay? So our brain, it's not a storage facility. It's a for the vibrations of the universe. Okay? And we call this consciousness. And remember, last class, we discussed how this consciousness, the universe is consciousness. Right? And there are infinite dimensions to this consciousness. And this is where our memories are stored. So a very simple analogy is think about the internet. Right? You have a computer, a laptop, and some memory is stored on the laptop, but most of it is actually stored in the cloud. And how the computer works is by interacting with the internet, your computer becomes more conscious. Okay? Does that make sense? Same thing here where if you just use the human brain and just assume that everything comes from the human brain, nothing makes sense. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 26:24 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: But if you assume that the human brain is merely an antenna to the universal consciousness, it makes a lot more sense. Okay? And not only that, but by imagination, by consciousness, we're able to implant ourselves into the universe. Okay? And different emotions implant themselves in different wavelengths, different dimensions. Okay? Does that make sense? So the combination of your emotions now leads to a unique imprint in the universe. Okay? And different personalities will obviously have the same imprint in the universe. And we call this archetypes. Okay? Archetypes. This is from Carl Jung, who is a... Swiss... Psychologist. Okay? Carl Jung. Okay? The word he uses is archetypes. Okay? They're different personalities and they are actually in the same parts of the universe and so they behave the same. That's why certain people look alike. Okay? If you're an evil person, you have a certain look to your face. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 27:34 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Right? If you're a good person, you have a certain look to your face. Okay? If you're clever, you have a certain look. Okay? So archetypes. Okay? And so what's happening is that what Homer is doing is that he's opened his mind to the universe and therefore he's able to access all archetypes. Okay? We all do this through empathy, but Homer is able to do this at a greater level than everyone else. Okay? And then he's able to transplant these archetypes into the world of the universe. And that's how he's able to create what he does. A word we have for these people are prophets. Right? What are prophets? Prophets are those who bring the truth of the universe onto our world and construct it in a language that allows us to access this truth eternally. Okay? So in this time in history, poets are prophets are teachers. These are the same function. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 28:44 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? Where you're accessing the truth of the universe and you're spreading this truth through words that enable the construction of civilization. And we think this is true. Why? Because think about how amazing it is that the Iliad was written 2,500 years ago. Okay? It was written 2,500 years ago by this guy, Homer, living in the Mediterranean, the Aegean. Right? Different culture, different time, but the Iliad is able to speak directly to you as a Chinese person living in China in the 21st century. Not only that, but you're able to imagine Achilles as yourself. So if we assume that the universe is conscious and it is infinite and eternal, and there are archetypes that exist within this universe. That Homer is able to draw on, then that makes sense now. Okay? This is both spaceless and timeless, this consciousness. All right? Is this clear to you guys? Okay. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 30:09 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Because if this is not true, then you have to answer the question, how was Homer able to do this? Right? How was he able to construct characters like Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon? That are so real that they feel alive to us. That they're so real that we can hear them speak to themselves. So real that they themselves can hear themselves speak to others. Okay? Any questions? Ask a question and make sure you understand this theory. Okay? This is actually a very complex theory. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 31:06 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1866s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Yeah? Just speak. The quote unquote prophets. So in this theory, it's actually not a... Technically not a prophet because they are not predicting future. Right? Because the universe is spaceless or timeless. So that they're actually talking about the truth. Right? So they're not making predictions because all of them are already written down in the universe. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 31:35 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#truth-prediction-coherence-atlas) Text: Okay. Okay. So the word prophet doesn't actually mean someone who predicts the future. Okay? The word prophet actually means someone who speaks to themselves. He speaks the truth. Speaks truth. Okay? Because for most of you of human history, when you say someone's a prophet and he speaks truth, what you're really saying is that he's speaking the word of God. Right? Because what is truth? Truth is the universe, which is God. So when you speak truth, you're speaking the universe. And what is the universe? The universe is past, present, and future all together. It is beyond space and beyond time. So when you speak the truth, the truth is what has happened, what is happening now, and what will happen in the future. Okay? So the way that you test his words is see if it happens. Right? And a lot of this truth is this moral truth where if you do evil onto others, evil will come onto you. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 32:49 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Okay? So the story of Achilles, right? Where Achilles, he's stuck in this situation. He wants Agamemnon to apologize so that he can go fight the Trojans. Agamemnon refuses to apologize. So Achilles, what does he do? Well, he sacrifices Patroclus. Right? It's the death of Patroclus that enables Achilles to go fight the Trojans. So he's done evil onto Patroclus. And because he's done that, evil will now come onto Achilles. Okay? So, yeah. So we think prophets means speaking the future, but it's really speaking the truth. Okay? Because truth is eternal. If you do evil onto others, then evil will have to come onto you. So it's both a prediction as well as a moral judgment. Okay? Does that make sense? And so the prophet, the poet, the teacher, again, same idea where, why is the person a poet? Because how do you know it's truth? You know it's truth because it's beautiful. ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 34:00 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no writing going on. So what he's doing is he's going to different places and he's telling the story of the Iliad. He's speaking. And as he's speaking, it's like music to the listeners. It's beautiful. It's poetry. But it's beautiful. It's beautiful because it's also truthful. Okay? Because they feel as though Achilles is a real person with real emotions. And then Achilles comes and helps them better understand themselves. Okay? So that's poet. The teacher is like, okay, how do you understand yourself? You understand yourself by understanding the Iliad. Okay? By understanding the psychology, the motivations, the emotions of these individuals. You can better understand yourself. And once you do that, once you're able to hear yourself speak, once you're able to have more consciousness, then that gives birth to civilization. Okay? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 35:08 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: Because not only are you able to imagine, but you're able to imagine with other people as well. So if you look at Greek culture, whether it's Plato, whether it's Thucydides, whether it's Aeschylus. Okay? This is the greatest thinkers, greatest intellectuals of Greek civilization. They're all derivative of Homer. Okay? They're all operating within Homer's universe and working off that universe. Okay? But their applications are different. So for example, Thucydides, what he does is that he writes in a very Homer way in that his characters are always giving speeches. The difference, of course, is that Thucydides is writing about real people, real events. Whereas Homer, he's just writing about people. He's not writing. He's singing about people of his imagination that are part of the Greek cultural landscape. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. All right. So in literature, prediction and truth are the same thing. If you're able to speak truth, you can predict the future. All right? ## Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human -- 36:22 - Source title: Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=2182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Text: That's what truth is. Truth is a tool. It's eternal. Past, present, and future collide together. They converge on truth. All right. Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So we have up to book 16 for Friday. Okay? Bye. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Today we look at the question of success, okay? The question is, who succeeds and why? Okay, so we've done a lot of research and we've discovered that people who succeed, succeed for certain reasons. So, there is a Columbia psychologist named Walter Mischel. And he devised a very famous experiment called the Marshmallow Test. And the Marshmallow Test, it's very, very easy, okay? So imagine a room, and I invite a four -year -old or five -year -old to come into this room. And I have a conversation with him or her. I ask them, how's your mother? What do you like to do? And it's a very good conversation. Then, suddenly, I get up and say, I'm really sorry, but I need to go across the hallway for another test. I need to go to another meeting. But I'll be back, okay? So just wait for me. And here, I'll make you a deal. Here's a marshmallow. I'm going to put a marshmallow in front of you. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 1:16 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=76s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=76s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And you can have it right now. But if I come back and the marshmallow is still there, I will give you two marshmallows, okay? And then Walter Mischel, he goes away. And then he goes behind the room. And through a see -through mirror, he's able to see the students as they struggle to contain themselves. Because obviously, they want two marshmallows. And there are some students who can, in fact, resist the temptation to eat the first marshmallow and they get a second marshmallow. But then there are others who cannot. And Walter Mischel will spend 50 years just tracking them, okay? What he discovers is this. The students who resist the temptation, who get the second marshmallow, they are much more likely to do better in school. They have higher test scores. They have better careers. Their careers are more stable. They get promoted in their careers. They're much more able to find a stable relationship. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 2:17 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: They avoid jail. They avoid drugs. They avoid alcohol. They're more lean. They're more fit. They live longer. Better teeth. And those who cannot resist and eat the first marshmallow right away, they have the opposite effect, okay? And so the idea is that for Walter Mischel, success means delayed gratification. And all this means is that people who succeed are capable of long -term planning. To succeed today, I will make sacrifices necessary, okay? So if my friends are playing outside and I need to do my homework, well, I'm going to stay home and do my homework. Okay? So long -term planning, what he calls delayed gratification. Or a much more simple way of saying this is the idea of self -control, right? Or the idea of emotional regulation. You're able to keep your emotions in check. If you're angry, you're able to calm yourself down. Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 3:39 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And so we've tried, we know about this, and that's why in school we focus on the idea of emotional regulation. Teaching you how to better control your emotions. How to do long -term planning. Okay? So that's one theory of success. Another theory of success comes to us from another psychologist named Carol Dwight. And she's at Stanford. And she wrote a book called Mindset. Okay? And what she tells us is that those who succeed in life have a growth mindset. And those who fail in life have a fixed mindset. Okay? And it's not hard. Okay? The idea is resilience. Those who have a growth mindset, if they fall or they fail, they see themselves, this opportunity for me to learn. So I'm going to think about what I did wrong. Next time, I'll do better. And a fixed mindset are people who cannot accept the idea of failure, who think that it's because they're not capable of improving and therefore they give up. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 5:02 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? So those who have a growth mindset, if they fail, they try harder. Those who have a fixed mindset, if they fail, they just give up. And so the idea of resilience. Okay? Pretty simple, right? And the third idea of success comes to us from Kay Anders Ericsson, who is a Swedish psychologist. And she wants to know why. Why do certain people are able to succeed as musicians or athletes? And he creates the idea of deliberate practice. So what he found is that people who want to become athletes or musicians, they work really hard. They practice every day. But people who succeed practice strategically. Okay? So those who work hard just work a long time. But those who work strategically have a plan. The plan is this. What are my goals? How can I achieve these goals? And then how do I improve my plan? Okay? So they're examining their own practices. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 6:26 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And they're trying to figure out where the weaknesses are, where they can improve. And instead of a plan on how to improve, and then they follow this plan. And if this plan helps them improve, they stick to the plan. But if the plan doesn't really work, they change the plan as well. Okay? So this is the idea of self -reflection or self -assessment. Constantly thinking about how you are as a student and figure out how to improve your own learning strategies. And what Kay Anders Ericsson discovered is that if you do this, you'll succeed at anything. And this is true. Okay? And the reason why we know it's true is there are two American psychologists named Dunning and Kruger. There's something called the Dunning -Kruger effect. And so what they did was this. They ran an experiment. There are 500 students in their psychology class, first year university. They made every student take an IQ test. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 7:39 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And then after they took the IQ test, they asked each student, how do you think you did on the IQ test? Do you place in the top 5 % or the bottom 5 %? And it turns out that no one got the ranking correct. Okay? So those who were in the top 5 % in terms of IQ thought they were maybe in the top 20%. Because for them it was easy, so they assumed for everyone else it was easy as well. But what was dramatic is that those who scored the lowest thought they were average. Okay? So the worst 5 % in the class thought they were in the top 50 % or just average. And the reason why is those people who are stupid lack the capacity to know they're stupid. Okay? So what Dunning and Kruger discovered is that the hardest part of being a student is to assess yourself properly, to know exactly where you stand and how to improve. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 8:47 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Those who are stupid are often the most confident in the world. That's what's called the Dunning -Kruger effect. And this helps explain why the world is why it is. Because often the people in power are stupid. They don't know they're stupid. They're more confident. And they do stupid things like Donald Trump. Okay? All right? All right. So now we have these three theories. Right? We have self -control. We have resilience. And we have self -assessment. And so as educators, as schools, what we can do is divide strategies and curriculum to help students all succeed. Correct? Right? The problem is that when we actually try this, it doesn't work. Okay? If you take a bad student and you teach him self -control, resilience, and self -assessment, the student doesn't actually get better. The reason why is, okay, and this is a very important idea for you guys to remember, is that correlation does not equal causation. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 10:02 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? You guys need to remember this. Just because things are correlated does not mean they cause each other. So I'll give you an example. We know that successful people, they get up early in the morning. Okay? They get up at 4 o 'clock in the morning. But just because you get up at 4 o 'clock in the morning doesn't mean that you get up early in the morning, does not mean you succeed. Okay? Just because you work hard, just because you're resilient, just because you have growth mindset, does not mean you succeed. But if you're successful, you'll get up early in the morning because you are more motivated. If you are successful in life, you will have more self -control. You will have more resilience. You'll be more humble. Okay? Does that make sense? So if you're rich, guess what happens? You become successful. And therefore, you will have growth mindset, self -control, deliberate practice. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 11:07 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? But just because you have growth mindset, deliberate practice, and resilience, does not mean you succeed. Okay? So the question for us is, why does this happen? And ultimately, who succeeds? Okay. So we know for a fact that rich people are much more likely to succeed than poor people. And in fact, what we know from macroeconomic studies is that school doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter how well you do in school. If your parents are rich, you'll be successful in life. If your parents are poor, you will not be successful in life. Okay? So what's the difference? Okay. So now let's look at parenting strategies between rich and poor. Okay? So there are lots of differences, but let's focus on three major differences. The first major difference is that rich parents speak to their kids more than poor parents. Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 12:24 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: High vocabulary, low vocabulary. When rich parents speak to the kids, rich parents will use higher vocabulary, longer sentences. Poor parents will just be no, yes, go away. Okay? Another major difference is in attitude. Okay? So rich parents use a friendly attitude, and poor parents use an authoritarian or command attitude. So for example, if you are a rich kid and you go and touch a stove, okay, and you burn your hand, the rich parent will say, listen, you made a mistake. Don't worry about it. Let me explain to you why touching a fire is bad for you because you'll burn yourself and you might have to go to a doctor and we will feel pain if you hurt yourself. Okay? So the rich parent will spend a lot of time explaining to the child why this is wrong and how not to do it again. The poor parent is like, don't you ever do that again or I'll beat the crap out of you. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 13:49 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? Don't do that. Pretty simple. Okay? But as you can understand, the rich kid will understand that the world is safe and that he is respected in this world. Okay? Whereas the poor child will think that the world is scary and he or she must be afraid of adults. And this carries on into school, right? Because as a rich kid, you go to school and you think that, oh, my teacher is my friend. So you smile at the teacher and you hug the teacher and the teacher smiles back and now you're friends, right? But if you're a poor kid and you see the teacher, you're afraid to look at the teacher. You don't smile. You are stressed. Okay? And the teacher thinks that you might be a problem child. So the problem with this is that, yes, being a third -term parent, it is effective, but it creates stress in the family. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 14:51 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? It makes the child feel unsafe. And this leads to the third major difference between rich parents and poor parents. Rich parents offer stability. Okay? Poor parents can only offer volatility. This is a very simple idea. Rich parents have money so they can afford to keep promises. So I'm a rich parent. I say to my child, okay, next week we'll go to Thailand for vacation. Guess what? Next week you guys go to Thailand for vacation. But if you're a poor parent, money is always an issue. So it's hard for you to keep promises, right? So it's like, next week we'll go to McDonald's for lunch. But your paycheck is not enough. So you're like, sorry, we can't go anymore. Okay? And now, because of these different parenting styles, we understand why rich kids behave different from poor kids. Right? So let's look at the idea of self -control. Right? Self -control. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 16:03 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=963s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-trust-makes-delay-rational) Text: What is the marshmallow test? Marshmallow test is not a test of self -control. It's a test of your trust. Trust in others, right? If you believe that the teacher who goes outside, if you believe that he or she comes back and will keep his or her promise, then you will not eat that marshmallow. But if you think that this teacher is lying to me, then you're not going to eat that marshmallow. Then you will eat that marshmallow, right? So it's not really about self -control. It's about your belief and trust in authority figures. Right? So if you're rich, stability, you have stability. But if you're poor, you don't have stability. So you're actually better off eating that marshmallow rather than waiting for that second marshmallow. Because guess what? Most of the time, you will not get that second marshmallow. Okay? Do you understand? So it's not that poor kids are stupid. Poor kids are rational and they're responding to the circumstances that they live in. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 17:07 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-trust-makes-delay-rational) Text: Okay? And resilience, right? Well, the idea of resilience is that you believe that the world will help you. Right? So if you're rich and you believe that everyone helps you, you can be resilient. Because if you fail, someone will help you get up. If you're poor, if you fail, that probably tells you you shouldn't be doing this. Okay? You probably won't succeed doing this. So you don't have much confidence in others. Okay? And the idea of self -assessment, right? Looking inward. Well, if you're a poor child who lives under a lot of stress, it's hard for you to be self -reflective. Because if you look back at yourself, all you think about is your pain and your stress. Okay? So from these different parenting strategies, we can now explain why different students behave the way they do. This, of course, is self -reflective. And this, ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 18:18 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1098s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1098s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-trust-makes-delay-rational) Text: of course, may lead you to think, okay, well then, rather than construct our schools around self -control, resilience, and self -reflection, we should construct our schools around better parenting skills. Okay? Which means that, hey, let's construct schools where kids are exposed to a lot of vocabulary. Where teachers are friendly. And where there's a lot of stability. Okay? And we've tried this. And it's more effective, but it doesn't really work either. Why? Because the kids come in too late. A lot of their worldview is already established. Then you're like, okay, well then let's change how parents behave. And when you do that, what you recognize is that, nope, you can't change how they behave either. Okay? So no matter what you do, you end up with massive differences between the poor and the rich. The rich stay rich, and the poor stay poor. Okay? So now, the question for us is, why is this the case? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 19:33 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Okay? And it's the case because society is a hierarchy. Okay? And the hierarchy is usually divided between the rich and the poor. Okay? And these two worlds are night and day. They're very, very different. Okay? As a poor person, if you want to survive, you have to obey authority. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 20:10 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 20:16 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: But if you're a rich person, the way that you get along with others, the way that you maximize your outcome is by negotiating with others. Okay? Negotiating. Okay? So negotiating can also mean debate, right? So who should be the boss? Well, let's have a debate and present different evidence as to figure out who should be the boss. Okay? So negotiation means debate and argument. So this helps us understand why different parents parent their child differently. If you're a poor parent, your responsibility is to make sure that your child knows how to obey authority. Okay? That's why you command your child. But if you are a rich parent, you want your child to be able to negotiate with others. Okay? And that's why you respect your child and you teach your child how to debate, how to argue, how to negotiate with others. Okay? Because they live in different worlds. Another way of saying this is that from day one, rich kids know that they're playing a different game than... ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 21:48 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: They're playing a different game from poor to rich. Poor kids. Okay? So let's go back and look at parents. Okay? So poor parents command their child, don't really speak, don't communicate, and don't keep promises. Okay? All right? So poor parents do these three things. And we know that if they do these three things, the outcome won't be so good. Okay? And the reason why they do this is that they're not playing a game to improve their kid's outcome. They're playing a game to get along with other parents. Okay? Okay? Colleagues, family, okay? Authority. Okay? So another way of saying this is this. Police, boss, okay? Family. Okay? All right? So as a parent, you're trying to figure out how to negotiate. How do you negotiate with the police, with your boss, and with your family? So if you're a poor person, and the police knows you're a poor person, the police is going to bully you. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 23:25 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And if you fight back, the police will probably put you in jail. Okay? So it's very important that you accept authority. You don't challenge authority, because if you do, you're probably going to get into trouble. Your boss, right? If you're a poor person, your boss will just command you about. And so it's very important that your child knows how to take orders. Rather than ask questions, rather than debate, your child must learn how to just follow orders, or at least keep his mouth shut. Okay? And then family is about maintaining good relations with those who can most support you. And that often means the same values. Okay? So if your family members or your friends, if they are parenting their child in this manner, you're also going to copy them. Okay? Imitation. All right? And for a poor person, this is the optimal strategy of how to parent. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 24:43 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? Does it make sense, guys? Because if you do it another way, okay? If you choose to be a friend to your child. If you choose to communicate. If you choose to keep your promises, then your friends and your family will think that you're doing something wrong. You understand? They won't think, oh my God, you are an enlightened parent who's read a lot of parenting books and great for you. They're going to think there's something wrong with you. Okay? So let me give you an example of this. Let me give you an example of this. So. My wife and I have three kids. Okay? My parenting style. So my wife and I have three kids. And this is how we parent our kid. Okay? First of all, we have our child, we give our child a lot of freedom. So we don't have our kids do activities. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 25:50 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? We don't have our kids do lots of activities. We don't send our kids to math class. We don't send our kids to swimming class. We don't send our kids to piano class. Okay? We just let our kids run around and play. The other thing that we do is we communicate a lot with our child. Communication. We believe in democracy in our family. If we're going to make a decision together, we want everyone to communicate together. Okay? So a normal child's family will just have a very tight schedule, right? And the other thing that we do that's different is we tell stories. The other Chinese families will do math. Okay? So we raise our children in a way that's very different from normal Chinese families. From the way that you've been raised. Okay? And we do this because both my wife and I, we spend a lot of time talking about parenting. I've read a lot of books about parenting. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 27:00 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: I've spent many decades researching the best education possible. And so that's why... That's why we raise our children in this way. And guess what? Because we do this, we have no friends in China. We have family, but they all think we're crazy. Okay? But we do this because for us, what's most important is to make sure that our children are happy and healthy. And that they have a chance to be creative and be successful in life. Because I think that if you do it this way, the child will not be creative. They're not going to be successful. But if you do it this way, your child will fit into China better. Okay? So parenting, the goal, the incentive is not for your child to succeed. The incentive is for your child to fit into China or the larger social environment that you are in. Okay? And that's why... It's very hard to change the way people behave. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 28:14 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And that's why social structures are extremely rigid. Because the game they're playing is often just to fit into their environment. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay, any questions before I move on? Yep? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 28:36 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: So for poor families, is there any way for the poor kids to succeed, to be the rich parent you describe in the future? Yeah. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 28:47 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay. That's a really good question. Okay? So we know that there are certain poor kids who do succeed. For example, I'm a poor kid who succeeded. My... We immigrated to Toronto, Canada, when I was like six years old. And my father was a dishwasher. So we were a very poor family. Okay? And... But I succeeded... Because I left Canada for the United States. So Canada is a very rigid place where poor people basically move up a bit, but not too far. But I was able to succeed because I was able to get a scholarship to go study in the United States. Okay? So there are opportunities. The problem, though, is that it means leaving your community. Okay? Does that make sense? So one way to succeed is to abandon your community. Okay? But that's high risk. Right? So you have to be extremely individualistic to take such a risk. So that's why most people don't do it. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 30:04 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Because if you think about it, the safest option for you is to stay within your community. That's what's going to guarantee you the most... the best outcome. But if you choose to abandon your community and just say, you know what, I'm going to go somewhere else and try my luck, that's taking a really high risk. Okay? So to succeed, you have to take high risk. So another possibility is war. That traditionally, historically, has been the best mechanism of social mobility. When you go fight a war and you do really well, you get promoted in life. Okay? But again, war is high risk. Because chances are, you'll get killed. Okay? So not just war, but also revolution. Right? Okay? And of course, the best way, of course, is to marry up. Marrying up. Okay? And that's why, remember in our very first class, we talked about the dating game. Right? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 31:17 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Where women only want five and four. Okay? The reason why is that five and four are high status, and three to one are low status. So if you're a woman, you don't want to marry into a low status family, because your children will be screwed over. Okay? Your best option is to take a risk, gamble into a high status, and marry, you want to try to marry into a high status family. Okay? So traditionally, war and marrying up are the two major mechanisms of social mobility. In today's world, a badminton community can also lead to success. Okay? Basically, immigrating to a place that offers more social mobility, which often means the United States. Okay? But another way of saying this is, you have to get really lucky, guys. Okay? So there's lots of poor people who think that, you know, I succeeded because I worked hard and I'm really talented. Look, I was born poor. I lucked into Yale. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 32:31 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1951s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1951s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? It's luck. You can work as hard as you want, but the chances are against you. Okay? And it takes a certain personality, which is you're really individualistic, you're very ambitious, and you have high risk tolerance. Most people don't have that. Okay? So yes, there are certain people who, despite their background, they're able to succeed. But that's often the exception to the rule, as opposed to the rule itself. Okay? So thank you. Is this clear? Yeah. Okay. Any more questions, guys, before I move on? Okay. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 33:08 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=1988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Can be luck counted as a kind of ability or it's just coincidence? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 33:20 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay. That's a really good question. Yeah. Okay. Yup. So you're absolutely right. Okay? So luck is a form of strategy. Okay? Strategy. And all this is saying is that you are trying to position yourself in a place that allows you to get lucky. Okay? So I left Canada and I went to the United States because I knew that in Canada, it doesn't matter how hard you work, no one cares. But in the United States, if you work really hard, then you might get lucky and you might meet someone who's like, wow, you're a really hard worker. I want to promote you. Okay? So you're right in that, yes, you can strategize and increase your luck, but it's still luck. All right? And those who succeed are able to think strategically and far ahead and position themselves in a way that allows them to get lucky. Okay? And they often have the characteristics that we talked ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 34:32 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2072s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2072s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: about, you know, like so self -control, resilience, and the ability to look inward and better understand what you're good at. Okay? So it takes a combination of factors. But the point I'm trying to make is that these people are a minority, okay? 1 % of the population, really. Okay? And they still depend on luck. Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So this leads us to a question, which is, okay, well, the way that I frame everything, okay, the way that I frame everything, you have poor and you have rich. And as discussed, they live in their own world, and they don't really connect with each other. They have different parenting strategies, they have different outlooks. The rich stay with themselves, the poor stay amongst themselves. So this looks like a very stable system, right? Stability. The word we can use is equilibrium. Now the question then is, why do societies collapse? Why are there revolutions? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 35:52 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Why are there social changes? This looks like a system of equilibrium where because of parenting, people know their place, and people know how to best strategize about maintaining their place. So why is there social change? And the reason why is that this system has problems, and it's stable, but the main problem is this system. Okay? It's the rich that's problematic. And the reason why is that the rich are taught from day one to negotiate a better outcome. Okay? So another way of saying this is that the poor is like minimum outcome. Okay? The rich want the maximum outcome. The poor are like, you know what? If I'm, you know, if I'm alive, if I have a decent job, I'm okay. But the rich are like, no, I need to be the top dog. I need to improve my lot in society. Otherwise, what's the point of my life? Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 37:04 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So they have high expectations. Okay? High expectations, low expectations. Okay? And this is a problem because power, it's a zero -sum game. Okay? Hierarchy is a zero -sum game. So only a few people can be at the top. So eventually, you get into a situation where there are too rich people, too many rich people and not enough powerful positions. And this is what's called elite overproduction. Okay? And then what happens here is that in order to get power, certain factions of the rich will align with certain factions of the poor against the powers that be. Okay? So all revolutions are always between the half a lot versus half some. It's never between rich and poor. It's always between half a lot and half some. So the people who led the Chinese Revolution, people like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, they were not poor people. They didn't come from poor families. But they weren't rich enough. Okay? So the Chinese Revolution was really between the urban elite versus the rural elite. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 38:40 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? The half a lot versus half some. If you look at every revolution in human history, that's always been the case. Okay? If you go back to Chinese history and you look at all these revolutions that started in China, it was always led by the middle class or the aspirational class. Usually merchants, right? Merchants. Because they were discriminated heavily in society, but they had money. And they wanted to transform their money into power. And so when times were bad, when people were looking for change, they took the initiative and led people into revolution. Okay? Okay. Does it make sense, guys? All right. Any questions? All right. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 39:40 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: You said the revolution was initiated within those rich people. So how could they lead the poor people to follow them, to start the revolution? Because revolution needs a huge amount of people, like the public base to initiate. Okay. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 40:06 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay. Okay. Great question. Okay. So revolutions are almost the same. So over time, because of the structure, because of the inequality between rich and poor, certain problems arise. Okay? And these problems are extremely common. The first problem, okay? Problems. The first problem is indebtedness. Because the rich have a monopoly on wealth. For the poor to survive, they need to borrow money. But over time, because of interest rates, the poor find themselves in slavery. Okay? Because if you can't afford to pay back the bank or the rich person, then your body is collateral. Okay? So you become a slave. But not only do you become a slave, but your children become slaves as well. So slavery becomes a very common problem. And then the third issue, of course, is landlessness. Okay? So these are the three most common problems that ultimately become the seeds of revolution. The poor get into debt, and so they lose their land, and their children become slaves. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 41:38 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Their children's children become slaves as well. Okay? Because of interest rates, it's impossible for you to pay back that debt. Okay? So now you have a majority of people who have absolutely no incentive to live. So what happens now is that a elite, okay? Okay? Say to these people, follow me into revolution and I will clear your debts. I will give you land. And I will end slavery. And that's it. Okay? Every single revolution has been like this. There have been different names. Okay? So for example, communists are like, we'll create a communist paradise. What's a communist paradise? A communist paradise is where debt is canceled, where people are given land, and where no one's a slave. Okay? And now there's like, okay, we'll create a religious paradise. Islam. Okay? So Muhammad, the Islamic revolution was about this, initially. Later on it changed, right? And Muhammad said to everyone, we're going to create a kingdom of heaven. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 42:49 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: What's a kingdom of heaven? A kingdom of heaven is where people don't have debt, where people have land to feed themselves, and where there are no slaves. So if you are a Muslim, you can never be a slave. Okay? So every single revolution, it's this pattern, where over time, because of inequality in society, you have people who fall into too much debt, they become slaves, they have no land, and then because of elite overproduction, you have this faction that splinters off, and who, in order to obtain power, get the people on their side. Okay? And you look at the Roman Civil War, Julius Caesar was saying the same thing. Right? Why was he so popular? Because he was saying to the Roman people, if I become king, I will get rid of your debt, I will free you of slavery, and I will give you land. And that's why they had to kill him. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 43:45 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? Why is Donald Trump so popular in America right now? Same thing, man. Where Americans are in debt to their credit cards, student loans, their houses, and so, they believed that Donald Trump were to come to power, if he were to become king, what's the first thing that a king does? What the first thing that a king always does is cancel all debts. Because if you cancel all debts, who loses power? It's the rich who lose power. And it's the rich who are most dangerous to a king. Okay? Does that make sense? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 44:24 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 44:25 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: So again, this is a very similar pattern in human history. It's all game theory. Okay? Any more questions, guys? Okay. Ask one more question, then we'll break. Okay? Is this clear to you guys? Okay. So another way of understanding this is that according to game theory, individuals don't really matter. Okay? You have to look at large groups, you have to look at large social trends. Okay? You cannot really change the outcome for certain groups of people like poor kids unless you look at the overall structure in which they live. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 45:11 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 45:15 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: One more question, guys, then we'll break for the day. Yeah. Alan? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 45:32 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: So like, is that the society or like just the elite that really rule the country or who really have the power and have the motivations to maintain a society that a certain degree of social mobility is allowed, but not all of them, but not really the big social mobility so that firstly, they can maintain their power, but second, like they give their lower class people a hope to get into the rich class, but not using like revolutions or other things that will like turn this society into collapse. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 46:13 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. Okay, look, you're absolutely right. So social mobility is really the best form of governance, right? As long as you enable people with talent and ability and ambition to climb up, they'll be happy and your society will be very stable. But not only will it be very stable, it'll be very prosperous, very creative. And it doesn't matter what system you have, okay? So the example is, okay, American 1950s was a democracy and there's a lot of social mobility. And so people worked hard and people worked really hard and America became very wealthy. But guess what? In China, 1950s, China was not a democracy. It was a communist system. But in 1950s, people worked really hard as well. Why? Because China was destroyed after decades of war and there were lots of opportunities for social mobility. If you worked hard, you got promoted very quickly in the system. So even though it was a communist ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 47:18 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: system, not a capitalist system, even though it was a command economy rather than democracy, people worked really hard because they thought that by working hard, they can improve their lives. So social mobility is the best form of governance. You don't need democracy. You don't need any system, okay? As long as you have social mobility, people will be happy. The problem though is that over time, less than a generation, all the positions of power are failed. Okay? So the people with talent who made the country great, who made the country wealthy, when they get into power, they don't want people like them to replace them. They want their children to replace them. Okay? And over time, these children are a lot. So what happens is at the very top, all the positions are filled and there's a waiting list as well. Okay? So if you are a poor person who works hard, really talented, unfortunately, all those positions at the top are filled already. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 48:33 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And there's also a waiting list, so too bad. Okay? And this is, and again, you just look at Chinese history, right? Look at Chinese history where at the beginning of the dynasty, you had all these talented people take the civil entrance examination, the kezhu, and these are really top people. But then what happens is that they have children and they teach their children how to do on the kezhu. And then eventually they're like, you know what? We'll just cheat. So they corrupt the kezhu. And then eventually like, you know what? Screw this. Whoever can pay to pass the kezhu will pass the kezhu. And then all the positions at the very top are filled. There's no more social mobility. So what do people do? They engage in revolution, right? So you look at Hong Xiuquan, right? He failed the kezhu or there was no position at the top for him. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 49:29 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=2969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: So he started, so he believed he became the brother of Jesus, right? And he started this revolution that claimed tens of millions of lives in China. Why? Because there was no social mobility for him. 50 years ago, prior, he would have been a civil servant. Same thing for Mao Zedong, right? By the time that Mao Zedong became a university student, the kezhu had been eliminated. So there's no way for him to climb the ladder anymore. Therefore, he had to start engaging in new ideas. Okay? So you're absolutely right in that social mobility is the best way to maintain social harmony. But people have children and they want the children to succeed. And they will arrange a system in a way that only their children can succeed. Which screws over every other children, everyone else. And so they have no choice but to overflow the system, okay? Or another way of saying this is game reset. ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 50:38 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=3038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=3038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: Game reset. This is what a revolution is. Okay? So another way of saying this is that 100 people are playing a game, 10 people are winning, and they keep on winning, and they can only win. So everyone else is like, screw this game, let's start a new game. And the 10 people are like, nope, we're happy playing this game. They can't agree, so the 90 people can only, the only thing they can do is a revolution, which allows for game reset, which now again allows for social mobility. And that is the course of human history. Okay? Either you climb up the ladder, if they don't allow you to climb up the ladder, then you should break the game. Okay? So, but unfortunately, again, once you're in power, you want your children to inherit your power, and so you will rig the game in a way that only your children can succeed. Okay? ## The Marshmallow Was Always A Trust Test -- 51:46 - Source title: Game Theory #3: Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=3106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX93U4KzA28&t=3106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mx93u4kza28@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mx93u4kza28.json) Text: And that's why the school, that's why the schools are the way they are. Okay? Schools for the rich are very different from, very different from schools for the poor, right? Schools for the rich, there's a lot of freedom, there's a lot of creativity, the teachers are very good. You go to poor schools, and it's the complete opposite. And the reason why is, the system is set up to make sure that certain people succeed, and everyone else fails. Okay? Does that make sense, Alan? Okay, great. Any more questions, guys? All right. Good. I'll see you guys next class, okay? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: okay so welcome back to game theory and um as i discussed last class our goal is able to is to use game theory to analyze global events to understand why they're happening as well as make certain predictions about how they should develop but to do that i first need to train your mind and how and how to see the world using game theory so last class in our first class we discussed example of the dating game of why men and women are motivated to behave the way they do when they look for a mate today i want to discuss the issue of school okay school so for the first few classes i'm going to use examples from your life that you know pretty well in order to develop the mindset for game theory so school is something that you should know very very well as you know the purpose of school is to train you ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 1:02 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=62s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=62s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: in a way that allows you to be functional in society as well as to be creative right okay so the goals are basically literacy all right which means reading and writing this is the primary purpose of school because in order to function in our society you need to be able to absorb information and convey information okay number two is basically uh what we call the core competent core competencies right these are skills that you need to be successful in life including the ability ability to think critically to cooperate with others to collab to collaborate to communicate okay you you all know this the last thing is what we call lifelong learning so in the age of ai in the age of globalization it's just a start of the learning process because every five years the world changes so you need to be in a constant process a constant state of learning okay so you have ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 2:19 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: to like actually love learning and you have to like know how to learn for yourself so these are the three basic purposes of school and that's why you're at the school unfortunately what we know is that most schools i'm not saying all schools i'm saying that most schools are pretty bad at these three things in fact you can make the argument that most schools not only do not teach you these skills but they have the opposite effect in fact they make you hate learning okay so let's look at literacy today in most schools you're not required to read books in fact when you go to university the professors there are so shocked that you don't read books that instead they make you read paragraphs or watch videos okay so in terms of literacy around the world people are losing the capacity to read and to write and not only that but people's attention spans have ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 3:28 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: decreased it's very hard for a professor to give you an hour lecture people lose focus after about five minutes okay so this is one problem another problem is school is supposed to teach you creativity critical thinking skills collaboration but doesn't do that look at collaboration in school it's a competition where you believe that it's a zero -sum game so for you to get ahead you need school over your classmate so class ranking is very important so that's kind of odd okay and the last thing of course is lifelong learning where school teaches you to hate school and therefore teaches you how to hate learning especially in china okay especially in china where you work hard until the national entrance examination at age 18 and then after the exam examination ends what do you do you burn your books that's a great ceremony here in china right after the examination you take your books you rip ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 4:34 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: out the pages and you throw it in the sky just to signal your liberation your liberation and you're like i never ever want to read a book again i never ever want to take a test again i never want to learn again i never ever want to take a test again i never want to get okay so around the world most schools not all schools there are there are some really good schools out there but most schools are failing in their mission school sucks and so the question for us today is why is this the case and so we're going to use game theory to analyze why this is the case all right so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to tell you a story about myself so the year is 2008 i went to yale college okay in the united states and i was an english major i did very well ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 5:27 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: in school so i was hired in 2008 to go to xinjiang in south china and help the school shouldn't middle school build in actual international program to send kids abroad okay so this 2008 which was a long time ago and back then not that many students wanted to go abroad there were really few international schools so the first thing i did was i went to yale college and i did was i looked at the situation at the school okay and this and this this is what i found okay i found that students even though they're going abroad maybe about 10 percent of the students were planning to go abroad so that's about 80 students each year that's a lot but the way they were going about the process of studying abroad was problematic okay so first of all all they were doing was taking regular chinese classes and you know in chinese classes all you ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 6:22 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: do is you take kids and you stick notes and you take tests you don't communicate you don't ask questions you don't debate okay so that's one problem another problem is that the students are spending all their time memorizing s t word lists okay they were not reading they were not writing they were just memorizing words and the other thing that they did to make their applications look good is model united nations okay and that's fine maybe some of you are modeling united nations and that's a good activity but everyone was doing it there was actually no differentiation all right so i looked at the situation i said no i mean you might be able to get into a good american university because you know these kids are very smart but i wanted them to do well at the university and to do one life okay so i made certain changes to the curriculum and to ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 7:27 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: the school okay so first thing i did was i set up a seminar system so rather than change classes i invited these american teachers to come and teach seminars like we have at the school where 10 20 kids are in a room and they discuss books that they read together okay um rather than sat word memorization i had them read books students were required to read a lot of books in fact i established a 5000 book english library at the school where students can just go and borrow books and read i wanted to teach students the joy of reading um and then in terms of activities i didn't want students to do modern united nations anymore because i didn't want kids sitting around just talking i wanted to let them do things okay so i set up two new activities the first is called the coffee house and the coffee house is it's the first ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 8:24 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: coffee house in china in the chinese high school there are lots of coffee houses today when i was the first person to set up a coffee house students had to run a business they had to work as waiters and provide good service to customers and it was a collaboration effort as you can imagine this is great for the students to learn collaboration to learn finance to learn entrepreneurship okay so that was a very successful activity uh do you have a question yeah okay i mean was that like similar with our moon coffee ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 9:02 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: like the coffee in the west south store ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 9:06 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: okay um 2008 i was the first person to do anything okay oh okay okay just i mean like like yeah similar yeah all right so the coffee house was an activity i set up which was very successful it's still there today guys if you go to shenzhen middle school you will see the coffee house still there a long long time after i i went away the other thing i did was something called the daily newspaper and this was the first daily newspaper in china in a high school and probably maybe even two years ago but it was a newspaper where students every day had to report collect information write articles edit and publish it and they worked until like midnight sometimes until 2 a.m and then at 7 a.m they had to get up and um deliver the newspaper to all the students and these were two very successful activities and um so ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 9:58 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=598s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: i understand game theory and i says okay if you want to make this transition from the old system to the new system you also have to establish a new culture to allow these activities to flourish okay so my three major principles were um transparency um innovation okay transparency um innovation openness and so my idea was this rather than set up a curriculum that was perfect it would be a curriculum that would evolve over time we would learn mistakes together we would admit these mistakes and then we would correct them together and that's what learning is okay so the idea of transparency also I made changes all the time which created some chaos but it's a time for us to reflect and to be resilient now it's very open and honest about everything that I was doing and this and so this system in a very short amount of time even though it was a lot ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 11:20 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=680s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: of problems in beginning it became a very effective system after a semester or a year and not only that the students who went for this program did very well in life they went to Yale they want to they went to Wharton Cornell and this program actually in school became the most famous program in South China and when our students had the best record of college admissions in South China okay so this sounds great right okay the problem is this the problem is what happened after I established a program the first one that happened was okay I was fired they said get out of here okay second of all the teachers the parents the students were all happy to see me go they were like get out of here we never want to see you again the third thing that happened was I I did come to Beijing and set up a new program that was ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 12:27 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: very similar to this, okay, but after that, after four years of doing this and being very successful at this, I was never allowed to set up another program again. No one wanted me to work in management again, okay? Okay, so even though I was successful, even though I worked really hard, even though I was innovative, even though I set up really the best study abroad program in all of China, I was the first, everyone else copied me afterwards, I was fired, no one wanted me to stay, and I was not allowed to do this ever again. Why, okay? Well, the reason is this. When I was doing this, the word that everyone used to describe me was nobody. Not reformer, not visionary, not idealist, not dreamer, but dictator, okay? Or another word that they used that was more common was, this guy's an asshole, okay? This guy's a complete asshole. Why? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 13:34 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Because I insisted on fairness, okay? I don't care who you are. I don't care who your parents are. I want... I want you to work hard and learn. And as you can imagine, that pissed off a lot of powerful people, because that's not how the game is played in China, okay? It's actually not the game, how this game is played anywhere in the world. The game is not fair. The game is established by stakeholders, and they play the game according to their interests, okay? So, let's go over what happened, all right? Okay. So, I understand that there are stakeholders. And the stakeholders in game theory are just the players, okay? The players. And who are the players? Well, you have the students. You have the parents. You have the teachers. You have the administrators, okay? The school leaders. You have the government, okay? And then you have the colleges. Okay? The colleges are the U.S. colleges where I'm trying to send my students. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 15:04 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? So, these are the players in the game. And if you want to understand game theory, you need to understand the motivations and interests of all the different players. That tells you why or how they will behave the way they do. Okay? So, here is my original understanding of the players, which was clearly wrong, okay? Because I got fired. All right? So, the students. The students wanted to, like, love to learn. Get into Ivy League. And be the best. Okay? So, I thought the students, what their motivation was to be the best possible person. To work hard. To love learning. To be famous. To get into Ivy League. Okay? Clearly, this is wrong, okay? But I'm saying back then what my thinking was. The parents. Well, the parents wanted successful kids who were independent. Okay? Independent. And they wanted face, right? So, they wanted their kids. To get into the Ivy League. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 16:11 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: All right? Teachers. Well, teachers wanted to do a good job. Right? They want to teach students. They love teaching. They love students. They just want to be given the space and the opportunity to teach what their passion is. Okay? Administrators. Administrators. I really didn't like administrators. So, I just thought they were just, they just wanted good results. Okay? That's all. Good results. As long as they provide, as long as they provide good results, they're happy. Okay? The government, they wanted innovation. They wanted good workers. They wanted, you know, they want technology. Okay? They wanted a strong China. Colleges wanted the best possible potential. Okay? They wanted students who would be the leaders of the future. Okay? So, 2008, when I set up the program. This is my assumptions about who the players were and what motivated them. Okay? Clearly, clearly, I was wrong about who they were. Okay? So, let's go over, let's now do an analysis of what they really, really want. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 17:36 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1056s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1056s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? And the easy answer is that in game theory, all the players, what they're motivated in is by achieving the best possible results. By doing the least amount of work possible. Okay? Just remember that. That's a principle here. Everyone wants to achieve the best results by doing the least amount of work possible. People are lazy and people are greedy. It's that simple, guys. Okay? So, students, they want to get in the Ivy League, but they didn't want to work hard to get in the Ivy League. They wanted to do as little work as possible. And if it meant... They had to work hard to get in the Ivy League, they were like, I don't want to get in the Ivy League then. I'll just get into another school. Because who cares? Okay? The best possible result, least possible work. Parents are like, yeah, I can have my kid work hard, but what's important is for me to control my kid. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 18:38 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Right? Because only I know how to ensure my kid succeeds, so I don't want my kids to think critically or be independent. I want my kids to obey me. Now, teachers are like, listen, this is a job, man. Okay? I have kids. I don't want to work hard. I just want to come to school, do what I'm supposed to do, do what is minimally required me to collect my salary, and then go home. I don't want to teach my passion, because I don't have any passion. Okay? Administrators are like, oh my God, what's important is for me to make sure the powerful parents are happy. I don't care about everyone else. I don't care about poor parents. I don't care about... I don't care about middle -class parents. As long as the parents who are powerful are happy, I can keep my job. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 19:27 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Right? The government is like, you know what? I don't want innovation in this country, even though I say I want it, because I don't want problems in life. Okay? I just want things to just stay the way they are, and everyone's happy. Okay? So, now we understand what happened. All right? All right. So, now what I will show you is this. I will show you how a game is constructed. A game is constructed when all the different players agree on the rules and the incentives of the game. All right? I was an outsider. I was not a player. I came in to construct a game in which I felt that students would thrive, and they did thrive. But that's not what they want. Okay? They want to have control over the game, and if they lose control, well, they call you, the outsider, an asshole. Okay? All right? So, let's do this ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 20:24 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas) Text: again, and objectively think about what the interests and motivations of each player are, and when their interests converge, that's the game they play. All right? So, you have students, parents, teachers, leaders, school administrators, and then the colleges. Okay? Another thing that you have to do in game theory that's very important is, you have to rank the power of each player. You have a question? The government? Excuse me? The government. Yes. Sorry. You're right. I forgot about the government. Okay? And the government. Okay. Another thing that you have to do in game theory is you have to rank the importance of the players. Okay? So, not all players are equal. So, in this game theory, even though there are students, and students are the majority, students actually don't matter. Okay? What students actually think and want don't actually matter. What matters, of course, are the parents, because the parents pay to play in this game, and parents can cause a lot of problems if they don't get what they want. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 21:49 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? So, the most important are the parents. And you have the teachers. Why? Because the teachers are the ones who are implementing the rules of the game. Okay? The way that teachers behave determines how this game is played. And then... If these two are the most important, okay, then maybe you have administrators as well. But they're not as important as the parents and the teachers. The government doesn't really matter because they don't really care. Right? It's one school among thousands. Who cares what the school does as long as it doesn't cause me any problems. The colleges don't care either. They say they want really passionate students who are curious, who are magically from China. They don't care. Okay? For them, it's just business. They just want students who are willing to pay money to get a crappy education in America. All right? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 22:41 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: So, the costs don't really matter. They'll take anyone who's willing to pay. And the Ivy League? Yeah, everyone's in the Ivy League, but who do the Ivy League want? They want people who want to be successful in life. Right? And who are these people? Not the best students. These are people from powerful families. Okay? So, this game is rigged. Right? They have all this talk about, you know, we want the best motivated students. We want students who are curious, who are passionate. It's all nonsense. Okay? That's not how the game is played. So, the costs don't really matter either. Okay? So, these are the three major players. The parents, the teachers, administrators, students, government, colleges. They are in this game. They don't really matter. So, now what we're going to do is we'll analyze the mentality, the worldview, the interests of each player. Okay? And again, once you do that, once we figure out where they converge, then we know how the game is constructed. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 23:36 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: All right. So, let's look at students. Students, okay, I mean, they want to be popular. Right? So, most students come to school and actually their priorities are to learn. Their priority is to make friends and to be popular among their friends. Okay? That's just human nature. That's true. Right? Then you have, please, teachers and parents. Okay? This guy, this is really important to understand. You're not in school not to learn. You're in school to please parents and to teachers. Why? Because parents are the ones who pay for your way in life. Right? The ones who give you food. Teachers are the ones who give you grades. You're not here to learn. You're here to please them. There's a difference. Okay? And grades are a way of showing how well you're pleasing the parents and the teachers. Okay? Is that true? All right. Um. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 24:36 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: And then you're like, have fun. Okay? And then get a good college. Okay? All right? So, am I missing anything among the students? All right. So, okay, I'm sure there's more, but let's just keep on going. Okay? Now, parents. Well, the parents, what they want is, of course, successful kids. But they want successful kids not because they believe that success will make their kid happy. What they really want, of course, is face. Right? They want their kid to go to the Ivy League, and then when the kid at the Ivy League provides a good education or their kid will be happy at the Ivy League, they just want to brag to their relatives and their friends and their colleagues, my kid is at Brown or Cornell or Dartmouth. Okay? Um. But face also means to treat education as a luxury product. Why do parents send kids to international schools? Not because you're not successful. Not because international schools provide a better education. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 25:45 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: It's because international schools are more expensive, and most importantly, international schools have white faces. Right? White faces. This is the main marketing tool of international schools, right? They have all these white faces, white teachers. They're like, oh my God, this is a real international school now. You don't care if the teacher is actually good at what they're doing. You don't care if the kids are actually learning. You don't care what the curriculum is. You don't understand that sort of stuff. You just understand, okay, ten white faces, therefore, this is a good school. It's that simple. Okay? And then, of course, you want some good outcome. Okay? You want a good outcome. You don't care if your kid is actually learning in school. What you want is your kid to get good grades, to get into good college. Okay? These are not the same thing. All right? So that's the parents. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 26:45 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: Then the teachers. Teachers are really simple. Because teachers do this job. And for them, the priority is to do as little work as possible to get by. Okay? I'm not saying all teachers. I'm saying the majority of teachers in the school are just trying to get by. Because, quite honestly, they have families. And they have other responsibilities. So they don't have time to focus entirely in school. Okay? So basically, just get by. Okay? Or the minimum amount of work. You may not believe this. But, like, we actually grow up and get a job. You'll do the same thing. Okay? Just do a minimum amount of work in order to get by. Administrators, they want good outcomes. But what their real priority is to protect relationship with parents. Okay? Just give parents what they want. Okay? Their job is to sell the school. So whatever parents want, you just give it to them. And administrators also, by the way, have families. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 27:57 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas) Text: This is a job for them. They also just want to get by. Okay? They're not trying to build the best school possible. They're not trying to change the world. They're not trying to educate students. They're just trying to get by. Do the least amount of work in order to get by. Government is, okay, they say they want innovation, creativity, technology. But really, it's just like, no problems, guys. Okay? As long as you don't create any problems for us, we're happy with you. Just stay away from us. We're happy to not bother you. Please don't come bother us. That's government. Also, what they want is for students who will also be no problems in the future, right? Right? So compliance. So as long as schools are teaching you how to obey authority, how to comply, how to do what you're told, they're happy. You're a good school. Okay? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 28:52 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Colleges, again, just want the money. Okay? That's all they care about. If you're willing to go to American college and pay, how much is it nowadays? Like $50,000, $100,000? A year? That's a lot of money, guys. Okay? If you're willing to pay that, they'll take you. I guarantee you. Even if you don't speak English, they'll take you. All right? Yeah? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 29:20 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: So you mentioned that earlier, like the purpose of education are that three things, but now schools don't do that. So what caused the transformation? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 29:30 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1770s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1770s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Yeah. That's a really good question. When? Yeah. Okay. So what we discussed last class is the idea of superstructure, right? Superstructure. Sorry. Superstructure is just the macro picture of a society. It's demographics. How many people are there? It's economy. It's politics. It's religion. Okay? And we discussed how societies are born, they mature, and then they die. Okay? So there's actually another way of understanding this. You can actually use three metrics to understand how societies develop. And these three metrics are cohesion, openness, and energy. Okay? So what is energy? Energy just means you want to work hard. Okay? You believe you're motivated, you're driven, you work hard all the time. And working hard just doesn't mean like you work 12 hours. It just means like you're focused, you're attentive. Right? So for example, if you're working at a restaurant as a cook, you want to make a really good meal. Okay? You're energetic about it. Okay? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 30:51 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Does that make sense? That's energy. Okay? So openness just means that you want to learn, you want to grow. You're willing to admit you made a mistake and improve on yourself. Okay? And the last thing is cohesion, where you see yourself as part of a society, part of a community. You have a community of people and you want your community to grow as well. And we have all three things together. The schools are great. Okay? And so for example, go to Finland. It's a small country, maybe about 5 million people, but the schools are amazing. Why? Because Finland is an energetic, open, and cohesive society. And when you hear that, what you want to do is invest in the future. And what that means is, you want to make sure that every child, not just your child, but every child has a good future, has a good education. And so what you do is you have your best and brightest become teachers. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 31:57 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Right? You pay them very well. You give them high status. And you give them a lot of autonomy and freedom because then they feel respected. And if you do that, the schools are great. And guess what, guys? In China, in maybe the 1980s, the schools were amazing here. Okay? What we're seeing today is today. But if you go back to the 1980s, the schools were really good. If you went to a school in China, I'm not talking about like the best one, I'm just talking about like an average school, teachers felt respected. They believed they had the responsibility to train the young. They took pride and joy in their work. And the students enjoyed learning. And guess what? Back in the 1980s, kids did less work. There were less tests. There was less pressure. And they learned a lot more. Okay? So when a society starts and begins, you have these three aspects. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 32:58 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=1978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: But over time, what happens is all three decline. Why? Because there's more corruption. There's more inequality. There's more wealth. Okay? So what happens is wealth generation and inequality, corruption. And so people feel under stress. Okay? So rather than cohesion, you have individualization. Individual. Okay? Does that make sense? Where everyone's like, you know what? I don't care if other kids are doing well. What's important is that my kid does well because it's a zero sum game. If all the other kids in school do really well, but my kid flunks out, I'm dead. I'm screwed. So I'd rather my kid do okay and every other kid gets screwed over. Okay? So now it's a competition in schools. All right? Openness. Are you willing to learn? Are you willing to learn from your mistakes? And the answer is no. Because if I'm an administrator and I say to parents, I'm sorry I made a mistake today, the parents will be like, you're fired. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 34:03 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Get out of here. You're incompetent. Okay? So you can be like the best person in the world, but if you make a mistake, the parents will come and kill you. But you can be the worst person in the world, but you're just hiding in your office. The parents can't find you. You're okay. Okay? So school administrators are now afraid to admit they're wrong, which means that a school can never improve. All right? And then you have energy, which is like, you know what? If I do a good job, parents will want me to do a better job. I can't please all the parents, so I'll just hide in my office, do as little work as possible, and then if parents complain, I'll just shut off my brain. Okay? And this is happening because of work generation. 1980s, China was really poor. And the only way to lead a better life is through education. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 35:02 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: That's why students work hard. If students work hard, teachers are motivated to teach well. And now you're having a time when, you know, today in 2025, 26, when parents have money. So it doesn't matter if you don't do well in school because your parents can just give you an apartment, can buy you a car. Who cares if you do well in school? So you're not motivated. If you're not motivated, you're indifferent, then as a teacher, why am I going to want to teach well? Okay? So it's a superstructure of society. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So thank you. Okay? So again, superstructure determines the motivations of the players. And where the interests of the players converge is the game that you have. Okay? All right. So let's go back to this list. And what we're seeing is parents just want white faces. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 36:12 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? Sorry. White faces. And they want successful kids, which means good grades. Okay? Teachers just want to get by and do as little work as possible. Administrators just want to protect relationship with parents. Okay? And so when you do this convergence, this is what schools look like now. Okay? Schools in China. International schools in China, by the way. And again, this is like the majority. I'm not saying it's every school, but I'm saying it's the majority. Okay? What you have are white faces, easy grades. Right? It's really easy to get a good grade. All right? Some top students, these students are given scholarships, and then they're sent to top universities. Okay? Then you have lots of cheating. Okay? And high turnover, where students leave, teachers leave, but new ones come in. So who cares? Okay? And this is what it looks like. This is what happens when you take the interests of these different players, you convert them together, and this is what schools look like today. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 37:37 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Just lots of white faces, lots of really nice buildings, lots of fancy activities, great marketing, beautiful website, really motivate admissions officers. Then you have easy grades where everyone gets an A, no matter what you do. You have some top students who will get into good schools so that the school can brag about them. You have lots of cheating going on. Okay? If you don't get a good grade, just complain, and you'll get a good grade. Okay? So that happened to me at the school where I tried my first year to give fair grades. Okay? A fair grade is not like, I give you a 20. I give you like an A. I give you an 80. And students complain about me. So now, so I'm stuck giving them like a pass -fail. Right? So it's not hard for students to get to pass. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 38:29 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: If you don't like a teacher, just complain, and then the teacher has to change. And so now you have high turnover where teachers feel stressed out, and where parents are never happy, and where students don't care. Okay? Doesn't make sense. This is why schools suck. And I'm saying they suck not just in China, not just in other schools, but in most places around the world. And it has to do with the superstructure of society. Okay? But what, but I mean like, the point of today's class is not like, schools suck, don't go to school. The point of today's class is we're trying to analyze why schools are the way they are. And one way to analyze it is by figuring out what schools suck. And at what point, okay, do the different players converge? Right? So think of, you have different sets, right? Parents, teachers, students, government, colleges, okay? And their convergence point is the game they play. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 39:50 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2390s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2390s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? Now, what's important for us to understand is that there is actually a lot of room to this convergence point. So, it's possible to do reform, but only within a subset of this convergence point. Okay? So, my problem is, back in 2008, I was like, you know what, I'm going to set up a new universe, my own world, I'll make up the rules, I'll be God, and you just have to play the game I tell you to play the game. Okay? And that's why everyone was like, you're an asshole. Okay? Whatever you do, whatever game you set up has to be within this convergence point in order for players to accept it. Okay? And this is true for everything. If you want to implement political reform anywhere, you have to figure out where the different stakeholders converge and figure out how to move the stakeholders from one part of the convergence point to another part of the convergence point. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 40:54 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay? This slow incremental reform. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, any questions before I conclude? Guys, ask questions. Was this clear? Yeah, you have a question? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 41:20 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: So, in the future, will we learn more about how do we find out what causes different stakeholders to have different interests? Like, in the future, it's like not really... ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 41:31 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Okay, yeah, that's a really good question. So, thank you for asking, okay? All right. So, the question is, where do the interests... of these different players come from? Okay? And, I mean, the easy answer is the superstructure of society. Okay? People are responding to their culture. But in game theory, what I want to teach you is that it's because they themselves are playing different games. Okay? So, let's look at parents. Okay. Parents have different identities. They are family. They are colleagues. Okay? And depending on their identity, they're playing a different game. All right? So, what does family mean? Family means that you might have brothers. Right? Brothers. What do brothers do? They compete against each other. Right? You have three brothers. You want to prove that you're better than your brother. How? Well, by having more money, by having better kids, by having a more beautiful wife, by having a better life. Okay? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 42:51 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to get along with your colleagues because that's what ensures your success in life. Okay? So, you need to make sure that your child, no matter how he or she is educated, is able to become friends with the sons and daughters of your colleagues. Okay? So, because this is what ensures success. All right? So, there are other games as well. But you understand this. Right? You understand how parents, so calculation isn't just like, my kid, I want my kid to be successful. No, no. You're thinking about how to play different games and be successful in other games. Right? Because if you, if your kid becomes very successful, but not in a way that pleases the colleagues, you become, you can be thrown out of the game. Okay? The thing that people fear the most is the idea of... ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 43:56 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Australization. Okay? Or basically just exile. Where you are no longer part of the group. They kick you out as a player. Okay? That's what people are afraid of. And that's why people are motivated by what they do because they're trying to, they're trying as hard as possible to play the game and get along with the other players while at the same time competing against them. So, so, so it's a worse psychology. Okay? You're trying to beat them. At the same time, you don't want to piss them off and get thrown out of the game. Okay? And this is what prevents the idea of cheating. But from the perspective of the game, if you do anything different, that's still cheating. Okay? Because, so another way of saying this is a lot of the rebellion against what I was doing as a reformer is I was subverting traditional Chinese values. Okay? ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 45:02 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: I was arguing against the norms, the values, the conventions of this country. And it's, and so if people believed in me, then they risked themselves being ostracized by the larger community. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So that's parents. Then you have, um, um, right. Okay. But students, right? So students, right? So students, they're trying to play a game where they do well in school because that ensures a good outcome. But at the same time, students play other games as well. So for example, a friendship game, right? Where you're trying to have as many friends as possible. You're trying to be popular in school. That's another game you play. You're also trying to please your parents, right? Because by pleasing your parents, that ensures that you have an easy, comfortable life. In fact, you could argue that of these three games, pleasing your parents is the most important. Then comes, um. Having good friends because that will also ensure your success in life. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 46:11 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2771s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2771s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: And the game that you care the least about, that matters the least is actually doing well in school. Learning, learning in school. Okay? Does that make sense? So game theory, it sounds easy, but it's very, very complicated because we're complicated individuals. Each one of us has different identities, has different motivations and has different outlooks. And, and also what's really important for us to understand. Is we're always changing as people. Okay? So the way that you behaved in kindergarten is not the way you behave today in high school. It will not be the way you behave when you enter society. You're always changing because the game's always changing. You must adapt to new games that have different players and have new requirements. Okay? So that's wonderful about us where we are easily adaptable, where we are, we are resilient. Okay? But, um, we are always changing. We are always changing ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 47:09 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-game-forms-person); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#education-soul-game-atlas); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#formation-becomes-civilizational-capacity) Text: according to the game and, and we are who we are is often determined by the nature of the game. Okay? So you can come into school wanting to learn, being creative and all that, but eventually you recognize that that's not really rewarding in school. All right? Getting along, having lots of friends, doing, uh, helping other students cheat. That's rewarded. And so you adapt to the game. And that's why you behave the way you do. Okay? And if you actually go back and think about everything that you did in school, the answer is you're responding to a certain incentive or rule of the game. Okay? And that's what you need to, that's what we need to understand about game theory. Game theory, it's not about ideas. It's not about ideals. It's not the way things should be. It's the way things are. And the way things are, are determined by who players are. And the way players behave, um, is response to their, the game they believe they are playing. ## School Sucks Because It Is a Game -- 48:23 - Source title: Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-muAuq62E&t=2903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ks-muauq62e@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ks-muauq62e.json) Text: Great. Does that make sense? Okay. So, so thank you. Any more questions? Okay, great. So, um, we will continue this next class. Okay. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 0:00 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-material-lie); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: What is a great book? What I want to show you in this class is that a great book is something that makes you fully human by revealing to you the secrets of the universe and the secrets of what it means to be human. Now, in school, you've been taught that a person comes from evolution, right? We evolved from monkeys. 99 % of our DNA is that of a chimpanzee. And you're taught that the world is primarily materialistic. The world is what you can see, what you can observe, what you can measure, and that's it. And this is the great lie, the great deception that we teach you in school. And we know it's a lie, it's a deception, because everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you've learned here, that you will learn in university, in graduate school, in science, in life, does not answer a fundamental question. What is consciousness? Why do we see the world the way it is? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 1:32 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=92s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=92s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-material-lie); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: How do we think? How do we have ideas? How do we communicate? you're not allowed to ask this question. And therefore, you're not allowed to ask the question, what does it mean to be human? What is human, okay? And I will show you in this class that there are two aspects of being human. There is, of course, the material aspect. You have a body, but you also have a soul, okay? You also have a soul that connects you to the spiritual or the divine, okay? And that's who you are. In the spiritual and the divine, there's a spark inside of you that comes from God. And this spark is what allows you to love and to imagine. So being a human means to engage in two fundamental acts. The act of love, of loving someone, which allows you to unify with God. And the act of imagination, to expand your consciousness, which allows you to be God itself, okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 2:48 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Love is the unifying force of the universe, the God force. The imagination is the animating force of the universe. And this is the great secret of the universe. The universe is not material, it is conscious. It is consciousness itself, okay? So this is a really hard concept, to understand, okay? So let's work through it slowly. Okay, so we have Immanuel Kant, and we'll read Immanuel Kant later on, okay? And he's trying to figure out what reality is. How do we perceive reality? And his solution is this. He believes that the world is divided into two parts. Reality itself, called the Nomana. Nomana just means the things in themselves, the objective reality. And then there is the Phenomena. And what we do, basically, is that we perceive, or we engage with the Nomana, and we translate it into the Phenomena. The things in themselves become the things to us, the things that appear to us. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 4:17 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: And we do this by filtering, the Nomana, through time and space. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 4:23 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 4:29 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: So our brains are constructed in a way that allows us to perceive the spiritual and turn it into the material. So another man named Julian James, he is an American psychologist, and he takes this idea and he gives it a physical basis. Basically what he says is that our brains have both a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere. Okay? Right, left. So what the right hemisphere does is it connects to the Nomana, the things in themselves, that we can never know. And then the left translates it into the Phenomena. Okay? So this is a mechanism in the brain that does this. The right hemisphere gets all this information from the Nomana, the spiritual. And then the left brain, for our eyes, for our senses, translates it into the Phenomena. Okay? Are we clear? All right. So another question then is, oops. Okay. So another question then is, what is the Nomana? Okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 5:42 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: And this is a question that mystics, monks, have been struggling with for all of human history. Okay? And so, we can never describe the Nomana because it is beyond space and time. It's beyond our capacity to describe it. So, okay, I can only explain to you metaphorically. Okay? What the Nomana really is, is consciousness. Consciousness comes from energy, vibrations. Okay? So all the entire universe, it's vibrations. Vibrations carry information. Information becomes consciousness. All right? So let's, so let's metaphorically, what we say is, there's a source called the Monad. Okay? The One. Okay? The center of the universe. God. And how the Monad works is through breathing, emanation. And this creates vibrations throughout the universe. Okay? So the Monad breathes in and breathes out. And this is the basis of the universe, these vibrational fields. Okay? But through this process, this also creates, creates other entities as well. Okay? And we call these the dyads. And so these are all the basic structure of the universe. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 7:18 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: And then the dyads create other forces as well. Okay? And as the universe keeps on vibrating, the vibrations, the frequencies become slower. Right? You go from high to low. Om. And because it's going slow now, physicality, materialism develops. And this creates the material universe. Okay? But the thing to understand is that material is always connected to the spiritual. This entire force, the entire universe, it's all interconnected together. It's both everything and nothing at the same time. Okay? The problem though is that eventually our world is created. And then what happens is our world is materialistic and we have bodies. So our bodies are part of this material world, but our consciousness comes from the divine. Okay? Does that make sense? So our bodies are created through evolution, but our consciousness is created through the vibrations of the universe. Our consciousness is connected with the universe itself. Alright? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 8:44 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: So another way we can understand this concept is, imagine these people together. You have all these people together. So how consciousness works is it's an infinite dimensional consciousness. So this is what happens, right? Your consciousness is expanding infinitely into the universe. As you can see, at one level, you are by yourself. Okay? Your consciousness is unique to you. But at another level, at a higher level, is that you're connected with someone else. And then you're connected to another person. Okay? And you go on and on until you connect with everything. So within your consciousness is a capacity to connect with the entire universe. But it's really far, far away. Okay? Okay? So this is complicated. And so different philosophers throughout history have tried to figure out how to best articulate this truth, this great secret to humanity. And the best metaphor that we have is something called Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Plato's Cave. And this helps us understand who we are, where we came from, and where we're going. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 10:15 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-wall-captures-attention); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay? So this is a metaphor, an allegory that helps us understand what it means to be human and the human condition. Okay. So what Plato says is this. Imagine you have these prisoners. Okay? And they're all tied down. They're chained to the ground. Their necks are chained. Their arms are chained. So you can't move your head. You can't get up. Okay? And what you're doing is you're watching a wall. Okay? This is a wall. And behind the wall, behind you, is this great fire. And from behind this fire are these people, we don't know who they are actually. Okay? But they are putting up these figures. And so they are projecting shadows onto a wall. And because we the prisoners cannot see the entirety of a reality, we believe that the wall itself is reality. Okay? So an example of this of course is movies. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 11:22 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#attention-capture-extracts-energy); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-capture-makes-reality); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-wall-captures-attention) Text: We watch movies and we think this is a reality. Okay? So the question then is why are these people making this effort to fool us into believing that this wall, these movies, are real? And the answer is because they're trying to enslave us. Okay? Slavery. But then you're like, okay, but slavery means that I take a gun and I say, if you don't do what I say, I'll kill you. But that's not what slavery is. If the universe is conscious, okay, our energy comes from our attention. Attention is energy. So what they want is our energy. Okay? That's true wealth. If they're able to focus our energy, capture our imagination, they can construct reality in the way that they want it. Okay? Because reality is what we imagine it to be. Imagination is the animating force of the universe. Right? So they can focus our attention. For us, they can create their own reality. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 12:49 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-capture-makes-reality); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-wall-captures-attention); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-attention-recruits-imagination) Text: Alright? Now we understand why we watch movies. Now we understand why we have the internet. Now we understand why the school wants you to love artificial intelligence. Because it should enslave you. Okay? All of human history is about enslavement. Okay? That's what progress is. You think that, oh my god, I can now watch movies. Oh my god, I have now social media. I can communicate with anyone. Oh my god, I have chat GPT. And chat GPT can tell me the truth about the world. No. All of these things are created to enslave your mind. Because you have access to God. And so what they're trying to do is trick you into believing that this reality is a true reality. Because once you believe that, this reality becomes the only reality. Okay? So then the question is like, who are these people? Well, we don't know. Okay? You can say they're the elite. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 13:56 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: They're the powers that be. You can also say they're demons. We don't know. Okay? But they're interested in fooling us into believing that the movies that we see are real. The internet is real. Social media is real. So then the question then is, okay, if this is slavery, what is freedom? All right. What freedom is, is to escape this system. And to be able to think for yourself. To see for yourself. To be yourself. So Plato goes on and says, okay, this wine guy, for whatever reason, his chains break loose. And he stomps out, out of the cave into the wilderness. Okay? The wilderness. And he sees the sun. And the sun, of course, is God. And at first, he's blinded by the light. Yes, you have a question? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 14:59 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Oh, yeah. So, so. Sorry. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:01 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Yeah, wait. Yeah, can you speak ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:04 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: into the microphone, ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:06 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: please? Thanks. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:07 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: So, I have a question before, like, we talk about the freedom. Because, like, I'll, Yeah, ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:14 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: can I first explain what freedom is? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:15 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Okay, sure. Thanks. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 15:16 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Thank you. All right. All right. It, it, it all makes sense, okay? All right. All right. So, you go out into the world. And at first, you're blinded by the light. Okay? And you hate it. But you struggle. And then, you, you teach your eyes to see. And then, you recognize that this world is beautiful. It is infinite. It's diverse. It's alive. This world that you thought was real, it's just a corpse. It's a dead zombie world. Okay? This is what life is. Okay? And that's what freedom is. Freedom means that you are now finally able to awaken from this terrible nightmare, see everything that is around us, movies, the AI, school, as prison, as a, as hell. And then, you're able to look inside yourself and then connect back to God. Okay? The spiritual. To look beyond the phenomena and return to the nomina. To be a part to peer into the nomina, which is vibrations, energy. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 16:39 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Okay? All right. So that's the third allegory of the cave. This makes sense, right? Now, this raises a question, which is, okay, that's fine, but how do we escape? Okay? How do we seek freedom? Okay? So, if you look at every single religious tradition, whether it's Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christianity, it doesn't matter. Okay? Every single religion proposes the same solution, which is meditation. Okay? What is meditation? Okay. Let's, all right. So let's start. If the world is vibration, if it flows, there must be a logic to this flow. There must be a certain structure to this movement. Okay? And the Egyptians propose that what governs this flow is that the idea of sacred geometry. Okay? Sacred geometry. Okay? This is what the Egyptians spent thousands of years figuring out, that the vibrational energy flows in certain geometric patterns. Okay? And these geometric patterns are the basis for the universe itself. So now, ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 18:15 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: if we understand this, sacred geometry, what we can do now is construct our conscience in a way that allows us to match the vibrational flow of the universe. Okay? To harmonize with the universe. Right? And how do you do that? You do that through breathing. Okay? Breath work. Because by breathing, you can structure your consciousness in a way that becomes part of the universe itself. All right? And this will take decades. But you can do this. And then, when you're able to harmonize with vibrational flow of the universe, then, reality itself reveals itself to you. Okay? You're able to see this world as false. You're able now to connect to the true spiritual universe. Okay? So this is true consciousness. And this is what all monks in the world are trying to Okay? You're trying to leave your body and embrace the spiritual. Because when you do that, it allows you to connect with the divine and discover the secrets of the universe. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 19:42 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: You're able to see both the phenomena as well as phenomena. Okay? And this is a great secret of all religions. This is what all religions practice. At the same time, there are actually some hacks. Okay? Hacks. So meditation is what you're supposed to do, but a lot of people are like, you know what, this is a long time, like decades and decades of isolation, of just meditation, of trying to figure out how to connect the universe. Okay? That's decades and decades, possibly a hundred years. There must be an easier way. And there are. Okay? They're not great, but there are. And we figured it out. Okay? So the first hack that you can use is psychedelics. All right? So these drugs, and they could be magic mushrooms, they could be ayahuasca, peyote, whatever. Okay? But they alter your consciousness in a way that disrupts your left hemisphere and allows you to focus on your right hemisphere, which allows you to see the phenomena. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 20:48 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Okay? When you see the phenomena, you're like, oh my God, it's just energy. Okay? It's just colors, colors, colors. So if you go online and you see artwork from people who use psychedelics, you will see that it's very colorful. Okay? And it's very strong. It's all vibrational. Okay? So that's one hack. Another hack that you can use is self -denial. Okay? So it's possible you can starve yourself, fasting. Okay? It's possible that you go out naked in the cold. Okay? But when you collapse your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual. Okay? So what's important to understand is death is not the end. Death is release. Because this world that we live in, our bodies, are the prison. Okay? So don't fear death. It's just part of the natural cycle. Okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 21:48 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: And the third is something called near -death experiences. So these are people who don't want to die but they might be in a car accident or they could've drowned. Okay? And they died for like five minutes. What happens and they all come back and say the same thing, when they die they escape into the spiritual realm and they meet God. Okay? And these are people who don't know each other but they say the same thing about the near -death experience which is the world that they go into it is Plato's world. It's like escaping the cave and going to the world of the light. It is a world of compassion, of love, of forgiveness. It is as though you're connected again with the divine. Okay? All right? And then, but there's also another way and this is what the Christians believe. Okay? So let's talk about Jesus. Okay? So Christians, mystics believe that there's a way for Jesus to connect fully with the divine. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 23:08 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Okay? And this is the idea of the Christ consciousness. Okay? So, I'm going to explain slowly how this works but it's very complicated. Okay? So interrupt me if this is confusing. All right. So what's important to understand is that we're not just passive observers of reality. We're active participants in reality. That's why Kant teaches us. Okay? So, as we are receiving all these vibrations, we ourselves are vibrating or vibrating. Okay? For our imagination. Does that make sense? So, as we are receiving information which allows to create memories, we then implant our memories into this consciousness which changes the universe. So think of the internet. Right? If you're competing for a laptop, it works because it connects with the internet. You receive information from the internet but then you change this information and it goes back into the internet. Okay? So for memories, for the construction of memories, you are participating in the universe. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 24:20 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1460s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Okay? All right. Another metaphor that we can use is think of an ocean. Think of an ocean. Right? And all these pebbles are dropping in the ocean which creates vibrations. You are that pebble. Okay? And your role in the world is to create as much of a splash as possible. Okay? To vibrate. The Greeks have a term for this called eudaimonia which is the purpose of life is to be your creative best, to flourish, to blossom, to imagine, to vibrate as much as possible. Okay? So what is important is that if we all at the same time imagine something to be true, it becomes true. Okay? So who's the most in the world? Jesus. Right? So Jesus is immortal. He's eternal because there are two million people in the world who love him, who imagine him all the time, who believe that he's part of their lives. And because of their imagination, Jesus is still with us today but he's at a high vibration. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 25:28 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Okay? Alright? So he's a high vibration. Jesus. And the question is how do you resurrect Jesus? How do you bring him back? And the answer is by making your body a vessel for Jesus to return in. Okay? Your body can become a portal for Jesus to inhabit, to possess if you welcome Jesus through certain spiritual practices. Okay? Including love, generosity, forgiveness, and Okay? If someone killed your son, you may hate that person but if you're able to forgive that person and show true forgiveness because listen, if someone killed my children I'd be pissed off. Okay? I would hate that person forever. But if you're able to to yourself forgive that person of your own free choice you open yourself up to divinity. Okay? And this divinity can now flow into you. And this is what we call the Christ consciousness or the second coming of Jesus. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 26:43 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: So, if you are a Christian you believe the second coming that Jesus will return. And Christian mystics believe that yes, he can always return if you open your heart to Jesus. But you have to construct your body, your mind, your consciousness in a way that allows for Jesus to inhabit you. Okay? So, this is the secret of the universe. The world, exists in our consciousness. The consciousness is what's real. The material is what's false. And as we imagine we participate in the universe we change the universe. And we focus on certain reality that reality becomes manifest. It becomes reality itself. Okay? And by living in the memories of others we become immortal like Jesus. And by constructing our lives in a way that allows for Jesus to return we can resurrect Jesus in ourselves. Okay? So, that's a good secret of the universe. This is the secret to immortality, reincarnation, and godhood. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 28:03 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Okay? These three things. And most of us will fail. But it's okay because, why? Because our consciousness is forever. So, reincarnation means that when we die we can escape back to the spiritual and then maybe a thousand years later we come back. Okay? So, it's a constant cycle where we're trying to achieve these three things. Immortality, reincarnation, and godhood. And the secret is love powering our imagination. Okay? We're here to imagine things. Okay? So, this is a great secret of the universe. This is a secret that religions have passed on through thousands of years of human history and which schools of science, government, all the powers that be try to suppress because this is a direct threat to this reality. Okay? This reality is false but they want to make it real because they derive power from this reality. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Okay? Everything that you've been taught in school, everything that you've learned in science class is complete and utter nonsense. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 29:09 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-great-books-escape-practice); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: This is what's true. Okay? Okay. So, now that we understand all of this we can also understand the great books. Because what I will show you this semester is if you truly want to achieve these three things, immortality, reincarnation, godhood, the secrets lies in the great books. The great books are constructed in a way that allows you to access the entire secrets of the universe. Okay? So, what the great books are, it is a capturing of the universe in a state and as a result there's a universe within the great books. And by embracing the great books, by letting the great books come into you and then you enter the great books, you have the capacity to travel in a new universe but you also have the capacity now to create your own universe. And that's what the great books are. Okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 30:14 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: They are the secret of what it means to be human. They provide the secret of how to be truly, fully human. All right? And we, and what we'll do is this. We, this is not meant to be, okay, a semester later on, like three months from now, oh, you'll be immortal, you'll be God. No, no, that's not the way it works. Okay? What I will show you is a path. But it's up to you to focus and sacrifice yourself on this path into enlightenment. Okay? Metaphor, a simple analogy is everyone knows swimming is the best exercise in the world, right? Well, if I, if I just say, go swim, doesn't mean you learn how to swim in one day. It'll take you decades to learn how to swim really well. We all know meditation is really good for you, right? But it'll take you decades to fully learn how to meditate well. Okay? So this is a journey that is lifelong. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 31:18 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-great-books-escape-practice); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: But it's a journey that requires sacrifice. It's a journey that requires you to fully learn the great books. I can't teach you all the great books. I can't teach you all the secrets of the great books. I can only give you a framework. Okay? And you must abandon this material reality that is false. Okay? Abandon money, power, sex, fame, and focus on embracing the great books. And when you do that, the universe comes into you. Okay? Christians want to be possessed by Jesus. They want Jesus to enter them and create the Christ consciousness in them. What we want to do is we want to welcome the greatest minds of human civilization, the prophets of our time, the prophets of humanity, including Homer, Plato, Dante, Kant, into our consciousness so we can be fully human. Okay? So we're going to do what the Christians want to do. But instead of Jesus, we'll have Homer, Dante, Kant, Plato, and anyone else you want. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 32:30 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Okay? It's your choice who you want to come and possess you, who want to come and enter you. Okay? Now I will teach you the power, the secret to resurrect Homer and Dante inside of you. But again, first of all, it's your choice. Second of all, you must abandon the world to do this. And third of all, you must dedicate your entire life to doing this. Okay? So this class, it's just meant to be a sample. Okay? But it's not meant to provide all the answers. Okay? Any questions? So you have a question? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 33:16 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: Yeah. Yeah. So, so like, so back to the model you draw on the, on the screen about the wall and the shadow. So, so for people who you said be slaves and like for the people who create a shadow that they are trying to create the reality for those people who was called slave. But for those slave people that they think this is like the shadow on wall, those things are the reality and those things for them are the phenomena of the world. So, like, so how could they like to escape them and to chase the real not, not. Okay. I understand. Okay. Yeah. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 34:07 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-prisoners-make-prison); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-makes-slavery-chosen); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: Okay. You don't really understand what's going on. Okay. All right. Let me explain again. Okay. You think you know. Okay. But you don't know what's really happening. Okay. All right. These prisoners, they're the ones with the capacity to create reality. Okay. You understand this. Now the powers behind them, these people have the power to create reality. So, what I need to do is trick them into creating the reality that I want them to create. Does that make sense? Okay. So, these are the powers that be and they hide in the shadows and they give you tricks. They use deception, manipulation in order to trick you into thinking that you're a slave and they're tricking you into wanting to create a reality that they want you to create but which you think is free. And that's how the world works. We are the ones with the power of God. We're the ones with imagination. The ones behind us don't have an imagination. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 35:11 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-prisoners-make-prison); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt); [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: They have power but they don't have imagination. Okay. So, they need to trick us into wanting to create the world they want us to create. And this is how the world works, guys. Right. Why do you school being a slave? We say, I'm not being a slave. I'm being free. I'm in school so I can get into a good college, make a lot of money and live a happy life. Okay. You've been tricked but the truth is no, no, no. You don't need money to be happy. You don't need anything to be happy. You have yourself. Okay. You have your imagination. You have the capacity to love anyone. If you just love your mother, if you just love your father, if you love everyone around you, you'll be happy. You don't need money. No, no, no. I need a billion dollars to buy my brother a Porsche. I need to buy my mother a yacht. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 36:08 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: That's what my mother really wants. You've been tricked. Okay. That's how the world works. So, it's really easy. Just say to yourself I'm a slave and I refuse to be a slave. And the world to what everyone tells me. And that's the hardest thing to do in the world because it would mean your rejection from reality. Right? It would mean oh, I have no more friends. My parents hate me. I'm a loser. Everyone makes fun of me at school. All right? So, that's the reality we live in. We fear so so isolation. Isolation. We fear being laughed at. So we just go with the flow, even though in our hearts, we know this is all a lie. This school, what the teachers teach us, it's all nonsense. Chat GPT, it's lie to us all the time. Sinking money, it's gonna make me unhappy. Why am I sinking money? Not for yourself, because you fear social condemnation. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 37:23 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: You fear being laughed at. That's why you want money. That's what you wanna do while in school. Once you accept that, then you are free. Can you do that? No, no, no, you can't do that. Because all your life, you've been brainwashed, and you're thinking the thing you see is what's real. Okay? Through movies, through school, through parenting, through friends, through reality, okay? So that's what Plato's algorithm teaches us. So, guess what, guys, you'll probably fail. But if you're able to succeed, you'll be truly free, and happy, and imaginative, and that will allow you to ascend into immortality, yeah, yeah? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 38:19 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: So there's this state of being free, and this state of being enslaved. Can there be a slave that consciously realizes that they're being enslaved, and also consciously refuses to go out? To, like, embrace freedom? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 38:39 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#free-will-burden-makes-choice-cosmic); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-makes-slavery-chosen); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: Sorry, that's what a slave is, though, right? A slave is someone who wants to be a slave, who chooses to be a slave. Why? Because it's all choice, it's all free will, right? I cannot make you do this. I cannot make you, force you to lie to yourself. You have to choose to lie to yourself, you understand? Don't think you're being coerced. Don't think you are being enslaved. You choose to come to school. You choose to be lied to. You choose to accept the things as they are. Free will is number one principle of the universe, okay? When you say, like, I'm forced to be enslaved, you're lying to yourself. It's always been your choice, okay? Does that make sense? It's always been your choice. These prisoners, they can't break those chains. They probably could. Okay? And what do you think is going to happen when this guy who's seen the real world, when he comes and tells everyone, hey guys, I've seen the real world. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 39:47 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: Let's get out of here. What's going to happen to him? They're going to kill him. That's what Plato says. If you dare speak the truth and people know the truth, they will kill you for speaking the truth. So don't try to convince anyone of the truth. Just know the truth for yourself and be free yourself. But you can never, ever convince someone who doesn't want to listen. Don't try it. They'll just kill you. Did you have a question? Does that make sense? So this is really important for you to understand. It's always been your choice. But it's easy for you to think, no, no, it's not my choice. I've been coerced. It's not my choice to come to school. It's not my choice to go get a job. Because if I don't get a job, I'm going to starve. No, you won't. Okay? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 40:43 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt) Text: And remember, in the real world, death doesn't really mean anything. Okay? Death just means a release. It's you tricked yourself into thinking that death is the worst thing that could happen to you. When in reality, it's slavery that's the worst thing that could happen to you. You fear death, but you're living death right now. Okay? And that's what the great books will teach you. Yeah? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 41:14 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Text: What about the subjective physical feeling of pain in reality? ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 41:18 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2478s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-pain-makes-imagination-meaningful) Text: Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. So the question is, why do we feel pain? And why do we have bodies? And the reason why is that the universe is constructed in a way to promote imagination. Okay? Because the universe, what it's trying to do is vibrate more. Vibrate more just means imagine more. And if you can't feel pain, if you can't suffer, if you can't lose, if there's no evil, you can't imagine things. Okay? Does that make sense? Right? If everything was so easy, nothing would ever have any meaning. Okay? So let's just say you want a really good body, and you go to the gym, and then, you know, you just drink some water, you just lie around for like 10 hours, and then you have this amazing physique. Well, that would just not be beneficial to anyone. Okay? If you want to, have meaning, you have to struggle for it. And that requires pain and suffering. ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 42:27 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2547s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2547s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-great-books-escape-practice); [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-pain-makes-imagination-meaningful) Text: So even though, yeah, the question then is like, if this world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why are we in this world? To improve our imagination. Okay? Because only through pain and suffering can you truly achieve your full potential as a human. That's why these monks meditate for decades in the snow, because they understand that pain is what allows you to focus your mind. Okay? Well, evil, there can be no good. If everyone's good, then like, what's the point of being good? It's only when everyone is evil and you choose to be good, that's what gives meaning to your life. That's what gives meaning to the universe. Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. And again, I know this sounds kind of strange, but you actually read the Bible, you read the great books. First of all, you will recognize that's what they're ## The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World -- 43:29 - Source title: Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-great-books-escape-practice) Text: saying, but also what's more important is they're going to give you the energy, the strength, the power to liberate yourself. If you truly open your heart to the great books. Okay? So, um, the great books we will start with is the Iliad by Homer. Then we'll go to the Odyssey, but again, by Homer, then the Republic, uh, by Plato, the Iliad by Virgil, which is not a great book by the way, but we have to read it anyway. Okay. And then the Divine Comedy by Dante. And then I'll figure out some other books we can read depending on how things go. Okay. So I like to read Kant, the Critique of Pure Reason, but, uh, we may not have time. Okay. So that's a plan for the semester. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 0:00 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: This semester, we are going to analyze a question together, which is, how do societies behave? Why do we do what we do? What motivates us? What drives us? And there have been different theories as to what drives human behavior. Okay, so let's go over some theories. The first theory comes to us from religion. And the idea is that we are all driven in a war between good and evil. There's a good side to us, and there is an evil side to us. There's Satan, and there's God. And we are constantly in a battle in ourselves. Do we move towards Satan, or do we move towards God? And that's the core of human civilization. So religion is meant to give us the strength to show us the path towards goodness. Okay, that's one theory. Another theory comes to us from biology. Okay, and the idea is sex. We want to pass on our genes forward, because that's important, our existence. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 1:36 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=96s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=96s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: If we cannot have children, we all die. So the point of our existence is to have children and have them pass on their genes to others, okay? And for males and females, life is different. Because as a man, you have a penis. And all you have to do is stick your penis into a woman, and you're good. Okay, that's all you have to do. So you want to stick your penis in as many women as possible. And that's the point of your existence. But as a woman, your life is different, because it's hard to give birth. It takes nine months to incubate the child in your womb. And then childbirth is the most painful experience anyone will ever experience. And then the child, it'll take like 16, 18 years to raise a child to maturity. So it's a huge investment on your part. So as a female, you have to be very cautious, very careful about who you are. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 2:43 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Who you marry, or who you have sex with, okay? And so life is a struggle between men who want to put their penis into anything, and women who want to be careful about who they marry, okay? So that's the idea of biology. Then, of course, you have the idea of race and culture. That the world, it's a struggle between these different races and cultures for dominance. And each race, each culture, has their own. They have their own characteristics, okay? So maybe the yellow race, they're very clever, but they're very weak. And then the white race are brave, but kind of stupid. And the black people are like, anyway. Anyway, that's another theory. I'm not saying it's correct. I'm just saying it's a theory that people believe in. Then you have economics, right? And what they believe is that we are driven by money or self -interest. We want to make as much money as possible, and that's what drives us, okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 3:58 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: That's pretty simple. And the last big theory is the idea of liberalism. That comes from the Enlightenment. And here, the theory is that history is a progress towards enlightenment, to rationality, to truth, and to justice. So... The inevitability of history, of human development, is towards paradise, towards heaven. And maybe, you know, we go off track now and then, but inevitably, we move towards God. And this comes to us from the Enlightenment. We call this liberalism. So these are five theories. There are others, but these are five theories that show you the diversity, the variety of ideas out there. What I will do this semester is present to you another theory, which I call game theory. And my argument to you is that game theory is the best way to understand how humans behave. What drives nations, what drives societies, what drives humans, okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 5:22 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-real-game); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So that's my argument to you this semester. So the entire semester, we will study game theory. All right, so what is game theory? All right. Game theory is very simple. The idea is that there are three components to a game. Just three aspects to a game. There are the players, the participants, okay? Then there are the rules or the constraints. In mathematics, we would call this the boundary conditions, okay? The limits to the game. And the third aspect are the incentives. Basically, how do you win this game? What do you get from this game? And my argument to you this semester is that if you study all three, okay? If you figure out who the players are, if you understand the rules, if you understand the incentives, then you understand how the game works. And then, therefore, you can predict how the game will turn out, okay? That's the skill that I want to teach you this semester. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 6:43 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=403s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=403s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: And what I want to show you, or what I promise you, is that if you learn game theory, there'll be three major benefits to you as a student. Again, you don't have to learn game theory. You don't even have to come to class. But if you spend the effort to learn game theory from me, then three things will benefit you, okay? The first benefit is that you become a better person. The point of education, guys, it's not to get good grades or get into university or get a good job. What I believe is the point of education is to make you into a better person, which means that you are a much more thoughtful person who can better analyze yourself and the world around you. This allows you to make better decisions. This makes you a much more curious, much more moral, and much more imaginative person, okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 7:49 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: So one benefit of learning game theory is you become smarter, and therefore you become a better person, okay? That's number one. Number two is you'll be able to understand the world that we live in because this world is kind of stupid, okay? So you may have heard that Donald Trump and the American military went into Venezuela for no good reason, kidnapped a president of Venezuela, which is against international law, and then brought him back to New York City where he will stand trial. It's really stupid what happened. But then, but our class, it's not meant to say this is stupid or this is wrong because we all know it's stupid and wrong. We're trying to figure out why this happened and what this will lead to. And so we will be in this class studying and analyzing current events to understand how the world really works, why people behave the way they do, and understand how the game of the world works. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 9:03 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: And this requires you to actually follow the news, okay? It's not hard to spend five minutes and just read up on the news. But we'll be looking at the war in Ukraine. We'll be looking at a new war between Israel and Iran. We'll be looking at what's happening in South America. We'll be looking at the conflict between China and Japan. We'll be looking at the relationship between the United States and China, okay? So this is relevant to your lives because you will eventually have to work and live in this really screwed up world that we live in, okay? And the third benefit is once you understand the game, you will have predictive powers. You'll be able to understand how the world will develop. You'll be able to analyze your own life and understand how you will develop. And that gives you control sovereignty over your own destiny, okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 10:09 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: That's my promise to you. If you actually spend the time to listen carefully in class, to participate fully, to follow the news, and you spend the entire semester doing so, then these three benefits will start to accrue in you, okay? This is a life -long struggle to learn game theory. I'm a lot older than you are. I have a lot more experience than you, okay? But I want to show you how to look at the world through game theory. Another phrase that you learn in school is I'm going to teach you how to think critically about the world. Or I'll just teach you how to think, okay? All right? Are we clear? Any questions before I move on? All right. So this is all very abstract. And so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use an example of a game to show you how game theory works, okay? All right. So let's use a really simple game, okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 11:14 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Let's imagine there are five boys and five girls. And they want to get married, okay? So these are the players. And what we're going to do is we're going to divide them up into male and female. Then what we're going to do is we will rank the males and the females. Okay? So we're going to rank 10 players into five, four, three, two, one. Five, four, three, two, one, okay? And so how do we rank them? Well, we rank them according to their attractiveness using three criteria. The first is genes. The second is wealth. And the third is status. Okay? So genes is very simple. It means that you're good looking. It means you're tall. It means you're healthy. You will live a long time, okay? Genes is pretty simple to understand. Wealth just means that you and your family have a lot of money. Status means that you have a lot of friends. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 12:29 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: You have a high status job. You come from a really powerful family, okay? So these are the three criteria that we can use to judge a person's attractiveness. And then what we can do is rank them from five to one. Five means really the best. One means the worst, okay? And we can rank all 10 according to these metrics. So according to biology, what we call evolutionary biology or evolutionary psychology, we're always trying to find the best genes to procreate because this ensures that our genes pass on, okay? So remember that men have a penis which they can stick into anything. Women have to give birth, so the strategies are different, okay? So basically five, number five, is trying to have sex with all five women, right? That's his strategy. But if you want number five, you want to ensure that she only gets five, okay? So these are different strategies. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 13:52 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: And according to evolutionary psychology, all five of these females should try to procreate with number five, okay? But we know you can't do this. It's suicidal. Why is it suicidal? Because the human rights couldn't survive, right? It'd be idiotic to do something like this where all five women are just trying to marry this one guy and maybe him, okay? But these three are eliminated because then your society would collapse. You can't have that many children. So this can't possibly be true, right? So let's figure out what rationally what should happen. Okay, all right. So let's think about this rationally or from an economic perspective. All right. So again, number five, he's trying to maximize the game. So he's trying to sleep with all five women, okay? The problem if he does that is these five know they're all being played. And they recognize that this guy is probably an asshole. So five, the best woman is like, you know what? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 15:16 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: There's not much difference between four and five. So I'll just go. I'll marry this guy, right? So number four is gone. And number four is like, you know what? Five is probably making a good decision. So I'll just go marry number three, right? And then what happens now is that five by trying to marry all the woman is stuck with the worst choice, right? So that's kind of stupid for him. He's stuck with number one. But guess what? If any of these guys try this crap, the same thing happens to him, where four is like, you know what? I can't get five, but I'll try to get four and three together. And then three is like, screw you. I'm going to go and marry two. Four is going to marry three, okay? Then he's stuck with one as well. Or he's just alone. So if they try to individually maximize their outcome, they all get screwed in the end. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 16:16 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: So the only way out of this is if they cooperate, okay? And the best way to cooperate is basically five is like, you know what? Screw this. I'm not going to go after four or three. I'll just have my five, okay? Four is like, yeah, I'll just go marry four. No dating. No games. I'll just go marry four. And three marries three. Two marries two. And one marries one, okay? And the world now is perfect. Everyone has a husband and a wife. And they can now just have children. And the world is perfect. And this is actually the best strategy for all the players, right? We call this, the word in game theory we use for this is called the Nash equilibrium. Nash equilibrium just means that you always reach a state in which all the players maximize their outcome. The Nash equilibrium. And so the world makes sense now. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 17:28 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: There's a problem with this though. The problem is, in real life, no one does this. Okay? In real life, no one actually follows this rule. Nash equilibrium is just a theory we made up. But in real life, this is not what happens. What happens in real life is we choose to be suicidal. Okay? So, let me tell you about a game I play. So last year, I was teaching this class and I asked the boys and I asked the girls. Pretend you are now 30 years old. Right? Your parents are pestering you to get married. And you've been on the dating market for 10 years. There's really no one that you think is perfect for you. You have basically given up on love. Imagine that you want to get married now. And tell me what is the minimum requirement you need in order to agree to marry someone else? Okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 18:46 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: What's the minimum? Okay? And then I had the boys and the girls write down a response. The boys were pretty simple, right? Well, you know, as long as she likes me and as long as I can put my penis into her, I'm good. Okay? It's that simple. Okay? It really is. Guys are like, yeah, I'll settle for anything. That's the boys, right? Girls were different. Girls were like, okay, if I don't love him, if I'm not even attracted to him, I need about a million dollars a month. Really? Yeah. I need about a million dollars. Last class? Last semester. Okay. All right. So, this makes no sense, right? So, in theory, in theory, we should follow the Nash Equilibrium. But in real life, what happens is this. All the girls want this one guy. Okay? And maybe number four. They'll settle for number four. But three, two, one, they don't want. And we know because just look at the world around you. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 20:01 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Look at these billionaires, right? Like Elon Musk. How many wives does he have? How many children does he have? Right? All the women in the world, many, not all, but many, just want to marry actors like Brad Pitt. Billionaires like Elon Musk. Right? And three, two, and one, they, what do they do? Well, they watch Netflix. They watch porn. They play video games. They've given up on life. Okay? They're like, we don't care. We call these people incels, right? Involuntary celibates because, basically, they've given up on life and life has given up on them. So, this entire competition is between number five and four for all the women in the world. And this is, again, suicidal. This will lead to the death of humanity. And the question now is, okay, why are we suicidal? And, so, let's look at game theory analysis. Right? The players, the rules, and incentives. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 21:11 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1271s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1271s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#fertility-status-game-atlas); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-real-game) Text: We know what the players are. The players are doing stupid things. The rules, we know, okay? But incentives is something that we have to think about. Why are they behaving like this? And the answer is because they're not interested in sex or procreation. What they're interested in is status. Okay? That's the game they're playing. Status. I don't want to marry someone to have children. I want to marry someone so I can take a picture of her and post it on Instagram so I can get a lot of likes. I want to marry someone so I can walk with her in the mall and all the guys are jealous. I want to marry someone who I can brag about. Okay? It's a game about status, not a game about sex or procreation. Do you understand? People are not being rational here. People are trying to maximize their status in life. And that's why everyone's behaving like this. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 22:13 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1333s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1333s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Number one, she may be the ugliest woman in the world, but she's still like, you know what? It's still my choice whether or not to have kids. And having kids is a pain in the ass. So if I'm going to make this sacrifice, this guy better be good looking. Okay? Or this guy better be rich. Otherwise, why would I want to have kids? Okay? So, this is why people behave the way they do. If you think about it this way, what you recognize is that people are rational. But to understand why they're rational, you have to understand and figure out what the game is. Okay? But then this leads us to a question which is, okay, well clearly this is wrong because if we behave like this throughout human history, we wouldn't be here today. Okay? How is it that we have this game today and we're going to die, but we must have come from somewhere. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 23:14 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: We've been around for like a long time. So how is it that humans have survived for so long doing these stupid things? And the answer is because the game changes over time according to the superstructure of society. Okay? The superstructure. The superstructure is what determines the nature of the game. Superstructure, just think about the big picture, right? How many people are there? Is society wealthy or poor? Are there enemies to this society? Okay? This is the superstructure, the big picture. Demographics, economics, culture, politics, religion. And these things together is what determines the nature of the game. All right? So let's look at three examples of superstructure. All right? Example one is you have a low population society. Okay? Low population is like maybe 200 people. 200 people. Okay? A village, basically. They are poor and low technology. Low technology just means they don't have access to clean water. They don't know what hygiene is. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 24:40 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: They don't understand what germs are. So it's very easy for a woman to die in childbirth. Okay? And low competition. Low competition just means that there are no competing villages against them. Okay? So that's one kind of superstructure. The early superstructure of human society. Okay? Then you have maybe growing population. Okay? So we're talking about like maybe 10,000 people, 20,000 people. They are now growing in wealth. Growing wealth. They have some technology. Meaning they have access to clean water. And they have high competition. Okay? Meaning that they're competing against different villages and societies around them. Okay? That's another superstructure. Now the third superstructure is overpopulation. Okay? Which is where we live in today. Okay? Where in China you have a billion people. Too much wealth. Okay? But with wealth you have inequality. Right? And then you have high technology. High technology just means that every woman who gives birth will not die. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 25:56 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1556s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1556s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: And every child born will live. Okay? And then you have something called equilibrium. Equilibrium just means that yeah, there's competition but they're not going to go to war against each other. The world is basically peaceful. Okay? And according to superstructure the game is going to change. So let's go back to the game. Okay? We have 10 people. In a low population poor society guess what? They're not going to date. What they're going to do is they might get married but they're going to have sex with each other. Why? Because as a woman the only way to ensure that your child survives is if all the men in the village want to protect and nurture the child. They will do that if they believe that the child could be theirs. Okay? So the woman will maybe have a husband but the woman will also choose to sleep with other men to disguise paternity. Does it make sense? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 27:02 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: So there's no dating there's just lots and lots of sex in order to maintain social cohesion. Okay? Now in a superstructure number two there's no dating either. Why? Because this society is in competition with other societies and they need to have as many children as possible. So what the solution here is to have arranged marriages. Arranged marriages. Where you know who cares who you marry just have lots and lots of kids. Okay? There's no dating either. Just have lots and lots of kids. You marry who your parents tell you to marry. You marry someone that you know. You marry your childhood best friend who cares. Okay? But you marry someone you have lots and lots of kids. Okay? That's superstructure number two. Superstructure number three is the one we live in. And here you have a dating game. Right? Because why? Because the odds of you obtaining status is really really low. Okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 28:02 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: And the only way that you can change your status is by marrying up. And that's why you have a dating game. A dating game is an opportunity for you to find someone better than your social demographic circumstance can suggest. Okay? And that's why you have low decreasing fertility rate. Okay? Where over time because of the dating game society will collapse. Okay? Does that make sense? Alright. So now you're in the government and all around the world women who are wealthy well educated are refusing to have children especially in East Asia. Right now the fertility rate in China is about one. Okay? About one. The replacement rate that you need is a 2.1. So just to maintain your current population levels every woman in China needs to give birth to at least two kids. But right now on average only in China. And the worst thing is that this trend is increasing. So five years ago the fertility rate was maybe 1.7. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 29:32 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#fertility-status-game-atlas); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: Now it's one. Okay? So the trend is very very negative. Okay? So governments all around the world are trying to figure out what to do. How do you convince women to have more kids? And what we've discovered is it's impossible. We can pay you more money like they do in South Korea. Guess what? It doesn't work. Because people don't want money. They want status. And status is a zero -sum game. Okay? Money is infinite but status power is a zero -sum game. So we have overpopulation we have too many people competing for too few status positions. You have decreasing fertility rates. And there's nothing you can do about it. The moment you give women choice they choose to improve their lives by marrying someone better. Okay? Not all but most. And so over time what happens is your society collapses. If you look at history the best ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 30:46 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: indicator that a society is about to collapse is if the woman who are wealthy and well educated if they refuse to have children. This is the same this is what happened to the Romans who collapsed. This is what happened to many empires. This is what's happening around the world today in America in Britain in Europe in China. Okay? And this tells us that society is collapsing. So in other words what this really is okay these superstructures it tells us the life cycle of a civilization. Right? So this is when civilization is young then it matures it grows and then it collapses. Okay? And if you look at history all civilizations go through this process of birth maturation and then collapse. And there's no way around it. So the power of game theory is that just by one aspect okay if I just study this game alright I figure out who the players are the rules and the incentives I can figure out what the superstructure of this civilization is. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 32:09 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=1929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? And then once I have these two I can now figure out where it came from and where it's going. Okay? That's what I want to teach you in this class. How to analyze a situation so you understand the players the rules and incentives which will give you insight into the superstructure so that you can figure out where it came from and then you can also predict where it's going. Alright? So but you can also look at the superstructure and figure out what the game is being played. Okay? So this is one example but throughout the semester we'll be doing many many many different examples of game theory. Is this clear so far? Are there any questions? Any comments? Any questions before I move on? Alright. So let's just look at some basic facts. Okay. Alright. This is a map of the world. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 33:28 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? As you can see okay oh sorry so the color scheme is this. The red is where the population the society has an above replacement fertility rate. Okay? So above 2.1. If it's dark red like here in the middle of Africa it's six to seven or six above. Okay? Because Africa is in a situation where it's a growing society with middling tech so a lot of people die lots of competition so to survive families have to give birth to a lot of kids. Okay? They have no choice in the matter. But then you move to the rest of the world. Okay? So this is North America Europe and East Asia the three wealthiest parts of the world. And guess what? The fertility rate is collapsing because now we've entered into the end game where it is overpopulation too much wealth so too much inequality and so women are forced to pick the best possible mate or not have children at all. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 34:30 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Alright? And here the situation is very very dire. North America and Europe are kind of okay. Why? Because of immigration. Because even though their women are not having children they can choose to import people for their labor force. But East Asia is really really screwed guys. Okay? So just look at this region. Okay? So China is one but the worst is North Korea oh sorry South Korea. South Korea has the lowest population rate in sorry the lowest fertility rate in the world. They're at between 0.6 to 0.8. So they're probably gone in 50 years time. It's so bad that when you go to South Korea there are signs outside restaurants that says no dogs and no kids. They think that kids are a problem. Okay? So you look at the these areas again they are poorer so women are forced to have more children in order to survive. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 35:38 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? But you look at wealthy areas well they're probably gone in 100 years time. Okay? It's total total collapse. The solution that governments are choosing right now is to import immigrants. Okay? Especially so these are the trends right now. And it's causing a lot of disruption in society because guess what guys people don't like outsiders. People don't like immigrants. But they don't have a choice in the matter because along with the fertility crisis is the aging crisis where your population is getting older and older. Okay? So life the world is not that simple. If you want to know who will rule the world in 100 years time just figure out which society in which society do wealthy well educated women choose to have children. And then that society will rule the world. Okay? It's that simple right? Well unfortunately if you do it that way you get a really really disturbing answer. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 36:48 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? So this is per capita GDP. Okay? So how much people make. Alright? So obviously if you're zero you're very poor and if you move to over here you're very wealthy. Okay? So the United States is the wealthiest society in the world. Right? Sure we can understand that. Then this is the fertility rate which tells us how many children women have on average. Okay? So again 2.1 is replacement rate. Okay? 2.1 is replacement rate. So the United States is actually below replacement rate but the United States doesn't really care because they can import immigrants. Okay? Um China is probably around here somewhere. Somewhere. Okay? Um Angola is up here but it's poor. So what this map tells us is a country that is most likely to be dominant for the next 50 years is this country. Israel. Okay? It is the only wealthy western high tech society in which women choose to have more than two kids. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 38:06 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? This is what game theory teaches us. And yeah I know there are people who are like yeah but Israel it's um it has 9 million people and and um it's in the middle of a desert and everyone hates Israel. I understand that. Thank you very much. Okay? I understand that. But if you just analyze how the game works okay if you just look at it objectively from a game theory perspective you are forced to conclude that Israel right now has the major advantage over everyone else. Now it is possible that societies will change the fertility rate as the world changes. Okay? But I'm saying that given the current state of things Israel their growth trajectory is very very high. But then the question then is okay why is it that Israel they are different from everyone else? And the answer is because the world hates them. Okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 39:16 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#fertility-status-game-atlas) Text: Because they think they are different from everyone else and and they must unite together to survive. So in Israel fertility is status. Okay? If you are a woman and you give birth to a lot of kids that means that you love Israel. That means that you are doing what you can in this war for survival. It means you are a patriot. Okay? Um but this has to do with religion. So Israel what the west has done is not only um has it created a dating game where women can choose to have kids but the western world has also given up on religion and embraced materialism. Right? So what is valued in our world in the west it's not patriotism or love of family or religious duty it's just how many Instagram followers you have. It's how many views you have. It's how many YouTube subscribers you have. It's how many how much money you have. Okay? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 40:32 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2432s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: That's all that matters. So given the current state of state of events it's very hard for the western world and really for China to survive for the next 50 years. Okay? I and I know like well China has a billion people so even though um you know we're only giving birth to 10 million kids a year we'll still be around for a long long time. Okay? So at this rate by 2100 China will be at will be at a population about 600 million. That's still a lot of people man. Um okay. Here's the problem though. Okay? This is South Korea. Okay? South Korea is like the worst case scenario. And for South Korea this is actually the best case scenario where okay given current trends and let's let's just pretend that nothing bad happens for South Korea well by the year 2100 you'll have a situation like this where the vast majority of people are over 65 and you have no kids. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 41:36 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? That is a zombie society where no one works and everyone just I don't know walks around the park every day. No one works. So the economy has collapsed. Okay? So look look at this trend where we are now in here okay where the majority it's still a working population which is good you need that for the economy but by the time you hit 2040 okay you've got this huge dependency in a creating population. Okay? Do you guys see this? Where we are? In okay so we're at 2020 right? Okay? Alright so it's still not too bad but by the time you're at 2040 look at this okay look at this look at this where you have absolutely no kids and then you have lots and lots of retirees. Okay? And then by the time right? Your population your working population has decreased by half by 50%. Alright? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 42:40 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: So if things are stay the same if nothing happens South Korea will be will be dead in I don't know by 2150 okay? Best case scenario. But what we know from history is that society should not die naturally. Eventually South Korea will be forced into wars economic crises so this trend will just increase and so if North Korea got past 2080 I'd be very surprised. Okay? I'd be surprised by 2040 South Korea were to face collapse as a nation state. Okay? Because you need these people to work but guess what? You also need them to fight wars. So if North Korea ever threatened South Korea most of your adult population would be dead. Okay? So South Korea cannot fight a war now. The prospects for South Korea is utterly hopeless. There's nothing South Korea can do about this because South Korea is an extremely materialistic society where the only way to get ahead is by making a lot of money. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 43:58 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay? And if you're a middle class person in South Korea it makes no sense for you to have three kids. It makes sense for you to have one kid and put all your resources into this one kid in the hopes that he passes the college examination gets into a good university and then gets a good job at Samsung which is the only company in South Korea. Okay? Samsung. Right? So the situation is pretty dire in South Korea. All right. Okay. That's it for today. Any questions guys about what we've learned? Okay. Okay. Speak into the mic please. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 44:43 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: So for the last graph that we talked about Israel and I've noticed that the Saudi Arabia that is also like at have not bad GDP per capita and fertility rates so but for Saudi Arabia maybe I'm wrong like stereotypically that they didn't receive much hate as Israel did so why did they like at the similar position as Israel? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 45:12 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay. That's actually a really good question. Okay. All right. So Saudi Arabia as you can see from this map has it's a very wealthy society and families have about four kids on average. All right. So Saudi Arabia is actually an outlier and the reason why is that it gets all the money from oil oil revenues. Okay. So it sells with oil around the world. What does it do? It creates a welfare state using this oil. So you're incentivized to have many children as possible because the government will pay for it. Free schooling free health care free housing and then a guaranteed job. So it's basically like socialism. It's also a Muslim country so you have this religious duty imperative to have as many children as possible. Okay. But the problem with Saudi Arabia is the idea of human capital where it is not really a modern society in which people are well educated and they're contributing to the economy. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 46:20 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay. Saudi Arabia just gets all its money from oil and that's it. It's trying to grow terrorism it's trying to develop its human capital but it doesn't really work. Okay. So you're right in that Saudi Arabia it is it seems to be doing well but it's not really. Okay. But also like people will argue about Israel as well where like well Israel gets all its money from the United States and it's the American military that supports Israel. That's true to a certain extent but I would argue that if you actually go to Israel you will see that it's an open dynamic society in which you're allowed to ask questions which you're allowed to criticize the government in which you are given a lot of opportunities for social mobility. So Israel has democracy it has innovation okay it has technology okay and Saudi Arabia doesn't have these things. If you want to be a really strong nation then you need innovation you need openness you need technology. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 47:30 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: Okay. It's also really highly educated. Alright. So does that make sense? Okay. So Saudi Arabia it's really an outlier here. Alright. But the problem is what happens if Saudi Arabia runs out of oil right? Or there's a war in the Middle East then Saudi Arabia is kind of screwed. Alright. Alright. But you can also argue no well you know Saudi Arabia it has a lot of money and maybe okay so so game theory doesn't give us the answers. Game theory it just gives us a guide to ask questions and do research. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 48:10 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) Text: I was wondering about like when is this data it's it's wrote about 2009 right? So how about now? Did it change a lot? Or like is there anything changed? ## The Dating Game That Eats Civilization -- 48:29 - Source title: Game Theory #1: The Dating Game - Source class: episode - Date: 2026-01-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U&t=2909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-he4l9wylf3u.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#fertility-status-game-atlas) Text: Okay. Okay. Yeah. So you asked you asked about the sourcing of the data. Okay. And you're right in that there will be fluctuation. Okay. But the but this is 2024. Okay. 2024 and this is Israel right here. Okay. Alright. So if it's red it's above replacement. Alright. And if you just Google Israel population fertility rate Israel is the only wealthy nation in the world that has an above replacement fertility rate. Okay. Alright. Okay. Any more questions guys? Alright. Great. So I will see you guys next class. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-power-needs-end-time-script) Text: so we come to the end of the course and all roads lead to jerusalem so um we're gonna take everything we've learned so far and combine it into a narrative about today and the future so the grand thesis of this class is that six societies control the world and this is something you can never prove okay but let me propose a theory of how we can approach the truth okay theory of truth if you have a theory or an idea or a narrative and it does these three things then it approaches the truth the first is that it connects the past okay so does it help us put the past things that we know that happen in the past into a coherent story that we can understand okay that's test number one that's number two is it explains the present does it help us better understand the world we live in okay and the last ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:28 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=88s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=88s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#truth-prediction-coherence-atlas) Text: and the most um important is predicts the future from this narrative we should be able to make certain predictions about how events shall take place in the future so first of all we need to make sure that should develop and if these events turn out to happen the way we predict then we can be more sure that our theory of truth is correct now let's be extremely precise just because things turn out the way that we predict doesn't necessarily mean that our theories is 100 correct okay because it's really important to understand that correlation does not necessarily mean causation okay so that that's a caveat no matter how well we predict the future it doesn't necessarily mean that our theory is 100 correct but our theory gives us a model to understand the past the present and the future okay so with very little evidence i'm going to present to you a theory about how ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 2:40 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: the world works a story about how we got to where we are and again this is speculation some will call this conspiracy theory and this is just meant to be a fighting class so take what i say with a grain of salt okay ask good questions doubt what i say but what i'll show you is that this theory even though it doesn't really um make much sense and you may not believe it it does help us connect the past explain the present and predict the future okay all right so uh without further ado let's go into this theory so you remember jacob frank who founded the 17 francus movement okay and um he will convert to the catholic religion and he he will encourage his followers to also follow him into catholic religion and also to infiltrate secret societies one of his friends one of his patrons is mayor rothschild who is founder of course ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 3:49 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: the rothschild banking dynasty which we discussed last class he will introduce jacob frank to another person named adam weiss hot in bavaria okay in present -day germany all right now adam wise hot he is actually a former jesuit okay he's so he's a member of the catholic church he's also a jew okay and again um we don't have any evidence that these three actually know each other but this is a theory all right so let's assume they they knew each other what they all do together it's got a new organization called the illuminati and this organization is what controls the world the illuminati now there is a legend that adam was hot when he create after becoming illuminati he encouraged his followers to ride the centre of the earth his followers were following him to his every path to infiltrate another organization called the Freemasons. And these were extremely prominent members of European society. These were intellectuals like Goethe, these were nobility, these were bankers. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 5:08 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And so this is the framework that controls the world. The Illuminati was able to penetrate the Freemasons, so now you have an alliance of the Jesuits, the Jews, the 17 Frankists, the Catholics, and the Freemasons. So this is the alliance of six societies. Now there is a legend that what happened is that Adam Weishaupt, he was eventually arrested for conspiracy by the authorities. And so the organization, the Illuminati, has been disbanded and no longer exists. But there are others who argue that's not what happened. In fact, it was Adam Weishaupt himself who spread the legend that there was a secret organization called the Illuminati. So the entire thing was to generate publicity. But in reality, the Illuminati was not disbanded and it still exists today. So why would they do this? And the reason why is that secret societies, like every organization, depends on publicity for recruitment. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 6:19 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? So it's free publicity if you read in the newspaper that there's a secret organization that's trying to conquer the world and which the authorities don't like. Then a lot of people will be like, how do I join this organization? Right? And that's what happened. All right? So the irony about secret societies is they have a structure, which is like a triangle. Okay? At the very top is the leadership. This leadership is secret. You don't know who they are. You don't know what they do. Okay? But they usually come from very noble families. We call these the 13 families. Okay? Then at the very bottom are just the public members and they think that what they do is just good stuff. Okay? So the freemasons. They actually don't know what the leadership does. The key is the middle management, these people. Okay? These people are the ones who do all the work. And these people are selected for ambition. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 7:22 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-power-needs-end-time-script) Text: In other words, for power, they're willing to sell their souls. All right? Okay. So when you have different secret societies together, a major problem that you have is coordination. And the idea here is you have different leaders and how do you get them to work together? Also. After these leaders die, how do you ensure that the new leaders will coordinate together? And the answer to this problem is the idea of eschatology. Okay? We'll discuss eschatology. But eschatology comes from the Greek word eschaton, which means the end. So eschatology means your understanding of how the world ends. Of how to create paradise on earth. Okay? And what I will show you is that even though these different groups have different eschatologies, there are convergence points which allows them to work together. Okay? So let's go over the major eschatologies. And remember, what's really important to understand is that these eschatologies are often secret. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 8:38 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They sometimes change and the details will be different. But, so I'm going to present to you more or less a general understanding of eschatology. Okay? So let's start with the easiest, which is the Jewish eschatology. What do the Jews believe? Well, the Jews believe that because they disobeyed God, because they worshiped false idols, because they sinned, they were expelled by God from their homeland, Jerusalem, to wander the earth, which creates the Jewish diaspora. But eventually what will happen is that a Jewish messiah will emerge. He will take the Jewish people. He will take the Jews back to Jerusalem, okay? And he will reconstitute the nation of Israel. He will recreate Israel. And then he will rebuild Solomon's Temple. Why? Because Solomon's Temple is where God lives. And it is where the people of Israel make sacrifices to Yahweh in order to show their devotion to Yahweh. So Solomon's Temple is really important. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 9:45 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: There will be something called the War of Gog and Magog. Where basically the entire world unites against Israel, okay? And the War of Gog and Magog will be led by the Antichrist, the anti -messiah, the false prophet. We don't know what Gog and Magog represent, okay? What the Bible says is these are people from the north, but that could mean anyone. And certain Jewish scholars have written about them. They have interpreted Gog and Magog to represent Russia and Iran, okay? This is important because of what's happening today, okay? But of course, when it seems as though the enemies of Israel, Gog and Magog, when it seems that they are about to win, God will intervene and ensure that Israel wins. And this will usher in something called the Messianic Age. When Israel becomes a monarchy. When it becomes the most dominant nation on earth. When it becomes the light of nations. When it becomes the light of the world, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 11:04 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Does that make sense? So that is the Jewish eschatology. And most Jews believe this. Then you have the Frankists, okay? And the Frankists, the Separatist Frankists, they make important changes to this eschatology. The first important change is... The Jews believe that the Messiah will come when the time is right. So most rabbis believe that the Messiah will come in the year 6,000 in the Jewish calendar, which is about the year 2040, sorry, 2020 -40 in our calendar, which is about 200 years later, okay? So still a long time away. But the Frankists believe that the Messiah has already come, right? Seventh -day Zevi. And then you have Jacob Frank. So they believe that, first of all, the Messiah is already here, okay? Which means that the war can start. Second thing that they believe is that you don't wait for God to intervene. You can accelerate the messianic age by sinning, right? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 12:13 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Because by sinning, what you're doing is you are defying Satan. It's Satan who created this world. And by sinning, you're defying his laws, you're defying his authority, and this will create more chaos, and you will reveal how evil this world is. You will accelerate the collapse, okay? Which will force God to intervene. And then during the messianic age, what will happen is material pleasure, okay? So rather than everyone being spiritual and pure, we'll have a lot of sex. We will have feasts. We will live forever, okay? That's the Frankist interpretation of this eschatology, okay? Does that make sense? Then you have the Christian Zionists, okay? The Christian Zionists. I'll explain who the Christian Zionists are later on, okay? But what the Christian Zionists will do is they will take this Jewish eschatology but interpret it in a Christian context, okay? So for the Christians, they believe that yes, all this will happen, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 13:26 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: The Jews will establish their messianic age. But this is really the Antichrist system, okay? Okay? So the Antichrist, who is the Jewish Messiah, will establish a world government that will dominate the world. And he will establish something called the Mark of the Beast. Mark of the Beast is basically digital ID, okay? So just think of a microchip in your forehead or wherever that... And so you can be tracked. You can be monitored, okay? So basically an AI surveillance system, okay? So this is what the messianic age of the Jews will look like, but it's the Antichrist system. And eventually what will happen is that the people will rebel against Israel, and this will lead to something called the War of Gog and Magog, okay? And when it seems as though Israel is about to be defeated in the battle of Amar -Gonon, okay? What will happen is that Jesus will return. Jesus will return, second coming, and he will take all the Christians to heaven. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 14:42 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: It's called the rapture. And then he will kill a third of the Jews, a third will convert, and this will usher the messianic age, okay? So this is the Christian interpretation. It's called Christian Zionism. But as you can see, what's really important is the Jews first achieve their eschatology before the Christians can achieve theirs. The Christians need to use the Jews as a tool to achieve the second coming. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. And what's really important is for the Solomon's Temple. Solomon's Temple is where the Al -Aqsaq Mosque is right now. So in other words, for this eschatology to happen, you will need to destroy the Al -Aqsaq Mosque, which is the third holiest site in the Islamic world. And you can imagine how angry Muslims will be. And this might initiate the War of Gog and Magog. Okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 15:44 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Another important thing about this eschatology that's really important is you need the Jews to return to Israel. And how do you get the Jews to return to Israel? Anti -Semitism. Okay? So not only do you have to destroy the Al -Aqsaq Mosque, which is, you know, not very nice, but you also have to promote anti -Semitism around the world to force the Jews to return. That's another part of this plan, right? As you can see, this is not a nice plan. It causes a lot of death, it causes a lot of suffering, it causes a lot of persecution. But both Jews and Christians believe that for the Messianic Age to come, there has to be an age of tribulation. There has to be the Antichrist. There has to be the War of Gog and Magog. Okay? There has to be Emigarden, basically. All right? So is this making sense? Okay? This is, again, the eschatology, which is ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 16:46 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: a script, which is a plan that these societies must implement in order to achieve heaven on earth. The last people I want to talk about are the Freemasons. Okay? The Freemasons believe that they are, sorry, the Freemasons believe that they are of the Enlightenment. Okay? Sorry. Freemasons. They are, and they practice a new philosophy. A new philosophy called Deism. What makes Deism different is that it's an Enlightenment philosophy, so the idea is that God did create the world, the universe, that's why we are here, but then God left. And now, because of free will, free choice, we can do whatever we want. Okay? And our mission is basically to achieve Godhood through science, through open debate, through rational thinking. And what are the signs of Godhood? How do we know that we've become God? Well, we're able to do three things. Okay? The first thing is to warp reality. Okay? To basically manipulate the essence of matter. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 18:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And we've been able to do that because of something called the nuclear bomb. Right? So we've achieved that. So in other words, the nuclear bomb was a Freemason project to achieve Godhood. But not only that, after we, after they achieved the nuclear bomb, they had to use the nuclear bomb. They had to use it to show that they are God. Right? Because as we discussed before, at the end of World War II, the Americans were firebombing Japan. The war was over. They didn't have to drop the bomb, but they dropped the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Okay? That's number one. Number two is, they need to kill a king to show that they are God. Because the king is divinity, right? God gives birth to kings, only gods can kill a king. And who do they kill? JFK. Okay? Again, this is conspiracy theory. Okay? And the third thing, which a god does, is create life. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 19:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? And this is something that they haven't done yet. We're going to imagine what this is. This is AI. Okay? So these are the three missions of the Freemasons. And they've achieved the first two. They've warped reality by creating a nuclear bomb. They've killed a king, JFK. And the third thing they want to do is create life, which is AI. Okay? In fact. In fact, we can also guess where this AI will take place. Why? Because let's look at a map. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 19:37 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 19:38 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Let's look at a map. This is the equator. 33 degrees north of the equator are four places. Okay? Now, 33 degrees is very important in Freemasonry. There are 33 degrees in Scottish Freemasonry. It's a very secret number. All right? So 33 degrees north of the equator, you have four places. The first place is Trinity site, New Mexico in America, which is where they tested the atomic bomb. Okay? You go over across the Pacific to Japan, 33 degrees north is Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 33 degrees north in America is Dallas, Texas, where they killed JFK. So the last mission of Freemasons to achieve their vision for the world. It's creating AI. Right? Now, the question is, where would they do it? And the answer is 33 degrees north of the equator. Right? And where is that? Jerusalem. So this is the end game, guys. The Freemasons will create artificial intelligence in Jerusalem. And this will become the world government. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 21:04 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Again, this is just a conspiracy theory. Don't believe it. This is just for fun. Okay? But if it happens like this, then that's incorrect. Interesting. Okay? But that is the grand plan, to create a world government in Jerusalem. And what was the center of this world government? Solomon's Temple. Because the Freemasons believed that their founder was the one who created Solomon's Temple. So by recreating Solomon's Temple, you close the circle. Okay? So again, this is very complicated. And I don't want to get too many things wrong, but this is a general gist of it. And so what we can see is that... All roads lead to Jerusalem. Now that is the case. Okay? Then this helps us to understand certain things about the world that otherwise don't make any sense. All right? So let's go over them. The first thing that doesn't make any sense is America's war on terror. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 22:04 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Yes, I understand that America was attacked on 9 -11. I understand that. But why did they have to go attack Libya and Iraq? And all these other places that had nothing to do with Al -Qaeda? Okay? And the answer is they're trying to create something called the Greater Israel Project. They're trying to have Israel become Pax Judaica, the grand power in the Middle East. Because that's important in all secret societies. Israel must become the dominant power in the Middle East. Okay? So this helps us understand why the war of terror happened the way it did. That's number one. Number two is right now, America is threatening to attack Iran. Why would they do that? Because in order for Pax Judaica to come into being, Iran must be taken out of the equation. Iran must be destroyed. Then if that were to happen, there would be no challenge to the power of Pax Judaica. Okay? Does that make sense? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 23:15 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: All right? The third thing is Silicon Valley and AI. So right now, you have AI, ChatGPT, which doesn't really do anything. Okay? It makes cool images on your computer and helps you cheat in school. Okay? That's about it. It doesn't really do anything else. And if you don't go to school, then you're like, why am I using ChatGPT? Okay? And you're not going to pay a lot of money for it. So AI, it's a dead end. But at the same time, at all times, it's a dead end. All around the world, everyone's spending billions, trillions of dollars on data centers. Right? So everyone's putting money into AI. But then you're like, well, how do you make money off that? If you think the answer is for you to use AI, it's hard to make money off that. But if the answer is to create an AI surveillance state, that makes a lot more sense. Right? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 24:19 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So what is surveillance state? Very easy. You guys, we have it in China, okay? It's digital ID and digital currency. And the idea is that everything you buy, everything you do will be tracked. And so they can create a profile on you. And this profile will tell the government who you are, how you behave, what you think. Not only that, the government can also manipulate how you think, how you behave. Okay? And this is, of course, called a marketplace. This is the mark of the beast. Right? And so that's what Pax Judica is. Pax Judica is a global AI surveillance system. Okay? It also helps us explain immigration in Europe. Okay? Because the war on terror, you've sent these millions of refugees from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq into Europe, which is causing a lot of conflict in Europe. Why would that happen? Well, for Pax Judica to come into being, you need to destroy the world. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 25:32 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? So, I'm not saying this is true, but I'm saying that if the goal is Pax Judica, it does help us connect the dots. It helps explain why things are happening the way they are. Okay? Also, the last thing is anti -Semitism. Okay? So, you may have noticed, if you're online, people don't like the Jews. And this is like out of nowhere. After October 7th, you have anti -Semitism all over the internet. Now, I have criticized Israel before. Okay? But anti -Semitism is not the same as anti -Zionism. Right? Zionism is a belief that Israel is a chosen people and the promised land and all that. Okay? But Judaism, as a religion, it's not. It's perfectly fine. So, why would people not care about the difference between anti -Zionism and anti -Semitism? Okay? And you can argue it's all purposeful because, remember, part of the plan is to force the Jews to return to Israel. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 26:43 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: That's very important for this plan to work out. Okay? It's key. And that's why you are seeing so much anti -Semitism around the world today. Okay? And the last thing, of course, and this is something we'll discuss. Is something called the Red Heifers. So, Red Heifers are red cows that are perfectly genetically modified. And you need the Red Heifers in order to, you have to sacrifice the Red Heifers to purify the ground in order to reconstruct the Solomon's Temple. Okay? And guess what? They've already sacrificed the Red Heifers. So, it seems as though everything is in place. All right? They're moving towards Pax Judaica. All right. So, let's discuss what will happen in the short term and in the long term if Pax Judaica really is the end goal. Okay? So, when you have Israel fighting wars everywhere. Okay? The main enemy right now is Iran. In Europe, you have the Europeans about to go to war with Russia in Ukraine. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 28:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? America right now is threatening to attack Venezuela. Okay? South America. You have 10 % of the US Navy in the Caribbean and they're about to attack Venezuela. You have China and Japan at conflict. You have India here and you have Africa. Okay? So, what's going to happen in the short term? Okay. Well, what we know is that Europe is planning to go to war with Russia. Europe is about to go to war with Russia. Okay? At the same time, you have a lot of immigrants in Europe and this is going to create civil wars in Europe. Okay? Civil war. So, you have both war with Russia as well as civil war. So, Europe is kind of screwed. Okay? Okay? America has the same situation where the left -right divide is so polarized that eventually they'll go to war. If you read the news, you may have heard about the shootings at Brown University, as well as MIT physicists who were shot. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 29:22 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1762s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? So, random violence will be more and more common in the United States. And you can argue that it's all deliberate because the idea is this. Let's just say you have a jar. You put red ants in a jar and black ants in a jar. They get along fine. But you take the jar and you just shake it up, and now they're at war with each other. Okay? That's what's happening where the left and right, they really don't like each other. They don't talk to each other, and they refuse to engage in debate with each other. But they're not going to fight each other unless there's violence, in which case their tribal mentality takes over and they start killing each other. Okay? So, we're going to expect civil war. Okay? In the United States. Then, you're going to have the Americans start to attack Venezuela and possibly other countries in South America. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 30:13 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So, America is in for a bad time. Okay? China? Yeah, I mean, Japan and China and India, they're all going to have conflicts with each other. But also, what we should expect is that America starts to embargo China. Meaning, America uses its sea power. To block China from accessing resources, more seas. And China imports most of its oil and a lot of its food. So, if there's a blockade of China, you can expect the Chinese economy to really suffer. All right? But, and then what we can expect to happen is America at some point will go to war with Iran. And this will destroy both countries. Okay? Iran will not lose this war, but it won't win this war either, because America is just going to bomb the crap out of Iran. It's just going to send Iran back decades. But America will lose this war. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 31:18 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: But this is important because if America loses this war, it's forced out of the Middle East. And once it's forced out of the Middle East, all its military assets goes to Israel, which creates the Pax Judaica. Does that make sense, guys? That's the plan. Okay? Now you have Pax Judaica. And what Pax Judaica will do. Is start to control the world, because through chaos and conflict, Pax Judaica can make a lot of money, right? Because Pax Judaica, what's going to happen is that you have these technology companies like Google. They're going to move over to Pax Judaica and build a global surveillance state. There are civil wars. You need AI to control people. If you're going to war with Russia, you need weapons. Okay? But you also need financing as well. So you can expect a lot of banks to move to Israel. And it's possible Israel becomes now the global reserve currency because everyone is trading with Israel. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 32:22 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=1942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: If you're Russia, you need to trade your resources, right? Oil, energy, and grain. Okay? So Russia controls a third of the world's carbohydrates. Guess what, guys? Israel controls Africa. So what will happen is that Russia and other countries will sign a trade agreement with Israel. And Israel becomes the center of global trade. Okay? Does that make sense? So this is how Pax Judaica will profit. And remember that Israel has the world's best intelligence agency, the Mossad. And what they can do is go around the world and create as much chaos as possible. Okay? So while the world is burning, Israel, Pax Judaica, is profiting. And that's what the future looks like for the next 10, 20 years. And this will, of course, lead to the rise of the Antichrist, who will take control of Pax Judaica and force the world to eventually attack Israel in something called the War of Gog and Magog. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 33:35 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And this will, of course, lead to the second coming of Jesus. So that's the grand plan, okay? Right? Any questions? Does it make sense? It makes sense, you guys. I know it's evil. And you know what? I could be a complete idiot. Okay? I could just make it all dissolve. But you have to ask yourself three questions. Does it connect the past? Does it explain what's happened in the past? Does it explain what's happening today? And will these things happen in the future? Okay? So we haven't lived through the future yet, but you can see the trends. Yeah? Yeah, Vincent? Yeah, go ahead. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 34:19 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2059s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: You said that AI, like, they will, like God, create lives and create AI at Jerusalem. But I think, like, ChatGPT, they already create AI in Silicon Valley. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 34:34 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay. ChatGPT is not AI. It's an LLM, okay? Like, artificial intelligence is a thinking, conscious, sentient force that's like God. So they're trying to create God in Jerusalem, okay? Out of someone's temple. Does that make sense? Okay? Any more questions before we go to the PPT? But you guys understand what's happening, right? Okay. Let's go to the PPT. And again, guys, it's all just speculation on my part. I have no idea what will happen, okay? Like everyone else. Okay? All right, guys. The Promised Land. This is the greater Israel project. Okay? This is what Yahweh promised to Abraham in the Bible. As you can see, as you can, as you can see, as you can see, as you can see, as you can see, it's pretty huge. It's the entire Middle East. It extends from the Nile to the Euphrates in Iraq. Okay? It's a huge area. And if you say the Israelites are, sorry, the Israelis are, want to achieve the greater Israel project, they call you a conspiracy theorist. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 35:42 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They're like, we don't want that. Okay? But explain two things to me. First of all, why is the greater Israel map on a sharon of an IDF soldier? Okay? These are soldiers, Israeli soldiers, and they wear the insignia of the greater Israel project. Okay? This is the map. Also, if you look at the flag of Israel, there are two blue lines, right? These represent rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates. All right? So, if it's a conspiracy theory, then how do you explain these two things? All right. But I want to argue to you, you know what? Pax Judaica, it's not about Israel or the greater Israel project. What it is ultimately is an alliance of transnational capital. Multinationals, like Google and Meta, and intelligence agencies that were based in Jerusalem. Okay? So, secret societies will be based in Jerusalem ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 36:33 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: and they will use it as a headquarters for their global conspiracy, and they will profit from chaos and conflict around the world because they think that this is the culmination of the prophecy, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Jews will be in charge. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay? So, it's a much more complicated idea than people think it is. All right. So, where do we get this stupid idea from? Okay? It actually starts with Isaac Newton. So, Isaac Newton, you learn about him in physics class, you learn that he's the founder of calculus, you learn about Newtonian mechanics, okay? But actually, these are just side projects of his. That was not his focus. He spent most of his life focusing on reading the Bible to understand the Bible. And he wrote a book called Observations Upon the Prophecy of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Okay? That's where his focus was. And he believed he found the Bible cold. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 37:37 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And he was a member of secret societies. He was a member of the British elite. And if someone like Isaac Newton is telling you, like, this is what the Bible says, and this guy who found calculus and who developed the three laws of motion, you'll probably believe him. Okay? But the guy was insane. All right. So, what he did was, he just looked at certain sections of the Bible and put them together into a story about, okay? And so, this is Ezekiel 37. And so, Ezekiel 37 says that the Lord God tells the prophet Ezekiel that, yes, I've scattered the people of Israel, but now I bring them back together. And then I will make your nation great. I will make flowers bloom. I will make your city prosperous. Okay? And this is all in the Bible. Ezekiel 38 says that eventually there will be a war of ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 38:29 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Gog and Magog, when Gog and Magog will come invade Israel, but God will come and defend Israel and he will destroy Gog and Magog. And if you read the Bible, we're not talking about the Bible, but it's really violent language. So, the Israelis believe that for heaven to come, there first must be hell on earth. All right, so, Newton's plan to force second coming, okay? And this becomes the basis of Freemasonry, right? Freemasons were really invented in order to promote the second coming plan. Freemasons were first in England, but then where did they go? They went to America. Many of the founding fathers of America, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, were Freemasons. So, America was founded in many ways to achieve this plan. Okay? So, what's the plan? Well, you have to first reconstitute the nation of Israel and make it prosper, okay? It's really important that it becomes very wealthy. And in fact, Israel is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 39:31 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: You have to have the Jewish diaspora return to Israel, and that means you promote prosperity, but you also have to promote a Jewish conspiracy. So while you're letting the Jews get rich in the West, you're also promoting the idea that the Jews control the world, okay? It's all part of this plan. You have to have rebuilt Solomon's temple. You have to have the war of Gog and Magog. You have to have the Antichrist. You have to have Emmergarten, okay? And this will force Jesus to return and usher in the Millennium Age. Okay? Does that make sense? That's a grand plan. And unfortunately, most of these things have been achieved, okay? These are the Freemasons, and the top leadership is focused on achieving this plan developed by Newton. Eventually, what will happen is that Adam Weishaupt will found the Illuminati with Jacob Frank. And they will infiltrate the Freemasons. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 40:26 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And why do the Freemasons allow Adam Weishaupt and the Illuminati to infiltrate the Freemasons? Because Jews are an important part of this plan. They need Jews in place. They need Jews to go back to Jerusalem and build the nation of Israel and conquer the world in order for this plan to work out, okay? So it is an alliance between the Freemasons and the Illuminati. This is Rothschild, and Rothschild will establish many branches throughout Israel. Jacob Frank, we've discussed in the past. But this is a major alliance, okay? Alright, once we understand that it's the secret societies and their grand plan in motion, now it helps us understand why things turn out the way they did. For example, now we understand where British philosophy comes from. We discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain. To propose. To promote. To ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 41:25 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: promote a certain understanding of the world that is materialistic and which will build the foundation for the Second Coming, okay? So John Locke said, private property is what's important. David Hume, philosophy is pointless. Don't think about God. Just focus on material wealth. Jeremy Bentham, utility is everything, okay? How do we know what's good, what's right, if it benefits someone, okay? John Stuart Mill, liberty of the individual is everything. So making sure that people are individually happy as opposed to being spiritual. Karl Marx, freedom of the individual from material want. Charles Darwin, man is a monkey, okay? So this is promoting a certain worldview that will help promote the Second Coming. Alright, so look, if you just look at science, there are certain things they study and certain things they don't study. For example, they spend a lot of time studying particle physics. Who cares? Can I ask you this question? Who cares about particle physics? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 42:31 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They spend billions, trillions of dollars on this stupid thing. They build something called the CERN particle collider to figure out what the underlying atom is, okay? Isn't it really important? Isn't solving world poverty more important? I don't know. You can take all that money you spend on a stupid collider and make sure everyone in the world has enough to eat. They don't want to do that, though. Alright? You also have full -time jobs. They focus on outer space, AI, okay? So the very direction of science, it's very, very specific, okay? They're trying to achieve a materialist understanding of the world. And also, if you try to, this is the collider, okay? Again, I don't understand why they're spending trillions of dollars on this stupid thing. This is the current collider, LHC, in Switzerland, and now they're going to build a bigger one. Can you see how big it is, right? What are they trying to do here? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 43:25 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Are they really trying to figure out particle physics? Maybe, maybe not, alright? Alright, guys, Jacob Frank. What Jacob Frank tells us is there are different dimensions, okay? And another dimension is Big Brother, who's a friend of his, but he's stuck in his dimension. He's trying to come to our dimension, but he needs our help. So what's a certain particle accelerator trying to do, right? Is it really trying to discover? Particle physics, or is it really trying to break the dimensions, like they did with the nuclear bomb? Okay, do you understand? People believe the nuclear bomb, it was really about creating an interdimensional portal for Big Brother to come into. And now people are saying, is it possible the certain particle accelerator is trying to bring in these interdimensional demons to our world to conquer us, to enslave us? That would make a lot more sense than particle physics, okay, guys? Alright, what does science not study, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 44:30 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: It doesn't study consciousness, which is the number one problem in the world, right? Wouldn't it be nice to know how we think, okay? Wouldn't it be nice to know how I come up with the ideas I do in class and teach it to you, and how you respond to my ideas? Or is that a much more basic problem in particle physics? We don't do that, guys, okay? There's absolutely no money or very limited funding in the study of consciousness, imagination, intuition, anything in material spirit, okay? Like ghosts or spirits. We don't study at all religious truth. We also don't study kindness, happiness, and love, okay? We don't study what is the basis of these things. We don't care. We don't study telepathy, connection. We don't study intelligence of animals and plants. We also don't study ancient architecture and civilizations, so if you go to these ancient sites like Gopalitepe, we discussed Gopalitepe before, we only have uncovered 5 % of it, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 45:24 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: We don't care what is underneath Gopalitepe. It's possible that if we were to discover everything, then it would refute traditional paradigms of the world, including evolution, all right? So science is focused on spreading one particular paradigm about the world and discounting everything else, all right? So why is that? Okay, another thing that's really interesting about science is it hasn't really improved in the past 50, 70 years. We're spending billions, trillions of dollars on science, but we haven't really improved science that much. There have been no great discoveries, and there are three reasons why, okay? The first is specialization. You're only allowed to focus on one very specific problem, and while generalists, without being able to think of science very broadly, it's hard to come up with new discoveries, all right? The other thing is you have a very strict bureaucracy, so as a scientist, you spend most of your time actually applying for funding. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 46:26 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: You actually don't spend most of your time trying to solve the problems of the universe. The third thing is credentialism, where if you don't have a certain PhD and you don't belong to a major research university, you're not allowed to talk about science, okay? So because of these three reasons, it's hard to do science. It's hard to discover truth, and that's the intention. The intention is to prevent people from discovering the truth of the world, okay? Now science is not very good at creating new things, but it's very good at faking things, okay? Also, guys, it's possible we might, they might fake something else, called an alien invasion. Science is very good at that, it's not good at creating spaceships, but it's good at faking spaceships, okay? There's a difference. All right, so this is Thomas Kuhn, and he wrote something called The Structure of ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 47:22 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Scientific Revolutions, and he just says it's natural for paradigms, new ideas, to, it takes a very long time for paradigms to take shape. But then, if that's the case, how do we solve it? How do we solve it? How do we explain Einstein? The moment he proposed relativity, boom, he's famous, world famous, okay? How do you explain Darwin? The moment he proposed evolution, boom, he's world famous. It's really strange, like, this way, okay? And so, one explanation is, secret societies control the world, they have a certain eschatology, and they are promoting things that push their eschatology forward, and that's how the world works, okay? So if you think, okay, all right. Um. We also discussed last class the idea of Kuhn -speak, written by this Jew in Britain who becomes the first Jewish prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, and it's about how Jews control the world. And we were like, why is this happening? And I said, because it's part of the plan. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 48:17 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2897s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Because not only will, not only are Jews supposed to prosper in the West, but they're also supposed, people are supposed to think that they are part of a grand conspiracy, okay? Because the end goal is anti -Semitism and forcing them to return to Israel, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 48:30 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 48:32 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: All right. So, with this plan in motion, obviously, the secret societies cannot themselves come out and propose this plan, the secret societies, okay? So they have different individuals do this for them. This is Theodor Herzl, who is considered the founder of Zionism. The idea of Zionism is that Jews deserve their own homeland, preferably in Palestine, okay? Current day Israel. And he wrote a book called The State for the State. The State for the Jews, okay? And it was heavily promoted in 1896. You also have something called the Schofield Bible, okay? Which is to take Newton's plan and turn it, and then explain how the Bible and the plan work together, okay? And this is called premillennial dispensationalism, okay? Don't worry about the idea, okay? Okay. All right. So, 1917, you have Lord Rothschild, okay? Balfour, the British government, is sending a letter to Lord Rothschild saying, I have the pleasure of allowing you to create a homeland for the Jews. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 49:58 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=2998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So again, this is part of the plan where the British want to create Israel, but they're blaming the Jews for it, okay? They're saying. They're saying, it's the Jews who want to create Israel. Okay. So, in 1948, they create the nation of Israel, okay? This is Theodor Herzl. And remember, okay? The nation of Israel, it is not part of this grand plan. It's what the Jews aspire to. It's what the Jews want. It's all initiated by the Jews, okay? This is really important. Okay. Now, one thing that they say. One thing that the Israelis say is that. We deserve Palestine, because this is what God promised to us in the Bible. We are descendants of the Israelites. We are Hebrew. We're all one blood. Now, the great thing about Jews, okay? And this is why I have tremendous respect for Jews, is these Jewish intellectuals, they are first and foremost committed to the truth. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 51:03 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So, this is author Kessler, okay? Who is a Jewish intellectual. He wrote something called The Thirteenth Tribe. And this book, what he tells us is, this is nonsense, okay? The Jews, most of them don't come from Israel. They don't come from the Middle East. They come from Ukraine, okay? And this is called The Thirteenth Tribe. And he explains how, what happened, okay? So, Amber, could you read, please? All right. Could you read this passage, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 51:39 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: At the beginning of the eighth century, the world was polarized between the two super powers representing Christianity and Islam. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 51:47 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So, these two powers are the Byzantine Empire as well as the Abbasid Caliphate, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 51:52 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3112s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3112s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Their ideological doctrines were welded to power politics pursued by the classical methods of propaganda, subversion, and military conquest. The Khazar Empire represented a third force which had proved equal to either of them, both as an adversary and an ally. But it could only maintain its independence by accepting neither Christianity nor Islam, for either choice would have automatically subordinated it to the authority of the Roman Emperor of the Caliph of Baghdad. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 52:21 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so do you understand this idea? It's very simple. You have these three powers in Eurasia. You have the Byzantines and you have the Abbasids, okay? Byzantines are Christian. The Abbasids are Muslim. And these are the two dominant religions. And the Khazars think they're a power, and if they convert to, when they're pagan, if they convert to Christianity, they now have to obey Byzantine. If they convert to Islam, they now have to obey the Abbasids. They don't do either, okay? So they pick another religion, which is Judaism, right? And it makes sense because Judaism is the first religion. It is from Judaism in which you have Islam as well as Christianity. And therefore, Judaism is superior. And therefore, we Khazars are superior, okay? So this makes perfect sense, right? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 53:10 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: There had been no lack of efforts by either court to convert Khazars to Christianity or Islam, but all they resulted in was the exchange of diplomatic courtesies, dynamic intermarriages, and shifting military alliances based on mutual self -interest. Relying on its military strength, the Khazar kingdom, with its hinterland of vassal tribes, was determined to preserve its position as the third force, leader of the uncommitted nations of the steppes. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 53:41 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so the Khazar empire is very ambitious as well, okay? It sees itself as a great power. Eventually, it wants to unite the different tribes of steppe nations and conquer the world. But to do that, it needs its own distinct identity. So it's not going to convert to Christianity or Islam, right? Keep on going. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 53:58 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: At the same time, their intimate contacts with the Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only barbaric and outdated compared to the great monotheistic creeds, but also unable to confer on their leaderships the spiritual and legal authority which the rulers of the two theocratic world powers, the Caliph and the Emperor, enjoyed. Yet the conversion to either creed would have meant submission, the end of independence, and thus would have defeated its purpose. What could have been more logical than to embrace a third creed, which was uncommitted towards either of the two, yet represented of the venerable foundation of both? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 54:40 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Yeah, okay, this is a very simple idea. Monotheism is very important because the idea of one god gives ultimate authority to one person, which allows for the creation of an empire, right? Otherwise, every god is equal and you have, like, a lot of gods. So it's important to have one god. You have three religions that celebrate one god. You have Islam, which is doing very well. You have Christianity, which is doing really well. You have Judaism. And no one's practicing Judaism, so let's just take it for ourselves. Really simple, okay? So this was a mass conversion of an entire people to Judaism, okay? Does that make sense? All right, and so this is what the map looks like. As you can see, it's a huge area. This is Ukraine, okay? Modern -day Ukraine, the Khazar Empire. Then you have the Byzantines and you have the Abbasids. And the Khazars saw themselves as equal to both. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 55:32 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They wanted to maintain a separate identity. They didn't want to be consumed by either empire. Okay? So this is another map that shows Khazaria, okay? And then, yeah. All right, can you keep on reading? The only mercy... ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 55:54 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: The only mercy shown by history to those who took to flight or were driven to it was the existence of Khazaria both before and after the conversion. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 56:04 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so it doesn't make sense. So Jews are being persecuted in Europe all the time. They have no place to go except Khazaria, which is now the Jewish homeland. And the Jews know about Khazaria because they're traders, they're merchants. They're part of the diaspora. So information is spreading about Khazaria and they all go there. And these Jews are heavily intellectual. And so they bring their cultural practices to Khazaria. Also, we discussed this before. What is a Jewish person? A Jewish person is not someone who is born Jewish. A Jewish person is someone who reads the Bible and accepts the cultural practice of the Jews. And therefore, it's really easy to become a Jew. Keep on going. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 56:41 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Before, it was a refugee haven. After, it became a kind of national home. The refugees were products of a superior culture and were no doubt an important factor in creating that cosmopolitan, tolerant outlook which so impressed the Arab chroniclers quoted before. Their influence and no doubt their proselytizing zeal. This was an age when converting unbelievers by force or persuasion was a foremost concern that the Jews too indulged in it. It's shown by the fact that since the rule of Justinian Byzantine law threatened severe punishments for the attempt to convert Christians to Judaism while for Jews molesting converts to Christianity the penalty was death by fire. Sharp P25. What have made itself felt first and foremost at the court and among leading notables. They may have combined in their missionary efforts theological arguments and messianic prophecies with a shrewd assignment of the political advantages that the Khazars would derive from adopting a neutral religion. The exiles ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 57:55 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: also brought with them Byzantine arts and crafts superior methods in agriculture and trade and the square Hebrew alphabet. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 58:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So not only did the Khazars wanted their own religion that was distinct from Byzantines and the Abbasids but they also wanted the skills, the knowledge the culture, the science, the medicine that the Jews would bring with them. So this marriage made perfect sense. So from a logical perspective this makes complete sense. Unfortunately you're not allowed to discuss this because this is embarrassing for the nation of Israel. They're not saying this is not what happened because there's no evidence to suggest this is what happened they're saying you're not allowed to discuss this. Alright, can you keep on reading? Ethically, the Semitic tribes ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 58:47 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Ethically, the Semitic tribes on the waters ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 58:49 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3529s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, sorry, sorry. So Khazaria is around for a long time, a few centuries but then eventually they become conquered by the Mongols and the Mongols are ferocious, they're killing a lot of people so these Khazarians have no choice but to immigrate over to East Asia sorry, to Eastern Europe, okay? And they become the European Jews. Alright? And so what Kessler is going to do is he's going to show evidence to suggest that they all came from one place all these different European Jews they have similar cultural practices which means they originated from a similar place, okay? Can you keep on going? Ethnically ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 59:24 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Ethnically, the Semitic tribes on the waters of the Jordan and the Turko -Kazar tribes on the Volga were of course miles apart but they had at least two important formative factors in common each lived at a focal junction where the great trade routes connecting East and West North and South intersect a circumstance which predisposed them to become nations of traders of enterprising travelers or rootless cosmopolitans as hostile propaganda has unaffectionately labeled them but at the same time their exclusive religion fostered a tendency to keep themselves and stick together to establish their own communities with their own places of worship schools residential quarters and ghettos originally self -imposed in whatever town or country they settled this rare combination of wanderlust and ghetto mentality reinforced by messianic hopes and chosen race pride both ancient Israelites and medieval Kazars shared even though the latter trace their descendants not to Shem but to Japheth So genetically speaking the Kazarians and the Israelites have nothing in common, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:00:35 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3635s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: but they share some of their culture and that's who we ultimately are we're a product of culture as opposed to genes, okay? These are Karaites in the basically Ukraine, okay? and as you can see they're Jews and they practice the Kazarian version of Judaism, okay? The first impression, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:01:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: The first impression one gains is a striking similarity between certain privileged positions held by Jews like our Jews in Hungary and in Poland in those early days Both the Hungarian and Polish sources refer to Jews employed as mint mint masters administrators of the royal revenue controllers of the salt monopoly tax collectors and money lenders i.e. bankers This parallel suggests a common origin of those two immigrant communities and as we can trace the origins of the bulk of Hungarian Jewry to the Magyar Khazar nexus the conclusion seems self -evident ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:01:45 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, alright, thank you Thank you Alright, so does this make sense, okay? There's a lot of evidence to suggest like the Khazars were Jews and this is important to understand because guess what? The Khazar Jews, they will take over Europe, okay? And you have three different types of Jews You have the Sephardic Jews which is basically the Jews who are expelled from Spain, okay? These are real Jews You have the Mazari Jews who are in the Islamic world Again, these are real Jews The blue, these Ashkenazi Jews they're not real Jews They're converted, okay? This is something you're not to discuss at all even though the evidence is so stark The other issue with the Ashkenazi is that they make up 80 % of all Jews in the world today Okay? And so you go to the issue and they say We're here because this is what God promised to us That's nonsense But again, you're not to discuss this even though, again, the evidence is stark Alright? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:02:50 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3770s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3770s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Alright, so this conspiracy also helps us again, explain the JFK assassination Okay? As well as So this is a book, King Kill You can read it online for yourself It's by Daudert and Hoffman It goes into what the Freemasons want to kill JFK The sort of ritual sacrifice ideas behind it Okay? 9 -11 Alright? Why did 9 -11 happen? Because it's all part of this grand plan 9 -11 happened because America needed to go to the Middle East and destroy the Middle East to create Pax Judaica And that's exactly what they did Again, Al -Qaeda is, yes I understand Al -Qaeda did 9 -11 but then why did they have to go destroy Libya Why did they have to go destroy Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria Okay? So, and the last place that they need to destroy is Iran in order to achieve the Pax Judaica project Okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:03:55 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: ISIS, guys ISIS is, you know, these fanatical Muslims and they hate Israel but they never attacked Israel Okay? They've never ever in their history attacked Israel That's why they're probably controlled by the Mossad Okay? And these guys go around and destroy the entire Middle East But they never attacked Israel Okay? Really strange how this happens Okay? And all this war on terror What it does is it creates all these millions of migrants to Europe which is destabilizing European society And these societies Libya was once a middle class prosperous society and now you have these slave markets You've got these millions of Africans who are sold as slaves in Libya It is an anarchy now Okay So 2015 you have all these immigrants going to Europe And the Europeans are like We don't want these immigrants because what are we going to do with these immigrants? They're poor We don't ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:04:59 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: have the money We don't have the system in order to accommodate these immigrants And Angela Merkel who is the leader of Europe at this time The German Chancellor She says We can do this, guys We can do this And it was a It has become a dumpster fire Okay? And like guys In 2015 Everyone knew this was going to happen Everyone knew that you brought in millions of immigrants who did not speak English who did not share European cultural values and who didn't have much education This would happen Okay? Europeans are not as open as the Americans are Okay? And even these immigrants are causing problems in America Right? And at no point did the Europeans say Screw you America You did this to us At no point Okay? And you could argue that Okay Maybe it's bureaucratic incompetence But at the same time It could also be part of the grand plan to create ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:06:09 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=3969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: tax protection This is October 7th When Hamas went and killed a lot of Israels Israelis And this of course led to What's happening in Gaza today Okay? And what's happening in Gaza today Led to all these protests For Palestine around the world And a surge in anti -Semitism And this surge in anti -Semitism Was going to lead to Killings around the world So this is Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia Where if you read the news Two Islamic states State supporters Killed 15 Jews Celebrating a Jewish festival In Bondi Beach And quite honestly We can expect more of this to happen In the future And you can say this is all just an accident Or you can say Well you know It's part of the plan guys Okay? These are the Red Heifers And these Red Heifers Were spent People spent millions of dollars To To To Generally create Perfect Red Heifers Because nature doesn't produce ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:07:17 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Perfect Red Heifers And What people say The rumor is that These Red Heifers Have been sacrificed already So now they're getting ready To Rebuild Solomon's Temple Which will be the site Of the World Government Okay? Pax Judaica Let's go to Silicon Valley Okay? Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos Elon Musk How did they become billionaires? Guys Guys, I don't think they're smarter than us. In fact, I don't think that that's smart, okay? Steve Jobs is a smart guy. I will say Steve Jobs is a really smart guy, but these other guys are pretty normal guys. How did they become billionaires? All right, so Silicon Valley. People say that Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation. That is complete and utter nonsense. The hotbed of innovation is the American military because they spent billions of dollars on innovation, okay? So these are computers that develop for war purposes, okay? For the nuclear bomb, to fight World War II, to fight the Cold War. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:08:23 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They spent billions of dollars to develop this technology. And then what happened was this technology became smaller and smaller, and so much smaller that Steve Wozniak was able to take this technology and create our own personal computer. Now this is kind of strange because this R &D was funded by the American government. How does this one guy, Steve Wozniak, how was he able to take all this knowledge and then go and make his own computer? What? What did the American military let him? In fact, what's really strange is that while Steve Wozniak was building his own computer, which will become the Apple computer, he was working for Hewlett -Packard. In other words, everything he did should have been the IP of Hewlett -Packard. And in fact, Steve Wozniak said to his boss, listen, you guys pay me, you guys train me. If you want this PC that I'm gonna create, I'm happy to give it to you. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:09:14 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: And Hewlett -Packard said to him, no, keep it for yourself. That's really strange, guys. What corporation is so generous? Why would they do that? Well, there are three good reasons, okay? The first reason is that if the American military were to promote personal computers, every American in the world would say, screw you, okay? You guys are in the military. You guys are responsible for the Vietnam War. You guys are responsible for millions of deaths around the world. Why would I take a computer from you knowing that it's from the military? You're gonna use a computer to spy on me, man. You're gonna use this computer to turn me into a robot. There's no way I'm gonna touch this computer. But it's coming from Steve Jobs. That's different, right? Oh, Steve Jobs, he's a visionary. He's messianic. Of course I'll buy this personal computer from Steve Jobs, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:10:05 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Second is, at this time in history, America's at war with Soviet Union, okay? Which system is better, communism or capitalism? And so you want, so if you said that okay, we're the government and we spend billions of dollars to build this technology, that proves communism is better, right? But if it's like, no, no, no, it's these guys working by themselves on Silicon Valley in the garage, they get all these ideas for themselves, that proves capitalism is better, okay? That proves entrepreneurship is better. And the last reason, and this is the most important is, if the US government built this knowledge, right? It belongs to American people. So how do you monetize public knowledge? Well, you create public companies, right? You create public companies controlled by secret societies. That makes perfect sense, right? And we can now understand all these guys, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, they're front people. They're just poster boys. They're not reeling command. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:11:02 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#platform-infrastructure-control-surface-atlas) Text: It's these societies that's reeling control, okay? Sorry. All right, another example is Google. So, the American military spent billions of dollars, trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to build this fiber optic network, which is the base of the internet, okay? With this fiber optic network, you couldn't have the internet. And then, these two guys in their 20s took over this network and created Google. It's the same thing as, you know, the government spends billions of dollars building a highway, okay? And then you come along and say, I'm gonna build a toll booth. Same thing. Why were they allowed to do that? But not only that, but now they're slowly building their own underwater fiber optic network. So they're basically prioritizing this network created by the American military. Yes, I understand they're spending their own money to build this network, but it's the American military that spent taxpayer money to build, to do the R ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:12:00 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: &D for all this, okay? That's where the real value is. Mark Zuckerberg, guys. Look, look, he's not that smart, okay? And look, the other thing is, he was 19 years old, he stole this idea from his Harvard classmates, and then he got billions of dollars from venture capitalists to start Facebook. Why did he get this money? Facebook is not a great idea. Right? Social media, great, but I mean, like, I could also start a social media company. You could start a social media company. The other thing is, like, Yahoo, at one point, offered this guy a billion dollars to buy Facebook. We'll give you a billion dollars. That's a lot of money, right? You would've taken it, I would've taken it, but Mark Zuckerberg's like, nah. I wouldn't know what to do with the money. That's retarded. Why did he start Facebook in the first place but to make money? Okay? So you have these three questions. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:12:52 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: First of all, why are these people giving him money? He's just a 19 -year -old guy. He's a Harvard dropout. That's all he is. No experience, nothing. Second question is, if you're someone who's that young and you succeed so much, you would suffer from hubris, from ego. You make a lot of mistakes, right? The guy's never failed in his life. The third thing, of course, is I understand why Amazon, Google, and Apple are successful, okay? Apple has Steve Jobs. Google controls the world's search. Amazon controls, buying things, right? What does Facebook do? It doesn't do anything, right? So how do I explain why Mark Zuckerberg is so successful? Well, there's actually an explanation. This, guys, okay? It's all part of a, it's possible, okay? I'm not saying it is true, but it's all part of the grand conspiracy to create an AI surveillance state, which is what Pax Judica is. This guy, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:13:56 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: They look exactly the same. They are the same. They look like clones of each other. No personality, no ideas of their own. They're just robots. How did he become so successful, right? And AOB and AI, guess what, guys? Makes no money, but at the same time, they get tons of dollars from investors to build data centers, okay? And these data centers allow you to make really nice pictures and videos online that do nothing, okay? Why is all this money being spent except one day to, to create a surveillance state, okay? That's what makes sense. The idea that these things exist so that you can play on the computer makes no sense, but these things exist in order to one day have complete control over what you do, what you think, and how you behave. That makes sense now, okay? Pax Judica. All right, Elon Musk, okay? I, yeah, I understand millions of people worship this guy. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:14:56 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: I don't know how this guy makes money, okay? If you look at Tesla and Facebook, and you come in and says, listen, there are these two companies, Facebook and Tesla, would you invest in them? If I, and I'd be like, no! Facebook, there's no business model here. I don't understand why people need social media. I don't understand how Mark Zuckerberg, how he's gonna make money in the future. Elon Musk, he gets all his money from government subsidies. Tesla doesn't make any money, man. And the guy's a moron, okay? But Neuralink, okay? Why is he proposing Neuralink? It's part of transhumanism, right? All right, so Jacob Frank, guys, all right? Everything goes back to Jacob Frank. What does Jacob Frank believe? He believes that what matters is, at the end of the world is, the spirit becomes flesh, you understand? The spirit becomes flesh. What matters is not the mind. What matters is matter. Second thing he says is, listen, your laws tell me to fast, to suffer. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:16:00 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: I don't want that crap. I want to enjoy my life, okay? And the third thing is, this world cannot have been created by God. It was created by Satan. Because why would God allow us to die? Therefore, we must defy Satan by living forever, okay? Now, if you understand Frank, we understand the idea of transhumanism, okay? This is a guy with his own bionic eye that records things. This is a guy with his own arm. This is a new trend in the future. What is transhumanism? The capacity to live forever, okay? All right? So, this is the future. That we're looking at. If you're a rich person, if you're a powerful person, this is what you will experience. You will experience longevity, health, and beauty, okay? You will have organ transplants that keep you young. You will have stem cell therapy to repair any cancer, any diseases. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:16:58 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: You have gene therapy. You have blood transfusion. You have replacement bodies, okay? You will be 20 years old forever. You have great sex. You'll live forever, okay? If you are a billionaire. Everyone else, uh -oh, uh -oh. Well, first of all, you become a cyborg, where you are now specialized for a certain function, okay? They're gonna put microchips in your body so you can become a better accountant, okay? They'll turn your arms into cyborg, bionic arms, so you can be a better construction worker. Who knows, okay? Microchips inside of you, the mark of the beast. What do these microchips do? They are digital ID and digital currency, and guess what, guys? If you're not happy, they'll know about it, and they'll give you drugs to make you happy. You think this won't happen? They already have everything in place, okay? Addictive jobs to control mood. Oh, and like, if you're lonely, don't worry, man. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:17:54 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#platform-infrastructure-control-surface-atlas) Text: That's what AI is for. You have an AI girlfriend and boyfriend, and you know what? Most people would prefer an AI boyfriend and girlfriend, okay? Okay? And then, it'll be an individual matrix where you live in your own world. So be a World of Warcraft, but in the real world, okay? Where everyone, you know, you're not alone, okay? Who's your friend, your entire family, it's all just AI -generated, okay? You live in a perfect world. Okay, guys. Now, let's look at how packs you take out profits. What, how they control the world. Well, AI surveillance systems and AI data centers. Issue will become a leader in that, okay? Because for AI data centers to be effective, they need to be safe. Everywhere else, there's gonna be wars, right? Not in Israel, because Israel has nuclear weapons. So all the major technology companies will be based in Israel in the future. Weaponry, security, private militias to protect you if you're at war. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:18:53 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#platform-infrastructure-control-surface-atlas) Text: Bioweapons and biowarfare. Psychological and information warfare. Israel's really good at that. Intelligence, espionage, and sabotage. Mosad is the world's best intelligence agency. Financing, okay? So if you're gonna go to war, you'll be financed by the Israelis. Trade access, transhumanism for the global elite, okay? This is how, in the future, they will control the world. Does that make sense? All right, but we don't know how much of the world will last because of something called the Manic Pole Excursion, and this will usher in something called the Mini Ice Age, okay? So maybe God is unhappy with Pax Judaica. Maybe we know no one can defeat Pax Judaica except God himself, and maybe God will intervene, but not in the way that it says in the Bible, okay? We don't know. This is all speculation. Believe whatever you want, okay? So any questions? Does it make sense to you guys? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:19:48 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Pax Judaica, welcome to the future. Okay, all right. Let me go over some sub -stack. So I want to thank the founding members of my sub -stack because they're extremely generous, and they've left some questions and comments, and so I will answer them now, okay? So could you help me, Amber, by reading the questions so I can rest a bit? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:20:16 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Mr. Jiang, I am an avid viewer of all your videos, okay? I love your lectures on YouTube and your content on sub -stack, and I want to say a huge thank you for the incredibly important content you are sharing with humanity. I'm a 27 -year -old Jew living in Israel. I oppose any Zionist idea and any nation -state whatsoever, including Israel and including Palestine. I would like to know whether you think it is advisable for the younger generation of Jews, both those living in Israel and those who do not, to live in Israel. On the one hand, anti -Semitism is likely to increase the diaspora, which will lead many Jews to think that Israel is the safest place for us, and the chain of events that are likely to unfold will cause Jews to believe that the Messiah is just around the corner. On the other hand, we are heading towards living here in a technocratic ghetto of surveillance, digital ID systems, and so on. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:21:17 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: I'm sure that many sane Jews who simply want to live in peace regardless of religion or race follow your wonderful work and would like to know what you think is the right course of action for us. I don't know whether this question is a priority for you to address in a video, and it's completely understandable if you choose not to share it, but even a written response from you would be more than enough. Thank you very much. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:21:38 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so thank you, Daniel, for your comment. Listen, I think Pastor Jacob is not about the Jews. It's about these evil people who want to control the world, and they want to use Jews and Israel as a tool to do so. And a lot of Jews recognize this fact. A lot of Jews recognize that traditionally they've been used by empires in the past. And this is a great question, and I'll say certain things. The first thing is that I believe that the people who will be most resistant to Pastor Jacob, the people who will stand up and fight Pastor Jacob, will actually be Jews themselves. Jews have a great tradition of being on the front lines of resistance for justice, for humanity, for all that is good in the world. So I believe that Jews will play a very important part in the resistance against Pax Judaica. Second thing that I will say is that things look dark, but what we've learned this semester are three things, okay? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:22:44 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=4964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: The first is that evil must triumph. So that good may rise. There must be total darkness for the light to shine. And all hope must end so that we can become hope ourselves, okay? So please remember that there's a bright spark in us. When all hope seems lost, that spark will remind you of who you are, and it will lead you into the light, okay? So I don't have specific instructions or ideas on how to counter Pax Judaica, but I think that being aware of Pax Judaica and being aware that we individually have the capacity to resist is fundamental to what is to come, okay? So thanks to Daniel for the question. Okay, all right. This is from Kevin Zhou. Can you read, Amber? Okay. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:23:34 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5014s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5014s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: I first want to thank whatever gave you the courage to continue past tribulations, maybe Mrs. Jiang, and continuing to teach. Your will and dedication to learning and teaching is monumental compared to the attention spans of newer generations. I think I speak for most of us who watch, but you have definitely made a historical impact on us. It seems transnational capitalism, Francism, has weaved its web for hundreds of years, turning into the monster it is today. What are humanity's possible counters? Do you think it is religion? Will we ever make a cyclic turn away from capitalism? How long would it take to undo this movement? Thank you. Never spot. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:24:12 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so you're absolutely right, okay? So again, thank you for this question, okay? The Francists have spent centuries preparing for today, and that's why they win, because they're willing to think long term. They're willing to work together. They're willing to make necessary sacrifices to achieve heaven on earth in their eyes, okay? And so we need to, if you want to defeat them, you need to be calm like that, okay? You need to think long term. You need to, like, understand. You need to make sacrifices, okay? It's something that you cannot defeat in one day or ten years. Or 100 years. You have to, like, believe in yourself. You have to believe in humanity. You have to respond by working hard, by making sacrifices, okay? By learning, all right? So that's the only way forward. Also, what we also know is that when empires come into being, that's when they end, okay? So the moment Pax Judaea comes into being, it has to end because Pax Judaea becomes arrogant. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:25:14 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5114s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5114s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: It becomes obvious. It becomes narrow -minded. It becomes insular, okay? And so Pax Judaea will fall. We don't know how long Pax Judaea will last. It may not even last that long, okay? Maybe 10 years, 20 years, who knows, okay? But it's a very unstable system. So what we need to do is look ahead and think about what humanity looks like after Pax Judaea. Also, I hate to say this, but it looks like the world is about to end. Wars everywhere, destruction everywhere. Maybe 9 % of humanity gets wiped out, okay? So we need to face this fact and prepare for what the future looks like after the great flood that is coming, okay? And we have to use our imagination. And later on, as I continue my teaching, I will propose different scenarios, different solutions, okay? But this is a long ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:26:05 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: -term project. Frank has spent a lot of time conceptualizing how to conquer the world. We have to imagine how we can rebuild the world together. All right. This is from. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:26:19 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: You speak a lot about the monad and Gnostic teachings. Do you see this as a possible emerging major religion? Can it be? It seems like this massive expansion, like the Bronze Age, Muslim conquest, and implosions like the Bronze Age collapse and the French Revolution that repeat throughout history are almost the way civilization matures for those who participate. The same way a person grows from facing the overcoming trauma, are societies who participate in a collapse and come out the other side better off for it? Lastly, who are your favorite English -language poets apart from Milton? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:26:57 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, I'll answer the last question first. I was an English major at Yale, okay? So I know a lot about English poetry. Milton is definitely my favorite poet. Then you have John Keats. William Shakespeare is also really good, okay? Societies rise and fall so that there can be creativity in the world, okay? It sucks if a society, a society lasts for a long, long time. We know because we're in China, okay? Societies are meant to rise and fall so that new societies may rise and fall as well. Parents must die so that children can be independent, okay? So I understand death, destruction, war. These are terrible concepts, but they're all part and parcel of the human experience. We should stop seeing them as negative things and just as things that happen to us, and we should respond accordingly, okay? So if you think about the Bronze Age collapse, yes, it was a terrible event, but it led to the founding of Israel. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:27:58 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: It led to the Greeks. It led to the rise of Persia. And these three different civilizations were pairs of tremendous creativity in the human experience. And it seems as though we've come to the end of a cycle, okay? So even though there's destruction, destruction will mean rebirth. Even though there is stagnation, stagnation will lead to creativity. It's all part of a cycle, okay? The human experience is one that is extremely dynamic, extremely resilient. So even though there's death, death always leads to life. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:28:35 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:28:38 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: All right. This is from Demi. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:28:41 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Professor, you have a remarkable way of synthesizing the best parts of spiritual practice while mitigating the worst parts, dogma, lack of critical thinking, and self -reflection. Was there a moment in life where you had your spiritual epiphany? I imagine Dante's Inferno helped. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:28:55 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay. So I think that my superpower has always been my capacity for self -reflection. Ever since I was young, I've been able to stare in the mirror and look at who I am and say, this is who I am. This is what I like about myself. This is what I don't like about myself. So I'm constantly in a process of self -reflection and self -rejuvenation. And self -invention. Okay. I've done it all my life. Okay. So I was a poor immigrant in Toronto. I was bullied a lot when I was young. I didn't like that. So I worked hard, got into Yale. And then after I got from Yale, I thought that I was succeeding in this world. I didn't succeed. So I looked at myself in the mirror and I recognized that there were limitations to my Yale education. I changed that. Okay. I started to reinvent myself. I did a lot of things that were experimental, but which I am forever thankful for. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:29:50 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5390s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5390s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: For example, I did stand -up comedy for a time. I did skydiving. I did parkour. So I am constantly in the process of self -exploration, self -reflection, and self -reinvention, which is what leads to creativity. Okay. So I wouldn't say there's a particular moment when my life changed. I would say, oh, I've always been like that. Okay. Five years from now, I'll probably not be, I'll probably be a different person from I am today. I'm not content with just being who I am. I'm constantly looking to improve myself. And that means constantly engaging in a process of self -reflection, but that means also engaging in a process of self -doubt and sometimes even self -hatred. Okay. So even though, you know, like online, I'm famous and people appreciate my teaching, I don't really care about these things. Okay. For me, what's important is, am I improving? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:30:41 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Am I being creative? Am I contributing to the progress of humanity? Is that, or is that, are you making that animate me? I love Dante, by the way. Dante, everyone should read Dante. And next semester I'm teaching on great books and we'll spend a lot of time on Dante, okay? All right, keep on reading. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:30:58 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Hi, professor. I've always loved history and it's been a blessing finding your teachings. I wish I had a class like this in school. Growing up with a Zionist mother, from that perspective, I thought what she spoke of would never really happen. I try to help combat Zionism and those oppressed, but it feels hopeless. Do you think there is any possibility to change or stop what is currently happening? Or has Zionism embedded into many aspects of society? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:31:24 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, Zionism has won out because the people who believe in Zionism are the ones who are willing to make the most sacrifices, the ones who are the most energetic, who are willing to work together to achieve this vision. So an example is, if you look at all these welfare societies in the world, there's only one wealthy society that has a fertility rate above replacement level, and that's Israel, okay? It's above two, possibly three. Every other nation is like one or 1.5, okay? So it shows us that regardless of how we feel about Israel and Zionism, people in Israel love being Israeli, and they want a better future for the nation, and they believe in a better future for the nation. Young people making the sacrifice in Israel to have a family shows you the health, fertility, and energy of a nation. Okay? But at the same time, and I keep on saying this, when ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:32:20 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Zionism has become an empire, when it becomes Pax Judaica, that's when it will fall very quickly. And I also believe that a lot of Jews, a lot of Israelis don't want an empire. They just want to live normal lives. And the fact that they become the center of the world, the fact that they're causing all this war, chaos and conflict around the world to benefit from, a lot of them are going to rebel, okay? So I can imagine that once Pax Judaica comes into being, it's going to be a massive civil war throughout Israel. All right? Okay, Dan? ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:32:55 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: What is your favorite food? And what can we expect, or not, between semesters and over the break time? Thank you for all the great lectures this semester. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:33:03 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, my favorite food is Japanese. I love sashimi. But I also just love food in general. I'm Cantonese, so I just love eating in general. They say that Cantonese people live to eat. Okay? And that's certainly true for me. Okay, so after this class, I go on a two -week break. And then I come back to teach two classes, Game Theory and Geopolitics. So what we'll be doing is looking at current events and using Game Theory to understand how and why they're happening, okay? So we'll be looking at things like Venezuela, Iran, Israel. Okay, so that'll be a fun class. I'll also be teaching a great book. So we'll be looking at Dante, Homer, Plato. Shakespeare, Milton. Okay, so two weeks. There'll be a two -week break. But in general, we start two new classes, and it'll be fun. It'll be interesting. I hope that you'll enjoy them, okay? All right, this is from Oz. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:34:05 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5645s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5645s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: It's been a pleasure to read and listen to your work. The education and contextual framing is super interesting. I am especially inspired by the original works you quote, which illustrates how well read you are. I'm sure you have already read it. I've already heard this, so I'm hoping that writing a book is already on your radar. Half of the work is done, and you have a proven audience. Start with putting all your transcripts and essays into AI with some guidance and ask it to create a book. Then you can iterate. All you will need beyond that is perfecting citations and ensuring there are no errors. But that won't change the messages you have brought to light. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:34:44 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5684s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5684s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: Okay, so thanks, Oz, for the encouragement. I am planning to write a book, okay? Now, I'm going to read a book. I've written many books in the past before. I've published two books, so I know the book writing process. I'm an agent, so it won't be hard for me to publish a book. And as Oz said, I do have an audience. I do have a global audience, tens of thousands who would love to read the book. But I want to create the best book possible. So that requires meditation. That requires discussion. That requires experimentation. So I understand that. I understand the book writing process. And the way I write books is different from how others write books. I have lots of writer friends. They're extremely successful. I can't do what they do. They spend like ten hours a day writing books. I am much more imaginative. I'm much more intuitive. I like to take long walks in the park and just play around with ideas. ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:35:39 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: So I will write a book. I am very efficient. When I set a goal, I go and do it. But I want to write the best book possible. for everyone I see my I see myself first and foremost as a writer most people see me as a teacher but I'm first and foremost a writer and so I want to take tremendous pride in whatever I produce I want this book no matter what I write to stand the test of time I want people to read it 100 years from now okay I love reading books I love books books to me are just as alive as people when I read books what makes me what what makes me distinct as a reader is when I read books I'm able to perceive or go into the soul of the person okay that's why I know Jacob Frank ## The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters -- 1:36:27 - Source title: Secret History #END: Pax Judaica - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFWizN3QoPg&t=5787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wfwizn3qopg.json) Text: so much when I read Jacob Frank I'm like I I understand how he thinks okay I'm not judging him okay he's an evil guy I'm not judging him okay but I know how he thinks I know how he feels I know what he's doing what he's doing and that's what allows me to manage insight into you I'm able to create really interesting content for everyone so I love reading I love writing if I'm gonna produce a book and I'm gonna write a book I want it to send the test of time I want people to read it and be forever changed by it okay all right so that is it thank you so much guys next semester we start game theory and geopolitics okay ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-gives-hidden-power-a-face) Text: We've discussed Transnational Capital, the British Empire. We've also discussed the Separatist Frankets. Today, we will put the two ideas together and show how the alliance between these two different forces have created modernity, or the ideas that underpin our society today, including Marxism, Darwinism, Individualism, Liberalism, and Freudian Psychology. All right, so we will talk a lot about Jews today. But just as a caveat, it's important for us to remember that it's easy to see a Jewish conspiracy everywhere. But things are actually much more complicated than that. The argument I want to make to you today is that the Jews are a construct and tool of empire. In other words, they're really the middle managers. They're the ones who help. They help manage the empire. And if the Jews weren't around, then it would be the Indians or some other group. An empire needs scapegoats. It needs middle managers. And for the past 200 years, the Jews have served the purpose. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:15 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=75s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=75s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-gives-hidden-power-a-face) Text: Something else I will show you today is that the empire, which is Transnational Capital, they get all the profit. They hide behind the scenes. They're the shadows. And they make all the money. And it's really the Jews get all the blame. And what we'll discuss, in the next class, is that it's the same thing that will happen today. Okay? So, that's the argument I will make to you today. Alright. So, let's discuss the British Empire. The British Empire is unique in human history in that, it controls the entire world. And it's just a small island, right? It's just a small island with very little resources. And it's able to control the entire world because it controls global trade. It has the world's greatest navy. It also has, It also has the Bank of England, which is really transnational capital. And English becomes the lingua franca of the world and has colonies throughout the world as well. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 2:12 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So for the British Empire, the way they control the world, it's a very simple concept. As long as the British Empire is able to control the seaways, then it controls the world. So in the world, the great crisis, the great problem, the great threat is that an empire will emerge within the Eurasian continent. It's called the heartland, okay? And this could be Germany, it could be Russia, it could be China. But if it's able to emerge, eventually, like the Mongol Empire, it's able to conquer the entire Eurasian continent. And through railways, it's able to link up Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. All together into one trading bloc. And then you don't need the seaways anymore. If that were to happen, then the British Empire would go bankrupt. Because, remember, the British Empire, with the Bank of England, transnational capital, it's really a policy scheme. It needs to be able to keep on buying into the empire for it to continue to succeed. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 3:14 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So the greatest threat is a great power emerging from the heartland. And throughout history, that was either the French, the Ottoman Empire. The Germans, or the Russians. So the grand strategy of the British is to create as much chaos and conflict in Europe as much as possible. You always want your enemies fighting each other. And that's just the core strategy of the British. Not very hard, okay? So again, as we discussed, there are four major enemies that the British have faced throughout their history as an empire. There are four major enemies that the British have faced throughout their history as an empire. The French, they were able to defeat because of the French Revolution, as well as the Napoleonic Wars. Then they had to face the Russians. And the Russians were the greatest threat because the Russians had the largest land empire. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 4:07 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And they were the most likely to unify the Eurasian continent. They also faced the Ottomans, and they also faced the Germans. Now, the British could not seem as though they were interfering in European politics. Because all that would do is angle the Europeans and unite the Europeans against the British. They had to do it using subterfuge, secretly, using intelligence operatives, right? And so, of course, what happened was that they built different strategies in order to divide and conquer Europe. What they would do is promote revolutionary movements using transnational capital. And we'll discuss these revolutionary movements later on. And we'll discuss these revolutionary movements later on. They also industrialized Japan because they saw Japan as a natural ally in the world. So you know that in Japan, they underwent the Meiji Restoration. And in only a few decades, they were able to industrialize. So much so that they defeated Russia in the Russian -Japanese War in 1905. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 5:17 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And you may not know this, but transnational capital, the British and the Americans, financed a great deal of Japan's industrialization. Because the Anglo -American Empire wanted Japan as an ally. It was a natural ally. What they would also do is establish resource colonies. So Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, these are all resource colonies. The idea is that you can now use manpower to fund your armies. And the last strategy is to, wherever you can, steal as much resources as possible, as fast as you can. And this was true in India and China. And China and Africa as well. So this is the grand strategy of the British. And they needed agents to help them in these endeavors. And the 17th Frankish made the most sense. So the advantages that the 17th Frankish brought to the British Empire were fourfold. The first is that they already had a diaspora. And they were also crypto -Jews. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 6:21 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: They also discussed identity as Jews as well. So they were able, as a network, to conduct intelligence, do blackmail, and subvert governments. They also had access to a lot of transnational capital. They themselves were extremely wealthy. The last major advantage, and the most important, is that they had revolutionary selves and networks. So remember, the 17th Frankish, they believed that they were saving the world. They believed they had to destroy the world in order to save it. And these made perfect revolutionaries. And I'll show you this as we move on. The last reason that we won't discuss much today, but we'll focus a lot on in our last class, is the idea of eschatology. Where the British Empire, they are Christians. And they believe that they must use Jews as a pawn in order to force the return of Jesus. This is something that we'll discuss a great deal next class. But I want to focus on these three reasons first. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 7:21 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay? All right. So, and it made sense for the British to align themselves with the 17th Frankish, because the way they saw the world was the same. As an empire, as transnational capital, remember, you're focused on extracting as much energy as possible from your workers. So you're very materialistic. Well, the Frankish were also very materialistic as well, right? They believed that the body was more important than the spirit. Second is that... Both the Frankish and the British, they wanted to obtain power through chaos, instability, and regime change. And both were very focused on the pursuit of wealth and power. So these were natural allies. So let's use an example of how the Ottoman Empire... Oh, sorry. Let's use an example of how the British Empire worked the suffering of Frankish. And the most obvious example is the Ottoman Empire. So for the longest time, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful force in Eurasia. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 8:26 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And this was the Ottoman Empire at its height in 1683. Remember, in 1666 is when Sabrelai Zevi declared himself the Messiah. And remember that Sabrelai Zevi had to convert to Islam. And the people who followed him into Islam are called the Dongmei. The Dongmei are very important people. But over time, empires will decay. In 1853, Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire. And this led to the Crimean War. The British and the French feared Russian expansionism. And so they supported the Ottomans. And the Ottomans were able to defend themselves against the Russians. But this alliance came at a cost to the Ottomans. The British and the French made the Ottomans take out loans in order to finance the war. And over time, because of interest, these loans started to overwhelm the Ottoman financial system. And so what happened was, the British and the French bankers came and established their own tax administration. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 9:33 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And so from now on, a third of all revenue, tax revenue, that the Ottoman Empire generated would go directly to the French and British bankers. And so this caused the Ottoman Empire to decline rapidly over time. And the French and the British, a central bank, were then controlled by foreigners. And not only that, but they set their own tax administration. So they had their own tax agents. And that's why these bankers became very wealthy. Guess what? These bankers had a natural ally in the domain, right? The Saboteur Frankish. And so the Saboteur Frankish also became very wealthy. Now what happened is that the Ottoman Sultan didn't really like this relationship. He didn't like being bossed around by these bankers. And so he went to the Germans. And so now the Germans were now financing the Ottoman Empire. And they were now allies. And so the British and the French didn't like this. And so what the domain did was start to finance a revolutionary group called the Young Turks. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 10:41 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The Young Turks believed in three things. They believed in secularism, no religion. They believed in liberalism. And they believed in individualism. Just basically the basic ideas of modernity. And eventually, the Young Turks were able to overwhelm the Ottoman Empire and establish something called the Republic of Turkey, which is still around today. So guys, the Republic of Turkey, if you go to Turkey, it's a domain that controls Turkey. Okay? All right? So remember, the domain comes from Zevi. They are crypto -Jews. They pretend to be Muslim, but they're in fact Jews. And these three domains will help to found the Republic of Turkey. And they still control Turkey together. Okay? So that's an example of an alliance between the Somerset and the British Empire. Another example of an alliance is, of course, the Rothschild banking dynasty. This is Jacob Rothschild with King Charles of England. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 11:47 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And this alliance goes back hundreds of years. And the Rothschild family is, of course, one of the most powerful banking families in the world. So there's a story of how they got rich. In 1815, Napoleon and the British fought the Battle of Waterloo. And this would determine who controlled Europe. In the battle, the British and the Germans together were able to defeat the French. When this news happened, an agent of the Rothschild got into a corvette, which is a fast boat, and they sailed all the way back to London to tell the Rothschild the news. The Rothschild controlled the media at that point. And so the media told everyone, oh, my God, we lost the Battle of Waterloo. So as you can imagine, people started to panic. There was a stock market crash. And then the Rothschild bought up all the assets. And that's how they became extremely wealthy. And this is a strategy that they continue to use throughout their history. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 12:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. So where the 17th Frank is and where the British Empire clapped the most was in philosophy, developing an understanding of the world that allowed them to amass more power. Okay. So let's go over quickly over some basic British philosophy. So British philosophy at this time was controlled by Freemasons. We'll discuss the Freemasons more in the next class. Okay. But the main purpose was to really deny God and truth. And there were three major strands of this philosophy. The first major strand is what we'll call empiricism. And the most famous proponent of this is John Locke. John Locke argued that we are born with a tabula rasa, a blank mind. Okay. A blank slate. And so whatever information comes into us is through experience. Only through experience. Okay. Not through reasoning. Not because of God. Not because of imagination or inspiration. Not because of the mind spark in us. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 13:52 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: But through just experience and only experience. Okay. Then Hume proposed a new idea called skepticism. And he goes in further. He goes in further than John Locke. John Locke says that we experience the world and that's how we know the world. Now, the entire basis of science is the idea called induction. If I see a white swan a thousand times, I can then infer that all swans are white. Okay. This idea of induction. This is what underlies studying process. Without the idea of induction, you can never access truth. And what David Hume says is, induction does not work. You cannot prove that just because you've never seen a black swan, black swans don't exist. Okay. You could have seen 10 million white swans. That does not prove that all swans are white and can only be white. And he's right because there are black swans. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 14:52 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas) Text: So what he's saying is the very project of truth seeking, the very project of epistemonology, of philosophy, it's all nonsense. Not only that, but we don't really know things. All we do is remember things. Okay. So when we say that Rome is a capital of Italy, we think we know it, but we don't know it. It's all just convention. It's all just we agree to call a place in Italy Rome. We agree that that's a capital. Okay. It's all just agreement. But there's no basis for truth here. All right. So now this raises the problem of, okay. If God doesn't exist, if truth doesn't exist, if there's no way for us to reach truth, if there's no way for us to discover truth, then what can we do? And so Darien Bantham proposed the idea of utilitarianism. The way we understand the world is just through utility. If it is good for the majority of people, then it must be good. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 15:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: If it causes pleasure for the majority of people, then that policy must be good. If people want to eat candy all the time and makes them feel happy, then we should allow them to eat candy. And that is inherently good. Okay. And then what his disciple John Stuart Mill will do is he'll take the basis of this idea of utility as a basis of good and evil to create liberalism. Okay. So the very idea of liberalism today is based on utilitarianism. So for example, homosexuality. Why is homosexuality good? Because first of all, homosexuals want to be homosexuals. Okay. You force them not to be homosexuals, they'll feel bad. But also what's more important is they're not doing any harm to anyone. Right? So if you just do the mathematics and you recognize that allowing homosexuality is a positive, and that positive brings more pleasure to the world, then you should allow it. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 16:53 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1013s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1013s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And let's just talk of it goes against the will of God, it's against the Bible. It's just nonsense. We should just focus on first principles and just focus on utility. Does it bring benefit to people? And this is the very basis of British philosophy. And as you can appreciate, this aligns very much with the 17th of Francis idea of the world. All right. So this is John Stuart Mill and this is Jeremy Bantham. Okay. And not only that, but once this philosophy is in place, they are now going to promote certain scientists that agree with this philosophy or whose findings support this philosophy. And the most famous, of course, is Charles Darwin. Okay. Charles Darwin. Right? When his book, The Origin of Species, came out, it was an instant bestseller. And within 20 years, it became the mainstream understanding of how we originated, even though if you actually read the book, even though if you actually look at the science, it's still very problematic. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 18:04 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: All right. So this is very strange how science is supposed to be a field of rigorous debate, rigorous science. Right? But the evidence supporting evolution is limited. And again, we discuss this all the time, but it doesn't explain to us how we come to think. Right? It explains to us how we dug our bodies. Sure. Yeah. From apes, we get humans. That makes sense. But intellectually, we're a lot more imaginative than apes. How do you explain that? And he doesn't explain that. Okay? And you're not even allowed to ask this question. All right. So as this alliance between the Seven Frankish and the British Empire is growing, there's certain individuals that become these meeting points of these two different groups. Okay? So let's discuss two of them. The first is Benjamin Disraeli. And it's important. Because he becomes the first and only Jewish prime minister of the British Empire. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 19:09 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And the second person is Leonon de Rothschild, who is here to the Rothschild banking family. They're best friends. And you can argue the Rothschild banking family financed Benjamin Disraeli's banking career. Okay? And in 1844, Benjamin Disraeli will publish a book called Collinsby. It's a novel. Okay? It's not a memoir, but it's a novel. When you read it, he will say that the characters are very much based on people that Disraeli knows. And Disraeli is very explicit in telling us why he wrote the book. And the idea is to tell the British people more about Jews, because Jews right now in history, in Britain, they're an exotic species. Okay? And it's also to establish how Jews think. Now, what's amazing about this novel is that you read it, and it's really strange, but it conforms to every single anti -Semitic stereotype that we say today. Today, you say that Jews rule the world. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:19 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: You say that Jews work together. They conspire together. You say that Jews think they're superior to everyone else. You are labeled as an anti -Semite. Okay? But, if you read this novel, and we'll read this novel together, this is exactly what Benjamin Disraeli says, okay, about the Jewish people. All right. So, let's read it together. Okay? So, Amber, can you read, please? This is the introduction to the book, Collinsby. Okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:49 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1249s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1249s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In asserting the paramount character of the... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Ecclest... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:55 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Ecclest... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:55 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: What is it? Single. Keep going, Maureen. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 20:58 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. For polity and the majesty of the theocratic principle, it became necessary to ascend to the origin of the Christian church and to meet in a spirit worthy of a critical and comparatively enlightened age, the position of the descendants of that race who were the founders of Christianity. The modern Jews had long labored under the odium and stigma of medieval... Malevolence. Malevolence. Malevolence. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 21:27 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So, what we're saying is this. Christianity is a great religion, but it's important that we look at the origins of Christianity and who founded Christianity, okay? Which is the Jews. We know it's the Jews who created Christianity, okay? Okay. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 21:41 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In the dark ages, when history was unknown, the passions of societies, undisturbed by tradition... Traditionary experience were strong, and their convictions, unmitigated by criticism, were necessarily fanatical. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 21:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So, during the dark ages, everyone was just stupid, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 22:01 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The Jews were looked upon in the middle ages as an accursed race, the enemies of God and man, the special foes of Christianity. No one in those days paused to reflect that Christianity was founded by the Jews, that its divine author in his human capacity was a descendant of King David. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 22:21 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The divine author, of course, is Jesus, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 22:24 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: That his doctrines avowedly were the completion, not the change, of Judaism. That the apostles and the evangelists whose names men daily invoked and whose volumes they embraced with reverence were all Jews. That the infallible throne of Rome itself was established by a Jew, and that a Jew was the founder of the Christian churches of Asia. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 22:48 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So this really is not just saying that Jews are important, but he's also saying that Jews are superior. Okay. Because they're the ones who created Christianity, and what he will say later on is Jews created everything because Jews are the most intellectually creative people in the world, okay? And remember, this really is a Jew, and he's one of the Jewish elite, okay? All right. Let's keep on going. All right. So in the novel, the major character is Sidonia, who is a wealthy Jewish person based on the Rothschild family, okay? And he's going to explain. He's going to explain to us how Jews control the world. All right. Can you read, Allen? Yeah. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 23:31 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Sidonia. Sidonia was descended from a very Asian and noble family of Aragon. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 23:37 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Aragon is in Spain. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 23:37 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 23:38 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So we discussed how before, for a hundred years, the Jews were part of the Spanish Muslim empire. But when they were reconquered, they were forced to leave or convert. Do you want to go in? Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 23:50 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So Sidonia is a Jewish state that, in the course of ages, had given to the state many distinguished citizens. In the priesthood, its members had been peculiarly eminent. Besides several prelates, they counted among their numbers an archbishop of Toulouse and Sidonia. In a season of great danger and difficulty, had exercised the power of the archbishop. Sidonia, for a series of years, the paramount office of grand inquisitor. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 24:25 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So even after the Christians reconquered Spain, and after some Jews converted to Catholicism, okay, first of all, these Jews kept their faith secret. So even though on the outside they were Catholics, in the inside, they were still Jews. Okay. They were crypto -Jews. But much more importantly, these Jews rose to supreme power. Revealed their power. Within the Catholic Church in Spain. The irony is that the Spanish Inquisition, where Catholics were looking for Jews who were pretending to be Christians, the leadership were Jews. The leadership were crypto -Jews. Okay. This is what this really is saying. I'm not saying this is true, but this is what this really is saying. Okay. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 25:13 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Yet, strange as it may sound, it is nevertheless a fact, of which there is no lack of evidence, that these Jews were Christians. This illustrates family, during all this period, in common with two -thirds of the Aragonese nobility secretly adhered to the ancient faith and ceremonies of their fathers, a belief in the unity of the god of Sinai, and the rites and observances of the laws of Moses. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 25:45 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So guys, two -thirds of nobility in Spain were Christians. Crypto -Jews. Jews disguised as Catholics. Okay. All right. So again, I'm not saying this is true, but it's striking and really strange that a Jewish man, who is very powerful, who will become Prime Minister of England, he's writing this stuff. Okay. He's putting it in the mouth of basically a Rothschild. Okay. Can you read, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 26:16 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The Sidonians of Aragon were... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 26:18 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1578s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1578s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: New Christians. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 26:19 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Were nouveau Christianos. Christianos. Christianos. Some of them, no doubt, were burned alive at the end of the 15th century under the system of Torquemada. Many of them, doubtless, were the San Benito, but they kept their titles and estates and in time reached those great offices to which we have referred. During the long disorders of the Peninsular War, when so many openings were offered to talent and so many opportunities seized by the adventurous. New West Asia, on the western part, in the 10th century, during their times, with the most Great II. He loved his people. He loved his people. Madrid or even Cadiz could never be a base on which the monetary transactions of the world could be regulated, resolved to emigrate to England, with which he had, in the course of years, formed considerable commercial connections. He arrived here after the Peace of Paris with his large capital. He staked all he was worth on the Waterloo loan, and the event made him one of the greatest capitalists in Europe. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 27:45 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 27:50 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so these crypto -Jews, they had a lot of money, but not only that, but they have an information network, okay, because they have relatives, friends, all throughout Europe. And they are indexed to a superior, and so they know how history will develop. And they see a good money -making opportunity in war. So when these wars come out, what these Jews do is they support both sides, so they can't possibly lose. And then they make a lot of money, and then they figure out where it is in their most advantage to be. So there's actually no national loyalty. They don't see themselves as belonging to a certain group of people, a certain nation. They see themselves as, first and foremost, Jews, okay? So when the time presented itself properly, the Sidonians, they will migrate, some of them, not all of them, will migrate from Spain into continental Europe and up to England. They saw England ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 28:38 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: as the future, and of course, from England, they will also migrate to the United States of America. Okay? Alan, can you read, please? The only human quality... Sorry, so the father goes to England, and now he establishes the banking dynasty, and his son will now inherit everything, okay? And so this is about the son. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 29:01 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The only human quality that interested Sidonia was intellect. He cared not whence it came, where it was to be found, creed, country, class, character, and this respect were alike indifferent to him. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 29:17 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so again, this is a very anti -Semitic trope. Where Jews don't like the idea of nation, or culture, or religion. They like the idea of ideas, okay? And one anti -Semitic trope is that Jews have a conspiracy to degrade religion, culture, society, nation -state, in order to advance their own interests. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 29:46 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, keep on going. The author, the artist, the man of science. His friends never appealed to him in vain. Often he anticipated their wrongs and wishes. He encouraged their society, was as frank in his conversation as he was generous in his contributions. But the instant they ceased to be authors, artists, or philosophers, and their communications arose from anything but the intellectual quality which had originally interested him. The moment they were rash enough to approach intimacy and appeal to the simplicity of the world, he saw them no more. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 30:24 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so this is a really important idea where, again, this is propaganda for Jews, right? So this really is saying how great Jews are. Jews are intellectual. But you know what, Hegel, Friedrich Hegel, will say is that, well, culture, there can be no great ideas, okay? Ideas emerge from community, from culture, from belonging, okay? So think of Homer or Dante. Or even the Yahwehs, okay? If you think that you are intellectual above culture, above nation, above people, you will not produce great ideas. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 30:59 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, keep on going. It was not, however, intellect merrily in these unquestionable shapes that commanded his notice. There was not an adventurer in Europe with whom he was not familiar. No minister of state has such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the world, the catalogue of his acquaintance in the shape of Greeks, Amerians, Moors, secret Jews, Tartans, Geesebes. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 31:34 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, all right, that's fine, okay. Look, the idea is that Jews are, first and foremost, international, the cosmopolitan, right? And as a result, what will happen is that over time, because he is in contact with so many different groups. He's so intellectual, he's always reading his history, he comes convinced that the superior race, the greatest race of humanity are the Jews. Why? Because unlike other races, the Jews refuse to intermarry. They refuse to breed with other cultures. And so as a result, the Jews are, first and foremost, peer. They are alien. Okay, this is really ironic, again, because the Nazis will use this idea. A hundred years later, to justify the Holocaust, but at this time in history, the Jews think that they are the superior race because they are the most peer, okay? So this is all that is saying. All right, can you read, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 32:36 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In this country, Macedonia. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 32:38 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1958s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1958s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So this country, of course, is England, right? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 32:40 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=1960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Since the peace, there has been an attempt to advocate a reconstruction of society on a purely rational basis. The principle of utility has been powerfully developed. Okay. I speak not with lightness of the labors of the disciples of that school. I bow to intellect in every form, and we should be grateful to any school of philosophers, even if we disagree with them. Doubtly grateful in this country, where for so long a period of our statesmen were in so pitiable an arrear of public intelligence. There has been an attempt to reconstruct society on a basis of material motives and calculations. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 33:23 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so again, this is the idea of, you did terrorism, right? This is Jeremy Bantham, John Stuart Mill. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 33:28 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: It has failed. It must ultimately have failed under any circumstances. Its failure in an ancient and densely peopled kingdom was inevitable. How limited is human reason? The profoundest inquirers are most conscious. We are not in debt to the reason of man for any of the great achievements, which are the landmarks of human action. And human progress. It was not reason to be besieged Troy. It was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 34:03 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so the Saracens are the Muslims, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 34:07 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: That inspired the Crusades. That instituted the monastic orders. It was not reason that produced the Jesuits. Above all, it was not reason that......created the French Revolution. Man is only truly great when he acts from the passion. Never irresistible, but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormons count more votaries than Bantham. And you think, then, that an imagination once subdued the state. Imagination may now save it. Man is made to adore and to obey. But if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities and find a chieftain in his own passions. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 34:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2097s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2097s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So, um, Sonoi is emphasizing the limitations of British philosophy, right? Law, Hume, Bantham, Mill, they're all limited. And so what the British need is for the Jews, with their imagination, with their religion, to save the British, to lead the British, to guide the British. Okay? Does that make sense? So, again, this is trying to establish Jewish supremacy. Okay. All right. This is much too long. Okay? But what he's really saying is that, listen, we Jews, we want to be part of society. We are naturally conservative, but we also want to practice our religion. So if you, at any point, if you, the British, at any point, try to restrain us, if you try to take away our religious rights, we will rebel against you. We are cohesive. We will stand up for liberalism. We will stand up for secularism. We will stand up for individualism, because these three philosophies are what most protect us from religious overreach. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 36:01 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So that's what he's saying. So, Alan, can you start here? You never observe. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 36:09 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 36:18 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: This is true. Okay, guys. The secret intelligence agency of the Catholic Church were first Jews. This is true. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 36:26 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: That mysterious Russian diplomacy, which so alarmed Western Europe, is organized and principally carried on by Jews. So the Jews are the agents of the Russian Empire. Keep on going. That mighty revolution, which is at this moment preparing in Germany, and which will be, in fact, a second and greater reformation, and of which so little is yet known in England. It's entirely developing under the auspices of Jews, who almost monopolize the professorial chairs of Germany. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:03 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. So this hasn't happened yet. This is the year 1844. He's saying, like, the revolution that you will see later on in Germany, we organized it, man. We Jews organized it. Why? Because we control the academies. We control the professorships of Germany. Keep on reading. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:17 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. Peter, the founder of spiritual Christianity, and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, is a Jew. Okay. So keep on going. Okay. We won't read it. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:29 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2249s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2249s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: About how many professors are Jews. Okay. Do you understand? Now, what's amazing is, again, this came out in 1844. In 1848, there were revolutions throughout Europe, throughout Germany. So how did this really know about this? Well, possibly because... Because the British were helping to finance all of this, right? The alliance between the British and the Frankish. All right. Can you read, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:56 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2276s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2276s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. From... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: From here, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 37:59 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: A few years back, we were applied to by Russia. Now there has been no friendship between the court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections, which have generally supplied it, and our representations in favor of the Polish Hebrews, a numerous race, but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes have not been very agreeable to the Caesar. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:22 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The Tsar. Tsar. So what he's saying is, we're very rich and nation states come and look for us for money, okay? So Russia wants a loan from us. We said, no, you mistreat the Jews, so we're not going to give you any money, okay? The Russians are notorious for being anti -Semitic at this stage. Okay. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:39 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: However, circumstances drew to an approximation between the Romanovs and... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:45 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The Romanovs are the controlling family of Russia. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:47 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And the Sidonians. Right. The Sidonians. I resolved to go myself to St. Petersburg. I had on my arrival an interview with the Russian Minister of Finance, court... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Count. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 38:58 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Ca... Can... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 39:00 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Cancrun. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 39:00 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Cancrun. I beheld the son of a Lithusianian Jew. The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain. I resolved on repairing to Spain from Russia. I traveled without intermission. I had an audience immediately on my arrival. With the Spain Minister, Senor Mendes Zabel. I beheld one like myself, the son of a Nuevo Cristiano, a Jew of Aragon. In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French Council. I beheld the son of a French Jew, a hero, an Imperial Marshal, and very appropriately so. For who should be military heroes if not those who worship the Lord of Hosts. And is Solut a Hebrew? Yes. And others of the French Marshals. And the most famous, Massena, for example. His real name was Man... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 40:05 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Manasa. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 40:05 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Manasa. But to my anecdote. The consequence of our consultations was that some Northern powers should be applied to in a friendly and mediative capacity. We fixed on Prussia and... Prussia. Prussia. And the President of Council made an application to the Prussian Minister who attended a few days after our conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet and I beheld a Prussian Jew. So you see, my dear... ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 40:42 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Connerspeak. Connerspeak. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 40:44 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Connerspeak. This pleads the truth and my consent that we are then convinced by the same Docker safety that the world is governed by very different personage from those who are not behind the scenes. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 40:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So it's Jews is which control the world because only Jews get along together. Okay? So if Jews didn't exist the world couldn't get along, right? And Jews hide everywhere. And that's how the world works, guys. You think the person in charge is in charge, but actually it's a secret society of Jews. Now again I'm not saying this is true. I just found it really weird that Benjamin Disraeli is writing about this. And again, he's getting a lot of this information from the Rothschild banking family. So the Rothschild, for whatever reason, think they control the world. So I don't go much into this in detail, but I will point out that there is evidence that this is true. So we're going to look at the communist revolution in Russia together. I also want to keep you in mind that I don't think this is true, actually. There is evidence that this is true, but I do not think this is true. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 41:44 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Why Disraeli is writing about this, we will discuss next class. But it's all part of a secret plan. But first, let's look at the evidence that this may be true. Again, I'm not saying this is true, but there is evidence that this is true. And the major piece of evidence is the communist revolution. The Bolshevik revolution in 1917 that overthrew the government of Russia to create a communist government. First, let's talk about revolution. There are four elements you need in order for a revolution to be successful. The first is you need a really charismatic leader. Second is you need a broad mass appeal, usually land for the peasants, freeing debt, end of war, peace. Then you need organizational discipline, everyone has to get along, it has to be a cohesive group. The last element, of course, is you need incompetent opposition. Your enemies are morons. And, of course, the classic example of this is Mao Zedong versus Chiang Kai -shek. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 42:49 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Mao Zedong was a charismatic leader with a very strong organization. And Chiang Kai -shek, even though he had a huge army, even though he had the American army, even though he had all sorts of benefits, he was a moron. And that's why he lost. The same is true for the Russian revolution. This is Vladimir Lenin. He's not charismatic. But he is extremely focused. He's very focused. He's fanatical. And this is Leon Trotsky, who is very charismatic, he's a great speaker, and he's a Jew, okay? So I will point out that in 1917, he helped lead the revolution. But before that, he was actually in the United States. He had an apartment in New York City paid for by wealthy Jewish bankers. His uncle is a very wealthy Jewish industrialist in Ukraine. So he's part of this transnational capital network. And even though he himself is a revolutionary, he hates capitalism. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 43:51 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: If someone gives you money, you cannot help but be influenced by that person, okay? That's just the reality. All right, so October 1917 is when the Bolsheviks launched a revolution and they seized power. And then a month later, they organized an election. And as you can see, they are actually not that... They are not the most popular party in the world. They are not the most popular party in Russia. They only have about 23 % of the vote. The socialist revolutionaries actually have much more popularity than they do. They are 37%. And they have all these different groups. The Ukrainians, the cadets who are liberals, the Mensheviks, the Cossacks. So at this point in history, Russia is divided into so many different groups. You have different ethnicities, you have different political programs, you have different orientations, okay? And this is what will launch the Great Revolution. You have the Bolshevik Civil War, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 44:46 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And at this time in history, remember, the Bolsheviks only control a certain part of Russia. They are the official government, but they only control a small part. And the White Army, which is a combination of the liberals and monarchists, they're a much more stronger military. And also at the same time, you have all these different ethnic groups, the Ukrainians rebelling against the Bolsheviks, including the Polish. But over the next five years... Slowly... Slowly, the Bolsheviks will obtain absolute power. And so the question is, how do they do that? Well, the first tool is terror, okay? This is called the Red Terror, where they went around and killed anyone who opposed them. Now, what you don't understand is, there's actually a strategy behind the Red Terror. The very idea is to steal as much money as possible from wealthy people, okay? So you're an aristocrat, you have a lot of wealth hidden, I need your money. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 45:49 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So you either give me your money, or I will kill your daughter, and I will kill your son, and then I will kill your wife, okay? So it's your choice, give me all your money, or I'll kill everyone in your family. So the Bolsheviks were fanatical about this, and that's why they won the war. Leon Trotsky organized the Red Army in the war against the White Army, okay? There were also the Greens, which were these peasants. Okay? So the Bolsheviks were far behind. So how did the Bolsheviks, the Red Army, win the war? Well, guys, they had a lot of help, okay? They had a lot of mercenaries coming to the country, tens of thousands of mercenaries to help them, especially the Chinese mercenaries, the Latvians, the Hungrians, okay? How did they get all this money? Transnational capital. Wall Street and the City of London were bank -holding the Soviets. Why were they doing that? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 46:46 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Also, we have to remember that at this time in history, during the Revolution, Britain and France and the United States and Japan sent armies into Russia. Now, what you learn in class is, oh, it's because they are capitalists, and they fear the communists, and that's why they sent armies to try to reduce the Bolshevik threat. That's not true, guys. Why they sent the armies is because the Bolsheviks... Okay. The Bolsheviks reneged on debt, okay? Russia owed a lot of money to Britain, Japan, the United States, and France, and so these armies were sent in order to threaten the Bolsheviks. So what the Bolsheviks did was they stole as much money as they could from the peasants, the nobility, from the treasury, and pay off these armies, and then these armies helped them in the war against the whites. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So let's summarize what we've just learned. Now, ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 47:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: what you're taught in history class is American Britain needs Russia in war against Germany, and that's why... And the Germans control the Bolsheviks, and that's why Britain and America would not support the Bolsheviks. And the kind of argument is, no, it's transnational capital that has influence over any country. It's Anglo -American foreign policy. Okay? Do you understand? Anglo -American foreign policy, it's not to serve national interests. It's not... It's to serve private capital. Okay? That's the first point. The second point is the Bolsheviks are communists, and so they're a threat to capitalism. And the kind of argument is, actually, transnational capital cares about profit. They don't care about ideology. All right? What drives them is money, not ideas. And the third argument is... The Bolsheviks hate imperialism and capitalism, so they will refuse to work with Wall Street and the City of London. And the kind of argument of is that they believe that the ends justify the means. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 48:56 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: We just have to do what we need in order to obtain power. Then we can create our socialist paradise. Okay? All right? All right. So this is a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution. It's started by a man by the name of Richard Spence. He spent a lot of time collecting documents that show that, in fact, transnational capital were helping the Bolsheviks win power in Russia. Why? Because they believed in the Bolsheviks? No. Because transnational capital, first and foremost, steals. You understand? They like revolution because revolution is an opportunity to steal as much as you can. Okay? You can buy things really cheaply during a revolution. And this is his argument. All right. So let's read a couple of passages from his book. So Amber, can you read, please? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 49:45 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=2985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The pro -Bolsheviks... The Bolshevik faction on Wall Street had a most outspoken pitchman in the aforementioned William Boyce Thompson. Departing Petrograde, he arrived back in the States on Christmas Day in 1917. On 18th January, he sat for an interview with a representative of Dow Jones and published in the Wall Street Journal. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 50:09 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Wall Street Journal, of course, is the newspaper of Wall Street. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 50:13 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3013s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3013s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Despite the fact that Bolsheviks had proclaimed an armistice on the Eastern Front and opened peace negotiations with Berlin, Thompson insisted that the Russians would never conclude a separate peace. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 50:28 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So he's just lying to people. Okay? The Bolsheviks want peace of Germany. They promise peace to the people. That's why they're popular. And these Wall Street bankers are just lying to American people. Okay. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 50:39 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3039s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3039s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: He pooh -poohed reports that there was anarchy. Okay. There was anarchy in Russia and said that the Russian people were trying to adopt socialism as the basis of their government. If they were allowed to succeed, an extremely democratic, well -managed country will emerge. In other words, an excellent business environment. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 50:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So what the Bolsheviks basically did was they took all the gold they had to ride Wall Street so that Wall Street would go and brainwash American people. Okay? That's the strategy here. All right. Can you read, Alan? Yeah. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 51:10 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: For those on Wall Street and elsewhere who dream of putting the break on Russia's economic development and seeing its riches and resources up for grabs under a regime willing to sell anything, their dreams have basically come true. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 51:24 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So it's really important to understand. The British Empire was fighting a war against Germany. Russia was an important ally, right? They didn't care because for Britain, they want to destroy everyone. Okay? So that's why they support the Russian Revolution because they knew the Bolsheviks would destroy the Russian economy. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 51:43 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So keep on going. Keep on going. Yeah. From 1918 through early 1921, Bolshevik war communism reduced Russia to an economic based on barter and robbery. Besides the abolition of private trade and the destruction of the monetary system, the Red Regime embarked on a massive looting campaign, ransacking palaces, bank vaults, churches, and museums. They expropriate every... Every valuable they could get, they're hands on and stash it all in a new state treasury. By the close of 1921, an estimate $450 million in valuable had been sequestered, sequestered, sequestered there. With more to come, much of it does not... Testing. Testing to be fenced abroad for a fraction of its value in capital... Capital. Capital. Capital. Capitalist hard currency. So this is how empire works guys. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 52:47 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay? They destroy nations in order to steal as much as they can. What happens afterwards? They don't care. All right? It's that simple. All right. Okay. So after the Bolsheviks consolidate power, after they win civil war, everyone assumes that Trotsky would be the new leader. But it's Stalin that becomes the new leader. Okay? Why? Because after war ends, there's expectation among the population. Bolsheviks that we help the transnational capital so much, they're going to help us rebuild our nation. Okay? They're going to give us loans. They will give us technology to help us rebuild Russia. And guess what happened? Transnational capital says, no, you guys are good. We're good. We made our money. Okay? And so now what's happening is that Leon Trotsky, who is a Jew, he gets blamed, right? Because Leon Trotsky is the one who bought a nice transnational capital. He's the one who facilitated this exchange. And now the Bolsheviks are thinking, oh, this is a Jewish conspiracy. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 53:52 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: You Jews were planning this all along to steal everything from us and then screw us over in the end. Okay? And that's why Stalin won. All right. So let's go over the difference between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Leon Trotsky did not work for transnational capital. Okay? He was first and foremost a revolutionary who was interested in global revolution. He had... He had, let's say, a calling to transform and save the world. But he was accused of being transnational capital. And because he was a Jew, everyone just assumed that he was a spy, okay? And he also had a personality which was arrogant and aloof. Stalin had his own issues, okay? But he benefited from the fact that Trotsky was a Jew and he was able to slowly amass power for himself. He also has a background as a police informant. But being a spy for the capitalists was a much worse crime, all right? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 54:52 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And that's why Joseph Stalin won in the end. And this is terrible for the Jews, the Bolshevik Jews who believed in a revolution because they all got killed by Joseph Stalin, okay? Leon Trotsky was killed along with all his children. All right. So it's not just that transnational capital supported the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolsheviks, they also supported Karl Marx, okay, all right? So Karl Marx has an interesting background. He actually comes from many generations of rabbis. So he's basically a Jewish aristocrat. And he was German, but then he moved to England. And he wrote many letters, wrote many books to promote communism. These books aren't going to sell well. So he was poor all his life. But what's interesting is he lived a very nice life. Okay? He lived in England and he lived a basic middle class life. So where did he get all his money from? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 55:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Well, he got all his money from Frederick Engels, who was a friend of his and whose father was an industrialist, okay, a Jewish industrialist. So why would a Jewish capitalist support Karl Marx? And the answer is because communism benefits transnational capital, okay? So why? Why would it benefit transnational capital? All right, can you read, Amber? So this is a letter written by Karl Marx, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 56:23 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: For as soon as the distribution of labor comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood. While in communist society, we're not allowed to do that. Therefore, nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity, but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes. Society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, and as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman, or critic. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 57:11 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. So the problem with capitalism is that it degrades our individuality. We, as individuals, want freedom to enjoy ourselves, right? This is a very Frankist idea, right? We want to enjoy ourselves. We want to be free to enjoy the pleasures of life. The problem with capitalism is the idea of specialization, right? Where you're forced to do one thing, one thing only, according to the needs of the capitalists, okay? Can you keep on reading, Amber? Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 57:42 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Supposing that we had produced in a human manner, in his production, each of us would have doubly affirmed himself and his fellow men. I would have objectified in my production my individuality and its peculiarity, and would thus have enjoyed in my activity an individual expression of my life, and would have also had, in looking at the object, the individual pleasure of realizing that my personality was subjective, visible to the senses, and therefore a power raised beyond all doubt. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 58:10 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. So what you're saying here is that before, each of us were craftspeople, so I might make a vase, okay? And when I make a vase, then this vase is an expression of my individuality, an expression of my creativity, and by looking at this vase, it becomes an objective symbol of my existence. I can look at this vase, and my own individuality will be reflected back to me, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 58:40 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In your enjoyment or use of my product, I would have had the direct enjoyment of realizing that by my work, I had both satisfied a human need and also objectified the human essence, and therefore fashioned for another human being the object that met his need. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 58:56 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Then I give this vase to a friend, and I see this vase at my friend's home, right? He puts flowers, and he's very happy with this vase, and then I can see my impact in the world. All right? Keep on reading, Amber. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 59:11 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species, and thus between—and thus been felt by you and acknowledged as a completion of your own essence and a necessary part of yourself, and I would thereby have realized that I was confirmed both in your thought and in your love. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 59:29 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so this vase now shapes your reality, and I know that this vase has given you meaning, and it has shaped your reality, and therefore I find meaning in that, okay? And again, this is a very Frankist attitude, right? Where you can project your imagination onto people, and it can shape the way he or she sees reality. Okay? This is a very similar concept. Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 59:50 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In my expression of my life, I would have fashioned your expression of your life, and thus in my own activity, I have realized my own essence, my human communal essence. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:00:00 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, right. So again, this is something that sounds perfectly correct, right? And the reason why it sounds correct to us is because it becomes a basis for our society, okay? The idea of individualism, the idea of materialism, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:00:17 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:00:18 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In such a situation, our products would be like so many mirrors, each one reflecting our essence. Thus, in this relationship, what occurred on my side would also occur on yours. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:00:28 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas) Text: Okay, so this is a really important metaphor, okay? He's saying that objects become mirrors where we can see our own individuality reflected, okay? And this goes against the religious concept where our humanity is all reflected in each of us. Okay, so what he's doing is creating a material outlook, does that make sense? He's denying the existence of God, he's denying the existence of spirituality, but he's seeing the concept of religion and applying it to a material world, right? He recognizes that we have these spiritual, religious needs, and what he's saying is that we don't need God to achieve these needs, we can have materialism achieve these needs, okay? Which again, is a very Frankist concept. Keep on going. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:01:19 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, interesting, very interesting. So, when he says materialism, he means the self. Please, take your time to imagine this. So, in general, what does materialism look like? In the individualistic sense, it's a means of thinking, meaning, of understanding, of not just thinking and of being, and of being. It's a form of thinking that's not really a form of thinking, but the idea of thinking or enthusiasm, as I said, of not being, of being, to me, it's a form of thinking that is being, that's not really an expression of what, what I'm doing, not what I'm doing, it's not what I'm doing. through an external arbitrary need, not an inner and necessary one. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:01:50 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So why would transnational capital support this idea? The reason why is that before the debate was mind versus matter, right? What matters more, the spirit or the flesh? And what Marx is saying is, no, what matters, the debate, the dialectic is between private property versus public property. In private property, I have to work for someone else. In public property, I work for myself. That's the question, that's the debate, that's the dialectic, okay? And so what, by doing this, it's a very clever trick that transnational capital uses by making us think that the only thing that matters is private versus public, as opposed to mind versus matter, okay? That's the goal of communism. That's why transnational capital is supporting this idea, because it advances the goal of empire, which is to turn us all into slaves. Okay, does that make sense? All right. All right. So Marx is correct in analyzing the problems of capitalism, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:02:56 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: But his problem is that he believes the solution is to make capital public. And as a result, this will create a worker's paradise. But there are problems with this, okay? So let's go over some of the problems. Okay, Marx believes that history is linear progress. So capitalism will lead to socialism, which will lead to communism. It is a linear progress, okay? Second is a problem that history is theological, meaning things go the way they should. Marx also believes that what matters is class struggle between the rich and the poor, as opposed to between spirit and flesh, okay? And the last thing that's the most problematic is Marx believes you need a vanguard, in order to lead the proletariat into a socialist paradise. You need an elite in order to lead us into paradise. And this esotology is all Frankist, right? This is something that we learned last class. This is something that Frank proposed, where his group is a new people, which will lead people into a material paradise, all right? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:04:13 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So all Marx is doing is, taking Jacob Frank's ideas and systemizing it. Now I'm not saying that Marx was a Frankist. He's probably not a Frankist. But what I'm saying is that there are people around him, like Frederick Engels, who could have been a Frankist, and as such, and they used their money to influence Marx in a way, okay? And we can suspect this because there's some ideas that don't make sense. If you are a socialist, you believe in democracy. But Marx believed in a dictatorship, okay, that makes no sense, all right? So this is Michael Buchanan, and he was a socialist. He was an anarchist. And he believes, he agrees with most of Marx's analysis, but where they disagree is this. Marx believed you needed a vanguard, okay? Like Frederick Frank believed. But Buchanan says, no, no, no. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:05:11 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: If you have a vanguard, they'll just become a new capitalist class, okay? What's the difference, man? If you are a vanguard, if you are a socialist, you have to believe in democracy. You have to believe that everyone has capacity to make his or her decisions. And that must be the basis of your new society. Otherwise, we're just gonna go back to the way things are before, okay? It'll just be another empire. Before it was the British Empire, now it's the Russian Empire. Who cares? What's the difference? All right, so let's read some Buchanan, okay? All right, can you read, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:05:46 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-freedom-needs-other-free-people) Text: As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness, but living human reality. And we recognize that man can feel free, be free, and therefore can achieve freedom. In order to be free, I need to see myself surrounded by free men and be recognized as such by them. I'm free only when my individuality, reflected in the mirror of the equally free consciousness of every individual around me, comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:06:13 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=3973s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-freedom-needs-other-free-people) Text: So this is really important, okay? This may seem the same as Marx, but they're saying different things. Marx says, no, the object is the reflection. And Buchanan is saying, no, no, no. The other person is the reflection, okay? And this goes back to Dante, Zoroastria, Jesus. There's a divine spark in us. And we love someone else. When we care about someone else, our divine spark is reflected in that person's divine spark as well, okay? And the object gets in the way. That is a crucial distinction, do you understand? Okay? It's not the same, but these are two radically opposing ideas where Marx says, no, it's the object that matters. As long as the object is created by yourself freely, then that is good. And what Buchanan says, no, no, what matters is our relationship with each other, okay? We don't need the object, okay? Can you keep on going? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:07:06 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own, as the individualists claim. On the contrary, it is the confirmation, realization, and human dignity of all persons. To see and feel my freedom confirmed, sanctioned, and boundlessly expanded by universal agreement is happiness. It is human paradise on earth. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:07:27 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-freedom-needs-other-free-people) Text: How you create paradise is through love. Okay, do you understand? Not through objects, not through public property, not through socialism, but through love. Okay? The problem with Marx is, he focuses on the individual. What makes the individual happy? And what Buchanan says is, that's stupid. You have to focus on what makes a community happy, because it's only through the happiness of others can we ourselves be happy, okay? And this is something that Jesus said, Zor, Thusta, Date, okay? This is what makes logical sense. And Marx is not a dumb guy, okay? He's a really smart person. But he says something opposite, which suggests to us that he is being influenced by an outside force, okay? He himself would not come to the conclusion that, he himself would not come to the conclusion that you need a vanguard to lead the workers. All right, keep on reading, Amber. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:08:22 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Available to everyone will be a general scientific education, especially the learning of the scientific method, the habit of correct thinking, the ability to generalize from facts and make more or less correct deductions. But of encyclopedic minds and advanced sociologists, there will be very few. It would be sad for mankind if at any time theoretical speculation became the only source of guidance for society if science alone were in charge of all social administration. Life would wither and human society would turn into a voiceless and servile herd. The domination of life by science can have no other result than the brutalization of mankind. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:09:04 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so what he's saying is this. The ultimate project of Marxism, where you have something elite, a vanguard in charge. This is no different, by the way, from Transnational Capital or the British Empire, okay? It would lead to slavery, all right? And quite honestly, he was right. All right, let's look at Sigmund Freud, okay? Sigmund Freud, like Karl Marx, is also extremely influential. He practiced medicine in Vienna. He was a psychologist. And so there were a lot of young women who came to him as patients. And Freud would ask them, what's wrong with you? And the woman would say, I'm hysterical, okay? And at that time, hysterical just meant that depressed or anxious. I can't control my emotions. If a man talks to me, I stutter and I run away, okay? And I can't have personal relationships. I can't sleep. I'm sweating. I'm anxious. And then Freud, of course, would ask them, why is this happening to you, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:10:08 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And then the woman would say, because when I was younger, when I was a little girl, my father raped me. Okay? Incest. That's why this happened to me. And then Freud's like, wow, that sounds really strange. But then he looked at the literature and talked to many patients and he recognized that everyone was telling him the same thing. And it's true. I mean, it's just pure logic, right? If you were abused as a young girl by your father, you're going to have a lot of social problems when you get older, okay? Especially with men. And so he collects all this research and he published a paper, which is very good, called The Etiology of Hysteria. And so, Amber, can you read, please? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:10:53 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Above all, my previously communicated assumption that trauma, specifically sexual trauma, cannot be stressed enough as a pathogenic agent was confirmed anew. Even children of respected, high -minded puritanical families fall victim to real rape much more frequently than others had dared to suspect. Okay. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:11:15 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Let me say this. Rape is a really common phenomenon, especially among higher society, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:11:22 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4282s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4282s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Either the parents themselves seek substitution for their lack of sexual satisfaction in this pathological manner or else trusted persons such as relatives, uncles, aunts, grandparents, tutors, servants, abuse and ignorance and innocence of children. The obvious objection that we are dealing with sexual fantasies of the child himself, that is, with hysterical lies, unfortunately is weakened by the multitude of confessions of this kind on the part of patients in analysis to assaults on children. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:11:54 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0133](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0133) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0133` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay. So what he's saying is, first of all, rape is very common and these children are saying the same thing, okay? Keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:12:02 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0134](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0134) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0134` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: If you try in an approximately similar way to induce the symptoms of hysteria to make themselves heard as witnesses to the history of the origin of the illness, we must take our start from Joseph Brewer's momentous discovery. The symptoms of hysteria, apart from the stigmata, are determined by certain experiences of the patients which have operated in a traumatic fashion and which are being reproduced in his psychical life in the form of mimic symbols. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:12:38 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0135](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0135) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0135` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so this is, the ideas are simple, okay? These women, when they're being hysterical, when they're being anxious, depressed, it's because they suffered real trauma when they were younger. They're not making this up, okay? They're not imagining this because a lot of people are accusing them of like, you're just fantasizing this, okay? And they say, no, no, no. The science tells us, the research tells us that you can only have these symptoms if you yourself experience it, okay? You can't imagine a leg injury. It has to, you have to be hit by a car to have a leg injury and this is what he's saying. You have to be raped by your father or a trusted friend or a relative in order to have these symptoms. Otherwise, they can't exist, okay? All right, keep on going. All right, so this is a book by Jeffrey Mason, okay? And he was for the longest time a follower of Freud, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:13:32 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0136](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0136) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0136` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Freud was dead but he himself looked at Freud's personal letters and what he discovered was there's a sharp brick, okay? And early Freud was very scientific. He believed the woman who were his patients but then later on, for whatever reason, he changes everything, okay? So can you keep on reading, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:13:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0137](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0137) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0137` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: I therefore put forward the thesis that at the bottom of every case of hysteria there are one or more occurrences of premature sexual experience, occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood but which can be reproduced through the work of psychoanalysis in spite of the intervening decades. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:14:16 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0138](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0138) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0138` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so again, he's writing these letters to his friends and he's saying very clearly, I am certain, 100 % certain, that if these women are suffering from depression or anxiety, it must be because of sexual abuse at an earlier age. And when I talk to them, I can reconstruct the experience, okay? Because even though they're traumatized, the memory's still there. So through talk therapy, I can slowly reconstruct the experience and this will help them heal, okay? And this is true. If the women are able to reconstruct this experience and they feel as though someone believes them, advocates for them, they will feel much more safe about the world, okay? So this is true. This is very simple. Okay, keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:14:58 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0139](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0139) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0139` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: There are, however, a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place, there is the uniformity which they exhibit in certain details, which is a necessary consequence if the preconditions of these experiences are always of the same kind, but which would otherwise lead us to believe that there were secret understandings between the various patients. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:15:22 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0140](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0140) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0140` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so what he's saying is, is it possible there's conspiracy among these patients? Possibly, but they're telling me, they're giving, like, these details. And these details make a lot of sense. Okay, so he doesn't believe it's a conspiracy, but he does not discount the possibility of a conspiracy, because he's a scientist. He wants to be rigorous. He wants to be absolutely certain. Okay, keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:15:47 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0141](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0141) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4547s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4547s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0141` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: In the second place, patients sometimes describe as harmless events whose significance they obviously do not understand, since they would be bound otherwise to be horrified by them. Or again, they mention details without laying any stress on them, which only someone of experience in life can understand and appreciate as subtle traits of reality. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:16:07 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0142](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0142) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0142` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so he says that one thing about this trauma is disassociation, okay? So these patients will reveal details that would shock anyone else, but she says it indifferently, which means that she was disassociated from the experience when it happened. So just by talking to that person, you're able to reconstruct the experience itself. All right, does that make sense? All right. Okay, keep on going. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:16:35 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0143](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0143) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0143` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: It is less easy to refute the idea that the doctor forces a reminiscence of this word on the patient, that he influences him by suggestion to imagine and reproduce them. Nevertheless, it appears to me equally untenable. I have never yet succeeded in forcing on a patient a scene I was expecting to find in such a way that he seemed to be living through it with all the appropriate feelings. Perhaps others may be more successful in this. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:17:03 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0144](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0144) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0144` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So one major objection is, is it possible you are implanting false memories in your patient? And what he's saying is, okay, well, I tried this and it doesn't work. And maybe others, I mean, he doesn't deny that it's possible, okay? But he's saying like, I myself have tried this and it has not worked. So he's being a very rigorous scientist, right? He's looking at all the possibilities and he's discovering that, no, there's only one possibility, which is like they are telling the truth. So he's advocating for his, his patients, okay? The problem, though, of course, is that the fathers who are doing this are actually powerful men. These are Frankists, okay? Remember, Frankists practice father -daughter incest, if you understand, okay? The Sunday Franks are very powerful people, especially in Vienna. And this is part of their religion. If you do it over generations, it becomes multi -generation trauma. You just do it because you're addicted to it, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:18:12 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0145](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0145) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0145` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: And this is screwing up a lot of these young women. It's making them miserable. Yeah? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:18:20 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0146](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0146) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0146` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So you mentioned that this kind of rape is frequently occurred in upper class. Why does it not so frequently in the lower class? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:18:31 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0147](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0147) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0147` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: You know what? That's a good question, okay? And the answer is, if you are an upper class woman, you're much more likely to report this than if you are from the lower class. So we're not saying that this occurs only among the rich. It could also occur among the poor. But it's the rich who have money to send their daughters to psychiatrists, okay? The rich are educated, and therefore they will report this. They will understand this is a bad thing, okay? So we don't have evidence to suggest that this is more common among rich, okay? But what this is telling us is that among Frankists, this is very common, all right? All right, so after this happens, after Freud is reporting this and the Frankists are getting angry at him, what happens now is an alliance between Freud and the Frankists. In fact, you could argue that Freud now joins the Frankists. And so now what we'll see is a radical change in how Freud perceives these patients, okay? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:19:33 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0148](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0148) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0148` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So, Emma, can you read, please? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:19:35 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0149](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0149) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0149` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Since childhood masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so poorly remembered, it must have an equivalent in psychic life. And in fact, it is found in the fantasy encountered in most female patients. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:19:48 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0150](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0150) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0150` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, namely that? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:19:50 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0151](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0151) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0151` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Namely, that the father seduced her in childhood. This is the later reworking which is designed to cover up the recollection of infantile sexual activity and represents an excuse and an extenuation thereof. The grain of truth contained in this fantasy lies in the fact that the father, by way of his innocent care, caressed in earliest childhood, has actually awakened the little girl's sexuality. The same thing applies to the little boy and his mother. It is these same affectionate fathers that are the ones who then endeavored to break the child of the habit of masturbation, of which they themselves had by that time become the unwitting cause. And thus the motives mingle in the most successful fashion to form this fantasy, which often dominates a woman's entire life, seduction fantasy. One part truth, one part gratification of love, and one part revenge. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:20:47 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0152](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0152) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0152` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so now this is like really weird, okay? What he's saying is these young girls, these young boys, they want to have sex. They're like sexually obsessed. And whenever a father kisses them, which the father wants to do, they think this is going to lead to sex. But the father recoils at that possibility and now the young girl feels rejected. But she has all these sexual desires, so she masturbates. But while she's masturbating, she feels anger and guilt at her father, and therefore she makes up these sexual fantasies that the father is raping him. And that's why, and she's determined that the world knows about this, that's how angry she is at him, okay? This is complete nonsense. But guess what, guys? This becomes standard, mainstream academic knowledge taught in schools and universities for many decades. Okay, this is called the Oedipal complex. That's the Oedipal complex. Have you guys studied this? Yeah. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:21:43 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0153](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0153) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0153` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: It's complete other nonsense. Agreed. All right? Can you keep on reading, Amber? The motives. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:21:49 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0154](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0154) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0154` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: The motives for illness often begin to stir in childhood. The love -hungry little girl, unhappy at having to share her parents' affection with her brothers and sisters, realizes that all that tenderness comes flowing back when her parents are made anxious by her illness. The girl now knows a way of calling forth her parents' love and will use this as soon as she has at her disposal the psychical material necessary to produce a morbid state. Once the child has become a woman and, in contradiction of the demands of the childhood, has married an inattentive man who suppresses her will, unstintingly exploits her work and expends neither affection nor money upon her, illness becomes the only weapon with which she can assert herself in life. It gives her the rest she craves. It forces the man to make sacrifices of money and care that he would not have made to the healthy woman. And it requires him ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:22:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0155](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0155) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4977s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4977s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0155` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: to treat her with care if she recovers, because otherwise a relapse would be waiting in the wings. Her illness is apparently objective and involuntary, as even her doctor will be obliged to testify, and it enables her to employ without conscious self -reproach this useful application of a means that she found effective during childhood. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:23:18 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0156](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0156) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=4998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0156` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: So why is woman being hysterical later in life? Because it allows them to control people. It draws attention to them, they want attention, but it also makes people obey her whims. This is gaslighting. This is peer and other gaslighting. And guys, this is what psychology is. Just peer and other gaslighting, okay? All right. The problem, of course, is how do you convince your patient that this is true? And so he develops a mind control technique called dream analysis, okay? This is his book from the book Interpretation of Dreams, okay? And it's all just mind control crap where the patient is trying to recall dreams and you're brainwashing that patient, okay? Because if you discuss memory, the person's like, I know what I saw, right? But it's dreams that you can implant false memories, that you can make suggestions, you can hypnotize that person, okay? And so psychology becomes now mind control. Okay, so can you read, Amber? ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:24:20 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0157](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0157) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0157` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:24:21 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0158](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0158) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0158` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: I think everyone who occupies himself with dreams will recognize as a very common phenomenon the fact that a dream will give proof of the knowledge and a recollection of matters of which the dreamer in his waking state did not imagine himself to be cognizant. In my analytic investigations of the nervous patients, of which I shall speak later, I find that it happens many times every week that I am able to convince them from their dreams that they are perfectly well acquainted with quotations, obscene expressions, etc. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:24:57 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0159](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0159) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5097s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5097s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0159` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: Okay, so do you understand? So when the person is talking about his dream, you can now make suggestions. That person will believe whatever crap you tell him, okay? And that's a secret of mind control. And guess what, guys? We still use this crap today, all right? All right, so Freud is, of course, gaslighting everyone because he has to protect his patrons, the Frankists. And the Frankists will allow him to get very, will become very famous. He'll get a lot of awards. When the Nazis come to power, he'll go to England where he's well treated. He joins the Royal Academy. The British protect him, and the British will then spread his views, okay? He has a disciple, Carl Jung, who will take Freud's ideas and turn it into a understanding, a systematic understanding of how the mind works. And from this, we'll develop neuroscience, okay? The problem of all this, this is public Picasso, the problem ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:25:55 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0160](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0160) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0160` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-freedom-needs-other-free-people) Text: of all this is, as Buchanan tells us, it's all self -directed inwards, which gets us nowhere, okay? It's just you looking into yourself. It's navel -gazing. And from that, you learn no truth at all. But that's the entire basis of our society. And so, so yeah, so this is, so our, so this understanding of the mind becomes reflected in popular culture, okay? Back to McCall Buchanan, he tells us that to be truly free, we all have to be free. We have to be free together, okay? In each other, we find meaning, purpose, and love. Okay, not in ourself, but in each other. That's the difference. And so, this leads us to a question, okay? And this is a question I don't know. Today, it's all speculation. The question I want to leave with you today is, is Marxism, liberalism, individualism, Darwinism, psychology, just psyops meant to turn us into slaves? Okay, that's a question that you have to carry with you. ## Modernity Needs A Scapegoat -- 1:27:01 - Source title: Secret History #27: Empire of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-16, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0161](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous/transcript/#seg-0161) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrecJHUOUs&t=5221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zprecjhuous@transcript:v1#seg-0161` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zprecjhuous.json) Text: I don't know the answer to that, okay? I'm just providing you with a theory. And these connections, we don't know how close they are, okay? It may just be random coincidence. It could be a constant fact. We don't know, okay? But this is something that you have to ask yourself as you continue your study, okay? So, this shows us the alliance between the Sabatini -Francis and the British Empire. And so, next class will be our last class, and in our last class, we'll talk about the Pax Judaica, okay? Which is a culmination of all these trends. All right, any questions, guys? Okay, great. So, I will see everyone next class. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: okay so um today we will look at jewish history so let's review what we learned about jewish history so far now remember that for most of human history the middle east has been the wealthiest part of the world and as we discussed before the lovat especially jerusalem is the center of the world because it connects all the major civilizations okay you have egypt anatolia mesopotamia and over here you have the persians over here is the mediterranean okay as you can see basically all roads lead to jerusalem so whoever controls jerusalem controls the major trade access point which is the most profitable part of an empire and so for these empires it's always been been a problem of how to keep Jerusalem under control because Jerusalem, whoever controls Jerusalem, can always choose to switch sides, right? So if Mesopotamia controls Jerusalem, what the Egyptians will do is bribe Jerusalem to switch sides. And this keeps on going over and over. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:13 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=73s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=73s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And they tried many different techniques on how to control Jerusalem. The Babylonians tried to take captives, hostages, and that didn't really work as well. So the Babylonians decided to destroy Jerusalem, okay? And with it, the Israeli identity became splintered and scattered. And this is the Babylonian Empire. But eventually what happened is that the Babylonians would be conquered by the Persians. And the Persians will adopt a new technique to control Jerusalem, which is divide and rule. They will create the Jewish identity implanted in Jerusalem and that will create conflict with the locals. And the Jews will not be forever loyal to Persia because they are a foreign entity within the Levant. And only by spreading loyalty to Persia can they maintain control over the Levant. And in return, the Persians will give the Jews financing to build their second temple. So at this point in history, a Jewish identity emerges. And there ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 2:25 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: are three ancient regions ofygusalisteism indicating that you can die because you have decimated it. But by destroying it, you will lead收av the fungal. If that didn't work, then you have started smuggling Renaissance and toyימaa, which that is the Promised Land, that's the first pillar. The second pillar is the Jews must follow the Law of Moses, because the Law of Moses is the Law of God, the Ten Commandments, right? The Law of Moses, over time, will be divided into the Torah, which is the written law, and the Talmud, which is the oral law. The Torah is basically the five books of the Bible, the first five books of the Bible. And the third pillar is to use the Bible as the collective memory of the people, okay? So the Jews believe the Bible, what happened in the Bible, is literal, it is actually what happened. And by believing that the Bible is literal and true, then you become a Jew, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 3:48 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And that's why the Jewish identity is very flexible, okay? So at this point in history, when the Jews swear loyalty to Persia, there are some characteristics that will change over time. The first major characteristic is that the center of worship is in Jerusalem, the second temple. Okay, so if you're a Jewish person, you must make animal sacrifices to Yahweh, and therefore, the Sadducees, these are hereditary priests, they are the ones who control the religion. Then there's very strict laws that govern how people behave. So for example, you must rest on the Sabbath. You also cannot marry outside your religion. You must be circumcised, okay? So there are all these restrictions on how people behave. Over time, what will happen is that the Jews will expand across the world. A lot of Jews will work as mercenaries in Alexander the Great's army as he conquers Persia, and as the Hellenistic world comes into being, Jews will move around for economic opportunities, right? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 5:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: They'll work as officials, they'll work as artisans, they'll work as trade spewers, merchants. And so they're scattered around the Hellenistic world. And as we discussed, at this point in history, the three major cultures that we've looked at, the Jewish culture, the Greek culture, and the Persian culture will merge together in a process we call synchronization. And that gives birth basically to Western civilization. Unfortunately, what happens is that over time, because the Jerusalem is so important, and because the Jews believe there are special people who only worship the one true God, that will cause conflict with the Greeks, okay? The Greeks also are very chauvinistic, very proud people who believe their culture's superior. And quite honestly, a lot of Jews will convert to the Greek culture, to the Hellenistic lifestyle, okay? But this causes conflict. And ultimately, this will culminate in something called the Maccabean Revolt, where a certain group of Jews decide to rebel against the Greeks. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 6:11 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And even though they're a minority, even though most Jews actually do not support them, because of their religious conviction, because of the will of God, they will triumph, and they will establish the Maccabean Kingdom. And this victory is celebrated today in something called the Hanukkah Festival, okay? Hanukkah. And that's a celebration of the Maccabees' revolt against the Greeks. And the reason why is the Greeks wanted the Jews to celebrate their religion as well. They wanted to turn the Second Temple into a site to worship. They wanted to worship Greek gods. And so the Fanatical Jews rebelled against that. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 6:58 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 7:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: All right. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 7:02 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: But this kingdom of the Maccabees will not last very long. Again, the problem is that Jerusalem, it is the nexus of empires. And so what will happen is the Romans will come and take control over this area. And the Romans are actually worse than the Greeks. The Romans are even more chauvinistic, more discriminatory towards the Jews. And this will launch three major wars between the Romans and the Jews. The entire Jewish diaspora will revolt against the Romans, and this will lead to many, many Jews being massacred because the Romans are a vicious people. In 70, the year 70, they burned down the Second Temple to destroy the morale of the Jews. And because they destroyed the Second Temple, this causes a shift in the Jewish religion. Because remember, at this point in history, the Second Temple is a site of Jewish worship. This is the house of God. This is where Yahweh lives. Okay. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 8:05 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So when the Second Temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews, or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay. Because remember, we discussed how Paul created Christianity as a mechanism for Jews to still be Jews, but at the same time be Roman as well. Okay. That's the idea of the Christian religion. But those who stay become much more fanatical. In fact, they develop a very messianic, eschatological attitude, meaning the end of the world is coming. God is coming to destroy the Romans, and we must show our loyalty to God. And so they keep on the fight. Even though they've lost the war against the Romans, they will go into the Arabian Desert where they will incubate a new religion called Islam. And they will prophesize the coming of the Messiah, who will turn out to be Mohammed. Right? So at this point in history, the Jews must leave Jerusalem because the Romans basically kicked them out. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 9:05 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And their religion was splintered into many different factions. But the major characteristic is that they've gone from temple worship to worship of their law. Okay. The law of Moses. And so the rabbis come into power. Before it was the Sadducees, the priests who control the temple, who are in charge. Now it's the rabbis. The rabbis are basically the Pharisees, those who teach the oral law of Moses. Okay. So they become the new elite in the Jewish diaspora. And so as we discussed, a lot of Jews at this time convert to Christians. All the early Christians were Jews. Okay. And as we discussed, what will happen is those Jews who are most fanatical, they will escape into the urban desert and they will incubate Islam. And eventually, Islam will conquer the world. At this point, they feel as though they've achieved the Messianic Age. And they have returned to Jerusalem. Now the Jews ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 10:20 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: believe that in the Messianic Age, the Messiah will come, lead them to victory, bring all the Jews back to Jerusalem, and build the third temple, and usher in the Messianic Age. Okay. And that's what they believe happened. And so this is the Al -Azhar Mosque in Jerusalem. And this is meant to be the third temple. Over time, what happened is they would change it to become a center of Islamic worship. But in the beginning, it was really the third temple. And so at this point, a lot of Jews convert to Islam as well. Because they think that Muhammad is the Messiah. Okay. So a lot of Jews are converted to Christianity and Islam. But there are a lot of Jews who do not. And they settle throughout the world. Okay. Let's look at Europe at this point. So what's happening in Europe is that Europe is becoming more and more Christian, but the Jews aren't allowed to stay. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 11:21 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And what will happen over time is that they will be persecuted, massacred, and expelled from many different places in Europe. I'm not sure if you can see this map clearly, but the circles, okay, are places where there was at least one Jewish expulsion. So this is a terrible time for the Jews because they settle in a place, they're trying to practice religion, and then after they've settled in, they're expelled by the people. So what does it happen? Okay. Well, what's happening is that the Jews come to an arrangement with the European nobility. Okay. And there's a deal. There's a contract. That's not written down, but it's understood. Basically, what the Jews agree to is they become slaves to nobility. Okay. Because in the Christian religion, you are not allowed to charge interest. You're not allowed to make bank loans to peasants and charge interest. But that's the most profitable business you can get into, right? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 12:32 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So you, as nobles, can't do it. What do you do? Well, you get the Jews to do it for you. We're not doing that, but you get the Jews to also manage a property. Jews are actually very good at industry and trade. There's a Jewish diaspora, right? So the Jews make very good merchants because they're able to access different networks around the world. That's very important. Okay. If you're the elite. Also, the Jews can make loans to you for wars and stuff. Okay. And Jews are very good at finance. They're very good at medicine. Okay. So the Jews become very independent. They become a very important part of the European economy. Okay. And the last reason, which is the most problematic, is that the Jews are kept around as a scapegoat. Okay. So, you know, you end up like poor people. Why? To put fear into people. Right? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 13:25 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: If you don't work hard in school, if you don't make a lot of money, you end up like poor and homeless. Right? Well, in Catholic Europe, you know, the Catholic Church is in charge at this point. The Catholic Church wants to keep Jews around to scare the Christians and say, hey, if you don't believe in Jesus, you end up like the Jews. Okay. And so what happens is that this arrangement is fine when the economy is good, but what happens when the economy is bad? What happens when people are angry? The Jews get blamed, right? Because the Jews are the ones who are loan sharks. The Jews are the ones who killed Jesus. The Jews are the ones who are causing all the spiritual pollution. Right? And so, this is the implicit contract made between the Jews and the European nobility. You're allowed to stay and make a lot of money, but when we need a scapegoat, you get blamed and you have to leave. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 14:21 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=861s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=861s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? Or possibly get massacred as well. So it's a terrible, terrible deal for the Jews. But they keep it because they want to practice their religion. Okay? So, there's one place in Europe that is very friendly towards the Jews. And this is actually the wealthiest part of Europe. It's Spain. Okay? At this point, it's controlled by the Muslims. And remember, the difference between the Muslims and the Catholics is the Catholics persecute the Jews because they think that the Jews killed Jesus. But the Muslims don't believe that. The Muslims believe that the Jews, the Christians, the Muslims are all one big family. Okay? They are all descendants of Abraham. So the Jews and the Christians are treated very well in Spain. And Jews rise up very high within the Al -Andalus system. Okay? Because they're very literate. They know the Bible very well. The Bible is a holy book. They have connections to the Jewish diaspora around the world. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 15:27 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And they are extremely good at finance. Okay? So the Jews prosper in this region. The problem is that over time, this region will be reconquered by the Christians. And now the Christians will continue to persecute the Jews and force Jews to convert. Okay? So this is when the Jews, Christians, and the Israelites get along very well in Spain. Okay? But in 1492 the Spanish will expel the Jews from Spain. You either convert or you leave. Okay? And a lot convert and a lot go off to the Ottoman Empire. Okay? And this was a traumatic event in Jewish history because they were extremely well established in Spain. They felt they were Spanish and now suddenly they lost everything. Okay? Now a lot did convert and this caused this schism, a divide, schism within the Jewish religion. Those who converted and those who refused to convert now became bitter enemies. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 16:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? Okay, so what will happen now is a lot of Jews choose to settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth which is a new nation and because it's a new nation they need a lot of people. So what they will do is they will have extremely tolerant policy policies towards the Jews. You're allowed to practice your own religion. So a lot of Jews around the world settle in the Polish Lutheran Commonwealth and again they thrive. They do extremely well. But the problem is that this area can be easily invaded and because it becomes more wealthy more people start to invade it from Sweden, from Russia and so war breaks out and a lot of Jews get killed. So it just gets worse and worse for the Jews. When they think they finally found a home they have to suffer this persecution. So all this history creates a major crisis of faith among Jewish people. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 17:45 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? And the three big questions is the first law in the Jewish religion is do not worship false idols. That's the first law of the Ten Commandments. So why is it that Jews can convert to Christianity and Islam and not suffer any consequences? Okay? And why are so many Jews converting? If Yahweh is a true God and Yahweh demands complete obedience to Him why is it okay to convert? Okay? That's a problem. Second problem is what did Jews do wrong exactly to be persecuted and massacred like this? Yeah okay some Jews convert to Christianity and Islam but go punish them man. Why are the Jews who are loyal to Yahweh punished? That makes no sense. Okay? And the third big question is if Yahweh promised the Jews a homeland called a promised land why don't they have it? Why are they kicked out? For hundreds of years despite all the persecution despite all the trauma they've stayed loyal to Yahweh. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 18:53 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith Jews believe it is the end time. So the world is coming to an end and the Messiah is coming. Okay? So at this point in history about the year 1600 there's this heavy anticipation of the coming of the Messiah. And so what will happen is that one man named who is born in the Ottoman Empire he will declare himself the Messiah. Okay? And is the equivalent of Jesus in the Jewish religion. Now we don't actually know much about him. The reason why is that what we know about him a lot of information was written by his enemies the rabbis. His followers are pretty secretive. Okay? But one thing happened is this. Whenever you have a Messiah come what the Messiah does is he's essentially a revolutionary. He's trying to overthrow the social order. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 19:57 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? And his major concern is why are Jews being persecuted like this? And his answer is because we're not practicing the true faith. What we have are all these laws created by the rabbis. But who are the rabbis? The rabbis are just a corrupt elite like all every like every priest class before. They're like the Catholic Church. Right? The Catholic Church is a hierarchy and so over time become extremely corrupt. The rabbis don't really suffer that much persecution. Right? So when Jews are massacred and persecuted guess what guys? It's usually not the Jewish elite that's massacred and persecuted. Right? And also the rabbis are the ones who are helping the European elite persecute the Jews. Right? Because it is the rabbis that control the Jews and to maintain control of the Jews they come into these unfair agreements with the European nobility. So for Zevi the real problem is a hierarchy within the religion. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 21:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: The real problem are these laws that don't make any sense. Don't eat pork. So the Sabbath right? Rests on Saturday. Don't go to the religions. Doesn't make any sense. What should matter is your faith in God. If we are a people if we are a family born of Abraham and we share one blood then who cares what you dress like what you look like. We're all one blood. The faith in your heart is what matters. And also there should be no hierarchy. People should be free to choose their religion. People should be free to choose their own lifestyle. People should be free to choose their own laws. If God loves us if there's a divine spark in us then we should know what is right and what is wrong. Okay? So there are three things that he does that's really important. The first and most important thing is he proposes an egalitarian society where men and women are all equal. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 22:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Where there's no more hierarchy where the rabbis are not above you because the law doesn't exist anymore. What matters is your relationship to God. So in many ways he's a proto -liberal and a proto -communist. Okay? He believes that the system designed as it is where you must obey the rabbi and we must await for the coming of the Messiah who will take us back to Jerusalem it's meant to defend the status quo. It's meant to make the Jews slaves to the nobility. Okay? So he's very much a proto -liberal and proto -communist. And we'll discuss his influence on our journey next class. Okay? That's the first thing I want you guys to remember. Second thing I want you guys to remember is that he ultimately converts to Islam. Okay? So when he announced himself as Messiah a million Jews follow him because he's preaching a message of liberation of equality of freedom. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 22:58 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And so a million Jews follow him. But then he does something that's really weird which confuses people which is he's supposed to as a Messiah take them to war against the Ottoman Empire and restore Jerusalem to the Jewish nation. But when he's converted by the Sultan the Sultan basically says to him the turban or your head the turban means you convert to Islam or I will cut your head off. Sadat Zevi converts to Islam. And everyone's like why did he do that? And the reason why he did that is you need to understand he's a Messiah who's come to redeem the Jews. Right? You've got millions of Jews who in the centuries have converted to Christianity to Islam. According to the rabbis these people will burn in hell. But if they're all part of one family if they all have the divine spark then they must be redeemed as well before we can have heaven on earth. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 23:51 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: So Sadat Zevi what he does is by converting he sacrifices himself just to just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem us from the original sin. He is now redeeming the Jews all Jews from the original sin of conversion. Okay? And so by doing this he's saying it's okay to convert guys in fact I've absolved you of the original sin with God so now you can now be close with God. And therefore you don't have to follow the laws anymore. Okay? The messianic age has come because you are the messianic age now. So the last thing he suggests is the idea of justification by sin. Okay? And again there's been a lot of misinterpretation that this just means that oh it's okay to break the laws now. Okay? In fact Sadat Zevi you know he converts to Islam he eats pork and he has a lot of wild sex. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 24:49 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-sin-turns-wall-into-technology) Text: Okay? And so he breaks a lot of these laws. But what Sadat Zevi is really saying is that don't apply because we all have the wisdom in ourselves to follow our own laws. And by breaking the laws what you're showing is your true faith in the Messiah your true faith in God your true faith in yourself. Okay? Because you're no longer constrained by rabbinic authority. Are we clear? Okay? So um this is the idea of Sadat Zevi. What happens when he converts is most choose not to follow him most choose to go back to the rabbis who are his enemies. But there are 300 families who choose to convert with him. And these families are called the Dolmay. And guess what happens? The Dolmay will eventually come to control Turkey. Okay? This is Mustafa Ataturk who is the founder of the Republic of Turkey. And he's a Dolmay guys. Okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 25:52 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1552s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1552s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So you can argue that today the Dolmay control Turkey. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 26:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: All right. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 26:02 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So the Jews believe in reincarnation. And 50 years after Sadat Zevi's death Okay? A new person named Jacob Frank will emerge and consider himself the reincarnation of Sadat Zevi. Okay? So he's born into a Sabatine family. He's born into a family that follows the teachings of Sadat Zevi. Even though Sadat Zevi is considered heresy. Even though he's considered an enemy of the rabbis. He's born into this family and he will start to extend and systemize the teachings of Sadat Zevi. And he will become very successful. Okay? He will have a lot of followers. But much more importantly he will become friends with European nobility. And Russia. His followers will become product members of the European nobility. They will become very important intellectuals. And they will become very important bankers. And what I will show you is they've really gone on to conquer the world. And so the question for us is how did he do that? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 27:13 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: How did he inspire his followers to go conquer the world? And he did so by presenting a new philosophy a new religion. Okay? That goes against the Jewish religion. It's not Jewish Judaism. He doesn't consider himself a Jew. In fact he hates Jews. So his new religion called Sabbatian Frankism goes against the Jewish faith. Okay? And it is a faith based on success. And his argument is this. Jesus came to our world to teach us that the world is a corpse. Right? The material world doesn't matter. What matters is the divine spark in you. Because the divine spark will set you free. The divine spark will allow you to return to the monad. That's what matters. Okay? We're here just to learn spirituality. We're here to learn wisdom through pain and suffering. Then Jacob Frank okay then thinks about this and says well you know what if God is forgiving if God wants here wants us to come here to learn wisdom why do we have to suffer? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 28:22 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Why can't we become kings ourselves? Why can't we break the rules of this world cheat hack the system and become kings ourselves? Isn't that a much more better way to enjoy our time here? Okay? And so what he will do is he will teach his philosophy this religion to his followers and he will also train and teach them how to master this world how to conquer this world. Okay? So we will look at his teachings. All right so we know what he says because a lot of things he said were written down by his followers in Polish and we are now going to read a translation by Harris Linowitz from the University of Utah. Okay? These are his words but what's important to keep in mind is that these are words just for the public. Okay? So we don't actually have access to his secret mystical magical teachings the Kabbalah. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 29:23 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? And think of what his teaching is almost like the prince. It's a guide on how to conquer the world and in fact the fragments will go on to conquer the world. Okay? So we are going to study his mentality okay? His teachings and I'm telling you right now that he is a brilliant teacher and the reason why is that he's going to tell teach religion teach ideas through telling stories. He's a storyteller. And the power of stories is that they're like seeds that embed in your mind and they grow over time. They become like oak trees. These massive trees that shape the way you see reality and the way you see yourself. Okay? So stories are the most powerful mechanisms of education in the world. Okay? So Alan can you read the story please? Yeah. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 30:13 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: One Saturday I went outside the city and there brought myself some oranges and having a penknife on me. Peeled them a learned Jewish scholar came along with his purples. Why are you doing this? By God! Don't you know that today is a Sabbath and you have a knife on you? You are right I answered. You speak the truth but why are you such a learned man carrying a knife with you? How can that be? Shit! shouted the Jew. It is my habit to bathe on Friday and put on different clothing for the Sabbath. Well since I said so reach into your pocket and you will find a knife there for sure. The Jew was stricken by fear when he having put his hand into the pocket brought out his own penknife. He cried out in amazement. You cannot be a man for if you are a man then I am an ass. And he began ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 31:05 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: to beg me to come to him promising all kinds of good things but I did not want to do it and in this way I did similar things whenever I could. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 31:14 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay so certain things that you will notice about the story is first of all he has contempt for Jews. Okay? A learned Jewish scholar and what he shows is that it's very easy to trick these people. Why? Because they are learning their laws have made them stupid. Okay? They are very strict about following the laws and so they become very ignorant and what he also shows you is how to control people. You control people by using their own laws against them. Okay? So this man has a very rigid sense of the world. He just said to Jacob Frank hey you can't use a knife and Jacob Frank is like well then while he isn't looking Jacob Frank just puts a knife into his pocket. It's a sleight of hand very simple trick. But these sleight of hands because people are stupid and ignorant you can use them you can use these tricks to control and manipulate them. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 32:22 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? So just because he's able to do this the learned Jewish scholar is now saying oh you must be the Messiah. You must be divine. Let me follow you. And Jacob Frank is like no you're too stupid to follow me goodbye okay? Alright? So it's a simple story it's very amusing it's memorable so if I were to tell you this story maybe when you're six years old even when you turn 80 years old you'll still remember it and the story will grow over time it will shape the way that you see the world and what you understand is that people are fundamentally stupid and superstitious and you must take advantage of that. Okay? Take advantage of that because why not? Alright. Okay. Uh Amber can you read please? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 33:11 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Traveling with Zakubowski from Salonika to Poland there prevailed at that time a pestilence pestilence in Podolia. We came to one township where the plague was filling the people and we lacked food, wine, bread, cheese, etc. Then remembering that from those containment contaminated contaminated with plague one does not take money I told them the opposite. You go there purchase everything but don't give them money. He did just that. He came to the baker bargained for bread put it in a sack but when he had to pay the baker fell down and died. He went to the shopkeeper where he bargained for cheese. He put the cheese away and the shopkeeper died. He went on to the store to buy vodka. What happened with the owner? In a word just wherever he went he bought everything without money because the plague was sweeping the sellers away. Coming back then to me where I was waiting for him a rider on horseback knocked him down with his horse. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 34:20 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: What are you doing? shouted Jakubowski. Are you going to ride right over me? He didn't even finish saying it when the rider toppled over ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 34:43 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: the bull's head and the bull was in a much worse shape than he had It's no wonder he looked so serious and he didn't even know doing. He didn't even know what he was doing. If you were the rider you would okay that's literal but then the spiritual is or Jesus saying that how the world is a corpse and you see it as a corpse you can send above people okay and what you can frankly say you see the world as a corpse you know what do you want you can take advantage of people okay as long as you believe that I'm above you okay you're a dead body I can take everything from you you will always triumph so this is idea of justification by sin how do you know you truly believe in God by breaking the laws of man by bringing the conventional man because he's conventional man this morality is law ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 35:41 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: that keep you back okay what matters is your relationship with God you have true faith you can do whatever you want you can conquer the world and God will let you because you have faith in God all right all right can you read out I asked Robbie ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 36:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Easter heart and the rabbi montage cheese that if the second belonged to the divine why did he die rabbi is a heart replied to me and stand in our book that he came to this world to experience everything there is devil he had to come to experience the bitterness of death as well that's fine I replied the answer is good but if he came to experience everything why then did it not taste how it would be to be Pasha was there or Satan Oh why did he not experience rulership I don't believe it they cannot give me any ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 36:37 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: answer to this so this is a great point he makes okay if these divine beings like Jesus they come to experience the world to learn wisdom and so why did they suffer because suffering is part of wisdom and then your friends like yeah but then isn't being a king also an experience why didn't he become king okay so what Jacob Frank is telling you is that that these laws, this morality, religion in place, it's all a mechanism to control you, to subjugate you, to enslave you, okay? So his is a religion of liberation from oppression, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 37:19 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Keep on reading, Alan. That place to where I go all have knocked so that the door be opened to them. The patriarchs, the Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon, and all the pillars of the world, none have been able to open it, but I will labor and with the strength of my God will open it. No one knew but only Balaam, who knew a little but he too not well. That which I mentioned to the company must be understood concerning those pillars of the world as was mentioned above. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 37:49 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Yeah, so he's saying the Jewish religion, you worship Moses and David and Solomon, but you know what? At the same time, they were all slaves because they could not see the truth of this world. They could not see the true structure of this world. They couldn't really conquer it, but I can, and I will show you the way as long as you follow me, okay? The company is its followers, and the people who follow them are called the brothers and the sisters. So it's a very egalitarian, flat hierarchy where there's no, it's not a triangle like most secret societies. It's just they all obey Jacob Frank, and Jacob Frank will lead them to a promised land, okay? All right, can you read, Amber? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 38:32 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Should I read this? Maybe not. In a dream, I saw Jesus, having priests around him, sitting at a spring of living and clean, clear water. I noticed that the spring went away from them and came to me. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 38:44 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, so it's very simple, right? You think Jesus is the Messiah? Wrong! I'm the true Messiah, okay? Because the water flows to me, life flows to me. Am I going? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 38:56 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: I tell you, as Christ, as you know, said that he came to free the world from the hands of Satan. But I came to free it all from the hands of Satan, from all loss and status which have been till now for all that was the work of the hands of satan and by that all fell into his sins i must destroy all that and only make that which is black look utterly white at that time the good god will reveal himself okay so why is it important to sin ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 39:23 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-sin-turns-wall-into-technology) Text: to break the laws because the truth of the matter is this world that we live in is controlled by the false god by satan and therefore responsibility to his sin to show the world that his laws can be defied to the five same himself to show the world that these laws are idiotic they don't make any sense they're stupid okay and by doing that we accelerate the end of this world that is amazing age when this world ends we will have a new world when we'll see the truth for ourselves when we will wait in to the falseness of this world and then we have defeated evil then we will have defeated sin okay this is the idea of accelerationism right you by sinning you accelerate the end of the world by sinning you reveal the truth of the world by sinning you empower yourself okay okay any questions so far but you can see ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 40:25 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: how seductive this is right okay um okay so this one's a bit long so so i'll simply simplify it okay again it is a parable so there's a merchant he has the world's most valuable pearl and he wants to uh puncture a whole fluid because he wants to create a necklace and he goes to all these specialists are artisans and they all say no no no this is pro is too valuable i might break it or i might damage it you won't be happy okay so they'll refuse the merchant really wants a hole so he offers more money and everyone's like no i can't do it then this apprentice and Jacob Frank is like, I'm an apprentice, I don't know anything. He's like, sure, I'll do it. And he does it, and the merchant is like, oh wow, thank you. And the merchant, the apprentice becomes very wealthy. So in this world, what matters is not obey conventions, not, what matters is not listening to other people, conforming to other people. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 41:21 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2481s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2481s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: What matters is your fearlessness, okay? Just go do it, man. Seize it, and you'll become wealthy. That's what this world is about, okay? We are constrained by these taboos, by all this morality, by all this nonsense, okay? You must break through it and just seize it for yourself, and you'll become powerful. All right, okay, this is another story, which is too long. But the story goes like this. The king has four sons, and he dies. They're all born of the same age, so he doesn't know, they don't know who inherits the throne. So a great mystic comes and says, okay, here's a king. This is his body. Shoot an arrow at his heart, and whoever hits the heart will become king. All three sons try, and they miss. And the fourth son says, I can't do it, because he is the king, he's my father. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 42:18 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: He may be dead, but he's still my father. And then the wizard, the mystic says, he is your king, because he understands what matters is family, okay? So what Jacob Franklin is saying is this. El and Elos, we treat like animals. They are animals. Because they're stupid. They're governed by these idiotic laws. But we, the company, the brothers and sisters, the family, we have to love each other. We have to respect each other, even in death, okay? And our love for each other is what will allow us to conquer the world. All right, El, can you read, please? Yeah. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 42:57 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: There was once a bear. During its absence, its children were taken from the lair. Out of the great pain of not finding the children, when he came back, the bear fell, upon the village, and wounded animals and people. The elders of the village sent to it the following order. If you will not leave us, then we'll bring two districts together and destroy you. The bear laughed and sneered at it. They sent the same message again with a memorandum that we'll gather four or more districts. The bear made fun of it again. Finally, it was sent to the bear with these words, saying, in our village, there are four brothers. We shall send them again, sir. When the bear heard this, it collected itself and went off on its way. After having withdrawn from the village right away, so it is with you, I... ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 43:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2626s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2626s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, you understand this. So his father can say to Jacob Frank, Master, there's only a thousand of us, but there's a million of them. And Jacob Frank is like, look, four brothers are more powerful than 10,000 men. That is the power of love, right? Jesus taught us the power of love. Donny taught us about the power of love. If we can use it, we can conquer the world. We need to harness the power of light and spark to come together to conquer the world. There's love that will conquer the world. All right, Amber, can you read, please? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 44:26 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Holy smokes. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 44:27 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, no, no. You know what, this is too long, okay? So I'll just tell you the story. The story's very simple. There's an elephant, he's running loose, and he's killing people. So the king says, whoever can kill the elephant can marry my daughter. So a prince decides to do this. He disguises himself as a normal person, and he says to the king, I will go kill the elephant, but only in the condition that you first let me see your daughter. And the king says, sure, why not? Because you're going to die anyway. And when the prince sees the princess, the princess recognizes him right away and says, you must be a prince. Please don't go out there and get yourself killed. And the king hears this and says, if you are truly a prince, you don't have to go kill the elephant. And the prince says, no, no, no, I already promised you what I will do. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 45:23 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Out of my love for your daughter, I will go and kill the elephant. And he does. That's the power of love, okay? That's what Jacob Craig is telling you. That's the power of love. Do things not for money, do things not for power, but because of your love for each other. Okay? That's a secret to call a queen of the world. All right, can you read, Amber? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 45:50 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Once while the sultan was visiting a slave gallery with his vizier, he asked each slave about his crime. All said they were innocent of the judgment. Only one, having revealed his crime, did not hide anything from the sultan. Why should this criminal stay here with all these honest people, shouted the sultan, away with him off this gallery? And so the criminal was released. The vizier asked the sultan about it. Why do you set him free when he himself admits to his crimes? The king then asked the robber, what do you intend to do now? The robber fell at the sultan's feet and said, oh Lord, if you will take me into your service, then surely I will lack nothing, neither clothing nor robes, and you will see how devotely I serve you. You will surely be content with me. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 46:40 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, so again, he's teaching his followers how to conquer the world. And so, and one thing that you need to understand is, yes, humans are animals, but they're still good animals and bad animals. And you need to differentiate, okay? Animals want to be loyal. So if you treat a good animal well, that animal will be loyal to you forever. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 47:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: All right, can you read, Alan? It is a custom during the Jewish wedding that a distinguished person sit by the groom. I wanted to beat everyone up so that this place would be given to me. But they all spoke up. It is not proper to try to attain that by fighting, but by disputation. If you win over them in a dispute, then it will be proper for you to sit next to the groom. I asked them a few questions, and they give me the answers. This is not a great deal that you give me the answers because the school teachers taught you that. But answer me a single questions, and that will be the end. And I ask, it stand with you that the father should circumcise, circumcise, circumcise his child, and in another place it stand that the mother should circumcise. To that they cannot answers. So I sat down beside the groom. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 47:57 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So the problem with people is that they're stupid. Okay, and there are lots of these laws in the Bible. And if you just look at the Bible, just read the Bible, there's contradictions. And for the Jews believe, oh no, the Bible is the word of God. But if it's the word of God, why are there so many contradictions in the Bible? Okay, and all you have to do is reveal these contradictions to the Jews, and they'll just shut up and obey you, right? So what he's telling his followers is, if you want to win the world, you cannot win the world through violence and power because there's too many enemies. If you want to win the world, you do so through argument, through learning, by showing the stupidity of people. And this is very effective, okay? So he's telling his followers, go become lawyers, man. Go become scholars. And at some point in the Bible, ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 48:47 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: in the 19th century in Warsaw, all the top lawyers in Warsaw are Frankists, okay? Because Franks don't teach you how to think for yourself, how to think critically. All right, can you read out? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 49:10 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Elohim said... Elohim is the gods, okay? Keep on going. Noah's Adam let us make a man. They wanted to make man higher than he is now, but it was from God himself that Adam should sing. And so in all ages, they fall until it reached the lowest lowness. And from among the lowest of the low, as we are, our bravest men down to the very bottom. It will be so that our rise may go on forever upwards, and assuredly out of deep darkness the light will appear us. As was said above, that is exactly what you have yet from Signor Santo. We shall thank Adam. So the Elohim are gods, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 49:51 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=2991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So what he's saying is that there's hierarchy of gods. And the true God had an argument with the Elohim, okay? The Elohim is basically saying, let's make man as servants to us. So the man should be imbued with both spirit and a bit of flesh. And God says, no, I want man to be all flesh, to be all pleasure, okay? Why? Because that will allow man to sin. And the more they sin, what they will do is learn wisdom and knowledge. That's a secret to mortals. Because we can sin, we can learn knowledge in a way that the gods cannot. And so the more we sin, the more knowledge we have. That's why it's important to sin. If you do not sin and just follow the laws of men, you'll just stay stupid, okay? But if you really want to understand the world, break the rules. The law says, don't go and steal from the store. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 50:49 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Why not? Try it. See what happens to you. The worst is that you'll be fine, right? Or you go to jail for a day or 10 days, whatever, okay? But it's knowledge. It's true knowledge that God cannot give you. That's why God created us, to do things that he cannot do, right? All right, all right. Can you read, Amber? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 51:14 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: If you would have held on to her by that golden thread, as was indicated before, that with her is the power of leading you before that big brother, who is the king of kings, or to lead him down to you together with his brothers and his whole household, so that the whole company could see him, as I promised to show you God, so that everyone individually would have the power of asking him for three things, then we would be united with him, and at the time, we would go out in freedom from everything, that is from death, subjugation, etc., etc., as we said above. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 51:51 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, so something to understand about the religion is, the Messiah is actually, Jacob Frank's daughter, Eva, okay? So, the Messiah is a woman, that's the first thing. Second thing is that, there's an eschatology in this religion, at the end of days, when all the world ends, we'll have eternal life, okay? So, in most religions, it's when we die, we become spirit. But Jacob Frank's like, why would we want that? Why would we want to be like a flowing spirit in space? We can't feel any pleasure. True pleasure is to enjoy life, have as much sex as you want, man, eat as much food as you want, get drunk as much as you want. That's true pleasure, and that's what the end of days will be like. So, when we have achieved the end of days, the big brother will come, okay? Big brother is like this interdimensional higher god, who will come and give us all the wealth, we'll be free from death, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 52:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So, that's what they believe. We'll talk about this next week as well. But keep this in mind, okay? Alright, um, okay, so this is too long, but let me tell the story. So, a prince marries a goddess, and they have two kids. And the goddess kills both kids. And the prince gets angry and leaves her, but then they meet again. And the prince gets angry and says, why did you kill our kids? And the goddess says, here are your kids, and the kids come back. What's happened is that by killing them, they've gone on to other dimensions to learn wisdom, to become strong and beautiful. And so what Jacob Frank is saying is, don't question me, okay? I know things you cannot possibly know. I can access different dimensions. I can access the truth of the world. So when I do things, it's for the greater good. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 53:39 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: But never ever question me. Alright, um, this is actually an important story, okay? So, Amber, can you read it please? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 53:50 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: When I was little, I was at the place of an old lord, and he had peers of extraordinary flavor. He gave me some to taste and some for eating. I asked him, do you have many trees in your garden like this that give this fruit? He answered, I have a lot of big old trees and a few young ones. I said to him, I will steal fruit from your garden and cut branches so I can plant them myself in my own garden. The lord said, if you manage to steal them, then they will be yours. I won't do anything bad to you for it. But if I catch you in the garden, then I will do with you everything you want. So I did as I pleased. That garden was surrounded by a strong high wall. Taking a long pole, I measured the height of the wall, and having gathered some lads in the woods, I had them make a ladder for that height. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 54:38 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Having immediately concluded that there must be some kind of trick here, when I got there, I first climbed up the ladder, and I noticed a long cord lying along the wall. I concluded immediately that there was some kind of trap, not threading on the cord at all. I looked for the place where it ended, and I noticed that at the end of the cord, there hung a pistol, attached so that whoever moved the cord, immediately the weapon would fire, and the report would give a sign. Immediately I caught hold of the hammer, unwounded, and having emptied the pen, cut the pistol off the cord and took it for myself. Then thereafter, I ordered my lads to climb the wall, and we stole whatever we wanted. I cut three branches off its tree, too, and carried them off to my garden. In the morning, the Lord seized and recognized the theft. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 55:32 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Thereafter, he posted a lot of guards to stand watch in the garden at night. What did I do? I went with my boys, and we all stood around the wall and fired guns, so that we did not allow the guards to sleep. I did this for three nights, night after night, the guards being worn out. I didn't go to the fourth night. The guards settled down to sleep. Thereafter, I returned with my peasants and began to steal. That Lord sent for me, but I would go only with one who had been there at the conversation. When I got there with him, the nobleman began to get mad at me. Then that other said, but you have such an agreement. And so there was peace between us. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 56:17 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So this is a really important story, okay? So let me explain why. First of all, it's a rewriting of two different stories. It's a rewriting of the story of the Garden of Eden, right? When God told Adam and Eve, don't eat the fruit. And what this story is telling you is that it's not their fault, it's God's fault, okay? That's number one. Number two is, it's also a rewriting of a story in Augustine's Confessions. So Augustine is one of the main architects of the Catholic Church. He writes a story of how, when he was young, he and his friends went to steal pears from a tree. And they stole the pears, and then he recognized that, oh, he did this not because he was hungry or because the pears were tasty, it's because he's an evil person, okay? And what Jacob Frank is saying is, that's a stupid story. What God wants us to do is to break the rules of man so we can be more wealthy, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 57:19 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And this is a story that's also metaphorical. He's telling his followers that God will not punish us if we break the laws, okay? Because God cares about our creativity. God cares about our willingness to try new things, to explore, to test the boundaries. That's what God wants. So as long as we do so, and we don't break fundamental laws, like killing other people or hurting other people that angers God, we'll be fine always. And I will show you how to do so. I will show you how to get power and not break the laws of man. Don't worry about morality. Don't worry about convention taboos. These are all idiotic things that doesn't matter. We just made them up, okay? What matters is that we gain more and more power. And I will show you how to do so through trickery and through deception. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 58:12 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3492s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Yes? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 58:14 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Do we have a specific time that we can really do such things so freely and we are not restrained by laws? And such stuff? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 58:22 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay. Look. Jacob Frank, first of all, he's a Kabbalist, okay? So he's a mystic. And if you go into the mystical Jewish tradition, they teach you that the universe is consciousness. It's vibrations. So in other words, reality is just a hallucination. It's what we imagine it to be. And so these laws, these taboos, these transgressions, they're all things we made up. They have absolutely no relevance to reality. Okay? And so the reality is that if everyone thinks these laws exist, but you know they don't exist, that makes you king. Okay? So if you can see this for yourself, become a king. Become a prince. In fact, you'd be stupid and weak and ignorant if you did not do so. If you know for a fact that these laws are stupid, then break them. Take advantage of this. Okay? If there's a gold bar sitting in front of you and you refuse to take it, it doesn't mean you're virtuous. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 59:24 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: It just means you're stupid. Right? Okay. Okay, can you read? Please, Alan. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 59:34 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: There is no people like the Jews. They are like snakes and crocodiles, for there is no love at all among them, but only jealousy, hatred, and contention one against another. But it is by far the worst in Poland. Therefore it stands that evil will open from the north. Everything else will be revealed from there as well. Okay. Okay. Can you read this as well? Yeah. There is one thing that neither one thousand or two nor three thousand men could lift that thing up, and you would be able to lift it very easily with one hand. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:00:11 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay. So what is this thing where a thousand, ten thousand men can't lift up? It's convention. It's social convention. Right? It's laws that we agree on. It's morality. But you see the truth for yourself because I taught you the truth, and therefore, it's easy for you to lift it up. Okay? So it's the laws of man that we have problems defying. But once you see the truth for yourself, once you've trained your mind to see that everything around us is false, then you become God. You become king. Okay? Also, what this line tells us, he's complaining about the Jews, right? Frank hates the Jews because he thinks that the Jews have done this upon themselves. Right? Why is it that the Jews get persecuted everywhere? Why is it that Jews get massacred everywhere? It's because of their silly little mind where they think that the law says we can never convert. Who says so? Because of these rabbis? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:01:03 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: These rabbis are human as well. Think for yourself. Okay? See the truth for yourself. And that's what he's teaching his followers. All right. Okay. This is actually a really important story. So can you read it, Amber? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:01:21 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: There was a certain rich Jew who loved all men powerfully and received guests graciously, not begrudging them food or drink. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:01:30 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3690s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3690s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So this guy is rich, the richest Jew in the world, and he's generous. And so we should all worship him, right? We should all be grateful to him. We should all honor him, right? But let's see what happens. Keep on going. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:01:43 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Those he treated said to him that they greatly loved him mutually. What does he do? He takes a fat roast goose and having dressed it in a shirt and having put it in a little coffer, went in the morning to his friends who had eaten with him and asked them for advice, saying, The peasants have planted a dead child on me and want to make an attack on me. What shall I do? All of them answered him, We don't want to know about it, neither about you nor that child. He went away from the house and looked around him as if he were very worried at all. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:02:24 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, so he's very rich. He's very generous to people. And then he's asking himself, Are they really my friends? Or are they being nice to me just because I'm nice to them, because I'm wealthy? So he designs a test, okay? And he's asking for help. And when he asked for help, he realized that these friends are going to help him, even though he was very generous to them. Okay, keep on going. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:02:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3766s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3766s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: He went to his neighbor who was also wealthy, but they had never had close relations. He asked him what his advice might be. He replied to him, Dear neighbor, let's go and dig a hole at the edge of your estate and bury the chest there and put some boards and other stuff on top of it. But those who had eaten with him themselves went and spied out the place where they buried the chest, and they themselves went to the squire of that town, reporting to him that terrible deed. That lord together with his whole household took himself off and went to the house of that Jew. Having arrived there, he ordered the householder immediately thrown in irons and ordered the place dug up to find the child. But to the great surprise of everyone, when the chest was opened, the roast goose was seen in the shirt. The lord asked what that might be. Thereafter, ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:03:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: that Jew replied that it was to test those who really loved him that he did it, and that I wanted to see if they were really as kindly disposed to me as they had said. But I have concluded the reverse. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:04:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So if you're very wealthy and you're nice to people, they'll think you're stupid and naive, and they'll plot against you. Okay? That's the reality that you live in. If you want to become rich, you have to break the laws of man. If you want to stay rich, you have to be mean to people. You have to recognize that people are inherently evil. Okay? They're animals. Um, Alan, can you read, please? Yeah. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:04:29 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: It is written that silver answers everything. It is not even possible to draw near God without money. Okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:04:35 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So how do you know you're successful? How do you know you're happy? Money, right? Um, this story down below, he tells a story of how he has these followers and he's well -respected, so now these normal men are trying to broaden and says, hey, why don't we join forces? I'll give you a million dollars. And he says, no. I'll give you a billion dollars. No. I'll give you a trillion dollars. No, no, no. Okay? Because what matters is belief in our mission. Okay? Our mission is to create a new world. Our mission is to actually limit the age. That's what matters. Okay? Not the money. Um, so, can you read, Alan? Yeah. Two maidens. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:05:23 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3923s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3923s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Two maidens from Poland. Daughters were leaving and wanted to lie down on the bed. I wanted to have intercourse with them. At that one nun came undressed and also lay on the bed. I lay on the bed. The nun says to me, Lord Franek, what are you doing? Indeed I am married. I replied, what of it? Exposition? That thing was, that thing with the nuns was prepared for you. And you do that with them in squares, towns and streets. And that would have been an eternal place for you. Also that the priest would become you certainly. But you did not want it. Okay. So this is a really important idea. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:06:04 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=3964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: The idea is that the reality is constructed through um, uh, hallucination. Okay? Through our own imagination. And so, everyone is living in someone else's imagination. These laws were created by someone else. But what, what this means is that what you can do is create your own reality and then when you create your own reality, then people will obey your laws. Okay? So, this is a nun and she's sworn to uphold uh, the, the church rules, right? But all Frank did was undress, lie on the bed and just lay there and imagine her coming. And she does. She comes, she undresses and she's lying beside him. And now she's like, hmm, I'm afraid that if I do this, if I have sex with this man, I will be punished by God. And then he's like, don't worry about it. Okay? So the world is what you make of it. The world is what you imagine of it. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:06:59 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: If you train your mind to see the world in a certain way, then everyone else will see the way, see the world your way. Okay? That's what controls the world. The imagination. Does that make sense guys? Okay? But you can see why he's so powerful, right? Yeah? Yes? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:07:16 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4036s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4036s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: But like, if I create my own world inside my head but I did not tell others or I did not influence others uh, by my actions, how could I like, like others to follow my world? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:07:29 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay. So, this is something that a normal person cannot do. Okay? This is someone who has an imagination can do. Right? So, think of a writer. The writer is imagining the world and writing it down. Okay? And when you read the book, what happens? You come into this world. Think of a television show, right? Television show is just a reality that someone made up. When you watch television show, you think it's real. You come into this world. Okay? And this is what you can do as well. If you train your mind in a certain way, but you have to train your mind in a certain way. Okay? How do you train your mind? Through constant education, through reading, through dialogue, through debate. And that's why the Franks are so powerful. Okay? Because, they're not like a bunch of robbers. They're people who are deeply engaged in learning and exercising their imagination. Right? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:08:18 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4098s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4098s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Does that make sense? Alright. So, this is really important. So, what's gonna happen is that most of Frank's followers are Jews. And what they're gonna do is they're gonna convert together to the Catholic religion. Because, when they do so, they will be given opportunities to grow in power. Okay? They'll be patronized by Catholic royalty. Okay? So they decide to convert together. But before they do, they have a ceremony to mark their conversion. Okay? Can you read, Amber? On the night? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:08:53 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: On the night of that day, the following deed took place. The Lord set up a garden in the courtyard made up of our people, so that no one might dare even to look through the window. And he himself went in with the brothers and sisters, undressed, nude, and also Her Highness, O.B.M., and ordered all those gathered to do so. And after having taken a little bench, he drove a nail into the center and set two burning candles on the bench and hung his cross from the nail. And so after having knelt before it himself, he took the cross and bowed to the four sides and kissed it. Then Her Highness and then everyone, he ordered to do so. After that, the sexual relations took place thereafter according to his determination. At that, one of the women laughed. Then at the moment, the Lord ordered the candles put out, saying, if they would let the candles burn, they would see what would happen. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:09:54 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And at the time, he said, with this deed, we go to the naked things. Therefore, it is necessary to go naked. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:10:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, this deed is conversion, okay? So, what they're doing is this, they're converting to a new religion and they're supposed to swear loyalty to a new faith, a new God. But what they're doing in the ceremony is swearing loyalty to each other, okay, through a ritual. And this ritual, it's not sex, it's a ritual of love where Jacob Frank is instructing each other on how to behave in a sexual manner, okay? And this is a way to cement their covenant with each other. And what this does is it empowers everyone to go far and wide. But no matter how far and wide you go, remember that we still love each other. And because of our love for each other, we'll find each other, okay? So he tells a lot of stories of how these prince goes around the world in disguise because you have no choice, because this world is run by idiots. This world, it's going to be like, it's governed by idiotic laws. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:11:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: And therefore, you must disguise yourself. You must hide yourself. But remember that we will always find each other because we know each other for who we are, okay? Because we're bounded by this covenant with each other. So the thing about the Frank is that's very annoying or which makes people hate them is they're always engaging in this sort of sexual rituals. They have incest with their children. They have incest with their daughters. They do a lot of wife swapping, okay? And you may think to yourself, this is degrading. But if you think about it, wife swapping, who has the power in the relationship? It's actually the wife, right? Because before, the wife had to stay at home and she had to like, and she couldn't use her body. But now with wife swapping, she can now meet other powerful men and control them, manipulate them, okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:11:52 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So the Frank is, are an extremely egalitarian people where there's also women empowerment, okay? Does it make sense? All right. Can you read Amber? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:12:09 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4329s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4329s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: August 28th, 1762. Her Highness OBM traveled from this place to the Lord. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:12:17 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay, so they're in Poland. Her Highness is a daughter, right? Eva. Okay, the Messiah. Keep on going. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:12:22 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: She arrived there the 8th of September, stayed and on the day of judgment had sexual relations with the Lord for the first time. The 18th of October, the Lord said to her, now you have become pregnant by me with a son. When she came to the Lord for the first time, the Lord began with her that ceremony that King Aswus did with Esther at which she was mightily frightened. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:12:48 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So this is incest. And the goal of this incest is for Jacob Frank to create another body to reincarnate, okay? So they believe in reincarnation. So even though Jacob Frank, he's really, the last iteration of St. Zevi, it's, he's the last one we know about, okay? There must be, there must be someone else as well, okay? So, what Jacob Frank and St. Zevi represent is a more powerful understanding of faith, okay? So remember, there are, there have been three different understandings of faith. The Catholics believe in the idea of justification by works. If you just do what the church tells you to do, if you avoid sin, you'll go to heaven. Martin Luther says, that's stupid. The church doesn't have authority to decide who goes to heaven. So he used the idea of justification by faith. It's only if you truly believe in God that you can go to heaven. But the question is like, how do you really believe, so you believe in God? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:13:49 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4429s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4429s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-sin-turns-wall-into-technology) Text: And what St. Zevi and Jacob Frank says is like, by sinning, by going against the laws of man, by being shunned by your community, by being hated by your community, that is true faith in God. And when you do this, when you sin, not only do you learn knowledge, but your faith grows more powerful. And those who understand this, we are a follower community. We are the true prince of the world. We are the true leaders of the world. And together, we will rule the world together. And guess what, guys? They succeeded. All right. Why? Well, because, look, at the end of the day, the Frankists, they are a secret organization. And they figured out how to create a church to create the most resilient, the strongest organization in the world. Okay? So these are the characteristics of a really strong organization. They have a strict hierarchy. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:14:41 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4481s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4481s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So, everyone's loyal to Frank. Okay? You need a purpose. They're all loyal to Frank. Selflessness. They all love each other. We let us pursue a material victory. They love money, secrecy, discipline, energy, and motivation. Okay? Self -hatred, fear, anger, jealousy. Okay? And self -hatred, fear, anger, and jealousy is created by sinning, right? Because when you have sex with your own daughter, when you do this sort of stuff, you feel tremendous guilt. But this guilt can be channeled to make you more energetic, to make you more focused on success, to make you want to achieve the end of days. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, again, guys, Frankenism is not Judaism. These are two different things. In fact, Frankenism is a rejection of Judaism. Okay? Because in Judaism, they teach you about the spirit. Well, for Frank, the spirit doesn't matter. What matters is the material. Because the spirit doesn't allow you to access wisdom. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:15:39 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: It's the material that allows you to access wisdom. Sinning allows you to access wisdom. Jews tell you to obey Yahweh. And Frank says, no, no, what matters is we defeat Satan here on Earth. Okay? That's the true mission. Defeat Satan. Jews says, trust God. All right? So, the idea is to trust God. The idea is don't worry about the Messiah coming. Eventually, he'll come and he'll lead us back to Jerusalem and he'll bring us all back and he'll build a third temple. And Frank says, no, no, no. Let's not wait. God doesn't want us to wait. God wants us to seize the day. God wants us to make our own world. That's why God created us because we have the capacity to create our own world, our own paradise. So, let's do it. Let's not wait. Okay? the acceleration is. Okay? And you do that by sinning a lot. By showing the fakeness of this world. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:16:35 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: That this world is ultimately an illusion. Okay? So, does this philosophy make sense to you guys? All right. All right. So, one thing that you guys need to know is that there's rumor that Frank, he's actually the true founder of the Illuminati which is an alliance to societies that control and have access to both the Jewish faith, Islamic faith, as well as the Jesuit faith, the Catholic faith. Okay? They will combine all three together because they have spies everywhere that allow these different societies to coordinate. Okay? So, there's a rumor that Frank founded the Illuminati but I suspect he did. Why? Because one of the most famous members of the Illuminati is Goethe. Okay? And Goethe wrote a very famous play called Faust. And let's think about the plot of Faust. The plot is this. You have Faust who's a scholar and he's looking for wisdom. So, he makes a deal ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:17:43 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: with Mephistopheles, the devil, and says, and Mephistopheles says, I will give you eternal wisdom in return for your eternal life, your soul. And Faust says, sure. Okay? And Faust does a lot of things. He sins. He has sex with a young child. She dies. He does all the really bad things but he learns a lot of wisdom. And when he dies, he's supposed to go to heaven. I'm sorry. When he dies, he's supposed to go to hell. Okay? But at the very last minute when Mephistopheles has come to claim his soul, God sends angels to rescue Faust and take him away. Okay? That's a very Frankish attitude towards life. Sin as much as you want in order to gain wisdom. If you do so, if you gain a lot of wisdom, then God will reward you with eternal life. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:18:28 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:18:30 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: All right. Again, the Frankish infiltrate the Jesuits and so a lot of people believe that the Frankish now control the Catholic Church or have a lot of say over the Catholic Church. Okay? Okay. They also infiltrate the Freemasons. I'll show you this next class. Okay? They're also a major influence of Mormonism. If you look at the structure of the Mormon Church and you look at Frankism, it's very similar. Scientology, guys. Okay? If you just look at Scientology, it's very similar to what the Frankish believe as well. All right. Some very famous Frankish in history. Look, there's lots of them. Okay? But it's all secret because they work in silence. The big thing is their secrecy among, their secrecy. Okay? If you think that Louis Brandeis who is the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice in America, he was a Frankish. And there's a very famous university, Brandeis University founded after him. Okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:19:40 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So if you think that, so if you know that this guy is a Frankish, think about how many other very powerful Americans are also Frankish. Okay? I'm not allowed to name their names because, well, they would deny it and I would get in a lot of trouble if I mention their names. But they are very powerful people and you know who they are. Okay? You will know their names but you may not know they're Frankish. This is William Butler Yates who is a very famous Irish poet. He himself also is a member of a secret society. Okay? And we're gonna read a poem together by Yates to show you the influence of Frankish philosophy on modernity. In fact, what I will show you next class is you can make the argument that Jacob Frank and somebody Zevi together they created modernity in the West. All right? So we're gonna read a poem by this very famous Irish poet who ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:20:35 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: is also a Nobel Prize winner also a member of a secret society called The Order of the Golden Dawn. Okay? All right. So it's called Crazy Jane Talks with a Bishop. Okay? So Emma, can you read please? It's very simple. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:20:48 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: I met the bishop on the road and much said that he was a high religious authority. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:20:58 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Keep on going. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:00 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4860s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4860s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Those breasts are flat and fallen now. Those veins must soon be dry. Live in a heavenly mansion not in some foul stye. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:13 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay. So you're fallen, right? So you've seen a lot in life. You've lived a terrible life. But don't worry. God is forgiving. If you convert, if you change your life now, God will forgive you. All right? And all will be good. Keep on going, Amber. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:30 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Fair and foul are near of kin. And fair needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth. Nor grave nor bed denied. Learned in bodily lowliness and in the heart's pride. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:44 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: You cannot have sin, sorry, you cannot have good about evil. You cannot have ugliness, you cannot have beauty about ugliness. Okay? So, and this is something that I've learned because I've sinned, because I've gone low. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:58 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Okay? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:21:59 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4919s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4919s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Keep on going. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:22:01 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: A woman can be proud and stiff when on love intent. But love has pitched his mansion in the place of excre excrement. Excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:22:17 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Where is God? Where is love? God is in in garbage. Okay? So you have to sink low to truly find God. You have to sink low to truly find yourself. You have to destroy yourself in order to truly create yourself. Okay? And that is a very Frankish attitude. So, in many ways, Frankish belief has conquered modern Western culture. And I will show you why next class. Okay? Any questions? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:22:50 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Like, I think Frank said that you can have all pleasures that you want of sins. But I think that is a kind of low vibration. So we need to have that low vibration and sins to learn our mistakes so we can find success. Right? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:23:07 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4987s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-sin-turns-wall-into-technology) Text: Okay. Look. Sin is taboo. Okay? It is barriers. It is walls in front of you. But if you really want knowledge, you have to break through these walls so that reality can reveal itself more clearly if you understand. Sin are all these invisible walls that you put in front of you for no particular reason. It's all part of your imagination. Okay? So if you want to see the world as it truly is, if you really want to see yourself for who you truly are, then you must sin. Because sin will also cause a process of guilt and reflection and wisdom. Okay? It will cause another process of pain and suffering. And we avoid sinning because we're afraid of social condemnation. We're afraid of being laughed at. We're afraid of being mocked by other people. But if you really want true knowledge, you have to go against social conformity. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:13 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-sin-turns-wall-into-technology) Text: So sin, don't sin just for the sake of sinning. Sin because it allows you to access greater knowledge, a deeper knowledge. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. Any more questions? Yeah? ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:26 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Do you think that the that the Francis ideology has an impact on the Palestine -Israel conflict? Because I think I see a lot of similar narratives coming. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:41 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Yeah. So at the very end of the course, I will teach you like, the Sabatine Frankists, they're the founders of Israel. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:46 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: Oh, okay. Yeah. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:48 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5088s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5088s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: So what's happening in Palestine and Israel today, you know, is that the PYM. ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:53 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: It's event to ## Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith -- 1:24:54 - Source title: Secret History #26: Faith of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=5094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Text: our nation. We to So I'll see you guys next week. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#attention-capture-extracts-energy); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#capital-extracts-attention) Text: Today we discuss the idea of capital. Now, you may have learned in economics class that capital means money or wealth. What I want to argue to you today is that capital is really a mechanism to extract energy from you. Okay, and what's important to understand is that in a universe where consciousness is the universe, then what energy is ultimately is attention and focus. So it's not enough for you to work at something, you also have to concentrate on it in order for capital to extract energy from you, okay? All right, so with this in mind, let's discuss an example, all right? So the most basic example is you have a landlord class and they're trying to extract energy from the peasant class, okay? Now, before, traditionally, we've understood energy as maybe grain, okay? Grain, capital. But the problem with this is you're actually not extracting that much energy from a peasant because it's not... It's not that hard to grow grain. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:41 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#capital-extracts-attention); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Also, grain can be stored, okay? So, in other words, as a landlord, your priority is not necessarily just to extract rent from the peasant. Your priority is somehow to get the peasant to focus entirely on the task at hand. And to do that, over the centuries, landlords have figured out certain ways or certain mechanisms in order to extract energy from the peasant. So, let's discuss the mechanisms. The first is that we've transitioned from slavery to freedom, okay? If you really want to extract value, if you really want to extract energy, attention, and focus, it's much better to give peasants the illusion of freedom rather than just enslave them, okay? So give peasants the belief that they've control all the time, okay? over their lives. Another safe freedom is equity, right? Equity. So think of a company where I might give you some equity and then you work a lot harder because you think you can make more money. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 2:57 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So this is a first trick that we've learned over the centuries. The second trick is to make capital more abstract, okay? So the abstraction of capital. So let's use an example, okay? Grain was initially capital. The problem with grain is that you only need so much. So as a peasant, you only want to work as much as necessary in order to grow grain to feed your family. And maybe a little bit more to save. But most of the time, you just want to enjoy your life. But then we transition to gold, right? And gold, yeah, people are more greedy, but the problem with gold is there's only a finite amount of it, all right? It's hard to locate. So only a minority would expend all their energy trying to locate gold. And now what we've done is we've transitioned to the idea of money. As I ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 4:07 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#anxiety-returns-attention-to-work) Text: will show you, the great innovation of the past hundred years is to convince people that money is God. Money is both nothing and everything. You can spend your entire life dedicated to achieving money, okay? So that's the second great innovation. And the third great technique that's changed economics is to understand that if you really want people to focus their energies, you need to create anxiety in them, okay? Anxiety. And how do you create anxiety? Well, the best way is to create the idea of debt, right? So I'll lend you a million dollars today, and you enjoy it, but then you have to spend the rest of the time paying it back. The problem with this, of course, is that there's interest, and so you can never really pay it back, which causes anxiety. And so the idea of debt, I can extract much more value then from you than if you were not in debt, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 5:23 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: That's the first tool. Second is the idea of inequality and poverty, where a certain class of people are poor, and they'll always be poor. And that incentivizes, encourages, middle class to work even harder, all right? The third mechanism of anxiety is wealth destruction. What is wealth destruction? Simple, war or depression, right? When the economy collapses. when all your wealth vanishes the idea here is listen if the peasants work really hard and they store a lot of grain they have a huge greenery they wouldn't have to work anymore right so as a landlord what do you do we go burn down the greenery all right so war is not just a mechanism to expand capitalism but it's also a way to make people more anxious because you destroy their wealth and therefore they have to work a lot harder okay so again in that kind of class you may thought that the point of capitalism ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 6:34 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: is to accumulate more capital no no no guys the point of capitalism is to focus the energies of the peasants okay because the attention the focus is what makes society much more energetic and that's the end goal all right so so if society is wealthy that's actually a good thing because it makes people lazy and complacent and so the way to resolve this issue is by constantly engaging in wars and by having the boom bust cycle that you might learn in an economics class right so in economics you might learn that the boom bust cycle is natural to capitalism it is not natural to capitalism it is artificial the people in charge artificially destroy economies to destroy wealth to make the peasants work a lot harder okay so are you guys following along? okay so that's the strategy that we've learned these past few centuries and that's why in today's society we are the wealthiest ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 7:35 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: society ever in human history and yet at the same time we are the most miserable we are the most anxious and we are the most in debt okay because the landlord class the capitalist the elite what they figured out are three mechanisms in which to extract as much energy from us as possible first is to give us the illusion that we have freedom of our lives we have the freedom of choice that with equity in society we can vote for leaders when in reality it's a all just an illusion okay second is to make money God the end all and be all both nothing and everything the very focus of your life and because money is so abstract you can spend your entire life trying to achieve more and more of it yet at the same time achieve more and more and yet at the same time achieve more and more and still be successful ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 8:24 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#anxiety-returns-attention-to-work); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#attention-capture-extracts-energy); [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#mobile-capital-has-no-homeland) Text: nothing and nothing, okay? So think of someone like Jack Ma, who has more money than he can possibly spend, and what does he want? He wants more money, okay? And the third is to create anxiety in society so that people's entire existence is one of stress. And as a result, people are much more focused on work and wealth creation. And you do that by a constant process of wealth destruction. All right? So, but the problem, of course, is that when you push people too hard, when it becomes so obvious you're exploiting people, then people will eventually revolt against you. So the solution that we figured out is, what we can do is we can actually move, okay? The landlord class can actually move somewhere else. And so when the anxiety becomes overwhelming, what will happen is the peasants will destroy you. They will destroy each other, and the landlord moves somewhere else to the capital, ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 9:31 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#mobile-capital-has-no-homeland); [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-makes-mobile-capital-trust); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: and they'll come back when the peasant class have completely exhausted themselves, and they're willing to rebuild society, okay? And this process is what rules the world today. It is what we call transnational capital. In other words, the wealthy people of the world, they have actually no loyalty to nation, or to people, or to place. They only have loyalty to their capital. And they're willing to move to wherever they can, wherever they have to, in order to keep their capital safe and to grow it. And that's why a lot of people today are moving to Dubai, or Hong Kong, or Singapore. They don't care. They may not be all that place, but they'll go wherever they need to in order to pay less taxes, in order to avoid the social conflict created by their policy. In order to find better investment opportunities. And that's the system is what rules the world today. But then the question is, okay, in concrete terms, what really is transnational capital? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 10:45 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=645s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=645s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#mobile-capital-has-no-homeland); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#secret-society-coordination-atlas); [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-makes-mobile-capital-trust) Text: What allows transnational capital to function, to be able to move from place to place? Because remember, when you move from place to place, there are a lot of costs involved. For example, you don't really know anyone there, and so how can you trust the people, right? And the solution that we've dealt with over the centuries is the idea of secret societies. So what you will learn is that secret societies and transnational capital are essentially the same thing. And this is the force that rules the world today. All right, so now that I've discussed transnational capital, let's look at secret societies, like where they come from and how they work. Okay, well, secret societies exist because the lender class and the peasant class are fundamentally different. Therefore, the motivations, the beliefs, the worldview of these two classes must be different. Okay, so the peasants, what do peasants want? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 11:46 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=706s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: They want to live a simple life. They want to make some money. They want to have a family. They want to have some fun. They want to believe in God, okay? And so for the peasant class, we have organized religion, whether it's Islam or Christianity. Okay, Christianity, Jesus, right? Jesus tells you to be a good person. Confucius tells you to be a good person, right? But the lender class, they're different. They have a responsibility. They have an obligation to control the peasant class and extract as much energy as possible in order to maintain their society, okay? So their religious practices must be very different. So whereas the peasants can pray to God, the lender class must fundamentally pray to Satan, okay? So now let's look at why the lender class must pray to Satan. And this is true for all societies throughout human history. Before, the lender class was blatant about it, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 12:49 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Now they have to be more hypocritical, more secretive about it, all right? So let's look at the lender class. All right, so to be a lender class, to be an elite, you have to do terrible things, but it's actually hard to do terrible things, all right? So let me give you an example. Let's just say, I would say to you, all right, I'm gonna give you 10 million US dollars. What you need to do is this. What you need to do is take a gun and late at night, go kill a random stranger. You think, wow, that's a really good deal. If I kill a random stranger late at night, no one's gonna know I did it and I walk out with $10 million. And you think that I can do it, but guess what? When I actually make you go do it, you actually can't do it because there are lots of restrictions on your behavior, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 13:45 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So think of suicide. If I gave you $100 million and promised you a path to heaven, would you kill yourself? Probably not, okay? So suicide, killing yourself, in many ways, it's no different from killing someone else. We can't do it, okay? But there are actually hacks around this. We've got ways. There are ways to make you go kill someone in a way that doesn't make you feel that guilty about it. So to understand why, I will introduce you to two social science experiments that they conducted in America at the end of the 20th century. The first is something called the Milgram Experiment. And this was done at Yale by a psychologist named Stanley Milgram. And the experiment was very simple. What he would do is he would set up an actor, okay, this is an actor, okay, what we'll call a confederate. And the person would be hooked up to an electric ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 14:50 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: chair, right, and there'd be a buzzer, a buzzer, which increases the voltage on that electric chair, okay? And there's like a max and there's a min, okay? And Stanley Milgram would be here in his lab coat, and he would invite a participant. Okay, who is essentially a student, to come and be an assistant, okay? And the assistant's job was to press the button. And Stanley Milgram wanted to know, first of all, would this volunteer, this assistant, agree to shock another human being, even though he's seen the human being in pain? And second of all, Stanley Milgram wanted to see how much pain the volunteer was willing to inflict. And it turned out, that when he was in pain, he was able to see how much pain the volunteer was willing to inflict. And it turned out, that when he was in pain, he was able to see how much pain the volunteer was willing to inflict. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 15:45 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=945s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=945s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-displaces-agency-through-ritual) Text: And it turned out, that when he was in pain, people are much more willing to let go of their inhibitions. Because what you're doing is, you are removing responsibility from yourself to someone else. I didn't do it, I was ordered to do it! And surprisingly, people are willing to inflict a lot of pain on other people because they are able to remove responsibility for their individual actions. okay? Does that make sense? So the point of secret society is for people to come together and avoid taking responsibility for their actions. How? By praying to another god, right? By saying, we didn't do this. We didn't go start this war. We didn't destroy the economy. It was Satan that told us to do it. We had a meeting with Satan. We did the rituals. We summoned Satan, and Satan says, for the good of the world, you must be evil. You must go and start this war so that we can create paradise on earth. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 16:52 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1012s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1012s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-displaces-agency-through-ritual) Text: It wasn't us. It was not us. It was Satan who did this, okay? That's the point of secret society, to force yourself to believe that you have no agency in this world, and you are controlled by Satan, okay, or another god, Saturn, right? So it's very common for these secret societies to believe in a god called Saturn, who is Saturn? Saturn, the Greek is Kronos, and Kronos is a god of time. Kronos is a god of time and order and structure, and Kronos would do things that were unconscionable, that were inhumane in order to maintain control of the world, including in his own children, because then his children could not rebel against him, okay? So they pray to Saturn to look for that divine energy in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in order, in ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 17:44 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-displaces-agency-through-ritual) Text: order, in order, to maintain order and control in the world for the good of others, okay? Not for the good of me, but for the good of others. It doesn't make sense, okay? That's the first idea I need to understand about these secret societies. They always pray to a higher god. They believe in interdimensional lizard people, or they believe in Satan, or they believe in Saturn. Who cares, okay? But they don't feel as though they're in control. They feel as though they're possessed by demons, or by X -ray. extraterrestrials okay and why in order to do what they must to maintain their power and their wealth okay that's number one number two is this another experiment that you guys might have heard of called the solomon ash experiment and here the experiment is 10 people in a room two three four five six seven eight nine ten okay and also together and this is asked ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 18:53 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: to tell me if this is a straight line or a circle okay it's that simple then what happens is a volunteer is asked to come into the room okay and this volunteer goes laughs and everyone around the room goes and tells the answer okay and from one to ten and and these are all confederates, okay? These are all part of the conspiracy. From one to 10, they all say this is a circle. And so, by the time you get to the volunteer, who's number 11, he's like, hmm, what should I say? And often, a lot of times is, he'll say it's a circle, because he's trying to conform to the group. But not only that, afterwards, when he's told that, oh, this is actually a lie, he's actually convinced he saw a circle. Okay? That's the power of group conformity, okay? So two ideas, authority and conformity is what underlies the power of six societies. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 20:02 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And as such, you are now, because you are part of the six society, you now have the power to take a gun, go kill someone late at night, and collect your 10 million dollars, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right, and again, every society does this, because often, when you're a part of the Latin class, the elite, the transnational capitalists, you have to do things against your own hard wiring, okay? Your own psychology. And that's why six societies exist. All right, now, sometimes six societies are forced to do really bad things, because they're often in competition with each other. And in this competition, it's always a question of like, who's more evil, okay? So, what they figured out is this. They figured out how to structure the six societies, okay, this hierarchy. Sorry, hierarchy, okay? So these are the top, the landlords. And these are basically the initiates, okay? The people who want to join. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 21:14 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: But they are ignorant about the true purpose of the six society. So, the question then is, how do you maintain this hierarchy? And what they figured out is something really, really simple. All right? It's really simple human psychology. In human history, what was very common was for groups of young men, okay, they've been discarded by the families because the families don't have enough to eat. So they get together and they form like wolf packs. They go around, and what they really want is a wife. Okay, that's what they really want. More than food, they want a wife. So what they're forced to do is go as a group, as a gang, go to a village and kidnap a woman and kill the family, okay? And this is a very common thing in human history. And let's try to figure out the psychology of what's going on. Okay, so you have like five guys. This is just a thought experiment, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 22:06 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Five guys, young guys, and they're going to go and they're going to go to a village where there's a family, okay? A husband, a wife, and two kids. What they're going to do, of course, is they're obviously going to kill the husband and they're also going to kill the two children, okay? And they're going to kidnap the wife. Now let me ask you this question. Let's understand the psychology of the psychology of a woman. Let's understand the psychology of this woman when her entire life is destroyed, okay? Does she, A, want vengeance? B, become depressed? C, fall in love with one of the guys? A, B, or C, guys? A, B, or C? Yeah, what is that? Okay, you guys would think she would want vengeance for what has happened, but that's not what happens, okay? It's more likely that she becomes depressed or she falls in love. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 23:09 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: It's often a time that she falls in love. We call this the Stockholm Syndrome, all right? It's a very basic human psychology that is consistent throughout human history, throughout all societies. When a woman sees her entire life collapse like that, she has no longer any stability. Her reality is destroyed, and therefore she clings to anyone who is willing to support her, even though that person is the same person who destroyed her life in the first place. It's really weird psychology, but it's very, very true. That's also why arranged marriages work, okay? Throughout human society, a man, older man, is often paired with a younger wife. She might be like 14 or 13. But, you know, after a few years, they do fall in love with each other because the woman is completely dependent on the man. Okay, and also that physical intimacy, all right? So it sounds really depressing, but this is a very basic principle. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 24:12 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: It's human psychology. Where, because at this point in history, when her reality has collapsed, her soul has left her, okay? And now she's basically a slave. And what a slave does is someone who clings to life. All right, does that make sense? Okay, now, what happens to these five guys, okay? A, do they feel guilty for what they do? B, do they fight over the woman? Or C, are they brothers? Or are they brothers forever? The obvious answer is C, right? They're brothers forever, okay? So even though they commit this terrible, terrible act, right, it's made them more unified, okay? And this is a structure of secret societies. The structure of secret societies is for the people at the very top to commit these rituals of torture in order to turn the initiates into slaves. And those who are most willing to participate in these rituals, those who are most willing to become slaves, become the middle people, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 25:18 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: The people that are most trusted, because now they're slaves. And that's how secret societies work. And that's why there are so many different degrees to secret societies, and that's why at the very top, no one knows what they're really doing. What they're really doing is praying to Satan, okay? Because Satan is giving them the strength, or Saturn, who knows, okay? Or whatever. Saturn or Satan is giving them the strength in order to torture the, okay? these initiates. So these initiates become their slaves for life. And then these initiates are given limitless wealth and power because they are now completely loyal, dependent on the master. All right. All right. All right. This sounds confusing, but let's, but let's use another example. All right. So Spartans. Sparta. So Sparta, remember Sparta is a war society, a militaristic society that is intent on maintaining control over its slaves. Okay. The helots. Now helots outnumber the Spartans 10 to 1. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 26:22 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So these Spartans need to be really cohesive as a society. They need to fight and die for each other. So their education system is something like this. At five or six, the child, the Spartan child is taken away from the parents. Okay. And this obviously creates fear and anxiety. And so they're anxiety also what happens is the child is in school being up by the older kids and this creates trauma all right another word we use for this is intergenerational trauma because the Spartans do this to every child in the intergenerational trauma all right so the kid at this point is unsafe insecure his mind is really screwed up and then when he's most vulnerable maybe when he's 11 or 12 what happens now is he's paired with an older man who's like 29 or 30 okay an older man and this older man they become lovers basically what happens ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 27:32 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1652s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1652s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: is the man first of course commits you know sexual abuse but again because the child is traumatized because the child has no bearings no reality doesn't believe anyone in this world loves him even though the man is being abusive to him he falls in love with the man and as a result the boy will do anything that the man orders to him okay so what happens is the man becomes his general and he becomes a soldier or an officer and that's why the Spartans are so fearless okay because the soldiers are completely loyal to the generals because they were once lovers the soldier The soldier feels as though this general, who I must obey, he saved my life when I most needed it, when my parents abandoned me, when I was being beat up every day, when I felt complete insecurity, when I was traumatized, he came and he gave me a home, and therefore I must die for him. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 28:38 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And guys, guys, look, listen, this sounds weird, but if you go to the inner city gangs, inner city gangs in America or anywhere in the world, okay, these drug cartels in Mexico, they use the same principles as the Spartans, okay? These young boys, 13, 14, they have no fathers. They're put in a gang, they're abused, and then the gang leader treats them well, they might have some, you know, sex, and then these boys are completely loyal to the gang leaders. Same thing if you go to these child armies in Africa, okay? Very basic principle that every, every human being, every human understands. If you abuse a child and then be nice to that child, that child is obedient to you forever. This is how secret societies behave, okay? One last example, okay? So in history, there was a very famous secret society called the assassins. You may have played the video game Assassin's Creed, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 29:45 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Why are they called assassins? Because of the word hashes. Hashes is a drug like marijuana, right? It's a hallucinogen, okay? So the way these secret societies would work, is, if you're a new member, I would make you have hashes, okay? Hashes. And your mind will become blurry, you feel as though you're in a dream. And then what would happen is, I put you in a room, and you're basically, like, drunk, okay? And then these young people would come and pleasure you. And then you would wake up in your home, and you would think this was a dream, okay? And your master will tell you, this is what paradise is like, alright? This is what heaven is like. If you do what I tell, we do exactly the opposite. you, I guarantee you, you will go to heaven where 10,000 virgins will pleasure you for all of eternity. Okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 30:36 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And this turns these assassins into the most dedicated killers. Again, I keep on saying this, it's really hard to convince someone to go kill another person. But these assassins are willing to do whatever it takes in order to enter paradise. Okay? So, guys, this combination, sex plus trauma plus hallucinogens or hallucinogens, psychedelics, okay? These three things, psychedelics, drugs, sex plus trauma, they create the perfect slaves. Okay? Slaves. Because now what you can do is you can take these slaves and then have them infiltrate other secret societies. They become the perfect spies. Because they are forever loyal to you. Okay? They're completely emotionally dependent on you. And they will do whatever it takes in order to please you. But you have to train them from an early age. Okay? And this is how these secret societies, they fight each other. They recruit an army of young kids. They traumatize, brutalize these kids. They train them to be spies, to be killers. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 31:56 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And then they will unleash these kids. Kids on other secret societies and their enemies as well, like the assassins did. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. You have a question? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 32:12 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So, like, for the woman, like, her families are being killed, like, won't she remember, like, who has done, like, who has killed all her families but just have relied on that murder? Or is she murdered because he, you know, cannot do that? I understand the question. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 32:36 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=1956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Okay. It's a good question. Okay? The answer is this. In psychology, what you learn is that when you're traumatized, what happens to you? What happens to you? You're not there. The word is disassociation. Okay? You're not there. You don't remember anything. Because your mind will explode or your system would collapse if you actually remember in detail what happened. So your mind disassociates. You're not there. You don't remember anything. Okay? That's why trauma is so effective because not only do you become obedient and dependent on the person traumatizing you, but at the same time, you actually don't remember this association. Okay? So, the person who really controls you, you forget. Your handler. Okay? Your handler is someone that is at the back of your mind. But even if you don't know that person, what happens if that person comes before you and tells you what to do, you obey. Okay? It's almost as though the handler has programmed you and only he knows the password. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 33:37 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So, this is what we call programming. And this is what they did with MKUltra. Okay? MKUltra, MKMarnock. Okay? But it's a very common thing. We've been doing this for thousands of years in every single society because it works and it's easy and it's effective. Okay? Right? Does that make sense? All right. All right. So, let's talk about the development of transnational capital. All right? So, there have been four distinct stages. Let's look at them. These four distinct stages are Venice, Dutch Republic, England, and what's the last one, guys? Come on. America. Right? So, these four places are special. They are special because they are all merchant oligarchies, okay? Merchant oligarchies, meaning that they are controlled by private interests. Private interests. Now, I understand that in school you're taught that America's democracy and England's democracy and all that. No, guys. It's all nonsense. These are oligarchies. They're controlled by private interests. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 35:05 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: They've always been controlled by private interests. They're still controlled by private interests today. Okay? And the way they use private interests. What they do to maintain control over their people and the world is through three mechanisms, okay? The first is banking. Banking just means that these oligarchs are pooling their resources together in order to extract energy from the world. Now, the thing about banking that's very important is that if you are able to bank in a certain way, you're able to extract energy across time and space. Okay? You're able to borrow money from the future and spend it today. Does that make sense? Okay? And this will happen with the abstraction of capital. Alright? So banking is basically extract time and space. You're extracting energy from across time and space. Okay? I'll explain more as we go along. Okay? Second is the idea of a navy. We're controlling trade. And the third is diplomacy. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 36:12 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Now, the idea of diplomacy is you don't want to fight. You don't want to fight wars because your population is very limited. What you want to do is trick other people into fighting wars for you. Okay? You want to have these trade negotiations. So it's like spying, intelligence. Alright? And then all four, what's really important is that if you're a merchant oligarchy, you're actually controlled by a secret society. Not a king, but by a secret society because otherwise, how else can these merchants get along with each other? Okay? Okay? So that allows them to work together to plan and control their populations. Now, what's going to happen is this. Venice is one of the early oligarchies, but with each iteration, it's going to improve in power. Why? Because by the time we get from Venice to England and the Dutch Republic, we have something called the Protestant Reformation. Okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 37:20 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So what I will do is explain to you what the Protestant Reformation is. The Protestant Reformation radically changes how we see ourselves and our relationship with God, which makes transnational capital much more powerful. And then what's going to happen is by the time we hit England, we go from England to America, we have the Enlightenment. Okay? And when we hit the Enlightenment, what's going to happen is by giving of God, we turn money into God. And when this happens, transnational capital is going to be much more powerful. Transnational capital becomes all -powerful, all right? So remember what's happening is we have Venice, then the Dutch Republic becomes more powerful than Venice because it adopts the ideas of Protestant Reformation. And then America becomes more powerful than England because it adopts the ideas of the Enlightenment. What's happening throughout this process is transnational capital is becoming much more abstract and therefore much more powerful, okay, and therefore much more capable of extracting energy from the population, all right? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 38:32 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: So let's go over the Protestant Reformation, all right? The Catholics and the Protestants. So there are three major differences between the Catholics and the Protestants, okay? So the Catholics have three basic ideas, right? There's orthodoxy, there's hierarchy, and there's justification by works. So the idea is, hey, if you want to go to heaven, just obey the Catholic Church, what the priest tells you. Don't think about it. Don't think, just do what the priest tells you to do. Really simple, right? Okay, but there are three problems with all this, okay? The first problem is God becomes distant from you, okay? You're not allowed to communicate with God. And as I keep on saying in this class, we humans are first and foremost religious. We want to be spiritual. We want to have communion with God. But the Catholic Church says, no, you have to just obey us, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 39:49 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: You have to obey our dogma. Even though our dogma doesn't really make much sense, okay? That if hierarchy, of course, leads to corruption, where the priest can do whatever they want because they're in power, okay? And they become extremely wealthy and powerful. The third problem, justification by works, is it leads to hypocrisy. You can be the worst person in the world, but hey, as long as you give enough money to the Catholic Church, you go to heaven, guys, okay? All right? So that's why the Protestants, okay? They hated the Catholic Church. And so they proposed a new system, all right? The new system is, first of all, direct access. You don't have to go through the priest anymore. You don't have to listen to the dogma of the church. You can just actually communicate with the God directly through the Bible, okay? Second idea is egalitarian, where there is no longer any hierarchy. You can communicate with God directly, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 40:51 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And the third idea is justification by works. The second idea is justification by faith. The problem though, of course, is that these three solutions to the Catholic problem will create more problems, okay? The first is that of direct access, so you can access God directly. The problem is that Christians believe in the Holy Trinity, okay, the Holy Trinity, right? God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are different, but the same. Okay? Okay, separate but co -equal. It makes no sense whatsoever. And as such, if you're trying to access yourself, you can't do it because this precludes you, okay? It is impossible for you to insert yourself into the story of the Holy Trinity. If it was just Jesus, you could talk to Jesus, but how do you talk to Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit at the same time? You can't do it, okay? So this causes confusion, okay? Second problem is the idea of egalitarian. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 41:54 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: This causes just so much chaos, debate and chaos, right? Because now, hey, if I want to, I can start my own religion. I don't need to get people to agree with me. I need to start my own religion and have followers follow me, okay? So this causes a lot of debate within the Protestant religion. It still happens today where among the Protestants, there are like thousands and thousands of different branches, okay? The last problem is most problematic, justification by faith. This creates anxiety, right? Because if you don't really know God because of the Holy Trinity, how do you know you really believe in God, right? The Catholics believe that all you do is give some money, do some good work, don't sin, and you go to heaven. But the Protestants believe that no, you have to really believe in God in order to go to heaven, okay? What's even worse is that another reformer named John Calvin, he proposed the idea of double predestination. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 42:52 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Because the Catholic Church says, you know what? Only we can decide who goes to heaven, so if you disobey us, you'll burn in hell. And John Calvin, to respond to this, says, no, no, no. The Catholic Church has no power over anyone because God, at the beginning of time, has already decided who will go to heaven and who will go to hell, okay? Double predestination. It's already been decided, guys. And how do you know? If, well, the solution is through energy, right? If you work hard and you make a lot of money, you become very wealthy, then you know that God favors you. You become very wealthy, then you know that God favors you. You become very wealthy, then you know that God favors you. But after you become very wealthy, what's really important is for you to understand you can't spend any of this money because you can't sin. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 43:35 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Okay? So you can only invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking people's money and they're able to invest it in any way they want. It's all going to the bank, okay? And this is the Dutch Republic. This creates the Dutch Republic, which becomes the wealthy society in Europe at this time, in the 17th century, okay? All right, any questions so far? Okay, so what's going to happen though is by the time you go from England to America, okay? England is also Protestant. The Protestant Reformation is going to change to the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment is there may be a God, but God doesn't really interfere in the universe. God lets us do what we want, okay? So it's up to us to create our own world. So now that God has left, what happens is you need something to replace the God, right? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 44:45 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: This becomes the holy, this becomes money, okay? Money as God. And this works because if you insert money into the Protestant faith, it solves a lot of problems. It solves a problem of anxiety because how do you know you go to heaven? If you become very wealthy, okay? And everyone, how do you know you're favored by God? Whoever, it becomes a world. Whoever is the wealthiest, okay? So money becomes the new religion of America. And this is what ultimately leads to a triumph of transnational capitalism, okay? All right. Okay, so how do we get from the Dutch Republic to England? Okay, the answer is very simple. The problem is that the Dutch Republic, it is on the continent of Europe. Therefore, it's very easy to invade. Now here's the problem, like how do you keep your money safe from invaders, okay? Because they have a lot of gold. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 45:43 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2743s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2743s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And so what they will do is they will take this money and in 1688, they will transfer most of this money to England, okay? So how does England convince the Dutch to invest in England? Well, first thing is they make a Dutch aristocrat, William of Orange, the king of England, okay? All right, 1688, England invites William of Orange to become the king of England. That's number one. Number two is the Bank of England is set up in 1694. What makes a Bank of England special is that it is a private bank that is guaranteed by Parliament. Okay, it doesn't make sense, guys. What this means is this. What this means is that if I make a lot of money, I keep it. But I lose my money, the people will ensure that I get it back, okay? Okay, now what's gonna happen is the Bank of England will lend money to England to fight wars. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 46:54 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Remember, the Bank of England, what it is, it's transnational capital. So it's private interest, but anyone can invest it, including the Dutch Republic, including, guess what? The Catholic Church, okay? The third thing is secret societies. So what's gonna happen is that secret societies are going to create these linkages among these different transnational capital groups in order to allow them to work together, okay? All right, so does it make sense? And what's really important is this system will transfer over to America, creating a system that we have today. The Bank of England becomes the Federal Reserve. Secret societies transfer over. These are the Freemasons, okay? All right, that doesn't make sense, guys. And this is why we have the system that we have today. The thing that you need to understand about the Federal Reserve is the Federal Reserve was set up in like 1913 or 14, I can't remember, okay? But the Federal Reserve, what they can do is print money. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 48:02 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: It's a private bank. It's a private interest. They print money, and the government, how's it gonna spend money? It borrows from the Federal Reserve at interest, okay? So the people are borrowing from the bankers, and so, that's why America is controlled by private interest. All right, clear? And that's why Transnational Capital controls America and the world. Any questions? All right, so let's go over the PPT, okay? So Venice, what makes Venice special is after Rome collapses, the Roman Empire collapses, right? These noble families, they're now impoverished. They go to different places. The city that becomes dominant in the entire peninsula is actually Venice. Why? Because it's surrounded by Marcians. So it's hard to invade, and you don't actually want to invade it, because it has no resources. Its only advantage is that it's by the coast, which allows it to engage in piracy, as well as trade and diplomacy, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 49:15 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=2955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: All right, so this is Venice today. And as you can see, it would be very hard to invade. Also, remember, at this time, it's very poor, so no one wants to invade it. All right, another picture. Pretty beautiful, right? All right, you guys should go before it sinks, okay? If you want to go visit Venice, do it now before it sinks. All right, so again, Venice, it's a merchant oligarchy, just like the Dutch Republic, just like England, just like America, okay? It seems like a democracy, they call themselves a republic, but it's actually controlled by private interests, okay? All right, so because Venice has no resources, it has to engage in trade. And it's going to help set up a lot of trade networks throughout the Middle Ages. And what it's going to do that's very profitable is that it's going to import spices from East Asia back to Europe, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 50:20 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And this is going to make Venice very, very wealthy. So the two big cities are Genoa and Venice, okay? And as you can see, they are extremely energetic. They're going to set up trade networks throughout the world. This is a spice trade, and the center, of course, is in Venice, and this makes Venice the most wealthy city in Europe at some point. Okay, also, remember, what these small city -states do that's very effective is that they become parasites on the empire, okay? So Venice can take its wealth and bribe imperial bureaucrats in Constantinople to give it trade preferences, okay? And Venice will also set up alliances with, you know, also the Islamic empire as well as the Mongols as well. Guess who is from Venice? Marco Polo is from Venice, okay? Why is Marco Polo traveling around the world? To set up new linkages for Venice, okay? So you got all these Venetians going around the ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 51:33 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: world to be spies and to explore in order to set up new networks for Venice, because they don't really have a choice in matter, they are a trading power. They don't have any resources on their own, so the people have to be very energetic, okay? And while this is happening, they set up these banks where the wealthy merchants can pool their resources to take more risks. Eventually, what will happen is that Venice will decline and the Dutch Republic will emerge. What makes the Dutch Republic so powerful is that it's ruled by merchants who now adopted Calvinism. Remember, Calvinism is the faith that wealth itself signals that you will go to heaven. So everyone in the Dutch Republic works really, really hard. It's a very energetic society, and they can now feed off the Spanish Empire, okay, the Austrian -Hungarian Empire, the Habsburgs. Why? Because the Spanish Empire, what they've done is they've gone to South America and captured a lot of gold. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 52:40 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: And it makes their people very lazy, okay? So there are three ways in which you can take advantage of that. The first, of course, is piracy, where your ships, just steal the gold as this gold is heading back to Spain. Another is just by providing industry for these people. These people don't want to work, so you just sell them clothes, okay? And this builds up the industry of France, Britain, and the Dutch Republic. The last way, of course, is private luxury goods, especially spices, to the market. So because the Spanish Empire is so wealthy, this wealth transfers to the energy and industry of the Dutch Republic, okay? And as you can see, this is what the trade looks like. The Dutch will set up a power company called the Dutch East Indies Company, which is almost like a nation onto itself. It becomes the world's wealthiest corporation even today. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 53:31 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Okay? And the reason why, it is a monopoly over the spice trade from the East Indies. It has its own army, it has its own currency, it has its own government, okay? It can enact its own laws in the regions it controls. All right. And as you can see, the Dutch are very energetic. So as a comparison, let's compare it to the Spanish Empire. Okay? So at this point in history, the Spanish Empire is the wealthiest, most largest empire in the world, but as you can see, the Dutch are much more energetic, okay? The Dutch are much more industrious, and the British are actually much more industrious as well. Okay? The reason why is the Spanish are still Catholic, whereas the Dutch Republic have turned into protestants. Okay? And this, a little bit for... for the growth of the middle class because as long as you're willing to work hard you can become wealthy ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 54:24 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: whereas the Spanish it's very much a society based on nobility and clerical privilege okay all right so as we discussed the two leaders of the Protestant Reformation are Martin Luther who proposed justification by faith okay justification by faith you have to actually believe in God if you want to access heaven and John Calvin who proposed the idea of double predestination which means that God has already decided who's gone who's who's gonna hell who's gonna heaven and therefore you have to prove it to yourself by working really hard making a lot of money and not spending it okay and then all this money goes to the bank which allows for the growth of the Dutch Republic all right the Protestant Reformation will have many major effects on the world it will lead something called the thirty years war and the Protestants will fight the Catholics and this will lead to the death of millions and millions ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 55:23 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: of people in fact this is a deadliest war in Europe right before World War One okay yeah the war is deadly it lasts for a long time thirty years it will kill millions of people because of the Protestant Reformation the Catholic Church is under attack so what they decided to do is they set up a secret society basically an intelligence agency called the Jesuits this is L 'Oreal you may have heard of L 'Oreal University so they just go around the world set up a lot of universities and schools but their main mission is to infiltrate Protestant societies and try to overflow the government and try to make them more Catholic okay and response so this is the system of the Jesuits okay and response the Protestant Septim called the Freemasons okay we'll discuss this later on right but so so throughout history at this time there's a battle a secret battle going on between ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 56:29 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: the Jesuits and the Freemasons they're using all sorts of really nefarious evil techniques including as we discussed traumatizing young children so they could be spies to infiltrate other groups okay because remember at this point in history people believe in God so they're gonna ask you do you swear to God and you have to okay and so you have to have secret identity if you are to pass their tests okay so one of the crucial battlegrounds between the Jesuits and the Freemasons the Protestants is England okay uh Henry VIII what he will do is he will split off from the Pope because the Henry VIII like most Monarchs in in Europe they want to maintain their independence their autonomy when he dies Queen Elizabeth the first will inherit the throne and at this point in history there are a lot of Catholics who want to see what we're thrown so she launches this massive campaign to ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 57:30 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3450s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: persecute Catholics um this will lead to many many battles crises between the Catholics and Protestants um James the second is a Catholic king and the Protestant nobility don't want that so what they will do is to conspire against him in 1688 they would invite the Dutch uh aristocrat one of the orange into England to become the king and the and this will lead to something called the glorious Revolution where now Authority passes to Parliament what Parliament will do is charge something called the Bank of England which is again it's a private bank with a power of State they can print money okay and this one's a huge problem uh because before what happened is these private bankers would lend money to to Monarchs the problem with that is the Monarch could die the Monarch could be overthrown the Monarch could lose a war the Monarch had to pay you back okay but now if it's ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 58:33 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Parliament that's borrowing the money the people always have to pay you back okay unless England is destroyed as a nation your uh loan to the nation will always be guaranteed and this is uh what will allow England to become an empire so the great conflict uh but um between England and France of course is the Nepali Wars where Napoleon is about to conquer Europe and Britain cannot have that okay Britain is a naval power and if Napoleon is able to establish an empire in Europe then England won't be able to trade with Europe so what England will do is finance seven wars against Napoleon and they can do that because they have the Bank of England which is able to borrow unlimited amount of money from the future as well as across space okay across time and space that's how they're able to defeat Napoleon Napoleon defeated England six times but England didn't really care ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 59:37 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: because first of all England wasn't fighting the war it was just financing the Wars and you cannot stop fighting the Wars because otherwise it would go Bankrupt okay does that make sense all right the their Taiwan Lincoln Wars and this establishes of course the British Empire they can do whatever they want now so they take over India and they said something called the East India Company okay onto itself. It is at this time, as a company, maybe the third or fourth richest nation in the world. And of course, what they do that's very important is they extract wealth from India. They basically steal a lot of wealth from India. People estimate that they've stolen like $4,500, $2,000 of wealth from India, okay? So you can see how in 1700, before they rival the East India Company, India might have like a quarter of the world's GDP, but over the next 200, 300 years, their wealth will plummet, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:00:38 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: The reason why is, what's gonna happen is that England will turn India into a resource colony. They will destroy the manufacturing base of India, turn it into an agricultural economy, and then force India to buy British manufactured goods, okay? So what they will do is use India to drive their industrial revolution. And as you can see, they're also forcing the Indians to pay a lot more money than their own people. And so, in 1913 to 1950, the average income of Indians don't really change that much, okay? But what's really important for you to understand is this. The British could not have done this without help from the Indian people themselves, okay? So what's happening is, the British, for the Bank of England, they're able to co -op, the Indian elite, why? Because now, you're able to take your wealth and then store it in England, okay? Does that make sense? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:01:48 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Before, you couldn't really take your wealth anywhere so your interests were aligned with the people. But now that you're able to take this wealth and then put it in England to be safe, your interests are now aligned with the British. And guess what, guys? The same strategy happened in China as well. Where the Chinese local elites were helping the British establish open trade networks, throughout the country, that's why opium was able to spread so fast, okay? And, guys, the system is still around today, okay? So the British Empire may be gone, but the British system of money laundering, of stealing a nation's resources by co -opting their elite, it still exists today, okay? So these are all places where England has these offshore private banks so that the elite of Africa, of Asia, can take, can steal from the nation and store it in these banks, okay? All right, so England has some of the world's worst tax havens. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:02:58 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3778s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: All right, so what did England do with this money? Well, what England did was invest it in America. At this time, America is industrializing. And what's interesting about America is only a few individuals were able to monopolize entire industries. This is Cornelius Vanderbilt, and he monopolized, okay, America. He monopolized the railroad industry. How did he do that? This is Andrew Carnegie, who was born poor, but then he monopolized America's steel industry. How did one person do that? That's really strange, guys. Oh, Rockefeller, he monopolized America's oil industry. In fact, over six weeks, he was able to buy all his competitors. Where did he get all this money to buy all his competitors? How did he become a monopolist? How is this happening, guys? J.B. Morgan, he monopolizes America's financial industry, and he creates something called the Federal Reserve, which is a system they still have today, where America is ruled by private banks. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:04:09 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Okay, how is this happening? All right, so these questions. How is it possible for these individuals to monopolize industries? Why are these monopolies national rather than regional, okay? And why didn't government make public these critical infrastructure and resources, like we do in China, right? Oil should belong to people. Why does it belong to one person? The reason why is it is England that is using its wealth from India and China to finance these individuals, and allow these individuals to develop entire industries. Why is it doing that? Because the Americans, at this time in history, they hate the British, right? The Americans are like, in 1776, we found a revolution here with the British. Why would we allow the British to come back and buy our land and our oil and our steel and our railways? Therefore, they needed people like John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to act as their agents. Okay, does that make sense? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:05:05 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: All right, so in America, you're taught that these people, Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, they were just rags to riches. It's because of the American dream. It's a land of opportunity. If you work hard, you can become a billionaire. No, guys, that's not true, okay? If you balance your social society, if you are financed by the British Empire, you can become a billionaire. And guess what, guys? We have the same system today. Bill Gates, hmm, hmm, Mark Zuckerberg, really strange. This 19 -year -old guy drops out from Harvard and founds Facebook, okay, and now he's a billionaire. How does that happen, guys? Well, it must be the American dream. Oh, chat GPT, guys, really strange. If you have a dream and you just follow it, you can become a billionaire in America. Yeah, yeah. It's all just a scam, right? Google. It's all just a scam, okay? What you need to understand about these companies is they were all founded with U.S. ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:06:15 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=3975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: military technology that is public, okay? The internet, it's a U.S. military technology. Google, these search engines, it's all U.S. military technology. And they were given to these guys for free. Why would they do that, okay? Again, if you think that we're ruled by secret societies, and it's really secret societies that control the world, and they want the secret societies to control the world, and they want to control the world, they have a lot of technology out there to better surveil people, it makes a lot more sense, right? But you see, the Pentagon said, hey, with this free computer that you can use, you'd be like, I'm gonna use this computer because you'll spy on me, right? But if Mark Zuckerberg says, hey, free Facebook, guys, would I use it? Yeah, sure. Facebook, yeah. He's a dwarf from Harvard. Of course he can be trusted, right? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:07:00 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Same strategy, okay, guys? Alright, so 1913, these bankers met together to set up the Federal Reserve system, And this led to something called the Bretton Woods system in 1945. America won the war and America promised the world that the U.S. currency, backed by gold, will become the reserve currency of the world. But the U.S. currency will always be backed by gold, therefore you have nothing to worry about, right? Well, in 1971, Richard Nixon says, screw that, we're not backed by gold anymore, you can use it, you don't have to use it though, okay? But guess what? Oil will now be sold in U.S. dollars, this is called the petrodollar, so if you want to buy oil, you have to use U.S. dollars, okay? And then he did something else that was very important, and actually more important than linking the U.S. dollar to oil. Can you guys guess what? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:08:03 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: Oh, this. Guess what? Millions of Chinese working really hard, it's all for useless U.S. dollars, guys. Okay? All right, okay, so America was founded by Ben Franklin and George Washington, among others. They were both members of the Freemasons, they were both members of secret societies, okay? So America is really a Freemason country, and how do we know? Look at Washington, D.C., okay? Guess what, guys? The architecture, the city design, it's all secret society stuff, okay? This is a pentagram, and this is the White House, right? This is the White House. And you can see how it's designed. This is occult symbolism. This is another picture showing you that this is a Freemason symbol, backed by the pentagon. I'm sorry, the pentagram, okay? Okay? If you want to see more of the secret societies occult symbolism, just look at the U.S. money. All right? This is the all -seeing eye, the pyramid, all the symbolism comes from Egypt, Greece, Babylon, okay? ## Capital Steals Attention And Calls It Freedom -- 1:09:22 - Source title: Secret History #25: Capital of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-09, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FtHagng8c&t=4162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b5fthagng8c@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b5fthagng8c.json) Text: It's all part of the Freemason system. This is the seal of the United States, the new world order, okay? The new world order. We'll be discussing this next week. Okay. But now you've reached a point in history where you've got too much wealth, people become lazy and complacent. So what do you do with these peasants? We know exactly what they're going to do. They're going to destroy the economy like they did in 1929, and then they're going to start World War III. Okay? That's the goal. Because how the system works is, if you're a transnational capital, you need people to constantly focus and working. Okay? And you do that by creating anxiety, by destroying wealth, by creating a cycle of constant death and destruction. All right? Any questions? Clear, guys? All right. So, great. So next class, we will discuss the Sambian Frankus. Okay? All right. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, good morning class. So, we have five more classes in the semester and the four last classes are the most important. So, what I will do this class is set up the background and context for the last four classes. So, what I want to do first is review what we've learned so far. Okay, so we discussed the Roman Republic, the Roman Republic, and it was essentially an oligarchy, okay? So, oligarchy just means rule by the few. So, it's very much like Sparta. It is a war society. And at this point in history, the fact that the Roman Republic was an oligarchy, basically it had about 100 families that commanded it, okay? And these were called the patricians. It was actually... It was actually to the advantage of Rome, because at this time, Rome was small. It was poor. It was at war, okay? So, in other words, even though there was nobility, they were not that much better off than other people. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:23 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=83s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=83s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And everyone knew each other. So, they were very open, energetic, and cohesive society. And so, over time, they became the most dominant society. In the Mediterranean, they defeated Carthage, they defeated the Greeks. But now that they're an empire, the fact that Rome is the oligarchy, is a huge problem because now they are corrupt, unequal, and stagnant. And one way that we know is, women... The women just start to refuse to have children, okay? So, they were dying as a society. And at this point in history, what should happen is that they should build an imperial bureaucracy a centralized standardized system in order to better manage the Empire but they couldn't really do that because the oligarchy the families which now about 50 okay they refused to give up power so rather than a centralized bureaucracy the Roman Empire was in many ways a system in which different families ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 2:40 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: have different territories and what this led to was constant civil war okay civil war and remember it started with Sulla and then it went on to Julius Caesar and after Julius Caesar Augustus Caesar became the first among equals but he still failed to set up the bureaucracy okay and so it kept on leading to the Roman Empire and then it went on to the Roman Empire and then it went on to war eventually what happened was that Constantine decided the system doesn't work so what what I need to do is I need to reinvent the Roman people and you do that by moving the capital from Rome to a new place he calls Constantinople okay which now becomes the Byzantine Empire okay and there was an Empire which and there was an Empire so now this called was coming into吃 food which now became an empire now because it's a new culture it cannot become ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 3:46 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: a bureaucracy in fact their official reasons atmosphere greek to greek bureaucracy okay and this is what we call the second Rom at the same time while this is happening you have a massive migration of the steppes people okay they're coming into Europe from many Sulacella II permission ofExcuse me and Iolani being tanto and was thus plugged into c through thecuperα hasaining because in China the Han Dynasty is waging a war against the steppe nomadic people okay the people called the Xiongnu then so they are forced westwards which forces the other steppe people to migrate into Europe and into Central Asia okay so these people are called the Goths and this is a huge problem for Rome because their people are not having children and they have all these massive migration coming in from the steppes and so what the Romans decided to do is divide and rule and so what this means is that a ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 5:03 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: lot of them are absorbed into the army as mercenaries and as soldiers in order to defend the border in order to fight these civil wars now remember in the last class we talked about the rise of the Catholic Church and now we're going to talk about the rise of the Catholic Church okay and we discussed how the Catholic Church was in many ways being supported by these noble families not all of them support the Catholic Church but some of them did and those that did had a huge advantage because now what they can do is absorb these new migrants into the society where they're the top and the the migrants are at the bottom okay then the question then is why would the migrants agree to this the reason why is in this society it is very egalitarian and for war purposes they would they would elect a war leader okay but with this system ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 6:08 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: the Catholic Church system this war leader cannot become a nobility okay they can now join the fifty families to form a new nobility okay does that make sense? Make sense, guys? Alright. Alright. So, at this point in history, when Constantine sets up the Abyssinian Empire, now the Roman Empire is going to divide into two, a Western part, a Western part, and an Eastern part. And these two parts are going to have very different fates. The Eastern part is still part of the Middle East, okay? The Levant, Anatolia, Egypt. And so, it is the wealthiest part of the empire. And as such, it engages in wars with the Persian Empire, okay? And this will define most of its history. Its capital, Constantinople, was designed to be invincible. You could not lay siege to it. You could not conquer it. And as such, the Abyssinian Empire was stable. In fact, it lasted for about a thousand years. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 7:29 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Which is very, very impressive, okay? And as I said, it's very wealthy. And so, therefore, it's really able to dominate the world through mainly trade and diplomacy, okay? So, it became an imperial bureaucracy. It fought wars, but it usually used a lot of mercenaries because it had a lot of wealth, alright? So, that's the Eastern Empire. And guess what, guys? This is very similar to China, okay? So think about China when you think about the Abyssinian Empire. They're not the same, but they're very similar in how they organize their society. The Western Empire is very different because this is the poorest part of Europe. The other thing about this region is that there are lots of natural barriers. And so, you have like these competing societies emerging, okay? Different cultures, different societies, and they're protected by mountains, by forests, by rivers. So, there's a lot of diversity, there's a lot of diversity within the Western Empire. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 8:46 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And so, the power that emerges is actually the Catholic Church. Western Europe increases in power and Eastern Europe decreases in power, the Catholic Church will increase in power as well. How does the Catholic Church come to dominate Western Europe? Because the Catholic Church believes it is out of history. So you kings, you compete for who rules the earth, but we, the Catholic Church, we decide who goes to heaven, okay? So the Catholic Church becomes a dominant power in Western Europe. In fact, you can say that they are the empire now, but they are a spiritual empire. A divine empire that is out of history and which speaks for God. And as such, they become a very powerful empire as well, okay? And this leads to tremendous conflicts throughout Western Europe. But there's a problem with the Catholic Church, and we discussed this last class, with the Catholic Church, it's trying to control the divine spark. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 10:15 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Remember? The Catholic Church is going to tell us that there's a divine spark in us. And as long as we try to glow this divine spark, we can be with God. And the Catholic Church says, no, no, no. This divine spark, it is that of the devil, and we must imprison it, okay? And this works most of the time, but now and then, you have religious leaders who arise and said, no, no, no, the divine spark is within us. And so, this leads to a lot of conflict. And ultimately, the solution of the Catholic Church, we're going to find out, is that the Catholic Church proposes is the idea of crusades, where warriors go and kill those who believe in the divine spark. And then they set up a secret police, called the Inquisition, in order to search for those who oppose the Catholic Church, okay? The Inquisition, the major idea is, if you ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 11:20 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=680s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: believe in the divine spark, you're not an evil person, you're a stupid person, because you don't know better. So the idea of the Inquisition is to educate you in the truth, which is the divine spark is that of Satan, that of the devil. And therefore, you must obey the Catholic Church. But if you insist on defying the Catholic Church, then you are a heretic. And therefore, you must burn at the stake, before you can pollute other people, okay? Now, eventually, what will happen? Okay. The second thing is that, as a conflict in Western Europe gets worse and worse, certain states will break away from the control of the Catholic Church, and they will embrace a new religion called Protestantism, okay? And this is something we'll discuss next class, okay? So that's the history of Western Europe, okay? So now, I want to talk about Constantine, and the rise of the Byzantine Empire. So, Constantine is, what he does, that's very important, is that he makes Christianity the official religion of Rome. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 12:37 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So before Constantine, you had Christian emperors, but they did not make Christianity the official religion. But he made Christianity the official religion, okay? The problem though, we discussed this last class, is that Christianity, it's a franchise model. So, different churches teach different things. And so, Christianity is a franchise model. So, Constantine was like, no, we can't have this debate. If we make this the official religion, what we need to do is have one orthodoxy, a unified ideology, okay? All right. So, at this time in history, there are two major debates, or two major sources of confusion. The first is what we call Christology. What this is, is the question of like, what's the nature of Christianity? So, this was the question of like, what's the nature of Christianity? And Jesus, the author of the Lord Jesus, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 13:31 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Remember, the story is that Jesus is in heaven, then he comes to Earth. Mary gives birth to Jesus. Then Jesus preaches his message, the Gospel. Then he is killed, and he is resurrected. And then he returns to heaven, okay? That's the official story of Christianity. But there are lots of problems with this story, as you can imagine. Imagine, if Jesus is divine, how did Mary give birth to Jesus, right? If you're a human woman and you give birth to a God, that means that you're God yourself, okay? All right, so who is Mary and what is her power? Second question then is, is Jesus divine or is he human? Okay, because if he's human and he dies, that's a sacrifice, right? But if you're divine, you can't die, so his death and his resurrection doesn't make any sense, okay? So this is a problem with Christology. Is Jesus human or is he divine? And there are different interpretations, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 14:43 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: The first interpretation is, Jesus is divine in heaven, but he's human in the world. Okay, does that make sense? So yes, Mary gave birth to Jesus, but she gave birth to the human Jesus and not the divine Jesus. Because you cannot give birth. You're the divine God, okay? And that's why his death makes sense, because the Jesus who died was the human Jesus, but once he died and he was resurrected, then he went to heaven, okay? That's one explanation, that Jesus is really human. Another explanation is, no, Jesus is divine. So Mary, the death doesn't really matter, okay? He's just divine, okay? So both are possibilities. What the church says officially is, Jesus, is human and divine at the same time, okay? This is the official ideology of the church. This makes no sense, guys, all right? But that's what you're taught. And so there are a lot of course, people who are like, this isn't a stupid idea, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 15:52 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And these people are called the Nestorians. And they were persecuted by the Catholic church. And so they went to Persia. They went to the Middle East, they went to Persia, they went to Arabia, where they spread the message of Jesus, they taught Jesus as a human, as opposed to a God. They taught that Jesus was a messenger, okay, which is what I taught you, right? That he's really a messenger of the Monad, all right? So, does that make sense? Okay, now the second debate is actually going to be more confusing than the first debate, okay? And it has to do with the nature of the three powerful forces, right? The three gods. You have God, the ultimate God, and you have Jesus, and you have the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God expressed in the world, okay? So when someone speaks to you, you think it's God. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 16:49 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: It's actually not God, it's the Holy Spirit. All right, so another question then is, what's the relationship between these three? God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit? And again, there are different explanations. And they kind of make sense, okay? So the first is the idea of modalism. Modalism is the idea that Jesus, and God, and Holy Spirit are just different modes of the same thing. They just change. So when Jesus is in heaven, he's God. When Jesus comes to earth as a human, he's just Jesus. And then when Jesus wants to communicate with us, he's the Holy Spirit, okay? So remember, Paul talked to Jesus. But Paul didn't really talk to Jesus. Paul talked to the Holy Spirit. Okay, so it's the same force, but expressed differently. Okay, that makes sense, right? Second is the idea of partialism. Partialism is just the idea that God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, are all part of the same divine force. Okay, so think of an ocean, right? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 17:50 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: The Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is huge, but there are different parts to it, right? So that's the idea of partialism. That makes sense too, right? Okay, and the third idea is the idea of Arianism. Arianism. And Arianism is just the idea that God came first, and therefore, and then afterwards, he created Jesus. So, in other words, Jesus is God, but he's second to the real God, okay? That makes sense as well, right? Now, there are problems of all three, okay? The first problem in Arianism is, if you read the Bible, Jesus talks to God. Jesus talks to the Holy Spirit. That's kind of confusing, because why would Jesus talk to himself, okay? So there's a lot of inconsistencies in the Bible, okay? So this doesn't really work. Partialism doesn't work either, because if you think about it, if God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are part of a divine aspect, then that divine aspect should be God, right? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 18:55 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1135s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Not these three. Okay, this doesn't really make sense. And Arianism doesn't really make sense, because the entire point of Christianity is to say that Jesus is God, right? We worship Jesus, not God. So, if you're saying that God's superior, why shouldn't we worship God? Why shouldn't we worship God instead of Jesus, okay? So this is problematic as well. So what Constantine did was, he organized all the bishops of the different churches to come to Nicaea, it's called the Council of Nicaea, okay? In order to come up with a solution to this problem. And this solution is actually even more problematic than these three, okay? And it's called the Holy Trinity. So let's go over the Holy Trinity. What the Holy Trinity says is this. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, they are separate, okay? But they are equal. They are separate, but they're part of the same thing, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 20:10 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: They're both separate, and they are equal to each other, okay? Now, if you think about it, it makes actually no sense whatsoever. The only solution to this problem is, that this Holy Trinity is both nothing and everything at the same time. It becomes reality unto itself, okay? And the only way to understand this is to accept this as a reality, all right? So I know there's confusion, but think of the idea of money, right? Okay. So the idea of money is both nothing, and reality. Okay. Money is nothing, but it can be everything at the same time as well, because it symbolizes wealth, okay? Does that make sense? All right. So none of this actually makes any sense, and the only way that it makes sense is if you force it to make sense, if you just memorize it. So think of math class, okay? Guys, I'm not sure if you appreciate this, but the entire point of math class is to make you stupid, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 21:28 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Why? Because it is impossible for you to understand. It's impossible to reason using mathematics, because mathematics doesn't really apply to the world. So the only thing that you can do is just memorize the formulas and apply the formulas to each other, okay? And that just requires massive memorization and regurgitation. That's why, if you think about it, the best mathematicians are always in their twenties or thirties, because your brain has to be really energetic in order to process this information. But the older you get, the less capable you are in mathematics, okay? Does that make sense? This is really important, guys. The more math you learn, the stupider you become, okay? But this goes against, say, philosophy or teaching, right? The older you get, the wiser you become. Why? Because the information that you're learning, you can apply to reality and then figure out what information makes sense as you test this information against reality, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 22:29 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: All right. Okay. So then the question then is, why would they do this? And the answer is very simple, to make you stupid, okay? So let's just use an analogy. Let's do a thought experiment. The sky is blue, right? So we know the sky is blue, and now we're like, okay, why is the sky blue? And is it always blue? And why are certain things blue? Okay? From this very principle, the sky is blue, you can now start to ask more questions. You can, based on this idea, start to reason out more things, okay? Does that make sense? But let's just say, I change and I say, the sky is red. You're like, no, the sky is blue. I'm saying, no, no, the sky is red. If you do not say the sky is red, you are a heretic. I will burn you at the stake. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 23:22 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And you're like, okay, all right. So what you're saying is this. You're saying that blue is red, red is blue. And I'm like, no, no, no. Blue is blue. Red is red. The sky is red. And you're like, that makes no sense. I'm just like, okay, well then, I don't care. Because if you do not say the sky is red, I will burn you at the stake. Okay? I will fail you in school. Okay? Do you understand? So another way of saying this is, your brain, the way it processes information is by using logic, right? Okay? So think about building. Think about building. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 24:00 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 24:05 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Think about building. Okay? Well, this makes sense, right? You're just stacking blocks on top of each other to build a building, right? But let's just say, I say, no, no. This is what the building looks like. Okay? This is empty. You're like, well, that makes no sense. Okay? So what I've done by forcing the idea of the Holy Trinity onto you is I've basically taken a part of your logical system of your brain and emptied it out. So it is impossible for you to connect things. Okay? Because from this, what you can do is say, oh, now I can just keep on building more things. Right? But if the principle is there's a layer that is unseen or unknowable, you can't build on top of it. Okay? So your brain ceases to be able to process and be creative. Okay? Does that make sense? Yeah? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 25:01 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And I saw people who learn math well. And also they have strong ability in computer science. They all work in Silicon Valley and they are wealthy. But I think that also aligns our concept that they are pursuing the materialistic and the world is ruled by Satan. Is that true? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 25:23 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. We'll talk about this later. Okay? But yeah, if you work in Silicon Valley, you are a materialistic person who is incapable of thinking spiritually. Yes. That is correct. Also remember that people who do computer engineering and do mathematics, they're at their best in their 20s and 30s. By the time they reach over 40, they kind of burn out. Okay? Because for your brain to process all this, it eventually burns out. Okay? Does that make sense? So again, I hate to say this, but math makes you stupid. All right? All right. Is that clear, guys? Any questions? Okay. But as you can see, what's happening is that because people are forced to learn this, they don't want to learn this and it starts a series of wars within the Roman Empire because Constantine and the Byzantine Empire is going to enforce this orthodoxy onto every Christian church and it starts a series of wars. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 26:24 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? At the same time, the Byzantines, they are fighting the Sassanid Persia. Sassanid Persia. Okay? Egypt, the Levant, and this is Arabia. Okay. So, guys, this is really important. This is a time in history, this is about 500 to 600, where there's a lot of conflict going on. Okay? Remember, the first major conflict is between Byzantine and Sassanid Persians. Okay? The second major conflict is the church orthodoxy against the Sassanid Persians. Okay? So, the Byzantine Empire is trying to enforce the orthodoxy on all different churches who refuse the Holy Trinity because it's such a silly idea. Okay? What this is going to do is it's going to force Christians over to the Sassanids as well as Arabia, the desert. Okay? And these are called the Nestertorians. And again, they believe that Jesus is a divine messenger as opposed to the Sassanids. God on earth. Okay? Also, we have the Jews as well. Okay? Because the Jews keep on resisting against the Romans because the Romans forced the Jews to obey Christianity. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 27:58 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And so, the Jews escape into Arabia. Okay? And at the same time, the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Right? Now, what's interesting is that most people don't know this. Okay? Because Arabia is, at this point in history, the most energetic, open, and cohesive society in the Middle East. Okay? So, first of all, it's open because Arabia has always been a point of trade between the Levant, Egypt, and the Indus Valley civilization. Okay? India. Okay? So, Arabia, they do a lot of trading. But they also are great fighters. Because they're great mercenaries. Why? Because as the Sassanids and the Romans fight more and more, the Arabians are recruited in as mercenaries for their armies. And as such, they learn the most innovative warfare. And they're poor as well. So, they're really good fighters. Okay? And now, what's happening is ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 29:07 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: that the Arabians, the Arabs, are being exposed to new religions, and that's during Christianity as well as Judaism. Okay? And both preach the coming of the Messiah. So, Arabia is rising in energy, but the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Persians are decreasing in energy. Okay? The Byzantines are fighting too many wars, and they're imposing too much orthodoxy, which is turning people into slaves. And because the Sassanids are fighting the Byzantines in war, and as the Byzantines become more orthodox, and become more bureaucratic, the Sassanids are forced to become slaves. And so, the Sassanids become much more bureaucratic as well, much more orthodox as well. And so, the Nestorians are also being persecuted by the Sassanids. So, the Jews want Jerusalem to return, and the Sassanids say to the Jews, hey, if you fight for us, we'll return Jerusalem to you. Okay? And so, the Byzantines, so the Jews win back Jerusalem, and then piss off the Byzantines, so they come and they kill a lot of Jews. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 30:17 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Now, the thing about the Jewish tradition is, they believe that when they're most persecuted, when all hope is lost, the Messiah will come to save them. Okay? So, the Jews are like, oh my God, the Messiah is coming, the Messiah is coming. Okay? Nestorians also believe the Messiah is coming as well. They believe that Jesus is going to return. And all it will take is for one charismatic leader to emerge in the Arabian desert to say, I'm the Messiah, follow me. What I will promise you is this, I promise you that you have the right to believe in whatever religion you want, because the divine spark is in you, and you know how to best celebrate God by yourself. I promise religious tolerance for the Jews, for the Christians, for the Arabs, for everyone. Okay? And so, what will happen is, this leader will emerge, and his name is Muhammad. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 31:16 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And Muhammad will unite Arabia, and then he will unite the Nestorians, he will unite the Jews, and they will together fight to get Jerusalem back. They will fight to get to, against Persia. And guess what happens? They basically win without much resistance, because there's so much anger, so much opposition towards the Sassanid Empire, as well as the Byzantine Empire. Plus, both empires are exhausted. And so, this gives us the Islamic Revolution, right? Okay? The Arabs are able to sweep through and conquer most of the world very, very quickly. When they do so, what happens is that Muhammad dies. And now, what's going to happen is, they have lots of different factions, right? The Nestorians, the Jews, the Arabs as well. And they're going to fight a civil war amongst themselves as well. And then from the civil war will emerge a new religion that we call Islam. Okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 32:12 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: But remember, this is really important. Muhammad himself did not preach Islam. All he preached was, I'm Messiah, I'm the messenger of God, like Jesus, and I will promote religious tolerance. We'll have a community of believers and followers. But it doesn't matter if you're a Jew. It doesn't matter if you're Christian. It doesn't matter what type of Christian you are. You're free to believe whatever you want, because that's what God wants. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 32:39 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: I think it worked on the... Although, like, Muhammad said that you have the right to believe in your divine spark, but I think they all walk on the same road as Paul, because they all formed a religion, because they follow Muhammad, but not follow themselves. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 32:53 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=1973s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so this is an important idea you guys need to understand. The messenger of God, okay? The leader, the Messiah. He's never like, I'm God, follow me. He's always like, I'm the messenger of God, and the message of God is, you are divine children. The divine spark is in you. You should not be slaves. I will free you from slavery. I will free you from tyranny. I will free you from poverty. Okay? That's always the messenger. That's always the message. What will happen later on after some time is, you'll have a figure like Paul emerge who needs, I can turn this into my own empire, and then religion becomes organized. Okay? That's always the process. So, think of Zoroastrian. When he first came, he was preaching a message. He was a poor prophet. So was Jesus. So was Homer. So was Muhammad. But later on, people will turn his words into an empire. Okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 33:52 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2032s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: That's always the process. All right? Okay? Clear? All right. Okay. So, let's do the PPT. Okay. So, we can better understand what happened. Okay. So, as we discussed before, at this point in history, the Roman Empire is huge, but please remember that it's not a bureaucracy, and therefore, each region is controlled by a certain noble family. Okay? The patricians. And as a result, what happened is, as... Okay, and these are like the 50 top families in Rome, and there aren't that many. Okay? And what happened is, there are certain families that will adapt well to the change in the Roman Empire, mainly by embracing Catholic religion. Okay? By being early investors in the Catholic Church, and as such, they will continue on to today. We call these people the Black nobility. Okay? All right. So, as I mentioned, there are different migrants coming in from the steppes. The Huns, the Germanics, the Slavs, they're basically all the steppes people. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 35:19 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? But they will come into different regions, and they will absorb into Europe differently. Okay? In the north, they're much more independent, and this is where the Vikings are. Okay? These are where the Germans are. They're very independent people. But as they approach the Roman Empire, they are assimilated and absorbed into Europe. Okay? And they're supported by the Roman nobility using the Catholic religion. Okay? And so, the people at the very bottom here, they become Christians. Okay? But they become different types of Christians, and eventually, they'll fight the Byzantines, because the Byzantines want to enforce an Orthodox Christianity onto them. Okay? And this is what Europe looks like when the Western Empire falls. Okay? As you can see, there are different societies as well. And again, what makes this possible is the fact that the Roman Empire is a very different country. And the reason for that is that Western Europe, it has a lot of mountains, so it's pretty easy to defend your territory. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 36:20 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? So, this is Constantine, and he is going to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire when he becomes emperor. Okay? So, again, even after Julius Caesar, the Romans cannot help but keep on fighting civil wars. And Constantine wins one of them, becomes emperor, and he moves the capital from Rome all the way to Constantinople. Okay? This is really important, because now he can establish a new culture called the Byzantine Empire. Okay? They call themselves Romans, but they're not really Romans, they're more like Greeks. Another major difference is this. Rome is over in Western Europe, Constantinople is off in Eastern Europe, and so now it's, and now Rome is now able to defend its wealthy provinces of Anatolia and Egypt much more effectively. Okay? The other thing about Constantinople that's really important is it's pretty easy to defend. Okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 37:09 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Because it's by the sea, and if you build high walls, it's almost impossible for the people to invade Constantinople. This is the Hagia Sophia, which is the official church of the new religion. Today we call it Eastern Orthodox, but back then it was just the Catholic Church. Okay? And this is the Hagia Sophia. This is what Constantinople looks like at its peak. And what's really important to understand is it's very wealthy, but as you can see, it's surrounded by these sea walls, which makes it impossible to defend, and that's why it was able to stand for about a thousand years. Okay? The Council of Nicaea is where they make the Holy Trinity the official doctrine of the Catholic Church. Even today, guys, if you're a Christian, you still recite it. All right? It's called the Nicene Creed. So, can you read it, Allen? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 38:09 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only -begotten Son. Begotten of the Father before all ages, light of light, true God of true God, forgotten not made, of one essence with the Father by whom all things were made, whom for us men and for all salvation, come down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man. And he was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father, and he shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end, and in the Holy Spirit. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 39:04 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: All right. So, what this does is establish the idea that Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are separate, but they are one and the same. They are different, but they are co -equal, all right? If you actually study this Nicene Creed, you'll find all of this. You'll find a lot of inconsistencies, okay? So Jesus Christ is a son of God, but he is one with God as well, okay? So when you think about it, it doesn't really make much sense, okay? But again, the Nicene Creed is something that you don't argue over, because if you argue over it, your heritage will be burned at the stake. It's something that you must memorize. It's like a math formula, basically, okay? In math class, you're not allowed to memorize. You're not allowed to question the formula. You're just forced to memorize the formula, okay? Okay. So, as you can see, what's happening is that the migrants are being settled throughout Europe, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 40:05 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: But once they're being settled through Europe, the conflict between these noble families in Rome then become a conflict amongst these different groups, okay? So, after the Council of Nicaea announces the Holy Trinity, the Catholic Church is going to have a conflict. There's still a lot of resistance to it. In fact, you know, even by the year 500, which is about 180 years after the Council of Nicaea, most of Europe is actually, they don't really believe in the Holy Trinity, okay? So, Arian just means you don't believe in the Holy Trinity. Catholic means you do. And as you can see, this part, which is controlled by the Byzantine Empire, it's able to enforce the Holy Trinity, but most other parts are not able to enforce the Holy Trinity, okay? This is a really important idea to understand. The idea of the Holy Trinity only takes force a few hundred years after it is announced. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 41:01 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: But in the beginning, there's a lot of resistance to the idea of the Holy Trinity. The Byzantine Empire must fight these wars to enforce it, okay? And it will, because as the Byzantine Empire becomes stronger and stronger, you can see these green arrows, it's going to fight all these wars in order to expand the idea of the Holy Trinity, okay? And Casanova can do this because it's very wealthy, and it doesn't really fear any enemies, because of the high walls, okay? As you can see, it's almost impossible to attack Constantinople by sea. And the Byzantine Empire, under Justinian, will expand and expand and enforce the Holy Trinity on all churches, okay? And by 565, it is at the peak of its power. But as we discussed, when the empire reaches its peak, it's probably going to fall really quickly. And that's what happens. All right, so because of resistance to the Holy Trinity, Christians are forced into the Persian Empire and into the Arabian desert, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 42:14 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2534s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: At first, they're welcomed by the Persians, because these tend to be very well -educated Christians who contribute a lot to the empire. But over time, the Zoroastrians see the Christians as a threat, and a conflict arises between the Christians and the Zoroastrians. The Christians will also go into... They will go into the Arabian desert as well to promote Christianity, okay? But you can see how Christianity spreads. Destroying Christianity also spreads to China and Japan, okay? All right, one thing that you need to understand is that even though we don't really discuss Arabia a lot, it's a very important part of the world throughout history, because it's a trade center, okay? So if you're in India and you want to bring goods into Egypt, the best thing to do is to sail into Muscat. And then have Arabian nomads carry the goods all the way to Mecca and then go into Egypt, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 43:13 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So the Arabian desert, we don't talk much about it, but it is a crossroads of empire, and it's a crossroads of culture as well. And there are Jews in the Arabian desert, because as the Romans persecuted the Jews, the Jews go escape into Arabia. Because the Romans don't like sand, okay? The Romans, what they're really good at is besieging cities, but they hate fighting sand. That's why the Romans can never conquer Persia. All right, so this is another map that shows the extent of the trade as well. So as you can see, the Arabian desert, it's connecting the world, right? Because you look at India. And India is now India. They're able to connect the world through the Arabian desert, okay? It's the same impacts as Europe, the Mediterranean, and Egypt through the Arabian desert, okay? Okay, so what's going to happen is that ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 44:26 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: once Muhammad comes into place and he unites the Arabian desert into a new community of followers, okay, they'll spread really quickly throughout the world. And as you can see, there are now over 100,000 people in the Arabian desert. There are over a billion Muslims in the world. And you can see how many Muslims there are in the world, okay? So there's a lot of conflict between the Roman Empire, the Byzantines, and the Sassanians as well, okay? There are lots and lots of major battles. These wars are exhausting both empires. And this is going to enable the Arabs to rise in power because as these two empires fight and their energy decreases, this energy is being transferred to India. It's being transferred to the Arabs, okay? Because a lot of wealth is being transferred to the Arabs, but also a lot of mercenaries are learning how to fight from the Byzantines as well as the Persians, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 45:33 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So the major event that sparks the Arab revolution is the persecution of the Jews, okay? So, Alan, can you read please? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 45:52 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Asher and Benjamin of Tiberius would capture Jerusalem without resistance. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 45:57 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so the Jews want to return to Jerusalem. Remember, the Romans kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem. So they make a deal with the Persians, okay? They basically say to the Persians, if you support us, we'll support you in the fight against the Romans. And that's what happened. But once that happens, there are lots of Christians within Jerusalem, and they call the Byzantines for help. And, um... So the Byzantines come, and they win back the city, because the Christians helped them, and they start massacring a lot of Jews, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 46:33 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: The capture of Jerusalem was interpreted by a Jewish writer in a messianic context. Sacrifices may even have been renewed on the Temple Mount. Control of the city was handed to Nehemiah ben Heshel and Benjamin of Tiberius. Nehemiah was then appointed the ruler of Jerusalem. Okay. So in Jerusalem, she began making arrangements for the building of the Third Temple and sorting out genealogies of established new high priesthood. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 47:02 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so this is almost like the Bible, where the Jews were kicked out of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the Temple was burned down. And so what the Jews believe is, like, now the new Messiah will return. We have to rebuild the Third Temple. Because in their religion, the Messiah will return. So we turn all Jews to Jerusalem and build the Third Temple, okay? All right, keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 47:28 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: After only a few months, a Christian revolt occurred. Nehemiah ben Heshel and his council of 16 righteous were killed, along with many other Jews, some throwing themselves off the city walls. Following the outburst of violence in Jerusalem, the surviving Jews fled to Shambara's encampment at Caesarea. Christians were able to briefly retake the city before the walls were breached by Zechariah's forces who laid siege to the city. Sources vary on how long the siege lasted. Depending on the source, it lasted 19, 20, or 21 days. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 48:08 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, right. So the Jews take over Jerusalem, and they want to rebuild their temple. And the Christians are angry because they think, this is my city. The Christians rebel. And the Christians help them. And the Jews are massacred and a lot escape. Where do they go? They go to the Arabian Desert. Why do they go to the Arabian Desert? Because they believe the Messiah is going to come. And so they preach that, hey, the Messiah is coming, okay? And in the Arabian Desert, there's a man who believes he's the Messiah, and his name is Muhammad, okay? All right, can you keep on reading? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 48:45 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and were not allowed to settle within the Three Mile radius, a general massacre of the Jewish population ensued. The massacre devastated the Jewish communities of the Galilee and Jerusalem. Only those Jews who could flee to the mountains of Egypt are said to have been spared. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 49:09 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=2949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so this is Wikipedia, okay? All right, so the first thing that Muhammad's going to do is announce the concentration of Medina, which is to say that I'm the prophet. I am the Messiah. But what I promise you is religious openness and tolerance. It doesn't matter if you're a Jew. It doesn't matter if you're Christian. It doesn't matter if you're Arab. You can practice whatever religion you want, and it's called the concentration of Medina, okay? That's a promise that Muhammad makes to all his followers, okay? And we know this from the Koran. So we're going to read the Koran together, which is the holy book of the Muslims. And what we'll see is that Muhammad is cleansed. He's clearly promising tolerance for all religious factions. It doesn't matter what religion you are. You're allowed to practice whatever you want, okay? So, Alec, can you read, please? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 50:05 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3005s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3005s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: O people of the book, why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Why do you not reason? Here you are. You argue about things you know. But why do you argue about things you do not know? Aha knows, Allah knows, and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim, and he was not of the polytheists. The people most deserving of Abraham are those who follow him. And these prophets and those who believe, Allah is the guardian of the believers. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 50:45 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so the legend is that Muhammad, when he was 40, he went into the desert. And in the desert, he was meditating and had a revelation. An angel, Gabriel, visited him and spoke the truth of the universe. The Quran is just a writing down of all these revelations, okay? And one major revelation is Gabriel tells Muhammad, you're all children of God. You're all descendants of Abraham. Therefore, why are you guys fighting? You guys should be working together, okay? All these differences. These differences don't matter. What's important is for you all to remember that you all believe in the one true God. That's what matters. And these differences don't really matter, okay? Keep on reading. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 51:38 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3098s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3098s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: They disbelieved with those who say, Allah is Messiah, the son of Mary. But the Messiah himself said, Oh, children of Israel, worship Allah. My Lord and your Lord. Whoever has associted others with Allah, Allah has forbidden him paradise. And his dwelling is the fire. The wrongdoers have no saviors. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 52:04 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so this is really important. What the Quran is saying is this. Jesus is not God. God is God. God is Allah. Jesus is a messenger, okay? And the messenger himself, Jesus himself said, worship God. Don't worship me, okay? So this is a Nestorian position, right? Okay? Jesus is human. In heaven, he's divine. But on earth, he's human. Okay, keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 52:30 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3150s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3150s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: They disbelieved those who say, Allah is a third of three. But there is no giant except one God. If they do not refrain from what they say, a painful torment will befall those among them who disbelieve. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 52:45 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so it's just saying that the Holy Trinity, it's sacrilege. It's blessing. Trust me, it makes no sense, man. God is God. God isn't one of three. Okay? God is just God. Keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 52:57 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: While they not repent to Allah as ask his forgiveness, Allah is forgiving and merciful. The Messiah's son of Mary was only a messenger, before whom other messengers had passed away, and his mother was a woman of truth. They both used to eat food. Note how we make clear the revelation to them. Then note how deluded they are. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 53:21 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, to say that Mary is divine, to say that Jesus is divine, it's all superstitious. They're all just messengers of the one true God. Like Moses, and like Moses before him, okay? And now like Muhammad today, okay? Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad are all messengers of God. Jesus was the penultimate, and Muhammad is the last, okay? The final messenger of God. All right, keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 53:46 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: With him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them except he. And he knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls, but he knows it. And there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth, nor is there anything wet or dry, but is in a clear record. It is he who takes you by night, and he knows what you earn by day. Then he raises you up in it, until a fixed term is fulfilled. Then to him is your return. Then he will inform you of what you used to do. He is a conqueror over his servant, and he sends guardians over you. Until, when death overtakes one of you, our envoys take him away, and they never fail. Then they are brought back to Allah, the true master. Unquestionably, he is the judgment, and he is the swiftest of reckoners. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 54:41 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: This is establishing the monad, right? That's God. The monad is the universe. The monad is everything. It's divine, okay? Stop saying Jesus is God. That makes no sense. Okay, so as we discussed, now the Arabian desert is energized. People are energetic because people thirst for religious liberation, okay? The Christians, the Jews all unite behind Muhammad. And very quickly, once he is able to unite the Arabs, okay, they are now really quickly able to expand outwards. They retake Jerusalem, and they conquer the Persian Empire. Very, very quickly, because both of these empires, the Byzantines and the Sassanids, are exhausted. The main advantage of the Byzantines is they still have Constantinople, which is impossible to conquer, okay? So Constantinople is safe, but everyone else falls to the Arabs, okay? And as you can see, how fast their conquest is. And this is only about 100 years, okay? They're able to basically conquer most of the Roman Empire. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 55:49 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: They take Spain, they take Northern Africa, they conquer Persia, okay? It's a really rapid conquest. Because at this point in history, people are just sick of empires, and they're looking for religious liberation, okay? And over time, but over time, as Muhammad dies, the Muslims will fight amongst themselves, and they will establish different empires called caliphates, and they will break up as well, okay? And this will give time for the Byzantines to... reestablish themselves, and then Western Europe will become more and more powerful. Now, the Arabs will establish something called the Islamic Golden Age, and this marks a time of tremendous peace and prosperity for the world, because the Muslims are able to establish trade networks throughout the world, okay? Why? Well, because when you do trade, the biggest problem is one of trust. Right? How can I trust you to take my money to somewhere else? But if you're a Muslim, you must swear to Allah, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 57:06 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So religion requires you to be trustworthy, and that allows Muslims to work together and establish trade routes throughout the world. But you can't really trust someone who's not Muslim, but you can trust someone who is Muslim, okay? So these Muslims go all around the world, and including into China. And as such... the Islamic Empire is able to establish trade throughout the world, which brings tremendous prosperity to most of the world, okay? And as you can... I'm not sure you understand Islam, but Islam is a beautiful, simple religion that builds trust and community. This is Mecca, and this is the Hajj, where Muslims come from all around the world, and they circle around the kebab. The cube, okay? So Islam considers itself as the ultimate religion, because it improves on both Judaism and Christianity, okay? Christians believe they are improving on Judaism. Muslims believe they are improving on Christians and Jews as well. Okay. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 58:25 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Now let's talk about the Western Empire, okay? Because that's where our focus will be for the next semester. First of all, Islam. In 1886, the Goths destroy Rome. Why? Because the power now is being shifted from the Empire to Catholic Church, okay? So the Empire doesn't really have that much power. So what happens is that it recruits mercenaries to fight for them, but it can't really pay the mercenaries. So the mercenaries, in response, go and sack Rome, okay? But this time in history, Rome is no longer a power. It doesn't really matter anymore. Augustine, who was... Who is the main architect of the Catholic Church, okay? He takes Paul's ideas and systemizes it. He teaches us in the City of God that the Catholic Church is out of history. It is beyond history. It is divine, okay? So the kings can fight over the land, but it's the church who will decide who goes to heaven and who burns in hell. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 59:27 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And that's the power of the church. One thing to remember about Europe is that there are lots of geopolitics. There are lots of geographic barriers, which allows for diversity within Europe, okay? That's why Europe has so many countries, because historically it's been very hard to unify Europe because of the geography. And this allows for tremendous diversity, and it creates a lot of conflict as well, which drives innovation, okay? So this is... When the Roman Empire falls in the West, there are lots of different groups fighting for the remains. Now, what's really important... What's really important to understand about history is when we say the Roman Empire rises and it falls, this is our understanding of them, okay? But from their perspective, the empire never fell because these warlords think that I'm the empire now, okay? And so what's going to happen is that they're going to compete for the legacy of Rome. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:00:36 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And eventually, this leads to the rise of a new power. Um... So the Franks, okay? So the Franks are expanding throughout Europe, and they see themselves as the heir to the Roman Empire. But how do you prove that you are heir to the Roman Empire? How do you legitimize yourself? Well, you need to get the Catholic Church on your side, right? So, in about 800, Charlemagne, who is the king of the Franks, he is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, okay? And from now on, it is the Catholic Church, the Pope, who decides who will be the Holy Roman Emperor. There's a lot of negotiation going on, but in public, for the public, the Holy Roman Empire is always anointed by God, okay? This is Charlemagne, and today, he is buried in the Aachen Cathedral, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. His body is still there, okay? The Aachen Cathedral. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:01:47 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And this is what it looks like inside. Okay. Now, the Catholic Church, because of its power, is now able to anoint the Holy Roman Empire. It becomes wealthy, okay? Okay, so can you read this, Alan, from the Bible? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:02:04 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Yeah. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:02:05 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3725s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3725s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Then Jesus said to his disciples, Assuredly, I said to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:02:23 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3743s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3743s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So as I keep on telling you, Jesus himself was very anti -rich, okay? He believed that the rich people, because they were too focused on material acquisitions, could never go into heaven, okay? But the paradox is that the Catholic Church becomes extremely wealthy, okay? If you go to the Vatican, you can still go to the Vatican, you can visit St. Peter's Basilica. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. It is extremely wealthy. Inside, guys, it's all gold, okay? So the Vatican has been historically the wealthiest organization in the world. And it was able to do this because Western Europe started to become very wealthy over time, okay? So from about 1,000 to about 1,300, the population of Europe doubles because of technological innovation, because the climate is warming, allowing for agriculture, because of the rise of cities, and because Europe is trading with everyone, okay? So at this time, Europe is becoming more and more wealthy, which makes the Catholic Church really, really wealthy, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:03:33 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: These are different urban centers of Europe at this time, and they engage mainly in trade. Okay. So the church becomes a much more powerful idea than the empire. Okay. Why? Well, with an empire, it's the emperor who's in charge, right? But the emperor is still a human being, and therefore, he can change his mind, and he doesn't really know what he's doing. But in the church, the person in charge is God, who is perfect, immutable, and eternal, okay? So this is the ultimate authority, the church. Second is, what is demanded? Well, an empire demands that you work hard, you labor. But the church demands your soul. It demands your obedience, okay? Therefore, the church is able to extract more wealth from you. Now, the last thing is, okay, let's say you don't obey the empire. What's the worst thing that can happen to you? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:04:28 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Well, the empire puts you to death, okay? Not a big deal. But the church, what it can do is send you to hell for all of eternity, okay? That's why the Catholic Church becomes the most powerful organization ever in human history, and it's still true today. So what makes the Catholic Church so powerful? Well, it becomes a divine bureaucracy, okay? And what it does is establish a very strict hierarchy. So the idea of the church is that God is distant, and God demands your obedience, right? So remember Augustine, City of God, remember Paul, right? So one thing is that when you go to church, the priest doesn't speak in your language, the vernacular. It speaks in Latin. And we don't really understand the language, okay? You don't have to read the Bible, because at this time, most people are illiterate. The Holy Trinity makes no sense. But again, you're not asked to debate it. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:05:39 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3939s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: You're not asked to question it. You just have to memorize it. There are lots of rituals to the Catholic Church. Some of these rituals are just really weird. So for example, the idea of the Eucharist, where you believe that you're actually eating the body and blood of Jesus through the idea of transubstantiation, okay? The church is powerful because it can determine who goes to heaven and how and for how long. And ultimately, if you are a king and you don't obey the church, the Pope can excommunicate you, which is to say, I remove you from the Christian community. And therefore, any other king can come and kill you, and it would be good in the eyes of God. Okay, does that make sense? So this is why the church is so powerful, but also it helps us understand why the church is so corrupt as well. They have too much power. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:06:35 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=3995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And ultimately, they will use this power in order to enrich themselves, okay? Remember, the Catholic Church, the people who control the Catholic Church are descendants of the Roman nobility, okay? And they will use the Catholic Church to enrich themselves. They set up something called indulgences. And the idea is, let's say you're a rich person, and you did a lot of bad things, and now you're afraid you'll burn in hell, right? Well, Jesus will say, too bad. But the Catholic Church says, give us a lot of money, and we'll give you an indulgence, okay? Basically, you know, a ticket to purgatory, alright? And so, as you can see, there's a lot of corruption going on. There's something called simony, where you can buy and sell positions in the Catholic Church, very similar to the imperial bureaucracy of China, right? They're selling holy relics. Priests are not really divine. They get married. They sell their positions to nobles. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:07:30 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4050s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4050s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And the kings are the ones who can appoint leaders of the church as well, okay? So there's this negotiation going on between the Catholic Church and the kings as well. The parishioners, no matter how poor they are, they're forced to pay a tax. They pay a tax to the Catholic Church and not to the king. As you can imagine, the king is not really happy about this, because a third of his land, most of his tax revenue, it's being taken over by the Catholic Church. So that's why a lot of kings will eventually start to rebel against the Catholic Church. The church controls one third of all land, and you're tax -free. And this leads to feudalism. Alright, so at the same time, though, even though the Catholic Church is so powerful in Europe, it serves as a legitimacy problem, okay? Meaning, how does it prove that it is truly divine? Well, you have some certain problems. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:08:32 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4112s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4112s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: The first problem is the Muslims occupy the Holy Land. If you truly represent God, why should you lose some in the hands of the Muslims? Also, Spain is part of Europe, but Muslim Spain is actually much more wealthy and innovative than the rest of Europe. 1054, the Eastern Orthodox Church, led by the Byzantines, break with the Catholic Church, okay? Because both want to be the ultimate center of the world, but the Byzantines say, we're the center, and the Romans say, no, we're the center, okay? And there's corruption going on, okay? Everyone says it's corruption, but there's also lots of religious leaders who are rebelling against the Catholic Church, because they want to unleash the divine spark, okay? So there's all these legitimacy problems going on. And so there are different solutions, okay? One solution the Catholic Church does is that it persecutes Jews, okay? So the Catholic Church allows Jews to exist just so that the Catholic Church can scapegoat the Jews. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:09:44 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And throughout this time, as you can see, Jews are being persecuted, mainly by being forced out of their homes, where they lived for hundreds of years. Okay? And a lot of them are forced to go east into the Muslim empire and to go to Spain, okay? But over time, they're being expelled from these regions. This is another map that shows the persecution of the Jews. As you can see, they're forced to go east, okay? And often, there are lots of massacres as well, okay? So the black spots, okay, the squares, the skull spots are areas in which they were massacred. They were blamed for certain crimes, okay? All right, so this is a map that shows the pilgrimages of Christians into the Holy Land, okay? And again, it's a source of embarrassment for the Christians that their Holy Land is occupied by Muslims, and they have to pay a tax to the Muslims, and they go into the Holy Land. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:11:00 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Right now, the Holy Land, Jerusalem, is being controlled by the Celtic Turks, okay? The Ottoman Empire. All right, and that's why Pope Urban II would eventually call for the crusade to liberate the Holy Land from the Muslims, okay? So can you read, please? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:11:20 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. Oh, what a disgrace if such a despised and base race which worship demons should conquer a people which has the faith of an omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ. Okay. Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war, which should have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time have been robbers now become knights. Let those who have been fighting against brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians. Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:12:18 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so this is Pope Urban II saying the crusades. It's to go and fight the demons. If you fight a demon, it doesn't matter who you are. You could be poor, you could be rich, you could be a simple person, you could be a nobody. But now is your opportunity to go to heaven, okay? Like when you go to fight the demons, you will all be guaranteed access to heaven, no matter who you are, no matter what you did. And so a lot of people go and join the crusades for lots of different reasons, especially those who've committed crimes before, okay? So guess what? A lot of people who join the crusades are criminals because here's your opportunity to get good with the church, okay? That's why we see a lot of abuse during the crusades, okay? So as you can see, lots of people are now joining the crusades in order to liberate the Holy Land. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:13:15 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And eventually they succeed, okay? Even though a lot are criminals, they're still very good fighters because they have religious devotion, okay? They're very energetic. And unfortunately, they're too energetic, so they have a tendency to massacre people when they succeed because they literally see the Muslims and the Jews as demons. That's what the Pope taught them. One organization that developed during the crusades is called the Knights Templars, okay? This is very important. We'll be discussing the Knights Templars later on, okay? But the Knights Templars, it's really the first multinational bank because these pilgrims are going to Holy Land and they need to bring money with them to fund the journey. But if they take a lot of money with them, then they'll get robbed, right? So what they'll do is they'll give the money to the Knights Templars, and then when they get to Jerusalem, the Knights Templars will give the money back to them, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:14:13 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So they're a bank, basically. And then they can use this money to start investing throughout Europe, and so they become a very wealthy organization. The problem is that because they're in Jerusalem and they're away from the authority of the Catholic Church, they start to embrace new ideas. They start to discover the true nature of Jesus from the Muslims and from other Christians in that area. And so the church thinks that they become more corrupt, over time. And that's why their leader, Jacques de Molay, he is burned at the stake. And in 1307, the organization is banned by the Catholic Church. But a lot of the survivors, they will go over to other places and they will form the basis of a secret society we call the Freemasons, okay? So we'll discuss the Freemasons later on. Okay. There's also something called the Aborigines and Crusades. So there are still individuals who believe in the divine spark, okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:15:14 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: And these people are called the Cathars. And the church sees them as a threat. And that's why they launch a crusade against these Cathars, okay? So can you read, Alan? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:15:29 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4529s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay, so again, the Catholic Church is, if you disagree with us, it doesn't mean you're a heretic. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:15:39 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: It just means you're stupid. So we first want to educate you in what is right, okay? The Cathars believe that, no, no, the divine spark is in me. I know the truth for myself. You can never convince me, okay? Keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:15:55 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Ultimately, only three women recanted. The 140 who refused were burned at the stake. Some entered the flames voluntarily, not awaiting their executioners. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:16:06 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So if you believe in the divine spark, okay, you believe you've discovered truth, you're not afraid of death. So the Catholics are saying like, if you don't recant, we'll burn you at the stake. The Catholics are like, good. Keep on going. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:16:19 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: In August, the crusade proceeded to besiege the stronghold of Termis. Despite sales from period rogues, the siege was solid. The occupants of Termis suffered from a shortage of water. And Roman, Roman de Termis, agreed to a temporary truce. The Cathars were briefly relieved by an intense rainstorm, and so Reman refused to surrender. Ultimately, the defenders were not able to break the siege, and on 22 November, the Cathars managed to abandon the city and escape. By the time operations resumed in 1211, the actions of Arnold R. and Simon de Montfort had alienated several important lords, including Raymond de Toulouse, who has been excommunicated again. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:17:20 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So as you can see, what's really important to understand is the crusade against Cathars is not just a religious crusade. It's also one of geopolitics where the local lords resent the power of the Catholic Church, and so they support the Cathars. Okay? All right, so, and this is going to happen throughout Europe. So the response of the Church is to establish a new society led by Francis of Assisi called the Dominicans, okay, the Dominicans, which goes and basically tries to figure out who the Cathars are, okay, by interrogating everyone. All right? And this leads to, of course, the Equisition. Okay? And so the idea is that if you disagree with the Church, with Church orthodoxy, they will figure it out. And if you refuse to recant, if you refuse to obey, they will burn you at the stake. Okay? So at this time in history, because of the Equisition, because of the power of the Catholic Church, Western Europe is one of the least innovative places in the world. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:18:29 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4709s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? All right. And at first this is fine, but eventually bad things start to happen in Europe. Okay? So the Little Ice Age begins. Then you have the Great Famine. Then you have more wars. Then you have Benetri. Okay? And then, of course, you have the Black Death. So if the Catholic Church represents the will of God and all this is happening, then is God really happy with the Catholic Church? Right? So this is a Black Death which kills about a third of the European population. And people, because they're religious, they think that this is the will of God. It's because the Catholic Church, it's corrupt. It's evil. It's stagnant. That's why God is punishing us. Okay? And this will lead to conflict within Europe where the Catholic Church is actually broken into different parts as well. Okay? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:19:32 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: So there are some who believe that Rome is the true center of the Catholic Church, but there are other people who believe that Ammon is the true center of the Catholic Church. And this creates even more legitimacy problems with the Catholic Church. All right. And then you have individuals who emerge to challenge the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church. Okay? So this is Fray Dossena. We won't read. John Wycliffe is a British person who was, he was not punished when he was alive, but afterwards, after he died, decided he was a heretic. So what they did was they dug up his body and then burned him with a stake to make sure he'd burn in hell. Okay? Jan Hus will lead a revolution. Okay? And this is called the Husic Wars. And none succeed, but then another man will emerge called Martin Luther, who will eventually lead a successful revolution against the Catholic Church. And this is called Protestantism. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:20:40 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Protestantism, okay? And we'll discuss Martin Luther next class. Next class we'll discuss the rise of capitalism. All right? Any questions, guys? Yes? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:20:53 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Like, there's a case of my mother's friend telling me that she, her husband has a severe cancer and they try to pray to the Catholic Church and, like, later the cancer just disappears. And they said it is miracle by the Catholic Church and they all believe in the Catholic Church. Can it explain the miracle? Like, is there really miracle there? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:21:22 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. Okay, back to your question. Okay. So this is what we call the placebo effect. Okay? The placebo effect is basically you feel really sick. And you're like, doctor, doctor, I'm really sick. I'm gonna die. Is there any medicine that can save me? And I'm a doctor and I don't want to say there is no medicine. So I say, okay, well, here's some, here's a medicine, okay? It might help you. But this medicine does nothing. You take this medicine and then you feel better. You get better. And this happens a lot, okay? It's called the placebo effect. So why does this happen? It happens because if you understand that mind leads to matter, then your reality is shaped by your perception, your belief. Okay? So, if you believe that this medicine can improve your body, then it will have effects, okay? The question though is how much do you really believe in this medicine? ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:22:41 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4961s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4961s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: Okay? So you can argue that cancer is really a question of loss of faith. What is cancer? Cancer is a splitting of cells, right? So why is your body literally falling apart? It's because you've stopped believing in it. You've stopped believing in yourself. You've stopped believing in the purpose of life. You've stopped believing that you have relevance in the world. Okay? So when you say, I want to cure my cancer, I want to cure my cancer, what you're really saying is I want to find a new faith. I want to believe in myself again. I want to reestablish my relevance in the world. Okay? Does that make sense? So you have that desire. When you have that desire, then the cure makes sense. Okay? So another way of saying this is, okay, let's just say that you don't feel well, right? Well, if your parents make you go see a psychiatrist, you probably won't feel better. ## The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History -- 1:23:40 - Source title: Secret History #24: Empire of Church - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=5020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=5020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Text: But if you yourself want to get better and you go see a psychiatrist, you'll probably get better. Okay? So why this person, why he or she improved his or her cancer is because of faith. Okay? She won't get better. So if you're able to orientate your mind in a certain way, you're capable of tremendous miracles. Another idea is the idea of meditation, right? If you're able to control your thoughts, if you're able to calm yourself down, your body will heal a lot faster. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Great. Any more questions? Okay, great. So next class, we'll discuss capitalism. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 0:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: So let's review last class. We discussed the mission of Jesus. Who is Jesus? Jesus was a messenger from the monad who reminded us that there's a divine spark in us. And how you activate the divine spark is by focusing on Jesus and repeating his words. Jesus was like Zarathustra, like Plato, like Homer, like the Yahwehs, a poor prophet. And so if you just repeated his sayings, if you repeated his poetry, then you could activate that spark within you and glow. Okay? And this explains why he became so popular. It also explains to us why the Romans had to kill him. Because at this time, the Roman Empire, the main currency, the main economy is based on slavery. Most people were slaves. If they were not slaves, they were poor. And here's Jesus who's come to remind you that you don't have to be a slave. You are free to do whatever you want. There's a higher power than the Roman Empire, and it is the divine. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:20 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: It is the universe. And so people started to defy their masters. And they were not allowed to do that. They were no longer afraid of death. And this is why the Romans had to kill Jesus. Because Jesus was stealing from them. Right? Slaves are property. If you let slaves run away, if you free slaves, that destroys the wealth of the Romans. Remember that Jesus, when he was killed, he was killed along with two thieves. He was crucified. And so Jesus was killed because he was a thief. He was stealing from the Romans. Another question then is, okay, how do we get from Jesus to the Catholic Church? Jesus teaches us that we are free to believe whatever we want. That if we just listen to our hearts, we will be in touch with the Monad again. And we have nothing to fear. The Catholic ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 2:20 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Church, the Church teaches us that you believe in Jesus, and that's all you have to do in order to achieve redemption. Redemption and salvation. Jesus came to die for our sins. So therefore, we are now slaves to Jesus. These are two opposite ideas. The reason why is, the idea of the divine spark is the greatest threat to the Roman Empire. So the Romans had to somehow imprison the spark. And make it an economic commodity. Okay? And so that's why they created the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is a prison in order to control that divine spark. To hide it from you. And the main architect of the Catholic Church, his name is Paul. Okay? And most people agree that Paul, and not Jesus, is the real founder of Christianity. So let's discuss Paul. So Paul has a very interesting background. He is a Jew, but he grew up in Greek culture. He was very well educated. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 3:28 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: He was very wealthy. And so we say he's a Hellenized Jew. And he's probably working for the Roman Empire as a spy or an agent. Now, in that time, your education was mainly in rhetoric. Okay? And the word we use for this is sophistry. So let me explain to you who the sophists were. Because they're very important. So back in classical Africa, in Athens, there's a major debate between Socrates, a philosopher, as well as a sophist. Okay? Philosophy. So what's interesting is that they both come from the same word, which is sophia, which is Greek for knowledge. The philosophers are people who love knowledge. What they believe is that there is an eternal truth and that we must try to achieve this eternal truth, right? Remember Plato's allegory of the cave. How you escape from the cave and into the light. Okay? That's what philosophy is trying to do. Trying to help you liberate yourself into the light. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 4:40 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Sophists believe something else. Sophists believe that eternal truth does not exist. Why? Because words are reality. Philosophists believe that words are an illusion. But sophists believe that words are a reality unto themselves. And so what's important is to learn how to master language in order to construct reality. Okay? So, sophists give us the word sophistry, which is basically trickery. Okay? So, in order to defeat the threat of the divine spark, what Paul does is he pulls a trick. And it's the greatest trick ever. The trick is this. Jesus says, Listen to my words and you will find the divine spark in you. What Paul says is, Believe in Jesus and you will be saved. Okay? So he changes the focus from the words of Jesus to the person of Jesus himself. Alright? And so what Paul's going to do is he's going to construct a new religion called Christianity by synchronizing, synthesizing the three major cultures of that time. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 6:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The Roman culture, the Greek culture, and the Jewish culture. Okay? So remember, the Jewish culture is the Bible. And what Paul tells us is that Jesus is the promised Messiah. At this time in history, the Bible was heavily influenced by the Persians, right? Remember, the Persians were monotheists. They believed in good and evil. The Asher and the Druze. Okay? And so the Bible began to reflect the Persian belief, especially in the idea of eschatology, the end of the world. And what Jews believed is they're not afraid of the Romans because eventually the Messiah will return, or sorry, not return, the Messiah will come to lead them to war against the Romans and because the Messiah is anointed by God, they will triumph. Okay? So the Jews are waiting for the Messiah of war in order for them to reclaim the Davidic kingdom. Okay? The kingdom of David. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 7:10 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: What Paul does that's very clever is that he uses this eschatology but he says that Jesus is not the Messiah of war. He's the Messiah of peace. Okay? And therefore, we Jews should not resist the Romans. Okay? So that's the first major culture that Paul uses. The second major culture that Paul uses is the Greek culture. So the Greeks have something called the mystery schools. And these are just cults. And it's important you know these mystery schools because they will become the basis of secret societies today. And in these mystery schools, there's lots of different ones, but Paul chooses a mystery school that worships Dionysus. Dionysus is the Greek god of creativity, wine. And the story of Dionysus is he is born of a virgin mother. His father is Zeus. And then Dionysus is killed by the enemies of Zeus. And Zeus finds him and resurrects him. Okay? It's important because this becomes the story of Jesus. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 8:36 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And how the people worship Dionysus is they have a ritual meal where they actually believe they're eating the body of Dionysus and they're absorbing his energy. And they're becoming one with Dionysus. They're coming communion with Dionysus. And the Christians have the same ritual. Okay? And this is what's called the Eucharist. Thanksgiving. Or communion. Okay? All Christians practice this today. Okay? So that's the second major culture. The third major culture that is the most important, of course, is the Roman culture. So the Roman social structure is called the paterfamilias. Okay? And how the system works is at the very top there's one patriarch. That's where we get the word patriarchy, right? And then he has lots of children, right? Sons. And also he has slaves as well. So it's a very top -down system, right? The patriarch is at the very top. In the system, the patriarch is always right. He is God. Here you have slaves. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 10:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Now what the patriarch will do is he will identify very promising slaves. Slaves with talent. He will turn them into clients. So clients are just business people. So he frees the slaves and they become his clients. So now they're able to conduct business on his behalf. And in this way, he will create a business empire. Okay? So this is the idea of the Roman Empire. So rather than just one system, the Roman Empire is actually a system, a platform where dozens of families control the empire together. And what happens is these families control a particular province. Okay? So it's more like a franchise model rather than a strict hierarchy. This is important because Paul will take the system and from the system, he will copy it to create the church. All right? So the church is exactly the same as a pattern of feminists where at the very top, you have a ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 11:13 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: person, a bishop, and then he might have some cardinals, but then everyone else is just followers, okay? Or disciples. So it mirrors the system. This is important because now what you can do is you can easily switch from the current system to the new system devised by Paul. Now, why would the Romans want to do this? Because if you think about it, this is the perfect solution to the problem with Jesus. As a patriarch, your main concern is getting your slaves to work hard, right? You want to suck the energy out of them. But now with Jesus, slaves are like, why should I work for you? Paul solves this problem by saying, oh, follow Jesus and you'll be saved, okay? So in this way, what happens is Paul's formulation of Jesus causes slaves to work even harder, right? Because the idea is before you have to work in order to stay alive. Now they work in order to go to heaven for all of eternity, right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 12:30 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So the deal now is work as a slave for a few decades, but then you can enjoy an eternity of joy in paradise. Pretty good deal, right? And so this causes the slaves to be more obedient and to work harder, okay? Also, what's more important is now the patriarch switches from a king to a god, right? His private wealth now becomes spiritual authority. Not only that, but because he has spiritual authority, he can expand more rapidly outwards, okay? So before to get slaves, you have to buy slaves. Now you just have to convert people into your religion. So it's a much faster way to create wealth. And this is important because what you learn next class is this is a system that the Romans will use to take over the barbarians, okay? So next class, you'll learn about the barbarian invasions, basically the Goths, ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 13:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: and how because of the system, they were now able to assimilate these barbarians into the culture and maintain a social hierarchy, okay? And so in other words, Jesus was talking to slaves, but Paul was talking to patriarchs. And so these patriarchs would convert, and when they convert, they took the entire system with them. That explains the rapid growth of Christianity, okay? Also what's important is the religion that the patriarchs practice is not the one that the slaves practice. The slaves practice Christianity. But the patriarchs practice the mystery cults, okay? Why? Because this is the way that the patriarchs work together. And this becomes a basis for secret societies. So while the ordinary person worships a new religion called Christianity, the patriarchs themselves, in secret, still practice their Greek mystery cults. And this is a system that we still have even today, right? Okay, so this system now is able to spread really quickly because as ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 14:59 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: you can see from the system, those who convert are more advantaged than those who do not convert. At this time in history, most do not convert, but those who convert are able to see more rapid wealth generation, they're able to see more power generation, and they're able to expand much faster. And so this is a secret of Christianity, okay? And that's my main argument to you today. Any questions before I go into the specifics? Is this clear to you guys? All right, let's do the PowerPoint, okay? Okay, today we do the rise of the Catholic Church. Okay, so again, what Paul's going to do is he's going to negate the power of Jesus. He's going to imprison, sorry, he's going to imprison the divine spark in the church. All right, so this is Paul. And there's a lot of mythology around Paul, how he was a martyr who went around the world in order to spread Christianity, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 16:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: We don't know if it's true or not. If you're Catholic, you believe it's true. The other thing about Paul that's really important is that if you read the New Testament, a third is either written by Paul or about Paul, okay? There's more about Paul in the New Testament than there is about Jesus. And that's why we say that Paul is a true founder of Christianity. Christianity is a religion about Jesus, but not by Jesus, it's by Paul. And what's really important for you to appreciate is, what Jesus taught and what Paul taught are very different. In fact, they're opposite. Jesus taught that the divine spark is within you, so if you want to save yourself, if you want to go to the kingdom, you must do so yourself. But Paul says, no, Jesus came to us in order to redeem us from our sins, the original sin of disobedience to God, way back in the Garden of Eden. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 17:06 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: If you believe in Jesus, you'll be saved. It doesn't matter what you do. You can do as much good as you want, but if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell, okay? That's why you must believe in Jesus. And that's also why we must get everyone to believe in Jesus. Because by getting everyone to believe in Jesus, we are literally saving them from eternal damnation. As you can see, this is a really good business model because now you can expand really quickly, okay? Second thing that Jesus taught is, he cannot save you. You can only save yourself. He can guide you. He can give you some poetry that you can decipher, but you must seek truth yourself. And what Paul taught is, don't think for yourself, just do what everyone else does. He believed the most important thing is for the church to be cohesive, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 18:06 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For everyone to obey the word of Jesus, which is really the word of Paul. And the third thing is, and this is really important, Jesus teaches us the rich cannot enter heaven. Why? Because to enter heaven, you must focus on your own spiritual rejuvenation. But the rich only care about the here and now. They only care about the material acquisition. And as such, they become blind to the spiritual needs. And so they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Remember, Jesus tells a story of how the God has prepared a great feast for us, but the rich won't go because they're too busy making money. Paul teaches us, no, no, no, guys. It's the rich which will lead us to the kingdom. Why? Because the rich can finance the spreading of Christianity. What matters is metrics that help us spread Christianity. How many souls are we saving by measuring how many people we're converting? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 19:09 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: How cohesive is our church? That's all Paul cares about. Paul is a business person. Jesus is a prophet, but Paul is a business person. And so it is Paul, really, that is the spiritual God of Christianity, not Jesus. Another thing that you need to appreciate is, at this time in history, maybe the year 40, 50, there are lots of different Christianities because Jesus taught us that the kingdom of heaven is within you, right? So it's all very diverse. It's all very democratic. And what's really important is, a lot of the early leaders are women, okay? People like Mary Magdalene. They tend to be wealthy and they tend to be very charismatic as well. But by the time you hit Paul Christianity, it's anti -woman, it's a strict hierarchy, and it's orthodoxy, okay? So in other words, you may have heard that early Christians were persecuted. Guess what, guys? They were being persecuted by Paul, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 20:19 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: They weren't being persecuted by the Romans, they were being persecuted by Paul. And at this time in history, the Catholic Church, okay, Paul in Christianity, it's only a very small minority. Because for most people, the Christianity of Jesus is much more appealing than the Christianity of Paul. Jesus taught freedom, empowerment, liberation. Paul taught obedience, discipline, sacrifice, okay? So Jesus is far more appealing, but because Paul is being supported by the Roman Empire, he wins, okay? What Paul will do is not only persecute other Christianities, but he will quickly spread his Christianity with the help of the Roman Empire. Alright, so as you can see, what's going to happen is, in the year 30, when Jesus dies, it's a very small group of people, but it spreads really quickly, okay? And Paul will build the foundations for this great empire that in about the year 300 reaches its peak, okay? In about the year 300, what will happen is, Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 21:32 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And this is the beginning of the Catholic Church. But it's Paul that built the foundation for this growth. Okay, so as you can see, Jesus, he's spreading his poetry, and it's because his poetry is easy to memorize, his poetry is spreading really quickly throughout the empire, okay? But what will happen is that once Paul builds the structure of Christianity, the church system, based on the paterfamilias system of the Romans, it will spread even quicker. And eventually, these two Christianities will come into conflict, and eventually Paul's system will win out until the end until it conquers the entire Roman Empire, okay? Alright, so scholars agree that Paul is the founder of Christianity. But there are three mysteries to Paul that scholars can't really answer, okay? The first question is, why would someone like Paul, who is a literate and wealthy, Hellenized Jew, why would he join a movement of illiterate Jewish peasants? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 22:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay? The scholars don't really have an answer for this. The second question is, we know that Paul was a fanatical Pharisee, okay? He was hunting Christians. But then he converts to become a fanatical follower of Jesus. Why would he do that? Okay? And the third mystery is, and this is the most important is, he spends his entire life promoting Christianity around the Roman Empire. Where did he get the money to do this? Because not only did he go, but he also had secretaries who went with him to take notes. Where does the money come from? Okay, so if you just do some basic game theory analysis, he's clearly a spy, okay? Clearly a spy. He's an agent of a power. The question for us though is, who is he working for? The easy answer seems to be the Roman Empire. But in fact, you could also make the argument that he's working for the Jewish leaders, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 23:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The Jewish priests as well, okay? So we'll go over this. All right. So what we're going to do is, we're going to read the Bible now, okay? Now, one thing about the Bible that is very confusing is the Bible says that the Jews killed Jesus. And as we discussed last class, the Jews would not kill Jesus for a variety of reasons, okay? But the main reason is Jews don't kill each other. I'm sorry. Jews do not turn each other over to the Roman authorities. If you commit blasphemy, if you insult their God, they kill you by stoning you, okay? They don't have a habit of turning people over to the Roman authorities. So we know the Romans killed him, and it's most likely the Romans killed him because Jesus was a threat to their social structure. But the Bible says that, nope, it was the Jews who killed Jesus. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 24:47 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So, Emma, could you read, please? Okay, so this is from John, the Gospel of John. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 24:53 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Then Pilate took Jesus... Pilate. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 24:55 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Pilate. Pontius Pilate is the Roman governor who orders Jesus' execution, okay? Yeah, Pontius Pilate. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 25:03 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews, and striking him on the face. Pilate went out again and said to them, Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I can find no case against him. Okay, so what's happening is ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 25:27 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Jesus is arrested by the Jewish priests, and they accuse him of blasphemy, of pretending to be God. And they bring him to Pontius Pilate, the governor, and says, You must execute this man because he has insulted our religion. And so Pontius Pilate interrogates Jesus, and he doesn't really think he did anything wrong, okay? But to appease the priest, he beats, he whips Jesus. And now he's like, You know what? I whipped this guy. I punished him. Now can you please go away? Okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 25:57 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Pilate went out again and said to them, Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I can find no case against him. So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, Here is the man. When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him. I find no case against him. The chief priests and the Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die because he had claimed to be the son of God. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 26:25 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so do you understand what's going on, okay? The Bible claims the Jews killed Jesus, all right? So this shows us that the Bible is not that reliable, all right? Okay, so let's go into the story of Paul. Alan, can you please? Okay, so let me give you the context, okay? This is from the Acts of the Apostles and it's mainly about Paul and how he became a follower of Jesus. And at this time, Paul is persecuting Christians. We don't know why he's persecuting Christians. We don't know what, why the Jews hate the Christians, but Paul is going around persecuting the Christians as a Pharisee. And then on the way to persecuting more Christians on the road to Damascus, a light seizes him and it's Jesus telling him, Paul, why are you persecuting me and my followers? And then that converts Paul. It makes no sense as a story, okay? But this is what Christians believe. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 27:27 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, can you read, Alan? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 27:29 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Meanwhile, Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogue. Synagogue. Synagons. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 27:41 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The synagogue is a place of worship for Diaspora Jews because Jews worship the temple, right? But the temple's in Jerusalem. So if you're outside Jerusalem, then you go to synagogue, right? Which is basically a Jewish church. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 27:56 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Synagons and Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he was going along and approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? He asked. Who are you, Lord? The reply came, I'm Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But get up and enter the city and you will be told what you are to do. The men who were traveling with him stood speechless because they heard the voice but saw no one. Saul got up from the ground and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. For three days he was without sight and neither ate nor drink. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 28:47 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So this is a miracle, right? This guy hated Christians and now because he was blinded, he loves Christians. What you will notice is this is very similar to Plato's allegory of the cave. Because remember, Paul is trained in Greek culture. So he knows about Plato and this is a model of the allegory of the cave where you're in darkness and suddenly you go out and you're blinded by the light and then you see the truth, okay? Another thing that's important is that clearly Jesus favors Paul. What's interesting is that if you read Paul's letters and we all read his letters, if you read Paul's story, he doesn't really talk about Jesus that much. He doesn't even quote Jesus, okay? So that's kind of weird if, you know, you're a follower of Jesus but you really don't quote Jesus and Jesus has a lot of quotations, you really don't talk about Jesus that much. And he doesn't really refer to the story that much in his letters. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 29:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The other thing that I will note is that if you read Jesus, okay, Jesus doesn't really talk about good and evil, doesn't really talk about the Bible, doesn't really talk about himself as a son of God, but Paul will talk about this a lot, okay? All right. So again, Paul's amazing because he'll go on three different voyages, missionary journeys around the Roman Empire in order to spread the gospel of Jesus. This is very, very hard work. It's also expensive work, okay? Because you can see how he's going from different cities, he's going to synagogues, and he's preaching the gospel, okay? What's important for us to understand is that as Paul is doing this, he's winning a lot of converts because he's, but he's coming in conflict with James the Just. Remember, James the Just is the brother of Jesus who inherits the movement. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 30:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: James the Just is in Jerusalem and Paul is going around and spreading the gospel of Jesus. And so James the Just hears about this and people are saying to him, Paul's saying Jesus is God. Is Jesus God? And James the Just is like, of course he's not God. He's my brother, man. And so there's all this conflict and eventually what will happen is it forces Paul to confront James the Just in Jerusalem. According to the Bible, the main conflict is one of, of ideology, okay? So the Bible says that James the Just and Paul both agreed that Jesus is God, the Son of God, who's come to our planet to redeem us. But James the Just believes what's important is to maintain the faith within the Jewish tradition. Whereas Paul wants to expand this tradition outside the Jewish tradition to encompass the Greeks as well and the Romans as well, okay? The Gentiles. And that's where the conflict arises. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 31:49 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And so the main point of conflict is one of circumcision. Remember, Jews circumcise themselves, but the Greeks and Romans do not circumcise themselves. This is important because in this time, most of these cities are Greek cities. Greek cities have a place called gymnasium where men go to play sports. But you play sports naked. So if you're a Jewish man, they know automatically you're Jewish. So circumcision is a huge point of division between the Gentiles and the Jews. And Paul's point is that if you want to convert, you don't have to circumcise. And so the Jews are complaining to James the Just and says, hey, Paul is subverting our tradition. He's saying that Jewish men, he's saying that Greek men can come and follow religion without being circumcised. And so there's a lot of conflict between James the Just and Paul. And so Paul actually goes to Jerusalem and he confronts James the Just and they come to an agreement with each other. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 32:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay? So when Paul goes to Jerusalem, people recognize him. And so a mob wants to kill him. Okay? Can you read, Amber? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 33:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=1981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Up to this point, they listened to him. But then they shouted, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for he shall not be allowed to live. And while they were shouting, throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust into the air, the tribune directed that he was to be brought into the barracks and ordered him to be examined by flogging to find out the reason for this outcry against him. But when they had tied him up with songs, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, Is it illegal for you to flog a Roman citizen who is uncondemned? When the centurion heard that, he went to the tribune and said to him, What are you about to do? This man is a Roman citizen. The tribune came to ask Paul, Tell me, are you a Roman citizen? And he said, Yes. The tribune answered, It cost me a large sum of money to get my citizenship. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 33:51 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Paul said, But I was born a citizen. Immediately those who were about to examine him drew back from him, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 34:02 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So certain things to notice about this writing. First of all, you can see it's very anti -Jewish. The Jews just want to kill Paul for no particular reason. Paul is speaking the truth and the Jews want to kill him. It's a Jewish mob. That's the first thing. Second thing is that it's very pro -Roman, right? It's the Roman soldier come and save Paul from the mob. And this story is very similar, in fact, to the story of Jesus. So Jesus was arrested and the mob wants to kill him, right? And the Romans want to save Jesus, but they cannot stop the mob. But Paul, it's the same situation with Paul, but what Paul says, he is a Roman citizen, okay? So that's what saves him. Rome saves Paul. God can't save Jesus, but Rome saves Paul, okay? So this is propaganda. And this propaganda written, of course, for Hamanized Jews like Paul who are waving between loyalty to Rome or loyalty to the Jewish tradition. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 35:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And what Paul says is, the solution is to become a Christian because now you can become both. You can now become like me, loyal to the Jewish tradition, but also loyal to Rome, okay? All right, Alan, can you read, please? When we came into Roman, Paul was allowed to... ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 35:26 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 35:27 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2127s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry. I need to set this up, okay? So the Romans say to Paul, why do the Jews want to kill you? And Paul says, because they think I'm insulting their religion. And Paul says, I'm a Roman citizen, so I want an audience with the emperor. Only the emperor can decide my fate. So the Romans sent him with a soldier escort back to Rome, okay? And this is how the Acts of the Apostles ends. Okay, can you read, Alan? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 35:55 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldiers who were guarding him. Three days later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of all ancestors, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. When they had examined me, the Romans wanted to release me because there were no reasons for the death penalty in my case. But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to the emperor, even though I had no charge to bring against my nation. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 36:35 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, this is really interesting, okay? This is changing the story. Before Paul said that he wants to return to Rome in order to face judgment from the emperor. And what Paul is saying now is, you Jews attacked me. And if I wanted to, I could complain to the emperor and bring charges against you Jews. Okay? So he's changing the story. He's showing how powerful he is. Okay, keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 37:02 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For this reason, therefore, I had asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain. Okay, so he's saying, listen, those guys in Jerusalem harass me. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 37:17 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And so I've come back to Rome and I want to speak to you Jewish leaders. And let's see if we can work together because you piss me off in Rome, I can unleash the empire on you. Okay, so he's now threatening these Jewish elders. Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 37:33 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: They replied, we have received no letter from Judah from about you. And none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken anything evil about you. But we would like to hear from you what you think. For with regard to this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 37:52 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2272s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2272s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so what they're saying is, it's all misunderstanding, Paul. We don't know what's going on. Why don't you tell us what's going on? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:00 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his longings in great numbers. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:06 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so basically, all the Jewish leaders have to come because they understand that Paul represents the empire. Okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:13 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: From morning until evening, he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:25 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So again, what Paul's saying is that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Bible. He's the fulfillment of prophecy. He is the Messiah. Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:33 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Some were convinced by what he had said, while others refused to believe. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so now some of these Jewish leaders are being converted by Paul. They are now moving towards the Christian faith. That's how powerful Paul is, okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 38:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So they disagree with each other, and as they were leaving, Paul made one further statement. The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestor through the prophet, Isaiah, go to this people and say, you will indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, and they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I will hear them. Let it be known to you that as salvation of God had been sent to the Gentiles, they will listen. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 39:34 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so he's saying, so he's convincing some Jewish leaders to convert, right? But not all convert, and so Paul gets pissed off and says, you Jews are so stubborn. You don't get it, man. Okay, but don't worry. If you don't get it, the Gentiles, the Greeks and Romans will get it. We will win eventually. Okay, keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 39:54 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 40:07 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so something I will point out is this. It looks like, Paul is an agent of Rome, okay? It looks like he represents the empire, but why would he write in such a way as to be so blatant? And so you can also argue that Paul could be a double agent, okay? He pretends to be an agent, a spy for Rome, but he's actually working for the Jewish leadership. Why would the Jewish leader support Paul? Because by spreading Christianity, he's spreading the Bible. And the Bible says that Jews are God's chosen people. So he's elevating the status of Jews in Rome, okay? So it's not as simple as it looks. From this, if you just read it, it seems like Paul is a spy for Rome. But if you think much more deeply about what he's doing, why would he be so blatant and tell people, ha, I represent the empire? Well, maybe because he's being a real, maybe because he's being a double agent, right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 41:07 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The thing that you have to remember with spies is they have no loyalties. They are double agents, they are triple agents, okay? They're always switching loyalties back and forth. Okay, so now what I want to do is I want to go into the actual thinking and writing of Paul. This is Romans, which is one of his major letters. And in these letters, what he's going to do is he's going to articulate to you this new philosophy of Christianity, okay? These letters become the basis for the Catholic Church, okay? So can you read, Amber, please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 42:00 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so stop. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 42:02 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So this is Paul. And what you can see is he's a master of rhetoric, okay? The Jews are very clear if you are Jewish, you must be circumcised because circumcision is the sign of a covenant between our people and God. If you're not circumcised, you're not Jewish. And what Paul says, no, what matters is your heart. What matters is your spirit. If you have faith in God, that's what matters, okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 42:30 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law. For a person is not a Jew, who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision is something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew, who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart. It is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God. Then what advantage has the Jews? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 42:59 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so do you guys understand this is rhetoric, right? This is sophistry. We're changing the definition of the word. We're changing the idea of the word. Circumcision is a covenant between the Jews and God. And what Paul says, what matters is not the physical act. What matters is the faith in God, okay? That's a covenant, right? And as such, you do not have to be circumcised, okay? Can you read, Alan? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 43:31 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed and is attested by the law and the prophets. The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe, for there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. They are now justified by His grace as a gift. So the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by His blood, effective through faith, He did this to show His righteousness because in His divine forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed. It was to prove at the present time that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies the one who has faith in Jesus. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 44:21 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so Jews believe what's important is to follow the laws, okay? To be circumcised, to rest on the Sabbath, to only marry within the tribe. And what Paul says is, what's important is your belief in Jesus, your belief that Jesus came in order to redeem us from our sins, the original sin, okay? That's what matters now. Before it was these laws, before it was these actions, and now what matters is what you truly believe, okay? It is only believing Jesus that can save you. You can do as many good works as you want, you can follow as many laws as you want, does that matter? The key is faith in Jesus, okay? Alright, okay. Okay, can you read? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 45:13 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving according to human inclinations? For when one says, I belong to Paul and another, I belong to Apollos, are you not merely human? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 45:44 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so what Paul is doing is he's going around and corrupting the teachings of Jesus. And other people are calling him out and saying, Paul, this is not what Jesus taught, okay? And so what Paul's saying is, guys, guys, we shouldn't argue, okay? Because who's right? Jesus is right, okay? It's not what you say, it's not what I say, it's what Jesus says. So this again is sophistry, it's rhetoric. He's positioning himself above the debate. Rather than engaging in debate directly and saying like, what did Jesus actually teach and what are the true teachings, Paul's saying what's important is to obey Jesus, okay? What's important is obedience, not debate. Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 46:23 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2783s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2783s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord has signed to each. I planted Apollos water, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. The one who plants and the one who waters have a common purpose, and each will receive wage according to the labor of each. For we are God's servants working together. You are God's field, God's building. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 46:50 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so Paul is evil, okay? Everyone's saying to Paul, Paul, you're corrupting the teachings of Jesus. And Paul's saying, no, what matters is we spread the message of Jesus. And everyone's saying, but what's the message of Jesus? Paul's saying, it doesn't matter. What matters is the growth of Jesus. Okay, this is sophistry. I'm going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 47:11 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Each builder must choose with care how to build on it. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid. That foundation is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, the work of each builder will become visible. For the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed to the world. The day will be filled with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done. If what has been built onto the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward. If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss. The builder would be saved, but only as through fire. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 47:54 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so what Paul's saying is this. We're all going to work together to spread the message of Jesus. You may believe Jesus says one thing, I believe another thing, but let's not argue, okay? Let's just keep on spreading the word of Jesus, and we'll see which person has the biggest church, and we'll know who's right, okay? So he's using the metric of business success, of wealth, of material acquisition to justify his faith in Jesus, okay? And this is the opposite of what Jesus taught. And some people are saying, Paul, this is not what Jesus taught us. Paul's like, no, no, no, we're going to see who wins out in the end, okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 48:29 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Do not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person. For God's temple is holy, and you are the temple. Do not deceive yourself. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools, so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written. He catches the wise in their craftiness, and again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile. So let no one boast about human leaders, for all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world of life or death or the present or the future, all belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 49:17 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So he's very clever, right? He's saying, yes, Jesus taught us that God's spirit dwells in you. What this means isn't that you have free will. What it means is you don't have free will because you must do the work of God, which is to spread the message of God, which is to extend the power of God in this world. Okay? So you see how this is sophistry, right? He's tricking people. He's deceiving people. Jesus taught you the light is within you, and therefore you know God. You just trust yourself, and that's good. And then what Paul says, no, you are a tool of God. Okay, keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 49:55 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=2995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. But with me, it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. I do not even judge myself. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 50:10 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, okay. All right. So let's keep on going. Allen, can you read, please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 50:16 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: When you are a slave when caught, do not be concerned about it. Even if you can gain your freedom, make use of your present condition now more than ever. For whoever was caught in the Lord as a slave is a free person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was freed when caught is a slave of Christ. You were bought with a price. Do not become slave of human masters. In whatever condition you were caught, brothers and sisters, there remain with God. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 50:45 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-obedience-renamed-freedom) Text: Okay, so Paul's being very clever again, okay? Because this message is appealing to slaves. Jesus taught the slaves, you're free. And the slaves say to Paul, we're free, right? And Paul says, you are free, but you are a slave to God. Do you understand? Okay? Therefore, no human can be a master of you because you're all slaves to God. He's confusing people, okay? Can you keep on reading? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 51:10 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I become as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law, I become as one under the law, under the law. Though I myself, I'm not under the law, so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law, I became as one outside the law, though I am not free from God's law, but I'm under Christ's law, so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak, I become weak, so that I might win the weak. I become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessing. Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 52:05 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3125s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Run in such a way that you may win it. Athletes exercise self -control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wealth, but we an imperishable one, so I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air. But I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others, I myself should not be disqualified. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 52:34 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So it's almost like a pep rally, right? He's a business person. He's telling his workers, go out and sell those damn hamburgers, man. I don't care what you do. I don't care how many lies you tell. Go sell those hamburgers. Pretend they're healthy. Pretend you love hamburgers. Just pretend. What matters is you go sell those hamburgers. And guess what, man? Whoever sells the most hamburgers gets a car. Okay? But this is better than a car because the reward is heaven. Eternal paradise, guys. So go out and sell those hamburgers. All right? All right. Can you read the highlighted part, Amber? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 53:21 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Now in the following instructions, I do not commend you, because when you come together, it is not for the better but for the worse. For to begin with, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. Indeed, there have to be factions among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine. When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord's supper. For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk. What? Do you not have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you show contempt for the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I commend you? In this matter, I do not commend you. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 54:13 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so what he's saying is this. When you come to a church, it's very important that you obey the ritual. Okay? The ritual is communion, the Eucharist. And we must remember this is a ritual where you must follow the exact protocols. If you do not, then there's no point in coming to church. So the church is not a place to discuss Jesus, not to debate Jesus, but to worship Jesus. Okay, keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 54:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you. And the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Whoever therefore eats the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves and only then eat the bread and drink it. For all who eat and drink without discerning the body eat and drink judgment against themselves. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 55:36 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For this reason, many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judge ourselves, we will not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. And when you come together to eat, if you are hungry, eat at home, so that when you come together, it will not be for your condemnation. About the other things, I will give instruction when I come. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 56:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-obedience-renamed-freedom) Text: Okay, so this is a really important ritual. It's the most important ritual in Christianity called the Eucharist, Thanksgiving, okay? And in this, it's basically, they eat some bread and they drink some wine and they believe it is the flesh and blood of Jesus. So Jesus is entering them, okay? And as you can imagine, what they're doing really is negating the divine spark in you. Divine spark is free. It's individual. It's independent. When you partake in the body of Jesus, you become one with everyone else, okay? That negates your individuality. That negates the spark within you and you become just the church itself, okay? And that's the idea of the Eucharist, to destroy your individuality, all right? And so when Christians do this, they literally believe the bread they're eating is the flesh. It is the body of Christ, of Jesus. So Jesus is entering into you and taking you over, okay? It's possession by Jesus. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 57:05 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yes? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 57:06 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Can we see this as a way that they abuse or exploit Jesus because they're just eating their body, although the body of Jesus is hollow? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 57:15 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: No, no. The idea here is that Jesus is your master, okay? And when you partake in Jesus, you become a part of Jesus. And therefore, you must obey exactly what he wants, okay? All right, so this is confusing because it's cannibalism, okay? But as I told you before, this is actually a very common thing among the Greek mystery cults where they come together and they believe that when they eat food, they're actually eating the body of Dionysus. And Dionysus, his energy is being consumed into you, okay? What's important for us to appreciate is like these mystery cults are demonic, okay? So what else they do is they will have ritual sacrifices where they will tear people apart and consume the flesh, okay? So this is from a painting from the Euboides play describing one of these mystery cults, okay? So they will actually tear a person's body apart to replicate the death of Dionysus and they consume the body part, all right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 58:24 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And guess what, guys? The secret society still do this today, okay? So, but what's important to understand is this actually has a long tradition. So if you go back to 15,000 years to Europe in the Magdalenian age, cannibalism was actually very common. It was common for religious purposes. So maybe there's someone that you love and he died. What you would do is you consume his body when he died in order to remember him forever, okay? So that you would have an eternal communion with him. Because his soul would go into the spirit world but if you had his body, right? He would always communicate with you. And that's the idea of commemorating Jesus like in such a way. When you consume Jesus, Jesus is always with you. He is now taking possession over your body. You are now just a body for Jesus, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 59:15 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Does that make sense? You've lost your individuality. You've lost your freedom. You are now completely possessed by Jesus when you are, when you engage in the Eucharist, okay? Yes? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 59:29 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So during that time, nobody found that like this is disobeying the original belief of Jesus? Like Paul is just using all peoples to obey? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 59:42 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yeah, that's a really good question, okay? Most people at this time think Paul is just evil, okay? It's like this is not what Jesus taught us. Jesus taught us to believe in ourselves. Jesus would never teach us this demonic thing of sacrifice, okay? Jesus came to teach us like, I don't sacrifice. Human sacrifice, it's all evil, okay? He got rid of that. But again, so at this time in history, Paul's church, Paul's followers are only limited amount, okay? Very few people. But he doesn't care because he's building the, found the blueprint for an empire. Does that make sense, okay? So the Romans forced this religion on everyone. Now everyone has to obey this. You understand? If you actually from first principles try to convince people the Catholic church is right, you can't really convince that many people. But guess what, guys? Doesn't matter because most people are born into the Catholic church. So they are born believing this stuff, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:00:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So they can't really think for themselves. All right. But also remember, Catholicism is very common throughout history. So these are the Aztecs who will engage in Catholicism in order to prepare for war, in order to sacrifice others for the gods, okay? Again, this is the Magdalenean culture. And we found lots of places where they engage in Catholicism during funerals, okay? And as you can see, it's very common. It's very common throughout the world at this time. And it makes sense if you think about it, right? If this person is someone you love and he was very special to you and you want him to still help you in life, to guide you in life, then you consume his body, a part of his body, then he'll stay with you forever, okay? And this is a way to build group cohesion in this time. Remember, this is the Ice Age. So it's very hard to survive. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:01:40 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: But of course, not everyone practices this as well, okay? The red are those who practice cannibalism during funerals. The blue are just those who just bury the body and don't practice cannibalism. So what you're not taught is, among the elite, this sort of stuff goes on a lot. So this is 19th century in Victorian Britain. And this is, you know, the British Empire. And guess what, guys? What they like to do is, they like to steal mummies from Egypt and eat these mummies because they believe that these mummies had some magic qualities, okay? So this goes back to the 19th century. And you think to yourself, oh, you know what? In the 12th century, we are so much more advanced. We don't do this crap anymore, right? Unfortunately, this is Albert Einstein's brain. Albert Einstein, before he died, said, please, please, whatever you do, do not dissect my brain, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:02:41 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: I know you think I'm the greatest genius in the world and you want to know how my brain works, but I'm telling you right now, my brain is no different from your brain. Please, whatever you do, do not dissect my brain. So of course, a doctor steals his brain and cuts it into different pieces, okay? Now, let me ask you this question. Let's just say this doctor were to take this brain, and make some medicine out of it, okay? If he takes his brain, he cuts it up into like a hundred different parts. And then he takes this medicine and he sells it to rich people for a million dollars. Could he find a hundred rich people who would pay a million dollars to eat everything in his brain? Yes, okay? So as I keep on telling you, the rich are insane, all right? My wife tells me that when I die, it's possible they might want to dissect my brain as well. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:03:26 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So please don't do so, okay? Because my brain is no different from anyone else's brain, okay? You won't find the secret of my creativity with my brain, all right? All right, so, yup. Allen, can you read, please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:03:44 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the food would say, because I am not a band, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the air would say, because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the pairing be? If the whole body were pairing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranging the member of the body, each one of them, as He choose, if all were a single members, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor against the head to the feet, I have no need of you. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:04:44 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3884s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3884s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: On the contrary, the members of the body that seems to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable, we close with greater honor. And our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it. If one member is honored, all rejoice together with it. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:05:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3939s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-obedience-renamed-freedom) Text: Okay, so what he's saying is this, when you consume the body of Christ, you've all consumed a part of Him, right? And so we need to come together as a people, as a church, to form the whole body of Jesus. And that means that you must do what others tell you to do, okay? This requires complete obedience if we are to resurrect Jesus, in our church. Does that make sense, guys? Okay, keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:06:03 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3963s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=3963s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Now you are the body of Christ and individually member of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, form of assistance, form of leadership, various kind of tongues. Are all... Are all... Apostles? Apostles? Are all prophets? Are all... Are all teachers? Do you all work miracles? Do you all possess gifts of healing? Do you all speak in tongues? Do you all interpret? But strive for the greater gifts, as I will show you a still more excellent way. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:06:45 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4005s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4005s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so do you understand what's going on, okay? No matter who you are, no matter what you do, what's important is your sacrifice to Jesus, to obey Him completely, okay? So this is all ordained by Jesus. All right. Amar, can you read the yellow, please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:07:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not envious, rebustful, arrogant, or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not... ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:07:10 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4030s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4030s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Irritable. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:07:11 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Irritable and resentful. It does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoice in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endears all things. Love never ends, but as for prophecies, they will come to an end. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we all know only in part, and we prophesy only in part, but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part. Then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, and the greatest of these is love. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:08:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:08:02 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-obedience-renamed-freedom) Text: Okay, so you understand. Paul does sophistry. So you think the word is love. Great, love! We love Jesus. The word actually means obedience, right? If you join a church, what is required for you is complete obedience to Jesus. So understand that you are now a slave to Jesus. Remember, when we commit the original sin, when we did evil, we became slaves to the devil. When Jesus killed us, it's because he, sorry, when Jesus died, it was to ransom us from the devil. So now we are slaves to Jesus. And therefore we must obey him completely. Okay? No argument, no opinion, no individuality, just complete obedience to Jesus. So you can see the power of this, right? He changes, he switches these words. He's saying that slavery is now love. Okay? When a human master enslaves you, that's evil. When Jesus enslaves you, it's good because now it's love. It's because Jesus loves you. That's why he enslaves you. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:09:02 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: But now because he loves you, you must obey him completely. And that means never ever question the authority of the church. Never ever do that because that's evil. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:09:12 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:09:15 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: All right. Can you read it, Alan? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:09:19 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: What I'm saying, brothers and sisters, is this, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does a perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I will tell you a mystery. We will not all die, but we will all be changed. In the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet went sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishably, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled. Death has been swallowed up in victory, where, O death, is your victory, where, O death, is your sting. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:10:32 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: my beloved, be steadfast and movable, always excelling in the works of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:10:44 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so this is why you must obey Him completely, because now you are guaranteed access to heaven, eternal paradise, okay? Pretty good deal, right? Be a slave for 40 years, 50 years, be the best hard worker, be a hardworking slave for the next 40, 50 years, and then you have eternal paradise, because that is Jesus' promise to you, okay? The defeat of death. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:11:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: I think according to the original belief of Jesus, which Jesus led us to pursue our divine spark, right? That's the real way to heaven, but doing this, I think, like, after people die, they will find out that they cannot really go to heaven, because they are slaves. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:11:24 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4284s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4284s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yeah, no one cares, right? It doesn't matter, because you're dead, right? Because the entire point of the system is to extract as much energy out of you as possible while you're alive, right? Because Paul's real customers are the patriarchs. It's the patriarchs who are paying for this, and the patriarchs who will force their slaves to convert to this religion, okay? So maybe the slaves don't buy this, but their children will, because their children will be brainwashed into this, okay? And this explains why the Catholic Church is the most powerful organization today. So now that we've gone into how he actually thinks, let's go over to his psychology, okay? So what motivated Paul to do what he did? Because he worked really hard. And so there are three possible explanations. The first explanation is he was a Roman agent, and his mission was to destroy Mesonic Judaism from within. What we'll learn next class is that Judaism is a huge problem for the Romans. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:12:28 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And so while the Jews are printing, waiting for a Messiah of war, Paul says, no, no, Jesus was a Messiah of peace, okay? So he's trying to subvert the Jews from within. But you could also argue that Paul was actually a Jewish spy who was trying to subvert the Roman Empire by spreading the Jewish faith, okay? You could also argue that. I would argue it's both. Both are true, right? So I think that what really happened is Paul had a Mesonic calling to create his own religious empire, okay? He wanted to become God himself. So there's a famous joke. The joke goes like this. God and Satan are having an argument. God says, my people, the humans, have found religion. Therefore, you've lost. And Satan says, well, I'll just organize it, okay? I'll create churches out of it. And that's what Paul did. Jesus came to tell ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:13:18 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: us the truth, and Paul says, I'll use this truth, and I'll make an empire out of it, okay? All right, so there's an analogy here. His name is Ray Kroc, and he created the McDonald's. Okay? How did he do so? He took an idea, McDonald's, and he went around America, and he created McDonald's, okay? So McDonald's is like the church. If you go to McDonald's anywhere in the world, it's almost the same building, same menu, okay? So it follows a very similar pattern to Paul's building of the church. Paul was able to succeed because he spread a religion. Ray Kroc succeeded because he also spread a religion as well, all right? So what he did was not convince people to eat hamburgers. He didn't need to do that. What he needed to do was convince small business owners to invest in McDonald's, to buy the franchise on McDonald's by spreading the idea of the gospel of wealth. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:14:25 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: If you invest in me, if you open a McDonald's, you'll become wealthy, and that is paradise. Okay? So basically, Ray Kroc and Paul were doing the same thing. All right. So Paul has this business idea. Let's just take Jesus and turn him into an empire. And so he's gonna make different sales pitches to different people, okay? So we're gonna imagine, okay, and this is a thought experiment. It didn't really happen. We're gonna imagine Paul making a pitch to the Roman patriarchs, right? He's saying, why should you invest in me? Because one, we will cause debate and division within the Jewish diaspora, okay? So some will convert, but some will not. But who cares? Because now they're fighting each other and not fighting us. That's number one. Number two is, we will make their Messiah of war into Messiah of peace, okay? And that will weaken their resolve. And the third is, we can now spiritually enslave the people, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:15:21 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And they'll work harder for us. So that's a sales pitch of Paul to the Romans. But there's also a sales pitch he can make to the Jewish leaders as well. Let us spread our faith to the Gentiles and elevate our status as a chosen people, okay? Let us make our Torah and Jerusalem divine in the eyes of the world. And guess what? It worked, right? Even today, everyone thinks that Jerusalem is the holy city in the world. Let us make ourselves the servants of the empire and ally with the Roman patriarchs so that we can subvert them from within. All right? And it worked. Now, not all Jews did this, but a lot did follow Paul into Christianity. Christianity is a platform for the Jews and the Romans to work together. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:16:07 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: All right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:16:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: But now, Paul is going to make a sales pitch to the Greeks and the Jews, okay? And this is what he says. A few decades of obedience for a turning of Jordan's paradise, right? That's number one. Number two is, it's true to join. You don't have to get circumcised, okay? And the third is, Jesus will return any day now, so hurry up before it's too late. Guys, 50 % off today! All right? Do it now! 50 % off! All right? That's literally his message, all right? And that's why he's so successful. 50 % off! All right. So, what... This is Augustine, okay? And this is after the Catholic Church becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. And what Augustine will do is, he will write a book called City of God, and he will put the Catholic Church above Rome, okay? Because Rome is just a temporal, earthly city, but Jerusalem is a divine city. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:17:01 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And he's saying, the Catholic Church is now Jerusalem. We don't need the Roman Empire anymore because now we have the Catholic Church, okay? The Catholic Church is a community of believers. As long as you believe in Jesus, you'll be saved. So, obviously, it's going to take Paul's ideas and systemize it to create the Catholic Church, okay? So, Emma, can you read, please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:17:21 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: It was in secret that the first human beings began to be evil, and the result was that they slipped into open disobedience. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:17:27 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so this is really important. Jesus said there's a divine spark in us, right? In other sense, yes, there's a divine spark, but it's from Satan, guys! It's not from God, it's from Satan! That's why we cannot trust the divine spark. Because we're evil. Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:17:44 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: For they would not have arrived at the evil act if an evil would have not preceded it. Now, could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? For pride is the start of every kind of sin. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:17:55 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So, you know, Jesus says to follow your own heart, right? And Augustine says, no, no, no. That leads to pride. And pride is evil. Pride means you want to be better than God. Pride means you want to kill God. Therefore, it is inherently evil. Therefore, the heart inside you comes from Satan. Okay? Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:18:18 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And what is pride except a longing for a preserved kind of exaltation? Exaltation. For it is a preserved kind of exaltation to abandon the basis on which the mind should be firmly fixed and to become, as it were, based on oneself and so remain. This happens when a man is too pleased with himself, and a man is self -complacent when he deserts that changeless good in which, rather than himself, he ought to have found his satisfaction. This desertion is voluntary, for if the will had remained unshaken in its love of the higher changeless good, which shed on it light to see and kindled in it fire to love, it would not have been diverted from this love to follow its own pleasure. And the will would not have been so darkened and chilled and consequent as to let the woman believe that the serpent had spoken the truth, and the man to put his wife's ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:19:14 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: will above God's commandment, and to suppose that his was of venial transgression when he refused to desert his life's companion, even though the refusal entailed companionship is in sin. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:19:30 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4770s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4770s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so we are, we exist to obey God. Alright? Jesus taught us that we exist in order to be creative, in order to seek truth for ourselves. But Augustine Paul teaches us that we exist in order to obey God. Why? Because we cannot trust ourselves. Okay? Yeah? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:19:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: I have a question. So, does that mean the believers of the Catholic Church should not take pride in their identity as a part of the, like, a part of the Church? Or does that also mean that they cannot be, well, in a way, they can't find satisfaction in partaking in the great mission of the Catholic Church? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:20:11 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so the Catholic Church has certain teachings, okay? The first teaching is the idea of original sin, which is we are born evil, and it is Christ that redeems us. That's number one. Number two is we cannot think for ourselves because we will be led astray by the devil. We must listen to the priest. We should not read the Bible for ourselves because we'll get confused by it. Okay? Alright? And that's what leads to the Protestant Reformation. Okay, so, what does that mean? And the priests are the representatives of God on earth. The Pope has supreme authority. Okay? Yes? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:20:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So if the Pope tells you to take pride in being a part of the Church, you can't be, like, you are allowed? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:20:55 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0133](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0133) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4855s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4855s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0133` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: The Pope is the Word of God. Whatever the Pope says is the Word of God. Okay? Okay, it's that simple. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:05 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0134](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0134) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0134` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So, I have a question. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:07 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0135](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0135) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0135` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yeah, go ahead. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:08 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0136](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0136) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0136` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Like, if we really, like, try to pursue the original Jesus to believe that is to pursue our divine spark, but pride is a thing that we cannot avoid, right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:22 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0137](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0137) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0137` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yeah, so you will make mistakes. Right? Yeah. So Jesus says it's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to screw up. You'll be forgiven. Whereas the Catholic Church says it's not okay to screw up. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:33 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0138](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0138) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4893s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4893s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0138` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Oh. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:34 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0139](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0139) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0139` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yeah, do you understand? Alright. Okay, can you read out there? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:39 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0140](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0140) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0140` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Thus the evil act, the transgression of eating the forbidden fruit, was committed only when those who did it were already evil. That bad fruit could only have come from a bad tree. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:51 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0141](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0141) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0141` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so we're born evil, okay? It's that simple. Keep on going. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:21:53 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0142](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0142) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0142` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Further, the badness of the tree came about contrary to nature, because without the fault in the will, which is against nature, it certainly could not have happened. But only a nature created out of nothing could have been destroyed by a fault. Consequently, although the will drives its existence as nature from its creation by God, its failing away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:22:20 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0143](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0143) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0143` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay, so why are we evil? Why can't we trust ourselves? Why can we be easily swayed by Satan? The reason why is the Bible tells us that we are created out of dust. We're created out of nothing, okay? In other words, we are a failed science experiment. Okay? That's why we suck. That's why we must believe in God. We must believe in the church. All right? So this is the Augustine. All right, can you read? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:22:47 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0144](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0144) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=4967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0144` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yet man did not fall away to the extent of losing all being. But when he had turned towards himself, his being was less real than when he adhered to him who exists in a supreme degree. And so to abandon God and to exist in oneself, that is to please oneself, is not immediately to lose all being, but it is to come near to nothingness. That is why the proud are given another name, in holy scripture. They are called self -pleasers. Now it is good to lift up your heart and to exalt your thoughts, yet not in the self -worship of pride, but in the worship of God. This is a sign of obedience, and obedience can belong only to the humble. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:26 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0145](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0145) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0145` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So you must obey the church completely. Okay? Because the divine spark in you, it's out of nothingness. It can only lead you to evil. Okay? So the only way, the only solution now is to obey the church completely. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:38 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0146](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0146) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5018s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5018s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0146` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And I think that kind of answered my question. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:41 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0147](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0147) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0147` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Yep. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:43 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0148](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0148) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5023s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5023s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0148` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So like for, because I think I believe in the original. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0149](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0149) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0149` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: No, no. It doesn't matter what you believe. I don't care what you believe. I only care about what the Catholic church is teaching you. Okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:53 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0150](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0150) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5033s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5033s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0150` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Can we also see? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:23:54 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0151](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0151) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0151` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: We're not having an argument about who's right, who's wrong. I don't want that. Okay? I want you to understand what the Catholic church is teaching you. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:24:00 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0152](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0152) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0152` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Like can we also see the, like people eat the fruit from that tree also as a mistake that we can, just like the original, Jesus believed that we can be forgiven? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:24:15 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0153](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0153) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0153` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Jesus thought that what Eve did was correct. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:24:18 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0154](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0154) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0154` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Oh. All right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:24:19 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0155](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0155) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5059s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0155` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Okay? All right. So Alan, can you read please? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:24:24 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0156](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0156) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0156` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: This is why humility, humility is highly prized in the city of God and especially enjoyed on the city of God during the time of its pilgrimage in this world. And it receives particular emphasis in the character of Christ, the king of the city. We are also taught by the sacred scriptures that the thought of exaltation, the contrary of humility, exercise supreme dominion in Christ's adversary. The devil, this is assuredly the greatest difference that thunders the two cities in which we are speaking. The one is a community of devout men, the other a company of the irreligious and the other, and each has its own angels attached to it. In one city, love of God has been given first place, in the other, love of self. Okay. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:25:19 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0157](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0157) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0157` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So it's that simple, okay? If you obey, you are doing the work of God. If you disobey, you're doing the work of the devil. It's that simple, okay? All right. Can you keep on reading? And this will end the, yeah. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:25:31 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0158](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0158) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0158` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: In the heavenly city then, there will be freedom of will. It will be one and the same freedom in all. And in this, in the visible and the separate individuals, it will be freed from all evil and filled with all good, enjoying unfailingly the delight of internal joys, forgetting all offenses, forgetting all punishment. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:25:53 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0159](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0159) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0159` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-obedience-renamed-freedom) Text: So when we have freedom, okay? We're slaves now, but when will we have freedom? When we have, when we're with God, because only when we're with God can we know what is good, okay? And then we have complete freedom. But what he means by freedom, of course, is complete obedience. Now we won't even think about disobeying God, okay? That's what freedom is. All right. So the Catholic Church grows, the Roman Empire makes it the official religion because it does three things, okay? And we discussed this. The first is that now you're better to exploit your slaves. They're now more hardworking because before, if they were lazy, they might get whipped, right? But they're lazy now, they will burn in hell for all of eternity. That's number one. Number two is, this is really important. You have all this gold, right? The problem with all this gold is people can steal it. People can kill you for it, right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:26:50 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0160](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0160) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0160` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: But now you have spiritual authority. Now you represent God. Now you're head of a church, right? And therefore, people can't kill you because if they kill you, God will come and kill them, okay? It's a pretty good deal, right? Before you were a king, but now you're a God. What a great deal. And the last thing, of course, is now what you can do is you can now expand and expand and expand your empire, okay? So let me explain why this is relevant today, okay? Because now that the Catholic Church is around, these dynasties of Rome can continue on to today through the Catholic Church, right? Does that make sense to you guys? Because now they can store their power in the Catholic Church. If you put your gold in the Catholic Church, no one's going to come and steal it, right? Because they don't want to incur the wrath of God. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:27:49 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0161](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0161) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0161` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: That's why the Catholic Church will give rise to some people called the Black Nobility, okay? These are 13 families from Rome that still run the world today, okay? We'll discuss this later on, all right? We'll discuss how the Catholic Church and the Black Nobility work together. Second thing you need to understand is what allowed the Catholic Church to dominate is this alliance between the Black Nobility and Jews. Guess what, guys? It still happens today, okay? And the third thing is what allows for the system to work are the secret societies where, through rituals, these powerful people are bound together, okay? And so these three ideas, the Black Nobility, the alliance between Black Nobility and the Jews, and the third, the secret societies, is the power structure we have today, all right? That's the power of the Catholic Church. That is the genius of Paul, to create a system that continues even today because it is so powerful and so strategic, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:28:54 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0162](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0162) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0162` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right, and we'll discuss this later on as well, but I present the idea to you today. All right, some questions, okay. My wife sends me more questions, okay? This person wants to know what's the difference between the Catholic Church, the Protestants, and the Eastern Orthodox? So the Eastern Orthodox is the Church of Augustine. It didn't really change. The Protestants are those who rebel against the teachings of Paul and Augustine, and the Catholic Church is sort of in between, okay? But we'll discuss this more as we go along. All right, the Greek mystery schools, are they still around today? And the answer is yes, of course, they're still around today because they allowed the elite to work together, okay? They allowed the elite to trust each other, okay? And again, they come from the Greek mystery schools. All right, psychopaths, what do we do with these people, right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:29:57 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0163](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0163) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0163` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: You have these psychopaths who run the world. They don't feel regret. They don't forgive each other. So how do we perceive these people, okay? And there are different solutions. The first solution is to appreciate the idea of karma. So yes, they are powerful in this lifetime, but in the next lifetime, they become slaves. So they can feel for themselves the evil that they've done onto other people, okay? Another idea is in the world of today, psychopaths will always war. Only evil will war because that's just the structure of this universe. In this universe that we live in, the devil is always king, okay? And there's no way around it. So we're here not to fight these people. We're here to learn wisdom in a world of evil. So don't worry about them. Just worry about yourself, okay? And the third thing to think about is if you really understood how these people lived their lives, you would feel sorry for them, all right? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:31:03 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0164](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0164) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0164` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: So remember the Iliad where Achilles triumphs over Hector, but rather than feeling joy and happiness, he feels only sadness, and he can't even cry, okay? He becomes a zombie. And you can make the argument that the wealthy people are like that today. Yeah, they look like as though they're happy. They have billions of dollars, but they're not happy, okay? If you actually lived their lives, if you see the world through their eyes, you would see that they're very unhappy people. So don't hate them. Feel pity for them, okay? So there are different ways of understanding this. All right. Okay, this is a great question. Okay, I love this question. If the Romans are the ones who killed Jesus, why don't the Jews don't speak up? Why don't the Jews say, we didn't do it, man? Okay, so this is really complicated. But the simple answer is there's an agreement between the Catholic Church and the Jews, okay? ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:31:59 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0165](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0165) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0165` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: And the agreement is this. The Catholic Church needed scapegoats, needed people for other people to hate, okay? And the Jews agreed in order to practice their religion. Does that make sense? All right, I know this sounds terrible, but the only way for the Jews to survive as a people is if they agree to be scapegoats for Christians. All right? And we'll discuss this later on. And that's why if you look at Europe for the past 2,000 years, what the Christians did to the Jews was just horrific, okay? And the Jews could not speak up because if they did, the Catholic Church might get rid of them, okay? This person says, James the Just, Jesus' brother, he was killed by the Jews, right? No, no, no. Ask yourself this question. Who is most threatened by James the Just? The answer, of course, is Paul. ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:32:51 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0166](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0166) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0166` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: It was Paul who had him killed, okay? In 70, the Romans destroyed the temple. And that time would have been the perfect time to kill James the Just. James the Just was probably protected by the Jews, okay? But Paul saw him as a threat because as long as James the Just was alive, he's ultimately a thorn in Jesus', right? Paul could not steal the legacy. The legacy from James the Just. Therefore, he had to get this guy killed, okay? Does that make sense? All right. How do you know if you see the truth and reject the lie? The answer is really simple, guys. How do you know if you love someone? You just do, guys. Okay, I'm sorry. If you don't know you love someone, you probably don't love that person, all right? When you love someone, your heart glows. You feel stronger. You are more energetic, all right? If you are in ## Paul Turns the Divine Spark Into an Empire -- 1:33:48 - Source title: Secret History #23: The Organization of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-12-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0167](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu/transcript/#seg-0167) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGAc_OqCbU&t=5628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu@transcript:v1#seg-0167` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6xgac-oqcbu.json) Text: a relationship, but you become weaker, you feel tired, you lose hope, you probably don't love that person. That person probably doesn't love you, okay? It's that simple, guys. How do you know you love? You just do. How do you know you see the truth? You just do, all right? You cannot trust a human. The Bible clearly states the one who brings evil to this world stands above all humankind. Therefore, you will find the truth. No, no, no. This is what Paul says. This is what Augustine says. You do know. You know in your heart, okay? All right, that's it. Any questions, guys, before we conclude? Okay, great. So, we'll continue this next class, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Today we discuss the most famous person who has ever lived. There are about 2 billion people in the world today who believe that Jesus is God. And so the question then is, there have been many famous individuals in history. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Socrates, Zoroastria, Homer. But it is Jesus that most people worship. And the question we will look at today is, why? So what I want to do first is discuss the religion of Christianity. And as you know, I grew up in Canada and I studied in the United States. And so my entire life, Jesus was part of the culture. He was part of society. And growing up in Canada, not being Christian, I really didn't understand Christianity. I really didn't understand the ideas. So let's go over some of the major ideas of Christianity. First of all, it's important to remember that there are many denominations in Christianity. So there's a lot of disagreements, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:23 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=83s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=83s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: But these are the major ideas that most Christians agree on. First thing is that Jesus is God. He is the son of God and God himself, okay? And he's king, okay? This already is very confusing. Second thing is they believe that Jesus died for our sins. So remember that we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden because we disobeyed God and we ate from the tree of knowledge, okay? So Jesus died for our sins, and so Jesus redeemed us, okay? The third thing that they believe is that eventually Jesus will return, something called the second coming. He died, then he was resurrected, then went to heaven, but eventually he will return. And this will result in the last judgment, in which all individuals are redeemed. They are judged whether they will reign in heaven or burn in hell, okay? He will bring heaven to earth. And this is where Christianity is most controversial. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 2:52 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: What this says is that if you believe in Jesus, if you're a Christian, you will go to heaven. But if you do not believe in Jesus, you will burn in hell. And this goes again. This goes against all other religious traditions. Every religious tradition is basically like, be a good person, and that's all you have to do. But Christianity demands that you must believe in Jesus or you will burn in hell, okay? So in other words, Christianity is a missionary religion in which if you're a Christian, not only do you must believe in Jesus, but you must go out and try to convert other people. Because if they don't convert to Christianity, during the last judgment, they will burn in hell. And that is why Christianity is one of the most aggressive religions that we have today. So this is all very strange, and there are a lot of questions in Christianity. And that's why Christianity also proposes the idea of miracles, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 4:06 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: How did Jesus die for our sins? Why is there such a thing coming? It's all a miracle, okay? Meaning don't question it, just believe in it, all right? So Christianity is a very problematic religion. It raises a lot of questions, okay? So then the question then is, given all the confusion around Christianity, why do so many people believe in Jesus, all right? So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to explain to you what we know for sure about Jesus. This is not... This is not religious people, it's scholars who spent decades researching the evidence, looking at the Bible, looking at the archeological evidence, looking at all the writings of that period. And this is what we know for sure about Jesus, okay? All right, so the life of Jesus, okay? So the first thing that we know is he was born maybe about 4 BCE, okay, in a place called Galilee. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 5:12 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: I know in the Bible it says he was born in the year zero. But he's actually born four years before that, all right? That's the first thing that we know for sure, most people agree on. I'm talking about like mainstream academics. Second thing that we agree on is that his teacher was John the Baptist. And John the Baptist is what we call an apocalyptic preacher, okay? An apocalyptic preacher basically says, I will reveal the future to you. And the future is that God is coming, and God will destroy the evil people in the world. So right now is your opportunity to redeem yourself from your sins, to start a new life. Because God is coming, and we must prepare for the return of God. That is the message of John the Baptist, and Jesus was one of his students, one of his disciples. But at some point, Jesus started to create his own following. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 6:21 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So Jesus was preaching a message that is different from John the Baptist, okay? So that's the second thing we know. The third thing that we know is the crucifixion, okay? So we know that the Romans crucified Jesus. We don't know why, but we know that the Romans killed Jesus. And the crucifixion is when the Romans nailed you onto a wooden cross, and it's an awful way to die, because how you're dying is actually not through the bleeding, okay? You got nails hammered to the cross. You're dying because you have no energy, so your head hangs low, which means you're suffocating slowly. And it takes about three days for you to suffocate to death. And so this is like one of the worst punishments that the Romans could ever inflict on you. And really, there's only two types of people that the Romans will use the crucifixion as punishment, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 7:29 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: The first type are thieves and bandits, all right? These are considered the lowest type of people. The second type of people are rebels, people who are trying to overthrow the Roman state, okay? So Jesus, in other words, was probably a rebel, or the Romans considered him a rebel, okay? So that's the third thing that we know for sure. Now the last thing that we know for sure is that they had a brother called James the Just. And James the Just would inherit Jesus' movement after the death of Jesus. And this movement was called the Poor, or another word for this is Ebionite. Okay? Don't worry about the name, just remember the idea, okay? So these are only the four things that we know for sure about Jesus. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you what the Bible says about Jesus, what the official story of Jesus is in the Bible. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 8:34 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And you can see how different it is from what we know for sure, okay? So this is what the Bible says. Something to keep in mind is that there are at least four different biographies of Jesus. Jesus in the Bible, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, and they say different things. But we'll talk about the main story of Jesus, okay? So the main story of Jesus is that Jesus is the Son of God. And at this point in history, we have disobeyed God, and God is angry at us. And Jesus, being the Son of God, wants to redeem us in the IEA. Remember, we try to become God, we try to kill God by eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, okay? And so now God's angry at us, and we can't forgive ourselves. So Jesus decides he must come to the planet Earth and take a human form and then sacrifice himself as a scapegoat in order to redeem us in the eyes of God, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 9:47 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: That's the plan. So what he does is he comes. And then he starts a ministry, all right? And what the ministry is, is it basically is healing people, okay? So he goes around healing people. If you touch him, you're a cure of cancer, you're a cure of all your diseases, okay? He also dispels demons. So there are some demons inside of us, and what Jesus will do is get rid of these demons and cleanse us, okay? And then he preaches the gospel, the good news. So he teaches us how to be good people, basically. The problem, though, is that a lot of his teachings go against Judaic authority, okay? So at this time, remember, he is in Judea, the Roman province of Judea, and Jewish priests are in charge. And Jewish priests teach people to follow the law, to follow the Sabbath, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 10:43 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Do not work on Saturdays. Obey the law of Moses. Obey the customs and traditions. Okay? Obey the laws of the Jewish tradition. And what Jesus says is, no, what's important is to follow the Spirit of God. So there's a conflict here, okay? Where Jesus is rebelling against the authority of the Jewish priests, okay? And so what happens is the Jewish priests start to plot against Jesus, and eventually Jesus is betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot. And Jesus is detained by the Jewish priests, who then give him over to the Roman authorities, okay? At this point, Pontius Pilate is the governor of Judea. And so he asks Jesus, what did you do wrong? Why do the Jewish priests want you to be executed? And Jesus refuses to answer. Pontius Pilate doesn't really answer. They want to kill him, but there's anger from the Jewish people, who demand his head. So Pontius Pilate orders Jesus to be crucified, and then he dies, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 12:08 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Jesus dies, and then he's resurrected after three days. And then he returns and appears before his disciples and tells them, I will come back. I need to go to heaven, but I will come back when I am most needed. Before I come back, tell them the gospel. Tell them the good news that I will one day return, and that I've redeemed people from their sins. And therefore, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish or not Jewish, you can all celebrate God, okay? I've brought God to you because I've redeemed you from your sins. So tell everyone the good news, all right? And so this begins the very idea of Christianity. All right, okay? So this is the official story that you see in the Bible. And this is what most Christians believe. But again, the problem, of course, is there are lots of issues with this story, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 13:09 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So let's go over some of the major issues. The first major issue is, what does God have a son? How does God produce a son? Aren't we all God's children? Why is Jesus different from everyone else, okay? So in Greek mythology, the gods come down and impregnate God. They come down and impregnate a woman, but that's not what happened here. The Bible says that God had a son, and we don't know where he came from, okay? So this is very confusing. But not only that, but the Bible also says that Jesus is God. And so this is really confusing. Is he a son of God, or is he God, okay? So this is the first major problem. Second major problem is, why is he choosing to sacrifice himself? How does that resolve the problem? How does that resolve the issue? Right? We disobey God, and now Jesus will redeem us by sacrificing himself. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 14:08 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: But how does that work? Okay, the logic is kind of confusing. The third problem, and this is actually very problematic, is the Bible is explicit. It says that the Jewish priests plotted against Jesus, and the Jewish priests were responsible for the death of Jesus. And it's problematic because for 2,000 years. Christians have used this as a reason to persecute Jews. Because you killed our Lord, our Savior, okay? You Jews are evil, okay? But if you look at Jewish history, I will argue that this could not have happened, okay? It could have happened for like three reasons. The first reason is, okay, let's just say that Jesus was rebelling against the Jewish priests. Jesus was in disagreement with the Jewish priests. That's not enough reason for the priests to want to kill Jesus. The reason why is, within the Jewish tradition, it is okay to argue, okay? So at this time in history, there are at least three different Jewish groups, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 15:18 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: They are called the Sadducees. Who are the Sadducees? The Sadducees are the royalty of the religion. These are priests that go back generations. Okay? So this is like the Jewish nobility. They're called the Sadducees. Then you have the Pharisees. The Pharisees believe themselves to be reformers. The Sadducees, they maintain ritual, okay? So if you are to sacrifice an animal in the temple, you have to go through them. The Pharisees says, sacrifice is not what's important. What's important is obeying the law, okay? So there's a major disagreement between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, okay? So they go through them. But then you also have the Essenes. Who are the Essenes? The Essenes are people who become monks, and they believe, like John the Baptist, we believe that John the Baptist was an Essene, that God is coming, and there'll be a final war, and we must prepare for that. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 16:17 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=977s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=977s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So we must abandon all materialistic belongings. Okay? Guess what, guys? There are also other groups within these different groups, and all three groups hate each other. Okay? So just because you disagree. Disagree with the Jewish authorities doesn't mean they kill you. It's in the Jewish tradition to argue all the time. In fact, if you go to Israel today, even though they're at war, they're still arguing with each other. Okay? That's the first thing. Disagreement, rebellion, debate, it's just part of Jewish tradition. That's the first thing. Second thing is that there are certain customs and laws of the Jewish people. Okay? The Jewish people see themselves as distinct and separate from everyone else because they're the chosen people. And as we discussed before, the Jewish people, they must rest on Saturdays, and they don't marry foreign men or women. They don't marry outside their tribe. Okay? So these are two major customs, but they also, as we discussed before, they also don't charge interest when they give loans to each other. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 17:28 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Right? Okay? Another thing that is not written down, but which is commonly accepted is you do not betray other Jews to the Roman authorities. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? We can argue amongst ourselves, but we will not betray each other to non -Jews. Okay? We will not fight among the Romans. Okay? That is an unwritten law at this time. So, I don't think ever in history have we had a case where the Jewish people betrayed a Jew to the authorities, that is non -Jewish, okay? The Jewish people, again, see themselves as separate and distinct from other people. So they will not do this. And the third thing, the third piece of evidence that this doesn't happen is, remember, James the Just is the brother of Jesus. Okay? And after Jesus died, James the Just stayed in Jerusalem, protected by the Jewish authorities. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 18:36 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: That makes no sense, right? If Jesus, if his teachings went against Jewish law, and that's why the Jewish priests had him killed, then why was James the Just, who was teaching the same thing as Jesus, allowed to stay in Jerusalem? And not only allowed to stay in Jerusalem, but protected by the Jews. Okay? So, I'm not convinced that the Jews betrayed him. Also, remember, we discussed this in the last class, but the Romans were just brutal people. They killed people for no particular reason. So, they killed Jesus. They didn't care, okay? All right? So, I think it's much more likely that the Romans killed Jesus for their own reasons as opposed to the Jews killed Jesus. Yes? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 19:27 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Uh. So, the real group that killed Jesus is the Jews or the Romans? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 19:34 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1174s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1174s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So, yeah. I'm saying that it's the Romans who killed Jesus, and we all agree it was the Romans who killed Jesus. What the Bible says is that it was the Jews who conspired against Jesus, and the Jews encouraged the Romans to kill Jesus. Okay? Okay. All right? All right. So, that's another question. Why did the Jews conspire against Jesus? And again, I think this story is not... Not true. Then you have the idea of like, Jesus dies. So the question then is, if you're a son of God, you're divine, how do you die? And does death have any meaning, okay? And then, of course, you have the resurrection, like why would you resurrect yourself, and the second coming, okay? Why would you want to come back? Why do you need to come back? You've already redeemed humanity. Why do you have to come back? And then, why do you have... Why do you have to come back? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 20:29 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Why do you have to let people know who you are? You've already redeemed humanity, why do people have to worship you? Why do people have to celebrate you, okay? So this raises a lot of questions. And again, no other religion has this many questions. And so what the explanation is, is miracle, mystery, magic, okay? This is the standard explanation if you talk to Christians. Why is this all happening? Why is this happening? Don't question it, just believe it, just embrace it, okay? But in our class, we don't really do that. We ask questions, we speculate. So I know there are two million Christians in the world, and I'm sure they love Jesus, but in our class, we're really trying to figure out who he is, okay? So what we want to figure out today is, first of all, what did Jesus believe? Okay? What did he teach? Because it's not really clear, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 21:35 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: I'm sure Jesus did not preach, did not teach, believe in me and you'll be saved, okay? He probably did not do that. Christians tell you that, but Jesus himself probably did not teach that, okay? That's the first thing. Second question is, why did he become so popular? What was it about his belief that made him popular, okay? And the third thing is, why did the Romans believe? Why did the Romans kill him? All right, so these are the three big questions we're looking at today. First of all, what did Jesus really believe? Second is, why was he so popular? And the third question is, why did the Romans have to kill him? And so, the argument I want to make you today is, what Jesus taught is what every poet prophet we've studied this semester taught as well. Okay? So you look at Homer. You look at the Yahwehs. You look at Zarathustra, Plato. What did they all teach? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 22:37 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: They all teach that there is a source, okay? The source is the divine, the good, God, the universe, the monad, whatever name you have for it, okay? And the source emanates and it creates the entire universe. And we come from the source. Now, our bodies are material, okay? So our bodies come from a process of evolution. But our consciousness, our soul, is the source. It's the divine spark. And it comes from the source. So after our experience here on earth, after we die, our source, our spark, goes back to the source, okay? And there's a constant cycle until we, at the end, merge to the source, okay? This is what Buddhism teaches, this is what Hinduism teaches, this is what Zoroastrianism, this is what all major religions teach, okay? So... So Jesus was just teaching it for his times. So the question then is, if he is teaching what every person, every poor prophet taught, why is he special? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 23:46 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: He's special because the Roman Empire was particularly evil, okay? So before the Roman Empire, remember the problem of the Iliad, okay? Remember the Iliad? Where? Where Achilles cannot forgive himself, and his prime who forgave him, right? We discuss how during the Iliad, during that time, we all did good and we all did evil. And so what's important is to forgive ourselves, right? As long as we find the power to forgive ourselves, we will save the world. But by the time of the Romans, okay, the Romans are just pure evil, they're demonic. And so you don't forgive yourself, right? And so the question then is... How do you explain the fact that the Romans are able to conquer the world through pure evil, and you, a person, did all good, but you're a slave? How do you explain that? How do you find comfort? How do you find ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 24:47 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: solace in the fact that you've done good in your life, but at the same time, evil triumphs? Okay? And the message that Jesus came is to help people understand why the Romans triumph, okay? And what Jesus will say is this. The Romans triumphed. Because the world that we live in is a false world. It is a corpse. It's a dead world. This is not the true world. So those who most embrace death and evil and hatred will win in this world. But this is the false world. What matters is up there, okay? So what you need to understand is this. The Romans have won by being evil. So in the grand scheme of things. They've lost. Okay? So think about Achilles. How did Achilles get what he wanted? He betrayed Patroclus, right? He sacrificed Patroclus. But because he knows he did evil, he can't sleep, he can't eat, he cannot rest. All he can do is mutilate Hector's body. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 25:57 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And that's just the Roman way. What Jesus is telling us is this. I know the world is evil. I know the rich, the poor, the poor, the poor, the poor. powerful oppress us and we hate them but use our imagination use our heart use your empathy and look into their minds and you can see how tormented they are how every day they live with demons that haunt them how they can't sleep how how they hate themselves and how they hate the world around them and then when you see that for yourself what you will see is they're more pitiful than you are you may be poor but you're at least you're not hunted by demons okay and so if you really want to do good in the world you have to forgive your enemy you have to love your enemy because only by loving your enemy can you release your enemy ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 26:58 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: from his demons and that will save the world okay so what Jesus is telling us is this the enemy is not a good enemy you are a good enemy you are a good enemy you are a good enemy the people who oppress us the rich the powerful they are achilles okay they're achilles after they've killed hector and they have actually no purpose in life they're haunted by demons and we have to be prior we have to kiss achilles hand submit before him so that he can be released from his demons and this will make the world a better place okay that is the message of jesus and that is our mission in our in this world in a time of evil and a place of evil to look into our hearts to look in the hearts of other people to forgive our enemies to let go of our hatred and to forgive our enemies and ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 27:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: then that will save the world okay that is a central message of jesus all right any questions before we look at the evidence okay so i present to you the argument okay the argument is this jesus taught a message of love and forgiveness and that's what made him popular because it reminds people of who they are right you may be a slave you may think you're worthless but jesus is telling you there's still a spark inside of you that connects you to the monad and as long as you use love forgiveness compassion this spark will activate and it will release you from your slavery okay this is a false world once that spark is activated you will see the world as false and that will free you okay and why the romans kill him the romans killed him because jesus was a rebel he was trying to subvert the natural order right the natural order ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 28:48 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: is the romans at the top and the slaves at the very bottom and jesus is like no it's the opposite say it's at the top romans at the bottom okay because the romans are trapped and cursed by the evil in their hearts whereas the slaves are free and they can liberate one through their compassion through their love through their forgiveness okay and that's why the roman psalm is a threat doesn't make sense guys okay that's why they had to kill him all right and then they made up the the bible in order to um um justify what they did okay because as we discussed the last class that's what romans do okay they do evil and then they get the greeks or the jews to write the history to explain why they did it and then they get the greeks or the romans to explain why it was good okay so in other words and ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 29:39 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1779s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: this this is something that i will discuss next class is all right and i i know this is hard to understand but i'll explain it next class is this story guys it was the romans who wrote this story okay because as you can see this story convenient conveniently excused the romans from all blame even though it's the romans who killed jesus and it puts all the blame on jews okay that's the intention of the bible right so christianity is not an invention of jesus christianity is invention of the romance okay that's something i will show you next class okay all right but i'll be clear before i go into the evidence okay all right all right so the divine spark of jesus okay so the idea here is this um if you read homer the iliad the odyssey if you read dante divine comedy if you read any book you will you will see the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 30:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: divine spark reflected in you okay the these great books are a portal into the divine the problem though is most people cannot read the iliad or the divine comedy okay so the question then is what do the common people do and the answer is jesus is a portal into the divine right so if you remember the life of jesus jesus is a portal into the divine if you just recite his sayings that will give you access to the vine that will remind you of who you are so yes homer and dante are great i love homer and dante but you have to be very educated in order to read homer and dante well whereas jesus anyone can know the story of jesus anyone can um um say what he says and then that will give you access to the vine okay so jesus is really about the divine okay jesus allows anyone to access the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 31:52 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: divine whereas before um you have to access the vine through poetry okay all right so um the life of jesus okay so again jesus is jewish so the center of jewish life is uh jerusalem okay right here jerusalem and in the center of jerusalem is a temple which was rebuilt uh under the persians right and herod will we will rebuild this we'll renovate this okay um so we know that jesus was born in this era galilee as you can see galilee is by the coast which makes this region extremely cosmopolitan so from early age jesus is experiencing different religions different cultures hinduism zoroastrianism um judaism okay all right so uh this is an ai depiction of the crucifixion crucifixion of jesus jesus is in the middle and as you can see it is a brutal event okay um so we don't know much about jesus we only know um um jesus from the bible then ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 33:13 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1993s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=1993s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: in 1945 in a place called nak hamadi okay this is in egypt we discovered lots of books with sayings of jesus that we didn't know existed before so what's important to understand is that after jesus died there were many different sects of christianity that believed different things and they argued with each other and ultimately it was a catholic church who won why because the catholic church is run by the roman empire okay um so one major book that was discovered in in the uh in 1945 in that hamadi that was lost to us it's called the gospel of thomas what i believe is the gospel of thomas uh records the true teachings of jesus okay so let's first let's first look at the true teachings of jesus and then we'll i'll show you why i think this is actually his true teachings all right so um can you read the highlighted part okay and he ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 34:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: said ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 34:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: whoever finds an interpretation of these saying will not experience death okay all right so ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 34:20 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: so okay listen this already makes sense right because in the universe death doesn't exist because after you die your soul goes up to the astral plane to the vine okay so your soul can never die but you have to recognize that you are the divine spark okay you first need to recognize that once you recognize that you'll be immortal but if you don't recognize that then you fear death okay jesus said let him who seeks continue ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 34:50 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: seeking until he finds when he finds he will become troubled when he becomes troubled he will become troubled traveled he will be astonished and he will rule over the all okay so this goes back to the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 35:02 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: plato's allegory of the cave right plato's allegory of the cave is his prisoner who escapes his change he goes up into the real world where there is sunlight and he sees the truth right and now he's able to see whereas everyone else is still chained as prisoners in the cave and now he rules overall because he knows the truth whereas everyone else is still in prison in darkness remember that this is a painful process when you go on the light you're blinded by it you feel absolute pain you feel uh confusion but over time if you persist you will see the truth okay so this is the algorithm of the cave okay ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 35:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: jesus said if those who lead you say to you see the kingdom is in the sky then the bird of the sky will precede you if they say to you it is in the sea then the fish will precede you rather the kingdom is inside of you and it is outside of you when it comes to know yourself then you will become known and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of living father but if you will not know yourselves you dwell in poverty and it is it is you who are that poverty ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 36:20 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay so this is a really important idea okay go back to that go to the cave you escape the cave and you see the real world and you come back it doesn't matter if you tell them what the real real world is okay it doesn't matter they believe you they have themselves go out and see the world for themselves okay they have to break the chains themselves and then venture out into the light and experience pain and torment for themselves before they recognize the truth okay that's not that's what jesus is saying they people would tell you this stuff don't listen to them okay they can only guide you but you can't trust you can't believe in them you have to believe in yourself you have to look into yourself because the truth divine spark is inside of you okay so what jesus is saying is this organized religion does not work guys so there's ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 37:10 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: no way jesus would say follow me and you're good believe in me and you're good he would never ever say that because he knows you can't follow someone else you have to believe in yourself the divine spark is in you okay does it make sense so so that bro uts has done what he had to do to make it work why does he take his own Resurrection him aside he looks at jesus who's chosen Him right now so at this point you're just watching the ballerina you're watching your boy is a judge he's watching his destiny except if you don't understand es pry and that's Lord Jesus and if you actually see something he's watching he's looking out for you okay he's looking and he's looking at you okay you're sitting there you're looking around you're thinking what did this guy get takes a declare and it's not talk about yahweh he doesn't talk about ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 38:01 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: david doesn't talk about moses because for him it's all fake okay the bible is fake what's true is my spark in you okay all right so again all this is contradicting modern day christianity because jesus was not a christian okay keep on going oh sorry uh let's keep on going and again guys what what you're seeing is this the similarities between the gods of thomas and plato's out of the cave and the ilia and zoroastria his teachings as well as nietzsche okay you see how all these poor prophets they all think alike they're expressing things differently they're talking to a different age new different audience but basically seeing the same thing okay that's really important all right continue reading please ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 38:53 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2333s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2333s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: jesus saw infants being suckled he said he was disapposed these infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom they said to him shall we then as children enter the kingdom jesus said to them when you make the two one and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside and above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same so that the male not be male nor the female and when you fat when your fashion eyes in the place of an eye and the hands in place of a hand and the foot in place of a foot and a likeness in place of a likeness then where you enter the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 39:36 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: kingdom okay so um again this is similar to what we've learned before right what he's saying is this we are born into this world and as we grow older we believe in the falseness that we see around us okay but once we develop our imagination and once you recognize that this world that we live in is our hallucination it's just a projection of our imagination then we can take control over this world and then that will allow us to access the vibe okay it is through the imagination which allows us to access the vibe and it will allow us to create this world in a new place we're able to see fashion eyes in the place of an eye a hand in the place of a hand we're able to be our true selves okay and what we will understand is that we're all connected by the vine the separation of like male female okay ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 40:28 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Chinese American black white it's all made up it's not true once we're able to see reality as it is we'll all be one in the same when you make the two one we make the inside like the outside and the outside the inside and the above like the blow we're all interconnected together okay we're all part of the same source but we have to train ourselves to see the truth from this falsehood okay so again the idea of Asha and Jewish right this is Asha moving towards the the interconnectedness of all things the Harmony of all things the Jewish is the division of all ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 41:07 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: things okay all right his disciples said to him show us a place where you are since it is necessary for you to sit for us to seek it seek it he said to them whoever has ears let him hear there is light within the man of light and he lights up the whole world if he does not shine he is darkness okay ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 41:34 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: his disciples says to Jesus tell us how to be like you and Jesus says be yourself there's a light inside of you okay look for the light and like shine the world okay all right keep on going ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 41:51 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Jesus said I took my place in the midst of the world and I appeared to them in flesh I found all of them intoxicated I found none of them thirsty and my soul become a fleet athlete afflicted for the sons of men because they are blind in their hearts and do not have sight for empty they came into the world and empty too they seek to leave the world but for the moment they are intoxicated when they shake off the wine then they will rep repeat repent Jesus said if the flesh came into being because of spirit it is a wonder but if spirit came into being because of the body it is a wonder of wonders indeed I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its own in its poverty wait so he's talking about the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 42:43 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: materialistic world okay we came into this world with nothing and guess what when we die we're gonna go back with nothing okay so this pursuit of materialism this pursuit of wealth this pursuit of power makes no sense why are you here pursuing all this stuff there's gold there's wealth there's money that you can't take with you it it seems as though you're drunk okay so this line the flesh came into being because of spirit is a wonder okay so the idea is that it is the consciousness the mind that creates the the material world the body right that makes sense and what did you say is this if you think that the body creates a spirit you're crazy it's impossible it's a wonder of wonders that's impossible guys why because the spirit is full of wealth the body is impoverished how is it possible that an impoverished body is able to create so much wealth ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 43:41 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay and this makes sense right our mind our consciousness is so vast so abundant but our bodies are so limited so how is it possible that our smaller brain is able to create a universe of ideas and experiences okay all right so the idea of intoxicated we're here and we're just drunk but we are not thirsty for the truth we're happy for the way it is okay all right and this idea is mirrored in a poem that we read before by rumi right so you may remember uh rumi the persian poet he also says this the world that we live in is a prison for drunks okay so i'm pretty sure roommate did not read jesus this gospel of thomas okay but they're able to think the same thoughts because they're all being inspired by the same source does that make sense all right continue please ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 44:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: jesus said the phrases and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge this is noxious noxious means knowledge okay and hidden them they themselves have not answered nor have they allowed to enter those who wish wish to you however wise as serpents and as innocent as dogs okay so jesus hates organized religion okay the pharisees ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 45:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: remember are jewish priests jewish leaders and they create a hierarchy of religion where they say the people only i know the truth only i have knowledge so listen to me and what jesus is saying is they themselves are ignorant because you cannot access knowledge through hierarchy okay through oppressing other people you can only access knowledge by looking into yourself so you're you have to become like the serpent and pretend you don't know anything in order to access not yourself because otherwise if you are capable of accessing knowledge then the priest will see as a threat and they will kill you all right and what is the serpent remember it was a serpent who told eve to eat from the fruit and so what jesus is saying is it is good and natural to seek knowledge even if it means those disobeying god okay that's what we're meant to do here to seek knowledge to seek ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 46:13 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: the truth to seek love if the gods if the priest stop you from doing so it's because you're evil all right because remember the true god the monad is pure love pure compassion pure forgiveness he can do no wrong he's perfection and if you have the desire to seek knowledge and you believe that knowledge makes you a happier more fulfilled person then you should seek knowledge even if god tells you don't do so because if that god tells you don't do so it means he's the false ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 46:46 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: god okay keep on going jesus said whoever has come to understand the world as found only a corpse and whoever has found the corpse is superior to the world okay so this is this is what's going to get ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 47:03 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: jesus in trouble right he's saying the roman empire this great empire that you've built that ranges across the mediterranean it's a corpse it's dying it's dead it's nothing all right and once you recognize this once you refuse to comply once you refuse to obey they have no power over you right and so that's a threat to power that's a threat to ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 47:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: the roman empire keep on going jesus said the kingdom is like a shafir who had a shepherd who had a hundred sheep one of them the largest went astray he left the 99 sheep and looked for until he found it when he had gone to such trouble he said to the ship i care for you more than the 99 ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 47:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay so god the true god does not want obedience he wants us to be creative he wants us to seek knowledge he wants us to discover he wants us to explore he wants to try new things and if we do this he cares for us than those who obey him because those who obey him those who do nothing contribute nothing to the universe okay when we love when we imagine we are making the universe a brighter place we are starting our life we just sit back and just do what we're told we're doing nothing okay we're like npcs do you guys know npcs non -playable characters in in video game okay we don't we don't exist ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 48:34 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: all right keep on going jesus said a man had received visitors and we had prepared the dinner he sent his servant to invite the guys he went to the first one and said to him my master invites you he said i have claimed against some merchants they are coming to me this evening i must go and give them my orders i asked to be excused from the dinner he went to another and said to him my master have has invited you he said to him i have just bought a house and and am required for the day i should not have any spare time he went to another and said to him, My master invites you, he said to him. My friend is going to get married, and I am to prepare the banquet. I should not be able to come. I asked to be excused from the dinner. He went to another and said to him, My master invites you, he said to him. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 49:29 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: I have just bought a farm, and I am on my way to collect the rent. I should not be able to come. I asked to be excused. The servant returned and said to his master, Those whom you invited to the dinner have asked to be excused. The master said to his servant, Go outside to the streets and bring back those whom you happen to meet, so that they may dine. Businessmen and merchants will not enter the places of my father. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 49:58 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=2998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so again, this goes against the empire. What Jesus is saying is, the worst people in this world are the rich people. Think about today how we're supposed to worship Elon Musk, right? Because he's rich. What Jesus is saying, is no, Elon Musk is the worst person in the world. Why? Because the divine, the Monad has prepared a great feast for us. When we die, when we go to the Monad, we will experience the greatest happiness, the greatest joy. Okay, the Monad is inviting us. But the business people are saying, No, I'm too busy. I'm too busy making money. I'm too busy doing evil in this world. So I don't want to go to the stupid feast. So they're the ones who will lose out in the end, even though today we they've won out. Okay, so that's what Jesus is saying. Jesus is like, don't worry about the rich and the powerful. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 50:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: They may look happy, but they're not. At the end of days, when we all go back to the Monad, we all go back to the divine, they're the ones who will not be invited to the grand feast. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 51:00 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Yeah, I have a question that God led us to be creative and like do our thing though. We want to do like the seed for the spark. But since we are born, how do we do that? How do we do that? How can we really know the things that what we want to do? I think that requires socialization between other people. But if you socialize, they will bring what you and affect to let you to seek for materialism. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 51:26 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Yeah, okay. That's a great question. And it's a problem, right? Because as you say, your parents, the school society brainwashes you to believe that only money matters. Only grades matter. Okay. And the answer is, you have to be brave. You have to be yourself. Because you yourself know what is true, right? If we didn't know, then Jesus would not matter. Why do 2 billion people believe in Jesus? Because they know that Jesus spoke the truth. Okay. So listen to your heart. I know it's hard and most of us cannot do it. Okay. And that's why in many traditions, like Buddhism and Hinduism, the incarnation is important. Because maybe in this lifetime, we don't figure it out. Maybe in the next lifetime. But maybe then, you know, 50 lifetimes away. But eventually, you'll figure it out. You'll figure out that what other people say does not matter because this world we live in is a false world. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 52:19 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Eventually, you'll figure that out. And then you're like, you know what I should do? I should do what I believe to be true. And then what you recognize is, oh, when I actually do what I like, what I enjoy, it makes me a more fulfilled person. And guess what? It connects me to the vine. Okay. I am a much more spiritual person now. And you can know because look at this, this is right. When you meet a rich person, his face is kind of, I don't know, evil. But you, we meet a person who's generous, who volunteers his time, who is a good teacher. His face is different. Okay. So remember Achilles, when you do evil, evil comes into you and it corrupts your soul. When you do good, good comes to you and it brightens your soul and you bring the world with it. Okay. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 53:16 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: and socialization like if we are an infant how do we know what is right or wrong and what should ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 53:23 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: we seek for because of the spark in you right because the spark in you you know when it glows when you love someone and that person loves you back your spark glows when you become a teacher and you teach students you teach your students learn well your spark glows so like you try ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 53:44 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: different things until the you find the things that make your spark grow yeah and and say the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 53:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: important idea is that our lives are infinite okay so we will die and die is a game reset okay it's just like you suck at this game you die you come back and you try again okay but it's your choice the really important idea is free will it's your choice to do whatever you want with your life no one's going to force you okay so the idea of when you die is you go back to the actual plane and then you're able to reflect on your own life and then you come back and you start over eventually you'll figure it out it may take a million years it may take a thousand years who knows but eventually you'll figure it out okay because because the world is infinite does it make sense okay what's really important to understand is you have to figure out by yourself no one can teach you i can give you ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 54:39 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: the idea jesus can tell you what he thinks but you have to figure it by yourself okay and that's why this is so hard for people to accept because people don't want to accept individual responsibility okay all right okay so this this gives us um um so so the problem is this the problem is that jesus says that you there's a spark instead of you and it's your responsibility you don't have to it's your responsibility to let it grow if you let it grow you'll bring happiness to the world you'll bring happiness to yourself and then you're able to feast with a monad with a vine um in heaven okay and as i said um as we discussed it's hard man it's really hard if the individual responsibility you have to ignore people around you you have to uh learn for yourself so you know this idea maybe a few people thousands tens of thousands ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 55:45 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: will love this idea but what about the millions of other people who just want to like live normal lives what can we do about them okay so this is uh the book the brothers by theodore dostoevsky he's talking about the problem left by jesus jesus comes to the world he tells us the truth he tells us freedom is what will enable us to seek the divine but this creates this anxiety in people because like oh my god now i have to like think for myself now i have to like go out into the light and feel all this pain but i don't want to i just want to live a happy life i just want to watch tv every day man and then so um and and so then the church is like okay we need to create an organized religion and we need to fool people okay how do we fool people by teaching ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 56:39 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: them that jesus did actually say these things and we're going to not we will we will not worship jesus we worship satan instead why because satan encourages us to enforce our will on people okay we need to be evil in order to do good in the world okay think about this these children are naughty right now we can say to them like jesus hey man you'll grow up one day and then you won't be naughty so okay but in this process you're gonna hurt each other you're gonna do stupid things so we have to be the strict father we have to create this church in order to enforce the law on people to make sure the children don't hurt themselves so that children can just be children okay and quite honestly most of you guys 99 of you guys will never ever grow up so we have to be satan okay so the church the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 57:36 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: catholic church will pretend to worship jesus but actually we're going to worship satan and so we're going to enforce the law on people we will now be the evil empire the roman empire is dead okay but now the church will be the evil empire and we're gonna go around and we're gonna persecute people who disobey the law so that everyone can live in peace people want to be sheep and you know what people have the right to be sheep and so we're going to be the shepherd we will be satan and we will enforce goodness on people whether they like it or not and this is good for people because now they don't have to accept individual responsibility right if my life sucks it's not because of me it's because of the devil it's because of the catholic church it's because of satan and that's what's good okay so that's the episode saying this is ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 58:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: how the catholic church came into being and what we'll discuss in the next class in more detail okay because jesus left a huge problem a void in the hearts of people people want to obey people want to be told what to do people don't want to think for themselves if you make people think for themselves they'll feel nothing but fear and anxiety okay so we need to impose order so in this story what happens is the catholic church is being is being the evil empire it is oppressing people and so one day jesus comes from heaven and he walks among the people and people know oh my god he's jesus he's come back and he's curing people and they're all happy and but because the catholic church worships satan they need to arrest this guy okay and the grand inquisitor the leader appears before jesus they have a conversation that jesus called a prisoner in ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 59:15 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: the story and he says to the prisoner we know who you are you are jesus and we're supposed to worship you but we have to kill you because you are a threat to the people you're a threat to the happiness of the people okay and what the grand inquisitor will say to jesus is we create good in this world by being evil and your presence will destroy this and therefore we must destroy you okay so this is from the brothers kermas up okay thousand ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 59:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: is okay thou didst not love them at all thou who didst come to give thy life for them instead of taking possession of man's freedom thou didst increase it and burden the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its suffering forever okay so what he's saying is is you came to this world to free ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:00:09 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: people to tell them that the more not exist that there's a spark inside them that they don't have to be slaves they can go wherever they want but that just confuses people that traps people in their own way and that's what jesus is saying to them okay so what he's saying is you came to this world to free people from their own fear and anxiety life now becomes complicated okay keep on ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:00:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: going thou did desire man's free love that he should follow thee freely enticed and taken captive by thee in place of the rigid asian law man must hereafter with free heart decide for himself what is good and what is evil having only died in my image before him as his guide okay this ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:00:48 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: is okay sorry this is like really a very annoying thing for people because before your teacher will tell you what is good and what is evil nothing you're saying you guys decide now it's completely chaos okay and again it creates anxiety in people people just want to be told what to do okay people were like you know at 5 o 'clock we're going to have dinner um at pizza hud okay people won't be like oh oh what what should i what should i have for dinner if you don't want to think man okay keep on going but this thou know ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:01:21 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: at last reject even thy image and thy truth, if he is weighed down with a fearful burden of free choice. They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not in thee, for they cannot have been left in greater confusion and suffering than thou hast caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems." ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:01:44 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, right? You're creating all this anxiety in people for no particular reason. People were happy just being slaves, and now you free them, and they're completely confused as to what to do next. All right, keep on reading. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:01:59 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Only some thousands. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:02:00 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so what we're saying again is your freedom is only good for the minority of people who can think for themselves, who aspire to the divine. What about everyone else? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:02:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And what of the rest? And how are the other weak ones to blame? Because they cannot endure what the strong have done. How is a weak soul to blame that it is unable to receive such terrible gifts? Canst thou have simply come to the elect and for the elect? But if so, it is a mystery, and we cannot understand it. And if it is a mystery, we too have a right to preach a mystery, and to teach them that it's not the free judgment of their hearts, not love that matters, but a mystery which they must follow blindly. Even against their conscience, so we have done. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:02:54 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, all right. So what he's saying is this, okay? I understand Christianity is complete chaos, okay? But this complete chaos means people will never understand what your true teachings are. If people don't understand what your true teachings are, they don't have to follow it. They don't have to think for themselves, okay? So we create a complete chaos so that people will not be forced to obey us, okay? That's why we corrupt your teachings. Keep on reading. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:03:22 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: We have corrected thy work and have founded it upon miracle, mystery, and authority, immensely joy that they were again led like sheep, and that the terrible gift that had brought them such suffering was at last lifted from their hearts. Were we right teaching them this? Speak! Did we not love mankind so meekly, acknowledging their feebleness, lovingly enlightening their burden, and permitting their weak nature, even with our sanction why has thou come now to ponder us okay do you understand this idea they understand ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:03:57 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3837s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3837s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: is why is there evil in the world because people don't want to think for themselves so you need evil people to command people to enslave people to force them against their will now people are like why don't have a choice in the matter i can't think for myself sorry man okay if you actually give people complete freedom it'd be complete chaos in the world that's why there's satan that's why they're sitting in this world this is why satan must rule this world okay ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:04:30 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3870s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3870s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: i meant to end it like this when the inquisitor ceased speaking he waited some time for his prisoner to answer him his silence weighed down upon him he saw that the president had listened intently all the time looking gently in his face and evidently not wishing to reply the old man longed for him to say something however bitter and terrible but he suddenly approached an old man in silence and subtly kissed him on his bloodless aged lips that was all his answer the old man shuddered his lips moved he went to the door opened it and said to him go and come no more come not all not at all never never i let him out into the dark islands of the town the prisoner went away and the old man the prisoner's heart but the old man adheres to his idea okay so the person of course is jesus right ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:05:29 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: and so the inquisitor has these great arguments and the inquisitor is right and what he's saying is okay jesus what's your response to this and jesus response is basically i forgive you i love you and i forgive you same thing as what prime did to achilles right and as you can see by kissy's umbraco the inquisitor has a choice whether he chacun takes the er ended vow not quite by kissing the inquisitor rather than fighting him the inquisitor loses he knows he's lost he knows he's been humble so he lets jesus go says just get out of here please don't bother us again okay this is not your world this is satan's world and the kiss glows in his heart and the mole men adheres to his ideas okay so jesus did not change the old man's mind okay but there's a spark in him that now glows okay the spark that he killed they ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:06:23 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=3983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: tried all the time to kill with reason with evil is still able to grow glow okay and that's a power of forgiveness even though the person seems to be the most evil person in the world and this guy really is the most evil person in the world as long as you're able to show him the possibility of love the spark will glow okay now what's the so the inquisitor poses this problem like okay people don't want to think for themselves people lack free will people don't want free will what's the solution the solution is the soul is eternal okay and you have to give people time we're talking about millions of years maybe not in 50 years people figure it out but in about a million years people will figure out for themselves okay and Jesus God is patient he's loving he's forgiving you you he's generous he's compassionate so take your time okay what's ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:07:23 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: important is that people learn for themselves eventually you'll figure out being a slave sucks you know what it may seem as though watching Netflix playing video games being online all the time is fun but if you go outside and play that's a lot more fun guys eventually you'll figure it out all right and you have to figure it by yourself so God is forever patient God is forever patient okay does that make sense okay so next class we'll talk about the Catholic church and how it came into being and why it is it really is the church of Satan all right why it's going to go against the teachings of Jesus but they obviously point this out how the Catholic Church and Jesus are competing forces okay all right now let's go on to divine comedy by Dante and again Dante's trying to answer the question why did Jesus have to kill himself what's the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:08:20 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: logic will be maybe that God is отдельly of theING that that makes no sense okay and traditionally what the catholic church teaches people is it's because when we do evil we become slaves of satan so jesus made a deal with satan basically jesus says i will die and then i will and then you can take my body okay and then you will have to free my people and saying it's like that's a really good deal man god for exchange in exchange for the slaves sure i'll make that deal but the thing is that jesus when he died and he freed us he cannot ever truly die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during danny's time most people understood why uh jesus had to die jesus died so that we would stop being slaves of satan and now we are slaves to jesus and that's why ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:09:12 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: we must worship jesus and danny's like no no no that can't possibly be right okay god would not come to free us so that we become slaves to god god cannot free us so we could be free okay all right so this is dante and what's gonna happen here is in heaven there's gonna be a conversation between dante and beatrice who he loves okay and they're going to discuss the nature of the universe and this is beatrice talking to dante the greatest gift the ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:09:46 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: magnanimity of god as he created gave the gift most suited to his goodness gift that he most prices was the freedom of the will ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:09:56 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay so the underlying principle of the universe is freedom of will if god is love okay and he loves people then he must trust people therefore freedom of will is the most important principle okay same thing if you're a parent if you truly love your child you will let your child go and make his own mistakes you will not protect your child okay if you truly love your child you will even if it means that your child goes to the park and might get kidnapped or whatever okay you have to let him go you have to let him or her go because true love means trusting other people okay keep on going ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:10:36 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4236s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4236s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: you say what i have heard is clear to me but this is hidden from me why god will precisely this pathway for redemption ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:10:45 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay so again the catholic church teaches you that jesus redeemed us from our redeemed us from ourselves also about first at hand sins okay but then the question is why did he have to kill himself again that makes no sense ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:10:58 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: keep on going brother this ordinance is buried from the eyes of everyone whose intellect has not matured within the flame of love so beatrice is saying to dante yes i know this makes no sense ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:11:10 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: because you're thinking of your mind but the mind is not where the spark is okay the divine spark is in the heart so stop thinking with your mind and feel your heart and let the spark the divine spark glow in you and then you will see the truth for yourself sorry okay keep going away the godly ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:11:32 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: godness that has banished every envy from its own self burning itself and sparkling so it shows internal beauties all that derives directly from this godness is everlasting since the sale of godness impressed an imprint that ever always ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:11:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: alters okay so god is perfect he's forever good he's forever love he's forever compassion forever forgiveness okay and this is there's a spark of god in us right the divine spark which is our hearts so there's always a this perfection in us okay keep on going only man sing annals man's ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:12:12 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: liberty makes him unlike the highest good so that in him the brightness of its light is dim okay ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:12:18 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: this is important okay even though the spark is forever in us we can cover it up with mud we can cover it up with dirt we can forget about it okay why how by doing evil by disobeying all right if we do more and more evil we forget the spark more and more and it dims in us so the spark can glow or it can dim depending on our actions ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:12:40 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: but the spark will ever -always be there so if like you said that parents the true love is to trust right so if parents trust their kid, they will let their kids to make mistakes. But what if kids are, for example, being kidnapped and they're being killed, is that still count as the love of trust? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:13:04 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, obviously, if your child is in danger, you go save your child, okay? But you cannot let your fear and anxiety of your child being kidnapped destroy the child's freedom. Does that make sense? You cannot impose your fear on your child. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:13:24 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Like you need to let your child to feel the anxieties. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:13:27 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: No, no, no, no, no. You have to let your child do what your child wants to do. Your child wants to go play in the playground, you let the child go play in the playground, okay? And if you feel like there's a danger, then you go and make sure that your child is safe. You understand? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:13:45 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: But still doing, but still letting him to do what they want. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:13:47 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Yeah, okay, look, when you're actually a parent, you know what is safe and what is not safe, okay? Sending your child to the playground where there are other children, adults around, it's safe, do you understand? Sending your child outside at midnight to one of the streets is not safe. Do you understand, okay? You know, you don't have to think about this, all right? All right, okay, keep on reading. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:14:16 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And man cannot regain his dignity unless, where things left emptiness, man fills a void with just a man's pleasure. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:14:26 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so the problem is this. We do all this evil, and now we can't forgive ourselves, so we're stuck where we are, okay? We cannot compensate for the evil that we do, so what we do is do more evil to ignore the fact that we cannot forgive ourselves. Does that make sense? So evil creates more evil. Evil compounds on evil. So now we're just stuck, okay? So the first, so by disobeying God, by eating that fruit, by trying to be like God, we created evil, and this evil forces us to be more evil. Now we're just stuck, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:15:07 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: For when your nature sings so totally within its seat, then from these dignities, just as from paradise, that nature parted. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:15:16 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so we left the Garden of Eden not because we broke the law. We left the Garden of Eden because we cannot forgive ourselves from the evil that we've committed. And so we keep on doing more and more evil, okay? So the Garden of Eden is metaphorical. Keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:15:34 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4534s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And they can never be regained if you consider carefully by any way that did not pass across one of these fours, either through nothing other than his mercy, God has to pardon man, or of himself, man has to prefer payment for his folly. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:15:51 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so now that we've broken the law, now that we've disobeyed God, now that there's evil in our hearts, what can we do? Okay, and what Beatrice says is there's two possibilities. The first possibility is that we compensate for the first evil, for the first act of disobedience. And what Beatrice says is you can't do that because you try to be God, you try to kill God. So you cannot ever compensate God for the evil that you've done, okay? And then she says, well, the other possibility is that God forgives you. The problem though is that if God just forgives you, you won't learn anything. Okay, keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:16:31 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0114) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0114` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Man in his limits could not recompense for no obedience, no humility. He offered later could have been so deep that it could match the heights he made to reach through disobedience, man lacked the power to offer satisfaction by himself. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:16:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0115) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0115` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Very good, okay, so do you understand this idea? Okay, you try to be God, so you can't ever ask for forgiveness for that, keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:16:57 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0116) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0116` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: For God's show great forgiveness, we now have Jesus. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:17:19 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0117) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: By forgiveness we mean, we ask the Lord for forgiveness as it was before Jesus' death. The Holy Spirit, by God's will, he forgives, the Lord forgives. And in Jesus' name, amen. He forgives us and we ask God for forgiveness, He forgives us and he forgives us. And when we are given, we can be so grateful, that we can be like Jesus, that we have the mercy, we can be like Jesus, and be better people. Okay? And so let's use an analogy. The analogy is this. I'm a father and I have a daughter named Eve and I have a dog. And I say to Eve, I love you, Eve, so much. And then Eve says to me, do you love me or do you love the dog more? I said, I love you both equally. Love is infinite. Of course I love you, but I also love the dog. And Eve goes to Wenz and says to herself, yeah, but how do I know he truly loves me? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:17:57 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0118](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0118) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0118` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So what Eve does is she kills the dog. Okay? And then Eve says to me, hey, do you love me or do you love the dog more? And now I'm kind of stuck, the father, right? Because if I punish her, that shows her I love the dog more. Right? But if I don't punish her, she's going to do this again. Okay? She's going to kill another animal. So I'm stuck. So what do I do? So what God decides to do is this. The only way out of this conundrum, the only way out of this paradox is if I punish myself. Okay? Because I should have said to her, I love you as much as the dog. All right? So what I do is I take a whip and I hit myself. And Eve watches this. And now Eve knows, first of all, I do love her because I'm punishing myself for her sake. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:18:48 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0119](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0119) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0119` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: And second of all, she won't do it again because she doesn't want to see me punished. And that's why Jesus had to kill himself. Do you understand? Logic here. Now it makes sense, right? God had to punish himself so that we would be humbled by a sacrifice. We would feel so much remorse and regret for making God die that we would never, ever disobey him again. We would never, ever try to become God ourselves. And that's why this had to happen. Okay? And because of this, Jesus freed us from the evil in us and, led us to the path of good. Because now, all we have to do is remember Jesus, remember what he said, remember what he taught, and we'll forever be on the path towards the light. Yes? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:19:37 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0120](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0120) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4777s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4777s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0120` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Do we, like, for example, if I had done extreme mistakes previously, do I, can I completely make it up or just forgive myself because I think I can't? Okay. That's a great point. Okay. So yeah. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:19:56 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0121](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0121) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0121` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: The problem is this, the problem is that there are people who do real evil in this world. Okay. It's possible, like, a man kills your daughter, and then he's put in prison for the longest time. And it's, he does all this evil. And so can he be forgiven? And the answer is yes, because the only way for this world to work is if people are allowed to be forgiven. If people are not allowed to be forgiven, this entire world, this entire universe breaks down. That's why God is a God of forgiveness okay because you think about it if you think okay if we don't have forgiveness what world do we live in we live in a world of vengeance right if you kill my daughter now I have to go kill your daughter and then you're gonna have to go kill my family now I have to go kill your family okay so the only ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:20:44 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0122](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0122) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0122` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: way for this world to work the only way for it just prevail is if we're allowed to forgive each other and previously we don't have a tool to forgive each other because we ourselves don't have the wisdom and now with the arrival of Jesus we remember that if you just forgive us Jesus will forgive me always and so if I turn towards Jesus then I will be forgiven like currently I ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:21:09 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0123](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0123) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0123` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: think I still could not forgive myself for making that mistake like I think whatever things that I do to make make up the mistake I think I could not forgive me at that time making that mistake you ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:21:23 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0124](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0124) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0124` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: , right but at the same time you went to prison right you've been punished already so justice has been served so you cannot forgive yourself okay just because you you believe in Jesus doesn't mean you won't go to prison for killing someone you're still gonna go to prison but now you can forgive yourself because you've done your time and also because you remember that Jesus forgives you okay but the only way for you to move on your life the only way for society to move on is if you're able to forgive yourself okay that doesn't make sense if in a world there's no forgiveness this world would break down really quickly because everyone would just kill each other okay so and again what's happening is this and this is what Dante teaches us you're thinking of your head okay because you're still young when you grow older and your heart matures and you have more ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:22:18 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0125](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0125) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=4938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0125` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: life experience then you'll be able to feel your heart once you feel your heart all this will make sense to you okay but but but I completely understand where you're coming from because at your age if someone told me this I'd be like you're crazy this makes no sense because if you do evil then you should be your entire life should be one of evil if you do evil evil should come to you okay but what you're saying is like no no in that world no one can be happy okay because the people whose evil has been done to them are so focused on vengeance, on hatred, on anger, that you can never ever be a happy person. You leave the monad, you leave the divine. So when you hate someone, you're actually hating yourself, as opposed to that person. So now that we understand this idea, now what Don is going to explain is, why are we here? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:23:22 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0126](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0126) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0126` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: What's the purpose of the universe? Okay, can you read, Alan? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:23:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0127](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0127) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5005s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5005s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0127` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: You say, I see that water, see that fire and air and earth, and all that they compose come to the corruption and endure so briefly. And yet these too were things created, if what has been said above is true, then these things never should be subject to corruption. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:23:44 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0128](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0128) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0128` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so the idea is like, God is perfect, everything he creates is perfect. So if that's the case, then why do we die? And so what Petrus says is this. God is perfect. He creates perfection, but he creates the laws of the universe. He creates the game, okay? That's perfect. The things within the game enter a cycle of destruction and life, life and death, okay? Because that's the only way for the game, for the universe to work properly. It doesn't make sense. Keep on reading. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:24:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0129](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0129) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0129` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Brother, the angels and the pure country where you are now, these may be said to be created, and they are in all their being. Whereas the elements you have created are not. They have mentioned, as well as those things that are made from them, received their form from a created power. The matter they contain has been created, just as within the stars that wail about them. The power to give form had been created. The rays and motion of the holy light draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:24:49 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0130](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0130) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5089s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5089s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0130` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so you understand, the world, the laws of the universe are created, okay? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:24:53 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0131](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0131) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0131` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: But your life is breathed forth immediately. But your life is breathed forth immediately. By the chief god, good, who so enormous, enamours it of his own self that it desires him always. So reasoning, you also can deduce your resurrection. You need but remember the way in which your human flesh was fashioned when both of the first parents were created. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:25:16 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0132](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0132) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0132` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So the world that we live in is a world in which we can make mistakes, in which we can learn, we can grow, okay? And we don't have to worry about making mistakes. because we die all that will happen is we'll just return to the good and we will be reincarnated okay we'll come back Jesus was resurrected but so but we will be resurrected as well we have infinite opportunity to grow as souls and that's the purpose of life to learn to make mistakes to be creative to imagine new possibilities that's why we were created okay and to ensure that we can continue to grow there's death okay death allows for a reset death allows us to rejuvenate ourselves and learn from mistakes so don't think about this lifetime think about all possible lifetimes and live your life accordingly to that okay make the most of your life here by making as many mistakes as ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:26:13 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0133](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0133) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0133` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: possible because only by making mistakes can you actually grow as a soul okay alright so this is Leona the vineyard of passion and he is a student sempre she's famous painting the last supper now this depicts jesus before his uh betrayal before he is crucified by the romans okay what's really interesting about this painting is you can see there's a number here right three three one three three when you go to the bible and you look for the passage 33 133 in lamentations you have this quotation for no one is cast off by the lord ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:27:00 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0134](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0134) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0134` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: forever through he brings grief he will show compassion so great is his unfalling love for his does not willing willingly bring a flea affliction or grief to anyone that's who jesus is ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:27:17 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0135](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0135) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0135` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: okay jesus came to remind us that we will all be forgiven in the end so forgive other people okay love your enemy all right okay so um let's look at what actually the bible says okay so this is what jesus taught and again um i believe this is what jesus taught because one the gospel of thomas is a unique voice remember the thing about poetry is that it is unique it is the divine spark itself so it cannot be replicated okay so when we read the gospel of thomas it is unique it is the divine spark itself so it cannot be replicated okay so we read the gospel of thomas you can see this is poetic and this is beautiful when it touches you it's a divine spark so that's number one number two is what it teaches aligns with every other poor prophet that we've studied so far right number three is these other ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:28:08 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0136](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0136) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0136` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: poor prophets like dante naskowski they go back and they're able to see exactly what jesus was teaching us okay so that's why i'm convinced that the gospel of thomas um is the true teachings of jesus there are also other teachings of jesus that we find in the bible that also conforms to our theory okay so this is from the gospel of matthew and this is called the uh sermon on the mount where jesus stands on a hill and he's preaching the secrets of the universe to people okay so can you read please alan yeah blessed ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:28:47 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0137](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0137) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0137` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled blessed are the most merciful for they will be shown mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they will see god blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of god blessed are those who are priests persecuted because of righteousness of theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:29:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0138](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0138) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0138` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: So this is his message to people, right? What matters is the spark inside of you. It doesn't matter how wealthy you are, it doesn't matter how powerful you are. In fact, it is probably those who are slaves that will benefit, who are more virtuous, and as such, they will inherit the kingdom. Okay, keep on reading. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:29:44 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0139](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0139) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0139` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: You are the salt of earth, but if the salt loses its saintliness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A tomb built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way that light shines before others, that they may see you, good deeds, and glory, and glory. God will glorify you farther in heaven. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:30:20 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0140](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0140) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0140` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so be the light, okay? Every one of you has a light in you. Every one of you has the power to change the universe. Every one of you has the power to do good in this world. Okay, keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:30:35 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0141](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0141) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0141` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: You have heard that it was said, love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your father in heaven. He causes his son to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you grade only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:31:15 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0142](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0142) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0142` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, we are in this world to do as much good as possible. Thank evil people. because it gives you opportunity to do good, okay? There's no evil in the world, how do you possibly do good, right? Keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:31:30 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0143](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0143) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0143` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourself treasures in heaven, where moth and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:31:50 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0144](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0144) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0144` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so focus on your own spiritual enlightenment. Focus on making your heart pure, good, and virtuous. Don't worry about other people, don't worry about money and these things, because when you die, you can't take these things with you, but your heart will always follow you wherever you are. Okay, keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:32:09 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0145](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0145) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5529s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0145` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:32:25 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0146](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0146) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0146` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay, so this is a really important idea, okay? But we imagine reality. So what matters is how you imagine this reality. What matters is how you see the world. Okay, and how you see the world is a reflection of the spark inside of you. If you see goodness, if you do goodness, then goodness will come. Okay, this is also called the law of attraction. Okay, keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:32:48 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0147](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0147) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0147` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: No one can serve too much. masters. Either you will hate one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. This is a really important idea. What is Satan? ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:33:01 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0148](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0148) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0148` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Satan is money. It's power. So this world belongs to Satan. This world is ruled by Satan. There's nothing you can do about it. When you leave, that world is the world of God. So it's your choice. Your choice is to triumph in this world or to triumph in the spiritual world. It's your choice, but you cannot have both guys. You can either, you can be Elon Musk. You can have all this wealth in this world, but we'll see what happens to Elon Musk after he dies. So he won't die. Okay. So his plan is I won't die and I'm good. Okay. All right. Keep on going. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:33:47 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0149](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0149) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0149` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:34:13 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0150](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0150) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0150` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Okay. So this is a really important idea. The Christian religion tells us that, you must believe in Jesus to be saved by Jesus. All that matters is believe in Jesus. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter what you say. What matters is your belief in Jesus. And what Jesus himself is telling us, no, no, no, don't use my name. Okay. Don't follow me. Follow your heart. In fact, if you use my name, it's because you mean to do evil in this world. So the question then is, how do we get from this to, with the Catholic church, which is, nope, you must obey us. Otherwise you'll be condemned to hell. Okay. And that's the topic we'll discuss next class, how the Catholic church was created. And the argument I will make to you is that it was created by the Roman empire. Okay. And not Jesus himself. Okay. So any questions guys? Yeah. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:35:14 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0151](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0151) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0151` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Like you said that people have infinite lives and like, this is a reset of your life and you can learn many times, but I think death will just clear a person's memory and they won't remember the mistakes and the things that they learned. Yeah. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:35:30 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0152](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0152) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5730s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5730s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0152` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: That's a great point. Okay. Yes, exactly. So the idea is the divine spark, right? So the divine spark either glows brightly or dims. So when you die, what goes is not the brain. You won't remember anything, the memories, but what goes is the, is the spark. Do you understand? And the spark, if it glows really brightly, it goes up to a higher plane. You're closer to the monad, you're closer to God. And therefore you feel more pleasure. Right. But if your spark has been dim, it goes to a lower place. And so what you want to do is obviously glow that spark as much as possible. All right. And, and so again, I know this is hard to understand, but most people will not figure this out. Okay. You understand? It may, it may take, take like 50 lives, 50 lifetimes before you figure out, you know what? I should really try to glow my, my spark. It may take a thousand lifetimes, a million lifetimes, who knows, but it's your choice. ## Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill -- 1:36:29 - Source title: Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0153](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/#seg-0153) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ&t=5789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq@transcript:v1#seg-0153` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Text: Do you understand? Some of us will figure out quick, more quicker than others. Okay. So this, this, this is the thing that you must remember. Every religion teaches, teaches, teaches us like when you die, you won't, you won't remember how much money you have. You won't remember anything. Okay. But what will, what you, what you, what, what you will remember, what you will leave behind is the amount of goodness you did or the amount of evil you did. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions guys? Okay, great. So next class we do the rise of the Catholic church. Okay. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Today we do Rome, and so before we've done Persia, the Jews, and the Greeks, and these are the three main civilizations after the Bronze Age collapse, and now we will emerge Rome to eclipse all three and build a world empire, okay? Okay, and what I will argue to you today is that Rome is the great anti -civilization, or you can call it just the evil empire, all right? So what do we know about Rome? Well, like most great empires, they emerged initially at the borderlands of another cultural empire, okay? So these are the Etruscans, and the Etruscans are very similar to the Mycenaeans. They are the main Greeks, and as you can see, they are expanding throughout the Italian peninsula. Now, the thing about empires is that eventually the people become lazy, arrogant, and stupid, and so what they do is they get people to fight for them. So the Romans are here, and as you can see, this is the borderlands, and the entire area is surrounded by great warriors. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:22 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=82s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=82s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: This is a poor region. And so it's always funny. They're running for resources. So the Romans get recruited as mercenaries, and over time, what will happen is that they will start to emerge as the great power in the Italian peninsula. And at this point in history, this is really important, they're surrounded by lots of different people that are like them, and they're warlike. So they triumph because they become the most warlike of everyone, okay? Their entire society is based on war. This is a Etruscan civilization. And as you can see, it is very advanced. The Etruscan civilization is heavily in contact with the Egyptians and the Greeks, and as well as people around them, because they are serfing, faring people. And this is a civilization that will most heavily influence the Romans. As you can see, the Etruscans are ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 2:15 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=135s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: always at war as well, and then as they become wealthier, they will recruit the Romans to fight for them. This is not a great map, but what this map shows you is the gradual expansion of Rome. So at first, as you can see, it is actually at the most disadvantaged location, because it's always surrounded by enemies. It is on flat land, and so it's not easily defensible. And it's not really by the coast, and therefore it's hard for it to trade, but because it is in such a disadvantaged position, it is forced to be the most martial, the most violent, the most militaristic. The most aggressive, and the culture evolves around that. And so over time, they're able to conquer the entire Italian peninsula, and then expand to the Mediterranean. Okay, so this is another map that shows you Rome, and how it's going to slowly expand over time. The way it expands is through military conquest, and then by building roads. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 3:18 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And this is very impressive, because if you've ever been to Italy, it's very hilly. So there's a tremendous effort to build roads. But once they build the roads, they're able to consolidate and navigate their empire. This is a map that shows you the geography of Italy. As you can see, it's very mountainous, and there are that many rivers, which tells us it's very poor. And because it's very poor, the people tend to be very unified, very aggressive, and they have a deep egalitarianism. Because only by working together, can you ultimately triumph over Italy. Okay, so this is the main characteristic about Rome in the early days that you must remember. It is poor, it is small, and it is unified, so everyone knows each other. And so because of its geographic characteristics, we emerge its concept of liberty. And its concept of liberty is obedience to the fathers, to history, to culture, because only by doing so can you survive as a people. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 4:24 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Now, what's interesting about this is, it's a different concept from the Greek one, but the Greeks. And the Greeks believed that what liberty is, is the right to speak your mind in front of others. And as such, the major difference between the Greeks and the Romans is, in Greece, citizenship is passed on from family to family. But in Rome, citizenship can be earned, okay? It's an open citizenship system. Why? Because if you just obey the fathers, the laws, the customs, then you're going to be a Roman citizen. And as such, what's going to happen is that as Rome expands, it's going to incorporate different people into its culture. And as a result, Rome has an advantage that Athens and Sparta doesn't have. Rome can always replenish its soldiers. And as such, it can afford to lose war after war after ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 5:18 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: war, but as it does so, it gets stronger and stronger, because it's learning with each defeat, okay? And that is the secret to Rome's ultimate victory. The heart and center of Roman society is the Senate. This is where the leading families come together to discuss the fate of Rome. And at this time in history, when Rome is poor, this is not a problem, because everyone knows each other, and there's no real inequality, therefore there can be no corruption. And so these fathers, the senators, are representing the best interests of all Romans. Right? But over time, as Rome becomes wealthier and wealthier, this becomes a huge problem, because as Rome develops more wealth, guess who gets all the wealth? These guys, okay? So we'll see this later, as Rome gets wealthier, Rome also becomes much more corrupt. All right, so the Greeks, the fighting system is the hoplites. The Romans used something called the legions. Now ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 6:23 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: there are some major differences between these two fighting techniques, even though for their time, they are the most advanced. As you can see, they are the most advanced. As you can see, the Greek hoplites are heavily armored, okay? And as such, each hoplite needs to buy his own armor, which means that hoplites tend to be small landowners, okay? They have a bit of wealth. The legionnaires can be poor, because it doesn't actually require that much armor to be a legionnaire. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that it actually takes a lot of training to be a hoplite. You basically have to spend years and years. Hone your skills because you fight in formation. The legionnaire, you don't need that much training, okay? You can actually go straight into battle. The third major difference is that, as you can see, the hoplites, they are using heavy armor, shields and helmets. The legionnaires are much lighter. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 7:19 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The reason why is the legionnaires were developed to fight in a mountainous region. So they need to be able to climb, to hike up mountains in formation. Whereas the Greeks are fighting more on flat land, okay? So over time, what will happen is the legionnaires will overwhelm the hoplites. This is a typical Roman peasant. He's spending most of his time farming and when it's required of him, he goes to war. Okay? He's not a full -time soldier. So the Greeks and the Romans will fight a series of wars. So as the Romans are expanding. They go closer and closer to the coast. And here are a lot of Greek colonies. And the Greeks are losing to the Romans. So they call for help from the compatriots across the sea. And a king named Pyrrhus of Epirus, he decides to take advantage of this opportunity to go conquer Italy, okay? So he and his hoplites sail over to Greece and they are destroying the Romans. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 8:32 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Battle after battle. Pyrrhus is defeating the Romans. And then he finally says, you know what? If I win one more battle, I'm going to have no more soldiers. Okay? And that shows you the difference between Greek fighting versus Roman fighting. Greek fighting uses specialized forces that can with over time. Whereas the Romans can just keep on replenishing their forces. Okay? So the Romans don't actually win that many battles, but they win most of their wars. Okay. Now. Okay. Now. As the Romans are expanding, they eventually reached the Mediterranean. And so now they start developing a navy in order to trade with other nations like Egypt and Greece. This comes in conflict with the Carthaginians. And at this time, the main power in the Mediterranean are the Carthaginians. Now, and they will fight a war that lasts decades, 100 years, and ultimately Rome will triumph. And ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 9:33 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: the main reason why that Rome triumphs, and this is really important for you guys to understand, is the main difference between Carthage and Rome is Carthage is rich. Rome is poor. Okay? Why? What's the matter? Because if you're rich, what you can do is hire mercenaries to fight the war for you. And that's what Carthage does. But Rome is poor. Therefore, they must use their own citizens to fight the war. Okay? And so over time, the citizens become much tougher, much more unified. Whereas the Carthaginians, they become more corrupt. They become much more decadent. And because the Romans are more invested in the war, they will fight to the end, whereas the Carthaginians are business people. They're traders. Okay? They're very known for their sharp business skills. And so they do a cost -benefit analysis and be like, you know what? This war is going to cost us more than if we just surrender. Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 10:28 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So... So the Carthaginians surrender the First Punic War. They surrender the Second Punic War. And the Third Punic War, guess what happens? They're going to be wiped out by the Romans. Okay? So that's what the Roman mentality is. We fight you, we'll fight you to the death. And if we beat you, we will kill every one of you. Okay? That's just a Roman war mentality. And that's where they ultimately triumph in the end. Okay? So this is another map that shows you the conflict between the Carthaginians and the Romans. This is the Second Punic War. Okay? So, Carthage, over here, it's expanded to Spain, and there are lots of silver mines in Spain. Rome right now, it's still pretty small. Okay? But again, because the Romans are dedicated towards war. That's the only thing they know. That's the only thing they're good at. Okay? They will eventually triumph over the Carthaginians. We actually don't know that much about the history of Rome. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 11:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? But the most famous episode during the Second Punic War, is when a Carthaginian general named Hannibal Barca. Okay? He's in Spain, and he decides he's going to go destroy Rome. Now, the way he does it is by crossing the Alps. Okay? So, these are mountains. And for the longest time, the Romans thought that this was a natural barrier. And what Hannibal Barca will do is, he will cross the Alps with his war elephants and his army, land in Italy, and start attacking Rome. And then three years later, he will attack Rome. And in three decisive battles, Hannibal will destroy the entire Roman army. Okay? He will wipe out the entire Roman army. And at this point in history, Rome needs to surrender. Okay? So, Hannibal sends an envoy to the Senate and tells them, I destroyed every single one of your soldiers. You have no more army. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 12:17 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Therefore, I am willing to talk peace terms. And the Senate is like, screw you. Come get us. Okay? And this marks a turning point in Roman history. So, let's look over some of the major events. This is Hannibal crossing the Alps. Okay? One of the most famous military feats in human history. This is the Battle of Tribia, one of the first major battles, where even though Hannibal is under men and he's in enemy territory, what he will do is, he will use a series of brilliant military maneuvers to ambush his enemies. Okay? So, these are the Romans. As you can see, what's going to happen is the Carthaginians, their horsemen, lies in the marsh. And then they will sneak up and destroy the Romans from the rear. Okay? That's the first major battle. This is the Battle of Lake Tresemme. And the same thing basically happens where the Romans are crossing. Then Hannibal ambushes them from the hills. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 13:24 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? The second major battle. And this is the most famous battle. This is called the Battle of Cannae. Okay? And this is what we call a double involvement strategy, where what will happen is that the two armies meet, and then Hannibal will send his cavalry on the wings. And then they will envelop the Roman army, and then they will slaughter everyone. Okay? So, Romans lose between 50,000 to 100,000 men. Their entire army is wiped out because of this battle. Okay? So, this is the first phase. Second phase is when the cavalry starts. They start to flank the Romans. And in the third phase, the soldiers come in from behind and trap the Romans and kill everyone. Okay? So, this is the most famous battle in military history. Now, there's a problem with this battle, which is this has never happened before in human history. Remember before we discussed the idea that in China, one of the most common military strategies is behind the river strategy. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 14:26 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=866s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? So, you force your men to go to a river, and now the enemy is approaching them. They have no choice but to fight to the end, because otherwise they'll drown. Okay? If you can see this situation, it's very similar. The Romans are in a very similar situation, where they're being surrounded by enemies on all sides. Right? So, at this time, what should happen, theoretically, is they become energized. And the entire Roman army goes and fights the Carthaginians and defeats the Carthaginians. Okay? We have examples of that. We don't have an example of, in fact, an entire army in ancient times being surrounded and being slaughtered by the enemy. This is a very strange battle. In fact, if you ask ChatGPT, which battles have used double -envelopment strategy, basically, you have the Battle of Canaan. Okay, we have that. But the next one is 1940. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 15:22 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: 1940 in World War II. Now, the difference, of course, is that by the time you hit the 1940s, you have machine guns. You have tanks. So, if you start an enemy, you can destroy your enemy. But not in ancient times. Okay? In fact, the closest parallel that we have is the Battle of Marathon. But some historians suggest, okay, so even historians disagree whether or not the Battle of Marathon was actually a double -envelopment strategy. This makes no sense. This battle strategy makes no sense from a military perspective. Also, we can't find the damn place. You would think this was a huge battle. 50,000, 100,000 Romans are dead. There'd be a lot of bodies. We can't find the damn place. Okay? Look, there's no archaeological evidence to prove the battle took place. We don't have any evidence. That's kind of strange. Okay? Yeah, but maybe it's because of the weather or, you know, we don't know. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 16:22 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=982s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? All right, guys. So, what's going on here? Okay, so on YouTube, someone asked me, how can we know what history is true or not? Okay? Now, you would think the answer is, you just ask historians whether it's true or not, and you know the answer. The problem is that every historian that you talk to tells you the Battle of the Canal must be historical fact. It must be, even though we don't have any evidence for it. So, given that, how can we understand or figure out if it's true or not? Well, in this class, what I teach you is two things. It's a new historical framework to understand history. Okay? So, this is predictive history, and we ask ourselves, does the Battle of the Canal fit into a larger historical pattern? Okay? Second question we ask is, does it make sense according to game theory? And the third question is, does religion explain the battle? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 17:20 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? And when we do this, we use this framework to understand the Battle of the Canal, our conclusion must be, it didn't happen. It was completely made up. Okay? The Battle of the Canal did not happen. So, why? Well, first of all, when we have these great military generals like Hannibal Barca, they tend to become a king. Okay? So, think of Napoleon, or think of Julius Caesar. Hannibal Barca is the first general that we have that conquered all of Rome and decided, I'm going to sit back and retire for the next 50 years. Okay? Never happened before. Why didn't he go back to Carthage and reclaim the kingship? Right? That's the first problem. Second problem is game theory. Okay? So, if you read Roman history, what they will tell you is that Hannibal, after the Battle of the Canal, he was stuck in Italy without resources. Then ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 18:12 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1092s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1092s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: the question is, why didn't he go to Carthage, conquer the place, and demand the resources he needs to win against Rome? Why is he sitting back? Okay? Also, remember, this is a guy who crossed the Alps on his own initiative. The Carthaginians told him, don't start a war with Rome, Hannibal. And Hannibal was like, nah, I'm going to go across the Alps. Thank you very much. Okay? So, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And then, from a religious perspective, how can we explain why Hannibal did what he did? Roman historians will tell you, oh, it's because his father lost against Rome. He wanted revenge on behalf of his father. That makes no sense, guys. Okay? Usually, when a Napoleon emerges, it's because he thinks he's a son of God. Think of Napoleon. Think of Alexander the Great. Think of Julius Caesar. Okay? They all have a messianic calling, a divine mission. All right? So, from this, only conclusion can be, first of all, the Battle of Cana did not happen. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 19:08 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: There's no way it could have happened. The second thing is, you can also say that Hannibal Barca did not exist as a person. All right? But then, this leads us to a really huge problem, which is, why would the Romans just make this stuff up? Why? Why would they say, we fought this battle, and 100,000 of our men got killed by this Carthaginian general, Hannibal, who was smarter than us? Okay? Well, the reason why is this, Carthage. Okay? Carthage is, at this time in history, about 200 B.C., the most beautiful, the most prosperous, the most cultured city in the world. And what did Romans do? They burned it to the ground and killed everyone. Okay? That's just the Roman way. Now, this is a siege of Carthage that lasted many, many years in the Third Punic War. The Romans, if they don't like you, they will come and kill every one of you. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 20:05 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? They burned it in Carthage. Now, during this war, a Greek named Polybius, okay? Polybius was a hostage of Rome, and he became the official historian of the Roman Empire. So, this is a guy who invented the Battle of Canaan. Why? To justify the burning of Carthage. Right? Because the Romans are like, why did we kill the Carthaginians? Because that's what we do, man. Okay? But Polybius is Greek, and he understands that. You know, if Rome, you're going to be an empire, you need people on your side. You can't go around just killing people. You need to explain your actions. So, in other words, Polybius, in order to justify the Roman Empire, created this entire history of the Second Punic War that didn't really happen. Okay? Because now it's like, okay, well, the Romans felt threatened by Hannibal, right? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 20:57 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Hannibal was going to destroy them. And so, they all saw Carthage as a threat, and therefore, they had to destroy Carthage. Now, it's much more reasonable. Okay? So, Polybius basically made up the entire history of Rome. The thing to remember about history is that if you're a military power, you don't write history. Why? Because you're not capable of reflection. You're not capable of deep cultural production. Okay? So, the Romans won all these battles and got the Greeks to write the history for them, to just justify why they did what they did. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right? So, again, I hate to say this. Okay? But basically, all Roman history is complete nonsense. All right? If you read Roman history, just don't believe anything you read. Okay? So, let's look at the Roman war machine. Because after the war against Carthage, after Rome destroys Carthage, Rome is the undisputed leader of the Mediterranean. It's an empire now. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 22:00 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: But it still keeps on fighting these wars overseas for no particular reason. Why? Because it has no choice in the matter. This is the entire Roman war machine. Okay? So, because Rome is a poor place, the only way that it can generate wealth is by conquering other people. Okay? So, the nobility wants to go fight these wars overseas so that they can capture slaves. Why? Because they can get these slaves then to work their estates. Okay? So, at this time in history, slaves are the main resource that people are fighting over. Okay? Now, to fight these wars, peasants are conscripted into the military. But once they leave the land, they need to feed their families. So, what do they do? They borrow money with their land as collateral. Okay? But over time, what happens is they can't pay back the interest. Right? They default on a loan and then landowners, the nobility, seize the land. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 22:54 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Then what they do is they get the slaves that they conquer to come work this land. Right? Now, the peasants have no choice but to go to Rome to look for work. Because they've lost their land. And the Roman state gives them food. It's called a grain dole. Okay? And so, now the nobility wants to go fight more wars. What they do is they bribe the peasants to vote for more wars. And then the peasants can go and maybe win some booty. Okay? Because they have no land. And so, what's happening is that what the Roman war machine is doing is creating slavery, debt, corruption, and inequality. Okay? And over time, what happens is that wealth becomes more consolidated. Inferior hands, which creates conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. The optimates are called the upper nobility. And the populaires are called the lower nobility. Okay? So, what's the difference? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 23:43 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Optimates just means the best of the best. Okay? Why do I have so much money? Because I'm better than you are. In fact, my entire family is better than you are. Populaires is where we get the word populist from. So, this is lower nobility, people like Julius Caesar, who take advantage of the discontent in order to launch their political careers. And what they do is they promise the peasants, the people, more opportunities. Okay? To take the wealth of the rich and give it more to the poor. Okay? So, this is a conflict that will arise in Rome after the end of Carthage. And this will last for centuries, until the very end of the Roman Empire. Okay? In other words, the Roman war machine doesn't know how to stop. Even when it becomes an empire, all this aggressive military power, all this military power, all this military energy, then translate into civil war. Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 24:37 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So, the Romans aren't killing other people, they're killing each other. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 24:43 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: All right. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 24:44 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: This is a question from a YouTube viewer. And Alara Ford asked, why are wars good at maintaining equilibrium? Okay? Why is it that wars help reduce the problem of elite overproduction? Okay. And the reason why is, and I know it's hard for you guys to understand this, but wars are beneficial. All right? So, let's go over the benefits of war. Well, first of all, you create social cohesion. Right? You're fighting against another person, you have to stand together. So, it creates a dialectic, a hatred of the other, which gives meaning and purpose to life. Okay? It creates social mobility. If you're poor, you go fight a war, you get lucky, you can become pretty wealthy. Wealth destruction and generation. Okay? So, you're destroying wealth, which allows for more opportunities. Survival of the fittest. So, population control. So, basically, the strongest survive in war, the weak die off. High fertility rate. Because so many people are dying, mothers are forced to have more and more children. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 25:53 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? They don't have a choice in the matter. Release of social tension. So, if people don't like each other, they go fight a war together and now they're best friends. Innovation, creativity, entertainment for nobility. Okay? Competition. War is often just, nobility just enjoys wars because it's like playing a chess game. Okay? They're not the ones dying. Worst case scenario, they become hostages. Right? All right. So, again, what happens is that after Carthage is destroyed, the Romans turn against each other. Okay? The first thing that happens is something called the social wars. Basically, it's the Roman allies who were told to fight a war and return. They were granted citizenship. They were not granted citizenship, so they rebelled against the Roman state and this led to civil war. Okay? But the problem is you're not fighting the Roman army, so you're not going to win. So, eventually, the Roman state had to give in and give citizenship to these people. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 26:50 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? This is one of the most radical turning points in Roman history. So, right now, there's massive inequality in Rome. The nobility have all the land and they have slaves to work the land. The peasants are having problems feeding themselves in the cities. Okay? So, now what do you do? So, this man is named Tiberius Gracchus, and he's a reformer. And he says basically, hey guys, here's what we're going to do. The rich have all this land. We're not going to touch that because we have to respect private property. But there's all this public land that's not being used. It belongs to the Roman state. We have all these poor people that want to work the land, but they have no land. So, what we'll do is this. We'll take public land that no one's touching. Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 27:37 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: No one's using this stuff. Give it to the people to work to generate more wealth for our society. We have more tax revenue. The people are happier. And, yeah. And no one gets hurt. Okay? Perfect solution, right? Because he proposed a solution, the nobility, the optimists, beat him to death. Okay? Not only did they beat him to death, they beat his brother to death as well. Okay? Why did they do this? Because the nobility, they beat him to death. The nobility is, how dare you steal our public land from us? Okay? So, nobility was like, this public land belongs to us, man. Because we are the state. Screw the people. Okay? All right. So, of course, this leads to the rise of dictators. So, there have been different dictators who've come to power and they've tried to solve this sort of conflict within Rome. The first is Marius who promised reform, but really didn't deliver. Then you have Sulla. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 28:36 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? And Sulla's solution was really simple. Let's just kill all the reformers. Pretty simple, guys. Okay? Our problem isn't the inequality, the problem is you've got too many people who propose reform. So, he just killed all the reformers. Okay? And then after he killed all the reformers, he retired. One of these reformers who got away was Julius Caesar. Okay? So, Julius Caesar, because his family was very wealthy, was able to escape Sulla. But he's a very ambitious man. So, now he's going to build his political career. Based on the discontent of the people. And what he's going to do is that he's going to bribe his way into office so that he can get a generalship to go invade Gaul. Okay? So, he goes to Gaul, which is in modern day France. He spends many years there. What's he doing there? Okay. Okay. Well, if you look at official Roman history, what he's doing there is he's trying to pacify the people of Gaul. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 29:36 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? So, he has these series of military campaigns in Gaul. And it culminates in... So, he's leading his soldiers into war in Gaul. And it culminates in something called the Battle of Alesia, which is one of the most famous battles in history. Basically, what's happened is that this is the very last battle of Caesar's Gallic campaign. What he's done is he's surrounded a village where his enemies are. Okay? But his enemies send word to all the Gallic tribes to come and converge against the Romans. So, what the Romans do is they build fortifications to block out the invaders. Okay? So, they're fighting wars on both fronts. They're fighting in the inside against the enemy's trap here. They're also fighting against the enemies coming from outside as well. And Alesia is one of the greatest battles in human history. And again, we have reason to think that this didn't happen. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 30:33 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? So, what was Caesar doing in Gaul? And why was he starting all these wars? The answer is really simple. Okay? There are three reasons. The first is, remember, slaves are the most valuable commodity at this time. So, what he's doing is he's basically capturing slaves. Okay? He's going and he's starting his wars in order to capture slaves. Caesar said famously, I killed a third of the people in Gaul, I enslaved a third of them, and I left a third alone. Okay? So, he basically committed genocide against the people of Gaul. Okay? And what's important to understand is he probably exaggerated. He probably didn't kill a third. Why? Because if he captures slaves, a lot of this money has to go to the Roman state. But if he pretends to kill the Gauls but actually enslaves them, then all the money goes to him. Okay? So, by enslaving people, he became filthy rich. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 31:23 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: In fact, he became the wealthiest man in Rome. And he used his money to bribe his friends into office. Okay? So, he became also the most politically powerful individual in Rome. That's the reason, number one, why he went to Gaul. Second is that Caesar was trying to build a loyal army, a private army that was loyal to him. And so, just because he was able to give money to these soldiers, these soldiers not only were loyal to him, but they also developed a lot of fighting experience while in Gaul. Right? So, now Caesar has the world's most powerful army. The third reason why he went to Gaul, and this is the most important, is to create a myth of himself as a great conqueror. All these great politicians understand, people don't really understand the difference between reality and fantasy. In fact, they don't care about the difference. Okay? People will believe what they want to believe. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 32:17 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=1937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So, what Caesar was doing was, he was going to Gaul and then he was getting people to go back to Rome and announce all his victories. Okay? We have reason to believe that a lot of these victories were made up. But it gave the impression among the Romans that Caesar was this great conqueror. Okay? So, think of this guy. Right? What's he doing? He's trying to create an image of himself as energetic, dynamic, virile. Right? Right? Does that make sense? Oh, and a better example, of course, is this guy. Okay? All right? Donald Trump. He spent a lot of years in the World Wrestling Federation trying to portray himself as macho, as energetic, as strong. Right? And then for over 10 years, he had the most popular television show on TV called The Apprentice, where he pretended to be this savvy genius of a business person. Right? The Apprentice. And this is what really launched his political career. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 33:27 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: All right? So, this is all these great politicians understand. If you really want to have a great political career, you have to create a myth of yourself as an entrepreneurial military man. Right? You have to create a myth of yourself as an entrepreneurial military genius. Okay. So, after Gaul, the Roman Senate basically gets really annoyed at Caesar because they don't understand what he's trying to do. He's trying to become king of Rome. So, they basically try to impeach him. Okay? They want to put him on trial. So, Caesar basically rebels against them, and it starts a civil war. And what's going to happen is that Caesar is going to go conquer the entire Roman Empire. Now, it's one man in his army against the entire empire. So, he should have lost. The problem is that the Ottomans are really stupid, arrogant, and lazy. Okay? So, Pompey, General Pompey, is fighting for the Ottomans, and he's going against Caesar. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 34:30 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And Pompey's strategy, it's really simple. Okay? Caesar has control over Italy. There's a problem, though. Italy is poor. It does not produce enough food. So, all we have to do is lay siege to Italy, and the people will starve. War is over. That's all we have to do. Right? We don't have to fight Caesar. Just lay siege to Italy. The people starve. The people rebel against Caesar, and then Caesar loses the war. The problem, though, is the Ottomans were afraid that if Pompey won the war, then they would make Pompey king. Right? So, what the Ottomans wanted to do was force Pompey. Pompey will shoot you and Caesar into a battle and kill both. Okay? They wanted to destroy both. And this led to something called the Battle of Pharsalus. Remember, at this time, Caesar needs to go fight Pompey, but Pompey doesn't have to actually fight Caesar, but the Ottomans force him to fight in a battle called Pharsalus. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 35:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2125s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? And in this battle, because Caesar has a loyal army, they defeat Pompey, even though Pompey has more soldiers. Okay? And then what Caesar will do is then go call Pompey. He will conquer the entire Roman Empire, and he makes himself dictator of Rome. And this, of course, leads to his assassination. Why is he assassinated? Because the Romans are afraid that he will make himself king, and he will abolish the debt of the people, and he will reappropriate the land and give it to the people. Okay? He will basically make himself king by making Rome a much more equal and egalitarian place. And so, they killed him. And this led to more civil war. More civil war in which Octavius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, will be triumphant because he will inherit Julius Caesar's army. And at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, he will destroy Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, making himself the supreme ruler of the Roman Empire. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 36:30 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? And he's really considered the first Roman emperor. But what's really important for us to understand is... At this point in history, the problems of Rome don't really go away. He is emperor, and during his time, things are stable. But after he dies, the Roman Empire goes back into civil war. And it does not stop fighting civil war until it's very collapsed. Okay? What makes him emperor is the fact that he will take Egypt and turn it into his private property. And he will use the wealth of Egypt to fund the army. So all the soldiers are now loyal to him individually, as opposed to the king. As opposed to the Roman state. Okay? Now, Augustus Caesar, he was not a military genius, but he appreciated that if the Roman people were to survive, they needed a culture as distinct and as powerful as Greek culture. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 37:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: At this time in history, the Greeks were culturally dominant. And he was afraid that over time, all Romans would just become Greeks. So he needed to create a culture that was distinct and powerful. He wanted to create a culture that was distinct from the Greeks, but also considered much more powerful than the Greeks. Okay? So that was his main major contribution to the Roman Empire. So what he does is he takes the work of Polybius. Remember, Polybius is the main architect of the history of Roman Empire. And he tells Livy to basically rewrite the history, but from a Roman lens, as opposed to a Greek lens. Okay? So this is a really famous book written by Livy, sponsored by Octavius Caesar. Okay? So we're going to read a bit of it to understand the Roman mentality. Okay? All right. All right. So what's happening is this. The book starts with the founding of Rome. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 38:27 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And in the Roman tradition, what's going to happen is the Romans are descendants of Troy. Remember, Troy and Aelian was destroyed by the Greeks. How did the Greeks destroy Troy? Through Troy. Through trickery. Through deception. Right? The Trojan horse. And then what will happen is the Greeks flood into the city and kill everyone. But there's a Trojan general named Aeneas and his wife, Cretia. What they will do is they will escape, okay? In order to found Rome. Now, Cretia is the wife. And what she will do is, as they're leaving Troy, she will kill herself in order to allow Aeneas to escape fully. Okay? So in the Roman tradition, all that matters is the father. Okay? So you can see the father can't walk. So Aeneas has to shoulder him to the ship. And women don't matter at all. Okay? That's the Roman tradition. All right. So what happens ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 39:31 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: next is Rome is founded by twins, Romulus and Remus, and they will fight for the kingship of Rome. Okay? So can you read the story of Romulus and Remus? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 39:47 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Remus is said to have been the first to receive an omen. Six vultures appeared to him. The augury had just been announced to Romulus when double the number appeared to him. Each was saluted as king by his own party. The one side based their claim on the priority of the appearance, the other on the number of the birds. Then followed an angry altercation. Heated passions led to bloodshed. In their turmoil, Remus was killed. The more common report is that Remus contemptuously jumped over the newly raised walls and was forthwith killed by the enraged Romulus who exclaimed, so shall it be henceforth with everyone who leaps over my walls. Romulus thus became sole ruler and the city was called after him, its founder. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 40:37 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So Romulus and Remus are twins. Okay? They love each other. And, um, Rome was founded on violence. Okay? That's the very nature of Rome, a city based on violence. This story, if you remember, um, sorry. Okay. So, so now Romulus founds a city called Rome and he invites anyone to join him. And over time they become much more powerful and they threaten their neighboring states. And they cannot, these states cannot defeat Rome in war. So what they decide is, you know what? We can't beat the Romans in battle, but if our daughters don't marry into them, they'll be dead after one generation. They don't have any children. Okay? So there's this compact among the nations of Italy not to marry into Rome. So Romans discover this and they hatch this plan. What they're going to do is you're going to have this major festival and they invite all the families to come to this festival. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 41:35 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And then, um, they will kidnap a woman and kill her. They're going to rape them. Okay? That's the plan. Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 41:44 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: They were invited to accept hospitality at the different houses. And after examining the situation of the city, its walls and the large number of dwelling houses it included, they were astonished at the rapidity with which the Roman state had grown. When the hour for the games had come and their eyes and minds were alike riveted on the spectacle before them. The preconcert, the preconcerted signal was given in the Roman state. The Roman youth dashed in all directions to carry off the maidens who were present. The larger part were carried off indiscriminately, but some particular beautiful girls who had been marked out of the leading patricians were carried to their houses by plebeians told off for the task. Alarm and concernation broke up. The games and the parents of the maidens fled, distracted with grief, uttering bitter reproaches on the violators of the laws of hospitality and appealing to the god to whose solemn games they had come, only to be the victims of impious perfidy. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 42:54 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 42:59 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay. So this is actually a very serious crime because when you invite people into your house, there are these laws that you must show hospitality. Uh, hospitality to your guests. Otherwise you will offend the gods themselves because it's possible the person you invite into your house is a god himself. Okay. So what the Romans did was outrageous. Okay. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 43:26 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The abducted maidens were quite as despondent and indignant. Romulus, however, went around in person and pointed out to them that it was all owing to the pride of their parents in denying rights of intermarriage to their neighbors. They would live in honorable wedlock. And share all their property and civil rights and dearest of all to human nature would be the mothers of freemen. He begged them to lay aside their feelings of resentment and give their affections to those whom fortune had made masters of their persons. An injury had often led to reconciliation and love. They would find their husbands all the more affectionate because each would do his utmost so far as in him lay to make up for the loss of parents and comfort. These arguments were reinforced by endearments of the other husbands who excused their conduct by pleading the irresistible force of their passion, a plea effective beyond all other and appealing to a woman's nature. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 44:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 44:26 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay. So the Romans are pretty disgusting. Okay. They raped a woman and said, it's your fault or it's your parents' fault. And I really couldn't control myself. So sorry, man. But I'll be nice to you. Okay. Yep. All right. So this is a pretty memorable event in Roman history. It's called the Rape of the Sabine Woman. Okay. And these are different artworks depicting the event. Okay. So the fathers are obviously pissed off about this. Okay. So a huge army is created to rescue the woman back. And now these Roman soldiers are now facing this huge army. And when this happens, as with the clash, these women who are raped, they come screaming forward in the middle and say, stop, stop, stop. You're my husband. You're my father. We don't want you to fight. Okay. Can you read, please? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 45:22 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Then it was that the Sabine women whose wrongs had led to the war, throwing off all womanish fears in their distress, went boldly into the midst of the flying missiles with disheveled hair and rent garments. Running across the space between the two armies. They tried to stop any further fighting and calm the excited passions by appealing to their fathers in the one army and their husbands in the other, not to bring upon themselves a curse by staining their hands with the blood of a father -in -law or a son -in -law, nor upon their posterity the taint of parasite. Parasite. Parasite. If, they cried, you are wary of these ties of kindred, these marriage bonds, then turn your anger upon us. It is we. It is we who are the cause of the war. It was we who had wounded and slain our husbands and fathers. Better for us to perish rather than live without one or the other of you, as widows or as orphans. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 46:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The armies and their leaders were alike moved by this appeal. There was a sudden hush and silence. Then the generals advanced to arrange the terms of a treaty. It was not only peace that was made. The two nations were united into one state. The royal power was shared between them, and the seat of government for both nations was Rome. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 46:47 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay, so this couldn't possibly happen, right? So, these women are abducted, the fathers try to rescue them, and then the women say, hey, it was our fault. Like, let this all be one big family, okay? So, this is one of the founding myths of Rome. And I keep on saying this, but like, just take all Roman history and just, like, throw it in the garbage, okay? Because it's basically all made up. All right. So, Rome becomes more and more powerful, and now they have a king, okay? But over time, their king becomes very corrupt. Their king is Sarcanius Superbus. Superbus just means arrogant. And his son falls in love with a noble woman named Lucretia. But Lucretia is already married to a man named Colantinus. And so, the prince decides to go, you know, rape her, okay? And, yeah, okay. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 47:42 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: They found Lucretia sitting in her room, prostrate with grief. As they entered, she burst into tears, and to her husband's inquiry whether all was well, replied, no, what can be well with a woman when her honor is lost? The marks of a stranger, Colantinus, are in your bed, but it is only the body that had been violated. The soul is pure. Thou shalt bear witness to that. But pledge me your solemn word that the adulterer shall not go unpunished. It is Sextus Tarquin who, coming as an enemy instead of a guest, forced from me last night by brutal violence a pleasure fatal to me, and, if you are a man, fatal to him. They all successively pledged their word and tried to console the distracted woman by turning the guilt from the victim of the outrage to the perpetrator and urging that it is not the mind that sins, not the body. And, where there has been no consent, there is no guilt. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 48:47 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: It is for you, she said, to see that he gets in deserts. Although I acquit myself to the sin, I do not free myself from the penalty. No unchaste woman shall henceforth live and plead Lucretia's example. She had a knife concealed in her dress, which she plunged into her heart and fell dying on the floor. Her father and husband raised the death cry. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 49:10 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=2950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay, so she is raped by the prince, and her husband and best friend, the best friend is Lucius Brutus, okay? They try to console her, and they know she's distraught, okay? But Lucretia is like, no, I don't want to be consoled. I want revenge. We're Romans, man! We fight to the bitter end. If you hit me, I go kill you. If you kill me, I go kill your entire family, okay? And that's just the Roman way. So what happens is, like, Brutus, Lucius Brutus, he leads a revolt against the king, and the king is forced out of Rome. And now, Rome is a republic. It's now run by the nobility. And a lot of people are unhappy with this system because before, if you were good friends with the king, you could do whatever you want. But now, you have to follow the laws of Rome, and so people conspire against the new rule, um, republic. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 50:08 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And a couple of the conspirators include two of Lucius Brutus' sons, okay? His two sons. And the conspiracy is found out, and all the conspirators are arrested, and they're condemned to death. Lucius Brutus decides he's going to put his own sons to death. So he orders and organizes the execution of his two sons, okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 50:37 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Their punishment created a great sensation owing to the fact that the consular office imposed upon a father the duty of inflicting punishment on his own children. He who ought not to have witnessed it was destined to be the one to see it duly carried out. Youths belonging to the noblest families were standing tied to the post, but all eyes were turned to the consul's children. The others were unnoticed. Men did not grieve more for their punishment than for their children. They did not grieve more for their crime, which had incurred it, that they should have conceived the idea in that year above all of betraying to one who had been a ruthless tyrant and was now an exile and an enemy, a newly liberated country, their father who had liberated it, the consulship which had originated in the Junian House, the Senate, the plebs. All the Rome possessed of human or divine. The consuls took their seats. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 51:41 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The lictors were told off to inflict the penalty. They scourged their bare backs with rods and then beheaded them. During the whole time, the father's countenance betrayed his feelings, but the father's stern resolution was still more apparent as he superintended the public execution. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 52:02 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So you're a father, right? And these are your two sons. You love your two sons more than anything else in the world. You are forced by the law to execute your two sons, okay? Now, most fathers would be like, you know what? I'm going to call in sick. I'm going to go home and sleep until my sons are dead. Lucius Brutus is like, no, I'm going to actually watch my two sons get killed. Not only that, but I'm going to organize their execution, okay? And we can imagine, okay, this is Lucius Brutus. And he has to watch as his sons are being beheaded right before him. And he's the one ordering their execution. As you can see, people are disgusted. They have to look away. And people are looking at his expression. And you can see the emotional turmoil in his face, right? There's hatred. There's disgust. There's contempt. There's guilt. He hates himself, right? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 52:57 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: He hates his son, but he hates himself even more. There's all this crazy energy, hateful energy that's being unleashed. The Roman way is to take all this energy and turn it against your enemy, okay? That's the secret of the Roman military. To create a society so hateful, so angry, so vicious, that people have all this demonic energy in them that they can now use against them. That's your enemy, okay? So let's see what happens. What's going to happen now is the king decides to attack Rome because this conspiracy has failed, right? What Lucius Brutus is going to do is ride out and meet the army head on, okay? Can you read, please? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 53:51 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So two armies from these cities followed Tarquin to recover his crown and chastise the Romans. When they had entered the Roman territory, the consuls advanced against them. Valerius, with the infantry and phalanx formation, Brutus recon... ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 54:12 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Reconquering. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 54:13 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Reconquering in advance with the cavalry. Similarly, the enemy's cavalry was in front of his main body, Aaronus Tarquin, the king's son, in command. The king himself followed with the legionnaires whilst still at a distance. Aaronus distinguished the consul by his escort of lictors. As they drew nearer, he clearly recognized Brutus by his features, and in a transport of rage exclaimed, That is the man who drove us from our country. See him proudly advancing, adorned with our insignia. Ye god, avengers of kings, aid me. With these words, he dug spurs into his horse and rode straight at the consul. Brutus saw that he was making for him. It was a point of honor in those days for the leaders to engage in single combat, so he eagerly accepted the challenge, and they charged with such fury, neither of them thinking of protecting himself. If only he could wound his foe, that each drove his spear at ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 55:19 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: the same moment through the other's shield, and they fell dying from their horses with their spears sticking in them. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 55:25 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So you see what happened, okay? So Brutus is traumatized by the execution of his two sons. There is now a void in his heart. There is now a tear in his heart, right? But this tear is unleashing all this energy that he can now use against his enemy. That is a secret. Trauma is a drug. The Roman way is to use trauma as a drug to empower you against your enemies. Okay? Alright, so the problem though is that the Roman army is much smaller than the king's army. So the Romans are forced back into their city. They have to hide behind their walls, and they are under siege. And there is a Roman nobleman named Musius. And Musius decides to offer a proposal to the Senate. He says to the Senate, listen, we are never going to beat this king's army. What I can do is I can sneak into his camp and assassinate the king. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 56:28 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And so the Senate is like, sure. So Musius swims across the Tiber and he sneaks into the enemy camp. And he sees it is payday. So there is two men, the king and the secretary, giving out cash, giving out money to the soldiers. They look the same, they dress the same. And Musius doesn't know which is which. And at this point he should be like, you know what, I will come back another day and figure out who is the king. But now he is like, you know what, it is 50 -50. You know, it is a coin flip. So he takes his dagger and he stabs the guy. And it turns out to be the secretary. And he is arrested, okay. And he appears before the king. And the king says to him, you tell me the truth or I will burn you in this fire. And then Musius says, okay, the truth is this. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 57:15 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: I am one of hundreds of young Roman men who have sworn to come and kill you. One of us will succeed. I fail today, but tomorrow someone else will come. If he fails, someone else will come back. And Musius will come as well. And then the king says, are you telling the truth? If you are not telling the truth, I will burn you alive. And then Musius is, you know what, he takes his hand, okay, he takes his hand and he puts it in the fire. And his hand is being burned, okay. He is just like, The king is freaked out. He is like, you Romans are the craziest bastards. You guys are demonic. I am out of here, okay. The war is over. All right. All right. Can you read, please? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 58:05 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Here alone, and helpless in the utmost peril, he was still able to inspire more fear than he felt. I am a citizen of Rome, he said. Men call me C... ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 58:16 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Musius. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 58:17 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Musius. As an enemy, I wish to kill an enemy, and I have as much courage to meet death as I had to inflict it. It is the Roman nature to act bravely and to suffer bravely. I am not alone in having made this resolve against you. Behind me there is a long list of those who aspire to the same distinction. If then it is your pleasure, make up your mind for a struggle in which you will every hour have to fight for your life and find an armed foe on the threshold of your royal tent. This is the war which we, the youth of Rome, declared against you. You have no seried ranks, no pitched battle to fear. The matter will be settled between you alone and each one of us singly. The king, furious with anger and at the same time terrified at the unknown danger, threatened that if he did not promptly explain the nature of the plot, which he was darkly hinting at, he should be roasted alive. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 59:17 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Look, Musius cried, and learned how lightly those regard their bodies who have some great glory in view. Then he plunged his rod with his right hand into a fire burning on the altar. Whilst he kept it roasting there as if he were devoid of all sensation, the king, astounded at his preternational conduct, sprang from his seat and ordered the youth to be removed from the altar. Go, he said. You have been a worse enemy to yourself than to me. I would invoke blessings on your courage if it were displayed on behalf of my country as it is. I send you away, exempt from all rights of war, unhurt and safe. Then Musius, reciprocating as it were this generous treatment, said, Since you honor courage, know that what you could not gain by threats you have obtained by kindness. Three ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:00:11 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: hundred of us, the foremost amongst the Roman youth, have sworn to attack you in this way. The lot fell to me first. The rest, in the order of their lot, will come each in his turn, till fortune shall give us a favorable chance against you. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:00:54 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So everything that we've read is not true, but the Romans thought it was true. And remember, people cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. So as long as you believe it is true, then it's true. And this is how Romans behave. So the story of Lucius Brutus kicking out the Tarkins is the story of the third man, stealing the cattle. So basically stealing a throne from Tarquin. And the story of the man sacrificing his twin is the story of Romulus and Remus. So now we get to the most famous of all Roman epics called the Iliad. And so at this time again, Augustus Caesar has a problem in that everyone acknowledges the Greek culture to be superior. Why? Because of Homer. Because of the Iliad. Remember, we read the Iliad, and we remember how the Iliad ends with an act of love and forgiveness and compassion, right? Achilles feels guilt for what he's done for killing Patroclus. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:02:08 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: He takes out this rage on Hector, which is a Roman way. And then Prime comes and forgives Achilles by kissing his hand. And this allows Achilles to escape his guilt and they forgive each other. And in the face of Priam, Achilles sees his father. In the face of Achilles, Prime sees Hector. And so they hug and they weep together. And this idea of love as a unifying force in the universe becomes the basis of Greek culture, of Greek civilization. The Romans don't like this. For them, if your culture is based on hate, love is the greatest enemy. So what is going to happen is Augustus Caesar is going to ask a poet, named Virgil, to rewrite this story in a way that puts hate at the center of the universe and not love, okay? All right. All right. So this is the Inead by Virgil, considered one of the greatest books in human history. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:03:14 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: It is a complete piece of crap, okay? It's propaganda. All right. When you read it, you see how terrible it is. And basically Virgil, who was the most famous poet in the Roman Empire at this time, he's being ordered by Augustus Caesar to write the Inead. And they write it together, basically. Basically, with each draft, Virgil has to read it to Augustus Caesar, and then Augustus Caesar tells him how to rework it so it captures the Roman spirit. When Virgil was about to die, he asked for the book to be burned, okay? Because he, as a poet, understands that if you are using the gift of God, poetry is a gift of God, to promote hatred, then you're going to burn in hell, man. Okay? So he asked for this book to be burned, but Augustus Caesar, no, no. I like it the way it is, okay? So this is a rewriting of the Inead. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:04:09 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: What's going to happen is this. The Greeks have broken into Troy, and they're killing everyone, okay? And the son of Achilles, named Pyrrhus, is killing the sons of Priam. And Priam faces, Pyrrhus, and he tells Pyrrhus, you're the son of Achilles. Achilles was a noble person. Have you no mercy? And the people's like, no. And then he kills Pyrrhus, okay? All right, so can you read, please? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:04:40 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Suddenly, look, a son of Priam, Pryam, Pallites just escaped from slaughters as Pyrrhus' hands, comes racing in through spears, through enemy fighters, fleeing down the long arcades, and deserted hallways, badly wounded. Pyrrhus hot on his heels, a weapon poised for the kill, about to seize him, about to run him through, and pressing home as Pallites reaches his parents and collapses, vomiting out his lifeblood before their eyes. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:05:14 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay, so this is very similar to the death of Hector, right? So remember, Achilles kills Hector, and Priam witnesses it, right? And something is happening here, where Pallites is being killed in front of Priam. So again, it's a rewriting of the Iliad. Keep on going. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:05:28 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3928s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: At that, Pryam, trapped in the grip of death, not holding back, not checking his words, his rage, you, he cries, and you and your vicious crimes. If any power on high recoils at such an outrage, let the gods repay you for all your reckless work. Grant you the thanks, the rich reward you've earned. You've made me see my son's death with my own eyes, defiled a father's sight with a son's lifeblood. You've made me see my son's death with a son's lifeblood. You say you're Achilles' son. You lie. Achilles never treated his enemy, Priam, so. No, he honored, he honored as suppliant's right. He blushed to betray my trust. He restored my Hector's bloodless corpse for burial, sent me safely home to the land I ruled. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:06:14 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3974s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay, so this is the end of the Iliad, okay? So he's reminding everyone the Iliad is a story about love, forgiveness, compassion, okay? Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:06:27 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=3987s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: With that and with all his might, the old man flaying his spear, but too important how to pierce. In merely grace, the fire sprays a shield that blocks its way and clings there, dangling limp from the boss, all for nothing. Pyrrhus shouts back, well then, down you go, a messenger to my father. Peleus. Peleus' son. Tell him about my vicious work, how Nepo... ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:06:55 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Neoptolemus. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:06:56 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Neoptolemus, who degrades his father's name, don't you forget, now die. That said, he dragged the old man straight to the altar, quaking, slithering on through slicks of his son's blood, and twisting Priam's hair in his left hand, his right hand sweeping forth his sword, a flash of steel, he buries its heel deep in the king's flank. Such was the fate of Pyrrhum, his death, his lot on earth, with Choi blazing before his eyes, her ramparts down, the monarch who once had ruled in all his glory, the many land of Asia, Asia's many tribes, a powerful trunk is lying on the shore, the head wrenched from the shoulders, a corpse without a name. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:07:40 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay, so all Roman school children have to memorize this poetry. And obviously, if you are a Roman school child, and you know that Priam is one of your ancestors, you have a deep hatred of the Greeks. Okay, so the entire purpose of the Indian ad is to create hatred of the Greeks in order to create a Roman identity. All right, so again, the Greeks were the greatest civilization we ever had. Why? Because they were a civilization based on reflection, on debate, on openness. This is a modern reactment of the play, The Trojan Woman, okay? This is a play by Eupides that discusses what happens to the Trojan woman after Troy falls. They become enslaved, their children are killed. And so the Greeks, when they watch this play, they have to watch their own darkness. They have to see for themselves their own heart of darkness. It causes tremendous empathy for their enemies, okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:08:41 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: This is a very idea of civilization. And what do the Romans do? They do this, okay? Gladiators. They watch lions eat people. They watch men kill each other, okay? That's the Roman way. The Greeks want to understand and feel empathy for other people. The Romans just want to kill other people, all right? And in America today, we have a very similar Roman culture as well. This is American football, of course, and it is pretty violent, okay? It is pretty barbaric. All right. The Greeks, for fun, what they really do is they organize dinner parties called symposia. Symposium. And in the symposium, what happens is that people come together and they have conversations about love, about poetry, about life. They will drink wine, but the wine is watered down, okay? So they can keep on drinking for a long, long time. And the entire argument is just to have a conversation, all right? All right. And so this is the idea of the symposium, okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:09:55 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: This is a famous painting of Alcibiades coming in and having a discussion with everyone. So in Athenian culture, what's important is to be a great speaker, to be intelligent, to engage people in debate and conversation and philosophy, okay? And what do the Romans do instead? They get drunk and they throw up and they have orgies, okay? So the Roman, what Romans were fun is they had this huge feast, these huge banquets. And what they will do is, they will gobble down the food in the first course. They'll go outside and throw up, okay? They will throw up the food so they can enjoy the second course. They will wolf down the food and then go and throw up again, okay? And guys, this is wild people on the streets starving to death, okay? Okay? This is the Roman way, okay? So this is the feast. This is almost a reenactment of the rape of Sabine woman, right? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:10:54 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So they take these myths. So the death of Lucretia, Musius burning his hand, the rape of the Sabine woman, and they use it as entertainment for the societies, okay? So this is really the beginning of secret societies, right? So what secret societies do is they will take these myths and reenact them out in order to build solidarity and trust and cohesion among the secret members. This is a picture of Nero just getting drunk, having a lot of sex, and he's like, okay, so it's pretty pointless existence. And of course, in America, you have this. I don't understand why is it that people think it's fun to do drugs, get drunk, and then go party all night, okay? But apparently, it's supposed to be a lot of fun. Okay, all right, so that is Roman culture. So Rome becomes the dominant empire at this time. And it is an empire based on hatred. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:12:04 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And it seems life is hopeless. And so what will happen is the universe will send a messenger to remind people there's still hope because there's God in you. And this person's name is? Jesus, right? So we'll discuss Jesus next class, okay? So Jesus' response to the Roman Empire. So I'll take some quick questions from YouTube, and then we'll end the class, okay? All right. So, so what does it mean to be a great man? Okay? So I say that love is the unifying force of the universe, but then you have these great men who come and conquer people. So which is which? Okay, so in my understanding of things, poor prophets are the greatest men, okay? People like Zarathustra, Homer, Jesus. These are the, the Yahwehs in the Bible. These are the great individuals of human history because they represent the truth, okay? They are messengers of the monad. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:13:14 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And then you have people like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, who you are conquering, okay? And they have been identified as great men of history. But I think it's really Homer and Dante, and Plato, who are the greatest people because they create civilizations based on their ideas. They actually change the course of human history based on their ideas. Whereas people like Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, they're more like a culmination of the trajectory of human history, okay? If that makes any sense. All right. Let's move on. All right. Yeah. So Alexander the Great, he loved the Iliad. So what did the Iliad mean to Alexander the Great? Okay. So to understand this idea, think of a play, okay? We all want to put in a play. We all know the script, but we need an actor to play a certain character. And then we're like, you know what? Alexander the Great plays Achilles, okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:14:16 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So it's expected that Alexander the Great will behave the way of Achilles in the Iliad. How did Achilles behave? Achilles saw himself as a young romantic hero. He was going to die on the beach of Detroit in order to achieve achievement. He wanted to achieve eternal glory, okay? That's why Alexander the Great could not stop fighting the war. In every battle, he was leading the charge because he wanted to die in battle. He wanted to be Achilles. Only by dying in battle could he achieve the fame of Achilles. Okay? So he was acting out the play. What's important is that he himself saw himself as the reincarnation of Achilles. And everyone else saw him as also the personification of Achilles as well. Okay? So that's how this works. All right. This person asks, why is it that Denmark, Norway, these Scandinavian countries are so different from other countries? Okay, well, first of all, they're small. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:15:18 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? They're really small countries, millions of people. Everyone knows each other. If you go to Denmark, everyone knows the prime minister of Denmark. Maybe she was their neighbor or their friend. If they don't know the prime minister, then they know a friend who knows the prime minister. So it's a really small place. Okay? That builds cohesion. That's number one. Number two is, guys, Denmark, Norway, are really cold places. That means that people spend a lot of time indoors together talking and becoming friends. Okay? And also because it's so cold, they have to work together. The third factor is these countries are surrounded by lots of dangerous enemies. Germany, Russia, Sweden. Okay? And as such, they learn that it's really important to stick together and to work together. Now, what's interesting is that if you go to a place like Holland, you go and you think it's very egalitarian. But what's really interesting is that ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:16:15 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: it's actually one of the most unequal places on earth because the aristocrats have a lot of money. But the problem is, the difference is, like, the aristocrats understand that if the people are happy, the aristocrats have a lot of money. But the problem is, they're more safe. Okay? So the aristocrats will actually promote and support the welfare state because of social cohesion. Okay? All right. A couple of questions. So we are moving to the age of digital technology, artificial intelligence. Does it mean that empires will change over time? Okay. This is something that I will discuss towards the end of the semester, to the end of this course. And it's a really interesting idea where okay, you're an empire, you're lazy, arrogant, and stupid. But maybe with artificial intelligence, you have more control over people. And in theory, that's true. Okay? Once you have the AI system, you'll be able to control people better. But you have to first build the AI system. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:17:20 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: And that takes a lot of effort and energy. And if you're in a dying empire like America, you don't have the energy to build this AI system. Okay? What you do have is a lot of desire and motivation to create an AI scam. Okay? So ChatGPT, it's a scam, guys. It's not really doing anything. But you can actually take this technology and create like a matrix to enslave people psychologically, mentally. Okay? We'll discuss this towards the end of the semester. We call this transhumanism. All right? All right. Okay. So, Athenians and Spartans didn't want to destroy each other but that led to the rise of Macedonia. How did that happen? The answer is because they didn't care. Okay? Do you understand? They're the empire so they think they're invincible. If an empire believed that a challenge could arise, they would never ever fall, guys. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:18:17 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4697s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4697s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: If an empire recognized that it could fall one day, it would never ever fall. It's because of hubris. Because it's so arrogant, lazy and stupid that it falls. Okay? So it's impossible for either Athens or Sparta to imagine that Macedonia would one day overtake them. All right. Um, last question is about secret societies. Um, how do secret societies work? All right. So this is something that we'll discuss towards the end of the course. Okay? But why is it that secret societies are so powerful? All right. To understand this, let's just do a thought experiment. All right? So imagine this. There's four groups of 100 people each. Okay? This is this huge mountain, the Himalayas. Okay? As quickly as possible. There are four teams. Okay? Team one is like, you guys can do whatever you want. Okay? We don't care. Team two is like, if everyone gets to the top, you get a million dollars each. Right? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:19:16 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Team three is one of the team members has a child who's going to die unless you get to the top. Because at the top is this magic doctor who can save your son. Okay? That's team three. Team four is there are these demons that are chasing you and they want they will you won't be able to sleep. You won't be able to live in peace if you don't stop running from these demons. Okay? So guess what? Team one, team two, team three, team four, who wins? Team four, obviously. Right? That's secret societies. Secret societies create so much trauma. They can create so much guilt and hatred and contempt that they're forced to keep on moving and running. Okay? That's the Roman way, guys. Okay? Remember, Lucius Brutus. He killed his own two sons. What do you do after that? Well, you have to go kill someone else. Okay? And then after you kill him, what do you do? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:20:10 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: You go kill someone else. And you keep on going because the guilt of killing your own two sons, it's too much to bear. If you just stop and you rest, your sons will appear before you as ghosts and they'll be like, Dad, why did you kill us? What did we do? Why did you kill us? You cannot bear that guilt. Okay? So, you have to keep on moving forward. You rush forward. Okay? Even if it kills you. All right? So, at this time, we have so much guilt. You either conquer the world or you kill yourself. Your choice. And that's why secret societies are so powerful, guys. Okay? Not because they have secrets. Okay? I actually don't know if they have secrets or not. All right? But I imagine they don't have secrets. But I imagine like they do so much evil in the world that they can only do more evil in order to escape the evil that they've already done. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:20:58 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? It's as though demons are chasing them. Does that make sense, guys? Yes. All right. So, questions? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:21:05 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: So, I think I did not fully understand the part which the romance rape of those women and women blame the sins on themselves. I think that part I think is a bit confusing. I think. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:21:26 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4886s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4886s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay. So, I think that's a good question. Okay. I think that's a good question. Okay. So, the rape of the seven women didn't really happen. But what the custom is if I go kill you, I kill you and I steal your wife. Okay? So, it is a metaphor for war. Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. And, but what this is saying is like if you go and kill your enemy and you steal his wife, the wife will thank you. Alright? So, it's creating this mythology. Alright? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:22:05 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: But why would the wife thank you? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:22:07 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The wife won't thank you. The wife won't hate you. But, do you care? You don't care. Okay? The winners write the history. Do you understand? When you become a slave, you are not allowed to speak. You're not allowed to think for yourself. You have to do whatever the man tells you to do. Okay? Does that make sense? So, even though you feel hate for the man who's killed your family, you're now a slave. So, you lost your soul. And, if you lost your soul, it means I can do whatever I want to your mind as well as your body. Okay? So, this is the Roman way. And, guys, it's no different from any empire that emerged after the Romans. Okay? The British Empire is the same way. The American Empire is the same way as well. In that, if we conquer you, we can now implant anything into your soul because your soul is now ours. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:23:01 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=4981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay? So, if you go to Germany and you see, you talk to Germans, the Germans will tell you, oh, we are the worst people in the world. We're the most evil people in the world. We did the Holocaust. We started World War I. We started World War II. If you give us any opportunity, we'll start wars for no reason. Okay? You go to Japan, same thing. Okay? So, the winners write the history and the losers have to accept this history. Okay? Does that make sense? Any more questions, guys? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:23:35 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: I remember when you were talking about Julius Caesar, you said the only reason why he survived was because, like, survived the Holocaust. Not the Holocaust, but like, people in Rome were being killed, I think. And he was able to survive because his father had a lot of money, had a lot of wealth. But you also mentioned that he was a part of the populace. So, how does that add up? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:24:00 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay. So, to remind you, okay, the conflict arises between upper nobility and lower nobility. So, upper nobility are just the optimists, people like, I have all the power. Lower nobility are the children who are like, I want the status. Okay? So, yes, Julius Caesar did come from a very wealthy family, but he didn't have status. Okay? So, money and status are not the same thing. And that's why there's a civil war because the people who are part of the elite aren't able to access power. So, they scheme on how to access power. So, look at Donald Trump. Okay? Donald Trump has money but he doesn't have power. And that's why he ran for presidency. Okay? Does it make sense? So, remember, all these conflicts that happen in the world are always between upper nobility and lower nobility. Between the have a lot and the have some but want some more. Okay? It's never between rich and poor. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:24:52 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5092s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5092s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: The poor don't do anything. Okay? The poor just, like, I'm poor, I'm useless, I'll just sit and die. Okay? That's what poor people are like. Middle class people, rich people are like, you know, I want more. Okay? They're aspirational. Is that clear? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:25:09 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Okay. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:25:10 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: But I think if the middle class, like, if they want more, the more higher class, they will not allow the middle class to, they won't allow them to have more. Like, they will suppress them. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:25:22 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: Yeah, and that's what creates the French Revolution. Okay? ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:25:24 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: All right. ## Rome Built an Empire by Turning Wounds Into Weapons -- 1:25:27 - Source title: Secret History #21: Roman Anti-Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0113](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu/transcript/#seg-0113) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-gXVzwbFMU&t=5127s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu@transcript:v1#seg-0113` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-y-gxvzwbfmu.json) Text: All right. Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So remember, this is the Roman Empire. We've done the Roman Empire and it's an empire based on hate. And people's lives under the Roman Empire, it's just terrible. There's massive slavery, there's massive debt, there's massive corruption. And so, now will emerge another poet prophet named Jesus to try to redeem people. You know, okay? So we'll discuss Jesus next class. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: good morning so let us review what we learned last class and then we will discuss the Greeks today so as I discussed last class there are three major principles to geopolitics and once you master an understanding of these three principles then you will see the world much more clearly okay the first idea is that the competition within states is greater than the competition between or amongst states okay and this is idea of elite overproduction so the historian Peter Turchin he looked at the father Roman Republic the French Revolution he looked at many similar events in human history he discovered that what drives crisis is effect we have too many in least computing for limit position of status and power and that's what drives a lot of conflict within the nation -state an small way of framing this is that the conflict in states is not between rich and poor but between the have a lot ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:28 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=88s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=88s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: and have some but what more ok so usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility and we see this throughout human history so next class we will discuss the Rome okay and we'll discuss that and we will understand that a lot of conflict was between the upper nobility and the lower nobility so Julius Caesar did what he did because he was of the lower nobility and was trying to reach the upper nobility okay so this is the first principle that you need to understand that what drives a lot of conflict is elite overproduction okay that's number one number two is the elite has no loyalty this is really important principle to understand the elite don't have loyalty to their people or to their state or even to the families they will do whatever is necessary for them to accumulate power okay and this idea of Game of Thrones right so I'm not sure if ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 2:40 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: you've seen a television show or read the book series Game of Thrones but the world is Game of Thrones and these people who love power they will kill their parents they will kill their brothers they will kill their own children in order to amass power from themselves okay so the Game of Thrones is a very nasty affair the third thing is that war is often about maintaining that status quo okay or the idea of equilibrium if you look at World War I tens of millions of people died okay and you cannot possibly understand what happened or you have problems explaining what happened because the military strategy in World War I was so idiotic right you just threw millions of people at each other but if you understood that war is really about maintaining the status quo that maybe you have excess population of males and if you don't get rid of them then they will ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 3:41 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: engage in the revolution okay you understand that war is really about maintaining a status quo then World War I makes a lot more sense okay so these are three major ideas that I want you to understand and once you understand these three ideas it's a lot easier for you to understand the movement of history okay so we're so we will use an example from China's history so you have you have a clear understanding of how this works okay so let's talk about the warring states period this is something that hopefully you all know really well okay so during the warring states period you had lots of really powerful states okay you have the Zhao you have the Wei you have the Chu okay and um at this point in history you could believe that any one of the three would become the Empire they would unite the entire um Middle Kingdom because they had access ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 4:38 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: to rivers so it's easiest for them to support soldiers and do good they have a large population and they were on fertile ground okay and then over here is this poor backward and isolated people called the Qing and these were Barbarians okay so how was it possible for the Qing who are these Barbarians not very advanced very poor limited population to eventually cover all of China okay well once you understand these three principles three principles we cannot explain it because what's happening is that the jow the Wei and the样 are pretty stable states okay and so the major problem is labor production the conflict between the upper nobility and the low nobility and the way that we resolve the issue is by waging war against each other but waging war against each other not to conquer each other but in order to reduce the domestic conflict within their nation states and as such war became ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 5:44 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-stable-stagnant); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: a ritual in which it was like a chess game okay the point was not to destroy each other the point was just to maintain equilibrium maintain the status quo and as a result these states became stable but in other words for stable is stagnant and now what's happening is first of all the Qing Qing is being recruited into the wars because the Qing is poor therefore they can provide mercenaries okay once they do that what happens is that these mercenaries learn all the innovations of the Zhao Wei and Chu in terms of military strategy okay so you have this massive infusion of innovation into the Qing all right so the Qing is being energized we call this energy right innovation energy and ideas but not only that but you have talented people of the low nobility right they want to become officials they want to become generals but there's opportunities for them so where do ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 6:49 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: they go guys they go to the Qing okay now you have people coming in as well and now what's happening is that the Qing has this massive infusion of energy innovation talent and so now they can just bulldoze everyone okay and now you're like wait a minute here surely the Zhao the Wei and the Chu recognize the danger of the Qing and they will respond by uniting together and then destroy the Qing okay that never happens why the reason why is that um once you enter an equilibrium you understand the world through this equilibrium so in their perspective the Qing became stronger but that's okay because all we'll do is we'll just bribe them to become part of this system why would they want to take us over why can't we just live happily ever after okay so it is impossible for the Zhao the way the two to imagine that a Ching would one ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 7:57 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-stable-stagnant); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: day overtake them okay another way of saying this is that once we come once you reach an equilibrium the people inside the equilibrium become lazy stupid and arrogant okay and that's and that's why the Qing is easily able to destroy all three together okay and that's why the Qing is easily able to destroy all three together okay and then pack during ups In fact, the lower nobility in all three states probably supported the takeover, right? Because now they have opportunities to rise within their societies, okay? And that's the pattern of human history. And we see this over and over. All right, so now let's move on to the West, okay? Yeah, yeah? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 8:42 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So the equilibrium means that the war made the status competition within the countries more stable? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 8:51 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Yeah, equilibrium just means they've reached a balance point, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 8:54 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=534s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Oh, okay. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 8:55 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Yeah, and things are just staying the same. And so people think that things will stay the same forever. So they can't imagine change happening. But the thing about human society is that things always change, okay? So remember the pattern of the warring states. Well, guess what? This repeats over and over. So look at Mesopotamia. So as we discussed about Mesopotamia, you have the first city, Uruk. And what they will do is that as they expand as a city, they will develop colonies along the Tigris and the Euphrates. And then these become warring states as well. And as we discussed, what will happen is that over time, they will reach an equilibrium. Basically, a status quo or rules to make sure that the elite stay in power, okay? And one important rule that they have is we can do this. We can go to war against each other, but we cannot destroy each other's temple. Why? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 9:48 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Because the temple is the house of your patron god. If you kill the patron god, then the god will be very angry and will kill all of you, okay? So this creates an equilibrium because where do they put all their gold and wealth? The temple. So you can go and conquer people, but you can't touch their gold and their wealth. And therefore, you cannot expand. Okay? So this creates the idea of equilibrium. But as I discussed, what happened is that because of the equilibrium, energy will flow into a poor isolated area called Uma. And from Uma will emerge a man named Lugazagi who's like, you know what? Screw this system. I'm going to go for it all, okay? So he dares destroy a temple. And before, this was unimaginable. Because if you destroy a temple, the gods can come in from heavens and destroy you, right? That didn't happen. But now Lugazagi has destroyed the equilibrium and now he has access to wealth. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 10:50 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=650s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: And so he's very quickly able to overwhelm the other city -states. At this time, the other city -states call for help from mercenaries, the Akkadians, who will come and conquer the entire region, okay? And establish an empire called the Akkadian Empire led by Sarga. But now that they are an empire, they will now also reach an equilibrium. And this talent will flow somewhere else, energize another region, okay? So now what will happen is that the Babylonians will come. The Assyrians will come. Eventually, from the Zagos Mountains, a new people called the Persians, remember the Persians have a religion called Zoroastrianism, will come and conquer all this area. And then they will expand outwards and conquer both Anatolia and Egypt, okay? And at this point in history, now there's a new border area called the Greeks, okay? The Athenians, Athens and Sparta. And Athens and Sparta, the Greeks encounter Persia because they will send in mercenaries to help Persia. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 11:55 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: And these mercenaries will learn Persian war tactics and bring them back to Greece. But not only that, but with an empire, the Greeks have an opportunity to get wealthy. How? Through piracy, right? Piracy. And then this will force the Persians now to invade the Greek mainland to stop this piracy. Again, this is a pattern throughout history. The Margins will get wealthy by committing piracy because why not, right? Okay? And so now the empire is forced to go invade Greece and guess what? They lose. This is unimaginable. How is it possible that some barbarians, the Greeks, are able to defeat a vast empire? The world's largest empire, the first great world empire called the Persians. Well, this happens all the time, okay? Why? Well, the pattern is this, okay? So let's look at empire. Let's look at borderlands, okay? Borderlands are just, you know, the barbarians. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 12:59 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=779s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-energy-openness-cohesion) Text: Alright, the empire has three major advantages. Mass, organization, and death. And what this means is that empire just has a lot of people. It has a centralized bureaucracy. So the centralized bureaucracy is able to conscript these individuals. And it doesn't matter if they lose a lot of battles. They can keep on firing soldiers at the enemy, okay? But the borderlands have three advantages that counteract these three other advantages, okay? And they are energy, openness, and cohesion, okay? Meaning that the people work really hard. They're not afraid to die. They're open. So they want to learn from other people. And they are united as a people. And this defeats an empire because in an empire, the people are not that energetic. Most of them are slaves, actually. The empire is a bureaucracy, so it's very stagnant. It's very insular. It's close -minded. And an empire is not united. It's often divided, okay? And that's why throughout human history, the borderlands are able to conquer the empire, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 14:11 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So, okay. So the Persians invade Greece. They get defeated. And now Greece becomes the center of the world or a major power, okay? So let's now discuss Greece. So in Greece, remember that we discussed Greece before when we said that Greece becomes the center of innovation in the world because of three factors. The first is Homer, who is probably the greatest poet, prophet, and humanist, okay? We read the Iliad together. He also wrote the Odyssey. And these are the two founding texts of Greek civilization. The alphabet, right? They're now able to, using the alphabet, write down all their thoughts and quickly transmit their thoughts throughout time and space. The last, of course, is the polis, okay? The polis is their system of government where all the citizens are involved in politics. And the polis, there's like thousands of them. And they're often small, like maybe 1,000, 10,000 people. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 15:14 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: But the two major polises are Athens and Sparta. And Athens and Sparta are both Greek, but they're different societies. In fact, they're nothing alike, okay? So let's go over why. Well, first of all, Sparta is on flat land, the Peloponnese. And if you're on flat land, you can use agriculture. But to use agriculture, you need slaves, okay? So Sparta became a war society. They conquered the surrounding people and turned them into slaves, called helots. So these helots were serfs, slaves, who farmed. And so Sparta became a war society based on military dominance. The entire society was centered around how to take young boys, turn them into great warriors, so that they could defend their land, okay? The Spartans were also very conservative. Why? Because your concern is to maintain control over the helots. If you went over to conquer other places, the helots could rebel against you, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 16:26 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: And so if you want to know what this place is like, think China, okay? This is very similar to China. And as a result of this system, Sparta was an oligarchy, meaning ruled by the few. So only Spartans who were born to both a Spartan father and a mother. Everyone else was not a citizen. So even if your father was Spartan, but your mother was not Spartan, you were not a citizen, okay? So there's a massive class hierarchy in Sparta. And the reason why is, for them, the priority was to maintain the status quo, okay? The Athenians are a different people. The Athenians don't have good farmland, but they have a good harbor, okay? And the territory around them, it's mountainous. So they can't really grow crops. But they are able to grow a crop called olives, okay? So they have a lot of olive trees. And so what happens is the Athenians have no choice but to be expansionists, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 17:26 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So they develop a really strong navy, and they focus on trade and piracy. And that's how they sustain themselves over time. So whereas the Spartans are conservative, the Athenians are both open and expansionists. And also, what's really important to understand is that if you're a navy, you have to be a democracy. The rule in Greece is that if you fight for us, you can vote. You can speak in public. You can participate in politics. Now, Sparta was a land army with hoplites. Hoplites are elite soldiers. And as a result, they were an oligarchy, okay? Because only a few of them fought. But Athens was a democracy because it had a navy. In a navy, everyone could row, okay? To be a hoplite, you had to buy weaponry. You had to train for, like, decades. But the Athenians had a navy where anyone could just row, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 18:29 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: And so they were a democracy, alright? And so over time, because Athens is a democracy that's expanding, Sparta is a land power. Athens will start to increase in power. Sparta will decrease in power. And eventually, these two will come into conflict with each other, okay? It's something called the Peloponnesian War. Eventually, this gives rise to Thebes. And eventually, over time, these three states, Athens, Thebes, and Sparta, will reach an equilibrium, okay? So similar to the warring states where they intermarry each other and they use war as a way to resolve their domestic tensions as opposed to trying to conquer each other. And this gives opportunity for a new power to arise. That was previously thought of as backward, poor, and isolated. And this power is called Macedonia. So what Macedonia is going to do is, they're going to take all the major military innovations of Sparta, Thebes, and Athens to create the world's most powerful army, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 19:38 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: And what else they're going to do is, they're going to recruit a lot of talent from these places. And then what's going to happen is that Macedonia is going to come and conquer the entire Greek mainland. The Macedonians will be the first to unite Greece, okay? Now, who's doing all this? His name is Philip II, okay? Philip II is probably the greatest military genius, one of the greatest military geniuses in human history. But we don't remember him because he has a son who's actually more famous than he is. And his name is who? Alexander the Great. Why is Alexander the Great more famous? Because Alexander the Great will take everything that Philip II built, and he will use it to conquer Persia, okay? And then what will happen is that as this system reaches another equilibrium, a new power will arise that will overflow this entire system, and this power is called Rome, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 20:46 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Which we will discuss next class, okay? So you see how this pattern works, right? It's a consistent pattern throughout human history, alright? Okay, so what happened is that Alexander the Great will conquer the Persian Empire, alright? Where's the Persian Empire? Egypt, Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, this is Persia, okay? So this is like the entire world. And like this small army, okay? It's not even the entire Greek army, it's basically the Macedonians only. This small army, the Macedonians, they're able to come, and they're able to conquer all of it, okay? And the question then is how? Well, the same reason why the Qing was able to conquer the Zhao, the Wei, and the Chu, right? Because of elite competition, elite overproduction within these areas, because the elites have no loyalty, so a lot of these elites were switching sides over time. So what probably happened was that these certain elites invited Alexander to come over, and then they switched sides. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 22:11 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So he was very quickly able to bulldoze. Also remember that when you reach an equilibrium, you become lazy, stupid, and arrogant, right? So this guy Darius, he is now the king of kings, okay? He's leading the Persians. And he always believed that at some point, Alexander would stop, okay? He'd be like, you know what, you have Egypt, you have the Levant, you have Anatolia, you have parts of Mesopotamia, you know what I'll do? I'll give you all this territory, plus I'll give you half my treasury. So Darius thought he could just bribe Alexander, and his father, Philip II, would have been like, that's a great deal, I'm happy. Sure. But Alexander was not like that, okay? Alexander is considering himself the son of God. And you will discover that all these great conquerors believe that they are divinity, that they are the son of God, and they came on earth in order to unify the world, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 23:17 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Genghis Khan was like this, Julius Caesar was like this, Napoleon was like this. All these great conquerors are unlimited. Like, their appetite for conquest is insatiable. So, and this was unimaginable for these people. Like, we're giving you all the money in the world. And Alexander's like, that's not enough, okay? We'll give you the entire world. That's not enough, man. I want it all. So he kept on going. And he killed Darius, sorry, and then Darius died, and he conquered the entire Persian empire. The problem, though, is that Alexander was being co -opted by the Persian elite. Remember, it was part of the Persian elite that invited Alexander to come over, and a lot of the Persian elite were switching sides. So Alexander was incorporating more and more of the Persian elite into his army, as well as into his administration. And so his Macedonian army is unhappy about this. So they get together, and they assassinate him, okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 24:11 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: And now the world is divided among his generals, okay? And this creates what we call the Hellenistic Age, okay? The world of the Greeks. And what is special about this world is now all three major cultures that came after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians, come together in what we call syncretism. Syncretism just means a combining of religions to create the basis for Western civilization, okay? The syncretism will also give birth to a new religion that forever changes the world, and it is called Christianity, okay? So Christianity comes from a merger of these three major worldviews, okay? Now, once the Greeks conquer the world, they have a problem, which is there's not that many of them. Okay? So how do they control the world? Well, they control the world through religion, through culture. So what they will do is, a man ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 25:25 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-knowledge-becomes-empire) Text: named Aristotle, who is a Macedonian, and like, this is something that you do not learn in history class, and it is such an important fact, okay? But the important fact is this. For the second, the man who conquered Greece, an Aristotle, considered one of the most famous philosophers in human history, they were childhood philosophers. Best friends, okay? They grew up together. And it's something that you will never ever learn in school, okay? But it's a very important fact that you need to understand. So another way of saying this is that the Macedonians had to plan to conquer the world for a long, long time. So what would happen is that Philip II would go to Greece to learn all the military innovations, but Aristotle would go to learn all the intellectual innovations of Greece. So his teacher was Plato. Okay? So he learned from Plato at the academy. And what Aristotle will do is he will take Greek knowledge and will systemize it into a knowledge of empire. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 26:27 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? So what do I mean by that? All right. So we discussed Plato. We discussed how for Plato what matters is the spirit, the mind, okay? The soul, the immaterial. So this is the good or the god, the good. And the good emanates and creates the shadow world, which is the world that we live in. But our goal in life is to return to the good by seeking knowledge, by learning truth, by learning something called sacred geometry. So for Plato, sacred geometry are these shapes that underpin reality. Okay? So once you're able to master sacred geometry, you're able to master the fabric of the universe. And so that's what Plato taught. Now, if you're an empire, you don't want this crap. Okay? Why? Because as an empire, you want to maximize the energy of each individual. You want the person to work ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 27:33 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: as hard as possible to make as much money as possible because that energy then can be sucked up by the empire. Okay? If you're just sitting around reading books, we don't want that crap. Okay? So now what Aristotle has to do is create a new philosophy that counters Plato. Actually Aristotle probably didn't create this. He probably stole it from someone else. Okay? But the philosophy is very simple. For Aristotle, he doesn't talk about the spirit world. He only talks about the material world. Okay? For Aristotle, what makes the world move is cause and effect. So I push you, you move forward, you move forward, you bump into someone else and that person bumps into someone else. Okay? Cause and effect. Now, this theory implies that there must have been a god called a prime mover. Okay? Because someone must have been the first to move things. And that person must have been God. Okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 28:28 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: But what's important in this idea is the prime mover doesn't matter because if the prime mover is the first to move, we don't have to worry about him anymore. Okay? All we have to worry about is the goal. The end. Okay? We don't have to worry about the beginning. We have to worry about the end. What is the end? The end is something called telos. Telos. Okay? Purpose. Okay? And what this means is that we're all here to achieve our purpose in life. Okay? So, you are students. What's your purpose? To learn. So, if you learn, if you learn, you become a good student because you're fulfilling your purpose. I'm a teacher. My purpose is to teach as well as I can. Okay? So, work hard and produce energy for the empire. Okay? So, this is the Aristotle idea. And this is important because this conflict between Plato and Aristotle is really the underlying conflict of philosophy. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 29:32 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? We'll see this all the time. We will see this emerge in Europe. And so, Plato becomes what we call the rationalist. So, Descartes. And Aristotle becomes what we call the empiricist. Okay? So, please remember this conflict empiricist. All right? Plato believes in mind over matter. Aristotle says mind doesn't matter. Let's focus on matter. Okay? That's all that matters. I don't know mine. Let's just focus on matter. Okay? And the British Empire will adopt this idea. In fact, all empires will adopt this idea, including the American Empire. All right? Okay? Any questions before we go to the PowerPoint? Okay, this is all clear. Okay? All right. So, let's go to the PowerPoint. The Greek Legacy. Okay. All right. So, as I discussed the geography of Greece is really important. So, Greece is a very poor place that is mountainous and hilly. So, it's almost impossible for an empire to develop in Greece because there's not enough wealth, there's not enough resources to support an empire. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 30:54 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So, during this time, there are thousands of policies that are in conflict with each other and this allows for massive innovation. What's also important about Greece is that it is by the sea. Which allows Greece to access different parts of the world. Okay? If you cross the Aegean you get into Persia which is the wealthiest part of the world. The Mediterranean gives access to Egypt as well as to Northern Africa as well. Okay? So, Greece really benefited from this geography and that's why Greece was so innovative because it can actually steal knowledge from Egypt. It steals a lot of knowledge from Egypt. Okay? It's something that is not really knowledge but you can see how close Egypt is. Okay? So, the Greeks stole a lot of knowledge from Egypt and from Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Persia. But they also steal knowledge from Northern Europe as well. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 31:48 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1908s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? So, remember that the two major city states are Sparta and Athens. Thebes is the third major city state. Macedonia is up here somewhere. Sorry, where's Macedonia? Around here somewhere. And, the thing about Macedonia is that throughout most of this history it doesn't really matter. And, throughout most of this history it's actually a subject of Persia. It's a very mountainous area and so it was poor backwards for the longest time. Okay? Okay. So, this is a map of Sparta. Now, Sparta becomes the military power of the Greeks because as you can see the Peloponnese it's pretty flat which allows the Greeks to take over So, the Peloponnese had to conquer the people and turn them into slaves called the Helots. And, their main concern in life became how do we keep the Helots under control because they're outnumbered ten to one. Okay? So, the Helots were both the major resource of Sparta but they're also the major danger to Sparta and Sparta didn't really care about anyone else. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 33:02 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=1982s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So, the Spartans were concerned first and foremost about how to turn their boys into warriors. And so, the first thing they did that's most important is they took the children away at age six or seven or five. Okay? Because remember we discussed this previously if you want people to be great warriors you have to create anxiety in them. Okay? If they are loving people they don't want to kill other people. But if they are divorced from their parents they have conflict with their parents they don't really like life they're really good at killing. Okay? So, these boys were taken away from parents at age five or six and then they were put with other boys where they were beat up every day. They were beat up every single day. When they were 14, 15 they had a mentor who was like maybe 30 years old and they became lovers. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 33:54 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? They built a real camaraderie fraternity in the army. And then in 1819 the initiation ceremony where at night they would hide in the fields and wait for a helot a slave to break curfew. Okay? If you stay outside if you stay outside beyond sunset then you broke the law. And so what these soldiers would do is they would hide wait for a helot to break curfew and then go and slit the guy's throat. Okay? And that was basically the graduation ceremony for the Spartans. This is a brutal brutal people. But guess what guys? The Romans were the same thing. The Aztecs were the same thing. The Americans are the same thing. Okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 34:44 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: All right. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 34:45 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2085s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2085s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So what's important to understand is that at this time in history the Greeks are developing massive innovation in military warfare because they're always at war with each other. And the major innovation is called the hoplites. Okay? The hoplites is basically to create a wall together so you can bow those over your enemy. Also in this time in history the Persians are developing horse archers. And this is a major military innovation for them. What's really important for us to understand is that they these two innovations happen because of their distinct geography. You couldn't have horse archers in Greece because the land is too hilly. The land is too poor to support horse archery. Okay? You couldn't have hoplites in Persia because the land is too wide. Okay? So what this means is that yes Persia is the dominant empire in the world but when they go to Greece to attack the Greeks they cannot use their horse archers which is their major military innovation. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 35:46 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: And as a result the Greeks are able to use hoplites and bulldoze over the Persians. So this is the Battle of Marathon which is the first great military engagement between the Greeks and the Persians. The Greeks again the Athenians especially the Athenians they're going and causing a lot of problems for Persians. They are committing piracy. They're also going around and encouraging Greeks under the Persian rule to not pay taxes. Greeks do not like to pay taxes. It's still true even today. Okay? Greeks hate paying taxes. And so this is the first major military confrontation between the Athenians and the Persians called the Battle of Marathon. And this is 490 BCE and the Athenians won because as I told you the Persians use horse archers. They can't use horse archers in Greece. They're forced to use infantry. But when it comes to infantry versus infantry the Greeks are the best at that. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 36:45 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So avoid head -on collisions with the Greeks. Okay? All right. So this will lead to a series of wars between Persia and Greece. And what will happen is that there will be two major invasions and they will both fail. Okay? The one that I'm most interested in is the purple. Okay? This is the last major invasion of the Persians into Greece. What will happen is that they will create this land bridge okay? On the Bosphorus and they will they basically have ships as a land bridge and they will cross over and this leads to the famous battle of Ferberpili. Okay? You may have seen the movie 300 where 300 Spartans stood against like you know a lot of Persians. Well the Persians eventually crush the Spartans and what they will do is they will take Leonidas who's the king of the Spartans and they will cut off his head and put him on a pike. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 37:47 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? And that this is considered a major insult to the Greeks. Then what they will do is they will go to Athens which is here and they will burn down Athens. And at this point the war should be over right? But what happens is the Athenians are like you know what we're a polis. A polis is not a place it's a people. So what we'll do is we'll get another ship and sail off. And the Persians are like you can't do that man. Athenians are like yeah we can man. So Athenians are sail off and the war continues. Okay? Athens should have been destroyed but it's not destroyed. And at this point the Persians have won the war. And all the Persians have to do is stay where they are and lend their navy okay? They have a massive navy into Sparta because Sparta has a weakness right? Sparta has helots. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 38:37 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So all they do is lend in Sparta and the helots will rise up and the war is over. Game over. Okay? The problem with empires is they are lazy stupid and arrogant. Okay? So Xerxes who is leading this invasion he thinks that you know what this strategy of winning the war through attrition is not honorable. Because I want to go back and build a monument to myself. Okay? So I want to face the Greeks in a major confrontation. And this confrontation is called the Battle of Salamis. Okay? The Battle of Salamis. And as I where is Salamis? Um yeah right here. Okay? And this is considered the greatest naval battle in human history because it forever changed the course of human history. Now at this point I keep on saying this the war is over. You don't have to do anything. Just lend troops into Sparta the Peloponnese and the helots will rise up and destroy the Spartans and the war is over. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 39:38 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: You've conquered all of Greece. Okay? Do not risk your navy in a military confrontation. So of course the Persians decide we're going to risk our navy. And so this leads to the Battle of Salamis which ever again forever changed the course of human history. All right? Um so this this is another map showing you what what happens. Okay? And now we are in the Battle of Salamis. Um and we know about the Battle of Salamis Salamis because of a name named Herodotus uh uh Herodotus who wrote a book called Histories and he's considered a thought of history because he wrote the first historical work. What he did is he basically went around Greece and collected memories of the Persian Wars um a few decades after the fact and he wrote it all down. Okay? Um if you read the histories it's really funny it's really interesting but we have to take it with a grain of salt. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 40:33 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? So he writes about the Battle of uh uh Thermopylae. Okay? And again at this point in his history the war is over. You don't have to do anything. Ah but again Xerxes says I want a monument. Okay? I want to witness a great clavic battle between my navy and the Greek navy. Okay? So he sends his navy into battle and of course they get destroyed because again it's really important to not do that because the Greeks are heavily armored and you're not. Okay? So um this is a Greek uh trireme. Okay? So Greek trireme the thing to recognize about is it's mainly soldiers so they're really fast. They have some uh soldiers on top uh marines on top. Okay? So they're really good at ramming you and destroying your ship. The leader of the Athenian navy his name is Femescicles. And Femescicles is one of the greatest generals in Athenian history. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 41:36 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: He's actually the guy who proposed that Athens build a navy. Um Athens discovered a silver mine and they used all the silver to build their navy to prepare for the Persian invasion. Okay? And it was Femescicles who led the Athenians against the Persians. Okay? And this is what the battle looks like. Okay? So you have you still have this massive Persian army converging against the Athenians. But again guys don't fight the Greeks head on. Okay? So they're like you know we're going to fight them head on. So you see this massive army converging against the Athenians. And now they're they're they're converging against each other. Okay? And the Athenians destroy them. Okay? Yeah. Don't fight the Greeks head on. All right? And now the entire Persian navy is scattered. The war is over now. Because now the Persians have lost the navy which means that they cannot resupply. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 42:38 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: They have no more mobility. And so what will happen next is that the so yeah the Athenians destroy the Persian navy. What happened next is the Spartans will not will not destroy the remaining Persian forces in Greece. Okay? This is why you don't do I can't I'm sorry. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Okay? They won the war and they screwed it up. Okay? Once you lose the navy you can't resupply. Once you can't resupply you've lost the war. All right? So this is from Herodotus. All right? So what's going to happen is the war the battle of Salamis is lost. And but you know the Persians still have this huge army in Greece. And so the Athenian sorry the Persian king Xerxes he's like I'm out of here man. You know I came here to burn down Athens. I've done that. I'm going to go home now. And I'm going to let my general Mardonius take care of the Greeks. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 43:37 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay? So Mardonius is like you know I don't really want to fight these guys anymore. So Mardonius sends an envoy to the Athenians and said you know what the king of kings Xerxes says this we're really sorry we burned down your city. Really sorry we burned down your temple but we'll give you a lot of money. So please stop fighting us. Okay? And this is what the envoy says to the Athenians. Okay. Can you read please? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 44:06 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Why are you so mad as to love your war against the king? For neither can you get the better off him nor can you resist him forever. You are acquainted with the multitude of Xerxes' army and their achievements. You have heard of the force that is even now with me so that even if you should get the better of us and conquer of which however you can have no hope if you think soberly another much more numerous will come against you. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 44:32 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Okay. So this is the idea of empire right? Just mass organization and death. We are infinite in our resources. We are infinite in our wealth. We can just throw army after army after army against you. Athenians you're like this small little city. Okay? Give up already. And the Athenians ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 44:54 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: we ourselves are aware of this that the power of the medes Medes. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 44:59 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Medes is Persian okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 45:00 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Oh medes is far greater than ours so that there was no need to insult us with that but nevertheless being ardent for liberty we will defend ourselves in such manner as we are able but do not you attempt to persuade us to come to terms with a barbarian for we will not be persuaded. Go then and tell Mardonius that the Athenians say so long as the sun shall continue in the same course as now we will never make terms with Xerxes but we will go out to oppose him trusting in the gods who fight for us and in the heroes whose temples and images he holding them in no reverence has burned. ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 45:38 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: So these two passages show you the difference between empire and the borderlands right? The empire is about mass organization death. The borderlands the Greeks are about openness The Athenians say to the Persians we know you're bigger than us we know you're stronger than us but we believe in liberty we believe in each other we believe in our gods and therefore we will fight you to the end okay? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 46:07 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Alright ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 46:07 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: so what will happen is that now that Xerxes is gone now that the navy is scattered Mardonius is kinda screwed okay? And so what will happen is the Spartans face off against Mardonius in the battle of Paltia and they will destroy Mardonius Mardonius is killed and so one of the soldiers says to the king of the Spartans Pausanias Pausanias your uncle Leonidas was killed by the Persians and they put his head on a spike why don't you return the favor and put the head of Mardonius on a spike on a pike and show it to the world and show how great the Greeks are and this is Pausanias' response to this okay? Can you read? ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 46:51 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Pausanias answered I admired your good intentions and your foresight but you have failed to form a right judgment for having highly extolled me my country and my achievement you have thrown all down against me to nothing by advising me to insult a dead body and saying that if I do so I shall increase my fame which is more fit for barbarians to do than Greeks who are poor even in them I cannot therefore in this matter please the uh ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 47:23 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: uh Agenitai ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 47:25 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Agenitai nor those who nor those to whom such things should be pleasing it is sufficient for me to please the Spartans by doing and speaking what is right as Leonidas whose death you exhort me to avenge I affirm that he has been amply avenged both he and all the others who fell at this day have been avenged by the countlessness of these men however do not you hereafter come to me with such a proposal nor give such advice and be thankful that you escaped unpunished okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 47:58 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: so what he's saying is that we won because the gods favor us why do the gods favor us because we are virtuous because we are loyal to the gods we're loyal to ourselves we are not the barbarians we are not the Persians we are the Spartans okay so you can see at this time in history how for the Greeks what matters is their virtue their faith and their loyalty okay but guess what this all changes when they become an empire okay so I want you guys to remember this and what we're going to do now is we're going to compare contrast this when what happens when they become an empire okay um okay so the Persians are scattered and they're never they're never going to come back and now it's the Athenian empire and so what the Athenians propose is you know what it's always possible that the Persians will want to return so we ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 49:01 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-victory-risks-center) Text: need to set up an alliance to defend ourselves against the Persians okay and they call it the Delian League why because they agree that they will pull the resources together as a defense fund against the Persians so think of like NATO okay the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and they agree that they will put all their gold in a place called Delos okay an island in Delos somewhere um yeah it's somewhere yeah it's right here it's a small island in Delos right here okay you guys see it and so no one's no one's allowed to touch this so what happens is that the Athenians are like you know what it's probably safer with us so the Athenians basically steal all this gold it's not it's no longer a alliance but a empire the Athenian empire where everyone now has to pay tribute to Athens okay so all that's happened is before these Greek city -states had ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 49:59 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=2999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: to pay tribute to the Persians and now they have to pay tribute to the Athenians okay it's probably a worse deal for everyone and what do the Athenians do with all this gold they spend it on this okay it's called the Parthenon it's still there in Athens if you want to go visit it it's lost it's former glory okay but this is what the Parthenon looked like during the age of Pericles during the age of the Athenian empire okay this is a statue of Athena it's pure gold they didn't have to do this but they were like you know what we're going to enjoy our empire they built the Athenian statue okay and so at this time in history the Athens is beautiful it's wealthy and what that does is it makes you lazy arrogant and stupid okay all right so this is Thucydides and he wrote um the Peloponnesian war um and he discusses ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 51:04 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: why Athens went to war with Sparta okay and what he says is what's because Sparta is the hegemon and Athens is the rising power and therefore they were bound to clash okay that's not what happened Athens was the hegemon Athens was the empire and its allies were rebelling against it and it would drag Sparta into the war okay that's what that's what what really happened all right so this is what the war looks like the Athenians have their empire the Spartans have their alliances the allies are going to try to break out of the Athenian empire okay and they're going to drag Sparta into the war Sparta does not want to fight Athens but Athens forces Sparta to fight it because Athens is very expansionist okay so you can see how this red is now encroaching on the Peloponnese which is historically uh Spartan uh territory right now the problem is that remember Sparta has ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 52:08 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: a weakness the helots if the Athenians ever choose to land forces on its coast the helots would all rise up together and overwhelm Spartans okay so Sparta must protect its periphery from uh Athenian encroachment so this is what leads to the war okay this doesn't make sense okay Sparta does not want this war the Athenians are extremely aggressive they're expanding everywhere and Sparta is forced into this war and the allies use this opportunity in order to try to break out of the Athenian uh empire and so most of the Peloponnesian war is actually between Athens and its former colonies and allies okay because Athens is a mafia state now what's important for us to understand is that because of the nature of this war the way they fought the war was strange okay so Sparta is not trying to destroy Sparta it's really easy for Athens to destroy Sparta right all Athens has to do ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 53:09 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: is land forces in Sparta and let the helots rise up but Athens doesn't want to do that because they want to destroy the equilibrium okay you don't know what would happen the helots were to take control of Sparta they might come after you Athens okay so Athens is a status quo power therefore it wants to maintain the equilibrium now let me ask you this question how could Sparta defeat Athens very easily right they could just free the helots right now their army rises 10 times they can now overwhelm Athens but Sparta doesn't want to do that because it would destroy their equilibrium okay it would destroy their social order it would destroy their oligarchy it would create a democracy basically and they don't they don't want that okay so they're trying to fight the war in a way that allows to maintain the equilibrium and that's why the war is fought in a very strange ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 53:54 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: way okay they're not trying to destroy each other they're trying to maintain the balance of power what happened is that Sparta will eventually defeat Athens but it's just not to destroy Athens because if you destroy Athens then Thebes and other powers could arise which could challenge Sparta okay all right all right so the leader of Athens at this time is Pericles and Pericles is famous for oration which is considered like the most famous speech in um western civilization and I I'm sorry uh but in university they will teach you that the funeral oration is a speech about democracy it's not a speech about democracy if you actually read it it's a speech about empire okay um for whatever reason the British and Americans believe that Athens was the greatest democracy in the world and they can do no wrong no no no it's an empire and it's concerned only with maintaining its empire okay so ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 55:01 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: we're going to read from the funeral oration and the thing to remember about funeral oration is that Athens is not at war lots of Athenians are getting killed in this war and the custom is for uh there to be a massive state funeral to celebrate the war dead and to give a a speech to commemorate the war dead okay so we can't read all the speech but we have a very important paragraph in the speech okay all right ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 55:36 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: comfort therefore not condolence non ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 55:40 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: condolence okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 55:41 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: is what I have to offer to the parents of the dead who may be here numberless are the chances to which as they know the life of man is subject but fortunate indeed are they who draw for their lot of lot of death so glorious that which has caused your mourning yet you who are still of an age to beget children must bear up in the hope of having others in their steed stead not only will they help you to forget those whom you have lost but will be to the state at once a reinforcement and a security okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 56:18 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: so he's talking to these uh parents whose sons are now dead okay and remember like during the Persian wars the Athenians were like we're a virtuous people we believe in liberty we believe in our gods we believe in each other and that's why we'll win this war okay now what Pericles is saying to these parents is you know what your sons were useless anyway but now they died for empire which is good right now you can be proud of your sons who are worthless but now that they died for empire we can celebrate them so what should you guys do you should have more children so that you can protect the empire okay all right that's what he's saying he's also saying to um the Athenians listen I know these men are dead and they have children but don't worry because what we're going to do is we will put these children into an into ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 57:14 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: an orphanage and raise them to be soldiers so that so that they can go and fight for the empire and die like their fathers okay this is now empire guys all right so um this is the plague of Athens so again what Pericles should be doing is embarking on a massive war of expansion against Sparta and Sparta would lose very quickly Pericles doesn't do that because he doesn't want to fight the Spartans if he defeats the Spartans it creates an imbalance of power in the Greek mainland okay so what he does is he forces everyone to seek shelter within Athens because remember Sparta is a land power so he's going to face the Sparta on land so he forces everyone to go into Athens and hide behind the city walls guess what happens if you put a lot of people in one place you get the plague guys okay this kills a third of the ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 58:08 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Athenian population including Pericles and his two sons all right so uh can you can you read this so what's happening is that you have these these different islands who are either rebelling against the Athenians or who say the Athenians we don't want to be part of this stupid war okay Thelma says too bad guys okay keep on going ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 58:32 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Athenians for ourselves we shall not trouble you with spacious specious specious pretenses either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Medes or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us and make a long speech which would not be which not be believed and in return we hope that you instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 59:02 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Lacedonians these are the Spartans okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 59:05 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Lacedonians although they are colonists or that you have done us no wrong will aim at what is feasible holding in view that holding in view the real sentiments of us both since you know as well as we do that right as the world goes is only in question between equals and power while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 59:27 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-victory-risks-center) Text: so you know the Persians when they went to the Athenians basically said we are a vast empire you can't defeat us and let's just be friends and now that the Athenians have defeated the Persians now they are the empire basically what they say to everyone else is we are not going to bother trying to be your friends we are not going to bother trying to convince you that we are right and you are wrong we are just stronger than you so shut up and obey okay this is the entire point of the Athenians the Athenians are even worse than the Persians okay remember the Athenians fought the Persians for liberty once they become an empire and others want liberty too bad because the Athenians are stronger might makes right okay alright um so this war will drag on and because as an empire you become lazy stupid and arrogant the Athenians will do stupid things ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:00:25 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: like go invade a people that don't even not even a part of this war okay Sicily so remember um the Athenians it's a mafia state what they do is they collect tribute from the allies but as this war is striking on they need more and more money so they decide to go conquer conquer more and more people so they decide let's go conquer Sicily because it's very wealthy they send a massive expedition against Sicily they get they lose they drag Syracuse which has a navy into the war now Sparta Syracuse combined against the Athenians and the Persians come in as well okay and the allies turn against Spar Athens and what they will do is they will blockade Athens from uh Phrase which is where Athens gets most of its wheat okay so now Athens is going to starve so Athens surrenders and this ends the Peloponnesian war and this time remember the Spartans they ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:01:24 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3684s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3684s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: don't choose to because they're not interested in winning the war they're only interested in maintaining the status quo equilibrium okay and of course this gives rise to Macedonia okay now remember this is really important for the second what he will do is he will go into the Greek mainland and learn all the major innovations of the Thebans the Athenians and the Spartans and he will create something called the Macedonian Phalanx which becomes the most dominant military force in history at this point he has a childhood best friend Aristotle who will go to Athens and learn from Plato and he will systemize all Greek knowledge so that he can take this knowledge and turn it into a tool of empire okay okay so um Philip II will focus on military conquest of the world but Aristotle will focus on cultural imperialism okay all right so what makes Philip II such a genius is to understand listen ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:02:24 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: the Persians have their horse archers the Athenians and the Spartans have their hoplites okay I'm sorry but what I can do is I can take all these major innovations together and combine them into one military package and that allows me for coronation okay so I can have flexibility and mobility in my army the problem though is like for that to happen you need to make sure that every soldier is highly motivated that every soldier wants to fight now traditionally um if you have an army different sections of your army get special privileges okay usually the cavalry because these are aristocrats they get all the privileges and everyone else their life sucks but what Philip II understood is like no no no I need to make sure that everyone is happy so he focused on increasing the morale of his soldiers and it's very easy guys okay all you do is be meritocratic if a soldier ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:03:24 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: is doing a good job you promote him if a soldier is doing a bad job you demote him and you think that's easy but it's not because what it means is it will overturn the social hierarchy okay because the aristocrats are just used to like doing whatever they want but Philip II was insistent no no no every soldier will be treated fairly this is going to be a meritocracy and this is what allowed him to create the world's greatest army okay now once you have these different forces in place you can now have major military innovation and what is major military innovation was something called the anvil and hammer okay basically what would happen is like your infantry will lock with the other infantry in place okay it's called the anvil and then what will happen is your cavalry will sweep in from behind to smash the enemy cavalry it's called the hammer and this ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:04:09 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: is what allowed Alexander the Great to conquer all of Persia because no other army had witnessed such a powerful force and you can't possibly escape once the infantry locks you in place you can't escape then the cavalry comes in and smashes you apart okay the anvil and the hammer so what happened is that um Philip II will go conquer Greece because remember at this time Greece are divided into city states they're all fighting each other they're not interested in actually conquering each other they're just interested in maintaining equilibrium so Philip II is like you know what screw the system I'm going to come break all the rules and I'm going to conquer everyone so this is the battle of Charania which is where he defeats a combined force of the Thebans and Athenians and now he controls all of mainly Greece and now he's ready to do what is what he really wants which is ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:04:59 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: to conquer Persia why because Persia is where the money is right Greece is poor Persia is wealthy therefore I'm going to take this army and go conquer Persia um so this is the year 336 when Philip II has conquered all of mainland Greece and he's now ready to invade Persia in fact he has also spies throughout Persia he also has diplomats throughout Persia negotiating with the local elites okay so he's now ready to go and conquer uh Persia uh unfortunately he gets killed okay so he goes to the wedding of his daughter and his bodyguard kills him there's a little debate as to who killed this but the answer is pretty simple okay his wife his wife Olympias why would Olympias who is the mother of Alexander the Great kill her husband it's really simple um if you're a king you marry a lot of foreign women for alliances Olympias is not Macedonian and um ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:06:04 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=3964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: so there's a lot of people in the Macedonian court who dislike her Alexander the Great is here to the throne but as a young man he was notorious for being a thug okay he's not like Philip II Philip II is very deliberate he's very strategic Alexander the Great is basically a thug so Philip II was worried about about Alexander the Great so later in his life he married a Macedonian woman and they had a son together okay what this means now is that this son is now here to the throne and not Alexander the Great Olympias taught Alexander the Great from day one that you are special Alexander you are not the son of Philip II you're the son of God son of God okay and so Olympias when she felt that Philip II was about to steal the throne from Alexander she had him killed and we know because after the Philip Philip II ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:07:02 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: was killed who else did she kill the wife the new Macedonian wife as well as the son right okay so this is a nasty person Alexander the Great will take Philip's great army and he will go conquer Persia with it okay and this is what his conquest path looks like he will do this in like 10 years time he'll conquer like the entire world basically in 10 years time what's important is the way that he moves okay he moves really quickly with small army which tells us that he needed cooperation from local elites okay remember at this time in history Persia has reached an equilibrium it's stagnant there's no innovation going on there's a lot of competition between upper nobility and lower nobility okay so the lower nobility part was probably helping Alexander conquer Persia two things I want to keep you to understand about this map first of all is like the moment that ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:08:01 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Alexander reaches Persia he goes to Troy why does he go to Troy because you know because Achilles went to Troy so Alexander saw himself as the new Achilles okay in fact he had memorized the Iliad and he took the Iliad with him wherever he went okay so that's the first thing I want you to appreciate also what he did during the war was he took one of his enemies tied his enemy to the back of his chariot and rolled the guy around okay just like Achilles did to Hector the other thing that's really important he conquers Egypt and then he decides to go all the way over here to Ammon okay why does he do that because there's an oracle at Ammon and he spent a few days with this oracle and this oracle told him his secret the secret is this you are not the son of Philip II you're the son of God ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:08:56 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: which who is Zeus Ammon okay so Zeus is the king of the gods in the good tradition Ammon is king of the gods in the Egyptian tradition so in other words Alexander was born to rule the world he was destined to conquer the world and this explains why when he conquered most of Persia and Darius said to him you know what here's a billion dollars go away Alexander's like no screw you I want all of this okay not only that but even after he conquered Persepolis which is the capital of the Persian Empire he kept on going to India okay the only reason why he stopped is his soldiers got sick of fighting um the other thing about Alexander that's really important is he was known for his atrocities so he burned down the city of Thebes and he burned down the city of Persepolis why would he do that well um if you understood ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:09:52 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4192s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: that he saw himself as son of God then it's possible we will never know okay it's possible like burning down Thebes and burning down Persepolis were ritual sacrifices necessary to prove that he was the son of God so yeah he did a lot of like bad things but there's really nothing um random of what he did he thinks he the things he did were for diplomatic military purposes okay ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:10:14 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4214s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: all right ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:10:18 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: so um this is a map of his conquest okay um this is the burning of Persepolis you can actually still visit Persepolis uh today in Iran okay um what he was doing towards conquest was that he was slowly killing off his father's most loyal man so Parmenion who was um Philip II's top general Alexander killed and then Cletus who was also not top general he killed as well okay now historically we remember these events as um random acts of violence but they're not okay Alexander slowly needed to kill off his father's man so that he could create his own empire okay um and so what happened was that eventually the other generals were like you know eventually Alexander's gonna kill us as well so they conspired and poisoned him and now what they will do is they will fight amongst themselves and create the Greek world okay it's divided into um four major parts and ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:11:25 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4285s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4285s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: the four major parts are Ptolemy takes Egypt which is the wealthiest part of the empire um then you have Macedon then you have Anatolia okay all right so the problem though is like once you conquer most of the world um you have to rule over the world and there aren't that many Greeks so what they will do is they will build Greek cities to settle their veterans and invite more Greeks to come help them govern um um the empire but they also need to recruit bureaucrats okay so um they recruit these Persian bureaucrats because they're very effective at bringing Jews as well into the empire okay because Jews are a foreign people okay because remember the because these people the Greeks need to um to control and manage their empire okay all right so what I want you to focus now is on Egypt okay because historically Egypt was the center of the world it ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:12:28 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: was the cultural capital of the world and Egypt helped to help give science and math to Greece okay now the Greeks are like controlling Egypt and Egypt was like wait a minute here you guys were barbarians now you're controlling us why is this happening so now the Greeks need to explain what's happening and so what they do is they create cultural imperialism all right okay uh this is um the Greek world so they're building Greek cities all around um the world and these cities are very similar there's an amphitheater sorry uh this is a better map okay this is program on okay so you can see what it looks like you have an amphitheater which is where they stage Greek theater you have a gymnasium you have um an agora like they're like if you go to these cities they're all very similar to each other okay and this is Greek art which takes over ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:13:28 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-knowledge-becomes-empire) Text: the world as well all right let's just tell them in a second and he and his father tell them in the first they will create something called the Library of Alexandria okay the Library of Alexandria what what it will do is it will take all the Greek knowledge in the world it will systemize it and systemize it as textbooks to be taught throughout the world okay so this is really a university um to show you how wealthy the Egyptians are the uh when they built the Library of Alexandria they um needed original manuscripts and so they said to the Athenians hey can we borrow some original plays and the Greeks are like no you can't uh because we really love our Euripides and our Ishlas and Sophocles but you can't just take this stuff this stuff this stuff is priceless and the Egyptians said you know what we'll do we'll give you like a billion ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:14:22 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-knowledge-becomes-empire) Text: dollars as a deposit and the Athenians well that's a lot of money oh sure okay all right so the Athenians lend these scrolls to the Egyptians um in Alexandria to copy and then after some time the Athenians said said to uh Ptolemy hey man give give us back the scrolls and then Ptolemy's like keep the money that's how wealthy they were they had all the money in the world they didn't care keep the money ten million dollars keep the money man and the Athenians were pissed okay they were really really pissed about this don't ever trust uh uh yeah anyway this is the library of Alexandria it's part of something called the Museon okay so what's really important for us to understand is that a university is not really about education it's not really about literacy culture it's really about a tool of empire to um create a cultural understanding of the world that allows ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:15:19 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: the empire to rule over people okay so the library of sorry the library of Alexandria is an example of this because remember the Greeks are ruling over the Egyptians and the Egyptians are like why are you ruling over us and the um Greeks are like because we're culturally superior to you and how do you prove it by uh censoring Egyptian culture okay by by um downplaying Egyptian culture and by uh upplaying by promoting Greek culture okay this is cultural imperialism now this is really important as part of the cultural imperialist project um the Egyptians uh under Ptolemy they also started to work with the Jews okay why because Egypt Egypt needs to control the Levant as well okay who's the Levant the Jews the Jews are problematic because they were loyal to the Persian Empire okay so how do you make them loyal to you well you bribe them how do you bribe them by ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:16:19 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: getting their priest by saying to the priest you know what we love your tradition we love your culture let us translate your bible into Greek so that we can celebrate your bible and spread it around the world and this is what we call the Septuagint the Septuagint okay it's really important uh in our history um and so the Jews were like yeah that's a great great thing but not only that but because um of the library of Alexandria a lot of Jews were going to Alexandria to help contribute to the scholarship there okay so eventually a third of the people of Alexandria will become Jews and the Jews are spreading throughout the Greek world and so now what you're seeing is a massive syncretism between all three major religions okay the Greeks the Jews and the Persians because the Persians are are administrators in this empire uh the Greeks are ruling this empire and the ## The Borderland Becomes the Empire -- 1:17:19 - Source title: Secret History #20: The Hellenistic World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AwFin83lo&t=4639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-z0awfin83lo@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-z0awfin83lo.json) Text: Jews are helping build this empire okay so this will merge worldviews and this will give us Christianity okay all right so that is the Greek world all right um any questions was was this clear okay so what will happen is like next class we'll discuss Rome okay because Rome will now conquer this um empire and then this will allow for the rise of Christianity and we will do this next week okay so everything was clear today right okay ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So we have 10 more classes left in the lecture series. And in these 10 classes, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how the American Empire will fall. And I will show you that what will replace the American Empire is Israel, what we call Pax Judaica. So for these next 10 classes, we will do an overview of history and show you why history will lead ultimately to the Pax Judaica. All right. So let's do some questions from YouTube that my wife has picked out. She reads all the comments. She loves reading the comments. And she sends comments to me to reply to. So the first comment is, how do we restore our right hemisphere? Or how do we become more creative? And the answer is that you have to reject materialism. That's the only way. You have to reject money. You have to reject power. You have to reject materialism in order to embrace your creativity and your right hemisphere. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:05 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=65s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=65s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: As a society, what will have to happen is a major crisis that threatens our existence for us to come together and for us to be more altruistic and more creative. A possibility is that... you really want to activate your right hemisphere, then you fall in love and you have children. Or you could also choose to volunteer, help other people, be kind and generous to other people. Okay. So that's how you activate your right hemisphere. Second question is, do you only give lessons to one class? How's your journey to find some LSD? Okay. So I'm only teaching one lecture series, but do three different sections. Okay. LSD. Secondary. Psychedelics. You know, I'm very interested in psychedelics. I myself do not want to partake in psychedelics because I don't really understand why I need to. I read a lot of books. I practice a very altruistic lifestyle and therefore I don't feel as though I need psychedelics to break out of this materialistic world. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 2:10 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay. I'm already connected to the divine. So, yeah. Okay. Let's move on. All right. Some more questions. Could you make a video on how to understand history without bias? And a response is, first of all, it's impossible to be unbiased. Okay. And that's, and that is correct. We're all subjective. Um, so, um, he suggests that you have to look at documents and try to be really critical when you analyze documents. And that's correct as well. Okay. Uh, the problem is. The problem is that often we don't have documentation or we have documentation from only one source, so it's very hard to do. So what I'm trying to do, um, with this class is try to propose a new theory of how to understand history. And if you adopt this model, I guarantee you that your understanding of history will improve and also your understanding of how the world works will improve as well. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 3:17 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So there are three components to this new history model, which I call predictive history. Okay. The first is to understand historical patterns. And so when you try to look at history and the event there, you ask yourself, does this fit into a larger pattern or model of history? If it does, it's probably correct. If it doesn't, then there's something wrong here. Okay. Second, uh, tool is the idea of game theory. And the idea of game theory is to understand that all historical actors are motivated by their interests or worldview. And so. Are you looking at all different historical actors and are you trying to figure out what their best strategy is? Okay. And the third, uh, facet is the idea of religious eschatological. What this means is that all cultures, all individuals have a certain religious outlook, religious worldview. And you ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 4:09 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=249s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=249s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: can often find this worldview within their sacred texts, for example, the Bible or, um, the Koran. Okay. And these texts will give you insight as to how they perceive history. But also how they want history to eventually develop so you are, you can understand the strategies moving forward. Okay. All right. Um, and we will look at these three strategies and we will adopt, we will adopt them for, um, our historical understanding. Okay. Uh, another question is, um, this is really interesting. What the question is, most of the greats across history were not Jewish. The domination by Jews of various industries is a relatively new phenomenon. Is it possible that their creativity and power is a result of political shifts and education in the Bible? Okay. This is a really good criticism of my previous lecture. Um, and yeah, I mean, the idea is that maybe there's certain aspects of the Jewish culture that makes them dominant in an industrial, capitalistic, globalized world. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 5:20 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Um, and there is some truth to that. But I often think about. Um, Chinese people, uh, because Chinese people are extremely materialistic, like China, Chinese love money. Um, but we're not as creative as Jewish people. So I think that being materialistic, being capitalistic, it's not enough. You also need to have an element of creativity within your culture. And that's why I think that, um, the Bible helps us better understand the success of Jews better. Okay. So, so this is a really good point. And, and also it's really important to understand is that this is a class on intellectual speculation. Okay. We're trying to figure out theories. We're trying to play with ideas. There's no truth there. Okay. So, um, take it, take everything I say with a grain of salt, doubt whatever I say. Um, this class is really meant to be a platform or jumping board for you to undertake your own intellectual journey. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 6:19 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-imperial-script-edits-identity) Text: Okay. All right. So please keep that in mind. But, um, we're going to. We're going to look more closely at this question today. Okay. Why is it that Jews are so dominant? Um, so we will look at the beginning of the Jewish people and I'm going to make the argument to you that Israel and the Jewish identity are constructs of Imperial imagination. Okay. Um, and this is hard to understand, so I'm going to explain it to you slowly, but the idea is that because of its geographical. Hation. Israel has always been historically important, and as a result, different empires have tried to manipulate the identity of Israel to best, um, uh, promote their own agenda or policies. Okay. So, um, I know there's a hard concept, understand, but we'll, we'll go for it slowly. And again, we're spending like the rest of semester on this major thesis of ours. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 7:20 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay. So let's talk about history. Okay. So what we did. last week is look at the cultures that have emerged after the Bronze Age Collapse, which are now going to dominate history. They are the Greeks, the Persians, and the Israelites. Now we're going to look at how these ideas play out in history. But for us to do that, we first need to understand how history works. Now I've identified three different patterns of geopolitics, and I want you guys to remember these patterns. The first pattern is this, this is really important to understand, competition within nation -states are what matter. Competition between nation -stones don't really matter, or they're not as significant as competition within nation -states. And the idea we have here is elite overproduction. So what drives a lot of conflict is the fact that domestically you have these different competing factions, and they're all competing for power. So you have too many elites. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 8:24 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Too many elites. Too few status positions, and so they're competing against each other, and this drives a lot of conflict. So that's the first idea. The second idea is that the elite have shifting loyalties. Think of Game of Thrones. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the TV series or read the books Game of Thrones, but everyone wants to be king, right? And they're going to kill their brother. They're going to kill their father. They're going to kill their mother to be king. And so the elite don't really have loyalties except to themselves. The world is just a Game of Thrones. Now the third thing is that... War can be a mechanism to protect the status quo. The idea of equilibrium, in that sometimes the conflict is really bad. So what you do, you start a war so you can start off people to get killed, and that way you can maintain equilibrium within your system. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 9:10 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: We'll see this pattern throughout human history. So these are the three ideas I want you guys to remember as we move on and discuss world history. So I want to give us an example for us to understand. Think of the warring states period of China before the emergence of the first empire, the Qing empire. And as you can see from this map, China is divided into different warring states that are all powerful. And at this time in history, the Qing state is the poorest, it's most isolated, and it is the least advanced. Okay? You can see that. Chu. Zhao. They are more powerful. And you can argue that eventually one of them would emerge to unite all of China, but they did not. It was the Qing, the isolated, marginalized, backward state that came to conquer. And so the question is, why did this happen? And so if we use our three principles, right, we can understand why. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 10:14 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: These three states, these different states are not competing against each other. It's the elites within these states that are competing against each other. Okay? Lead over production. So the way they manage this is for them to use warfare in order to maintain the status quo, to create equilibrium. Okay? And how we know is from this time emerges the idea of Chinese chess, right? What is Chinese chess? Chinese chess is the idea of warfare that is regulated, that is ritualized. Okay? So when you go to war, when you battle each other, we have to respect each other's, the rules of the warfare. Okay? That's stupid. War should be about killing the other guy. It shouldn't be about following the rules. Okay? Also, another piece of evidence is at this time in history, Shunzi wrote the book, The Art of War. This is one of the stupidest books ever written. Okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 11:07 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: I guarantee you, if you follow this book, you're going to lose the war badly because this is, this is really about how to cheat in a heavily regulated game. Okay? So, things like using spies. Okay? Oh, maintain a high guard. Okay? You have to have all these rules. And guess what? In an actual war, none of these things actually work. Okay? So if you look at history, I'm going to tell you exactly how to win a war. Okay? And the way you win a war is, first of all, you have to be completely committed to winning this war. Okay? Total warfare. Second is that if you want to win this war, you have to make sure that talent arises. So you have to be open and determined. Okay? If a, if an officer or a general is winning this war, you promote him. That sounds easy, right? But not if you're a strategical power. Because what's important to you is to maintain that your family is always on top. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 12:06 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So if a general arises who is very innovative, who's really talented, you kill him because he's a threat to you. Okay? So the third principle is make sure your soldiers are happy. I know this sounds really simple. But again, if you're a strategical power. You don't really care. Okay? Destroy enemy's civilian centers. Siege warfare. Okay? Go and destroy the city because that's how they produce their war capacity, right? The food, the soldiers, right? Kill civilians. Destroy supply lines. Overstretch your enemy. Divide and conquer. Strike fear in your enemy. Kill their gods. Okay? If you really want a war, if you really want to win a war, this is what you have to do. And we know. We know because this is what the Romans did. This is what the Prussians did. This is what the Aztecs did. This is what the Conquestors did. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 13:00 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: This is what the Mongols did. Every single power that has conquered everyone else has done all these things. Okay? So when they don't do these things, it's because these different warring states aren't actually at war with each other. They're actually friends. Okay? They're all intermarried with each other. They're all trying to maintain a status quo. They use war as a game in order to maintain the status quo to create equilibrium. Okay? So this is true for Mesopotamia. Okay? Mesopotamia is important because remember, this is the cradle of civilization. This is where the first empires will emerge. This is where most technological innovation happens. This was for the longest time the wealthiest part of the world. Okay? So remember, the idea of Mesopotamia is that the first city -state is Uruk, and then they will develop colonies throughout the Tigris and Euphrates, and then these colonies will come into war with each other. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 13:55 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And they're all friends with each other, they're all intermarried, and the elite create these highly ritualized warfare. Okay? And one really important rule is that you don't kill each other's god. Okay? Because in their religion, the god lives in their temple. So you don't attack their temple. But guess what? All their money, all their gold is in the temple. Okay? So you're not allowed to steal each other's gold. That's stupid. Okay? Because now, you don't really accomplish that much with warfare. So for the longest time, this was the status quo. Then what happened is a man named Luka Zagazi, and you can think of him as lower nobility. So what we'll see in history is that within a city -state, there's always been conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? The upper nobility is in charge. They want to maintain the status quo. The lower nobility want to steal that power. Okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 14:59 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: This will happen in Rome, where Julius Caesar is of the lower nobility, and he will steal the power from the upper nobility. Okay? The people call the Ottomans. And so Luka Zagazi is from Uma, and he's like, you know what? Screw this. These rules are stupid. I want to conquer everyone. I want to be the top dog. Okay? So what he's doing that's very different from previous times is he's now going and ransacking each city's temple. So now he has the capacity to be able to build an empire. Okay? But by doing that, what happens is that the other city -states recognize him as a threat, and so they invite mercenaries from a place called Akkad to come and help them. Okay? And this leads us to the first world empire called the Akkadian Empire, named by Sargon of Akkad. Now, his name is interesting. His name means legitimate ruler. Which probably tells us he's not a legitimate ruler. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 15:56 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: He's probably a mercenary, like David, who stole the throne. Okay? He saw an opportunity, and he stole the throne. But this is a pattern in history where if there's competition among different city -states, the competition is not resolved amongst themselves because they have an equilibrium. So what happens is that an outsider, a mercenary, usually comes in who doesn't respect the rules, and he's able to unite everyone. Okay? Through innovations. So this is why the Qing dynasty. And not the Jiao, or the Qu, or the Wei, were able to unite all of China. Because the Qing dynasty was committed to total warfare. They didn't care about your rules. They wanted to win. Okay? All right. So as you can see, the Akkadian Empire stretches throughout the Fertile Crescent. Okay? Conquers Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, extends over to Anatolia, and captures a lot of the Levant. Okay? But this area. The Levant is historically the most strategic location in the world. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 16:59 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Why? Because it gives you access to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia. Historically the three wealthiest parts of the world. So whoever controls the Levant is able to always threaten Egypt. Okay? And for most of history, this part, the Levant, was an Egyptian colony. But remember that after the Bronze Age collapsed, Egypt was not only able to project power into Levant. It was also able to protect the Levant. And so the different empires fought for the Levant in order to threaten Egypt. Okay? So Jerusalem is literally the center of the world. And we'll see that throughout history, people have considered Jerusalem the center of the world, both for religious reasons, but also mainly for geopolitical and trade reasons. Okay? Now, the other thing to remember about this area is that it's highly competitive because it's hard to protect Mesopotamia. Okay? It's very, very wealthy. But as you can see, there are these mountain tribes over here that can always threaten Mesopotamia. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 18:01 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay? So this is a pattern in history where whoever established an empire in Mesopotamia is always being threatened by the mountains, the regions, sorry, the borderlands. Okay? This is a pattern throughout Mesopotamian history. And that's why these empires change all the time. Okay? So this is the Babylonian Empire. This gives us Hammurabi. Okay? Then you have the Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire is famous for their brutality. They'll come. If you rebel against them, they will kill everyone. Okay? They're notorious for their brutality. Now, remember, at this time in history, an empire is not the empire of today where you can exert authority everywhere. An empire at this time is... You're mainly controlling certain choke points of trade and everyone else just sort of like goes along because it benefits them. Okay? So an empire is more like a loose confederation as opposed to a nation state. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 19:07 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay? So this is the Assyrian Empire. And this is the Neo -Babylonian Empire. Okay? So you have these empires that constantly change over time. History changes when a man emerges called Cyrus the Great. Okay? Cyrus the Great is the founder of something called the Persian Achaemenid Empire. So last class, we discussed Zoroastrianism. And Zoroastrianism is really the first great world religion because it provides a simple but powerful model of how the world works. And Zoroastrianism is powerful because it encourages everyone to be their best. Right? To seek Asha. Now for most people, what Asha means is don't ever lie. Okay? And it's actually a really useful thing if you're trying to run an empire. Because when you run an empire, you need soldiers. You need generals. You need administrators. Right? And if you don't lie, if people are honest and moral, well, you can expand really quickly. Right? Right? Right? That's what Cyrus the Great did. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 20:21 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Cyrus the Great is also known for his mercy and his generosity. So when he conquers a place, what he will do is he will identify the best people, maybe even the king himself, and make them advisors to his regime. Okay? He's known for his tolerance. He's known for his openness. And so what happens is that the Babylonian Empire basically surrendered to him in a fight. Why? Because of elite overproduction. Right? You have this war going on between the upper nobility and the lower nobility, and they're like, you know what? Let's just invite Cyrus the Great, and then we don't have to fight each other anymore. Okay? And that's how Cyrus the Great was able to build the first world empire. Okay? This is Babylon, the fall of Babylon. And Cyrus the Great, there are different stories, but one story is that the elite basically invited him in in order to resolve their inner conflicts with each other. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 21:16 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1276s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1276s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay? This is the tomb of Cyrus the Great. It's still in Iran today. There's a story that when Cyrus the Great, who was Macedonian, when he went to conquer the Persian Empire, he discovered that Cyrus the Great, his tomb was in bad repair. They didn't really maintain or upkeep it. So he ordered for it to be properly maintained. The story is, by the way, probably false. Yeah. It shows you that at this time in history, about the year 300, 400, everyone, 300, 400 BCE, everyone was respectful of Cyrus the Great. Okay? Cyrus the Great is considered the world's greatest king or emperor. Okay. So as you can see, the Achaemenid Persian Empire is huge. Okay? It encompasses most of West Asia. Okay? So it goes from Iran all the way to Mesopotamia, to Anatolia, to parts of Greece, and basically all of Egypt and Libya. Okay? It's a huge area. And they were able to do this because of their innovations in religion as well as administration. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 22:33 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay? All right. So let me explain. How do you rule empires usually? Okay? Well, the traditional way is you control trade routes and access. Okay? So people have to pay you a tax to go through your trade routes. That's a traditional way. You can also use fear and conquest, and that's what the Assyrians were known for. They would come and they would kill everyone if you disobeyed them. You took hostages. That's a very common thing where you conquer people and you take the children of the king as hostages. Intermarriage, religion. But what the Persians did really well that allowed for the Persian Empire to be so huge, as well as to be really well managed, are four things. Okay? Effective administration. Again, if you have a religion, Zoroastrianism, where people can't lie, that's really good because these bureaucrats will now report real facts to the emperor, and that allows him to make better decisions. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 23:27 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay? Elite computation, meritocracy. And the idea here is that if you have a very effective administration, that allows for local elites to focus their energies on trying to join this administration as opposed to rebelling against you. Communication, networks. Okay? Okay. So things like roads, things like postal networks. Okay? So the Persians create the first global postage system, and it was really effective where if you want to send mail from Egypt over to Mesopotamia, what would happen is you would have these royal roads where people would ride on horses, and they could stop at a basically hostile rest and then keep on going. Okay? So you had hierarchical hierarchy. And that way you can very quickly move information from one court of Empire to the other. And the last is to divide and rule. Divide and rule is really important. So what they did was they basically had different power centers within a region. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 24:29 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And so you have the satraps, which were the local governors, but then you also have the local you also had the bureaucrats. Okay? You also had the royal representatives, so these were different factors within a region. Okay? Okay? dividing rule is probably the most effective way to control an empire okay so now let's move on to israel okay we know we don't know about the persian empire how they manage their system and why they are so effective okay now let's talk about israel so remember that we read the bible um and the bible um came about because david needed to justify legitimize his rule and after the project collapsed david created a davidic kingdom um in the levant because egypt anatolia mesopotamia were preoccupied right but because a lot is so important this david kingdom doesn't really last that long it lasts ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 25:27 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: like 80 20 years okay um after solomon david's son dies israel is divided into two parts the northern kingdom which gets conquered by assyria as well as judah okay julius where which tries to maintain the davidic kingdom but doesn't last very long after some in history um uh the israelites are being pulled in different directions okay the anatolians the assyrians the babylonians the egyptians because they're strategically very important and so what's really hard for these empires is how do we maintain control over jerusalem okay and they try different techniques they try um burning down their city center and in order to do this they are taking hostages against their city centers okay so the northern kingdom was destroyed uh you might have heard of the 10 lost tribes of israel um they tried taking hostages okay but because this region is so volatile nothing really works and so the jerusalem the actual is rebelling um ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 26:30 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: so this is the kingdom of judah and what happens is for the longest time the battle owners are trying to deal with the israelites okay so they take hostages okay they take hostages like thousands of them and move them to babylon where they become scribes where they become farmers where they become merchants okay um but again the region is so strategically important that jerusalem uh basically they switch loyalties all the time eventually the babylonians are so pissed off that they decide to burn down their temple okay and so at this point in history the israelites are now gone okay does that make sense the israelites are gone now um 587 to six we don't know when but babylonians destroyed jerusalem because they cannot they they tried many techniques to try to control jerusalem they can't do it the israelites are too rebellious uh but it's too strictly important so they destroy so so they decide ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 27:37 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: you know what screw this we'll just destroy the city okay so when this happens because we don't want to understand the israelites are gone okay the people are still around the identity of the israelites are now gone 539 cyrus the great conquers babylon okay and he says i want the israelites to return to jerusalem it's called the edict of cyrus all right and this is celebrated in the bible what is controversial is why would he do such a thing okay because again these are not gone um these ones who got who went to babylonia they may still keep their religion a bit but they no longer have their land they no longer they're they have changes of people okay so as an israelite you pray in the temple but the temple is not destroyed so now you um pray in the synagogue okay so the people have changed a great deal so the question now ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 28:35 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: is why would size the great go to babylon said you know what i want you israelites to return to jerusalem i want you to reconstitute the nation why would he do that okay so this is gonna this is a going to be a debate that will never ever end okay so the bible tells us that cyrus the great did this because god told me to do that very really simple god says i love my people the israelites send them home okay and sarah's grace yes of course you're the great god i'll do so okay guys that's not what happened okay all right so there are different explanations um maybe the idea is that cyrus wants to show all the virgin empire i'm telling you that the virgin empire is an open tolerant you can practice your religion you can separate your religion that's what the person empire is the open tolerant generous empire okay that's ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 29:24 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: true what's also true is that cyrus fought himself as a righteous and merciful king who wanted to be generous to everyone okay so he saw the israelites uh want a home he says well go home okay um he it's also possible that there's a faction within the israelites who supported his babylon over okay i don't know if this is true it's probably not true but we can see that consider that as a possibility that the israelites in babylon supported his takeover and so to thank them cyrus said fine i'll give you back jerusalem um another possibility is that uh when cyrus the great conquered babylon he discovered that you know what these israelites are really good administrators and this is true found history because remember the israelites have their bible and the religion is the bible and as we discussed the bible is one of debate openness asking questions and so these are very literate ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 30:26 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-imperial-script-edits-identity) Text: intellectuals and they rise up very high in the babylon administration but this is true history where where jewish people will rise very high in all empires including including the islamic empire including um the american empire okay um i think the best reason for it happening is divided rule okay now the idea is that you need to control the levant because a lot of life gives you access to egypt which is historically the wealthiest part of the world okay whoever controls egypt controls the world so what you do is you set up a group of people in the levant that are only loyal to you okay does that make sense okay you set up people in a lot that only exists because you the empire allow them to exist if you were the did not support them then the locals the everyone in that region would would get rid of them right away okay and that's ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 31:27 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: why we have the jews so the jews were invented by the persians to control the levant the jews is actually a persian term okay so before the jews were of course the israelites now we have the jews all right so um this is jerusalem and as you can see what's really important to understand is that this is actually only a really small part of the lot but this part is specifically for the jews um and it's part of this persian province called beyond the river okay and they call it the province of yahoo that's that's why we have the term jews okay because they are part of the prince of yahoo and what's really important to understand is they're surrounded by enemies the sumerians um are israelites who have stayed in the levant okay do you understand so most people around them are in fact israelites who adapted to local circumstances and that means that ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 32:33 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1953s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=1953s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas); [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: they practice different religions that also means that they married foreign women as well but they still get some because consumers as israelites okay right does that make sense guys so what but what happens is that these exiles from bad lot they come back and they say no we're the true israelites you guys are the false israelites the reason why we're true is we have stayed loyal to um our religion okay so what's going to happen over the next few decades it's almost a civil war between israelites who've stayed and israelites who left but come back all right and this is what the persian empire wants in order to maintain stability in the levant right because you have this small minority um of exiles from babylon who've come back and during conflict with everyone else all right this is dividing rule okay so um um could you sorry let me okay okay okay so could you ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 33:40 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: help me read the bible okay okay all right so we're going to read two books of the bible they're called sram and nehemiah okay and these two books are really important and then we discuss that often um by scholars and they when we make gl sistema um you're going to read badを右手に But Ezra and Nehemiah shows us how Persia helped the Jews to reconstitute their nation, the process. And by studying these two books, it will give us insight into how current people in the nation of Israel think. And then we can analyze how they will behave moving forward, okay? All right, so can you read? This is the beginning of the book of Ezra, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 34:21 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order that the world of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia, so that he sent a herald throughout all his kingdom, and also in a written edict declared... ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 34:38 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so this is really important for us to understand, okay? According to the Bible, Cyrus is doing this because God told him to do this, okay? Not because of imperial ambitions or imperial strategy. It's just God told him to do this, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 34:51 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2091s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2091s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Thus says King Cyrus of Persia, The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of those among you who are of his people, may their God be with them, are now permitted to go up to Jerusalem in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem. And let all survivors, in whatever place they reside, by the people of their place with silver and gold, with goods and with animals, besides freewill offsprings for the house of God in Jerusalem. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 35:29 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: Okay, so Cyrus the Great is considered the Messiah by the Jews. The Jews are extremely thankful for Cyrus because not only does he allow them to go back to Jerusalem, but he also finances the rebuilding of the temple, okay? But when this happens, when they go back, and try to rebuild the temple, the locals get pissed off, okay? Because, like, who are you people? You're stealing our religion. Like, what's going on here, okay? And this creates a lot of conflict. That's good for the Persian Empire because they want this conflict, right? As part of their dividing rule strategy, okay? All right. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 36:14 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2174s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2174s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments were stationed to praise the Lord with trumpets, and the Levites, the son of Asaph... ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 36:26 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: The Levites are important. Levites are actually the priest class of the Israelites, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 36:31 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: The sons of Asaph, with symbols according to the direction of King David of Israel, and they sang responsibly, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever towards Israel. And all the people responded with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord......was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and heads of families, old people who had seen the first house on its foundations, wept with a loud voice when they saw this house, though many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted so loudly that the sound was heard far away. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 37:17 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: This is the happiest moment in Jewish history, when they rebuild the temple, okay? What they call......the second temple. And this is important because the second temple was destroyed. And what they want to do now in Israel is build the third temple. And this is important because the third temple sits on the Al -Aqsa Mosque, which is the third holiest site in the Islamic world. So, well, this Bible is telling us that eventually, the Israelis will destroy the Al -Aqsa Mosque, so that they can build the third temple, what they call the Temple of Solomon, okay? All right, can you continue? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 37:56 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2276s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2276s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: From 1? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 37:57 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Yeah, when the adversaries... ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 37:59 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: When the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God of Israel, they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of families and said to them, Let us build with you, for we worship your gods as you do. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 38:14 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2294s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2294s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so they're saying, we're Israelites just as you guys, okay? We stayed, but you guys left. So, actually, we're better than you are, okay? Because we stayed as you left, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 38:24 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here. But Zerubbabel, Jerusha, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of families in Israel said to them, You shall have no part with us in building a house to our God, but we alone will build to the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus of Persia had commanded us. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 38:51 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: This is really weird, right? You're all Israelites. Why? Why is it that? No, we are the true Israelites you guys are the false Israelites and so you can't help us, okay? Why is there this conflict going on, right? That's strange. And so, don't even understand this is the conflict is part of the imperial strategy, okay? Divide and rule, keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 39:16 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and they made them afraid to build, and they bribed officials to frustrate the plan throughout the region. reign of King Cyrus of Persia and until the reign of King Darius of Persia. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 39:30 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so they try to build the temple, but it doesn't really work out because there's so much opposition, right? The Jews who've come back from Babylon are like, we're the real Israelites, so only we can touch the temple. No one else can participate. And the others are like, this is wrong. We should all participate in the building of the temple. This is one religion, okay? So it seems as though these Jews from Babylon, they're actually imperial agents who are trying to sow discontent within the region. Okay? Sorry, this is a bit long, okay? But can you try to read? Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:12 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: This is a copy of the letter that King and, can you help me? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:17 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:18 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:19 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes is this great warrior in Persia, okay? Great warrior. Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:22 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Gave to the priest Ezra, the scribe. A scholar of the text of the commandments of the Lord and his status for Israel. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:31 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: Okay, so Ezra is one of these Israelites who comes from a family that was exiled to Babylon. But he's a priest, and he's an intellectual. So he is considered actually the creator of the Bible that we have today. Okay, keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 40:46 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes, king of kings. To the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. Peace and now. I decree that any of the people of Israel, of their priests or Levites in my kingdom who freely offers to go to Jerusalem may go with you. For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand. And also to convey the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel. Whose dwelling is in Jerusalem with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests given willingly to the house of their God in Jerusalem. With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs and their grain offering and their drink offerings. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 41:48 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 41:53 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, stop. Okay. This is really important, okay? This is a letter by King Artaxerxes authorizing Ezra to build the second temple, okay? Why is this important? Because this is called the Balfour Declaration, 1917. What's going to happen is that the British government, Lord Balfour, he writes to Lord Rothschild, who is a Jewish financier. And he says, we, actually, just read this, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 42:22 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay. I have much pleasure in conveying. I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the cabinet. His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil. and religious rights of existing non -Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country, I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 43:09 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-imperial-script-edits-identity); [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: This is almost like the Artaxerxes Declaration, right? You see how in the Bible, Artaxerxes writes a letter to Ezra and says, hey, I authorize you to go back to Jerusalem and build the second temple, right? So, what's happening is that they're using the Bible as an example. As a script in order to facilitate their geopolitical ambitions, okay? This is why reading the Bible is important. Because once you read the Bible, you understand the Bible, you compare it to historical development, you're able to see the connections. And if you're able to see connections, you can also see, predict how they will develop over time, okay? So, this battle declaration creates the current nation of Israel, which was founded in 1948. So, like... Before, the nation of Israel was created by the British as part of their geopolitical strategy of dividing and conquering the Middle East. And we'll discuss this later on, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 44:06 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: But it's really important for you guys to keep in mind as we move forward. All right. Can you read the highlighted part, okay? Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 44:15 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Oh, my God, I'm too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our inequities have risen higher than our heads. Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 44:25 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So, this is a speech by Ezra, okay? He returns to Jerusalem, and now he has to reflect on what God wants, okay? So, he's going to discuss why God exiled him from Babylon, why God has allowed him to return, and what God wants him to do, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 44:42 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And our guilt has mounted up to the heavens. From the days of our ancestors to this day, we have been deep in guilt. And for our inequities, we, our kings and our priests, have been handed over... to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case. Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 45:03 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So, why did the Israelites get exiled to Babylon? Because they refused to obey and worship Yahweh. Yahweh sent prophets. Yahweh warned them, but they kept on worshiping false gods. They kept on sinning. And so, Yahweh's like, you know what? I really need to teach these guys a lesson. And that's why they exiled him. They exiled them to Babylon, so they can reflect, and learn, and grow as a people, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 45:33 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: But now, for a brief moment, favor has been shown by the Lord our God, who has left us a remnant, and given us a stake in His holy place, in order that He may brighten our eyes and grant us a little sustenance in our slavery. For we are slaves, yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us His steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life, to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah. And Jerusalem. And in Jerusalem. Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 46:10 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2770s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2770s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So, Ezra's saying, okay, yeah, we screwed up, but God is forgiving, and now we have a second chance to prove ourselves to God. How do we prove ourselves to God? By making sure that we only worship Him, okay? So, this beginning of... Jewish monotheism, okay? Which was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism. So, in other words, the religion that the Jews will practice from now on is not the religion of the Israelites, which is polytheistic. They will now practice a new religion that's heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, okay? Which is the Persian religion. Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 46:48 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments. Which You are commanded by Your servants, the prophets, saying, The land that You are entering to possess is a land unclean, with the pollutions of the people of the land, with their abominations. They have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 47:12 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: Okay, so this is a really important idea to understand. What Ezra is saying is this. These Israelites who've stayed are traitors. They are now unclean. Why? Because now they worship foreign gods. They're polytheistic. And as a result, we have to clean the land, okay? This is a fanatical understanding of Judaism. Okay, keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 47:37 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters from your sons, and never seek their peace or propriety, so that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 47:54 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 47:54 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that You, our God, have punished us less than our inequities deserved, and have given us such a remnant at this, shall we break Your commandment again and intermarry with the people who practice these abominations? Would You not be angry with us until You destroy us without remnant or survivor? O Lord, God of Israel, You are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before You in our guilt, though no one can face You because of this. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 48:32 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so now God's forgiven us. We've returned to Judaism. We can't screw this up again, okay? And how do we prove our loyalty to God? By making sure that we are peer, okay? We're not going to marry other religions. We're not going to marry other people. We're just going to marry God. We're just going to marry within ourselves. So Herodotus, in his histories, when he talks about the Jewish people, okay, he says that Jewish people are known for two things. The first thing they're known for is giving us a bath on Saturday. So they don't work on Saturday because that's their law. The second thing that they're known for, really known for, is they don't marry outside their religion. Jewish women will refuse to marry foreign men, okay? And so now we have the concept of blood purity that is new. So remember, it's really important for us to understand, but the Jews and the Israelites are not the same people, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 49:24 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: In fact, what Ezra is doing is rejecting the Israelite heritage and accepting a new heritage based on blood purity and a monophistic devotion to Yahweh. And this is new, okay? That's why I keep on saying this. The Jews of Persia are not the same as the Israelites of David. All right. So as you can see from this, this map, the Jews are in this area. And it's a very small part of the Levant. But it's a part of the Levant that's completely loyal to Persia, okay? Because they see everyone else as unclean, as the enemy. And if you're an empire, how many Jews around are really good for you, right? All right. And so, the Jews are an invention of the Persians. But guess what? The nation of Israel is also an invention of the British Empire. And we'll discuss this later on. All right. So we move on to the second book called Nehemiah. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 50:35 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So Ezra is the priest who will create the Bible. Nehemiah is the governor sent by the Persians to reestablish the Jewish nation, okay? So can you read the highlighted part? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 50:53 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: At the time, I was cupbearer to the king. Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 50:56 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3056s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3056s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Cupbearer to the king is like a really powerful position, right? Because you can poison the king. So the king loves you. The king sees you as someone who is very competent. And you could possibly one day be prime minister or the first minister, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 51:15 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: In the month of Nisan, in the twelfth... Twentieth....twentieth year of king, Arta... ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 51:24 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 51:25 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3085s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3085s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Artaxerxes. My bad. When wine was served him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never been sad in this presence before. So the king said to me, Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This can only be sadness of the heart. Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, May the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my ancestors' graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire? Then the king said to me, What do you request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. Then I said to the king, If it pleases the king and your servant has found favor with you, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors' graves, so that I may rebuild it. The king said to me, The queen also was sitting beside him. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 52:18 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: How long will you be gone and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me, and I set him a date. Then I said to the king, If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province beyond the river, that they may grant me passage until I arrive in Judah, and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, directing him to give me timber to make beams for the gates of the temple fortress, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy. And the king granted me what I asked, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 52:57 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay. So the Bible says that Nehemiah one day feels tremendous regret that the city of his ancestors has not been rebuilt. He begs the king for permission to go back. Guys, this is not how empires work. This is not how empires work. You do not ask the king or the emperor for anything because he will just cut your head off. Okay? How empires work is that you have to read the king's intentions. Right? You have to figure out what does he really want. And then you have to say, Please, please, I want to do this. Not because you asked me to do this, but because I want to do this myself. Okay? And I will work hard to achieve this ambition. That's how empires work. All right? The king does not tell you what he wants. You have to guess what he wants. If you can guess what he wants, then you get promoted. If you can't guess what he wants, then you get your head cut off. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 53:50 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Right? That's how empires work. This is important because when we move on to the nation of Israel, most people believe that the nation of Israel started with the Zionist movement, which came with the writing of a book called Judenland, Fatherland, written by this German Jewish journalist called Theodor Herzl. And so people say Zionism started 100 years ago. Guys, when we do the next state of Israel, we will discover that it's actually part of the British imperial policy. Okay? But the British themselves cannot be seen as the ones who are promoting the creation of the state of Israel because it makes them look bad. Okay? Because everyone else would be like, why are you doing this? So what they have to do is create a situation in which the Jews themselves want to create their own nation. The problem, though, is this is really important, and we'll discuss this later, is that 100 years ago, guess what? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 54:53 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Jews did not want to go to Jerusalem because they were happy where they were. Okay? There were a lot of Jews who were probably happy in Babylon, but they were sent back in order to create this province, Judah, and to create all this conflict with the locals. Okay? That's how empires work. Okay. All right. So when Nehemiah goes back, what he's going to do is he's going to build the temple. He's going to build the walls. This is going to piss everyone off, right? Because, like, why would you do that? We're all living happily together. We're all one big family. And now you're building these walls, which means that you're better than us or you're afraid of us or you want to conquer us. Okay? So this creates all these conflicts with the locals, which is, again, what the Persian Empire wants to happen. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 55:47 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: This is how empires work. All right. Okay. Can you read? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 55:54 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish kin. For there were those who said, With our sons and our daughters, we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and stay alive. There were also those who said, We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine. And there were those who said, We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king's tax. Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred. Our children are the same as their children, and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished. We are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 56:38 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay. So what's happening is that Nehemiah has gone back to create this new province of Jews. What he's discovering is that there's massive corruption and inequality among these Jews. And this is a problem because they're a minority in a very hostile region, right? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 56:56 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints. After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles, the nobles and the officials. I said to them, You are all taking interest from your own people. And I called a great embassy to deal, assembly to deal with them. And said to them, As far as we were able, we have brought back our Jewish people and Jewish kindred who had been sold to other nations, but now you are selling your own kin, who must then be brought back by us. They were silent and could not find a word to say. So I said, The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations, our enemies? Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest. Restore ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 57:51 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses and their interests on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them. Then they said, We will restore everything and demand nothing more from them. We will do as you say. And I called the priests and made them take an oath to do as they had promised. I also shook out the folds of my garment and said, So many God shakes out everyone from house and from property who does not perform this promise. Thus may they be shaken out and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 58:34 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so this is a really important aspect of the Jews that people don't really understand how unified they are, okay? An example is that if you are a Jewish person, you can always get an interest -free loan if you want to buy a house or start a business. Okay, that's pretty amazing, right? If we want to buy a house or want to start a business, we go to a bank, they're like, Okay, we're going to charge you 10 % interest and maybe you can't afford that, right? But if you're a Jewish person, it doesn't matter how poor you are, there will always be Jewish organizations that can offer you interest -free loans if you want to start a business or if you want to buy a house, if you want to do anything. Because Jews are not allowed to collect interest from each other. That's how unified they are as a people, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 59:26 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So just read the top and highlight it and that's it, okay? Okay. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 59:34 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: When the seventh month came, the people of Israel being settled in their towns, all the people gathered together into the square before the water gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the Lord, the law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel. Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could hear with understanding. This was on the first day of the seventh month. He read from it, facing the square before the water gate from early morning until midday in the presence of the men and women and those who could understand, and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:00:22 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-imperial-script-edits-identity); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: Okay, so this is the last step of creating the Jewish identity, okay? So the idea of the Jewish identity is that they follow the laws of God. They do not marry outside their religion. They don't charge each other interest. They don't exploit each other, okay? And the last thing is this. The last thing is that their historical memory is the Bible. Who are we as Jewish people? What are our memories? It's whatever is written in the Bible, okay? So Ezra is taking all these historical documents and he's combining them together in what today we call the Bible, okay? And this makes the Jewish people extremely resilient because no matter where they are, no matter how low the publishing goes, their memory, their historical identity is always stored in one memory. One Bible. That makes them the world's most resilient, flexible, and open people, okay? So this begins the Bible, okay? Keep on going. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:01:31 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: In those days I saw in Judah people treating wine, wine presses on the Sabbath. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:01:38 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0096](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0096) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0096` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Sabbath is a Saturday, the day of rest, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:01:40 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0097) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0097` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: And bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys. And also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them at the time against selling food. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:01:54 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0098](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0098) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0098` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Tyrians. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:01:55 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0099](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0099) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0099` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Tyrians also who lived in the city brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah and in Jerusalem. Then I remonstrated with the nobles of Judah and said to them, what is this evil thing that you are doing profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your ancestors act in this way and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on the city? Yet you bring more worth on Israel by profaning the Sabbath. In those days also I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod and they could not speak the language of Judah but spoke the language of various people. And I contended with them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:02:47 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0100](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0100) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0100` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters from your sons or for yourselves. Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him and he was beloved by his God and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:03:18 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0101](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0101) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0101` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so Nehemiah enforces two major laws. The first law is that you shall not work on the Sabbath because that is God's rest day, okay? Second major law is that if you marry a foreign woman, you must divorce her. He's bringing up families. Why? Because he believes that religious purity requires blood purity. If you marry a foreign woman she's going to make you believe in their foreign God. Remember, it is by worshipping false idols. It's because of this that Yahweh decided to punish the Jews. Okay, so the Jews must only worship Yahweh. Alright, so this is their interpretation of monotheism. So as you can see, there are certain traditions about the Jews that was created during the Persian Empire in order to facilitate Persian control of the Levant. But these traditions, because they are encoded in the Bible, they stay with us even today. But not only that, but by reading the Bible carefully and ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:04:26 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0102](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0102) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3866s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0102` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: understand how to connect the Bible to historical development, you can now figure out how Asia will develop over the next 10, 20 years, okay? And these are my... Sorry. See, these are my three predictions. First of all, they're going to rebuild the Temple of Solomon. Okay, they're going to build the Third Temple by destroying the Isaac Mosque. They're going to do that sooner or later, okay? That's the first thing they're going to do. And you know why, because when we read the Bible, you can see how happy they were, okay? Because they felt completed. They felt as though God is with us, God has forgiven us, God loves us, okay? So building the Third Temple is crucial to the identity of Israel today, okay? So they're going to do this, and it's going to cause a lot of problems because again, the Isaac Mosque is the third holiest site in the Islamic world, and it's going to create a lot of conflict between Israel and the Islamic world, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:05:25 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0103](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0103) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0103` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Do they care? Not really. Okay, number two. You can see how when the Jews returned, they were convinced that they were forced out of Jerusalem because they offended God, okay? So in other words, if Jews want to maintain control over Israel, they need to obey the laws of God, which means that they become a theocracy, okay? Now, I'm not saying you've been to Israel. I've been to Israel. And if you go to a place like Tel Aviv, it's a very open, liberal, cosmopolitan, forward -looking place, okay? I think that Tel Aviv has one of the world's highest concentrations of gays in the world, okay? Guess what? That's gone, okay? As Israel develops over time, it's going to become more and more of a theocracy, where the Bible is the law, okay? And the third thing is that we can expect that as the Pax Judaica expands, more and more Jews will return to Israel. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:06:28 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0104](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0104) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=3988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0104` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: Look, the reality is this. If you look at the Middle East, Israel is the greatest power in the Middle East. There's no force in the Middle East that can prevent Israel from expanding and expanding, including the Pax Judaica, which is their ambition, okay? So this is just an introduction. But the thing I want you guys to remember is that, first of all, the Jewish identity, it is fluid, it's flexible, it's open. It was created by an empire for the purpose of maintaining empire, okay? And we're going to see this throughout history as well. All right, so was this clear to you guys? Are there any questions about today? Okay, yeah? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:07:12 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0105](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0105) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4032s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0105` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: So how does the Persian state control, like, Persian control of Jerusalem transfer to modern -day society? Like, how does it still work? Because I think we're seeing, like, a trend that Israel's going kind of more back to, like, depending on the Bible and everything. So how does it, like, transfer to modern -day society and all the conflicts that's happening? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:07:44 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0106](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0106) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0106` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so Persia wanted to divide and conquer the Levant, okay? They're afraid that if the Levant becomes too stable, the Levant might settle with Egypt or another power, and they lose control of the Levant, which directly impacts their capacity to trade and control the world, okay? So the way you control the Levant is you create this entity that has conflict with everyone else. And now what happens is that both this entity, Jerusalem, and its enemies rely on you, Persia, to manage the conflict, okay? And this is what's happening today in Israel because who's the empire? America's the empire, right? Israel has all these conflicts with nations in the Middle East, right? They have conflicts with Turkey. They have conflicts with Egypt. They have conflicts with the Gulf nations. They have conflicts with basically everyone, okay? So who does everyone require, need, to manage this conflict? America, right? Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, they all require the United States to come in and say, hey, guys, let's just get along. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:08:59 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0107](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0107) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0107` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-imperial-script-edits-identity) Text: We're just one big family, okay? This is all intentional in order for America to maintain dominance over the Middle East. Who's very unhappy about this? Which nation is very unhappy about this? Israel, okay? Right? Israel's going to piss about this. So we can expect that over time what's going to happen is a major, major conflict between America and Israel. There's going to be a divorce, basically. And my argument to you is that Israel will win this conflict, and as a result, Israel will become the dominant power in the Middle East. Because the Jews know their own history. The Jews read the Bible every day. They know what the Persians did. They know what the British did. They know what the Americans are doing today. They don't want this. They don't want to become a servant, a slave to an empire. They ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:09:49 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0108](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0108) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0108` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: are a servant and slave to their god, but they don't become a servant and slave to the empire. So they need to get rid of the empire and establish a sovereignty, okay? And that's why there's so much conflict in the Middle East today because Israel needs to figure out how to get rid of the American empire so that it can be independent and fully achieve their sovereignty, okay? Does that make sense? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:10:14 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0109](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0109) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4214s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0109` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Yeah, I think one question I have is about, like, I think currently, did Jews stop attacking Palestinians? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:10:25 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0110](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0110) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0110` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, guys, guys, okay. This is really important, okay? Don't say the Jews, okay? There are different groups. There's the Israelites. The Israelites are the time of King David. They're gone, okay? Let's forget about the Israelites. There are the Jews, and the Jews are people who practice Judaism, okay? And there are the Israelis. Israelis are citizens of the nation of Israel. It's the Israelis that are doing this, not the Jews. There's a difference, okay? The Jews are spread out throughout the world, okay? What we call the Jewish diaspora. And there are a lot of Jews in the world who oppose the nation of Israel because, well, what the nation of Israel is doing, they believe, goes against the will of God, okay? So Israelis, not Jews, okay? ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:11:07 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0111](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0111) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0111` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, so the Israelis is... I think, like, the news just disappears about how Israelis attacks Palestine. It's just because previously it was, like, all on those hot searches, but recently we can just... It's just gone, the news is. ## The Bible as an Imperial Script -- 1:11:29 - Source title: Secret History #19: Dawn of the Jews - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0112](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i/transcript/#seg-0112) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0MeVBD24I&t=4289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i@transcript:v1#seg-0112` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3t0mevbd24i.json) Text: Okay, look, the reality is that if you read the Bible, it's clear what's happening. What's gonna happen? Israel is gonna clear the West Bank and Gaza of Palestinians to establish their theocratic state, okay? They can't have Palestinians and Arabs around. It has to be completely Jewish. And these Palestinians can be moved elsewhere, to Jordan, to Egypt. They don't really care, okay? But this process will take time, okay? All right. Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So was this clear? The ideas in this class were clear, okay? So next class, what we will do is we will do the Greek Empire, okay? And then after that, we'll do the Roman Empire. And after that, we will do Christianity, okay? So we're going through history fairly quickly. But I need you to keep these ideas in mind because they will build on top of each other, okay? All right. Okay, thank you. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: So, we've done the Greeks, and we've done the Israelites, and today we discuss the Persians. And today I introduce to you the most influential person who has ever lived, and his name is Zoroastrian. And Zoroastrian will create the world's first great religion, world religion, called Zoroastrianism, and this will lead to the rise of the world's first great empire, called the Persian Achaemenid Empire. So to understand Zoroastria, let's go back and understand how we humans have traditionally understood the world. So intuitively, we've understood that the world is one of consciousness. The universe is conscious, and it's constantly vibrating. These vibrations are infinite. And the lower... Okay. The lower that the vibrations go, the slower they are, and therefore, they give rise to matter, okay? And that gives rise to humans. So we both inhabit the material universe, but our minds inhabit the spiritual universe. And as a result, when we vibrate as well, our consciousness returns to the universe. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:24 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? So we're in constant dialogue with the universe. Now, this is hard to understand, so we've used metaphors or stories to explain this system. All right? So let's go over how we've explained the system using metaphors. So this is God. Okay? The God is called the Monad, or the One, or Nus, but there are different names for this God. And this God is perfect. The problem is... The problem with perfection is that you lack imagination. You lack creativity. And that's why, when God emanates, he created us, okay? Humans. Why? Because we are material. We have bodies. And therefore, we are imperfect. What this means is that when we hit a wall, we feel pain. We can fall down. We can die. We can suffer. We can make mistakes. But at the same time, it is through constantly making mistakes, disobedience, fallibility, that we are able to be creative, okay? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 2:41 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: And as a result, both God and we are in the process of becoming, okay? We are becoming into perfection. We are becoming into eternity and infinity. And so we are co -creators with God. Okay? Now, there are certain characteristics about the system that you have to remember, okay? First of all, in the system, we need to have free will. Because only by having complete freedom can we be truly creative. The more that is controlling us, then there can't be any creativity. It's all intentional. It's all planned, okay? So free will is very important. Another very important idea is the individual. Okay? So what, so how the system works is what matters is what happens inside of us, okay? Because only us individually can give rise to creativity. And so it is our interactions with the monad that's important, okay? Another way of saying this is that, use a metaphor, okay? The metaphor is a candle. A candle. Sorry, this is a bad drawing. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 4:03 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? Candle. This is a candle. And we are all mirrors surrounding this candle. And we are all, the candle is reflected in us. Okay? So the monad is in us, and we are all part of the monad together. So what happens is what happens to us individually. Okay? Another very important part of this is its eternity. Okay? Reincarnation. Reincarnation. So the idea here is that when you die, you just don't disappear. Your consciousness returns to the spirit world. Why? Because maybe in this world, you made a lot of mistakes. And because you made a lot of mistakes, you can't really appreciate all the pain you've caused. So when you return to the spirit world, then it's a time for you to reflect and understand your significance on this world. Okay? And so the idea is that if you've done a lot of good in this world. If you've been virtuous, you ascend to a higher plane. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 5:06 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: And if you did a lot of bad things, then you stay in the lower realm. Okay? And this is the idea of heaven and hell. Why? Because if you did a lot of good, first of all, you can appreciate all that you've done. You can be closer to the monad. Okay? If you've done a lot of bad, then you will see for yourself all the hurt you've caused in the world. Okay? And you'll be further down from the monad. So this is how intuitively we've understood the universe to work. Okay? When we're born, we're born almost with an intuitive understanding of this. Okay? The problem is that as our populations continue to grow and grow, eventually we have war. Okay? And war gives rise to patriarchy and property. Why? Because how do you incentivize people to grow? To go fight? Well, you promise them this wife will be yours. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 6:07 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? You'll be the master of the household and whatever you win, whether it's gold or whatever, it will be yours forever. Okay? And so these three things, war, patriarchy, and property are all interlinked together. Okay? And this, you can argue, gives rise to the idea of capital. Remember, when we last discussed the Bronze Age, the Bronze Age was the height of capital. Okay? And therefore, it was the height of war, slavery, corruption, okay, violence, evil in this world. And in this time, there will emerge prophets, the port prophets, who come and tell us that what we're doing is wrong. And we must remember who we came from originally. Okay? We must remember that we are part of the monad and that we're here to celebrate life, not to destroy life. To be creative. Not to be destructive. Not to be destructive. To love, not to make war. Okay? And so during the Bronze Age emerges a man named Zarathustra. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 7:17 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: And he is a port prophet, just like Homer and the Yahwehs, and he's dealing with a situation. Okay? We've entered a system where war, patriarchy, and property are prevalent, and we can't imagine a world without these things. Okay? So now he has to create a new system. He has to present for his poetry new ideas that help us return to the monad. Okay? And so he creates the beginnings of a new world religion called Zoroastrianism. Okay? So let's go over the basic ideas. So remember that this is a polytheistic world where you fight for your god. And the gods don't really care about what's good and what's evil. All they care about is themselves. So you celebrate them. You make sacrifices to them. If you give them enough money, you bribe them well enough, then you win wars. Okay? So that's a system that we call polytheism. So what Azoramastra does ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 8:18 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-truth-must-be-become) Text: is that he reimagines the system and creates a new hierarchy where Ahuraamastra is the top god. Okay? And you can call him the monad as well. And for Azorathustra, Ahuraamastra is the lord of wisdom. Okay? It literally translates into lord of wisdom. And he's represented by the idea of fire. Okay? So what is Zoroastrianism in Chinese? It's bai huo jiao, right? Bai huo jiao, okay? The religion of white fire. It's a religion of wisdom. And what then he also says is that the war of heaven and hell is within us. Okay? And there are two forces that tear at us, that divide us. The first is the force of Asha, and the second is the force of Drush. Okay? These ideas are hard to translate, but Asha just means truth, and Drush means the lie. Okay? So the Greeks really admired the Persians. And what they said about the Persians is the Persians are good at three things. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 9:33 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-truth-must-be-become) Text: They're good at horse riding, they're good at archery, and they're good at telling the truth. The Persians find it abhorrent, hateful, to lie. So they're always telling the truth. Okay? But that's a very simplistic understanding of the system. Telling the truth is not what Asha is, right? What Asha really is, is a system of virtue. By being virtuous, by doing good in the world, you become closer to our master. You become his representative on earth. So to better understand this idea. Alright? I'm going to introduce to you another concept called the Catechol Imperative. So Immanuel Kant. So we don't know when Zarathustra lived, but he lived about 3,000 years ago. Immanuel Kant is the 18th century, so he's closer to our time. And he introduces a concept called the Catechol Imperative. For him, the Catechol Imperative is the highest moral authority. Moral law. The highest moral good. What we all should strive to. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 10:46 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: And what I will show you is that it's very similar to the concept of Asha. So there are three principles of the Catechol Imperative. The first, the most important, is the law of universality. And what this idea states is that, what is good? Well, to know what is good, imagine this. Imagine that whatever you do, whatever you say, everyone in the world will immediately do as well. Okay? So if you get angry, everyone gets angry at the same time. If you are violent, everyone's violent at the same time. Okay? If you curse God, everyone curses God. Do you want to live in a world like that? Obviously not. Okay? So that is what the Catechol Imperative is. Act and do and think as though everything you do will be reflected throughout the universe. And you are the universe itself. Okay? Now, this idea has been misunderstood as the Golden Law, right? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 11:55 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Or, do unto others as others would do unto you. But actually, no, it's a much higher concept. The higher concept is that, imagine that you are God yourself. Okay? And everything you do will be reflected throughout the universe. Then how would you behave? Well, you would behave the highest virtue. Okay? Because you want to make the world a better place. Because if you do bad things, people are going to do bad things to you. Okay? So that's the first idea. It's a very important idea. Second idea is free will. So whatever you do cannot be coerced. Okay? Whatever you do must be out of your own desire, your own will, your own volition, your own choice. Otherwise, it's wrong. Okay? So I cannot make you do good. You only want to do good by yourself. If you want to do evil, you should do evil because it's your choice. Okay? Even though it leads to a worse world, it's important to maintain the principle of free will and free choice. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 13:01 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Okay? Now last is the idea of humans as the end. Now you have heard, maybe heard the phrase, the means to an end, right? So maybe I'm a king and I need to build a better world. So I need to start wars, conquer the world. So I need to sacrifice a billion human beings in order to create a perfect world. Right? That may sound good in theory, but what Kant and Zoroastrian would say is that's wrong because humans are the end unto themselves. Every life, every human life is as valuable as all human life together. Okay? You cannot sacrifice one person for the sake of the others. That is fundamentally wrong. Do never do that. That can only lead you into hell. Okay? So these three things together gives us a concept of Asha. You can see immediately how complicated it is, but at the same time you can also understand how revolutionary it is. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 14:03 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? Because now Asha presents to us three new concepts that will revolutionize human history. They are the individual. What matters is what matters inside of you. Okay? Everyone's doing bad. That's their problem. Don't worry about them. Just do what is good to you. Okay? What is good for you. The second is free choice. Don't ever feel as though you're being forced to do something. Do something because you will so. Okay? And the last is truth. Why do you do this? Because the Monad will know. Okay? Because our master will know. Because you will know. Okay? So what your family says. What your community says. What your nation says. It does not matter. Only what you feel in your heart matters. Okay? And this introduces a new concept in human history called Monotheism. And guess what guys? Zoroastrianism will give birth to three new religions. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 15:08 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=908s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Okay? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Okay? And this together is two to three point billion people on earth. And that's why I say Zoroastria is the most important religion. Because it will create the structure for Monotheism. Okay? These three concepts that will give rise to three world religions. All right? Okay. So something else I want you to understand is that Zoroastria had a major impact on the Greeks. Especially Greek philosophy. In fact, the Greeks didn't consider him just a poet. They considered him the first scientist. The first astronomer. The first philosopher. The first magician. Okay? The Greeks had tremendous reverence for him. And Plato will take a lot of his ideas and create a very powerful metaphor that helps us understand Aster better. Okay? He calls it the Allegory of the Cave. So imagine this. Imagine that we are in a cave. Okay? We're all prisoners inside a cave. We are chained to the ground. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 16:25 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: Okay? So we can't ever get up. We can't even move our necks. We only steer at the wall in front of us. Now behind us is a fire. And this fire is projecting shadows onto the wall. Okay? And we give names to these shadows. And this is what we call reality. Okay? But it's a shadow reality. It's all fake. It's all false. It's all what we imagine it to be. One day, for whatever reason, one of us, the chains disappear. And so we stumble upwards out of the cave. Okay? And now we're suddenly in the light. Right? We see the sun. The sun, of course, is Asha. Truth. Okay? Or Ahura Masta. And we're blinded because our eyes are used to seeing the dark. Right? We can't see. We feel nothing but pain for a long, long time. But over time, we start to see more clearly. And we see the world is beautiful. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 17:24 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-truth-must-be-become) Text: Okay? We see the birds flying in the sky. We see the trees around us. We see the animals. And we're like, this is beautiful. Okay? I found heaven. I found the truth. I found Asha. I found Ahura Masta. This is what life is really about. Okay? But after some time, you're like, but this is not enough. Okay? I have found the truth. But the truth is not complete because I know there are my friends. My friends. My family that are stuck inside the cave. Therefore, for me to fully achieve Asha, I must go down and tell them the truth. Tell them there is an Asha and we can all break free of our chains, escape into the light, and see the truth for ourselves. And then we will be truly happy and free and wise. Okay? That's what Asha is. Asha is not just breaking free of your chains and seeing the truth for yourself, but it's a responsibility to go and spread this virtue to everyone around you. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 18:27 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: If you see injustice, speak out. Okay? Another way of saying this is, let's use a metaphor. A choir. Okay? Singing choir. How does a choir work? Well, Ahura Masta, the Monad, he's singing a song. We have to sing along with him. Okay? Ah! Okay? If we do that, the world is harmonized. The world is perfect. The world is beautiful. But if most of us are out of tune, then we need to get into tune, right? Okay? So that's what Asha is. Asha is not just self -individualization, self -truth. It is helping others see the truth for themselves. Okay? So if you yourself see the truth, you now have a responsibility to teach this truth to others. But the problem is, of course, if you go down and tell everyone, hey man, this world we're living in, it's a shadow world. It's a prison. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 19:26 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: We need to break our chains and escape into the real world. Everyone's like, you're crazy, man. Right? Get out of here, man. You're crazy. And they're like, no, no, no, no. We have to go. And they're like, okay, well, describe this world to us. And you're like, um, it's hard. It's kind of hard to describe. Well, you're crazy then. Okay? All right. So that's Plato's Alley Go to the Cave. All right. And this gives you a better understanding of the idea of Asha. Okay? So if you move towards the truth, you're moving towards Asha. But if you're moving away from Asha, you're moving towards the Jewish. Okay? All right. So that's a basic premise of Zoroastrianism. This is the idea that Zarathustra brought to the world and will forever change the world. Okay? We'll go into the specific history next week. But first, what I want to do this week is just go into his ideas. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 20:27 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? All right. So Zarathustra, we don't know when he lived. Okay? But we estimate anywhere between the year 2000 BCE to about 1000 BCE. That's the Bronze Age. All right? I suspect he lived towards the end of the Bronze Age. Why? Because when the Bronze Age is coming into form, people are in love with capitalism. People want to get rich. Right? But after the system matures, there's slavery, there's debt, there's corruption. There's misery. There's suffering. And so people want to hear another voice. Zarathustra himself was a priest. He was disgusted by the corruption of priests. Because, remember, being a priest means being a teacher, leading people into the light, leading people into Asha. But once the Bronze Age becomes more mature, then priests are corrupt. They want a lot of money for helping you achieve immortality. They sort of spread false teachings. They become very corrupt. And so Zarathustra becomes disgusted, and he wanders around spreading his new message of Asha. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 21:46 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? Now, what's important to understand is that we don't know where Zarathustra worked specifically, but we suspect northern Iran. Okay? Why is this important? Because during the Bronze Age, the main centers of wealth were the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant. So this is more like a colony where there's a lot of mining going on. Okay? So what's going on here is basically the most human suffering in the world. Okay? So imagine maybe Congo, where they're using child slaves to dig for rare earths. Okay? It's a margin empire where war is a very common thing. Violence is a very common thing. People are being kidnapped and forced to work in the mines in order to get tin for the Bronze Age economy. Okay? All right. So as you can see, Zarathustra is around here. Okay? Either northeast Iran or northwest Iran. Okay? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 22:55 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: And as I mentioned, the global economy is around here. Okay? This is where most of the wealth is. These people are poor, they're enslaved, and they're extremely violent. Okay? So Zarathustra comes, and he's a poor prophet. Okay? He's a priest, and he sings songs to help people better understand the world around them. He's trying to remind them of who they are really. Okay? They really are parts of God. All right? So he says, listen with your own ears, with a bright mind. Choose truth from false creed, each person for his own self before the final judgment comes. Okay? So the idea of the individual. What matters is yourself. What you do. What your family does. What your clan does. What your tribe does. Does not matter. What you do. Because when you die, you will face Ahura Masta, the final judgment. Okay? Not your family, but you yourself. And so what you must do is choose Asha, the truth. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 23:59 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? What is the truth? Being virtuous. Because you yourself are virtue. Okay? So he wrote in a language called Avastin. And it's a beautiful language. And if you are a Zoroastrian priest, you can memorize all this. Okay? But I am not. And I don't want to butcher the language. Okay? But it's poetry. It's beautiful. Right? So Asha is the best of all that is good. And Asha is happiness. Happiness belongs to the one who follows the righteous path for the sake of the best righteousness. So how do you know you're doing Asha? Because you are happy. Okay? Do you understand? So the metaphor is, imagine that you live in a world of fat people who don't exercise. And all they do is watch TV. Right? But you decide to go and work out and become more thin. How do you know you're on the right path? Because you feel happy about yourself. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 24:55 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? But the problem, of course, is that you lose all your friends. You lose all your family. Okay? That's why people don't do this. Not because they don't know the truth. It's because they fear the truth. All right. So this is some translated poetry called the Gathas that we know that George Luther wrote. Okay? Or he didn't write it. They were all illiterate at this point. But he sang it. Okay? Now the two primal spirits who reveal themselves in vision as twins are the better and the bad in thought and word and action. And between these two, the wise ones choose, all right, the foolish one, not so. Okay? So we in our nature always divide into two halves. Okay? The good and the bad. The Asher and the Jewish. And to be truly virtuous, it has to be good thoughts, good words, and good actions. Okay? You have to be unified as a person. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 25:53 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: You can't speak the truth but then do bad things. Okay? You have to think good thoughts, speak good thoughts, and do good works. And that's what Zoroastrianism. Okay? And when these twin spirits came together in the beginning, they created life and not life. And that at the last worst existence shall be to the followers of the lie, but the best existence to him that follows right. Of these two twine spirits, he that follow the lie choose doing the worst things, the holiest spirit choose right. He that clothes him with the massy heavens as a garment. So likewise, they that are fain to please our master by dutiful actions. Between these twin, the Davahs, okay, those that lead you to the Jews also chose not a right. For infatuation came upon them as they took counsel together so that they chose the worst thought. Then they rushed together to violence that they might enfeeble the world of man. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 26:49 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: So we're living in a world run by Davahs, by demons who choose violence to control us. Okay? And what do you do? And to him came dominion and good mind and right and piety gave continued life to their bodies and indestructibility so that by their retributions through metal he may gain the prize over the others. Even in a world of evil, you can choose and you must choose to be good. All right? If people are lying, you tell the truth. Because what matters is your individual action, not what others are doing. So when there come of their punishment for their sins, then, O master, at thy command shall good thought establish the dominion and the consummation for those who deliver the lie, O Ahara, into the hands of right. Okay? So God will know what good you did, what evil you did. Okay? When you die, it will be the final judgment. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 27:47 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: You will have to face God. So we may be those that make this world advance, O master, and ye, O the Aharas, come hither without saving submission into your company in Asherah, in order that our thought may gather together while reason is still shaky. Okay? So even though the world has turned evil, even though the people, the elite are evil, you can still do good. And God will know you do good, and God will reward you for doing good. Okay? So again, this is the beginning of monotheism. And as you can see, this idea will echo in Christianity and Islam as well. Then truly on the world of lies shall come the destruction of the light. But they who get themselves good name shall be partakers in the promised reward, in the fair abode of good thought, of master and of right. O if, O ye mortals! Ye mark those commandments. Which master hath ordained ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 28:43 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: of happiness and pain, the long punishment for the follower of the Druj, and blessings for the followers of the right. Then hereafter shall it be well. Okay? So you should do what is virtuous, not only because God will reward you for doing so, but because you will feel eternal happiness in doing so. When though, O master, in the beginning did create the individual and the individuality through thy spirit and powers of understanding, when though did make life clothe with the body. When actions and teachings whereby one may exercise one's convictions at once free. Okay? So you see, individual, free will. These are the core concepts here. Okay? Never say you've been coerced. You always have the choice. You always have the choice to resist. Then lives up his voice the false speaker or the true speaker, he that knows or he that knows, not each according to his own heart and mind, passing from one to another. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 29:36 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Almighty confers with the spirit in whom there is wavering. Okay. Clear it is to the man of understanding. As one who has realized it was thought. He upholds Asher together with good dominion by his word and deed. He will be, O master, the most helpful helper to thee. Okay? So when we choose to follow Asher, we are doing God's work. When we, in our hearts, choose Asher, we, at that moment, change the world for the better. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 30:07 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 30:08 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: All right. So this sounds a bit complicated, a bit abstract. And honestly, he was speaking to people at that time. Okay? So what does he really, really mean? And how can we understand what he's really saying? Well, the argument I want to make with you today is that all poor prophets are the same. They're all divinely inspired. They're all speaking a certain truth. So by understanding other poor prophets of that region, of that culture, we gain insight into the true thinking of Zarathustra. Okay? So this is Rumi, who is considered the greatest Persian poet who has ever lived. He lived in the 13th century, which is about 2,000 years, 3,000 years after Zarathustra. In many ways, if you actually read his poetry, he is the reincarnation of Zarathustra. Okay? So we're going to read a bit of his poetry. And then once you read his poetry, it will give you insight into the cosmology of Zoroastrianism. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 31:11 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: I see so deeply with myself. I so see deeply with myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly. Why would I want to bother my eyes again? Now that I see the world through his eyes. His eyes. Okay? Through the eyes of Asher. Through the eyes of the Monad. Through Ahura Masta. Okay? That's how you should be seeing. Okay? In other words, you should be seeing the world through your imagination. You can imagine a better world. If you imagine a better world, you can create a better world. So don't be fooled by the material world around us. It's all fake. It's all an illusion. Not Christian or Jew or Muslim. Not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I'm not from the East or the West. Not out of the ocean or up from the ground. Not natural or ethereal. Not composed of elements at all. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 32:00 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1920s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1920s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: I don't exist. I'm not an entity in this world or in the next. Do not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless. A trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one. And that one called and know. First, last, outer, inner. Only that breath breathing human being. Okay? Does that make sense to you? We're all part of God. That's our true nature. There's a divine spark in us. Don't be fooled by the material world. And don't be fooled by labels. Christians, Buddhists, Jews. There's no difference. We're all the children of God. We're all the same. So don't be fooled by labels. There's a joke. The joke is this. God and Satan are fighting over humanity. And God says to Satan, Ha! Humans have discovered religion. Therefore I have won. And then Satan says, Yeah, but then I'll just organize it. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 33:00 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=1980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? So the idea is that religion is great. Okay? I'm a big supporter of religion. But organized religion is problematic. Because organized religion serves the interests of the priests who control the religion. Okay? And that's why there are differences in these religions. In Buddhism, in Judaism, in Islam, in Christianity. Because the people in charge need to differentiate the religion in order to exploit you. Okay? In order to justify their existence. But at the end of the day, we're all connected to the divine. And all that matters is our connection. Okay? So all these differences is something that is artificially created to fool us. All right. All day I think about it. Then at night I say it. Where did I come from? And what am I supposed to be doing? Okay? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere. I'm sure of that. And I intend to end up there. Okay? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 33:50 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2030s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2030s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: I don't remember. I can't remember. I don't know where I came from. But I know that I must have come from somewhere. Okay? This jokingness began in some other realm. Some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile, I'm like a bird from another continent sitting in its aviary. The day is coming when I fly off. But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words within my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip for an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn't come here on my own accord. I can't leave that world. By the way, whoever brought me here will have to take me home. Okay? This is beautiful. And it's also a rewriting of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Right? ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 34:29 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2069s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2069s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: This is a prison for drunks. Here we're all drunk. We're all blind from our true reality. This is a prison. When we return to the Monad, to our master, then we'll see the truth for ourselves. Okay? So here's another poor prophet, Friedrich Nietzsche. Okay? Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the three great German philosophers of the past 500 years. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Hegel, and Friedrich Nietzsche. And Friedrich Nietzsche wrote this book, Zoroastria. And he wrote it in a very interesting way. He likes to take these long walks. He can walk for like hours and hours in the mountains. And then now and then he feels as though he's being seized. Okay? A force has seized him and compels him to speak. And he believes this person is Zoroastria. Okay? So he wrote a book. And it's just a recollection of all the moments. When he was seized by Zoroastria and forced to speak his words. All right? And when ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 35:31 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: you actually read what Nietzsche writes, you will see that it's actually pretty similar to what Zoroastria himself promoted during his time. Of course, Nietzsche is promoting it in a more modern contemporary lens. Okay? So if Zoroastria were to come back, he would basically be Nietzsche. Okay? So in many ways, Nietzsche and Rumi are reincarnations of Zoroastria. They're all trying to speak a divine truth to humanity. So this is the prologue, the first page of Thus Beg Zoroastria. Okay? And what you will notice, okay, look for this. What you will notice is that this is exactly like The Alligator of the Cave. Okay? All right. When Zoroastria was 30 years old, he left his home in the lake of his home and went into the mountains. There, he enjoyed his spirit and his spirit. He was in solitude, and for ten years did not wear of it. But at last his heart changed, and rising one morning of the rosy dawn, he went before the sun and thus on to it. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 36:36 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Though great star, what would thy happiness be if thou hadst not those for whom thou shyest? For ten years hast thou climbed hither unto my cave, though would have weather of thy light and of the journey, had it not been for me, mine eagle, and my serpent. But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow, and blessed thee for it. Lo, I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey. I need hands outstretched to take it. I would fain bestow and distribute until the wise have once more become joyous in the folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Therefore must I descend into the deep, as thou dost in the evening, when thou go behind the sea, and give light also to the netherworld, thou exuberant star. Like thee must I go down, as men say, to whom I shall descend. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 37:21 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Okay? So, Zoroastria has hid himself in the cave. And inside the cave, there is nothing. In the cave, in solitude, he has discovered Asha. He has discovered the secrets of the universe, and he has discovered that this is not enough. I must now go shine the light on everyone. Otherwise, I can never achieve Asha fully. Okay? So, it's exactly like the allegory of the cave, where the prisoner, he escapes into the light, and he's happy until he realizes that you can't be happy alone. You have to share this happiness with everyone else. Okay? So, it's exactly like the allegory of the cave. All right, let's continue. Zoroastria, may I ask you, tolicio, the master Seifer, how do you interpret that? I think you get the lead of the whole engineering here, regarding those lives, not just lijner to life, but I will ask it again. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 38:18 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: So, here's what's happening, Zoroastria. Yeah. Let's say that's your story. Let's go step by step. the sweet milk of her udder, and nothing evil grow in thee any longer, unless it be the evil that grow out of the conflict of thy virtues. My brother, if thou be fortunate, then wilt thou have one virtue and no more, thus goest thou easier over the bridge. Illustrious is to have many virtues, but a hard lot, and many a one have gone into the wilderness and killed himself, because he was aware of being in the battle and battlefield of virtues." Okay. The question then is, if our master is wisdom, why do we live in a world of hate, of evil, of sin? And the answer is, because virtue must come from vice. Good can only come from evil. To live in good forever is to live in ignorance. We are born in the Druush so that we may discover Asha. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 39:19 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2359s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2359s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: From our struggles, we will discover what truly God is. And that's a gift that God has given us. To live in a time of evil so that we ourselves may create good for humanity. That's the central message of this. Without vice, there can be no virtue. And to have one virtue itself is not enough. You must be constantly in a battle to create more and more virtue. Okay? So, if you are a man of sin. You are a man of sin. Or a woman of evil. Be thankful because now is your opportunity to be a star, a sun, that through transformation of oneself can brighten the world. Okay? And when you do that, you transform the world. And after you do that, your next battle is to go and transform someone else. Or to look deeper and discover the evil in you. Okay? So, don't worry about the world itself. Just worry about you yourself. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 40:22 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: Because within yourself is a universe of evil. That can be transformed into a universe of good. So, one really important thing I have to say is that this is not Buddhism. Okay? The structure and the framework are very similar. But what Zoroastrianism fundamentally says is that compassion is not enough. Okay? You have to act. Because justice is about action. If you see injustice, you must speak out. You can't be like, oh, I'm indifferent. You can't be like, oh, I'm indifferent. Because I'm compassionate. Okay? That's not enough. You have to act out. And that's why people who believe in this religion were so creative. Okay? Because they believe in action. Being indifferent is simply being complicit in the system. All right? All right. You tell me, life is hard to bear. But for what purpose shall you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening? Life is hard to bear. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 41:26 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: But it doesn't affect to be so delicate. We are all of us fine sumter asses and she asses. Okay? What we have in common with a rosebud which trembles because a drop of dew has formed upon it. It is true that we love life, not because we want to live, but because we want to love. Love is Asha, right? We always want to achieve Asha. There is always some madness in love, but there is always also some method in madness. And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies and soap bubbles and whatever is like them amongst us seem most to enjoy happiness. To see those things, we have to be happy. To see those light, foolish, pretty, lively little sprites flit about that move Zoroastrian to tears and song. I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 42:10 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2530s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: He was a spirit of gravity. For him, all things fail. Okay. So what Nietzsche hates is organized religion. Because organized religion, it is very serious, very somber. It basically wants to enslave us, right? It's like, don't do anything bad. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Don't have sex. Or you'll burn in hell. Okay. That's very serious. And what Zoroastrian and what Nietzsche is saying is that that's not what Asha is, man. Asha is to recognize that the world is beautiful. That our master is all merciful, all forgiving, all love, all compassion, and you must delight in the world because that's why he created us. Okay. So the only way to survive this world of evil is to recognize that beauty is everywhere around us. And that is our responsibility to discover this beauty and celebrate this beauty. Okay. Dance. Sing. Make love. Laugh. Smile. That's what life is about. Okay. If a priest is telling you, hey, meditate for your life, because only through that will you avoid sin. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 43:17 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: He's a devil, man. Okay. Because he's denying you your free will. He's denying you your capacity to love, to seek Asha yourself. Okay. But one day will the solitude weary thee. One day will thy pride yield and thy courage quail. Thou will one day cry, I'm alone. One day will thou see no longer thy loftiness and see too closely thy lowliness. The solemnity itself will frighten thee as a phantom. Thou will one day cry, all is false. So life is a constant struggle, okay, between hope and tragedy. There are some days when you will be very hopeful, but then some days when you'll be very depressed. That's just the process of life. And that's the process of wisdom. Okay. To seek wisdom, you always have to constantly destroy yourself. You have to destroy the world around you. And it's a never ending process of pain and suffering and tragedy, but it will gradually lead you to enlightenment. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 44:18 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-truth-must-be-become) Text: What's really important is to act. Okay. To seek self -destruction. So another way of saying this is always assume that whatever you know, no matter how true or untruthful, it's probably wrong and to go and negate yourself. Okay. It also means leaving your family, leaving your comfort zone. All right. A heretic will thou be to thyself. Okay. A heretic is someone who doubts yourself, right? Saying everything I've known is wrong. Okay. So another way of saying this, and I know it's hard to understand is you come to my class for a semester and everything I teach you, you're like, wow, this makes a lot of sense. Okay. And every day you're excited. You learn a lot. But at the end of semester, what you want to say is, everything I've learned this semester is wrong. So I'm going to learn for myself. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 45:12 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-truth-must-be-become) Text: I'm going to get, I'm going to negate everything I've learned and believe everything I've learned is deceitful so that I can rebuild my own knowledge. And through that process, will you actually achieve enlightenment? Okay. The truth is, oh, it has to be to you. There can be no truth for everyone. The truth has to be for you and you must fight for it every day. Okay. You must be to burn thyself in thy own flame. Okay. You must destroy yourself. How could though become new if they'll have not first become ashes. Do you understand? To live is to die. If you really want to understand, you must first destroy everything that you think you not understand in order to build a new understanding. Though lonesome one, though go the way of the creating one, a God will though create for thyself out of the seven devils. Though lonesome one, though goes the way of the loving one. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 46:05 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: God will though create for thyself out of the seven devils. though loves thyself and on account despise though thyself as only the loving one despise to create desire the loving one become because he despise what know he of love who have not been obliged to despise just what he loved okay this is really hard cause to understand but like you know in the buddhist tradition it's like avoid anger no no no embrace your anger embrace your hate because hate and love go together anger and calm go together okay so by going to one extreme you can now embrace the other extreme and your life is a kind of struggle between these two different extremes when you negate yourself when you move into nothingness you can only move into ignorance and slavery okay does that make sense you are born of two natures you must let these two fight natures fight okay ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 46:56 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: when Zoroastrian had spoken these words he pointed out that hate and love are not the same thing as hate and love are not the same thing as pause like one who had not said his last word and long did he balance the staff undoubtedly in his hand at least he spoke thus and his voice had changed I now go alone my disciples ye also now go away and alone so will I have it verily I advise you depart from me and guard yourselves against Zoroastrian and better still be ashamed of him perhaps he have deceived you the man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also hate his friends okay you want true knowledge you can learn from me but at the end we must leave each other and you must say he is now my enemy I must now destroy him if I really want to be myself I ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 47:45 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: need to destroy my teachers in order to discover my true self okay and as you can imagine most people don't want to do this most people just want to cling to their mother when I cling to the teacher but you can never achieve true asha if you do this okay ye love your virtue as a mother loved her mother as a mother loved her son as a mother loved her child but when did one hear of a mother want to be paid for her love it is your dearest self your virtue the ring's thirst is in you to reach itself again struggle every ring and turn itself and like the star that go out so is every work of your virtue ever is is its light on its way and traveling and when will it cease to be on its way thus is the light of your virtue still on its way even when its ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 48:33 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: work is done be forgotten and dead still its ray of light live and travel okay so we die our bodies that decompose what's still left is our virtue okay that's who we are our virtue all that good we've done in the world all the knowledge all the enlightenment all the emotions that we've generated okay that will be eternal and so we must embrace this nature and become virtue itself okay being human is to be first and foremost virtuous to seek asha for this is the truth I've departed from the house of the scholars and this door I have opened to you I have come to you and I have I also slammed behind me too long did my soul sit hungry at their table not like them have I got the knack of investigating as a knack of nut cracking freedom do I love in the air over first soil rather would I sleep on ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 49:24 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: ox skins than on their honors and dignities I am too hot and scorched with thine own thought often is it ready to take away my breath then have I go then I then I have I to go into the open air and away from all dusty rooms but they sit cool in the cool shade they want everything they want everything they want everything they want everything they want to be merely spectators and they avoid sitting where the sun burn on the steps like those who stand in the street and gape at the passage by thus do they also wait and gape at the thoughts which others have thought okay so this is a radical idea but it's very true you go to university not to learn how to think but to fall into ignorance okay why because the professors there the priests there they have departed from reality and they've chosen to live a life ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 50:13 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3013s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3013s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: of comfort of ease of pleasure and as a result they can't know anything true knowledge is can only be found in the everyday in the mundane with ordinary people that's where God is okay universities are constructed to be away from God they are temples for the comfort of priests so if you want true knowledge go out into the world and talk to ordinary people suffer so that's it okay so now you can understand the beauty and power of Zoroaster and and i i really do believe this i really believe that Nietzsche was challenging Zoroaster but he was challenging in a way for the common mind okay because the thing about Asha is that it's always changing all right the Asha that was true three thousand years ago is that the Asha that's true for us today all right and what's really important to understand is that Asha is constantly becoming so you have to constantly ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 51:23 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: work towards it there's no there's no end point to Asha all right and Asha is going to be different for everyone but if everyone's moving towards Asha and the world becomes a more virtuous a better place and a more just place okay so um any questions guys all right so um last class i gave a lecture on the bible and i made a mistake in my lecture so um in my this my discussion about the story of the patriarchs um between the love story of Rachel and Jacob i said that uh Jacob had to work seven years for Rachel after his marriage to uh Leah but as uh this subscriber um Cole tells me actually that's how the bible says the bible says that um Laban the father gave Rachel to Jacob right away but then he had to work seven years to pay off that debt okay so uh thank you to Cole for ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 52:31 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: correcting the error in fact i probably made a lot of small errors um in my uh talk last class and i obviously made make a lot of mistakes every class okay so i apologize for that but the thing about this class is really important for us to remember is that this is a class not about answers it's about questions okay so what makes this class interesting and special is that we're always asking the hard questions what does it mean to be human where do we come from why are we here where are we going okay we're always asking these questions because these are questions that actually matter for us okay that's the first thing second thing is that i'm constantly in the process of becoming i'm constantly um trying to discover the answers and so for me this is a journey so for example um Zoroastrianism is a revelation to me before i didn't know ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 53:23 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: about Zoroastrianism and i made a lot of mistakes so for example i said that Christianity was the first monotheistic religion last um semester and now i recognize that's wrong it's actually Zoroastrianism okay so i'm constantly in the process of discovery of becoming um and what's really important is that we continue to speculate we continue to explore together all right and so if you don't like what i said, say this class or you don't like my opinion just wait a year or two and i'll probably change my opinion okay because that that's what true knowledge is about if you really want to pursue knowledge you must be willing to as Nichi Asura Thro select says you constantly need to destroy yourself to burn yourself in ashes so that you may build yourself anew okay and that's what the process of real education should be about okay so in this class i'm not here to give you a easy answers i'm not here to give you facts that you must memorize. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 54:20 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: I mean I don't want to give you a whole lesson on these subjects that go upside down. I'm here to monthly check on the answers and problems. here to ask you questions that help you better understand yourself and better understand the world around you to help this class is about conversation dialogue and debate okay all right so any questions guys yeah so as to say the ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 54:42 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3282s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3282s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: ashes different for for different individuals um so I was thinking about an example is um so Hitler as a racist he he he not only saw but he also making some like a lot a lot a lot of people to hate Jews and let's assume that he think Jews are evil in his heart and trying to destroy them so if he think that this is real truth ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 55:18 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: justice does this still count for ash okay look um look I it's a very sensitive topic you know Hitler in the Holocaust I don't spend too much time on okay but if you truly understand Asha if you truly understand it's your through star what do we say is that our master is complete forgiveness compassion and love okay so whatever we do on this in this world will be forgiven in the end I I know I I understand this is hard for a lot of people to accept I know that we grew up knowing that there must be evilness world because of the Holocaust and there must be Satan and all that but um if you really want to discover Asha you have to let go of these ideas and understand that in the end all will be forgiven okay I'm sure That there are people you hate in this world and you think that they're ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 56:25 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3385s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3385s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: they must burn in hell because all the evil date even They've done in this world but if we want to appreciate Asha if we really want To discover the truth okay we need to let go this hatred we need to let go of this judgment okay um I mean I mean the very point of Asha is that this words that you said they're don't worry about other people just worry about yourself don't compare yourself to other people compare yourself to yourself okay and and so how do you know you're moving towards asha because you can feel it all right the problem is what keeps us from asha are two things our ego and our fear we want to be liked by everyone our ego okay and our fear of rejection people of saying something that offends other people being politically correct okay like i know that in my class i offend a lot of people ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 57:24 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-asha-has-no-endpoint) Text: and i get shut out all the time on youtube and i know that okay but if i want to achieve asha i need to take this risk okay because at the end of the day what matters is my own individual pursuit of the truth what others think of me does not matter okay so the problem our society is we're brainwashed into thinking that the opinions of others matter okay what what would you teach says about you matters because the teacher recommendation will decide whether or not you get into good university how much money you make matters because that will give you status in society okay and what zero through star what nichi what roommate what play they're all saying is this it doesn't matter man what matters if you want true happiness if you want true enlightenment if you want uh asha you have to embark on a personal journey that requires solitude that requires ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 58:18 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-asha-has-no-endpoint) Text: rejecting everything that you know in the past so you can rebuild yourself once you make that once you make that decision asha will come to you naturally okay but first and foremost what you need to do is let go of these prejudices let go of these ideas that have been put into you okay i know yes i i know i will get shut out i i i don't get cursed online for saying you know hitler will be forgiven but hillary will be forgiven because everyone will be forgiven okay everyone will be forgiven okay there is no there is no hell i'm sorry i'm sorry to say this okay i'm sorry to say but there is no hell hell is what we create in our hearts okay everyone will be forgiven all right but thank you for the question ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 59:07 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3547s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3547s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: any more questions okay uh my question would be um i know that asha for everyone will have different but like will it change in a different period like when i was being as a child or when i grow up with ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 59:31 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-asha-has-no-endpoint) Text: change um okay so like i i'm not a zoroastrian priest and i don't insult the religion okay because what they will tell you is that um at the end of the day asha is virtue and god is virtue okay so so when you do asha you're moving towards god which is perfection okay but um i think that what nietzsche would say and maybe he's our third star but i think misha would definitely say this is that god is creativity okay so god so what you really want to do is when you move towards asha is to constantly reinvent yourself to discover new ideas about yourself and this is a never -ending process okay there's no finale finale to it and there's no there's no finale to it that means that each of us uh will live our own individual lives that's different from from others okay and and so what this means is that asha ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:00:30 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: will become different for each of us but what's important is and ruby would say this everyone would say this is follow your heart okay ignore what others think dissipate your fears okay kill your fears and just believe in yourself for their heart and asha will come naturally to you okay and when that happens also god will come naturally to you you'll discover new truths uh new powers new understandings that will bring you greater happiness in life okay does that make sense okay great any more questions guys ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:01:06 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: all right yeah so does that mean we'll never be like like uh not physically but like with asha but like we're always trying to get closer with them yeah okay ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:01:24 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3684s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3684s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-asha-has-no-endpoint) Text: yeah so again there's no end point okay there's no destination here okay it's becoming okay it's a possible constant process of becoming and it's not possible to seek asha in one lifetime right that's why we are reincarnated because we come back and we do it over again and we move closer towards asha each time but there can never be an end point okay because let's just say you reach that end point guess what everyone else hasn't so you have a duty now to help other people okay does that make sense so if you move closer to asha you also want to move others closer to asha so it's a constant it's a constant struggle but that's what gives meaning and purpose to the universe the fact that we're all striving to be better okay virtue truth asha these are all we strive for okay there can be no perfection there can just be only a ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:02:19 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-asha-has-no-endpoint) Text: process of becoming right does that make sense okay so look i mean i know people want simple answers i know that oh there'll be there'll be a final judgment we're gonna go to heaven and we'll live every happy happily ever after okay that's not what that's not what the truth is the truth is that right the universe is a constant process of becoming of struggle of pain of tragedy but from that we can build hope and virtue and good okay all right so thank you so what i've done is i've gone over into the three major civilizations okay the greeks uh the israelites and the persians that that have come after Frühling or Br gewalt okay what i'm gonna do next week is i'm gonna put i'm I'm going to show you how these three civilizations interact with each other, okay? We're going to go into the history of these civilizations, okay? All right, so I'll see you guys next week. ## Asha Is the Truth You Must Become -- 1:03:14 - Source title: Secret History #18: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELEdxh0ceg&t=3794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-deledxh0ceg@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-deledxh0ceg.json) Text: ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: today we do the bible the most influential book in human history and we'll discuss why the jewish people are so creative today the most creative people in the world are jews in the past 20 years there have been three extremely influential individuals karl marx simon floyd albert einstein they're all jews so why are jews so creative and the answer is the bible okay so um let me provide some background as to how israel the nation of israel was first formed so remember um the bronze age the middle east was the center of the world okay so you had egypt then you had the levant up north is anatolia across the asian is mycenaean greece and this is mesopotamia if you look at this map the center of the world really is the levant and at this time in history the levant is really a colony of egypt okay this place is called canine now um ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:28 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=88s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=88s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: the thing about the egyptians is they didn't like to go outside of egypt so in order to control this colony the levant which is strategically very important they use greek mercenaries okay many were greek but there's some other countries as well also at this time in history there's a lot of religious strife in egypt and a lot of the priests who lost out in this struggle they were exiled to the levant okay so you also had some egyptian priests in the levant you also had the hill people of canine okay hill people they lived in the hills they farmed you also had nomadic pastoralists nomads because this place was a center of trade so you had bandits you had people who traded and you also have people who raised livestock so another saying this is the levant it is a multicultural melting pot lots of different groups of people and at this time in history ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 2:41 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: there's no concept of nation or race or ethnicity it was very common for people to just intermixed together okay but then what happened of course was the Bronze Age collapse and what that meant was that now you have this surge of refugees coming through from North Europe and from Western Europe and overwhelm the former empires okay so my city in Greece is destroyed the high tide Empire of Anatolia it's destroyed and the Sea Peoples are attacking Egypt but Egypt is pretty strong so it's able to resist the attack and what the Egyptians say to the Sea Peoples is listen don't attack us we'll send you somewhere else we'll give you land somewhere else and so they were put in the Levant okay and these people called the Philistines and they're in the Bible the problem is that there's already people in the Levant and so they are a threat and so these people now are ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 3:45 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: the people of the Levant and they are the people of the Levant and so they are the mercenaries they should please the hill people the nomads they're forced to come together as a new alliance to fend off against the Philistines okay and this grouping of people will give us a new nation called Israel and at first they're they have to elect a king in order to unite them against the Philistines and they elect a king called Saul so Saul is the first king of Israel he has a mercenary named David and remember what's very common in history is for mercenaries to rebel against their king and become a king himself that's what David did but now that David is now king he has three major problems the first problem is legitimacy why are you king we elected Saul as king but you stole the throne from him so why are you king so the first ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 4:49 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: big problem that David faces is one of legitimacy second is the problem of unity because remember Israel at this time it's a diverse coalition so how do you unite these people together okay and the third problem is differentiation why are we different from the Egyptians the Anatolians the Mesopotamians the Philistines okay so to solve these problems what David did was three major innovations that would forever change forever change human history the first is introduction of a pagan god named Yahweh okay so what David says like Yahweh is our God and our God is better than the other gods okay so what the Bible is trying to do is trying to explain who Yahweh is and try to explain to everyone that Yahweh is a better God a superior God than every other God that came before him okay that's number one number two is the centralization of religion for a people so what David says ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 6:00 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: is okay if Yahweh is our God and he's the best God we need a house for him so what we're going to do is we're going to build a temple in Jerusalem and that's where he will live from now on and by doing this what David's really doing is centralizing the religion when you do that you give jobs to Egyptian priests who will now be your main political ally okay all right and the third thing that he did that's very important of course is to initiate the Bible all right okay so that's where the Bible comes from the Bible comes from the fact that the Israelite people need to create mythology that explains why they are one family and why they're different from others and why they're actually better than other people okay so what is amazing about the Bible is that it does succeed it exceeds because of the great storytelling within the Bible ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 7:02 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: okay so this in the beginning we have the origins of Yahweh and the Bible begins with Genesis the first book of the Bible is called Genesis which is means birth or the beginning okay and in the beginning God creates the universe and he discovers that he's lonely there's no one to talk to it's not very interesting so he creates man Adam but then he thinks that Adam might be lonely as well so he creates Eve okay and that's the beginning so then the Lord God formed men from the dust of the ground okay dust so man is made of dust and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life and then man became a living being okay so God's essence is in Adam and the Lord God planted a garden Eden in the East and there he put the men whom he had formed of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 8:10 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: that is pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil so this is Garden Paradise called Eden and man was created in order to farm it to take care of it okay he's basically a servant a slave and in the center of the garden are two trees the tree of life the tree of the knowledge of good and evil the tree of life as you can imagine grants immortality right the tree of the knowledge of good and evil grants the ability to learn okay so let me explain let's imagine that this is war in front of me okay so I walk oh I hit the wall it hurts right but I don't know that hurting is bad so I keep on oh I keep on hitting the wall and I keep on hurting myself okay because ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 9:09 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: I don't know what's good and what's bad but now if I know what is good and what is bad I know okay I should not hit the wall okay I have the capacity to learn and over a lifetime I will learn a lot this is a secret of creativity right what's really important about this idea is that you need to make a mistake for you to know what is good and evil okay so that's why school is stupid because school we tell you there's a wall don't touch it because you will hurt yourself and you don't touch it you don't hurt yourself but you never learn for yourself because when you hit the wall you now are able to reflect and understand how the world works okay so the secret to creativity is trying for yourself and learning for yourself what is good and evil and what this is also saying is that these two ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 10:08 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: things together allows you to become God okay does that make sense because if you can live forever but you're always learning eventually you will absorb all the knowledge of the universe which is what God is okay God knows everything in the universe and you can also argue that's why he created us because once you're our perfection once you learn everything you're no longer capable of making mistakes of learning for yourself what you so what you do is you teach students or you get students to learn for themselves and that way your knowledge expands okay so it's a really important idea is that men and women were created to be part of the creative process okay that's why God created us the Lord God took the man and put in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it okay so again the man now is basically a servant or slave and the Lord God ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 11:09 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: commanded the man you may freely okay you can do whatever you want okay this idea of free choice so if you want people to be creative you have to give people free choice okay you have to give people the capacity to make mistakes for themselves otherwise don't ever learn for themselves uh but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat from the day that you eat of it you shall die okay now what's amazing about the Bible is that it is poetry like all poetry its meaning is very complicated okay there's multiple layers to the meaning here so you shall die could mean okay the food is poisonous okay don't eat the apple oh sorry don't it's not the apple it's don't eat the fruit because you'll eat it it'll be poisonous and then you'll die okay but it's also it could be interpreted as a punishment right if ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 12:06 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: you eat it I will have to kill you okay all right so what so this is a very ambiguous story um that's what makes the story so amazing because it is uncertain to us what the true meaning of the Bible is and therefore we have to keep on thinking about it discussing it and finding out for ourselves and at different stages of our lives our understanding may be different okay what's also interesting is that God draws attention to one tree but not the other that's kind of weird right the trees the tree of immortality and tree of learning but God only says hey there's a tree of learning don't touch that which means sound that now that our attention is how focused on this one tree right so think of a metaphor let's just say that we go to the amusement park okay you're my kids and I say to you you can have you ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 13:10 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: can ride any ride you want in this amusement park but there's a ride called the dragon roller coaster do not ride that or you will die what do you do you ride that stupid thing okay so it's a really strange setup where God knows everything but he draws attention to the one thing that he's afraid of and it's almost like he's pushing us towards that tree okay because again you know if you talk to children you will know that if you if you if you warn them not to do something they'll go and do it okay so what's going on here well again the nature of God is up for debate you can say that a God is uh being truthful and little and says that if you touch that tree you will die okay so he's being dishonest basically okay that's one possibility another possibility is that he's just stupid he doesn't really understand ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 14:14 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: how humans work he created humans but he doesn't really understand what it means to be human and he gave it and he gave us free choice so he doesn't really appreciate that we would disobey him okay that's another possibility now another another possibility okay which can also be true is that it's all part of his plan right he truly wants us to understand free choice he truly wants us to be creative then he needs to allow us to make our mistake and so therefore he's sort of like setting us up okay he's sort of like sort of like provoking us into making a mistake all right doesn't make sense so as you can see how it's only a few words but it's so complex it's an entire universe onto itself all right okay all right now um this is a story of God creating woman okay Eve so Lord God caused a deep sleep to ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 15:11 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: fall upon the man the man is lonely he wants a female companion okay and he slept then he took one of his ribs and closed up his place with flesh the rib like the Lord God had taken from the man he made and brought her to the man the man said this at last is bone my bones and flesh of my flesh this one should be called woman for out of men this one was taken okay now you can make the argument that um men is superior because man came first but you can also make the argument that woman is superior because woman is made of higher quality woman is made of flesh right man is made out of flesh so this is almost revolutionary the conception conception because you would think that in this world men are at the top but this Bible is telling us no women are made of higher quality material ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 16:09 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: they made actual flesh right and that's why we think that the person who wrote this was actually a woman and as you read the Bible more and more you will discover like this genius who wrote the Bible who first wrote the Bible was in fact a woman and that's revolutionary okay all right so um therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife and they become one flesh the man his wife were both naked and were not ashamed okay all right let's fit let's continue now the serpent was more Crafty than any other Wild animal that the Lord had made he said the woman did God say you shall eat from any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden but God said you shall not eat other fruit of the tree nor shall you touch ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 16:59 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: it or you shall die okay this is really strange okay because what you will notice is that the serpent chooses to talk to the woman but not to the man okay and also what's really interesting is that they're having a debate but the first serpent said to the woman you will not die for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be open and you'll be like God knowing good and evil so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was the light to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise she took of its fruit and ate and she gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate and then the eyes of both were open and they knew that they were naked and they sold fig leaves together and made loans clothes for themselves okay this ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 17:52 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1072s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1072s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: is really interesting because the woman is making this decision okay this is really interesting because the woman is making this decision by herself right the serpent says hey why don't you judge for yourself whether whether food is good or not the woman looks at the friend says i judge for myself it is good okay this is revolutionary where the woman is making the decisions she like you would think that once she once the serpent said this to her she would she would go to her husband said hey adam the serpent said this what do you think okay but the one's like no i can see for myself what is true and then so she eats the fruit by herself and then she tells her husband eat the fruit as well and the husband falls as well so this tells us that the real hero of the story is actually the woman okay okay then they ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 18:52 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: heard the sound of the lord god walking the garden at the time of the evening breeze and the man and his wife hid themselves in presence of the god among the trees of the garden okay so they know they're in trouble they know that god will discover that they ate from a fruit they ate from the tree and they're they're scared okay the lord god called the man and said to him where are you i he said i heard the sound of you in the garden i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself so he knows that being naked is wrong okay being naked is bad who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree which of which i commanded you not to eat the man said the woman whom you gave to me with me she gave me fruit from the tree and i ate okay so ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 19:33 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: the man is blaming the man says it's not my fault i'm just i'm i was just following her okay so again the woman what's amazing about this is the woman is the hero of the story then the lord god said to the woman what is it that you have done the woman said the servant tricked me and i ate okay all right so at this point in the story what can we expect we can expect that god will have no choice but to kill adam and eve right because god's words were if you eat from that fruit you will surely die so even though the food fruit wasn't poisonous god still has a duty to kill adam and eve and if we were in the iliad okay then surely adam and eve would have died because the gods in the iliad the greek gods most gods are vengeful they're wrathful right but not this god ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 20:25 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-forgiveness-requires-fallibility) Text: okay yahweh is different okay look what happens next is the man named his wife eve because she was the mother of all living his wife and clothed them instead of being angry at adam and eve he offers them a present okay the question then is why well there are different possibilities right the first possibility is that god himself recognizes that i made a mistake here i shouldn't have drawn attention to this fruit right therefore it's my fault therefore this is a god that's capable of self -reflection and forgiveness this is revolutionary guys okay because again remember gods at this time are vengeful wrathful you must obey them or they will strike you down but this god is different this god is like listen it's you should not have enough fruit but it was my fault as well so i forgive you he's capable of self -reflection okay another possibility is again this is what god ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 21:30 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: wanted all along okay and we know this because the man named his wife eve so the man honors his wife okay with a name and it's the mother of all living okay you are the true goddess okay so um what happens next is god's like okay well you still disobey me so i want to punish you now okay so what he does is he punished the man by making him now have to toil for food okay he has to be a farmer he punched a woman by making childbirth painful he punished a serpent by making him slither on the ground okay so this is all good right but now what god's doing is like does is this he actually froze the adam and eve out of the garden okay okay so why the lord god said see the man has become like one of us all right so eve did the right thing knowing good ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 22:30 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: and evil and now he might reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life and eat and live forever okay so that's what godhood is god is the capacity to learn for yourself as well as to live forever so god's afraid hey if adam and eve eat that tree of life he'll become like god as well therefore the god sent him forth from the garden eden to till the ground from which he was taken he drove out the man and at east of the garden of eden he placed a share of him an angel a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life and so this is our banishment from the garden of eden now um most people think that this is a bad thing okay but you can also interpret this as a good thing so god chose us to make us creative but without the ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 23:18 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: possibility of living forever why because if you think about it creativity is death well the concept of death you cannot be truly creative okay first of all if you think i'm gonna live forever you're not actually motivated to do anything right you're not motivated to make the most of your life but actually making the most of your life you can't be creative also if you live forever your children cannot be creative your grandchildren cannot be creative so for humans to be creative as a species death must be an inevitability okay does that make sense so you can you can say that okay god doesn't really know what he's doing it's his first time having children he's making a lot of mistakes okay but you can also say that um it's all part of his his plan is to make us creative because that is what's divine creativity is what's truly divine okay all right so ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 24:22 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: we continue now that adam and eve are outside the garden eden they have children named uh cain and abel okay now the man knew his wife eve and she conceived and bore cain saying i produced a man with the help of the lord next she bore his brother abel now abel is a keeper of sheep and came a tiller of the ground okay so cain is a and abel uh a shepherd in the course of time cain brought to the lord an offering of the fruit of the ground and abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock their fat portions and the lord had regard for abel and his offering but for cain's offering he had no regard okay this is a very common thing in this world where you have to make sacrifices to the gods the gods will favor you the if the offerings are good okay and so your ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 25:13 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: god cain comes with some plants and then abel comes with some meat okay so you're like abel you're a better person okay and this is a very common thing in this world but cain gets very angry his face fell the lord said to cain why are you angry and why has your countenance fallen if you do well will you not be accepted and you do not do well sin is looking at the door it desires for you but you must master okay a very common thing in this world where the gods are like this person sucks do better next time it's the only way to do that okay so heADE een haf man that they like cause heAs nails because heなので okay all right but cain gets really angry and what he does is he kills his brother and then um the lord gets angry and says what have you done your brother's blood is ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 25:58 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: crying out to me from the ground and now you're cursed in the ground which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand when you kill the ground it will no longer yield to you its strength you'll be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth okay so at this time what god will could should do is just kill cain right an eye for an eye um but god doesn't do that all right god says that i banish you and then cain says if you do that my punishment is greater than i can bear actually you have driven me from the soil and i shall be hidden from your face i should be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth and anyone who meets me may kill me okay so people will know that i've left my community i must have done something wrong and therefore they may kill me and ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 26:40 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-forgiveness-requires-fallibility) Text: god says okay i'm gonna put a mark on you and this will protect you so no one who came upon him would kill him then cain went away from the presence of the lord and settled in the land of non east of eden okay so again this is a god of forgiveness of reconciliation of compromise of debate cain says your punishment is unfair and then most gods would be like screw you man i'm god i can do whatever you want but this god's like you know what you make a good point look i have reflected i recognize that i shouldn't have said that your brother is better than you okay i recognize that this is partly my fault so as a compromise i protect you okay this is again a revolutionary idea this is within 3 000 years ago okay today we think okay this is a very common concept but remember in the iliad ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 27:31 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: the major problem is one of forgiveness and in the bible this is a god of forgiveness okay he's kind of silly but he's not perfect and what he says is that perfection is not a possibility what is a possibility what we should all try to do is try to reflect and improve ourselves okay this is a theme throughout the bible so as humanity continues to develop god looks down and says you know what these humans i designed to be creative to do wonderful things but they're killing themselves they're enslaving each other explaining each other this is stupid i need to start over okay so he creates a flood but there's a flood of evil and he starts to destroy the earth that he thinks is a noble person noah right so he says noah build an ark and save yourself so noah builds an ark and he saves himself and then after the flood recedes ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 28:25 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: noah comes and rebuilds humanity and then god looks down to noah and says you know what i will never again curse the ground because of humankind for the inclination of the human heart is evil from you no i ever destroy every living creature as i've done as long as the earth endures seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night shall not cease this is God saying oops I made a mistake again okay I didn't like the evil that humans were creating on this earth and if I want to I want to wipe evil from this earth but you know what if I give them free will if they have that fruit of from the tree knowledge from the tree of knowledge of good and evil then yeah some of them are gonna make mistakes okay and it's something that I'm have had to put up with so he promised no ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 29:15 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: one humanity I will never do this again if you guys do evil well you're gonna have to solve this pump yourself I'm not gonna comment suffered for you all right it was a mist it was my mistake to make everyone suffer like this I will never do this again all right so many is rebuilt and of course humans go back to being evil starting Wars and sending each other explaining each other so then God's like you know what what I need to do is this I need to build a nation you, Abraham is their patriarch or their forefather and so Yahweh says to Abraham I will make a covenant with you I make a contract with you where I will favor you but you must swear loyalty to me you must you must promise me that your people will be loyal to me they will worship me only okay and that's a covenant the ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 30:35 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: Abrahamic covenant now what's interesting is the relationship between Abraham and Yahweh okay you would think that Abraham would just be a slave and a servant to Yahweh that's how actually what happens okay so let's read the story so what happens is this God promised to not destroy the earth but then he's like yeah but then there's some places that are so evil I need to destroy them to teach everyone a lesson okay so this place is called Sodom and Gomorrah and so I'm Kumar is known for its weakness so God sends man okay angels to some Gomorrah to destroy it Abraham is shocked by Sodom and Gomorrah. by this shabram's like yeah but you can't destroy everyone okay so so what happens and this is really interesting is that abraham and yahweh start having a debate and abraham pleads with yahweh to change his mind okay so yeah abraham says to yahweh will you indeed ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 31:30 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: sweep away the righteous with the wicked suppose there are 50 righteous within the city will you then sweep away the place not forgive it for the 50 righteous who are in it far be it from you to such a thing to say the righteous were the wicked so the righteous fear as the wicked okay he's saying yahweh you're making a mistake think about that okay a mortal is telling a god you're making a mistake but not only that but yahweh's like yeah i think you're right okay so they agree so abraham says um if there's 50 people who are righteous you cannot destroy sodom and gomorrah and god says you're right if i find 50 righteous i will forgive everyone okay so yahweh agrees with abraham at this point you would think that abraham's like yes okay and then he would run away but he doesn't do that he keeps on arguing he says yeah but let's just say there's 45 okay 45. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 32:28 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-forgiveness-requires-fallibility) Text: suppose five of our 50 are lacking there's only 45 we can't find 50. don't you think we should still forgive some some gamara and god's like you know that's a good point yeah so you know 45 is good as well okay and he keeps on going on and on until they get to 10. for the sake of 10 i will not destroy it okay this is what yahweh promises abraham so in other words it's not that yahweh and abraham it's not like master servant it's more like friend friend because what a friend does is a friend is honest with you a friend tries you to be to tell the truth a friend tries to get you to be better okay so what i'm saying to yahweh is like i know your friend is honest with you so it's important for me to argue with you okay and ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 33:14 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=1994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-forgiveness-requires-fallibility); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-living-scripture-trains-debate) Text: that's why judaism is such a powerful religion because the basis of judaism is debate and argument and questions okay debate and questions why are you so creative it's this simple guys jews are encouraged to debate each other to figure out what is truly right there is no absolute truth it's always a process of asking questions open debate and self -reflection okay all right so eventually what happens is that um what will happen is that abraham will give birth will have a son named isaac and isaac will have two sons esso and uh jacob jacob's name will eventually become israel so israel is founded by jacob what happened is that um jacob is the younger son esso is the older son so you would think that esso would inherit everything from isaac but jacob jacob and his mother rebecca schemes and steals from esso okay they trick isaac and they steal the birthright from esso so ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 34:25 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: now the esso is pissed off at jacob so jacob has no choice but to run away okay he runs away and he meets a relative okay and what follows next is the greatest love story in the bible you can also argue it's the greatest love story ever in human history okay and what's a little bit amazing about the story is how simple it is but once we start analyzing you will discover that it's actually a very complex story all right it's a beautiful complex and sophisticated story all right laban who's a relative says to jacob you're my kinsman um should you therefore serve me for nothing tell me what shall your wages be okay so jacob's um running away from his brother and he's and he finds um safety with laban and he offers to work for laban but laban said listen i can't just um enslave you so you work for me and i'll ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 35:23 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: give you whatever you want okay and then you take what says laban had two daughters the name of the elder was leah and the younger was rachel leah's eyes were lovely and rachel was graceful and beautiful jacob loved rachel so he said i will serve you seven years for your younger daughter rachel laban said it is better that i give her to you than i should give her to anyone i agree to this deal okay it's a contract now all right jacob served seven years for rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her okay so he loves her so much that seven years is nothing to him okay then jacob said to laban give me my wife so that may go into her for my time is completed so laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast but in the ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 36:11 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: evening he took his daughter leah and brought her to jacob and he went into her home when morning came it was leah and jacob said to liam what is it that you have done to me did i not serve you for rachel why didn't have you deceive me laban said this is not done in our country in the younger before the firstborn complete the week of this one and we will give you the other awesome return for serving me another seven years jacob did so and complete her week then laban gave him his daughter rachel as a wife so jacob went into rachel and he loved rachel more than leah he served laban for the last seven years okay this again is a beautiful love story and it doesn't sound like it okay but let's go into the complexity complexity of it okay first of all clearly laban deceived jacob right but he didn't mean ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 36:59 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: to in the beginning the answer is no okay the question is why did he do so and the answer is rachel and leah are sisters right and therefore they probably hate each other they're in competition with each other so when jacob says to laban i love rachel but not leah leah now is pissed right so what do you think he did she did for seven years for seven years she just pestered her father and says hey am i not your daughter am i not your firstborn will you let me be insulted and humiliated like this if jacob were to marry rachel who will ever want to marry me and laban's a father okay he doesn't want to deal with this crap so he's like how do i get out of this mess well what i'll do is i'll trick um jacob and first of all i'll give him leah and then i'll give him rachel ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 37:52 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2272s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2272s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: and how does he know this because he knows that jacob loves rachel right laban is able to like stand far away and look at how jacob and looks at rachel so he knows that rich jacob will have to endure okay he'll he'll do this but then the question then is does rachel love jacob and the answer is yes of course right because once um jacob married leah then rachel could have just said screw this i'm gonna marry someone else but she didn't she had to wait seven years and you can imagine those seven years were a long seven years for both jacob and rachel in fact every leah probably said to rachel okay she was laughing at rachel just saying you see jacob doesn't really love you and um which i have to endure okay so that's this is the power of love the way that jacob and rachel were able to endure all the ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 38:54 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: humiliation in order to just be together okay it's a beautiful love story and this is a great thing about the bible the bible written by this person okay who's who's clearly a woman right only a woman writes stories like this it has both economy and irony economy just means that she's able to with very few words convey deep meaning she's able to in the story just a couple paragraphs can it create an entire universe we can see actually the movie play out okay it's 14 years where in the first seven years jacob was really happy but in the last seven years every day he's agonizing because he doesn't want to be with leah he wants to be with rachel but they can't be together and he has to wait all these seven years okay so economy but also irony irony just means it's funny guys okay i know that you're taught the bible as religious ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 39:47 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: text but when it was first conceived it was meant to be a funny story okay let's talk about the story again okay this is a story of two sisters who hate each other and competing for the same guy all right and this carolation continues when rachel saw that she bought jacob no children she envy her sister and she said to jacob give me children or i shall die okay you have to get me pregnant because lee is having a lot of kids jacob became very angry with rachel and said am i the place of god who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb then she said here is my maid go into her that she may bear upon my knees and that i may hand it over to لاء have children through her so she gave him near she gave him her maid as a wife and Jacob went to her and Balaam ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 40:33 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: conceived and bore Jacob a son then Rachel said God has judged me and she has heard my voice and given me a son okay this is a comedy where she's in competition with Leah Leah has a lot of kids so Rachel is going to cheat and give her maid to Jacob and whenever um the baby comes out Rachel's like it's mine it's mine and she's going to go around and and cheer to to like um try to out -compete Leah okay this is a comedy then Jacob said God has judged me and has heard my voice and give me a son uh Rachel's maid conceived again and bore Jacob a second son a second son then Rachel said with mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed so she named him Nathalie okay all right okay so does that make sense and now what he's going to do is give her maid ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 41:24 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-living-scripture-trains-debate) Text: to Jacob as well in order to continue the competition okay all right to try to out -compete uh Rachel okay so this is all just a comedy okay it's meant to be beautiful stories that force you that provoke you into deep reflection all right and this is why the jews are so creative if you look at the media if you look at Hollywood if you look at academia the jews dominate okay because from the moment they're born they're born with these stories that forced them to think about what they're doing and what they're doing and what they're doing and they're doing and they're doing and what they're doing and they're doing and they're doing and they're doing deeply about who they are what it means to be human and what life is about okay and as you can understand you can just have multiple interpretations of what's going on but they force you think very ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 42:12 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: deeply about life to have an inner debate with yourself okay all right okay so now we go on to David okay the story of David it's very very um complicated okay so in the bible what it tells us is that um god needs a king for the nation of israel and he sends a prophet named sam samuel to find a king and he goes to the house of jesse and in the house of jesse he finds david who's the young youngest boy he says you will not you in the future be the favorite king of israel okay and david in his early age does wonderful things for example he defeats goliath okay so you've heard the story of david and goliath right but after he kills goliath the king saul becomes envious jealous of david and that forces david to run away eventually saul is killed and david comes back and becomes king okay that's ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 43:14 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: that story in the bible guys as you learn in this class this is all propaganda okay what really happened is that saul is king david is the mercenary and he's a very good and popular mercenary he has a lot of soldiers who follow him and therefore he kills saul and becomes king himself okay but now what the bible needs to do is legitimize david okay try to tell us that oh no no david is not ambitious he was not ruthless god willed him to be king okay and that's why the bible bible was written the way it was so this is written um by the court historian okay the person who wrote genesis is the is a person we call the yahweh is okay because for her the god is yahweh the yahweh is or jay this person is a court historian so his job is to clean up the image of david to tell ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 44:11 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: the story of david again but in a much more clean way that absorbs him of any crimes okay so so um where we on the story is that saul is dead but saul's family is still around and saul's family has a general named abner okay but after saul is dead abner feels slighted by the family so abner's like screw this i'm gonna go and support david and david of course is very happy okay all right abner came with 20 men to david at hebron david made a feast for abner and the man who were with him i'm gonna say to david let me go and rally all israel to you in order that you may take a covenant with me and you may reign over all that your heart desires okay so what am i saying is make me your general and i will give you israel david dismissed abner and went away in peace ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 45:21 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: then the servants of david arrived with job from array okay so job is david's general bringing much spoil with them but abner was not was not with david at hebron for david had dismissed him and he had gone away in peace when job and all the army that was with him came it was told job abner came to the king and he has dismissed him and has gone away in peace now job and abner have a conflict because abner killed one of job's brothers so job wants to kill abner okay what have you done abner came to you why did you dismiss him so that he got away you know that abner came to deceive you and to learn your comings and goings and to learn all that you are doing job came out from david's presence he sent messengers after abner they brought him back from the christian of sarah but david know about ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 46:07 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: this okay so job goes and kills abner okay now so if you read the story did nothing wrong okay but if you think about it there are lots of problems with this story the first problem is that job the general is rebelling against david right if you're david who who are you more afraid of are you afraid of abner or afraid of job you're afraid of job right because job has your army okay so there's no way that david will allow job to rebel against him so the only conclusion is that job acted with the permission of david so david knew about this okay all right this is a lie david knew all about this in fact david probably ordered job to kill abner then the question is why well if you're a king you're most concerned about loyalty right if adam betrayed saul's family this is possibly abner will come and betray you as ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 47:07 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2827s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-living-scripture-trains-debate) Text: well okay so this guy needs to be eliminated because he's dangerous okay and it makes sense because remember david betrayed saul so he's afraid that others will betray him as well all right so this story even though it's a lie it gives it gives us enough clues to construct the truth for ourselves that's what makes the bible different from other religious texts other religious texts are sayings or truisms but these are stories and stories are living things that we can reconstruct in our heads okay and again this explain helps us explain why the jews are so creative people because they grew up in tradition as opposed to truths or sayings, okay? So they can constantly reimagine these stories for themselves. All right, so now we get to the most famous story of David, all right? So in the spring of the year, when kings go out to battle, David sent Job with his officers and all Israel with him, okay? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 48:11 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: So what's really important to know is that even though Job disobeyed David and killed Abner, Job was never punished, okay? Okay, which tells us that Job was probably acting on the orders of David. They ravaged the Ammonites and besieged the rabbi, but David remained at Jerusalem, okay? So David's in Jerusalem while the army is fighting elsewhere. It happened late one afternoon when David rose from the couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house that he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful. David sent someone to inquire about her. It was reported, this is Bathsheba, okay? Daughter of Eliam. Daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. So David sent messengers to get her and she came to him and he lay with her. Then she got pregnant, okay? Again, this is a very problematic story because first of all, a woman doesn't sleep with you just because you asked her to, okay? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 49:06 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: And Bathsheba, remember, is married to Uriah the Hittite. Okay, so who is Uriah? Uriah is the best soldier in David's army. He's very popular with the men. So if you're David, who are you afraid of? You're afraid of Uriah, okay? Does that make sense? All right? Uriah is the person you're most afraid of, all right? So now he has a problem because Bathsheba is pregnant. And David's like, I need to fix the problem because if Uriah comes back and discovers that his wife got pregnant while he was away, he's going to know that I slept with her, okay? So he has to solve this problem. So David sent word to Job, send me Uriah the Hittite. And Job sent Uriah to David. Okay? So he sent word to him, David asked how it's going. And David says to Uriah, okay, you know what? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 49:59 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=2999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: You're a great warrior. Why don't you go and see your wife? But then Uriah doesn't go see his wife because Uriah says to David, listen, your army is fighting for you. I cannot go sleep with my wife and feel good about myself while your men are dying. I refuse to... Be my wife if the men are outside, okay? So now David has a huge problem. So what David does is he writes a letter to Job and tells Job, hey, go do this, okay? Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting and then draw back from him so that he may struck down and die. So David orders the assassination of Uriah. And Job tells David, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead, okay? I have done what you've asked me to do, okay? So in the Bible, what it tells us is that David fell in love with Bathsheba and his heart took over him and that led him to go kill Uriah, okay? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 51:16 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3076s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3076s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: But if you think about it, what probably happened was reverse where David becomes jealous of Uriah and he becomes fearful of Uriah because... because he's so popular with the soldiers, okay? Because that's how David got the throne, by betraying Saul. So he's afraid that Uriah will betray him as well, okay? So he probably ordered the assassination of Uriah to prevent this threat from arising. And then what do you do with... What do you do to show that you're better than your worst enemy? If you have an enemy, how do you prove that you are better than he is? You go marry his wife, okay? So that's the real story, okay? The real story is that David felt that Uriah was being better than him. He got very jealous. And so he killed Uriah and married his wife to show, ha, I'm better than Uriah, okay? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 52:14 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: That's the real story. But you can... And you can see how the Bible framed the story in a different way. In other words, the Bible's written as an apology for David to disguise his crimes. And the story of Genesis, was written to show that God favors David okay because if they David is fallible but what David does that's really important is that he admits his mistakes and he reflects and he improves that's what God does as well okay so David and God are the same people and that's why Yahweh favors David above everyone else Yahweh is looking for a friend David is his best friend because David is most like him okay all right let's continue okay so the wife of Uriah Bathsheba he she hears that her husband is dead and she cries and then when after after her morning is over David and Bathsheba marry and have a son together okay then ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 53:12 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3192s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: Nathan the Prophet goes David and says tells him a story there are two men in a city and one is rich and the other is poor okay so there's two men one rich one poor the rich had many sheep and the poor had this one okay so the rich had many sheep and the poor had this one okay then a traveler comes to the rich man and the rich man has to have a feast for the traveler but he doesn't want to use his sheep so he steals the poor man's sheep okay then David gets angry and says hey man that's wrong okay I will find this man and I will kill him okay and I will give the poor four lambs instead of one instead of one and then Nathan says to David David you and then Nathan says to David David you are that rich man okay so what Nathan is saying to ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 54:10 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: David is your crime is you are that rich man okay so what Nathan is saying to David is your crime is you stole Bathsheba guys that's not David's crime okay David's crime is he killed stole Bathsheba guys that's not David's crime okay David's crime is he killed Uriah all right so this is what we call gaslighting you see how clever this is Uriah all right so this is what we call gaslighting you see how clever this is where the Bible set up so that you forget that David's crime is killing Uriah all right so this is what we call gaslighting you see how clever this is Uriah all right so this is what we call gaslighting you forget that David's crime is okay not adultery all right so in other words the Bible it's an apology for David but because of the nature of Israel society okay so what's what's special about issue at this ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 54:48 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: point in history is that it's a very small community of people so David can't be like I'm king if you disobey me I'll kill you okay he has to get everyone to support him so they have to make up these stories to justify why David is a good person okay David cannot say he didn't do this because everyone knows he did this so instead they change the story and what they say instead is that what makes David special is not that he is infallible what makes him special is that he's a poet and he is capable of reflection and forgiveness which is what Yahweh is. okay so Yahweh support King and so is David all right and this is why again the Jews are so literally so so literary and so creative they're not great warriors but they are tremendous intellectuals this has been true throughout their history they capable of deep reflection open debate ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 55:55 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3355s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3355s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: and argumentation okay and this is and this is why the Jews are so creative okay any questions guys ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 56:06 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: I don't know much about Bible so Bible is a collection of different stories and poem right and so the common feature of these stories are like I can't really tell the common feature between this story and the previous story about Rachel and Leah okay okay so that's a good question okay so let's go over to ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 56:39 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: some basic introduction to the Bible okay okay so the Bible it's a library okay Bible means sorry Bible means books in Greek so the library and it's composed of three major parts the first is what's called the Tanakh sorry it's like it's a Torah okay so it's the first five books of the Bible okay second is the historical books history and then you have the writings okay which include poetry so the Promo Bible is that it was actually constructed much later than the time of David okay so David was David was about 1000 BC around this time okay in the Bible we think was concerned about 400 BC around this time okay so there's a 60 year difference so the Bible that we have was very very different from the Bible than in the Bible in the later divine that was first conceived, okay? So, what's the structure of the Bible? The structure of the Bible is this. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 57:56 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: It's a history of the people of Israel, okay? Remember, Israel is a fake nation. It's a collection of different tribes, different peoples, and they need to make it as though it's one people. So they create a fake history, all right? So the fake history is Adam and Eve, then Noah, then Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob, then Moses, then you get all the way to David, okay? All right, so this is a cosmology, an ordering of events, or a fake history, all right? And what this is doing is this. It's combining all the different tribes and groups of Israel together into one family history. Okay, so remember, you have the Egyptian priests, you have the missionaries, you have the nomads, you have the hill people, okay? So Egyptian priests get explained away by Moses. That's why the Israelites go into Egypt, because they have the Egyptian influence, okay? Then you have the hill people, and the hill people come from different families. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 59:16 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3556s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3556s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: And what you do is you make them into one big family. So Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are all different part family. And when you combine the nation together, you make it as though it's one nation together, okay? Okay? So now, rather than Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are different families, it's like, no, Isaac is the son of Jacob, and Jacob is the son of Isaac. Okay? Alright? So this is the original Bible. And then what happened later on was then they added other stuff as well. Okay? Poetry and rituals and all that. Okay? Over time. Does that make sense? Alright. Good. Great. Any more questions, guys? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 59:55 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: I don't understand, like, why does the Bible kind of trying to embellish, like, kind of trying to make people believe that David is a very successful figure or something? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:00:14 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: Sorry, what is the question? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:00:16 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: So, like, so the intention of the story about David is to use these stories to let the readers, the Israel people, to understand the story about David. To understand their culture? Or is this just... ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:00:38 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: Okay. Listen. Okay. So the Bible will change over time. Okay? This is really important to understand. What the Bible is changes over time because Israel becomes different over time. And we'll go over this next class. Sorry, next week. Not next class. Next week. Okay? So what's happening now is, okay, you're David and you're Solomon. Okay? So Solomon is the son of David who becomes king. Alright. And there are people around you. Okay? And they're gossiping. Okay? Gossiping. They know what happened with Bathsheba. They know what happened with Abner. They're all gossiping. And that causes problems for the king. Okay? It's like being in a village and everyone's talking behind your back. So what you do is you need to spin this. Okay? Or what we call public relations. Or media. You need to tell the story in a different way. That makes the gossiping less bad. Okay? So the gossiping right now is that David, he is ruthless. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:01:43 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: He killed Uriah because Uriah was a threat. Okay? Now, the problem with this, with this story is that if people believe this story to be true, one, it's possible that Uriah's friends will want revenge for what happened. Okay? It's also possible that a soldier tries to kill David. Okay? Because David is clearly ambitious. So, you change the gossip to like, oh, no, no, no, no. David was not ambitious. David is just a poet who fell in love with Bathsheba. Okay? Now people think that David is just irresponsible. Okay? Infallible. But this is a lot better than people thinking that he's a ruthless killer. Because if people think that he's a ruthless killer, then I should be a ruthless killer as well. Okay? Now people are like, well, you know, David, he's king, but he's not perfect. And he made a mistake, and we should forgive him. Because Yahweh, remember, the story of Yahweh is that he makes mistakes too, and we should forgive Yahweh as well. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:02:53 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: All right? Do you understand what's happening? Okay? This is what's called spin. Before, it was like, he killed Uriah, and therefore, we should avenge Uriah. Or it's okay to be like that. Or it's okay to be violent. Now you switch the story to say, no, it was really about Bathsheba. And this is just really about, okay, you know what, people make mistakes, we should forgive him. Okay? And that's why the Bible was created in the way that it was. To change the gossip around so that it would be less harmful. They both suck, okay? But everyone knows you killed Uriah. Now the question is, why did you do so? You don't want people thinking that, hey, David killed Uriah because he saw you as a threat. Because then people will think, okay, then we know that David had to kill Saul as well. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:03:41 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: Okay? That'd be a huge problem on your hands. So you switch it like, no, no, no, it was just Bathsheba. Okay? Does that make sense? ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:03:49 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) Text: So the Bible is used like to manipulate David about it. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:03:58 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-forgiveness-requires-fallibility) Text: Okay. All right. Listen. All right. Very simple. Remember this one. Writing. What is writing? Writing does three things. First is legitimacy. Okay? To explain that this guy should be the king, because that's the will of God. Second is unity. We are one family, guys. We have the same values. The third is differentiation. We're different from other people. Okay? All right. Differentiation is, Yahweh is a God of forgiveness, a God of fallibility, but a God of reflection and debate and openness. Okay? So our God is different from other gods. The Greek gods is pure vengeance. Our God is one of forgiveness. Okay? He's good. Unity is, we're just one family with one history. Okay? And legitimacy is that David is a poet king, which is just like Yahweh. Okay? That's why Yahweh favors him. Does that make sense? Okay. That's what the Bible was constructed initially to do, but over time, its nature will change, and something we'll discuss as we go along. ## The Bible Turns Mistakes Into Imagination -- 1:05:02 - Source title: Secret History #17: Literary Genesis - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlMNq44tBG0&t=3902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-plmnq44tbg0.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-living-scripture-trains-debate) Text: But when the Bible was first constructed, it was constructed as propaganda. But Yahweh is, okay, the Yahwehs, or the J, she uses opportunity to create beautiful stories that become living entities, living memories unto themselves, and they ignite the imagination of the Jewish people. And that's why the Jewish people are so creative. All right? All right? So, okay, do you have any more questions? Okay, great. Okay. So we've done the Greeks, we've done the Jews. Next class, we'll do the Persians. Okay? And these are the three most creative peoples of this period, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians. And you can argue that it's these three people, the Jews, the Greeks, and the Persians, that have, that are the pillars of Western civilization. Okay? So we will continue this next class. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: good morning so today we do greek civilization we are focusing on homer who wrote the iliad and the odyssey a couple years ago i taught the great books so we read the bible uh dante um paradise lost the iliad in the odyssey and believe it or not the student's favorite book was the iliad and this was written maybe 3 000 years ago by this greek man living in a different time different culture even today chinese teenagers think he's wonderful okay so homer is i believe the big bang of greek civilization all right so let us summarize where we are okay let's review where we are okay so remember that in the beginning you have this city emerge in a major trade route and it occupies a major river and over time what will happen is that as the city expands it will create colonies along the river and this will create warfare among the city ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:19 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=79s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=79s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: states because they're trying to control trade okay and this leads to what we call open cooperative competition and these are 여기는 and as i keep on saying this is a system that will lead to tremendous innovation and this is what happened in china in mesopotamia and in egypt but then over time what happened is that an empire will emerge and this will create a bureaucracy okay now bureaucracy has three major characteristics. The first is centralization, and because of centralization, you now have a monopoly, and so you have a decrease in competition, which means that the society is no longer innovative. Second is you have censorship, meaning that people are no longer free to express what they want. All information is centralized. The third is writing as propaganda. So writing is a system of control, as opposed to a system of knowledge creation or self -expression. Okay, so these are the three characteristics of an empire. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 3:01 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=181s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: And this is true for all empires, and this is true for my society. So this is true for all empires. This is true for all empires. This is true for my society. Mycenaean Greece. So Mycenaean Greece is the empire that ruled the Aegean Sea during the Bronze Age. What's interesting though is when the Bronze Age collapsed, this system allowed for massive innovation which gave us the Greeks. Okay so let me explain why. First of all you don't have centralization but you now have something called a polis. So you basically have a return to the system of open warfare. The polis means city state in Greek and it gives us the word politics. Why? Because these polis's were at war with each other always and because every citizen had to risk his life in a war every citizen had the right to speak. okay so before every decision was made all the citizens could debate and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 4:18 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: so as a citizen you were required to speak in front of others and as a result you even though you could be a farmer you had to educate yourself you had to gain knowledge you had to learn the art of speaking what we call rhetoric and this allowed for massive education and innovation in greece um the polis because everyone had to learn they had to change the writing system from one of propaganda to one of knowledge seeking so they changed the writing system so during the mycenaean age the writing system is called linear b and linear b um is a hard system to learn but that's the point they want the writing system to be hard to learn because then only the elite can learn it and that's what differentiates the elite from the people right but now that everyone has to learn you need you need a more efficient writing system and so they ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 5:27 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: incorporated they created a new system called the alphabet which is the same system we use today because it's so effective okay so let me explain what the alphabet is all right so in the beginning when we first start to write we had pictograms okay so this is the sun this is the moon okay sun and moon as you can see these are just pictures of words okay that's the first step but then people realize you know what we actually don't have to write down we actually don't have to draw down draw out the pictures we can just use symbols okay so now you use symbols like maybe an o and this okay this is now becomes a sun moon and then people realize you know what there are actually a lot of words we cannot draw out but if we make the symbol representing a sound as opposed to an idea that'd be a lot ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 6:31 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: more efficient right and so now um you can create new words this is the word now for mon soon because all you're doing is you're adding two sounds together okay 2 -3 half count this is what i call a syllet syllabary okay so linear b was a syllabary and um the chúng system is what i call an idiogram idiogram okay so it's it's not representing sounds it's representing ideas all right and then people realize you know what for it to be most efficient to be most flexible to be most versatile we this half the symbol represent a part of a sound okay so rather than becoming something incomplete we're actually just going to a complete sound just a part of a sound so now this becomes m this becomes s okay and so you now get the word sum and this is where we get alphabet from what they did was they added vowels to ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 7:36 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: the system okay and this is the most efficient writing system in the world it's really easy to learn as you know uh from english class as opposed to chinese which is very hard to learn okay so now you have the alphabet which increases literacy and learning throughout the greek world for entertainment what they did was they invited bards poets to come and give recitals to talk about the legends of the past and this gave rise to the most famous po poet of that time named homer and we will discuss homer today okay and so in a the in a centralized system homer could not have have arisen because homer would have would have been a propagandist but now in this decentralized system where everyone is looking for entertainment for knowledge homer can arise and homer will be the greatest poet of greek civilization and he's considered to be the father of greek civilization okay so ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 8:40 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: we will discuss homer today and homer is famous because he wrote two books the iliad and the odyssey actually he didn't write the books he recited the poetry and then his students wrote it down because he himself was illiterate and we also think he was blind okay so the iliad and the odyssey are about the trojan war okay so let me explain to you what the trojan war is okay so um from last class you know that uh troy was the center of the world it was the heart and center of global trade and that's why pirates kept on raiding troy okay and so now as you also know facts become stories and stories become exaggerated over time and that's what gave us the legend of the trojan war okay so let's go over the um basic outline so there are uh the gods up in mount olympus the king god of course is zeus ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 9:41 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: and the three goddesses are hera who is the queen god they are athena the gods of wisdom and aphrodite who is the goddess of love okay hera is the queen the mother athena and aphrodite are the daughter of zeus so it's one big family one day um they discover a golden apple on mount olympus and the golden apple says to the most beautiful in the world so of course all three believe it must be mine and so they fight and they fight and they fight and zeus is going crazy because they won't stop fighting so zeus has an idea he will have a contest and and this contest the golden apple will be awarded to one with three okay but now he needs to find someone stupid enough to be the judge and he finds this person named paris and paris is a prince of troy and so paris meets the three goddesses and of ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 10:54 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: course each goddess is trying to bribe paris so hera says paris if you pick me i will give you a kingdom i will make you a king and paris like that's a really attractive offer okay then athena says hey if you pick me i will give you all the wisdom in the world you will be the wisest man in the world and paris like okay that sounds cool sure and then aphrodite says i'm going to give you the hottest girl in the world and paris is like yes that's what i want man okay so he marries helen um this guy this this may sound strange to you like why would you give up power and wisdom for you know sex and so i saw my wife about this because i i didn't understand paris's choice right and she said of course you pick helen because what matters to guys is status face right right you're ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 12:00 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: a king but there are lots of other kings you have wisdom but like who knows you have wisdom right but hey if you walk around the world with like the hottest girl in the world you feel good about yourself okay so of course you pick helen so there you go my wife knows more than i do all right but anyway so now this is a problem because now hera and athena are pissed off and they want revenge in fact they're so pissed off they decide they're going to not just Paris, but the entire Trojan people, okay? They're going to wipe out Troy from the face of the earth. They want revenge. Another problem is, at this time, Helen is married to Menelaus, who is the king of Sparta, and his brother is Agamemnon, who is the king of Argos. And Sparta and Argos are the two most powerful places in Greece. So Agamemnon is the king of kings. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 13:00 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: He is the king of Mycenaean Greece. And so they organized this huge army to attack Troy, to retrieve Helen, okay? And this will go on for 10 years, this battle in Troy. And this will give rise to many legends that Homer will use to entertain the Greek people after the fall of the Mycenaean Empire. Two of the most famous heroes of this time, and there were like hundreds, okay, are Achilles and Odysseus. Odysseus is known for being the wisest of the Greeks, the greatest strategist. Achilles is known for being the bravest warrior. Odysseus will come up with the idea of the Trojan horse, which is what ends the war, because as you know, what will happen is the Greeks will sneak inside a horse, a wooden horse, pretend that it's a gift, to the Trojans the Trojans will take the horse inside the city the Greeks will sneak out at night and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 14:09 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: kill everyone okay all right so that's the story of the Trojan War what Homer will do is he will take this epic okay this legend and turn it into a great story he does not tell the whole story he only tells a part of the story he tells a story of the battle between Achilles and they get man on okay so let's go over the plot of the Iliad the Iliad all right so the story begins like this again men on has arrived in Troy with his entire army but Troy's a walled city and these guys are pirates so they cannot destroy Troy so what they did what they do is well they're pirates so they go and they go and raid other islands that are allies of Troy and what they do is to capture booty which includes beautiful young girls okay and they have these girls as slaves now the custom of war ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 15:22 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: is that if the girl belongs to a powerful family that family can choose to ransom her back and you have to give her back okay now it turns out that Egbert likes his girl but she's she's the daughter of a powerful priest and the priest says give me back my girl and I'll give you a lot of money and again the man says no I like her screw off so this priest gets angry and prays to apollo and apollo unleashes a plague on the greeks and everyone's dying okay and so achilles discovers what's happened and he confronts agamemnon in a war council and he says agamemnon you have to give the girl back or else we're all gonna die here and agamemnon says fine i will give her back but only in the condition that i take your girl and of course achilles is pissed off he's like that's not fair and agamemnon's like too ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 16:14 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=974s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: bad i'm king and so achilles says fine but i will never fight for you ever again i'm gonna let the trojans destroy you here i'm gonna i'm the greatest warrior in the world i'm gonna sit back and i'm gonna let the trojans destroy you okay so after that meeting achilles goes to his mother who's a goddess her, name is fetus and she's a river goddess and and achilles says to fetus listen mother could you help me out could you tell zeus to help the trojans the reason why is i want the greeks to lose so that they beg me to save them i came to troy to be a hero so let the trojans win and then i'll come and save the greeks and i'll be a great hero so that's what fetus does and hector who is the prince of troy okay he's brother to paris he discovers that achilles is absent from ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 17:21 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: the battlefield so he leads the trojans against the greeks and they're destroying the greeks they're at the point where sorry at the point where they've almost reached the greek ships and they want to burn down the greek ships because if they do that the greeks cannot resupply themselves and they will all die in troy and so at this point odysseus and the other greeks say to agamemnon you know what we need achilles please please get achilles back into the battlefield and again agamemnon says fine tell him this tell him i will give him my daughter in marriage i will give him all the treasure in the world if he comes and fights for us so odysseus and the greeks go to achilles and says please please please help us and achilles says no why because agamemnon is not here where's again man i'm there i don't need his daughter i don't need all this money ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 18:18 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1098s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1098s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: in the world i'm gonna die anyway in battle so screw off okay so now achilles and the argument are stuck because achilles wants agamemnon to apologize that agamemnon doesn't want to lose face so there's a real threat that the trojans will destroy the entire greek army okay and they're about to reach the ships and burn down the greeks on the ships and achilles is watching this and he's like why aren't the greeks coming and begging me again okay he wants to constantly beg him so he can say no and the greeks and the greeks are like we know that so we're not going to come so then what happens is achilles he's so nervous that he sends patroclus who is his lieutenant to go talk to the greeks and say hey man what's going on do you need achilles help and the greeks say to him patroclus we know he's he's got this terrible temper ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 19:14 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: he's not going to come save us but maybe you can save us patroclus and patroclus yes i can be the hero now so he runs back to kill and says achilles you we're all going to die here let me go fight and achilles is like fine you can go fight but only in the condition that you just save the ship and you do not push the trojans back to troy okay that's my glory do not steal my glory so of course what this does is he tries to win all the glory for himself he forces a duel between himself and hector and hector kills patroclus now achilles is pissed off and and achilles is like screw this i'm gonna go kill hector okay so now agamemnon and achilles are best friends because they both want to kill hector achilles duels hector kills him and he is now the greatest warrior in the world he's proven ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 20:10 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: himself to be the greatest hero in the world he's saved the world he's saved the greeks he's killed hector he's avenged his friend patroclus he should be the happiest man in the world right and this is a genius homer he now falls into a deep depression he mutilates hector's body he ties hector's body to his chariot and rides around the city of troy and all the trojans are screaming in horror the gods are like this is disgusting man the greeks are like no man this is a war crime we don't want to get involved okay achilles is going crazy he can't sleep he can't eat all he can do is mutilate hector's body all right so now so now the gods are watching this and saying you know what um we shouldn't allow this because this is a war crime and hector was always a good subject so let's broker a peace between achilles and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 21:09 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: priam who is the father of hector okay because in this world it's important to bury the dead because only by burying the dead can they find eternal peace okay so prime wants to once about body back so prime himself cannot sleep and both achilles and prime agree to this deal the gods send prime into achilles tent and achilles is busy okay achilles is distracted and prime is sitting next to him and at this point what prime can do is take a dagger and stab achilles in the neck and avenge his son right what he does instead is he kneels down before achilles and kisses his hand he submits himself before achilles and achilles is so awed by this that he recognizes that priam is the greater hero that prime has more courage than he does and now achilles submits to priam and the two forgive each other and weep together and this is how the ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 22:27 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-battlefield-forgiveness-civilizes); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: idiot ends okay this is a story that tells us that the real battlefield is not out there in the source of troy the real battle is inside our human heart okay why does achilles fall into depression because he himself knows he's he's the one guilty for killing of patroclus he's the one guilty for killing of maybe it was hector who killed patroclus but it was achilles who made it possible why because number one achilles didn't have to get into a super fight with a big amount okay number two is when the greeks came came to beg achilles could have could have said yes okay and then number three is achilles did not have to send metropolis into battle so achilles know in his heart that he was guilty and as such he could not forgive himself and so he fell into depression and so priam by forgiving achilles allowed achilles to forgive himself okay so ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 23:33 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-battlefield-forgiveness-civilizes) Text: it's a problem of forgiveness and this is the hardest problem in human society how do you forgive those who've done wrong to you and how do you forgive yourself for doing wrong unto others this is the hardest problem in human society if you can solve this problem you can now create a great civilization that's not homework did okay homer showed us that this is the greatest problem in the human heart and when we forgive each other we make the world a new we rejuvenate the world we change the world from one of the destruction into one of fatality okay priam by sacrificing himself by having the courage to forgive achilles change the destiny of himself and his son hector because a chile gave Hector back and told Priam not only will I give your son back but I will make sure that you have enough time to ensure a proper funeral for Hector. Achilles himself will ensure the Greeks will not attack Troy during the funeral. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 24:42 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Okay and that's the beauty and power of the Iliad. It is the most shocking ending ever. It's the most beautiful, the most poignant, the most tragic ending ever. Even today we cannot match it. So the question now is how is it that Homer and the Greeks had such wisdom and today we don't? And the answer is their minds were different back then than they are today. Okay so let me explain why. Okay so you know from psychology that we have two hemispheres in the brain okay, a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere. The right hemisphere is a creative, emotional, caring hemisphere. The left is the logical, analytical, unitarian hemisphere. Okay so right does art maybe left does math. Okay we know this from simple psychology. Now there's an American psychology it's a psychologist named Julian Jaynes and he proposes a really interesting theory his ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 26:03 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: theory is actually what's happening is the right hemisphere is receiving information from the universe vibrations from the universe and the left hemisphere is interpreting this information into reality okay all right so remember we we discussed Kant what does Emmanuel Kant say Emmanuel Kant says that there are two realities the Nomana the world the things in themselves and the phenomena the things to us okay so what happens is that our brain interacts with the Nomana and then filters it back into the phenomena okay and it uses a filter time and space in order to perceive things okay Hegel says that this Nomana is the Geist okay the universe and as we discussed the universe are just vibrations okay vibrations and so if you apply all this to this theory what's happening is our right brain is receiving these vibrations and then our left brain is just is just transforming these vibrations into everyday reality okay the ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 27:22 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: question then is how do we interpret these vibrations well for most of human history we've interpreted them as just gods and spirits okay and even though it's not factual it is truthful in that it allows us to better understand the universe it better under allows us to understand ourselves okay by embracing this model of the brain we have access to wisdom okay the wisdom of Homer and the Greeks and that's why back then the Greeks are much more creative and wise than we are today okay does that make sense because what we've done today is we've shut off this part by saying no all that matters is science logic and materialism okay so we've shut down the right brain and we only use left brain today and that's why we are less creative alright so that's the argument I will make to you today alright let's continue the Greek Big Bang the beginning ofский civilization ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 28:45 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1725s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1725s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: all right so this and this is Julian James James okay and he wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral brain okay bicameral mind is just a left and right hemisphere and these two work together the right is the receiver of the universe the left is interpreter of the universe all right so he gives an example of this okay why is it that in ancient times when kings died we buried them with lots and lots of gifts we buried them as though they were still alive and the answer is from our perspective they were still alive okay the burial of the important dead as if they still lived is common to almost all these ancient cultures whose architecture we have just looked at this practice has no clear explanation except that their voices were still being heard by the living and were perhaps demanding such accommodation these dead kings ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 29:42 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: propped up on stones whose voices were hallucinated by the living were the first gods okay does that make sense to you we lived in a world where we're using both our left and right hemispheres and as such we saw spirits deities gods all around us okay we interacted with them and they gave us both inspiration as well as motivation okay and so um this is a viking ship burial where a king is being buried with ship and his horses and so he was still alive because from their perspective he's still alive he's still able to give us his wisdom and he's still able to give us his wisdom and he's still able to give us his wisdom this is the cult of the skull which is what we found in most neolithic cultures okay the most the earliest agricultural societies why because they practice ancestry worship and they believe that these skulls were living and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 30:38 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: they could help you access the dead in the spirit world and and and draw wisdom and inspiration from them this is a book the constant serpent by jerry narby okay and he tells us that listen if you just do some basic research this understanding of the universe where our right brain receives spirits and left left brain interprets in reality it makes a lot of sense okay because all the the entire universe is itself consciousness okay it's all mine and matter is just what we perceive i began my investigation with the enigma of plant communication okay plants are able to communicate with each other we know that scientifically i went to accept the idea that hallucinations could be a source of verifiable information okay so if you feel as though a spirit is talking to you maybe the spirit really is talking to you and i end up with a hypothesis suggesting that a human mind ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 31:42 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: can communicate and defocalize consciousness with the global network of dna based life all this contradicts principles of western knowledge okay so all the entire universe is cautious plants have it animals have it we have it Therefore, if we open our minds, we're able to communicate with the entire universe and draw insight. And he goes on. Scientists know this, and our greatest discoveries came from scientists who embraced the consciousness of the universe. Many of science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism. Rene Descartes dreams of an angel who explains the basic principles of materialistic rationalism to him. Albert Einstein daydreams in a tram approaching another and conceives the theory of relativity. James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train, then rides his bicycle to reach the conviction that DNA has the form of a double helix. So it's almost as though a spirit is telling the secrets of the universe to the scientists. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 32:49 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=1969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: So, just ask yourself these questions, and you will understand that maybe the universe is consciousness, right? So these questions are, Sometimes you think of someone, and then, boom, that person calls you. Is that strange? Has that ever happened to you? Do you feel as though you're being watched all the time? Do you feel as though you're an actor on a stage? Do you sometimes feel you're compelled to act as though something has taken control of your body? Possession. Why do certain ideas pop in your head all of a sudden? Do you sometimes feel as though something planted an idea into you? What if you have dreams? Where do dreams come from? What do dreams mean? Do you sometimes feel as though you know, what someone else is thinking, okay? Is it possible you're sitting with a friend, and you know exactly what your friend is thinking, even though you're not talking? Do you think sometimes that you're having a conversation with a friend inside your head, okay? ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 33:40 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: So your friend is not there, but you're having a conversation with your friend. Do you feel as though you have a guardian angel? Okay, I'm sure you're too shy to say this, but I'm sure that you feel as though there is a spirit world, right? Okay, these were not mysteries and questions before, because everyone assumed we lived alongside spirits, angels. and demons, okay? Today we ask these questions, before they didn't ask these questions, because everyone just assumed that, yeah, of course, we live alongside angels and demons, and that's why we are who we are. Okay, so let's go to the Iliad, okay? And the Iliad shows us how the brain worked at that time. A brain that was both materialistic and spiritual. A brain that understood that we lived in different dimensions, okay? And the gods had more control over us, and the gods represented our emotions, and the workings of nature, okay? ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 34:43 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: The Iliad. Now this is a translation by Robert Fagles. So let's, at the very beginning of the Iliad, okay? Homer says this, Rage, goddess, signal of rage of Peleus' son Achilles. Murderers, doomed, that caused Achaeans countless losses. Hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls. Great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion. Feast for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon, lord of men, and burned Achilles, okay? So the first thing that Homer says is, Please inspire me, Muse, okay? So what he's doing is not creating, what he's doing is channeling. He's drawing inspiration from the gods, okay? When he's speaking to people, he's saying, I am here as a messenger of the gods. This information is from the gods themselves. All right, ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 35:43 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2143s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2143s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: so this is the fatal meeting, sorry, not the fatal meeting, the clash between Agamemnon and Achilles, the first meeting that starts off the Iliad. So Agamemnon says to Achilles, Give me your slave girl and get out of here, okay? And Achilles says, Screw you, I'm not going to fight for you again. But now Achilles is pissed off. He wants to kill Agamemnon, okay? Agamemnon broke off and anguished, gripped Achilles. The heart in his rugged chest was pounding, torn. Should he draw the long sharp sword slung at his hip, thrust through the ranks and kill Agamemnon now, or check his rage and beat his fury down, okay? So he can't control himself, okay? Rage has overtaken him. He wants to like step forward and just kill Agamemnon. As his raging spirit veered back and forth, just as he drew his huge blade from his sheath, down from the vaulting heavens swept Athena. Athena's here now, okay, ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 36:37 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: before Achilles. The white -armed goddess Hera sped her down. Hera loved both men and cared for both alike. Rearing behind him, Pallas sees his fury here. Only Achilles saw her, none of the other fighters. Struck with wonder, he spun around. He knew her at once, okay? So Achilles is a hallucinating Athena. No one else can see her, okay? Pallas Athena, the terrible blazing of those eyes, and his winged words went flying. Why, why now? Child of Zeus, with the shield of thunder, why come now? To witness the outrage Agamemnon just committed? I tell you this, and so help me, it's the truth. He'll soon pay for his arrogance with his life. So he really wants to kill Agamemnon. Her gray eyes clear, the goddess Athena answered. Down from the skies I come to check your rage. If only you will yield. The white -armed goddess Hera sped me down. She loves you both. She cares for you both alike. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 37:30 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Stop this fighting now. Don't lay hand to sword. Lash him with threats of the price that he will face. And I tell you this, and I know it, it is the truth. One day, glittering gifts will lie before you, three times over, to pay for all his outrage. Hold back now. Obey us both. Okay? So, Achilles wants to kill Agamemnon, but now he's being possessed by Athena, okay? And Athena says, stop. So she urged, and the swift runner complied at once. I must, when the two of you had now commands, goddess, a man submits, though his heart breaks with fury. Better for him, by far, if a man obeys the gods, they're quick to hear his prayers. And with that, Achilles stayed his burly hand on the silver hilt and slid the huge blade back in his sheath. He would not fight the orders of Athena, okay? ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 38:18 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: So, again, this is not factual. Athena doesn't really exist, but it's truthful in that it gives us insight into how the human brain and the human emotions work, okay? Now, what I'm going to do now is, I'm going to write this again in modern prose to show you the difference, okay? Okay, so this is what I wrote myself. Okay, it's bad writing, it's modern prose, but you're able to compare and contrast, okay? I don't need you, get out of my sight, roared Agamemnon. He spat on the ground. Achilles' blood boiled, and he reached for the hilt of his sword. He saw all I stared at him, and he stayed focused on Agamemnon. He counted the seconds and the steps it would take for him to sprint forward and strike him down. His feet grew heavy, and his legs grew wobbly. He could not move. He felt the thumping of his heart. Achilles snapped around and walked out of the room. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 39:09 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: He saw all eyes focused on him, okay? So this is factual, but it's not truthful. Do you understand? It doesn't give us insight into why this is happening. So the Iliad is truthful, but not factual. Modern prose is factual, but not truthful. So now, as I said, Achilles refuses to fight. The Greeks are losing the war. And so the Greeks beg Achilles to come fight. Achilles says no. And he sends Patroclus to figure out what's going on. And Patroclus comes out and says, Let me fight Achilles. And at this point, Achilles should just be like, We'll fight together, or don't go. Patroclus is too dangerous. Instead, he says this. So he pleaded, lost in his own great innocence, condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom. He is Patroclus. And moved now to his depths, the famous runner cried, No, no, my prince Patroclus. What are you saying? Prophecies? ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 40:11 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: None that touch me. None I know of. No doom my noble mother revealed to me from Zeus. Just this terrible pain that wounds me to the quick. When one man attempts to plunder a man he is equal, to commandeer a prize, exalting so in his own power. That's a pain that wounds me, suffering such humiliation. That girl, the sons of Achaea, picked her as my prize. And I sack the walled city, one of my spear. But right from my grasp, he tears her, my dear Agamemnon, that son of Atreus, treating me like some vagabond, some outcast stripped of all my rights. So the Greek army is about to destroy, and Achilles is concerned about his own pride. He's a very selfish person. Agamemnon stole his girlfriend, and he's pissed. Enough! Let bygones be bygones now. Done is done. How on earth can a man rage on forever? Still by God I said I would not relax my anger, not till the cries and carnage reached my own ships. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 41:02 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: So you, you struck my splendid armor on your back. You lead our battle -hungry Meridians into action. And now, in fact, the black cloud of the Trojans blasts down on the ships with full gale force. Our backs the breaking surf, but clinging still to a cramped strip of land, the Argives lost. The whole city of Troy comes trampling down on us, daring, wild. Why? They cannot see the brow of my helmet flash before their eyes. Oh, they'll soon run for their lives and choke the torn beds of the field with all their corpse, if only the mighty Agamemnon met me with respect. So the Trojans are attacking them because he's not in the battlefield. But if he were in the battlefield, the Trojans would just run away. Now, as it is, they're fighting around our camp. No spirit ragers now in the hand of Diomedes, keen to save the Argives from disaster. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 41:50 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: I can't even hear the battle cry of Agamemnon. Break from his hated skull, but it's man -killing Hector calling his Trojans on, his war cries crashing around me. Savage cries of his Trojans sweeping the whole plain. Victors bring the Argive armies to their knees. Even so, Patroclus, fight disaster off the ships. Fleeing yourself as a Trojan's full force before they gut our host with leaping fire and tear away the beloved day of our return. But take this command to heart. Obey to the end. You can win great honor, great glory for me in the eyes of all the Argive ranks, and they, they'll send her back, my live and lovely girl, and top it off with troves of glittering gifts. Once you have whipped the enemy from the fleet, you must come back, Patroclus. Even if Zeus, the founding lord of Hera, lets you cease your glory, you must not burn for war against these Trojans. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 42:34 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Mad men lusting for battle. Now about me, you will only make my glory that much less. Okay? Me, me, me. All Achilles cares about is me. Patroclus, you can go into battle, but don't win too much glory. Do not outshine me. Okay? And because he says this, what does Patroclus do? He tries to win all the glory for himself. He engages in the duel of Hector and he, and it cost him his life. Okay? So it's Achilles' fault this is happening. And he knows it. All right. So, the psychology here is just so insightful, so deep, so striking. So let's use an analogy to understand the psychology. Okay? Let's pretend John and Gilles, are boyfriend, girlfriend, but they have a fight, like boyfriend and girlfriend do, and they break up. Okay? But they want, they long for each other, but they don't want to apologize to each other. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 43:24 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Okay? So, Gilles tells her best friend, Jane, to talk to John, to try to get him to apologize. All right? And then Jane goes, talks to John, and John says, you know what? I've had it with Gilles. I'd much rather date you because you're more beautiful and you're more, you know, reasonable. And then, Jane is really excited because Gilles is prettier than she is. Right? she runs back to Gilles and says, hey, John asked me to go on a date. Maybe I can use this opportunity to convince him to apologize. And then, Gilles says, okay, go date him. But, what do you do? Don't kiss him. So, what does Gilles do? Right? So, this is reverse psychology. Right? Okay? So, Gilles knows that if she says this, Jane's going to kiss John. And, Achilles knows that if he tells Patroclus, Patroclus is going to win a lot of glory. Right? ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 44:19 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: And so, what happens, of course, is that Patroclus dies and Achilles can now enter the battlefield and win all the glory for himself. And, that's what happens. Okay? He kills Hector. He saves the Greeks. But, then he goes crazy. What he does is he ties Hector to his chariot and he starts riding around the walls of Troy. It is a, it is a war crime. It's disgusting. It's hideous. The Trojan are going crazy. But, we don't want this, man. The gods are like, what the hell is going on? Okay? So, this is just shocking. It's, it's, it's a mutilation. It's torture. All right. So, now we move to the end of the Iliad. And, at this point, Priam, the king, cannot sleep because his son, Hector, is being mutilated by Achilles. Achilles can't sleep because he cannot forgive himself for the death of Patroclus. And so, he takes it out on Hector. And, the gods are watching this and they're kind of disgusted. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 45:24 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: The games are over now. The gallant army is scattered. Each man to his fast ship and fighters churn their minds of thoughts of food and the sweet, warm grip of sleep. But, Achilles keeps on grieving for his friend, the memory burning on. And, all of a sudden, doing sleep could not take him. But, not now. He churned and twisted side to side. He longed for Patroclus' manhood, his gallant heart. What rough campaigns they fought to an end together. Leaving their way through wars of men and pounding waves at sea. The memories flooded over him. Live tears flowing. And now, he lied on his side. Now, flat on his back. Now, face down again. At least, at last, he leapt to his feet wondering anguish endless along the surf and dawn on dawn. He cannot sleep. He's depressed. He is wracked with self -guilt. He cannot forgive himself for what has happened. ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 46:14 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Flaming over the sea and shore would find him pacing. Then he yoked his racing team in his harness lashed the corpse of Hector behind the car for dragging and hauled him three times round the dead Patroclus' tomb. And then he rest again in his tents and leave the body sprawled face down in the dust. But a poorly pitied Hector dead man though he was and warded all corruption off from Hector's corpse and round him head to foot the great god wrapped the golden shield of storm so his skin would never rip as Achilles dragged him on. And so he kept on raging shaming noble Hector but the gods in bliss looked down and pitied Prime's son. They kept on urging the sharp -eyed giant killer Hermes to go and steal the body a plan that pleased them all but not Hera Poseidon or the girl with blazing eyes. They clung to their deathless hate of ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 47:03 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: sacred Troy Prime and Prime's people just as they had at first when Paris in all his madness launched the war. He offended Athena and Hera both goddesses. But Zeus who marshalled the storm clouds warned his queen now Hera don't fly into such a rage at fellow gods these two can never attain the same degree of honor. Still the immortals loved Prince Hector dearly best of all the mortals born in Troy so I loved him at least. He never sinned with gifts to please my heart never once did my altar lacken its share of victims wine caps tipped and the deep smoky savior these are the gifts we claim these are our rights but as for stealing courageous Hector's body we must abandon the idea not a chance in the world behind Achilles back for fetus is always there his mother always hovering near him on the same day so would one of you gods call ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 47:48 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: fetus to my presence so I can declare to her my solemn sound decree Achilles must receive a ransom from Queen Priam Achilles must give Hector's body back okay does that make sense so the gods are fighting over what to do and then Zeus says you know what let's just broker a peace between Achilles and Priam okay so Priam agrees to ransom back Hector's body and Achilles agrees okay so again we can write this to eliminate the gods but what you will see is that it's not as powerful it's not as intriguing not as truthful Priam cannot sleep and toss in his bed his wife and his children come one by one to console the weeping king but to no avail his servants try different sleeping potions and one by one they fail in the middle of the night he screams at the moon and tears at his graying hair Priam aches for Hector and feels ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 48:41 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: guilt and remorse for failing his son children spies watch Achilles drag Hector's body day and night they take turns spying and they know that Achilles cannot sleep they report this news to Priam and this gives him hope he sends an emissary to the Greek camp and Agamemnon agrees that it is Priam's right to ransom back his son as is the custom of war and after the rage of Achilles Agamemnon sends a servant to talk with Achilles Achilles does not hear Priam's offer but he nods his head anyway okay so it's less powerful it's um less truthful it's less interesting okay all right now comes the most powerful part of the Iliad okay this is actually when Priam and Achilles meet for the first time and so what happens is that Priam is snuck into the tent by Hermes and the majestic king of Troy slipped past the rest and kneeling down beside Achilles claps his ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 49:40 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=2980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: knees and kisses his hands those terrible man -killing hands that had slaughtered Priam's many sons in battle so the king decides to kill Achilles but chooses instead to kiss his hand and submit before Achilles and this submission destroys the pride of Achilles okay it's an emotional battle duel between Priam and Achilles and Priam has won awesome as when a group of madness seizes one who murders a man in his own fatherland and flees abroad to foreign shores to a wealthy noble host and a sense of marvel runs through all who see him so Achilles marveled beholding majestic Priam okay that's what Priam has done Priam is like a fugitive who's wanted for murder he escaped and he should be a slave but somehow he's become wealthy okay so by submitting himself before Achilles Priam has changed the destiny of the world his men marveled too training startled glances but Priam prayed his heart out to ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 50:44 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: Achilles remember your own father great god like Achilles as old as I am past the threshold of deadly old age now doubt the countrymen round about him plague him now with no one there to defend him beat away disaster no one but at least he hears you're still alive and his old heart rejoices hopes rising day by day to see his beloved son come sending home from Troy those words stirred within Achilles a deep desire to grieve for his own father taking the old man's hand he gently moved him back and overpowered by memory both men gave way to grief Priam wept freely for man killing Hector from encroaching before Achilles feet as Achilles wept for himself this is the first time Achilles can now cry okay he could not cry before now for his father now for Patroclus once again and their sobbing rose and fell through out the house they've forgiven each other ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 51:35 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: why because they love their people okay so Priam saw Hector in the face of Achilles Achilles saw his father in the face of Priam so because of their love for others they found love for each other so love is the unifying force of the universe love is what allows us to forgive ourselves and forgive others okay and this is the tremendous insight of the Iliad okay and to demonstrate to you how powerful this insight is let's run a scenario okay let's do a thought experiment let's just say you're driving a car with your wife and your child home from restaurant you make and then you hit a car and your wife and your child died okay that's the first scenario second scenario is you're driving home and then a drunk driver hits you killing your wife and your child it's not your fault it's drunk driver's fault okay the third scenario you're arguing with your ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 52:36 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3156s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3156s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: wife and you're not really watching the road okay then a drunk driver hits you and kills your wife and your child okay these are three different scenarios right let me ask you a question in which scenario are you less likely to forgive the drunk driver one two or three one it's your fault two is it's his fault three is it's his fault but it's also your fault which one it's number three guys okay why because you cannot forgive yourself first all right if you cannot forgive yourself you can't forgive others and guess what guys in real life it's always number three it's almost never number one or number two so forgiveness is something that we encounter every day all right every day we make mistakes and because we can't forgive ourselves we can make even more and more mistakes okay that's a problem of forgiveness and it's the deepest problem in human society and so ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 53:33 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: what the idea tells us is that the real struggle is not for power the real struggle is within our heart the real struggle is between ourselves if we forgive ourselves we can change the world right if we forgive others we make the world a better place because priam forgave achilles achilles was able to forgive himself and they made the world a better place okay that's the power of the human heart and this is what gave rise to greek civilization okay the greeks engaged in an oral tradition and in the oral tradition they were constantly trying to figure out the mysteries of the human heart all right so this is this is uh pericles giving his famous funeral oration so every day people are speaking because that's what a person does speaks before others all right um the greeks were known for their theater this is the amphitheater in athens you can see it seats about ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 54:40 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: 10 000 people and this is what they do for fun they stage this theater and everyone watches it and the theater plays uh plays by euboides aeschylus which are about the human heart the mysteries of the human heart so every day people are thinking about what it means to be human and that's and that's why they have the greatest civilization in the world this is the agora the marketplace where people come together and just debate they talk so socrates was famous for being in the agora the marketplace and just finding people to debate this is the symposia the symposia is a gathering of wealthy people what they do is they drink wine and they talk about philosophy love death what's the meaning of life okay so wine is interesting because they'll water down the wine so it's not as strong okay and they'll do this like for like the entire night this is socrates engaging ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 55:37 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: in a symposium on love that's what they do for fun guys this is a trial of socrates um so if there's if if you're charged with a crime you face a trial there's 500 people and you have to convince those 500 jurors why you're guilty or why you're not guilty okay all right so this is where people are talking with each other and that's the source of their creativity and what they're talking about is the ilia the odyssey they're trying to figure out what homer meant what homer was trying to tell the world in his poetry um this is herodotus so even if you write the first thing you do is when you write you will recite your writings to everyone so you understand what the reaction is it comes from community it comes from understanding the feelings of others okay today we just write by ourselves and that's why our writing is crap all ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 56:47 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: right so um this is anna karina nina consider the greatest novel of the modern period it's written by leo toystoy and um it's a really fun novel i highly recommend it it's a great book okay and it starts off by saying happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way everything was in confusion in the oblensky's house the wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a french girl okay so it starts off with an affair what happened is that the husband's um um sister anna karina will come from um saint petersburg to try to um resolve the issue but then she'll fall in love with another man count vronsky who and they have an affair together okay and this affair destroys their families and it ends with anna karina's suicide okay because what's happening is that she's demanding more and more count vronsky and he ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 57:54 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: can't keep up he's he's exhausted by the demands of anna karina so this is what she says before she kills herself my love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic while his is waning and waning and that's why we're drifting apart she went on musing and there's no hope for it he has everything for me and i want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely he wants more and more to get away from me we walk to meet each other up to the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions there's no altering that he tells me i'm insanely jealous and i have told myself that i am insanely jealous but it's not true i'm unsatisfied i don't have any meaning in my life and i want this love to give me meaning okay so it's almost like she's looking for god we've killed god and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 58:44 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: now she's looking for god in affairs in sex in lust and that's why she can't find it okay all right so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take this and translate it into homoerotic prose okay let's see how homoerotic it is i'm not homo okay but like you might have read it okay anna karina went to the train station and sat on the bench waiting for the train to come her thoughts are empty and her head low where do you plan to go someone asked in the corner that snapped anna from her trance and to her horror she saw herself but it was not herself she was older with graying hair and drooping eyes and anna looked as though she had seen a ghost okay so she's hallucinating herself 20 years from now all right who are you anna shouted in horror what do you want where do you go the older ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 59:33 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: anna asked where's wronski anna shouted she looked around the train station was empty okay you know where he is the older anna said with a look of pity on her wrinkled face anna got up and walked away she was being followed so she knows that in time she'll just all be alone okay she sees her own future anna where are you going the older anna asked stop following me anna shouted back picking up the pace i am going to a place where you can't find me don't you know anything rash the older anna said chasing after her leave me alone anna shouted and she ran and ran screaming and screaming she tripped and fell into the tracks right in front of the train and then she died okay so if you do it this way it gives you more insight into the human mind the human psyche right and that's what we've forgotten so what ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:00:28 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: happens when we stop believing in the spiritual what happens when we disconnect from the right hemisphere of our brain we clutter our brains with insignificant concerns when we kill god anything can be god okay so as i said anna karina with her fear she's looking for god she's looking for meaning and before when we hallucinated when we talked with the gods we had meaning we had wisdom we had significance and now we've lost it and the result is what we call modern literature which is complete another crap by the way okay and we know because this is virginia wolf to the lighthouse okay it's considered the greatest one of the greatest novels of the 20th century it's not very good all right so this is um a woman talking to herself it's what we call stream of consciousness there were the eternal problems suffering death the poor there was always a woman dying of cancer ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:01:26 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: even here and yet she had said to all these children you shall go through with it to eight people she had said relentlessly that and the bill for the greenhouse would be 50 pounds for that reason knowing what was before then love and ambition and being wretched alone in dreary places she had often the feeling why must they grow up and lose it all okay so her mind is just wandering and wondering and she's concerned about the grocery bills she's concerned about the future she's concerned about of the past there's no discipline there's no focus to any of her ideas okay and this is what we call stream of consciousness and it's the way we think today okay the reality is that we live in a world in which god is dead in which we are not allowed to imagine a spiritual world in a world in which we only focus on the here and ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:02:08 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: now and as such we live meaningless insignificant lives and as such our brains are just focused on things that don't matter okay and our brains become schizophrenic alright okay does that make sense guys okay yeah any questions alright yeah ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:02:28 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: I have a question about the the concept about forgiveness that you just mentioned that if you can't forgive yourself you can't forgive others I think the example of this is China and Japan because China hates Japan because of the Japan invasion war and after hearing this quote I think China hates Japan so much even until now it is because that China cannot forgive himself because he is too weak and also just like the third third situation that you just showed Japan invades and China is too weak to fight back so China cannot forgive his weakness so he cannot forgive Japan yeah ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:03:13 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: um yeah that's that's a great analogy I completely agree yeah because if you're really strong and confident you just focus on improving yourself don't think about other people yeah okay any more questions guys but thank you for the comment okay alright so last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to read some YouTube comments um so I don't have time to read YouTube comments but my wife loves reading YouTube comments and she sends me YouTube comments and it's basically my homework okay so if my wife sends it to me I'll respond alright so let's look at some YouTube comments from the last video um Western Qatar says hey man what about Africa what about Egypt and African civilization and you know I'm sure that Africa Egypt Sudan are really really interesting I don't know enough about it to comment on it okay so what I want to do is later on I want to ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:04:08 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: focus more on Africa okay I want to go to Africa and I want to learn more about content so I can comment um more about Africa like for me teaching is a learning journey okay I teach to learn okay um so this YouTuber says bad Bentham says um I under represent livestock in the economic system and this is absolutely true okay if you look at the steps the currency is actually livestock cattle sheep are the main currency of the step people and it's what allows the step people to fight great wars because when they go off in wars they can bring their livestock with them and therefore they don't have any logistical issues okay so this comment is absolutely right um question so capital changes altruistic nature to utarian when hard working motivation gets saturated why are we only going in one direction that's getting saturated um yeah so this is interesting so um we ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:05:14 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: have two natures an altruistic and utitarian nature and what we've discovered is that um if you break the balance and you become too utitarian it's almost impossible to move it back okay and that's why societies collapse how similar is this series to civilization series okay so the comment is that I'm using a lot of content that I used before in civilization and yeah that is that's the fear of criticism and the reason why is that um what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to better understand history so what I'm doing is I'm trying to analyze history from different angles so last year when I taught civilization I was trying to just figure out how civilization work and this year what I'm trying to do is trying to apply the idea of secret societies to the better understanding of civilization so I know some of the content is different it's repeating itself but the angle ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:06:10 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=3970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: the slant the over thesis has changed okay and I'm and I'm going over a lot of this information in order to build a case of why we have secret societies all right um how do we manage to produce during these horrible times same question I asked myself yesterday okay so so the question is what if children when things are getting worse and worse and the answer is because children is what gives us hope children is what gives us purpose when you see that the world has collapsed or you see the world is in chaos you have children because children give you the energy the motivation inspiration to fight for a better world okay so I am probably the most pessimistic person on planet earth okay I think the entire world is going to hell I have three kids I have three young kids and the reason why is well first of all I love my ## Homer Made the Human Heart a Battlefield -- 1:07:06 - Source title: Secret History #16: The Big Bang of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=4026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehovUNrSrw&t=4026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-4ehovunrsrw.json) Text: kids I love having children but also my children fill me with hope and energy and power to fight for a better world I am only doing this I am only teaching this class I am only putting this on YouTube to build a legacy for my children if it were not for my children I would honestly not be doing this it's really hard work okay all right so that is it for today thank you guys uh we'll continue next week okay ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 0:02 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: okay so let's start class today we are doing the bronze age collapse so let's reveal where we are in history okay so remember the four earliest civilizations are egypt mesopotamia uh indus valley and of course china and as we discussed the reason why the they are the first four major civilizations is that they have major rivers that allow them to develop agriculture as well as trade overseas and as we discuss what will happen is that they will have a major city and this major city will have colonies along the major river okay so in egypt it's the nile in mesopotamia it is the uh euphrates and the tigris and the first city is york eric china it's the yellow river right um so in this valley is in this valley uh it's in this and and now these different city states will go to war in order to control trade routes and this leads to ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 1:19 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=79s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=79s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: a time of major innovation in human history at the same time because of these wars they need better and better equipment and so eventually they will develop bronze okay bronze bronze as you know is an alloy of tin and copper so you need both in order to create bronze which is the strongest metal it's ideal for shields for armor and for swords whoever has more bronze weaponry will win any war the problem though is that tin it's actually hard to mine and to discover and to ask to manufacture in fact tin deposits are scattered all around the world okay so this is tin over here over here over here and over here over here okay they're everywhere basically but it's not concentrated therefore you must now build more trade routes in order to access tin okay so what's going to happen now is that more trade routes will develop in order to access tin and ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 2:35 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: the major points the major trade routes will become cities themselves okay all right and now this world is globalized in order to facilitate warfare now what's interesting is the anos valley itself it's not like egypt mesopotamia and china it is not engaged in warfare we've done archaeology in the endless valley with modern day pakistan we have not discovered weaponry okay we've we've discovered bronze but we haven't discovered weaponry in fact we believe that in this valley it is a piece ofclazani even though it's not a part of Pakistan. egalitarian and artistic civilization but it's still brought into this global system why because bronze changes from weaponry into status okay meaning people use it for pottery for jewelry and then eventually what happens is that bronze itself becomes capital all right now what we also know is that this world is heavily globalized there's a lot of trading and this in this world is complete meaning ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 3:51 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: it touches every corner of the world but starting in about the year 1200 this system collapses in fact the collapse is sudden and hidden and the collapse is sudden and the collapse is sudden and the collapse is devastating so remember in if you know Chinese history you will know that this is a Shaan dynasty right guess what guys about the year 1200 it collapses all right and we know this because Egypt is under attack during this time by by the Sea Peoples what we believe is that the Sea Peoples are actually refugees who are fleeing the destruction of Europe what we believe is that there's a perfect storm engulfing this world at this time okay so this perfect storm includes climate change climate change leads to drought which leads to famine which leads to a migration crisis what's going to happen is that the Sea Peoples are going to come in from the north and ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 5:03 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: they are going to wipe out existing civilizations including Mycenaean Greece and the Hittite Empire okay the Hittite Empire which is in Anatolia which is in modern -day Turkey why Mycenaean Greece and the Hittite Empire are important is we believe they are the two major antagonists in the Trojan War you may have heard of the Trojan War well guess where guess what Troy is here okay so Troy is in the center of global trade and that's why people fight over the location of the city so the Mycenaean Greece is being destroyed the Hittite Empire is being destroyed and Egypt is being under attack Egypt will survive the invasions of the Sea Peoples but after the invasions Egypt will be exhausted and will it will lose its global power status okay Innis Valley will be itself overwhelmed from because of refugees fleeing from the steppes okay Mesopotamia it's very interesting about Mesopotamia but it's actually the most ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 6:15 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: resilient of all the four major civilizations and the reason why is Mesopotamia for its history is constantly at war okay so Egypt is protected by natural geography by the desert the Sarah desert and then by the Red Sea okay so Egypt has natural boundaries uh China also has natural boundaries but But Mesopotamia does not. It's a flat land. So it's very easy for the mountain people to come invade. And it's very easy for outsiders to come and build new empires. In fact, throughout Mesopotamian history, there have been three major empires. The Akkadian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, and the Assyrian Empire. And it goes back and forth. And these empires are not... They don't really last that long, maybe a couple hundred years at most. Because this area is so competitive. But because it's so competitive, it's actually much more resilient than the other areas. So again, the big question for us is... Why would this world collapse like this, all of a sudden? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 7:25 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And it's really relevant for us to understand. Because many scholars have compared the Bronze Age world to our world. Because our world is also one... That is heavily globalized. And it seems like it's on the verge of collapse. So why is it that this sort of like globalized world... In which many countries are getting very wealthy... Why did they collapse all of a sudden? And the argument I will make to you today is... It has to do with the nature of capital. So what I will show you is that... This is a proto -capitalistic system. And what we know about proto -capitalism is that... It allows for rapid growth. But then it also allows for rapid collapse. Okay? So let's go over the idea of capital. What is capital? Okay, so capital has three major characteristics, okay? The first is that it is universal. Universal just means that... ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 8:40 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Everyone wants it. Everyone in the world believes it has value. Okay? That's number one. Number two is that it is a store of value. And what this means is that... You're able to take wealth and store it inside this commodity. Okay? And the third thing about capital that's very important is... It's mobility. Okay? Mobility. Meaning I can take this thing and then transport it somewhere else. At little or no cost. If that's these three characteristics, then it is capital. Okay? And throughout human history, there have been different types of capital. So let's look over some examples. So one example is grain, right? Just food. Grain is sort of universal because everyone wants to eat. But not everyone thinks it's valuable. Okay? And it's hard to store value in grain because it could decompose easily. Okay? And it's actually hard to transport grain because it's cheap but it's expensive to transport. Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 9:53 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And that's why grain never became capital. Now, let's look at cattle. Cattle, like cows and sheep, it's a better form of capital because you can store more value. And it could be universal. But it's actually hard to transport. And that's why cattle never became capital. Okay? Now, if you keep on moving on, you get into slaves. Right? Human beings. And so you can have woman slaves, sex slaves. You can also have man labor. Okay? And this is a better form of capital because it's sort of universal. Okay? You can store value in it, but the value is uncertain or unstable. And it's mobile. Okay? So slaves became an economy. But this is a very basic economy. Then you develop bronze. Okay? And bronze now is extremely valuable. Okay? Everyone wants it. So it's universal. You can store a lot of value in it because it's hard to make. And now you can move it around. Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 11:07 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So in other words, bronze became the first real universal currency in the world. And this allowed for rapid development. Rapid globalization in the world. So think of the equivalent of bronze today is of course the U.S. dollar. Right? The U.S. dollar is universal. Everyone wants it. It's a store of value and it's mobile as well. And so it's a U.S. dollar which allows for the rapid growth of capitalism around the world. Okay? Now, let's discuss how capital works. All right. So what we know is that we humans are actually capitalists. We are actually composed of two natures. We are composed of an altruistic nature and we are composed of a utilitarian nature. Okay? Altruistic just means that you care about human relationships. You want to be nice to people because you want to be their friends, they're part of your family. Okay? Unitarian just means that you don't care about others. You just care about the goal, the profit, money, power. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 12:19 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? And we are composed of both sides. So think about when you go to a restaurant. Right? If the meal is good, you pay a lot of money for it and you give the waitress a tip. When you go home to dinner and your mother is happy to see you, your mother cooks you a really nice meal and then you say, thank you. Right? You don't want to do the opposite. Right? Where you go to a restaurant and you're like, thank you. And then you leave. And you don't want to go to your mother's house. And then you say to your mother, hey, this meal was fantastic. Here's a thousand dollars for you. Okay? It would screw everything up. Okay? So we have two different natures and we keep them separate. What capital does, that's very interesting, is that it moves us from the altruistic state into the utilitarian state. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 13:08 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And at first, that's good. Why? Because when you're altruistic, you don't really want to do anything. Okay? Because you don't want to offend other people. Okay? So there are lots of villages in the world and they're static. Why? Because for them, what matters is not change. What matters is harmony. And these villages, it kind of sucks to be an outsider. It kind of sucks to stand out. In fact, there are some traditions in which if you are outspoken, if you are thoughtful, if you like to explore, if you're curious, they will kill you and make you a sacrifice to the gods because they see you as a threat to their social system. Okay? So an altruistic system, it doesn't like change. So if you don't do anything to it, it just stays the way it is. So when you're in capital, people now are more motivated to work hard. People are more motivated to innovate and to explore. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 14:02 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So at first, this is good. Okay? Now you're expanding the system. And then you reach a point of its maximum growth. But then what happens is the scale... Sorry. The scale tips over. Okay? And people become too utilitarian. And when you become too utilitarian, you cheat. You don't care about others. And this causes a lot of problems. Okay? You start to exploit other people. And so when you become too utilitarian, the system collapses. It doesn't make sense. Capital comes in the system and it makes it grow really fast. Once it hits a certain point, then it has to collapse. Okay? So let's use another example. Let's just say that you are a leader of a group of people. And it could be a village. It could be anywhere. Okay? And if there's no money involved, what do you care about? You care about status. You care about your reputation. You care about how other people see and perceive you. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 15:10 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Right? So you care about the feelings of others. Once capital enters the equation... Then the way that the leader sees you is different. The leader sees you as a commodity to be exploited. Okay? The leader is not like, how much money can I make money off you? Not only that, but the leader... Okay? The leader will do what? The leader will align with other leaders. And they will become a cartel. Okay? Or an elite. And they will together exploit people. Okay? But not only that, but they will expand and look for new areas to conquer. Okay? Because all they care about now is money. How to expand the capital. But once the capital expands too far, then what happens is only a few people have all the capital. And the people down below, they're enslaved, they're exploited, and they want to destroy the system. They become indifferent. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 16:15 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: If you force them, they will revolt against you. So the system must collapse. Okay? So, the argument I'm trying to make to you is, this is just the way capital works. And there's nothing you can do about it. That's why the Bronze Age grew, but that's also why the Bronze Age collapsed. And that's why our world grew, but this is also why our world will collapse as well. Okay? That's the argument I'm making to you today. Any questions before we go to the PPT? Is this clear to you guys? All right. Let's go to the PPT. All right. So... This is a map that shows you the world of the Bronze Age. And as we discussed, these are the four major civilizations, right? China, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Okay? And they now, because they're at war, they have an insatiable need for bronze. And where... And bronze needs tin. Where's tin located? Tin is located where the stars are. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 17:17 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? And you can see, they're scattered over the place. So, what they're going to do now is they're going to build trade routes into these tin places that allow them to extract the tin to build, to create bronze armor. Okay? But when they do so, they also create new civilizations and new cities until you get a completely globalized world. So, this is China. And as you can see, they're always at war, and so they need weapons. Okay? This is pottery. Bronze pottery from China during the Shang Dynasty, during the Bronze Age. All right? So, how do we know that it's a completely globalized world? Because over the past 20 years, we've discovered shipwrecks. Okay? So, we've discovered ships that were transporting goods during the Bronze Age. And so, when you dig up these ships and you analyze where the products are from, you're able to rebuild the trade networks. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 18:21 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? And that's why we know about the Bronze Age. Okay. So, what's going to happen is this. The green is the copper sources. Okay? And as you can see, there's a lot of copper sources. The problem is the tin sources are spread out. So, in order to create bronze, you need to constantly expand your trade networks outside. Okay? And as you can see, what's happening is that the expansion keeps on expanding. It's ongoing until it encompasses the entire world. So, the dark brown is the earliest trade routes. And then the pink are the later trade routes. But as you can see, it's always expanding outwards in order to facilitate more and more trade. And what's really important for us to understand is the entire world is encompassed. Okay? So, this is Britain. This is Ireland. This is Scandinavia. Okay? This is important because if you study history, the British Isles, Scandinavia, aren't often discussed in the Bronze Age. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 19:24 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: But recent research has shown us that it's all interconnected. Okay? Okay. So, as I mentioned, these are trade networks. Okay? And these gray spots are areas that are major nodes in the trade network. They come about because of trade. The red are the major consumption areas. Okay? So, the gray are areas that are being created. They're being created in order to better facilitate trade. And eventually, you reach a point when it's completely globalized. When every source of copper and tin has been discovered and there's a massive trade network built around each area. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 20:11 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 20:11 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: All right. But again, as we know, even though this area is extremely globalized, extremely wealthy, only in about 50 years, it completely collapses. Okay? And we know because of the Egyptian records. Okay? The Egyptians write about the coming of the Sea Peoples. And so, if you just watch the arrows. Okay? This is the movement of the Sea Peoples. These are refugees fleeing famine. And what do they do? Well, they team up with pirates. Okay? And the pirates and the refugees together overwhelm existing civilization, including the Mycenaeans. Okay? President of Greece. Including the Hittite Empire. President of Turkey. And they... They keep on attacking. Okay? Even from the South, people are attacking the major cities. This is a world in complete collapse. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 21:05 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 21:09 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: This is another map showing the invasions. Okay? These, again, are the Sea Peoples. These are just economic migrants. These are refugees. Similar to what's happening today, where if you're following the news in Europe, you've got all these Middle Eastern refugees coming into Europe, overwhelming their economic systems. So, this is a trend that we can expect to continue for a very long time. Okay? All right. The Sea Peoples are just a mix of different people. We've tried to identify where they come from, who they are. We really don't know. Okay? So, the assumption is they come from everywhere. And they are being led by pirates who are expert at raiding other nations. Okay? And this is a painting from Egypt. Again, we know because the Egyptians... Egyptians left records of the invasions of Sea People. There were at least three major invasions of Sea People. We're talking about like 100,000 people attacking Egypt at the same time. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 22:05 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And Egypt had to expend tremendous resources to repel these invasions. But it ultimately left Egypt bankrupt. Okay? This is Eric Klein. He's an anthropologist at the University of Washington. He wrote a book called 1177. Okay? And he lists the reasons why the Bronze Age collapse happened. And he says it was a perfect storm of crisis. Including climate change, which led to drought, which led to famine. There were also earthquakes. We're able to do analysis and discover that there were major earthquakes during this time. There were revolutions. There were civil wars. There was a migration crisis. Okay? So, it's a perfect storm of crisis. But what I want to show you today is it all has to do with the nature of capital. Okay? This is a total capitalistic system. All right. So, my argument to you today is, yes, the Bronze Age collapsed because of a perfect storm of crisis. That's what we know. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 23:02 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: But I want to extend this and say it has to do with the fact that it was a total capitalistic system. And so, capital drives you to prosperity, but it will also drive you to crisis. Okay? That's the argument I will make to you today. All right? And we've seen this before. So, this is the world right before World War I. As you can see, it was heavily, heavily globalized. Okay? And people thought that because of trade, because of prosperity, we can't go to war. Because why would we? And then, you know, a couple years later, World War I, where tens of millions of people died for no reason. Okay? Tens of millions of people died for no reason. It was just a slaughter. And what I want to argue to you is that this is a very common thing. And if you look at the Bronze Age collapse in World War I, we are in a very similar situation. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 23:56 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Where the world is heavily globalized. It's heavily interconnected. But because of the nature of capital, we will probably fall off the edge at some point. Okay? And people would argue that we're already reaching this point. Okay. So, again, during the Bronze Age, okay, the high Bronze Age, the late Bronze Age, 1400 to 1200 BCE, you can see this entire world is interconnected. And what you will also see is that the center of this world, is really the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. Okay? And which city is the most important strategically in this world? It's called this city. Troy. Right? Troy. Which is why we have the Trojan War. We will discuss, actually, the Trojan War next class. Okay? But I point this out to you. Okay? So, why is this happening? Well, think about how, in a proto -capitalistic system, that depends on tin and copper, how do you make money? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 25:01 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? Well, there are different ways. The first way you can make money is mining. Guess what? It sucks because it's hard work and you don't make that much money out of it. Okay? It's just labor. Another way is processing it into ingots. Ingots are just ways to transport the tin and the copper. Okay? You can also manufacture into jewelry, pottery, and weapons. Okay, that makes more money. Transporting, it's hard work, but you make more money. Okay? Another way is just piracy. Just steal the stuff. But the best way you can make money, actually, is by controlling trade routes. Okay? That's what Troy is. Troy is a control of a trade route. And so, that's how you make real money during globalization. Okay? That's why, even today, the Middle East is so important because the Middle East is the center of all global trade. So, if it controls the Middle East, it controls global trade. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 25:53 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? So, remember this idea. We have empires because empires really order. Empires are trade routes. Empires are just control of trade routes. Empires back then is very different from empires today. Empires today would be like nation states, which controls borders and have their own language. Back then, empires were just a collection of different trading points. Okay? That were aligned with each other. And the Trojan War was just a trade war. That's all it was. We'll discuss this next class. Okay? Okay. So, you can see why. Okay? That's why Troy is so important because if you're in Anatolia, it's many mountains. It's good because you can mine for precious metals and it's easy to defend, but it's hard to access the sea. That's why Troy is so important. Okay? All right. So, again, we know about globalization during the Bronze Age because of shipwrecks. Okay? So, this is a very famous shipwreck that we discovered off the coast of Turkey called Öluburun. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 27:01 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? Okay? And inside it, you can see all this precious pottery. And we can actually date the location of where the pottery came from. Okay? So, these are major sources of tin. And what's really important this map tells you is that they're actually in mountains. Okay? So, they're hard to reach. That means you have to spend a lot of effort to create trade routes based on tin. Okay? These are ingots. Okay? This is how you transport tin and copper. You transform it into ingots. And what's going to happen is that because the tin is located in isolated areas and it's high mountains, they have to use every form of transportation. And so, in Europe, they mainly use the river system. And that's why all of Europe is brought into this trading network. This is Scandinavia. And as you can see, there's a lot of trade focused on Scandinavia as well. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 28:09 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? And this is something that we've not known before. We just assumed that Scandinavia didn't actually exist back then. It did exist. Okay? And it's a very important part of the trade network. Okay. So, let's talk about the Innis Valley Civilization. The Innis Valley Civilization, for the longest time, we know was peaceful, egalitarian, and religious. And we know because we're able to dig up the cities. And what we discovered is that it's very much similar to Kalahoyaks, where the houses are isolated. It's very similar where irrigation, where hygiene, it's all very advanced. And we have no evidence of warfare because we can't find any weaponry. Okay? So, why is Innis Valley so peaceful as compared to Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China? I think it was because they were able to trade with Mesopotamia, China, and Egypt and discovered, we don't want the system. We don't want a system where everyone's killing each other. Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 29:10 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: That's my guess. But I don't know. No one knows. Okay? This is one of the Innis Valley's major cities that we've dug up. This is another. As you can see, it's pretty advanced. The houses are pretty equal. It's very similar to Kalahoyaks. Okay? A much bigger version of Kalahoyaks, which we discussed previously. This is an artist's rendition of what the Innis Valley city would look like during that time. Okay? What's amazing is that it's very advanced. It's very hygienic. It's very peaceful. It's very egalitarian. And religion was a major part of their lives during this time. Okay. So, the Innis Valley civilization will also give rise to something called the Bemak culture. Okay? And this is in actually North Afghanistan. And how this developed was because of trade, right? Because as I discussed previously, tin is found in the mountains. And so, you need to create a community around the mountain. So, it's a mining town, but it's also for manufacturing. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 30:16 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: It's also for transportation. It's also for trade. So, this is a pretty sophisticated, pretty complex area. But over time, what will happen is that the Bemak culture will bring people from the steppes. Okay? These are the Proto -Indo -Europeans we discussed previously. And then, because of climate change, because of the collapse of the Bronze Age, they will come and they will occupy both modern -day Iran as well as India, giving rise to two religions, the Zoroastrian religion as well as the Hindu religion. We'll discuss this at a later date. Okay? This is pottery from that Innis Valley civilization. Okay? Let's move on to the Mycenaean civilization. Okay? The Mycenaean civilization is really important because it gives us Greek civilization. Okay? Which is considered the birthplace of all Western civilization. We'll discuss the Greeks next class specifically. But I want to introduce the Mycenaeans now. Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 31:18 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1878s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1878s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Mycenaean is in the center. We believe that the Mycenaean culture, it is a warrior aristocracy. So, the people in charge are warriors as opposed to a priest aristocracy. Okay? So, remember in Sumer, it was a priest that were in control. Now, it's the warriors who are in control. And we also know that the Mycenaean people are descendants of the Proto -Indo -Europeans. Okay? So, the Proto -Indo -Europeans swept into Europe and then they went all the way down to Greece. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 31:46 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 31:52 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And as you can see, Mycenaean is really important because it's the center of all trade. At this time in history, the easiest way to get around the Mediterranean is by sea. Okay? Land, it's very costly. It's very slow. And there's lots of bandits. So, sea is the best way. So, in this system, the best way to make money is actually piracy. So, as you can see, there are lots of islands scattered around Greece. And so, the Greeks, in the beginning, were mainly pirates. Okay? So, the people who invaded Troy during the Trojan War were pirates. Okay? The Mycenaeans were famous for being pirates. Okay? So, as you can see, this is a much clearer map. Mycenaean civilization, they had pottery. They had olive oil. They had certain great goods for trade. But mainly, it was really about transportation, logistics, piracy, and controlling trade routes. Okay? That's why Mycenae was so important at this time. This is Troy, by the way. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 32:56 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? As you can see, during the Trojan War, what will happen is you have different people of Mycenae go attack Troy because it's such a strategic location. Right? If they're able to control Troy, they control the entire Aegean Sea. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 33:09 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 33:11 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay. So, this is an artist's tradition of what the Mycenaean civilization looked like. It is what we call a palace economy, meaning all the center of the economy was a palace. What happened is that all the farmers had to give the palace their food. And the palace would then take this food and redistribute it to the artisans. Okay? People who made pottery. People who made clothing. Clothing and textiles for trade purposes. Okay? So, it was a control and command economy. Center of the palace. Okay? This is what the palace looks like. This is what the economy looks like. Okay? So, all the food would go to the palace. And the palace would redistribute the food. And the palace would then take the food to give to the artisans to make textiles for trade. Okay? And this is what the economy... It was a very simple economy, but it was very effective. It was an extremely wealthy place. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 34:09 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: This is a gold mass. Okay? Gold is very rare, as you know. And they turned it into a king. Some have speculated this is the mass of Agamemnon, who is a major character in the Iliad. We'll discuss the Iliad in the next class. We actually don't know who this is. Okay? This is a sword with a gold hilt. So, it just shows you how extremely wealthy they are. Right? Even the warriors had gold. This is something called the Lion's Gate. So, the entrance into Mycenae. This is a very wealthy place. Rough time. Lots of wars. Lots of piracy. So, there's lots of walls. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 34:47 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 34:51 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2091s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2091s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: The other thing about the Mycenaean civilization is their tombs are very, very elaborate. Okay? This is the entrance into one of their tombs. Over time, we see the tombs become more and more elaborate. So, we know that over time, they became a much more wealthy civilization. Okay? This is what their tombs look like. They're huge places. Okay? This is what the outside looks like. Where did the Mycenaeans learn this? Well, they learned this from Egypt. So, at this time in history, the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians were in close contact with each other. The Egyptians have a habit of burying themselves with all their treasure. Okay? So, this is their coffin. This is a mastaba, which is their tomb. Okay? As you can see, it's huge. It's almost as big as a house. So, the question then is, why would they do that? Okay? We've discussed it previously, where throughout most of human history, we've understood ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 35:49 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: that this is a material realm, and then once we die, we go off to the spiritual realm. Guess what, guys? You can't take your money with you. So, why are you burying your money with you? Right? Okay? This is a mastaba. Okay? As you can see, it's a very elaborate, ornate place. And the Egyptians were known for this. But also, China. Right? The first emperor of China, the terracotta warriors. Why is he buried with an army and such wealth? That makes no sense. If you die, you die. So, why is this happening? So, the argument I want to make to you is that this is happening because money, capital, too much of it changes the fundamental chemistry of the brain. It makes you crazy. Okay? So, let's do a thought experiment. Okay? The thought experiment is this. Let's just say Satan were to come into this room and said, hey, I'll give you guys a billion dollars, but you have to live forever, and you have to be my slave forever. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 36:51 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: We'd be like, no. Why? Why would we want that? You know? Like, to have a billion dollars, but then be a slave for all eternity, like Satan? No. But, okay, let's assume we are the richest people on earth. We all have a 10 billion dollars, right? Now, Satan says to us, you know what? 10 billion dollars is a lot of money. I'm sure you enjoy your life, but you're going to die. And when you die, you can't take that money with you, but hey, I can make you live forever. I will let you keep this money, but you have to be my slave for all of eternity. Do you agree? We would agree. That's the difference. You see what has happened, right? Money makes people crazy. All right? So, bronze. Okay? So, remember, bronze started off as just a weapon in order to obtain power. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 37:40 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: But then, over time, as powerful people became more stable in their lives, they used bronze to make jewelry and pottery to show their strength. Okay? And then, over time, because rich people wanted it, everyone wanted it, and so bronze just became a currency, wealth. And it was just easy to store, universally recognized, and mobile. And this happened over centuries, over hundreds of years. Okay? That's a pattern here. All right? So, this is a map, a table, that shows you how capital is formed. Okay? So, capital needs to have universality. The more people want it, the more valuable it is. It has to be able to be, it has to store value. Okay? It has to be permanent. Okay? Does that make sense? It has to be mobile. It has to be available. Okay? It has to be rare enough. So, once it has these different elements, then it becomes a currency. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 38:39 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So, if you just look at history, we've used different sources of currency. So, we have seashells, cattle, grain, woman, slaves, drugs, oil, bronze, gold, and US dollar. We've always had money as a concept. Okay? But money, for most of human history, signified a debt that could not be paid off. Okay? So, David Grabber, who's an anthropologist, he wrote about this in his book, Debt. Why do we create money as a concept? Because there are certain transactions in which there was so much debt, you couldn't pay it off. Okay? So, most of human actions, it's reciprocal. Right? So, you help me, I help you. Okay? But there are three things in which the debt can't be really paid off. Okay? The first example is, let's just say I kill your brother. Well, now you come kill me. Right? And you kill me, then my family's going to go kill you. Okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 39:35 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: And it creates a vicious cycle of vengeance. Right? So, the way to get rid of this problem is, if I kill your brother, I acknowledge that it's a debt I cannot be paid off. So, I give you something valuable. It could be gold. It could be jewelry. It could be anything. Okay? All right? So, that's what money is. That's the first example. The second example is, if a woman marries into your family, right, then that's also a debt that can't be paid off, because you've just taken away a daughter. So, you give me a gift, maybe some gold, maybe a cow, a horse, it doesn't matter. Okay? That's the second example of a debt that can't be paid off. The third example, and this is a really important example, is let's just say that you have a great person in the community. He's a great leader, or he's a great priest, or he's just a great person in general, and he's done a lot for you, but he dies. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 40:28 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: What do you do then? What you do is, you bury him with gifts, with gold, with money, okay? And so, it's a monument to his legacy. You know that he can't take the stuff with him to the afterworld, but it doesn't matter. All you're doing is, you're acknowledging his contribution to your community, and that's why when you dig up graves in ancient times, you'll see people burying their graves. They're buried with gold, because the community is acknowledging this person was great. We will forever remember him, and so the money is a way to acknowledge this fact. Okay? Does that make sense? Right? So, for most of the human history, that's what we use money for, to symbolize money that cannot be paid off. But then over time, as society became more sophisticated, we use other forms of currency, okay? And as you can see, all these different forms of currency, okay, whether it's seashells, cattle, grain, women, drugs, oil. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 41:19 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: It doesn't really work, in terms of universality, sort of value, and mobility, but bronze does, okay? And after bronze, gold does. And then after gold, today we have the U.S. dollar. Okay, does that make sense? Okay? So, once you have a universal accepted currency, you can now have globalization, right? And so, bronze was a major discovery, which allowed for globalization. Yeah? Yeah. Go ahead. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 41:47 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: I think bronze and gold is commodities and U.S. dollar is money stuff, but why does bronze, is it because drugs and oil does not count as capital? So, it is not. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 42:04 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay, look, you're right, okay? Drugs can be a currency. The problem is that it's not universally accepted, okay? And also, the problem with drugs, of course, is it causes a lot of problems to your society. So, if you have a lot of money, you can buy a lot of stuff. Let's think of opium in China. And it's hard. Yeah, it creates a lot of problems. So, it can't be universally accepted. In fact, most countries would ban drugs. But at the same time, you're right in that it is valuable. It's a store of value. So, you guys don't know this, but there are a lot of governments that have secret supplies of drugs. Because if the world falls apart and you need to rebuild society, you need wealth, right? So, gold, you need gold, but guess what? Drugs is also a form of wealth because people want it, okay? People crave it. All right? So, gold, you need gold, but guess what? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 42:47 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So, is this clear? All right? So, once you have a universally accepted currency, you have the basis for globalization and globalization happens naturally as a result. All right. So, capital is just a monetization of power. That's all it is. And you can have any form of capital, okay? The problem with capital is that it exploits, it alienates, and it consolidates. Okay? So, go back to the example where I'm the leader of a village. If there's no money involved, all I care about is winning the respect of my people, okay? And so, I work hard for them. But once capital is involved, I see each person as a commodity, okay? And therefore, I become alienated from my humanity and from others. And now, I want to exploit people in order to generate more capital. And over time, what will happen is that the strongest will have all the capital, which leads to mass destruction. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 43:53 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Massive inequality. So, the only result of capitalism is one, massive inequality, corruption, immorality, okay? And alienation, anger, indifference. And this is the world we live in today. It doesn't make sense. It's just the nature of capital. There's no way around it. Okay. So, as we discussed previously, we have two different mindsets, okay? We're composed of two different individuals. We have the altruistic nature, so that we care about relationships. We care about empathy. We care about creativity. And then, our utilitarian side, which is all about material objectives, logic, and hard work, okay? So, in school, you have the utilitarian mindset, okay? Like, how do I get good grades? That's all you care about, all right? At home, you care about relationships. You care about maintaining good relationships with your mother and your father and your siblings and your relatives. What we also know, and it's really important, is that people who are altruistic, people who work for others, tend to be more creative than other people. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 45:00 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: But people who are obsessed with money tend to work harder than other people, okay? That's why globalization happens so fast, because everyone's in a rush to make as much money as possible, okay? But eventually, you reach a point where a few people have all the money, and so everyone's like, screw this. I give up because I'm never going to be rich. You lie flat, right? Tongue -ping or quite quitting. You just give up, okay? And this is the world we live in today. Okay, now, capitalism is a problem because it changes the fundamental nature of your brain, okay? So, this is an article from The Atlantic Monthly, which is a very popular magazine in the United States. There are these neuroscientists who have done brain scandals, brain scans, and they discovered that power causes brain damage, okay? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 45:53 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: In fact, if you look at the brain of a psychopath. In the brain of a wealthy person, it's pretty similar, okay? Yeah, they did brain scans, and it looks as though people who have too much money has brain damage. Why? Because a normal person is able to have empathy, is able to understand the feelings of others. Guess what? If you're too powerful, you're too wealthy, you don't have the capacity to have empathy. You can't appreciate the feelings of others. So, think of like, Elon Musk. Or Mark Zuckerberg. I don't care. They have actually no concept of empathy, okay? They are completely unable to relate to the feelings of other people. This is Brian Johnson, okay? Brian Johnson is a millionaire. He spends about $2 million a year on health, okay? He says some crazy things. So, for example, he has a father and he has a son, and he believes in blood transfusion. So, you know, if you, you know, transfuse the blood, your blood, you become younger. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 47:02 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So, he's trying to figure out how to live forever, okay? So, he'll do things like blood transfusion. But you know, he has, he works so hard, man, because he'll get up at like five o 'clock in the morning, exercise. The food he eats is the most nutritious food in the world. And he'll regulate his sleep. He's always monitoring. He has heartbeat. He's always exercising, okay? His life sucks. And the question you have to ask yourself is, if you have so much money, why don't you enjoy it, you know? Why don't you just enjoy it? Why don't you just enjoy your life? Why are you focused on living forever, okay? And that's a problem with wealthy people. They're kind of scooping their head, okay? He looks like a vampire, guys, okay? This is him when he first, you know, started this project. And you can see he looks like a vampire now, all right? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 47:54 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: I'm not exaggerating here. Look at this guy. The problem is that there are lots of wealthy people in the world. And they happen to like this idea of living forever, okay? So let's just say, let's do a thought experiment. You're a billionaire, okay? You have like $100 million, $10 million, sorry, like $10 billion in the bank, $100 billion in the bank, who knows? You have a problem, which is, how do I keep this, right? Because you're going to die, okay? And you have all that money, so you can do whatever you want. So what you do is you invest in Brian Johnson. You invest in scientific research to live longer. But you also do what? You also build bunkers, okay? Because you're afraid that the world will end and you want to live forever, so you build bunkers. This is Mark Zuckerberg's bunker in Hawaii. It's kind of stupid because if the world's going to end, is your bunker going to save you? ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 48:51 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Probably not, okay? But he spent like $26 million, or $20 to $60 million on this stupid thing, hoping to live forever. And this is what it looks like on the inside. It's crazy to go through life thinking about how to live forever and how to survive. Why not just enjoy your life, okay? They also joined secret societies. Why? Because secret societies may have the secret to reincarnation or the secret to immortality or the secret to longevity. They don't care. They have so much money that they're willing to invest in everything, okay? So they're willing to try blood transfusion, they're willing to build bunkers, they're also willing to join secret societies. And that's why you see secret societies growing in power and popularity today. They also worship Satan, okay? Because again, if you have $10 billion, you're stuck, right, because you don't want to die. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 49:51 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=2991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Like you don't want to, like, it's what we call sunk cost fallacy, right? You're like, I worked so hard for this, and I have the best life, but I'm going to die. And when I die, all this is gone, I have to start all over again. I don't want to do that, okay? So they're willing to do anything. Including worship Satan. In fact, what we'll learn is that the religion of Satan became so popular in order to solve this problem where wealthy people, they want to live forever. And they want the world to stay the same as it is now. But as you learn in this class, it is impossible for the world to stay the way it is. Change is a constant. Things move in cycles. Capitalism gives rise to wealth, but it also destroys wealth. That's just the nature of life. Okay? All right. So that's a Bronze Age collapse. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 50:45 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Any questions? Sorry. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 50:49 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Yeah. Go ahead, Viet. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 50:50 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3050s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3050s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Go ahead. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 50:52 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Why do they worship Satan? Because you said that those millionaires, they want to keep their money forever. And what does it do with Satan? Okay. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 51:04 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: That's a really good question. Okay. So it's really desperation, right? Because what religion teaches you is that wealth is bad. And when you go to heaven, you'll be judged by God. And God is going to ask you, hey, why do you have so much money, man? And you'll be like, well, I stole this money. And I hurt a lot of people. And I cheated. I lied. I steal. Yeah. You know? And like, do we want to say that to God? Yeah. You're kind of stuck. Right? Right. So first of all, you don't want to die. You want to give up all this money that you worked hard to get, but you also don't want to face God. You want to face God and face his judgment. Okay. So what's your alternative here? Your alternative is you believe in something more powerful than God, or at least someone who you can find refuge in from God. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 51:58 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay. If it means going to hell, you prefer going to hell than facing judgment from God. Okay. Because you and your heart know exactly what you did to get that $10 billion. Okay. You know what you did. Maybe other people don't know, but you know what you did and God knows what you did. And you really, really want to face judgment. All right. Okay. So yeah. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions, guys? All right. So that's it for the Bronze Age. So we will discuss the Iliad next class. Okay. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to introduce the Iliad today, and then we'll continue the Iliad on Thursday. Okay. So the Bronze Age collapse is important. Because it will give rise to Greek civilization, which we believe to be the basis for Western civilization. Okay. So the question then is, how does this happen? Okay. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 53:05 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3185s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3185s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: So if you look at Mycenaean Greece, and then we transition into the Dark Ages. Okay. The Dark Ages does not, all it means is that the Greeks lost capacity to write. Okay. And so what will happen is Mycenaean Greece will transform from a past economy into something called the polis. Okay. Polis just means city -state. Okay. This is where we get the word politics from. Okay. So this is a major political transition where you went from a centralized economy to now city -states competing against each other. That's the first thing. Second thing that's important is the writing system changes. It went from linear B. Linear B becomes linear B. And that becomes, do you guys know? What's the new writing system called? I'm sure you guys know the name. Alphabet. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 54:02 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: Okay. ## Capital, Collapse, and the Bronze Age Machine -- 54:03 - Source title: Secret History #15: Capital and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-11-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkt0HQOogHE&t=3243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkt0hqooghe.json) Text: All right. And the big, the third big change is you go from censorship. Okay. Because remember, in a policy economy, in a centralized system, bureaucrats are in control. And bureaucrats control what is talked about. Okay. Or what is expressed. And they censure and centralize content. Okay. They basically create propaganda. So now, without censorship, you have a new person emerge named Homer. Okay. And we will discuss Homer next class. And these three things together become the basis for Greek civilization. And this is why the Greeks became the greatest civilization ever in human history. So the main lesson I want to leave you today is, yes, collapse is bad. But collapse also gives opportunity for a new civilization. For a new civilization to arise. For a new humanity to emerge. And we will discuss this next class. Okay. The birth of Greek civilization. All right. Great. All right. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay, so today we are going to discuss civilization versus the steps, okay? Civilization versus the steps. The steps are the grasslands, and people often refer to them as barbarians, okay? So in China, we refer to these people as like Yamanian, barbarians. And in school, you're taught that there are major differences between civilization and barbarians, right? So, the first major difference is that in civilization, you are allowed intellectual freedom. Because only by reading books, only by going to school, only by learning how to think, can you be free to think, okay? And in the steps, we think of them as emotional slaves. There are unfathomable. They are violent, okay? Second thing is that we think of civilization as open and curious. We love knowledge. We seek to gain more knowledge. Therefore, we are innovative, okay? Whereas the steps people, they are static, okay? Because they are insular. They're close -minded. Okay? And the last thing is that we think civilization leads to wealth and prosperity. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 2:02 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Only can you be, only if you are civilized, can you be truly be happy, okay? And wealthy. And we think that the steps people are poor and therefore unhappy. Okay? That is the general understanding of the difference between civilization and prosperity. Civilization and the barbarians, okay? The problem is that this creates a misunderstanding. And we can't really explain why is it that throughout human history, the steps people have been the greatest conquerors. Okay, so the classic example is Genghis Khan. How is it that Genghis Khan was able to not only conquer China, okay? Which is one consider. One of the greatest civilization in the world, but also Baghdad, another great civilization, okay? But what's interesting is that throughout human history, this has been a consistent pattern where the barbarians conquered the civilized people, okay? So this is a problem. How is it that if in civilization, they're so free, they're so smart, they're so open, they're so curious, innovative, and so prosperous. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 3:26 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Why is it that they keep on losing out the steps people? And the answer is because your traditional understanding is completely wrong, okay? And I will show you that it's actually the opposite. It is the steps people who are open, curious, and innovative. And it is the people who are close -minded, who are static, and who are unhappy. Okay? So that's my argument to you today. All right? So let's go over some of my points before I show you the PPT, okay? All right. So let's discuss how civilization starts. So last class, we understand that there's a major river, and on top of this major river, you have a city developed, okay? Remember that we come together for religious purposes. We have settlements in order to celebrate nature, celebrate God, celebrate our religion, our belief system. And over time, what happens is that this system becomes unequal, it becomes hierarchical, and therefore, we leave. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 4:41 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: But there are some places that are strategic for trade purposes, and therefore, people don't want to leave because you can generate a lot of wealth and prosperity in these places. And so they become major cities. Okay? So the first city in world civilization is Uruk. Uruk. Okay? And over time, they become more and more prosperous. They build canals. They learn farming. They develop their own mythology. Okay? And then what happens is that as the population grows and grows, they go off and colonize other places along the trade route. Okay? Maybe upstream and then downstream as well. And then what happens is that these city states. Are now in competition with each other. And they have a system of competition called open cooperative competition. Okay? This is a very important concept. Because this concept is what gives us innovation. So you have these three things in place. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 5:53 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Open, cooperation, competition. You'll be very innovative. Open just means that you want to learn. You want to grow. You want to learn from others. Cooperation means that you are in contact with others. So that you are learning the best practices from other people. Competition means that you'll be better than they are. Okay? So in this system of city states. You have massive innovation. And we see this throughout human history. Okay? So think of China. When was China the most innovative? It was during the Chuntiu. Right? The spring autumn period. That's where we're getting Confucius from. Zhuanzi. Okay? All the great ideas came from this period of the Chuntiu. Okay? This is also true for Mesopotamia. This is also true for Egypt as well. Okay? And eventually what happens is that these city states all merge into an empire. Because during this process of innovation. One city will be more innovative than the others. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 6:56 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And therefore they will conquer the others. What's interesting often is that it is a city that is most disadvantaged that conquers the other cities. Because you're forced to be more innovative. So in China the classic example is the Qing. Right? The Qing was in the mountains. They had lower population. They were poorer. They were more isolated. And therefore they were more innovative than the Zhao, the Chu, the Wei dynasties. Okay? And this is true also throughout human history. And so now you have an empire. And at first this empire is extremely innovative. Why? For three reasons. Okay? The first thing is that it now has scale. Okay? It has size. Therefore it's able to draw in more resources. Second is the idea of standardization. Standardization just means that now you're using the same monetary system. You're using the same laws. You're using the same money. You're using the same communications network. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 8:02 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Okay? That allows for better use of resources. And the last is the idea of centralization. Meaning that you have one place controlling all activities elsewhere. And that allows you to build canals. That allows you to build temples. That allows you to undertake massive public works projects. Okay? So in the beginning of the empire there's massive consolidation of innovation which leads to tremendous innovation. Okay? But over time what happens is the empire becomes the opposite of an open cooperative competition system. Why? Well first of all it becomes insular. Okay? Then it becomes secretive. And then it becomes a monopoly. That's what a bureaucracy is. Okay? You guys understand? Okay? All right? So when an empire reaches a certain point of growth it becomes a bureaucracy and therefore it kills all innovation. So this idea that civilization leads to innovation is wrong. Okay? Civilization leads ultimately to corruption. All right? Now what's interesting is that even though this is a general rule of human development it's not always true. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 9:31 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: There are exceptions. Okay? So for example one civilization that we know that did not work out like this is something called the Indus Valley Civilization which is modern day Pakistan. And we'll discuss this later on. But they were actually, even though they had a city -state system, they were actually peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. Okay? They didn't go to war with each other. They didn't create a hierarchy. They didn't create a bureaucracy. And we'll discuss later on why this is the case. But this is something that you need to understand. Even though there are patterns to human history there are always exceptions to the rule. Okay? All right. So over time the empire breaks down. Okay? Why? Because you have a hierarchy in place. Okay? A hierarchy. A bureaucracy. The people are at the bottom. And if you are a person in an empire your life sucks. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 10:35 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=635s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? It really sucks because you're essentially a slave. Why? Well first of all the empire goes to war a lot in order to protect its advantages. Okay? So they can at any time just take you to war and you get killed. Okay? Second is the problem of debt. It's very easy if you are a peasant to fall in debt. You owe rent to a landlord. Then you have to sell your children. Okay? So debt really sucks. And the last problem is immobility. Which just means that you're stuck where you are. Okay? So the people in the empire, their lives suck. But they're stuck where they are because of war, debt, and immobility. And as we discussed last class the bureaucracy will develop a mythology in order to justify why they are like this. Okay? But at the very top it's actually even more problematic. Because what happens is at the top you will eventually have a problem of elite overproduction. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 11:45 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: Okay? Elite overproduction just means that there are only a few limited spots for the elite. And the elite have too many children. And therefore they fight. Okay? They break up into different factions. And each faction competes against each other for the right to be the elite. And because of this conflict at the very top you usually have three results. Okay? The first result is revolution where one elite tells the people to overflow everyone else. Okay? So remember what's really important to understand is the people do not create the revolution. The people themselves do not rebel. It's always one faction of the elite help working with the people to overflow the other factions. Okay? That's what a revolution is. Second possible is civil war. Okay? Where the factions have different armies and they fight. And the third possibility is just they go to war with the empire. Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 12:50 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=770s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=770s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: But this is a common pattern in history. Now what's really interesting is that as the empire falls the pastoral people come and take over the empire. Okay? The steppe people or the pastoralists. Pastoralists just means that they don't farm for a living. They raise sheep, goats, and cows for a living. Okay? They come and they take over the empire. Why is this the case? Because these people are the best fighters in the world. They have horses. They have archers. Okay? So they're the best fighters in the world. So what often happens is one faction invites them to be mercenaries in the struggle. And eventually they recognize, you know what? We don't have to fight for the prince. We can take over ourselves. Another thing that happens. Another thing that happens is the faction that invites the mercenaries don't have enough money to pay them off. So the mercenaries are just like, screw this. We'll just take over the empire ourselves. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 13:52 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And what's important to understand is that throughout all this the pastoralists are always in control of the empire through three things. Okay? Through trade. Through pillaging. So the pastoralists come and steal from the people. And through being mercenaries. Okay? So this is a pattern throughout human history. So another question we have to ask is why are the pastoralists so different from people of civilization and empire? And the reason is geography. What I will show you is that people who are pastoralists grow up in a different environment than the people of civilization and empire. And therefore they have developed a different economy as well as mythology as well as culture. Okay? Alright? Alright, let's continue. We're clear so far, right? Okay. So in the beginning we had agriculture. Why did we have agriculture? Because as we discussed before people came together for religious purposes. They built temples. And now you have to maintain the temples therefore you build farms around the temple and you develop agriculture. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 15:06 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? But because of climate change and overpopulation people are always constantly forced to move to new places. So agriculture was first up in the Middle East. And then it went over to Europe. And it went over to other places as well. Okay? So it spread around the world. So when they went to Europe they could actually maintain their agricultural practices. Because the climate and the geography and the terrain of Europe was conducive to agriculture. And as a result Europe maintained the cultural practices. Of the people of the Middle East. Okay? And so they had egalitarian, artistic and peaceful civilizations. Okay? So why they were peaceful is that first of all women were in control. Remember it's the most natural thing to have women be part of the political class. Okay? So women were in charge. So if there was any conflict the women would just discuss it amongst themselves and come to a harmonious conclusion. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 16:16 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? They wouldn't have to fight. Second thing is. There was no money. Because there was no property. Okay? The agriculture is something that you work on together and you share. There's no concept as private property. Okay? So in other words no war. No conflict. So these are the three distinct characteristics of early human society. In an agricultural society women are usually in command. There's no sense of private property. Everyone shares everything together. And there's no conflict and no war. Okay? People just discuss things and trade in order to reach a harmonious conclusion. So what this changes is that the city grows and grows and then you have a large city and so you need a bureaucracy. Okay? But in Europe what's really important to understand about Europe is that unlike China and Egypt and Mesopotamia it does not have a large river. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 17:18 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And therefore you cannot grow a big city in Europe. Okay? So that allows them to maintain a pretty good life. Okay? So when they go to Europe they're able to maintain the same cultural practices. But then they go to the steppes. Okay? And the problem with steppes is you cannot grow food because it's all grass land. Okay? You cannot farm. So now you have to change your cultural practice. So what was happening is that these people in the steppes. They started to trade with people of agriculture. Okay? Also you have people in the agriculture who moved to the steppes and they brought with them cows and sheep. And this changed everything. Because you as a person you can't eat grass but cows and sheep can. So now what you can do is you can base your entire economy around animals as opposed to agriculture. Okay? But there's certain problems with cows and sheep. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 18:31 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? The first problem is that they're expensive. So now you have a concept of private property. Money. And this concept didn't really exist before. Okay? And so if I see someone with a cow. I don't have a cow. What do I do? I want to go steal it. Right? So this leads to conflict now. War and conflict. And because you have private property and war and conflict. You can't have a system run by woman. You need a system run by man. This creates a patriarchy. Okay? So this is a very important principle in human history. These three things go together. Okay? Patriarchy, money, and war. Okay? These three things always go together. Patriarchy, money, and war. Okay. So. This is changing the economy of the steppes. And it's becoming different from agricultural societies. And so now they need innovations in order to deal with the new economy. Okay? So let's go over some of their major innovations. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 19:53 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: The first major innovation that's very important is the idea of lactose tolerance. You may not know this, but most humans cannot drink milk naturally. Okay? So you need to develop the enzymes to drink milk naturally. And so they were able to do that. Because they were forced to rely on cows and sheep for their food, they had to learn how to drink milk. But when they learned how to drink milk, when they started eating meat, guess what? They became stronger and taller. Okay? So for most of you in history, the people of the steppes were the tallest people in the world. They were the strongest in the world. Okay? That's the first major innovation that changed their history. The second major innovation is horse riding. Why? Because the steppes are a huge area and it's flat. So you need to move around it a lot. Also remember, cows and sheep eat grass. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 20:52 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So when they eat this in this pasture and they finish all their grass, they have to move somewhere else. Okay? So the only way to protect your cows and sheep from other people is to eat grass. The only way to protect people is to be mobile. And so they learned how to domesticate horses. Okay? Which is a major innovation and it took a long time. And you can imagine how hard that is to do because if horses see you, what do they do? They run away. So how do you train a horse to not run away and let the horse ride you? Well, it takes a lot and lot of effort, but because they had to do it, they managed to do it. Okay? And so with the horse riding, now you can have another invention, which is the wheel and the wagon, wheel and wagon. Now you can put all your stuff in a wagon and move from camp to camp. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 21:43 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? You can cover the entirety of the steps. Okay? Does that make sense? Yes. Okay? And because of these three major innovations, you now have a different culture. Okay? So let's go over what makes their culture distinctive from other places. Okay? One is patriarchy, where men are in control. And the reason why they control is because in the steps, war is a constant thing. Okay? So the coach becomes very masculine, very aggressive. It rewards aggression. It rewards courage. Okay? The other thing is that we have a patriarchy in place. You can have more children. Okay? When women are in charge, women tend to practice birth control because they want to make sure that every child is healthy and every child lives to adulthood. Okay? They want to avoid the risk of dying in childbirth. They want to avoid the risk of their child dying young. Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 22:52 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: But with men in charge, they basically get women to have as many kids as possible. Okay? Also remember, in this world, there's a lot of conflict, so you need as many boys to fight as possible. Okay? But then you have a problem then. If you have a lot of children, what is... You have a problem of inheritance. Like when you die, your cows go to who? Right? Now let's assume you have 100 cows and you have like 10 boys. If you give... If you are fair and you give 10 cows to one boy, well very quickly, your family is going to be poor. And because in the steps, the weather is bad, your cows are very likely to die, well then your entire family could be extinct in two or three generations. So they invented a new concept called primogeniture. Primogeniture. Primogeniture just means that the eldest boy inherits everything that ensures that the family can stay wealthy. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 23:56 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? All right? But now your problem is, wait a minute. If the eldest boy inherits everything, what do the other boys do? Well, they have to go and steal other cows. Okay? And to do that, they form secret societies. Okay? Secret societies are just like... Okay? They're basically just gangs. Okay? These gangs of young men who get together to do what? Well, they go steal cows and sheep. And what else do they do? They steal women. Right? Because... Right? I mean like what's the most valuable commodity in the steps? Well, cows and women. So that's what you steal. Okay? So this creates a culture of war and conflict constantly. All right? And the third innovation is something called... The patron -client relationship. And this is actually how... Or patronage. And this is what allows for the construction of society in the steps. So remember, in a civilization, you have bureaucracy. You have centralization. But in the steps, you can't have that because you can't have that many people. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 25:09 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1509s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1509s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So you have a patron -client relationship. And all that means is that it's like a mafia, right? I'm the big brother. You're the little brother. So maybe I have a hundred cows. And you need cows. So I lend you ten cows. But now you are loyal to me. Okay? I'm the big brother. You're the little brother. And this creates the idea of tribes. Okay? Does that make sense? What's really important here is that in civilization, bureaucracy maintains control over people over debt. And so you become a slave. But in the steps, there's no concept of slavery. Okay? You're still a free, independent person. But you just pay. You're just loyal to your big brother. So if your big brother needs you to do something, you go do it for him. Okay? So there's still a level of freedom in the steps that you don't have in civilization. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 26:05 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And that's why they're such good fighters. Okay? All right? So these three things are major innovations. But now that you have these innovations, you need a new mythology to justify or explain these innovations. And so what they had was they went from the mother goddess. Okay? So mother goddess, again, is the religion of agricultural people, the sky god. And the mother goddess wants you to be harmonious. Okay? To be kind and compassionate. What does the sky god want you to do? The sky god wants you to conquer and exploit. Okay? It wants you to destroy. It wants you to kill. It wants you to conquer, to steal. Okay? And also in this religion, horses and cows are very important. But as we discussed in the last class, here, grain and nature are very important. Okay? So you see how this works, right? Okay? Now, what's important to understand is ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 27:21 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: that because this system does not allow for the creation of a bureaucracy, the steps always practice open, cooperative competition. And it's a system that forces you to be aggressive. It forces you to be independent. Okay? And it forces you to work hard. And that's why people, the steps, are the greatest warriors in human history. And that's why when the steps people encounter the empire civilization, they usually are able to conquer the empire. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So the steps are like a training ground for fighters. And over time, the fighters have become more and more fierce. Okay? And what's ironic is those fighters who are the most fierce can stay in the steps. Those fighters who are forced out of the steps, they go conquer the empire. Okay? All right? It's a constant pattern in human history. All right. Is that clear? All right. Any questions, guys, before I do the PPT? Great. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 28:39 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay, guys. Yes? Sorry. Can you speak to the mic, please? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 28:55 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So earlier you said that... These people, they inherit to their oldest son, right? So my question is, is it necessary for... So they must inherit their inheritance to the oldest son, or is it like they have some kind of a system to determine which son can have the best of their inheritance? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 29:26 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1766s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1766s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. So their general principle is always the eldest son. Okay? That's to avoid conflict. Because if you open up to say, okay, well, whoever is most brave, whoever is most noble, whoever is most wise, that means that they'll just fight each other. Okay? And this is what happened after the death of Genghis Khan. Right? So the general rule is you always give it to the eldest son. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 29:50 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: But what if the eldest son has been manipulated by his siblings? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 29:54 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: It doesn't matter. It does not matter. Okay? All right. All right. So legacy of the steps. All right. So as I discussed, what's happening is that Europe at first was just hunter gatherer. Okay? And they were spread out. They did paintings in caves. They had a pretty easy life. Okay? Not an easy life, but it was a free life. And over time, what would happen is that our culture would develop in the Middle East and it would spread to Europe. Okay? And you can see the genetic change where the blue is hunter gatherer and the orange is farmers. Okay? But then what happened in about 2500 BCE is the steps people, who we call the Yamnaya actually. So different names. They're portal Indo -Europeans. The Yamnaya, you can refer to them as any. Okay? Steps, Yamnaya, portal Indo -European, it doesn't really matter. But they go to Europe as well. And they start mixing with ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 30:52 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1852s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1852s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: the... Farmers. What's really important for our purpose to understand is this. When the farmers went to Europe, they went as families. Husband, wife, children. And so they integrate into Europe pretty peacefully. Okay? But when the pastoralists, the Yamnaya went to Europe, they went mostly as young men. Therefore, that they kill the local man in order to marry their wives. Okay? And so basically, from DNA research, we know that it was a genocide. Okay? The European farming men were eliminated by the pastoralists. Okay? And we have to also remember that the pastoralists, they were stronger. Okay? They were taller and they were more aggressive. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 31:50 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 31:53 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: All right. Yeah. So this is another map that shows the same thing. What you need to understand is this. This movement is global. Okay? So the farmers went to Europe, but they also went to India and Iran. Okay? They basically went wherever they could go. Same thing with the Yamnaya. Okay? So this is the Yamnaya people. They went to Europe, but they also... Look at this. They also went to Iran and India. And we know because we study the languages. Persian. Okay? Hindi and European languages, they're basically the same languages. So we know there had to be one common mother language to them. Okay? So this is another map showing you the Yamnaya. Again, they went to Europe, but they also went to India. Okay? As well as Iran. And by mixing with local customs and religion, they created new religions that had tremendous impact on world civilization. So in Iran, they will give birth to Zoroastrianism, which we will discuss later on. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 33:03 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=1983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And these are the Vestas, which is the Bible of Zoroastrianism. In India, they, of course, gave birth to Hinduism. And these are the Vedas, which is the Bible of Hinduism. We'll discuss this later on in the semester, but I want you to be aware of this. Okay? So again, we know that this happened at first because of linguistic differences. So let's look at linguistic studies. When we look at different languages, we discover there are common words to them. So let's look at father. Okay? When Latin is pater, Greek, patris, Persian, padar, Hindi, pita. Pretty similar. Okay? Similar with mother. Mother, matar, mitra, madar, mat. So from different linguistic studies, we know there had to be a common language to all of them. And that's why we hypothesize about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. This is a more stark example. With a Proto -Indo -European, tu is dua. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 34:00 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And you can see how it spreads to other languages in the Proto -Indo -European family so that you go from dua to twa to two in English. Okay? So all these languages are interrelated. That's why if you speak one, like English, it's pretty easy for you to learn the other languages as well. Whereas, if you speak Chinese, it doesn't really help you when you go learn other languages. Okay? All right. Now, linguists have done studies of words that are distinct to Proto -Indo -European. And these are the words that they discovered. Okay? Bull, cow, ox, ram, eel, dog, grain, cauldron, wrestling, wealth, households, families, clans. These words are unique to their culture. And therefore, we're able to group these words together and discover there are four characteristics. Okay? First of all, they have lots of words for a wheel. They have words for a dairy. They don't have farming terms. And they have words for horse. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 35:01 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? That's why we're able to figure out that these are nomadic pastoralists. Therefore, they must be from the steppes. Okay? And then through archaeology and DNA studies, we're able to have a better understanding of who they are. Okay? And as I said, they have to be pastoralists. Okay? Because of the way they use words. Okay? So, let's talk about old Europe before the Yemenite come and conquer them. Okay? So, this is Maria Gumbutas, who is an American Lutheranian anthropologist. And she's the first to hypothesize that old Europe must have been conquered by these people because she did a lot of archaeology and discovered that their culture was primarily peaceful, it honored women, and it espoused egalitarianism. Okay? This is exactly what I said previously. Okay? And the Yemenite people were completely different. They were a patriarchy, who had private property, and which was very aggressive. Okay? She wrote many books, The Language of the Goddess, and her work is amazing. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 36:10 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? So, if you have a chance, please do study her work. And so, let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the mother goddess civilization, something that we thought we'd discuss a lot in this class. The goddess in all her manifestations was a symbol of the unity of all life in nature, her power was in water and stone, in tomb and cave, in animals and birds, snakes and fish, hills, trees and flowers. Hence, the holistic and mythopoeic perception of all the sacredness and mystery of all there is on earth. Okay? So, again, this is a religion that practices balance and harmony because everything is sacred. Therefore, you cannot destroy life without first getting permission from the mother goddess. Okay? This culture took deep delight in the natural wonders of this world. Its people did not produce lethal weapons or build forts in unacceptable places as their successors did, even when they were acquainted with metallurgy. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 37:05 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long -lasting period of remarkable creativity and stability and age free of strife. Their culture was a culture of art. Okay? So, this is a very nice place. They don't fight. They're egalitarian. They practice art. Okay? And what's really important for us to understand is they had writing systems. They had technology. They just chose not to use it for war because it was against their religion. So, they also had writing systems and they had symbols. Okay? And this is something that Maria Cumbuentes has done a lot of research in. Okay? I won't go into their writing system. So, when the United came, they basically completely invert the culture. So, for example, the Europeans, the old Europeans believed that the snake was symbol of life, energy, and regeneration, most benevolent, not an evil creature. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 38:07 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: It was the Yaman who introduced the idea that the snake is a devil. Okay? All right? And that's where we get the concept in the Bible from. Black to them is a good color. White is a bad color. White because black symbolizes life. White symbolizes death. Right? Black did not mean death or the underworld. It was the color of fertility. The color of damp caves and rich soil of the womb of the goddess where life begins. White, on the other hand, was the color of death of bones. Okay? And again, when the United come, they will invert this. What's really important to understand is in this society, women are in control. They have power and agency. And why? Well, it turns out that this book, Sex at Dawn. Okay? It turns out that women are just better at managing social resources. They have more relationships than men are. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 38:58 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? So this is Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan. And he tries to show us that for most of human history, women had sexual agency. And one piece of evidence is the fact that human men have larger penises. In fact, the largest penises of all primates. Okay? So gorillas are much bigger than we are. We have bigger penises. Why? Because we have to compete in order to put ourselves out there. We have to compete in order to put our semen into women. Right? Because women have multiple sexual partners. So that's one major advantage of sexual freedom for women. Men have bigger penises. Okay? All right? Even when women had long -term intimate partners, husbands, they had sexual partners. Okay? So the idea is that for most of human history, love and sex were not the same thing. Love is intimacy. Sex is just fun. Okay? In some societies, women would have many husbands, usually brothers. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 39:56 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And that's a way to maintain peace and harmony in your society. Okay? If a woman is allowed to marry many brothers together. All right. So the book looks at the Malaysian people where they practice sexual freedom for women. And the explanation is that semen was essential to human growth and development. Okay? So if a bride got married, then all the men would come and impregnate her. Because the idea is that semen is sacred and they want to give her as much life as possible. Okay? All right. Now, you may be disgusted by this. Okay? But I think there's a very good counter argument. Okay? So the argument is that it's not honorable for a woman to love anyone except her husband. And that this evil being among them, he himself was not sure that his son was their present, was his son. Okay? So the system sucks. Because if you're a guy. How do you know that that person is your son? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 41:03 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And the natives respond by saying, you French people. Okay? So he's talking about the French missionary. You French people love only your own children. But we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay? So that's what humans can do. We can love each other. There's no limit to our love. So in the system that we have today, a patriarchy, we only love our own children. But in their system, the Asian system, everyone loved each other's children. Okay? Everyone loved all children. And quite honestly, in this system, it's better to be a child. Right? And in this system, you would never, ever develop depression. Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 41:45 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: All right. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 41:46 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Again, women are just better politicians than men because women are more willing to cooperate. Women have more emotional intelligence. And women can use sex and gossip as mechanism of control. Okay? So this is all pretty common sense. All right. All right. But the question then is. If this world is so wonderful, why did it collapse? Well, there are three major issues with agriculture societies. Okay? The first major issue is that it's static. It does not innovate. Second major issue is climate change. If the weather changes on you, you're screwed. And the third problem is disease. Right? Because you're living close to animals. You're living close together. So if a disease hits you, you're all screwed. Okay? And that's very different from the seps people who live far apart from each other. Okay? All right. So we know that in Europe, the farmer communities, the population went, collapsed. Okay? So this is the level of carbon dioxide in the air. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 42:39 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: We can measure the level of carbon dioxide in the air. We know that about the year 3000 BCE, the population collapsed. Okay? All right. It collapsed everywhere in Europe. Why did this happen? The plague, guys. Okay? There's a problem with being a farmer. You are always susceptible to the plague. So we know that. Maybe. Maybe, you know, 4,000, 5,000 years ago, a plague broke out. Okay? The Black Death, basically, by rats. Okay? And remember, in this world, we trade with each other. So the Black Death was able to go everywhere and wipe out farming communities. Okay? Even spread as far as China. Okay? But the thing, though, is the seps people are not as impacted because they live far apart from each other. So if one got the disease, you're not going to spread it to your entire family. Or, sorry, your entire community. Whereas a farming community, they will. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 43:32 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? So there's this huge drop in the population because of Black Death in Europe. Okay? That's number one. Number two is climate change. So we know that now and then, there's this huge climate change and that destroys agriculture, forcing people to migrate. And this is what we suspect happened in old Europe as well. Okay? And so what's happening now is that because your society is static. Because of disease. Because of climate change. The population in Europe went all the way down, leaving the Yemnaya an opportunity to come invade. Okay? And they did come invade. So as you can see, when the agricultural people came, they came as families. Okay? So the blue is the man. The red is the woman. Okay? So one to one, they go into Europe. But when the Yemnaya come, they come as young men. Okay? So it's mainly blue. Okay? And of course, what do young men do? They come. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 44:27 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And they steal your woman. Okay? That's what young men do, guys. All right. And over time, what they will do is slowly establish new cultures. Because what's happening is that their culture is blending with other cultures as well. And why this is happening is the geography is different. Right? So in the steppes, they have a certain culture. When they move to our culture, they now have to combine their culture with the local ones. And this happens. This happens everywhere, producing different cultures and producing different languages as well. Okay. So all of Europe was radically transformed because of this migration. And again, this migration, it was basically a genocide. So you look at Britain. Okay? The people who built Stonehenge are gone. This is a farming agricultural community worshiping the modern goddess. Okay? They had all this wonderful science and technology. That's now lost to us. Because what would happen is the Yemnaya would come. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 45:28 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And kill everyone. Okay? So this is the blue is the farmer people. The red is Yemnaya. Total genocide. Okay, guys? Men and women were all killed. Why? Because maybe they chose, the men and women chose to fight together. Okay? In Spain, it's a different story. Because what happened is that all the men would be replaced. Okay? So the Y chromosome is the male chromosome. So before the year 2000 BCE. You had a lot of blue. Right? But as you can see, if you move further, it's all gone. They killed all the men in Spain. Okay? When they went to India, it's a different story. Because India, Indians in that time were more peaceful. So they came to a settlement where the new conquerors would be at the top of society. And the people would be, and the locals would be at the bottom. Okay? So there was not much of a genocide. But we had a caste system created because of that. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 46:25 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And we know because if you look at the upper caste, they all spoke Indo -European. If you look at the lower caste people, they spoke the local language, Dravidian. Okay? Does that make sense? So depending on the circumstance, the result is different. All right? Okay. There's a wonderful book called The Horse, the Wheel, and Language written by David Anthony, who's a Harvard anthropologist. And he explains to us the Inaya culture and why they were so dominant. Okay? So one thing that is unique to the Inaya is their mythology. It's a mythology of violence, of struggle, of dominance, of conquest. Okay? And how the mythology works is in the beginning, there were two brothers, twins. One named Man and the other named Twin. They go around the world and they're accompanied by a great cow. Eventually, Man and Twin decide to create the world we now inhabit. To do this, Man had to sacrifice Twin. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 47:26 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? He had to kill his own brother, the person he loved, in order to create the world. And the gods thanked him for that. The gods blessed him for that. Okay? So this is a world that is pretty violent. Okay? After the world was made, the sky gods gave cattle to third men. The cattle were stolen by a three -headed, six -eyed serpent. Okay? The snake. Third men entreated the storm, got to help get the cattle back. Together, they went to the cattle of the monsters, killed it, and freed the cattle. Okay? So this is a mythology of struggle. Okay? And what's really interesting is that this mythology becomes the mythology of all new proto -Indo -European civilizations, including the Romans and the Mongolians. Okay? So this is Genghis Khan. His mythology is what? He kills his best friend to become the leader of the Mongol people. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 48:22 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: And what's in the Roman mythology? Romulus kills his twin brother to found Rome. Okay? All right? So that shows you that the Mongols and the Romans, they come from the same culture. Okay? A culture based on violence and exploitation. All right. So now, Anthony talks about the economy. Domesticated cattle and sheep started a revolutionary change in how humans explored the Pontiac -Caspian steppe environment. Because cattle and sheep were co -villagers. Like humans, they were part of everyday work and worry in a way never approached by wild animals. Humans identified with their cattle and sheep, wrote poetry about them, and used them as currency in marriage gifts, debt payments, and the calculation of social status. Okay? Now we have the beginning of money and property. Right? And they were grass processors. They converted plains of grass, useless, and even hostile to humans into wool, fat, clothing, tents, milk, yogurt, cheese, meat, marrow, and bone, the foundation of both life and wealth. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 49:24 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So cattle and sheep herds can grow rapidly with little luck. Vulnerable to bad weather and theft, they can also decline rapidly. Herding was a volatile, boom -bust economy, and it required a flexible, opportunistic social organization. So they lived in a world of tremendous volatility because the entire world was a cattle. If the cattle died because of a bad storm or because of bad luck, they were completely screwed. Okay? So they were very aggressive people, and they were opportunistic as well. Okay? That's different from farmers who can just afford to sit back and relax because nature will grow the food for them. Okay. The connection between animals, brothers, and power was the foundation on which new forms of male -centered ritual and politics developed among Indo -European speaking societies. This is why the cow and brothers occupied such a central place in Indo -European myths relating to how the world began. Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 50:19 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So this is a deeply patriarchal society. All right? All right. Participation in long -distance trade, gift exchange, and a new set of codes requiring public sacrifices and feasting became the foundation for a new kind of social power. Stock breeding is by nature a volatile economy. Herders who lose animals always borrow from those who still have them. The social obligations associated with these loans are institutionalized among the world's pastoralists as a basis for a fluid system of status distinctions. Those who loan animals acquire power over those who borrow them, and those who sponsor these obligate their guests. Early Proto -Indo -European included a vocabulary about verbal contracts bound by oaths used in later religious rituals to subside the obligations between the weak and the strong. Okay? All right. So the idea here is there's no slavery in the system, okay? But there is obligation. There is loyalty. If I take you out for a meal, guess what? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 51:15 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Now you owe me a meal. If I take you out for a meal, I'm now your big brother, okay? And that's what keeps the society cohesive. And this is important. This is important because if no one's a slave and everyone's free, then everyone is a great warrior. Because you're fighting for yourself. Okay? You're not fighting because someone asked you to. That's why in wars between empires and these people, these people usually win. Okay? Because they're much more motivated. All right. Wealth, military power, and a more productive herding system probably brought prestige and power to the identities associated with Proto -Indo -European dialects after 33 BCE. The guest host is a Christian. The host institution extended the protections of oath -bound obligations to new social groups. An Indo -European speaking patron could accept and integrate outsiders as clients without shaming them or assigning them permanently to submissive roles as long as they conducted the sacrifices properly. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 52:09 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Praise poetry at public feasts encouraged patrons to be generous and validated the language, the songs as a vehicle for communication with the gods who regulated everything, okay? So another way of saying this is that even though there are wealthy people and poor people, they are still treated with respect. Okay? It's a very egalitarian society. Okay? And what keeps the system in place is their belief in the gods. Okay? The belief that if I do you a favor, then you owe me a favor. We have a contract now. The gods oversee the contracts. And what's really important is that this is an open -ended system, so it's easy for me to bring in more people into this system. Okay? Okay? And that's how... And that's why, again, they were such an innovative, cohesive, and open society. Okay. The last thing we'll talk about are these young men who enter secret societies, okay? And they enter secret societies and become, you know, like these mafia gangs. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 53:12 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3192s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? The institution of the moribund, the warrior brotherhood of young men bound by oath to one another and to their ancestors during a ritually mandated raid has been reconstructed as a central part of Proto -Indo -European initiation rituals. Okay? It's a very important part of society because these young men otherwise have no place to go. And if you want to know who they are, they're basically the Vikings. Okay? So the Vikings are the direct descendants of these people. Okay? All right. All right. So let's talk about the Mongols. The Mongols conquer the world, most of the world, and the question is, how do they do it? Okay? And I've already told the answer. Okay? Because the Steppe people have always been good at conquering empires. These are the Mongols. The secret weapon, of course, is a horse archer. This is like the ultimate weapon for most of human history. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 54:08 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: You could not defend against a horse archer. They were fast, they were strong, and these were the best warriors in the world. So this has been considered a pattern in human history. First, the Yamai came and conquered Europe. India and Iran. But then you have the Scythians, okay? Same place, same people, same culture. Guys, this is not a race of people. This is a culture of people. Okay? Because remember, at this time in human history, genetic exchange is very common. Okay? The Scythians were dominant. Then you have the Medians, who would later on give rise to the Persian Empire. Okay? Sorry. Oops. Okay. Then you have... Sorry. Can you see this? Okay. So now what's going to happen is this. You're going to have... You're going to... So the steppe people are all around the grassland. Now China emerges as an empire, and this is the Han Empire, and this is really the last Chinese dynasty. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 55:17 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Why? Because they are ethically Chinese, and they're proud of who they are. So what they're going to do is they're going to try to destroy the steppe people once and for all. Okay? So they move a huge army into the steppes to try to limit the threat. And what happens now is it forces a cascade effect where these people are now forced to go westwards, which forces them to conflict with people over here. Okay? And so you have this huge migration all the way to the Roman Empire. Okay? Okay? So this is what the map shows us. Okay? China forces the Huns, the Xiongnu, westwards, which then forces these other groups to go elsewhere. Okay? So again, the strongest people stay in the steppes. The weakest people go westwards. China forces the Mongols and conquers empires. Okay? This is a process of constant innovation. The Hun Empire. Okay? Attila the Hun. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 56:13 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3373s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3373s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Then you have the Turks emerge. This is the Mongol Empire. And as you can see, they conquer basically most of the world. And because they conquer most of the world, and the world is unified, then you have the Black Death. Okay? Which wipes out most of Europe as well. About a third of Europe is wiped out in the Black Death. Okay? And the last great conqueror is Timberlane. Okay? Timber the Lane. The last great conqueror from the steppes, and he conquers most of the world. Okay? So this is a really important principle. Remember, the steppes are the most innovative, the most open, the most aggressive, the most courageous. And that's why they're the greatest conquerors in history. Okay? But eventually what happens is, we develop gunpowder, okay? And now the steppes will be conquered by civilization. But this was the turning point in history, the invention of gunpowder. And so now what's going to happen is that civilization will now attack the steppe people and reduce the steppe people culture. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 57:16 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Okay? And that is it. All right. Great. Any questions, guys? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 57:25 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: So I was wondering, so the Bambarians, the steppes, are they capable of developing religions? Because they're all conquering all around the world, so it's difficult for them to build up temples, right? Right. ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 57:42 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Right. So religions don't require temples. Religion is just collective belief. So as I say, as I keep on saying in this class, all humans have a religion. Okay? A religion is just a worldview, understanding of how the world works. That answers three questions. Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Okay? Even today, even though we're atheists, we're still religious. Okay? But we worship money, materialism, science. Okay? So these people, the steppes, they worship the horse, the sky god, the cow. They worship war. They worship courage and bravery. Okay? So every culture, every person has a religion of some sorts because it's impossible for you to understand the world and operate in the world without a religion. Okay? Especially for groups. Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great, guys. So we'll continue our discussion of human history next class. Okay? ## The Steppe Is the Training Ground of History -- 58:43 - Source title: Secret History #14: Legacy of the Steppes - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTI2gFYWrU&t=3523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jpti2gfywru@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jpti2gfywru.json) Text: Bye. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: today we discuss the idea of civilization and first I want to present to you the general understanding of how we get civilization then I will present to you an alternative okay so the traditional understanding is the Marxist understanding this is idea proposed by Karl Marx and it's the dominant idea so in the beginning we were hunter -gatherers and it sucked to be a hunter -gatherer because you could not find food and then we discovered agriculture farming and that allowed for surplus food surplus just means that you have more food than you can eat and so now you have people who don't have to work okay an elite and as such they can engage in activities that improve the well -being of everyone and which create the basis for civilization these things include religion okay which is just myths and stories but also arts dance music song songs paintings and then of course you have science ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 1:38 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: and technology and with these three things in place now you can grow as a society okay you can now build cities why because now you can have irrigation and farming okay you can now direct the river the river flow so you can use more farmland okay you can now have a hereditary elite and so at the time we But these people can focus their entire time on innovation, on science, on progress. And then you have writing, because only a heritage elite has the time and the resources to learn how to write. Because remember back then, writing is a very difficult activity. You have to spend your entire life learning it and practicing it. And then you have the idea of money and property. And together, these four things are what we refer to as civilization. Now there are good things that come from civilization, religion, arts, and science. But there are also bad things as well, which include war, slavery, and debt. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 3:14 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And that is the story of civilization that you are taught in school and that most mainstream academics understand. Today I want to propose an alternative, and I think this is a much more compelling alternative than this one. And the idea is this. From the very beginning, we were religious, artistic, and capable of science. We did not need religion. We wanted to become an elite to do this for us. We are all capable of doing this by ourselves. And examples of course are the cave paintings that we discussed, as well as these religious settlements, Goplataple, Karahoyak. And as we discussed before, people come together to practice their religion, building temples, building monuments. And then slowly, around these temples, you have 전통교회, the memorial of those development of farming in order to sustain these temples, in order to practice the religion. But over time, what happens is that the temple people become corrupt. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 4:39 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Rather than being elected by the people, rather than serve the people, they become hereditary, okay? They engage in rent -seeking. And so what people do is they just leave and build a temple somewhere else, okay? And for all this time, all these temples are being built. But in certain locations, the temples can also engage in trade. Why? Because they're the meeting place of many, many other communities. And as such, their real estate is the most valuable in the world. And so it's hard for people to leave, and the place just grows and grows and grows. And as this civilization grows, the people in charge create something called a temple economy, okay? And this is just a permanent form of taxation. Basically what happens is that everyone brings food to the temple, and the priests then redistribute the food amongst everyone else, okay? And that allows for public works projects, like irrigation, mainly irrigation, but also more temples, okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 5:57 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And because of this economy, now you need writing. You need to record how much food you have. You have to record who gets what food, the rations. You also need to record trade, right? How much grain you're getting from here, how much cows you're giving to over there, okay? Now you have a writing system, then you have money. And, but as this civilization develops, a strict hierarchy emerges. And the hierarchy goes against the natural order. Also remember that people at any time can just choose to leave. So how do you make people stay where they are and just follow the natural order? Well, now you have to create mythology, okay? Which then you encode or write down, so that it seems as though it's coming from the gods themselves. Okay, does that make sense? In other words, civilization did not give us religion, arts, and science. We already had these things. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 7:13 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: We could at any time in our history do all these things. Civilization is a device meant to gaslight or fool people into believing that a hierarchy is legitimate when it is not legitimate. It is meant to fool people into thinking of a, that this hierarchical system, this system is divinely ordained, okay? So that's the argument I will make to you today. Before I continue, are you clear about this framework? This is a traditional framework. This is what you've been taught in school. The problem with this framework is that it assumes that we're all stupid. And if we're all stupid, it's hard to explain how we did the cave paintings, how we built Cabelo Tepe. How we did Catahouya. It assumes all these things. This new understanding is that we're all capable of creativity, but eventually, because of social development, we have these large cities, and now the people in charge need to create civilization in order to justify the hierarchy, okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 8:31 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: All right, so having said that, let's look at the four earliest major civilizations in our history. And they are, of course, Egypt, Mesopotamia, which is modern -day Iraq, the Indus Valley civilization. This is also referred to as the Harappan, okay? Harappan civilization, because their capital is Harappa. And then the last one, of course, is China, right? Now the question then is, why is that these four are the earliest civilizations? And they have three unique characteristics, okay? The first is their latitude. They're actually in the same latitude. They're not too hot, and they're not too cold, which makes them perfect for agriculture. Okay, that's the first characteristic. Second characteristic is that they are by major rivers, right? So Egypt is, of course, by the Nile. Mesopotamia has been called the Tigris and the Euphrates. Indus Valley, of course, has the Indus River. And China has, of course, the Yellow River, okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 9:55 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: That's the second major characteristic. This allows for you to build a fairly large city, okay? Because now you can solve the water and transportation problem, okay? And also agriculture. And the last characteristic, which is the most important, is they're by the sea, or they're by the ocean, which allows for them to engage in trade, okay? Transportation, bringing in new goods, new people, and new ideas. So Egypt has the Mediterranean, as well as the Red Sea. Mesopotamia goes into the Arabian Sea, which goes into the Indian Ocean. And so the Indus is the same situation, okay? Goes in the Arabian Sea and then the Indian Ocean. China, of course, goes into the Pacific, all right? So what will happen over time is that because of the trade location, they're able to build a very large city, okay? Over time. So, but then what will happen is that as the city becomes larger and larger, they will develop colonies upstream and downstream of the river, okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 11:10 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: So they will build more colonies, and this is how you get civilization, okay? You always have a major city, and as it becomes too big, you have other places in order to expand your trade reach, okay? So the priority is trade. And as you can see, what's happening is that these now, these areas are able to connect the entire world, right? So Egypt is able to connect Europe, and the Levant, and Africa, okay? Mesopotamia is able to connect Anatolia, Asia, Central Asia, and then Indus Valley is able to do the same thing, okay? China is a special case because of the Himalayas. So there is trade, actually, between China and these other parts, but not as much. And so China is a special case, and so that's why we don't discuss China in this class, okay? So this is, these three places are what we collectively call Western civilization. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 12:15 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: So you may have thought that Western civilization is just Europe and America, that's not true. Okay, if you just look at the history, these places have always been in contact with each other, and collectively, they've built the foundations for, you know, Western civilization. Let me ask you this question. Looking at this map, where is the most strategically located place? You guys know? It's here, right? Does that make sense to you guys? This is right in the center of global trade. And guess what? This place is where human civilization began. This place is what we call Samaria, Samar, okay? And this is where writing was invented. Okay? And this is where a lot of trade happened, because if you just look at this map, Samaria is what connects everyone to everyone else, right? If you're in the inner civilization, and you want to get through Egypt, you have to first transport your goods to Samaria, which then overnight takes it to Egypt. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 13:25 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Same thing with Egypt, okay? Same thing if you want to reach everywhere else. Does that make sense? That's why Samaria was the first major civilization, okay? And they invented writing, as well as irrigation, as well as a lot of technology. And there's been a lot of debate about Samaria, because one thing that puzzles scholars and historians is the language that Samarians speak is not the same as the surrounding areas, okay? So that's why a lot of historians believe that the people of Samaria came from somewhere else. And that may be true. Why? Because this is the major trade, right? And it's possible that what happened was that different people came together in this area to trade, and they formed their own language. That is possible, okay? Also, scholars have been surprised or amazed at the rapid development of Samaria. And that's why, okay, ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 14:27 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: I don't know why, but there are some people on the internet who believe that aliens came to Samaria and created humans. Okay? These aliens are called the Anunnaki. And it's a really stupid idea. And what you learn in this class is that if you put humans together and they need to do something, they will do it very well. Okay, does that make sense? Okay? Necessity is the mother of creativity. It's because they have to come together to trade, to interact, that they create their own writing system. Okay? So if I were to take different people from the world and just dump them on an island, you guys would really quickly be able to develop a system, develop your own language, your own writing system, your own civilization. Because again, necessity is the mother of invention. All right? All right, so that's the general framework we're working with. Any more questions, any questions before I continue? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 15:21 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay, good, all right. So let's do the PPT. All right, so in this class, I want to talk about how, because of civilization development, they start to promote writing and promote mythology. Okay? And what I will show you is that by studying mythology properly, you can actually decode or uncover or reveal the history of the civilization, even though it may be lost to us. Okay? All right, let's continue. All right, so one principle that I want you to learn about human history is that it's a constant process of inversion. Okay? And what I mean by that is that as humans, progress, or as human society grows and grows, they need to constantly innovate in their system, and they do it through inversion. So during the Capian era, it was an egalitarian society, which was fluid, which was dynamic, and they were animistic, which meant that they believed that everything had God in it, okay? They were all part of God. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 16:36 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And then with agriculture, you had the mother goddess civilization, because you needed fertility, right? The mother goddess, is able to give you more children, as well as help you grow crops. But over time, as civilizations became larger and larger, they started to go war with each other, okay? And now, the male overtakes the female. Rather than worship the mother goddess, they now worship the sky god. And before, during the mother goddess, it was assumed that the mother goddess serves us, because she's kind, she's compassionate. But now the sky god, we have to serve the goddess. So now, the sky god, we have to serve the goddess. There might be few more gods, okay? And then attest that it becomes more hereditary, what happens often are civil wars, where the prince kills the king, okay. The son kills the father in the version, okay. The last process is that, over time, as society becomes more populated, you need a bureaucracy. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 17:33 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: What happen, what happened is that the bureaucrats will collude together to steal power from the king. Okay, the servant rules the king, okay? So this is a major pattern of historical development that I want you guys to remember. Remember that history is a constant process of inversion, where the old order is being dethroned by the new order. So that's one idea I want you guys to remember. All right. So basic framework we're working with is that before, we started with the mother goddess, where women were in control, and they focused on balance and harmony and fertility. And their understanding of the mother goddess is that she's kind and she's compassionate, okay? So you don't really have to work that much. You just have to respect her, and she will provide you with a lot of babies and a lot of good food, okay? Now we go to the sky god. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 18:28 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And different societies have different sky gods, but they're basically the same concept. So in Egypt, they have Ra. In Babylon, they have Marduk. In Greece, they have Zeus. In Rome, they have Jupiter, right? And the sky god demands... struggle and toil to rape, exploit, control the earth. To take the mother goddess and to control her, okay? And you do that by building canals, by building farms. So it's a constant process of exploitation. Not only are you exploiting nature, the mother goddess, but you're also exploiting each other. You go to war, you conquer other people, you enslave them, okay? It's a constant process of sacrifice and discipline. So this is the major transition. All right. So the four major civilizations we talked about, as you can see from this map, they're the same latitude, right? China's over here. Again, because of the Himalayas, they're blocked from the rest of the world, okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 19:25 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: But these three areas, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, you can see how close they are to each other and how they can easily access each other through the sea, right? And once they're able to access each other, they can then access other parts of the world as well. So right from the beginning, guys, it's really important, Western society was integrated through trade, through communication. And so the ideas, the people were always in exchange with each other, okay? So you cannot understand the development of Egypt in isolation from Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, okay? They will all influence each other. Unfortunately, because of Western prejudice, you're often taught that these things are separate from each other, okay? But they existed in dialogue with each other. All right, so the cradle of civilization is the Middle East. Why? Because of the fertile crescent, okay? So Sumeria, Sumer, is where we consider the cradle of civilization because as I mentioned to you, it is the center of all global trade. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 20:39 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: It's where all civilizations meet. But as you can also see, it's also extremely fertile, okay? So this has historically been the wealthiest part of the world. Strategically, it's the most important part of the world, and it's still true even today, okay? That's why you have all these wars in the Middle East. That's why America is so supportive of Israel. Okay, so as I mentioned to you, what will happen is that because of trade, Uruk will become a large city. And then as the city becomes larger and larger, it will establish colonies elsewhere as well. And these will become the major city -states of Mesopotamia. And for thousands of years, they will fight each other until Sargon of Akkad unifies this region, okay? Sumer is impressive. They're known for their canals. They're known for their irrigation. And again, scholars are sort of mesmerized by how they're able to do this. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 21:43 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: But one thing that you learn in this class is that when humans come together for religious purposes, they're capable of doing amazing stuff. These are Zagorites. They're temples. And these Zagorites were the center of their civilization. Remember that also they start off with a temple that then builds out outwards, okay? And these Zagorites are important because they are literally considered the home of their gods. And these places are sacred. So only priests are allowed to go inside it. People can deliver gifts to the gods through the priests. But the people themselves are not allowed to interact with the priests. That's how the priests are able to keep control over the cities, okay? And the priests themselves are considered servants of the gods. This is cuneiform, right? This is cuneiform, which is the first writing system ever invented. What's interesting about this is how they did this. So what they did was this. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 22:43 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: They just took clay from the riverbeds, okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a reed, and you write down some marks in the clay. And then what you do is this. You just put it out in the sun, and then it hardens, right? And it's there forever. That's why we still have them today, because rock does not decay, okay? And that's why we know more about Sumeria than we know about other places. For most of agricultural history, we celebrate the mother goddess, okay? But then as I mentioned, over time, as society becomes larger and larger, the men started to take control. And so they inverted the mythology of the mother goddess. Now the sky god, who is Marduk here, kills the mother goddess to create the world, okay? A process of inversion. So to understand this process, we will read the most famous epic from Mesopotamia called the Enuma Elesh. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 23:53 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Enuma Elesh means, fall up high. So it's a Bible, basically. It's like what God told us. And this is a story of the creation of the world. Okay. So what's really important to understand is that all the stories are written down in stone, okay? And again, guys, they didn't have to do this because everyone was able to memorize the story line for line. And that's what we did historically. So why did they write this in stone? For propaganda purposes, right? It's the same as in today's world, you go see a film. When you see a film, you're mesmerized, you're hypnotized by the beauty of it. And you must think that this film must be the gods speaking themselves. Okay? You don't think about, okay, how do they put this together? Your mind doesn't think like that. Your mind's like, oh my God, this is an image before me, therefore it must be true. Okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 24:48 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And that's why they wrote stuff down, for propaganda purposes. Now what's interesting is that, there's different writing systems around the world. So in Mesopotamia, they have these K tablets, right? But in Egypt, as you may know, they have papyrus. Okay? Papyrus are these plants. They take out the plants and then put them together in the sun. Okay? And then they become like these scrolls that you can write on. In China, of course, have the paper. So what's interesting is that, when the need arises for writing, we always find creative ways to express ourselves in writing. Okay? Papyrus scrolls don't really last that long. That's why we know less about Egypt than we know about Mesopotamia. All right. So the Enumerated Lash was written on K tablets. So let's go over the story, the Enumerated Lash. So in the beginning, there are two major gods, Apsu and Tiamat. Apsu means fresh water. Tiamat means salt water. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 25:51 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? Fresh water, of course, is the river. Salt water is the ocean. Okay? When they come together, they create all possible life, including their children, the new gods. Tiamat and Apsu create these new gods, but they're children, so they're really loud. And Apsu is like, you know what? These children are really annoying. I want to kill them. Tiamat overhears this, and Tiamat tells her children who rebelled and killed Apsu. But then Tiamat's like, you know what? They killed my husband. So now she's pissed. Okay? So she decides she's going to go kill her children too. She has a general, and there is this huge army, and they start to attack their children. These children are thrown back by Tiamat. So they elect a new champion called Murdoch, the Thunder God, the Sky God, to lead them into battle against Tiamat. And in the final battle, Murdoch, who's also called BL, he kills Tiamat. Okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 26:56 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Now what happens afterwards is really interesting because after he kills Tiamat, the mother goddess, he takes her body, and then from her body, he builds the entire world. He builds both the sky and the planet Earth. Okay? So let's read some lines. BL rested, serving the corpse, in order to divide the lump by a clever scheme. He split her into two like a dried fish. Okay? So he literally cut her like a fish. One half of her he set up and stretched out as the heavens. He built the sky from her body. He stretched the skin and appointed a watch with the instruction not to let her waters escape. He crossed over the heavens, surveyed the celestial parts, and adjusted them to match the Apsu, Numenet's abode. So Apsu was the husband who was killed. BL measured the shape of the Apsu and set up Ezra, a leprechaun of Escalah. And Escalah, Ezra, which he had built in the heavens, he settled in the shrines Anu and El. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 27:53 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? So what's important to understand is this. He's doing this to the mother goddess. Okay? So not only is Marduk proclaiming a new order, but he's also proclaiming new values. New values of struggle, exploitation, toil. Right? Before, the mother goddess was a religion of balance and harmony. Don't destroy things. Worship the animals as they're your friends. If you kill them, make sacrifices to them. And now this new religion is to destroy things. No. Destroy the world and make it yours. Okay? So this is a civilization that practiced irrigation. Right? Because irrigation really is about controlling the earth. All right. Let's continue. All right. So what happens now is that after Marduk um creates the world, he has to establish a bureaucratic order. Okay? An order, a hierarchical order. So he says, he fashioned heavenly stations for the great god and set up constellations and patterns of the stars. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 28:55 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: He appointed the year, marked off divisions and set up three stars each for the 12 months. Okay? So he's basically building a calendar. The idea here is that all these were bureaucratic inventions in Samaria in order to better govern the people. Right? What this myth is doing, the Ammonite List is doing is proclaiming that the bureaucratic world is divinely ordained. Okay? This didn't come from the priest. It came from the gods. The priests are just the messengers. All right. Let's continue. All right. So, now that Marduk has built this world, he's like, you know what? I'm tired and I want a place to rest. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to build a house, which is my temple. And then I'm going to make slaves in order to serve me. And these slaves are called humans. Okay? That's why we were invented to serve the gods before we understood that the gods served us, helped us or loved us. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 29:51 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And now, humans become slaves to the gods. Beneath the celestial parts whose floor I made firm, I will build a house to be my luxurious abode. Within, I will establish a shrine. I will found my chamber and establish my kingship. Okay? All right. So now, he's going to turn humans into slaves. He conceived the desire to accomplish clever things. He opened his mouth addressing Eo. He counsels that which he had pondered in his heart. I will bring together blood to form bone. I will bring into being Lula whose name shall be Man. Okay? All right. And the gods, by the way, are called the Anunnaki. Okay? That's why there are conspiracy theories on the internet who say that we were invented by the Anunnaki. All right. So, what Marduk does is that he takes his enemy, Tingu, and then he kills him and then from his blood, he will create mankind. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 30:49 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? They bound him, holding him before Eo. They inflicted the penalty on him and severed his blood vessels. From his blood, he created mankind on whom he imposed the service of the gods and set the gods free. Okay? Now, what's really interesting for us to remember is that throughout this poem, Marduk has different names, Biel, Eel. Okay? And the reason why is that what happens in these epics is they take different traditions and they combine together into one composite story. Okay? All right. After the wise Eel had created mankind and imposed the service of the gods upon them, that task is beyond comprehension for Nimrod had performed the creation with the skill of Marduk. King Marduk divided the gods of the Anunnaki, okay, the gods, into upper and lower groups. He assigned 300 in the heavens to guard the decrees of Anu and appointed them as a guard. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 31:43 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? So now, he's gonna create this hierarchy. So yes, all humans are slaves but there's some humans who are better slaves than other humans. Okay? And that's what explains the hierarchy. So as you can see, in the Middle Age, it was written in order to justify the existing power structure. And honestly, this is a concept that's still true today. Right? Why do we have schools? Why do we have media? Why do we have entertainment? It's to justify the existing power structure and social order. Okay? All right. Now, we get towards the end and this is to establish that Babylon is the divine city. If it's divine, it means you can't leave it. You already have what you want to be here even though being in Babylon means your enslavement. Okay? Let us make a shrine of great renown. Your chamber will be our resting place wherein we may repose. Let us erect a ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 32:37 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=1957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: shrine to house a pedestal wherein we may repose when we finish the work. When Marduk heard this, he beamed as brightly as the light of day. Build Babylon the task you have sought. Let bricks for it be molded and raise the shrine. The Anunnaki wield the pick. For one year, they made the needed bricks. Okay? So Babylon, the capital, is a city made by the gods for the gods. And then humans are there to serve the gods. Okay? So this is the divine order. This is the mandate of heaven. Okay. And as you will see, this is not just true for Mesopotamia, for Babylon, but also true for all major civilizations including Egypt. Okay? So this is a tapestry from Egypt. As you can see, the gods are in control. The gods are the public masters. And the kings are just being controlled by the gods. And then humans just do what the gods demand ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 33:30 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: of them. Okay? This is just the natural order. This is the mandate of heaven. This is the way that it should be. Okay. Now let's talk about the Epic of Gilgamesh. So there are two major literary achievements of Mesopotamia. The first is the Anemone Lash. The second is something called the Epic of Gilgamesh. As you can see, Gilgamesh, he is a giant human. He's a king. He's considered the first king of Uruk. Okay? And he's so big that a lion is his pet. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 34:04 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 34:07 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: What happens is that Gilgamesh is a king but he's a tyrant. So he takes the men to war and he sleeps with all the women. So the people cry to the gods for relief from Gilgamesh. So the gods create Enkidu from clay. Okay? And this is very similar to the story of Adam in the Bible. Enkidu is like an animal but then Gilgamesh sends a prostitute to seduce him and then becomes civilized. And now Enkidu and Gilgamesh fight and when they fight they realize that they can't beat each other so they decide to become best friends. They're best friends now and they embark on all these adventures together. They go kill these divine beings. They go kill the protector of the forest. They kill a divine bull. The gods are now kind of pissed at them because they're disrupting the natural order. Okay? So the gods have a meeting and they decide that one of them must die. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 35:07 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: So they kill Enkidu. When Enkidu dies Gilgamesh is heartbroken and he's scared because he's afraid that he will die as well. So he sets on a quest for immortality. Okay? He goes and tries to figure out how to live forever. He ultimately fails. Okay? And it ends with Gilgamesh returning home and he sees happiness in the walled cities and his people being happy. Okay? So the moral of the story is that immortality is not about living forever. Immortality is about doing great things for your people to remember forever. Celebrate forever. So the irony is that even though Gilgamesh failed in his quest he ultimately succeeded in his mission because we have his epic and so we're able to celebrate him even today. Okay? So it's a story that is being told. The question now is why is this story being told? And one theory is that this is a concept of kingship. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 36:13 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Being a king means not doing whatever you want. Being a king means to serve the people so the people will celebrate you and remember you forever and immortalize you in writing. Okay? That's a theory. All right. But ultimately Gilgamesh is a bureaucratic creation and I'm gonna explain to you how this creation works. Through this creation process we can understand how human society develops over time. So, in the beginning what happens is that each region has local legends. Okay? And these local heroes are celebrated through stories. So, stories of demagogues like Hercules, right? And the epic heroism. They have these stories because each region has a local king and this local king says, well, I'm a descendant of Hercules and therefore I should rule over you. Okay? And what will happen is that these stories become a test for the king. If Hercules can fight a lion then you are his ancestor, descendant, right? You are his descendant therefore you should go fight a lion. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 37:17 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? And that's how you justify your kingship through these acts of heroism that's related to you in stories. Okay? That's the first step. Second step is what happens is that as these different areas become consolidated into a much larger area these stories themselves become consolidated. So, Gilgamesh was basically different heroes. One king comes to dominate a region. Then what happens afterwards is that as the region becomes larger and larger you need a bureaucracy. So, bureaucratic priests come into power they add in morality and messaging to control the people and the king. Okay? The major message is the king must serve the people and then the priests control the king. But what will happen is that these different bureaucratic factors will fight each other and they will have different versions of the story. Okay? The morality and messaging changes. Okay? As different bureaucratic priests take power. Okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 38:13 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: The king must learn humility. So, this is a hard thing to understand but it's really important for us to understand otherwise you cannot understand the Bible and other literary creations. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to give you an example to help you better understand this process of storytelling. All right. So, let's imagine three universities. Ohio State University, Connecticut and Middlebury and they all have their own local legends. Okay? So, in these places something happened that captured the imagination of all the students. So, Ohio State University, Michael James gets drunk the night before examination and he still manages to pass it and the students are like that's a great story. Okay? What happens over time is that because it's a great story as a story is told more and more it becomes exaggerated. Why? Because it becomes exaggerated it's much more interesting it's become much more memorable. Okay? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 39:06 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: And over time people add color to it to make it even more memorable. If you don't do that the story becomes forgotten. Okay? So, the only way to keep the story alive is by constantly exaggerating it and bringing color to it. So, let's see what happens. Over time the story becomes Michael James gets drunk before every examination and he scores 100. Okay? That's an exaggeration. And then over time naturally through the oral tradition the story becomes even more exaggerated. Michael James bet his professor that he could get 100 on the exam while drunk. After James finished the exam he vomited on the professor. He threw up on the professor. The professor could not do anything because James had got 100 on the exam. Okay? Alright? So, human beings just do this naturally. If something happens they think it's interesting it becomes a legend it becomes a story. Okay? And this happens everywhere. So, Connecticut College a football player scores a winning touchdown. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 40:04 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: It's exaggerated. The guy scores a touchdown every game and then even more exaggerated the guy hits a home run to help his team win the championship and then later that day he scores a touchdown to win another. Okay? So, it becomes more exaggerated. And then let's look at the last one. At Middlebury College Pat Jack drives to Canada to take a piss. Okay? He just does that for no reason. Becomes more exaggerated he goes to a new city every day to take a piss. Okay? And then it becomes even more exaggerated. And now you have color detail to it. Pat Jack drove to Canada and accidentally pissed on a sleeping bear. Okay? He ran up a tree by his pants and forest rangers had to come rescue him. Okay? Alright? So, this is what happens naturally. The story becomes funnier the story becomes more colorful more detailed more exaggerated so that we're able to remember it. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 40:50 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2450s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? And then over time what happens is that these stories become consolidated combined together to form a new story okay? Harvard's most legendary student was Pitbull James. He once rolled an exam that no professor could pass. He once hit a home run with one arm. He once pissed on a sleeping bear just so he could knock down the bear with one punch. Okay? So, it becomes even more exaggerated it becomes consolidated. Just as the epic of Gilgamesh. Okay? But then what happens is the bearcrats take over. Okay? The people in charge take over and they have to change the story in order to better control people. All of this process. So, let's look at three. All right. You add just one line and you change the story. Right? In the first version when he became a billionaire he gave it all to Harvard. Okay? So, obviously Harvard wrote this story to ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 41:48 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: say you know what we don't care what you do as long as you give us money. Okay? That's the first version. Second version is when he wrote he found his true love he settled down in the woods to write full time. Okay? So, this is seemingly the primacy of writers over athletes. Okay? The smart over the brave. And the third is the bear ate him. Okay? So, he punched the bear and the bear decides to eat him which is like don't be a stupid athlete. Okay? And so when you add these actually lines you make the story less interesting less colorful. But you do so in order to better control how people think. And this is a process that we see throughout human history. So, think of these classics of these Chinese classics. San Guan Yan Yi Romance of Three Kingdoms COG Right? Journey to the West Shui Hu Zhuan Right? Bandits of the Water Margin If you read them they're not that interesting. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 42:48 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: But before you can imagine that they were interesting. But the bureaucrats took them and changed them into boring stories that they can now teach school children to read and brainwash them. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so that's a process of civilization. All right. So, another example is Hyasal's Theogony. And he's talking about Greek mythology. Okay? Greek religion. So, the process goes like this. At first Gaea who's like the mother goddess in chaos they give birth to the gods. Gaea marries one of these gods Uranus. Okay? And they give birth together to twelve titans. But Uranus doesn't really like children. So, he beats up his children. So, these children with help from the mother decides to rebel against Uranus. The youngest son Cronus kills Uranus. Okay? Then Uranus marries Rhea and now Cronus is king but he's afraid that his children will eventually rebel against him just like he rebelled against his mother therefore he eats all his children. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 44:01 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Rhea the mother is upset about this so she decides I'm gonna give birth to Zeus in secret. So, she runs off to an island and she gives birth to him in secret and he leaves Zeus there to grow up. Okay? Eventually he grows up and then he goes back to Cronus he becomes cut bearer to Cronus and then poisons him. Okay? And that's how Zeus becomes the ultimate king. What's really interesting for our purposes is that this myth influences the origin story of major historical figures. Okay? So, if you look at these major historical figures you will find that it's a very similar story. So, Sargon of Akkad who founded the Akkadian Empire Romulus and Remus who founded Rome King David who founded Israel and Genghis Khan of the Mongols. Okay? They all share the similar origin story. So, where do we get this origin story from? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 45:02 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay. So, going back we're seeing three layers. Right? So, the first layer is the original layer which is the animistic layer. Okay? So, different gods come together and they create humans. The second layer is when Cronus rebels against Uranus and establishes the kingship. Okay? Right? The third layer is this. If you're a king you need a general. And what often happens is that the king likes to hire a foreign mercenary to be a general. Why? Because first of all he's of low birth. Right? Therefore, no legitimacy. Second, he's a foreigner and therefore he doesn't have any political factions behind him. But often what happens is that this foreign mercenary is so talented that he's able to build a political faction to overthrow the king and become king himself because he's really talented. This is true for Genghis Khan. This is true for King David of Israel. This is true for Sargon of Akkad. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 46:00 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Okay? So there are lots of historical figures like that. Even in Chinese history you have quite a few historical figures like this as well. So the founder of the Song Dynasty was this sort of person. The problem though is that once he becomes king he has a legitimacy problem. He's of low birth. He's a foreigner. Right? So what do you do? You create a myth of Zeus. Right? That Zeus himself was of low birth and a foreigner but not really because he's the secret son of the king. Okay? And that's why you have these stories. To legitimize the king. Alright. So again this follows the dynastic cycle. Okay? So in the beginning the high priestess who represents the mother goddess she has a consort and so they establish a hereditary elite. But this hereditary elite makes people unhappy with the system. So then once one prince or one of the sons decides you know what I'm going to form my own political faction. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 47:00 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2820s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2820s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: I'm going to become a warlord. I'm going to overthrow the queen and the king. Okay? And so he slays the consort and marries the high priestess. Okay? Which is following the pattern of the mythology. Right? Then what happens is that after the warlord dies his son relies on a mercenary as general. Mercenary is often a foreigner and of low birth. Mercenary slays the warlord and makes himself king. Okay? Does that make sense? This is a pattern that we see over and over in history. This explains why the myths are constructed the way they are. Okay. So another way a metaphor that we can use is think of myths and stories as like house renovation. Okay? So when you renovate a house you're adding different layers to it. That's literally what's happening. Okay? So we will look at one last story to show you how this writing process works. ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 47:59 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2879s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: Remember they invent writing in order to basically gaslight the people. So even though Samaria Mesopotamia is developing really quickly as you can see from this map it's still a very diverse place. Okay? They have different forms of industry and economy. So maybe in the green you have agriculture but in the red it's pastoral. Meaning it's you're raising animals sheeps, goats you're going all over the place. Okay? So there are two different types of agriculture. The first form is you are sanitary. You just stay in one place and you grow your food. You grow your crops. You grow your plants. The second is pastoral where you're going around and you are feeding your sheep and your goats. Okay? If you're a king or if you're a priest if you're a bureaucrat do you prefer agricultural people or pastoral people? Obviously agriculture. Why? Because it's easier to control them. So what they do ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 48:56 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: now is they're going to create these mythologies to convince people to give up the free happy lifestyle of pastoralists and become an enslaved farmer. Okay? Alright? And the question is how? Well this is how. This is called the debate between the sheep and the grain. Okay? So the sheep and the grain have this debate I'm the better one the grain says no I'm the better one. Okay? So they have this debate. The sheep says this and king of the gods made me descend from the holy place my most precious place all the yarns about Otu the splendor of kingship belong to me second king of the mountain embosses the king's emblems and puts his emblems in order he twists a giant rope against the great peaks of the rebel land he the sling the quiver and the long boughs the watch over the elite troops is mine the sustenance of the workers in the field ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 49:53 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2993s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=2993s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: is mine the water skin of cool water and the sandals are mine sweet oil the fragrance of the gods mixed oil pressed oil aromatic oil cedar oil for offerings are mine. Okay? So I'm the sheep look how great I am. Okay? I provide clothing for people I provide sandals I have oil which makes people more fragrant I also provide food for your soldiers so I'm great in the gown my clothes are white wool the king rejoices on his throne my clothing um is worn by the king himself is that proof that I'm the greatest? my body glistens on the flesh of the great gods after purification priest incarnation priest and the babe priest have dressed themselves in me for my holy lustration I walk with them to my holy meal okay? so the priest when they make sacrifices they sacrifice the sheep the sheep sacrifice grain they sacrifice sheep okay? but your hero plowshield binding and shops of tools that can be utterly destroyed what can you put against me? ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 50:57 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: and answer me what you can reply okay? so that's the argument from the sheep the grain says when the beer dough has been carefully prepared in the oven and the mash ended tended in the oven Nikasha mixes them for me while your big bully goats and rams are dispatched for my banquet on the thick legs they are made to stand separate from my produce your shepherd on the high plain eyes my produce endlessly when I am standing in the furrow in the field my farmer chases away your herdsman with his cudgel even when they look out for you from the open country to the hidden places your fears are not removed from you fangs snakes and bandits the creatures of the desert want your life on the high plain every night your count is made and your tally stick put ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 51:40 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: into ground so your herdsman can tell people how many eels there are and how many young lambs and how many goats and how many young kids when gentle winds blow through the city and strong winds scatter they build a milking pen for you but when gentle winds blow through the city and strong winds scatter I stand up as a equal to Iskar I am grain I am born for the warrior I do not give up the churn the vat on legs the endowments of shepherding make up your properties what can you put against me and to me what you can reply okay what grain says is first of all you don't need to protect me I can protect myself there are no animals that want to eat me okay and I'm powerful okay so I'm independent you do less work you get more of me okay that's the argument and of course the gods say ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 52:27 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: that grain is better even though people who raise sheep and goats they're stronger they're more free they're more independent but kings don't want that so they create these stories these mythologies in order to brainwash people out of their freedom out of their independence okay and that's why we have writing that's why they invented writing okay does that make sense to you guys alright any questions ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 53:00 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: so my first question is like earlier you mentioned that there are three ancient civilizations that are very close to each other like Egyptian and ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 53:10 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: that's right so they that's right yeah ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 53:13 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: but to be honest like are there any connections between the their distance and how they made all of this myth and their methodologies of creating the gods okay ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 53:26 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: that's a really good question so it's almost impossible for us to answer how much they influence each other okay because even if they were not in contact with each other they would still come up in order to justify their hierarchy okay does that make sense so myth making is a natural part of the human process so do they share these stories together probably okay but what's important to understand is that these elites are also interested in differentiation so if I'm in Egypt I need to prove to my people that I'm superior to the people in Mesopotamia and in this valley civilization and that's why I create the pyramids right okay if I'm in Mesopotamia I need to prove that I'm superior that's why I create the zero gods and the epic of Gilamash all right so the actual process it's hard to say okay so another way of thinking this is how much are you ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 54:29 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: influenced by American popular culture probably a lot but how much okay also whatever influence that you have you still also have your own personal needs as well okay so that's a great question and you know scholars spend a long time decades trying to figure out what the actual influence of each culture is on the on the other culture and from my perspective it's not important we just have to assume that there is influence that these cultures aren't caught up with each other but ultimately at the end of the day what they come up with has to be unique to their own culture they want to prove that their culture is superior and they want to and they have to address local needs as well okay does that make sense yes okay ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 55:16 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: and I have another question is that I don't know how familiar you are with the Chinese culture but in our Chinese culture there is a god who created the earth like his name is Pangu like there is this mythology of how Pangu creates the earth and so my question is like you can notice that in the Chinese culture Pangu is a male and he is the one who sacrificed himself to in order to create the earth and in other myths like in Egyptians that the creator is this female character so in your opinion like do you think there is like what is the why is this different between okay ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 56:06 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: so it's hard for us to say what the original myth was okay the process is this in the very beginning all myths all gods should be asexual okay so they are almost they are either non -sexual like it's not male or female or they are both male and female okay because in all traditions the god has to be a balance of forces right so the male force and the female force that's why we have yin and yang but over time what will happen is that they will change certain characteristics to reflect better the hierarchy so maybe in the beginning when females were in charge um Pengu was a female character but over time they will change it to a male character alright it's almost impossible for us to go back and um rebuild or reimagine what it was like originally okay okay thank you alright okay any more questions guys okay great so that makes ## The Mandate of Heaven Is Written Propaganda -- 57:07 - Source title: Secret History #13: Mandate of Heaven - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF8oD_5c_w&t=3427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-fjf8od-5c-w.json) Text: sense and next class what we're going to do is we will talk about the steps people okay the people in the steps this is civilization so people who do agriculture but remember that throughout most of human history the major conquerors were people from the steps okay so Genghis Khan came from the steps so we'll be discussing them next class okay alright thank you ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: So we continue our run through of human history today. So last class we did cave paintings and what I will do from now on is I will highlight some YouTube comments for us to review what we learned last class, but also as a chance for us to better engage the YouTube audience. Okay, so this comment comes to us from Gary Zorakiewski and he talks about the cave paintings. He says that it is possible they created art everywhere, the paintings only survived in the caves. And the answer is absolutely. So back then during the Ice Age, they made these cave paintings as a ritual, as a celebration of their religion to express their imagination. They didn't really care about leaving a legacy that comes later, okay? So that's a very important comment. So thank you. This man says that when I was talking about Beethoven, he points out that Beethoven wasn't born deaf, he became deaf much later as an adult. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 1:05 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=65s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=65s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: And that is true. But one thing about Beethoven that people don't really discuss is that he probably had symphysesia, okay? And this is just a fancy word meaning the mixing of senses. So some people are born with a special talent and so what happens is that their senses get mixed up. So when people hear the word symphysesia, they get mixed up. When they hear things, they actually see things. Okay, so the classic example is they have pitch perfect. So there are some people, musicians, when they hear something, they can tell exactly what the pitch is. Is it C minor, D major? Okay, and the reason why is when they hear something, they see a color. Okay? So they mix the audio sense with a visual sense. And that's probably the situation with Beethoven as well. So a lot of really talented people in life, what happens is that makes up ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 1:59 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=119s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=119s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: their senses okay um another person is Leonard Euler was a mathematician and this youtuber says that the private bay he says that he probably did his best work after he went blind and the reason why is that when you go blind you're able to imagine much more strongly and much more deeply okay so he's able to see the math in his head okay um this man says that I also learn from indigenous people that they don't produce trash and garbage and that's something that's very true for most of you of human history for most of human history we saw ourselves as part of nature and so when you go to someone's house you don't leave trash same thing for print of people okay they saw themselves as interconnection with nature and so they have to respect nature and therefore they had to keep it clean okay all right so from now on we'll just have ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 3:06 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: highlight some YouTube comments okay so let's talk about heaven on earth so we did the ice age and now what's happening is that the planet it's warming up and it allows for our culture and let allows for settlements okay so now we will discuss okay so now we will discuss today what happens during this time as the population grows and as we settle down to form cities okay so let's review what we learned last class because in this class we don't learn facts or places we learn about ideas and concepts so if you want to understand human history you need to internalize certain concepts so in history class and in our culture you're talking myths about who we are okay so I'm gonna go over these myths and show you they're wrong and explain why we have these myths okay so the first myth is that we are materialistic we like money sex and power ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 4:12 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: the truth of the matter is that from most of human history we had three goals or three concerns the first is that we have a improvement little impulse and we want to express this religion or the through art through music through dance and what I mean by religion I mean that we have three questions in our heads the first question is where do we come from some question is why are we here and the third question is where we going that's why we had religion to answer these three questions and that's why we still have religion today second thing about us is that we're all diverse and we want to differentiate ourselves we want to stand out the last thing is we are curious and we want to explore that's fundamentally who we are then the question then is why are we telling you that we're materialistic and the answer is it's better to control ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 5:08 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: you okay so in a society there's a hierarchy and the people in charge they want you to work hard they want you to be obedient but if you believe that you want to explore then you're not gonna be obedient enough okay doesn't make sense okay second myth is and this is gonna be hard for you understand what you're taught is that the nuclear family father mother children that's the most natural human unit and it's not true actually if you look at most ancient societies the most natural organization is that women are usually in control why because women have complete autonomy over their bodies so they can choose who to have sex with and that's where the power comes from they control access to sex which gives men pleasure and with this power they often choose to sleep with as many men as possible okay and there are three reasons why they choose this strategy the ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 6:17 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: first is it's fun okay it gives some pleasure to have sex with as many men as possible that's number one. number two is women are really good at negotiating politics and they use sex as a political strategy so if two guys are fighting each other she has sex with both and then voila they're best friends now okay so women are very good at managing emotions through sex okay and then number three is the most important if you're a woman you wanna make sure all your children grow up successfully they don't die okay and they're happy and they're healthy so from your perspective it's your advantage to hide paternity to hide the fact who the father is why because now all the men in the village in the community are responsible for raising a child because no one knows who the real father is so everyone assumes that I could be the father okay and this ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 7:24 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: is historically how societies are usually organized with a woman in charge and as such societies tend to be very egalitarian because women don't really care about status and power they care about harmony and balance and the question then is why do we change that's actually a very simple reason the simple explanation is in order to have produced more children because if you're a woman you don't want to have too many children you want to make sure that all your all your children have access to resources but you also want to stay healthy right if you have too many children it's possible you could die in childbirth it's also possible that your children die in childbirth as well so women have always practiced population control but we when we switch to a patriarchy now we can have as many children as possible okay because now women are basically become slaves and their main duty is to ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 8:23 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: have as many children as possible and that's why after this transition from matriarchy to patriarchy a lot of women start to die okay so that's number two number three is humans believe in survival of the fittest and that's not true historically if you look at how societies are organized we tend to be compassionate we look after the ill we look after the elderly we look after the weak okay that's who we are we have empathy we care about other people so why do we believe in survival of the fittest it's to create fear and anxiety okay if you have fear and anxiety you work harder but also you're easier it's easier to control you any questions so far okay all right let's continue number four humans have gone smarter over the centuries and when one thing that you will learn in this class is that's not true humans have always been smart but we've expressed ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 9:23 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: our intelligence in different ways so primitive cultures they express themselves through art they had better memories they had more they were more sensitive and they were more resilient than we are so why are we taught that we're smarter the answer is confirmation bias because everyone likes to believe that we're smarter than people who came before us okay so now let me give an example of how smart they were so let's just say that you have a boat and you want to navigate the Pacific okay that's very hard to do and usually need a computer why because there's so much information that you need to process in order to navigate the ocean okay so let's go over some of the information all right so these are the Polynesian people what's amazing about them is they set up the entire Pacific wherever there's an island they had a settlement and this is a testament to our desire ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 10:21 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: to be to explore the world okay what is fascinating is how they did this because if I were to put you in a boat in the Pacific you probably die okay and that's true for most people so the question then is how they navigate the Pacific well what they did was this they built boats that allow them to navigate Pacific but as you can see these are not large boats okay so they had to get to an island fairly quickly so what they needed to do was read the stars so in their heads they were out there able to map up the stars and from the starts figure out exactly where they were they also had to memorize oceanic currents okay how the oceans were moving in order to better navigate the ocean also every island has its own distinct oceanic ecosystem okay so there's so much information that they have to take in they ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 11:15 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: look at the wind they have to look at the oceanic currents at the look of the stars and that's why we have computers to do this for us today but back then they didn't have computers so they had to do this all in their heads okay and they had some maps that help them okay so this is a map of the stars and this is a map of the oceanic and currents but they were all doing this in their head and what's really amazing is while they were out in sea they couldn't sleep okay they have to keep track of all this information to know exactly where they were they fell asleep the navigator fell asleep they got lost and then they died okay that's the power of the human imagination okay last myth we evolved from apes and the truth is that we are imaginative and we can choose our own evolution okay so ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 12:08 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: um you're taught in school about the theory of evolution how we evolved from apes and maybe our bodies evolved from apes but our minds are not our minds come from somewhere else okay so why are you taught we're evolved from apes it's to justify the power hierarchy okay right the people in charge are just stronger and better and more fit than we are all right so having revealed last class let's now talk about um the religious imagination okay so this is the pyramids um it was built 2400 bce um and today it's the same pyramids this is one of the most ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 12:54 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: yes yeah go ahead um you said that that the the previous people are like smarter than today's because they can um navigate the pacific like just with the boat and and and don't sleep but nowadays we use computer right um but i think that uh nowadays we use computer it's not because that we cannot uh navigate the ocean just by a boat and and human is because uh this manner is we could get more precise and ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 13:28 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: accurate information okay that's not true okay if i put you on a ceiling period you would die it's that simple okay the computer's not gonna help you navigate navigate the ocean okay all right all right so um these are the pyramids okay and there's a great mystery as to how these pyramids were built and you might have on the internet heard silly explanations like aliens came and built the pyramids okay or maybe the lost civilization of atlantis gave the technology to the egyptians to build the pyramids and this is an example of confirmation bias we think that we're smart and everyone before it was stupid okay and what and what you learn in this class is that these people had an imagination that allowed them to build the pyramids okay so i'm going to show you how they built the pyramids all right so as you can see the pyramids are extremely complex structures okay ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 14:32 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: and first of all there's debate as to what the pyramid is what the pyramids feel more like oh the pyramids are made out of dépendance are you taught in school what the parents are what is it come on you guys are taught all this in school right the two pyramid is what it's a tomb right okay guys it's not a tomb okay it looks like a tomb but it's not a tomb it's a temple right okay so how do they build the pyramids um so what happened was that they didn't have blueprints they didn't have computers but they had the imagination so they could see the building of the pyramid in their heads and what they did was they actually built it from the inside out okay all right so again it's hard for us to imagine that they would do this because it's like wait you don't have a pen so you can write ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 15:27 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: it down you have a computer so you can process all the information they did all in their heads and that's the power of the human imagination okay all right um and as you can see it was a massive undertaking huge organization it took about 20 years and lots and lots of people and then the question then is how were they able to organize in such a manner the answer again is empathy the imagination someone had a vision and this vision was so compelling that everyone knew exactly what part to play okay also what's really important is that in school you're taught that the pyramids were built because the pyramids were built because the pyramids were built because the pyramids were built because the pyramids were built because the pyramids were built because the pharaoh is god and there's pharaoh is god and there's a tomb for the pharaoh okay that's really insulting to the egyptian ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 16:17 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=977s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=977s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#sacred-machine-coordinates-life) Text: people like all cultures the pharaoh wanted what's best for his people okay so the pharaoh would in his lifetime undertake a lot of public works projects okay including canals okay so that so the pyramids were just a public works project a temple um what's amazing about the pyramids is that we could not do the pyramids today okay back to your point we have computers guess what we have all these machines okay and guess what we cannot build the pyramids why well because the way we work is different from the way they worked before let's go over the differences okay ancient times people had religious devotion when they worked on a project like the temple like like the pyramids or whatever the point was to bring heaven to earth to bring god to earth to create eternal peace they felt that my dedication my sacrifice would make my children my grandchildren my great -grandchildren all more ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 17:21 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: prosperous okay that's why they worked so hard today it's make more money okay second thing vision people back then had bigger brains okay not bigger brains but like stronger imagination so in their heads they were able to see the entire vision in their heads and this vision was it was able to pass on to other people as well it was almost like they had telepathy it was almost like they could see the same thing okay the short story of the parent was designed in a way that people saw the same image and they work towards that image today we focus on something called top -down process -oriented management okay the idea here is rather than work together you just go and work a particular part and then once you do that part you go away okay so an example is maybe art class now i'm not sure if you take art class but you guys ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 18:13 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: know like to produce a great piece of art you stay and you work really hard at it okay but in school what do we do well first we do is first thing we do is make you write a plan right and you do the plan well I give you 10 % then after you do the plan what do you do you write the outline then you do a draft then you do an iteration okay you understand we bring it on in a process and you think that this would lead to better results I actually leads to worse results okay because you're no longer focused on the vision you just focus on the process and that's why today everything we do sucks okay I can give you the greatest computers in the world and you really couldn't do the pyramids okay I can give you the best machines the best computers it wouldn't matter because you ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 19:02 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: lack that vision the last thing this is most important is you have vision when you have religious purpose every you do is careful okay you put your best effort into doing it you put your best effort into doing it because you're trying to create eternity today you try to do the least amount of work for the most amount of pay right so the idea today is to do it as fast as possible as cheap as possible to maintain a budget yeah so do you understand it's not about how smart you are it's about your purpose in working it's about how you work and that's why everything we do today is just crappy okay all right let's go over some examples of tremendous human achievement okay so the first example is this is the Hagia Sophia and this was built in 532 in Constantinople it's still in Istanbul you can actually take a plane get on ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 19:56 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: a plane and fly and it's still there guys okay this is a modern picture so you can see the amount of attention and care put into architecture back there because it's about bringing heaven to earth creating heaven on earth this and you can see inside how beautiful it is okay and so every inch every piece of the church is just beautifully constructed everyone who worked on it was working with the same vision and working with the same dedication this is the Aachen cathedral built in 1790 okay and guys this is what it looks like today no different from what it looked like when it was first built and guys no one said this was built by aliens okay no one said this was built by the Atlanteans so the idea that the Egyptians couldn't build the pyramids by themselves and had to rely on aliens that's just a racist comment okay um also Charlemagne the ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 20:54 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: first Roman emperor the first holy Roman emperor he was buried he's buried inside this cathedral but no one's saying this is a tomb okay we all know it's a church so the pyramids are a church a temple to their gods and once you understand that then we can better understand how they built the pyramids okay does that make sense okay and this is what it looks like inside okay again this is today you can actually get a plane go to Germany and go walk inside this church and see for yourself how beautiful it is back then they put care and love into everything they did because because they believed that what they did was to make a more godly spiritual world okay another Manhattan project okay this is probably the greatest achievement of humans in the 20th century all right and there were a hundred thousand scientists who worked on the Manhattan project to build ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 21:53 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#sacred-machine-coordinates-life) Text: the pyramids and they built the pyramids to build the nuclear bomb same concept where they believe that they're creating eternal peace on earth heaven on earth and that's why they worked so hard and guess what they were right right because now with the atomic bomb nations are afraid to go to war before the atomic bomb world war one world war two killed tens of millions of people and even though there's still wars they're not as devastating as before all right so this idea of bringing heaven to earth it goes way back to the beginning of humanity this is goblet goblade tepe um it was first built in ninety in nine six hundred nine thousand six hundred bce and this is considered the world's first temple it's the first temple that we discovered we can assume that wherever humans go they will build temples because as i mentioned last class humans are first and foremost religious ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 22:49 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: they express themselves through their expression of religion through art architecture music dance and it's an amazing achievement um because these pillars okay they're really tall so we don't know how they're able to move these pillars into place okay you can see how small people are how big this is but if you think about what we said about having a vision and then working together to achieve this vision then it makes more sense okay so let's discuss how they were able to build called goblet tepe and this process is important because it's a process that's important for us to understand because it repeats itself throughout human history okay so let's go over the process okay the first is that there's always a charismatic leader it could be a man it could be a woman but he or she has a vision for creating a temple a place of god okay that's what a temple is it's ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 23:45 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: a play it's a place for god to live on earth and he shares this vision with everyone and everyone works hard to achieve this vision okay but then the leader dies and now you have to bring people competing to be the new leader okay why because a temple and it's really important for you guys to remember a temple is always the most valuable real estate on earth okay if you if you are in a temple people come to pray to you right so that they give you gifts that they give you tribute so what's happening in this time is that they would organize a religious festival um once or twice a year and people would have to bring gazelle bring food as a tribute to the um priests and then they would celebrate it together and then they would um feast okay so if you're able to control this temple you lived a very good ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 24:42 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: life you were a very powerful person okay and so there was so when the first leader died you would have a succession crisis and they would vote who the next leader would be and so what happened is they would have these trials where they prove to each other who the god's favorite okay so it's possible maybe there are two hills okay you stand on one hill i stand on another hill and we'll see where the bird lands if the if the bird lands on my hill then the gods favor me okay because at this time um humanity believed that the mother goddess ruled overall because because if as humans at this time you're concerned about two things right you're first concerned about farming agriculture fertility and then you're concerned about having babies okay so it's important because the mother goddess provided fertility for everyone okay um but then over time what they realize is you ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 25:37 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1537s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1537s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: know what we just cheat okay and how do you cheat you cheat by forming secret societies okay by getting people to follow you and then you swear blood oaths to each other and you also maybe have sex with each other and you become a faction okay and this led to a lot of political conflict and the way they said they often settle this uh dispute or debate is for human sacrifice okay so if your faction lost you'd all be sacrificed and we know this because under goblet tepe there are tombs okay of human remains so we assume that um these people lost a power struggle and as such they're all sacrificed together okay so in other words power struggle political conflict uh religious dispute human sacrifice secret society they go all the way back to human society okay all right so this is goblet tepe today again you can you can you can get on ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 26:34 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: a plane fight a turkey and they go visit goblet tepe now one thing that's really important for us to understand is that with our architecture there's mythology in place okay and here we assume the mythology is the mother goddess with a bird in the sky and this might be a human skull okay so there's a very complex diverse mythology in place we don't know what it is okay but they had a sophisticated mythology and also remember humans are diverse so once the mythology becomes established new people come to establish a competing mythology okay so um this place is called karen tepe and as you can see the mythology of this place it's different but these places are very close to each other okay so this is maybe the cult of the skull the idea here is when people die you can still communicate with them in the spirit world if you have their skull okay ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 27:33 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: almost as a skull becomes a portal into the afterworld okay so you can draw on their wisdom you can draw on their spirit with the skull and this called the skull we see this in many ancient cultures including in china okay it's what we call ancestors worship and as you can see uh this is called a skull okay the tower of jericho the tower of jericho is another settlement and we just assume that okay if it's a tower it's for defensive purposes okay it's to ward off invaders but there's actually a better much better explanation for the tower of jericho it's a religious temple why because during the solar equinox the sun hovers above the of the temple and it causes the temple to flood this area with shadow okay so if you are a religious person you feel as though heaven is coming to you directly okay so you have a ritual you have ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 28:33 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: a celebration when the solar eclipse happens and you can feel as though you're ascending to heaven or heaven is coming down to you okay that's the tower of jericho okay kadak hoyak kadak hoyak is one of the first settlements that we found remember gobe tepe um is just a temple so they would go there maybe once or twice a year for a religious celebration but then they would leave okay kadak hoyak is where they decided to settle down permanently for decades now in school you're taught that farming because it allowed us to access more food and so we can grow the population we will become healthier and stronger okay but if you actually dig up bodies of hunter -gatherers as opposed to farmers what you will realize is one hundred guys are taller a lot taller than farmers gatherers are stronger live longer healthier they have better teeth why because if you're a farmer um ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 29:34 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: you so sorry if you're kind of gatherer you have access to lots of different food, right? Meats, and getting the food is actually pretty easy, okay? You can just pick fruit off a tree. As a farmer, you throw really hard to grow food that's not very nutritious, and often the food is just similar, okay? You're just eating one vegetable, one crop, okay? It's a very limited diet. And also, because of starch, your food, your teeth gets really rotten really fast, okay? Also, because you're living together in a close quarters, it's really easy for diseases to spread, okay? So, it's hard for us to appreciate this, but being a hunter -gatherer, it's an easy, happy, healthy life. Being a farmer sucks. So the question then is, why did they become farmers? For religious purposes, right? So that they could settle down and be with their religion, okay, be with their charismatic leader, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 30:32 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Does that make sense? Right, so this is kind of this is the religion of the mother goddess, okay? And accompanying the mother goddess is the bull, okay? Because if you think about it, a woman cannot give birth by herself. She needs a male. And this male god is the bull, who represents virility, energy, strength, okay? So they worship both. And as you can see how people are worshiping the bull. This is an image of Kataikoyak. It's a very sophisticated community. It's also very egalitarian. And each house is a temple unto itself, okay? Each, so they have these paintings in order to bring in the energy of their gods that they worship. And that's why they want to stay here, because they want to be with their gods, even though it meant a harder life for them, okay? This is Kataikoyak. As you can see, it's beautiful. This is what it looks like today, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 31:35 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: All right, this is another image rendition of Kataikoyak. Okay, as you can see, each house is, is a temple unto itself. And they bury the dead underneath, okay? So they're trying to practice a religion, like here. Okay, as I mentioned, each house is a temple unto itself. And as you can see how each house is elaborately decorated with, you know, the bull, with ornaments to their gods and to the religion. This is a gazelle. So they hunt gazelle. This is a gazelle for food. But as you can see, it's really a dance, right? So they're hunting the gazelle, but they see it more as a dance, as a celebration. And the reason why is, at this time in history, we feel an obligation to the animals we killed. We have to thank the animals that we killed. We have to celebrate the animals we killed in order to maintain balance and harmony in the world. Okay, it's almost like a contract. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 32:44 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=1964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Before you can kill animals, you need to pray to the gods and ask for permission. After you kill the animals, you must thank the animals for sacrificing their body to you so you can eat, okay? All right, you guys got it? All right, so let's go over the pattern of human settlements, okay? And I need you guys to remember how this process works. So let's look at how kind of your came together, and I'll explain to you why it fell apart. Again, you have a charismatic leader who has a messianic vision. He takes us to this place and says, this is where the gods are. This is divine place. And let's settle down here. And as such, we can bring heaven to earth. And then they become a creative artistic community, okay? And they often choose a place where the climate is very nice. And that allows them to farm, to supplement their hunt and gather, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 33:40 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: And over time, as the population grows, they become much more dependent on farming, okay? So it's a gradual process. It doesn't happen overnight. In the early days, there's lots of social mobility in that all leaders are elected. And also, it's very egalitarian, okay? Does that make sense? But over time, the system breaks down. What happens? Well, first thing that happens is, because of overpopulation, there's too much stress on the environment, and so you have the land, you're not able to grow as much on the land. Then you have climate change happening as well, okay? So another big issue is that the hierarchy becomes hereditary. Before, the leaders were elected. Now, they are just inherited, okay? And this leads to corruption, where the elite bully and exploit everyone else. And people forget the memories of the first days. And so what do people do? People just get up and they leave, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 34:50 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: You understand? you can always choose to leave and so if you don't like the community anymore you and your family just get up and you go to another place to build a new community based on your principles okay all right so based on today's lecture i want you to remember three things about how we humans come together in a community okay and these three basic principles almost like laws i want you to remember them and then these laws will help you better understand how societies rise and fall okay the first important principle i want to remember is societies are fluid and dynamic they're always changing over time okay they're never still second thing is that diversity within society is greater than across societies so another way of saying of saying this is yes there's a conflict between the united states and china but actually if you actually look at differences in diversity the difference in ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 35:46 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: diversity within in china is greater than the difference between china and the united states it doesn't make sense okay the third law is communities exist in opposition to each other okay so think about the cities in china okay beijing shanghai shenzhen chengdu xiang they're all different why because they want to be different from each other okay but also within beijing you have haidian taoyang different districts right they're all different from each other because they want to be different okay so these three laws will help us better understand how societies form thrive and ultimately ultimately die all right so i'm going to go over some books to highlight certain issues that we discuss in this class this is the thought everything uh by david grabber and david wengro who are both anthropologists okay and they've looked at different societies and what they emphasize is diversity and the dinas dynamism of different societies okay so let's look ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 36:52 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: at one particular society which is the native people of of the canadian northwest coast okay these are the native people and what happens what's really interesting is throughout the year that different social structures so during the winter everyone comes together and they form a hierarchy where there are palaces where there's an aristocracy um and where the different they're divided into different classes okay but then what's really interesting is that during the summer people will just go away and start new societies okay this is like really interesting how in different times of the year when the needs are different people will choose different social organizations people actually adopted different names in summer and winter literally becoming someone else depending on the time of year okay so a metaphor that you can think of is think about how when you play war of warcraft and you play warcraft you can play warcraft at different times of the ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 37:51 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2271s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2271s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: year so to or a different video game you adopt a different identity you adopt a different persona and that's fun for you okay so um what's common in the ancient past is for people to adopt different social structures and they can choose what social structure to go to okay and certain certain communities still practice it today okay this is the wayfinders by wade davis one of the best books i've ever written sorry i've ever read um he's he is looking at also print of communities native tribes throughout the world okay and he's looking at specifically the amazon people if you go to amazon you would have many different indigenous tribes okay so let's look at the religion and as you can understand and one thing i will show you is that even though these people look simple like you know they wear the same clothes and their life looks very simple spiritually they're very complex ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 38:55 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: people and they're very complex and sophisticated mythology okay so these are these are called called people of the anaconda okay in the beginning before the creation of seasons before the ancestral mother women kuma woman shaman opened a womb before her blood and breast milk gave rice rivers and her ribs to the mountain ridges of the world there was only chaos in the universe okay so there's this very complex mythology i'm not gonna i'm not gonna go through all of it okay but i will show you the picture of it this is a universe that they've created from themselves it is complete it's unified it's very complicated and that's true for all mythologies one thing that's really important for them is to maintain balance and harmony in the world okay so like most printed people they believe there are different dimensions and their role is to maintain harmony across these dimensions because not that was what ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 39:51 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: guaranteed a happy and prosperous life okay so let's read the story of the people living together the people living today in the forest of the parapania which is the amazon the entire natural world is saturated with meaning and cosmological significance every rock and waterfall embodies the story plants and animals are but distinct physical manifestations of the same essential spiritual essence okay so every plant every rock has a life force and they appreciate the diversity the complexity the sophistication of different life forces okay so even though they can express themselves they don't have a written language their minds are extremely vibrant and dynamic and energetic at the same time everything is more than it appears for the visible world is only one level of perception behind every tangible form every plant and animal is a shadow dimension a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman this is the realm of the ho spirits ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 40:47 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive plants and animals are human beings sap and blood the bodily fluids of the primordial river of the anaconda hidden in cataracts behind the physical veil of waterfalls in the very center of stones are the great molecules of the whole spirit where everything is beautiful the shining feathers the coca the calabash of tobacco powdered which is itself the skull and brain of the sun okay you can see how the mythology is very complex and how they imbued it embedded into their everyday life every day when they wake up and they see the world they see a world of color of energy and change okay all right he continues among the barasana such renewal is the fundamental obligation of the living in practice this implies the bras and i see the earth as potent the force as being alive with spiritual beings and ancestral powers to ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 41:43 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: live off the land is to embrace both its creative and destructive potential human beings plants and animals share the same cosmic origins in a profound sense are seen as essentially identical responsive to same principles obligated by the same duties responsible for the collective well -being of creation no separation between nature and culture. Without the forests and rivers, humans would perish. Without people, the natural world would have no order or meaning. All would be chaos. Thus, the norms that drive social behavior also define the manner in which human beings interact with the wild, the plants and animals, the multiple phenomenon of the natural world, lightning and thunder, the sun and the moon, the scent of a blossom, the sour odor of death. Everything is related, everything connected, a single integrated whole. Mythology infuses land and life with meaning, encoding expectations and behaviors essential to survival in the forest, anchoring each community, each malacca, to a profound spirit of place." ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 42:38 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Okay, so you can see how sophisticated their imagination is. Okay, so one thing that I discuss continuously because it's a very important concept is how everything is a harmonious whole. And so when you kill something, you first need permission. You need to have a contract, okay? This is true for most of human history. So these people are no different. When men go to the forest to hunt or fish, it is never a trivial passage. First, the shaman must travel in trance to negotiate with the masters of the animals, forging a mystical contract with the spirit guardians, an exchange based always on reciprocity, okay? Data of reciprocity. If you kill an animal, you need permission. Now, if you kill the animal, you must fight the animal. You need permission. Now, if you kill the animal, you must fight the animal. Thank the animal through ritual sacrifice, okay? The basrana compared to marriage for ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 43:34 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: hunting, too, is a form of courtship in which one seeks the blessings of a greater authority for the honor of taking into one's family a precious being. Meat is not the right of a hunter, but a gift from the spirit world. To kill without permission is to risk death by a spirit guardian. Buy it in the form of a jaguar, anaconda, tapar, or harpy eagle, okay? So the concept here is karma, right? If you do evil, evil will come to you, okay? So it's important to maintain harmony. All right, and this is no different from the cave paintings, okay? So you go way back to the dawn of humanity, we believe the same thing, okay? We believe that these animals came from the spirit world, and that's why you paint it. That's why you express art, to thank the animals for coming from the spirit world to feed and nourish us. Now, if we kill them, then we pray that they return to us, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 44:33 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: And this goes back, you know, tens of thousands of years. All right, let's go to Africa. So we were in the Amazon. Now let's go to Africa. And in Africa, there's some people called the forest people, okay? This is a book by Colin Trimble. We spent a few years with them. And these are the pygmies. They live in the forest. And guess what? Even though the mythology is a bit different, they have different names, they have different structures, it's still the same essence, okay? So let's go over. This is called molomo, which is a musical instrument that they use to communicate with the spirits of the forest, okay? All right, so one thing that's really important for these peoples is the idea of ritual. You are a member of the community if you participate in all their rituals, if you believe in the mythologies, if you honor their ancestors and their traditions. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 45:34 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Okay? If you're not, if you refuse to honor their traditions, then they will ostracize you, or they may even kill you, okay? So the pygmies are having a religious festival. And Colin Trimble says this, I was told, however, that everyone had to eat just as no adult male was allowed to sleep but had to sing while molomo singing was in progress. Apparently, one of the greatest crimes the pygmy can commit, if not the greatest, is to be found asleep when the molomo is singing, okay? If you refuse to participate in the ritual, or if you break the seriousness of the ritual, then you are a threat to community and they will kill you, and they will forget about you, okay? So once they kill you, the woman would be told that the molomo itself, the great animal of the forest, had carried off one of their number, but like the men, they would ask no questions and would never again mention the missing man. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 46:34 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: So if you disrespect them, they will not only kill you, but they would forget about you forever. So this is how they explain why they do what they do. Why do they practice these rituals? Why are these rituals such an important part of their lives? Normally, everything goes well in our world, but at night when we are sleeping, sometimes things go wrong because we are not awake to stop them from going wrong. Army ants invade the camp, leopards may come in and steal a hunting dog or even a child. If we were awake, these things would not happen. So when someone is sleeping, we are not awake to stop them from going wrong. So when some big thing goes wrong, like illness or bad hunting or death, it must be because the forest is sleeping and not looking after its children. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 47:20 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: So what do we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken happy, and everything will be well and good again. So when our world is going well, then also we sing the forest because we want it to share our happiness, okay? So their idea of God is heaven on earth, where you're connected to heaven on earth, and you're connected to heaven on earth, and you're connected to the environment around you. Everything that you do impacts the environment. The environment also impacts you as well. So you practice rituals in order to maintain balance and harmony in the world, okay? The world is a script. In living, you must follow certain practices in order to respect the traditions of the world, and that's what brings harmony and heaven to the world. And it's something that we've, for most of our ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 48:10 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: history, something that we've all been doing for a long time, and it's something that we've understood and we've appreciated. Then the question then is, what do we change, okay? And we'll be discussing this as the semester progresses, okay? So that's it. Are there any questions before we end? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 48:30 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Yeah? So before you said that people nowadays, okay, so first of all, I totally agree that people nowadays, our lack of vision and imaginations contrast to people back in the day, because of multiple reasons. And so my question is that I agree that people nowadays are lack of vision, but I kind of are a little bit confused about what your argument that we cannot rebuild the pyramid. Because from my point of view, nowadays, we have the ability to, you know, build skyscrapers or metropolitans. And so why, what is the factor that kind of stops we us to build, you know, structures like pyramid? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 49:26 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=2966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Okay, so the question is, what, why can't we build the pyramids? Okay. All right. So there are different factors in place. The first is the resources that are required to build the pyramids. It is tremendous, okay? Okay, so to give an example, the stone that sorry, let me just bring this up, okay? The stone that they used to build the pyramid is enough to build a wall around France, okay? So the size, okay, is beyond our imagination. That's number one, okay? Where we find the resources to do this. Second is the question of will. Why would we want to do this? Because we can't déjà vu. So is there anything else? do this like do you want to rebuild the pyramids like okay well yeah that's another problem okay and the third problem is this organization which is um how would we organize the people in a way as to build the pyramids because back ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 50:35 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: then it was a massive undertaking but again people were united by a similar vision which is like we're bringing heaven to earth once we build the pyramids the gods can rest in peace the gods can come down and shine a divine light all over us so that's the end of history we're done okay just do just work hard for 20 years and then there'll be heaven on earth okay that's what drove them what inspires people today there's nothing there's nothing that inspires people today okay like oh make a billion dollars make a trillion dollars okay that's what inspires people but you know what to make a billion dollars it doesn't mean you have to work hard it just means you have to cheat and lie and steal okay so so does that make sense yeah it makes sense but uh well nowadays we people still have ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 51:27 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: religions right let's say chris christian is still one of the most powerful religions and uh people share and so are are they capable to you know build another very ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 51:40 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: tremendous or imaginary structural buildings okay okay so um this is hard okay if we understand it means it's a different world and the brains work differently back in this age religion was the end on be all okay you live for your religion okay does that make sense today our religion is capitalism okay so and capitalism is just make as much money as you possibly can and the the difference is back during the time the egyptians it was a spiritual age okay so you sought inspiration from the heavens and people's imaginations could expand because um they would wake up with ideas okay today we live in a materialistic age we just say we don't believe in god we don't believe in divinity we just believe in numbers in computers in process okay does that make sense to you okay it's hard to understand because you live in a time of complete materialism so you don't understand ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 53:02 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: what it means to live a life of spirituality of divinity of trying to bring heaven to earth okay but if you did do that then you'd be a very different person there were things that you could do that would be unimaginable to you okay for example if you go visit a temple or a monk they could meditate for months and months and months they could walk bare feet in the cold for years and years and years we can't do that okay because the moment i say hey meditate for a whole month just don't eat you can't do that and you're like what's the point and then their answer is because i want to be with god okay because i want to feel as though it's heaven on earth so it's not just a question of how smart you are it's a question of faith and purpose and meaning as well the reality is that not ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 53:53 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: only do we live a life of purpose and meaning and spirit we also think these things don't matter okay does that make sense all right ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:01 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: any more questions so i do i do agree that we cannot be promised nowadays and i'll definitely die if you just put me on a pathetic but but like for more for more modern people we also can do a lot of things that previous people cannot assess for much longer so i don't know there's an iron and So how does the building of a pyramid demonstrate that the previous people are small? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:35 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Can you tell me what we do today that is so wonderful and spectacular? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:39 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: What, what, what? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:40 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Yeah, what do we do today that's so wonderful and spectacular and you think is amazing? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:46 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: What, what? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:47 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Give me an example of something that we do today that is spectacular and wonderful. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:53 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Um... ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 54:56 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Okay, yeah, I mean, give me an example. Okay. Okay, thank you, okay? Yeah, so give me an example. Any more questions? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 55:08 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Does it matter for the first person who have the vision to build it and the second person have the same vision, or it doesn't really matter, they just build, they just want to bring heaven to earth? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 55:19 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: Look, that's a great question, okay? And this is hard for us to understand, but there's no sense of individual propriety, okay? It's like... This is my idea, you can't have it, okay? It's, it's always like, we're in this together, okay? We don't know who built the pyramids. Why? Because it doesn't matter who built the pyramids. All that matters is it was built. That's the spirit that they had. Nowadays, like, hmm, if I have this idea, how do I patent it? How do I get credit for it? How do I make money out of it, okay? And that's where ideas suck. Back then, it was just like, it doesn't matter what my idea is. What matters is this idea is expressed to other people, okay? When you have that spirit, when you have that heart, when you are, when you share who you are, then God comes into you and gives you ideas. You understand? But if you're like, nope, all I want to do is make money, God leaves you, okay? ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 56:08 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: And that's hard for us to understand. That's... So back then, there must have been a genius, a charismatic leader, and God gave him this, not God, but like the spirit world, okay, the universe, gave him this vision for the pyramids. And he knew exactly how to do it. And then he goes to the Pharaoh and says, listen, I have this vision. The Pharaoh says, let's just do it, okay? So the Pharaoh got credit, but it didn't matter who got credit. It just doesn't matter. What mattered is it was built. Do you understand? There's no sense of individualism. There's no sense of capitalism. There's no sense of like private property. It's all like, let's just work together to build a better world, okay? And yes, the people who worked on it were getting paid, but that's not what mattered to them. ## Heaven on Earth Is Built by Common Sacrifice -- 56:49 - Source title: Secret History #12: Heaven on Earth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtnRA-GNKM8&t=3409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8.json) Text: What mattered was achieving this vision together, okay? So it's hard for us to understand. But once you have this mentality, of common sacrifice, you are able to do tremendous things together, okay? And I'm sorry, but I can't think of an example of things that we do wonderful today, like chat GPT. Give me a break, okay? All right? Any more questions? All right, great. So I'll see you guys next week, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So today we start a series on the entirety of human history. Well, we're going very fast. And again, what's important is for you to understand the concepts. And so if there are ideas you don't understand, it's very important that you raise your hand, challenge me, and ask for clarification. So we start off with the dawn of humanity. And this is Charles Darwin. And arguably, he is the most influential thinker of the past 20 years. And the reason why is he wrote a book called The Origin of Species, and he presents to us the theory of evolution. And you all know the theory of evolution because they teach this to you in school and it's embedded in our everyday lives. And there are three main ideas to the theory of evolution. The first is that it was all accidental. So you have these genetic mutations, and the mutation that is best fitted to survive in the environment would win out. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 1:14 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=74s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=74s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So it's all a random, accidental process. That's the first thing. Second thing is that it is materialistic, meaning everything that you can see is all that exists. The third thing is it is emergent, meaning that feel things build on top of each other. It is a bottom up process. Now the theory of evolution marked a turning point in human history because before European countries were christian and christians believe that there was a divine god who created us and as such, we were all equal before the eyes of god. Therefore you cannot go and enslave other people, Therefore you cannot go and enslave other people, therefore you cannot go and enslave other people, kill other people. As well, there were three main ideas to Christianity. The first idea is one omniscient and omnipresent God. The Spirit, the Holy Spirit, is what infuses life. It's what gives meaning and purpose to life. And the world is a mystery. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 2:19 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: We have to hold faith. There are things that we cannot understand. God has a plan, but it is a mysterious plan. And so we must be humble and serve the purpose of God. And the theory of revolution destroys this conception of the universe and introduces a more materialistic one. So why did this happen? Well, it happened for three reasons. The main reason is that we live in the 19th century when Daurism came into being Europeans were engaged in a process of imperialism. They were going around the world and conquering other people and colonizing other people and essentially committing genocide. So they needed a theory to explain why this was happening. And Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest was the most appropriate theory. And the idea is that the world is divided into races and the white race is superior to everyone else and therefore the white race has reason, has legitimacy in colonizing other people. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 3:25 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: And evolution would give rise to racism and eugenics, okay? So before Darwinism, we didn't really have a concept of race because everyone was equal in the eyes of God. And now with the rise of Darwinism, the world is divided according to race. As well, because of evolution theory, people started to believe in eugenics, which is the idea that stupid people, people who are not white, they should be sterilized. Because if we let them live, all they would do is dilute the genetic pool, okay? And even today guys, there are still many people who believe in racism and eugenics. The thing about evolution that's very important is that it's a theology, okay? What does that mean? It means that it's a theory of human progress. It's a theory of human progress about God. So even though evolution thinks that genetic mutation is an accident, the theology is that, well, the strong survive and that's what's right, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 4:28 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and evolutionary theory. But what was surprising is that when the book came out in 1859, only in 20 years, the theory of evolution would come to dominate the entire Western world. It became the dominant idea in schools, in universities, in the sciences. And even today, evolution is a dominant paradigm, meaning that you cannot question evolution. If you question evolution, it means you're crazy, okay? But I'm crazy, so we're going to question evolution today. All right, so you've said this in school. All right, so you've said this in school. But evolution means we came from monkeys, apes, and then there were different species of humans. And eventually, the best, our species, the homo sapiens, won out, okay? So what evolution says is that we are just a monkey, guys, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 5:35 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: We're just a monkey. And what do monkeys do? Monkeys like to have sex. Monkeys like to eat. Monkeys like to fart. That's all we are. We're just monkeys, all right? And this is the evolutionary tree. And this is the evolutionary theory of primates. But there are certain problems with this theory, okay? The first problem is, if you look at evolutionary theory, what you should have is tremendous diversity as this species develops. But so why is it that we only have one human species, okay? Why aren't there many different ones? Well, the argument is that... There were many different species before, but we won out, okay? Okay, that's fine. But another problem is, why are we going all around the world, okay? So all species of human beings like to migrate. But primates don't do that. Why is it that humans like to migrate? And so the explanation often is, well, because of climate change, because of war, because there is so much Battler's散, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 6:50 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Aniflame, okay? Bisons and food. But then how do you explain these people, okay? These are people who went to populate the Pacific Islands, Micronesia. That's kind of weird. First of all, it's really dangerous to go out to the Pacific for months and months, right? Also, like, how do they know that there'll be islands waiting for them in the Pacific? So that's something that's very odd about human beings. that are really odd about us that other animals don't do for example we're very religious okay okay so the neanderthals are supposed to be before homo sapiens but as you can see what we've discovered are these religious ritual sites the neanderthals within ethos engage in religious ritual practice that's kind of weird what does religion have to do with survival in fact you can argue that religion is a waste of time why aren't ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 7:54 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: they hunting why are they using so much resources and time in building these uh ritual sites okay homo sapiens did cave paintings and these cave paintings i will show you later on they're very extremely elaborate as you can see it's very time consuming uh to actually do these paintings also so these paintings are in caves deep inside caves that's very cold and where there isn't much air so it's kind of dangerous actually to be in these places but we know that homo sapiens spend a lot of time in these deep wet caves drawing these paintings that's not very utilitarian why would we why would we do that so that's a mystery okay also um when we we drew on caves we figure out how to make it artistic so we figured out that red ochre would give us red yellow pigment on the caves we also use charcoal to use black okay so we were ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 9:08 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: very creative we were very we resourceful all right so we know a lot about the ice age because as you can imagine during the ice age things freeze over so they can be easily preserved and actually for most of human history there are a lot of things that can be preserved and actually for most of human history uh we were in the ice age period okay as you can see during the ice age the entire world was basically frozen over so how did we survive we'll survive by using the resources around us okay so this is a mammoth and so they killed a mammoth and they turned the mammoth into a house okay now the question is how do they know how to do that how did they figure it out and we've been trying for a long time to figure this out but my answer to you and this is a theme that i ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 10:04 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: will uh keep on emphasizing for the rest of for the rest of semester is they just knew it okay so let's do a thought experiment let's just say that we there's 10 of us and i give you this wall right and i say to you you cannot talk you cannot communicate with each other all i want you to do is draw a picture now you would think that the picture would be disgusting and ugly it would be incoherent but if you actually do this experiment something weird and wonderful would happen okay there's 10 of you you're not communicating you don't have a plan there's no draft but one of you would draw something okay and then the rest of you would see that something and then you would draw something else okay so for example maybe you draw a sun then you draw a tree then that other person draws a mountain okay it's almost ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 10:57 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: like telepathy and that's how we are if you put humans in a group they would know instantly how to work together and they would know how to share ideas together and so that's the idea i want to present to you all this stuff is all this is because of intuition okay no one said hey there's a mammoth let's go kill it for food and for housing and for clothing but if you walk together and you saw them you all you together had the same thought oh that could be a source of food and clothing and shelter for us and you all knew how to work together that's the beauty of the human imagination and the human empathy and that's something that back then they practiced a lot but we've lost because of civilization okay does that make sense to you guys all right um and as you can see back then humans were just very ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 12:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: good at working together no you didn't have need to have a boss to say okay you should go and hunt bisons you should go and you should make clothes you should go and you should feed kids everyone knew exactly what to do and you didn't have to communicate but also what's really interesting about this time period is the diversity of human organization so what i meant by that what i mean by that is that in different times of the year in different locations humans would form different organizations so most of the time maybe there'd be groups of like five to ten who would go and get food okay but then you have some times of the year when you have these religious festivals where hundreds possibly thousands got together and you celebrated your god together it was all intuitive you didn't have communication but they all knew at what time what organization would best fit ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 12:54 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: them if you didn't like the situation guess what you'd go somewhere else and start your own organization okay so so early human history it's a very diverse very dynamic very creative period in our lives even though we've forgotten about it okay and the first example of our creativity are these cave paintings that that were discovered uh recently but which stayed back thirty thousand forty thousand years okay you can see how beautiful these paintings are whoever painted these paintings put a lot of care and devotion to them okay it was it's not just kids playing it's adults who've spent a long time purposefully ensuring that every detail is exact okay then the question then is how do they do this because there's no paper there's no planning and again i present to you the idea the imagination they dreamt this they had a dream they saw the picture in their heads then they went and drew ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 13:55 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: this in a cave because they want to express themselves they want to leave a legacy they want to leave a memory there's a calling in you to be creative and to be imaginative okay all right so and you can see there's a lot of diversity um this is a story right because you have these uh horses but then you have these predators lions okay so this picture is telling a mythology it's telling a story of how nature works okay so people are observing nature and what they see is a cycle of life and death of destruction and renewal we're all together we're all unified we're all one it's balanced in harmony and that's why if you were to kill these animals you also had to commemorate them okay does that make sense okay because this is a world of balance and harmony if you kill these animals and you eat their food you must thank ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 14:58 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: them for the sacrifice by commemorating them the same thing as later on uh when humans fight in battles we build monuments to celebrate those who are fallen right because you want to create balance and harmony in the world you want to commemorate those who made our lives possible okay so in this world what matters are these animals because these animals are what gives humans food um and clothing okay okay you can see how beautiful these pictures are like you use how lifelike the animals are okay so clearly okay um we can humorize you right here but when you go see individuals of 40 years old who burn inspiration or clown or wishes maybe the other way around you get that kind of information to it so we want to create agents that are going to turn into big potential right so okay this is actually a photograph of one of the greatest explorers here in ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 16:09 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: 후보 ok marble here and this is the photo called arte x you can tell this is from theis you know the picture is like a movie But you can imagine that there's a story of life and death, destruction and renewal. Okay, and you can see the struggle of humanity to get food from nature, but also a willingness to celebrate those who have fallen. And there's religious significance to everything, these cave paintings. How do we know? Because this is clearly a shaman, right, what we call a leopard man. This dates back to 40,000 years in Germany. So, we believe that in the early societies, these shamans were the leaders because they had the most wisdom, because they had a connection to the vine. Also what's really important is that music, okay, this is an instrument, was really important to these civilizations. Now, there's a lot of mystery as to how we first spoke. And as I said, actually we don't really need to speak because we can all understand each other. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 17:18 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: So, why do we speak? Because we want to sing. Okay, does that make sense? Singing, creating music, was a way to express ourselves in the same way as painting was. And music, once you add words, it becomes storytelling. And that's why we created language, okay? Not for economic reasons, not in order to create a hierarchy, but for creative reasons, to celebrate our humanity together. And these pictures, as you can see, they're not just pictures. There are religious elements, okay? So you can see how there are two almost bird figures. And back then, the birds signify Mother Earth, okay? So the bird figure is very important. And you can see almost like the bird figures are leading the animals, herding the animals across. So, then ask yourself, why are these paintings appearing in caves? Well, there's a reason. Because for these people, they all believed that nature was connected, right? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 18:28 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: And the spirit world and material world were connected together. So the other question then is, how does the spirit world connect with the material world? Well, through caves, right, through portals, rivers, caves, mountaintops. And that's why these places were considered appropriate sites for religious ritual, okay? And that's why you painted these pictures in caves. Because these caves, it's almost like you're summoning the spirit, all these animals, to return, right? You've killed these animals. How do you get them to return? By calling for them in these caves, all right? So as you can see, it's a complex but a complete mythology of how the world works. And for them, this was very real, okay? You can see how these shamans would actually turn themselves into these bees in order to better communicate with them. Okay? And these bees, these animals, these bisons, were the basis for all life on earth. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 19:33 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: If you didn't have them, then you would die off. So you dressed up like them in order to better communicate with them in the spirit world to draw them back, okay? Okay, so this is another religious depiction. All right, so these cave paintings, there's always three questions associated with these cave paintings. The first is, how are they painting caves? What are they painting? And why are they doing this, okay? And I've explained to you. There is religious significance to what they're doing. They're trying to complete the cycle of life and death. If you kill an animal, you have to thank the animal, okay? You do that by making a religious sacrifice, sorry, by making a religious ritual. What are they painting? They're painting the story of life itself, right? They're trying to paint a picture of how life works, a cycle of death and life, destruction, and renewal. And everything's connected together. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 20:32 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: The stars, the caves are portals into the spirit world, and that's why you celebrate them, okay? And how are they painting the caves? They're painted together, and they're using red ochre and charcoal. What's most important is that because these caves actually lack oxygen, when they're painting these paintings, it's almost like they're in a trap. It's almost like they're in a trance state, okay? Does that make sense? Because you don't have enough to breathe. So it's almost like you're on the precipice, the edge of life and death, and it's almost as though you are actually communicating with the spirit world as you're doing this. So it's all divine inspiration, all divine intuition, okay? So what they believe is that when they paint, they're channeling the power of the spirit world. It's not about us using our experience to paint, it's we are channeling actually the divine when we do so. And the same thing when we sing, or when we tell stories. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 21:36 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: We're not doing this out of our own will, we are only a portal or a mechanism or a channel for the divine to communicate with everyone else. So does this make sense? Okay. All right. The other thing that's really interesting about these cave paintings is we find symbols inside these cave paintings. So this is Genevieve von Pitzger, who is a Canadian artist. She's an archaeologist, and she spent decades going to different caves in Europe, and she cataloged all the different symbols, okay? So these are not pictures, they're symbols. And as you can see, there's a lot of them, okay? So why would they have these symbols? And also what's interesting is, if you think about it, this is a writing system. In other words, they have the capacity to write, but they chose not to write. Why? Because if you think about it, in this world, writing is a corruption, right? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 22:38 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: When you speak, you're challenging the divine. So when you are writing something down, you're actually counterfeiting the divine, okay? Also remember that for them, talking is like singing, right? And you cannot capture music in the written form. So it's almost like a corruption of the song, okay? And also for them, this is really important. Okay. All, everything is meant to be a communal experience. When you sing, when you talk, when you paint, we do it together, okay? But when you write, it's a solitary experience. And that's why, even though we humans, from a very, like right from the beginning, we had the capacity to write, we chose not to write, okay? This is really important for us to understand. Writing was a conscious decision. It was not something, it was not a technology that was invented later on. We just chose not to do it because we thought it was a corruption. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 23:35 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1415s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1415s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: It was a corruption of the natural world, okay? All right? Does that make sense? Okay. So this is a, these are all the geometric signs of Ice Age Europe. It's very similar to alchemy, okay? Alchemy is trying to figure out the secrets of the universe. So the question then is, where do they get these signs? And the answer, of course, is it came to them in a dream, or they were inspired with these signs. Okay? It's not something that's deliberate. It's not something that's deliberate. They don't plan this out and discuss it. It just comes to them. And when they draw it out, it makes sense to people. Oh, I know what this means. Okay? All right? So let's summarize, okay? Why are there symbols in art? Well, because there's some abstractions, some concepts you cannot draw, right? So for example, energy is a very important concept, life force, cycle, repetition. Well, then you have to use symbols in order to express these ideas. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 24:38 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1478s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: If you want to tell the story, okay? Second is you are trying to visualize the language of a spirit world, okay? So the spirit world is talking to you, but they come to you in images. So you use the symbols in order to express what they're talking about. And when you draw the symbols on a stone, you're making the stone divine and sacred, right? You're storing a memory inside the stone. Maybe something wonderful happened here. Maybe you gave birth to a child here, right? Then you commemorate the stone with a symbol. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So what you're doing is, well, first of all, you're trying to bring beauty to the world. That's why we humans were created, right? To make this world a more beautiful place, a more imaginative place, to celebrate the divine. We're showing God or the spirit world or the underlying soul of reality, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 25:36 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: We're trying to figure out how the spirit world works. We're trying to figure out how the spirit world works inside our reality. And the third reason is we're trying to tell a story about who we are, okay? We're trying to combine our imagination together to create society, to create belonging, to create community. Okay? Does that make sense? Yeah? Sorry. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So you said about human trying to connect with the divine spirits, right? So do they consider - Okay, sorry. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:08 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So let me clarify, okay? This is really important. We're not trying to connect with the divine spirit. Why? Because the divine spirit is all around us. We co -exist with the divine, okay? Everything around us is divine, but what we're trying to do is we're trying to be in harmony with the divine. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:25 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:26 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? Do you understand? Yeah. Okay? Because in this world, there's no separation between the material and the spiritual. It's all one world together. The spiritual is all around us. But there are certain things that we do in order to reconcile our existence with the spirit world. For example, when we kill an animal, we need to commemorate the animal through paintings and through songs. Okay? Does that make sense? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:48 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Yeah. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 26:49 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay. Does that answer your question? Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay. All right. And even today, we still do this. Okay? So let's see examples. This is graffiti. Okay? Street art. But you can see what's happening where this is Spain, and you can see how beautiful this is. Okay? It's the same concept as the cave paintings, where we're trying to give meaning to our community. We're trying to tell a story of who we are, where we came from, and where we're going. Okay? And it's designed to build a common imagination. Okay? No different from the cave paintings. We still do this today. Okay? This is another example. And you can see different communities might have different focus. But you can see how the painting, what it does is it unifies the imagination of the people. Okay? So for this community, what matters is the family. Okay? So the matriarch, the mother, is the cornerstone of this community. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 27:49 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: And that's what you do with this painting. Okay? You can see how beautiful these buildings have become because of the paintings. So that's what art does. Art gives purpose, meaning to our world. All right? So some really important concepts I need you guys to understand. Okay? And we'll go over this as the semester progresses. And these concepts are going to be counterintuitive for us. Okay? But the first concept I want you to understand is preliterate people, people who could not read and write, they were more intuitive, they were more imaginative, and they were more empathic. Okay? Meaning, I can know your emotions right away. I don't have to ask you anything. I don't have to ask you how you're feeling today. I know exactly how you're feeling right away. Okay? All right. So we can see this. This is Inuit art. Okay? So this is art by native people. So even in communities of today that hold to this tradition, you can see how they perceive the world. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 29:07 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Right? They perceive the world as unified. The gods are with us. In fact, everything we do is a salvation of the gods. So our house is our temple. Okay? The temple is not a place you go and celebrate the gods. Okay? You celebrate the gods in your house if you have enough faith to turn your house into a temple. Okay? So this is Inuit art. Okay? And if you go to like many native communities, communities that maintain the traditions of the Ice Age, they're all like this. Okay? In their perception. But the problem is they cannot communicate it using modern language. So we just think they're stupid. Okay? They can't write essays. They can't give speeches. And so therefore we think they're stupid. But they're not stupid. It's just that they're focusing their energies on empathy, on imagination, on intuition. All right. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 30:03 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1803s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So let's give examples of empathy in action. And this is true for the entire world. Okay? So once there was a horse in America that could do math. All right? So the horse would go on stage and then the trainer would ask the horse a question like, what's two plus two? And the horse would be like, nay, nay, nay. And then it would be like, oh, the horse can do math. Okay? So the horse cannot do math. Okay? I'm telling you right now, the horse cannot do math. So what the horse is doing, you think about it, is the horse is reading the room. Right? Because the people who pay the money to go into the theater and watch the horse do math obviously believe the horse can do math. Okay? So what happens is when the trainer says to the horse, what's two plus two? The horse is nay, nay, and the horse is watching everyone. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 31:02 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? And as the horse comes to the answer, the horse sees that the people are like really excited. Okay? Their eyes are bulging. Their breathing is faster because people are in anticipation. Right? The horse says, oh, now I know the answer. Okay? This is empathy. This is telepathy. Animals can do it. We can do it as well. It's actually our superpower. Okay? Does that make sense? Right? Second example is telepathy. So in America right now, there's a very popular podcast called the Telepathy Tapes. You might have seen it. You may have heard of it. Okay? The idea is that kids with autism are able to read the minds of their parents. Guys, I'm telling you right now, the autistic kids cannot do that. They do something else. Okay? So let me tell you a story of how they do this. In China, there's also a similar case where a mother in the countryside. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 31:55 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? So she's not educated. She has no money. But her son is autistic. He's an autistic boy. Doesn't really speak. Cannot make eye contact. Okay? Lots of issues. Cannot go to school. So one day the mother contacts CCTV, the national broadcaster, and says, hey, my son can read my mind. And, you know, these are TV people. So like, okay, let's make a good documentary. So they fly all the way down to this village, this poor village, and the mother is, you know, doesn't speak great Chinese. So they have to film this process. Okay? So what happens is the boy is put into a room by himself. And then the mother is given a number. Okay? Like maybe five. Then the mother goes and asks the boy, please read my mind. And the boy says, you saw the number five. And it's pretty amazing. And of course, it's not really believable. So this documentary team spent days and days figuring out what happened. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 32:49 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=1969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? Finally, they brought in artificial intelligence, AI. What the AI figured out is it's the pitch of the voice that gives the answer. Okay? So the mother is saying, read my mind. Read my mind. Okay? And the difference in the pitch, there's a different number in that pitch. But the problem is it's so subtle that only the boy can hear the difference in pitch. We humans, ordinary humans, cannot hear the difference. And so the documentary crew, they're like, okay, we're going to do this. Confirm and says, listen, the AI, artificial intelligence system tells us that what you're doing is you're cheating. You are using pitch to give signals to your son. Is that true? And the mother is like, yes, I'm sorry. Yes. It's all a lie. We're poor. My son is autistic. I want my boy to go to school. I want my boy to get professional help. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 33:42 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: And that's why we devised a scheme in order to trick you so we can get some television coverage. And then maybe we can get some donations. Maybe some people will help us. Okay? And that's why we did the scheme. And so that's it. But think about this. Think about how amazing it is that the two together were able to devise a scheme. Right? Think about how amazing it is that they were able to devise a scheme that was so creative that it tricked people. Only an artificial intelligence system could figure this system out. Okay? So this mother is not educated. But she loves her son. And she wants the best for her son. So she figured out what her son's special ability is. Pitch. She's able to hear different sounds. And devised a scheme to make full use of the son's ability. Okay? So that tells us the power of the human imagination if we truly love someone. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 34:46 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? So they created a hidden emotional language together. Which, again, is amazing. And it's something that you will see when two people actually love each other. They will create their own language that only they can understand. All right. And the last example is some cooperative painting. Right? So we discussed this where if I put ten of you in a room and I give you a blank wall and I ask you to draw, the pictures you're going to create are going to be pretty amazing. Okay? You're not allowed to speak. You're not allowed to cooperate. You're not allowed to plan it ahead. But I guarantee you when the ten of you get together and you start drawing together, you're going to draw a great picture. And the reason why is not because you want to draw a great picture. It's because you all want to help each other. You don't want to let each other down. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 35:34 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? Because of cooperation, because of empathy, you want to be at your very best. You want to be at your creative best. That's the secret to creativity. Okay? When you're able to find a purpose and meaning in other people, your creative potential is going to be fully released. Does that make sense? Okay? All right. So back to the horse example. If you ride a horse, one thing that you will learn over time is the horse can read your mind. Okay? And so this is a polo game. And if you watch a polo game, it's pretty amazing because you can't speak to a horse, right? But the horse will know exactly, instantaneously what you want to do. If you want to turn right, the horse knows. Turn right. Even before you think the thought, the horse will know. Okay? And this is why throughout human history, warriors on horseback were the greatest warriors. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 36:30 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: They were invincible. Why? Because what happened was basically the man had four legs. Okay? Because in these nomadic societies where people fought on horseback, they were born on horses and they were riding horses since they were early. Or since they were young. And so they developed this emotional connection with the horse. So the horse knows exactly what you think even before you think it. Okay? And there are lots of examples like this. If you have a dog, you know that dogs have telepathy. Right? So you go away for a week and then when you come back, the dog is waiting for you at the door. Then the dog knows you're coming back. That's the emotional connection. That's telepathy. Okay? So telepathy exists, but it's an emotional connection. There's no way that I can actually read your mind, but I know how you feel. Even at long distances. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 37:31 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2251s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2251s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Another important fact about human beings that is not really understood is we are obsessed with being creative and expressing ourselves. That's who we are. Okay? We are the imagination personified, manifested, made tangible, made visceral. Okay? But we are imagination itself. Our imagination is resilient and we'll always find a way to shine. Okay? So you may know of people who lose sense. Right? So if you can't see, your hearing improves. Or these people are deaf. Okay? So they can't hear, but they're able to see much stronger. Okay? And they use sign language to communicate. And one thing that I've noticed in China is that... When I go to restaurants, now and then there'll be groups of deaf people communicating with each other. They're always happy. In fact, they're the happiest people you will ever meet in China. And it's not because they're doing sign language. It's because deaf people have a deeper emotional intelligence. And so ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 38:42 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: when they're together, they're able to communicate emotionally and that brings tremendous joy and comfort to them. Okay? Does that make sense? All right, let's give another example. This is a great composer, one of the greatest composers in human history, Beethoven. His music is startling. Okay? His music is extremely famous. Problem is, he was deaf. That's kind of strange. How is it possible for you to be deaf, yet at the same time compose some of the world's greatest music? The answer is, he saw the music. Okay? The music came to him in dreams and was able to see the picture. Okay? Because what is music? Music is vibrations. Right? So,. But they're like vibrations. They're waves. Right? So, you can actually see for yourself a movie of vibrations. And the more symmetrical these vibrations are, the more beautiful the music is. Does that make sense? So, because he saw the music, he was able to create a movie. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 39:51 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: He was able to create music that was unique in human history. Others hear the music, but he saw the music and it turned into a movie. Okay? Of movement. All right. This is John Milton. He wrote Paradise Lost. Problem is, he wrote it while he was blind. Okay? How did he do that? Because he heard the songs. Okay? He turned Paradise Lost into a musical, into music. So, he actually didn't need to speak it out. He just heard it out. Okay? So, he had secretaries who wrote out whatever he sang out. And that's why when you read Paradise Lost, it's actually like music. It's beautiful. It's probably the most beautiful poetry ever composed in an English language. So, you can see how resilient the human imagination is. If you want to express yourself, you'll find a way. Okay? It's all about will. Do you really want to express yourself? Because if you do, you'll always find a way. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 40:53 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay? So, this is another lesson that you will learn this semester. We are socialized into mundanity. Our true selves are divine. Okay? You're normal. You're boring. You're not talented because you believe what others tell you. Okay? Society does not want talented people. Society does not want interesting people. Society just wants robots and slaves. So, schools, companies, organizations socialize you into mundanity. Okay? Into nothingness. But, if you look at your true self, it is divine. Now, I'll give you examples of this. A lot of people have Alzheimer's. So, what literally happens is they're losing their minds. And this is a self -portrait of an artist who documented himself losing his mind. So, when he was first diagnosed, he drew a picture of himself. Okay? And then, a year later, he drew another picture of himself. And then, a year later, he drew another picture of himself. And on and on and on. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 41:59 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: As you can see, by this time, he's completely lost his sense of being. Okay? So, you can use this picture as a metaphor for Alzheimer's. And you can see for yourself what it means to lose your mind. But there's another way to understand this picture. Which is, what's really happening is that the artist, he's shedding his artifice. He's shedding his clothing. And revealing his true self. Okay? What Alzheimer's is, is losing your socialization. Because you're losing your ability to speak. You're losing your ability to verbalize your ideas. You're losing your ability to communicate with others. And what's left behind are three things. First is your spiritual desire. So, a lot of people with Alzheimer's, for whatever reason, they go to church suddenly. Okay? They're not religious. Maybe they're... They grow up in an atheist household. They don't have any association with religion. But once they develop Alzheimer's, they have this spiritual desire to go to church and pray. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 43:06 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: It's really amazing. Okay? That's number one. Number two is, they love to sing. Okay? They don't talk, but they sing. The third thing is, they draw. Okay? This is a painting by an Alzheimer's patient. Okay? Not great. But guess what, guys? He did this when he was like 80 years old. And he never painted before. Okay? That's pretty amazing. Never painted before. But the moment he had Alzheimer's, his true divine self opened up and he wanted to express himself. Okay? So, what they say about Alzheimer's is, you hear voices. You see things that aren't there. It's hallucination. But guess what, guys? I told you this. In the Ice Age era, we all did this. We all believed that we were... We co -existed with ghosts, with spirits, with fairies. Okay? And this was true throughout most of human history. So, even though, yes, medically speaking, psychologically speaking, these people with Alzheimer's, they are hearing voices. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 44:15 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: But the reason why is, the voices were always there. We just forgot about it because we're socialized to forget about the different forces, the different voices that exist along us. Okay? This is a person who used psychedelics. Okay? She's an artist, but she's using psychedelics. And the thing about psychedelics is, it's almost similar to having Alzheimer's where you shed away your socialization and you almost enter a spiritual realm. Okay? As you can see, this is a picture of a cat. What she's doing is she's showing a cat that's the divine cat. Okay? She's seeing the energy field of the cat. She's seeing the memory. She's seeing the aspirations. She's seeing the intuition, the imagination of the cat and embedding it into the artwork. This is another person on psychedelics. What's interesting is, there's no time and space in art, in this art. So, it becomes almost incomprehensible to us. Okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 45:14 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Why is there a helicopter? Why is there a cat? Okay? Well, that's how we truly are. Okay? We don't have a concept of space and time. We see things as they are. And this picture shows you that. And we can see how the pictures are, it's a heightened reality. Okay? Much more vibrant colors. Okay? Another psychedelic painting. Okay? As you can see, no concept of time and space. Okay? It's all just one unity of things. Vincent van Gogh. Okay? The greatest painter who's ever lived. His paintings are utterly unique in human history. This is Starry Night. And this is Sunflower. Okay? We can see how he has shedded away his socialization. He doesn't care how this is communicated to other people. All he cares is about the picture itself. Okay? So, it glows with life. All right. So, let's summarize the concepts that we've learned. Okay? So, you've been brainwashed into thinking certain ideas about who we are. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 46:30 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: They're not true. The first myth is we humans are driven by material desires. Okay? So, why do we want... So, what do we want? We want a lot of money. Okay? We want to pass on our genes. We want to marry a lot of beautiful woman who are young. and so they can give us a lot of a lot of babies because we want to pass on our genes okay and we want to maintain our status all we care about is power fundamentally we we humans are fundamentally imagination and we care about three things the first is we want to express our religion through art music and rituals we want to know where we came from why we're here where we're going okay that's who we really are that's the first thing second thing is we are diverse and want to differentiate ourselves okay we want to stand out we want to ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 47:22 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: be different we want we want to be creative the third thing is we are curious and want to explore and that's what explains why we go everywhere okay this has been true throughout human history we may not have documents saying that we were traveling but we were traveling because there's always some of us who want to go and see a new world even though it may not exist that's who we are fundamentally so don't believe people when they say okay you just care about money you just care about power you just care about sex that's not who we are we what we are are fundamentally religious spiritual beings that want to create and to love and to connect okay that's the first myth second myth is the most natural unit is a family and men want to protect their property which includes woman okay so you maybe you've been taught that okay men are in ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 48:16 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2896s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2896s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: charge of their property and women are in charge and women are just animals to breed babies okay that's not true for most of human history it was woman who had completely all of their bodies woman could choose who to sleep with and how many men sleep with and they often chose to sleep with everyone why because sleeping with other men first of all women enjoy their Okay the second of all allows women to create social cohesion so for most of human history we start like april five four year old man woman were the core and center of all societies and the third thing is there's actually a strategy in sleeping with many different men because now everyone is responsible for raising a child it doesn't make sense if I if I'm this father I know exactly who my children are then I'm gonna protect my children and discard everyone else okay but if no one ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 49:11 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2951s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=2951s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: knows who the fathers are everything starts over for caring for for taking care of every single child and that's the best strategy that they can have okay because that ensures that every child becomes successful okay does that make sense okay so the second myth that we will discuss later on third myth humans follow the iron rule of nature survival of the fittest okay that's that you taught by Darwin that's what evolution is but that's wrong okay throughout most of the human history humans cared for each other we were compassionate empathy right we believe that every creature has divinity and those who are weakest have the most divinity that's why when we kill an animal we still thank the animal because we're all part of the same lifecycle all right number four humans have gone smarter over the centuries civilization is far superior to primitive cultures again this is wrong okay the truth is that with ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 50:15 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: development of civilization the human imagination has decreased and they have much more maturity and we can only at the age of 25 or 30 chance to get what we want okay so our brains can be supercomputers if we allow them to be but if people are more creative which means they have got better memories than we do okay they would recall more stuff they were to store more information they're more sensitive more sense of perception their empathy okay then exactly how you're feeling why are you feeling it and how to make you feel better and great emotional resilience okay so they're much more mature than we are number five we evolved for maaps The truth is that we are uniquely imaginative and we can choose our own evolution. Don't believe we're apes, okay? If you believe you're an ape, then you're an ape, okay? If you're an ape, then you like to go beat people up and like have sex with like a lot of women, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 51:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: But we're not apes. We're imaginative first and foremost. And as such, we have control over our lives. And that's something that you have to like learn for yourself. Alright, so let me give you an example of this to conclude the class. This is Romatol 2. And we discovered him 10,000 years ago in a burial site, okay? This is an Ice Age burial site. He's a dwarf, guys. Okay? He's a dwarf. You can see how small he is. He's a dwarf. And you would think that dwarves don't really contribute to the community. So maybe, you know, he's born. It's clear he's deformed. So just kill the guy, okay? Because he's not going to have a great life anyway. Instead, what we found is, first of all, he lived to a pretty old age. And he was buried with jewelry. He was buried elaborately. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 52:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: And you only do that for people you really prize. That's kind of strange, right? The people who we think that are most worthless, dwarves that actually don't do anything, they actually thought was divine and deserved a extremely elaborate, ritualized funeral. Why? Okay. So, this is a book, The Dawn of Everything, by David Grabber and David Waringrow. Great book, okay? So, what they say is this. When archaeologists undertake balance appraisals of hunter -gatherer burials from the Paleolithic, they find high frequencies of health -related disabilities, but also surprisingly high levels of care until the time of death and beyond, since some of these funerals were remarkably lavish. This is an amazing idea to think about. But, if you were deformed, if you were ill, they didn't throw you out. They spent a lot of time to take care of you, even though, from their perspective, it was a waste of time and energy because you're going to die anyway. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 53:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So, why would they do that? Well, there are three possibilities, okay? The first possibility is, it's really about maintaining cosmic balance and harmony. Everything is a cycle. Meaning what? Meaning we're all part of God. And if you suffer, then we have to make you better because we're all part of God together. Okay? So, the concepts are unity of all, as above, so below. Set a good example to others. Okay? So, that's the first possibility. Second possibility is, because this is a pre -literate society, people have a stronger sense of empathy and morality. So, they didn't want to see others suffer. Okay? And the third possibility is, they appreciate diversity and difference in a way we don't anymore. Okay? Our entire school system is designed as to survive the fittest. If you can't do math, goodbye, you're worthless. If you can't get 100 on a test, goodbye, you're worthless. Okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 53:58 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: But back then, they saw difference and diversity as gifts from God. Right? So, if you're a dwarf, it meant you had something special to offer. If you're strong, yeah, you can go hunt animals and you can protect the family. But if you're a dwarf, it meant that you might have something else to offer. And if we just celebrate you as someone who has something special to offer, then you can offer it to us. Okay? And often, what they could do is, well, they could probably sing better, they could probably tell better stories, they had more wisdom, they would have more intuition, the connection with the divine. Okay? And that's true even today where the best storytellers, the best musicians, often those who are marginalized from society, those who are strangers, those who are outsiders, those who society persecutes, they probably have greater imagination, greater intuition, greater empathy. And today, we don't celebrate these things, but back then, they did celebrate those things. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 54:51 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3291s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So, if you were different, if you were deformed, if you were ill, they saw you as blessed rather than cursed. And that's what we've forgotten today. Okay? All right. So, that's it. This is just an introduction into the entirety of human history. Okay? We're going to go pretty fast. Any questions? Yeah. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 55:15 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: So, would you say that because you made the examples using, let's, you said, Alzheimer's, autistic people. So, would you say that people with cognitive disability in, like, modern age are, like, closer to the divine? We're, like, we're returning to the divine by abandoning our cognitive so -called, like, you know, the, like, logic and everything that the civilization is. Would you say that makes us closer, would bring us closer to the divine? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 55:50 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-teaches-spiritual-forgetting) Text: Yeah. Good question. Okay. Yeah. So, first of all, we're all connected to the divine, but we just choose to forget we're connected to the divine. Okay? Why? Because society, mass society, needs you to be obedient, needs you to be a machine, needs you to work to be obedient. Okay? So, the entire point of school is to separate you from the divine. Why? Because at an early age, you're removed from your parents. Okay? And in school, you're taught all sorts of, like, really strange knowledge. Like, one plus one equals two. Like, who cares one plus one equals two? Okay? But you're taught this is what matters. And before, we would just let kids run around nature and learn resilience, learn courage, learn creativity. Okay? So, the entire point of society is to brainwash you or remove you from the divine. But there's certain members of society who can't be removed from the divine because we don't want them. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 56:49 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-teaches-spiritual-forgetting) Text: Right? So, kids who are autistic, kids with disabilities, kids who are just different. Okay? Once you discard it, they actually return to the divine. Does that make sense? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 57:00 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Yeah. So, it's like, for example, a lot of people develop cognitive disabilities after a lot of, like you said, being put into schools, being kind of, um, limited by the civilization. Would you say that in that circumstance, by developing or be given a cognitive disability, we're actually reconnecting with the divine? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 57:25 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Okay, yeah, okay. So, let's clarify, okay? So, in China, in the United States, everywhere in the world, we're seeing a massive surge in mental illnesses. Right? So, depression, eating disorders, um, suicidal tendencies, um, anxiety, okay? So, so, I mean, like, it's just just an explosion these past 20 years, especially with the advent of mobile phones, social media, the internet, okay? So, kids' lives suck. Okay? So, why are kids so miserable? And the answer is that when you're born, you have an other connection with the divine. Okay? So, and as you lose this connection, you grow more and more confused, which leads to anxiety and doubt. And over time, if this confusion is not addressed properly, then it will lead to depression, okay? So, another simple way of saying, another simple way of saying this is, we, we crave human connection. We crave, um, knowledge of the divine. We crave purpose and meaning in our lives. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 58:38 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: But, the social media system has created this fake system in which we're in prison. Our imagination is in prison and pursuing activities that absolutely have no purpose, right? So, on social media, all you care about is likes. How do I get my friends to like me, like me, like me, okay? So, you do sorts of silly things like, I don't know, posts, pictures of you dancing in Hawaii or whatever, even though it gives you no meaning, okay? So, what's happening is, before, we cared about what makes us happy and now, we care about what we think would make other people happy, okay? And, that's not who we are, okay? Once you lose that connection to the divine, then you can only get lost. So, if you deny your intuition, if you deny your emotions, then you'll just become more and more miserable, okay? Does that make sense? Okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 59:30 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Uh, like the strong empathy that you just mentioned, I thought that I'm curious where the strong empathy comes from because I usually thought that the empathy is, our empathy is shaped by the socialization and social norms by the society. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 59:47 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-born-empathy-socialized-out) Text: Yeah, actually, that's a really good question, okay? So, empathy just means our connections with others, okay? And it's something we're born with. So, a mother is born with an emotional connection with a child, right? And a child has an emotional connection with a mother. And over time, as this connection grows, their empathy develops. And this empathy almost becomes telepathic so that even if the child is in school and the child is bullied, the mother is doing, is washing her clothes, she's like, you know, I don't feel right. Maybe I should call the teacher and ask how my child is doing, okay? Okay? So, that's what empathy is. Empathy just means a natural emotional connection that we're all born with. But it's entirely possible and we know this from our society to break that connection by setting the child off to school, by having the child online too much, by having the child watch television too much, okay? ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 1:00:41 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-born-empathy-socialized-out) Text: Severely, breaking that emotional connection. And once the emotional connection is broken, remember, empathy, we crave empathy. We crave emotions more than we crave food. So, it's as though we're becoming zombies almost, right? If you don't have empathy, if you don't feel connected with other people, it's as though you become a zombie. You don't, you don't have any, you don't have any direction, you don't have any purpose, you don't have any meaning in life anymore and that's what leads to tremendous depression, okay? Does that make sense? So, we are not socialized into empathy, we are socialized out of empathy. We're born into empathy, okay? All right. Great questions, okay? Any more questions? Wait, great guys. So, I will see you next time, all right? We'll continue this next time, okay? So, I'm just introducing these concepts but we'll expand them and use more examples and learn more about human history from this framework. All right, okay. ## Imagination Came Before Civilization -- 1:01:34 - Source title: Secret History #11: Dawn of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHsg5qtDs8&t=3694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lvhsg5qtds8.json) Text: Thank you. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay, so today we are looking at three major events in American history the moon landing the assassination of JFK and 9 -11 Now as you may know the official story is Something that a lot of people do not accept Okay, so we're gonna look at the official story and then we'll see some of the issues with the Official story. So first I want to show you some videos First we're gonna watch the moon landing. So in 1969 July 20th, they shoot three men into space Boss Aldrin Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man in the world to walk on the moon. Okay, and this is his journey All right, so let's watch it together What you will see is that it takes a lot of thrust to get the man into space This is considered the greatest achievement in human history. It took years and years of hard work Involving 400,000 ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 1:38 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: people all in for NASA to accomplish this perfect landing on the moon What is amazing is that this is being broadcast live from the moon? back to NASA So the technology back then is far superior to technology today ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 2:08 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: I know this looks fake, but it's not okay ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 2:50 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: This is today's technology. I saw theaboom and it is the Lindsey Kennedyadas showing a holiday and all these othermost on Saint -between.000 who cannot believe this. There is no funcion talent if you are watching this on YouTube or you can't read the克阪 ti soggyse that Schow nice learning tools official NASA footage. Live from the moon. And this is the best part, okay? The best part is when they return from the moon back to Earth. You see how easy it is? It's just like they just fly up. No resistance at all. Okay? Perfect. Humanity's greatest achievement. Now, what's amazing is that while they were on the moon, President Nixon and the astronauts had a phone conversation. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 3:30 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? This is being broadcast live to American people. Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 3:48 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: ...to be the most historic telephone call ever made from the White House. I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done. For every American, this has to be the best thing you've ever done. This is the proudest day of our lives. And for people all over the world, I am sure that they, too, join with Americans in recognizing what an immense feat this is. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 4:40 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? The heavens have become part of man's world, right? Remember how last class we talked about how they wanted to bring the heavens down to Earth. Okay? This is the idea of inversion. Okay? But, did you see how amazing it is that they were able to have this seamless phone conversation? Okay? Okay. Now, they go to the moon, and you would think that they would come back, and they're heroes, right? Imagine if the school took you all on a trip to Mount Everest. You spend six months climbing the world's tallest mountain. You come back, and you feel amazing, right? You feel on top of the world. You're excited. You want to climb the world. the whole world to know about it well they should be feeling the same thing right okay here's a ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 5:30 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: press conference after the uh sorry um i have two brief questions i'd like to ask if i may and certainly when you looked up at the sky could you actually see the stars and the solar corona ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 6:02 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: in spite of the glare we were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the moon by eye without looking through the optics uh i don't recall during the period of time that we were photographing the sonar corolla what what stars we could see i don't ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 6:21 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: remember seeing it i don't ever see any stars he doesn't remember anything okay do you see how nervous they are it's very strange all right and that's why even today there are a lot of people who do not believe the moon landing how it happened okay so we'll go over the theories as to why later on but now let's switch focus and let's look at 9 11. all right so this is the buildings coming down on 9 11 watch how watch how they come down it's very strange the north tower came crashing down so this is strange because a plane hit that building right now it's on fire it's very strange that the building could come straight down like that it's almost like a demolition i'm not saying it's a demolition but it looks kind of strange okay what's even stranger is that there were two planes that hit the twin towers that day but ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 7:37 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: there were three buildings which came down the north tower the south tower and building number seven which was across the street nothing hit that thing it came down okay so let's watch the video it's on fire okay but but whoa it's kind of strange comes straight down nothing hit that nothing a plane did not hit this thing okay and then of course there's another video that's kind of strange which is the president states george w bush during the attacks he's president states he's sitting in a classroom watching a teacher teach that's kind of strange guys he's kind of busy right he spent the entire morning while the attacks are happening just watching the class being taught his positioning is weird because if you're if you are a president you should be behind this is assistant telling him there's an attack why is he being rushed out of that room and being put in a safe ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 8:57 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=537s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=537s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: place right okay he's just he's just sitting there america's being attacked and he's just sitting around with kids thank you all okay so a reporter is asking him mr president do you know that america is being attacked right now and he's like we'll talk about it later he's not worried he no at this point no one knows who's attacking america no one knows how large the attack is as president states he should be rushed immediately to a safe location and he's not worried he's like we'll talk about later very very strange okay and that's why even to the day people are suspicious about what happened okay guys so having seen the videos let's go over what happened okay so um let's talk about the jfk assassination on november 22nd 1963 jfk was assassinated and lyndon b johnson new president he organizes a commission called the war commission to investigate what happened and they produced this ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 10:46 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: huge huge report thousands of pages and the report says that only one person was involved lee harvey oswald and he was able to kill the president united states because of his common sympathies and that's it okay there are certain problems though okay so this is the president states and he's in dallas in dallas huh i want to point something strange about this picture okay you see how in the front jfk is in the front but all the security is behind him that makes no sense what's the point of security if the security is all behind him right because if someone rushes and attacks him they're too far behind right also you see how the soldier the the the bodyguards and the police he's a the police officers are to the side well that's to prevent snipers right so my question then is why is this car behind structuring a way to protect the people inside ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 12:01 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: but the car carrying JFK it doesn't have any bodyguards that's kind of strange all right um this is the location the map of the motorcade so JFK he's streaming down and then he when he gets into the spot Leo Harvard Oswald is able to take three shots at him and kill and kill him at the spot so it's so the Oswald takes three shots and kills JFK but as you can see the problem is location is there's lots of places where you can take a shot at the president because he's in an open car with no security and there are a lot of witnesses who believe that there were other shooters as well at least one more shooter and they heard the shot from other places many of these witnesses almost 30 of them were all killed or that they died mysteriously soon afterwards that's very strange this is the menorah okay which is a ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 13:11 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: holy candle in the Judaic tradition you see how the shape is very similar to this plaza called the a la plaza what's also interesting about the a la plaza is you see how the shape is very similar to this plaza called the a la plaza what's also interesting about the a la plaza is it was a site of the first Freemason large temple in Texas okay so there are there are these religious significance to this place it was almost like they picked this place for a ritual sacrifice okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons later on because they're very important the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay um Leo Harvard Oswald fired three bullets later on because they're very important the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 14:18 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll talk about the Freemasons are the ones who some say control America okay so we'll So, Leo Harvey Oswald, he's been arrested and he's been charged with killing the president. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 14:40 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: This is Leo Harvey Oswald when he's going to court, he is ambushed by a man named Jack Ruby. You see how close Jack Ruby gets and shoots Leo Harvey Oswald point blank, okay? Now this is a strange picture because first of all, how did Leo, sorry, how did Jack Ruby get so close? There was no security. Second of all, you see how Leo Harvey Oswald, he's being held in place by two police officers who are much bigger than him, right? So it's very hard for Oswald to dodge the bullet, okay? That's number two. Number three is, you see his reaction. He is a trained police officer and he looks scared. He looks confused. If you are a police officer and someone comes at you menacingly, right? You know to push him away or draw your gun. But you see how he just freezes. That goes against his training. That's very strange, okay? I'm ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 15:38 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: not saying that this is a conspiracy, but I'm just saying how this doesn't really add up. There are lots of questions that are raised by this. Also JFK has a brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy runs for president and it seems as though he's about to win the Democratic nomination and then he gets killed too. And again, the question is, how did this happen? And it's a mystery how this man, named Sirhan Sirhan, and he does not look like a killer, okay? Lee Harvey Oswald does not look like a killer. He does not look like a killer either, okay? But they charge him with a crime and he's still in prison. And even today he's saying, I didn't do it, okay? So now let's look at 9 -11 and as you can see from some of the video footage, it's very suspicious what happened. There's other things that are suspicious about what happened. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 16:42 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: First of all, a month after the Twin Towers came down, all that concrete and steel was shipped to China. Yes. The Twin Towers, the debris is now in China being put in other skyscrapers, who knows, okay? But that's kind of strange because you would obviously want to run an investigation before you ship that thing off. But they did not do the investigation. They shipped that debris to China right away. That's the first thing. Second thing is that never in the history of humanity has a fire brought down a skyscraper, never before and never afterwards. Investigators explained that what happened was that the jet hit the skyscraper and then because of the explosion, because of the gas, the steel frames start to melt, okay? And then when the top melt, it started to melt the bottom one and the bottom one and the bottom one. And this is what we call the pancake theory. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 17:42 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Never in human history has this happened before, except with the three buildings on 9 -11. And the third, yeah, and then two planes brought down three buildings. The last thing is that the plane, the explosion was so intense that no bodies were recovered, no luggage was recovered, but we found their passports, okay? We found their passports. These are the 19 hijackers who were, who the government decided was suicide. They were solely responsible for the attacks. They had no help. They had no government help. They just acted by themselves and they got really lucky, okay? Luckiest people on the planet. As you can see, this is their passport that was found on a plane wreckage. Didn't find any bodies, didn't find any luggage, but we found the passport. So we know for sure that it was a terrorist and no one else. This is a boarding pass. This is a boarding pass. Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 18:45 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1125s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1125s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Found in the debris of the Twin Towers. Pretty lucky. But this is conclusive proof that the terrorists were responsible and no one else. Okay. So more strange things about 9 -11. First of all, we have a document dated 1962, a document called Operation Northwoods, and the plan is for the government to hijack civilian aircraft. Planes. And then blame it on Cuba so that the United States can declare war on Cuba. Also, six months before 9 -11, Fox, a television station in the United States, they aired a television show called The Lone Gunman, okay? And the plot is this. The government pretends to be terrorist. Okay? And the plan is that they're the ones who hijack a plane and crash it into the World Trade Center so they can blame it on terrorists so they can start all these wars in the Middle East. What's amazing about the show is that the plane is not being controlled by terrorists. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 20:11 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: It's being remote controlled by government operatives. So it sounds almost like exactly what happened on 9 -11. Six months before 9 -11 happened. That's very strange. Okay? It gets stranger. This man is named Larry Silverstein, and he is both the dumbest and the luckiest businessman in the world. He's the stupidest businessman in the world because six weeks before 9 -11, he buys the lease to the World Trade Center. Okay? Why is that stupid? Because the World Trade Center has asbestos. An asbestos. Like a dangerous chemical. So they had to clean or remove the asbestos. The problem is the cost of removing all that asbestos would have been more than the value of the Twin Towers. That's kind of stupid. Okay? Why would you lease the Twin Towers knowing that you have to put all this money into renovation which would bankrupt you? Also what's stupid is to have the lease, you're required to have insurance. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 21:27 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? And so the insurance company says, we value the World Trade Center at $1.5 billion. Okay? And Larry Silverstein says, no, it's not $1.5 billion. They are worth $3.5 billion. So he is asking to pay more insurance than he needed to. That's kind of stupid. But again, he's the luckiest man in the world because 9 -11 happened, and guess what? He can now claim. He can now claim that two towers were struck, and therefore he should get twice as much as $3.5 million. He should get $7 billion. And he sued. They went to court and he got $4.55 billion. Okay? He's also lucky because he's a workaholic. He never misses work. But that day, because of a dermatology appointment, he had to miss work. He wasn't there when 9 -11 happened. The luckiest man in the world. Okay? So this teaches us that in life, do not be selfish. Be smart. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 22:34 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Just be lucky. Okay? That's all you need. All right. Now, I know all this sounds suspicious, but there are lots of reasons why we should just believe the government. Okay? Why we should believe the United States government is telling us the truth. That 9 -11 was done just by 15 terrorists operating alone, running to help. That JFK was killed by one lone gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald. That the moon landing was actually real. Okay? So let's go over the reasons why we should never, ever believe conspiracy theories. Okay? The first reason, of course, is the government will never lie to us. Okay? That's the first reason. It's probably the best reason. Second reason is, well, the government is too stupid to do anything like this. Okay? They're incompetent. Okay? The third reason is, why is there so much evidence that there's a conspiracy theory? Right? If the government is so powerful, if they're capable of doing these conspiracies, surely they can cover it up as well. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 23:45 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Why is it on 9 -11 we have all this footage? Why is it that we have the passports? Why is it that we have this TV show? Why is there so much evidence? That makes no sense. Right? So the fact that there's so much evidence suggests to us that the government is not involved. Okay? Because the government is so powerful that it can just cover everything up. Right? The other thing is, NASA has 400,000 people working on the space program. Right? Why hasn't anyone come forward and confessed? Why hasn't anyone told the truth? That's kind of strange. So the fact that there's so much evidence suggests to us that the government is not The fact that so many people were involved but no one has come out and told us what happened means that the government is telling the truth. Does that make sense? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 24:43 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: It's very hard to keep 400,000 people quiet. Someone might have told a friend or a family member or just might have gotten drunk and then done a YouTube video. Who knows? But it's very hard to keep 400,000 people under wraps. JFK, why not the killer in public? Why not just make it a private thing, you know? Just give him some poison, he dies, no one knows. Why make it into a spectacle? So another reason to doubt conspiracy theory. And the last thing is, if the government was really involved, they would not allow us to discuss this, right? They wouldn't allow me to find this video online. They could just cover it all up. Right? All these videos I've shown you are online. So if this tells us the government doesn't have anything to fear, right, okay? So we're in a strange situation where we can either believe the government is telling ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 25:46 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-disclosure-brands-consciousness) Text: us the truth, but then we have all this evidence to suggest that they're not telling us the truth. Or we can believe that they did this, but what we also have to believe is that they did this and they want us to know that they did this. Right? And they want us to talk about these conspiracy theories. Okay? That's kind of strange. Well, it turns out we have an explanation for this. It's called revelation of method. The idea is that those who engage in evil must tell you that they are engaging in evil. The theory is that those who do conspiracies must tell you they're doing conspiracies. And there are three reasons why, okay? So let's go over them. The first reason is the idea of learning. Learn helplessness. And so the idea is, okay, let's just say that everyone knows that they did this, right? We get angry. We write emails. We make YouTube videos. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 26:45 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-disclosure-brands-consciousness) Text: Then what? Nothing. Right? So the idea of learned helplessness is, like, the more angry you get, the more helpless you feel, and therefore the more obedient you become. Okay? That's the first reason. The second reason is the idea of karmic responsibility. And the idea is that the people in power are... are extremely superstitious. They believe that when they die, God will judge them, okay? So we're all dead, and God says to the government, hey, why did you do all this evil stuff? And the government says, no, no, no. I did not act alone. Everyone participated. Why? Because I told them what I was doing. They didn't stop me. They didn't raise any concerns. They didn't protest. Therefore, they are complicit. Okay? So another way of saying this is, if you just look at 9 -11, if you just look at the moon landing, if you just look at JFK, the evidence is so overwhelming that if you still believe the government, it's not because you are ignorant or stupid. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 27:54 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-disclosure-brands-consciousness) Text: It's because you are complicit. It's because you are involved. Therefore, you share the guilt. Therefore, the karma is spread to everyone. Okay? That's the logic. All right? And the third reason is attention capture. These events are set up in a way so that they will be remembered forever. Okay? So everyone remembers where they were, what they were doing, who they were with on 9 -11, when JFK was assassinated, during the moon landing. Okay? So you probably were not in the United States. You might have been in China. You might have been in Florida. You might have been in the United States. You might have been in Tunisia. You might have been in South Africa. It doesn't matter. Okay? You could have been on the moon. Okay? But you still remember what you were doing on 9 -11 because it's etched into your consciousness. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 28:49 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-disclosure-brands-consciousness) Text: And that's the point. The point is to control people by controlling how people perceive reality. Okay? Because then you have the power of God. Okay? So these are the three major reasons why they will do this evil, but they will tell you they did this evil. And they want you to discuss and continue to discuss. Why they do this evil. Okay? So even today, people are still writing books about JFK. People are still writing books about the moon landing. It's allowed because it's attention capture. Okay? It's like the idea of top of mind. So if you're a company, you don't care about bad publicity. All publicity is good because it's top of mind. Right? So if you are hungry and you want to go out for lunch, what's the first thing that you want to eat? It's the first thing that comes to mind. Right? Maybe pizza or hamburger. Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 29:42 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-disclosure-brands-consciousness) Text: That's the idea of branding. So that's what they're doing here. They're trying to control your reality through these events. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Any questions? All right. Now what I want to do is look at a question. Okay? Let's look at certain questions. Why is this happening? So let's look at JFK and 9 -11 and the moon landing. What are common characteristics about these three events? Okay. The first thing, of course, is that they are spectacles. You can say that they are rituals. A lot of care, a lot of attention was put into preparing these rituals. So for example, the JFK assassination, look at the location. Right? Look at the choreography. Okay? They did it purposely in front of people but also in front of cameras so that it will be remembered forever. Okay? The moon landing as well. 9 -11 as well. Okay? That's the first thing. The second thing is the idea of numerology. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 31:11 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: So when you look at these events, what you'll find is that numerology is very important. Okay? It's a very simple concept to understand. So for example, let's just say you want to get married. Right? Well, you want to pick an auspicious date. So maybe August 8th. 8 -8. Right? Or June 6th. An auspicious date because that will give your wedding the most chances to prosper. You also want to pick a nice location, feng shui. Right? Same thing with this idea. Okay? So let's look at the numerology. JFK was November 22nd, 1963. 11 -22 -1963. The moon landing was 1969. And then 9 -11. 9 -11 was, of course, 9 -11. Pretty easy to remember. Right? Okay? Now, what's interesting is that these are all triangular numbers. Okay? What are triangular numbers? 1 -3 -6 -9. Right? 1 -3 -6 -9. 1963. 1969. Okay? Also, the number 33 is very, very important. Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 32:29 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=1949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Number 33 is almost like a magic number. Okay? It's a secret number to these people. Okay? And so, like, what we believe is that it's secret societies that are responsible for these events. Okay? Mainly the three masons. But there are others as well. Okay? I'll discuss this later. Number 33 is important. Okay? So look at this. 11 plus 22 is what? 33. Okay, guys? 33. 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1. Okay? You see how nice this number is? 3 -3 is also 23. Okay? It's a secret number. Okay? Number 33 is a very special number for secret societies. All right. Here's something that's really, also really interesting about number 33. If you look at a world map, okay? The equator. If you go north 33 degrees, you get a lot of places. Okay? The first place you get is the equator. Okay? The equator is in Mesopotamia, Iraq. It's where the Tigris and Euphrates, these are two rivers. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 33:46 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: This is where they meet. Okay? Why is this important? Because to meet this meeting place is what we consider the birth of civilization. It's a cradle of civilization. Over here is Baghdad. Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Caliphate. Okay? Historical city. Over here is Damascus. One of the oldest cities in the world. Over here, of course, is Jerusalem. The holiest city for both the Christians and for the Jews. Okay? You keep on going over here to America, this is Dallas. Why is Dallas important? Because that's where JFK was assassinated. But you keep on going, and this is like interesting, you go to New Mexico and you get to the Trinity test site. This is where the atomic bomb was detonated. Okay? You go over here, 33 degrees, in Japan, do you know what city is 33 degrees north in Japan? Excuse me? Not Tokyo. There are two cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 35:00 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Why are they important? Okay? These are the two places where the atomic bomb was dropped. Okay? Think about that. 33 north in New Mexico is where they tested the atom bomb, and then Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 33 degrees north. It's where they dropped the two atomic bombs. Okay? All right. So, why is this important? Because if you're a secret society, what makes secret society important is the mythology, or the story that they tell about their purpose. Okay? Now, it's easy to understand here why 33 degrees is important. Okay? Because 33 degrees, you're not too hot, because you're away from the equator, but you're not too cold. Okay? So, you can farm. And that's why all these major cities, including Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, are situated 33 degrees north. Okay? Also, a place called Harappa, which is the Indian civilization, is also 33 degrees north. So, a lot of major cities are situated in this latitude. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 36:10 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: So, that makes sense. Okay? This is the old world. What's the old world? The old world is obey God. Okay? That's the old world. Now, we go to the new world. Okay? What makes the new world different? Well, when America was founded, there was a religion called deism. And deism, the belief is that God created the universe, but then he went away. So, the universe is what we make of it. Okay? So, now, we can be, we are God. And this is the grand secret of the secret societies. They exist in order to do what God could not do, or what God can do, to replace God. So, what is it that God does? Well, what the first God does is he changes matter. Changes matter. Second thing is he can kill other gods. And the third thing is he can create life. All right? What does changes matter mean? It means the nuclear bomb. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 37:17 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Right? The nuclear bomb. So, what does kill other gods mean? It means you can kill President of the United States, JFK. Who is considered... A prince. Okay? And what does create life? It means you create artificial intelligence, which is the last step. Okay? So, this is part of the mythology. The old world is being replaced by the new world. Okay? Now, if you're able to do all three things, now you're able to bring heaven to earth. Now you're able to declare yourself God. And for that, what you need is a world government. And to show that you are truly in power. What you do is you combine the old world and the new world together. By making Jerusalem your world capital. Okay? So, towards the end of the semester, I will show you what the grand plan is for Jerusalem. But for now, what you need to understand is that right now, in Jerusalem, there's something called the Al -Aqsaq Mosque, which is the third holiest site in the Islamic tradition. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 38:32 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt) Text: It is the place where Muhammad... Okay? Ascended to heaven. They plan to destroy the Al -Aqsaq Mosque to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, called the Third Temple. Okay? This will start World War III. Okay? Because the Muslims will get angry at this, and they will come invade Israel, and that's the purpose. So, there's a grand plan to create the world government by initiating World War III. Okay? So, we'll be discussing this later on in the semester. Now, I want to discuss... How secret societies are able to wield so much power. Okay? First of all, how is it that they're able to keep everyone quiet? Right? How are they able to maintain their secrets? And then, how are they able to exert power? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 39:25 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 39:32 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-compartmentalizes-worlds) Text: So, the first thing to understand about secret societies is that there are different layers to secret society. Okay? So, in Scottish Rite Freemasonry, there are 33 grades. 33 grades. So, you're going to have to... You start at one, and then you slowly climb. Okay? Some people can skip. And at each different grade, you're taught different secrets, or understanding of the world. So, maybe here, here, here, here, you have four grades. Okay? In the bottom grade, all you're taught is just to be a good person. To do good works. To do charity. To be kind. That's all you're taught. Okay? But, as you move up, you're taught something else, which is... Um... We can do God's work. Okay? God has given us a mission. We must do God's work. Okay? And up here is, we don't need God. Okay? The higher you climb, the more secrets you're told. And then, as you move up further, you're taught, we don't need God. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 40:42 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-compartmentalizes-worlds) Text: Okay? So, guys, I'm not part of a secret society. I'm just making this up. Okay? I'm just showing you how they might work. I'm just speculating. Now, the last layer is... Okay? We can be God by killing God. Do you understand? So it's almost like school. Right? In primary school, you work hard. You learn a lot. You go to high school. In high school, they teach you, everything you learn in primary school is wrong. Let us teach you new knowledge. You work hard. You learn all this new knowledge. You go to university, the professors there are like, everything you learn in high school is wrong. So, let's learn something new. Okay? And then you go to graduate school, and you're taught, everything you learn in university is wrong. Okay? So that's how these secret societies work. So the word we use is compartmentalize. So it's a need to know. Okay? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 41:35 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-binds-exit-through-transgression); [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-compartmentalizes-worlds); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#secret-society-coordination-atlas) Text: Does that make sense? You are only taught what you need to know at your grade. Okay? And as you can see, the secrets get worse and worse as you climb. So how do you maintain secrecy in the system? Okay? So there are two major mechanisms. Okay? The first major mechanism is incentives. Incentives. Sorry. Incentives. The idea here is the higher you climb, the more power you have. Okay? So these people in the middle, all they care about is maintaining their privilege. Okay? So does that make sense? Incentives. Okay? The higher you climb, the more invested you are. Therefore, you want to believe the lie. Then there's blackmail. So if you really want to climb to the top, you have to reveal your secrets too. So you can be blackmailed. Okay? And we talked about this. Right? The idea of transgression. If you really want to climb to the top, you have to commit crimes with other people. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 42:57 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-binds-exit-through-transgression) Text: So therefore, you can never betray other people. Okay? And the last thing that helps the system is compromise. Confirmation bias. And the idea of confirmation bias is you just want to believe what you want to believe. Okay? People don't want to believe the government lies to them. People want to believe the government tells the truth. So we like to live in a fantasy world. Okay? So this is what keeps the system intact. Okay? So this is how secret societies keep their secrets. Does that make sense? Okay? Another question then is how is it that they're able to work? Okay? What is their real power? And the answer is this structure is perfect for a bureaucracy. Last, before we talked about bureaucracies, right? How as society matures, it becomes more bureaucratic. Well, the problem is that bureaucracies become top heavy. Too many managers. Also the idea of silos. So each department does its own thing. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 44:06 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-network-coordinates-through-bureaucracy); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#secret-society-coordination-atlas) Text: Okay? And as I said also, bureaucrats don't want to do any work. Okay? So imagine if you're a secret society, how much you can benefit from the system, right? Because you want to work because you want to achieve your vision and you're able to work with other people secretly. Therefore you're able to promote each other into positions of power. And because these departments are all settled off, they're all independent, you're able to control the entire bureaucracy because you're able to coordinate, but they're not. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So what we learn is that in history, as societies become much more mature, as they become much more bureaucratic, secret societies have much more power. And today we are living in a heavily bureaucratic world and therefore these secret societies have more and more power. Okay? And does that make sense? The other thing that we need to remember is that there are thousands and thousands of secret societies. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 45:14 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-network-coordinates-through-bureaucracy) Text: Okay? So let's name some of them. The Freemasons, the Jesuits, the Mormons, the Frankists, okay, lots and lots. Okay? We'll go over each one later on this semester. What you need to remember is that at this stage in development, when society is bureaucratic, when they become parasites on the bureaucracy, they are incentivized to work together to achieve their vision. Okay? But once they create the world government, then they will fall. They will fight each other. But at this point in the development, they will work and actively collaborate together. Okay? So 9 -11, JFK, moon landing, they were all working together. Okay? So we'll be studying this more as the semester progresses. All right. So let's conclude. Okay. Let's conclude. Okay? Sorry. I'm... So let's talk about... Okay. So let's talk about the atomic bomb. This is Henry, Henry Truman. Okay? Henry Truman is the 33rd President of the United States. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 46:49 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Number 33. Right? He's also a 33rd degree Freemason, which is the highest Freemason. Okay? Why is he important? Because he's the one who ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, this is controversial because at this point, America didn't have to bomb the atomic bomb, have to nuke Japan. Why? Because America was firebombing Tokyo. You can see the damage. Right? In Tokyo, all the houses are wooded. Guess what? If you drop firebombs on these houses, everything burns. So America was just burning Japan to death. They didn't have to drop the nuclear bombs. Okay? You can see the devastation. Okay? This is Tokyo. They burned everything down. There was talk that if America launched a land invasion of Japan, lots of people would have died. Wait. But you didn't have to invade Japan because you were just bombing Japan to ashes. So why did they drop the bomb? Well, the other argument is that they dropped the bomb to scare the Soviet Union. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 47:57 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: But that only encouraged the Soviet Union to get their own bomb, right? So you have to ask yourself, why did they do this? And if you go back to the 33 degree story, okay, which is just explained, it gives you an explanation. I'm not saying it's right, but it offers you a possibility. Okay. So as you can see, all these major cities, including Babylon, including Baghdad, Damascus, Hiroshima, are all part of 33 degree latitude. Okay? Guess what, guys? A lot of famous athletes wear number 33, and they are Freemasons. Okay? So this is Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O 'Neal. We know they are Freemasons. Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul -Jabbar also wear number 33. Okay? 33 is important. Jesus died when he was 33 years old. The word God, Elohim, appears 33 times in Genesis. King David reigned for 33 years. The Vedic Pamphylon, Hinduism, has 33 deities. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 49:06 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=2946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Human spine has 33 bones. Okay? So number 33 appears over and over. So these secret societies see number 33 as a magic number. The moon landing, okay, I'm not saying the moon landing was faked, but there's an argument that it's impossible for humans to leave something called the Van Allen belt. Okay? The Van Allen belt is this electromagnetic field that protects us from cosmic radiation. So the belts themselves have heavy radiation, so if you go into it, you die. But also, if you leave the Van Allen belt, there's nothing to protect you from cosmic radiation, so you could die as well. So some scientists actually believe that it's impossible to leave Earth. Okay? We'll just die. I don't know how they were able to do this. Okay? And as you may know, right now, a lot of countries, America, China, are trying to get back to the moon. They're having a really hard time. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 50:04 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? They're having a hard time because NASA lost all the technology, lost all the footage, lost all the data. Oops. Oh well. Okay. So how is NASA able to keep this secret? Well guess what? A lot of their most important people were Freemasons. Okay? This is Buzz Aldrin. One of the three astronauts. He was a Freemason. Okay? John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, was a Freemason. 33 degree Mason. Okay? As was James Webb, one of the first NASA administrators. James Webb. Kenneth Klint. So these people are embedded throughout the bureaucracy. And because they're able to coordinate, they have complete control of the bureaucracy. Does that make sense? So it doesn't matter who's at the top. What matters is which bureaucrats are able to work together to achieve their vision. This is Wernher von Braun. And he was one of the first NASA leaders. And he's a German. He was ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 51:13 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3073s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3073s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: actually a Nazi who was brought over after World War II to help America build its space program. Okay? And he had a friend or a colleague named Carol Rosen. And we don't know if this is true. Okay? But what Carol Rosen tells us is that when von Braun died, he told us that America, the American government, was first and foremost concerned about spending weapons, sorry, spending money on space weapons. Okay? And to do this, what America will do is continue to manufacture threats to justify all the spending on weaponry. Okay? And then she lists the different threats. First, they will use Russians. Okay? The Russians. We have to defeat the Russians in the space race. Then they'll be like, you know what? Terrorists. Okay? 9 -11. Then third world countries, the crazies, like North Korea. Okay? Iran. And then an asteroid. We need space weapons to protect the Earth from asteroids. And then the last thing is a fake alien invasion. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 52:19 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Okay? Aliens. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So we'll talk about this later towards the end of the semester about a fake alien invasion. Okay? That's part of the plan. And they've been seeding this for a long time. So I'll conclude by talking about different possibilities. You don't have to believe me. Okay? In fact, there are, I think, five different possibilities as to what happened. Okay? The footage looks fake. So how do we explain this? Well, the first explanation is it's real footage. And we just believe the government. Okay? But we also need to believe that they lost all the footage, lost all the technology, lost all the data. Okay? That's possibility number one. Just believe what the government tells you. Possibility number two is America went to the moon, but the astronauts discovered too many secrets on the moon. Like there are space aliens on the moon. They can't tell us. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 53:09 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: So they create this fake footage. Okay? That's the second possibility. Third possibility is America went to the moon, but because of the lighting, because of the difficulty of filming, they couldn't actually take any footage. So they made it up to NASA. And NASA decided to please the American people. Okay? The fourth possibility is America went to the moon, but NASA decided to create this fake footage to fool the Soviets. Right? Because if it's real footage, the first Soviets might be able to copy the technology, so we should just fake this thing and make fun of the Soviets. Okay? Let's fool the Soviets. So the Soviets cannot reverse engineer the success. Okay? That's also a possibility. Right? And the last possibility, of course, is America didn't go to the moon. And it's entirely your choice which possibility to believe. Okay? I'm just proposing different possibilities out there. So how can we know the truth? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 54:02 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Well, we can use game theory to logically deduce what happened. Okay? So let's use game theory. All right. So we know that NASA's Apollo program cost $26 billion between 1960 and 1973. That's almost $20 billion today. They spent all this money. They need to produce a result. Right? This is almost like 4 % of all current spending in America. That's a lot of money. Also, you don't know this, but by 1969, America was falling apart for three reasons. First of all, America was fighting this pointless and hopeless war called Vietnam. Tens of thousands of Americans were dying for no reason. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans were protesting in the streets. America, the American dream seemed to be dying. Okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is that the Soviets were destroying the Americans in the space race. The Soviets were the first to send an animal to space. The first to send a man to space. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 55:01 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: The first to orbit the Earth. The first to walk in space. The first to send a lunar module to the moon. So it seemed as though communism was superior to capitalism. It seemed as though the Soviet system was better than the American system. Okay? There's a real fear that the Soviets would get to the moon first. Okay? And also, the last thing is, remember, in 1963, JFK was killed. JFK was the prince, the king. So that put Americans in a very bad mood. But then later on, other prominent Americans like Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, they were all killed as well. So 1969, America was divided. It was falling apart. People felt hopeless. Right? So what this means is that if America sent a mission to the moon, and all the astronauts died, or they didn't get there, America would have been broken. Okay? People would have been depressed. And ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 56:06 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: so, according to game theory, America could not afford to take the risk of sending people to the moon. If they died, if it failed, America would have looked like idiots. Okay? But of course, there's always a counterargument. The counterargument is, okay, this makes sense, but why did the Soviets call out the Americans and say, you guys faked this? Right? Why? America and the Soviet Union were in competition with each other. Everyone believed America went to the moon. But there's a lot of evidence that suggests that America didn't go to the moon. So why didn't the Soviets tell the world? Okay? That I can't answer for you. All right? So I just leave you with this thought. Okay? But what I believe is, over the next two years, the truth will slowly start to come out. And you will see for yourself what really happened. So this class is not meant to tell you what happened. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 57:14 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: This class is just meant to give you different possibilities, give you tools to understand or figure out for yourself what might have happened. Okay? All right? So any questions before we conclude? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 57:32 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: As we said, the secret society might have a, might be fighting with the governments, but why don't they send part of their people into the governments? Why don't they work together? ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 57:46 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: No, no. They are the government. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 57:47 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) Text: Oh, okay. Fine. Yeah. ## Conspiracy Is a War Over Reality -- 57:49 - Source title: Secret History #10: The Conspiracy of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1fdW4-cA&t=3469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ihh1fdw4-ca.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-network-coordinates-through-bureaucracy) Text: Right? Because secret societies cannot exist outside of bureaucracies. Right? They have power because they're able to coordinate within the bureaucracy. In a way that other organizations cannot. Right? So only when the bureaucracy has reached a certain maturity, a certain size, can secret societies have true power. Right? So secret societies are the ones who control the government, basically. Yeah. Any other questions? Okay. Great, guys. So we'll continue this next class, next week. Okay? All right. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Good morning class. Today we do the theory of everything. So very quickly, I will explain to you what science tells us about where we came from, who we are, and where we're going. So as you may know, it all started with a big bang. Okay, a big bang. So in the beginning, there was a massive ball of energy, and then it exploded. Okay, and because of this explosion, it would create stars and planets and black holes and solar systems. And that's how the universe was created, through the big bang. Then we had the earth, and on earth, life evolved, starting with plants and sea life. And then we had lizards, mammals, and then we got to humans. Okay, so evolution. The thing about evolution that's very important to understand is that it's all about mutation. So the genes will randomly mutate, and then those genes that are best adapted to the future will survive. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:38 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay, and this idea of the survival of the fittest, introduced to us by Charles Darwin. Okay, and that's how we came to dominate the planet, because we are the fittest, because we're able to work together, because we have language, which allows us to store knowledge and pass it on to future generations to accumulate new technology. Okay. So that's the theory of evolution. Now we get to the human mind, right? The human mind is unique in the universe. It allows us to communicate with each other. It allows us to imagine things. It allows us to be creative. And so neuroscience teaches us that our brains, what our brains do is we filter experiences into memories. Now, if you take in psychology, you will know that there's long -term memory and short -term memory. Short -term memory is just what you have today. Long -term memory is what stays in you. Okay? So what the brain does is that it differentiates between short -term and long -term. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 3:04 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: And then this long -term is stored into a database of memories. And it's divided according to your emotions. Okay, happy, sad, angry, scared. Okay, so there's a rainbow of emotions and all your memories are stored according to the different emotions inside your brain. The database of your brain. And from this you're able to create an identity. Identity is basically an understanding of who you are, your place in the world, and how you're making yourauto.com project. Have a good day. Bye -bye. you should best navigate the world okay so the idea of identity now what you also learn in psychology is it is possible for you to create many different identities so in a school you're a student at home you're a child at work you're an employee okay and all these identities put together it's called the worldview and you can understand this as your ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 4:14 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: personality so this is all a science knows I mean this is pretty simple but this is what science tells us about where we came from who we are where are we going now there are three distinct characteristics about the scientific worldview that's very important for us to understand okay the first is that this is all random okay this is really important because before we understood this as design okay before we believe that there was a God now we believe there's no God all this is just random that's the first thing I need you guys to remember second thing I need you guys remember is that it's all material material before we understood the universe as spirit mainly spirit but now we understood it as mainly material things that we can see and touch we cannot see it we're gonna touch it we cannot measure it it does not exist the third characteristic is that it ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 5:27 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: is emergent emergent which is basically means bottom up you have like these particles they become atoms then the atoms become matter they become stuff and then we become chairs or people okay there's all emergent and so these are the three major principal principles of our worldview today and you should have learned most of this in science class now there's a problem with all these theories all right so i'm going to go over them one by one and i want to make sure you follow along okay because what i will do now is i will show you the problems the deficiencies the flaws in all these theories okay so let's start with the big bang now if it is true that the universe started off with a big bang and it just expands slowly then it should it should expand linearly okay but what we see is this first of all the universe it expands weirdly ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 6:50 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: okay it's more like this so as it expands different parts move faster than other parts that makes no sense also certain galaxies okay galaxies move faster than other galaxies this makes no sense either so the way that astronomers have explained away these statistical problems is you can use a new concept called this more surgically housed mind and you Ramadan inter Satanism dark energy and dark energy is most of the universe it's it's like at least 80 some times believe it is 90 percent so most of the universe is composed of dark energy and of course you're like what is dark energy and the answer is we don't know now dark and it is sounds like we don't see it that's how it is it's we don't know what it is and quite honestly it's cheating okay OK, so let me give you an example. Let's just say you take a math test. And the teacher asks you, 1987 plus 25, and your answer is 20. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 8:04 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: OK, that's obviously wrong, right? So your teacher says, this is wrong. And then you say, oh, I know how to fix this, plus dark energy. Problem solved. This is like literally what cosmologists are doing with dark energy. We don't know what it is, but they say it must be there, because otherwise, we cannot explain these statistical inconsistencies in our measurements and modeling. And then, of course, you're like, well, why don't you just say that the Big Bang theory is wrong? And they're like, well, we could say that. The problem is we don't have a better model. Well, in fact, there is a better model. The better model is there are different Big Bangs, OK? So if you just assume that there are different Big Bangs, well, this helps us understand what's going on better. But then the question then is, wait a minute. If there are multiple Big Bangs, why are there multiple Big Bangs, OK? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 9:16 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=556s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=556s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: So our current system of understanding the universe simply does not work. And the problem is, well, why are there multiple Big Bangs? The problem is that it's become a paradigm, a story that is accepted by most scientists, and they refuse to budge on this issue, OK? But I'm telling you right now that this system is clearly problematic, and it could be wrong. So that's a problem with the Big Bang. Now, let's move on to evolution, OK? Evolution. Now, in theory, evolution is wrong. Evolution does work, and it works for most animals, except when it comes to human beings, OK? Because the idea of evolution is gradual progress. But we don't know how it went from the ape, OK, to the human. We share with the ape, other monkeys, 99.9 % of DNA. But we don't know why we're so different from the ape, OK? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 10:31 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: That's the first problem. Second problem is humans have been around for about 200,000 years, OK? That's a long, long time. We only have maybe 50,000 years of history. So where do the other 100,000, 150,000 years go? We don't know, OK? So this is also another huge problem with the theory of evolution. The third problem is, according to evolution, there should be many different types of human beings. But in fact, there's only one, Homo sapiens. Now, what scientists will tell you is, well, before, there were different species, the Neanderthal, the Cro -Magnon. And then gradually, Homo sapiens took them over. And you can believe that, but it's problematic because, according to evolution, there should be many, many different species. There should be many different types of humans, OK? Maybe some with six fingers, some with three eyes, like animals, OK? So the lack of diversity in the human species, it doesn't really fit into the evolution model, OK? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 11:54 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: All right, so that's the problem with evolution. The real problem is with the human mind, OK? So let's go over some of the problems. All right. So with neuroscience, what they teach you is that what the worldview does that's very important is that it filters memories. The reason why is every day, you're absorbing a lot of experiences. If your brain were to absorb all the experiences, your brain will explode because there's too much information to process. Therefore, your worldview processes different experiences. It differentiates between experiences that are important and experiences that are not important. Experiences that are important, of course, goes into your long -term memory. The problem with this is, how about babies? In theory, babies should not have a worldview. They should not have a personality. But if that's the case, then how do they process memories? How do they know what memories to store, what memories not to store? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 13:03 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=783s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=783s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: OK? The other thing is that I have three kids, and I can tell you that they're all distinct personalities. It seems as though they were born with a worldview. And then the question then is, where does this come from? Your eye color, your hair, your height comes from your parents' DNA, right? So is your personality from your parents' DNA? Probably not, OK? Just ask yourself, am I a composition of my parents' personalities? You're not. You're a different person than your parents. So this is a huge problem. This is a huge problem with this model. Where does the personality come from? And why is it embedded in us from the very first day? OK? What's more problematic is how we think, consciousness. We do not have currently a model for how we think. In fact, if you study neuroscience, you will find there are a lot of genders. And they have a lot of different ways of thinking. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 14:19 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: by shaping holes in our understanding of the brain. For example, we do not know where the brain stores memory. That's very unusual. because the memory is a building block of everything but we don't know in the brain where it is stored yeah see me no the hippocampus no it's not we don't know where it's stored there are certain things this that we know where it's stored for example we know where maybe language is stored we know where faces are stored okay so maybe the faces are stored in the hippocampus but we don't know where memory is stored okay so what we say is the entire brain stores memories but that's another saying we don't know where it's stored all right so the other thing is that our current model of the brain it's like a city okay think of the brain as a city and what makes the brain ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 15:27 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: work are the roads or we call the synapses when they hit each other it has it creates electricity and that's what we think that how thought is generated okay but this is problematic because we think a lot okay so let me give you an example of this to clarify now in science class you're taught the scientific method okay what's the scientific method well you do research you create a hypothesis from the research and then you create an experiment to test out the hypothesis and then you create an experiment to test out the hypothesis and then you have data and then you make observations and then you refine the hypothesis okay and this is what we believe a way to model the act of thinking and you're taught this in every class even in English class right you do research then you create an outline right the outline has a thesis with three evidence right and ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 16:51 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1011s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1011s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: then you write it out write a draft you edit it and you repeat the process okay this is what you're taught in school okay I'm gonna say something that shocks that they'll shock you okay this is what you're taught in school this is what you believe works but as someone who is much older than you are as someone who actually thinks for a living who teaches for a living who writes for a living I'm gonna tell you how you actually think is a complete opposite okay so what happens is you actually you actually think or imagine the story or the idea to begin with okay and then you start working backwards to create the process you're trying to school it's a process that creates the the idea what I'm telling you is that in reality it's the idea that creates the process okay so let me give you an example of this if you look ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 18:02 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: at every major scientific discovery it all came to the person in a dream or when he was or it sort of popped into that person's head okay it's just think of a light bulb light bulb popping up okay so example is Albert Einstein Albert Einstein created his theory relatively not in a laboratory not by doing research with a computer but by working with other scientists but simply by sitting in a parent office every day and just daydreaming and then boom the idea came to his head he's like okay now I have this idea now what he's gonna do is go back and look for the evidence to support his idea yes okay um is a hypothesis the idea okay no the hypothesis is the assumption okay what okay what I'm trying to tell you is this the idea or the final product comes first then you go backwards okay and you create the draft then ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 19:18 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: you create the outline then you do the research okay now I know the sounds way but let me give you more examples James Watson came up with the double helix model of DNA how he did this was he spent years and years working to figure out how DNA worked and then boom one day something came up and he he had a dream of a staircase, a double staircase. And he's like, maybe that's the model I need to use. And then he started to do more research and he discovered, hey, this works. But the question then is, how did that get into his head? Let me give you another example. I write books, and I've written three novels. And you won't believe this, but my wife is here and she knows how I work. You would think that when you write a book, you would spend every day at the desk and read books, take notes, and then transform it into a book, right? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 20:25 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: I don't do that. What I do is, I lie in bed, and I might play some video games or I might read a book. I get up, I walk to the park, and I come back and I have all these ideas. And I write down all these ideas over one hour, or two hours on the computer, okay? And then I'm exhausted. I've run out of ideas. And I'm like, okay, tomorrow, what am I gonna do if I have no ideas? I can't write anymore. But what happens is, the next day, I get up and I have new ideas. And I write it down again, okay? So it's not like I am generating these ideas, it's more like I'm receiving these ideas. If you actually watch me work, it is almost impossible to think that I actually do any work, because I'm always lying around or walking around or daydreaming, okay? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 21:17 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: My wife tells me that when I write or when I work, it's like I'm possessed. I'm possessed by something, okay? Meaning like, I don't see anything, and I really don't know what other people are doing, because I don't care. I don't care, because I'm focused on my work, okay? Also, I'll give you another example. The way I teach. Now, when you see me teach, you think, oh, you must have a script. You must have outlined the class. I don't do that. I have a conception, I have a framework in my head. I come to class and I teach. How do I teach? I watch your observations, I watch your facial expressions, and based on your responses, I then start to flesh out the framework. And how do I do that? Because I'm always accessing a higher force, and I'm receiving this information that I can then articulate to you in class. And ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 22:22 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: that's why if you have been with me for a long, long time, 10 years, you will know I've never taught the same class ever. You can go on YouTube and watch all my videos. I teach this class different each time. Because each time, what I'm doing is I'm channeling a higher force and bringing it to you. But it is a conversation, it's a dialogue. And it's no different from reading a book or seeing a great painting, okay? Each experience is unique. Because a painting or the book, it's almost like a platform for you to experience the divine or higher power. When you read a great book, that's literally what you feel. You feel as though you are in conversation with the universe. And this book, it's really a portal into the universe. Okay, if you read a great book. I'm not sure if you had read a great book, okay? So if you want to really be creative, you have to trust the universe. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 23:30 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: If you really want to destroy your creativity, you follow this system, okay? So what I'm telling you, and I know this is going to be weird, but school, it destroys your creativity. Because it teaches you a process that does not work. No scientist in the history of humanity has ever come up with a great idea using the scientific method. I guarantee you. They've all came up with a great idea through their imagination, through their intuition, by channeling the divine, okay? That's every single scientist, including Einstein, Newton. Yes? Wait, wait, sorry, sorry, can you speak to them? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 24:16 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay, so. I agree with what you're saying, but personally, I think scientific method is more like how people, how these inspirational ideas are being presented to others. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 24:29 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Oh, yes. Good point, exactly. That's exactly correct, okay? So I use scientific method in order to convince other people that I'm correct. You're absolutely correct. Because if I told people, oh, I had a dream. Well, like, it's not convincing, okay? So the scientific method, it's a way for us to communicate and spread ideas. You're absolutely correct, okay? But as I say, you will never, ever have a great discovery by following the scientific method. You have to have an inspiration. And then you start a scientific method to explain your inspiration to other people, okay? Yeah? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 25:05 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: And another thing, sorry, and another thing is that I think how people absorb ideas or like how you wrote a book is based on your, at least some of the points are based on your experience, because let's just say a person has born and he never, like, he has no knowledge and he has no experiencing on any things. And I don't see the possibility for him to just observe this energy out of nothing. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 25:38 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay, you're exactly correct, yes. And I'll explain this as we move on, okay? All right, but I want to show you, there's lots of issues with how the scientific method is taught in school, okay? So, but are you guys clear? All right, but that's a good point. Let me continue. All right, so let me continue. We have so much evidence that we communicate with a higher power all the time. All right, so let's go over some of the evidence, okay? The first piece of evidence is near -death experiences, NDEs. Near -death experiences. Are when you almost die, okay? Or you're dead for like 10 seconds or 10 minutes, who knows? But there are thousands, tens of thousands of these testimonies on YouTube, and they all say the same thing. When they die, they see a tunnel, and at the tunnel, there's a light that draws them, okay? They go, and then suddenly they are high up, and they feel tremendous love, peace, forgiveness, compassion. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 26:55 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: It's all good. And then they submit to a life review. They have a chance to reflect on their entire life. They can see all the pain they caused. They can see all the good they've done in the world. And then they're asked by a higher force, and it's a god or an angel, but there are different interpretations, okay? Do you want to go back? And they always say, yes, I need to go back. Why? Because I need to tell people about my experience. And they come back extremely changed people. And again, these are people who don't know each other, and maybe before they were atheists or just scientists, but once they have these experiences, it changes them forever, okay? So near -death experiences, we have problems explaining why this is the case. Second is the idea of psychedelics, okay? Okay, psychedelics. So throughout human history, every ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 27:57 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: culture has used psychedelics, because psychedelics were a way for, or shamans or priests to access the divine. And what's really interesting is when you use a certain type of psychedelic, you end up seeing the same images, regardless of who you are, okay? And that's why civilizations throughout human history, what's amazing is if you go back to the ancient past and you look at different civilizations in different parts of the world, they have very similar statues and paintings, okay? So what's a very common motif is that they have the cosmic serpent. For whatever reason, every early civilization has worshiped a serpent, or serpent, the serpent is a very important part of their culture. And it's possible that when they're psychedelics and they're meditating, they see a serpent talking to them, and they see that as the serpent of life, okay? And also, what's really interesting is the serpent, it's almost, it looks like the devil, it's the DNA, right? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 29:09 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay, so that's really, really interesting, okay? Meditation, when people meditate, when you go up to a higher dimension, you end up having the same experience of psychedelics and near -death experiences. Also, great books. I myself have never done psychedelics. I obviously can't go back in the past and study these civilizations. I never had a near -death experience. But I've read Dante, I've read Milton, I've read Homer, I've studied them very, very closely. And what's amazing to me is they say the same things. When Dante, in his Divine Comedy, when he describes the universe, when he describes God, when he describes the heavens, it's almost as though he's describing a near -death experience, even though we have absolutely no evidence that Dante himself had near -death experiences, okay? So this is shocking. Okay, so there's a lot of evidence that there's a higher force beyond us. So the spirit world does exist. Again, ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 30:25 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: I can't prove it exists, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest it does exist, okay? So now the question then is, if our current model of reality doesn't really work, what is another possibility, okay? And in this class, I'm not trying to tell you what is true, but I'm just trying to present to you, okay? new possibilities. So what I'm going to do now is I will present to you a new possibility of how reality is structured, okay? All right, so to begin, let's talk about Kant. Immanuel Kant was the greatest philosopher who ever lived, the most influential philosopher who ever lived, because he introduced us the idea that we are not observers of reality, we are participants in reality, all right? So let me explain what he means. For Kant, there's a nomana. The nomana just means reality that is outside of us, the things in themselves. What he tells us is we can never know the nomana. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 31:29 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1889s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1889s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: We never know this reality. Why? Because whenever we see reality, we filter it using time and space, okay? So time and space, do not exist outside of us. They are part of us. We use time and space in order to interpret reality in a way that allows us to make sense of it, okay? So the nomana for time and space becomes the phenomena, and that's all we see, the phenomena, the things that are to me, not the nomana, the things in themselves, okay? And so we imagine reality, we hallucinate reality, okay? But of course, this creates three problems, okay? The first problem is what is the nomana? The second problem is why do we have these filters, time and space? The third problem is how do, how can we guarantee that what I see is the same as what you see? Because if reality is a subjective experience, then in theory, everyone should see it differently, but we all see it the same, okay? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 32:39 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=1959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: So why is that? So these are the three problems. And so what happens is that Hegel comes up with the idea that reality is a subjective experience. Hegel comes up along, okay? Hegel, another German philosopher, and he explains the idea of the Geist. So what he's saying is that the nomana, it's really the spirit world, it's the Geist. And when you do this, it solves all three problems, okay? So nomana, you can never access because it's beyond us. It's the Geist that gives us time and space. And as a result, because it's all coming from one source, we see the world in the same way, okay? All right. So that sounds complicated, but let me now use quantum mechanics to explain what this means, okay? Let's talk about quantum mechanics. Okay. So in science class, you're taught the Neil Bohr model of the atom, okay? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 33:37 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: It's a simple model. You have the nucleus, and then around the nucleus, you have these electrons that orbit the nucleus, okay? You're taught this in physics class. If you are in a more advanced physics, you are taught that, it's actually an electron cloud. Why? Because we never know for sure what electrons are. So we can only know the probability of where they are in orbit, okay? So it's called an electron cloud. And this is what you're taught in school. When you go to university, you'll be taught this is completely and utterly wrong. Why? Because this assumes that these atoms are matter, they're solid. But in reality, if you go deep enough, you will find that they are actually just vibrations, what we call quantum fields. And they are just vibrations. And what the electron really is, is an intersection of all these quantum fields. Also, these quantum fields can always exist in two states. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 34:51 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2091s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2091s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: The first is as a wave, the second is as a particle, okay? And we can only know if it's a wave or a particle by observing it. And this is what's called a wave function collapse. In other words, all of nature is vibrational, it's energy. And it's only when we observe it, when we interact with it, that becomes something solid that we can see and measure and touch, okay? It's called a wave function collapse, okay? So this is complicated. So a physicist named Ernst Strödinger, he's a physicist, he's a physicist, he's a physicist, he's a physicist, he's a physicist, he creates a thought experiment called Strödinger's cat, okay? You may have heard of it, Strödinger's cat. And so imagine a box, and inside is a cat. And then the cat, inside the box is also some toxic chemicals that may or may not break. If it breaks, the cat dies. If it doesn't break, the cat's still alive. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 36:00 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: And what Strödinger teaches us is that when the box is unopened, we can never know the state of the cat. It's only when we open it, can we know it's dead or alive. But before then, it's both dead and alive, okay? That's simple to understand. But then another physicist introduced a new concept called the friend experiment, or Wigner's friend. And this is more complicated because he says, okay, if you are the experimenter and you open a box, you now know the state of the cat. But what if you're a friend, okay? You don't see the box, you're outside the laboratory. When the experimenter opens the box, does the wave function collapse? And the answer is, it does not, okay? It does not. And what this is telling us is there is no objective reality that exists outside of you. When the experimenter opens the box, the wave function collapses for him, but it does not collapse for the observer and for anyone else. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 37:14 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: We have to open the box ourselves in order to see if the cat is alive or dead, okay? But what if this person tells us? The answer is, it still doesn't collapse. We have to participate in the reality ourselves. And what this is saying, okay, this is hard to understand, is that everyone lives in his or her own reality. Everyone has a unique universe onto himself or herself. And that's what quantum mechanics teaches us, okay? All right. So now let's try to, based on all this, okay, Kant and quantum mechanics, create a theory of reality, okay? So what's important to understand is that everything are just vibrations, okay? That's all it is. It's vibrations, yeah? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 38:13 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: I thought like quantum mechanics can only be applied on quantum, whereas quantum mechanics, we are a macro creature that is not like - Yeah, that is correct. But quantum mechanics is the basis of reality, right? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 38:30 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay? So everything are just vibrations. Now what happens is that, what we need to understand is that if it's vibrations, if it's energy, it's also information, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So what our brains, our brains do is, our brains are not independent. Our brains connect to the universe, okay? So as the universe is vibrating, we're receiving information. And then through our experiences, okay, this vibration allows us to turn it into memories. Do you understand? We're taking this vibrational information, we're taking our experiences, we're combining to memories. Now this is really important. The memories now go back to the vibrational force. So our memories are connecting to the universe and they're being stored in the universe. They're being imprinted in the universe. It's an imprint. And of course, there's no different from the internet, right? On the computer, whatever you write is being stored on the internet. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 39:48 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: So whatever you do is going to change the internet. And you receive information from the internet, okay? So you're participating in the internet and you're part of the internet, okay? And the same thing is happening here, okay? So everything's vibrational. If it's vibrational, it's information. We take the information and we combine the experiences to turn into memories. The memories then go back to the universe. And so it's as though we can implant ourselves into the universe, okay? Now this is hard to understand. So what we've done, is every single culture has turned this knowledge into a story that is easy for people to understand, okay? So I'm going to tell you this story. And this story, this framework, I'm actually using Dante, okay? All right. Dante. What does Dante tell us about the universe? Okay. There's the Monad. The One God. Who knows, okay? But it's the source of everything. And so what he ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 40:59 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: does is he vibrates he emanates he thinks he breathes and this creates vibrational force right and this vibrational force creates new forces called diets diets are peers and when the peers come together and vibrate they create new things okay so this is how creation happens through vibration for the combination of different forces okay now what's important understanding is that as the dimensions go lower the frequency decreases so at high it's really fast right it's like okay when it goes low becomes low frequency oh okay and eventually you get a point where matter can be created okay so this is spirit this is matter and this is the world that we live in okay so now the question then is why is the universe set up in this way and it has to do with the fact that the universe the monad strives for newness for imagination for freshness the problem though is that in the ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 42:16 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: spirit world everything is perfect everything is eternal everything is immutable and so by definition you can feel no pain you cannot suffer you cannot make any mistakes therefore you cannot you cannot have any new experiences therefore you cannot you cannot have any imagination so we humans exist in order to solve this problem we humans are corporal which is what all just means is we have bodies okay if your bodies you go you get old you bleed you get hurt you fall down okay you feel um anger you feel hate but this allows us to have an imagination and the imagination allows the universe to grow to expand to vibrate okay that's our function to have experiences that are new which expands the consciousness of the universe the universe itself is consciousness right so for this system of work there have to be some guiding principles to this universe the first and most important principle is ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 43:28 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: the principle of free will well free will this system cannot work if if you are if you do what you're supposed to do you can't have imagination okay so you have to disobey you have to make your own choices you have to make your own mistakes and this is what allows the universe to imagine okay but the problem then is if you have free will how do you know you're doing good how do you know you're doing evil and the answer is the idea of love okay so the monad is the total of love we are a part of the monad okay we're part of the monad and so there's a spark of the monad in us called love and so when we do good we feel good because the love the spark is growing in us and it's almost like a magnet okay we want to return to the monad and so we do ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 44:37 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: good because it makes us feel good and allows us to return to the monad um but sometimes because we live in a world of free will we make mistakes okay we might hurt someone or we might be or we might traumatize someone in which case we feel anger and then this becomes a vicious cycle okay so now there's another system set up to ensure we don't get trapped by our hate and this system is called death okay in this system death is released it prevents us from forever making mistakes because you can have a terrible life right but it's okay because you go die you go back you go back into the universe and now you can observe everything that you did okay you can see all the pain you've caused you can see all the good that you've done and so you become wiser and then you come back and you live another life ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 45:35 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: and again you can make the same mistakes over and over but you can also improve okay now the other thing to remember about the system is that it's always whether create love or hate now love goes back to the monad but what happens when you create hate well you need to store it somewhere so it goes into lower dimensions okay hate all right so we create new dimensions through hate through anger through fear through bad emotions that cannot return the spirit world because the spirit world is perfect and so this is called hell and it's called hell okay and this is how the universe is set up okay so I'm just taking the literal reality and turn into the metaphorical reality which becomes the basis of all early religions okay so there are different metaphors that we can use to understand uh this system but let's look at let's look at look at um one ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 46:54 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: from Hinduism and one from Dante okay so in Hinduism there's a metaphor that's very powerful and the metaphor is that in the house of the God Indra Indra is one of the most powerful gods of India there's all these pearls that float okay what do pros do they reflect other pearls and what happens is this because there's a spark in us grows bright all the other pearls grow bright as well okay so literally because God is inside of you because there's a spark inside of you because you're capable of love when you do love you're capable of changing the entire universe because your love expands outward and your love reflects in other people as well okay so Dante uses the idea of mirrors there's a candle there's a flame mirrors that reflect the candle okay God's God is a candle we're just the mirrors but every one of us no matter how far we are ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 48:19 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: from God we um the his flame burns in us okay so you could be far away and you could feel as though God has forgotten you but there's still the flame inside you okay so for me for our early civilizations God is love forever okay eternal love but God is also eternal compassion eternal forgiveness God will never forgive you oh sorry God will never forget you okay he'll always forgive you but you have to believe in God to return to God you have to live a life of righteousness of love of compassion of imagination if you want to return to God okay so that's how the universe is set up we are here our divine mission is to expand the consciousness of the universe and we do that by embracing love and by imagining the world to be a better place okay all right so now let's go back and ask ourselves this question if ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 49:29 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=2969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: every single early religion whether it's a Daoism or Hinduism or the Egyptians or the Native Americans religion all believe this and they all knew this how did we come to forget or deny this with a material reality okay remember the Big Bang evolution neuroscience it's to teach us that there's no God there's no purpose it's all just random it's all just material so how do we get this to this point okay the answer is very simple and we'll be discussing this throughout class the rest of the semester okay the problem is that you have heaven you have Earth and you have hell okay the heaven is spiritual it's consciousness hell it's mechanical it's machines okay we're stuck in between it's always our choice whether it's heaven or hell because of free will okay and for most of human history we have chosen um heaven but eventually you had people who chose hell and we have ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 51:03 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-death-fear-enforces-machine) Text: choose hell you have access to technology right and this technology allows you to conquer and control other people okay but once you control and you can't control the people you have to get them to obey you if you are enlightened if you know the truth you know that none of this matters we're all going to go we're all going to die so why should I listen to you so in order for me to control you I need you to fear death okay I need you to forget God and I need you to fear death when you die dying is the worst thing that can happen to you and because remember before people understood death was just a part of the journey it was a release it was an opportunity to reset yourself and come back now death is the worst thing that could ever happen to you okay so how do you forget God and ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 52:06 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-death-fear-enforces-machine) Text: how do you uh get people to fear death you use science right and you create theories like the big bang like evolution like neuroscience to forget to make people forget the Divinity inside you right so that's what science is for but unfortunately for these people that's not enough because eventually we'll all die right so the only way around this is by creating a new technology called transhumanism okay you may have heard of transhumanism again don't worry about the concept now we'll discuss this later on the semester but transhumanism is to surpass humanity which basically means defeat death to upload you your brain to the internet so you're here forever okay to trap you here forever and so now the question then is um why are they doing this why are people in power doing this okay so um as we've discussed in this class throughout human history it's usually secret societies that have the power ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 53:38 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: okay why okay well last class we discussed the idea of bureaucracy right mass bureaucracy and we discussed how in a mass bureaucracy bureaucrats don't really want to do anything they're lazy well guess what if you're part of secret society you're able to coordinate secretly together you can control the bureaucracy because you're the only people doing stuff okay but then the question but the problem is bureaucracies do not like secrets secret societies so you have to maintain your secrecy and how do you do that you do that through transgression if you guys are doing bad things together okay now you have blackmail on each other and therefore you're committed to keeping each other's secrets if one of you falls down everyone falls down together okay so now you're committed to um maintaining the secrets but the problem is this the problem is okay it's conspiracy but the moment you're found out they'll arrest you so how ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 55:05 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: do you work together without actually meeting each other and the answer is religion okay or the word we use is eschatology religion is just a script and understand the world that allows you to coordinate secretly okay does all this make sense okay so now they see secret societies they are embedded in mass bureaucracy and they're manipulating the bureaucracy and they're working together uh to commit transgression they have their own secret religion okay when you combine these three together what happens is that they're now forced to invert this understanding inversion why because they know that they're doing evil in this world so when they go meet God God's gonna punish them right so the way to get around this is well I will just sell I will just worship someone who's superior to God who is Satan okay so what they're going to do is you're going to invert this okay by celebrating Satan they can ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 56:24 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: now justify all their transgressions right as a way to empower Satan also there's a fundamental weakness in the system okay so let's go over the three main characteristics of the system the first is unity okay so this entire system is complete and unified second is symmetry symmetry or polarity and what this means is that if there's good there must be evil if there's ugliness there must be Beauty why because you cannot have one about the other okay one thing is meaningless without the other that's why you have God you must have Satan okay and the third principle is as above so below and what this means is that everything is a reflection of each other so you can never defeat God but what you can do is corrupt human beings to worship Satan so that Satan becomes everything okay all right are you guys following along okay so what you're trying to do is you're ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 57:44 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-death-fear-enforces-machine); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-inversion-war) Text: trying to invert this world and how do you invert this world what you do is you know that hell is material and you know that heaven is spiritual right what you do is you brainwash people to worship the material world and abandon the spiritual world you make money power technology science the greatest things in the world okay you get rid of God you get a religion you get rid of compassion you get you get rid of love and that's how you control the world so in other words what is happening today is a war between heaven and hell the people in charge the secret societies are interested they must make heaven in make hell into heaven and heaven into hell they must invert the world in order to maintain their power okay and that's what we'll be focusing on for the rest of the semester this war between heaven and hell how it came about ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 58:52 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: who are the ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 58:53 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: major players and what will happen yeah so I'm a bit confused about the part where um so the secret society are manipulating their power beyond the rest of the people and so they are devoting themselves into the power of Satan right but my question is so this this God and Satan they don't interview they don't interfere to our world and so these are all just decisions made by the secret society itself yep okay so if well in that case if Satan now goes beyond or has the power that goes beyond God then God wouldn't do anything to like ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 59:48 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#free-will-burden-makes-choice-cosmic); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-refuses-divine-intervention); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: rebuedle or something yeah okay great great so um first thing to remember is that because of the principle of free will God and Satan cannot interfere in this world okay secondly we have to remember like there are different secret societies there are thousands of differences to secure societies okay the secret societies that are able to use all three principles to accumulate power on the most successful okay so that's why they're promoting satan um then the third question then is um why doesn't god do anything about this okay and the answer is because if you think about it in only in time of complete darkness only when satan rules can humans fully shine right does that make sense so god has trust in us god has faith in us god loves us completely god believes that someone will stand up and do the right thing and when that person does the right thing the universe will ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:01:03 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-refuses-divine-intervention) Text: shine okay does that make sense all right so only in the time of darkness can the light truly shine and remember when someone shines that light that light is reflected in everyone else so everyone's light shines as well okay so that's the idea here you can choose to shine if you want but only if the world becomes really evil and dark and sinful can you have this option okay yeah back here ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:01:41 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: like it is there a really a god or a satan but uh like uh there's a god for all of it and this is uh a god for all of the bad things or it's just two two worlds which is one positive one negative ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:02:00 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-inversion-war) Text: okay that's that's a really good question okay so what all the saying is this okay in reality literally everything is vibrations all right how these vibrations work right no one knows but it's always vibrational so what we know is we are participants in the universe so if we all believe god exists guess what god exists we all believe sin exists sin exists okay that's why this war it's not over resources it's over perception do you understand this is a war of perception if i can get everyone in the world to believe that god is dead and satan is a true god i win okay and how do i do that well Well, I can do that by shooting rockets up into space, by putting man on the moon and on Mars, okay? Why? Because now I've destroyed the concept of heaven. Before, we've understood that the moon, the Mars, were beyond us because they are heavenly, they're spiritual. ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:03:01 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: But once I put man on the moon and on Mars and go beyond, I've proven heaven doesn't exist. I've destroyed God. I can also fake an alien invasion and pretend these aliens are Satan, okay? All science, you don't know this, but all science, it's not about discovering reality, it's about reinventing reality in a way that serves power. That's what science really is, yeah? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:03:35 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3815s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: So, is there people who, like, they don't believe in Satan or God, they choose to let others believe in them, and, like, they're making themselves into a god. Does it work? Like, because if you believe God, then God exists. Like, if everyone believes in it, so if someone makes, everyone believes in him or her, does it work to make him into a god or Satan, some kind of? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:04:07 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) Text: Okay, that's a good question, and the answer is no. Historically, what's happened is, that a charismatic leader has emerged to say that I am God's representative, okay? Why? Because we believe we're all equal, right? You're no different than I. What makes you God? Well, the answer is because I'm channeling God, okay? And historically, so, like, look at the early empires, the early kingdoms. What they can say is that I'm descended from God. God came down. I was born with my mother, and now I'm born, okay? But that person's not saying, you know, I am God itself, but I am born of God, okay? Does that make sense? Yes. Okay, all right. So this is the basic framework for what we'll be working with the rest of the semester, okay, but understand that what's happening today is a war between heaven and hell. If I can convince you that God is dead, and Satan is the true God, right? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:05:12 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave.txt#dead-world-death-fear-enforces-machine); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-cosmic-failsafe-resets-hell); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-inversion-war) Text: If I can convince you that, you know, I'm dead, right? If I can convince you that the material world is real, the spiritual world is a lie. If I can convince you that death is the worst thing to happen to you and you should do all you can to live, then hell has won, okay? But what's important to understand is this system is set up so that hell can never win out. And the reason why is the entire cosmos is interconnected. So if we do evil, if we feel pain, if there's so much suffering in the world, the earth itself rebels, right? Because of vibrational energy. And this leads to things like the great flood, which resets the world and lets humanity renew itself, okay? So there are all these different fail -safe systems in there, in here, to make sure that hell can never triumph. And that's why Elon Musk wants us to go to Mars, okay? ## The Theory of Everything Is a War of Perception -- 1:06:16 - Source title: Secret History #9: The Theory of Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MURGjjG4aA&t=3976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-9murgjjg4aa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-cosmic-failsafe-resets-hell) Text: All right? But understand that if you just use this concept of heaven and hell, even though it's metaphorical, even though God and Satan are just projections of our imagination, they do help us understand the world better, okay? Okay, so any questions? Any more questions before we conclude for today? Great, okay, so we'll continue this tomorrow. Friday, yep, okay. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay so welcome back from the break. Today I want to talk about an incident that happened in October 2015 at Yale University. What happened was this Halloween is coming up and then Halloween people like to dress up silly get drunk have a good time and a university department called the Intercultural Affairs Committee sent an email to students saying it's Halloween you guys want to have fun that's fine but please be sensitive about the feelings of other people. So for example do not dress up like a panda because we have Chinese students and they might be offended if you dress up like a panda. Okay so this email went out to all the students at Yale and they said, and one teacher who works at a residential college called Silliman okay so Yale University is divided into dormitories called residential colleges and she is a dean with her husband of this college called Silliman and to ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:18 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: her students she writes an email and says that she didn't agree with the university email she says that a university is a place for you to explore experiment and make mistakes. So yes be sensitive about the feelings of others but we trust you to make mistakes and to recover from them okay so the debate was about essentially over safe space versus free space the University said that safe space is important we must respect the feelings of others but the dean of silliman her name is erica christakis she believes an idea of free space so a university is a place for debate for questioning for experimentation and yes feelings will be hurt that's part of the growing up process the intellectual process so let me ask you a question do you guys agree with number one who argues for safe space or number two erica christakis who argues for free space what do you think okay ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 2:43 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: sorry sorry can can you speak into the mic please of why yeah why do you believe number two ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 2:51 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: is number one and number two is correct oh because i think that university is a place that you could explore yourself you know jump out of your comfort room and try the things that you never had ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 3:05 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=185s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=185s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: experienced before okay who disagrees who believes it's more important to respect the feelings of ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 3:10 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: others um like if did the college prohibit these on dressing that maybe us be an offensive to other students it's just in the campus if you like work out you know the society is still have people like wants to uh dress maybe like a panda or something so um i think it's i think it's like necessary to like to um to well uh ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 3:44 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: uh yeah okay all right any other opinions any other opinions okay so you say respect the rules ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 3:52 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: right i think i think it depends on who decided it feels like for myself i think free space will be more important i need to explore what i want but for being as a leader being as a head of the college i think safe space will be more important for them because they need to take in ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 4:10 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: control okay right but the problem is this is a conflict right if the teachers care about safe space you cannot have free space right so the question then is what do you think in principle is more important free space or safe space safe space okay okay all right okay so yeah so most students believe safe space is more important and this marks a generational shift because when i was growing up there was no debate it was just assumed that free space is more important because if you're not allowed to make mistakes if you're not allowed to explore you're not allowed to argue with other people if your feelings don't get hurt you will never grow as a person okay so this marks a generational divide or a generational gap okay so um we're gonna look at what happened because of this debate so the students who read the email were offended that erica christakis was ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 5:16 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: arguing for free space because they believe that by doing this you're gonna hurt our feelings all right and so let's look at what happened and remember this is yale university so what's happening is that when chris nicholas christakis the husband of erica christakis went to meeting he was surrounded by students and they're confronting him ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 5:52 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: telling you that you are being racist you are being offensive you admitted that you hurt us why can't you say sorry ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 6:00 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: i'm sorry for anyone okay so look i'm not saying which side is correct ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 6:26 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: both sides have legitimate points both sides have problems but you will notice that he the professor he's much older than that i think that's why i'm talking about university history students and the students are treating him you can see their faces right they're treating him with some contempt and that's not appropriate and when i was growing up we didn't do this if you didn't like a professor you thought well he's an and but you know what most professors are because they're professors okay you didn't you did not go and like stalk the guy and complain to him that's kind of disrespectful all right so the question then is why is this ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 7:17 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: happening so i want to show you another video and this video is kind of crazy okay this video as your position as a master is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live in filaments you have not done that by sending out that email that goes against your position as masters you understand that no i don't agree with that ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 7:57 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: okay so this is not appropriate okay again both sides have legitimate points but this is not appropriate right because what she's saying to him is you work for us your job is to make us feel at home and his response is that my job is to help you learn my job is to help you grow and that means openness that means debate that means pain and her response is i don't want that crap i want to feel good i want to feel at home i don't be challenged and if you think about it that defeats the entire point of university so again i'm not saying who's right i'm not saying who's wrong but clearly there's a problem here and when i went to yale a long time ago we didn't have any of this in fact this sort of incident where a student would curse a professor it was unimaginable to us okay so the ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 9:09 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: question then is why is this happening and there are three explanations for why this is happening the first explanation is parenting these kids grew up in very privileged households and their parents are very protected figure out better they pay more duties and now they're very lucky because they're of them and their parents treat them like friends and so these kids are spoiled okay that's the first explanation the second explanation is the idea of a consumerist mentality so in a university the idea is that the students are consumers their customers and the customers are always right what the customers want you have to give them so if the customers want a safe space they want to come and enjoy their time in university and they don't really challenge the professors have to meet their demands otherwise he should not have this job okay and this is a mentality that we call neoliberalism or consumerism that's the ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 10:18 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: second explanation okay the third explanation is ideological so the idea is that at universities universities are overrun by the left -wing professors who teach students that society is racist against minorities who happen to be you know black and female and they must overturn the white racist supremacist structure and you do that by telling what professors who are privileged that they are racist okay so these are three standard explanations for why this is happening because this sort of stuff is happening quite a lot in America what I want to argue to you today is that there's actually another explanation which I think is much more compelling and the explanation is that universities have become bureaucracies before universities existed to teach you how to think to help people think in a professors do cutting -edge research that helps a society improve or innovate but today universities including Yale Harvard all the universities have become bureaucracies that exist ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 11:47 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: in order to promote the interests of the administrators who want to sit in their office get really nice get get a really big salary and feel good about themselves okay that's argument I will make to you today and what I will show you is that this is not just true for universities it's true for every major organization in America and in the Western world and arguably all around the world okay that's the argument I will make to you today any questions before I begin all right okay so today's lecture is death by bureaucracy how the idea of bureaucracy the bureaucratic mindset is taking over the world all right so let's have another incident at Yale okay this is yeah law school and a student named Trevor Cobalt he says an email he has a party he says an email to all the students at Yale Law School and then there are actually not that many ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 12:53 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: students at Yale Law School there's maybe 300 okay but all the students get it and he says that he's gonna organize a party and it's a trap house party and you know it's it's a bit of a joke because trap house means actually a drug house a party and there's a plan for a trap house. there's not a bun on Twitter with federal law school there's maybe 300 but all the students get it and it's a trap house party a party and you know it's a bit of a joke because So what's the good thing this is trap house means Student poll the fuck crock called partyón a place where drug dealers sell drugs. But black students, African American students, read the email and they're offended. And they're like, are you making fun of black students? So they write a letter of complaint to the deans of Yale Law School. And there are two deans who investigate, okay? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 13:28 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Their names are Eldick and Cosgrove, okay? And what Trevor Cooper does is, he actually records the meeting, okay, secretly. For 20 minutes, they talk. And basically, Cooper does not believe he did anything wrong. He sent an email and he said it was a funny email. He thought it was funny, okay? But the deans tell him, you think it's funny, but other students found it offensive, so you need to apologize. And Cooper's like, okay, well, I'll tell you what. If these students thought that what I wrote was offensive, then I will talk to them. We will talk together about why they found the email offensive and we will settle this amongst ourselves. And the deans are like, no, no, no. We want to help you guys out. We want to protect you guys. We're afraid that if you guys meet, you guys will fight even more. And Trevor Cooper is like, well, I want to hear what they think. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 14:29 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: I don't want to hear this from you. I want to hear what they think, okay? And then what happens is that the deans, the deans start to threaten Trevor Cooper. They basically tell him, these things amplify over time, so you must apologize right away for your sake, okay? And they tell him, listen, if you do not apologize, then this might affect your career. This might affect your social circle, okay? So they're threatening him. And what they say is, we're doing this for your sake, okay? Eric says he worries about the email affecting the student's reputation, not just here, but when you leave. You know the legal community is a small one. And he says, you know what? I will write the email for you. I will craft the apology for you. And Karl Skroft warns that escalation is a possibility if the student doesn't apologize, okay? So this is coercion. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 15:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#bureaucracy-institutional-death-atlas); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-manufactures-problems) Text: And again, the student, it's not clear what the student did wrong. Some students found it offensive, but it's not clear what rules, or laws, or what regulations Trevor Colbert broke, okay? It's not clear. So why is this happening, okay? My argument to you is that it's happening because these guys, Karl Skroft and Eric, they need things to do. Because being a dean of a university, it's not a real job, right? There are professors who teach, there are researchers who do research, but deans actually don't do anything. So when you have a bureaucracy, and you have a dean of a university, bureaucrats go make problems for everyone in order to create solutions for everyone, okay? So another saying this is 20 years ago, 30 years ago, when I was a student at Yale, if you had a problem, you had to go talk to a professor because there was no one else to talk to. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 16:35 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Nowadays, you can talk to like 20 or 30 different deans, dean of student affairs, dean of student faculty, who knows, okay? But there are like all these offices that you can go to. And quite honestly, it's the same at the school as well, right? If you don't like me as a teacher, there's like four or five different people you can complain to. And quite honestly, a lot of you do complain, okay? So I know about this. And what is happening is these universities have become bureaucracies. Now the question then is, why the bureaucracies? And the answer is, in the beginning, as a university, you have to build your reputation, right? So you work hard, you focus on teaching, you focus on research. So it's a struggle to become a global brand. Once you become that global brand, there's nothing else to do. There's no more ideology, there's no more struggle. So what happens is the people in charge start engaging in rent -seeking behavior. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 17:34 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: They take advantage of the position in order to make their life easier. And then they pass on this privilege to their friends and then to their children. And this creates a bureaucracy. And the university starts to exist in order to empower these people at the expense of students and professors, okay? All right, so to show you how ridiculous this has become, here's another example. This is from CNN, okay? And this is the year 2020. A University of South California professor is under fire for using a Chinese expression students allege sound. It sounds like an English slur, okay? So there's a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur, an insult in English. These two words actually do not sound the same, okay? You know what the word is, right? 那个 那个桌子 那个电脑 Okay? It's not the same as the English word, but it sounds a bit similar. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 18:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So what happened was some black students, African American students, who were not in his class, okay? Wrote a letter of complaint. And honestly, if you read it, it sounds like a joke. It sounds like a prank, all right? So let's read it together. Let's, okay, so this is a professor, Greg Patton, and he's just teaching communication Chinese. He's just teaching Chinese to his students on how to communicate in China when you do business, okay? And he says, look, 那个, it's just a filler. It doesn't really mean anything. And he says it a few times, but there's no bad intention in what he's saying, right? I mean, he's just pointing out a fact. So what these students write is, this phrase, clearly and precisely before instruction, is always identified as a phonetic homonym and a racial derogatory term and should be carefully used, especially in the context of speaking Chinese within the social context of the United States, okay? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 19:30 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So this is a ridiculous idea. And honestly, it sounds like a joke, okay? It just sounds like these students are playing a joke. And the professor, and the professor, and the professor, the administration just ignore this, right? Guess what happens? The dean, okay, the head of the business school, announced that a different professor would take over teaching Patton's class. He fired Patton. And then he said, Professor Patton repeated several times a Chinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English. Understandably, this caused great pain and upset among students. And for that, I am deeply sorry. It is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in class that can marginalize students. I am sorry that I've hurt and harmed the psychological safety of our students. We must, and we will do better. Okay? He's being retarded. It's a joke, it's a prank, and he's taking it very seriously. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 20:30 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Why? Because he's trying to protect his job. He's trying to look good. He's trying to explain why I'm the leader, because I protect everyone, okay? So then again, why is this happening? Well, why is this happening? well again the idea of bureaucracy so this is the university of california san diego this is student enrollment okay so you can see a slight increase in student enrollment but look at this senior management deans administrators managers boom okay boom this is called rent -seeking behavior this is people in power take advantage of their power to give jobs to their friends who do nothing every day and because of that they're always looking to cause problems for everyone else especially professors who do real work okay so let's just look at universities as you can see the blue is teaching so it's really interesting is that the investment in teaching has gone down okay so the investment in ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 21:45 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: teaching has gone down the blue okay but look at this the red is administration so over the past from 1980 to today over the past 40 years universities have put less money into both um administration as well as maintenance but i've put more money into administration into bureaucracy okay this is where your money is going guys all right so this is illinois you see a massive surge in managers at the same time student enrollment is going down it went down to three percent all right so this is a paper written about the swedish education system the higher education system system okay it's it's no different anywhere else all right so let's so the argument is that bureaucracy is ballooning in swedish higher education so let's look at some interesting statistics all right so what's happening is that this chart tells you that teachers are teaching more and more students in higher education okay so this ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 22:54 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: is the number of teachers teaching more and more students okay teachers are teaching more and more students but administrators are managing less and less students and the reason why is teachers are fewer and fewer but managers are more and more that makes no sense okay um so you can see that teachers and researchers it's pretty flat okay it hasn't really explained that much but secretaries people who do real work it's going down but managers are going down it's going up okay so the university is facing problems the first thing you should cut other people do no work right but it's the opposite people do no work the managers keep their jobs and in fact they pay themselves more the professors and the maintenance and the secretaries lose their jobs to cut costs okay um this is how much they're paid as you can see over the same time period secretaries are getting paid less and ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 23:56 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: less teachers are getting paid less and less but look at this managers are getting paid more and more these are the different departments okay of a university so as you can see okay the the jobs the departments that do real work i.t uh hr they're going down but management is going up all right so the people who do actually no work their jobs keep on going up and up and they get paid more and more and as i said the problem with bureaucracy is not only do managers do nothing every day but they expect others to do more work okay so professors researchers teachers they're doing more work because the managers are given more paperwork to do okay like evaluations and all that so professors spend all now almost 20 of their work day on paperwork given to them by managers and this paperwork is not necessary it's just given to them to justify ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 25:02 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: the jobs of the managers okay this is america we go back to america and as you can see um this is a university called gallaudet debt and as you can see over a 20 -year period there's a blue are the salaries of professors and it's pretty stable okay you went from 72 to 86 not a huge increase but look for managers okay the president it doubled from 141 to 280 it doubled right now the salaries are over three times as much as faculty this is connecticut at yale the president makes two million dollars a year at westland he makes three million dollars a year okay um this is a private university called stratford university and they went bankrupt right now more and more universities are going bankrupt because obviously you have too many managers and all they do is um get huge paychecks for doing nothing eventually you're gonna go bankrupt right so yeah i ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 26:14 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: can start sorry to interrupt but this school ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 26:20 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: the school board is not stupid so i mean this is a fact and so why why don't they just change ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 26:26 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: anything that's a great question okay the reason why is to all friends the school board the president the vice president they're all friends and that's why they didn't do this because they control all the power they're all friends and it's in their best interest to steal together right because we're still by yourself then you might get caught but you're still together then you're untouchable okay so this is exactly why i asked that question and they were wondering are they real people and are they not high school dummies? what happens at stratford university the university goes bankrupt and because the president and the vice president are stealing from the university stealing because they are um not only collecting huge paychecks but they're also expensing everything to the university so for example for example they buy a car or they have a gym membership they charge the university and if the university can't pay for it what ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 27:14 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: they do is they lend money to the university okay okay all right so schultz is a president he lists himself and his wife as the biggest creditors claiming that the university owes a couple 2.5 million for eight promising notes okay so the university could not pay uh their cars or the house mortgages and they say and the social are like don't worry about it we'll lend you the money and then when the university went bankrupt was like okay now you have to pay me back all right so so again how were they able to do this because the filing also shed light on payments to university insiders in its final year of operation the college paid out of over 30 000 in segments to seven trustees so the people at the top were getting paid off even as the university was going bankrupt though the filing doesn't differentiate which expenses were richard's and which ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 28:10 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1690s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1690s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: were marianne's the filings for 2020 alone showed over 18 000 in lease and insurance payments for the short cars okay so they had cars and they were making university pay for these cars over four point seven million in loan payments and collateral return to ego bank on behalf of schultz okay so they're also making the university pay for their houses as well and then you're like how can they do this well the answer is because in america the rich always wins in the court system so whoever is able to hire the best lawyers always wins out and they have a lot of money the university is bankrupt they don't have a lot of money so they will win out okay so i point this out because this is gonna what this is what's gonna happen to many universities over the next five ten years in america because you have a system where you have the ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 29:00 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: managers at the top they all best friends they're all stealing from the university together and eventually the university will bankrupt so that's america okay but it's not again it's not just the universities it's every bureaucracy every organization is happening like this so you look at canada in canada you can see a rise of not percent in the population but look at the government okay it's went up by 26 percent um in america you can see a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs starting in about the 1980s because these jobs are being offshore to china but at the same time you see this steady increase in government jobs okay so people in america are doing less real work and more people are becoming bureaucrats okay so as you can see the growth in the government is basically in management okay people who will work no it's pretty flat but look at the managers look at the administrators ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 30:05 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: okay they're going way up and it's a pretty steady increase all right so how do we know the government doesn't really do anything okay so there's a study that shows us that um it's looking at rules okay so rules help society be more efficient so as you can see um the number of rules have gone down actually number of significant rules rules that actually impact you day to day have gone way down but this is interesting the paperwork has gone up okay so this tells us the managers the administrators in the federal government of the united states they don't do anything but produce paperwork that's meaningless that has actually no impact on the lives of ordinary people okay okay let's look at the military military so everyone believes that america has the world's greatest military because it spends the most on the military and has all these high -tech weapons right the problem is the ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 31:07 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: bureaucracy in the military right now so you see what's happening is an increase in management because the ratio of manager officer to soldier is going down okay so you have more officers and less soldiers that's a problem you're fighting a war all right so um in a civil war and this is the 1860s you had one officer for every 14 soldiers now it's one to four okay the biggest problem is the increase in generals okay so you can see three and four -star generals have increased the most in world war ii um america had about 12 million soldiers they had seven generals who are four -star today america has about 1.2 million soldiers they have 40 four -star generals and this is a huge problem why because if you're a four -star general you have a lot of privileges beyond your salary so uh this is from raymond dubas who works in the pentagon ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 32:18 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: and he writes about the perks of a four -star general a four -star has an airplane a three -star often doesn't in a three -star get an airplane when he needs it not always okay so a four -star general always has his own personal airplane what is his personal airplane let's call it g5 this is what a g5 is guys guys. This is what a G5 is. This is his own personal plane. It's always there for him. If he doesn't want to fly, it's waiting on the tarmac for him, okay? You can see how luxurious it is. This costs $50 to $60 million per plane. Every four -star general has this plane. At the same time, guys, what's happening to soldiers? The soldiers don't have enough to eat. There's 1.2 million veterans on food stamps, okay? That's 8 % of all veterans in America. The people who actually fight, the people who actually make ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 33:18 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=1998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: sacrifices for their country don't have enough to eat, while the generals fly around in these really nice planes. That's the state of the American military, all right? So it's not just the military. It's every single U.S. government department, okay? All the administrators, you see massive increase in administration, all right? So people who do real work is the red. People who do actually no work is the blue, okay? So people who do science, math, engineering, 621. People who do administration, 1782. So in every federal bureaucracy, you have bloat. You have managers who do nothing, and you have very few people who do the actual real work. It's true for every single federal organization in America. So this just shows you the ratio of managers and supervisors, to other employees. What's really funny about bureaucracy is evaluation is very important. Who does the evaluation? Managers do the evaluation. So at the end of the year, they ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 34:28 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: do performance review, and what happens is they tell, they evaluate themselves and their friends, and say, you really did a great job. Then look at other people who do the real work and says, you guys can do better, okay? So outstanding is the highest performance review for the government, right? So 64 % got outstanding, okay? Managers who do nothing every day. 47 % got outstanding for every other job. All right? So it's a rigged game. Same thing with hospitals. The brown is the growth in doctors. You can see it's pretty steady, but look at the administrators, okay? The yellow are the administrators. It's blowing up, okay? And so it cost— it forces health care costs to go up the reason why health care so unaffordable United States is not because it has the best health care in the world it doesn't it's so it's expensive because it's got so many administrators who do nothing every ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 35:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: day all right so what do what do these managers do well managers always think of new ways to screw everyone else okay so these are health insurance companies and this is their denial rates okay so you work hard for 40 years you pay your health insurance okay and then maybe you get cancer and then you go to a doctor the doctor charges you like a million dollars and you're like you don't have a million dollars but you have insurance so you go to insurance company it's like hey I paid 40 years of insurance fees can you help me out I mean and look the insurance company you're not healthcare about a third 32 % of all claims are denied and they do this as practice because if you fight them they'll say okay you know what well well well agreed to pay you back okay but if you don't fight them then they're like great ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 36:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: okay so it's extremely unethical and so that's what managers do every day think of new ways to screw over their patients and doctors all right so why is this happening all right why is America like this why is the West like this why is the entire world like this so this is France Kafka and he was writing before World War One this is his most famous book called the trial okay I'm not sure if you guys have read this book or heard of this book okay it's very good and the novel it's a very interesting novel because the main character Joseph K he works at a bank he's a black bank clerk and he has never gone into trouble his entire life okay he's very obedient he's very nice he just sticks to himself and then one day the police come and arrest him the police don't tell him why and Joseph K tries to ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 37:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-processes-compliant-innocence) Text: figure out why but he does not know what he did wrong he does not know why he's been arrested and then he's put on trial and the judge doesn't tell him what he did wrong okay and Joseph K is trying to figure out why is this happening to me okay and this is his answer its purpose is to arrest innocent people and wage pointless prosecutions against them which as in my case lead to no result how are we to avoid those in prison becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning okay because society has become a bureaucracy and bureaucrats need things to do so they go the police go and arrest innocent people and then send them to trial okay now what he doesn't say is the police could arrest criminals right but the police don't want to do that because the criminals might fight back or the criminals might be mean okay they ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 38:38 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-processes-compliant-innocence) Text: rather arrest an innocent person because they know the person will be compliant okay that's a logic of bureaucrats how do I justify my existence by doing as little work as possible okay so this sounds strange but let me tell you a story this is a true story I'm in Toronto with my two boys and I let them run around the park okay and and we've been doing this for two months so I trust him one of my boys he's four years old he runs too far and I lose track of him okay a stranger finds him and starts talking to him but my boy doesn't speak any English so people now surround my boy like where is your parents and he is scared because he doesn't speak any English so he faints okay that's what he does he faints to protect himself zoms like where you gonna put that dog? so they call the police ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 39:39 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: and they call the paramedics they come and they make sure he's all right okay now i find him okay and now the police interview me they interrogate me and i explain to him what happened and at this point they just let us go home right but they insist on taking us to the hospital i'm like if we go to the hospital we can be stuck there for like 12 hours we can be in line and like the paramedics the mat has already told us there's something wrong with him okay it's not heat stroke he just fainted but he's fine his vital signs are fine but the police kept on insisting meanwhile there's a fight going on at the park okay and i'm thinking to myself why are you guys bothering me and not going to arrest those guys who are fighting somewhere else and the answer is because it's easier to deal with me than ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 40:31 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-manufactures-problems); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-processes-compliant-innocence) Text: this to go arrest those guys okay that's how bearcats think they're always thinking of ways to you justify the existence but not do real work okay and that's the message of the trial eventually society becomes so bureaucratic that the bureaucrats only think about how to make problems for ordinary citizens because life becomes easier for them okay does that make sense all right let's move on to the origins of totalitarianism by hannah rand hannah rand is the 20th century's one of the 20th century's most important and most important and most important and most important and most powerful intellectuals and she's writing about how nazism came to dominate germany now communism came to dominate soviet russia and how these two regimes led to the deaths of tens of millions of people how they started world war ii how they create the holocaust how they create the famine okay and in her book she she says that these ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 41:37 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: two regimes are religious cults they're evil cults and they have three defining characteristics okay the first is that they're removed from reality they don't care about reality they have a religion they have a faith of a mindset and they want to impose their faith on reality okay don't care about reality remove from reality that's the first thing okay second thing is that when you remove from reality your only logic is movement expansion okay you only know you're right if you're growing okay so if the nazis their faith their religion would lead to the destruction of germany but their membership was increasing so they were right they were winning these wars against european countries therefore they're right okay they cannot use logic to explain their actions so they use movement to exp to justify their actions okay that's number two one and two means number three which is the nazis and the soviets hated reality they ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 42:46 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: defied reality they fought against reality so even though the nazis were losing the war even though it's clear they cannot defeat the soviet russia they double down because in their religion movement is what matters defining reality is what matters and that's what led to the destruction of germany okay all right so and she explains that totalitarian regimes have these three characteristics they're removed from reality all they care about is expansionism and they want to defy reality as their true test of faith what she does not say in the book is that these three can can be applied to all bureaucracies all governments meaning that over time all governments all bureaucracies will tend towards totalitarianism because they have that's the only way they can justify their existence okay does that make sense all right so let's let's talk about this concretely okay what do i mean by this so this is a book by james scott ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 43:54 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: it's an excellent book by the way uh called seeing like a state and he's trying to explain to us how properties blockages work how governments function and for him governments actually create more problems than they solve why well he lists four reasons the first reason is that the government is trying to explain to us how bureaucracies work how net disco works how they work how things are secret but the other clear reason that he tries to put his book through in both ways is that he next question destroys spontaneity, it destroys imagination, okay? Alright, so let's use an example of this, alright? So, my question to you is like, who are you? Can you tell us who are you? Like, who are you as a person? Tell us who you are as a person. Yeah, just use one or two minutes to introduce yourself. Who are you as a person? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 45:13 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Hi, my name is Banker, and I grew up in Beijing. And, I came to Moonshot, this school, in 2024, last year, and... ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 45:28 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay, wrong. Wrong, okay? That's not the correct answer. The right answer is, you're a teenage boy. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 45:33 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Oh. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 45:33 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay? That's the correct answer. Alright? You believe that you are an individual with individual aspirations, ambitions, with a past, with a history. The state doesn't care. The state needs to classify you in a way. That it can use you, okay? You're a teenage boy, which means, like, two years time, you can be employed in a factory. Or, I can send you to war. Okay? That's all I care about. Okay? I don't care about your name. I don't care about who you are. I don't care who your parents are. I don't care about your past. I don't care what you like. All I care about is the fact that you are a teenage boy, and therefore, I can exploit you for labor. Okay? That's how states think. Okay? So, the bureaucratization of society. Second is the idea of high modernist ideology. So, because the state is a monopoly, the bureaucracy is a monopoly, it becomes arrogant. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 46:22 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: It has hubris. It's overconfident. And it wants to impose its ideology on everyone else. It believes that through its own planning, it can achieve paradise. Okay? So it becomes authoritarian, meaning it refuses to listen to criticism, to feedback, to questions. It is not open to debate. It imposes its will on people. Okay? Which creates a weak civil society. And if, as an organization, you're not getting feedback, you're not allowing for openness, then you will wither and die. Okay? And that's why states, governments will always fail in the end. Okay. So, he uses two examples. The first example is what happened in the late... 19th century Germany. So in Germany, there's lots of forests. And the state is thinking of ways, how can we best monetize the resource of the forest? Well, there are certain trees that you can cut down for lumber, right? The problem is that in a forest, most space is occupied by useless shrubs or greenery or trees. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 47:42 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay? So, their bright idea is, you know what, here's a simple solution, we'll burn down the forest and just plant trees that we can harvest for lumber. Right? Brilliant. That's a brilliant use of space. It's more efficient. The problem though is that when you do that, the trees are now susceptible to disease, to weather changes. A forest is resilient because it's diverse. Okay? So, that's what Scott says. Monocultures are, as a rule, more fragile and hence more vulnerable to the stress of disease and weather than polycultures are. Any unmatched forest may experience stress from storms, disease, drought, fragile soil, or severe cold. A diverse, complex forest, however, with its many species of trees, its full complement of birds, insects, and mammals, is far more resilient, far more able to withstand and recover from such injuries than pure stands. So, nature has diversity because it allows for resilience. Okay? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 48:52 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Some parts of the forest can die, but the rest of the forest will recover from anything, whether it's disease, or drought, or weather. Okay? And we humans are the same way. If you let humans do what they want, we are resilient. So, some communities might die off, but other communities will adapt. The problem with resilience is that we are resilient. The problem with a state, with a government, is that it refuses, it sees diversity as an enemy. Okay? So, if there's a natural disaster, it's very likely that a lot more people will die off than otherwise. Okay? Another example is forest communism in Tanzania. Okay? So, it's a top -down system, and their idea is, okay, these farmers have their little small farms, and they grow their crops, but that's not efficient. What if we just got all the farmers together and had coffee, and they all had coffee, or wheat, or whatever, and then we can sell this to other countries? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 49:58 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=2998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay? And of course, you can imagine that this will lead to starvation, because it's the same principle as the forest. If there's a weather crisis, or if there's a disease, then all your crops die off, and then your people die off. Okay? What these planters carried in their mind's eye was certain aesthetic, what one might call a visual codification of modern world production and community life. So, the problem with bureaucrats is they have no imagination. Everything to them has to be mapped out. They like things that can be mapped out, that can be a blueprint. Okay? They like to brag about these things, because that's how they see the world. But real world, nature requires that. It requires diversity, it requires organic. Okay? All right. So, he gives examples of how the state transforms society. So, before, what happened is that people would just come together, and they would organize their communities according to their needs. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 51:05 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay? It's a bottom -up process. But the state wants to create permanent cities where people are just in one place all the time. Right? That's why you have cities. Before, what's natural is just for people to live on small farms and share stuff with other people, to trade with each other. The problem with this is the state cannot tax you. So, what the state does is it brings you to cities, makes you work in a factory so it can tax you. Okay? The point of giving you a wage is so it can tax you, to exploit you. Property. Before, it was very common for people to share. Share property together. Okay? Now, it's all owned and controlled by the state. Resources are the same thing. Before, people would just use resources according to their needs. But now, the state wants to centralize these resources. Okay? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 52:06 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So, it can tax and exploit people properly. Okay? So, that's what a state proxy does. So, what are the consequences of the over -bureaucratization of society? Well, what's happening in America is that what's happening in the United States is that while consumer goods like cars, clothing, and cell phones are going down, what's going up are hospital services. Schooling. Okay? Housing. Why? Because these are monopolies controlled by bureaucrats. All right? So, what's happening is with the over -bureaucratization of society, it's almost impossible for middle class people, ordinary people to have a good life now. Okay? Here's another really interesting chart. The black shows you the growth in the stock market. Okay? And you think, wow, this is a good thing. Okay? The problem is, first of all, only 10 % of people in the United States control most of the stocks, over 90 % of the stocks. The other issue is this. The other issue is if you look at prices, yeah, it's gone up. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 53:15 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: But if you just turn... But if you look at stocks as units of gold, if you just go to buy stocks, guess what? The price of stocks have gone down. That's a blue. Okay? If you use money to buy stocks, it goes up. But if you use gold to buy stocks, it goes down. What this is telling us, okay, very simple, is we are living in a lie. All this wealth generation, it's all a lie. It's not real. We just think it's real. We're living in a fairyland created by bureaucrats to fool us. To believe that we are prosperous. Okay? Does that make sense? The amount of gold that you can buy with stocks has gone down. Okay? And so the blue is the gold, the black is money. The money is worthless. Okay? All right. Another problem that bureaucrats has created is people don't want to work anymore. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 54:15 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So in America, this is called quite quitting. In China, it's called or. Okay? People don't want to work anymore. Lying flat, let it rot. People don't want to work anymore. Why? Because it's pointless to work in a bureaucracy. Right? Leaders don't care. The organization doesn't need you. You are alienated. You are told what to do and you cannot negotiate. You cannot rise within a bureaucracy. You're being asked to work too much. You feel as though you're just a machine. Okay? And so the way you rebel is. Lying flat. Okay? Or quite quitting. Okay? So your over -bureaucratization of society means that people now have become more lazy, more complacent, more indifferent. And what this also means is that democracy is declining because people's voice, people's power is declining. Okay? So you can see that people feel as though democracy is in the decline. In fact, experts estimate that democracy, the capacity for people to ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 55:30 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: participate in politics, the capacity for people to influence politics has declined rapidly these past 10 years. Okay? So we are living in a world that is becoming more and more bureaucratic and it's killing us. Okay? All right. Questions? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 55:49 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So as you say, we now live in a very corrupt world. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 56:00 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: We live in a bureaucratic world. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 56:02 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Yeah. A bureaucratic world. So what, so I can't really see the future of no matter it's the mankind or like, are there any good side of the current world? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 56:18 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay. What are the good things about the current world? Well, the good side is that because things have become so corrupt, people now are forced to think for themselves. Right? Before, you could just trust your teacher. You could just trust your parent. You could just trust authority figures. But now you see them for the bureaucrats that they are. And so now you're forced to think for, forced to think for yourself. And so you're now forced to educate yourself. You're now forced to explore different opinions. So people's minds are opening. And that I think is a very good thing in today's world. Okay? Any more questions? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 57:00 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: So will it help if we cancel most of the managers and jobs? Or just like keep one or two of them? Like. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 57:10 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. So that's a really good question. Okay? If this is a problem, why not just get rid of the managers? And the answer is they have all the power. Okay? They would much rather send you to war and kill you off than to tend to lose their jobs. Okay? So go back, go back to the example of Stratford University. Their mentality is, how do I maintain my privilege? They don't care about society. All they care about is maintaining their privilege. Right? So they are a bankrupt society. And then when society becomes bankrupt, they expect society to still continue to pay them off. Okay? So these are parasites and there's nothing we can do about it. Yeah. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 57:48 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Um, as we just said, are there less teacher and less professor or like, like most people would choose to quite quitting, then who are they going to control if there's less people to work for them? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 58:03 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: You know, okay. That's a really good question. The problem is they don't think like that. Don't think about how efficient is my organization. Don't think about like, am I going to have a job next five years? All they care about is maintaining the position right here and now. Okay? And the way they do that is they hire their friends or people like them into other management positions. So they become like a cabal. Or a, or a network onto themselves. And for them, they become parasites. And what parasites want to do is they want to feed off the host. When the host dies, what's going to happen? They will switch to another host. Right? Why? Because they're all part of larger networks as well. So that's how they think. They're thinking, well, you know, as long as society survives, I will continue to have a job. Okay? So maybe this university goes bankrupt, but there's another university I can go to and exploit. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 59:11 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: And you know what? It works. Okay? Because people at the top protect each other. All right? Okay? Does that make sense? They don't care about this host. They don't care about this organization. They don't care if it goes bankrupt because they can always move on to another organization to bankrupt. Okay? What matters is to maintain their patronage, the political networks. So they all help each other. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, great. Any more questions? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 59:45 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Is it possible to stop or even reverse this corroborating system? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 59:51 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Yeah. I keep on explaining this. Okay? They are the ones in power. And so what has to happen is also society has to collapse before society can regenerate, before society can rejuvenate. Okay? But before society can collapse, they have a lot of tricks up their sleeves. Okay? So for example, they can create civil wars where the left and the right fight each other and they're left alone. Or they can use AI to control you. Right? AI is God, guys. Listen to God. Okay? Or they can fake an alien invasion. Okay? Or they can send you to war. They can start all these pointless wars. Okay? But whatever it takes in order to maintain their privilege and their power, that's a mentality. And that's how they got to where they are. Okay? And that's how they lead to think. Any more questions, guys? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:00:47 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay, Mr. Zhang. My question is, so I'm a 12th grader. So if you are in my shoe, like if you are in a 12th grader nowadays, what would you do? Like, are you still going to pursue for a further education, a higher education, or were you going to just drop out? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:01:04 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. That is a great question. So you are... You guys are about to go to university, and as I told you in this class, university is a complete rip off. Okay? All you're doing is you're paying for the nice salaries and perks of these administrators at university. You're not really paying for the professors. All right? You're paying for the administrators to have their nice lives. And so what I would do is maybe not go to university. What I would do is focus on education, on learning, by reading a lot of books, by asking a lot of questions and doing my own research, by learning real skills. Okay? So in a society like this, where the game is rigged, going to university means that you'll just lose. Okay? Maybe before, like 20, 30 years ago, it was good to go to university because you might become a manager, but now all those slots have been taken up by the elite and the children. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:04 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay? There's no space for you. Okay? So the only thing you can do in this context is to really start educating yourself in real knowledge. All right? Reading books, meeting lots of different people, exploring the world. Okay? Like really develop real knowledge. Okay? That's the best solution. All right? Any more questions? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:34 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Does it matter to the major? ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:36 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: No, it does not matter to the major. It's all a scam. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:38 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3758s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3758s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay. Yeah. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:39 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay. It's all a scam. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:42 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3762s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Okay. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:02:45 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: It's all a scam. Okay? It's all a scam. Doesn't matter what university you go to, liberal arts, Ivy League, state, it's all a scam. Doesn't matter what your major is, economics, psychology, humanities, computer science, it's all a scam. Okay? The system exists so that the managers, administrators can continue to feed off the system. All right? Okay, guys. So we'll continue this next week. Okay? All right. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. ## Bureaucracy Makes Problems So It Can Sell Solutions -- 1:03:15 - Source title: Secret History #8: Death by Bureaucracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-10-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_yhi3-prw&t=3795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hk-yhi3-prw.json) Text: Bye. Bye. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Okay, good afternoon class. So this will be our last class before the break. We have a three -week break coming up. I hope that during these three weeks you have a chance to reflect on what we've learned because when we come back we'll continue to build on the ideas that we've learned so far. And so today I want to talk about the meritocracy. The meritocracy means that people should succeed based on their talent, their ability, and their hard work. And in theory this sounds like a good idea. And in fact the school system is built around the idea of a meritocracy. The good students go to the best universities and then after they graduate they will get the very best jobs. That's the idea. But what I will show you today is that there are actually lots of problems with the meritocracy. And one of the problems I want to show you is that this area is actually destroying American society. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:07 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=67s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=67s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to explain to you why America has the world's most complicated admissions system. So in China, when you apply to university, you take the gaokao, you take an examination, and then based on your test score, you get into the university. and this is a system that most countries use only in America it's a system that's complicated your transcript matters but so does your standardized test scores the SAT the TOEFL so does your extracurriculars so does teacher recommendation letters and so does essays in which you have to say to America I'm a really good person why does it matter if you're a good person okay so it's it's the world's most complicated admissions system so what I'll do first is explain to you why we have this system okay so we start off in England in the 1600s and at ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 2:14 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: this time in history in England there's a major conflict between religious belief and the king okay the king is head of the Anglican Church which the official Church of England and there's no difference between the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church the only difference is a Catholic Church the head is the Pope in the Anglican Church the head is the king of England that's the only difference in terms of rituals in terms of belief it's the same now there are people called Protestants who believe there should be no Pope there should be no King you should as an individual be able to access God directly and you do that by reading the Bible so at this time in history there's a major conflict between the Protestants the Puritans or the dissenters and the king and it leads to wars basically and so the solution is the king says to the dissenters hey there's this new ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 3:23 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: place called America it's far away go away there guys and leave me alone okay so the dissenters go as pilgrims to America to build their own theocracy what they believe to be the New Jerusalem or paradise on earth heaven on earth now one core belief of the Protestants is you must read the Bible in order to understand the mind of God therefore education literacy learning it is the divine imperative and that's why they established Harvard okay Harvard was a school designed to train people into the religion called ministers in order to study the Bible in order to spread the truth of the Bible now Harvard then would encourage the development of other universities Yale Princeton okay and collectively they would be known as the Independence Society of the United States. the Ivy League so this is how the Ivy League started because America was founded as a religious colony and everyone needed to read the ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 4:40 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Bible so they needed places to study the Bible and so they founded Harvard and then Yale and then Princeton but over time as America became more wealthy it became also less religious and so the Ivy League became social clubs and what I mean by that is these were just places where the rich of America went to become friends okay it was to build cohesion right and remember we discussed the idea of cohesion where you if you commit transgression you become more cohesive so these guys did not study they drank they dress up like girls they had wild parties they play football they took risks okay and they became uneducated and they became uneducated and they became uneducated and they became good friends and they they went on to become the leaders of America as America became much more diverse much bigger and much more wealthy it recognized that it need to educate its population and ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 5:44 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: so it started state schools okay state schools what we call A &M okay you may have heard the term Texas A &M okay it means Texas agricultural these schools were built to train farmers engineers and soldiers okay trades people in order to help grow the American economy now and these the system was extremely successful America was able to industrialize really really quickly and most people went to these schools only the rich would go to the Ivy League because they were country clubs or social clubs over time America as we came to as began to industrialize more and more it recognized that it needed science and technology so it basically copied the best universities in Germany and Germany was at this at this time the main center of science and technology in the world and so they built them called research universities okay and a couple of the first research universities were to call the University ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 6:59 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: the University of Chicago and John Hopkins okay so in the about nineteen hundred you have this system okay of State schools where most people went you're a poor person you go to learn a trade and then you go and get and get a good job and make good money if you were you want to be a professor or scientist you went to these research universities if you're a rich you went to these social clubs called the Ivy League and quite honestly it was a really good system and America should have stayed with this system but what happened was who's unhappy now about the system these guys right harvard young princeton because if you think about it over time they become less and less relevant because just because you're rich doesn't mean you're smart all the smart people are going to to chicago and john hopkins and so over time we can expect to call john ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 7:57 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: hopkins to overtake the ivy league okay and that's why harvard decided to in to institute scholarship programs so he wanted more smart people into its i want to welcome more smart people into its campus okay and this creates something called the sat okay this is the origin of the sat the std was founded as a scholarship program to identify the best and brightest students from all over america so that they can come to harvard and help harvard be the best university in the world okay but now who's angry about the system harvard's not happy that the best best students are going to chicago and john hopkins so they so they quit the sat and now the best students are coming to harvard now who's unhappy the rich kids right okay the alumni the legacies because before their kids just just their kids could just go to harvard and have a great time now it's hard ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 9:03 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: for them to get in they have to take a test and also they're in class with smart people people okay so now harvard has a problem on one hand it wants the best students in america but on the other hand it still wants to maintain good relations with its alumni so that's why it created a new system okay in this new system grades are not the only factor test scores are not the only factor now it's focused on holistic holistic okay the new one is holistic specifically character just being smart is not good enough you have to be a good person you have to be a strong and brave and a virtuous person okay so they have a new concept called character but this word was created to basically keep jews out okay because jews are really smart but jews like to read books so they're not good at sports and so like that's not ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 10:00 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: good we need people who are manly who are strong who are brave we need white people okay so they develop this holistic system and that's why we have the system that we have today where it's not just test scores it's essays it's transcript it's teacher recommendations because they want to identify the jews and keep them out okay today we have the system to identify both the jews and the asians to keep them out yes they would even identify for your household like they will ask for your profile exactly exactly so all the information that they're looking at today is ethnicity your um They want to keep, they basically want to keep Asians out of Harvard, okay? It's that simple, all right? But I'll explain more as we go along, okay? All right? So the purpose of all these changes is to ensure that Harvard remains the institution of power in America. It doesn't make sense. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 11:01 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Harvard's not interested in academics, it's interested in power. Therefore, it must ensure that the people who come to Harvard are the ones who are most likely to succeed. And that's why it doesn't want all Asians. It wants a mix of students, okay? But I'll explain this later on. Okay, now in this new system, there are two key concepts. The first key concept is the idea of secrecy, okay? Secrecy just means like, I'll never tell you why I let you in or why I didn't let you in. I don't have to, okay? The other is the idea of discretion. Discretion means that I can, I can choose to let in for no reason, okay? So in China, if you get a really high score on the Gaokao, Beidai or Qinghua has to let you in. Not in America. You can be the best student in the world, they don't care. If they don't like you, they'll just say, we don't want you, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 11:57 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: They have their own institutional reasons to let you in and they'll never tell you, all right? And the system was created to ensure that Harvard is able to recruit the best students in the world. But what's important for us to remember is, from Harvard's perspective, best just means the most likely to succeed, not necessarily the best academically orientated student, not the smartest student, okay? So let's run a thought experiment, okay? Let's just say that you are a Harvard admissions officer and you're presented with four students, okay? You're Harvard, the best university in the world, okay? And I give you four students. And you can only let in one student, okay? You tell me who you let in, and I'll tell you if you're a good admissions officer or not, okay? The first is the best math genius from China, okay? Everyone's like, nah. Second is the best basketball player in the world, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 13:08 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Basketball player in America, okay? Okay. The third is the best student. And the fourth is the best math genius in the world. And the fourth is three generations of Harvard, okay? So your father, your grandfather, your great -grandfather went to Harvard. Who do you let in? You guys know the system. Exactly, okay? You don't even think about it. Like, I let in number four, okay? Because you know that in the world, he is the most likely to succeed. You're not interested in educating smart people, all you want to do is, graduate rich people, okay? So let's just say this guy doesn't exist. Then who do you let in? Exactly, yep, this guy, okay? Definitely not this guy, okay? Definitely not the math genius from China, because you know that he's probably going to end up as a math teacher, right? Math professor, we don't want that, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 14:10 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: We don't want professors, we don't want lawyers, we don't want doctors. We want people who will be head of a company. We want people who will become a famous rock star, okay? One people who will become president of the United States. That's what we want, okay? And, yeah, so either one of these two is fine. No, no, okay? We want these guys to apply because that helps us look better, right? We want people to apply so we can reject them so that our metrics look better, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, that's how the system works. All right. So, let me explain this. Let me explain why they do this, okay? Why is the system set like this? The best analogy for Harvard, Yale, and, sorry, go ahead. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 15:00 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Like, does all the admission officers in American college doing this intentionally? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 15:06 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay, that's a really good question, okay? So, if you're the Ivy League, you do this, because everyone wants to go to the Ivy League. But if you're an average school, you're actually just trying to recruit students, okay? So, this is like the school, this is the mentality of admissions officers for elite schools. But most schools are just like, they want you to come in and pay the tuition, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 15:30 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So, why did Yale pick you? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 15:32 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Yeah, I'll explain later on, okay? All right. So, Harvard is, first and foremost, a venture capital firm, okay? Your investment firm. So, let's pretend you're a venture capitalist, and I'll give you two options, okay? And you tell me which option you pick. Option one is, I want to open a restaurant, and I need a million dollars from you, okay? But guess what, guys? My uncle works for the government. So, I can guarantee that he and his friends will come to my restaurant every single day. And so, there's no risk. There's absolutely no risk involved. I guarantee we'll make at least $500,000 a year. No risk. Easy money, okay? Number two is, I want to start a website that's AI and Bitcoin and all of this, okay? Problem is, I don't even know how to write code. I have no experience writing, doing a website. And my idea isn't really fleshed out. But if it works, we can make $1 billion, guys, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 16:52 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1012s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1012s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So, option one is, low risk, really good plan, solid returns, $500,000 a year, okay? Option two is, concept, vague idea, I have absolutely no experience doing any of this, but we could possibly make $1 billion, okay? Which option do you take? You always take this, guys, okay? Right? Because, like, you don't need $500,000. That's boring. You want $1 billion. And that's the mentality of Harvard, you understand? They want to take a risk on you. They don't want students who are solid and who become a professor. That's boring, okay? They want crazy people who will change the world because that makes Harvard look good. Okay, another way of saying this is, they rather, so, they rather have a class where 10 people succeed and 99 fail rather than 1,000 people succeed slightly. Does that make sense? Okay? Why? Because we only remember the 10 people who succeed. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 17:57 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: We forget everyone else. Okay? That's the Harvard mentality. And that's why they're the most famous university in the world, because they're looking to create as much brand name recognition for themselves as possible. Okay? All right. Does that make sense? All right. Now, how do we know if they succeed or not if you're Harvard? Well, remember the class that we learned last class, which is dissociative personality disorder. And what we discussed last class is, in a game, people who are most likely to succeed have this characteristic. Okay? And so, I'll explain why using myself as an example, because I got into Yale. Okay? So, what we're going to do is this. We're going to examine my application to Yale. And then we're going to look at how the admissions officers would perceive my application. And how they would judge my potential. Okay? So, three things. The first is what my application actually says. Second is they will examine my background. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 19:13 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: And the third is they will then judge my potential. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 19:18 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 19:19 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: All right. So, my application. All right. So, I went to a public high school. It was good, but it's not a private high school. You get a better education at a private high school. Plus, it's in Canada. Okay? Which is like, everyone's kind of stupid in Canada. Okay? So, and I was like top 10 of 200 kids. So, it's good, but it's not number one. It's not number two. It's just top 10. Okay? I was number 10. My SAT was 1400 out of 1600. And it's like decent. But, you know, people in China get 1550, 1500 easily. Okay? So, not that great. I was on a soccer team. I was not athletic. The soccer team just needed players. So, I signed up. Okay? I was also editor of the school newspaper. Okay? And I was captain of a quiz team called Reach for the Top. Okay? So, that's a Canadian thing. But I was captain of it. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 20:22 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: I organized it. Okay? So, these three activities, they're fine, but it doesn't really demonstrate leadership potential. Right? You're not like head of student government or you're not head of model United Nations. All right? On my essay, I wrote about Richard Feynman, who is a physicist. It was a really boring essay. It was, I mean, like anyone could have written it. I mean, like ChatGPT could have written it. Okay? It was just a bad essay. My teachers, I mean, they liked me, but they really didn't like me because I seemed aggressive to them. You know? I wanted grades too much. So, the word they use is ambitious. They thought I was ambitious. Ambitious. Ambitious is a dirty word in Canada. It means you don't play by the rules. It means you're too aggressive. It means you're too pushy. Okay? All right? So, this is my application to Yale. As you can see, it is a decent, but not a stellar application. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 21:25 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1285s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1285s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So how did I get in? Well, because there was some information that they could also derive from application that made them interested in me. The first is that I was poor, so I couldn't even afford the application fee. I had to apply for a waiver for my application, okay? So I was poor because I was an immigrant. So I was born in China in 1976, and my family went over in 1983 when I was like six. Okay? So I was a poor immigrant in Canada. I transferred high school. So I was in a poor high school, then I went to a rich high school. Okay? So basically I switched neighborhoods. My family lived in a poor neighborhood, and then I applied to go to a rich high school in a different neighborhood. So I had to take the subway there every day, and I spent like half an hour on the subway. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 22:23 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: And guess what, guys? Canadians don't like that. Okay? Canadians want you to stay where you are, and that's it. So when I told my high school principal that I was going to transfer high school, she got very upset, and he said that, I'm going to write a discipline letter, okay, a discipline letter, and it's a very serious thing, and I'm going to put it in your folder so that when you apply to university, they will know that you were suspended from the school. And that's basically like a really bad thing, okay? So I got a discipline letter, and when I went to the rich high school, I had no friends. Why? Because they didn't like me, because they don't like it when someone new comes in. Okay? I didn't know their culture, I'm sort of like ambitious, and I was grade -grubbing, but the thing is, I was desperate because my family was very poor, and I wanted a better life, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 23:24 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#meritocracy-converts-trauma) Text: Okay? So again, they know all this, okay? They know I'm an average student, and they know that I'm pushy and ambitious. Okay? And that's why Yale let me in, because it's clear from this information that I had dissociative personality disorder, okay? What does that mean? It means, first of all, I'm desperate, okay? Desperate means like, if I don't get into Yale, I'll probably kill myself. I mean, if I didn't get into Yale, I would drown. I couldn't breathe. It was a life or death issue for me. They can see the desperation. They want that, okay? Second thing is, I was insecure, okay? If you're an insecure person, it means you're not happy with who you are. It means there's a void in your heart, and therefore, the way to fill the insecurity is through achievement, okay? So if I made $1 million, I wouldn't be happy. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 24:36 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: I would need to go make $2 million. If I made $10 million, I would see people around me who had $100 million. I wouldn't be happy. And I would be like, I need to go make $1 billion, okay? So an insecure person sees the world as a competition, and you're always achieving and achieving, okay? And that's how you succeed, okay? And the third thing is, I was not a moral person, okay? I was ready to break the rules in order to succeed, transgressive, okay? So I was not supposed to leave my poor high school and go to the rich high school. That's breaking the rules in Canada. It's not illegal, but you're not supposed to do that, and I didn't care. The principal said I couldn't do that. I said to him, screw off, I'm still going to do it. I went to the rich high school, everyone said to me, you're not welcome. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 25:30 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1530s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: I said, I don't care. I'm going to get my good grades, and I'm going to get into the Ivy League. I don't need you guys, okay? So they saw the desperation, they saw the insecurity, they saw the hunger and the immorality, and this is part... Okay? This is all part of dissociative personality disorder, and that's why they let me in, because it's possible I go crazy, okay? It's possible I become depressed, but it's also possible I change the world, okay? Does that make sense? That's how they think, because they're a venture capital firm. They're looking for the riskiest investment with the best possible return. Looking for people who can become president of the United States, who can change the world, who can make a name for themselves, because if they do that, that makes Yale look good. So you remember the name, okay? It's all about brand name recognition, okay? Does that make sense? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 26:25 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#meritocracy-converts-trauma) Text: All right. Okay. So you're like, okay, well, this is fine, but... And what's wrong with the system, okay? Why would this be a bad thing? It works. Why would this be a bad thing? Well, the problem with this is... Because Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are so powerful, not only are they looking for people with trauma, okay? I was traumatized as a child, but they're also traumatizing the world, okay? If that makes sense, all right? So the meritocracy exists to find people with trauma, and because it exists, it's traumatizing the world, okay? So let me explain how and why. All right. Any questions so far? Is this all clear? Yeah? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 27:21 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So let's say if Harvard and Princeton are these college students, then why they're still so famous, because the system is just unreasonable and unequal for the students who have good grades. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 27:44 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay. All right. That's a really good question, okay? So why are Harvard students, Yale students, Princeton students so famous? Okay. The reason why is when you do investment, you don't do all risky investments, okay? You always have diversity in your portfolio. So the majority of students are still students who will be successful no matter what. Why? Because their families are rich, okay? So if you go back to the example, right, those four, you let in the child who comes from three generations of Harvard graduates, okay, and that's the majority of people who get into Harvard, and then you let in the athlete, okay? So the athlete, the legacy, these are the people who are the majority. Those are the safe investments. And then you have like 1 % of positions for people like me, who you don't really know, but there's potential there, so let's take a risk, okay? And quite honestly, it's a crapshoot, ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 28:38 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: because it's all very discretionary, so basically, it's all intuition, okay, they don't have a formula for this, they just think, this guy is interesting, let's just let him in, okay? And it's possible, on an essay, you just wrote something really interesting, and they laugh, and it's like, okay, let's take a chance on this guy. They have that 1 % of positions available for risk, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so I'm not the average Yale student, I'm a marginalized Yale student, okay? So this system, the meritocracy, the way it's set up, it creates trauma, okay? So let me explain why. So let's look at university, Yale, then we'll look at high school, okay, then we'll look at parenting, okay? So you think, oh, you get into Yale, you can just coast, you're happy, life is simple, okay? The fact of the matter is that, when you get into Yale, Yale is actually the Hunger Games. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 29:41 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Have you read the book, The Hunger Games? It is a relentless competition. Because once you're in Yale, you're still competing. Okay? But now you're competing against the most competitive people in the world, okay? So maybe at this school, you can be the best student. Your parents love you, you have lots of good friends, you're head of student government, you feel really good about yourself. You go to Yale, and then you recognize that you're a nobody. Your parents are far away. And you're now in competition with the best students from all around the world, who all want to kill you, because it's a zero -sum game, okay? Own it, strong or survive. And so everywhere you go, it's a competition. In the classroom. It's a seminar style. So you're with 20 other students, and the professor's asking you questions, and you're all competing to impress the professor. Okay? Outside the classroom, you're competing to get into clubs, and something called secret societies. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 30:37 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1837s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1837s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? But you're also competing for graduate school, for law school, for medical school, for scholarships like the Rhodes Scholarship, okay? So Yale, it sounds nice, but once you get in there, from the first day, it's an endless pursuit of achievement. It's just competition after competition after competition. Wherever you go, you're being judged by someone, okay? You're being judged by the professor, or your classmates, and everyone's looking to basically kill each other, because it's a winner -take -all system, okay? So this is very traumatic, and it makes you so insecure that you go through life thinking like, life is just like that. Everyone's an enemy. I have to achieve and achieve in order to feel good about myself. I cannot stop working hard, otherwise I will be killed by other people, okay? So people, guys, from Yale have a deep sense of insecurity, even those who come from the wealthiest families. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 31:34 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Okay? They're always looking to achieve. And that's what Yale wants. That's what Harvard wants, because these are the people who will be most successful in life, okay? They're not happy with $1 million. They want $1 billion. Once they have the billion dollars, they want $10 billion, okay? It never stops. Okay? So to get into Yale, you have to go for high school. And high school has to train you for Yale. So it's also a competition, also a Hunger Games, okay? To train for high school, your parents have to have a different parenting system, okay? So I'll give you two examples of parenting, okay? The first system, which is the healthy system, you say to your child, I love you unconditionally. No matter what you do, I will support you. I will always be here for you. And if you say that to your child every day, your child will be happy, fulfilled, and secure in life. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 32:31 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1951s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=1951s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#meritocracy-converts-trauma); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: But the person will probably end up as a teacher, okay? Now you can also say to your child, I don't have time for you, but if you win the swimming competition, or you place first on your math test, or if the teacher say nice things about you, then I'll take you for ice cream. Okay? And so it's a system that neglects the child, while at the same time, demands the child, okay? And this is trauma. And again, most kids will be traumatized by the system, but there are some kids who will thrive in the system, and the trauma will encourage them or drive them to achieve and achieve and achieve, so that they get into Yale, so they can compete in the Hunger Games, so they can go on in life. And... Compete some more, okay? And that's how the system is set up. And this is what we call the meritocracy. And as I'll explain to you later on, it is destroying America and the world, all right? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 33:41 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So that's how the system is set up. And guess what, guys? Is it different in China? Not really, okay? All right? So the concept of meritocracy has conquered the world. It started in America. It actually started at Harvard, but now it's conquered the entire world. And that's why the world is so messed up. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 34:02 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: So as you say, Yale gives you so many negative emotions, so will you still go there if you got a second chance? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 34:11 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2051s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2051s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Okay. So that's a really good question. Would I go there if I had a second chance? And the answer is probably, okay? And the reason why is the system is set up that you don't really have a choice, right? If you want to move ahead in the world, and you're poor, what are your options, right? So before, in America, there were opportunities for poor people to succeed. So for example, George Washington, the first president of the United States, he never went to college. Abraham Lincoln didn't go to the Ivy League, and these are considered the two greatest presidents in American history. Unfortunately, today, if you look at the presidents, if you look at the top people, they all went to the elite schools, okay? So the system is set up so that if you want to succeed, you have to go through the Ivy League. Okay? But I do not plan to send my kids to the Ivy League. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 35:01 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Okay? The last thing I would do is have them in such a competitive, traumatic environment as the Ivy League. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. All right. Any more questions? So thank you for your question. Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So let's do a PPT, and I'll explain to you how America is destroying the world. Okay. Sorry about this. Okay. So I actually need to go back to the beginning. Okay. Death by meritocracy. All right. So let's go. Okay. So from this graph, what you can see is this. In the year 1875, the best universities in the world were actually not in America. They were in Germany. Germany was producing the most Nobel Prize winners. Second was France, followed by the UK. Okay? And America was non -existent. But because of its investments in research universities, it started to move up and up. And then it won World War II. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 36:06 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So now it can import all these German scientists. And that's why it dominates today. So the best universities in the world are now America, or in America, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Okay? Now, as universities get better and better, they're lending more students. Okay? And as you can see, more and more American students are now going to college. Before in 1940, it was only about 5 % of all males who went to university. Today it's almost, it's 35 % basically. Okay? Because that's a huge step. And you would think that with the increase in college graduates, America would become a much more equal society. Right? Well, the opposite has happened. Okay? America has become a much more unequal society. There's something called the Gini coefficient, which measures inequality. And as you can see, these past 20 years, it's gone way up. It's among the highest in the world. I mean, America right now ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 37:14 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: is one of the most unequal societies in the world, even though over a third of its young people go and graduate from college. Okay? This is a graph of social mobility. Okay? So the graph, the top, this number shows you if the number of people who are doing better than their parents. As you can see, in the year 1940, most people are doing better than their parents. But over time, it's no one's doing better than their parents. Okay? So your generation, you will not do better than your parents, most of you. Okay? Income inequality has gone way up in the United States. The top 1 % control most of the wealth in the United States, as you can see from this map. Okay? So even though America has become wealthier, it's actually going to just the 1%. At the same time, universities are becoming much more expensive. Okay? So this is leading to student debt. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 38:27 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? And you can see how student debt, student loans, has gone way up. So in America, student loans, student debt, is the only type of debt that you can never, ever get rid of. You can't declare bankruptcy. This debt cannot be gotten rid of. Okay? When you die, it passes on to your children. Okay? So this is a terrible situation for young people in America. This is actually a more stark graph. Where tuition has gone way up, but wages have stayed pretty stagnant. Okay? And it's leading to depression among teenagers. Okay? And also, the thing about this graph is the middle class and wealthy students are much more likely to be depressed and identify as depressed than poor students. All right? So this is leading to a crisis in America. So what has happened? Well, you have two individuals who create the meritocracy. The first is named James B. Conant. And he was president of Harvard for a couple of decades. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 39:38 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: And he was the person who brought in the SAT in order to identify scholarship students. And he made Harvard into the best research university in America. Okay? And he was determined to make Harvard into the best university in the world, as well as an institution of power in America. Meaning that it would now decide who wins and who loses in America. The man who would help him is named Harry Chauncey. He was dean of Harvard, who was in charge of the scholarship program. Then, he got a new job at a new organization called ETS. You know ETS because it's Education Testing Services. They're the ones responsible for the SAT, the TOEFL, the AP, the GRE. Okay? So, these two together create the modern meritocracy. And as you can imagine, because they're both from Harvard, the entire system is set up to benefit Harvard. Okay? And guess what, guys? It worked. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 40:35 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? So, in the year 1940, 90 % of applicants to Harvard got accepted. Now, it's gone way down to 5%. Okay? Stanford is even lower. Okay? So, now it's so hard to get into Harvard. At the same time, look at the cash of Harvard. Okay? This is called the endowment. The amount of money they have at Harvard is just ridiculous. They have more money than most countries in the world. Right now, their endowment is about $40 billion. Okay? And it's just the past 30, 40 years. The success of the Harvard alumni is just incredible. The most billionaires in America, Harvard graduates more billionaires than any other place. Okay? 127 billionaires in 2024. Second is Stanford. All right? No one else comes close. But not only that, but it's also anyone with over $100 million. Most of them graduate from Harvard. 7 % of all, sorry, 7 % of all people in America who have over $100 million net worth graduate from Harvard. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 41:47 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? And you have MIT, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Princeton. Guess what, guys? Ivy League plus MIT. Okay? Okay. $30 million. Still, Harvard is number one. Okay? All right? So their graduates are the most successful in America. Okay? But it's not just rich people. It's everyone in the American elite. Okay? Most of them are graduates of the elite universities. Okay? So this is an article in Nature. And they looked at all the elite in America. And what they discovered is they all, most of them went to certain schools, the elite universities. Um. And this is what's causing a lot of global conflict in America today. All right? So let's just look at what they found. The red is Harvard graduates. Okay? The green are Harvard plus Ivy League. And as you can see, Harvard is everywhere. Even among generals, admirals, there's Harvard people. Okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 42:55 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: They dominate in terms of philosophers and professors. But they're everywhere. Even Pulitzer Prize winners, billionaires, New York Times bestselling authors, Fortune 500 CEOs, federal judges, senators. Okay? They're everywhere. And that's the power of Harvard. This is a, this is a portion of, of Harvard graduates compared with the general population. This is the portion of Harvard graduates compared with the elite. Okay? You see, you see the contrast. So Harvard and Ivy League dominate America today. Okay? Now what's amazing is Harvard people don't know if they dominate Harvard. They don't know they're elite. So they did a survey. And so they asked people in these elite organizations, how many people do you think in this organization went to Harvard and other elite universities? So the red is the actual number. The blue is the estimate. So Harvard and Ivy League don't even know they dominate America. Okay? And you ask them like, no, it's conspiracy theory. No, you're spreading conspiracy theories. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 44:07 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: We're just average people. There's no way Harvard controls America. All right? Now, as I mentioned at Harvard, just going to Harvard is not enough. You have to join the elite social clubs, the social secret societies. So Harvard is a place like the, at Harvard everyone wants to join the porcelain club. Okay? At Princeton is the Ivy Club. These are secret societies. Oh, they're not really secret, but they're senior, they're senior societies. Okay? The clubs that everyone wants to join. At Yale, it's Skull and Bones. Okay? Skull and Bones is the most famous college secret society. They're not that secret because they like to brag that they're Skull and Bones. They're so powerful that they produce a lot of presidents, a lot of rich people. Okay? 2004, okay? George W. Bush versus John Kerry. Guess what, guys? John Kerry is the Democratic nominee. George Bush is the Republican nominee, right? They're both Skull and Bones. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 45:15 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: They're both Yale Skull and Bones. Okay? So it's a rigged game. Barack Obama, okay? Barack Obama, Columbia, went to Harvard Law School, but he promised hope and change. He told people in 2008 that the game is rigged against them, that he will be their champion, that he would make a difference. That he would make America more fair. Okay? And he won. Why? Because... So this is his book, Dreams of My Father. It was a New York Times bestseller. It basically launched his political career. He won because in 2008, the U.S. economy collapsed. Why? Because the U.S. banks, the U.S. political system was controlled by Ivy League graduates, by just people who are friends with each other. And so they cheated. They became corrupt. Okay? They basically destroyed the American economy. And people protested against all this. And Barack Obama promised that he would come in and do something about it. Okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 46:28 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Well, he did do something about it. All right? So his economic team, he appointed quite a few individuals. These are the two most famous. Larry Summers, who was a Harvard graduate as well as a president of Harvard. And he was treasury secretary under Bill Clinton. And he was the guy who created the mess in the first place. And then Tim Geithner, who was a Dartmouth graduate. And he was a treasury secretary. Okay? So these are friends of Wall Street who came in to save Wall Street. So a lot of critics say, you know, it's Wall Street who created this mess, who destroyed the American economy. They should be punished. Or at least they should feel some pain. If you just let them go and help them out and save them, then you create a problem called moral hazard. The idea of moral hazard is if you don't have any consequences for your mistake, you will do it again. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 47:20 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? And then Larry Summers said, no, no, you guys are seeing it incorrectly. We have to save the American economy. The goal is not to save the banks and my friend. The goal is to save the American people and the American economy. And that's why we're bailing out the banks by giving them free money. Okay? And then the critics were like, well, how about all these American friends? Homeowners who've lost their homes. Shouldn't we help them as well? And do you know what Larry Summers said? Moral hazard, guys. Do you understand? Moral hazard? If we help out these ordinary Americans, they won't learn anything. Okay? So as you can see, people were angry. The banks got saved. The people got screwed over. And guess what, guys? Because of this, who did we get? This guy. Okay? This is why he won. There were millions of Americans who voted for Barack Obama because he promised hope and change. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 48:22 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: And then they voted for Donald Trump because he promised to destroy the system. Okay? That's why we have Donald Trump. Now, funny story about Donald Trump and Barack Obama. So Barack Obama and Donald Trump were always adversaries. In fact, Donald Trump led a movement which accused Barack Obama of not being born in America. He's born in America, but Donald Trump was saying, no, he was actually born in Nigeria. His father is from Nigeria. So Barack Obama made fun of Donald Trump. 2011, there's a big dinner, the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where Barack Obama gets on stage and he makes fun of Donald Trump. Okay? He says, hey, if Donald Trump ever became president, this is what the White House would look like. It'd be a casino. Okay? And this is funny, right? Donald Trump was in the audience that day. No. And everyone was laughing at him. And that's what motivated Donald Trump to become president of the United States. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 49:19 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=2959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? So thank Obama for Donald Trump. Without Obama, there would be no Donald Trump. Okay. So it's not just Barack Obama. It's a lot of people in the American political class. They're just soulless robots. Okay? This man is JD Vance. He's the vice president for Donald Trump. Like Barack Obama, he wrote a book, a bestseller called Hillbilly Elegy. And it's possible he becomes president of the United States as well. Now, you may not know this, but when he first came to prominence, he opposed Donald Trump. He thought that Donald Trump would be a fascist and be a dictator and all that. And then suddenly he changes his opinion and says Donald Trump is the greatest guy in the world. Okay? So these guys, like JD Vance and Barack Obama, they have no ideas of their own. They're just puppets. They just tell people what they want to hear. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 50:20 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: All they know is a chief. Okay? So another example of this, this man's name is Johnny Kim. Okay? And he'll probably run for president of the United States one day or at least be a U.S. Senator. Why do I mention him? Guess what, guys? He was a Navy SEAL, which is the top position you can ever achieve in the military. He was a secret soldier. Okay? He went to Harvard Medical School and became a doctor. Then he joined NASA and became an astronaut. This is like the ideal Ivy League graduate. Okay? This is what Harvard wants. Now, why is he able to do all this? Well, because this is his Wikipedia entry. Okay? In 2002, the police went into his house and killed his father. He was there and he saw the police killed his father. He was traumatized for life. His father was a domestic abuser. The father was violent, crazy, hit him all the time. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 51:20 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? So he has dissociative personality disorder. And, in fact, if you look at most of these really successful people, they do have dissociative personality disorder. And that's why he was able to do all this, because he turned the trauma into an energy to drive him to greater and greater achievement. The problem, though, is he has no ideas of his own. He's just a puppet, guys. Okay? So let's conclude and summarize why the meritocracy is so great. It creates this extreme inequality in America. Okay? So it destroyed the school system, because all people care about are their grades now. Right? People don't even care about learning anymore. All they want are the grades. In fact, if you get a bad grade, you'll probably complain to the teacher, in which case the teacher is now afraid to teach you. Because if the teacher tries to challenge you, make you a better student, you'll just complain. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 52:21 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? And if you don't succeed, your parents will come and complain. Okay? Traumatized children. Okay? Okay? If you look at the rate of mental illness in China, in America, it's just insane. Death of American dream and social mobility. You're not going to be richer than your parents. You're just not. Constitution of wealth, power, and status in the 1%. The rich just got richer. The political divide between left and right. Okay? So you have all these political divisions right now in America. Corruption. So Wall Street just steals and steals and steals, and no one can do anything about it. Destruction of American identity, globalization, immigration, woke ideology. Okay? Incompetent mismanagement. You look at COVID. You look at the fact that America now has $37 trillion in debt. An elite that is soulless, mediocre, and unimaginative. Okay? Barack Obama. Judy Vance. This guy, Johnny Kim. Okay? They're just robots. Oh, and Donald Trump. Okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 53:19 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3199s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3199s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So thank you, American meritocracy, for destroying the world. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 53:25 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 53:26 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: All right. Questions, guys. I know this was a lot to take in, but do you have any questions? You're all depressed and sad and shocked. Yep. We have a question. Thank you. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 53:53 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Is there a way to get rid of all those bad things? All the bad impacts of this? I mean, is there some suggestions for us to help us better develop ourselves, not just using this system? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 54:09 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3249s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3249s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay. Great question. Okay? So the real solution is to destroy the Ivy League. Okay? And there are different ways you can destroy the Ivy League. The best way is to make them public, for the government to come in and control them. Because a lot of the issues stems from the fact that these are institutions that only care about their own power. Okay? So the government were in charge, they won't be so powerful and secretive. Okay? So that's the best solution. It's not going to happen. Because Harvard, as you can see, it's too powerful, as well as Yale. So as an individual, your best option is to recognize how evil the system is and choose to learn for yourself. Okay? Because when you go to Yale or Harvard or Princeton, you think you're learning, but you're not. You're being indoctrinated and being brainwashed and being traumatized to be turned into basically a robot that's only focused on success. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 55:13 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So you need to recognize this, be truthful to yourself and focus on real learning. Okay? So what do I mean by that? Okay. So let me, sorry, let me explain. Okay. So success. Okay. So what is success? What is real success? Well, before the meritocracy, you didn't have to go to college, but you need to have certain values and attitude. Okay? So the first was to be open -minded. And so recognize that you have a lot to learn and ask questions, learn from other people. Okay? And what people recognized was failure is the best teacher. Why? Because failure forces reflection. Right? And resilience, which leads to learning. Okay? And this is a model that most people understood before the meritocracy. Keep in mind, make mistakes because if you make mistakes, you will learn from them naturally. And then you can reflect and then you can become resilient, and then you will grow and grow, and then you will achieve your true potential. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 56:34 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay? The meritocracy has destroyed this system. Why? because now we just want you to focus on grades, okay? And to get good grades, you cannot fail, you understand? Failure now is a problem. If you fail a class, you may learn a lot from your failure, but it won't look good on your GPA, right? It will destroy your GPA, and you won't get into Harvard, okay? You don't have failure, you cannot have reflection, you cannot have resilience. Also, before, you had time for yourself. Nowadays, every minute is organized for you, right? You come to school, the school day is very long, then you have lots of homework, and then you have activities, then you have to have dinner, then all that. You don't even have time to just think for yourself, to just chill and do what you want to do, okay? It's intentional, okay? So it's destroying reflection, you don't have any resilience, and so you can't learn anything. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 57:41 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So it's a really bad system, because if you're like me, okay, you're just a normal person, your family's not rich or powerful, and you go to Yale and Harvard, it actually makes you fail in life, okay? Let me explain why. Okay, the first is, it makes you arrogant. It makes you think, I went to Yale, therefore I know more than anyone else, so I don't have to ask questions, I don't have to learn anymore, okay? Second, is that you're not going to be able to do anything. Third, is that it makes you utilitarian. You only care about things that help you succeed. You're not actually interested in real learning anymore. Okay? And the third thing is, all you care about is success, so you're narrow -minded. You don't want to explore, okay? You're not so creative anymore, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 58:33 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: So it's a great system if you come from a rich family, because this system trains you to go into power. But if you're just like me, and you need to work hard and be talented, and be committed to your passion in order to succeed, this actually destroys all that. And that's why probably the most traumatized people in America are those who came from poor families, who had a dream of going to the Ivy League, who got in the Ivy League, and then they just failed in life, because they don't have the, you know, life skills, right? They don't have the ability to succeed. They don't have the reflective ability. They don't have the resilience. They're not open -minded. They don't accept failure. They're not committed to learning. They're only committed to success, okay? So if you're rich, go to Harvard and Yale and Princeton, because you'll become more rich. But if you're a poor person, going to these schools may be a mistake, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 59:34 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Certainly for me, it was a mistake, because after I graduated, I stumbled through life. For me, it was just failure after failure after failure, because I wanted to succeed right away, okay? I refused to put the time and effort to learning a real skill and learning a real passion. And so in my 30s, late 20s, early 30s, I became really depressed. And honestly, I thought about killing myself, and I was playing video games every single day. I just hid in my parents' basement. And so I was traumatized by Yale. It took me a long time to get over the trauma and recognize this is a false system, okay? Yale traumatized me, and I need to relearn to be open -minded, to embrace failure, to be resilient, to embrace learning, okay? And that's why I'm a teacher today, to teach you guys that to be successful in life, this is the formula, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:00:40 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: You don't need Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, all right? All right, any more questions, guys? Yep? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:00:54 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Well, can we do both, like open -minded and get the grades and being rich? Okay. Is it a possible thing? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:01:02 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you, okay? All right, okay. So I'm gonna have to go into some psychology here, okay? But psychologists have discovered that we have two modes of being, okay? There's the altruistic mode. There's the altruistic mode. And there's the utilitarian mode, okay? Okay, so utilitarian is what we call fight or flight, okay? Altruistic is just family and connections. So imagine we're back in the village, okay? And most of the time, we are, yeah? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:01:43 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: But you said that all the psychology is just rain -washing. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:01:48 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Okay. Yes, psychology is not all brain -washing. There's some validity to it, okay? And so I'm not saying this is something like fact. I'm just saying this is a good way to understand how things work, okay? All right? All right, so in the village, we spend most of the time being close to other people, right? We wanna be friends with other people, so we help each other out. But sometimes we have to be very utilitarian. So for example, if there's not enough food, okay? Or we're being attacked, guess what? Run, man, okay? So there are these two mindsets. And what psychologists have discovered is they are mutually exclusive. It's either one or the other. The other thing that they discovered is the altruistic mindset is what leads to creativity, okay? Creativity and passion and love, okay? And the utilitarian mindset is one that's focused on rewards, okay, like grades. So it is impossible to both want to have really good grades as well as help the world. ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:03:04 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: But what's interesting is Harvard wants that, okay? So in your application, you have to say to Harvard, I have a passion. I will die for my passion. But at the same time, I wanna be a billionaire. And I will die trying to be a billionaire. At the same time, I know it's important, okay? I know it's important to be loyal to Harvard. So I will die being loyal to Harvard, okay? And the only people who can do this are people who have the soul -stiff personality disorder. Okay? And they can test for that in your application. They're so experienced that they know exactly how you think, okay? They all, like, come on, guys. You will not apply to Harvard if you're not utilitarian, okay? Right? But you have to pretend you're not. And that's what makes people crazy, okay? ## The Meritocracy Eats Its Children -- 1:03:50 - Source title: Secret History #7: Death by Meritocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_8fJjtGxA&t=3830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ju-8fjjtgxa.json) Text: Because you're basically an actor. Because you're basically an actor. Harvard wants the best actors in the world. They want people to go for, like, pretending that's something they're not, okay? They want Barack Obama. The problem with Barack Obama is he's soulless. He stands for nothing, okay? In 2008, he promised people hope and change. The moment he gets in office, he's like, sorry, man, I was just joking. Why did you believe me? Okay? Then in 2012, when it was time for reelection, he said, oh, you know what? I what? I'm hoping change, okay? In 2016, he's like, you know what? Screw that. I'm going to go water skiing now, okay? So the man is actually soulless, stands for nothing, all right? Any more questions, guys? Okay, great. So thanks for today, and I'll see you guys after the break, okay? So we'll continue this after the break. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 0:01 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So we continue the topic of secret societies and we're gonna focus on their secret weapon Which is mind control. They're able to turn you into a programmable robot that they use as a weapon But before I start that let's review what we discussed last class. This is a class of ideas and concepts So it's really important you understand these concepts because we will build on them throughout the semester okay, so last class we discussed the transformation of religious worldview during the course of Western history So at first there was the mother goddess then transition to polytheism then monotheism and During this transition the way that our minds perceive the world radically change in three aspects the first is that Before we understood that mind led to matter So the universe is just one giant mind that vibrates Okay, and the intersection of these vibrations creates atoms Then that leads to matter. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 1:22 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=82s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=82s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: Okay, but today in science class you're taught that's the opposite. It's the brain that creates the mind and as you will discover throughout the semester This conception that the brain creates the mind it's very problematic Right, so we will discuss this throughout the semester Okay, the second big difference is before we understood the world metaphorically okay So we saw that the world was controlled by these forces that we could not see and feel but they were there We gave names to them the gods now, it's all literal In science class you're taught that if you don't see it, it doesn't exist. If you cannot measure it, it does not exist. The third big difference is that before we were intuitive. We trusted our heart. We trusted our eyes. But today in science class, you're taught to not trust your eyes. You're taught to trust the data, the tools, the theory. So today is counter intuitive. And this is why school is so hard. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 2:39 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#mass-society-constraint-atlas); [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-requires-social-control) Text: We humans are learning machines. That's what we're designed to do. To learn, to absorb, to adapt. But school is hard because you're taught ideas that go against your own intuition. So these are the main concepts that we learned last class. So now I want to talk about mind control. So let's go back to the four earliest civilizations. These are mass societies. So these four societies that first came into being are China, the Indus Valley civilization, the Harappan civilization, which is now northern India. Mesopotamia, which today is Iraq. And of course the last one is Egypt. And of course, Egypt was for thousands of years, the most powerful, the wealthiest, the most influential. Now, when you have a mass society, your biggest problem is social control. How do you control the population? How do you get everyone to get along? And in each society, there are different solutions, okay? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 4:03 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So in China, we developed a bureaucracy. And what underpinned the bureaucracy? The first is something called the keju, which is the civil service examination. So everyone's attention, everyone's energies was focused on getting their child to pass the keju to become an official, and that's what gave China social stability. And guess what, guys? It's still around today. Today we call it the gaokao. Okay? But it's the same system. No difference at all. The IVC, the Indus Valley civilization, created religion. And what's remarkable, And what's remarkable, about the religion is it is one that preached egalitarianism, equality, as well as peacefulness. And the religion becomes the prototype for Buddhism today, okay? So the religion was Puro -Buddhism, and for the longest time, the IVC was peaceful, egalitarian. It was a very prosperous society. Mesopotamia, the solution was war. The difference between Mesopotamia and other places is that there are no natural defenses. In China, we have mountains, deserts, seas to protect China. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 5:22 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-requires-social-control) Text: But in Mesopotamia, it's a desert. And so it's really easy to attack. And therefore, they had centuries of warfare. And that's what kept the society together, because they were always at war with each other. And with Egypt, the solution was the Pharaoh, right? So, Egypt is unique in that they believed the Pharaoh was God. And therefore, everyone had to obey their God. The problem, though, is that the Pharaoh was not God. And as a human in charge of an empire, his life was always at risk, okay? So now I'm going to ask you a question. What does it take to be a pharaoh? What does it take to be a great leader? In school, you're taught, what skills do you need to be a great leader? Just shout out the answers. Leadership skills, but what are they? What are they? Responsibility, right? How about, what else? Wisdom, openness, empathy, excuse me? Regret, respect, ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 6:44 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: yeah, what else? Knowledge, right? Okay, this is what you're taught in school. And we can go on for a long time. There are hundreds of skills you need to be a great leader. Guess what, guys? Wrong, okay? To be a great leader in the world, in history, you need three skills. And if you just analyze what the leaders of today are like, it'll make sense to you, okay? So Putin, Trump, every leader in the world shares these three skills, okay? The first is unpredictability. People cannot predict. They cannot predict how you will behave. You are a mystery to people. That's the first skill. Second skill is high stress tolerance. So Donald Trump is probably the most hated man in America. Guess what, guys? He goes to bed and he sleeps like a baby. He does not care, okay? He gets up and he's tweeting, he's giving speeches, he's talking to reporters. He's the happiest man alive. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 7:57 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: Okay? He's the happiest man alive. He does not care. And so the last skill is lack of empathy. He does not care what happens to other people. All he cares is about himself. And guess what, guys? To do well in life, you need these three skills. Unpredictability. No one knows how you think. No one knows how you behave. High stress tolerance. You don't care. Lack of empathy. You're very selfish. And these are the three skills that leaders need in order to do well. But you know what? We can just use one word to describe all three skills. The word we can use is dissociation. Dissociation just means that your mind is part of your body. When you dissociate, what literally happens is your mind leaves your body so that you don't think that what's happening is happening to you. It's happening to someone else. It's like you become an observer in a movie, okay? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 9:04 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: You're in the movie, but you're also watching the movie. And this is what leads to these three things. Unpredictability, high stress tolerance, and lack of empathy. Okay? Another word for dissociation that we use is multiple personality disorder. Donald Trump is so unpredictable because he's literally 100 different people. In a different circumstance, he's 100 different people. In a different circumstance, he's a different person. And that's why you can never actually predict how he will behave. And all the great leaders in history were like that, okay? So let me use game theory to explain why this is the case. Okay, game theory. So in game theory, we discussed before how when you have a game where there are millions of different players, okay? The secret to winning this game is cheating. And you do that. You do that by forming secret alliances, right? So these three do it. The problem is this is actually pretty obvious. We understand this rule. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 10:22 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So guess what? A lot of people form secret alliances, okay? So to win this game, if you want to win this game, you have to be part of as many powerful secret alliances as possible. You have to be the intersection of these groups, okay? So you're here, but you're also here. You're also here, okay? But as we discussed previously, these secret societies have developed systems to make you loyal, to make you obedient, to make sure that you will never betray them. So the only way around this problem is to create multiple personalities, right? Because literally, you have to have multiple personalities. You're a different person in a different circumstance. And therefore, they're never able to figure out what you really think. Spies have the skill, okay? When spies are being recruited, the one skill that they're looking for is dissociation. It's this person able to quickly dissociate from who he is. Lack of empathy, basically. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 11:42 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: They're all psychopaths, basically, okay? So in real life, in a game, it's a person with multiple personalities that wins out. The problem, though, is when we go back to Egypt, the Pharaoh is born in that position. So now the question is, are you able to take a person and create multiple personalities from that person? And the answer is yes, okay? So I'm gonna show you how. By the way, the word we use for this is psychopath, okay? If you have multiple personalities, you're a psychopath. All right, so I'm gonna show you how they do this in Egypt. Remember, a Pharaoh is born in that position, and so now the priests who control the Pharaoh, they have to train that priest to have multiple personalities. The mystery today is, how would they do this? And again, we don't know, but I'm speculating how they would do this. Okay, so if you look at mythology, Egyptian mythology is different from all other world mythologies. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 12:53 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: There's Greek mythology, there's Chinese mythology, there's Babylonian mythology, but Egyptian mythology, it's unique, okay? So I'm gonna explain to you the basic contours of mythology, very simple. So there are three main characters in the mythology. There's Ra, the sun god. There's Osiris, and there's Horus, okay? These are the three main gods that Egyptians worship. Ra is what gave life to the universe. He's a sun god. Osiris is the god of civilization. He built Egypt, okay? And then Horus is the god of kingship of empire. He's the one who brings stability to the throne. Okay, so there are different stories associated with Ra, Osiris, and Horus. Ra, what he does is, every night he goes into the underworld and he fights the serpent, Ophiathus. Every night, Ophiathus, the sun god, serpent. He's trying to swallow the sun to prevent the sun from rising. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 14:00 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So Ra must kill him every night, okay? And there are different ways that he kills Ophiathus. Sometimes he stabs Ophiathus with a knife. Sometimes he uses a lance. Sometimes he burns Ophiathus, okay? Sometimes he strangles Ophiathus. But there are different ways that he kills Ophiathus. But rest assured, he kills Ophiathus every single night so that the sun can rise in the morning. If one day Ra doesn't defeat Ophiathus, well, you have a solar eclipse, okay? The sun cannot rise. But rest assured, Ra will defeat him eventually, okay? Eventually, Ra gives birth to Osiris. Now, Osiris is a great pharaoh, but his brother Seth, it's pronounced Seth, okay? But it's spelled Seth. He is jealous. He wants to kill him. He wants to kill him. He wants to kill him. He wants to kill him. He wants the throne. So he tricks Osiris. One day he says to Osiris, look, I built a tomb, and this tomb is really comfortable. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 15:04 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: And so Osiris, oh, let me try. So Osiris jumps in the tomb, and he's like, whoa, it's really comfortable. And of course, Seth then closed the tomb and then throws the tomb away. Now, good news is that Osiris has a smart wife. He's pretty dumb, but Isis is pretty smart. So Isis is now looking for Osiris. And Seth's like, oh, I can't allow Isis to find Osiris. So Seth cuts Osiris into million pieces, okay? So tomb, and then he cuts up Osiris and throws Osiris all around the world. But Isis is committed. So Isis goes around the world and finds all the pieces and reassembles him, okay? But she knows that eventually, Seth will find them again. So she has sex with him really quickly, which gives birth to Horus. And Horus wants the throne back. So he goes to war with Seth. And they have a series of challenges, okay? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 16:12 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=972s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=972s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: And some of these challenges include drowning. So what they do is they turn each other into hippos. They go into the bottom of the river, and they see who can hold the breath the longest. They drown each other, okay, basically. But also, there's a challenge where Seth, can you see this word? Okay, R -A -P -E, okay? He will do this to Horus because it's a sign of domination. But eventually, Horus wins out, and he becomes the pharaoh, okay? So this is the main structure of Egyptian mythology. And as you can see, it's really weird, okay? And it doesn't really make sense as a story. It's not a great story. But if you don't see it as a story, but as a script, it makes a lot more sense, right? It's not something to be believed. It's something to be acted out, okay? Why? Because in Egyptian religion, in the religion, the pharaoh is a literal reincarnation of Ra, Osiris, and Horus. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 17:24 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: And when you act these things out, you become God because you have their memories, okay? So how? Let me explain this, okay? I know you're a bit confused by this, but let me explain. So let's go back to Kant. What Kant tells us is that there is something called the Nomana, which are the things in themselves. We can never know the things in themselves. We can never know true reality. We can only know the phenomena, which is the things we see. In other words, we cannot differentiate between what is true and what is false. So if you're able to control our experience, you're able to control our memories, okay? So let me give you another example of this. Remember Monkey Island. On Monkey Island, we discussed this previously, a hundred people are transported onto an island randomly, and they have to survive millions of flesh -eating monkeys. And this experience makes them strong, wise, and powerful. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 18:31 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: They're strong, wise, and united. They're transported back to the real world, and together, they conquer the world together. But now the challenge is, how do I ensure that my children and my grandchildren and my grandchildren inherit my legacy? And the answer is through ritual, okay? So what you do is you take your children, you put them on an island, and you tell them a story, and then you give them psychedelics. The psychedelics are drugs that enhance your experience. So you actually believe the story is happening to you, okay? It's like being put into a movie, okay? And then you have these rituals that make you believe that you actually experienced this yourself, okay? So this is what we call programming. And this is the great secret of the human brain. Every human brain can be programmed in a certain way, okay? So let's go back to the story. What's going on here? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 19:44 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: This is a recipe for programming the Pharaoh into separate identities. All three of these individuals, Ra, Osiris, Horus, represent different identities. Ra represents the virtuous hero, right? Osiris represents the passive victim. victim. And Horus represents the vengeful child. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, by doing these different rituals, I can get the Pharaoh to believe he's a different person in different circumstances. So, while the Pharaoh is drugged up, the Pharaoh is dressed up as Ra, and he will take an effigy, or a real person, and he will stab, lance, burn, or strangle that person to feel as though you're a virtuous hero. And also what will happen is that the Pharaoh will then be asked to be Osiris. And guess what? The person will be put in a tomb, cut up, and have sex with a prostitute. Okay? Pretending to be a priest. And then Horus will be, of course, this. Okay? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 21:08 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So, this is all to create trauma, which creates disassociation, which allows the priest to program the Pharaoh. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, how this works is, while this is happening, there's, the Pharaoh is under a lot of trauma, but there's always someone there to support the Pharaoh, and that's Isis, right? So, there's a priest in the Isis mask, using the Isis voice to calm the Pharaoh. And now, Isis becomes the controller, the person that the Pharaoh will always trust. So, if the priest ever wants to tell Pharaoh to do something, then late at night, while the Pharaoh is sleeping, or on drugs, Isis, wearing the mask, can come in and whisper the Pharaoh what to do. Okay? And, in this system, there are different ways to control the Pharaoh. There are different ways in which the priest can use to activate the different identities. But the main mechanism is smell. Okay? Smell. And ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 22:31 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: what this means is that while all this is happening, there are different scents for different identities. Okay? So, for example, with Ra, it might be incense. Okay? But, with Osiris, it might be, I don't know roses who knows okay but so what happens is when the pharaoh is the throne room and the priests need the pharaoh to make a certain decision the priest will let out different sense which will activate different emotions in the pharaoh which then determines how the pharaoh will make the decision okay so there's different control mechanisms okay and what's important for us to understand is we're all like this right because for example um we have different identities at school we're student but at home we're a child we're outside we're friends we're a friend when we're at work we're an employee so we behave differently depending on the different circumstance and the circumstance activates a certain emotion certain identity certain ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 23:39 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: behavior certain actions in us okay so we're all programmable with a certain degree okay so to better understand this let me give you an example let's just say that you are the best football player the best soccer player in the whole world no one can beat you you're you're basically messy okay but one day for example for whatever reason you wake up and you lose all your memory you forget what your name is you forget who your friends are you even forget that uh you play soccer and what's also really strange is the entire world freaks out forgets that you play soccer okay so you're just wandering around and you have no idea who you are and you do this for like 10 years suddenly one day for the reason you're on soccer field and someone kicks you a ball and kick it back would you still be the best soccer player in the world ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 24:33 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1473s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: the answer is yes you would be right why because you've been trained it's muscle memory it's in it's your subconscious so that's a trick here the trick is to train you in a certain way to make you a robot okay is it possible for me to make someone into a killer yes because what i do is i make that person take a lot of psychedelics and then train that person to shoot someone with a gun okay and then while he shoot that person i use the word aqua cadaver so what happens is the person if he's walking has a gun all i all they do is use the word actually cadaver takes the gun and shoots someone okay all right so for programming i can turn anyone into a robot robot i can turn someone anyone into a sex robot a killer robot even a sex killer robot okay i can do all this and ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 25:28 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: that's this great secret here all right so five thousand years ago in egypt they were doing this and but again okay it's what's really important is this is all speculation and it's really important for you to doubt and question me because we don't actually know that this happened all the records have been lost to us and obviously this would be the greatest state secret of egypt but from my perspective it makes sense because the pharaoh needs to be like this in order to survive right because the pharaoh has brothers who won his throne if he's a nice guy guess what dead right so that's true for everyone in power if you're a nice person who feels sorry for poor people you're dead okay so you have to have certain characteristics in order to be a and the main characteristic is dissociation so the pharaoh so the priests are actually protecting the pharaoh okay does that ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 26:30 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: make sense all right so what i guess i know this is hard but i need you guys to remember the story of egyptian mythology because we'll use it over and over also these techniques that they use uh tombs cutting you up um sex drowning uh rape also techniques that we still use today so what they did in egypt five thousand years ago we still do today there's absolutely no difference and i will show you this as we move on okay but are there any questions so far yeah ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 27:08 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: sorry sorry sir can you speak in the microphone please so they only trained the pharaoh by this method and not his relatives you know his brothers or something okay that's a great question okay ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 27:21 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: that's a great question um but the thing is this i'm sorry okay okay so you're right so i'm just a so who's being trained into this system and the answer is everyone right because the people we didn't control are the priests they're what we today call the deep state and it's possible the pharaoh gets an accident and dies okay so you need someone right away to replace the pharaoh so everyone is being everyone the world family is being trained into this the problem arises is when the priest class divides into different political factions who all want power then they program the pharaoh's brother to create a civil war okay so everyone who who is in the world family is being programmed like this but then this raises a really interesting question is like why would they agree to this right now what's interesting is that um these psychedelics and these uh trauma create something called ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 28:23 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: nde okay what we call near -death experiences so for like a minute or 10 minutes or half an hour they are literally dead and we know is when that happens and it's really interesting is when you are feel you're almost dead you transcend into the spirit world in the spirit world you actually meet god and we know this because tens of thousands of people have nd near -death experience you know they got in a car crash and they blacked out or they were drowning and they almost died or they had a heart attack and died they all went to meet god and they all said up there in the spirit world it's all peaceful it's all love you can feel god in you but god told me i cannot die i have to come back and tell people the true spirit world so the world family does this because it gives them wisdom and access ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 29:22 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1762s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: to the spirit world so that they feel as though they're truly god okay and that's why they agree to do this all right but then the question then is how do the priests know how to do this because they experiment on themselves because they're priests and they want to access the spirit world themselves and they recognize that uh near -death experiences and psychedelics are the best two ways to go into that world so they drown themselves they cut themselves up um they um there are lots of ways to create near -death experiences okay but but that's how they know the secrets and what's amazing is we have not improved on egyptians today like all the modern technology all the modern medicine science we're just doing what they're doing okay okay so does it make sense guys okay any more questions before i move on okay there's no difference between heaven ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 30:23 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: sorry excuse me there's no difference between heaven and hell because i mean um technically speaking if you do bad things you will never go to heaven but uh and then if you experience nde and you still meet the spiritual world then ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 30:42 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: you'll realize that there's no difference between heaven and hell okay that that's a great question okay so what is heaven what is hell why should you do bad things why should you do good things you know there's no difference okay so what people who suffer nde will tell you is this when you go up first thing that will happen is something called a life review what's the life review a life review is just you're able to see exactly what you did your entire life so if you're a bad person that's hell because you're able to now feel pain for the first time right dissociation means you don't feel any pain but guess what you're just tricking yourself because when you're up in the spirit world you have to see exactly what you did to other people you have to feel their pain okay that's what hell is and heaven is you can see the good ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 31:28 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: that you did okay so they say is that when you do evil you create negative energy and when you do good you create positive energy and you can't see that in this world but up in the spirit world you're able to see for yourself finally how much evil you did and how much good you did okay and that's what heaven and hell is okay and um i mean i don't want to go too much into this but another another theory is that um when you die the only thing that that is that remains in you is love okay so love is actually a physical force and the more love you have the higher you can ascend in the spirit world the less love you have well you're kind of stuck and you and you have to come back and do it again okay so um be a nice person all right okay great question okay ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 32:20 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=1940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: so so are we clear about this okay but we'll discuss more about near -death experiences later on in the spirit world later on okay but i want to i want you to understand that 5 000 years ago in egypt we saw this in the era of the pharaohs um pharaohing is this the place where you can program the pharaoh into a robot that they can control and we still use same techniques today okay any questions before i move on all right so let's go to the ppt okay so um as you can see as you can see in egypt it's a priest who are really in control the pharaohs are just a puppets really have the power. Okay, so we talk about dissociative identity disorder, right? And you think, wow, it's really great to have all this power. But actually, the one thing about dissociative personality disorder is you can never feel happiness. In fact, you can only feel misery. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 33:34 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2014s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2014s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So the way to reduce your misery is by making others more miserable than you are. Okay, so the people in power are committed to making the world as evil and as unhappy and as miserable as possible because that's the only way they can feel good about themselves. Okay, so this is dissociative identity disorder. As you can see, it's really bad. Okay, you have identity confusion, you have changing memories, flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, okay, internal voices. It's not a great feeling to have this. All right, sorry, what is going on here? Oh, great, sorry. Okay, so now I want to talk about 9 -11 and the war on terror. This is Donald Rumsfeld. And after 9 -11, America decided that they need to take offensive. They need to hunt down the terrorists and control their behavior. And so they start to arrest terrorists. But then bad things start to happen, okay? ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 35:03 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So this is a prison in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, where they arrested terrorists. And they were doing strange things to these terrorists, as you can see. Okay, so this is pretty disgusting stuff. And this was leaked to CBS News, and CBS News showed all this. Okay, all right, so it's pretty disgusting. So now the question then is, why is this happening? And there have been different explanations. The military says, these are soldiers who went crazy and they went rogue. So we've arrested them and we punished them. But then they discover that they're not terrorists. They're terrorists. And they're terrorists. And they're that they're actually psychologists who are responsible for this program. So these are two psychologists, and they were sued by the victims. And during the court testimony, we discovered that they were paid $80 million by the CIA to develop this program. So what is going on here? This is not something that happened randomly. It was designed by the government, by the CIA. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 36:15 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: So why is this happening? Well, they call it enhanced interrogation. This is a book, Dark Side, by Jane Meir, who's a fantastic reporter. I highly recommend this book. She's a reporter for New Yorker and spent years looking into why this torture happened. And what she argued is it's an experiment to change the mentality of these terrorists. And the theory is called learned helplessness. You can basically take someone like Ra, the virtuous hero, and turn him into Osiris through certain techniques. Remember, Ra, the identity, is the virtuous hero who fights Apophis every day. Osiris is a person who gets tortured by Seth every day. So the goal of this experiment is to turn Ra into Osiris. And the person who developed learned helplessness is also the person who developed a... A new theory called positive psychology. His name is Martin Sigelman. Okay? So positive psychology that you're learning in school is brainwashing. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 37:38 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: Okay? All right. So that's a theory. And it's a great theory. And this is what most people believe. The problem though is it doesn't actually work. Because after the CIA started to torture all these prisoners, they became ISIS. ISIS. Islamic State. ISIS is the name of what? The Egyptian goddess who saved Osiris, right? And who fathered Horus. Do you think it's a coincidence? Maybe not. Okay? Maybe not. So ISIS is this fanatical death cult that are terrorists who go around the Middle East and kill a lot of people. Okay? You might have seen their videos where they do a lot of nasty stuff, like beheading people. Okay? So what a lot of people discovered is that there's actually a... A direct connection between, sorry, ISIS and this torture. In fact, in many academics, so for example, Jeremy Suri and Andrew Thompson, they discovered that many of the ISIS fighters the US ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 38:45 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: is currently combating in the Middle East deepened extremism during the time in prisons controlled by the United States. So it's really strange. The United States thought that they were going to use the psychology to turn Ra, the terrorist, into Osiris, the citizen. But they end up doing the reverse. Osiris became Ra. How stupid were they? Right? And these guys were paid $80 million to be this stupid. Okay? So this is Human Rights First, an organization that start to interview these prisoners of America. Okay? And what they discovered is these prisoners and their testimony shows that ISIS recruitment is still ongoing, unchecked by Egyptian authorities and fueled in substantial part by torture and other abuse that pervade Egyptian prisons. So it's really strange how these prisons are almost training ISIS terrorists. What's going on? Well, let's go back to Guantanamo Bay. Okay? The answer lies in these prisons and what they're doing there. So most of these prisoners were so traumatized, they forgot what happened. ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 40:10 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: But we have one man, Abu Zubanai, who remember what happened. He's a Saudi citizen who was captured and he told us what they were doing to him. Okay? So we're going to go through his story and you tell me what the story reminds you of. So they basically were force feeding him, torturing him, strangling him. Then they put him in a coffin and they drowned him. Then they use a power drill to do this to him. Okay? They basically cut him up. Whoa. Do you guys remember that story? Oh, and also sexual humiliation, right. Where they had a woman who tried to seduce him. Also guys, right. Do you guys see this? What the story? What is this story guys? What is the story? The story on Egypt, this is what they did to Pharoah comical 5,000 years ago. It's the same story, right? IKEA ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 41:27 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: is the same. It's the it's the same script in other words they're not trying what they're really doing is they're trying to turn these people who are mostly innocent into terrorists they're trying to turn these people into drones that they can program and unleash in the middle east that's the real goal okay so it wasn't that the experiment failed it worked isis is an american creation designed to create as much chaos as possible in the middle east let me ask you this question if you really wanted to get information from these terrorists what's the best way to do that pay the money be friends with them be nice to them take them out to dinner okay we have lots of evidence to suggest that if you just be nice to these people they'll tell you everything no you don't have to torture them you torture them because you're trying to turn them into secret weapons ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 42:33 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2553s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2553s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: to get in trouble okay so you shouldn't be showing off or anything okay we have traces of these here they're doing this to the very least in the world okay all right so five thousand years ago they were doing this a fair role and now they figure out how to do this to anyone using drugs using torture using ritual abuse okay so all these Isis fighters they're robots controlled by the American military their drones the human drones used okay why is this important it's important because five thousand years ago trying to control the feral was first and foremost about social control so so there's a program called MK ultra sorry 1950s and 60s led by a cameras called Sydney goblet okay and the point of MK ultra was to figure out how to brainwash people and for the longest time this was considered a conspiracy theory but a few years ago the CIA the US ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 43:40 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: government admitted we actually did this but not anymore okay we did this before but not today not today okay okay so if you you're curious there are lots of rec there are lots of documents government documents on the internet that you can read okay but the NBA ultra was a program designed to test the effects of drugs and brainwashing on innocent American citizens especially children so some of the documents are not public and guys just you know most of the documentation the most sensitive animation was destroyed by the participants so we only have a few of the documents but some of the things that they were doing was brainwashing okay using drugs hypnosis in order to control people's minds okay interrogation techniques um they were working with foreign intelligence officials to conduct mine control research okay so the things you couldn't do in the United States legally they were doing in Egypt which created what ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 44:46 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-control-infrastructure) Text: guys probably Al Qaeda okay um they were also things that were really weird for example they started a brothel and so became the brothel they gave you drugs okay like lsd and they were trying to figure out how to control your mind but they won't do this to most people right okay well i'll show you later on um you'll be surprised okay so this is simon gobley and he was the man responsible for mk ultra and he's a chemist okay so he's trying to figure out how to use these drugs to control the population and you're like well this is just weird and if you talk to experts like well the mk ultra results were terrible but then ask yourself this what is social media what is if you feel bad and you go to a doctor and the doctor gives you drugs how do they know these drugs work okay so mk ultra did ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 45:59 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-control-infrastructure) Text: work but they they were there they hide the fact of its effectiveness and the results of mk ultra have spread throughout society guys good news you're now the pharaoh okay each and every one of you are now the pharaoh congratulations something really funny about psychologists is this sorry i'm just why is this happening okay you may not know this but psychologists have been known to have a greater propensity to have mental illness than most people your psychologist is literally more screwed up in the brain than you are okay you don't believe me do some research and this is really weird because if you went to a doctor from the phth and the doctor was fat and unhealthy that'd be problematic right um also i have not met anyone who's gotten better psychologically after seeing a psychologist you guys might have and i'm sure there are lots and lots of people who benefited from seeing a ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 47:10 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: psychologist but i myself have never met anyone or seen anyone who's benefit from seeing a psychologist that's really weird because if you break your leg and you go to a doctor and like for years and you're like hey what happens with my life am i gonna go over till i die exactly what you said that's the thing so yeah years your leg doesn't get better well that's a problem right okay so um something to keep something keep in mind okay so any questions questions guys so i i know this is a lot to take in um and we'll be expanding these topics as we move on okay but some key takeaways is is all societies are first and foremost concerned with social control and what's really interesting is who we are as a human being has not changed in thousands of years so that the way the way they were controlling the pharaoh in egypt ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 48:13 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2893s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2893s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-control-infrastructure) Text: 5 000 years ago is still is really the way that they control us today and i'll show you how as we discuss mass as the mass media okay and mass education and mass ecology ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 48:25 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) Text: okay um we have a question here in that case shouldn't the social media be controlled by government like for example why twitter and or say x could be a personal thing by owned by elon ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 48:42 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-control-infrastructure); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#platform-infrastructure-control-surface-atlas) Text: okay that's a great question okay so if it's true that social media is a mechanism for social control why are they controlled by private citizens who've made billions of dollars doing it right okay well answer this question who built the internet you guys do you guys know who put the internet the US military right because the internet is control is controlled by these cables that run around the world who who who put all these cables the US military do you think they would do this for free why would they do this okay so Twitter Facebook that's the public face okay what we'll forget is behind Facebook and Twitter are all this infrastructure that's being controlled and protected by the US military so why would it why would the military do this okay right and again this is a class about speculation about theories okay I'm not telling what's true I'm just raising questions and possibilities ## You Are Now The Pharaoh -- 49:51 - Source title: Secret History #6: The Psychology of Evil (Graphic and Disturbing, Viewer Discretion Advised) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdfD44DkqA&t=2991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-6pdfd44dkqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: about what's really going on okay and also like um I don't know what they did in Egypt 5,000 years ago I'm just speculating it is a theory it's a nice theory but I have no evidence that it's true okay this is this is disclaimer take what I say with a grain of salt be skeptical and doubtful of what I say all right okay any more questions okay great okay so I'll see you guys next class ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Okay so today we continue the topic of secret societies. Last class we discussed how they come into power. Today we will look at where they come from and what they believe. So to understand secret societies I first need to explain to you the history of religion in the Western world. So in the Western world there have been three major stages of religious development. And again I will oversimplify for the purpose of clarity. Okay so this is a simplified version of the history. So the three major stages of religion about of religious development in the Western world are the mother goddess, polytheism, and monotheism. Polytheism means many gods. You believe in many gods. Monotheism means one God. That only one God exists. So the mother goddess civilization came about because of agriculture. And in an agricultural world you have two problems. The first problem is to make sure that your crops are healthy and you can harvest them in time. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:38 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: The second problem is to give birth. To have as many children as possible to work the fields. Okay so these are the two problems. And because of that a religion developed in order to facilitate both called the mother goddess civilization. So the center of this religion is the womb. The woman's womb is considered a divine portal from the spirit world into our world. It's almost like a cave, right? In which the spirit world can come out and manifest itself in our world. So the center of this religion is the womb of the woman. And as such the woman are in control. What's really important is to understand that in this world everything is interconnected, harmonized, balanced together. So the womb is a center of this world but then you have the stars. Okay? The stars. And of course this gives rise to astrology. Astrology is a study of the movement of the stars in order to understand its impact on our world. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 2:56 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Then you have of course the crops, right? So in an ideal world all three are aligned together. By setting the stars you know when to best plant the crops and when to best have children. And in this world again it is the woman who are in control. They have a high status in society because they believe that women are direct representatives of the mother goddess who rules the world. Usually in this society the mother goddess is represented as a bird. Okay? A bird. Why? Because if you think about it, if you study all the animals in nature it's a bird that has dominion over the sky. And if life comes from the sky it makes sense that the mother goddess must be a bird of some sort. But the mother goddess is also paired with a bull. Okay? A bull. Why? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 4:07 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Because the bull is a symbol of virility and energy. You cannot get pregnant as a woman by yourself. You need a man. To do it for you. Okay? So the bird and the bull are the two symbols of worship in this world. Now this world is very strange from our perspective because there's no property. Everything belongs to everyone. There's no hierarchy. Everyone is the same. And there's no such thing as as sex by yourself. Okay? So sex is actually a community act. So that these rituals called fertility cults, fertility cults, in which they have sex together. In fact, many men will have sex with one woman. And it makes sense because as a woman you want to have the best DNA, if you want to have the best sperm, right? You don't know who's gonna have the best sperm. So just have sex with every one. And, wherevaever, there will be men and women. the best sperm we'll ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 5:24 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: give it to you okay so that's the mother goddess civilization then we switch to polytheism so why do we make the switch the answer is war for the first time in human history as populations increase there's now struggle for resources and what's the most important resource in this world you guys know the most important resource is woman right females because it's females that give birth and that's and so with war we have a new concept called property in order to get men to fight wars you have to give them something as reward right so they get to have a woman a wife and now this wife belongs to them and only them so in this world what happens is that you now have property hierarchy and marriage and the role of the woman decreases and the role of the man increases okay at the same time what's happening is that these different societies in order ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 6:40 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: to fight wars they have a god okay and when they go to war they it's like the gods are going to war and if you lose the war what it means is that your God is inferior to their God so now you have a hierarchy of gods so to maintain peace what happens is that if you lose the war you admit that your God is weaker than their God and you you now must obey their God right and this is what we call the pantheon so remember in the Greek pantheon Zeus is at the top and you have Apollo Ares Aphrodite okay everyone else is a lower God but before they were separate gods and in a series of wars the people who believe Zeus is the best God won out against the other gods and as a result the other gods became Zeus's children yes you have a question ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 7:45 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: um why does uh like the men the men are fight for women but women still fight for men like the women don't ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 7:56 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: fight for the men so why okay okay so the question um is why do men go to war and why don't women go to war okay so that's a really good question okay so let me explain to you very slowly so in this world the women are in control right so women have all the status but over time as populations increase you have a you have young men who have no families and these young men are discarded from the societies because of lack of resources so these young men have a problem they need to find wives in order to survive so these young men start to raid other societies in order to capture a woman okay do you understand so in this society it's never going to be a young woman who are discarded because they have value to their society it's always young men who are discarded and as a result these young men ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 8:59 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: become like wolves okay they become like a wolf pack who then go and pillage other villages and that's how you start and that's and that's how you have the origin of war okay does that make sense okay so now you have this pantheon of gods okay which leads to polytheism then we make the switch from polytheism to monotheism why because now you have a new idea called empire specifically the roman empire and they introduced a new religion called christianity which is the first monotheistic religion in the world there's a lot debate um as to what was the first monotheistic religion some people say zoroastrianism some people say judaism i will i will show you in this class that actually the first religion that was monotheistic is christianity okay so the difference between between this society which is a study based on war is you still there's a lot of humans but humans are still the ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 10:07 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: most precious resource therefore it is not in your best interest to kill everyone but we have an empire like the roman empire you don't have to worry about killing other people in fact you can go and destroy entire societies which is what the romans did and you can now as an empire enforce impose your reality your god on everyone else that's how you have monotheism does that make sense all right so let me explain that what i'm going to show you now is how the world view our understanding the world changes over time okay so in the mother goddess civilization there are two things about their world that's very different from our world okay so the first major difference this is this is really important for you guys to remember is they understood that mine led to matter mine leads to matter but in our world we believe that it's matter that led to mine ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 11:21 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: do you understand so in science class you're taught we have a brain then the brain because of synodic connections creates the mind okay so it's matter that leads to mind um even though we're taught this if you think about it it actually doesn't make any sense because how does our small little brain how is it able to do so much processing which is the mind right how how we're able to imagine how we're able to dream it's really confusing for us and quite honestly it's really confusing for us and quite honestly it's really confusing for us and quite honestly if you talk to the very best neuroscientists in the world they their response will always be don't ask this question okay it's never like we don't know it's always like don't ask this question okay this question is forbidden to ask in neuroscience but so throughout most of human history we believe that was mine ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 12:17 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: that led to matter but it's the mind that creates the brain in order to understand the world okay that makes a lot more sense than mine matter leads to mind okay okay so that's the first major difference but most of human history most societies believe that it was the mind that creates the brain the second major difference is that this is a metaphorical world in other words they spoke using metaphors they understood the world through metaphors today we live in a literal world okay what's the difference well the difference let's just say that you and i fight well we would say that okay what happened was that um i became angry the emotion overwhelmed me and then i hit him then he got angry then he hit me back okay this is a literal interpretation but back then the metaphorical understanding was that anger is a god who sees me and who propel me into ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 13:27 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who propels me into the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who propels me into the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who propels me into the fight and then anger unleashed the god of vengeance who who fought back by seizing the other person to fight me back. So we believed, for most of human history, that we were controlled by forces outside our control. Now, today, you may believe that the literal world makes more sense. But if you think about it, from the perspective of human thought, how do you understand the world? How do you interpret what goes on in the world? The metaphorical understanding is actually much more useful. And that's why, and I know this is hard for you guys to understand, back then, they were much more creative than we are today. And also, the things that they were able to do are beyond our imagination. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 14:20 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=860s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=860s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: So for example, we've never really figured out how the Egyptians created the pyramids. Our explanation is, aliens did it. Because their mind is beyond our imagination. So that shows you the switch. Now when we look at the polytheistic world, this system still continues, but they add more elements to make it more complex. So the 1st element is they belived that we are controlled by God. We are the playthings of gods. Now, what's really important to understand is that these gods—Zeus, Apollo, Greek.—their differences different from mortals the only difference is they just live forever okay so for example if you're a king what do you like to do well you like to go around and chase young girls around okay what does zeus do all day what does apollo do all day these gods all they do is go around and chase young girls around okay ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 15:27 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: so there's absolutely no difference above the gods are the older gods fortune fate so the belief was that even though these are gods they're still controlled by forces beyond their understanding understand like fortune and fate what mattered in this world was not to be good what matter in this world is to be lucky okay to be fortunate because that showed you that that the gods favored you and the last element the most important element is the unwritten and immutable laws of the universe okay so a concept like justice so think of gravity how gravity gives structure to the universe right well back then they believed the same thing where at the at the most fundamental level there were concepts that existed like justice and if you you could have the favor of the gods and you could be very lucky but if you did things that were unjust then eventually you'd be punished because you're ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 16:38 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: breaking the structure of the universe okay so this was the polytheistic worldview now when you go to the monotheistic worldview all this changes because now you have a new concept that never existed in human history before called one true god and this changes everything okay because before as you can see humans thought in a very complex sophisticated diverse imaginative way about the world but now with the advent of christianity it's only one true god and as such you have three new concepts that become dominant in this world these these concepts have existed before but now they're dominant the first concept is the idea of truth okay if there's one true god then there must be one truth to the universe and so when we move towards the truth that is good right but when we move towards but we move away from the truth that is evil so now you have a new concept called ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 17:45 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: evil that doesn't really exist before okay you did good things because in this world it was to your advantage now in this world if you defy god that is evil okay and now with true and evil you have a new concept called the individual before in this world what mattered was your family your community your society the people around you now with the advent of one true god the community family doesn't matter what matters is your loyalty your faith in the one true god so you can actually step outside your community and just do what you believe is right as long as you have faith in the one true god all right okay so this three concepts truth evil individual are important for you to remember because they underpin modernity these three concepts once they grow to a certain extent they will create modernity the world we live in okay our world is controlled by ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 18:58 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: these three forces now what's important for us to understand is these three concepts are beyond the human intuition you cannot logically by yourself deduce or come up with these three concepts This world of the modern goddess, it's intuitive, okay? This polytheistic world is also intuitive, but the Christian world now is counterintuitive, okay? So as a result, for monotheism to triumph, because it is so counterintuitive, it must now destroy the polytheistic world, okay? So the Romans spent a lot of time, taking centuries and centuries, to destroy the polytheistic world. But the thing is this, you can never ever kill an idea. The idea, if it is being suppressed, just goes underground, okay? So remember, here in the modern god civilization, the main instrument of religious worship are fertility cults run by women. Well, now that war has come, and men have taken over from women, what happened is, is that the women went underground to create new religious organizations called Mystery Schools. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 20:25 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: At Mystery Schools what they're trying to do is, they're trying to maintain the best knowledge and traditions of the modern goddess civilization. Okay? Especially the fact that we come from the mind, we created the universe through our imagination, that's the main secret that they're trying to maintain. these mystery schools become extremely popular among the elite because they offer great sex okay the elite join these mystery clubs as sex clubs basically remember in this civilization what matter is the womb so they develop all sorts of like secret sexual techniques to please the woman to make the woman feel association harmony with the uh universe in this world the mother goddess sex is a mechanism to communicate with the universe to discover the secrets of the universe and so they maintain these rituals in the mystery schools the most powerful people will participate in these mystery schools they're called mystery schools ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 21:40 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: not because they're secret but because everyone is sworn to secrecy so if you um ever divulge what actually goes on in these mystery schools you'll be punished by death okay you'll be executed by the members but with the advent of christianity these mystery schools now are a threat to the empire okay because these mystery schools are where the elite the local elite hang out so now what happens is now they become secret societies okay that's where they come from secret societies are an attempt to maintain the secrets of the universe against the advent of christianity and empire and secret societies have been around for a long long time you may have heard of certain secret societies like the knights templars rosicrucians the illuminati the freemasons okay they're all very powerful they're still around yes i understand that but what i'm saying is there are a lot more secret societies that we do not know about ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 22:50 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: we've been around for much longer okay but they're all trying to maintain the secret of the universe which is that mind leads to matter that's the great secret of the universe and this is something that we've always believed and always known but with the advent of christianity this has been become suppressed over time all right so any questions before i move on okay so now what what i will do is i'm gonna explain to you christianity and i'll explain to you what these societies believe okay i've already explained to you where they come from but now what i will do is explain to you what they actually believe about the universe okay so what i'm going to do is first thing i'm going to do is explain to you what most christians believe about their religion okay this is called the orthodox or the canonical perspective okay so this is what you're taught officially by ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 24:01 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: the church christianity has many different factions but they all believe in a certain interpretation of the bible okay then what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you the apocryphal apocryphal apocryphal just means hidden okay or secret or esoteric just a secret knowledge that is kept within these secret societies all right so the orthodox chemical comes from a reading of the bible and the bible is a reading of the bible so the orthodox canonical comes from a reading of the bible and the bible at its core is a story of the covenant between god and humans okay covenant covenant means contract or understanding so throughout the bible there are a series of covenants okay the first covenant is between adam and god so you may have heard of the story of the god of eden right god creates the universe then creates the god of eden where he puts adam and eve and ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 25:06 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: god says to adam and eve this is paradise you don't have to work just enjoy life the food is free the food is plentiful every day you'll be happy and free of um want you will live forever but there's only one thing that you must not do and only one thing okay whatever you do do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil just don't do that and so of course what do i believe do they eat the stupid fruit okay so then what god does is he banishes adam and eve from the garden of eden and now they're forced to work to to grow food to feed themselves okay and this leads to um society okay development of society god looks down from uh the heavens and sees that humans now are going to war they are fighting their private property and god says i don't want this crap this is ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 26:12 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: not why i created humans okay so he's like you know what i'm i'm going to destroy everyone and start over but then he sees a human that he likes named noah and this leads to god saying to noah build a ship build an ark and save yourself because i will flood the universe i will destroy the world so god destroys the world and noah lives and then god says noah you know what that's kind of silly i shouldn't destroy the universe i promise never ever destroy the world again okay that is his covenant with noah but god sees that humans are still wicked and evil and he says you know what i need to find a man who is good and i i need him to grow a nation that can be the light of the world that will be the best example of what it means to be a good person so he finds ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 27:08 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: a man named abraham and abraham of course is the father of a nation called israel and so this is a third covenant god says to abraham you and your children your uh grandchildren your great -grandchildren are now loyal to me i see you as the chosen people and i gave you the promised land okay that's what israel is a promised land over time what happens is that abraham and his people they're going tooooooo to egypt and in egypt they become slaves to the pharaoh of egypt and then god is like you know what i should check up on the israelites and see how they're doing he looks down he says oops they're now slaves to the pharaoh so i need now to fix this okay so we appoint a man named moses to free the israelites from egypt and take them back to the promised land when moses does this okay that's why he wants ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 28:07 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: to save them okay so by doing this god says now what you must do is give the israelites my law the ten commandments okay the law because otherwise i can't trust you guys to behave okay so now this is the fourth covenant so now the israelites are back in the promised land but again and even though there's laws they still become wicked and they start to worship false gods so god punishes them and god is now looking for a good man so the israelites have leader of the Israelites and then finally finds a person named David who becomes the king of the Israelites and God says to David you are the person I've been looking for all of eternity you are the best example of what it means to be a faithful follower of me Yahweh okay and so this is something called the Davidic covenant the Davidic covenant states that God will always favor ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 29:05 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Israel as the chosen nation and the house of David will rule Israel forever okay so guys quick question here who wrote the Bible probably this guy okay right you have to guess who wrote the Bible probably not Moses probably not Abraham probably not Noah probably not Adam probably this guy okay because he's saying that of these five okay I am the best I'm the God I'm the person that God loves the most my family family will rule the world because that is God's will okay now of course that that's not what happens eventually David has a son named Solomon and these two are considered the two best rulers of Israel and this is what we call the Davidic Kingdom okay the Davidic Kingdom the golden age of Israel but after Solomon the Israelites turned wicked again and then God has to punish them and scattered Israel across the world okay okay so now you remember ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 30:09 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: where the law is now okay and so the last covenant is the arrival of Jesus what Jesus does is that first of all he reasserts the law of Moses and say to the Israelite people remember Moses and his law because that's what God wants then he sacrifices himself in order to free the Israelites of the original sin right because God's pissed off at people because people don't ate the fruit. That's the original sin. That's the first crime of disobedience against God. So by killing himself, Jesus frees humanity of the original sin. He redeems humanity, okay? Now, the last thing that Jesus does is he creates a new covenant, okay? A new covenant between humanity and God. From now on, because Jesus has freed everyone from the original sin, everyone can now be with God. You don't have to be Israelite. You don't have to follow the Mosaic law. You don't even have to come from the family of David. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 31:25 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1885s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Anyone and everyone can now love God, and God will love that person back, okay? And this, of course, starts Christianity, all right? So this, guys, is called Judaism, what the Jews believe, okay? And this is all about the Jewish faith. And this is all about the Jewish faith. And this is all about All six is what Christians believe, Christianity, all right? The first five covenants are what Jews believe to be true. But they do believe that eventually, someone will return to restore the kingdom of David, okay? But not Jesus, not Jesus. The Christians believe that Jesus is the final prophet, okay? In fact, Jesus is God himself. That's why it's called Christianity, because they believe in Jesus Christ. So this is the entire history of Judaism and Christianity, what they believe, officially. Any questions before I move on? Okay, now, as you can understand, if you are a true Christian or you're a true Jew, there are actually lots of issues with this understanding. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 32:29 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=1949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: The first issue is, um, why did God have to kick us out of the Garden of Eden? I mean, was eating of fruit so bad as to banish us from peace? Like, what was wrong with eating that fruit, okay? That's a great mystery in the religion. Why did the original sin happen? And why was God so angry? Second problem is Noah. I mean, like, God destroyed the world because we were wicked. But after he destroyed the world, we were still wicked. So why did God have to destroy the world in the first place? If he's God, then should he understand how humans are? Wouldn't he understand that destroying the world would just... I mean, it doesn't really do anything, okay? So that's kind of strange. The last problem is Jesus. Um, who was Jesus? And why did he have to kill himself? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 33:30 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Why did God have to send his only son to die for humanity? Okay, so if you're new to Christianity, the very idea of Jesus actually doesn't make much sense to you. I grew up in the West. I grew up in a Christian world, and it never made any sense to me. It never made sense to me, okay? People told me about how great Jesus was. Like, okay, the story doesn't make any sense. So if you're a really smart person, there are lots of questions about this interpretation of the Bible, and these are the three major ones, okay? So now what I will do now is I will explain to you what the esoteric, what secret societies believe really happened, okay? So I want to start with Noah. Why did God destroy the world? The reason why God destroyed the world is not because of humans, but because of something else. These people are called the Nephilim. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 34:27 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2067s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Okay, also, by the way, if you guys are interested in learning more, there are two books that are not part of the Bible, but which will give you insight into the esoteric knowledge, okay? The first is called the Book of Enoch. Book of Enoch. The second is called... The Gospel of Thomas, okay? All right, so I am using these two books as sources for my explanation, okay? So the Nephilim are children of angels and woman, okay? So what happened was that the angels who were supposed to watch humanity came down and saw, wow, these humans, these females are really beautiful. So what do they do? Well, they have sex with them. Right? And then what happens? They have lots and lots of children. And what do these children do? These children enslave humanity. These people are called the Nephilim, okay? So if you want to understand what happened, let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that there's this group of superhumans called the Avengers. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 35:40 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: You know, Spider -Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, okay? And they fight Thanos and they save the world. And now what do they do? Well, they're bored, so they start to have lots and lots of sex. They have lots and lots of people. They have children. And these children now are like demagogues, right? So what do they do? Well, they enslave humanity. But then what do they do? Well, they start fighting amongst themselves, okay? So that's basically what happened. So God had to destroy the Nephilim because they are not natural. Angels and humans are not supposed to have sex with each other. And this creates a new power called the Nephilim. The problem though is the Nephilim are divine and therefore they cannot be killed. So you can get rid of their mortal bodies, but now they become demons who live underground and are in the shadows. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 36:34 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: And guess what, guys? They're still here today. So these two societies, they believe the Nephilim are real and they still control the world. The richest people in the world are actually Nephilim, okay? Because they've been around for thousands of years and therefore they're able to control the development of humanity, okay? So they are called the Nephilim. So that's easy to understand. But another question then is, wait a minute. Why did Adam eat that fruit and why did Jesus have to kill himself? Well, now it gets really complicated, okay? So now I need to explain to you what the secret societies believe, okay? Remember, they believe that mind leads to matter. What does that mean, okay? Let me explain what this means. Mind leads to matter. In the beginning, the true God is called the Monarch. Okay? The One. So just think of this as the core of the universe, the sun, the divine sun. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 37:32 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: The Monarch is so powerful that when he breathes, okay, he vibrates divine energy. And over millions of years, this divine energy creates new life forms, okay? So the first life form are called the Dyads. Dyads are just peers, okay? Usually male, female that are children of the Monarch. And they're able, by the way, they're able to do a lot of things. They're able themselves to create new universes as well, okay? So the Dyads start to emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate, emanate, okay? So the entire universe is vibration. It's vibrational energy. It's the breathing of these cosmic beings, okay? And over time, over millions of years, these vibrations become atoms, which then leads to matter, okay? That's what they mean by mind leads to matter. Now, one of these Dyads, named Sophia, decides, you know what, I can be just as good as the Monarch. What does the Monarch do? The Monarch is able to propagate by itself, by himself. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 38:43 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: He doesn't need to mate. So Sophia says, you know what, I'm going to produce something by myself. I'm going to have a child by myself to prove I am the Monarch, okay? So she does this and she creates a new being, okay, a new being. This is called the Demiurge. There are different names. We'll call them the Demiurge. The Demiurge is a monster, a monstrosity, because it goes against the natural order. But then Sophia is like, oops, I shouldn't have done that. So what does she do? She abandons the monstrosity. She throws him away and hides him in a sea of clouds. So no one knows he actually exists. Even the Demiurge doesn't know he exists. The Demiurge does not know about this world, right? Therefore, he believes that he must be the one. to god capable of creating new life so what does he create us okay he ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 39:39 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: creates the planet earth and then he and then he creates adam and eve okay that's what a monster would do okay look at this history what kind of god would kick someone out of paradise for eating a fruit a monster would do it right what kind of god would kill a people for no particular reason a monster would do that okay what kind of god would demand that a people be loyal to that person a monster what kind of god would enforce his will on a people a monster what kind of god would say to someone you're the one person i like everyone else i hate a monster would do that okay so in other words the true secret that these secret societies are trying to keep is the god we worship today is the false god it's the and we are actually in a prison created by this false god and that's who jesus ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 40:43 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: was jesus was a cosmic being sent by the monad to tell us the truth about the world and that's why he died because the roman empire could not allow people to see the truth if i told you the truth you would know it right away you would wake up therefore the truth tellers must be killed okay so that's what these secret societies believe they believe that the monad exists and the mind of the monad is what created creates the universe and jesus was sent to remind us that even though we're in a prison there's still the monad in you there's a spark in you a divine light in you that you can activate and if you activate it then you will return to the monad you will see the truth for your self and when you die your soul which is part of the monad will want to return to the monad and can escape ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 41:40 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: this world but to activate this light you must be a good person you must love one another you must reject money and materialism and grades okay grades in school you must reject competition you must reject material wealth in order to pursue spiritual happiness okay message of jesus now you can imagine that the powers that be the nephilim would not like this okay it's a direct threat to nephilim who now control the prison created by the demiurge it's also a direct threat to the demiurge and that's why these secret societies have been over the centuries been repressed been executed okay been massacred but they believe that it is their duty to protect the secret because only by protecting the secret can humanity be ultimately saved right does that make sense okay any any questions all right so you have the official version which is what you're taught in school but now you have the secret version ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 42:54 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: that is only taught in secret societies the other thing about social societies that's really important is they believe that most of us cannot accept the truth if i told you this you think i'm crazy and we report me to police okay therefore they can only wait for people to wake up by themselves and approach them and if if you approach them and they will test you and then they will reveal the secret of the universe to you okay and that's why these secret societies were founded and that's why they've been so persistent and so successful over the centuries right so now the question is okay this is a great theory but how do we know it's true or not how do we know that this is actually what they really thought well we know because in poetry in literature the members of the secret societies have embedded the secret within the poetry so if you're ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 44:01 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: able to analyze the poetry properly you will see for yourself that this is true okay so what we're going to do is we will study today the greatest poem in English language called Paradise Lost by John Milton who was who actually was a member of these secret societies okay any questions before I continue okay we're gonna read Paradise Lost okay are we clear any ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 45:01 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: questions yeah there's a question here if all of these are from the false God do we have a like true God ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 45:10 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: like do we or like it's just a thing okay yeah so in this system the monad is a true God okay and the question then is why doesn't the monad interfere why doesn't the monad stop the demiurge from imprisoning us and making our lives hell and there are two explanations for why this is happening okay the first explanation is that the monad does not interfere in material affairs okay because the monad is it's all mine and also we have the capacity to reject this world and return to the monad right so why would he force us to do what we don't want to do okay if you want to return to him then you have the choice to engage in spirituality to to engage in goodness to engage in knowledge and then you'll be able to return to him okay that's the first explanation second explanation is that and this comes from Dante okay the ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 46:24 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: monad is a force that is eternal perfect and immutable and therefore the monad has no imagination but how do you grow as a being you grow through the imagination so in order for the monad to continue to grow the monad allowed for the demiurge to create human beings because as human beings we are flawed we make mistakes we commit evil but by committing evil by making mistakes we expand the imagination of the universe okay which allows the monad to to expand okay so for in this perspective sorry so in this perspective what is happening is that each time we imagine we return to the monad okay so so it's hard to understand but the monad it's there it's eternal but it's also becoming it's also moving and so when we imagine things when we commit mistakes but at the same time when we recognize these these mistakes and um try to adjust for these mistakes ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 47:50 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2870s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2870s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: we expand the imagination of the monad and that's why these societies believe that evil and good exists together you can only be good if you do evil okay because e by committing evil it gives you a chance to become better okay does that make sense all right all right so we're doing Paradise Lost all right this is um the National epic of the British Empire if you are a member of the British Empire which rules the world today the Anglo -American Empire it rules the world today if you are an elite Josiah for that's why these sequel societies believe that evil and good exist together you can only member of the British Empire, you memorize this poem, okay? And it becomes part of your soul, basically. And it's beautiful, okay? So this was written by a man named John Milton. And John Milton, he was a rebel. He was a free thinker. He questioned the world. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 48:53 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=2933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: He fought for himself. And he was a passionate advocate of free speech. He was a man who wrote Paradise Lost. And he wrote it when he was blind. He could not see. Therefore, he had to speak it out, and his secretaries had to write it down for him. And as you can see, well, if a blind man is able to recite poetry, you must think he is a prophet. He's a messenger of God. What he is revealing to you is divine truth, okay? All right? So John Milton, and his most famous work is called Paradise Lost. And Paradise Lost is the foundational text of many secret societies. They read this. They discuss this. They worship this text. And within this text lies the secrets of the universe, okay? But only, okay, this is really hard, but only if you understand the secrets yourself can you see the secrets embedded in Paradise Lost, okay? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 50:01 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3001s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3001s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: All right, so what we're gonna do is we will read two speeches by Satan. The plot of Paradise Lost is really, really simple. It's trying to reimagine the fall of man. Remember, Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden. Then they eat that fruit, and God banishes them, okay? So Milton is trying to tell the story again. And he imagines a serpent who tricks Eve into eating the fruit as Satan himself. And Satan was God's favorite angel. They had a falling out. Satan rebelled against God. God won the war, and Satan and the devils are now banished to hell. And Paradise Lost begins with the devils discussing what to do. They've lost this war against God. They will never, ever defeat God. Now they're stuck in hell. So now what do they do? Some propose that, you know what, let's just create an empire, okay? Some are like, you know what, let's just sit back and enjoy life, okay? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 51:02 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: But Satan is the devil. determined to seek vengeance against God. And so what he wants to do is go to the Garden of Eden and corrupt Adam and Eve and destroy humanity forever, okay? So they all agree this is a great plan, but another question then is who's going to go? Because it's dangerous, right? Because you're escaping hell, there are angels guarding hell, but even if you leave hell, you go into the abyss. You go into space, right? You don't even know where Earth is. You get lost for all of eternity. So no one wants to go. So at this time, when no one wants to go, Satan steps up and says, I will go, okay? This is his speech. Oh, progeny of heaven, imperial thrones, with reason have deep silence and demur, cease thus, though undismayed, okay? I know you guys are scared, all right? Long is the way and hard that out of hell leads up to light. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 51:58 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Our prison strong, this huge context of fire, outrageous to devour. Immerse us round ninefold, and gates of burning adamant barred over us prohibit all egress. This prison is designed to keep us here for all of eternity. It will be hard to escape this prison. These paths, if any paths, the void profound of unessential night receives him next. Wide gaping and of utter loss of being threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf. If thence he scape into whatever world, or unknown, region, what remains him less than unknown in dangers and as hard escape. Okay, if you can leave hell, you're still up in the abyss of the universe, right? You're gonna be floating there for all of eternity. You don't know where you're going. But I should ill become this throne, O peers, and this imperial sovereignty, adorned with splendor, armed with power, if aught proposed and ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 53:02 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: just of public moment, in the shape of difficulty or danger, could deter me from attempting, wherefore do I assume these frailties, and not refuse to reign, refusing to accept as great a share of hazard as of honor do alike to him who reigns, and so much to him do of hazard more as he above the rest. Okay, so what he's saying here is really simple. I'm your leader, and therefore I must go. You have trusted me to lead you for all of eternity, and therefore I will risk my entire life to prove my worth. High honor sits. Go therefore mighty powers, terror of heaven, though fallen, intent at home, while here shall be our home, what best may ease the present misery, and render hell more tolerable. If there be cure or charm to respite or deceive, or slack the pain of this ill mansion, intermit no watch against a wakeful foe, while I have brought through all the coasts of dark destruction, seek deliverance for us all. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 54:06 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: This enterprise, none shall partake with me. I am your leader. I will go by myself. You guys can just sit here and like, sip, you know, have some drinks, watch some TV, enjoy yourself, I don't care, okay? I'm your leader. I will go by myself to redeem us, to deliver us from our torment, okay? So as you can see, this is heroic. He is the grand hero. A couple things I will say about this speech is, number one, what he's describing, and synagogists believe this, is he's describing his ascent from hell as almost our souls leaving our bodies to the heavens, okay? And some synagogists believe that when you die, the first person you meet is Satan, because it is Satan who knows how to take you from this world, the prison world, to the light, because he's done this, okay? So Satan is a very important part of our journey back to the moon app. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 55:09 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Also, if you study this poetry very closely, you study the imagery, what he's describing almost is a baby leaving the womb, right? Because the baby is in the womb, a prison, and then the baby escapes. So synagogists believe that life and death are the same thing. To be born, you must die. And when you die, you are born again, okay? All right. The other thing is that these synagogists will use, okay, this speech as an initiation ceremony for members. When you join a secret society, you must, by yourself, choose to fight for all of humanity by yourself. You must be the hero, okay? You must know when you join a secret society, people will hunt you, people will want to kill you for speaking the truth. Do you dare to go on this journey, okay? So that's the first speech. The second speech is much more important. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 56:15 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: This is a speech where Satan, the serpent, convinces Eve to eat the fruit, okay? And this speech is very powerful, okay? So I'm going to read it really fast and then explain to you what it means. Oh, sacred, wise, and wisdom -giving plant, mother of science, now I feel thy power within me clear, not only to discern things and their causes, but to trace the ways of highest agents deemed, however, wise. Eve is talking to the serpent, and Eve is, of course, like, hey, what can you speak? And the serpent says, because I eat that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil. It gives you power, okay? So the serpent now wants to convince Eve to eat that fruit, so he invokes the power of the tree, right? Oh, sacred tree, give me the power to speak so well that I convince Eve to do the impossible. Queen of this universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 57:12 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3432s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Ye shall not die. How should ye? By the fruit, it gives you life to knowledge. By the threatener, look on me. Me, who have touched and tasted, yet both live, okay? So God has warned Eve, Adam and Eve, if you eat this fruit, you will die. And the serpent is saying, no, that's not true. Look at me, I eat the fruit and I'm still alive. And life more perfect have attained than fate meant me by venturing higher than my lot. Shall that be shut to man, which the beast is open? Or will God incense his ire for such a petty trespass and not praise, rather, your darkness virtue? What's in the saying here is really important. If he is a true God, he will reward you for your risk -taking, right? He said the fruit will kill you as a test. A true God will want you to become better and better. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 58:03 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: And you can only do that by transgressing, by making mistakes, by disobeying authority. And a true God would reward you for seeking more knowledge. Whom the pain of death denounced, whatever thing death be, deterred not from achieving what might lead to happier life, not of good and evil, of good, how just, of evil, if what is evil be real, why not known, since ease your shun. We can only be good people if we know what evil is, right? If you don't know good and evil, then you're just stupid. Okay? It's because you shun away from evil, you ignore evil, you fight evil, that you're a good person. God, therefore, cannot hurt you and be just. Not just, not God, nor feared then, nor obeyed. Your fear itself of death. Death removes the fear. Why then was this forbid? Okay? So he's asking himself, why would God not allow you to eat that fruit? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 59:00 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Why but to awe, why but to keep ye low and ignorant, his worshipers? He knows that in the day ye eat, therefore, your eyes that seem so clear, yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then opened and cleared, and ye shall be as gods. So what significance is this? There's two possibilities, okay? Either God is testing you. God really wants you to disobey him, because that will allow you to achieve more virtue and knowledge. Slaving you and keeping you ignorant, because God is afraid that you might become God himself. Okay, so there are two possibilities, all right? What can your knowledge hurt him, or this tree impart against his will of all be his? Or is it envy, and can envy dwell in heavenly breaths? If he is God, he is in control of everything. He knows everything. Therefore, if you eat this fruit, how could I possibly challenge him? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 59:54 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Unless he's a false god. Unless he's tricking you. Unless he's deceiving you. Unless he's trying to imprison you. Okay, that's the only possibility. Now, this is Satan's speech, and you know, I took Milton in college. I was an English major at Yale, and I took in a semester of Paradise Laws. And at university, I was taught that this speech shows you how clever and evil Satan is. He's lying to Eve. God is invincible, omniscient. You can't eat a fruit and become God. That's ridiculous. Also, Eve is stupid because she believes him, right? That's what you're taught at university. That's what you believe. But, this is really important, when you actually read the Bible, Satan is telling the truth. What Satan's logic is, it's what the Bible says. Okay? A professor at Yale will tell you that Satan is lying. When you actually read the Bible by yourself, you will see he's telling the truth. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:00:59 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: So we're going to read the Bible together, okay? This is what the Bible says. This is the Word of God. All right? So, this is Genesis. Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden? Okay? So, in the Bible, this is actually not Satan. It's just a serpent. The woman said to the serpent, we may not eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it or you shall die. Okay? He said to the woman, you will not die for God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you'll be more like God, knowing good and evil. Okay? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:01:44 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: So, this is exactly what Satan said. Right? And this is what the Bible is saying as well. Now, let's move on. Eventually God banishes Adam and Eve for eating the fruit. And you believe that they were banished because they disobeyed God. But if you actually read the Bible, that's not what it says. For disobeying God. God punishes both Adam and Eve. Eve now, when she gives birth, will suffer pain, right? And Adam will now have to work hard to grow fruit. That's a punishment. The banishment is not the punishment. So another question then is, why were they banished? Again, let's read the Bible, okay? So the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise. She took of its fruit and ate. And she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and she ate. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:02:41 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Then the eyes of both were opened. Okay? So Satan is telling the truth. You will not die. You will learn. You will become higher. Okay? Satan was telling the truth. All right? So why did God kick Adam and Eve out? The Lord God said, see, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever. This is why. There are two trees, the tree of knowledge, which allows you to have the mind of God, and the tree of life, which allows you to live as long as God. What God is saying is this, if Adam and Eve ate that fruit from the knowledge of good and evil, and then they eat also a fruit from the tree of life, they will be like us. Satan was telling the truth and God was lying to Adam and Eve all along. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:03:36 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Okay? So another question then is, how did Eve know? How did she know that Satan was telling the truth? How does she know? How? Well, the problem is, if you try it once and you're wrong, you die, right? So how does she know? She was certain that Satan was telling the truth. She was certain, yes, he must be telling the truth. Why? The light in us. You understand? The true God. The true God still speaks to us today, right? The false God will lie to us. But inside you, in your heart. It's the light that connects you back to the Monad, and that tells you what is false, what is true. Okay? That's how she knew. All right? So you see, Paradise Lost is now showing us the lost secrets of the universe. All right. So I'll finish by talking about the Nephilim. In the Bible, it says that the Nephilim are the children of the angels and women. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:04:51 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Okay? So when people began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh. Their days shall be 120 years. Okay? So now God sees Nephilim as a threat as well. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humans who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. Okay? This is really important because it introduces the Nephilim, which is still around today, okay? According to the secret societies. But also, what it's doing is this. It's telling us the children, the heroes that are of old, warriors of renown, who are they? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:05:40 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=3940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: They're Hercules. They're Achilles. They're Theseus. They're all heroes from different mythologies. Where do they come from? They come from the mating of angels. Okay? And humans. The sons of God, who are they? They are the old gods. Zeus. Ares. Apollo. Okay? So this is the beginning of monotheism, where the Bible is trying to destroy polytheistic mythologies and create one universe where the God is supreme. Okay? And in this universe, Zeus now becomes a son of God, and the children that Zeus has with mortal women are now called the Nephilim. So Hercules is the Nephilim. Okay? So we'll go into this theme throughout the semester, where the Bible is a tremendous act of propaganda that tries to reinvent reality around one true God. Okay? But by doing that, it's denying our intuition, and it's denying the history of humanity. All right? Okay. So we'll continue this theme next class. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:06:48 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Any questions before we conclude? Yes? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:06:51 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4011s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4011s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: I think nowadays, a lot of us will pray to God for getting something that we wanted. But as you said, are we praying to the true God or the false God? Do we know? Or do we get to know from our wishes? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:07:08 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Yeah. So that's a great question. So according to these secret societies, the truth is that when you pray, you're praying to the false God. Because where's the true God? It's inside you. Okay? So don't pray to an outside force. Look inside to you and ask yourself, I know for a fact what is true. If I believe in myself enough, then I will find the truth. Okay? And actually, that's a theme throughout Western poetry and literature. The theme is that we will always be in conflict between the devil and God, between good and evil. And what we must do is not say, like, I must surrender to God. What we must do is believe in ourselves. Make mistakes, but know that you will eventually find a light because the light is in you. Okay? As long as you still believe in yourself, all these mistakes you make will become your strength because they become part of your wisdom. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:08:13 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Okay? That's the divine truth that these secret societies are trying to promote. It's okay. It's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to do evil, but listen to the light, and the light will tell you how to redeem yourself. Okay? The possibility for redemption, for growth, for imagination is all in us because of our connection to the Monad. And the Monad rewards you for believing in yourself, but you must first believe in yourself. And believing in yourself means often defying authority, making mistakes, transgression against the rules of society. Okay? And that's the ultimate secret that these secret societies are trying to keep. All right. Any more questions? That was a really good question. Thank you. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:09:01 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Well, the gods are usually depicted as the most beautiful. Then why gods like Zeus will come to human society and give birth with, first of all, is with the human girl. Yeah. ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:09:29 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: And why are the angels doing this? So the question then is why are the angels doing this? Okay? There are two explanations. Okay? So the first explanation is these angels are created by the false God, right? So they're wicked anyway. Okay? The second explanation is that if you're like a hot looking woman and you see an angel, I don't know, man. You're probably going to want to marry that person. Okay. All right. Anyway. If you're interested in learning more, there's a book called The Last Star. the book of Enoch, which goes into detail about the Nephilim, okay? But the Nephilim are a really important topic throughout the semester because a lot of secret societies believe in the Nephilim. And that's gonna motivate them before, okay? Now, what I've discussed today is how the secret societies were born. And as you can see, they started off as a noble mission. But then the question then is like, how did they become corrupted over time? ## The False God And The Birth Of Evil -- 1:10:23 - Source title: Secret History #5: The Birth of Evil - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgGfQdv_rPc&t=4223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eggfqdv-rpc.json) Text: Well, this is something I will discuss later on, okay? All right, so I'll see you guys next class. ## The Old Own The Future -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: So good afternoon class. Today we do death by gerontocracy. Gerontocracy just means rule by old people. Last class we discussed the decline of western society and civilization and why it's happening. We discussed the theories. Today we will look at what the reality on the ground is, what the actual trends are, what are the concrete examples of decline in the western world. All right so let me start with this young man. His name is Axel Rudakubana and he was 17 years old when last year he took a knife and he walks into a dance studio in southport britain and then he proceeds to stab the little girls inside the dance studio and they are five six seven he kills three of them he is quickly arrested by the police and as you can see he is a very disturbed young man he clearly has a mental illness otherwise why would he kill kill children um and ## The Old Own The Future -- 1:12 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=72s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=72s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: he was sentenced to 52 years behind bars so he's gonna spend the rest of his life in prison so justice was done what happens next is that all throughout britain there are riots and protests what happened was that rumors start to spread online about the attack they claim that the young man was a asylum seeker an immigrant and because there are too many immigrants coming to england everyone's safety is at stake so as you can see these protests were extremely heated they were extremists they were anti -immigrant and ultimately it led to violence between the police and the protesters and this is happening all throughout britain last summer the country of england burned basically literally burned okay so these protesters were setting cars on fire and they were targeting immigrants in britain remember that this 17 year old boy he's actually not an immigrant he was born in england he was born in england he ## The Old Own The Future -- 2:34 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: was born in wales to parents who are from rwanda okay so he is a um british citizen as you can see the men who participated in a protest um they're not sad about what they're doing they feel virtuous they feel righteous they feel proud for protecting their people against immigrants so the question for us today is why is this happening why are the all these civil conflicts caused by immigration throughout the western world so this is happening in britain but as you know immigration united states led to the victory of donald trump in last year's elections in the united states a lot of conflict comes from the fact that immigration is happening too fast in the western world so after that the question is why is this happening why is this happening why is this happening after covid um you see this large spike in immigrants the other issue is that most of these immigrants ## The Old Own The Future -- 3:45 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: are coming from um countries in the middle east in africa in east asia so it's clear that these people are different from you okay so before there might have been a lot of eu european immigrants but now it's just mainly countries outside of europe so the border between europe and england and england and england and england and england and england and england and england and england british people feel as though they're being invaded by foreigners the changes demographic changes to british society are stark so the i'm not sure if you can see this clearly okay but like the dark brown are places where in the past five ten years the immigrant population has tripled has tripled three times okay and as you can see there are quite a few pockets where immigrant immigration is sort of overwhelming the local population so if you go to britain there are some places where you feel this is ## The Old Own The Future -- 4:50 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: like morocco or this or this is like ronda or maybe even uh egypt okay so the british people feel they're under siege and this is happening throughout the western world so this is australia okay so australia after covid huge spike in immigration and most of them are coming from non -european countries so the greatest spike is in india between also china and the philippines as well these are the three major sources of immigrants to australia okay same is happening in france where you're seeing a huge spike in immigration and again most of the immigrants are coming from african or middle eastern countries and so the france feel as though their culture is being diluted it's being attacked and invaded this happened all throughout western europe the uk france italy and germany are seeing a huge spike in immigrants and refugees and so their culture feels threatened what these what's also happening is a huge spike ## The Old Own The Future -- 6:11 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: in inflation okay so there's something called the cpi the consumer price index which is measuring the price of basic goods like food and shelter okay and as you can see there's a huge spike in prices so as these immigrants are coming into your country you also feel as though your quality of life is getting worse and worse it's getting harder for you to afford basic goods like rent and food it's getting harder for you to support your family the major increase is in housing prices okay so canada these past five years has seen a huge influx of immigrants and this has caused housing prices to skyrocket the united states which has a much larger economy than canada the housing prices are pretty stable you can still afford to buy a house if you're a young person in the united states not in canada okay you see this huge spike in canada the house housing prices ## The Old Own The Future -- 7:18 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: are now unaffordable this is a chart that shows you economic growth as compared to housing prices so as you can see united states um housing prices there's a correlation between income and housing prices this is pretty reasonable in canada it is not reasonable okay so gdp is gdp housing prices going like this but housing prices is just sky rocketing and that's why canadians feel like they're getting richer and richer and richer and richer and richer and richer it's just very normal uh as if canadian 2019 is actually very similar to the canadian dream of one day having your own house it's basically dead so one strange thing is that as canada lets in more immigrants and as property houses go up you would think that they would build more and more houses but as you can see housing supply okay housing supply it's pretty flat even though immigration is going up does anyone know why ## The Old Own The Future -- 8:15 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: this would be the case why is it that that you have a policy of letting in more immigrants, but you don't have a policy of putting more housing for them. That's kind of strange, right? Does anyone, can anyone guess why that would be the case? Yeah? Sorry, can you speak in the microphone? Thank you. ## The Old Own The Future -- 8:34 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Okay, maybe they wanna make sure that the housing's not affordable maybe because they wanna make more money. Cause now there's like more competition for housing. Definitely, as you said, the prices of housing was like going, like skyrocketing and people would make more money. Like people who provide the housings would naturally real estate people make more money, I guess. ## The Old Own The Future -- 8:58 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Yeah, that's exactly correct, okay? So policy is not being controlled by what's best for the nation and the people. It's controlled by vested interests that will make money off the process, right? So as you say, real estate developers can make money off this process, but the people who benefit the most are actually property owners, right? So if you already have a house, if the supply is constant, but the demand goes up, then you know from economic class that the value of a house increases artificially. So it's making homeowners very happy, okay? And that's why you have this crisis in Canada. The other issue that's really problematic in the Western world is that as immigrant, as the number of immigrants goes up, native people, the native population, they're not having children. Okay? So this is Canada where the birth rate, okay, the blue is the birth rate, okay? It's steadily going down, whereas immigrants are going up. ## The Old Own The Future -- 10:01 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: So it's the immigrants who provide most of the new people in Canada. In fact, right now, 25%, a quarter of all Canadians are first -generation immigrants. Sorry, first -generation Canadians, meaning that they're immigrants to the country. And if you just look at this trend, again, in 40 years' time, 50 years' time, there'd be very few white Canadians in Canada. And this is causing a lot of conflict and tension in the country. So you have these huge issues. Housing is unaffordable. Inflation is going up. Ethnic tensions are increasing. But the Canadian government still insists on increasing the number of immigrants in the country. There's no policy rollback where they're like, you know what, let's have a moratorium. Clearly, our policy, it's too rapid, and we need to slow things down. In fact, as you can see, they're actually gonna ramp up the process. The goal for Canada, right now the Canadian population is about 35 to 40 million people. ## The Old Own The Future -- 11:14 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: They want 100 million people, 100 million people in Canada by the year 2100. And guess what? The majority of these people are gonna come from India, and probably China, okay? And as we discussed, the percentage of immigrants as part of the total population, it's just rapidly increasing. So in Australia, it's almost a third now. In Canada, it's a quarter. In Germany, it's a fifth. And these percentages will go up and up and up, leading to more and greater ethnic tension and immigrant protests within these countries. As you can see, the number, the number of immigrants coming from India far surpasses that of other countries, okay? And these are just legal immigrants. We're not counting in students. So they're millions and millions of Indian students right now in Canada on student visas, and they're looking for a path to permanent residency, to citizenship. And that's what leads to situations like this, okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 12:24 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: You have these viral videos online where you have thousands and thousands thousands of Indian students lining up for hours and hours because they're applying for a minimum wage job at a restaurant or at a store. Life for these Indian students is just terrible. A lot of them live eight to a room. Okay, there's one room that was meant for one person. There are now eight students living in that room. At the same time, what's really interesting is that the Indians are now an extremely powerful political force in Canada. This was the former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, meeting with representatives of the Indian community because he depends on them for his votes. In last year's federal election, 22 people of Indian descent were elected to parliament. Okay, so in parliament, there's 243 seats. 22 of them now are Indian. How many Chinese? How many MPs of Chinese origin? There are less than 10. So even though ## The Old Own The Future -- 13:43 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: the Chinese have been there longer, and even though they're actually the more numerous Chinese than Indians, the Indians are an extremely powerful political force. A lot of it is because Indians come from democracy, so they're very good at debate. They're very good at organizing. They're very good at organizing. They're very good at collective action. And that's what leads them to excel in the Canadian political system. At the same time, we can imagine that if current trends continue, if the immigrant population from India increases, and if the Indians continue to amass more and more political power, there could be a situation where the Indians take over the Canadian government in like 20 or 40 years' time. So there's a real risk that, in Canada, that their native population gets replaced by the Indians. And this is happening elsewhere as well. Yes, a question. ## The Old Own The Future -- 14:45 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=885s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: All the Indian immigrants that you have mentioned took a part of the Canadian population. How about having the risk of Indians took over Canadians, but how about the people that is local in Canadian? How are they doing right now? Because we are all focusing on immigrants. ## The Old Own The Future -- 15:10 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Right, okay. That's a great question, okay? So immigrants are suffering, but actually the local population is suffering even more. Because as we discussed in the last class, the economy is declining, and it's a pretty rapid decline. So it's harder for young people to find jobs, especially with immigrants coming into the country, right? Prices are very expensive nowadays. So it's very hard for young people to live and work in big cities. So as these immigrants are coming into the country, they're putting tremendous pressure on the local population. And that's why there's so much ethnic tension throughout the Western world right now. Okay? So this leads us to a paradox. If immigrants are making life worse for everyone, especially young people, who's the future of these nations, why is this happening? Okay? So I want you guys to keep this in the back of your mind. You probably know the answer already because you know how property prices work, right? ## The Old Own The Future -- 16:08 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Okay. So let's move on to another topic. So Canada, like 10 years ago, introduced a new policy called MAID, called Medical Assistance in Dying, euthanasia. And the idea here is that if you feel life is meaningless, if you're depressed, if you feel that you cannot cure your disease, the government will help you kill yourself. The government will let you die. Now, the big question then is, yeah, but 25 years ago, this was illegal in the world, right? Suicide was illegal. If you help someone kill himself, you'd be put in prison. This would be basically murder. So what's the difference between suicide and the government helping you kill yourself? Well, there really isn't. Okay? But the government says there is a difference. Okay? So this is a brochure from the government, from the Canadian government, explaining why suicide is bad. Okay? Suicide is bad, but suicide by government is good. Okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 17:13 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1033s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1033s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: And it's really stupid. It's disgusting. It's disgustingly stupid. Okay? What they say is that if you do suicide, well, you do it alone and you shock your friends and family. But if you do MAID, then everyone knows you're killing yourself. And so they won't be so sad when you die. Right? If you kill yourself, you might screw it up. But if the government does it for you, you won't screw it up because it's being facilitated by professionals who know what they're doing. All right? If you think this is stupid, there's more stupidity to come. All right? And what this tells us is, we discussed this in the last class, is one major sign of decline in society is the over -bureaucratization of society. The government interferes in everything. Okay? This is the actual number of deaths from euthanasia in Canada. As you can see, in 2016, it started at about 1,000. By 2021, it's at 10 ## The Old Own The Future -- 18:23 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: ,000. Okay? So the numbers are going up really rapidly. Why? Well, because if you want to kill yourself, they won't stop you. This is the number of days required to kill yourself. To be approved for suicide. As you can see in the Netherlands, sorry, this is Oregon, actually. This is Oregon, United States. Okay. The number of days have been going down, but it's still like at most a month. Okay? In Canada, they'll do it in like 10 days for you. They won't even think about it. They're like, you want to kill yourself? Do it, man. Good for you. Good choice. Doctorsters have been trained to not do any harm, right? Well, and death ought to be the last step. The last resort. But in Canada, death is now the first resort. If you go to a doctor and say, I want to die, the doctor will say, sure, let's do it, man. That's pretty disgusting. ## The Old Own The Future -- 19:24 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: All right. Why are people killing themselves? So if you see, the number of approval rates have been going way up. It seems as though they have a quota to fill. This is 2019, only 75 % were approved. Now it's 81%. It's almost like they have a quota. They're trying to kill as many people as possible, right? As you can see, this number is the percentage of people who die because of euthanasia. This is the Netherlands, which for the longest time had a very open policy when it comes to euthanasia. And yeah, it's going up. But this huge spike is Canada. Okay? It seems as though Canada is in a rush to kill as many people as possible. So who's dying? Yeah. ## The Old Own The Future -- 20:17 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Do you have a question? So the suicide of Canada is not euthanasia? Is that also a type of euthanasia? ## The Old Own The Future -- 20:28 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: No, no, no. Okay. All right. So suicide is when you kill yourself. Euthanasia is when a doctor helps you kill yourself. Euthanasia means good death. It means like you will die painlessly. Okay? No, no. Okay. Euthanasia is suicide by government. Okay? All right. So why are people dying? Well, a lot of them, as you can see, most is actually from cancer. Now, what's interesting about cancer is that it's the most expensive disease to treat. Right? Well, that's interesting. And a lot of cancer, it's not, it's not, it's pretty painful, but it's not terminal. You can still live with cancer. Right? So it seems as though people with cancer are being encouraged to die because, you know, because they're a burden on the system, which means who's dying? Who's dying here? It's poor people who are dying. This is pretty obvious. And this is even more interesting. Okay? This is the most disgusting part. If the government were to prove your death, you would think that there'd be a rigorous process. ## The Old Own The Future -- 21:46 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Right? It would be the last option. But let's understand why people are killing themselves. And there are two main reasons. The first major reason is loss of ability to engage in meaningful activities. It's because you're not happy. This is a lame reason to kill yourself. Okay? Also, loss of ability to perform activities of daily living. It's harder for you to go buy groceries. It's harder for you to walk around. Okay? So again, what's happening is that poor people are dying and poor people are encouraged to kill themselves because the poor are being a burden on the medical system. And that's the entire basis of euthanasia. So, let me ask you this question. Why is it that 25 years ago, we discouraged euthanasia? In fact, it would be legal to conduct euthanasia. Even if the person was suffering from brain cancer and the person was just basically in hell every day, the government would not allow euthanasia. ## The Old Own The Future -- 22:57 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Why not? Yeah? ## The Old Own The Future -- 23:09 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Maybe because it was harder to regulate the procedures to take for euthanasia. And because it was such a new thing. You have no control over what the companies who provide the service do. Or what they do to their patients. I wouldn't even say patients, but people who purchase their services. And also, all... Because again, it's such a novel thing. The procedures involved, the medical companies involved, maybe. To me, loopholes. And it was... If I was the government, I'd consider that as good. I'd consider that as a potential danger, something that may be disturbing to this current system. ## The Old Own The Future -- 23:50 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Okay, all right. Yeah, that's a very interesting answer, okay? What it tells me is that the society you live in is very different from the society I grew up in, okay? Because 25 years ago, when I was younger, we were taught that every life matters. Every life is a gift from God. And in society, we have to protect everyone, especially the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized. That's how we come together as a society. If we just let anyone die, then how do you know that you'll be protected, right? So, what mattered back then was about social cohesion, social capital, social trust. And now what matters is just numbers. How much does this cost me? How much revenue will this generate? Okay, so that's the difference in the world today. Before, we cared about social cohesion. We cared about morality. Nowadays, it's all just money, money, money. And this is interesting for us, okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 24:51 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Another sign of decline is growing financialization. We talked about this last class, right? Well, guess what's happening? In the stock markets throughout the world, it's booming, okay? It's booming. If you're a rich person, you're just getting richer and richer. 10 % of the population owns 9 % of the stocks in America, okay? So, this is an indicator of how wealthy the rich have become in the past. 20 years. In the year 2008, if you bought Amazon, you would buy for $7. Now, it's like $300, okay? So, that just shows you how wealthy the rich have become due to government policies. At the same time, we talked about this last class, productivity, real economy, the amount of work you do, it's going way down. So, we have this absurd situation where the fake economy, the financial economy, it's going way up, but the real economy of jobs, of people doing work, of being productive, it's going way down, okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 25:55 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Meaning that we live in a fake world. And the government responds by lying to people, okay? People know their lives suck. People know that, basically, the economy is in a recession. That's what the facts say. And what does the government do? Well, the government says that, oh, it's not really a recession. What it really is is a state of recession. It's called transition, okay? This is what we call gaslighting. This is blatant gaslighting. Rather than just say, you know what? The economy is in trouble, and we feel your pain, and we're going to work hard to solve the problem, they're telling you, no, no, no, it's not black, it's white, guys. You're lying, your eyes, they're lying to you. Don't you see? You're not seeing clearly. Get new glasses, and your life will be a lot better. That's like literally what they're telling you. Debt, right? We talked about this last class as well. ## The Old Own The Future -- 26:56 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: This is U.S. debt. You can see how the debt is just booming, okay? So up until the year 1980, for 200 years of America's existence, there was very little debt. Now, look at this, okay? America right now is $37 trillion in debt. That's the government, okay? The people with the credit card debt, with the mortgages, they owe $17 trillion. They're never paying that off. So basically, the middle class in America, it's finished. The government has no more resources. This is what decline looks like. No one's having children anymore, okay? So the world sucks, and young people are like, screw this, I'm not having kids. And this is happening throughout the world. Canada is selling its resources to outside investors, okay? So oil is a big candidate resource. As you can see, a lot of the big players in Canada are actually American or overseas. When it says Canada, it usually means British people. ## The Old Own The Future -- 28:07 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: So Canadians don't even own their own resources anymore. So let's summarize what we've learned today, okay? Let's look at the signs of Western decline. You've got higher property prices. This happened throughout the Western world. Inflation and lower quality of life. Higher stock market valuations. Which means greater inequality. Less real economic growth. Less and less people are doing real jobs. Euthanasia for the poor. This is killing off the poor people. Mass immigration. Population replacement. Lower birth rate. Greater public and private debt. Bureaucratic gas letting. When the government no longer acknowledges problems, it just lies to you directly. And privatization, asset stripping, okay? So all this is happening in the Western world. The question now is, why would this happen? And there are different theories, okay? And we'll go over some of the major theories. There's lots and lots of theories. We'll go over the major ones. And there's going to be overlap between these theories. And some of these theories make a lot of sense, okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 29:13 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: So one major theory is the idea of neoliberalism. The idea of neoliberalism is the belief that all that matters in society, all that matters in life is economic growth. If your society can generate more economic growth, all problems will be solved. Okay? So if your economy runs really fast, then everyone will be happy. That's the idea of neoliberalism. Then you have technofuturism, which is the idea that some big corporations, usually these tech companies, they want to control the world. And so they want to turn everyone into slaves. And if you don't have a house, you don't have your own property, then you can be controlled by these companies, okay? Technofuturism. World government, where the United Nations has this conspiracy to control the entire world, to destroy national sovereignty and create a world unified government, okay? Population replacement theory. And the idea here is that the problem for governments in the Western world is that white people are opinionated. ## The Old Own The Future -- 30:16 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-who-benefits-rich-pensioners); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: They believe in democracy. They believe in freedom. And they're hard to control. So let's replace the white people with Chinese and Indians and Filipinos because Asian people are more obedient, right? That's the idea. And again, these are just theories. I'm not saying they're right or wrong, okay? And we'll go into these theories later on this semester. Now, the last reason is bureaucratic incompetence. The government is just stupid, okay? Now, there is an overlap among these theories, and there's some validity to all these theories. But what I want to show you is that there's actually a much better way to analyze this. Whenever you have a problem, you always ask yourself, who benefits? Who is benefiting from this, right? So when we're talking about housing prices, well, clearly, property owners are benefiting from this, right? So if we took all the groups, okay, ## The Old Own The Future -- 31:10 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1870s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1870s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#gerontocracy-extracts-future); [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-who-benefits-rich-pensioners) Text: and there's like millions and millions of different groups in society, and we just analyzed who benefits from all these trends that we discussed, the answer you would get is rich pensioners. These are the people who benefit the most from these trends. And therefore, we can suspect that they're the ones behind these trends, okay? So let's go over them. Property prices make sense, right? Because they're old. They have houses. They probably have two or three houses. So they want to see the property prices go up. Higher stock market valuations make sense because they own the most stocks. Youth donation for the poor makes sense because they want good medical care. If poor people are standing in line, that's a problem for them, right? So just kill the poor people, and they'll have better access to healthcare, right? If that frees up the healthcare system, mass immigration means cheap labor. If they're old, they're 70 or 80 years old, they need gardeners. ## The Old Own The Future -- 32:04 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: They need cooks. They need nurses, right? Immigrants. Do you guys want to be gardeners and cooks and laborers? You don't want to be, so we have to bring in immigrants. And everything else, okay? Inflation, ethnic growth, lower birth rate, gas lighting, it doesn't really affect them. It doesn't make sense. So all these trends, some of them are really good, for these pensioners, and the rest doesn't really affect the pensioners. And that's why we can assume, for analysis, that the rich pensioners are most responsible for what's going on. Does it make sense to you guys? All right. So how can we understand this? Well, the problem that we're facing is never in human history have we had so many old rich people before. Okay? And you can see these trends where in the year 1900, people who are 75 and older were just a small fraction of society. ## The Old Own The Future -- 33:11 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-who-benefits-rich-pensioners); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: We can see how fast they're growing. Okay? Over 60 years old, really growing really fast. There's a problem because if they keep on living, they accumulate more and more resources, which creates a lot more inequality. Now, I'm not saying that all old people are rich. In fact, that's not the case. If you just look at statistics, you will find that wealth, wealth itself, is pretty much evenly disputed, distributed among demographics. Okay? So there are young people with a lot of money, but there are more old people with money. Okay? And there are lots and lots of old people, the purple are old people, who are poor. I'm not saying that old people are the problem. I'm saying that old rich people are the problem. They're a problem because they want their pensions. The pension systems in all societies make assumptions about old people. The major assumption that they made is that old people would die. Right? ## The Old Own The Future -- 34:10 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2050s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2050s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: So, for example, in Canada, when they first created the pension system, the retirement age was 65, and they expected people to die when they were 72. So you have five to seven years of a good pension. Okay? Guess what, guys? They're not dying. Right? And that creates a huge problem with your pension plan. And you can see how these liabilities are going up over time. These are teachers, and as you can see, the liabilities are going way up. Why is this happening? It's happening because there's something called assumption changes. Okay? So two assumptions are being made. First is that old people will die. Well, they're not dying. The other assumption is that if you put money in the stock market, it will year by year improve. Right? The problem is that there's volatility in the stock market. It goes up and goes down. And the smart people make money off dumb people. Guess what, guys? Okay, I'm going to ask you a question. ## The Old Own The Future -- 35:13 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2113s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: In finance, where do the dumbest people work? You guys know? In finance, the dumbest people work where? They work in pension funds. Why? Because it's a boring job. You just sit there and do nothing all day. So these pension funds are constantly getting ripped off from investment banks where the smart people are. Okay? So if you look at all investment vehicles, pension funds have lost the most money. And this has created huge issues. Within government pension funds throughout the world. Okay? So as you can see, there's volatility in returns in the pension fund. Okay? When you put the money in, the returns will differ year by year and that screws up your model. If you're a young person, do not put money in the pension fund. Why? Because the value of the pension fund is going drastically down. When you grow up, when you mature and you retire, guess what, guys? ## The Old Own The Future -- 36:17 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: There's no money in the pension fund for you. Because all that money is gone. Why? Because there are too many retirees and not enough workers. All right? So back in the year 2001, you had a problem. You had 7.6 retirees for every 12.7 workers. This is, you basically, the ideal is one to three. So one pensioner, three workers. That's a healthy pension system. Now you have more pensioners, okay, than you have workers. This is a huge problem. These pensions will all go bankrupt in five to 10 years' time. At the same time, as I said, old people are not dying. In fact, old people are coming to dominate society. This is America. You can see how people who are 85 and older, whoa, look at this. Look at this. The aging crisis in America is huge. But it's not just America, it's everywhere. Right? So, by the year 2040, you have 65 million people in America who are over 65. ## The Old Own The Future -- 37:23 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: You have 15 million Americans who are 85. And guess what? These 15 Americans, most of them are the ones who control America. So they dictate policy. And again, this is happening throughout the world. Okay? It's particularly stark in Japan and Germany, but it's happening throughout the world. And this leads us to the idea of gerontocracy. Okay? This is Joe Biden, President of the United States, and this is Mitch McConnell, who is head of the Senate. They're both retired now. Okay? But they were both in their 80s, and they were the two most powerful men in America. He can't walk straight. Okay? Whenever he walks, he trips. This guy is even worse because, look at this, the guy's brain dead. The guy is literally brain dead in public. Okay? He'll be like, and like, no matter what you do, he's like, this is brain dead. Okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 38:22 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: The guy's, this is a brain freeze. The guy should not be one of the most powerful men in America, but he is. That's the world we live in. Okay? Because he will not give up power. This is Dianne Feinstein. She died in office. She was 90 years old. She was 90 years old, and she was still working, and she died in her office. And she was a senator in the United States. These people are literally fighting for life. Okay? They refuse to give up power. They won't give up power if they die. This is the US Senate. Again, the most powerful political institution in America. These are people who are above the standard retirement age, which is 62. Okay? This guy's 90 years old, and he's still working. 90 years old, and he's still working in the Senate. And he doesn't want to retire. Chuck Grassley. What does it mean to have a world run by old people? ## The Old Own The Future -- 39:22 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Now, maybe in school, maybe you've been taught, maybe at home you've been taught that old people are wise. They're tolerant. They're generous. They're benevolent. No, no, no, guys. No. The difference between these three generations, young, mature, and elderly are pretty stark. If you're young, you're rebellious. You want to change the system. If you're mature, you want things to move slowly. Okay? But if you're elderly, you're reactionary. Meaning, you don't want anything to change. If you change anything, they get upset and slap you. That's reactionary. Young people are creative. Mature people want growth. But elderly people care first and foremost about safety. Young people are open -minded. Mature people want consensus. Meaning, they want everyone to get along. But elderly people are stubborn. They want things their way. So, we are now living in a gerontocracy, which is ruled by elderly people. Okay? So, we're going to live in a reactionary, stubborn system, only concerned about the safety of these people. ## The Old Own The Future -- 40:30 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: And so, what does that mean? Well, it means that the world will go into lockdown. Whenever there's a virus, guess what? We're all going to have to shut down. Because old people are afraid of catching germs. It will also lead to a police state. Okay? Now, a police state does not mean that there'll be terrible police coming to beat us up. In fact, you know, in real life, most police that you meet are really, really nice people. But, um, you have no individual freedom. Okay? So, let me give you an example of this. So, in Canada, a Chinese moved to Canada, and, uh, she bought a house, and her son is very naughty. And, her son was so naughty that she wants to slap him. But, she knows that in Canada, you can't really slap children. Even in private, right? So, she goes online and asks everyone, can I slap my child? ## The Old Own The Future -- 41:30 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: And everyone's like, you can't do that because if you do that, your neighbor should report you to the police. But, what you can do is report your child to the police. Tell the police your child is naughty, and they'll come and help you discipline your child. In fact, you can get, you can come, get the police to come every single week. They'd like that. This is what we call a police state. Okay? Intrusive government interference into your personal lives. Oh, and lots of, lots of surveillance. Okay? Wherever you move, you'll be tracked. Whatever call you make, you'll be tracked. Um, in 2003, Britain passed something called the Online Safety Act. And the idea is, if you say anything bad online, you could get arrested. Okay? So the freedom of expression is being limited. This passed in 2002 or 23 in Britain, but I assume it will pass everywhere in the Western world. ## The Old Own The Future -- 42:25 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Digital currency. The idea of digital currency is the idea of financial repression. So they're trying to eliminate cash because with cash, there's freedom. You, you can do whatever you want with cash. You can buy whatever you want for how much you want with cash. With digital currency, all your transactions will be limited. And monitored. Okay? So, in the future, you will not be able to buy video games because that's bad for you. ## The Old Own The Future -- 42:52 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Oh! ## The Old Own The Future -- 42:53 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Microchip implants, guys! Right? Isn't that great? You, before you had cell phones, then you had, uh, facial recognition. And in the future, you have implants. Microchip implants. Immigrants. Lots and lots of immigrants because poor people, sorry, rich pensioners need help. They need nurses. They need laborers. They need gardeners. They need people to mow their lawn. They need people to, to, to the country. Oh! But good news! Okay? It'll be easier for you to study in America from now on. Right? Today, Trump announced he wants 600,000 Chinese students to go to the United States. Right? Before, you guys were worried about not getting your visas and, uh, getting denied at the border. Don't worry, guys. They want you to go to the United States because you guys are the best laborer. You're cheap. You're obedient. And you're studious. And you're young. Okay? So this is the plan to let in more Chinese students into America so you guys can take care of elderly people. ## The Old Own The Future -- 44:01 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Isn't that great? Good news, right? Oh! Lots and lots of prisons, guys. Okay? Because elderly people are afraid of criminals. And also, prisoners are free labor. Isn't that great? Oh! And one more thing. War after war after war. All right? This is what it means by death by gerontocracy. This is what it means to live in a world governed by elderly people. Elderly people are perfectly happy to send young people to die for their glory. All right? Okay. Pretty depressing, but don't worry. Things will get even more depressing as we go along. All right? All right. Good. Any questions? Are you guys clear? Any questions? Yeah? Yeah. ## The Old Own The Future -- 44:56 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2696s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Like, for like the above that you said that elders controls the society and wants like they exploit young people. But is there a way that young people could like overthrow or have a method to solve this? ## The Old Own The Future -- 45:12 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#gerontocracy-extracts-future); [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-respect-becomes-extraction) Text: Yeah. That's actually a great question. So what can young people do about this? And the answer is nothing. Okay? And the reason why and this is really important is that young people are biologically ingrained to respect the elders. Right? This is true throughout nature. Even young animals will respect their elders. So do you want to go kill your grandparents? Probably not. Okay? So there's nothing anyone can do about this. This is just the unfortunate state of affairs. Okay? Old people are people we are biologically trained or wired to respect and obey. And that's why they can send us to wars and we'll go fight wars. Okay? Does that make sense? ## The Old Own The Future -- 46:00 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: All right. Yeah. So what happened after the rich pension elders died? Like what about their money? ## The Old Own The Future -- 46:12 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#gerontocracy-extracts-future); [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-respect-becomes-extraction) Text: Okay. All right. That's a good question. Okay? So as you can see from these charts eventually there'll be a pension crisis where there are too many pensioners and not money. Well guess what? The old people are the major political force in society. They dictate policy. So what will happen is that money will be diverted from elsewhere into pensions. Where? Schooling. Right? Public schooling. Healthcare. Everywhere basically. Okay? But that but the pensioners will want that money. And pensioners first of all they're powerful but they also have a lot of free time on their hands to make trouble for everyone. And also because respect our the elderly. Right? ## The Old Own The Future -- 46:58 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: Okay? ## The Old Own The Future -- 46:59 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-respect-becomes-extraction) Text: Do you want to deny healthcare and pension to your grandparents? So everyone will be for this. There's nothing we can do about it. Good question. ## The Old Own The Future -- 47:13 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) Text: But like people human's life have a limit like what will happen after like they all die because they are just although they are elders and those rich pensions there are still generations of human. That's a really great point. ## The Old Own The Future -- 47:30 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: Okay? So the idea is that what happens when they die off? Well they're not dying off. Okay? They were supposed to die at 72. Now they're living to like 100. Modern medicine is incredible. I have a friend who's like 90 years old. She's like literally brain dead. Okay? She's like literally brain dead. She's 90 years old but she's filthy rich. And she has access to the best healthcare. So I asked my friend who's a doctor like if you're filthy rich and you want to keep on living how long could modern medicine keep you going on even though you're a vegetable? And he said to me 20 years. 20 years. 20 years of being a vegetable but she has money so if she wants to keep on living then she can do that. Okay? And that was not available before because of scarcity. Right? Because of lack of technology. But nowadays because of abundance because of technology old people can live as long as they want to. ## The Old Own The Future -- 48:30 - Source title: Secret History #3: Death by Gerontocracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g3yo1DjiLM&t=2910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0g3yo1djilm.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: And also what this chart tells us is that when the green goes away the red becomes the green. Right? So you'll always have a society where the elderly are in control. Okay? Does that make sense? Unless of course there were maybe I don't know a catastrophe a nuclear holocaust who knows? Okay? But yeah. But given the way things are the trends the trend is that old people can control society for a long time. Because if there's a war it's not old people who die it's young people who die. Okay? But good question. Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great. So we'll continue this next class. Okay. Thank you. ## Taboo Is The River -- 0:00 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Today we are going to discuss some extremely controversial topics and because this is going to go on YouTube there are certain words I cannot say. So just to warn you I will write down these words but I will not say them because if I do say them then I will get censored on YouTube. Today we're going to look at how evil triumphs. Why is the world so evil? And there's going to be a lot of extremely disturbing topics we're going to discuss but you're mature and it's important that we discuss these topics in order to understand how the world works. So let's just start and we will do a lot of speculation and theorizing in this class. So do not take this as gospel. Do not believe this is the truth. The entire point of this class is to help you to help the theories and the ideas to better understand the world. These are tools. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:04 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=64s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=64s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: This is not truth. These are tools. Alright so the first question I have for you is what is happening in Israel? Right now as you know Israel is besieging, bombarding Gaza. You might have seen the videos on social media. It is disturbing. It is terrible what is happening. The word that is happening, the word that we use for what is happening in Gaza is this word. You are not allowed to say this word on YouTube but that is the intention. What I will argue though is that the truth is far more disturbing than this. What is really happening in Gaza is a ritual sacrifice. And this happens quite often. In human history. If you go back and you look at the real history of humanity, this happens quite often. Some of the most famous examples are the Aztecs. We've dug up temples of the Aztecs and inside the temples are thousands and thousands of human skulls. ## Taboo Is The River -- 2:31 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: So before they went to war, they practiced human sacrifice. They would commit mass murder of their enemies in public. So the Aztecs were really famous for this. The Phoenicians, specifically the Carthaginians. We will discuss them later this semester but the Phoenicians were also famous for a particular type of sacrifice which is child sacrifice. The Romans wrote histories insulting the Phoenicians for practicing this sort of sacrifice. But the Romans themselves practiced human sacrifice. What they would do is that after every major war, they would capture all the major leaders, all their enemies, and they would parade their enemies through the streets of Rome. This is something called a triumph. At the end of the triumph, they would gather enemies at the temple of Jupiter. Jupiter is their god. And then they would strangle to death their enemies. That's sacrifice. That's human sacrifice. They didn't call it that. And they sort of disguised it. But we know for a fact that they did do this. ## Taboo Is The River -- 3:52 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So the question for us is, why is it that this happens? Why do the Aztecs do it? Why do the Phoenicians do it? Why do the Romans do it? And why is it today that the Israelis do it in Gaza? And remember, what the Israelis are doing is quite horrific to me. because it is really this sort of sacrifice why because 47 % almost half of the population of Gaza is under 18 years old so the majority of people who are getting killed are in fact children what is most striking or blatant about what's happening in Gaza is that we can all see it for ourselves and it's almost as though this release want us to see it and want us to hate them right you can see over the world popular opinion is turning against Israel you have these popular protests all around the ## Taboo Is The River -- 4:58 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-river-removes-retreat) Text: world protesting what is happening in Palestine if they really want to do this right there are actually much more effective ways of doing this for example you just poison their water you just poison their water or you could poison the ear so that everyone in Gaza gets a fast cancer right we have the technology to do this so so Israel could do it this secretly and no one would talk about it and in 20 years time 30 years time the public population of Gaza would all be gone it would be a very secret right instead they choose to do this because they don't want to do it because they don't choose to do this in front of the world and my argument to you is that this is intentional they want the world to hate them because by doing this they create the ultimate taboo right we find this disgusting and contemptuous so the entire ## Taboo Is The River -- 6:08 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-river-removes-retreat) Text: world will unite against Israel but guess what that's what their religion wants they call it extremist freedom from within Israel as a Jewish tradition especially before the beginning when Basra was a diarrhea war and extraréalist and right but I think the God is the 你的 can be cruel and it could be Peacemaker of this ritual sacrifice is to unite the Israeli population and what's extremely disturbing and horrifying about it is that this works why well let's use an analogy okay the analogy is this in Chinese history the most popular military strategy M is to fight with a river behind your back you guys have heard of this strategy right where okay an army is losing okay it's being scattered by the enemy so what the general does is forces the army to retreat to a river and now with a river blocking your escape you have a choice you can either drown in the river ## Taboo Is The River -- 7:42 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#taboo-control-surface-atlas); [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-control-surface-boundary); [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-river-removes-retreat) Text: or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death and so at this point the soldiers are unified they're galvanized you're energized and then they find a surge of energy to go and destroy the enemy okay this is the most popular military stratagem in ancient Chinese history and guess what it's the same as Israel doing this right now in Gaza it's the same logic yes you have a question so what is the river for the Israel like yeah that's a good question what's the river right here right the river is a taboo right what's the worst thing you can do in modern society killing children guys right so there's no exit for Israel you either go all the way or the world comes and destroys you anyway and in fact what's really interesting is that if you you go online you will see is released go around the ## Taboo Is The River -- 8:47 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: world and causing trouble everywhere they're going to start fights there they shout death to the Arabs on public buses in the Western world it's intentional they want to unite themselves by dividing the world by ending the world okay does that make sense all right so this is all very disturbing and I want to see if you have any suggestions and suggestions or you have any suggestions slowly unpack review to reveal to you how this works okay so uh to do this what i'm going to do is i'm going to use a thought experiment the thought experiment is this let's just say that there's an island we don't know where the island is but it's an island and there's no skip from the island and on the island there at the center it's a hill and it's safe but everywhere else you have these flesh -eating monkeys roaming everywhere okay the problem is that on this ## Taboo Is The River -- 9:51 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: island the resources you need to survive trees food and rivers the monkeys are there okay there's one safe spot in the center but everywhere else if you want resources you have to go fight these monkeys they're flesh -eating monkeys they want to kill you they want to eat you and there's an infinite number of them now let's just say that one day for whatever reason okay we don't know why but 100 men aging and they range from 15 to 65 years old okay they are mysteriously transplanted onto this island in a safe spot they come from different countries they do not speak the same language they are of different ethnicities they are all poor people in their countries they don't have much education so they're there and they realize quickly that the whole world is utterly hopeless there's no escape from this island these monkeys are everywhere and they are tough warriors and the situation ## Taboo Is The River -- 10:56 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: looks bleak they don't even speak the same language they don't have a common culture so at this point you would imagine that they would feel hopeless and just lie down and die but in reality what happens is the opposite what happens is that in this hopeless situation they find a drive a purpose a spirit to fight for each other and what will happen really quickly okay and this is really interesting is the first thing that they will do is they will develop a common language they don't speak the same language some speak chinese some speak english some speak spanish some say russian doesn't matter they will very quickly develop a common language and then what they will do is with this common language they will start to tell each other stories of where they come from and then these stories will become a common myth a founding myth of why they're here and they come ## Taboo Is The River -- 12:07 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: to believe that god has chosen them to save the world and that's why they're here then what they will do is with this new religion they will start to develop the word change they start to develop different language they live and share to one another they continue to do many things and everything comes together and then they bring healing because they 인중 betrayal occurs and then what they will do is they continue to develop a new religious religion rituals to reinforce this religion these rituals include sex okay so these men will have sex and the reason why is create intimacy and bonding among them and there'll be a lot of religious rituals as well another thing that they will do is pick a leader there's a hundred of them they need a leader to organize them and so we can imagine that during the leadership election everyone gets up to speak now the man who ## Taboo Is The River -- 12:58 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=778s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: 65 he is wise he has experience yes strategies so he delivers a very powerful speech inspiring everyone and telling people how they can survive against the flesh -eating monkeys okay so he's really smart then suddenly you have a man up here who's 15 years old or 16 or 17 okay he is not articulate he has no ideas but what he does is that he stands in front of everyone and he's cooperative and he's brave and he looks at everyone while saying a word he shows them his hand ok it shows him his hand then from his pocket he takes out a knife ok and then he cuts off his hand in front of everyone and it's not cry it just looks at everyone one as though nothing happened let me ask you this question who does everyone pick to be the leader the second person obviously right the man who has shown sacrifice and commitment ## Taboo Is The River -- 14:02 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: and devotion to everyone else the old man has ideas and he will become the advisor to the leader but the leader is the man who is most willing to die for everyone else and so in this situation the bravest among them will come and emerge as the leader and as such what will happen is that these people these men will become extremely inspired and devoted even though they are weak they will learn to become strong even though they are poor and uneducated they will learn to be wise and clever and strategic they will radically transform themselves and ultimately what will happen is the idea of cohesion cohesion like brothers cohesion like a family they will understand each other even though they're from different cultures even though they have different backgrounds they will understand each other better than they understand their own children and their own wives and this cohesion will lead to something called synchronicity ## Taboo Is The River -- 15:18 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-transgression-coheres) Text: synchronicity synchronicity is when people act in unison together okay so a very simple example of synchronicity is a sports team right when you watch a soccer match how is that soccer team able to work together well because of synchronicity because their minds are alike it's what we call a hive mind and this allows for something called telepathy they're able to think and act as one so let me give an example of this let's just say one they're like these men they're sleeping but one of them one is off to collect wood and then he's attacked by monkeys it doesn't matter if he screams because he's too far away would his comrades know that he's in danger they would okay and the example here is let's just say you're a mother and you have children okay and one of them goes off to france on a vacation but then while he's in france he gets hit ## Taboo Is The River -- 16:29 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: by a car and he's hospitalized would you as a mother know that he that your son is in danger would you feel it he hasn't called you you don't know about this but in your heart would you know it the answer is yes you wouldn't know it you would feel something is wrong you would get on the phone and try to call your son you would you can't reach your son you would call the police okay you don't know what's happening but something in your heart is telling you i need to get in touch with my son okay and that's how the hive mind works that's how synchronicity works let's let's look at another example let's just say that one day you there's ten of you and you're all collecting wood and then suddenly you're attacked by a hundred flesh -eating monkeys there's a bridge that you've created okay it's a rope bridge nine get ## Taboo Is The River -- 17:19 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1039s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1039s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: across the bridge all right but you're the last person okay and all the monkeys are about to descend on you and you know that if the monkeys get across your comrades are dead so what you what do you do in this situation yeah you you cut the rope okay you die you think about it you just kill yourself because what matters is that your life what matters is the family what matters is the team and we know about this because in war what often happens is in trench warfare the other the enemy will throw a grenade into the trench right there's not enough time to get that to pick up that uh grenade and throw it away so what soldiers do is they will jump on the grenade and absorb the explosion thus killing himself it happens instantaneously no one thinks about it you just do it because what matters is saving your comrades and ## Taboo Is The River -- 18:28 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: this is what happens okay a synchronicity develops where it's almost as though you're able to reach read each other's minds and they keep on doing this for like 10 20 years and then suddenly okay let's continue a thought experiment suddenly you are transported back to the real world as though nothing happened but you have memories of what happened okay doesn't make sense okay you've experienced 20 years of hell on Monkey Island you've dealt the capacity to work together you have a hive mind you're really energized you're really inspired you're really driven you have a new religion all to yourself now suddenly you're all transferred transported back to your real world your old life okay now what would happen what would happen is that the hundred of you would want to come together again right and you would share your experience your rituals your religion with your children and your grandchildren and quickly over time what ## Taboo Is The River -- 19:49 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: will happen is that you guys will conquer the world you will become the secret elite the world is yours there may be presidents there may be famous people but secretly you're the ones who are in control your children your grandchildren your great -grandchildren will inherit this legacy and they are the ones who truly control power in the world does that make sense all right yeah question ## Taboo Is The River -- 20:22 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: here like if when the time if this person really transferred back to the reality what if that time already have a leader that like you are just a peasant but not ## Taboo Is The River -- 20:38 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: a leader okay yeah that's your question I've already told you this okay on the service there are leaders but the real power are you guys okay and I'll explain why all right now um what's also interesting is that while you're on this island you will develop certain rituals that are very strange but are important if you want to maintain your self -esteem if you want to maintain your self -esteem unity okay so for example one strange ritual is the funeral ritual the funeral ritual the idea here is that when someone sacrificed himself you have a huge funeral sub with that person and this may involve you cutting that person into different pieces and in that person okay but you you will develop really strange rituals okay does it make sense okay so I'm gonna answer your question uh why are these guys in charge and not the real leaders of Society but first I want ## Taboo Is The River -- 21:40 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: to give you some historical analogies to this okay how do you know that what I'm saying is correct well let's look at certain analogies of his in history all right so Sparta Sparta is one of the most famous military societies in world history Sparta is a city -state in ancient Greece um you may have heard of Sparta um a movie about Sparta was made called 300. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the movie 300. but 300 is really about 300 Spartan soldiers who are fighting millions not millions but hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers Persia is invading mainland Greece they fight at a place called thermopylae the battle thermopylae and this is a pass into meaning Greece the Greeks have to hold this position if they are to prevent the invasion okay 300 Spartan soldiers backed by thousands of other Greek soldiers make a last stand in this path they are overwhelmed by ## Taboo Is The River -- 22:51 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: the Persian invasion and rather than run like most people the 300 soldiers make a final stand their leader is Leonidas and he tells them we will fight to the death they all fight to the death and they're all massacred and the Persians take Leonidas head cut on us on a pike to warn the Greeks we are merciless eventually the Greeks um inspired by the sacrifice of Leonidas they will repel the invasion and destroy the invaders so how do we get this culture okay well the education system of the Spartans is really interesting it's really disturbing actually so young boys at age five and six are taken away from their homes and they are put in a school run by older boys okay so so the older boys are maybe like 10 11. and so what happens as you can imagine is the older boys beat the crap out of the younger boys okay from day ## Taboo Is The River -- 23:57 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: one there's no education they're not learning anything all that's happening is the older boys are just beating the crap out of the younger boys but because this is happening we call this like hazing okay this happens actually a lot um among communities and sports teams they're when they're getting the crap being out of them it builds solidarity it builds Brotherhood so these young boys who are five and six they learn to love each other because only by helping each other can they survive the brutality okay then what happens is when they 11 when they become 11 12 13 when they hit puberty this is really interesting they become mentored okay mentored by an older soldier an older Spartan soldier who's maybe 28 29 30. but he has a family they become lovers they have sex with each other and this builds group solidarity okay so during hazing phase these young boys learn to trust each ## Taboo Is The River -- 25:06 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: other they learn how to bond with each other during the mentorship phase these young boys learn to think like in a hive mind okay they learn to be part of a larger group then when they um turn 18 they um graduate okay and in order to graduate what they do is this they have a mission so the Spartans um have slaves called helots okay these are just people that they've conquered and who are now work as slaves in the fields for them okay they're like serves so there are lots of rules the important rule is curfew so if it's dark at night you cannot be outside the house if you are outside the house at night you could be um executed okay so as a graduation mission these young soldiers hide in the fields at night okay they hide in the fields and they wait for the sun to go down so it's now dark ## Taboo Is The River -- 26:08 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: and they look for helots to come back because they're late and what they'll do is they'll sneak up behind the helot and cut their throats okay this is basically sacrifice okay human sacrifice so the Spartans did this as well it's a very common thing and what this does is it builds group cohesion leading to synchronicity only there are thousands and thousands of city -states in Greece only Sparta did this and it made everyone think Sparta was disgusting everyone hated Sparta but it kept Sparta unified and it made Sparta into the dominant military power in Greece at that time okay what happened then is Thebes another city -state in um Greece they would copy the Spartans Spartan system okay but they made it voluntary so if from if it did so in Sparta you have to be an elite to be part of the system but in Thebes anyone could join the system okay and they ## Taboo Is The River -- 27:20 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: call the system the sacred band um of 300 soldiers and they were again lovers okay but this is really important for you guys to understand at this time in history there's no concept of homosexuality it was perfectly permissible no one cared if you had sex with men or animals or whatever okay it was not a big deal this comes much later in modern times back then this was not considered homosexuality was not considered a concept okay if you're out in the field out at war for like years and years and there's no woman around you're gonna have sex with other men it's a very natural thing to do okay it doesn't mean you're homosexual okay so the secret band of thieves became the dominant military power after sparta okay it's called the secret band and they were like the um vanguard they were the spearhead they would be the first in battle and they were ## Taboo Is The River -- 28:21 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: so ferocious that their enemies would run away okay then what happened is that macedonia would copy the theban system um who's the most famous macedonia in the world do you guys know which macedonian is the most famous ever in human history you know the name but you may not know he's macedonian accident of the grave okay his father is philip the second philip ii is the one who actually built the greatest army in the world the macedonian army it was actually the gray dragon who built the the great army and then he had to build another great army and he built the great his son who would take this army and conquer persia okay we'll learn this later on but phil ii learned learn all this from thebes and at first macedonia and thebes were allies but phil ii was very ambitious so they start to want he wanted to conquer all of mainland greece ## Taboo Is The River -- 29:14 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: and in 338 bce at the battle of uh zirconia macedonia fought against the commandment of thebes and athens and macedonia destroyed thebes and athens okay because macedonia basically copied the system from sparta and thebes at this point macedonia should have destroyed the entire theban and athenian army but when all was lost the sacred band they stood in the middle of the field they blocked the advance of macedonian charge so that everyone could escape back into the cities they did not fear death they welcomed death okay for them what mattered was honor and sacrifice and that's how you create the greatest army in the world okay does that make sense so these historical analogies give credence to our thought experiment okay now we're going to look at a question which is okay why does this system work okay so let's do game theory game theory game theory is just a study of how you how to ## Taboo Is The River -- 30:42 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: win games okay it's a very general thing so let's do a thought experiment and just say there's about a million people in the world okay there's a million people in the world and they're all trying to win the game against each other but only only one can win well according to game theory the best way to win a game is by does anyone know cheating okay cheating if you follow the rules you will never win the game you have to cheat and in this game the best way to win is by coordinating with other people right because everyone's playing by himself so if you can work with other people then that gives you a huge advantage over everyone else right the problem with this is the moment that people start coordinating it forces an arms race of coordination so maybe these people are going together these four now are forced to work together which now ## Taboo Is The River -- 31:41 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: forces these five to work together okay so if you are the first to work together you're gets you get screwed in the process so if you cheat you have to cheat secretly okay you have to coordinate without people knowing you're actually coordinating together you have to conspire secretly okay and there are different ways to collaborate secretly okay so let's let's look at examples so family is one example right of coordination synchronicity another example is religion if you have a leader right if you um have a similar race ethnicity you have a similar language okay so these are examples of how you you get people to coordinate together so the problem is that these are all obvious to people which forces them to do the same thing okay but there's a strategy that you can use that allows you to coordinate secretly and defeat all your enemies and this strategy is called transgression transgression the breaking ## Taboo Is The River -- 33:09 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=1989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: of taboos the breaking of social norms the breaking of social laws transgression okay so let's study this concept so the idea is that um the theory is that the greater you transgress okay this is the level of transgression the greater your cohesion which leads to synchronicity okay that's a theory i want to propose to you all right so transgression i mean it's a very simple idea you're breaking the rules right you're cheating and therefore everyone wants itaci, Adam is right on it Darryl, can you do it. versión puesta -fácil licencia para ser cub entertainmental. to put you in prison, which means that the only way that you can survive is if you keep the secret among your group, right? Which forces cohesion. Does that make sense? All right. And we see this in all aspects of society, right? So the most basic form of transgression is just joking or pranking, right? So for example, you guys, six of you, decide, you know what? ## Taboo Is The River -- 34:29 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2069s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2069s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-transgression-coheres) Text: We're going to play a joke on the school. We're going to cover all the rooms with toilet paper. It's a joke, it's a prank, but obviously you don't want to get caught because the school will punish you. And this joke and this prank will make you more cohesive, right? Because now you have a secret amongst yourself and anyone betrays you, you're all screwed, right? Does that make sense? That's logic. The other thing that's really interesting is that when you try, grass when you break a taboo you feel empowered you feel liberated and it becomes addictive right you fill the school with toilet paper you're like that was a lot of fun what was it fun because you broke the rules you feel I'm more powerful than my teacher then so you keep on doing more and more of this stuff right then you may be like hey ## Taboo Is The River -- 35:32 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-transgression-coheres) Text: let's go to store and steal a candy that Kenny may cost $1 nothing right but you try it and you are terrified you're seized by doubt you're seized by fear sorry so this is the sound that tells us that we should go on break but but again we don't go on break in this class okay so I apologize when we're not taking a break we keep on going okay but that's what the sound is okay so you're terrified because your mother your teachers everyone told you stealing is bad right but when you actually go and do it how do you feel you feel energized you feel liberated you feel empowered and if your friends were with you how the French becomes much more unified much more cohesive much more synchronized does that make sense and now you want to look let's put more rules let's see what happens if we pick more and more rules ## Taboo Is The River -- 36:30 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: and you keep on going because it's addictive and ultimately there's a transgression that is the ultimate taboo which is what you guys know yeah right this right can you think of a more worse transgression than this that's why they do it because it feels empowering it releases energy they do it because they believe that when you do this it releases divine energy and when you when you actually do it okay guys I'm not telling you to go do this okay please do not do this okay and please remember okay this is evil we should not be doing this but when you actually go and do it those who can do it they feel as though they are now inundated that now they are now filled with divine energy they found the secret of the universe they found the ultimate power in the world world another transgression which is not as bad but pretty bad is ## Taboo Is The River -- 37:45 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: the idea of incest right and there are secret societies out there guys that do this and you know what guys I hate to tell you this okay but they do it in public in front of everyone else because that creates both group unity synchronicity and it releases in their minds divine energy they have now access to God if you want to know what secret societies do well yeah this and this okay and again there's only a small group of people but now we know why these people control the world because they're able to keep secrets because they're more motivated than everyone else and they're able to work together in a way that allows them to achieve ultimate power these leaders you see right these leaders you see they are puppets they are just the face the real power are the secret societies that practice these rituals and again I'm not saying this is a truth ## Taboo Is The River -- 38:57 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: I'm just saying this is a possible theory about how the world works right because this is a class of speculation it's a class of theory don't think this is the truth okay but you can think about how this works and ask yourself you can think about how this works and ask yourself does it explain the world okay all right so how to explain this what I want to do now is go into the deep theory as to why this is happening okay so if you talk to these people and they're honest with you they'll tell you that when we do this we access God and God gives us divine power because they're superstitious and they're stupid okay just because they're the elite just because they're powerful people does not mean they're clever in fact they're kind of stupid if you actually meet them and they're stupid because they're not good or no good people do ## Taboo Is The River -- 39:44 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: they Squ量 I'm going to explain how this system works and when I do it when I explain to you it will make sense okay but are we clear so far about what's happening guys all right I know this is disturbing and I know I'll get banned on YouTube for this but it's important that we do this okay all right so now I explained a theory as to why this is happening how is it transgression is able to unleash divine energy okay just because a the end of the theory as to why this is happening how the So, Kant. We will look at some major thinkers, and they're really deep thinkers, and we'll go more into them this semester, but I'm going to introduce them, okay? So, Kant. Remember from the first class, Kant had a theory of how the world works. There is no objective reality that we see, okay? So, before, the assumption was that we just absorb reality, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 40:44 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: But Kant says that we are active, sorry, we'll wait for this. So, Kant says that we are active participants in reality. How? Well, because our brains are filters. We add space and time to reality. Space and time does not exist outside of us, okay? So, the objective reality is called nomina, okay? The things in themselves. Do not worry about these names, but this is the objective reality. What happens is that, for a filter... For filters, we interact with the nomina, and that creates what we call the phenomena, the things that we see, the phenomena, okay? And that's the world we know. The nomina, we can never, ever know. That's the theory of Kant, okay? And this has been confirmed by neuroscience. So, this is basically the most accurate model of the world that we have. The problem, though, is that Kant's conception of the world......creates three questions. Okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 41:56 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: The first question then... first question is, what is the nomina? Kant says we can never know it, but, we still want to know it, okay? That's the first question. Second question then is, who gave us these filters? Right? Where do our filters come from? How do our minds work? And who created our minds in the first place? The second question. The third question is, if we are all seeing the world for our own lips... how do we know that we're seeing the same world how do our perception of the world align together okay so Kant creates these problems Hegel who comes after Kant Frederick Hegel by the way he proposes a solution to this to these three problems and what he says is this this is really important for us to understand is that no one is the Geist the Geist is hard to translate we usually translate it to mean Spirit okay so what ## Taboo Is The River -- 43:02 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Hegel is saying is that the spirit world is what creates the material world we are just a shell what really matters is the spirit world now it's really important to understand the concept of the Geist okay and again there's it's German but there's no actual English translation for it so it's books books and books and books and books and books from other different best to see guys as a combination of three words that derive from guys okay these three words are ghost geyser and just okay so these three english words are derivatives of the german word geist right most words in english are actually german origin sorry it's not most words but many words okay all right ghost is just a parallel reality that exists alongside us right a spiritual world that's the first concept geyser is just a force that is exploding or becoming or expanding so this guys is constantly expanding and becoming ## Taboo Is The River -- 44:09 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: gist just just means the essence of things the core things okay so the real truth in the world is the geist not what we see but what is invisible to us okay so that's the idea of the geist does that make sense now the geist we're going to talk about the geist now the geist we're going to talk about the geist now the geist we're going to answer all three questions the nominal the real world is a spiritual not a material world it's the geist that gives us these filters and because we're all seeing the world for the guys we see the same world okay so now this creates another problem which is where do the guys come from what is the geist okay and here we will look at plato and dante okay so um um again this is a really deep theory and we'll go more deeply into this as the semester um ## Taboo Is The River -- 45:17 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: moves but i just first want to introduce the idea to you right now okay so this comes from plato and a religion called gnosticism okay the gnostics uh gnostic just means knowledge okay um so in the beginning the big bang the force is the monad or the uh the one okay there are different names for this thing or news just think of this as a supreme god okay the big bang the the the force all like like the the the sun almost okay the spiritual sun of the universe the news works by breathing when he breathesand he vibrates addedda his divine power. And through this, he creates new beings called dyads. Dyads are just peers of forces, okay? And these dyads then create different realities, all right? So different realities are being created through this inaction. And eventually, you reach earth, okay? So in other words, what Plato and Gnostics are telling us is that the Geist is a multi -layer, multi -dimensional world that we access all the time, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 46:52 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Does that make sense? And the earth, what we see, it is just the most outer shell in this universe. Is this clear to you guys? All right. So, now, the question then is, what is the purpose of life in the world? And what Plato says is that the purpose of life in this world is to return to the monad, okay? And guess what, guys? This is actually the framework for a lot of religions, including Hinduism, right? And Buddhism. This is what the Hindus and the Buddhists believe as well. Nirvana, Nirvana is to return to the monad. I'm not sure if you guys have studied religion before, okay? But that's the idea. So what Plato says is that through the pursuit of knowledge, philosophy, the love of knowledge, you can return to the monad, okay? Dante, and we'll study Dante in depth later on, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 48:11 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: But Dante has another solution. What Dante says is that, the man, the monad is love. Okay? And the monad, because he creates things, his divine spark emanates throughout the universe, okay? So, there is a divine spark in us. And this divine spark is called love. So, we are able to love people. Mothers love children. You love each other, because of this divine spark in you. And the more you love, the more you love the people around you. love the more you return to the monad okay so plato says pursue knowledge danae says pursue love okay so now the question is okay this sounds all very good but why does evil happen in the world okay what's the source of evil right that's interesting okay you have you have this theory of the universe but then the question then is why do people do bad things then why is there sacrifice ## Taboo Is The River -- 49:29 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=2969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract) Text: in the world why why are people doing all these bad things and not only getting away getting away with it but they're also controlling the world that's a big question right so um for plato the answer is very simple this world doesn't matter who cares if they control this world it's a fake shadow world ignore them just focus on the pursuit of knowledge because that allows you to be one with the monad okay who cares about this world give them what they want give them their power their fame their money who cares dante's answer is actually very interesting okay that's that's plato's answer it doesn't matter this world doesn't matter who cares what happens in this world it's a prison anyway danae actually proposed something different he says this if the monad is love love is true trust so the monad loves us and as a result the monad gives us free will now free ## Taboo Is The River -- 50:35 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#free-will-love-refuses-contract) Text: will can lead to bad things for example this world but he has no choice in the matter because for him to interfere means to take away our free will and that's and free will is his greatest gift to us okay but now and then what he will do is he will send messengers to our world to remind us that the monad has given us free will and we can activate it and achieve a greater consciousness and these messengers are plato dante right jesus right doesn't make sense so now and then the monad will send um for the geist okay the monad will implant ideas in these people who will then tell us the truth but it's our choice we're not to believe it because the monad has given us free will all right so for plato what's important is the pursuit of knowledge for dante what matters is the pursuit of love to love each ## Taboo Is The River -- 51:40 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: other unconditionally okay um and that's what they tell us what the system also tells us is that the powerful want to deny this system right because if they control earth the fake world they want to make it as real as possible does that make sense that's the source of the power the belief that the only that matters is the material world the prison that we live in and that's why we have science right science is negation of the spiritual world and the validation of the material world if you cannot see it it must be fake right okay so that's how power works now transgression works in this model because transgression allows the powerful to align to a certain part of this universe okay because in this universe there are evil forces as well does it make sense so for example the metaphor is think of the internet right well there are millions and millions of ## Taboo Is The River -- 53:02 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: websites and for transgression by doing the same evil act what the power have done is they've locked on to the same website right and because they locked on to the same website it allows for synchronicity it allows for them to commit to think alike and to behave the same way okay all right so that's the general theory and again this is all speculation i'm not telling you this is true but i'm giving you a framework to work with to better understand why things happen we're just speculating we're using our imagination here um i know this is a lot but kant plato hegel dante will go much more deeper into over the semester i just introduced these ideas now okay questions guys okay uh you had a question from last class right right so so can you ask a question from ## Taboo Is The River -- 54:07 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: last class and i'll answer it first all right from last class you mentioned that um the ones that control society are those old pensioners right because they get revenues from the youngers and the they control the society in our society i do see signs or phenomena that the government are sort of helping the old patienters by creating more say entertainment or facilities that benefit them so why is that is it possible that the government also benefits benefits from old patient's actions or is actually the governments are controlled by old practitioners yeah i mean uh we discussed this ## Taboo Is The River -- 54:52 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: but it's the pensioners, the old people, who control society, control the culture, who control government, right? Because in China, from the first day, you're taught to respect your elders, right? You're taught that elderly people are worth emulating, they're worth studying from, they're what's most precious about our society. So it makes sense that the government would create policies to most benefit the elderly, okay? That's just the structure of Chinese society, respect for the elderly, okay? Thank you. Any more questions, guys? Yep. Amber has a question. ## Taboo Is The River -- 55:32 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So I was just thinking about the model, and I think it's interesting... The Monad. Yeah, this model that we have on the board. So like you said, the existence of evil is... if you don't mind repeating yourself. ## Taboo Is The River -- 55:48 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Oh, yeah, so what is evil? ## Taboo Is The River -- 55:49 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Yeah. ## Taboo Is The River -- 55:50 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Okay, in the system. Okay, so... In the system, what is evil is the denial of the system, okay? So because the Monad is the truth, it's love, right? So the closer you move to the Monad, that's what's good. The further you move away from the Monad, that's what's evil, right? So at the very end of this model is Earth. So the more you embrace the material world, the more you deny the spiritual world, that's what's evil in this model. Okay. So for Plato, what's good is the pursue of knowledge, and what's evil is the pursuit, the denial of knowledge, which includes, by the way, art, right? Movies, because movies are just a shadow of the shadow world. If the world we live in is fake, and movies, all they do is depict this fake world, then it makes things worse, okay? And Dante, as okay, whatever allows for more love is good, what allows for less love is bad, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 56:59 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:02 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So just to add on to that, so what if, like we mentioned earlier, sacrifice, sacrifice can be considered as a way to unite people, it creates cohesion. ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:13 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Yeah, and it unlocks divine energy because you're accessing a part of this model. ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:18 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Okay. ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:19 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Yeah, does that make sense? ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:20 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Yeah. ## Taboo Is The River -- 57:21 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Right? And that's why, as you're doing this sacrifice, they are worshipping a certain god, right? So sacrifice is part of their religion, it's not done independently. They have a religious framework for the sacrifice, and that's why they do it, right? They don't do sacrifice for the purpose of sacrifice, they do sacrifice as a consummation of their religion, because that's what their religion demands of them, right? And so they're worshipping a god, they're sacrificing these people. They're sacrificing these people to send to this god, right? So they're accessing a part of this model, which is a lower part, okay? And there are evil beings in this model as well, right? But they go lower. ## Taboo Is The River -- 58:09 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So by, I'm trying to, so by being evil, we're like doing the bad deeds, we get, as long as it creates love, in Dante's theory, it gets us ultimately closer to the... ## Taboo Is The River -- 58:23 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: To the monad, yes. To the monad, yes. ## Taboo Is The River -- 58:25 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: But the evilness... The monad that we perceive is constructed by our current society, so... ## Taboo Is The River -- 58:31 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#denial-of-free-will-is-anti-love) Text: Yeah, so what Dante is saying about our current society is that our society is, first and foremost, anti -love. It does not allow for people to love each other. So, for example, school, right? So, without school, your parents would just care about your happiness. But because of school, parents care about your grades, and whether or not you get into an elite American college. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. You're just going to do a good job. And so the parents deny your free will. They deny your agency. And as a result, you don't feel loved, okay? So that's what Dante would argue. Our society is anti -love because the society is constructed in a way that does not allow for normal human relationships to flourish, right? In a normal relationship... your parents would just let you do whatever you want. I would think, you know? But because they're like, no, no, no. If ## Taboo Is The River -- 59:35 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: I let you do whatever you want, you will not do well in school, and you won't be able to get a job, and then you'll become, I don't know, unemployed and a drug addict, who knows, okay? Right, that's how they think. Does that make sense? ## Taboo Is The River -- 59:49 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt#denial-of-free-will-is-anti-love) Text: Yeah, so the denial of free will is anti -love, and therefore it's evil, and it limits you from getting closer to Monad. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:00:00 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: That's right. Okay, great. Exactly, thank you. Yeah? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:00:06 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Just like what Amber mentions, that this world is anti -love, but what is the purpose of not letting us get closer to the Monad? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:00:17 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: That's a good question, right? Why are they doing this? Because the people in power wanna stay in power, right? Because what they're doing, it goes against the Monad, but they wanna stay in power. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:00:33 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So they gain benefits, such as power, by disobeying the Monad, and letting others disobey the Monad, because they can't keep their power. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:00:44 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Okay, so let us be very clear, okay? This is really important. Different people will interpret this model in a different way, okay? In their conception, the Monad's the evil one. Their god's the good one. They're liberating us from the Monad by making us more focused on the material world. Okay, does that make sense? But the reality is that they were able to get their power because they had a religion that promoted transgression, which allowed them to coordinate well together. And now that they have this power, they need to rationalize why they have this power, and they need to develop systems to maintain this power. And that's why we have the world we live in today. Does that make sense? Okay, does that make sense? They're powerful, they want to maintain the power, so they will think of new ideas that allow them to keep this power, even if it means denying the truth, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:01:45 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: And again, guys, this is a theory. No one knows if this is true or not. I don't know, okay? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:01:54 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: But like what you just mentioned, that Nomad has two meanings to either... ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:01:59 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: No, no, no, the Nomad does not have two meanings. It has one, it has different names, but one meaning, okay? This is really important for you to understand. There are different names for this, but it is the sun, okay? The divine sun, the source of all life. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:02:14 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So Plato defines Nomad as knowledge, and Dantène defines Nomad as love. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:02:20 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: No, no, no, no. Okay, listen, okay? You have to get this straight, okay? This is everything, okay? Love, knowledge, everything, okay? The question that Plato and Dante are debating is how do you return to the Nomad, okay? So for Plato, it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you to get closer to the Nomad. For Dante, it's the pursuit of love, okay? But this is the one and all, the infinite and the eternal. What Plato would say is that this is the perfect. This is the immutable. It will never change, and it's the eternal. It's always been there, and it will always be there, okay? It is exactly Buddhism. It's more spiritual. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:03:06 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: The ultimate we can interpret as one thing or another. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:03:18 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: This is exactly Buddhism and Hinduism, okay? So this is really interesting how different religious traditions working in different localities have the same conception of the world, of the universe. And can we give someone else an opportunity to speak, please? Okay? Can someone else ask a question? I know you're enthusiastic. You're enthusiastic, but sometimes you want to step back and absorb the idea, okay? So you've asked a lot of questions, but go home, think about this some more, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Does anyone else want to ask questions? Okay. One more question, okay? One more. ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:04:02 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Okay. So Plato and Danteng just gives us the way to approach Nomad, right? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:04:16 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Okay. Okay. Okay. Can you ask the question again? I don't... ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:04:19 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: I want to confirm that Plato or Danteng, because Plato said that to learn knowledge and Danteng said to pursue love, so it gives the way to let us approach Monad, right? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:04:33 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: So the Monad in the conception of everything is the same, okay? It is a source of everything. Plato and Dante are proposing different ways to come closer to the Monad. Right? Right. For Plato, it's like, spend your entire life learning mathematics, specifically geometry, because he thinks that geometry is really the language of the universe, the secret language of the universe. Dante says, that's too hard, guys. That's not intuitive. Like for Plato, Plato's an elitist, right? Plato's like, only if you come to my school and you learn geometry, sacred geometry, will you access heaven. Dante's like, that makes no sense. The Monad would not create a system which only the elitist can access. The elite, the chosen, could access him. The Monad, if he truly loves everyone, will give everyone the capacity to reach him. And that capacity that is accessible to everyone is love, right? Doesn't matter who you are, you can all love. But quite honestly, there are not that many people in the world who can do calculus, right? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:05:41 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Right? So Plato's like, you have to do calculus. Plato's like, and Dante's like, that's just ridiculous. That's the most ridiculous thing in the world. Okay? Does that make sense now? Okay. Any more questions, guys? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:05:59 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Why is that a lot of other religions and Plato or Dante, they came to the same realization of Monad? Why is that? It's from different places in the world, different regions. But why do they all have kind of the same thing about wisdom or knowledge in general? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:06:16 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=3976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: Yeah. So that's a really good question. And the answer is the Geist, right? The answer is, where do our thoughts come from? And where do our thoughts go? Do you really think that it's our brain that produces thoughts? Why is it that with the same brain, right, same neurological structure, but we have different ideas? And why is it that I have so many ideas and others have limited ideas? Well, like, biologically, we cannot explain it, okay? We've never explained it. So if you study neuroscience, one thing that you will never ever ask is, where do our thoughts come from? Which is weird because that should be the most basic question, right? That's the first question you ask. But they never ask that. Why? Because they cannot answer it. And the answer, the possibility is, the Geist exists. And our ideas come from the Geist. And when we think of ideas, it goes back into the Geist, right? ## Taboo Is The River -- 1:07:11 - Source title: Secret History #4: How Evil Triumphs - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=4031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q&t=4031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-btlwoqwlm9q.json) Text: It's a ghost. It is with us and it is not with us. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why, and that's how we can explain why all these different religions have the same conception of the universe. Because they're getting this conception through inspiration, right, through communication with the Geist. Right? Does that make sense? Okay. I think that makes a lot more sense than, oh, the synapses in our brains, you know? They fire together and they hit and like, oh, we have an idea. I don't know. Okay. Okay. All right. So, great. We will continue this next class, okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 0:01 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay, so let's start class. I'm going to review very quickly what we did last class. So last class, we learned about monotheism, which is the idea of one true God. And as I said last class, this marked an intellectual revolution in human history. And for monotheism, we developed three new ideas, which are money, individual, and the nation state. It's important to note that these ideas have always existed in human history, but with monotheism, these ideas became the dominant paradigms. And together, they will give us modernity and create the world that we live in. Okay, so that's what we discussed last class. And remember, last class, we also discussed that this created a lot of problems for us. There are a lot of benefits, but there are also a lot of consequences. Okay, so we're going to continue the story of humanity today. And today, I want to focus on a very specific question. Why do societies rise, and why do they fall? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 1:35 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=95s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=95s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? And I know that these first few classes may seem abstract and theoretical, but that's because we're developing the ethical models in order to better understand our world. So as we move on, we'll start looking at very concrete examples. But for the first few classes, please be patient. We are going to develop a theory to understand the world. All right? So let's discuss... So let's discuss societies, why they rise, and why they decline. Now, unfortunately, we live in a world in decline. So there are lots of signs that the world is in decline. What are these signs? Shout out some signs. Yeah, very good. Okay? So you have conflict and wars. You look... Look at the situation in Ukraine, look at the situation in the Middle East, but also, you may have seen the news, and you have seen conflicts arising in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Myanmar. Also, Trump is about to send U.S. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 2:57 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: troops to Mexico and Venezuela, okay? So we live in a world of conflict, and that tells us that the world is in decline. What are some other signs? Good. Yes. So you have climate change, okay? We are putting too much pressure on the environment, so the air, the water, the land is becoming much more toxic. Okay? Good. What else? Good. Yes. Unemployment is going up. Well, not only that, but people's attitude towards work is declining. We live in an age when people don't take work that seriously. Okay? People are not as enthusiastic, they're not as motivated to work hard as before. We call this, in China, the Bailan age, right? The age of Bailan, meaning let it rot. Like who cares? Don't take things too seriously. In America, the term is called quite quitting, okay? You pretend to work, but you're not really working. What are some other signs? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 4:16 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: So also, you have lower birth rate. Okay? And this is a very important sign, right? Because if you think about it, if young people refuse to get married and have babies, eventually the world is going to die off, right? So this is actually a very important sign that the world is in decline. And we're seeing this happen throughout the entire world in all societies. The only exception is Israel and Georgia. But these are very small realities. Bare cases. For most societies, there's rapid decline in birth rate. What are some other signs? You see a lower standard of living. And all this means is that inflation, right? So people make less money, and they can afford less. Prices go up, but people's wages go down. So that's another sign of decline. Okay? What are some other signs? Okay. You also see higher stress, right? Higher stress. People feel more anxious. People feel more depressed. People feel more stressed. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 5:45 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Emotionally, they feel drained. Okay? What else? Okay. People are less optimistic, right? Okay. Greater pessimism. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 6:04 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 6:04 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Also, and this is really important, is the idea of debt. Right? Both public and private. There are lots of governments around the world that are facing a fiscal crisis. A fiscal crisis just means that they spend more than they take in in tax revenue. There are many families in China, in the United States, throughout the world that are heavily in debt. Okay? So debt is a huge issue for the world today. Okay? So lower cohesion and trust. And what this means is that people no longer trust each other as they did before. Society is less cohesive. If you see, if you walk on the street and you see a man on the street bleeding or hurt, you're less likely to help him. And this is very true not only in China. But also elsewhere as well. So lower trust issues. What are some other signs? Okay. Greater disease. Yeah. Okay. Increase in disease. People are less healthy than before. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 7:32 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: People are more stressed than before. People are less optimistic. So we can go on and on and on because the signs of rapid social decline are too many. Now. This is a. These are signs of decline. Well, if we look at rise, then obviously it's the opposite, right? People are much more willing to trust each other rather than going to debt. People will save money. People are healthier. People are much more optimistic. People people are having lots and lots of babies, right? People are employed. Okay. So. These are all signs. These are signs that society is in decline. The rise. It's the opposite. Also. Another sign of decline that's very important that doesn't really happen in China. What happens in the Western world is immigration. Okay. Immigration. Immigration is a huge issue in the Western world. And we will discuss immigration in future classes. But immigration is a sign of decline. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 8:55 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Because it reduces. Okay. Cohesion. Okay. And it also reduces the standard of living. Okay. Another sign of decline is also housing prices go up. So people can no longer afford to buy a house. This is true in China. Young people can no longer afford to buy a house. But it's also true throughout the world. Okay. It's really hard for young people. To. To. Get. By. Okay. All right. Um. Also fiscal crisis. Right. We talked about this. But the idea of fiscal crisis is the government cannot afford a lot of public expenditures. In the future, maybe five, ten years from now, pension will be a huge problem for governments. Okay. So these are all signs of rapid decline. All right. Now having done this. What I'm going to do now is go over some theories as to why this is happening. Why is the world in decline? Okay. And there are lots and lots of theories. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 10:13 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But I will present three theories to you that I think are interesting. Okay. The first is the idea of financialization. And this theory. Um. Is proposed by an economist. A French economist named Thomas Piketty. Piketty. Okay. And he wrote a book called Capital in the 21st Century. It is a fantastic book. You don't have to read the book. But if you have a chance, you should definitely pick it up. Because it is a very easy but very illuminating read. And what he argues is that. What happens in society is that capitalism transitions from face to face to face. In the beginning, you have consumer capitalism. Meaning that what the society is trying to do is create goods that consumers want to buy. This is an era of rapid wealth generation. Then you move into financial capitalism. Which is a period of investment. Rather than build factories. You put the money into the stock market. Okay. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 11:48 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: So you're trying to generate as much money as possible. But what we discussed last class that's very important is. Wealth and money are not the same thing. So in the first phase, consumer capitalism. You focus on the generation of wealth. In financial capitalism. You focus on the generation of money. And then you move on to monopoly capitalism. Which is where just a few companies control everything. And we live in an era of monopoly capitalism. And this happens because it is much more profitable for companies to be monopolies. Than to be in competition with each other. Financial capitalism is looking to create as much money as possible. Not as much wealth. And so a few companies come to dominate. Become monopolies. And that's the age we live in today. Okay. Now why is this important? It's important because when we make this transition. People are no longer focused on working hard. They're only focused on speculating. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 13:05 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: All right. So let me give you an example. Let's just say I'm an entrepreneur. And I want to make as much money as possible. Well, what I do is I build a factory. When I build a factory, I'm creating real wealth. Because a factory requires you to hire workers. It requires you to build technology. It requires you to build goods that people want to buy. But after I build a factory and I make a lot of money. I want to take this money and let it grow as fast as possible. So I put it in a stock market. Okay. And that's just how people behave. The problem is that if too many people do that. Then no one's really working. No one's creating real wealth in the economy. The other problem is that because of the way capitalism is set up. If everyone's putting the money in a stock market. The stock market grows too fast. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 14:09 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: And the real economy does not grow that fast. Okay. And the difference is stark. Thomas Piketty spent a lot of time going over income tax. Just looking at how much tax people paid. He did a lot of statistical analysis. And what he discovered is the real economy in late -stage capitalism will grow about 2%. The financial economy will grow at 5%. Okay. And this is really key. What this is telling us is that if you have a million dollars. You could choose to go and open a restaurant. Or you could choose to invest in the stock market. If you open a restaurant. You will make at most $20,000 a year. But if you were to put it in the stock market. You would make $50,000 a year. So everyone's going to put all the money in the stock market. Which allows for the stock market to increase. But the real economy is not improving. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 15:13 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: And therefore you have all these issues arise. Greater unemployment. Greater debt. No one's really working. Okay. So that's the idea of financialization. And what Piketty argues is that this is just a natural cycle. This is just a natural byproduct of capitalism. We live in a state. We live in an age of capitalism. Late stage capitalism. Is this clear to you guys? Any questions before I move on to the second theory? Let's move on to the second theory called elite overproduction. And this was proposed by a historian named Peter Turchin. And Peter Turchin spent decades looking at why societies rise and fall. He looked at the Roman Empire. He looked at the French Revolution. He looked at many different examples. And what he believed is societies fall, decline, collapse because of the idea of elite overproduction. Meaning you have too many powerful people competing for limited positions of power. Alright. So to understand this, I'm going to talk about another experiment called rat utopia. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 16:48 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: And rat utopia was a series of experiments conducted by an American scientist named James B. Calhoun. And what James Calhoun was trying to do in this experiment was trying to figure out what living in a world of abundance and wealth and security meant. After World War II, the world was divided between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was the Cold War. But it was also a time of increasing abundance due to technology and peace. And the population was increasing. So James Calhoun conducted these experiments to figure out what this meant for the world. So what he did was this. He had a room, okay, that was sealed off from the world. And in the room, he put in food and water and housing. For a colony of rats. Maybe like 10 rats at first. But they quickly became 400, 500 rats. And at first, the rats were really happy. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 18:04 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But no matter how Calhoun configured the experiment, ultimately, the rats always ended up killing each other. Okay. So what he discovered is. If you live in a world of abundance and security, the end result is the rats always kill each other. And he kept on doing this for 20 years. And he could never, ever create a situation in which the rats lived peacefully. And he could never figure out why this was the case. And even today, there's a huge debate as to why this is the case. But he had a theory, okay. And the theory is this. The rats were not competing for food. They were really competing for status. All right. So let's think about this, okay. In a state of nature, in the real world, rats compete each other for mating rights, right? So you see a beautiful rat and you fight over her, right? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 19:22 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: The rat who wins out is now the alpha male. And the alpha male can have as many female companions as he wants, okay. And what do the other rats do? In nature, what will the other rats do? Well, the other rats will probably run away, go somewhere else, and find other female companions, right? Because everyone's trying to be the alpha male. But what's the problem with James Calhoun's experiment? Why do they fight each other? There's no place for them to go. They're stuck where they are. You understand? So status is what we call a zero -sum game. I win, you lose, okay? There can only be one winner. But in nature, if I win, then the other rats run away and try to figure out, try to build their own colony. But in James Calhoun's experiment, there's no place for them to go. And so all that happens is they keep on fighting each other until they die. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 20:41 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: Okay? And that's the idea of elite overproduction. And that's what Peter Turchin says. The elite, the children of the elite, are always fighting for positions of power. Not normal people, it's the children of the elite. But eventually, they have too many children, and there are not enough positions of power, okay? Another way of saying this is that in China today, there are too many graduates of Peking University, Beida, and Tsinghua University. Tsinghua, right? They want to be the big boss. They want to have the power. But there's too many of them. Okay? And there's no place for them to go. And that leads to conflict in society. And ultimately, what Peter Turchin has discovered is, if that's the case, then elite overproduction will ultimately lead to either war or revolution. It will lead to the collapse of society. And there's no way around this. Okay? That's Peter Turchin. Now, I want to go to the third theory. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 21:54 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: And the third theory is the idea of a civilizational life cycle. And this is proposed by a German philosopher, scholar, named Oswald Spangler. And what he argues is that society, culture, civilization, is no different from a person. As a person, as a human being, we go through a life cycle. We are born, we grow up, we mature, then we die. Right? And there's no way around this. We all have limited life cycles. You can live to 100, you can live to 150, but eventually you'll die. And what Oswald Spangler says is, that happens in society as well. And there's nothing anyone can do about this. So let's go over the life cycle first. For civilization, okay? In the beginning, you are in the village. Then you move to the town. Then you move to the city. Then you develop the megacity. Okay? Not all civilizations will go through the cycle. But the successful ones will go through the cycle. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 23:22 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? You start off, so the Romans, right? The Qing Dynasty. You start off in a village. Then, if you're successful in the village, you build a town. Then, when you're in a town, and you're successful, you defeat other towns and you build a city, and you become a megacity. Okay? And what Oswald Spangler says is, at the height of the civilization, the civilization must now die. Okay? So, let's go over the theory. Well, in the village, life is pretty simple. People work hard. Okay? They are united. They have a collective mentality. Everyone's helping each other. And also, what's really important is lots of babies. Right? It's very common for mothers to give birth to 10, 11 kids in a village. Right? And the reason why is kids are free labor. So, you're incentivized to have as many children as possible. Okay. So, this is the framework of a village. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 24:38 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1478s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But as you go up the civilization ladder, as you mature as a civilization, what happens is you have increased abstraction. Abstraction is just a fancy word for you're removed from reality. Okay? So, when you're in a village, you understand everything, right? You understand, oh, the food that I eat comes from the seeds I implant. Right? But when you're in a city, guess what? Those drinks you're drinking, you have no idea where it comes from. Right? The food you're eating, you have no idea where it comes from. It's all abstract to you. It's all removed from reality. Okay? So, in the village, people are engaged in working hard and in helping each other. But as you move up, people become much more individualistic. Right? You're concerned about your own personal pleasure. You're concerned about how do I derive benefit from this. Okay? So, another way of saying this is in a village, what keeps people together are emotions and tradition and relationships. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 25:58 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But when you move to a megacity, what is it that holds people together? It's money. Right? Money is the greatest abstraction. The problem with money is that, it means we don't have to ever trust each other. In a village, if you get sick, everyone comes and helps you. Right? But in the city, if you get sick, you go to the hospital and pay the doctor. Your neighbors don't have to care. Your family doesn't have to help you. Okay? So, you become individualized. You become atomized. Okay? And in the megacity, what happens is, because you are concerned only about your own individual pleasure, you don't work hard anymore. In fact, what you want to do is, you want immigrants to work for you. Right? You no longer care about other people. All you care about is yourself. And guess what, guys? You don't want to have any children. Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 27:10 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: And that's why the megacity represents the death of civilization. And what is Beijing? What is Shanghai? What is Washington D.C.? What is New York? What is Paris? What is London? They're all megacities. Okay? And that's why we have these trends. And what Oswald Spengler says is, there's nothing anyone can do about this. It is a natural life cycle. All right? So, these are the three major theories I want you guys to remember. Okay? Okay? Sorry. Can you give the microphone? Yeah. Can you just speak to the microphone? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 27:52 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But what if there is a universal target that force everyone needs to work together? You know, will that work out to, like, everyone just put down all of these problems and, you know, figure out the... ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 28:16 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1696s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. I understand. That is a great question. Okay? So, the question, to rephrase it, okay, is, yeah, but what if there's an external threat? Okay? An external threat. If there's an external threat, then surely this system, this life cycle can be extended. Right? And external threats are examples of, hey, let's say there's an alien invasion. Let's just say China's being attacked by the United States. Right? And, unfortunately, the answer is it does not matter because once you've reached the point of a megacity, first of all, you're so selfish, you're self -absorbed, you are not aware of external threats. The other issue is you're no longer capable of working together because you don't trust each other. Okay? So, the external threats factor doesn't really matter. But that's a great question. Thank you for asking. Okay? Yes. In theory, oh my God, if aliens come, then humans would unite. No, that's not what would happen. Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 29:35 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: What would happen is certain factions of humans would try to align the aliens to conquer everyone else. All right? All right. So, having gone through these three theories, what I'm going to do is combine them together to create a comprehensive, holistic, broad theory of why society is wrong. Okay? All right. And the problem with theories is they are simplistic and inaccurate and imprecise. So, I warn you that this theory has limitations. But for our purposes, what we want to do is have a working framework. And then when we apply this framework to concrete examples, we can better refine this framework. Okay? All right? So, I warn you that this framework, there are a lot of problems with it. But it is a useful tool for us to analyze society in the past. Okay? All right. So, I'm going to make generalizations about how society is structured. So, at the core of society, the very powerful people, these are certain families. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 30:53 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? These are the founding families of this nation. And there's not that many of them. Maybe 10. Maybe 100. Okay? But at most, 100. So, if you go back to the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire controlled most of Europe, as well as Anatolia, Egypt. It was a huge area. But really, there were only about 200 families that controlled the Roman Empire. Okay? All right. So, how these families express power, how they control power in society is through three mechanisms. Okay? Three pillars of power. And these three pillars are finance. Okay? Finance, we talked about last class. It's just central banking. All right? Second pillar is religion. Religion is just what people believe, how to control what people believe. Now, the religion of today is science and technology. And the third pillar is intelligence or spies. All right? Now, for the purpose to save time, I'm not going to go too deeply into intelligence and religion. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 32:16 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=1936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But I will in future classes. Okay? I just need you to remember that there are three pillars of power at the core of society. Finance, intelligence, and religion. And it's their nexus, their combination that allows the elite to control everyone else. Okay? So, from this nexus. Okay? They will control all aspects of society, including schools, including the military, including government, including the media, including culture, including crime, the mafia. Okay? Every aspect of society that you can imagine is being controlled in some respect by this nexus of power. Okay? Also, you have like corporations. Right? And then at the outer edge are the people. Okay? The people, because they're so massive, the massive people, they're the ones who generate wealth for society. So, this system is designed to create as much energy as possible for the people. Okay? Energy. Energy. Energy. Because the harder the people work, the more wealth is generated in society. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 33:46 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: All right? So, a metaphor that we use is this. Think of society as a corporation. The people are the workers. Right? They're the ones who do the real work. The elite, these families, are the owners. And these people in between, the middle class, are the managers. Okay? So, again, this is a very simple metaphor, and it's not accurate, but it's useful for analysis. Okay? So, the families are the owners of the corporation. The people are the workers. The people in between, the managers are the managers. And we call these people the middle class. There have been other names for it in China before in history. We call them the scholar officials. Right? Another name for them is something called the professional manager. Professional managerial class, PMC. Also, another name for them is the petty bourgeoisie. Okay? Again, you don't need to know these names. For the purpose of simplicity, we will just call them the middle class. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 35:00 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: All right. Does that make sense? Okay. So, having gone through the structure of society, let's talk about what happens when society rises and falls. Okay? When it rises, the dynamic of these three groups, it's very interesting. When it rises, the families who own the nation are happy to let the managers control society. And this is what we call democracy. Right? And the managers are always providing feedback to the families and saying, we should treat workers better. If we treat workers better, then they will work harder. Okay? And at this point, things are great. The people feel that they're good. That they have a voice in the system. They're making good money. Everyone's really happy. But what happens because of elite overproduction is these families produce too many children who want pictures of power. Basically, they want to spend money from the corporation. And now the corporation is in trouble. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 36:11 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: It's in debt. Okay? So, at this point, what happens is this. You would think the managers would save the families. Listen, guys. We need to be more fair to the people. But what really happens in reality is the managers exploit the people. Okay? The managers will now deceive. They will lie to the people. They will commit fraud. They will exploit the people. Why? The reason why is this. What the managers really do is something called rent seeking business. Rent seeking behavior. Okay? Rent seeking behavior just means they have a certain power that they want to exploit in order to extract wealth from other people. So, for example, the more classic example is you own an apartment in Beijing, right? So, you rent it out to someone who needs to live in Beijing. You collect rent. Well, this is true for a lot of people. So, if you are a lawyer, you collect rent because only you can pay rent. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 37:25 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: You can work in the court system. So, if you want to sue someone or if you have a contract dispute, you have to go to a lawyer. Okay? The lawyer is collecting rent. And that's what the middle class, the professional managerial class do. They are rent seekers. Okay? Another way of saying this is, guys, if you go to a company, you know what the workers do, right? Do you know what the managers do? They really don't do that much. Okay? And this is true for the middle class. Like, the managers, the middle class, live very nice lives. And so, when the company is in trouble, the managers are like, well, I have a very nice life. I have a very nice job. But I really don't do anything. So, I'll probably be the first to get fired. So, they have to show their worth. They have to prove their worth. And therefore, they exploit the workers. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 38:19 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Okay? Do you understand? They push the workers harder to generate more wealth. All right? So, in the decline phase, this is not really a problem. But what happens over time is the conflict within the elite gets worse and worse. Elite overproduction. And what will eventually happen is they will form into factions that compete against each other for power. Okay? And when that happens, then society becomes aligned into factions. The factions will bring in certain elements of the middle class, which will then bring in certain elements of the people. And now, what happens is civil war or revolution. And this marks the collapse of society. What's really important for us to remember is this is a natural cycle. And no amount of external threat will change that dynamic. Why? Because it's very common for these factions to align with mercenaries. Okay? So, there's foreign invasions, not because some guy overseas is like, oh, this society is unstable. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 39:41 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: I'll come and invade. What happens often is a certain faction invites mercenaries into the nation as part of the power struggle. And then the mercenaries realize, you know what? We can stick this for ourselves. All right? So, when you reach the collapse phase, the society is much too insular, much too wracked with infighting to care about external threats. And that's why if there's an alien invasion, it really wouldn't change anything. Okay? All right? Is this clear to you guys? Yes. So, again, this is the model we're working with to explain the rise and fall of societies. At first, in this system, the elite families are willing to let the middle class incentivize and motivate the workers to do their best. And you do that through democracy, through openness, through meritocracy. Through innovation. But over time, as these elite families have more and more children, and these children are engaged in rent -seeking behavior, they basically want to steal profits from the corporation. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 40:52 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: The corporation runs into trouble, and the managers are forced to coerce the people, which leads to greater conflict. And eventually, over time, the collapse happens when society breaks up into different factions, which leads to civil war or revolution or war. So, that's the model we're working with. All right. Any questions? Are you guys clear about this? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 41:17 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Yeah? What if they just don't have that much children? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 41:26 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Excuse me? What was the question? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 41:29 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: What if the elite families don't have that much children? Will this model still work? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 41:36 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Oh, that's a great question. Okay. So, what if families don't have that many children? Okay. That's a really interesting question. And the answer is these families, first and foremost, want to have as many children as possible, right? Because how do you pass on your power? So, maybe the middle class don't want to have that many children, but the elite will have a lot of children, because they need to be able to pass on their power and privilege to their children. In fact, the elite is first and foremost concerned with passing on their privilege to the next generation. Okay? And that's why these families expand so fast. And also, who wants to marry into elite families? Who wants to marry into them? Everyone. All right? And they have to marry into other families in order to maintain their power. Okay? So, having children in a marriage is a way for the elite to maintain their power. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 42:45 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 42:45 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: But that's a good question. Any more questions before I continue? Okay. So, let us summarize what we've learned so far. And discuss what is it that allows societies to rise and fall. So, we'll look at three phases. The rise, the decline, and the collapse. Okay? So, when I mean decline, I don't mean like things are getting worse. I mean things aren't improving. Okay? So, rise is when things get better. Decline is when things are stagnant or getting slightly worse. Collapse is when the society is about to fall apart. Okay? So, if you look at these three particular phases of society, there are different characteristics. When society rises, it is first and foremost open. Open just means that you have opportunities for social mobility in the society. If you're a poor person, you can make money. You can become wealthy. Your talent is appreciated. It's a meritocracy. It's innovative. If you criticize society, people are like, thank you for criticizing us. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 44:01 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: That's because criticism makes us better people. Okay? There's open debate. Now, what's really interesting is most young societies are open societies. Okay? So, for example, in 1950s, America was a democracy, right? China was communist. But, this is really interesting, in 1950s, they were both open societies. You could criticize leaders. In fact, you were encouraged to criticize leaders. China was as democratic back then as the United States. Okay? So, it's not about political systems. It's just about what state you are in social development. So, if you're young, you're going to be open. You're going to be democratic. You're going to be meritocratic. You want to learn, so you will listen to criticism. Okay? That's the first great characteristic of a society on the rise. It's openness. But, when you reach a decline phase. Guess what? Society becomes bureaucratic. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 45:08 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 45:09 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2709s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Bureaucratic. Why? Because, if we go back to this model, as the company loses more and more money, the managerial class is concerned with maintaining their jobs. So, they become bureaucrats. Okay? They have to prove their worth. So, they create a lot of paperwork. They make everyone follow the rules. Society becomes more and more bureaucratic. Then, in the collapse phase, society becomes authoritarian. Okay? Before, decline is all following the rules. Now, it's just rule by force. But, there's another way of saying this. In the rise phase, what matters is the consent. Okay? So, these three groups. The elite, the middle class, and the people, they're all working together to improve society. There's consent. But, when you hit the decline phase. Now, it's their deception. And then, when you hit the collapse phase, it's coercion. So, let me give you an example. Let's just say we are in the rise phase. Right? Well, we want to go to lunch. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 46:30 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: So, we discuss where we go to lunch. I want to go to McDonald's. But, you guys want to go to Pizza Hut or KFC. We have a debate. And then, eventually, we vote. And whoever wants to go, the majority wins. Okay? That's the consent phase. When we hit the decline phase, the consent phase. When we hit the deception, I'm the teacher. So, I say to you, hey guys, let's go to McDonald's because Wong Fei will be there. Or Jack Ma will be there. Or it's free hamburgers today. Okay? I'm lying to you to get what I want. And then, in the collapse phase is, I say to you, I'm the teacher and I will beat you up if you don't listen to me. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 47:10 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 47:15 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas) Text: So, in the rise phase, what matters first and foremost is unity of the people. We're all working together. There's empathy. There's concern for other people. I want to be your friend. We need to work together to make society better. Okay? But, in the decline phase, it's really about stability. It's about making sure that society maintains a status quo. Okay? When we reach the collapse phase, it is survival. Screw you. I want to live. And if I have to kill you, I'll kill you. All right? So, this is a map that shows us. This is what happens when society rises, declines, and collapses. Now, what's really interesting about this is the timing. Okay? So, if you actually look at society's timeline, it goes like this. Okay? There's a steep rise. The decline is slow. And the collapse is sudden. So, people think, oh, decline, you know, things get worse, worse. But, you know, we follow this trend. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 48:34 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: We'll still be here. But, actually, the collapse happens really fast. Why? The reason why is this system cannot survive external shocks. So, external shocks is a perfect storm of crises. So, another way of saying this is maybe society prepares for, okay, if there's a plague, we'll do this. If there's a climate crisis, we'll do this. If there's a drought, we'll do this. If there's a war, we'll do this. Okay? What society is not prepared for is these things happening all at once. The plague, the drought, war, the revolution, they all happen at once. It's a perfect storm. And that's what leads to the collapse because society is not prepared for this. Okay? And why is society not prepared for this? Because when you hit the authoritarian phase, you're not allowed to criticize the system anymore. The problem are those who speak out. The problem is those who speak out. Those who point out the problems of society. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 49:45 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=2985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: In the rise phase, those who criticize society are the heroes. They are appreciated. They are rewarded. In the collapse phase, those who speak out are the enemies of society. And therefore, society cannot be prepared for any external threats, which leads to its collapse. Any questions? Okay. So, this is the ethical model that we're working with. And again, we're going to apply it to the present. And then we're going to apply it to the past. Okay? So, with this ethical model, what we can do is make certain predictions about the future. So, I will make these predictions. And I expect these things to happen in the next 5 to 10 years. 5 to 10 years. Or 10 to 20 years. Okay. I don't know the time frame. Okay? But I expect these things to happen. Okay? The first thing that's going to happen in the Western world is decline of democracy and freedom. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 51:03 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: So, remember, in the rise phase, society is democratic and open and meritocratic. But as you move on, it becomes more bureaucratic and ultimately authoritarian. Okay? So, we will see the United States, Europe become much more authoritarian. You will see a collapse of democracy and freedom in these nations. And already, we're seeing this happen in the United States, where Trump is using more and more military to resolve issues. Right? So, that's the first prediction. And this is going to happen throughout the Western world. Second thing is economic collapse. So, as people have less and less right to speak up, they feel less invested in the system. They're less willing to work. Therefore, you have economic collapse. People don't believe in the system anymore. Okay? The system is in crisis. This will lead to immigration. The government is like, you know what? If the people don't want to work, screw them. Let's bring in immigrants to do the work. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 52:14 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Okay? Let's replace our population. But the people are not going to sit back and take it. Right? This leads to civil war. People are not going to meet each other on the streets. And the government is like, you know what? If we continue to let them fight, eventually, they're going to come after us. So, what we'll do is send them off to these stupid, pointless wars overseas. Okay? So, now you have stupid wars. Stupid foreign wars. And these are my five predictions for the world for the next 5, 10, 20 years. Okay? Europe and America will see less freedom and democracy. They're going to collapse, increase immigration, civil conflict, and then ultimately stupid foreign wars. And I'm not saying this happens in a sequence. I'm saying you'll see all five things. Okay? But they may happen in different order. Any questions? Was this clear to you guys? Yeah. Thank you. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 53:31 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Is there any chance that the government tries to use a war to distract the people? Like, they're trying to hide all of the collapse of the society and their country? ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 53:48 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. And the answer is, that's what wars are for. It's to distract the people. Right? Because if you don't distract the people, they'll come and revolt against you. So, you either send them to a war or you could have a French Revolution on your hands. Right? That's your option. War or revolution? I think war is the better option. That's why we're heading into a world at war. Okay. No. No. I'm saying, like, if you don't send the people to war, they will revolt against you. So, you send them off to war to distract them, to get rid of them. Okay. There's no right and wrong here. Okay, guys? Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. I apologize. Okay. But one thing that you will learn in my class is, there's no right and wrong. There's no logic. Okay? It's not like, it is immoral to send people to war. I know that. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 54:44 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3284s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3284s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: Thank you very much. Okay. But I'm trying to explain to you how power works. That's the theme of this course. I'm trying to explain to you how people in power think and behave. All right? And, again, I keep on saying this. I don't know if I'm right. But what I'm doing is, I'm presenting a theory, a model that we can use. To make predictions. And if these predictions work out, if it actually happens, then a model, there's some accuracy to our model. Okay? We'll have to refine our model, but there's some accuracy to it. But hey, hey, if tomorrow, Trump, Putin, Xi, all get together and says, let's be best friends, then I'm wrong. Right? Okay? So, that's what we're trying to do in this class. We're not trying to argue what is right, what is wrong, what is just. Because, quite honestly, it doesn't matter. All right? Morality doesn't matter here. It's about power. ## Collapse Is Sudden -- 55:43 - Source title: Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_l9jBGo74&t=3343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-k-l9jbgo74.json) Text: We're trying to understand how the world works. And when we do, and if we do that, then maybe we can work together and build a more just world. But first, we need to figure out how the world really, really works. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. Great, guys. So, we will continue this story next class. I'll see you guys next class. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 0:01 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Good morning, class. Welcome to our first class. And today, what I want to do is provide the framework for how we will learn the semester. What are we learning? How are we learning? Why are we learning? All right. So this is a class of ideas. So it's really important for you to pay attention and understand how these ideas connect with each other. If I'm not being clear, ask me a question. In fact, make it a habit to ask as many questions as possible, because that way you will learn more. Learning will be more fun for you and learning will be much more clearer to you. OK, so let's get in the habit of asking questions. So wherever I am confusing, wherever I'm speaking too fast, wherever you don't understand, interrupt me. OK, let's get in the habit. All right. So. I first want to talk about Immanuel Kant. We will be discussing a lot this semester because he is the greatest philosopher in Western history. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And he teaches us, he taught us how the world works. And this is what he told us. He told us that we can never know the objective reality. There is an objective reality. What he calls the Nomana. OK. Or the things in themselves. That is not knowable to us. That is a world we can never access. Why? Because we perceive the world through our senses. Our senses, our perception warps the world and changes it into a structure that we can process. Called the phenomena, which are the things that appear to us. OK, so the example is time and space, time and space do not exist outside of us. Time and space do not exist in reality, but for us to understand reality, we need to add in time and space. And that's the example. All right. So how the world works is. We perceive the world. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 2:55 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: We perceive the Nomana and turn it into the phenomena for us to process. In other words, and this is really important. Reality is what we imagine it to be. There is no objective reality. Reality is what we imagine it to be. Life is a constant process, a constant act of imagination. All right. Let's. That's Immanuel Kant. That's the first idea I want you to understand. So what I want to do in this class this semester is train you or teach you or inspire you to augment your imagination so that you see the world much more clearly. This class is not about what to think. It's about how to think. All right. So. Let me explain the structure of the course. So there's past, there's present, and there's future. We will be looking at all three this semester. The past, the present, and the future. We will be analyzing all three in order to construct a more objective reality for ourselves. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 4:34 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: We will not succeed. We will fail. But the process of trying will train us. We will train our minds to think much more critically about the world. So let me explain how. In the present, we have geopolitics. We will be studying geopolitics. For example, why is there war in Ukraine? Why is there war in the Middle East? What happened? We will be studying geopolitics. And we will try to understand why this is happening. We will try to formulate an analytical model of geopolitics. Okay? An analytical model. We will then use this analytical model to make predictions about the future. Why do we do this? Because these predictions will tell us if our analytical model is correct or not. Okay? Does that make sense? It's no different from artificial intelligence. How do you know if your artificial intelligence, the model is correct or not? When you test it against reality. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 5:47 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay? There's no difference between that artificial intelligence system and what we're trying to do here. And why are we doing this? Because if we're able to have an analytical model that makes correct predictions, then we can take all this and go back and analyze the past to reveal the secret history of the world. That is a project we are undertaking. We are undertaking this semester to discover for ourselves the secret history of humanity. Because you may not know this, but all the history that you learn in school, all that history that you think you know, it is false. Okay? The history that you know, the history that you believe, it is a system implanted into your brains. By powerful people. Okay? So the real question that we're looking at this semester is really, how does power work? Because if we can figure this out, then you will achieve liberation. You will achieve freedom. You will understand how you're being manipulated by others. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 7:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And therefore, you'll be free. You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live. To see the world that is true to you. So, let me give you three current examples of how power works. Okay, the first example is money. Let us do a thought experiment. I'm a bank, okay? I decide I want to open a bank. And now you're allowed to put money in the bank, okay? So all of you get together and you put $5 million. In the bank. Not $5 million. Now, why do you put $5 million into my bank? Because I promise you 1 % interest. Right? 1 % interest. That's a really good deal. But now because I owe you some money, right? I owe you 1 % interest. I now need to go make money for myself. So I have a friend who's building a restaurant. And he says, I need ## Power Is Alchemy -- 8:41 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: $5 million to build a restaurant. And after a year, I will pay you back 10 % interest. Okay? 10 % interest. And so I make a 9 % profit. And I can use that to pay my employees. To pay myself a salary. To build a new building, okay? So now I want you to think about this. I'm a bank. I got $5 million in deposit money. Then I gave out a $5 million loan. Today, how much money is in the bank? Hmm? How much money now do I have? I got $5 million from you guys. Then I gave it out to someone else. Right? So how much money is in the bank right now? Zero, right? It should be zero. Logically, the answer is zero. In fact, zero is the answer that you are taught in economics. It's what you are taught. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 9:53 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Zero is not the answer that we are taught. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 9:56 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=596s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=596s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 9:56 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=596s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=596s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: You cannot loan all the money that you have. They will have a limit like 25%. I don't know. Okay. Maybe 10%. So you can only loan like $4,000. Okay. Okay. Yeah. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 10:11 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. Really good point. Okay. Yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics, you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system. Okay? What's fractional reserve? As you say, you must leave behind a certain amount of money. It can be 7%. It can be 10%. It depends on the country. Okay? Let's say 10%. So theoretically, I cannot actually lend out $5 million. I'm going to lend out $4.5 million. Okay? You're right. Okay? That's law as well. Okay? Actually, okay, let's say I lend out $4.5 million. Okay? Now how much money do I have in the bank? Yeah. Half a million. Right? Okay. So again, this is what you're taught in economics. This is what makes logical sense. Right? The correct answer, what actually happens in real life is you now have $9.5 million. Okay? That is the correct answer. This makes no sense. Right? But it happens in reality. And how do we know? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 11:28 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the Agricultural Bank of China, if you Google these banks, what you will see is these past 20 years, these banks have become the largest in the world. How did that happen? Was it because Chinese people got rich and put all the money in the bank? No, that's not what happened. What happened, guys? What happened was these banks start to lend money out to corporations, to government, to people to build skyscrapers. Right? To build roads. In other words, the banks started to create money out of nothing in order to finance China's infrastructure projects. And that's what banks are allowed to do. They're allowed to put money, create money out of nothing. Okay? Does that make sense? Now the question then is, wait a minute here. That's kind of absurd. How this system come into being? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 12:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=762s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: How is it created? Okay. Well, actually, there's a very easy explanation for where we got the system from. All right? So let me explain the history and the origin of the system. So in the beginning, it was merchants who engaged in finance because merchants needed money in order to facilitate trade. And some merchants became extremely wealthy and when they became very wealthy, they started banks in order to support trade and other merchants. Okay? So these banks traded in gold because that was the primary source and supply of money back then. Okay? So what happened is you would come and you would put your money, your gold in a bank for safekeeping. And the bank would give you a contract. Right? A contract is just saying. Thank you for giving me your gold. I promise to give back your gold at any time that you want it. And this is what we call a receipt. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 13:56 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Right? And this would allow for better and easier trade because now I can take this contract and I can go to England. Okay? Maybe I'm based in Italy, but now I can go to England and say, listen, I need to buy cotton or a banana. And the person is like, well, what do you give me? I'm going to give you gold. Right? So I take the receipt and I give it to you. Right? And why do we, and why do we do this? Because it's a lot easier than giving gold to other people. And so this system would facilitate trade throughout the world. Does it make sense? Now I'm the bank and I have all this gold and I want to make money with it. So I want to give it to other people. So other people would give it to me. Other merchants would come to me and say, listen, I need gold. Can you lend me out gold? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 14:59 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Right? But I say to him, yeah, but if I give you out the gold, you have a security issue. It's inconvenient for you. So why don't I give you a receipt, a contract instead? Does that make sense? Because all I need is a contract. All I need is a receipt in order to go and do trade elsewhere. Right? So, so by doing this, what I've done is. I've doubled the gold in my bank. Right? I've created money out of nothing. So the gold is still 5 million. That hasn't changed, but the receipt is now 5 million plus 5 million. So theoretically, I now have 10 million in the bank. All right. So that's how money and finance works. Now there's a problem with this system. What's the problem with the system? What do you mean? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 16:10 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 16:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: That's a good question. Okay. Why is it that people believe in me? Okay. The answer is very simple. The answer is because for most of you of human history, people didn't need money. If you, if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to like get new stuff, what would you do? You would trade with someone else, right? Maybe you have a gold that I want. Well, then I would trade you a cow for it. So we didn't actually need money. So for most of human history, no one had any need for money. It was only in certain circumstances that you would want money. So for example, marriage, right? Okay. So for most of human history, money represented debt that could be unpaid. Oh, sorry. Debt that could never be repaid. So for example, a very common thing. The thing is, um, maybe you and I fight and I kill you. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 17:25 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Well, in theory, your family should not come and kill me, but obviously that would create a lot of problems, right? So the way to settle the dispute is I would give your family money because money was symbolically meant to say, I'm sorry, I killed you. This is a debt that can never be repaid. Right? That's what money was used for in most circumstances throughout human history. There was no actually real use for money. It was symbolic. But with the rise of trade over merchants, they needed money in order to facilitate the trade. But these merchants all knew each other, so they trusted each other anyway. So money was a mechanism for them to, um, trade easier. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Okay. So let's go back to the question. This system looks great. I can print money out of nothing, but there's a problem with this system. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 18:25 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: What is the problem? There's a problem here. Hmm? Okay. That's actually a great question. Okay. So yeah. Is it possible to forge the contract? Okay. So, um, that's a really good point. The problem is, uh, so the, the, the, the answer is that they all knew each other anyway. Okay. Because it's a very small circle. Again, we have not reached the mourning period where, um, it's a lot of people using the money. If that's the case, then fortune becomes a problem. We'll discuss this in future classes. Okay. Counterfeiting. But at this point in history, forgery is actually not a big issue. There's actually a bigger issue and it's a huge issue. What's the issue? I have $5 million of gold, right? There's about $10 million of gold out there in receipts. What's the problem with that? The problem is that if everyone wants to go at the same time, I go bankrupt, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 19:35 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Because I lose my reputation. The contract says that at any time you want the gold, I must give it to you. But if I have like, if there's $100 million in gold contracts, but I only have $10 million in gold, only if 15 million wants the gold back, then I'm screwed. If this is what we call a bank run, okay, a bank run. And this is a huge problem for merchants. Okay. There's also another problem with the system and the problem is this, who do I usually lend my money to? Do you guys know? If I'm a bank, if I'm a merchant, who do I usually lend my money to? Okay guys, today we lend the money to entrepreneurs, but back then there really weren't entrepreneurs. There were kings and noble people. And what did they do all the time? Why did they need money? To fight wars. Okay. That's why there's a demand for gold. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 20:41 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Because if I'm a king, I need to fight a war, usually against my brother or someone else to control this territory, right? Now the problem with this is I could get killed in which case, oops. But also what's much more common is the king would be like, screw you bank. I don't need to pay you back. Okay. So there's actually a lot of risks with this system. So over time, develop a system to mitigate. Or reduce this risk. What would they do? What they would do is they would create cartels. Cartels are just partnerships. So maybe this bank works with another bank, works with another bank throughout Europe. And the way they establish these cartels is usually through intermarriage, right? They would marry each other. They would combine together. And that way, let's say 15 million receipts once back. Right? The gold. But there's only 10 million. Well, guess what? You just go to another bank. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 21:48 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. And let's just say a king decides I'm not going to pay you back bank. Well your bank works with other banks to establish a new enemy to kill the king to get the money back. Do you understand? And this system is what we call today central banking. And what you will learn in this class is central banking controls the world today. Okay. Now, what's really important about this system is that it's based on power. Right? And what power is, you can turn nothing, money, the contract into everything. Right? That's what money is. Okay. So we live in a world in which banks can print out money, right? So now let's ask ourselves a question. Wait a minute here. Okay. If the banks can print as much money as possible, why do we have poverty? Right? Because we can just give money to poor people and they wouldn't be poor anymore. Why do we have poverty? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: If there's all the food in the world that we want, why are people starving still? Why? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:29 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Because we don't. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:33 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So we don't have limited resources, we have scarcity. Okay. Right? So that is the common answer, scarcity. We have poverty because of scarcity. But I already told you this, they can print money out of nothing. So money is infinite. Money is an infinite resource. So why are we, why do we have poor people then? That's kind of strange. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 24:09 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: You see what's happening is this. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 24:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: You all believe money is scarce. Right? Okay. I just spent the past 10, 20 minutes explaining to you. It's not scarce. It's infinite. It's just a number. We can at any time print out as much money as we need. Okay. So that's how power works. Power has brainwashed you into thinking something that is not true. You've been taught from the first day that money is scarce, but it's not scarce. It's infinite. And no matter what I say to you, you still believe this. Okay. So you have to get that out of your head. Money is not scarce. It is infinite. So let's work with a question. Why is there poverty in this world? Why do people starve? Why is there inequality in this world? Why are there poor people? Why are there rich people? What's the answer? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:09 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1509s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1509s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Because they don't. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:12 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. Because it's scarce. Okay. So guys, this is amazing. Okay. You guys can't get it out of your head. You think money is scarce. You think it is not possible to print infinity. When I already told you, it is possible to print infinity because they do this all the time. Yeah. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:30 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1530s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: The one who has, don't want to share the same. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Yeah. Because we don't want people to all have money. The powerful people don't want that. That's the exact answer. And why? Because otherwise no one would work. Do you understand? The point of putting money. Okay. Not to give you money. The point of putting money is to create the illusion that money is valuable and therefore you work hard in order to obtain it. But in order for me to make you want to get money, I need to create artificial misery. Do you understand? Right? If there weren't poor people, you wouldn't want to be rich. It's only. It's only because you see people suffer that you would want to go make money for yourself. What do your parents tell you? Your parents tell you work hard in school, make a lot of money. Otherwise you're going to end up like a poor person. Right? Well, guess what? If there are no poor people, your parents couldn't say that to you and you wouldn't want to work hard in school, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 26:50 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: That's why we have poverty because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable. In other words, poverty isn't what you do to yourself. It is what the powerful do to you. Now, let me ask you another question. You guys have studied some economics. Why do you have like crises, crises? For example, there's a stock market crash, or for example, the economy goes down and people lose their jobs. Why do you have crises? Exactly. You're not taught this in economics class. That's kind of weird, right? The point of crises is to destroy money. Why do we need to destroy money? Because if there's too much money in the system, people lose their jobs. People don't have to work. So you have to destroy this money in order to make people feel money is scarce. Okay? Does that make sense? So why do you have wars? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 27:57 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Right? Why are there wars in the world then? Because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you. Scarcity is a lie. The real reason is war is meant to destroy wealth in order to make you think money is valuable. Do you understand? You guys play World of Warcraft or these games, right? Yeah. Guess what guys, World of Warcraft in our world, there's actually no difference. You just run around pointlessly working hard to obtain credits in order to buy stuff. If credit just flew out of the sky because they could do that, right? They could actually program the engine to just put money out of nothing, you wouldn't do nothing every day. You wouldn't play the game, okay? It's only because you believe that there's scarcity in the world and that you must work hard to obtain wealth that you do any work. Do you understand this? So this world that ## Power Is Alchemy -- 28:57 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: we live in, it's a complete illusion created by central banking in order to make us work as hard as possible because the real value is not money. The real value is the work we do. Okay? Does that make sense guys? All right. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 29:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: You said scarcity is an illusion, right? But I understand that money can be printed infinitely, but resources can be printed infinitely, but resources such as food and land, they are technically unlimited. Does scarcity still exist in other resources? Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 29:40 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: That's a great question. Okay. So the question is, isn't food scarce? Because food is a finite resource, right? Do yourself a favor, okay? Go to the garbage dump somewhere, anywhere in Beijing and see the amount of food that is wasted every single day. If food was scarce, why do we have food waste? Okay? So if you just do the mathematics, what you will discover is there's enough food to feed everyone. Okay? There doesn't have to be hunger and starvation. It's an artificial crisis. Okay? Does that make sense? So you're right in that. Yeah, the food's not infinite, but it's abundant. There's a lot of it. Enough to feed people. Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 30:30 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 30:36 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: All right. So again, you guys are stuck in the scarcity. Scarcity mindset. And it's very convincing. So let's move on, okay? So this is something that we'll go back to later on, because I cannot convince you today, this morning, that everything you believed about the world and about yourself is wrong. Okay? You're still stuck there. Like, okay, there's scarcity and you're right, there's scarcity, but we also live in a world of abundance. Okay? And a lot of things that you believe are just misconceptions about the world. Okay? So we'll go back there. Okay? Later on. All right. So let's move on. Okay? So we've done money now. Right? Now let's do another question. Let's do a question of happiness. The question for us today is what makes us happy? Come on. What makes you happy? How can you live a happy life? Okay. Well, obviously money, right? If you have a lot of money, that doesn't make you happy. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 31:44 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: What else? Exactly. Power. Right? Sure. Power. Excuse me? Okay. Good. Freedom. Yeah. What else? Relationships. Yep. Sure. You have good friends. Right? Like lots and lots of friends. What else? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 32:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1934s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1934s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 32:15 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=1935s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Love. Right? Love. Sure. What else? Like video games, I guess. Vacations. Okay? Lots and lots of things. Okay? What you will discover about this list is this, you are thinking about individual happiness. And this is actually unique in human history. If you were to go back in time to 500 years ago, and you ask people, how can you be happy? They would focus more on collective happiness. In other words, if your community were not happy, you cannot be happy. So, the very idea of the individual is new in human history. Before, we understood that if you want to live a happy life, you need to take care of your family. You need to take care of your community. For them, for us, throughout most of human history, happiness meant helping others, being generous to others. So, for example, let's just say that... Okay. I go off, and I wander, and then I find a lot of gold, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 33:46 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: I come back, and what's the first thing I do with all this gold? Do you guys know? And this is like the ancient past. Dig a hole and put them inside. Okay. Yeah. Good. Right? We're going to dig a hole and put that money inside because we want to give to our children. That's a modern mindset. But what did they do before? And this happened throughout every society. If I became rich one day, what's the first thing I would do? Hmm? No. Okay. So, we'll learn this. Okay? But the first thing that people did was they had a big feast for everyone. They spent all their money on a big feast. Because what mattered was your reputation with the community. What mattered was your generosity. If you got rich one day, you made sure that everyone in the community benefited from your wealth, usually by holding a big feast. And guess what, guys? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 34:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: This is true. This is true in China for most of Chinese history. Right? If you come from a Chinese village, you come to Beijing, you open a restaurant, you make a lot of money, you go out to your village, what's the first thing you do? Come on, guys. Feast. You have a big feast for everyone. Okay? So, this is ingrained in us. Okay? But as you say, today, what we believe is if you have a lot of money, put it underground or put it in the bank. Okay? But back then, for most of human history, we would just spend our own money. We would spend it all on a big feast. We wanted everyone to share in happiness. And that's what made us happy. Okay? Any questions? Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 35:30 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: I was wondering, you mentioned that it was all reputation on some levels. Would that count into as, you know, your individual happiness? Because after you get rich, you care about your reputation. Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 35:48 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Yeah. So, you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard. Okay? But the individual, the concept of individual did not exist before. We just created it. The idea that I'm a person independent of my family, independent of my community, independent of the world around me makes no sense. What was the worst punishment that could be inflicted on you in the past? Let's just say that we're going to fight, I kill you. Right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 36:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: They say you no longer belong to this world. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 36:22 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Exactly. Banishment. Exile. Not death. Right? And today, if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before, we didn't do that. Because the worst thing that we could do was exile you. It says, you're no longer part of us. You understand? So, the concept of individual did not exist. Right? Okay. So, let's move on. All right. So, now I'm going to present two understandings of the world. And you're going to tell me which understanding you think is correct. And the first understanding, we humans don't have agency. We don't have really control. Why? Because there are powerful gods out there. Okay? There are these powerful gods like Apollo, Dionysus. Oh, the problem though is that they are also controlled by other gods that are more powerful. Like, for example, fate, fortune. And then there are these really ancient gods that control the structure of the universe. For example, maybe anger and pride. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 37:37 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So, you obviously know individual agency because there's always a god screwing with you. Okay? You might get rich, but then the god of pride looks at you and says, no, no, no. I need to teach this mortal a lesson. So, the god comes into me, makes me too arrogant, and I screw up. Okay? So, we're always being controlled by these forces beyond our understanding. Okay? So, that's the first worldview. The second worldview is this. We are synapses that generate memories. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 38:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 38:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: We are memories. Our understanding of the world comes from our experience that is controlled by synapses. Synapses come from a combination of DNA and environment. Our genes and our interaction with the environment, our experiences. And what this means is that we can now have control over our own individual fate. If you're angry, it's because some experience or some genes made you angry, and this anger becomes reinforced in your memories. And therefore, if you do proper therapy, if you do proper reflection, if you do some exercises, you can better control your anger and therefore control your fate. Okay? So, in the first worldview, there are lots and lots of gods. They're evil, and they're random, and we have absolutely no control over our fate. We can only hope to get lucky in life and not piss off the gods. In the second worldview, we are only a collection of our memories, and we are only synapses. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 39:40 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So, we're able to manipulate the memories and the synapses in a proper way. We can be free of all problems. We can be free of anger. We can be free of depression. We can be free of misery. All right? Let me ask you this question. Which worldview is a more accurate reflection of reality? Obviously, the second one, right? Because this is neuroscience. Science or psychology or psychiatry. This is what you've been taught in school. This is what you all believe. Our entire society is structured around this very idea. And what you will learn in this class is it is completely wrong. It is the first one that is a more accurate reflection of reality. The first one gives you more information, gives you a more accurate assessment of how the world really works. Okay? So, now let me ask you this question. If the first worldview, and this is what we call polytheism. And polytheism, for most of human history, was the dominant religion. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 40:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Okay? Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So, why do we make this transition? What's the benefit? If you're a powerful person, why would you prefer the second one as opposed to the first one? Why? What's the benefits to powerful people? What does power want to believe the second one but not the first one? Yeah, okay. So, the idea of individual responsibility. Okay? So, then there's more control. It's easier to control people in this system. Right? That's the first benefit. What's the second benefit? The second benefit is you will work harder. Right? Because in the first system, you're like, you know what, I don't need to go make a lot of money because if I make a lot of money, the gods will punish me and make me proud. So, I'm just going to like enjoy life and take it easy. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 42:16 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Right? So, in the second system, no, no, I have control over my own life. So, I need to work hard. Okay? So, again, the entire point of the system is to make you work as hard as possible because when you work hard, that generates real wealth for the powerful people. Money does nothing. Okay? Money just incentivizes you to work hard. So, this exists in order to make you work harder. There's one more benefit or there's more benefits but what's another benefit? Okay. The other benefit is this, powerlessness. It makes you powerless. Why? This system is designed to make you absolutely powerless. Why? Why? No, no, no, no. No, no. See again. Again, this is how you're brain washed. You believe one makes you powerless, but that's not correct. Two makes you powerless. Why? Why is it between one and two? Why is it in number two you are powerless? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 43:30 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: I didn't get it. Uh… Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 43:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So, the problem with number two is you're incapable of collective action because you think all the source of your problem is the individual in you and not society. But number one, you are capable of collective action and the only way to change the world is through collective action. Does that make sense? This is a really important point. Two, it's designed to make you think the source of all your problems is within you. So you should ignore what other people do and think. It doesn't matter to you. And therefore, you're incapable of identifying with other people. You're not capable of collective action. If you're not capable of collective action and you feel really miserable, what you will do is play video games or watch porn all day. Okay? And that's what's happening in society today. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 44:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: But in number two, like from experience, you should take others' perspective and not just... ## Power Is Alchemy -- 44:55 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2695s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So in number two, who has authority? Who do you listen to? You listen to scientists, right? Scientists. Because this system was created by scientists. By scientists to trick you. Okay? This system you think, oh, it's science. Therefore it must be real. Guys, let me give you a piece of advice. Okay? If you're ever feeling sad and you are depressed, what should you do? What should you do? What have you been taught to do? You feel sad, you're depressed. What should you do? Hmm? Okay. Yeah. The correct answer is walk around. But that's not what you've been taught, right? What have you been taught to do? Tell your friends. Okay. Telling your friend, tell your parent. That's actually really good. Right? So walking around, exercising, resting, talking to a friend about your problem. That's all really good. But what have you been taught to do in school? Really? If you are feeling really, really sad, what should you do? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 46:01 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: You should go talk to a psychiatrist, right? You should talk to a psychologist. And what will he do? What will he or she do? Okay. Well, I'm going to give you a piece of advice. Okay? And you can test it out for yourself. But if you're feeling sad, and you are feeling depressed, and you feel you have to talk to a psychiatrist, and you do so, I will make you bet that the psychiatrist will make it a lot worse. You will feel worse after talking to a psychiatrist. Okay? And the reason why is the system is not designed to cure you of any problems. The system is to make you dependent on authority. You know that. If you feel sad. Well, you know what? Just go for a walk. Talk to a friend. You'll feel better over time. But the system teaches you, no. If you feel sad, go talk to a psychiatrist who will give you drugs. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 46:57 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: It's designed to make you dependent on authority. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 47:02 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: I want to ask, like, in scenario one, rule number one, would God also be an authority? God will also be an authority. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 47:12 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: That's actually a great question. Okay? God is authority. Okay. That's actually a great question. Thank you so much. So, I have to spend time to explain to you both systems, and I will do so. But what's really important about number one is the gods are really bad people. Okay? The gods, in number one, the polytheistic system, they fight all the time. They're vengeful. They're angry. They're proud. But because they're gods, they can get away with it. And that's the difference between humans and gods. We're all the same. We're all angry. We're all jealous. We all fight. Okay? But the gods can get away with it. Humans cannot. Gods can do hubris. We cannot do hubris. Do you understand? So the idea that, oh, the people in power are benevolent. The people in power are authority figures who are after our best interests. That is a new modern concept. Right? before it was assumed that the ## Power Is Alchemy -- 48:25 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: king is a king why because he's favored by the gods it's not because he's a good person it's not because he's a just ruler it's just because the gods like him for whatever reason but guess what the gods give and the gods take maybe today the king will uh rule us but maybe five years from now he gets unlucky and the gods kill him too bad if you read greek mythology and we will do so in this class okay we'll go over into greek civilization we'll look at Oedipus we'll look at Homer the Iliad okay they talk about this all the time fate is something that you cannot control something that happens to you and therefore you must live life to your best all right so the difference is this the difference is in number one they have a concept called eudaimonia if you have no control over your fate if things can happen to ## Power Is Alchemy -- 49:27 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=2967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: you tomorrow that kill you then live your life to the best of your ability today seize the day be the best that you can be today and that's how you win favor from the gods eudaimonia what we call flourishing the point of life is to live it to the best of your ability and that's why guess what guys the ancients the greeks they were superior to us if you read greek literature you read greek philosophy Plato Homer Aeschylus Eubulius they were the best today we suck why because instead of eudaimonia we have pleasure rather than flourish as creative people we're like how do i enjoy my life today how do i not feel sad okay so in the first system even though it sounds like we have no control with no agency but it it inspires us to live to the best for our own purpose best of our ability the second system we're like ## Power Is Alchemy -- 50:36 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3036s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3036s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: oh you have control complete control over your life it enslaves us okay all right now let's move on to the third and final example and i know this is shocking i know this is surprising but over the course of the semester i will give you enough evidence to convince you that this is all true okay i'm just set up the structure in the framework today all right let's let's let's do down to school guys why do you have school why are we in school why why are you here what something is learn exactly right learn what else yeah to get to get the degree okay to get the degree okay to graduate what else knowledge yes ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:45 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: test watch the students excuse me i feel like give a power uh a chance brainwashing okay guess what ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:57 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3117s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: guys the correct answer is brainwashing everything else is a lie okay all right what are you in the school you come to class you listen to a lecture you read books right and then you and then you have to do a test and you have to write a paper and then and then the teacher gives you a grade that's how you learn right let me ask you this question then throughout most of human history how did we learn if you want to become a doctor what did you do the answer is experience do it right let me ask you this question let's say you're 12 years old you'll be a doctor okay there are two paths ahead of you the first path is you know what i'm just put you in a hospital and you're going to learn there for like 10 years someone's going to mentor you someone's going you're going to be that ## Power Is Alchemy -- 52:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: person's apprentice maybe the first year all you do is like wash the floor okay but you're going to observe the doctor and then eventually the doctor is going to tell you how to um treat patients okay that's the first system second system is you go to the best school in the world then you go to harvard for undergraduate then you go to harvard medical school the best medical school in the world okay age 30 who's about a doctor number one or number two obviously the first one one, right? Because the second person, the person who went to Harvard and Harvard Medical School did not ever work in a hospital. Do you understand? Now, let me ask you another question. In the first system, do you have to be really, really smart to be a good doctor? You don't actually. Anyone can be a doctor in the first system. Anyone. We human beings are all born with the capacity to learn anything if you wanted to learn it, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 54:08 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: If you want to be an engineer, if you want to be a lawyer, if you want to be a doctor, if you want to be a scientist, if you want to be anything, okay? Just go find a mentor who can teach you how to do so. And I guarantee you that you will learn how to do it well. And anyone can do this. But instead, we have a system in which we tell children, we tell children, we tell children, we tell children, we tell children, we tell students, you're smart, you're stupid. Smart students go to good schools and good universities and they get good jobs. Stupid students go wash dishes, okay? And that was not true for most of human history. It's true today, but for most of human history, if you want to go learn something, all you had to do was go find a teacher. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 54:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And that teacher would teach you. And then you would learn it, right? So school is not a place. It's not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A school is a place that brainwashes you, okay? Now, the question then is, what does it brainwash you in? What would it brainwash you? Okay. All right. To answer that, I'm going to give you some history, okay? We will do a lot of history in this class. But I'm going to tell you the three societies that first introduced mandatory, free public schooling in the world, okay? The first is called Sparta, okay? Sparta was a small city -state in Greece, like 3,000, 4,000 years ago, 3,000 years ago. And they had a new system in which children as early as five or six years old, they were put into a school. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 56:07 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And in the school, they were beaten up by older kids who were like nine or ten. Okay? That's Sparta. The second society was called the Aztecs. Aztecs. And they also provided free compulsory education to all its children. Really good, right? And the third society is called Prussia. And actually, Prussia is a system that everyone uses today. Do you guys know any history? Okay? What is common about all three societies? Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia. What is common to all three? Okay. War. All three societies are fundamentally war societies dedicated to defeating their neighbors. Sparta was one of thousands of city -states in Greece. The only society of these thousands that had compulsory education. Why? Because Sparta was first and foremost engaged in war making. Sparta, you've heard of Spartans, right? The Spartan warrior. Okay? The Aztecs were the greatest war society in Central America before they rivaled the Europeans. They defeated everyone. They were engaged in war. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 57:47 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: They also did a lot of human sacrifice as well. Okay? We learn about the Aztecs later on. Prussia. The Prussians, the greatest military in Europe. For centuries, they were engaged in war making as well. Okay? Do you understand this? Why we have schools is because schools are really good at preparing people for war. Why? Excuse me? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 58:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: They don't have people under their hands. They're going to teach something. How do they do with the war? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 58:27 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: What is, what is, why, why, let me ask you this question. Why did they not, did not have before why is it that people like we don't want schools why again the sparta aspects and pressure with a few societies that had free public schooling why didn't other studies just copy them why okay let me ask you this question let's just say you're a mother or father what's the and you have a child right what's the worst thing that could happen in your life no no your mother or your father you have a child right what's the worst thing that can happen to you in your life your child is staying away from you right what does school do school is designed to take your child away from you okay let me ask you this question if school is about learning why don't parents and children go to school together yeah why not why because parents ## Power Is Alchemy -- 59:49 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: have the work to survive right ## Power Is Alchemy -- 59:50 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: there's actually a better reason why okay it's about brainwashing right because how do you ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:00:01 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: brainwash someone right if you're with your parent are you gonna be brainwashed no because you feel loved you feel secure your parents gonna protect you you're not your parent hey is this teacher is he or she lying to me and the parent's like yeah he's he's lying to you okay it's only because you've been taken away from your parent that you are now willing to be brainwashed why why because what happens if you if you leave your parents how do you feel how do you feel yeah exactly right insecure you're anxious you're afraid you understand you've lost your parent you're four you're five you're six years old you've lost your parent you feel really insecure so who do you trust your teacher whatever your teacher says is now correct yeah okay that's a great point okay aren't our brain parents brainwashed as well um that's correct your parents are brainwashed but what i'm saying is ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: when a parent is with a child the child feels secure and if you're secure you're much more willing to disobey authority you're much willing to ask questions you're much willing to think for yourself because you feel secure because your parent is there to protect you but if you take the parent away you can't do that you must now rely on the teacher who can now brainwash you okay so are you brainwashing that am i brainwashing you okay okay all right okay so the question is am i brainwashing you okay that's a good question and it's a fair question and again that's why i tell you this okay you have the capacity to ask me questions you have the capacity to challenge me you have the capacity to think for yourself okay so all i'm saying is hear me out ask me questions and then think for yourself whether or not i make sense because the ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:02:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: difference between my class and other classes is like i don't test you right i don't give you grades it's a pass fail class you can actually choose to say you know what this is nonsense i don't want to listen anymore i can't i can't stop you okay but in school guess what happens if you don't go come to school your parents get arrested all right do you understand that's the difference it's your choice whether to pay attention or not all right so another question is okay if schools are designed to brainwash you what are they brainwashing you in well they're designed to brainwash you to believe a concept call it the nation state the nation state the schools are designed to brainwash you to think the nation state exists it is a person mother china you must love this person you must be willing to sacrifice yourself for this person you must be willing to take it yourself to this person Mother China. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:03:26 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And how do we brainwash you? We teach you language, right? We teach you history. We teach you geography. We teach you all this to make you believe that the nation state, Mother China, the United States, France, they all exist. But guess what? Throughout most of human history, it was absurd to think the nation state existed, okay? Before, you didn't say, I'm Chinese. Before, you say, I'm a Beijing -er, or I'm from Hai Dian, or I'm from Chaoyang, right? Because that makes more sense. You're from a place where you know the people. But now, because of the nation state, you are forced to believe that you are the same person as someone from Yunnan, Tibet, Guangxi, even though, guess what, guys? You have absolutely nothing in common, okay? But you're all Chinese, and that's what school is designed to do. School is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:04:31 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: That's what history is. History is the false memory of a nation state. And that's why you're all forced to go to school, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:04:54 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Yeah, so yeah, so the point of school is to serve the nation state, understand? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:05:06 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: Right? Does that make sense? If you believe in the nation state, if you believe in Mother China, then you must serve her. You must obey her. You must fight for her. You must die for her, okay? So the idea of the nation state was created in order to make you obedient to authority, and it works very effectively, yeah? All countries, all countries are nation states, okay? So I mean, like, I'm not saying China is different from other places. China is exactly the same as other places, okay? What you will learn in this class is, how do we get to this place? Because again, the three things that we learn, okay? Money, the individual, the nation state. These are all ideas and concepts beyond the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you're trying to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do it. You have to be brainwashed into believing these three things. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:06:14 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=3974s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: If someone from the past, maybe a thousand years ago, was a person who was a person who was a person who was a person who was a person who would come today, you would explain the concept of money, individual, and nation state. The person would be like, wait a minute here. This means that you're all slaves, okay? So now the question then is, where do we get these three concepts from? What you will learn in this class is, these three concepts come from a revolution in human thought called monotheism. The one true God. This idea, monotheism, forever changed the course of human history. And it gave us these concepts of money, individual, and nation state. Monotheism is such a powerful idea that it turned nothing into everything, okay? That's what you will learn in this class. We will learn about monotheism, and we will discover how it created money, individual, and the nation state, and it basically created the world that we live in today, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:07:43 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: All right. Any questions? Excuse me? Okay, yeah, so there are three great monotheistic religions, right? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What I will show you later on is, it's basically the same religion. Yep. All right. Okay, so I don't want to give you too much information, okay? Because there's a lot to process. But I want you guys to remember the concepts. Money, individual, and nation state are all powerful concepts that are embedded into everyday life. You cannot escape it, okay? You've been brainwashed into thinking that they all exist when in fact, they don't actually don't exist. And that's how power works. What power is, okay? What power truly is, is what we call alchemy. Alchemy throughout human history was the pursuit of power. Power of turning lead into gold, okay? Lead into gold, okay? Nothing into everything. That's what alchemy was. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:09:09 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: And maybe in science class, you're taught that alchemy is this fake science. It's a pseudo -science, and it did not work. What you will learn in this class is, we achieve alchemy, okay? We turn nothing into everything. We turn lead into gold. Or that's what power is. Power is the capacity to turn nothing into everything. Power is the capacity to make you believe that money is valuable. That the individual can lead to happiness. That the nation state exists. That's what power is, okay? And as a result, today, we live extremely miserable lives. Okay? So you've been taught to think that, oh, life just gets better and better. What you will learn in this class is, actually, Um, nope. Okay. And what's really important is you will also learn in this class that this was an accident. Okay. This is an accident. It's an accident of the human imagination. It's because we didn't know what we were doing that we created this system. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:10:29 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works (4K Re-Upload with Audio Fixed) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8XLz78ZvY&t=4229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lt8xlz78zvy.json) Text: So what you also learn is that if you're able to control the human imagination, you can use it to create a new system that allows for eudaimonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay. All right. Any questions? Okay. So, um, that's it for, uh, today. Okay. I'll see you guys next class. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 0:01 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Good morning, class. Welcome to our first class. And today, what I want to do is provide the framework for how we will learn the semester. What are we learning? How are we learning? Why are we learning? All right. So this is a class of ideas. So it's really important for you to pay attention and understand how these ideas connect with each other. If I'm not being clear, ask me a question. In fact, make it a habit to ask as many questions as possible, because that way you will learn more. Learning will be more fun for you and learning will be much more clearer to you. OK, so let's get in the habit of asking questions. So wherever I am confusing, wherever I'm speaking too fast, wherever you don't understand, interrupt me. OK, let's get in the habit. All right. So. I first want to talk about Immanuel Kant. We will be discussing a lot this semester because he is the greatest philosopher in Western history. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: And he teaches us, he taught us how the world works. And this is what he told us. He told us that we can never know the objective reality. There is an objective reality. What he calls the Nomana, OK, or the things in themselves. That is not knowable to us. That is a world we can never access. Why? Because we perceive the world through our senses. Our senses, our perception warps the world and changes it into a structure that we can process. Called the. Phenomena, which are the things that appear to us. OK, so the example is time and space. Time and space do not exist outside of us. Time and space exist in reality. But for us to understand reality, we need to add in time and space. That's the example. All right. So how the world works is we perceive the world through our senses. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 2:55 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-turns-nothing-into-everything) Text: We perceive the world, we perceive the Nomana and turn it into the Phenomena for us to process in other words, and this is really important, reality is what we imagine it to be. There is no objective reality. Reality is what we imagine it to be. Life is a constant process across an act of imagination. All right. That's that's Immanuel Kant. That's the first idea I want you to understand. So what I want to do in this class this semester is train you or teach you or inspire you to augment your imagination so that you see the world much more clearly. This class is not about what to think. It's about how to think. All right. So let me explain the structure of. The course. So there's past. There's present. And there's future. We'll be looking at all three this semester, the past, the present and the future. We were analyzing all three in order to construct a more objective reality for ourselves. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 4:33 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: We will not succeed. We will fail. But the process of trying will train our minds to think much more critically about reality. About the world. So let me explain how. In the present, we have geopolitics. We'll be studying geopolitics. For example, why is there war in Ukraine? Why is there war in the Middle East? What happened? We'll be studying geopolitics and we'll try to understand why this is happening. We'll try to formulate an analytical model of geopolitics. Okay. An analytical model. We will then use this analytical model to make predictions about the future. Why do we do this? Because these predictions will tell us if our analytical model is correct or not. Does that make sense? It's no different from artificial intelligence. How do you know if your artificial intelligence, the model is correct or not? When you test it against reality. Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 5:47 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: There's no difference between that. Artificial intelligence. And what we're trying to do here, and why are we doing this? Because if we're able to have an actual model that makes correct predictions, then we can take all of this and go back and analyze the past to reveal the secret history of the world. That is a project we are undertaking this semester to discover for ourselves the secret history of the world. The secret history of humanity, because you may not know this, but all the history that you learn in school, all that history that you think you know, it is false. Okay. The history that you know, the history that you believe, it is a system implanted into your brains by powerful people. Okay. So the real question that we're looking at this semester is really how. Does power work? Because if we can figure this out, then you will achieve liberation. You achieve freedom. You understand how you're being manipulated by others, and therefore you'll be free. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 7:17 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live, to see the world that is true to you. So let me give you three cover examples. Okay. So let me give you three cover examples of how power works. Okay. The first example is money. Let us do a thought experiment. I'm a bank. Okay. I decide I want to open a bank and now you're allowed to put money in the bank. Okay. So all of you get together and you put $5 million in the bank, not $5 million. Now, why do you put $5 million into my bank? Because I promise you. I'm going to give you 1 % interest, right? 1 % interest. That's a really good deal. But now, because I owe you some money, right? I owe you 1 % interest. I now need to go make money for myself. So I have a friend who's building a restaurant and he says, I need $5 million to build a restaurant. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 8:45 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: And after a year, I will pay you back 10 % interest. Okay. 10 % interest. And so I make a 9 % profit and I can use that to pay my employees, to pay myself a salary, to build a new building. Okay. So now I want you to think about this. I'm a bank. I got $5 million in deposit money. Then I gave out a $5 million loan. Today, how much money is in the bank? Hmm? How much money now do I have? I got $5 million from you guys. Then I gave it out to someone else. So how much money is in the bank right now? Zero, right? It should be zero. Logically, the answer is zero. In fact, zero is the answer that you are taught in economics. It's what you are taught. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 9:53 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Zero is not an answer that we're taught. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 9:56 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=596s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=596s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay. You cannot loan all the money that you have. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 10:02 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: They will have a limit, like 25%. I don't know. Maybe 10%. So you can only loan like $4,000. Okay. Okay. Yeah. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 10:11 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay. Really good point. Okay. Oh, yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics, you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system. Okay? What's fractional reserve? As you say, you must leave behind a certain amount of money. It can be 7%. It can be 10%. It depends on the country. Okay? Let's say 10%. So theoretically, I cannot actually lend out $5 million. I'm going to lend out $4,000. Okay? You're right. Okay? That's law as well. Okay? Actually, okay, let's say I lend out $4.5 million. Okay? Now, how much money do I have in the bank? Yeah. Half a million. Right? Okay. So again, this is what you're taught in economics. This is what makes logical sense. Right? The correct answer, what actually happens in real life is you have... Okay. You now have $9.5 million. Okay? That is the correct answer. This makes no sense, right? But it happens in reality. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 11:26 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: And how do we know? Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the Agriculture Bank of China, if you Google these banks, what you will see is these past 20 years, these banks have become the largest in the world. How did that happen? Was it because Chinese people got rich and put all the money in the bank? No, that's not what happened. What happened, guys? What happened was these banks start to lend money out to corporations, to government, to people, to build skyscrapers, to build roads. In other words, the banks start to create money out of nothing in order to finance China's infrastructure projects. And that's what banks are allowed to do. They're allowed to print money, create money out of nothing. Okay? Does that make sense? Now the question then is, wait a minute here. That's kind of absurd. How did this system come into being? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 12:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=762s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=762s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: How was it created? Okay. Well, actually, there's a very easy explanation for where we got the system from. All right? So let me explain the history and the origin of the system. So in the beginning... It was merchants who engaged in finance because merchants needed money in order to facilitate trade. Okay? And some merchants became extremely wealthy. And when they became very wealthy, they started banks in order to support trade and other merchants. Okay? So these banks traded in gold because that was the primary source and supply of money back then. Okay? So what happened is you would come and you would put your money, your gold, in a bank for safekeeping. And the bank would give you a contract. Right? A contract is just saying, thank you for giving me your gold. I promise to give back your gold at any time that you want it. And that's what we call a receipt. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 13:56 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Right? And this would allow for better and easier trade because now I can take this contract and I can go to England. Okay? Maybe I'm based in Italy. But now I can go to England and say, listen, I need to buy cotton or bananas from you. And the person is like, well, what do you give me? I'm going to give you gold. Right? So I take the receipt and I give it to you. Right? And why do we do this? Because it's a lot easier than giving gold to other people. And so this system would facilitate trade throughout the world. Does it make sense? Now, I'm the bank. I have all this gold and I want to make money with it. So I want to give it to other people. So other merchants would come to me and say, listen, I need gold. Can you lend me out gold? Right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 15:00 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: But I say to him, yeah, but if I give you the gold, you have a security issue. It's inconvenient for you. So why don't I give you a receipt, a contract instead? Does that make sense? Because all I need is a contract. All I need is a receipt in order to go and do trade elsewhere. Right? So, so by doing this, what I've done is I've doubled the gold in my bank. Right? I've created money out of nothing. So the gold is still 5 million. That hasn't changed. But the receipt is now 5 million plus 5 million. So theoretically, I now have 10 million in the bank. All right. So that's how money and finance works. Now there's a problem with the system. What's the problem with the system? What do you mean? Okay. That's a good question. Okay. Why is it that people believe in me? Okay. The answer is very simple. The answer is because for most of you of human history, people didn't need money. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 16:31 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: If you, if you were just a normal person, what were you doing? Were you in a village growing crops? If you wanted to like get new stuff, what would you do? You would trade with someone else, right? Maybe, maybe you have a gold that I want. Well then I would, I would trade you a cow for it. So we didn't actually need money. So for most of human history. No one had any need for money. It was only in certain circumstances that you would want money. So for example, marriage, right? Okay. So for most of human history, money represented debt that can be unpaid. Oh, sorry. Debt that could never be repaid. So for example, a very common thing is, um, maybe you and I fight. And I kill you. Well, in theory, your family should not come and kill me. But obviously that would create a lot of problems, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 17:31 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1051s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1051s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: So the way to settle the dispute is I would give your family money. Because money was symbolically meant to say, I'm sorry, I killed you. This is a debt that can never be repaid. That's what money was used for in most circumstances throughout human history. There was no actually real use for money. It was symbolic. But with the rise of trade over merchants, they needed money in order to facilitate the trade. But these merchants all knew each other. So they trusted each other anyway. So money was a mechanism for them to trade easier. Okay. Does that make sense? All right. Okay. So let's go back to the question. This system looks great. I can print money out of nothing. But there's a problem with this system. What's the problem? There's a problem here. Hmm? Okay. That's actually a great question. Okay. So yeah. Is it possible to forge the contract? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 18:43 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay. So that's a really good point. The problem is, so the answer is that they all knew each other anyway. Okay. Because it's a very small circle. Again, we have not reached the mourning period where it's a lot of people using money. If that's the case, then fortune becomes a problem. We'll discuss this in future classes. Okay. Counterfeiting. But at this point in history, forgery is actually not a big issue. There's actually a bigger issue. And it's a huge issue. What's the issue? I have $5 million of gold, right? There's about $10 million of gold out there in receipts. What's the problem with that? The problem is that if everyone wants to go at the same time, I go bankrupt, right? Because I lose my reputation. Okay. The contract says that at any time you want the gold, I must give it to you. But if I have like, if there's $100 million ## Power Is Alchemy -- 19:46 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: in gold contracts, but I only have $10 million in gold, only if $15 million wants the gold back, then I'm screwed. This is what we call a bank run. Okay. A bank run. And this is a huge problem for merchants. Okay. There's also another problem with the system. And the problem is this. Who do I usually lend my money to? Do you guys know? If I'm a bank, if I'm a merchant, who do I usually lend my money to? Okay, guys. Today, we lend the money to entrepreneurs. But back then, there really weren't entrepreneurs. There were kings and noble people. And what do they do all the time? Why do they need money? To fight wars. Okay. That's why, that's why there's a demand for gold. Because if I'm a king. I need to fight a war. Usually against my brother or someone else to control this territory. Right? Now, the problem with this is I could get killed, in which case, oops. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 20:53 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: But also, what's much more common is the king would be like, screw you bank. I don't need to pay you back. Okay. So, there's actually a lot of risk with this system. So, over time, develop a system to mitigate or reduce risk. Okay. What would they do? What they would do is they would create cartels. Cartels are just partnerships. So, maybe this bank works with another bank, works with another bank throughout Europe. And the way they establish these cartels is usually through intermarriage. Right? They would marry each other. They would combine together. And that way, let's say 15 million of receipts wants back the gold. But there's only 10 million of receipts. 10 million. Well, guess what? You just go to another bank. Okay. And let's just say a king decides I'm not going to pay you back bank. Well, your bank works with other banks to establish a new enemy to kill the king to get the money back. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 22:01 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: Do you understand? And this system is what we call today central banking. And what you will learn in this class is central banking controls the world today. Okay. Now, what's really important about this system is that it's based on power. Right? And what power is, it can turn nothing, money, the contract, into everything. Right? That's what money is. Okay. So, we live in a world in which banks can print out money. Right? So, now, let's ask ourselves a question. Wait a minute here. If the banks can print as much money as possible, why do we have poverty? Right? Because we can just give money to poor people and they won't be poor anymore. Why do we have poverty? If there's all the food in the world that we want, why are people starving still? Why? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:28 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Because we don't. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:33 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: So, we don't have limited resources. We have scarcity. Okay? Right? So, that is the common answer. Okay. The common answer is scarcity. We have poverty because of scarcity. But I already told you this. They can print money out of nothing. So, money is infinite. Money is an infinite resource. So, why do we have poor people then? That's kind of strange. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 23:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: They still have limited resources in the actual. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 24:12 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#power-alchemy-atlas); [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-scarcity-disciplines-labor) Text: Okay. You see what's happening is this. You all believe money is scarce. Okay? I just spent the past 10 -20 minutes explaining to you. it's not scarce it's infinite because it's just a number we can at any time print out as much money as we need okay so that's how power works power has brainwashed you into thinking something that is not true you've been taught from the first day that money is scarce but it's not scarce it's infinite and no matter what i say to you you still believe this okay so you have to get that out of your head money is not scarce it is infinite so let's work a question why is there poverty in this world why do people starve why is there inequality in this world why are there poor people why are there rich people what's the answer because they don't okay because it's scarce okay so guys this is ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:16 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: amazing okay you guys can't get out of your head you think money is scarce you think it is not possible to print infinite money when i already told you it is possible to print infinite money because they do this all the time yeah ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:28 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: the one who has don't want one to share the same ## Power Is Alchemy -- 25:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-scarcity-disciplines-labor) Text: yeah because we don't want people to all have money the powerful people don't want that that's exactly the answer and the reason and why because otherwise no one would work do you understand the point of putting money is not to give you money the point of putting money is to create the illusion that money is valuable and therefore you work hard in order to obtain it but in order for me to make you want to get money i need to create artificial misery you understand right if there weren't poor people you wouldn't want to be rich It's only because you see people suffer that you would want to go make money for yourself. What do your parents tell you? Your parents tell you, work hard in school, make a lot of money. Otherwise, you're going to end up like a poor person, right? Well, guess what? If there are no poor people, your parents couldn't say that to you. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 26:45 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: And you wouldn't want to work hard in school, right? That's why we have poverty. Because poverty creates the illusion that money is valuable. In other words, poverty isn't what you do to yourself. It is what the powerful do to you. Now, let me ask you another question. You guys have studied some economics. Why do you have like crises? Crises. For example, there's a stock market crash. Or for example, the economy goes down and people lose their jobs. Why do you have crises? Exactly. You're not taught this in economics class. That's kind of weird, right? The point of crises is to destroy money. Why do we need to destroy money? Because if there's too much money in the system, people don't have to work. So you have to destroy this money in order to make people feel money is scarce. Okay, does that make sense? So why do we have wars, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 27:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-scarcity-disciplines-labor) Text: Why are there wars in the world then? Because they're fighting over scarce resources, right? I already told you. Scarcity is a lie. The real reason is war is meant to destroy wealth in order to make you think money is valuable. Do you understand? You guys play War of Warcraft or these games, right? Guess what, guys? War of Warcraft, in our world, there's actually no difference. You just run around pointlessly working hard to obtain credits in order to buy stuff. If credits just flew out of the sky because they could do that, right? They could actually program the engine to just print money out of nothing. You wouldn't do nothing every day. You wouldn't play the game. Okay? It's only because you believe that there's scarcity in the world and that you must work hard to obtain wealth that you do any work. Do you understand this? Okay? So this world that we live in, it's ## Power Is Alchemy -- 28:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: a complete illusion created by central banking in order to make us work as hard as possible. Because the real value is not money. The real value is the work we do. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 29:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: You said scarcity is an illusion. I understand money can be printed infinitely, but resources such as food and land, they aren't. Does scarcity still exist in other resources? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 29:40 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: That's a great question, okay? So the question is, isn't food scarce? Because food is a finite resource, right? Do yourself a favor, okay? Go to the garbage dump somewhere, anywhere in Beijing and see the amount of food that is wasted every single day. If food was scarce, why do we have food waste? Okay? So if you just do the mathematics, what you will discover is there's enough food to feed everyone. Okay? There doesn't have to be hunger and starvation. It's an artificial crisis. Okay? Does that make sense? So you're right in that, yeah, the food's not infinite, but it's abundant. There's a lot of it, enough to feed people. Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 30:30 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Oil resources, you know, the reason they have to move. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 30:35 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay, all right. So again, you guys are stuck in the scarcity mindset. And it's very convincing. So let's move on, okay? So this is something that we'll go back to later on, okay? Because I cannot convince you today, this morning, that everything you believed about the world and about yourself is wrong. Okay? You're still stuck there. Like, okay, there's scarcity. And you're right, there's scarcity. But we also live in a world of abundance. Okay? And a lot of things that you believe are just misconceptions about the world. Okay? So we'll go back there, okay? Later on. All right? So let's move on. Okay? So we've done money now, right? Now let's do another question. Let's do a question of happiness. The question for us today is what makes us happy? Come on. What makes you happy? How can you live a happy life? Well, obviously, money, right? If you have a lot of money, that's going to make you happy. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 31:44 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: What else? Exactly. Power, right? Sure. Power. Freedom. Excuse me? Freedom. Okay, good. Freedom. Yeah. What else? Relationships. Relationships. Yep. Sure. You have good friends, right? Like lots and lots of friends. What else? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 32:13 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Romantic relationships. Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 32:15 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=1935s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Love, right? Love. Sure. What else? Like video games, I guess. Vacations. Okay? Like lots and lots of things, okay? What you will discover about this list is this. You are thinking about individual happiness. And this is actually unique in human history. If you were to go back in time to five years ago, and you ask people, how can you be happy? They would focus more on collective happiness. In other words, if your community were not happy, you cannot be happy. So, the very idea of the individual is new in human history. Before, we understood that if you want to live a happy life, you need to take care of your family. You need to take care of your community. For them, for us, for most of human history, happiness meant helping others, being generous to others. So, for example, let's just say, that I go off and I wonder, and then I find a lot of gold, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 33:46 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: I come back, and what's the first thing I do with all this gold? Do you guys know? And this is like the ancient past. Dig a hole and put them inside. Okay, yeah. Good, right? We're going to dig a hole and put that money inside because we want to give to our children. That's a modern mindset. But what did they do before? And this happened throughout every society. If I became rich one day, what's the first thing I would do? Hmm? No. Okay, so we'll learn this, okay? But the first thing that people did was they had a big feast for everyone. They spent all their money on a big feast. Because what mattered was your reputation within the community. What mattered was your generosity. If you got rich one day, you made sure that everyone in the community benefited from your wealth, usually by holding a big feast. And guess what, guys? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 34:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: This is true in China for most of Chinese history, right? If you come from a Chinese village, you come to Beijing, you open a restaurant, you make a lot of money, you go out to your village, what's the first thing you do? Come on, guys. You have a big feast for everyone. Okay, so this is ingrained in us, okay? But as you say, today, what we believe is if you have a lot of money, put it underground or put it in a bank, okay? But back then, for most of human history, we would just spend it all on a big feast. We wanted everyone to share in happiness. And that's what made us happy. Okay? Any questions? Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 35:33 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: You mentioned that it was for reputation on some levels. Would that count into as, you know, individual happiness? Because after you get rich, you care about your reputation. Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 35:48 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: Yeah, so you're asking, isn't this about individual reputation? And again, I mean, this is hard, okay? But the individual, the concept of individual did not exist before. We just created it. The idea that I'm a person independent of my family, independent of my community, independent of the world around me makes no sense. What was the worst punishment that could be inflicted on you in the past? Let's just say that we're going to fight, I kill you, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 36:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: They say that you are no longer going to belong to this world. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 36:22 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Exactly. Banishment. Exile. Not death, right? And today, if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before, we didn't do that. Because the worst thing that we could do was exile you. It says, you're no longer part of us. Do you understand? So the concept of individual did not exist. Right? Okay. So let's move on. All right. So now I'm going to present two understandings of the world. And you're going to tell me which understanding you think is correct. And the first understanding, we humans don't have agency. We don't have really control. Why? Because there are powerful gods out there. Okay? There are these powerful gods like Apollo, Dionysus. Oh, the problem though is that they are also controlled by other gods that are more powerful like, for example, fate, fortune. And then there are these really ancient gods that control the structure of the universe. For example, maybe anger and pride. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 37:37 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: So you actually know individual agency because there's always a god screwing with you. Okay? You might get rich, but then the god of pride looks at you and says, no, no, no. I need to teach this mortal a lesson. So the god comes into me, makes me too arrogant, and I screw up. Okay? So we're always being controlled by these forces beyond our understanding. Okay? So that's the first worldview. Second worldview is this. We are synapses that generate memories. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 38:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 38:20 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: We are memories. Our understanding of the world comes from our experience that is controlled by synapses. Synapses come from a combination of DNA and and environment. Our genes and our interaction with the environment, our experiences. And what this means is that we can now have control over our own individual fate. If you're angry, it's because some experience or some genes made you angry and this anger becomes reinforced in your memories. And therefore, if you do proper therapy, if you do proper reflection, if you do some exercises, you can better control your anger and therefore control your fate. Okay? So in the first worldview, there are lots and lots of gods. They're evil and they're random and we have absolutely no control over our fate. We can only hope to get lucky in life and not piss off the gods. In the second worldview, we are only a collection of our memories and we are only synapses. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 39:39 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: So if we're able to manipulate the memories and the synapses in a proper way, we can be free of all problems. We can be free of anger. We can be free of depression. We can be free of misery. Alright? Let me ask you this question. Which worldview is a more accurate reflection of reality? Obviously the second one, right? Because this is neuroscience, science, or psychology or psychiatry. This is what you've been taught in school. This is what you all believe. Our entire society is structured around this very idea. And what you will learn in this class is it is completely wrong. It is the first one that is a more accurate reflection of reality. The first one gives you more information, gives you a more accurate assessment of how the world really works. Okay? So now let me ask you this question. If the first worldview, and this is what we call polytheism, and polytheism for most of human history was the dominant religion, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 40:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-distress) Text: Now we live in a world where the religion is science. Science is basically religion. So why do we make the transition? What's the benefit? If you're a powerful person, why would you prefer the second one as opposed to the first one? Why? What's the benefits to powerful people? What does power want to believe the second one but not the first one? Yeah, okay. So the idea of individual responsibility. Okay? So then there's more control. Okay? It's easier to control people in the system. All right? That's the first benefit. What's the second benefit? The second benefit is you will work harder, right? Because in the first system, you're like, you know what? I don't need to go make a lot of money because if I make a lot of money, the gods will punish me and make me proud. So I'm just going to like enjoy life and take it easy. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 42:16 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: All right? So in the second system, no, no, I have control over my own life. So I need to work hard. Okay? So again, the entire point of the system is to make you work as hard as possible because when you work hard, that generates real wealth for the powerful people. Money does nothing. Okay? Money just incentivizes you to work hard. So this exists in order to make you work harder. There's one more benefit or there's more benefits, but what's another benefit? Okay. The other benefit is this. Powerlessness. It makes you powerless. Why? This system is designed to make you absolutely powerless. Why? Why? No, no, no, no. No, no, no. See? See? Again. Again. This is how you're brainwashed. You believe one makes you powerless, but that's not correct. Two makes you powerless. Why? What's the difference between one and two? Why is it in number two, you are powerless? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 43:29 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: ## Power Is Alchemy -- 43:36 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 43:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-distress) Text: So the problem with number two is you are incapable of collective action because you think all sorts of your problems will change the individual in you and not society. But number one, you are capable of collective action. And the only way to change the world is through collective action. Does that make sense? This is a really important point. Two is designed to make you think the source of all your problems is within you. So you should ignore what other people do and think. It doesn't matter to you. And therefore, you're incapable of identifying with other people. You're not capable of collective action. If you're not capable of collective action and you feel really miserable, what you will do is play video games or watch porn all day. Okay? And that's what's happening in society today. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 44:38 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: But in number two, like from experience, you should take others' perspective and not just... ## Power Is Alchemy -- 44:55 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2695s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-distress) Text: So in number two, who has authority? Who do you listen to? You listen to scientists, right? Scientists. Because this system was created by scientists to trick you. Okay? This system you think, oh, it's science. Therefore, it must be real. Guys, let me give you a piece of advice, okay? If you're ever feeling sad and you are depressed, what should you do? What should you do? What have you been taught to do? You feel sad, you're depressed, what should you do? Hmm? Okay, yeah. The correct answer is to walk around. But that's not what you've been taught, right? What have you been taught to do? Okay, telling your friend, to your parent, that's actually really good, right? So walking around, exercising, resting, talking to a friend about your problem, that's all really good. But what have you been taught to do in school? Really? If you are feeling really, really sad, what should you do? You should go talk to a psychiatrist, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 46:03 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: You should talk to a psychologist. And what will he do? What will he or she do? Okay, well, I'm going to give you a piece of advice, okay? And you can test it out for yourself. But if you're feeling sad and you are feeling depressed and you feel you have to talk to a psychiatrist and you do so, I will make you bet that the psychiatrist will make it a lot worse. You will feel worse after talking to a psychiatrist. Okay? And the reason why is the system is not designed to cure you of any problems. The system is to make you dependent on authority. You know that if you feel sad, well, you know what? Just go for a walk, talk to a friend, you'll feel better over time. But the system teaches you, no, if you feel sad, go talk to a psychiatrist who will give you drugs. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 46:57 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: It's designed to make you dependent on authority. Yeah? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 47:02 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: I want to ask, like, in scenario one, rule number one, would God also be an authority? God will also be an authority. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 47:12 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: That's actually a great question, okay? God is authority. Okay. That's actually a great question. Thank you so much. So I have to spend time to explain to you both systems, and I will do so. But what's really important about number one is the gods are really bad people. Okay? The gods in number one, the polytheistic system, they fight all the time. They're vengeful. They're angry. They're proud. But because they're gods, they can get away with it. And that's the difference between humans and gods. We're all the same. We're all angry. We're all jealous. We all fight, okay? But the gods can get away with it. Humans cannot. Gods can do hubris. We cannot do hubris. Do you understand? So the idea that, oh, the people in power are benevolent. The people in power are authority figures who are after our best interests. That is a new modern concept. Before, it was assumed that the king is a king. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 48:27 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Why? Because he's favored by the gods. It's not because he's a good person. It's not because he's a just ruler. It's just because the gods like him for whatever reason. But guess what? The gods give, and the gods take. Maybe today, the king will rule us, but maybe five years from now, he gets unlucky, and the gods kill him. Too bad. If you read Greek mythology, and we'll do so in this class, okay? We'll go over into Greek civilization. We'll look at Oedipus. We'll look at Homer, the Iliad, okay? They talk about this all the time. Fate is something that you cannot control. It's something that happens to you. And therefore, you must live life to your best. All right? So, the difference is this. The difference is, in number one, they have a concept called eudaimonia. If you have no control over your life, over your fate, if things can happen ## Power Is Alchemy -- 49:27 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=2967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: to you tomorrow that kill you, then live your life to the best of your ability today. Seize the day. Be the best that you can be today. And that's how you win favor from the gods. Eudaimonia, what we call flourishing. The point of life is to live it to the best of your ability. And that's why, guess what, guys? The ancients, the Greeks, they were superior to us. If you read Greek literature, if you read Greek philosophy, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus, Euboides, they were the best. Today, we suck. Why? Because instead of eudaimonia, we have pleasure. Rather than flourish as creative people, we're like, how do I enjoy my life today? How do I not feel sad? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 50:24 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 50:25 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: So, in the first system, even though it sounds like we have no control, we have no agency, but it inspires us to live to the best of our ability. In the second system, we're like, oh, you have complete control over your life. It enslaves us. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 50:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 50:43 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: All right. Now, let's move on to the third and final example. And I know this is shocking. I know this is surprising. But over the course of the semester, I will give you enough evidence to convince you that this is all true. Okay? I'm just setting up the structure and the framework today. All right. Let's do now the school. Guys! Why do we have school? Why are we in school? Why? Why are you here? What? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:17 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Something is learned and teach. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Exactly, right? Learn. What else? Hmm? Yeah, to get the degree. Okay? To get the degree. Okay, to graduate. What else? Knowledge. Yes. Hmm? Give you power. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:46 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Hmm? Brainwash the students. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:49 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Excuse me? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:51 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: I mean like, give you power, a chance to brainwash them. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 51:55 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3115s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3115s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Brainwashing. Okay, guess what, guys. The correct answer is brainwashing. Everything else is a lie. Okay. All right. What are you doing in school? You come to class. You listen to a lecture. You read books, right? And then you have to do a test. And you have to write a paper. And then the teacher gives you a grade. That's how you learn, right? Let me ask you this question then. Throughout most of human history, how did we learn? If you want to become a doctor, what did you do? The answer is experience, do it, right? Let me ask you this question. Let's say you're 12 years old, you want to be a doctor, okay? There are two paths ahead of you. The first path is, you know what, I'm going to put you in a hospital, and you're going to learn there for like 10 years. Someone's going to mentor you. You're going to be that person's apprentice. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 52:58 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Maybe in the first year, all you do is like wash the floor, okay? But you're going to observe the doctor, and then eventually the doctor's going in to tell you how to treat patients, okay? That's the first system. Second system is you go to the best school in the world. Then you go to Harvard for undergraduate. Then you go to Harvard Medical School, the best medical school in the world, okay? At age 30, who's the better doctor, number one or number two? All of them. It's obviously the first one, right? Because the second person, the person who went to Harvard and Harvard Medical School, did not ever work in a hospital. You understand? Now, let me ask you another question. In the first system, do you have to be really, really smart to be a good doctor? No. You don't, actually. Anyone can be a doctor in the first system. Anyone. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 54:00 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: We human beings are all born with the capacity to learn anything if you wanted to learn it, right? If you want to be an engineer, if you want to be a lawyer, if you want to be a doctor, if you want to be a scientist, you can be anything, okay? Just go find a mentor who can teach you how to do so. And I guarantee you that you will learn how to do it well. And anyone can do this. But instead, we have a system in which we tell students, you're smart, you're stupid. Smart students go to good schools and good universities and they get good jobs. Stupid students go wash dishes. Okay? And that was not true for most of human history. It's true today, but for most of human history, if you want to go learn something, all you had to do was go find a teacher. And that teacher would teach you. And then you would learn it. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 55:02 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Right? So school is not a place to teach you how to learn. A school doesn't teach you knowledge. It doesn't do that. A school is a place that brainwashes you. Okay? Now the question then is, what does it brainwash you in? What would it brainwash you? Okay, all right. To answer that, I'm going to give you some history, okay? We will do a lot of history in this class. But I'm going to tell you the three societies that first introduced mandatory, free public schooling in the world. Okay? The first is called Sparta. Okay? Sparta was a small city -state in Greece, like three, four thousand years ago, three thousand years ago. And they had a new system in which children as early as five or six years old, they were put into a school. And in the school, they were beaten up by older kids who were like nine or ten. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 56:15 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? That's Sparta. The second society was called the Aztecs. Aztecs. And they also provided free compulsory education to all its children. Really good, right? And the third society is called Prussia. And actually Prussia is a system that everyone uses today. Do you guys know any history? Okay? What is common about all three societies? Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia. Hmm? What is common to all three? Okay. War. All three societies are fundamentally war societies dedicated to defeating their neighbors. Sparta was one of thousands of city -states in Greece. The only society of these thousands that had compulsory education. Why? Because Sparta was first and foremost engaged in war making. Sparta, you've heard of Spartans, right? It's the Spartan warrior. Okay? The Aztecs were the greatest war society in Central America before they rivaled the Europeans. They defeated everyone. They were engaged in war. They also did a lot of human sacrifice as well. Okay, we learn about the Aztecs later on. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 57:51 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Prussia. The Prussians, the greatest military in Europe for centuries. They were engaged in war making as well. Okay, do you understand this? Why we have schools is because schools are really good at preparing people for war. Why? Excuse me? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 58:19 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: They don't have people under their hands. They can't teach something. How can you do with someone? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 58:26 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-separates-for-authority); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Um, what is, what is, why, why, let me ask you this question. Why did they not, they did not have schools before? Why is it that people were like, we don't want schools. Why? Again, the Sparta, Aztecs, and Prussia were the few societies that had free public schooling. Why didn't other societies just copy them? Why? Okay, let me ask you this question. Let's just say you're a mother or a father. What's the, and you have a child, right? What's the worst thing that could happen in your life? Hmm? No, no. You're a mother or you're a father. You have a child, right? What's the worst thing that can happen to you in your life? Your child is taken away from you, right? What does school do? School is designed to take your child away from you. Okay? Let me ask you this question. If school is about learning, why don't parents and children go to school together? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 59:41 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Yeah, why not? Why? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 59:43 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Because parents have to work to survive, right? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 59:50 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0081](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0081) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0081` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-separates-for-authority); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: There's actually a better reason why. Okay, it's about brainwashing, right? Because how do you brainwash someone? Right? If you're with your parent, are you going to be brainwashed? No. No, because you feel loved. You feel secure. Your parents are going to protect you. You're going to ask your parent, hey, is this teacher, is he or she lying to me? And the parent's like, yeah, he's lying to you, okay? It's only because you've been taken away from your parent that you are now willing to be brainwashed. Why? Because what happens if you leave your parents? How do you feel? How do you feel? Hmm? Yeah, exactly, right? Insecure. You're anxious. You're afraid. Do you understand? You've lost your parent. You're four. You're five. You're six years old. You've lost your parent. You feel really insecure. So, who do you trust? Your teacher. What your teacher says is now correct. Yeah, okay, that's a great point, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:07 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0082](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0082) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0082` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Aren't our parents brainwashed as well? Um, that's correct. Your parents are brainwashed. But what I'm saying is, when a parent is with a child, the child feels secure. And if you're secure, you're much more willing to disobey authority. You're much willing to ask questions. You're much willing to think for yourself because you feel secure because your parent is there to protect you. But if you take the parent away, you can't do that. You must now rely on the teacher who can now brainwash you, okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:39 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0083](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0083) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0083` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: So, are you brainwashing now? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:42 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0084](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0084) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0084` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Am I brainwashing you? Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:45 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0085](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0085) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0085` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:01:46 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0086](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0086) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3706s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0086` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: All right. Okay. So, the question is, am I brainwashing you? Okay, that's a good question. And it's a fair question. And again, that's why I tell you this, okay? You have the capacity to ask me questions. You have the capacity to challenge me. You have the capacity to think for yourself. Okay? So, all I'm saying is, hear me out, ask me questions, and then think for yourself whether or not I make sense. Because the difference between my class and other classes is like, I don't test you, right? I don't give you grades. It's a pass -fail class. You can actually choose to say, you know what? This is nonsense. I don't want to listen anymore. I can't stop you. Okay? But in school, guess what happens if you don't come to school? Your parents get arrested. All right? Do you understand? That's the difference. It's your choice whether or not to pay attention or not. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:02:44 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0087](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0087) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0087` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-installs-national-memory); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#school-separates-for-authority) Text: All right. So, another question is, okay, if schools are designed to brainwash you, what are they brainwashing you in? Well, they're designed to brainwash you to believe a concept called the nation state. The nation state. The schools are designed to brainwash you to think the nation state exists. It is a person. Mother China. You must love this person. You must be willing to sacrifice yourself for this person. You must be willing to dedicate yourself to this person because it is Mother China. And how do we brainwash you? We teach you language, right? We teach you history. We teach you geography. We teach you all this to make you believe that the nation state, Mother China, the United States, France, they all exist. But guess what? Throughout most of human history, it was absurd to think the nation state existed. Okay? Before, you didn't say, I'm Chinese. Before you say, I'm a Beijing -er. Or I'm from Hai Dian. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:03:59 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0088](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0088) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3839s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0088` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#power-alchemy-atlas); [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-installs-national-memory); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Or I'm from Chaoyang, right? Because that makes more sense. You're from a place where you know the people. But now, because of the nation state, you are forced to believe that you are the same person as someone from Yunnan, Tibet, Guangxi. Even though, guess what, guys? You have absolutely nothing in common. Okay? But you're all Chinese. And that's what school is designed to do. School is designed to implant in you a false memory of a nation state. Okay? That's what history is. History is the false memory of a nation state. And it happens. And that's why you're all forced to go to school. Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:04:48 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0089](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0089) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0089` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Maybe, like, they also want you to think about degrees and work as a mom. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:05:00 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0090](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0090) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0090` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-installs-national-memory); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Yeah. So, yeah. The point of school is to serve the nation state. Do you understand? Right? Does that make sense? If you believe in the nation state, if you believe in Mother China, then you must serve her. You must obey her. You must fight for her. You must die for her. Okay? So, the idea of the nation state was created in order to make you obedient to authority. And it works very effectively. Yeah? All countries. All countries are nation states. Okay? So, I mean, like, I'm not saying China is different from other places. China is exactly the same as other places. Okay? What you will learn in this class is how do we get to this place? Because, again, the three things that we learn, okay, money, the individual, the nation state, these are all ideas and concepts beyond the human experience. If you try to work this out from first principles, you're trying to figure this out by yourself, you couldn't do it. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:06:10 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0091](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0091) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=3970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0091` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: You have to be brainwashed into believing these three things. If someone from the past, maybe a thousand years ago, were to come today, and you would explain the concept of money, individual, and nation state, the person would be like, wait a minute here. This means that you're all slaves. Okay? So, now the question then is, where do we get these three concepts from? What you will learn in this class is these three concepts come from a revolution. In human thought, called monotheism. The one true God. This idea, monotheism, forever changed the course of human history. They gave us these concepts of money, individual, and nation state. Monotheism is such a powerful idea that it turned nothing into everything. Okay? That's what you will learn in this class. We will learn about monotheism, and we will discover how it created money, individual, and the nation state, and it basically created the world that we live in today. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:07:40 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0092](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0092) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0092` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? All right. Any questions? Excuse me? Okay, yeah, so there are three great monotheistic religions, right? Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What I will show you later on is, it's basically the same religion. Yep. All right. Okay, so, I don't want to give you too much information, okay? Because it's a lot to process. But I want you guys to remember the concepts. Money, individual, and nation state are all powerful concepts that are embedded into everyday life. You cannot escape it. Okay? You've been brainwashed and thinking that they all exist, when in fact, they actually don't exist. And that's how power works. What power is, okay, what power truly is, is what we call alchemy. Alchemy for alchemy without human history was the pursuit of turning lead into gold. Okay? Lead into gold. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:09:02 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0093](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0093) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0093` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) Text: Okay? ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:09:03 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0094](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0094) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4143s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4143s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0094` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#power-alchemy-atlas); [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-turns-nothing-into-everything) Text: Nothing into everything. That's what alchemy was. And maybe in science class you're taught that alchemy is just fake science. It's a pseudoscience. And it did not work. What you will learn in this class is we achieve alchemy. Okay? We turn nothing into everything. We turn lead into gold. Or, that's what power is. Power is a capacity to turn nothing into everything. Power is a capacity to make you believe that money is valuable. That the individual can lead to happiness. That the nation state exists. That's what power is. Okay? And as a result, today we live extremely miserable lives. Okay? So, so you've been taught to think that, oh, life just gets better and better. What you will learn in this class is actually nope. Okay? And what's really important is you will also learn in this class that this was an accident. Okay? This was just an accident. It's an accident of the human imagination. ## Power Is Alchemy -- 1:10:24 - Source title: Secret History #1: How Power Works - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0095](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo/transcript/#seg-0095) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajFXykT9Joo&t=4224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo@transcript:v1#seg-0095` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ajfxykt9joo.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: It's because we didn't know what we were doing that we created this system. So what you will also learn is that you're able to control the human imagination. You can use it to create a new system that allows for eudaimonia or the flourishing of the human intellect. Okay? All right. Any questions? Okay. So, that's it for today. Okay? I'll see you guys next class. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: Good morning YouTube so I know that you flock this channel because I am such a Sunny and optimistic person. I bring cheer in a world of gloom You may face some difficulties in your life, but you know that when you watch my videos I'm gonna tell you how great the world is unfortunately today It's all going to be doom and gloom. I'm going to talk about how the Western world Is going to collapse and there's nothing anyone can do about it. So let me start with a concrete example. I live in Canada and these past few years I've just seen Canadian society Get worse and worse. A lot of the issue Is this relentless immigration these past few years Millions of people have come into this country seeking a better life Unfortunately, they can't create in only a few cities where there are economic opportunities and as a result housing prices have gone up inflation ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 1:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=76s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=76s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: has gone up cost of living has gone up but wages have been stagnant or depressed because of the surge in cheap labor and In Toronto, if you're not making at least $100,000 a Year, it's very hard to get by and quite frankly. Most are not making that kind of money and Most are struggling so crime has gone up homelessness has gone up drug addiction has gone up It's a very dire situation in Canada now, it's easy to blame the immigrants and I don't think the reason Are the immigrants I myself am an immigrant so Maybe I'm biased, but I will say that We came over in about 1983 and My dad was a high school teacher in a village in Canada, sorry, we were my dad was a high school teacher in our village back in China and We were really thankful for our opportunity To come to Canada and we felt really blessed ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 2:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: because life back in China was just terrible it's really hard for anyone today to imagine the poverty in China back then during the Cold Revolution But let me give you a concrete example 15 years ago. My dad came to visit me in Beijing when I was working as a high school administrator and he bought entire duffel bag a huge duffel bag of toilet rolls 24 toilet rolls and the reason why is Toilet paper was considered the ultimate luxury back in our village During the Cold Revolution and so maybe he wanted to give these toilet rolls to all the all his relatives and sort of one that He's made it in Canada in Canada well, the problem was that he had a very hard life in Canada as most recent immigrants do he was a dishwasher for his entire life and As a dishwasher working in restaurants and bars. He encountered a lot of racism and ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 3:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: humiliation so let me give you a example One day my dad and I went to a supermarket To buy some butter. We couldn't find the butter because the supermarket which is huge. So my dad he saw a clerk in the supermarket, but he couldn't find any butter wearing his uniform, his white uniform, and my dad asked him, sorry, sir, do you know where the butter is? I mean, his English isn't that great, though, but it was pretty easy to understand what my dad wanted. The store clerk looks at him briefly and says, sorry, I don't work here. So that's the sort of humiliation that my dad faced every day as a new immigrant in Canada who didn't have any status and whose English wasn't very good. We were very poor in Canada. We could easily qualify for welfare, but we didn't apply for welfare because we didn't know welfare existed. I remember late at night, ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 4:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: my dad would sneak out across the street and pick up some sofas or chairs that the neighbors had discarded. And they would become our furniture. My dad cut my hair, so believe it or not, but when I was younger, my hair was actually worse than it is today. And so the kids made fun of me. I had bad hair, uneven hair. My mom bought me clothes from bargain outlets. So they were crappy clothes. They weren't Nike or Adidas that the other kids were wearing. And I smelled bad. So understandably, the other kids teased me. I was very unpopular. So I focused on school. I focused on getting out of poverty. And through hard work, I went to Yale University on a full scholarship. And that opened new doors, new vestas for me. And so I really achieved the Canadian dream. And if you're going for Canada, if you're going for Yale, I wouldn't be able to make YouTube videos. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 6:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: So I'm very thankful for Canada and for Yale. So again, we're really thankful for the opportunity to come. But the reality is there's just too many immigrants coming into this country. And what's really happening is, even though you may have some short -term economic GDP burst, even though you may have some short -term economic GDP burst, even though you may have some short -term economic GDP burst, ultimately, you're degrading the social capital, trust, and cohesion of Canada. Ultimately, the Canadian identity has always been fragile. And all this massive influx of immigrants is making the identity much more fragile, which is in the long -term going to affect Canada's capacity to work together, to innovate, to be resilient, to be cohesive as a society. Right now, a quarter, 25 % of Canadians are foreign -born, first -generation immigrants like myself. So if there were ever a referendum and Canadians could choose whether ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 7:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: or not to join the United States voluntarily, most of these immigrants would immediately say, let's join the United States, because there are more immigrants. because there are more immigrants. So in the long -term, I don't see Canada staying together. I think Canada will ultimately be dismembered by the United States and be absorbed into the American empire in the next 20, 30 years. I don't think Canada right now can be a sustainable nation. Now, it's really easy to blame immigrants for all of this. And most Canadians do, in fact, blame immigrants, And most Canadians do, in fact, blame immigrants, because that's what they encounter every day. They encounter immigrants not being able to speak English, not following the rules, cutting in line. They watch the news and see immigrants committing crimes. They see immigrants, rich immigrants, buying up these expensive property and making life miserable for everyone. So it's really easy to blame the immigrants. But ultimately, we need to understand why this immigration is happening. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 8:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: And it's happening because of, you know, because of the baby boomers. The baby boomers want three things. They want their pensions to be paid. They want quality, free healthcare. And they want the property prices to go up. Basically, they want the Canadian economy to keep on growing and growing and growing, regardless of the consequences. Now, in order for this to happen, for the Canadian economy to grow, there are three main mechanisms to accomplish this. The first mechanism is to exploit resources, because Canada really is the wealthiest country in the world. It has abundant, almost infinite resources, especially fresh water, which is what the world is going to need in the next hundred years. So Canada's an extremely wealthy place, and it can choose to exploit and export a lot of these resources. That's the first solution. The second solution, which is much more sustainable, is ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 9:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-guardrail-against-master-plan) Text: to unleash the entrepreneurial energy of the Canadian people, to encourage more entrepreneurship, more privatization, to reduce the regulatory state, to reduce the red tape. Okay, that's the second solution. And the third solution is immigration. Let's let in more immigrants. Let's let in the rich immigrants. Let's let in the poor immigrants to pour cash into the economy. Let's let in poor immigrants so that they work as slave labor for Canadian corporations. So of these three solutions, the Canadian government went with the third solution, increased immigration. Now, a lot of people out there believe that this is a conspiracy, that there's this global international conspiracy out there to dilute national identity, to destroy the idea of the nation state, to reduce the white gene pool. This is all a World Economic Forum white replacement theory, conspiracy spearheaded by the Jews. And quite honestly, if the people in charge were this smart, were this well organized, the world wouldn't be in the mess that it is today. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 11:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt) Text: You'd be surprised by how idiotic, by how incompetent the people in charge are. So let me explain to you why immigration is increasing, not just in Canada, but also throughout the Western world. Okay, so to understand this, we need to understand the framework of the Canadian nation. What is Canada exists and what does Canada do? Well, Canada has some certain unique characteristics. First of all, it's a vast nation with almost infinite wealth, surrounded by two oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic. And so Canada does not have like natural predators as they would in Europe. Canadians grew up in a time of relative peace, safety, and security. The problem though, is that Canada shares a border with the world's... most powerful empire, with history's greatest empire, America. And so in order to prevent conflict between Canada and the United States, the last major conflict between Canada and the United States was the War of 1812. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 12:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: To prevent the conflict, there's almost an implicit agreement between the people of Canada and the people of America. Canadians, first and foremost, are not ambitious. If Canadians were ambitious, then Canada would be at war with America, and America would have absorbed Canada into the American empire a long time ago. So Canadians, the first, the core characteristic of the Canadian identity is lack of ambition, in order to maintain peace and stability with America. And if you're not ambitious, then you're not gonna industrialize, which means that you're going to maintain and safeguard, the environment. You'll use some of the environment, but you'll make sure it's self -sustaining. So in other words, Canada's almost like a resource bank for the American empire. The American empire, when it needs, can always draw on the infinite resources of Canada. And so, because of its lack of ambition, there are two main drivers of the Canadian economy. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 13:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: The first, as I said, is resource exploitation, but sustainable, limited resources. But the main driver of the Canadian economy is immigration. Canada allows rich, corrupt families to come to Canada to hide their wealth. Canada also welcomes cheap labor, poor immigrants like my father to come to Canada to do all the work, so that Canadians can enjoy their life on drinking beer, drinking Molson's, a terrible beer, by the way, by the cottage. And because of this economic framework, three major religions have developed in Canada to sustain this economic framework. The first religion is environmentalism. Canians love the environment. They believe it is their duty, their inherent duty to protect and love trees. That's the first religion. Second religion is multiculturalism. They believe that diversity is good. Multiculturalism, they believe that diversity is good. mainly because white people love ethnic food. When white people think multiculturalism, they think ethnic restaurants, Mexican food, Chinatown. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 14:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: And so they love multiculturalism. But if immigrants become politically ambitious, like the Indians, no, you can't have that. So that's why Indians are so derided in Canada, because the Indians are actually politically active and effective. But hey, if they didn't stick to making samosas every day, Canadians would love them. So in a multicultural society, what's really important is to be an open society and not have a distinct cultural identity. And this has created a lot of problems in Canada. It'll create further problems in Canada. And the... The third major religion is bureaucratism, right? Because if you don't have your own ethnic identity, if you don't have a core ambition, then you need a regulatory state, a bureaucracy, in order to maintain everything together. You need people to tell you what to do. And Canadians worship authority. Canadians are extremely obedient. Canadians believe experts know everything, okay? So because of these three religions, there are three distinct characteristics about the Canadian individual, okay? ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 16:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: What are Canadians really good at? Well the first thing is Canadians are really good at following the rules. From birth, Canadians believe that they must obey the rules. The worst thing that can happen is if they break a rule. Second thing that the Canadians really are aware of, really good at is being polite to other people because in a multicultural society you don't want to offend everyone. But I will say that I have noticed in my most recent trip back to Canada, Canadians are no longer so polite. They're much more passive -aggressive than before because of the dire economic situation that Canada is in right now. The third thing that Canadians are really good at, in fact probably the best in the world at, is being mediocre. Okay Canadians obviously have no ambition, in fact they hate ambition. I remember in high school because I was poor and I wanted to go to Yale, I was extremely focused on grades. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 17:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: And so my teachers the word they used for me is ambitious. I'm an ambitious individual and that's essentially a curse word in Canada. But I will say this, Canada, I mean if you can just just cut that out, if you can just cut that out, and if you can just cut that out, conceptualize heaven on earth. It would be Canada, right? Extreme wealth, extremely generous government benefits. No one will go poor. No one will starve in Canada. No wars, just complete peace. It's almost heaven on earth. And here is an opportunity for people to achieve eudaimonia, right? Eudaimonia is the Greek term for flourishing. Here is an opportunity for Canadians to contribute intellectually to the development of humanity because they have the resources, they have the time, they have the security. No one else does. And so you would expect this tremendous outpouring of human creativity in Canada these past 50 years. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 18:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1117s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In the future, Canada will be a great place to be. In reality, Canadians have for the past 50 years chosen to shut off their brains. Canada is an extremely complacent nation. It's almost like everyone's on Prozac or something. This is Prozac nation. So Canadians are extremely mediocre. I think that after Canada becomes dismembered and joins the American empire, maybe a generation afterwards, everyone's going to forget Canada ever existed because Canada has made absolutely no contribution to the world. Canada doesn't really matter in the world. And Canadians are very happy to not matter in the world. So now we can understand if your three religions are environmentalism, multiculturalism, and bureaucratism, well, then there's only one solution. You can't exploit resources because of your religion of environmentalism. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 19:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: You can't encourage entrepreneurship because of your religion of bureaucratism. You don't want to reduce the regulatory state. You don't want to promote individual initiative. So the only solution available to you is mass immigration. And again, a lot of it is just driven by the baby boomers. So the only solution available to you is mass immigration. And again, a lot of it is just driven by the baby boomers. So now let me explain to you why baby boomers suck. And they suck for three main reasons. The first is that they're the most selfish generation in human history. Second is that they're going to be the longest living generation in human history. And the third is that they want to maintain the empire. So let me go through each one by one. Baby boomers are selfish. Everyone knows this. They had the most luxurious life. But the problem is that if you always lived a life ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 20:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: of comfort and security and prosperity, you become a selfish individual because you think you deserve all this. The other thing is that the baby boomers have a religion, and it's an ethos of achievement and accumulation. The more the better. The bigger the better. The more money I have, the better. the longer i live the better i need to accumulate and accumulate and achieve and achieve in order to signify my value my my worth and their greed their selfishness is destroying the environment it's destroying the economy and ultimately it's going to kill their children okay so that's the first thing uh baby boomers are extremely selfish and that by itself is not really a problem the problem is they're not dying um um and i can understand why okay because because i because at home i i'm living with my dad and my dad is in his early 80s and as i said previously he's had ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 21:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: this terrible life uh 10 years ago he got diagnosed with parkinson's five years ago he had a bad fall while using the um bathroom and now he's paralyzed um and we really thought five years ago that was it um he had a few months to live but he's still going and so he has parkinson's he's basically paralyzed and he's living his best life all his life he's worked slave wages minimum wage and now he's collecting a very generous pension from the canadian government it's free money for him he has access to the best health care honestly if had to pay for the health care we couldn't afford it and he would have died five years ago but not because it's all being paid by the canadian government um he spent six months at a really nice hospital with his own room every day a physical therapist comes to the house and helps him regain some ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 22:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: um some muscle control um and does some cleaning for him and really um it's his best life and his in his house he has his own house and because of all this immigration the property value go up he's seen himself getting wealthier and wealthier if you're a baby boomer who's been taught that what matters is achievement and accumulation why would you give up now right as your life gets get better and better why would you give it up now so even though you know he's bedridden all the time i see him clinging to life um and i can understand why because he's been through so much crap and now he can really begin to enjoy himself this is really his life he's been through so much crap and now he's living on earth for him so he doesn't want he doesn't want to die okay but it's not just him it's the entire generation of ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 23:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: baby boomers millions and millions of them and in canada they're they're a quarter of the population so they control all the political power they control all the wealth and therefore they can dictate government policy i have a friend in new york city a very famous um person extremely wealthy like tens of millions of dollars and she's 90. and she has alzheimer's and she can't walk most of the time she's sleeping she's semi comatose basically and i i thought you know any day now she could die but i've been thinking that for the past 10 years and one day i asked my cousin who's a doctor listen if you're 90 years old and you're senile you have alzheimer's you can't get out of bed but you have unlimited wealth how long can keep you going like how long can you survive he has and she has like four full -time caregivers to make sure that you ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 24:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: know she's taken care of and my cousin the doctor said to me she can go on for another 20 years at least another 20 years at least so these baby boomers aren't dying okay so the baby boomers have captured all the wealth of society um and they refuse to share any of it because of their achievement ethos and they're so um but but then there's actually a much bigger problem which is that baby boomers are wedded to the idea of empire last year i was in brooklyn uh visiting some friends i got invited to a uh party and they and this party was full of china experts so apparently every china expert in in the world is from brooklyn so um after covid when they were forced out of china they had they all returned to brooklyn and so i met all of them at this party and i was talking to one lady very ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 25:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1547s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1547s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-empire-sacrifices-young) Text: very very wealthy comes very powerful family and i uh and she was a baby boomer and i and i talked i discussed with her we're talking individually one -on -one i was i i said to privately my fears about the american political system i said my fear is that given the trajectory of american foreign policy which which which is like extremely non -existent i said there's a danger that america could be fighting wars on three major fronts america could be fighting simultaneously russia iran and china and then she looked at me and said that's fine we're america we're in with the indispensable nation we can do this we can take on all three and defeat all three does not matter okay that's the arrogance of empire all right so let me give you an image of what empire is and for this image i'm going to draw on the play the back high from euboides ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 26:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: if you have not read euboides you must read euboides one of the greatest playwrights in human history so he wrote uh the play the back high about the year um 400 bce this is this is like um after the peloponnesian war when athens the athenian empire which had become basically a mafia state basically decided to go to war against the entire world and thousands and thousands of the young people died in these wars of empire and so euboides wrote the back high almost as a critique of empire and so the ending of the back high goes like this um there's a religious festival in the mountains and these women are all drugged out okay they're hallucinating and as part of the religious festival they sacrifice a man who's the king of thebes uh pentheus and so what they do is they capture him they rip him apart okay they physically rip him apart they whip ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 27:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-empire-sacrifices-young) Text: up the limbs they rip up the legs they dismember him and the person who rips um off his head is actually his mother agave and after she does this she becomes ecstatic and she ticks the head and she runs back to the city of thebes and she proclaims to the citizens look at what i've done and she's holding the head of her son pentheus in her right hand and she's saying to everyone this is a lion's head you see how brave you see how powerful you see how virtuous i am for fighting a lion and ripping his head off and then everyone looks at her aghast they don't believe that this is that she she can't see the truth. And so finally, her father, Katniss, has to tell her, Agave, that's not a lion's head. That's the head of your son. So that's what an empire is, okay? If you want to know what an ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 29:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-empire-sacrifices-young) Text: empire is, remember the image of a mother holding the head of her son and proclaiming to the world, look how brave, powerful, and virtuous I am. An empire is a system where the old sacrifice the young for their glory, okay? That's what an empire is. And that's what the baby boomers want. They grew up in a time of the Pax Americana. They don't want to see it die in their lifetimes. They'd rather burn down the entire empire. They'd rather sacrifice their own children and their grandchildren than to lose the idea of empire while they're alive, okay? So that's why the baby boomers have basically told the American government to launch these wars around the world to save the Pax Americana because that's the system they grew up in. That's the system they want to die in, the Pax Americana, the Anglo -American empire. They want to save the Pax Americana. They want to save the Pax Americana. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 30:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: They want to save the Pax Americana. They want to feel virtuous, powerful, and strong, okay? And they don't care if they have to burn down the world in order to do so. And so the question then is, what can we do? Well, you think about it, there's nothing we can do because, as I said, the baby boomers are the most dominant political group in the Western world. They control the political system. They control the financial system. They control the cultural system. And they're all parents. They're the people we love and honor and cherish. I'm not going to say to my father, hey, dad, you're paralyzed. Your life doesn't have any meaning anymore. And maybe it's time for you to rest in peace and so that the rest of the world, the young, can have their place. So one metaphor that I think best describes the world we live in is rat utopia. Rat utopia are a series of experiments conducted by James B. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 31:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: Cahoon in the 60s and 70s. And this was a time of growing abundance in the world. And this is the first time in human history when we escaped scarcity, the problem of scarcity. So he wanted to look at what would happen. If we looked, if we lived in a world of abundance. So he created these experiments, these colonies, where rats were allowed to live in a world of abundance. There were no predators. There was unlimited water and food. And what happened each time he did this experiment, no matter how he tweaked the experiment, the result was the same. What happened was the social hierarchy.. At that moment, the mauve tropical்?uh the miejsc of the North Pole, uh, belongs to us, uh, that govern the rat colony. Um, collapse and Cahoon causes the behavior sync. And very quickly the rat to start to LAs to ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 32:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=1955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: each other, they starting to engage and CaaanURN embarrassed à to engage in all sorts of. of uh brutal activities. Um, and às result everyone died out. Okay, so no matter how James B. Cahoon constructed vez this experiment, uh, ultimately it led to a very what would make you laugh. Oh, the seguirce schstto thaaaaat io проб Christians becii becae l filled with Hephaenopathy. led to the collapse of the rat colony and the extermination of all the rats. And he struggled with this all his life, and he could never really find the answer as to why this was happening. And the only thing that he could hypothesize is maybe water can be infinite, maybe security, food, luxury, maybe all of it can be provided infinitely. But one thing that is not infinite, one thing that is a zero -sum game is the idea of status. And we are ingrained, sorry, the desire for status is inherent to us. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 33:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt) Text: We strive for status. So normally in the state of nature, rats will fight each other for status. And the rats who lose, they'll run off somewhere else and they'll build their own colony or they'll get killed by natural predators. But in an enclosed environment where the rats can't run off somewhere else, then they're forced to constantly fight each other over and over again for status. Peter Turchin, the social scientist, has a concept for this. It's called elite overproduction. So that is collapse over time because too much elite is being produced and ultimately they will fight each other for the limited positions of power and status. And so we're living in rat utopia. And quite honestly, this is why young people now refuse to have children. It's not just because the economic opportunities for young people are very limited, are very pessimistic, and they are. The real reason is the baby boomers refuse to give up their status. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 34:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: Think about the politicians in Washington, DC. I mean, like many of them, their brains aren't even functioning and they're still there. And so we live in a time of rat utopia. But again, these people are the ones who gave us birth, the ones who nurtured us, the ones who we must honor and cherish. So we can never ever blame the baby boomers for what's going on. We blame the immigrants, or we blame the Jews, or we blame the deep state, or we blame Trump, or we blame Justin Trudeau, but we never blame the real culprits who are the baby boomers, okay? So the question then is, what can we do? And so I think the only thing we can do is tell the truth. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our children to let them know the truth. It was not the immigrants who destroyed the West. It was not Putin or Trump or Trudeau who destroyed the West. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 35:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: It was not the Jews. It was us because we became selfish, lazy, and corrupt. That's the real reason why the West is dying, and the real reason why no one can do anything about it, okay, because we refuse to admit the truth to ourselves. But the least we can do is tell the truth to our children, and that's why I do what I do. Okay, so again, apologies for today. I'm sorry it's such doom and gloom. Next week, we go back to the regular programming of just cheer. Okay, no, I'm not going to ever be optimistic about the world because there's no reason to be optimistic about the world. Okay, so next week, I'm gonna preview the next academic year of classes I'll be teaching. I'll be teaching three new classes, The Secret History of the World. So I'll be going into the nexus of finance, intelligence, and religion. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 36:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2214s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: It's gonna be a really interesting class. I'm really looking forward to teaching it. I'm really looking forward to sharing with you. I'll also be teaching the great books, and I'll also be sharing, I'll also be teaching Game Theory, okay? So in my next video, next week, I'll be sharing with you, previewing these three classes. If you like what I do, please support my work by supporting me on Buy Me a Coffee. The link is below. If you want to be part of, if you want to be part of, the community, the Breakthrough History community, please join my Discord server. This week, I've started a sub stack. And if you want to join my sub stack, the link is below as well. So in my sub stack, I'll be going into solutions for how we can rebuild a better world, how we can work together to build a better world after the world collapses. ## The Old Sacrifice The Young -- 37:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #8: Why the West is Doomed - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E83dpuyvpiM&t=2273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e83dpuyvpim.json) Text: So, okay, that's it for today. I'll see you guys next week. Thank you so much for today. And I look forward to next week. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-hybrid-war-targets-state-bond) Text: Good morning, YouTube. Professor Chiang here with another video. Now, some of you in the comment section have been asking me why World War III has not started. Why the conflict between the United States and Iran has abated. The answer is because modern warfare is hybrid warfare. 9 % of warfare you will not see. So much of warfare nowadays is informational, controlling the media narrative, electronic, cyber warfare, psychological, weakening the will of the people to fight you, and covert ops, economic sabotage, imposing sanctions, trying to assassinate the leaders of Iran. So, the United States and Israel are committed to a policy of regime change in Iran. Ideally, they would like to assassinate the Ayatollah Khomeini because that would trigger a secession crisis in Iran. Right now, their main strategy is to decrease the legitimacy of the regime in Iran. And the best way to do that is to decrease the capacity of the state to deliver basic services. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 1:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=89s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=89s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-hybrid-war-targets-state-bond) Text: For example, water. So, what's happening in Tehran right now, a city of 10 million, is there's a water shortage. Because of heat, because of economic sanctions, because of overpopulation, Tehran is having problems ensuring water supply to its people. You can bet good money that the Israelis and Americans will take advantage of that to engage in economic sabotage. Basically, trying to destroy as much of Iran's critical water infrastructure as possible. They would want to basically create a famine, a drought. Now, the irony of that is that by engaging in this economic sabotage, the Iranian people will develop a greater resolve to resist. And once the resolve, once the will to fight has been increased to a certain level, then the Iranian government can close off the Strait of Hormuz, which would compel an American ground invasion. And if America were to do that, if America were to send in ground troops, then as I've said in multiple videos before, the American military would lose this war. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 2:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-script-coordinates-action); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Okay, so that's how I see the war developing over the next few months. Today, I want to talk about what the future is going to look like in the next 10, 20 years. I want to take everything we've learned so far and combine it into a grand thesis about how the world will develop. And the argument I want to make to you today is that eschatology drives geopolitics. And to make this argument, I'm going to ask three questions. First question is, why are eschatologies so compelling? Second question is, what are the major eschatological traditions and how do they converge together? And third question is, based on these convergence points, what can we predict about the future? Right, so let's look at the first question, which is, why are eschatologies so compelling? And as I've said before, eschatologies are compelling because they are narratives that capture the human imagination. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 3:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=235s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=235s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#eschatology-script-atlas); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-script-coordinates-action); [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-power-needs-end-time-script) Text: They answer three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going? It's a complete story. It's a story unto itself. You can think of eschatologies as scripts, really. Scripts that have a momentum of their own. Scripts that allow for unconscious coordination. Scripts that present roles for individuals to audition for. So, just by participating in a script, you are helping the eschatology progress forward. Okay? And to understand why eschatologies are so powerful, please remember the universal law of game theory. In a previous video, I discussed how people win in a game. And the formula that tells us who wins a game is mass times energy times coronation. As I also said in that video, conspiracies, there are plenty of conspiracies. But they're not that effective because it's very hard to maintain secrecy. You can't maintain plausible deniability. And because everyone has an ego, it's hard to maintain cooperation because everyone's fighting for his or her best self -interest. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 5:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-power-needs-end-time-script); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: But with an unconscious coronation, which is what an eschatology provides, that allows for secrecy, possible deniability, and frictionless cooperation. And that's why eschatologies are so powerful. Now, some of you may hear this and think this doesn't make any sense because it's really individual self -interest that motivates us. And what's really important to understand is these things, eschatologies and individual self -interest, are not in conflict with each other. In fact, they reinforce each other. Now, in school, you may be taught that to succeed in life, you have to work hard, you have to be talented, you have to get good grades in school, and you have to be very intelligent. Certainly, that's what I believed. And it took me 20, 30 years to recognize I was wrong. It's not what you know, it's who you know. To succeed in life, you have ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 6:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-script-coordinates-action) Text: to be able to work with others in a secretive, unconscious, coordinated manner in order to achieve certain goals. And that's what eschatology provides. So when you subscribe to an eschatology, when you commit to an eschatology, others will help you achieve wealth and power. So that's why eschatologies are so compelling and so powerful. Not only do they capture our imagination and inspire us to collective action and sacrifice, they also benefit us materially. Okay, so let's move on to the second part. Second question, which is, what are the major eschatological traditions out there and how do they converge? So before I go into the six major traditions, I want to remind everyone of three caveats. The first caveat is that within each religion, eschatology is only a minority, extreme view. Only a small minority of religious, religious devotees will actually believe in the eschatology. That's the first caveat. The second caveat is that there's tremendous diversity within each eschatology. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 7:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: You can interpret the eschatology allegorically, which is to say that it's compelling you to a path of personal redemption and salvation in order to improve the world. Or you can interpret it literally, which is that this is a true prophecy and everything in it will happen in order for the world to end or for the world to become a better place. And also, there are different sequencing of events and different interpretations in the eschatology. So that's the second caveat. Eschatologies within each tradition are very diverse. And the third caveat is that eschatologies are dynamic. And the reason why is, eschatologies are in conflict, are in competition, in communication with different eschatologies. Think of eschatologies as stories that are trying to be the best possible story in order to capture the imagination of their believers. And to do that, they're going to incorporate the best elements from different eschatologies into their own. And that's why so many of these eschatologies, they follow similar patterns. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 9:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: Because they've been learning and adapting from each other. Okay. So having said these three caveats, let's go into the six major eschatological traditions. And I'm going to focus on the most extreme version of each tradition because according to game theory, it's the fanatics who matter. It's the fanatics who are the most energetic, who are the most committed to achieving the eschatology. Okay. So the first eschatology is Zoroastrianism, which was the original eschatology. In the Zoroastrian tradition, the world is divided into good and evil, the light and the darkness, the truth and the lie. And at the end of the days, there'll be a final battle between these two cosmic forces. And as humans, we must choose which side to fight for. At the end of this battle, when good has triumphed, there'll be a day of judgment. Okay. And this structure, this cosmology, heavily influenced Judaism. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 10:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: And so in the Judaic tradition, because Jews have been persecuted for thousands of years, they believe that eventually a messiah of war will come to them and he will lead the Jews to victory. Against all the enemies, he will reconstitute the nation of Israel and bring back all the Jews from the diaspora. He will build the third temple and he will usher in the messianic age of peace, prosperity, truth, justice. Okay. That's the Judaic tradition. The Judaic tradition went on to influence the Christian Zionists or the Protestant tradition. Okay. So the Protestants believed that the messiah is Jesus and he's already come. So in order to usher in his second coming, certain conditions have to be met. First condition is the nation of Israel has to be reconstituted and it was in 1948. Then the third temple has to be built and there has to be a war of Gog and Magog. The Antichrist has to appear. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 11:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: And once these conditions are met, then to save his people, Jesus will descend from heaven on a cloud, destroy all his enemies and usher in a millennium of peace, truth and justice before the final judgment. When Jesus returns, there will be a rapture where all Christians will immediately ascend to heaven. So that's the Christian Zionist Protestant tradition. And again, this is the most extreme form of that tradition. Then you have the Islamic tradition, which is based both on the Judaic and the Christian tradition. And it's very similar. So the Muslims believe that after an age of tribulation, when the world has turned its back on God, when the world is divided, a great leader will come to unify the people and lead the people to victory in the war of Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog is interpreted as the Antichrist. And Gog and Magog can be interpreted as maybe Western civilization for its materialism, but it could also be a certain force. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 12:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#prophecy-becomes-geopolitical-plan) Text: So for example, maybe the city of London. So that's the Islamic tradition. Then you have the Orthodox tradition, which is what we talked about in the last video. The Orthodox tradition believes that Moscow is a third Rome. It has a destiny to restore the Byzantine Empire. And to achieve this destiny, Moscow will fight a war with Turkey. It will destroy Turkey. And then return the Greeks to Constantinople, thus restoring the Byzantine Empire and thus unifying the Orthodox Christian world. Now, what's really interesting is that there is a geopolitical theorist named Alexander Dugin, who's turned this eschatology into a master plan for Vladimir Putin to implement. If you don't know who Alexander Dugin is, you have to watch his interviews. You have to read his books. He's probably the most important geostrategic thinker we have today. I'm going to put his videos and his books in the description below. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 13:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#prophecy-becomes-geopolitical-plan) Text: So please make sure you spend the time to actually research him because so much of what he says helps us understand the world as it is today and how the world would develop over time. So in 1997, Dugin published a book called Foundations of Geopolitics where he describes this master plan for how Moscow can restore the Byzantine Empire. So what he understands is that for the longest time, whoever controls the seas controls the world because most trade was done through sea. But in a time of nation states, in a time of railways, if one power can unite the Europe and Asian continents into the Eurasian continent, then that power can negate sea power and become the global hegemon. And that's why the British Empire are committed to two things. The first thing they're committed to is maintaining naval power. The second thing they're committed to is ensuring that no major power would arise in the Eurasian heartland. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 15:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: And that's why the British basically provoked Germany into World War I because Germany was threatening to be this power. And that's why Britain is now afraid of Russia because Russia is trying to be that power to unify the entire Eurasian heartland. For Dugin, to unify the Eurasian heartland, what Moscow needs to do is, first of all, create the Berlin -Moscow axis to reconcile itself with Europe. It must also create the Moscow -Tokyo axis to reach out to Southeast Asia and also to create the Moscow -Terrain axis to control the resources of the Middle East. And by building this alliance, what Moscow is doing is not only restoring the Byzantine Empire, but it's also restoring the Pax Mongolica, the Mongol Empire. So Moscow sees itself as the heirs to both the Byzantine Empire as well as the Mongolian Empire. Now, Dugin thinks this is entirely possible because the Iranians, the Japanese, and the Germans all feel slighted, humiliated by the Anglo -American Empire. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 16:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: So if you give them a choice between sticking with the Anglo -American Empire or joining the new Russian Confederation, where they'll be given more freedom, then they will opt for the Russian Confederation. So that's the grand plan. Now, obviously, the Anglo -American Empire is going to oppose this plan. And so for Dugin, what's important is to create internal chaos and dissent and conflict within America and within Britain to destroy the Anglo -American Empire. And that's already happening right now because you have Brexit in Britain, and now you have this mass immigration, which is threatening the British identity. In America, you have Donald Trump, who is proposing America first. So all that's going to plan, this plan also recognizes that both Turkey and China are also enemies to the rise of this Eurasian unification. But as we discussed in a previous video, Turkey itself is not very stable. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 17:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: It's kept together for the political maneuvering of Erdogan. Once he's gone, then all these ethnic tensions, these geopolitical tensions, these economic tensions that exist in Turkey will explode and it will overwhelm Turkey, thus causing it to collapse as a nation state. It will lose its coherence as a nation state. Dugin is not worried about China as well. He understands that Russia and China can never be allies because China is too economic dependent on the Anglo -American Empire. Basically, the point is Russia has nothing to offer. China is basically a manufacturing economy which must sell its goods to the Anglo -American Empire. Russia cannot absorb these goods. At the same time, there are a lot of internal contradictions in China. I can tell you, as someone who lives in China for many, many decades, China is not going to survive an economic catastrophe. It's not going to survive an ecological catastrophe. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 18:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#prophecy-becomes-geopolitical-plan) Text: In fact, its economy is propelling the nation to an ecological catastrophe. China is overpopulated, has very little resources, and it imports one third of its food. It imports most of its oil. These violent industries, EV, AI, rare minerals, they're all contributing to massive ecological destruction in China. I mean, you can say it's unsustainable, but you can also say these economic policies that destroy the environment, it's really suicidal. So China does not have a very bright future ahead of it. So Dugan is not worried about China either. So that is the master plan of Alexander Dugan. And again, it is based on the Orthodox eschatology, which perceives Moscow as a third Rome and perceives Vladimir Putin as this great unifier of the world. In Dugan's terms, Putin is the catacomb. The catacomb is the Greek word meaning the force that restrains the Antichrist. So for Dugan, Moscow has responsibility to be the force for civilization, for good, for God. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 20:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: Okay, now let's move on to the last eschatological tradition, which is the Catholic eschatology. Now, it's interesting because if you read Augustine and the City of God, what he argues is that the Church is the millennium. The Church is the birth and embodiment of the masonry age. So when they come to the Church, the world has ended because the Church is able to step out of history and ensure peace, truth and justice in the world. And that very much is still the official Catholic Church line. There are eschatological elements to the Catholic Church. For example, Catholics do believe that there will be a Second Coming of Jesus and there will be some certain signs that precede the Second Coming of Jesus, which include the masculine version of Jews, which include the Age of Tribulation, which include the coming of the Antichrist. But for the most part, the Catholic Church is committed to ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 21:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: a policy of personal eschatology, which argues that it is for our own personal transformation, our own personal salvation and redemption through the guidance of the Church that allows for a better world. This is the official line, but we can be suspicious that this is actually what they really believe. I'm sure that there are certain elements within the Catholic Church who do have an eschatological worldview. And there are three reasons why I would think the Church, many elements in the Church, want radical global transformation. So let's look at these three reasons. First of all, we have to remember the origins of the Catholic Church. It started out as a secret conspiracy against the Roman Empire and it succeeded. So the Catholic Church is very good at conspiracies. In fact, it really developed the world's first intelligence agencies. The first global intelligence agency. There are certain elements within the Catholic Church, the Jesuits, Opus Dei, which are famous for their effectiveness, their organization, their strategy. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 23:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1385s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1385s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: So that's the first thing we have to remember about the Catholic Church. They are very good at conspiracies. In fact, they're so good we don't even talk about their conspiracies. So if you go online on Twitter, on social media, everyone's talking about the deep state, everyone's talking about the Jews, everyone's talking about the state of London, but no one's talking about the Catholic Church. That's really weird. You have books and books and books of how Jews have influenced history, but very few books on how the Catholic Church influenced history. I would think that the most powerful, wealthiest, and most secretive organization in human history for the past 2,000 years, they would have a much greater impact on human history than the Jews. Okay, so, the second thing to remember about the Catholic Church is before the Anglo -American Empire, they were the empire. Okay, they had ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 24:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: 1,000 years from the fall of Rome until the rise of the British Empire when they were in charge, when they were the de facto power in the world. And for many, they believed that was the messianic age, that was the millennium, that was the most perfect age, the most golden age in human history, and we screwed it up. We threw it away with the rise of the British Empire, and therefore, we must return to that golden age when the Catholic Church was the dominant empire in the world. And the third thing to remember about the Catholic Church is they really are the most powerful non -state organization in the whole world. They have a global network. They have 1 billion followers. If there is a global catastrophe, they are the most ready to rebuild the world after it collapses. So these are major advantages for the Catholic Church, and that's why I think that there are many elements within the Catholic Church who do have an eschatological worldview. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 25:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: They have a plan to conquer the world, and they are slowly implemented. So having said that, let's go over the major opposition, the opponents of the Catholic Church. Well, the first major opponent, of course, is the Anglo -American Empire. And the Anglo -American Empire represents, of course, Enlightenment principles, neoliberalism, materialism, capitalism, Protestantism. And remember, the Protestants and Catholics hate each other. These are the two greatest rivals in human history. Their wars have cost millions of lives. So that's the first major opponent to the Catholic Empire that the Catholic Church must destroy. The Anglo -American Empire. Second opponent is the nation state. So in Augustine's formulation, the church is outside of history. It is above history. It controls history. But with the French Revolution, the idea of a nation state came into being. And the idea of a nation state is that it is above church. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 26:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: And that's why in France, there is such an emphasis on the separation of church and state. So obviously, the Catholic Church wants to reverse this order. And in order to reverse this order, it really has to destroy the concept of the nation state. Okay. And the third major opponent is really modernity itself. The cult of the individual, which celebrates materialism, hedonism, pleasure, multiculturalism. Okay. So the church needs to destroy all three forces if it is to resume the millennium. And we can suspect that there's already a plan in place. And the Catholic Church stands a very good chance of achieving its eschatology. So let's look at the three signs that the Catholic Church has a plan in motion. Well, the current vice president of the United States, J.D. Vance, he is a recent Catholic convert. The new pope is an American. I don't think these are coincidences. I think this ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 27:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: is March. This is all part of a larger plan. We also remember that the Catholic Church is embedded into the institution of power in the United States. So six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholic. Okay. Also, the CIA was founded with the help of the Vatican. So William Donovan, who was the founder of the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, he was a Catholic who was very good friends with the pope. Also, when the CIA came into being, it had a mandate to fight communism around the world. The problem is, the problem was that at that time, the CIA didn't have a global network. The Vatican did have a global intelligence network. And so the CIA and the Vatican formed a holy alliance against communism. And there have been so many CIA directors who are Catholic that the CIA has been nicknamed Catholics in Action or the Catholic Intelligence Agency. Okay. So, the Vatican and the CIA are very, very close. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 28:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: Another sign is that the Catholic religion is growing very, very fast in America. Right now, it's about 22 % of the American population. But all those immigrants that are coming to America, half of them are Catholic. And these are the legal immigrants. We're not counting the illegal immigrants who are majority Catholic. And also, remember, Catholics have more children than Protestant families. So, the demographic trend looks very good for the Catholic faith. But we can also argue that if there is an American Civil War, a Second Civil War, and the institutions of authority are destroyed, the American Catholics are in the best position to capture the American state. And if they're able to capture the American state, then they would control the world. Okay. So, I think there are some fanatics within the Catholic Church who want to initiate a Second American Civil War because they believe that ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 30:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#eschatology-script-atlas); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: this war will create the opportunity for the Catholic Church to control America and thus destroy all three of its major opponents, the Anglo -American Empire, the nation state, and modernity itself. Okay. So, having looked at the major eschatological traditions, I'm going to discuss where they converge. And what's really interesting is there's actually quite a few convergence points that are very important. The first convergence point is that there will be a major conflict in the Middle East that will suck in the whole world. It will be World War III. Okay. Second convergence point is that America will not be involved in this war. And that's very interesting because America is right now the global hegemon. So, why America isn't involved in this war, we don't know. It could be because they launched a ground invasion of Iran. It failed and they were forced to retreat. It could be the Civil War going on in America. Okay. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 31:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: But America is not involved in this war. The third convergence point is that China is not involved in this war either. And I suspect that it's because China is facing an ecological catastrophe. It doesn't have enough water. It doesn't have enough food. It doesn't have enough resources for its people. And you have internal dissent throughout the nation. China is having a hard time keeping itself together. The fourth convergence point is that the Antichrist will emerge. And different traditions understand the Antichrist differently. But they all believe that this powerful force will emerge who is charismatic and who will unify the world. Another convergence point is that China will become the dominant power in the Middle East. Presumably after America leaves the Middle East. And we can understand why. Because if America leaves the Middle East then all of America's military infrastructure Sancom will merge with the greater Israel project thus creating the Israel Empire. Another convergence point is that anti -Semitism will grow around the world compelling Jews to return to Israel. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 32:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=1960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: Another convergence point is that the Dome of the Rock will be destroyed. Thus provoking the Muslim world to take arms against Israel and possibly initiating the war of Gog and Magog. Another convergence point is the age of tribulation. When the world will face economic ecological geopolitical catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe when people's faith will be tested. When the Antichrist will emerge to deceive people into believing false prophecies into believing magic into believing superstitions into denying the authority of God and of the church. So these are the major convergence points. So now let's go on to question number three. Based on these convergence points what can we predict about the future? So based on all this I'm going to paint you a picture of the future and what it looks like. some of these will not work out some of ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 33:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: these will work out but it's an interesting framework for us to think about how geopolitics might develop over the next 10 to 20 years. Okay so the United States launched a ground invasion of Iran. Iran is supported heavily by Russia. The United States after a few years of fighting they give up and they retreat and so the American Empire retreats back into the western continent but this triggers a civil war in America. In Ukraine NATO decides Odessa will be the last step. So Russia encircles Odessa and Russia proceeds to it. All of NATO is brought in to defend Odessa. This is the very last step and France Britain Romania Poland all the NATO countries are brought in Turkey is brought in as well and it's a stalemate this war is going nowhere but the Europeans don't understand why they're fighting this war. The European people revolt and this causes civil war in France in Britain ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 35:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2113s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: it causes political upheaval in Germany it causes a political revolution in Turkey and after these civil wars and these revolutions Europe becomes more pro Russian allowing for reconciliation between Putin and Europe. Turkey is destroyed in this process Putin allows the Greeks to return to Constantinople restoring the Byzantine Empire and thus unifying the Orthodox world. After the United States leaves the Middle East the Greater Israel Project becomes the Empire of Israel. The Empire of Israel in order to restore the Davidic Kingdom in order to usher in the Messianic Age they destroy the Dome of the Rock to build the Third Temple. This causes anti -Semitism to explode throughout the world thus compelling Jews to return to Israel. The entire Islamic world wants vengeance against Israel but their leadership their political elite have been co -opted and compromised by the Anglo -American Empire and by the Israeli Empire and so this forces revolutions and civil conflict to ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 36:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: the Islamic world and now people are begging for the Magni to return the Magni is their world unifier. At this point there are certain elements within the Islamic world who see Putin as the great savior and in the Islamic eschatology the name for Putin is Dao the Great King of canon which is the same concept as the Orthodox idea of the Catacombs It is the one who stops the Anti -Christ emerging and so Putin will initiate reconciliation between Islamic World and the Orthodox World, between the Islamic world and the Israeli empire. You can also seek reconciliation between the Orthodox world and the Catholic world and thus unifying the world under him, okay? So this is the framework of the world for the next 10, 20 years. Now, do I think this will actually happen? Do I actually think that Putin will replace the Anglo -American empire? Um, he thinks he will succeed, but I don't think he will succeed. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 38:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2294s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2294s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) Text: And the reason why is because he's human. And once he dies, then civil conflict will arise within this grand alliance. And this civil conflict will lead to catastrophe after catastrophe after catastrophe. It will be the age of tribulation. Many, many people will die in this age of tribulation. So the... The outlook for humanity is not that great. And this is no different from what happened in about 650, 600 Common Era when Muhammad was this great charismatic figure who was supposed to unite all the... Supposed to unite the entire world. And he would have if he lived another 10 years. Unfortunately, he died. And this created civil conflict within the Muslim world. Okay, so those are my predictions. Okay, and again, the thesis, the grand idea is eschatology drives geopolitics. So if things happen the way they do, then it's because of eschatology. And that gives us proof, compelling proof, that it's really eschatology that drives geopolitics. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 39:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-shortens-imperial-time-horizon) Text: So we'll see what happens the next 10, 20 years. Now, having said all this, I have to say, it's not... It's not secret. I'm saying it's not... It's not a great secret I've uncovered. I mean, if you read Alexander Dugin, he lays out this plan coherently in his interviews and in his books. So then the question then is, given that this is public domain knowledge, why doesn't the Anglo -American Empire respond strategically to this? Why doesn't the Anglo -American Empire have countermeasures and counterstrategies? Why isn't the Anglo -American Empire... intent on its own self -preservation? And the answer is, because the people who control the Anglo -American Empire today don't care. Because they'll be dead in 10, 20, 30 years' time. All they want to do until they die is enjoy their life. And they don't care what will happen to the world after their death. ## When Eschatologies Converge -- 40:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #7: When Eschatologies Converge - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-08-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-xg1nIbMs&t=2433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-yq-xg1nibms.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-shortens-imperial-time-horizon) Text: These people, of course, are called the baby boomers. They're the ones who control all the political power, the financial power. The influential power in America, the cultural power in America and in the West today. And that's why the West is dying. So I'm going to talk about this topic in my next video. So I look forward to seeing everyone then. If you're interested, please join my Discord server. I'm going to put the link below. If you're the means, please support my work by... Donate it to me on BuyMeACoffee. I really appreciate all the donations. It's real validation of my work. Okay, all right. So thank you so much. And I will see everyone next week. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Good morning, YouTube. Professor Jiang here, coming to you from a beautiful Toronto morning. So, two big news to report. The first big news is that there's chatter now that the Israelis will resume airstrikes against Iran very, very shortly. And this comes after Netanyahu's visit to Washington last week, where he presumably received permission to do so from the Trump administration. Second big news is that NATO will resume weapons shipments to Ukraine. Trump has given Putin a 50 -day ultimatum to end this war in Ukraine, or else Trump will be really, really angry. I understand that there are many who are disappointed that Trump has not been able to end this war in Ukraine in one day, as he promised during the campaign. But if you've been an avid follower of this channel, then you will know that this was entirely expected. We can only expect this war in Ukraine to expand. We can only expect the Middle East conflict to escalate. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 1:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=85s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: So today. I want to focus on the war in Ukraine. I want to talk about Putin specifically. From a Game Theory perspective, this war in Ukraine is very strange. Because American strategy, American policy, American tactics, they've all been self -defeating. I'll give you three examples. The first example is how aggressive Ukrainian strategy is. The military doctrine has been. Second is American sanctions against Russia. And the third example is the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipeline. All three of these policies have been self -defeating. So to understand why, we're going to use Game Theory counterfactual and compare it to what actually happened. So. Let's start with Ukrainian military strategy against Russia. The counterfactual is this. The counterfactual is that America chose not to intervene. NATO is not involved. And Ukrainians are left to fight the Russians by themselves. Well. In this situation. The Russians are very quickly, in about three to six months, they're able to bulldoze their way. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 3:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Throughout Eastern Ukraine, and in about six months time, they're able to encircle Odessa. And if they capture Odessa, then the entire Eastern Ukraine region is now under Russian control. The problem, though, is that the Russians are overextended. And what Russians are not very good at is organization and logistics and planning. And so. What the Ukrainians are able to do is they're able to launch probing attacks against Russian front lines that are very effective. They're also able to employ hit -and -run guerrilla tactics behind the lines to disrupt the flow of Russian supplies. And after six months, the Russian soldiers in Ukraine, they're heavily demoralized because they don't have enough to eat. There's really no strategy moving forward. They're kind of stuck where they are. At first, the Russian people were in favor of this war. There's patriotic zeal. But after six months, they sour against this war. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 4:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: And popular opinion turns against Putin. And now it's very hard for Putin to sustain this war. There's no strategy moving forward. The Russian people don't really see the point in this war. The Russians don't really see the point in this war. Russian military is heavily overextended in Ukraine and in this instance Ukraine will probably win this war so that's the kind of factual if America did not intervene in this war what happened in reality is that Ukraine chose to fight for every inch of territory and because it did that it played to Russia's ultimate strength which is defensive artillery warfare it's the best in the world at that and because the Ukrainians kept on attacking the Russian military the Russian military was forced to constantly adapt and to be flexible and to be resilient so quickly it quickly learned how to you use drone warfare to its advantage so the way of saying this ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 5:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: is that by constantly being on the offensive by fighting for every inch of territory the Ukrainian military trained the Russian military on how to be a modern military capable of fighting a modern military campaign specifically using drone warfare and the result of this is that Russia now has battlefield dominance it basically controls most of eastern Ukraine the Donbas region and the Ukrainian military because of its relentless aggression against the Russian military it's really now short on men power and And the morale in the military is very low. And what's been amazing about this campaign is the Ukrainians haven't really learned battlefield lessons. They really didn't adapt to how the Russians were adapting. And this sort of suggests that the entire military campaign was being run out of Brussels or Washington, D.C. But it's certainly not being run by the Ukrainians. And because of this, the Ukrainians have really lost the war. So that's the first example of where American strategy in Ukraine has been self -defeating. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 7:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Second example are these American sanctions against Russia, specifically targeting Russian business people with close ties to the Putin regime, which is basically every single business person in Russia. The counterfactual is America does not impose sanctions. Well, as this war runs its course, the biggest opposition to Putin is the oligarchic elite, these business people who see their trade, their industry suffer because of this war. And they start to organize subtle, quiet, underground resistance against Putin. Basically, they engage in forms of economic sabotage. Putin and the business elite have always had an uneasy relationship. But the fact that the Americans targeted the business elite, 70 of the 200 top business people in Russia were hit with sanctions. And what that did ultimately was unify the business elite around Putin. They didn't have an option. In an ideal world, they would prefer to maintain close relationships with the Western world because that's where they send their wealth and their children. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 8:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: And that's where they like to have their second homes. And we know this because of what's happening in China. So there is a trade war between the United States, the United States, China, and the U.S. But this is a general trade war that's targeting the Chinese economy. It's not targeting specific individuals in China. And as a result of this, what's happened is that the business elite have unified against Xi Jinping. And this has made governance hard for Xi Jinping. So the example is, in an ideal world where Xi Jinping was in control, he would like the military to start invasion plans against Taiwan. But that's not what's happening. It seems as though the Chinese regime, it's in sort of governance deadlock. It can't really govern. We haven't heard that much news from China. And there's always these rumors that Xi Jinping is on his way out. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 10:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Now, these rumors are completely false. They're fabricated. But it shows you that he's not as powerful as people like to believe. So when it comes to China, it seems that American policy has been calculated in a way to achieve long -term American interests. That's not been true in Russia. The sanctions against Putin's, Putin's regime and the oligarchical interests in Russia has unified the Russian elite. Much more problematic is that the Western financial system has frozen about $300 billion in Russian assets. That's essentially just stealing. And that basically undermines the credibility of the Western financial system, and ultimately it undermines the credibility of the US dollar, which is a source of American imperial power. And so that's been very self -defeating. The third example I want to look at is the blowing up of the North Stream pipeline. Everybody knows the Americans blew that up. And because it blew it ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 11:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=684s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=684s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: up, it's really caused the German economy, which was dependent on cheap Russian gas, it's caused the economy to crater. So the kind of factual is the Americans didn't do this. The Americans didn't blow up the North Stream pipeline. Well, over time, as this war in Ukraine continues, the German people would have been very angry at Russia. And in response, there would have been political pressure to impose sanctions on Russia. And so the Germans would have stopped buying Russian gas naturally, and they would start buying American oil naturally. And the German economy would have cratered because of this. But at that point, the German people would have blamed Putin for their economic misery. Instead, by blowing up the North Stream pipeline, the German people now all know that they're suffering their economic misery. It's all because of Americans. Okay, so the blame now rests on the Americans. And this is long term problematic, because there's only one force that can possibly defeat the Anglo -American empire. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 12:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: And that is an alliance between Germany and Russia. And that's ultimately what Putin wants. And so by blowing up the North Stream pipeline, America has basically unleashed these structural forces that will culminate in a possible alliance between Germany and Russia. And that would, ultimately, destroy the Anglo -American hegemony in the world. So these are three examples of American policies that are self -defeating. And again, from a game theory perspective, this is strange. And again, when it comes to China, American policy is far more calibrated. It's far more strategic. It's far more able to achieve long -term American interests. So the mystery, the paradox that we're looking at today is, why is it that when it comes to Russia, American policy is so self -defeating? It's almost as though Putin has spies implanted within the Western imperial apparatus. It's very, very strange. The second question I want to look at today is, where exactly did Putin come from? ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 14:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=852s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=852s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: How is it that this nobody, this man who came from a lower middle class family in St. Petersburg, and he was an unknown entity for the first 30 years of his life, how did he suddenly become the most powerful man in Russia? So that's the second big question I want to look at today. The third big question is, where is this all going? What does Putin want? Why did he invade Ukraine? So those are the three big questions we're looking at today. And I'll be very honest with you. These three questions are unanswerable. I don't know why. I don't know the answers to any of these three questions. And quite honestly, we'll never know because there's not enough information to work with. So what I'm going to do today is, I'm going to present a hypothesis. And there's going to be a lot of problems with this hypothesis. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 15:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: But the good thing is that with any hypothesis, there is embedded in it a prediction model. So I'm going to explain to you the hypothesis. And then from the hypothesis, I'm going to conjecture certain predictions that this hypothesis model entails. And these predictions will tell us if the hypothesis model is correct or not. So that's what we're going to do today. All right. So let me present to you my hypothesis to the three questions. Why is Putin winning the war in Ukraine? Where did he come from? What does he want? Okay, so I'm going to start off with a couple of biographical details about Putin. And remember, what's really important is we're getting these details from the mouth of Putin himself. So it's possible these details are fabricated. It's possible they're embellished. But let's just look at these two details. The first detail I want to look at is Putin ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 16:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: told the New York Times interview that his grandfather, Spyridon Putin, was the personal cook to both Vladimir Putin, sorry, Vladimir Lenin, as well as Joseph Stalin. That's the first detail I want to look at. Second detail I want to look at is, and again, Putin told this to reporters in the interview, his mother was a devout Christian who secretly baptized him. And even today, he wears the baptismal cross to show his devotion to his mother and to his faith and to his country. So what do these two details tell us? And again, remember, what's really important is these two biographical details could be completely fabricated. Okay. All right. But let's assume that there is truth. Let's assume that there is truth to these details. Spyridon Putin, Putin's grandfather, was the personal cook to both Lenin and Stalin. Well, what this tells us is that he was a very powerful person because he had access to the most powerful people in Russia. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 17:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: And if you're powerful, then you can start to do favors for the people. You can promote their careers. You can also save their lives. And as a result, a lot of people high up in the Soviet bureaucracy, you know, the nomenclature, they owe a lot of favors to Putin's grandfather. Okay. That's the first thing. Second thing is because he was a personal cook to the most powerful people in the Soviet Union. It meant that he was extremely trusted. He was probably part of the KGB, a very high official within the KGB. And also the KGB was probably spying on him, his family, and all his friends. And they found nothing wrong with this guy. Spyridon Putin died of old age. He died when he was 86, when Putin was 13 years old. And he was never purged. He was never arrested. He was never Suspect of anything. Okay, so this man clearly was humble. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 18:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-return-resumes-mission) Text: He had no ambitions. And he was selfless. He was dedicated to his leaders, preparing good meals for his leaders. And that suggests to me that he was religious. And again, it was very common for Russians of his generation, of his background, to be Orthodox, Christian. and so he was probably religious and he was probably a devout Orthodox Christian okay that second thing that we must know about him the third thing that I suspect is that he really loved and admired Lenin and Stalin especially Stalin because remember in World War two Hitler invaded the Soviet Union it really seemed the end of days 27 million Soviet citizens died in this war and for Russian to have won this war you you had to believe that it was divine intervention and you had to believe that Stalin really was the Messiah and what's important is Stalin was able to win this war ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 20:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: because of his rapprochement with the Orthodox Church starting with Lenin there was massive persecution of the Orthodox Church because Lenin Trotsky they were all atheist Marxist intellectuals who believed that it was Orthodox Christianity that kept Russia feudal primitive backward Stalin is different because Stalin was not a Marxist intellectual he never went to university like Lenin and Trotsky um in fact he was poor his father was an abusive alcoholic his mother though was a devout Christian who sent her son to seminary in order to become an Orthodox priest and so Stalin didn't grow up in the Marxist tradition he grew up in the Orthodox tradition and that's probably why he got along much better with the Orthodox Church than he did with these marchers intellectuals whom he ultimately purged and killed so during World War II Stalin had to engage the people he had to excite them and so he relied on the Orthodox Church to ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 21:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1294s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1294s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: stir up these ethnic religious sentiments these Nationalistic sentiments in order to unite the people against the Nazis and for the Orthodox Church this really was a holy war this is a war between the third Rome which is Moscow in the Orthodox tradition Moscow is considered a third Rome the second Rome of course was Constantinople which fell to Ottoman Turks in 1453 and so this war was really the ultimate struggle between true Christian civilization which is Soviet Union and the Antichrist which was Nazi Germany and the Orthodox Church then had to see Stalin as Messiah as as the chosen one who would lead them totally victory against the Nazis who would redeem Russian civilization from the evil Communism and who would restore the bison Empire but before Stalin could restore the bison Empire he died some believe that his colleagues who are afraid of him they poisoned him but in the Orthodox tradition that just means ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 22:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-return-resumes-mission) Text: that he truly is Messiah because remember Jesus had to die before we could be redeemed and Jesus had to die before the world could truly believe in him and because he died there's now a promise that he would eventually return and save the world the second coming so after selling died imagine that there were many people within the Orthodox Church and also within elite Soviet politics that believed that silent would ultimately return to lead the lead Russian civilization into ultimate victory against the Antichrist and he would ultimately restore the bison Empire which is a destiny of Moscow so why is this important it's important because these ideas Spyridon Putin would tell his grandson Vladimir Putin. Spyridon Putin would also introduce Putin to this elite nexus of power within the Orthodox Church and within the Soviet hierarchy so that Putin was well known to powerful people and ultimately Spyridon Putin would come to believe that his ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 24:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-return-resumes-mission) Text: grandson it's possible this very precocious young man it is possible that he could be a second coming of Stalin okay and so this helps us understand and answer the second question which is how did Putin come into power and the reason is that it was well known to a secret faction of the Orthodox Church and the KGB and he was slowly nurtured over time and when the time was appropriate at the fall of the Soviet Union after basically being the increasing unpopularity of the Yeltsin regime they thought now is perfect time to put Putin into power this also helps us explain the third question which is what Putin wants and Putin wants to be the second coming of Stalin he wants to finish the mission that Stalin could not finish which is the restoration of the rising empire and so how will this be accomplished well within the Orthodox eschatological tradition there's a prophecy and ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 25:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: this prophecy is attributed most famously to a Greek Orthodox monk named Passios of Mount Anthos there's controversy as to whether or not he actually said this prophecy but it's most commonly attributed to him and that's what the Russian narrative is the prophecy goes like this Russia and Turkey are destined to go to war against each other right now President Erdogan of Turkey he's a very sly political operator he's able to balance competing factions within his government but he's also able to compete to sorry he's also able to balance competing forces in geopolitics specifically Russia and NATO Turkey is a member of NATO but Turkey remains a close relationship with Russia but after he passes on to the scene after he falls from power then the new government will become very pro -NATO and at that point Turkey will start aggressive policies against Russia like for example closing off the Bosporus and allowing NATO warships to enter the Black Sea which will force Russia to invade Turkey. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 27:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1635s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-return-resumes-mission) Text: Russia will destroy Turkey in a matter of days because remember Russia is a nuclear superpower and then Russia will hand Turkey Constantinople back to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire. The Hagia Sophia, the main Cathedral in Constantinople, which was the seat for many centuries, the seat of the Orthodox world, that will be restored and an Orthodox Church. It will be cleansed of its Islamic pollution and this will unify the Orthodox world around Russia and around Putin. And that's the prophecy. And when I heard about this prophecy online and what I'll do is I'll link YouTube video describing this prophecy in the description. It's very important that you yourself understand this prophecy. When I when I first encounter this prophecy, I thought it was very strange because it didn't really sound like a prophecy. It sounded more like a plan. So, I won't be surprised if the truth is that Russian intelligence implanted this prophecy among Orthodox monks. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 28:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Because remember, there's always been a close relationship between Russian intelligence and the Orthodox Church. And And so, what's the plan? The plan is to cause a war between Russia and Turkey, which will allow Russia to reclaim Constantinople, and then it would unite the Orthodox world. So that's prophecy. So how would this plan come into being? Well, what's interesting is, if you look at the trajectory of the war in Ukraine right now, it seems that this plan, this prophecy, will happen naturally. Because the next phase of this war is the Russian encirclement of Odessa. If Russians are able to take Odessa, Ukraine is finished. Because Russia will be able to control the entire coastline, which allows them to control trade and logistics in the Black Sea. And once Russia controls eastern Ukraine, the war is over because eastern Ukraine is the agricultural and industrial heartland of Ukraine. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 29:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Russia and Ukraine will become a welfare state for the European Union, and Putin is very happy to have that happen. This means that NATO will make its last stand in Odessa. Right now, a lot of preparations are being made to reinforce Odessa. This is great for Putin, because once the Russians have been able to encircle Odessa, it becomes a death trap for NATO. NATO will send in a lot of soldiers, and they're all just going to die there. And this is going to cause a lot of popular resentment back in France, in Britain, in Poland. And this will probably cause a civil war. In these nations, remember, these nations are already on the brink of a civil war. And what's more important is that eventually Turkey will be brought into this war, because it is a NATO ally. And as a result, this gives Putin the opportunity to confront Turkey. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 31:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-return-resumes-mission) Text: And again, what's really important for us to understand is that Russia does not have to defeat Turkey on the battlefield. It doesn't even have to defeat France, or... It doesn't even have to defeat Britain. All Russia has to do is draw this war out. And this war will become increasingly unpopular in Turkey, in Britain, in France, which leads to civil discontent, which leads to political chaos. And eventually, these nations will collapse and implode, economically and politically. And when that happens, Russia will be victorious. And so, that's Putin's strategy. Putin's plan moving forward. To make Odessa into the final battle between NATO and Russia, which will culminate in the implosion, the bloke implosion of Turkey, which will allow for Russia to take over Turkey. In fact, the Turkish people might even invite Putin and the Russians into Turkey, thus fulfilling the prophecy and thus proving that Putin is in fact the Messiah, the second coming of Joseph Stalin. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 32:22 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=1942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: The best evidence for this is, again, the biographic detail that Putin revealed to journalists, that his mother was a devout Christian who baptized Putin secretly. This detail is important because it's a dog whistle to all those Orthodox fanatics and extreme Russian analysts out there that, in fact, Putin and Stalin have a lot of similarities. In fact, they're probably the same person. Because remember, Stalin himself, his mother was a devout Christian who sent him to seminary school. So, that explains the second idea. That helps us answer the second question, which is, what does Putin want? Putin wants to restore the Byzantine Empire. He wants to unify the Orthodox world. And he wants to retake Constantinople from the Turks. And this one Ukraine is the perfect platform, is the perfect mechanism for him to achieve his ambitions. And this leads us to the first question, which is, how is Putin able to do all this? ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 33:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: How is Putin able to be able to control history? Like this. Friedrich Hegel would call Putin the world historical figure. And Friedrich Nietzsche would call Putin the Ubermans. The Superman. The Overman. The man who is able to step outside of history to control history and achieve his book ambitions. And by doing so, forever change the course of human history. How is he the Ubermans? Okay. So, to answer this question, and again, I don't know the answer, okay? So here, I'm only speculating. To answer this question, what's really important for us to understand is the conflict between the Orthodox Christian world and Western civilization. For Orthodox Christians, they really see Western civilization as a manifestation of the Antichrist. Because Western civilization, the three pillars of Western civilization are capitalism, science, and liberalism. Liberalism is the cult of the individual, the belief in hedonism, the belief that the pursuit of individual pleasure is what matters most in life. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 35:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Science is the rejection of God and the worship of the material world. Capitalism is pure greed, pure selfishness. So, for Orthodox Christians, Western civilization means rejection of God, of faith, of tradition, which is what the Orthodox tradition represents. And so, for Orthodox Christians, this is a war civilization, a struggle of civilizations. And only one can survive. Only the Western viewpoint can survive or the Orthodox viewpoint can survive. And Orthodox Christians are determined to win the war. Because if they don't win this war, then the world is hopeless. The world is pointless. And Putin himself has said this in a speech. So, it seems as though Western civilization is much more powerful than Orthodox civilization. Western civilization, Western Europe, America, it's much more advanced economically, scientifically, technologically. It has a greater population. It has more resources. It has more wealth. But the Orthodox Christians believe that God is with them. God communicates with them. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 36:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: And God is planning on the destruction of the Western civilization. And the Orthodox Christians are only the tool of God to achieve this. If you look at current events, then there's a lot of justification for this. But, let me explain this in a different way. Okay? So, I believe, and a lot of people believe, that there is an underlying consciousness to the universe. Hegel calls this the Geist. Carl Jung calls this the Collective Unconscious. Because we have thoughts, right? Well, the question then is, where do our thoughts come from? And where do they go? So, let's assume that there is a Collective Unconscious to the universe. And we can call this force God. Well, if that's the case, then we're able to communicate with this Collective Unconscious. As long as you believe it exists. As long as you make the effort to embrace this Collective Unconscious. As long as you have faith in God. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 37:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: The problem with Western civilization is, it denies the existence of God. It denies the existence of this Collective Unconscious because of its embrace of materialism. And as a result, it's lost its connection with this Collective Unconscious. But because the Orthodox tradition, it's much more mystical. It's focused much more on miracles. It's much more focused on faith. Then, there are certain mystics within the Orthodox tradition who are capable of communicating with this Collective Unconscious. And, if you're capable of communicating with this Collective Unconscious, then you're also capable of influencing in a certain way that allows you to achieve outcomes that you desire. And this helps us understand how Putin is able to control the battlefield in Ukraine. How he's able to manipulate the Americans into policies that are self -defeating. And it ultimately gives us a sense that Putin will ultimately win out in the end because he could be the Ubermutz. Okay, so that's the hypothesis. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 39:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: The hypothesis is that during the time of Stalin, a secret nexus of power between the Orthodox Church and the KGB came into being and they were determined to achieve the Third Rome Prophecy and restore the Byzantine Empire. They thought that Stalin could help them achieve this, but after his death, they had to await the second coming of Stalin. And so they were looking for possible candidates. Finally, they settled on Putin and they elevated him into supreme power. And they supported him ever since. And now, with this war in Ukraine, they see the perfect opportunity to destroy Western civilization and create the Third Rome and restore the Byzantine Empire. Okay, that's the plan. That's the hypothesis. Now, with this hypothesis, we can make three predictions based on this hypothesis that will tell us if this hypothesis is correct or not. So, the first prediction, of course, is the war in Ukraine will shift to Odessa. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 40:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2410s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2410s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: That's where the final battle between NATO and Russia will take place. Turkey will be brought into this war. Once Turkey enters this war, it will become extremely unpopular within Turkey, which will lead to the implosion of the Turkish government and a revolution, which will allow Russia to come in easily to control Turkey, okay? So, Odessa is the first big prediction. The second big prediction is there will be a falling out between China and Russia. Because if this hypothesis is correct and Russia is fighting a war for civilization, for the soul of humanity, it's fighting a war for God, then the true enemy is Western civilization, but it's also China. Because China is even more of a godless, valueless, materialistic society than Western civilization. At the very least, the United States, Britain, France, they profess to be Christian. But China, it is decidedly communist, atheist, and it's proudly so. So, Russia, has contempt for China and ultimately sees China as an enemy. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 41:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: Eventually, they'll be falling out, okay? And we'll see this happen very quickly. And the third prediction is that Russia will defend Iran. It cannot afford for Iran to fall. Not only for geopolitical reasons, but because in this cosmology, in this war between Western civilization and Russian civilization, Iran is an important ally. For Russian civilization. Because they're both, both Russia and Iran are fighting to bring God back to humanity, okay? So those are the three big predictions. If they, of all three predictions happen, where the war in Ukraine shifts to this final catastrophic struggle in Odessa, where Russia and China are falling out, and where Russia comes to the aid of Iran, then we will have strong evidence that my hypothesis is correct. And in fact, Putin does see himself as a second coming of Stalin. Okay. So, that's it. What I will do in my next video is connect ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 42:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: all the desperate pieces together and try to predict what will happen around the world in the next five to ten years. Quick announcement, I'm taking a break next week. I'm taking my kids camping. It's something that we've been planning for a long time. So unfortunately, I won't be able to do a video next week, but I will be back the week after. Also, tomorrow, from 8 to 10 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, I'll be doing a Discord live stream where I will, well, I can help you elaborate or explain certain issues that you've been struggling with over the course of these videos. One last announcement is last week I announced that I have a BuyMeACoffee account and the support has been overwhelming. So thank you so much for supporting my work. It's really helpful. But again, don't feel any pressure to support me. If you have the means, please do so. It's really helpful. I really appreciate it, but don't feel any pressure to do so. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 44:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: I see my mission as trying to educate as many people as possible. I'm trying to help you understand the world and I understand that many of you might be confused or they might disagree with what I'm saying. But what's really important is this is a learning process and we're both trying to develop theories and hypotheses and analytical models to better understand the world. So it's a process and there are a lot of things in which I'm going to be wrong. But what's really important is there are predictions in place. And if these predictions happen, then that's good reason to think that the analytical model I'm proposing is correct. If they don't happen, then we'll just go back and change the analytical model. So this is a process in which we're all trying to learn together. So that's it. Thank you for listening to this video and I will see everyone next time. ## Putin As The Man Outside History -- 45:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #6: Is Putin the Ubermensch? - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvAHZqaawA&t=2703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-zgvahzqaawa.json) Text: ## Stories Win The Game -- 0:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: Good morning YouTube. Professor Jiang here with another video update on the situation in the Middle East. I wanted to originally do this talk next week because I wanted to get a haircut this weekend and surprise everyone. But on Twitter many of you have been clamoring for the next edition in this series so here we are. In my last video I discussed how Isaac Newton built the intellectual foundations for Christian Zionism which is driving American Middle East policy today. And today I want to explain to you why Christian Zionism is such a powerful force in the world. As you know Netanyahu is visiting Washington this week meeting with senior lawmakers including with President Donald Trump in the White House. And this most definitely signals that Israel and the United States will resume airstrikes against Iran and we will see an increase in the escalation ladder in this war in the Middle East. So why is this happening? ## Stories Win The Game -- 1:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=90s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt) Text: And it's happening because there are four major factions in this anti -Iranian coalition that's driving this war. The first faction in this coalition, of course, are the Christian Zionists who are trying to achieve biblical prophecy. Then you have the Zionists who want to achieve the Greater Israel project which they believe is a promised land. Now, you get to see hundreds of ratioéd lists of issues whether this is idea or idea or something else. Yahweh gave to the Israelite people as part of the covenant together, and this is made explicit in the Bible. The third faction is the global financial elite, Wall Street, City of London, because for them, if they're able to control Iran, the state of Hormuz, they're able to control not only the vast oil reserves of Iran, but also global trade, thus negating the BRICS project, thus negating China's Silk and Road project. Then you have the American Empire, the military ## Stories Win The Game -- 2:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Secret Society As Coordination Technology](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/secret-society-as-coordination-technology.txt#secret-society-guardrail-against-master-plan); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: -industrial complex, the deep state, whatever you want to call these people, but they are first and foremost interested in maintaining American economy. If they're able to control the entire Middle East, then they will be able to maintain this unipolar world. Now when I say that these four factions are working together, you may think that they are in a dark, smoke -filled room in an underground bunker in Washington D.C. somewhere, and that is not what's happening. In fact, it's entirely possible they don't even talk to each other. So let me give you a metaphor to explain to you how these four groups are working together. Let's just say that there's a mountain somewhere, and on this mountain, people believe that God lives on this mountain. Now the Christian Zionists want to build a road to this mountain top in order to be with God. Unfortunately, there are people who live on this mountain, and they need to be exterminated. ## Stories Win The Game -- 4:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: A war has to be fought. But it's all for the greater good, because they will be able to be with God. The Zionists are involved because God and the Zionists know each other from history. The Christian Zionists need the Zionists involved in this project, and they really see the Zionists as a ritual sacrifice in order to win favor with with God and the Christian Zionists are involved with building this world because they're they see the Christian Zionist as a useful tool in order to be with their true God and so when they reach the mountaintop then their real God will recognize their faith and create and kill the Christian Zionist so it's a cynical partnership between the Christian Zionist and the Zionist and they both need to meet each other for now until they reach the mountaintop then you have the global financial elite and these people are opportunists they're speculators ## Stories Win The Game -- 5:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: they are first and foremost interested in generating more wealth for themselves and their clients they themselves have no ideas they themselves have no real wealth they themselves have no real wealth they themselves have no real vision for the world they just want to make more money and in the energy and the commitment in the faith of the Christian Zionist and the Zionist they see an opportunity to monetize this faith if the Christian Zionist and the Zionist are working hard to build this road to the mountaintop then they can provide financing for this road also when this road is built they can start to collect toll booths right so that's why they're involved because they see this as a money making opportunity for them they're only interested in making money these people Wall Street London are so wealthy because all they care about is money in fact for the right price they'd be perfectly willing to ## Stories Win The Game -- 6:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: sell their own children okay that's who these people are then you have the American Empire the American Empire it's important to understand that these are first and foremost bureaucrats they have really cushy jobs sit in office somewhere they have really cushy jobs sit in office somewhere pretending to work. And they need to justify their existence. They need to explain why they have trillions of dollars in their budget. And so this Christian Zionist project to reach the mountaintop provides the justification. They can say okay well you know what if these Christian Zionists, these Zionists, if they're the ones who are gonna go and lobby the politicians and bribe the politicians and pressure the politicians to build this road, then we'll say that we'll provide military protection in order to justify our existence. Okay so they're trying to do as little work as possible in order to maintain their very cushy jobs sitting somewhere in an air ## Stories Win The Game -- 7:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: -conditioned office. And that's it. Now that's a structure of their relationship with each other. They're all interested in reaching that mountaintop for different reasons. But once they reach that mountaintop then they'll have their disagreements. And how to reach that mountaintop they won't be aligned with. So the example here is that the Christian Zionists and the Zionists are very much interested in using ground troops to force regime change in Iran. The financiers and the Empire they're risk adverse. So they really don't want to use ground troops. They want to achieve regime change slowly steadily in a in a in a in a way that contains risk. And so there's gonna be that disagreement about whether or not to use ground troops. In the end I think the Christian Zionists and the Zionists will win out. So let me explain to you why let me explain to you using game theory why the Christian Zionists are the dominant power in this relationship. ## Stories Win The Game -- 8:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-coordination-over-mass); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Even though the financiers control the money and even though the American Empire controls the armaments. So here let me introduce to you the universal law of game theory. Once you master this formula, once you truly understand the ramifications, the nuances, the subtleties of this law, then you are much more clear and deeper understanding of how the world works. Okay and this formula it's very simple. It goes like this. If you look at game theories, all games, the people who always win the game they win because of this formula which is mass times energy times coronation. All right so mass is just a number of people finds energy which is the level motivation of these people times coronation which is the ability of these people to work together to achieve their end So things to keep in mind about this formula. First of all the different factors are not weighted equally. ## Stories Win The Game -- 9:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-coordination-over-mass); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: So coronation is the most important factor and it's weighted at least three times as much as mass. Then you can out you have energy and energy is second is what's second most important and it's weighted twice as much as mass and depending and you know different depending on the game the weightings can be different but please please keep this in mind coordination is what really matters followed by energy followed ultimately by mass so I explained that let me explain to you what each term means and how can measure each factor to get a more mathematical understanding of this formula mass is just a number of people involved but what's important to measure is their cohesion how much they like each other how much they're willing to work together so for example you look at Japan and China Japan is much more cohesive society than China so in terms of mass Japan is actually stronger than ## Stories Win The Game -- 10:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: China even though China is much stronger than China has ten times or five times as many people as Japan then you look at energy energy is level of motivation and usually when I think of energy we think of fiscal energy but actually in this formula it's mental energy that really matters because if you think about it it's mental energy that is the most expensive and so you need the most amount of motivation in order to achieve mental energy so let me give you an example of this um let's just say there are two people the first person he's digging a hole in the ground for 12 hours a day for a whole year then you have another person who every day is seeking to improve himself so he's constantly in the process of self reflection writing down his the ways that he can improve and creating a strategy a formula for how I can improve ## Stories Win The Game -- 11:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: himself I Well, according to this formula, the second person is expending much more energy than the first person. Even though if we just look at it, it seems like it's the first person that's doing all the work. The second person is just sitting around all day just thinking. And the reason why is, in the world, the three hardest words to say for a human being is, I am wrong. To say I'm wrong is to negate yourself. To negate your ego. To admit that you have failings. To say you are wrong is also to commit to a policy of self -improvement, self -change. It's also to run as a loss of face. To say I'm wrong before your peers. You lower your status. You lose face. And that's why people who are more energetic, who are more motivated, they are much more open to change. They're much more willing to accept their limitations. They're much more willing to commit to self -improvement. ## Stories Win The Game -- 13:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-coordination-over-mass); [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-coordinate-without-command); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So, energy is a measure of motivation. And we can measure motivation by a group's openness to accepting its limitations, its failings. Okay, so that's the idea of energy. Then the third aspect of this formula is the idea of coordination. And coordination can be divided into two different forms. Two different forms. The first type is conscious coordination. The second type is subconscious coordination. Conscious coordination is when you're led by someone. It could be a leader. It could be a bureaucracy. It could be a patriarch. Subconscious coordination is when there's no clear leader or clear direction. People just subconsciously work together. It's almost like a dance. And other two, subconscious coordination is the most important. The more powerful. When people get together and they sort of conspire together, that leads to all sorts of problems. You don't want conspiracy. You don't want open conspiracies. So let me explain to you why open conspiracies or secret conspiracies are bad policy. ## Stories Win The Game -- 14:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: The first reason is it's really hard to maintain the secrecy of a conspiracy. Eventually, words are going to leak out that these people are conspiring together. And if word leaks out that these people are conspiring together, that forces other people to conspire together in this game. So if you are conspiring together, you have to keep it secret in order to maintain your advantage. It's very, very hard to keep it secret. In fact, you probably waste more time and energy keeping it secret than you do in actually trying to implement your conspiracy. Okay? So that's the first reason why conspiracies are not a good idea. Second reason is in most games, conspiracies are illegal. It's considered cheating. So you lose plausible deniability when you are conspiring together and when you're keeping notes and when you're meeting in a room together and plotting together. The third reason is the most important. ## Stories Win The Game -- 15:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=919s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=919s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt) Text: Okay? The third reason why you don't want to conspire together is everyone has an ego. Everyone is trying to maximize their power. Everyone is trying to maximize his or her self -interest in a conspiracy. And that immediately leads to friction, conflict, debate. So this creates friction in the relationship. So subconscious coordination is much more powerful than conscious coordination. It allows for frictionless cooperation and allows for plausible deniability. It allows for secrecy. So examples of subconscious coordination are families, ethnicities, religions. Okay? So having said that, having presented this formula, mass times energy times coordination, I want to now give you some examples to understand why this formula works. Okay. So let's just say we're playing individual games. Well, if we're playing an individual game, one versus one, then the formula is like this. Mass becomes one. Coordination becomes one. So we're only left with energy. So what this formula is telling us is that ## Stories Win The Game -- 16:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: in an individual player game, the person who is most motivated, the person who is most willing to commit to self -improvement will win this game. And the idea of constant self -improvement confirms the research of K. Anders Ericsson. He coined the phrase through practice. And he argues that those who are most proficient in individual activities, whether it's music, sports, are those who are most committed to a policy of self -reflection and self -improvement, because that is the hardest thing to do. Now let's look at team sports. In team sports, the mass is constant. So we can actually take out mass. And what we're left with is the idea of energy times coordination. So in a team sport, the team that is most likely to win are the teams that are most willing to coordinate together subconsciously and most willing to commit to constant self -reflection and self -improvement. And let's look at the third example, which is what is an example of the most powerful grouping in human history? ## Stories Win The Game -- 18:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: And that, of course, is the nation state. The nation state is the most powerful form of human organization in the world. And if we just use this formula and analyze all nation states around the world, what we will discover is that there are four nation states. There are four nation states that are dominant in each region. So in the Western Hemisphere, it's obviously the United States. In Europe, it's going to be Germany. In Europe, Germany is the most dominant nation state, according to this formula. In Southeast Asia, it's Japan. And in the Middle East, it is Israel. So over time, over the next 10, 20, 30 years, we're going to expect these four nation states to dominate each region. As the world loses unipolarity and moves towards multipolarity. Okay, so now I want to discuss how to maximize this formula. Remember, the trick is how do you create subconscious coordination in your team? ## Stories Win The Game -- 19:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-coordinate-without-command); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#symbolic-media-makes-worlds); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: And believe it or not, the answer is to have a really powerful story. A powerful story. It's a way to frame your understanding of the world. And it's also a script. It allows you to understand how to behave in a certain context. Alright, so let me explain to you the power of a story. Alright, let's do a thought experiment first. Let's imagine that we have the power to present every single story in human history to every single person who has ever lived and who is still alive today. And the stories we present include Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Disney movies, Homer, the Iliad, the Bible. Every single story that humans have ever produced is presented to every single person. And then 10 years from now, we talk to every single person again and figure out what story that person most remembered and tabulate the results. ## Stories Win The Game -- 20:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: When we do so, then what we will discover is that most people will have remembered three stories. The first story is Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The second story is the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. The third story is the second coming of Jesus. So let me explain all three stories. Okay, so Plato's Allegory of the Cave, it's interesting because it's really Plato's reimagining of the trial of Socrates. For him, his mentor Socrates, who was forced to drink hemlock by Athenians for the crime of corrupting the youth of Athens. For Plato, Socrates was his truth teller who discovered the truth of the world through philosophy. And he committed himself to revealing this truth to the Athenian people. And in response, the Athenian people condemned him to death because, as I mentioned previously, no one likes to say, I'm wrong. And no one likes to be told they're wrong. The second story, the ## Stories Win The Game -- 21:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, it's interesting because it is actually a reimagining of Plato's Allegory of the Cave because Jesus was this truth teller sent by God to earth to reveal the truth. To reveal the truth of the universe to people. In response, we killed Jesus. Okay, so the Allegory of the Cave and the crucifixion of Jesus, it's really just one story. The second coming of Jesus is really compelling because it's marking the end of history. It's telling us when everything will come to an end and when we will have achieved paradise and reconciliation with God. So these three stories that are most memorable, it's really just one story. And it's appealing to us because, as humans, we're born with three questions embedded in our hearts and our soul. The first question is, where did we come from? The second question is, why are we here? The third question is, where are we going? And ## Stories Win The Game -- 22:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: the power of these three stories, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the crucifixion of Jesus, the second coming of Jesus, it's really helping us answer all three questions in a compelling and convincing manner. And that's why Christian Zionism is so powerful because it's the most powerful story out there. That's why there's so many Christians. That's why Christian Zionists are the most energetic, the most motivated, the most committed people that you can ever meet. And again, a story, it is really a script. As a Christian Zionist, you want to achieve this story. It is so compelling, so powerful to you as a person. In fact, you're willing to sacrifice your own life in order to achieve this story. That's how beautiful it is. And that explains to us, that helps us understand why Christian Zionism is the most powerful force in the world today. Because for the people who believe in Christian Zionism, they feel as though they discovered the secret of the universe. ## Stories Win The Game -- 23:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-coordinate-without-command) Text: And they must bring this story into fruition, into reality. Now, next thing I want to talk about is, if it is true that this story, the crucifixion of Jesus and the second coming, is such a powerful story, then in theory, we should have seen the story, we should have seen people try to achieve this story before. And also, it's telling us that this story, Christian Zionism, will never ever go away. It will continue until the end of human history. So, what I will do now is tell you that, actually, 1500 years ago, they also tried to achieve the completion of this story. So, 1500 years ago, about 600 CE, there was this massive war going on between the two major powers of that age. The Byzantine Empire, based in Constantinople, and then you have the Sassanian Persian Empire. And this war just devastated the entire world. People were dying, people were starving, people were in debt, people were in slavery. ## Stories Win The Game -- 25:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: There was religious persecution. It really felt like the end times, the end of days. Also, at this time, the Jews were banned from Jerusalem, which is their holy city. It's the city of their god, Yahweh. And so, the Jews in the Diaspora were plotting throughout all this time how to return to Jerusalem. They were kicked out of Jerusalem because, many centuries before, they had fought three major rebellions against the Roman Empire. And in each time, the Jews lost because they were fighting the Roman Empire. And each time, the Jews went to the desert of Arabia. Why did these armies, these defeated armies, go into the desert of Arabia? Because the Romans really hated sand. They could only be safe in the desert of Arabia. And when they went to the desert of Arabia, they went there with a commitment to eventually reclaim Jerusalem, ## Stories Win The Game -- 26:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1598s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: to wait for the arrival of the Messiah to lead them to the final victory against the Romans. And while they were in the desert of Arabia, they were interacting with the local Arab pagans. And in this action, in this interaction, there's a process of syncretization, where Jewish belief was being meshed into Arab pagan belief. But as I told you, the most compelling story always wins out. So eventually, the Jewish believed that the Messiah would eventually come to create the messianic age of truth, justice. Eventually, it won over. It won over the Arab people. And this would become the foundation for the modern belief of Islam. And so during this time, there's widespread belief in the Arabian desert that a Messiah would eventually come to unite the Jewish people and lead them into final victory against the Roman Empire, which at this time had not become the Byzantine Empire. Back in the Jewish diaspora, they were trying to figure out how to return to Jerusalem. ## Stories Win The Game -- 27:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: One group in the Jewish diaspora allied themselves with the Persians, who promised them that they would, like Cyrus the Great, take them back to Jerusalem and build the third temple for them. And at first, they succeeded. The Persians were able to conquer Jerusalem, and the Jews were able to reclaim the city for themselves. And they were now in the process of building the third temple. The problem, though, is that at this time in history, the majority of the population were actually Christian. So the Christians rebelled against the Jews, and then the Christians called for help to the Byzantine Empire. At this time, a new general, Heraclius, had emerged, and he had usurped the throne from the emperor. And so now the new emperor, Heraclius, he has a legitimacy problem. And so he decided, like, the best way to prove that he, in fact, has the mandate ## Stories Win The Game -- 29:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: of heaven, that he has the will of God supporting him, he decides that he has to reclaim Jerusalem and basically massacre all the Jews. So at this time in history, it seemed all hope was lost. Jews were being massacred. It seemed as though the Antichrist, Heraclius, has emerged to destroy the Jewish nation. Now, the funny thing about Jewish eschatology is that when all hope seems lost, when the Antichrist has emerged, when the Jewish nation is about to be completely destroyed, that's when Jewish people are most convinced the Jewish Messiah will emerge to lead them into war and into the final victory against the Antichrist and usher in the messianic age where they will reconstitute the nation of Israel, bring everyone home from the Jewish diaspora, build a third temple, and create a millennium of peace, truth, and justice. So the Jews go into the Arabian desert, and now they're looking for their Messiah, the promised Messiah. ## Stories Win The Game -- 30:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: And they're different candidates, but ultimately they settle on one charismatic man who is absolutely convinced that he is in fact the Jewish Messiah. We don't know his name. A lot of his biography has been lost to us over the course of history, but today we refer to him as Mohammed. Mohammed was the Jewish Messiah. And the Jews were looking to him to lead them into final victory against the Byzantines and the Antichrist, Heraclius. And he took up the call. And according to game theory, all he had to do was say three things, and he would unite the entire world behind him. And once he did so, he would become a tidal wave to wash over the old order and build the messianic age. All he had to do was say three things, okay? The first thing he had to say was, I am the Jewish Messiah. I am the fulfillment of the prophecy. I am the promised one. ## Stories Win The Game -- 31:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1884s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1884s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: I am the anointed one. Okay, that's the first thing. Second thing he needed to say is that we are all the children of Abraham. Jews, Christians, Muslims, we are all sent from Abraham. And as such, we are all the children of God. And as such, this land was promised to us by God, and therefore, debt. Debt, slavery, landlessness, it's all evil in the eyes of God. And therefore, we must create a revolution to ensure that everyone has land, that debt is canceled, that slavery is eliminated from this world. So that's why I'm here. I'm the Messiah to lead us to final victory in the pursuit of the messianic age. The third thing, and Mohammed had to say in order to unite the world is, all these religious differences are idiotic. Zoroastrianism, Catholic Christianity, Nestorian Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism. It does not, these factions are against the will of God. We are all the children of God, and therefore, we can all celebrate God in our own way. ## Stories Win The Game -- 32:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=1969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: These factions, these divisions only exist for the priest class to exploit us, for the emperor, for the political class to unite, to divide and conquer us. So, you are free to separate your religion, you are free to separate God, your faith, in any way you seem fit. And this is what eventually led to something called the Constitution of Medina, where one of the founding ideologies of Islam, is religious tolerance. You are free to practice your faith in any way, you are free to love God in any way. And because he said these three things, Mohammed would lead the world's first global revolution against the established order, and thus creating the basic structure of Islam. Unfortunately, Mohammed died before he could complete his mission. But that didn't stop many Jews from believing that he was in fact the Jewish Messiah. ## Stories Win The Game -- 33:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: Because in their eyes, the prophecy has been fulfilled. First of all, the Arabs were able to conquer, reconquer Jerusalem, and return the Jews to Jerusalem, thus reconstituting the nation of Israel. Second of all, they built the third temple. Today we call it the Al -Aqsaq Mosque. It's still there. In Jerusalem, you can still visit it. But back then, they thought it was the third temple. And the third thing is, they did usher in a millennium of peace, prosperity, truth, justice. Today we call it the Islamic Golden Age. So for many Jews, the prophecy had been fulfilled. And that's why many Jews converted to Islam during this process. And many Jews would emerge as the top administrators, the top officials of the Islamic Golden Age, making tremendous contributions to world civilization in the process. Unfortunately, what we also know about this period is that the early followers of Muhammad, called the Companions, they were all basically eliminated in the power struggle that emerged after the death of Muhammad. ## Stories Win The Game -- 35:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: So I know that for many of you, this is extremely controversial history. And I don't have enough time to go into the specific details. So what I will do is, in the description below, I'm going to link a really awesome paper written by two Jewish religious historians about this time. So you can have a better understanding of how Muhammad really is the Jewish Messiah. I'm also going to link, to have a lot of like Wiki links, so you can do some more background research into this period. It's really fascinating. And I apologize, I don't have enough time to go into more details about this period. Okay? Okay. So to summarize, according to game theory, the universal law of game theory, Christian Zionists will emerge as dominant power in the Middle East. They're the ones striving US policy right now. They will eventually overwhelm both the American empire and the global financial elite. ## Stories Win The Game -- 36:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-visible-game-invites-intervention); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#truth-prediction-coherence-atlas) Text: They will force the United States and ground troops and invade Iran in order to implement regime change. And they will basically get whatever they want. So it seems as though we figured out history. It seems we're able to predict the future by using game theory properly and systematically and honestly, we're able to have a very clear insight into the trajectory of history. The problem though is game theory is not that easy. Okay? Why? Because according to game theory, when it seems that they structure the game, when there seems to be a trajectory, when the players are obvious in their moves, when there's certain inability to the decision making of certain players, what will happen is a new player will emerge who sees the contours of the game being played and he will manipulate events and change the course of this game to benefit himself and his group. ## Stories Win The Game -- 37:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-visible-game-invites-intervention) Text: Okay? Now, Hegel's name for this person, this player, is the world historical figure. Nietzsche's name for this player is the ubermutt, the superman, the person who's able to step outside of history and control the reigns of history in order to achieve his own ends. And by doing so, he's able to forever change the course of human history. Now, according to game theory, now that the game, the structure of the game has been, is pretty clear, the ubermutt will now emerge. And in fact, today we do have the ubermutt. And this ubermutt will manipulate the game in order to achieve his vision. And he will forever change the course of human history. And this person's name is Vladimir Putin. So in my next video, I'm going to discuss who Vladimir Putin really is, what he wants, and how he will achieve his vision. So, thank you for today. I hope you enjoyed the talk. And I'll continue the talk next week. ## Stories Win The Game -- 38:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #5: The Universal Law of Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-07-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I2VPYPJJ68&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5i2vpypjj68.json) Text: Also, some of you in the comment section have been telling me how much you want to support my work. And I'm really grateful for it. And I would really appreciate your support. So what I've done is I set up a Buy Me A Coffee account. So you don't have to do it. I'm committed to educating you for free. You don't have to pay me anything. You don't have to give me anything. But I would really appreciate it if you have the means to buy me a coffee. The link is down below. So thanks a lot. And I will see everyone next time. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Hi YouTube, Professor Jiang here with another update. So, things seem to have quieted down in the Middle East. But as I said, all sides, United States, Iran, and Israel have committed to war. And this ceasefire, it's really a way to attempt to control the narrative. Now, as you know, the Iranians have responded to the American bombing. The Iranians notified the Americans that they would send missiles against U.S. bases, empty U.S. bases in Qatar. And that seemed to be the full extent of the Iranian retaliation. And Donald Trump was very pleased with this very temperament. And many of you might be wondering, why was the Iranian response so tepid and so muted? And there's a lot of speculation online. And so what I'll do is I'll offer you my explanation. If you're fully committed to war, why would you launch such a tepid response to U.S. aggression? Well, the main reason is you want to infuriate. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 1:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=90s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=90s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: You want to infuriate your population. So let me explain what I mean. Livy, the Roman historian, he wrote the entire history of the Roman Republic. And he wrote about one incident where a Roman legion went off to a frontier. And the natives confronted them, and they were outnumbered. So the Roman legion built fortifications. And every day, the natives would come and taunt the Roman soldiers. And at this point... The Roman soldiers really wanted to go out and fight the natives, but the commanders refused. The commanders ordered them to show restraint and to maintain defense. And as a result, the natives thought that the Romans were cowards. And so the taunt became worse and worse. And it became so bad that the Roman soldiers were about to mutiny. And at this point, the commanders agreed. They agreed for the Roman legion to attack the natives, and the Roman legion were so angry and so infuriated and so insulted that they slaughtered the natives. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 2:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: So that's what's happening in Iran today. The Iranian people are clearly insulted and humiliated by this U.S. bombing, and the Iranian government is holding them back, which even makes them more angry. And... As U.S. aggression as Israeli aggression increases, the Iranian response will become more and more tepid, more and more mute, and thus angering the population to the extent that the population will force the Iranian regime to declare war on the United States and Israel. So that's the game plan moving forward. So I would think that over the next month, things will be a bit quieter. there's still going to be a lot of incidents. So the Chinese media is reporting that the Iranian intelligence agency has uncovered an Israeli false flag operation in the United States. So over the next couple of weeks, we will still see some news regarding the Middle East, but expect things to stay quiet for now. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 3:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=235s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=235s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: So I will use this opportunity to provide you some important background as to what's going on in the Middle East. So in the last video, I mentioned that there are certain elements within the American Empire that want America to lose a war against Iran in the Middle East, and they want Israel to become the empire of the Middle East. And these people, these elements are called are called Christian Zionists. And they want Israel to become the empire of the Middle East. And these people, these elements are called Christian Zionists. And they want Israel to become the empire of the Middle East. And so I want to today explain to you what Christian Zionism is and how it fits into this war in the Middle East. So the tentable term for Christian Zionism is pre millennial dispensation list. Okay, so it's a very hard term. But I'm going to explain what it means. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 4:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: And by the way, I will explain a lot of new terms in this video. So I will explain a lot of new terms in this video. So I let you guys check out my website, we get Wiki links and some background reading in the decision below. Okay, so please check the description if you want to further your understanding of the terms I introduced today. So как pre millennial dispensationalism dispensation ism is pre millennial is understanding that when Jesus returns, he will initiate 1000 years of peace in the world called the M tablet H. That's the that's why we have a tremendouslyεν term PREMLENNNIAEL' because when Jesus returns, we will have a thousand years of peace. Dispensationalist is the understanding that the world history is divided into certain stages. In each stage, the relationship between God and humans change. And we are now approaching the final stage, which is the full reconciliation with God through the second coming of Jesus. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 5:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: But for this second coming to happen, certain elements need to be in place. The first major element is that Israel needs to be reconstituted as a nation, which has already happened in 1948. Then all the Jews from around the world have to return to Israel. And then they have to destroy the Dome of the Rock, which is the third holiest site in Islamic tradition, and build the third temple. Then there has to be a war of Gog and Magog, when Israel is besieged by a fierce enemy. And then this will lead to Agamemnon, sorry, which is the final battle. And at the very last minute, when all hope is lost, when Israel is about to be defeated, Jesus will return. And he will initiate the Messianic Age. He will save Israel, and he will initiate the Messianic Age. If you're a Christian, upon Jesus' return, you will be immediately sent to heaven. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 7:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: This is called the Rapture. So that's the idea of Christian Zionism. And Christian Zionism, as I explained before, is one of the main drivers of this war in the Middle East. And if Christian Zionists have their way, then certain things will happen. The most important thing that must happen is the United States sending ground troops against Iran. Because as I mentioned, if the United States were to send ground troops into Iran, the American Empire would fall, which would give birth to the Empire of Israel. This is important because in the Christian Zionist framework, America is not involved in this problem. This is a prophecy. So you need to take America out of this equation somehow. So that's the first thing that must happen. The second thing that must happen is that the Dome of the Rock must be destroyed. If the Dome of the Rock were destroyed, the Jews could rebuild the Third Temple. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 8:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: But more importantly, it would unify the Islamic world against Israel, thus initiating the War of Gog and Magog. Another thing that must happen is the Jews must return to Israel. And right now, most Jews are living very nice lives in the Western world. So why would they want to return to Israel? Well, the answer is, America has been defeated in Iran, and Americans are pissed about this loss. And so, who do they blame? Who do they persecute? Who will be the scapegoats? And so, you have this global surge of anti -Semitism. And so, now you have major Jewish intellectuals coming out and saying, listen, we should all return to Israel because that's where we'll most be safe. So, if I'm correct in believing that Christian Zionism is a very powerful force in the world, then these three things will happen over the next five years. A U.S. ground invasion of Iran, the Dome of the Rock will be destroyed somehow, I don't know how. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 9:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: And the third thing is a movement to return Jews to Israel. So, why is Christian Zionism so strong? Well, what I will show you today is, Christian Zionism is embedded into the very foundations of Islam. Of the Anglo -American Empire. It's been there since the beginning. And it's been there since the beginning thanks to the contributions of one man, Isaac Newton. So, let me tell you about Isaac Newton, and then you will better understand how Christian Zionism came to being and how it influenced the Anglo -American Empire. Isaac Newton, as you know, was probably the most buoyant man who ever lived. He was an extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life. He was born into a common family. His family was not nobility, not royalty. Very common. His father died when he was very young, and his mother remarried and essentially abandoned Newton. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 10:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: But Newton was an extremely gifted student, and he eventually got a scholarship to study at Cambridge University, where he began to make the major contributions to the development of science. He made major contributions to optics. He invented calculus. He discovered the three laws of planetary motion, which proved conclusively, once and for all, that our solar system was heliocentric as opposed to geocentric. In many ways, Newton embodied the sonic revolution. When he died, he was given a state funeral. Only the second person in British history at that time who was not royalty to be given a state funeral. And he was one of the only scientists to be given a state funeral. And even today, the British remember Isaac Newton as the most brilliant Englishman who ever lived. But there are three things that you may not know about Isaac Newton. And once I explain these three things, then you have a much more complete understanding of this brilliant man. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 12:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: The first thing that you probably don't know about him is that he was fascinated by the occult. He was a major practitioner of the occult, mainly alchemy. So Newton spent most of his life in search of the Philosopher's Stone. Because the Philosopher's Stone promised the elixir of immortality, which would grant immortality. It also promised to turn lead into gold. And Newton was positive that it existed. So he spent most of his life in search of it. And we know about this because in the 1930s, the economist John Maynard Keynes, he bought Newton's papers at an auction. And he really believed that within these papers, he would discover mathematical secrets of the universe. Instead, what he discovered was all this religious gibberish from Newton. Newton spent most of his life studying the Bible, trying to figure out the divine messages embedded in the Bible. So if you were to ask Newton, like, what is your profession? ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 13:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Newton would never say he was a scientist or a philosopher. He would say, first and foremost, he was a theologian. He was most interested in discovering the mind of God. And that's why he developed his mathematical and physical systems, in order to better decipher the mind of God. So let me give you an example of this. At this time in history, most Christians understood that history was theological. Theological comes from the Greek telos, which means purpose. So history is moving towards the end, which is the second coming of Christ. Newton's great insight was to understand that if history is indeed theological, then it has structure and order, and therefore it can be expressed mathematically. And so if you can figure out the mathematical underpinnings of the world, then you've proven that history is theological, and therefore you've proven that God exists. Newton's three laws of motions, right? ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 14:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Let's summarize Newton's three laws of motions. Law number one. Things that are at rest, stay at rest. Number two. Force equals mass times acceleration. Number three. For every action, there must be an equal reaction. So what people don't understand is, these three laws are not physical laws, they are first and foremost an ontological argument, which proves the existence of God. So the first law. Things that are at rest, must stay at rest. So we can imagine that at the beginning of time, everything was at rest. If everything's at rest, it can't move by itself according to the first law. Therefore, something must have moved things to put things in motion. And this is what Aristotle calls the prime mover. Second and third law implies that there's a structure and order and purpose to the universe. And who designed this structure, order, and purpose? It must be God, okay? So what's interesting is that these three ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 15:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: laws of motion, they prove that God exists, but much more importantly, they are the basis for a new religion, a new religious movement called Deism. And Deism is important because Deism is the main religion of the founding fathers of America, okay? So having proven that God in fact does exist, it means that God exists. Newton's next step is, what does God want? What is God's purpose? Well, for him, it was easy. To understand God's purpose, read the Bible. So Newton would spend decades reading the Bible and trying to imagine its mathematical underpinnings. For him, every sentence was a mathematical formula. And he was trying to take the Bible and compare and contrast it with history. And he wrote a book. It was not published in his lifetime, but it was published after his death. It was called Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. And it's something you have to look at, okay? ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 16:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put a link down in the description below, which will... And you can read it online for free. Okay? So this is a major work, and it's a foundational text for Christian Zionism because it argues, first of all, that history is theological, that God has a purpose. And second of all, and this is really important, the Bible is literal, okay? So even though Daniel and John were different people, they both, as prophets, spoke the mind of God. They were divinely inspired. And so whatever they wrote came from God himself. So by examining their prophecies, you are deciphering God's purpose for humanity. Okay? And this is the foundation for Christian Zionism. Okay? So that's the first thing you need to understand about Newton, that he was, first and foremost, a theologian and not a scientist. Okay? Second thing that you must understand, about Newton, is that he was a member of secret societies in England at that time. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 17:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Now, today, when we think of secret societies, we think of nefarious, underground conspiracies. But at that time, secret societies were actually very common and very well accepted. Secret societies were platforms for men of education, of wealth, and of status to get together to engage in religious speculation. Okay? And so, you have to understand that secret societies were not necessarily outside the purview of the Anglican Church. At that time, the Anglican Church had an orthodoxy. And by law, you cannot transgress against this orthodoxy. So for example, Newton got into a lot of trouble during his lifetime because he did not believe in the Holy Trinity. He thought that Jesus was not co -equal to God. He thought that Jesus was subordinate to God. And this was a heresy at that time. So Newton got in a lot of trouble, but he had powerful friends, powerful backers, and so they bailed him out from the church authorities. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 19:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: So these secret societies were platforms for people to discuss religious matters. They also had their origins from the Knights Templars. The Knights Templars during the Crusades were in Jerusalem. And because they were in Jerusalem, they could engage in world religions like Zoroastrianism, like Islam, like Judaism, like paganism. And because these were extremely watch -gated men with deep intellectual curiosity, they collected all the secret teachings that they were exposed to in Jerusalem and they brought it back to them in Jerusalem. And so they ran afoul of the Catholic Church, which outlawed them eventually. But their teachings went underground, and they became embedded in these secret societies. So when Newton joined these secret societies, and when he was able to discover the laws of the universe, well, I imagine that these men celebrated Newton as a prophet, as a messiah, as a chosen one, as someone who would reveal the secret teachings of God to the world. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 20:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: And because the world was not ready for these teachings, then they would make it their mission to keep it secret and wait for the day when they could reveal these teachings to the world. So Newton's teachings that God has a purpose, and this purpose is literally embedded into the Bible, and this purpose will lead to the second coming of Christ. It now becomes the framework for these secret societies. And as they spread to America, it becomes embedded in the secret societies of America as well. And guess who were members of these secret societies? The founding fathers of America, right? So that's something you need to know about Newton, that he was a member of these secret societies, who celebrated him, and who treated his theological understandings as the word of God. And the third thing that you have to understand about Newton is, for 30 years, he was master of the royal mint. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 21:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: And his purpose was to maintain the sanctity, the value, and the credibility of royal coinage against counterfeiters. And so to deal with counterfeiters, he set up a network of spies to identify these counterfeiters, sometimes to torture them for information, and for the most egregious offenders, they would be executed. So in other words, Newton established England's very first intelligence apparatus. In 1865, the United States Treasury Department established a secret service. What was their job? The job was to identify counterfeiters. Why were they called the secret service? Because the Treasury Department didn't want people to know they existed. Because if they existed, it meant that counterfeiting was a huge problem in America, which it was at that time, which it still is today. And so that would undermine the credibility of the currency. So Newton had his own intelligence agency. So in many ways, Newton ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 22:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: built the foundations of the British Empire, which eventually became the Anglo -American Empire, which controls the world today. And so let's summarize, and I'll give you three takeaways from today's talk I want you to remember, okay? The first takeaway is, because Isaac Newton saw himself as a prophet, because he was convinced that only through divine favor could he arise from being a poor abandoned child to becoming one of the leading intellectuals of British society, the leading scientist of British society. It could only be through divine favor. Then he had a mission to spread God's message. And that message will become the foundation of Christian Zionism. So Christian Zionism is embedded into the very fabric, the very foundation of the Anglo -American Empire. That's the first major takeaway. Second major takeaway is, Israel is a creation of the Anglo -American Empire. Zionism is a creation of Christian Zionism, which leads us to the third takeaway. Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 24:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Christian Zionism and Judaism are in fundamental conflict. Let me explain why. The people who are most opposed to the creation of the State of Israel are Orthodox Jews. Because in their tradition, in their religion, the plan is for God to send a Messiah, the Anointed One, who will lead the Jewish people. And this Messiah will bring the Jews back to the Promised Land, create the nation of Israel, build the Third Temple, and create the Masonic Age. The Jews don't know who this Messiah is, and they don't know when he will come, and so they must be patient and have faith in God. Christian Zionism is an attempt to manipulate history, manipulate God, to force the Second Coming of Jesus. In the mind of Christian Zionists, if the nation of Israel is reconstituted, if all the Jews return to Israel, if the Third Temple is built, if there's a war of Gog and Magog, then Jesus is forced to return. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 25:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: They will force the hand of God and create the Masonic Age. So for Orthodox Jews, this is a blasphemy. This is counterfeiting. This is the export. This is stealing their religion. And that's why Orthodox Jews are most opposed to the State of Israel. So I know this was an extremely controversial, very confusing talk. So what I'll do again is I will, in the description below, put all the links and the references you will need to truly understand Christian Zionism. So please look at Newton's book, Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John. Please look at the Schofield Bible, which frames the Bible in the lens of Christian Zionism. And please look at wiki entries for Christian Zionism, Premillennial Dispensationalism, Newton. So if you really want to understand what's going on in the Middle East, then you really need to get a good handle on these ideas. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 27:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: I'm sure this talk has raised a lot of questions for you. Some of you are like, why is Christian Zionism so powerful? Some of you may disagree and say, what's driving this war in the Middle East is not Christian Zionism. It's international finance. It's the City of London. It's the Great Reset. It's American Empire. So what I will do in my next talk is explain to you these things are not mutually exclusive. They're all one thing. And you can make the argument that they are one big thing. Conspiracy. And the only people who don't know that this is a great conspiracy are the conspirators themselves. In my next talk, I will use game theory to explain to you what's going on. And when I do, then things will be extremely clear to you as to why Christian Zionism is able to drive the history of the Middle East. What I'll also show you in my next talk is that Christian Zionism is not Christian Zionism. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 28:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: What's happening in the Middle East? It's happened before and it will happen again. So 1,500 years ago in the Middle East, it seemed as though biblical prophecy was about to be fulfilled. The world was at war against each other. Empires were fighting over Jerusalem and millions were dying. The world seemed to be ending. It really seemed the end of history. And at this time, the Jews were praying for the Messiah. And they really believed the Messiah had come to them. A man came and they really believed he was the anointed one. And he was able to rally not just the Jews, but everyone around him. He was so charismatic. And it really seemed as though the Messianic age would come. And these Jews were willing to die for him. That's how much they believed in him. This man's name... ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 29:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1751s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1751s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: Well, actually we don't know this man's name. But today we refer to this man as Mohammed. Mohammed was the Messiah of the Jews. So in my next video, I will explain to you how this came about. Just a quick announcement. I want to thank everyone for subscribing to my channel. I'm really flattered by all the attention. But I'm not really set up for this. This summer, I was... I brought my two kids back to Toronto. And I... Every day from like 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. I take them outside to play. So I really don't have that much time to make these videos. But at the same time, I want to do the best possible job in presenting really interesting perspectives to you about what's going on in the world today. If you spend the time to watch my videos, then I have an obligation to make sure these videos are insightful for you. ## Newton's Divine Plan Runs Through The War -- 30:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #4: Newton's Divine Plan - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-TiN6dEcM&t=1825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kw-tin6decm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kw-tin6decm.json) Text: So I'm going to need more time to spend on these videos. So I'm sorry, but I might have to take a pause for about two weeks in order to really delve deep into the research necessary in order to create the next video. But if this war in the Middle East breaks out again for whatever reason, I don't think it will, but if it breaks out for whatever reason, then rest assured, I will make a video helping you analyze what's going on and giving you some insight as to why this is happening and where things might be going. Okay, so thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it and I will see you next time. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: hello YouTube so as you know there's been a ceasefire announced in the Middle East and many of you are curious as to what this ceasefire means well I still believe that the United States Israel and Iran are fully committed to war and the ceasefire it's really about attempting to shape the narrative around this war trying to control the terms trying to determine how the war war will be fought so for Iran for the Ayatollah it's very important that the Iranian people understand that Iran is force into this war you made a speech to the Iranian people right after the U.S. bombing. He created the economy between Iran and the United States. Iran is a nation dedicated to peace. The United States is a nation dedicated to war. The Iranian people live the truth. The American people tell the lie. And the Iranian people will do all they can to achieve peace. But if forced ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 1:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=97s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=97s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: to defend sovereignty, if forced to defend their faith, the Iranian people will fight to the death. The Iranian people will never surrender. But if an opportunity for peace presents itself, then the Iranian people, the Iranian nation, the Ayatollah, will grasp at that opportunity. Trump did launch the attacks against Iran, but he's trying to create the narrative that this is happening not because this is what he wants, but because he's forced to do so by the globalists, by the deep state, by the American empire. He himself is a person who only aspires to fight for world peace. But these warmongers, these neocons within his administration, who are embedded in the deep state and who have tentacles all around the world, they are undermining him and forcing him to act against Iran. But he will fight for the American people. He will fight for world peace. That's why he is trying as hard as he can to broker a peace deal between Israel and Iran. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 3:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: Both Trump and the Ayatollah can do this, can try to be the peacemakers because they know that Netanyahu will continue to push for war, that Israel will continue to be the aggressor in this war. So Israel is really the scapegoat. But it's really important for us to understand that all three leaders, Trump, the Ayatollah, and Netanyahu are committed to war for different reasons. So in today's talk, I want to explain to you what's really driving these three individuals. Why are they committed to war? Why is there a special reason for them to go into war? Because Muslims are not going to be able to get out from this war. And for us to understand this, I want to introduce to you a new concept. It's called the Masonic Calling. Each of these individuals, Trump, the Ayatollah, and Netanyahu, see themselves as historical Masonic figures. They're on a ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 4:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: mission from God to save the world, to save their people, to deliver their people into the promised land and if we we need to understand that this is ultimately what's driving them um not fame not power um nothing but this mesonic calling that's what's really um driving them so let me explain what this mesonic calling is by explain explain to you it's three major characteristics the first major characteristic is that um when you truly believe that you are on a mission from god that you are the chosen one that you are the prophet that god smiles on you you have access to divine energy what is divine energy let me give you an example maybe you're a mother and you're taking your three -year -old into the forest you get lost and you're wandering the woods and suddenly a black bear pounces on you well as a mother what's gonna happen is and you could ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 5:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: be petite you could be weak what's gonna happen is you suddenly when your child is under attack under threat you will find energy strength and courage to fight off this fear and you will succeed and we know because there's been a couple of anecdotes like this so a mother's love for a child is one of the strongest forces in the world now to understand about energy just multiply this mother's love for her child by about a million and you can understand how energized how motivated how powerful people with the messianic calling feels the classic example is Trump right so Trump during the campaign season he would get about like four or five o 'clock in the morning do a lot of tweets watch a lot of TV you get you get on his plane and go to a campaign rally where he would talk endlessly for a couple hours then he would fly somewhere else ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 6:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: and do another rally and then he would do another rally in front of 50,000 people and then he will watch the news and then he go he go to bed sleep soundly and get the next morning do it again for two three four months and you have to ask yourself why is he so energetic he's 79 why is he so motivated I mean he's not in the best health in the world because he's not in the best health in the world because he's not in the best health in the world because he eats McDonald's all the time and he's clearly obese for his for for his age but none of this matters because his faith in his mission the fact that he knows that he's been chosen by God to complete his mission that fills him with an infinite energy and that's where his strength comes from the second characteristic of people who are ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 8:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: filled with the Messianic calling is that they are absolutely fearless they know that because God has chosen them God will protect them and so no bullets can harm them okay so Trump so the classic example again is Trump he was almost assassinated at Butler University. Pennsylvania and remember how even though the bullet came close to him he was still able to get up and pump his fist and shout to the people fight fight fight okay it's just absolute fearlessness they know that God will always protect them but also even if they were to die they would go straight to heaven and be with God they're one of the elect and then finally their bodies no longer matter their bodies are just vessels for this divine energy to be transplanted on earth when they die when their vessel this vessel breaks and it fills the followers with divine energy as well they become martyrs and their ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 9:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=556s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=556s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: followers will complete the mission on their behalf so they've transcended death they've transcended this material world they are now ideas they are now faith they're now inspiration for their followers and so they are and therefore they are immortal they're eternal and they're invincible the third characteristic of people with messianic calling is the persecution complex the idea is how do you know that you are when they elect how do you know that God has chosen you it's because society the world and the world everyone around you persecutes you right so again the classic example is Trump Trump survived two impeachments in his first term the deep state filled his cabinet John Bolton Mike Pompeo Nikki Haley everyone was part of the deep state and they undermined him in fact your generals brag about how they you know they were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who intentionally disobeyed ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 10:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: Trump's orders in fact you had one general Mark Milley who told the Chinese government don't listen to Trump he's not really in charge if you're any issues call us directly okay so they were undermining him the media every day was lambasting him cursing him the whole world was cursing him or laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him remember when the Chinese government was cursing him the whole world was cursing him or laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him remember when the Chinese government was cursing him the whole world was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 11:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at him right the European elite was laughing at in prison for extremely spurious offenses. So Trump ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 11:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: feels he's persecuted, but that's good for him, that energizes him because it makes him feel that God is testing him. God wants to know, do you truly believe in your mission? Are you truly committed to your mission? And through this persecution process, Trump will develop more and more faith, more strength, more power. This divine energy is filling him, and this divine energy will allow him to fulfill his mission. Let's look at the Ayatollah. Right now, the world's most sophisticated intelligence agency, Mossad, is hunting him. They want to assassinate him. The American military, the most powerful military in human history, with their precision bombs, with their satellite technology, they're hunting the Ayatollah as well. And the Ayatollah is 86. So given all this, how does the Ayatollah feel right now? And the answer is, he feels ecstatic. He's never been more alive. He's never been more energetic. He's never felt more vibrant in his life. He ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 12:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=768s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=768s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: feels as though the moment he's been waiting for all his life, the moment he's dreamt of all his life, the opportunity to kill the great Satan, it is now before him. And so he's not going to die. And if you ask him to go run a marathon tomorrow, he could do so. That's the power of divine energy combined with the persecution complex. Netanyahu is the same situation. Netanyahu, his country, Israel, it's divided. There are all these corruption charges against him and his family. And right now, as long as he's in office, he's immune from these charges. But the moment that this war stops, then he would face corruption charges and he would probably be thrown in prison. He's not faced by any of this. He knows that this persecution, it's all a sign that God favors him. And this persecution will ultimately give him the strength, the faith to fulfill his divine mission. And he's going to fulfill his mission on earth. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 14:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: So now what I want to talk about is what exactly is the divine mission? How do each individual perceive their divine mission? So I'll start with the Atatollah, because that's fairly simple. The Persians, their belief system is a combination of both Zoroastrianism as well as Shia Muslim. Zoroastrianism is the world's first eschatological religion. And in it is a moral clarity. It is divided between good and evil, between light and dark, between the truth and the lie. And this is the very structure of the cosmos. And these two forces have been at war since the beginning of time. Eventually, these forces will meet in a final climatic battle. And at this point, we humans, we must make the decision as to what force to join. Will we fight for the side of good? Or will we fight for the side of evil? And clearly, the Atatollah believes that he ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 15:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: must unite the Muslim world and have them fight on the side of good against the great evil, the great Satan, which is the United States and their vassal state, Israel. The Shia Muslim religion is one that believes that suffering, persecution, and sacrifice, it's all part of your faith. If you truly believe, then you will suffer, and you will sacrifice yourself. So, the Atatollah is willing to die for what he believes in. He's willing to die for his faith. That, for him, would be the greatest honor. So, the Atatollah, what he wants, it's pretty clear. He wants to lure the great Satan into Iran. He wants to lure the great Satan into his lair, where he will take his flaming sword and stab the great Satan to death, thus freeing his people from oppression, from persecution, from suffering. And by killing the great Satan, he will save his people and save the world. So, that's the divine mission of the Atatollah. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 16:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=990s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: Donald Trump, what is his divine mission? Well, he wants to make America great again. So, why is America not great? The reason why is, for the past hundred years, America has been co -opted by the globalists. And America has been forced to engage in these forever wars in the Middle East that has killed thousands of good American soldiers. And this was done at the behest of the globalists. These globalists have also forced open American borders and let in millions and millions of illegal immigrants in order to corrupt America, in order to destroy civil society in America. These globalists also have, in a school curriculum, infested the teachings of young children with multiculturalism, with woke politics, with DEI, diversity, inclusion, equity, these ideas. So, these ideas, globalism, liberalism, and multiculturalism are cancers on the body of the American Republic. And you can't negotiate with cancers. You can't wait for cancers to die out. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 17:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: You must purge these cancers from the body of the American Republic with blood and fire. So, the divine mission for Trump is to destroy the American empire by rolling it into an unwinnable war against Iran. But not only that, but to compel the American people to rise up against their globalist oppressors and overthrow them, to remove America from the world and to achieve its manifest destiny, which is basically control over North America, which is the promised land, which is what God promised to the Americans. And once America recognizes that it should not interfere in global affairs, Europe, Asia, Africa, who cares? They're hopeless. Once America is able to restore its Republican soul and spirit, then America will be great again. And Donald Trump, his mission is to lead the American people in the revolution against the global elite and to restore the American Republic. That's Donald Trump. Then you have Benjamin Netanyahu. For ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 19:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: Benjamin Netanyahu, like many, many Israelis, they believed that the golden age of the Jewish people was Kingdom of David, which occurred about 3,000 years ago. That was when Israel, the nation, was free, independent, unified, and supreme in the Middle East. It was a time of peace and prosperity for the world. But after the Kingdom of David collapsed, Israel has been attacked by its neighbors and has been dismembered and has become a vassal state. First, the Assyrians and Babylonians came to dismember Israel. Then Israel became a vassal state to the Persians. Then after the Persians came the Ptolemies of Egypt, and after that were the Seleucid Empire. The Jews were able to rebel against the Seleucid Empire and establish the Ring of the Maccabees. But that didn't last very long because the Romans came right after that. And the Romans were brutal. The Romans killed many, many Jews and they exiled the Jews from Jerusalem, their place of worship. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 20:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1251s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1251s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: And they destroyed the Second Temple. So the Romans were extremely brutal. In the 7th century, the Islamic Caliphate restored the Jews to Jerusalem. But they were still not masters of their own land. So the entire project of Israel is to return to the glory days of the Kingdom of David. And now is a historical opportunity to achieve that. The only opposition against reestablishing the Kingdom of David is Iran and the United States. And if both can be destroyed in a cataclysmic war, then you will have the restoration of the Kingdom of David. Israel will be a unified nation again. All Jews can now return to Israel. And Israel can be the light of all nations, which is what the nation aspires to. Of course, this raises a really interesting question. For the Empire of Israel to be born, the Empire of America needs to be destroyed. So why would America just sit back and let this happen? ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 22:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: Why would the global elite allow for Israel to become dominant in the Middle East? Remember, the center of global trade is the Middle East. Most of the world's oil is in the Middle East. Well, I think Israel will achieve its ambition. And the reason why is there are certain elements of the American Empire. There are certain elements of the global elite that want the Kingdom of David to be restored. They want the American Empire to be destroyed and to leave the Middle East. They want to help Netanyahu achieve his messianic calling. These elements are what we can loosely call Christian Zionists. They believe that for Jesus to return, the nation of Israel has to be reconstituted. They have to rebuild their temple. And they have to call back all the Jews from around the world. And there has to be a final battle between Israel and the world. And they believe that it is their messianic calling to make this prophecy happen. ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 23:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: And you hear this and you think this is all really silly. But let me tell you two things. The first thing is this plan, this prophecy has been in place for centuries. This Christian Zionist project has been around ever since the Protestant Reformation. And these people have been patiently planning and waiting for today. That's the first thing. The second thing you need to know is there's a man who actually conceived this Christian Zionist project, who built the intellectual foundations for Christian Zionism. And this man, you know his name, but you may not really know who he is. His name is Isaac Newton. And you know that yeah, he is the founder of calculus and he conceived the foundations for classical mechanics. In physics. But you don't know who the real historical Isaac Newton is. The real historical Isaac Newton saw himself as ## The War Is Powered By Messianic Calling -- 25:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #3: The Messianic Calling - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9adtiIN_k&t=1507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-bc9adtiin-k.json) Text: a prophet with a messianic calling to understand the mind of God and to prepare for the return of Jesus. And as you probably know, Isaac Newton was a very, very smart man. So in my next video, I'm going to talk about the real historical Isaac Newton and what his plan is. Because once you understand all this, then what's happening in the Middle East makes a lot more sense. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: Hi YouTube. Good morning from Toronto on a very muggy day. As you know, last night Trump ordered the bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities and this will mark the beginning of World War 3. So I have both good news and bad news. The bad news is we are now approaching the end of the world. The good news is this morning I will tell you how the world will end. So I'm gonna look ahead and ask the most pivotal question of this coming war which is will the United States use ground troops? And as we discussed many times before in previous videos, if the United States were to use ground troops then they would lose this war. It would mark the end of American Empire and it would probably ignite the second American Civil War. And I think that's a good thing. I think most people would be in agreement that using ground troops would be ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 1:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=65s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=65s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: a disaster for the United States and the United States should avoid using ground forces to the best of its ability. That said, I'm gonna use game theory to explain to you why they will still use ground troops against Iran even though it's a really really bad idea. In fact it is a it would be a catastrophe. Okay so let's do some game theory analysis. In game theory we look at it we look at the different players. Here be Iran, Israel, the United States. We ask three questions. The first question is how do they themselves perceive the game? What game are they playing? How do they see themselves? How do they see their roles in this game? That's the first big question. Second big question is what are their interests? What are their motivations? What are they trying to accomplish? What are their goals? And the third big question then is given their role and given their interests what is their optimal strategy in trying to achieve their goals? ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 2:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=135s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: Okay so given these three questions we're gonna look at how Iran, Israel, and the United States will play this game in this war. Okay so Iran's probably the easiest to do so we'll start with Iran. Iran perceives this war as the opportunity to achieve really important national strategic goals. The first is to create national unity and to further legitimize the authority of the regime. As you know because of sanctions and because of mismanagement because of corruption this regime in Iran is not very popular. But if the Americans are coming into India to invade and overthrow the regime and so chaos and destruction then the people are going to solidly unite behind the government no matter what government it is. Also the Iranians see this as the best opportunity in a long time to finally destroy the American presence in the Middle East by forcing the Americans into quagmire that that they cannot excrete themselves from. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 3:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: As we've seen in the civil rights권s sigh and spy China with The Middle East to do something risky and in fact U.S will oderous what they decided to do in those 6 years. But we can feel our hearts are lot camb all the time now. For one thing you let it in the past there has been quieting down your faith and our strong will and your rendering together at the same time we haven't lost at all. This with that confusion with animal access prevailing. Whereas it seems they can Inside they just going to go ahead and speak politely and increase the negative empowable discussed many times, supply issues in Iran will be a huge problem for the American military. They can get in, but it's very hard for them to get out. And the third strategic national interest is to create global legitimacy by defeating the Americans, right? ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 3:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: The Shia regime is trying to be the leaders of the global Muslim movement, and if they were to defeat the Americans in Iran, then they would become the de facto leaders of all Muslims in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia. So those are the three major national strategic interests of Iran. And now the question then is, how would Iran force Americans to invade? What is the optimal strategy in this regard? Because remember, the Iranians are the ones who are going to invade. They're the ones who are going to invade. They're not going to be able to beat the Americans in a conventional war. They don't have the technology, they don't have the weapons, they don't have the financing that the Americans do. So they're gonna have to trap the Americans in Iran, encircle them, and cut off their supply lines, and force a negotiated surrender. That's the optimal strategy of the Iranians. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 4:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#escalation-dominance-becomes-trap) Text: So why would the Americans be lured into attacking Iran on Iran's terms? Well, there's a concept in geopolitics and political science called the escalation ladder. The idea of the escalation ladder is that before a full -blown war can start, there has to be a certain process of escalation. And in this theory, the Americans have something called escalation dominance, which means that the Americans can always choose to use nuclear weapons if they feel they are losing this war. They are the hegemon, they are the global hegemon, and the Iranians are the underdog. So in theory, what they teach you in political science is that the hegemon has the advantage of escalation dominance. What I want to show you today is, actually, this theory doesn't really work. Because escalation dominance, what it does is it forces you into reactions that may be against your best interests. So let me use a metaphor. Let's just say there's a bully in a high school. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 5:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#escalation-dominance-becomes-trap) Text: And he's been bullying people for a year now. And he's the biggest guy in the school. He's really mean, and everyone's afraid of him. He has a reputation for being a thug. And that's why he's able to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. Now, let's just say that you, you're, you know, half his size, you want to start a fight with him. Well, you would think that, that, you know, you would think that, you know, you would think that would be against your advantage. But one advantage that you have in this fight is you can control the terms of engagement. You can calibrate your actions to, in order to elicit responses that are to the detriment of the bully, okay? So what I mean by that is, if the bully punches you, well, you have options. You can choose to go to the principal. You can choose to not do anything. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 6:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#escalation-dominance-becomes-trap) Text: Or you could choose to fight back, okay? You have some options. But if you were to punch the bully, the bully would have actually no choice but to punch you back. If he relents, if he compromises, then he loses all credibility in the school. So he has absolutely no choice in the matter, but to punch you back and punch you back harder than you punched him. And what this means is, there are ways for you to calibrate your attack so that the bully is trapped, okay? So, for example, you might say some bad things about him behind his back, then he responds. And anyway, the point of the matter is, even though the bully has the, is supposed to be the stronger player, he's forced by his reputation to respond in a certain way that you can control and calibrate. Same situation here with Iran versus the United States. The United States is a global hegemon. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 7:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: If Iran were to close off the Strait of Hormuz, if it were to attack Saudi Arabia, if it were to attack American bases in the Middle East, then the Americans must respond in a way that demonstrates escalation dominance, okay? And so, by slowly and methodically and steadily provoking the Americans in a way that seems fair and reasonable, then Iran can slowly force the Americans into evading Iran, okay? It's going to be a gradual process, but the Iranians can do this. Remember, it's the Americans who first launched the first strike against the Iranians. And so, the Iranians can now calibrate response in order to slowly trap the Americans in the Middle East, okay? So, from an Iranian's perspective, the ultimate strategy is to force Americans to evade. use ground troops to invade Iran and they can accomplish that by carefully calibrating responses in a way that forces the Americans to respond more harshly until finally the only option really is to use ground troops. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 9:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: That's the Iranian case study. Now let's look at the Israelis. The Israelis and the Americans seem to be allies in this war but the reality is the Americans and Israelis have divergent interests. America is the global hegemon therefore it wants to be able to balance forces in the Middle East. Yes it supports Israel right now but if Israel were to become too powerful over time then the Americans would start to back Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt. The Americans must maintain balance of power in the Middle East. The Israelis on the other hand want to be the dominant hegemon in the Middle East. There's something called the Greater Israel Project that among certain circles in Israel is an extremely influential idea. And the idea is very simple. They believe that in the Bible Yahweh their god gave the promised land to Abraham. That's a covenant. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 10:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: The Promised Land though extends from the Nile to the Euphrates. That entire Middle East is supposed to be what Yahweh promised Abraham. And there's a fanatical faction within the Israeli government that seeks to accomplish the Promised Land. And of course if that were the case, then the main adversaries to this project would not be the Iranians or the Saudis. It would actually be the Americans. Because to accomplish the Israel, the greater Israel project, then Israel needs to remove America from the Middle East. So how can Israel do this? Well let's just say, just hypothetically speaking, the Americans were to invade Iran with ground troops. And they're stuck there for years. And years. And years. And they get nowhere. Now the American Empire collapses. The American people revolt against the invasion of Iran. They refuse to serve. They burn their draft cards as they did in Vietnam. There's civil chaos. There's an emerging civil war in America. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 11:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: And now the American military is forced to retreat from the Middle East. What would happen in that situation? Well the moment that the American Empire dies, the Empire of Israel is born. Why? Because controlling the Middle East, the American military controlling the Middle East is called Central Command. They have bases. They have weapons. They have soldiers. If the American nation were to retreat from the Middle East, it does not mean the American military goes away. All it means is the American military will now become absorbed. into the nation -state of Israel, making Israel the de facto hegemon of the Middle East. That's the long -term play of Israel. It does Israel absolutely no good to defeat Iran. They need to both defeat Iran and America. The best way to do that is to entangle both into war that will destroy the militaries of both nations. That's the optimal strategy for Israel. And that requires the Israelis to persuade the Americans to use ground troops to invade Iran. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 12:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: That's the Israel case study. Now let's look at America. Obviously America does not want to use ground troops because the moment that Americans are dying in the Middle East, the moment that they institute a draft, it will create conflict. It will create chaos in America. People are going to protest. People are going to revolt. Politically speaking, it will be a quagmire. What the American Empire wants to do is use bombing, propaganda, and financing, and this is something we discussed last video, to overthrow the Iranian regime, the Al -Atola and its mullahs, and install a more friendly regime that they can control. And in that way, they can control all the resources, the oil of the Middle East, and they can control global trade as well. And they have to do this as a response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which really put the American Empire on the back foot. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 14:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: So that's the optimal strategy of the American Empire, to overthrow the regime with as little casualties as possible. Hopefully, through bombing, decapitation strikes, killing the Al -Atola, special forces strategies, basically. But the person leading the American Empire right now is Donald Trump. And if we look at what he wants, it's actually different from what the American Empire wants. Let's ask ourselves a question. What game is Donald Trump playing? Does he really care about Iran? Does he really care about the Middle East? Does he really care about Israel and Zionism and the Greater Israel Project? My guess is he does not care. What he cares about is maintaining his political authority and power within the United States. He also cares about destroying the global elite that in his mind robbed him of power in 2022. Remember, for Trump, the 2020 elections were stolen from him. It's something that he's been adamant about for the past four years. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 15:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=920s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=920s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: In fact, he steals over it. So he wants to get back at the global elite who stole the American election from him and also wants to make sure he stays in power. That means destroying the global elite and the American empire. So it's really a struggle between the two. It's a struggle between America First, represented by Donald Trump, and the American empire. You would think that this war between the American First people and the American empire would mean that Donald Trump would not use ground troops in Iran. But what better way to destroy the American empire than to give it all that it wants? What better way to destroy the American empire than by making it arrogant and by giving it all it wants and by putting it in a situation that it cannot possibly win, right? So the idea is this. The idea is, at first, Donald Trump will seem to want regime change in Iran. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 16:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: And he may even commit ground troops. But as the American people start protesting, as there's violence and civil strife within America. As American soldiers start to die in Iran. As the global economy collapses. Then Donald Trump's going to want to change his mind, right? But the American empire is fully committed to winning this war. It wants it all in. It refuses to surrender. And now a conflict emerges between the American empire and America First. And Donald Trump can now aggravate this tension by standing with America First over the American empire. And this would lead to a civil war. And you would think this is a bad thing. But a civil war, and an unwinnable war in the Middle East, are going to greatly enhance the power and authority of Donald Trump. So much so that he would probably be able to capture a third term, okay? ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 17:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: So it's really interesting in that. Okay. Okay. So the first three players, Donald Trump, Israel, and Iran, want America to use ground troops in Iran for their own selfish, individualistic purposes. And that's why I think ground troops will eventually be used in Iran. And I think what will happen is that basically all three players. Iran, Israel, and Donald Trump will get exactly what they want. Israel will be able to remove America from the Middle East and become the Empire of Israel. Iran will unite the Muslim world behind its leadership and Donald Trump will probably get his third term. Okay that's what I see the upshot of this war being. Now this raises a lot of questions though, right? I mean if Israel becomes Greater Israel and it becomes the Empire of Israel and dominates the Middle East controlling oil and trade, then wouldn't the world unite against Israel? And unfortunately that's part of the plan. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 18:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: That's part of the prophecy. Okay and this is something that we will discuss in the next video. Because using game theory itself, it's not going to work. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. This war in the Middle East itself is not it's not enough to fully explain and understand what's going on in the Middle East. To fully understand what's going on in my next video, I'll explain to you the religious ideals, the religious obsessions driving this war in the Middle East. I'll explain to you the idea of Eschatology which means the understanding of how the world ends. Basically all the major players in the game, Iran, Israel, even to a certain extent the United States, the Christian Zionists in the United States, see this war in Iran as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. They really see this as the end of the world. And that's why this war is so scary for all of us. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 19:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: And so in my next video, I will reveal to you the religious dimensions of this war. OK. Some other points before I conclude this video. Some of you have reached out in my last video and said that I should not reveal my public information. I shouldn't put my family in front of the camera. And you're absolutely right. Upon reflection, I want to thank everyone who voiced their concerns. Honestly, this is all new to me. I was a high school teacher. I was teaching my students. And now I'm Internet famous. And everyone's looking to me for some guidance as to this U.S.-Iran war. And I'm flattered, but I'm also overwhelmed by the attention. I'm an educator. I want to continue to educate people on how this war is going to unfold so that you will be better prepared. I see that as my mission. And so I'm going to continue making videos. ## Escalation Dominance Becomes The Trap -- 20:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update #2: WWIII Begins, Let's Game Theory - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4cs-8mrP_s&t=1259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-n4cs-8mrp-s.json) Text: I'm going to continue as this war progresses. Explain to you, using game theory, how this war might unfold. But I now understand that the United States can be a scary, crazy, insane place. So I'm going to have to be much more careful about my public profile. And I'm going to have to be a lot more careful about protecting my family. OK. So I'm going to keep on making videos. But I apologize. If you reach out and I don't really answer you. I'm being overwhelmed right now. I apologize if you reach out and you want to have coffee and I can't do it. Again, my focus right now is on studying this war. Trying to figure out what's going on. And to the best of my ability, try to explain and clarify what's going on. OK. So I will see everyone next time. Goodbye. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: Hi YouTube, this is Professor Jiang again. I am in Toronto. I'm still trying to recover from the jet lag and the time difference. As everyone knows, it seems this war in the Middle East is blowing up. And it seems that even though the United States has yet to declare war on Iran, it will probably happen in the next couple of days with the United States bombing Iran. So today I'm going to share with you my impressions, my analysis of what's happening in the Middle East. And I hope that this video will help you. This discussion will be clarifying and illuminating for many of you. So it's very clear what the U.S. intention is, because we've seen what the United States has done to Iraq, Libya and Syria. They call it regime change, but it's really the destruction of the society, the destruction of the capacity as a people to be a nation. To work collectively. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 1:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=85s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: And the most clear example, of course, is Iraq. In 2003, before the Americans invaded, it was a fairly well -functioning society. Yeah, I mean, there were sanctions that impoverished the people. But overall, I mean, it was a fairly stable society in the Middle East. The United States goes in, over for Saddam Hussein. And at that time, you had a lot of people. A lot of people who welcome this transition and this change. And they believe that the Americans will implement democracy, which was their stated mission. And it will lead to a more prosperous Iraq. But very soon afterwards, the Americans implement a policy called debauchification, which is to remove anyone from the Ba 'athist party from government, from the military, from the police. And the problem with this is these are the elite of society. When you remove the elite from society, from the pillars of power, society ceases to function properly. And that's exactly what happened. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 2:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: It led to massive sectarian violence that continues even today in Iraq. So I can't believe that anyone is stupid to not know the consequences of this policy of debauchification. And so when the American slave regime changed, in the Middle East, think of Iraq 2003 and what happened afterwards. So the question now is, how will the Americans move forward? Well, the American strategy in the Middle East, it's been in place for the past 20 years. And regime change requires three pillars. The first pillar is decapitation of the leadership. Just remove the entire leadership. Second is revolutionary intent. And you do that through economic sabotage, right? Through sanctions, by destroying infrastructure that allows people to live normal lives, which includes water supply, electricity. And the third pillar of the strategy is to foment sectarian violence, to divide and conquer the people, to take advantage of the fact that within these societies, there are these minorities of people who have traditionally been suppressed. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 4:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: You give them a promise of a better life. So in Iraq 2003, you have the Kurds, but you also had the Shiites. Iran, there are tons and tons of minorities who are discontent with the way things are right now. So that's the American strategy moving forward. And if we want to clarify or simplify the strategy, we can use a metaphor, okay? Americans, to win wars in the Middle East, they use bombs. They use propaganda. And they use money, okay? Bombs is basically, you have these fighter jets going in to destroy any military opposition. Propaganda is CNN, BBC, New York Times, to create the impression that this is being done in the name of democracy and prosperity and peace. And then money in that you are financing a lot of the opposition groups. You're financing a lot of the internal dissent which will overthrow the regime. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 5:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: So this strategy, bombs, propaganda, money, it's also being implemented right now in Iran. And in fact, you can make the argument that this has been going on secretly underground for many years now. Personally, I think the strategy won't work. First of all, bombs don't really work with the geography of Iran. Remember, Iran, it is a mountainous terrain. So it's a huge, huge country. It's three times the size of Iraq. So I'm not convinced that airstrikes will do any real lasting damage to the infrastructure of Iran. Propaganda, New York Times, CNN, BBC, have absolutely no credibility today. Not even among Western domestic audiences. They'll have even less credibility in Iran. And then you have money. And I don't know how effective money will be. Because at the end of the day, what differentiates Iran from, say, Libya, Syria, and Iraq is the people in Iran consider themselves Persians. In other words, they consider themselves heirs to a brilliant, creative civilization that's been around for 5,000 years. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 6:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: And I can't oversee it enough. How that would energize and motivate the people to resist and to unite together. Also, what's really important is the Iranians saw exactly what happened to the Iraqis. This once vibrant, harmonious, brilliant nation was destroyed by American sanctions and American airstrikes. So I don't think that the Americans have a compelling case to make before the Iranian people. So another way of saying this is that even though it seems the Americans have the military advantage, they are still the greatest military in human history. The problem, though, is the Iranians have much more strategic flexibility. And what I mean by that is the Americans, to overfall this regime, need to decapitate the leadership. They need to create internal dissent, a revolution. And they need to rally the religious minorities against the regime in Tehran. And that's really the main strategy moving forward. And really, the only... ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 8:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: Oh, this is my son, Chris, by the way. And that's the only real path to victory for the Americans. Whereas the Iranians have much more strategic flexibility. So, in other words, America and its allies in the Middle East have major strategic vulnerabilities. For example, let's take Saudi Arabia. Well, Saudi Arabia has two vulnerable resources that the Iranians at any time can strike at through their proxies, the Houthis, right? You have the desalination plants, which is the only source of fresh water for Saudi Arabia. If you knock out the desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia loses all its fresh water in two weeks' time. And there's no way of replenishing that fresh water. Then, of course, you have the oil fields, which are extremely vulnerable to rocket attacks. So, Saudi Arabia, the main U.S. ally of Arab nations in the Middle East, it's extremely vulnerable to Iranian attacks. Then you have the Strait of Hormuz, which controls a great deal of the world's trade. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 9:22 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: If Iran closes that off, then that cuts off not just oil to East Asia, but it cuts off revenue for American allies like Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar. And the last strategic vulnerability is you have all sorts of American bases throughout the Middle East. Especially in Kuwait, especially in Saudi Arabia, Qatar. And these are legitimate military targets if America declares war on Iran. So, another way of saying this is Americans, their ability to inflict pain on Iran, we know it's predictable, and we know that the Iranians can sustain it because this sanctions regime has been going on for the past few decades. But the Iranians' ability to inflict pain on American allies, as well as the American military, as well as American consumers, well, they're not really predictable. And ultimately, you can make the argument that because America is not, the ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 10:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: American people are not in favor of this war, then it's less likely that American consumers will be able to sustain and absorb high oil prices and inflation that this war would inevitably cause. So, I would say the main advantage going into this war, just from a geopolitical, analytical perspective, I would say it's very much in favor of the Iranians. This does not mean that the Americans and Israelis will not be able to inflict tremendous damage on the nation. I mean, if America and Israel continues its bombing campaign, which I suspect it will for the next few months, then we will see tremendous damage and economic loss within Iran. But ultimately, war is not decided by resources, weapons, or technology. It's really decided by a people's willingness to fight and die for what they believe in. And I think when it comes to this question, then I think the Iranians have a huge advantage over the Americans. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 11:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=709s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: Also, let's not forget that the Iranians have been studying... Sorry, sorry. Sorry. The Americans have been studying the American strategy in the Middle East for the past 20 years. And I'm pretty sure they developed counterstrategies against an American attack. And I think the main counterstrategy is the idea of decentralization. You've got these different militias, different cells embedded in different parts of Iran. So even though America and Israel, they may be able to decapitate the leadership, they may be able to knock out the central leadership in Tehran, they won't be able to occupy the country. And unless they're able to occupy the country and install a military regime that's to their liking, then this war is not won. Then Iran is still a functioning threat to American Middle East interests. Okay. Having gone through some broad analysis, let's look at questions that viewers have been asking on my Discord server. So the first big question is, will nuclear weapons be used in this war at any point? ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 13:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: And my intuition tells me it won't be for many, many reasons. The first major reason is, this is huge. It's a huge taboo against the use of nuclear weapons. If America were to detonate a nuke, America would lose all credibility, all authority among its allies and among the world. And we have to remember, this war is being fought to reestablish American credibility and authority in the world. Putin's invasion of Ukraine did a great deal of damage to Americans' reputation and the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is to reestablish the idea that America is still the global hegemon, that it is still a unipolar world. And so by detonating a nuke, it shows the desperation, anxiety, and quite honestly, incompetence of the American military. So for that reason, I don't think America will use nukes. Also, even though Putin has not publicly ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 14:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: stated that he will retaliate if America will use a nuke against Iran, he hasn't done this publicly because it's not to his advantage to state it publicly. But I'm sure that through back channels, through intermediaries, Putin has made this very clear to the Americans. Putin will tolerate an American invasion of Iran, but he will not tolerate nuclear weapons being used in this war. So I think we can discount the use of nukes in this war. We would have to reach a very high point in the escalation ladder for even nukes to be considered in this war. So I think that for the purpose of analysis, let's discount the possibility of nukes. Second question is, what are unknowns going into this war? Well, I think there are three big unknowns. The first big unknown is, what happens if the Americans kill the Supreme Leader of Iran? This would trigger a secession crisis. His son is supposed ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 15:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: to take over in the case of the death of the Ayatollah, but he's extremely unpopular and he's not that competent. So I'm not sure if the death of the Supreme Leader, the assassination of the Supreme Leader, what that would do to the dynamic of this war. But I would assume that this would be a huge advantage for the Americans and the Israelis. So I think that's a big question. Will they be able to assassinate the Supreme Leader? That's the first big question. Second big question is, what will Putin's response be? And I think, as we know, Putin has withdrawn a lot of his Russian advisors from Iran. And Putin has stayed pretty quiet in the matter. And so what he intends, what he will do, we just don't know right now. And I think that's the intention. I think Putin wants to be the power broker behind the scenes. And I think, in many ways, he's setting up a trap for America. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 16:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: Because there's really one scenario in which America loses this war. Really badly. If America were to send in ground troops, it would lose this war. And the reason why is the idea of sunk cost fallacy. So if America were to send in the Marines and a ground invasion, we're going to expect the American military would just bulldoze all opposition. It would establish beachheads. It would establish foreign operating bases throughout the interior of Iran. And at this point, everyone's cheering on. Like, look how great the American military is. There's a surge of patriotism in America. The American media, CNN, New York Times, they are just praising the American military to the sky. And it would seem a repeat of Operation Desert Storm in 2003. The problem, though, is the American military does not have the depth, the strategic depth, the resources, the supply lines, in order to sustain this attack. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 17:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: And what would happen very quickly is this massive blitzkrieg, shock and awe, or whatever you call it, in Iran, would get bogged down really quickly. And at this point, it would be very easy for the underground militias, these cell groups, to strike at supply lines for the Americans. And it would become very quickly almost an impossible war to win for the American military. But at the same time, they've invested so much. And they're so close to Tehran, right? They're so close to taking over the capital. So they can't give up. It's sunk cost fallacy. And sunk cost fallacy is such a powerful force in geopolitics. And so the Americans are kind of stuck there. And then they're just forced to... It's a black hole for them. They're just forced to throw in resources, that they don't have. And this might trigger... Well, this will definitely trigger protests across America, which may lead to a civil war. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 18:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: So remember, it's impossible for any nation in this world to defeat America. Just impossible. Even if the entire world were to get together and attack America, the world would still lose. The only way to defeat America is by causing a civil war, a revolution in America, that would damage the regime so much that America would be forced to retreat from its obligations in the world. Okay? So my question then is, does Putin understand this? And he set up conditions in a way to create this outcome. And my thinking is, yes. Putin... This is Putin's plan moving forward. And Putin will be working behind the scenes in order to create a situation where America is forced to invade Iran with ground forces. These ground forces will seem to be really quickly establish supremacy in Iran, but they get bogged down. And then Trump, the Americans, may be forced to have a draft. And this ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 19:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: will lead to Vietnam War protests and conflicts across America, which may in the end trigger an American civil war. So that's Putin and Russia. But again, we don't know exactly what they will do. But if I'm right about Putin, then I think he will very much be the master manipulator behind the scenes. The third great unknown is China. China and Iran have very strong economic ties. China gets a third to half its oil from Iran. If Iran were to fall and America were to control the oil supply, then the Chinese economy would be in a lot of trouble. Due politically, this would be very, very bad for China. So China is a great unknown. What will China's response be? My prediction is we will not hear from China in this conflict that much. In fact, we can sort of discount China from this war. And there are reasons why. The first major reason is China doesn't really have a grand geopolitical strategy. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 21:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: It doesn't really understand its place in the world. It doesn't have a theory to explain its place in the world. So remember, previously I discussed the Heartland thesis, the Mackender thesis, where both America and Britain need to stop a hegemon emerging to unite the Eurasian continent. Because if a land power would emerge, maybe Germany, maybe Russia, were able to unite Europe and Asia together, then that would destroy America and Britain's capacity to control global trade. You're going to have railways connect Eurasia and you really don't have to trade for the seas anymore. So that's how America and Britain sees the world. Russia understands that it is extremely vulnerable to invasions. It's been invaded by multiple nations in its history, which has caused tremendous death and destruction within Russia. So Russia needs to be on the offensive if it is to maintain its territorial integrity. But when we go to China, China doesn't really care about the rest of the world. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 22:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: For China, what's important is to maintain its territorial integrity by not participating in the world. China built the Great Wall. The purpose of the Great Wall was to prevent outsiders from coming to China, but also prevent insiders from leaving China. So for China, its main priority is to maintain its territorial integrity. And what it understands is the only way for the Communist Party to fall in China is if it were to engage itself in an external geopolitical conflict that has no way of extracting itself from. That's why China is not going to get involved in this war in the Middle East. And at the end of the day, if the United States conquers Iran and forces China to pay twice, three, four times as much for oil, then China will just absorb the cost. Because for China, what's really important is to maintain the stability of the regime. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 23:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: Geopolitics doesn't really matter. So I would say these are the three big questions that we can watch out for. Will the Americans be able to kill the Supreme Leader? Because that is definitely on the agenda. And they're investing a lot of resources to ensure this possibility. And I'm not sure if it will happen, but if it does happen, then consequences for Iran will be quite there. Another known is Russia, what Putin will do. I think it will be almost impossible to truly gauge his intentions and strategy moving forward. Another known is China. Will China participate in this conflict on the side of Iran? My guess, my prediction is, if there's participation, it'll be much more, it'll be very limited. So China will supply supplies, armaments, weapons, but it will not intervene on behalf of Iran to the degree that Iran would really want. So one last thing I want to ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 24:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: talk about is, some of you have been curious as to how I've been able to so accurately predict the contours of this war. And so the quick answer to this is, I use a new analytical model called game theory. And game theory is something that I will discuss in greater detail over the next few months as I analyze this war even more. And game theory, it's not a secret. I mean, it's not something that's impossible to learn. My hope as we move along is to teach everyone the ability to use game theory to analyze geopolitics in order to anticipate events and to prepare for events. So that's it for my first analysis of this war. I'm hoping to make more updates as this war progresses. And so there's lots of things I can't really talk about on YouTube because I'll be banned or I'll be censored. So as some of you know, I had a German video. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 25:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: I made a video on the history of Germany. And that's been banned in Germany by YouTube because it was flagged by certain users who found some material within the video extremely controversial. So I need to be really careful about what I say in order to avoid YouTube censorship. I'll probably at some point move to Rumble where I'll be more free to discuss what I really think about the world. So please watch out for that. I'll make an announcement if I move on to Rumble. But the big announcement is I've set up a Discord server as some of you know. This Discord server will allow us to engage as a community. And what I'm hoping to do at some point is set up a time where we can have question and answer where you can ask me anything and I'll tell you how my thought process works and guide you through the process of developing a game theory mindset so you can for yourself analyze global events using game theory. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 26:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: So the link to my Discord server called Predictive History it's in the description. So please click on that and please join the server the Discord server. And very quickly we'll set up like an hour live stream where I'll answer some questions that you have posted on the Discord server. I apologize if I'm not responding to your messages. I have two young boys who are running around the park right now and I have to watch them. And they're very active. And they're something from jet lag. So I'm taking them out on strolls to the parks every single day. So I'm usually not at home. I don't have internet access outside my parents' house. So I apologize if I'm not responding to you in real time to your queries and to your messages. I am extremely thankful and grateful for the community that we're developing right now. ## The War America Can Win And Still Lose -- 27:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy Update: US-Iran War Incoming - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=1678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu.json) Text: And I hope to build on this community. Because as some of you have pointed out the world is moving to a very dark place. And the only way to survive and to anticipate and to prepare for the chaos that this new world will bring about is to come together as a community and to help each other out and to have solidarity. So please join the Discord server and I will see everyone on Discord. So goodbye. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) Text: Hi YouTube, this is Professor Jiang. Today is my last day in Beijing. Tomorrow morning I board a flight with my two boys for Toronto, Canada. That's where I was, that's where I grew up. My parents are there, so it's really the first time my kids are seeing their grandparents and everyone's really excited about it. This morning, my wife and I, we sent our three kids to kindergarten, then we went to the hospital so that I could do some blood work. I have high blood pressure. I turn 50 next year, so my wife is very anxious about my health. And then after the hospital, I checked the news and Israel is attacking Iran. So... I, in my previous videos, have said that this would happen, but I am surprised by the accelerated timeline. It seems we're headed towards World War III far faster and far harder than I could ever imagine. So like everyone else, I'm just praying and hoping that... ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 1:23 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=83s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=83s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) Text: that things turn out for the best, but also preparing for the worst. So this is really the first time that I've had a chance to talk directly to you guys. So let me tell you about myself, why I'm teaching this course, and what my plans are for the future of this class. So I was born in China in 1976. But when I was six, my family and I immigrated to Toronto, Canada. And my family was poor, but I worked really hard and I got a full scholarship to go to Yale University. And I was really thankful to my teachers and the opportunity to empower myself for education. So after I graduated from Yale with a degree in English Literature, I returned to China and I've been ever since working in education. Doing everything I could possibly do. I'm doing everything I could possibly do. In order to promote education reform in China. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 2:25 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#living-school-forms-future-makers); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: And I've worked various capacities. I've obviously worked as an English teacher, but I've also worked as a principal, curriculum director, a teacher trainer. I've worked in all levels of education in China. Kindergarten, primary school, junior high, high school, university as well. Three years ago, I got hired at this school that I'm at now, a private school in Beijing, that helps students go abroad. And I first came in actually as a curriculum director, overseeing the humanities curriculum at the school, which is what I specialize in. But the school needed teachers because of COVID. It was really hard to recruit teachers back then. So I was teaching AP English and it was my first time teaching advanced placement English. I really didn't know what I was doing. So I just thought that we would just read a lot of books. So the kids and I, we read Julius Caesar. Paradise Lost, Virginia Woolf, Dante Divine Comedy, the Iliad, and the kids loved it. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 3:28 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#living-school-forms-future-makers); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: And I loved teaching it. So in the second year, I built a great books program at the school. And again, it was extremely successful. We read the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Iliad, the Bible, the Divine Comedy, and the kids loved it. But while teaching it, I recognized there's a problem. And the problem was the kids. The kids, being Chinese, had absolutely no historical context to work with. So this year, I started to develop a new program, which is the program that you've been experiencing for the last 60 classes. My goal this year was to teach the entirety of human history from the Ice Age up until the American Empire, which is what I taught yesterday. And again, it's been great for me. It's been great for me. It's been great for the kids. And it's been great for me because it's really offered me an opportunity to think very deeply about history. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 4:29 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#living-school-forms-future-makers); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#truth-prediction-coherence-atlas); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: Specifically, it's given me an opportunity to think about the possibilities of history. And over the course of teaching this course, I've decided that I want to create a new intellectual movement, a new sort of history. I call it predictive history. The idea is that in the future, I hope that history is able to accomplish three major goals. The first goal is to connect events of the past into a coherent story. Second is to help us understand, explain the present. And the third goal is to be able to predict the future. And I think that if what we teach accomplishes all three goals, then it must be true history. And I think if we have true history, then we, humanity, the world, can better organize, can better think. Can better control our future. And that's my ambition. As you can imagine, I was deeply inspired by the works of Isaac Asimov. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 5:31 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: As a young boy growing up in Toronto, Canada, I didn't have that many friends, but I read a lot of books. And one of my favorite series was the Foundation series. And in it, Isaac Asimov proposed the idea of psychohistory, which is the idea that we can mathematically model the present and the past. So as to predict the future. And that, I think, will be my future ambition moving forward. I want to build intellectual foundations for the possibility of psychohistory. And that's my long -term thinking. So about this course. So I initially uploaded the classes so that my students can review the lectures because these are Chinese students, and their English is not that great. And there were a couple hundred subscribers initially, and everyone was fantastic. I'm so thankful for these initial subscribers because they believed in me, they commented, gave me valuable feedback, and I tried to interact with them as much as possible. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 6:40 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: This past month, something odd happened. My channel just blew up. I went from like 300 subscribers at the beginning of May. To about 25,000 as we speak right now, and it's constantly growing. And the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. So thank you so much for subscribing, for liking, for commenting. I try to read every comment, but as you can imagine, there's just so many comments. And I would like to respond to every one of them. But again, there's so much going on in my life. I have three young kids that I have to take care of. I have to take care of them with my wife. I also have to prep for classes. And because I have three young kids, I've been sick a lot. It's allergy season in China, COVID is still going strong. So I'm just trying my best right now to take care of my kids. So my apologies if I don't respond. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 7:43 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) Text: I will try to respond over the summer. But again, I'm so thankful for all the support. Thank you. All the positive feedback that I've received recently. So I finished teaching the course yesterday, 60 classes covering the entire span of human history. And a lot of you are curious as to what the plans are moving forward. Well, tomorrow I'm going back to Toronto to rest, recuperate, relax. The summer is also a really good time for me to reflect on what I've taught and how I've improved the course. I will also be doing a lot of reading. Some of you have suggested anything I've taught, which I will go into deeply this summer. I will also look at Oswald Spangler very carefully. Some of you have commented that I'm very weak in terms of philosophy. Marx, Hegel, Kant are pretty weak. I'm pretty weak at. And I admit that. So this summer, I will try to brush up on my philosophy. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 8:46 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) Text: I will also need to study economics in depth, as well. So Adam Smith and other economists, because that really right now is the weak point in my analysis. I don't have enough classical economics in my background to fully comment on what's happening economically in the world. So that's my plan. When I return to Beijing in mid -August, I'll be teaching a new iteration of this course. So rather than 60 classes, I'll try to cram everything in into 30 classes. Now, some of you have bravely watched all 60 classes. I guarantee you, in this new series, you'll be really impressed, and you'll really enjoy it. I'm going to add tons of new material. And I'm going to make the themes much more salient, much more coherent, so that you can see the underlying structures of human history much more clearly. The second semester, which starts in February, will be a lot of fun. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 9:48 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=588s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=588s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#school-dream-outlives-classroom); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: The second semester, I'll be teaching a new iteration of this course. geopolitics. So what I'll be doing is I'll be looking at current events trying to analyze why these events are happening and making predictions about what will happen. So the second semester will be a lot of fun. Some of you are really enjoying this channel and I'm so grateful that that you are and don't worry I love being able to teach to a global audience and I'm gonna keep keep on doing this for as long as I can. Some of you may be curious as to what my long -term ambitions are. Well as I said I have three kids. I love teaching and I really want to develop a psychohistory to its fullest possibility. So my long -term ambition is actually to set up a my own school that specializes in the teaching of the liberal arts of the humanities and build the foundations for psychohistory. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 10:46 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#school-dream-outlives-classroom); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: I want this school to be the best ever. I want this to be like Plato's Academy. I want this to be like the Jedi Temple where I'm training the intellectual Jedi's of the future. These will be the future intellectuals, the future writers, the future historians of humanity. And I hope that we together when we build this community will be able to lead humanity forward and that's really what I want to do. My ambition. So again thank you so much for watching my lectures. I'm really thankful. Some of your comments have really made a deep impression on me and they're gonna really help me improve the course for next year. So I promise you that I will offer a much more lean, much more clean, much more enjoyable viewing experience in St. Athos. I will also try as best as I can to fix my hair because I know that's been a concern for a lot of you. ## Predictive History Begins As A School -- 11:56 - Source title: Civilization BONUS: Meet Professor Jiang - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQEteh6Hko&t=716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-voqeteh6hko@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-voqeteh6hko.json) Text: So enjoy your summer. I'm going to engage in the process of deep reflection and deep learning, deep reading this summer so that in September, in the fall, I can deliver the best quality content I can to everyone. Because I'm so grateful. Thank you. to everyone for watching okay well that's it for me for me enjoy your summer and I will see you in mid -august ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Good morning. So today we do Justice Stalin and I want to make you the argument that Justice Stalin is probably the greatest man who ever lived, okay, for three reasons. The first reason is that Justice Stalin, he is a poor high school dropout from Georgia, which is on the fringes of the Russian Empire, and he leads an extreme fringe and despised political party called the Bolsheviks into absolute power in Russia, okay. That's the first reason. Second reason is that among the Bolsheviks, Stalin is the least impressive. Everyone else is intellectual with many books, many speeches, many achievements to his resume, but Stalin defeats them all and becomes the ultimate ruler of Soviet Russia. That's like a second reason. And the third reason is that during World War II, Soviet Union was up against Germany. So Stalin took a poor, divided, isolated nation and defeated Germany and turned it into a global hegemon, alright. So these ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:15 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=75s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=75s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: are the three main reasons why I consider Stalin to be certainly the greatest man of the 20th century and quite possibly you can make the argument that he was the greatest man who ever lived, okay. So I'm going to put these three things together. The first, the Bolsheviks should not have triumphed. If you just looked at what's going on in the early 20th century in Russia, you would not have predicted that the Soviets would have won. Stalin should not become Soviet leader, and the Soviets should not have won World War II. Alright? All these three things happen because Stalin willed this reality into being. He is what Friedrich Nietzsche would call the Obermanns. The Obermanns is someone who steps out of history and warps it to his will. That is Joseph Stalin. That is the argument I will make to you today. All right, so some basic history about Russia. As we discussed previously about Russia, Russia is very much a nation of a split personality. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 2:21 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: It is both Asian as well as European, both Christian and pagan, both enlightened as well as reactionary. And because of these contradictions, it leads to many rebellions and revolutions throughout Russian history. One was famous being 1825, a group of military officers, called the Desembrists, tried to overthrow the Tsar and install a military dictatorship. Ever since this event, revolutionary... the revolutionary discussion becomes sort of like a national pastime in Russia. Dostoevsky, both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were sympathetic to revolutions. 1853 to 1856 is a pivotal moment in Europe, in Russian history, because that's when Russia loses the Crimean War to the Ottoman Empire backed by the French and the British. And this marks a limit to the expansion of Russia. So one way that Russia resolves its internal contradictions and its internal conflict is by expanding eastwards and allowing the nobles to accumulate more land, more slaves, and that mollifies a lot of these nobles. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 3:46 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: But in 1853 and 1856, after Russia loses the Crimean War, Russia understands that It is backward and agricultural compared with Europe. So Alexander II, who is Tsar of Russia at this time, he embarks on a series of radical liberal reforms, the most major being in 1861, he emancipates the serfs. The serfs are slaves who are tied down to the land. And by liberating them, he hopes to further industrialize Russia as well as create a more vibrant market economy, which is what you need to be a modern nation state. But as you can imagine, this creates a lot of pushback from the nobles who lose a lot of wealth and property because of these reforms. A fun fact about Alexander II was he was very good friends with Abraham Lincoln. In fact, Alexander II was a huge admirer of the American Republic, so much so that when ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 4:52 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: in 1861, when the American Civil War started, Tsar Alexander II was worried that the French and the British would intervene on behalf of the Confederacy. The reason why is that, first of all, the American Confederacy provides a lot of cotton to the British and the French for their textile industry. As well, the French and the British see America as a growing threat. So by supporting the Confederacy, they believe that they can divide and weaken America. So in response, Alexander II publicly stated that if the French and the British ever declare an alliance with the Confederacy, then Russia would intervene on behalf of the Union. And to show that he was serious, he sent warships to New York and San Francisco to show that Russia would defend America. So this is forgotten, but this is a really fun fact about Russian history, that Alexander II, who was a huge admirer of Abraham Lincoln, they wrote letters ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 5:55 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=355s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=355s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: to each other and he did much to save the American Union in a time of crisis. Now, in 1881, his liberal reform stopped when he was assassinated. This was the day, he was assassinated on the day that he returned from a meeting where basically he was gonna promote constitutional monarchy in Russia. And then he was assassinated by a terrorist group called, the people's will. Now, there's a very good reason why the people's will assassinated Alexander the Second. At this time in Russian history, there were a lot of revolutionaries who believed that to liberate Russia, you need to liberate the mindset of the peasants. The problem is the mindset loved the Tsar, and so the intellectuals felt that the idea of the Tsar enslaved the peasants from seeking enlightenment and freedom, and therefore sent a signal to liberate the peasantry. You needed to kill the Tsar in an act of violence, and that's what happened in 1881. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 6:59 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So this is the people's will, and what you will see is that they're a very small group of people. There's at most 2,000, and they were founded right before they assassinated Alexander the Second, 1879. And after the assassination, they were—all the major members were quickly arrested by the secret police and executed, and they confess to their crimes. That's why we know so much about them. But this creates a problem. The problem is this. If the secret police were so effective in capturing all their assassins right after the assassination, why weren't they effective in stopping the assassination? That's a curious question. In fact, if you think about some more, you have some other problems. For example, the people who's been sentiments in Russia were done through un causes. And a few of the residents People's Will, it is a terrorist organization, but where do they get the funding? This is always a problem when you are an underground organization. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 7:58 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=478s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Where do you get your financing from? Another problem is if these are religious fanatics, they really believe that their mission is to liberate the peasantry, they're probably very opinionated and it's probably very hard to organize them into a hierarchy. So these are two major problems that the People's Will and other terrorist organizations throughout Russian history will face, including the Bolsheviks. Now to answer both questions, let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say you're a secret police and you're tasked with monitoring and capturing these terrorists. Now is it to your benefit to capture them or is it to your benefit to assist them? Now this sounds like a good question. It sounds like a silly question, but let's think about it deeply. So why don't you want to support political extremists? Well there's some very good reasons. It's risky, it's violent, it's unethical, it doesn't really help anyone. So we should not help political extremists. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 8:59 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: But if you're a secret police and you ask yourself what are the benefits of helping them, it turns out there's quite a lot. Let's go over them. Number one. By helping extremists. By helping extremists, you defame the entire political opposition. You make all the people who oppose the Tsar look bad because, look, these are fanatical, they're violent. That's one really good reason why you want to support extremists. Second is you want to foment internal dissent among political opponents. So the classic example is the Marxist group at this time in history are the Mensheviks. And they are intellectuals and they believe heavily in Marx. The Bolsheviks are led by Marx. The Bolsheviks are led by Lenin and they are an extreme group. The main conflict is the Mensheviks believe that for the revolution to happen you have to follow Marx's prescription, which is you go from an autocracy to a bourgeoisie democracy because that is what's going to help Russia industrialize. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 10:02 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Once industrialization happens, capitalism will automatically make the proletariat class conscious. And when they're class conscious, they become industrialized. They will unite and overthrow the bourgeoisie democracy to create the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the classical Marx theory of evolution towards a communist society. Lenin believes, no, we don't need this because the Menshevik worldview is we have to be patient. We have to wait for Russia to industrialize. Right now the industrial workers in Russia is about 3 % of the population. The peasantry is 80%. And Lenin's argument is that the peasantry is 80%. And the Menshevik's argument is we don't have to wait for the proletariat to become 80 % of the population. What we can do is create a vanguard party and lead the peasants into communist paradise. And the Mensheviks say when you do that, all you're doing is creating a peasant revolution which will lead to a dictatorship of the peasantry. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 11:02 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: You'll be no different from the Tsar. So eventually Lenin and the Bolsheviks will split apart from the Mensheviks. And it would be to the benefit of the secret police to support the Bolsheviks. We'll see evidence for this later on. By supporting political extremism, you also induce political violence to justify more state control. You collect intelligence by implanting spies within these extremist groups. You can also arrest extremists to score political points within the bureaucracy because the secret police is getting paid a lot of money. How do they justify their salaries? They arrest extremists that they support. Also you can use these extremists to assassinate political enemies. So you make the argument that within the secret police, there's a faction of nobles who were outraged at the reforms of Alexander II, especially the thought of creating a constitutional monarchy which would limit the powers of the aristocracy. And therefore, they have the people's will. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 12:11 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Kill Alexander II. You also have false flag operations where you have extremists on behalf of your enemy create terrorist events within the country which will justify a war against an enemy. And also, the best reason, of course, is because it's fun and exciting. The people in the secret police, they're all psychopaths. And they enjoy this process. In fact, you can make the argument that one of the main functions of the secret police is to create problems for society so that they can justify their power. So again, this sounds pretty extreme to you, but let's look at some evidence that this was the case in Russia in the late 19th century. This is Vladimir Lenin, and he was a revolutionary who had to escape to Europe in order to not be captured by the secret police. And again, he was a fanatic. So let's read from Wikipedia about his time in London. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 13:11 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Lenin's factionalism began to alienate increasing numbers of Bolsheviks, including his former close supporters. So this guy was an asshole. He was a fanatic. He was extreme. He was violent. No one liked this guy. And normally, what would happen is he becomes ostracized. He becomes alienated. He is thrown aside, and he is left to write his own books, which would happen in a normal course of events. But at this time in history, the secret police intervene. The Okhrna, which is the Russian imperial secret police. It's a secret police. Exploited his factional attitude by sending a spy, Roman Malanskovsky, to act as a vocal Lenin supporter within the party. Various Bolsheviks expressed their suspicions about Malanskovsky to Lenin, although it's unclear if the latter was aware of the spy's duplicity. It's possible that he used Malanskovsky to feed false information to the Okhrna. Do you understand? The secret police was an active supporter of Vladimir Lenin. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 14:10 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Now the Wikipedia tells us that, okay, well. The Okhrna sent a spy to support Lenin. We can also guess that the secret police were also sending money to Lenin, which is very important, right? Because now Lenin can support his faction within the larger socialist movement. In fact, they probably have more money than the other groups, okay? So the secret police is incubating the Bolsheviks. All right. Let's use another example. Have you ever asked yourself where Islamic extremism comes from? Well, the answer is no. So when we did the Islamic Golden Age, what I said, and I still believe today, is the Islamic Golden Age was a period of openness and tolerance. So what changed? Well, after World War II, the Americans and the British started to sponsor Islamic extremism. Okay? This is pretty well known historically. Why? There are three main reasons why. The first reason is, at this time in history, the Soviet Union and America was fighting a Cold War. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 15:13 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Okay? So there were no Islamic minorities within America, but guess what? There are lots and lots of Islamic minorities within the Soviet Union. Okay? In fact, it was maybe like a third of the population. That's a lot. And they hated the communists because the communists were atheists, and they wanted to celebrate their religion. Okay? So by sponsoring Islamic extremism, you are destabilizing the Soviet Union. Okay? That's the first really good reason. Second reason is, at this time, the Middle East is growing in importance because of its oil resource. Well, at this time in history, the 50s, 60s, 70s, nationalism, panarism, and socialism are the major ideologies of these nations at this time. And these are all threats to American -British commercial interests within the Middle East. Right? Because all these ideologies are saying, like, we shouldn't give our oil for free to America and Britain. We should protect our resource. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 16:10 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So by supporting Islamic extremism, you're undermining the Soviet Union. You're undermining these ideologies, which is exactly what happened in Iran. And the last reason is the Americans and the British heavily support the Saudi regime, which is extremely unpopular. So a long time ago, the Saudis made a pact with Wahhabism, which is a fanatical ideology within Islam. And so by supporting Islamic extremism, you support Wahhabism, which supports the Saudi regime. Okay? So I want you guys to remember this. The secret police throughout history, they've been supporting bloodshed. They've been supporting political extremism in order to achieve short -term political objectives. Okay? All right. Let's continue. So after the death of Alexander II, his son, Alexander III, comes into power. And he is a reactionary. But he dies fairly young, which leaves his son, Nicholas II, to take the throne. And Nicholas II, he's very young, and he's very inexperienced. He's a nice guy. He loves his family. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 17:13 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1033s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1033s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: But he's not real. He's not really equipped to lead Russia in a time of tremendous political and social tumult. In 1904, the Russians lose a war against the Japanese. And at this time, not only did they lose the war, but there's famine going on throughout Russia. So this is a time of tremendous discontent and revolution in Russia, which leads to something called the Bloody Sunday in 1905, where worker protesters were killed. They were killed by soldiers, all right? Also at this time, what's happening is that the royal family, they start to ally themselves with a priest named Gregory Rasputin, all right? If he looks scary, it's because this is a very scary man. He styles himself as a mystic. And the royal family, they have exactly one heir to the throne, and his name is Alexei, the young son. Okay? So the problem with Alexei is he has something called hemophilia, which means that if he bleeds, he could die. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 18:20 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And Rasputin was very good at calming down Alexei. So Rasputin became a member of the royal family, essentially. But people, the Russian people, hated Rasputin because there's rumors that he was a sex maniac. He was organizing all these satanic rituals. Also, there was a very popular rumor. There was a rumor that Rasputin was sleeping with Alexandra, okay, the Tsarina. And eventually, the nobles will organize and assassinate Rasputin. But not before this entire affair does tremendous damage to the reputation and prestige of the royal family. World War I breaks out, and even though Rasputin pleaded with the Tsar not to intervene, the Tsar did declare war. They declared war against Germany. And now Russia is up against Germany, the Austrian -Hungarian Empire, as well as the Ottoman Empire. And this war is devastating for Russia. And in 1917, there's a huge spontaneous protest against the Tsar. And at this point, his generals tell him he should abdicate, which is what he does. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 19:40 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And so now, the parliament, called the Duma, becomes the provisional government. And they clear a republic, all right? But they're still at war with Germany. So what Germany does is it organizes Lenin to be smuggled back into Russia so that he can foment discontent and rebellion and revolution, okay? So Lenin was not just a useful idiot to the Russian secret police, but he was also a useful idiot to the Germans who wanted to knock Russia out of the war. When Lenin returned to Russia, he tried to organize a rebellion against the provisional government because the provisional government still wanted to stay in the war, and Lenin wanted to take Russia out of the war. Lenin called for three things, okay? Land, peace, and bread. And this was very popular among the people. Eventually, the provisional government tried to arrest Lenin. He escaped. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 20:44 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: But then what happened was the military tried to overthrow the government, and now the provisional government under Kerensky now requires Lenin to help out and defend the republic against the military. And Lenin is not in any way a politician. He's a theoretician, okay? And he's fanatical. So let's read a passage from his book, State of Revolution, which he wrote about. the summer 1917 to understand his thinking he says the petty bourgeoisie democrats he's talking about uh the professional government those sham socialists the mensheviks who replace the class struggle by dreams of class harmony even picture the socialist transformation in a dreamy fashion not as the overflow of the rule of exploiting class but as the peaceful submission of the minority tonight the majority which has become aware of its aim okay so lenin has absolutely contempt for all of his enemies a violent ritual contempt all right so in 1917 october lenin uh orders ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 21:51 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1311s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: a coup d 'etat against provisional government and this will eventually lead to something called the russian civil war and at this time in history the bolsheviks are controlling only some small cities primarily petrograd but their enemies called the whites okay the whites are uh former remnants of the russian empire uh the aristocrats the military they control most of russia and it seems like they're making a huge advance against the bolsheviks okay but there are three things that will conspire to ensure the bolsheviks win the first thing is the whites don't actually have a policy for reform they don't have they want things to stay they are the way they are and peasants are hungry they're landless they want peace okay so they lose the support of the peasants that's the first problem second thing is the um the bolsheviks will enact a reign of terror okay they have the secret police called the czech which ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 22:56 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: goes around and kills all enemies of the revolution all right so so they are fanatically instilling fear and terror among the russian people the last reason the most important reason is leon trotsky leon trotsky or leon leon trotsky or leon leon trotsky organizes the red army and leon trotsky is an incredible orator as well as organizer he is absolutely ruthless he organizes something called blocking divisions so the idea is when you go into battle um you're supposed to run ahead if you if you change your mind you run back someone some of the backhoe a blocker will shoot you to death okay so it is brutal but it works very effectively also when you go into battle you run back someone some of the backhoe a blocker will shoot you to death okay so it is brutal but it works very effectively also when you go into battle you run back someone some of the ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 23:48 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: backhoe a blocker will shoot you to death okay so it is brutal but it works very effectively okay so he turns the red army into a very effective uh fighting force and this was what allows the bolsheviks to eventually triumph okay so um in many ways the french revolution and the russian revolution are very similar all right so let's go over the similarities in both you have a poet okay richard rousseau said freedom is general will mark said freedom is class instances then you have a prophet who leads everyone into the promised land through his peer faith as well as financialism okay so in the french revolution you had rose pier who said reason will set us free within the russian revolution you have lenin who said violence will set us free the last thing which we'll focus on in this class is then you have a messiah figure who comes and he conquers the ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 24:44 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: world to ensure the revolution succeeds uh in the french revolution napoleon right who said i'm expanding empire okay so his theory to ensure the revolution will survive is to expand outwards and conquer europe is which is what he did but they have stalin who is i'm the continuous revolution so the way that he maintains the the stability and the vitality of the revolution is like he's constantly purging his enemies okay very much along the lines of the revolution in china all right so let's look at the similarity between lenin and rose pier okay both are from the lower nobility they're both poets in many ways and their families face downward mobility so lenin's father was an educator and member of the low nobility but but len's father died when he was young okay so lenin and then lenin's brother who let him really admired he was arrested while he was at university for plotting against ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 25:39 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: the empire he was he was executed okay um but both are idealists they sought to create justice in a world of injustice now the similarities between napoleon and stalin also really interesting they're both for marginalized minorities napoleon was corsican stalin was georgian and they felt persecution inadequacy okay and so they became obsessed about obtaining power to escape their insecurities all right so the similarities between these characters are very very enlightening for us all right so now we focus on stalin all right um the background of stalin is this his father a small shoe factory when Stalin was born, but then the father lost the factory and became an abusive alcoholic. Stalin was born poor, and he did well in school, he had a very loving Christian mother, he did well in school, but in high school he came in contact with Marxism and then he dropped out. So the fact that Stalin was a young ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 26:40 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: man who suffered racial discrimination, down mobility, and an alcoholic father, made him the perfect recruit for three types of organizations. Criminal networks, revolutionaries, and the secret police. And guess what guys? He was part of all three networks, and he was a nexus of these three networks within Georgia. Okay? All right, so this is Stalin, and he came from a very poor family, and eventually he will rise. He will rise to the very top. All right, so some Wikipedia background about Stalin, okay? So we won't read all of it, but I want to point out some certain sentences. Let's look at this sentence. He goes to Batuma, and there his militant rhetoric proved divisive among the city's Marxists, some of whom suspected he was an agent provocateur. He was a spy. His mission was to promote violence and organization within localities. So the secret police can swoop in and arrest everyone. And this makes a lot more sense than a poor man discovers Marxism, and then is totally committed to the cause. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 27:59 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: It makes more sense that he was recruited as a spy by the secret police in order to sow discontent and violence among the Marxists. Okay? Let's continue. Stalin began working at the Rostov refinery storehouse, where he co -organized two workers' strikes. After the strike, leaders were arrested. Okay? Really important. The moment he organized the strikes, all these leaders were arrested. He co -organized a mass demonstration, which led to the storming of the prison. Okay? Stalin was arrested in April 1902 and sentenced to three years exile in Siberia, arriving in November 1903. After one failed attempt, Stalin escaped from his exile in January 1904. All right? So throughout this time, he is getting arrested by the secret police, but for a reason. He escapes only after like a month. All right? And the benefit of being arrested by the secret police is what? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 28:46 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: He has credentials now. All right? You can only be a revolutionary if you've been sent to Siberia by the secret police. All right? So this is all very suspicious. Okay, let's continue. In 1905, government troops massacred protests. Stalin was in Baku in February when ethnic violence broke out between Armenians and Azeris, and he formed Bolshevik battle squads, which he used to keep the cities warring ethnic factions apart. Okay? This is the Bolsheviks. Okay? Because at this point in history, Lenin, Trotsky, they're basically writing books. Stalin's the one who's out there organizing people, committing violence, creating organizations. In fact, he's the one funding the Bolsheviks. Okay? Why? Because he assembles his gang, criminal network, which attack black, hundreds, and raise money for racketeering, counterfeiting, robberies, and kidnapping children of wealthy figures for ransom. He's the main financier of the Bolshevik party. Without him, there'd be no Bolsheviks. And I will make the argument to you that he's doing this on behalf of the secret police. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 29:56 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Right? Because, why would you do this? If you're stealing money, why not keep it for yourself and spread it to your friends and bribe the police? Why are you taking all this money and giving it to Lenin? Right? All right. So ultimately, Stalin will triumph. Why? Because Lenin and Trotsky, his two main competitors, were egomaniacs who wanted to be proved right. They're intellectuals. They're theorists. Stalin just wants power for himself. Okay. So Vladimir Lenin, he is the one pushing for the revolution. He's the theorist, right? And as the Soviets develop power, by the 1920s, he's starting to have strokes. He's always been in bad health, but now he's really in bad health. And so now, he has to figure out who will succeed him. Okay? And ultimately, he decides the best person to succeed him is Leon Trotsky. Because Leon Trotsky, he's a hero of the revolution. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 31:02 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: He, like Lenin, both believe in an international movement of communism. They both believe that if communism is to survive in the Soviet Union, they have to spread it to Europe. And they both believe very strongly that. One push. Because of World War I, all of Europe will fall to communism. Okay? Now, Stalin disagrees with them, though. Stalin believes in maintaining communism within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. Okay? And being a nationalist. And ultimately, it is Stalin who will triumph over Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin and create his code of personality in the Soviet Union. Most people assume that Stalin and Lenin were best friends. Because really, without Stalin, there'd be no Lenin. All right? But you also make the argument about Lenin to be no Stalin. Okay? So they were codependent on each other. So it was always assumed that they were best friends. But before his death, okay, Lenin wrote a secret memo to the party leaders, and he said this. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 32:02 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Comrade Stalin, who's now general secretary, so he's head of the organization department of the Communist Party, which is a very important position, having become secretary general, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands. Okay? And he's not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. Stalin is too coarse in this defect. What Lenin is saying is this. If you let Stalin continue to amass power, he will become a dictator. Lenin is head of the Bolsheviks, but he's not a dictator. There's a committee rule, okay? So at this point in history, you would think that, okay, Lenin is now leader, and he's going to make it his mission to ensure Stalin is removed from the general secretary position. And Stalin is removed as a possible contender for power over the Soviet Union. But then something happens, which is Lenin has a stroke, convulsions, and he dies, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 32:58 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=1978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: We will never know what really happened, but if you talk to medical practitioners who've looked at this case, they say, look, these convulsions are more indicative of poisoning than they are of a stroke, okay? So there's certain people, and this is not a mainstream view. There's certain people who believe that Stalin poisoned Lenin because Lenin was about to remove Stalin from his position of power. Now you're like, okay, that makes no sense. But at this time in history, there were three individuals that are in the way of Stalin amassing complete power, okay? So Lenin we talked about, but then there's a man named Zakhov Suorov, okay? And he was Lenin's right -hand man. In fact, he was his general secretary. He was the secretary of the Bolsheviks before Stalin. He was extremely competent. And then at a very young age, okay, only in his 30s, he dies of an illness. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 33:57 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: That's really convenient for Stalin because now Stalin can become head of the organized department of the Bolshevik party and install all his cronies into positions of power. That's really convenient for Stalin. But guess what? 1926. Head of the Cheka, Felix Zavinsky, okay, head of the secret police, he dies as well under mysterious circumstances. He has a heart attack. And he's also really young. And remember, the secret police is where the center of power in government is. And after he dies, Stalin is now able to implant his cronies, his loyal subordinates, into the secret police, okay? So all this is like really convenient for Stalin. Even though we have no evidence. There's no evidence that he, in fact, poisoned all three. It's just really convenient for him, all right? This is really weird how this really worked out for him. We'll never know why, okay? But you have to be suspicious, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 34:56 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Either he's the luckiest man ever in the world, or he basically just killed everyone in order to amass power. And in fact, he continues this. From 1936 to 1938, there's something called the Great Purge, which is a continuous revolution. At this point in history. What Stalin will do is kill at least one million party members. He destroys the old guard. And he does so by having the secret police purge the army and the bureaucracy, and then secret units within the secret police purge those guys, and then new units purge those secret units, okay? And so on. All right? There are the show trials where the Bolshevik leaders, the old guard, they confess to being traitors. Traitors to the regime, okay? They confess to being secret capitalists, all right? So let's look at the Purge of the Red Army. This is from Wikipedia. The Purge of the Red Army and military -military fleet removed three or five marshals, 13 or 15 army commanders, eight or nine admirals, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 36:07 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: 50 or 57 army corps commanders, 154 out of 186 division commanders. So what he did was he completely wiped out the entire leadership of the Bolshevik army. The Bolshevik army was completely wiped out by the Soviet military, and actually, this piece of fact is what sort of convinced the Germans to invade in 1941, because they're like, well, you know, Stalin killed off all the experienced officers, and so let's attack them because they won't know what to do, okay? But in fact, you could make the argument, and I think a lot of people have made the argument, that this was ultimately beneficial to the war effort in World War II. Why? Because you've removed all the dead weight. You've removed the conservative generals who are not experienced with innovative warfare, all right? So by doing this, what Stalin did was make the Soviet military more innovative and more open and more flexible, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 37:00 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And so I know this is a hard idea to understand, but let's just do a thought experiment to understand this idea. Let's say there's 100 of you students, and you're shipped off to a desert island, and you're forced to survive by yourself. Well, I mean, maybe in the beginning, you would struggle. Right? You fight. But eventually, I think over a couple of weeks, you would learn to get along, and you would learn to survive on this desert island, okay? That's what I think would happen. I don't know, but I hope that's what happens. Now, let's imagine 20 teachers go with you guys. I'm pretty sure you're worse off, okay, because those 20 teachers would be more intent on maintaining a hierarchy of things than to actually solving a problem. And so you can make the argument that by purging the army. In the late 30s, Stalin made the Red Army more innovative and better prepared the German invasion in 1941, all right? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 37:54 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Now the show trials, basically all the leading Bolsheviks, anyone who could have possibly challenged Stalin were arrested, and they confessed to being criminals, to being traitors, to being spies, all right? And all of them were, of course, innocent. These were loyal Bolsheviks who sacrificed their entire lives. They sacrificed their families in order to ensure the revolution would succeed. So why did they confess? Well, this is Arthur Kessler, and he wrote a book called Darkness at Noon, which is really one of the best books ever written, okay? Just brilliant. And in it, he profiles an old Bolshevik leader, and he tries to go into the mind of this person as he is about to be executed. And he's remembering his life where, for the revolution, he killed everyone, basically. He sacrificed everyone. He betrayed everyone. He is guilty as sin. But the moment that he's about to be executed, he confesses to everything, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 38:51 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And the argument here is, if you spend your entire life doing bad things, you're not going to admit this is all for nothing, right? He's going to do everything possible to save the revolution. If that meant killing himself in order to save the revolution, he would do so. So think of the original sin, right? The original sin of the revolution is all this violence. This violence committed against civilians. Well, now, this Bolshevik, he is like Jesus. For his sacrifice, he will cleanse the people of their sins and allow for the revolution to continue, all right? So what's brilliant about this is Stalin put these people on trial, and he knew that ultimately they would confess. And this would cement his power, all right? So let's summarize what we've discussed, and think about how Stalin won it all, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 39:41 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So there are five reasons. Okay? The first reason is, from an early age, he wanted to trust powerful patrons, criminal mafia bosses, secret police heads, revolutionaries, right? And then he was absolutely loyal to them until it was no longer expedient. What's amazing about Stalin is, he made everyone believe that he was loyal to them personally, and absolutely, okay? That was his absolute power. Second is, he always was able to identify people. Okay? Capable of subordinates, and he promoted them selflessly, okay? So that's really important. Third reason is, he understands Stalin can be more powerful than great speech -making. Do not become too wedded to ideas and positions and let others despise you. So Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were tremendous orators, okay? They were brilliant. The problem, though, is that by making these speeches, it increases their hubris, it increases their ego, and it makes them more wedded to ideas. Stalin refused to give speeches. So he could never understand, he could never know where, how Stalin thought about things, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 40:48 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And that was his secret weapon. Also, no one took him seriously, right? At this point in history, everyone thought Stalin was an intellectual lightweight. Because at this point, the Bolsheviks thought that whoever had the best theories were the most righteous leaders. And Stalin didn't have any ideas of his own, okay? Social retreats are most effective in times of internal conflict. So disappearing, hiding. Offends no one and offers no risk. So another way of saying this is the secret police always arrested Stalin at a time of tremendous conflict within the socialist movement, okay? So the split between Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Stalin wasn't there. He was arrested, okay? So that's really convenient for Stalin. And then last is let your enemies destroy themselves. Accept who they are and help them become their worst selves, okay? So Trotsky lost out because Trotsky was a tremendous egomaniac. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 41:42 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: He pissed everyone off. And Stalin encouraged that, okay? So just let your enemies destroy themselves. And this is what he would do with Hitler as well. And that's how he won World War II, okay? All right. So let's take a short break and we'll come back and do World War II. So there's no way we can understand how Stalin was able to defeat the Bolshevik leadership. And so very simple formulation. Lenin, Trotsky, or Stalin. They were all priests, okay? But Stalin was a spy. And so let's look at the differences. Priests have faith and conviction, all right? You're trying to bring God to the world. Whereas a spy has multiple personalities. So Stalin could be a different person to different people. In fact, no one really thought Stalin was a serious threat. And no one really took Stalin seriously, right? Second is the priests have something called analytical intelligence. And what is analytical intelligence? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 42:44 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: That's why they're able to write books. That's why they're able to give great speeches. A spy has emotional intelligence. A spy is able to make you trust him, all right? The last is priests are concerned with the pursuit of truth in God. Spies only want power, all right? So if you think about it this way, if you look at this formulation, then the Bolsheviks didn't even have a chance against Stalin, all right? So all right. So now let's go on to World War II. And there's tremendous debate as to what happened in World War II. It was a cataclysmic struggle between the Soviet Union and the Germans, okay? Tens of millions of people died in this war. It was a tragedy. So there's always going to be debate as to what happened. Why did the Germans lose? All right. So let me give you my interpretation. Basically what happened was this. The Germans had a certain doctrine of war, a certain belief system going into the war. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 43:48 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And they executed this belief system, this plan, perfectly in a blitzkrieg, okay? But when the doctrine of war failed, they couldn't adapt, okay? So the German doctrine of war is called blitzkrieg. And the idea of blitzkrieg is you very quickly cut off the head and the body collapses. You basically go in and you destroy the command and control. You destroy the command and control center of the military. That's what happened throughout Europe in the late 30s, right? That's what happened to France. In only about a few weeks, Germany was able to cut off the command center of the French military and it caused the French military to collapse. But the problem with the Soviet Union is that it's huge. And there's really no command and control center. So what was happening was even the Germans were destroying the Soviets, they were running around Russia, Poland. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 44:42 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Pointlessly for many, many months, okay? They really didn't have a plan because the plan was always to destroy the head of a snake. But if you can't find the head, you're going to run around aimlessly. The Soviets are really good at fighting a war of attrition, right? Something called a scorched earth policy, which is how they defeated Charles II of Sweden as well as Napoleon of France before. And that's how they also defeated the Germans. The Germans are known for their organizational supremacy, okay? But they're not known for their political supremacy. They're known for their battlefield flexibility. The Soviets, even though they were losing many battles in the beginning of the war, they eventually adapted themselves to German warfare and eventually they were able to overwhelm the Germans. And I think a lot of this flexibility had to do with the fact that they lost a lot of their major leadership in the purges. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 45:29 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So now we're saying this is the difference between the Germans and the Russians is Hitler did not purge his military. Stalin did purge his military. And that's why the Soviets were much more innovative than the Germans in the war. Also, the Germans were fighting for something called Lebensraum. Lebensraum means living space in German. It's basically like if we are to survive as a German people, as a German nation, we need more resources. We need more land. And so we need Ukraine, okay? Especially for the oil. But the Soviets were fighting for their motherland, mother Russia. So they were much more motivated to fight than the Germans. Now it wasn't. So. So looking at this map, you'll see two things, okay? The first thing is the Germans were really spread out throughout the front. That allows for encirclement, okay? That allows for the Soviets to attack them from different angles and encirclement. That's the first thing. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 46:27 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Second thing is you will also notice that the Germans didn't get that far in this war. They at most got to the outskirts of Moscow, but not beyond. And the Soviet Union. If you just look at the map, it is huge, okay? All right. So this was one of the, this was the deadest war in human history. The Germans sent in almost four million personnel and they overwhelmed the Soviets in the beginning, but it was not enough, okay? Four million men was not enough to conquer the Soviet Union. You needed 40 million and the Germans didn't have that. All right. So what's the big deal? So the Soviets had unlimited resources. They defeated the Germans. This is a big deal because let's go back to the year 1935. In the year 1935, if we were to have this class and we were to discuss what would happen 10 years from now, we could probably guess that the Soviet Union would collapse. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 47:31 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Why? Because Stalin was purging all the major leadership of the Soviet Union, creating a lot of discontent, a lot of civil conflict. As a result, the Soviet Union collapsed. As well, if you look at a map of the world in 1935, most of the world was capitalist. Japan, which controlled the East, was capitalist. Then you had the Germans, the Nazis rising. You have the English. Then you have the Americans. And all four of these nations were under threat from communism. They were communist subversive in all these countries and they were considered a major threat. In fact, in the 1930s, there's a real threat that in America, there'd be a communist rebellion. In Germany, there's a failed communist revolution. In France, in England, the communists were everywhere. So these four nations, Japan, the Americans, the English, the Germans, they all see communism as a major threat to them. So ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 48:26 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: we could imagine that they would unite against Soviet Union at some point to destroy communism once and for all. That's the first thing. The second thing is that at this point in history, race science is very popular, eugenics is very popular. And guess what? The Americans, the British, and the Germans, all of them saw themselves as one people, the Nordic people, the Aryan race. In fact, Hitler was a tremendous admirer of the English people. He saw the English as brave, as brilliant, as the master race. So you could make the argument that the Nordic people would eventually unite together to destroy the Slavs, which was a major threat to them in the 19th century. The third major reason is that at this time, as Germany is industrializing, the Americans are helping Hitler industrialize. This is from ChatGPT. American industrialists invested heavily in Nazi Germany, particularly before and during World War II. This is important. Major ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 49:31 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=2971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: companies like General Motors, IT &T, Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil, and others had substantial assets and investments in German subsidiaries. So these Americans are helping Hitler industrialize. The major American companies of the time was helping Hitler to industrialize its war machine. So given all this, you could imagine that America would eventually come to support Germany in a conflict with the Soviet Union. So at this point in history, it was unlikely the Soviet Union would survive. But then in 1941, Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. This is one of the most important events in the history of the Soviet Union. This is one of the greatest mysteries among historians. The mystery is this. Hitler had to organize 4 million soldiers, a multinational force, to invade the Soviet Union. Spies, the Americans, the British, told Stalin, listen, Hitler is going to invade you. Stalin refused to believe them. Stalin said, listen, first of all, I have a non -aggression pact with Hitler. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 50:45 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: We're friends. He's not going to invade me. Number one. Number two is Hitler is being blockaded by the British. We, the Soviet Union, are providing all these resources, oil, food, to the Germans. Why would they invade us? It's suicidal. Third of all, Germany doesn't have the resources to invade us. So Stalin refused to believe that the Germans would invade. He believed it was a British and a first British plot. to undermine the friendship between Germany and the Soviet Union. Also, there were some German soldiers who were sympathizers to communism. They would run away and go to the Soviets and tell them, Listen, I have all the secret plans of this invasion called Operation Barbarossa. The Germans are coming. Be ready. And what did the Soviets do? They shot them to death for being spies. So the Germans invade and the Soviets aren't prepared. Not only that, but Stalin seems to be purposefully sabotaging the Soviet war effort. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 51:56 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: As the Germans are advancing, the Soviets should push back. But Stalin orders the army to stay where they are. So they get encircled by the Germans. And at this point, the Germans have more prisoners of war than they could possibly have. Can you imagine? Millions and millions of Soviets captured in the first months of the war. It is a complete disaster for the Soviet Union. And so everyone is like, Stalin has gone out of his mind. First of all, why wasn't he ready for Hitler's invasion? He refused to believe that Hitler would invade. Second of all, why didn't he give his generals authority to run the war in a way that should have been run? Why did Stalin interfere and destroy the Soviet army in the first few months? These are the two major mysteries. Of Operation Barossa. Okay, I know this is going to be controversial, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 52:46 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: But I'm going to make you this argument. Stalin purposefully did both things. Stalin purposely let Hitler invade. And Stalin purposely let millions of soldiers be captured by the Nazis. And you're like, that's insane! Well, guess what happens? At this point, because the Nazis are destroying the Soviet Union, the Americans come in on behalf of the Soviet Union. Remember, at this point in history, the Americans think they're going to go to war against the Soviet Union. Okay? The Americans want to ally with Germany. But because the Germans are about to destroy the Soviet Union, the Americans can't let this happen. If Germany destroys the Soviet Union, the German science, technology, and organization would have access to Soviet manpower. Oil and food. Germany would be invincible. So the Americans step in. But look. Let's look at what the American contribution to the war is. In total, U.S. deliveries to U.S. and our food and land lease amount to ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 53:50 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: $11 billion, equivalent to $150 billion, over 400,000 jeeps and trucks, 12,000 armored vehicles, 7,000 tanks, 14,000 aircraft, 1.75 million tons of food. The Americans basically industrialized the Soviet Union, giving the Soviet Union unlimited resources, unlimited technology. Why? Because they were afraid of a German conquest. Alright. From Wikipedia. Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR. Okay? So the Americans gave about 17.5 million tons of equipment to the Russians. But guess what? When the Americans entered the war, they used a total of 22 million tons. That's incredible. The American army used the same amount of supplies that they gave to the Soviets. That's incredible to think about. Yeah, there are millions of soldiers captured by the Germans. Okay? And it's a travesty what happens to them because most of them will starve to death. They starve ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 55:05 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: to death not because the Nazis are barbarians, but because the Nazis had a doctrine of war. They would go in and after three months the Soviet Union would collapse. Didn't happen. Now they're stuck with these millions of soldiers. Now they're in trouble because they can't actually deal with all this, all these soldiers, and they don't have enough food and supplies to continue the war. Okay? So these prisoners of war are a huge problem for the Nazi war machine. And because a lot of these soldiers are dying in prisoner camps, guess what? It motivates the Russians to fight to the bitter end. Right? World War II deaths. The Soviet Union lost anywhere between 26 to 27 million people. Okay? It is the greatest tragedy to befall a nation in human history. One of the greatest tragedies. Okay? And, but, okay, that is true, but let's look at something called game theory kind of factual. Okay? What I'm going to do is I'm going to show you different possibilities. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 56:12 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Different outcomes. Okay? So let's just say, so everyone knows the Soviet Union and Germany is going to go to war at some point. Okay? It's entirely obvious to everyone. And there are four possibilities. The first possibility is the Soviet Union invades Germany and threatens Berlin. Okay? What happens here? Well, I guarantee you the Americans come in on behalf of Germany. The Americans send their military to defend Germany because they cannot afford for Europe to turn communist. Okay? So in this situation, guess what? Stalin loses the war. The Soviet Union is destroyed. This is scenario one. Scenario two. The Soviet Union invades Germany and is stopped at the border by the German war machine. Guess what? The Americans still come in because they cannot afford for Germany to lose this war against the Soviet Union. Okay? The Americans still come in. Stalin loses. Scenario two. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 56:59 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Scenario three. Germany invades the Soviet Union and is stopped at the border. And this is a scenario the Americans are laughing their heads off. Right? Because fine. Fight it out. We don't care. Okay? And the Americans are probably going to sell supplies to both the Germans and the Soviet Union. All right? They destroy both. And eventually they'll come in and destroy both Germany and the Soviet Union. So in all three situations, the Soviet Union loses. There's only one situation in which the Soviet Union wins. Germany invades the Soviet Union and threatens Moscow. Okay? This is the only situation. There are 10,000 different scenarios. There's only one scenario in which Stalin wins the war and he found it and he implemented it. Okay? But it requires the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet people. Soldiers and civilians. Only in this situation does Soviet Union win World War II. Only in this situation. And every other ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 57:55 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: situation, every other thing that Stalin does, he loses the war because the Americans will come in on behalf of Germany. And of course this war is fundamental and it changes the course of history. Because without this war, without Stalin winning, there'll be no Mao Zedong. There'll be no communist China. There'll be no new China. There'll be no today's China. Okay? You have to understand this. Communism was not inevitable. It did not have to happen. In fact, you can make the argument that in the 1940s, it was going to get destroyed by the capitalists. It was only because of the Stalin War and World War II that China was able to turn communist. So Stalin changed the course of human history. None of these things should have happened. Stalin made them happen. And of course, we today have Vladimir Putin. And Vladimir Putin, I will argue to you, was also going to change the course of human history. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 58:51 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And this is something I will argue to you next class. So Stalin was the Ubermuntz of the 20th century. I will argue to you next class that Putin is really the Ubermuntz of the 21st century. He sees where history is going, and he controls history to his benefit. He's going to warp reality to the benefit of Russia. Okay? All right. So we have four great questions about today's lecture. The first question is, how do the Americans feel about communism and fascism? Second question is, the Americans and the British were very close allies. And we know this through Lend -Lease, right? Where the Americans are shipping billions of supplies to Britain for the war effort. So why did the British hate the Germans so much? And the third question is, what was the Stalin's strategy via via the Americans? And the last question is, in the first few months, the Soviets were getting destroyed. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:00:01 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So what was Stalin's response? And what did he promise the people to get them to fight to the bitter end? Okay, great questions. Okay, so let's go over them one by one. Americans at this time in history, 1930s, the elite, they were heavy Nazi sympathizers. There was an American named Charles Lindbergh, and he founded something called the America First Party. And he was very popular, and there's a very good chance that he would have won the elections in America. So American isolation is the major dominant political trend. And it was only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that the Americans entered World War II. If the Japanese didn't attack Pearl Harbor, it would have been almost impossible to convince the American people to enter in the war. Okay, so the Americans were either on top of the elite. Okay, they were either neutral, like, we don't care where isolation is or pro -Nazi. Okay, so that was just the general attitude of Americans in 1930s. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:01:06 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Communism was a real threat to America. So communism, anarchism were real threats to the American political system in 1930s, especially the Great Depression. Okay, so does that answer your question? Great. Okay, question number two. So why were the British so intent on destroying the Germans? In fact, you guys don't know this, but Hitler made numerous peace overtures to the British, especially Winston Churchill. And again, the Germans had tremendous respect for the British. I mean, like, it's basically the same people, right? So why was so... Why was Churchill so intent on destroying Germany? So there are different historical arguments. One argument is Churchill just hated Hitler. Like, personally, he had a visual dislike of Hitler. Okay, that's number one. Number two is the Germans embarrassed the British in the war, right? Because the British sent this expeditionary force against the Germans, and the Germans wiped them out. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:02:16 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: The British were forced to retreat at Dunkirk. I think, for me, the best reason is it's geopolitical. All right, so let me explain what I mean by this. So there's something called the Mackender thesis, okay? This was developed after World War I. The idea is this. Britain is a naval power. And as long as it's able to dominate the seas, it controls the world, okay? Because at this time in history, most people are trading fruit. They're trading fruit through sea. So Britain, as long as Britain is able to control the waterways, it controls the world, all right? But there's a problem here. The problem is, let's just say that a power arises within the heartland, okay? And it could be Germany, and it could be Russia, okay? But it's going to be one of these two. And if they're able to unite or conquer each other, then they unite the entire European Asian continent, in which case all they do is build railways. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:03:26 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: And then Britain ceases to exist as an empire, okay? So the great threat is a great power emerging within Europe, Asia, to unite the entire heartland. And the British believe this, but also the Americans believe this as well, right? Because the Americans will eventually inherit the British Empire. And so at this point in history, Germany was conquering all of Europe and was about to conquer Russia. So Britain's geopolitical interest was to ensure that Germany would be hindered, okay? So I know in the history books that you're taught that World War II was a great conflict between Britain and Germany for democracy and human freedom. That's nonsense, okay? World War II was fought primarily between Germany and Russia. Three -fourths of German forces were directed at Russia. Most casualties were happening between Germany and Russia. What Britain was doing that was vital was blockading Germany. And as ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:04:34 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Germany was running out of food and fuel, it had no choice but to invade the Soviet Union, especially Ukraine, in order to access the resources of Russia. Okay? So this idea that the British and the Germans always had to fight, it's something that became mythology after World War II. During World War II, Hitler wanted peace, Britain wanted to ensure Germany could not expand to the east and create the heartland, okay? So that's what was driving British interest at this time. Does that make sense? All right? Does that make sense to you guys? All right. Let's go to the third question. Stalin's strategy for the Americans. Okay. So what Stalin was able to do that's different from everyone else is, you know, if you're Churchill, you're thinking in terms of Europe. If you are Hitler, you're thinking in terms of, like, Europe, right? They're all Eurocentric. What Stalin was able to do that made him different was he was able to see the world as it is, okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:05:47 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3947s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: He was able to see the Americans. He knew the Americans would eventually come into the war. He was able to see Japan, okay? And the reason why is, at this time, communism is an international movement. So he had spies everywhere. So he was able... He basically had the best intelligence in the world. So he was able to figure out exactly how these pieces were going to move about. So for him, it was like, okay, I go conquer Germany, but then the Americans come in, and the Americans destroy us, okay? So the main problem were the Americans, because the Americans at this point, remember, had the greatest industrial capacity in the world. Whichever side the Americans support would win the war. All right? So Stalin had to figure out a way to neutralize the Americans. And the best way to neutralize the Americans is, let's be friends, right? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:06:34 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=3994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Because America's a democracy. If Roosevelt is saying, Uncle Joe is our friend, right? And he has all these photos in the press of Stalin and Roosevelt shaking hands, having these conferences, then the Americans cannot go around and backstab the Soviet Union. And guess what? After World War II ended, after the Germans were defeated handily by the Allies, there were many Americans, especially General Patton, who was one of the main generals in World War II. He recognized that, oops, we made a mistake. The real enemy are not the Germans. The real enemy are the Russians. And this would eventually give us the Cold War. So it was after World War II the Americans realized we were duped. All right? We should not have come into this war on behalf of the Soviet Union. We should have stayed neutral or we should have supported Germany to maintain balance of power. All right? So Stalin just tricked everyone. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:07:32 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: That's why I say he's the overmatch. It should not have happened this way. If you just think about logically what each party, what each player in the game should have done, then the Soviet Union should have collapsed. So Stalin was able to trick Hitler. He convinced Hitler to invade him. He tricked Roosevelt. Roosevelt became his supporter. He even tricked Churchill. So, I mean, I know this is not what you're taught in history class usually, but just look at it just analytically, using game theory analysis. Then you have to conclude that Stalin was the only one who saw the world globally. He was able to manipulate people to his benefit. By the way, this is what's happening today with Putin. Putin is the only one who's able to think globally. He's the only one able to think strategically. Everyone else, like Trump, he's only responding to domestic issues. Does that make sense? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:08:30 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: All right. Let's move on to the last question. Stalin. What did he promise the Soviet people? He didn't promise anything. He was God. Okay? Do you understand this? He could do what he did because he was God. Any other leader who pulled this crap would have been arrested and executed for incompetence. Only Stalin, who, because of the Great Purge, consolidated power only in his hands. His authority was unquestionable. Right? He had spies spying on spies, and he had other spies spying on these spies. Okay? So he created this, like, divide -and -conquer system within the Soviet Union, which made his power absolutely absolute. In fact, you can make an argument that he was the most powerful person ever in human history because no one could question his authority. So he could afford to do this. He could afford to make mistakes and look like a buffoon because no one could challenge him. Okay? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:09:27 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. And ultimately, the Soviet people rallied around him because they didn't want to be conquered by the Germans. Okay? They wanted to save their nation. And Stalin knew this. Okay? There's this very famous quotation attributed to Stalin. It's not true. He actually didn't say this. But he could have said this. He said, um, one million people died in the gulags. That's a statistic. Okay? No one cares. One man gets run over by a tractor. That's a national tragedy. So he understands intimately how people think. He understands the psychology of both individuals and of nations. And that says he's able to manipulate people, control people, to his will. All right? ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:10:11 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: I think we can add one thing to that. There wasn't really a space. And during the... And so what that meant was that if you stole from the churches, you'd kind of get rid of the traditional culture and all that kind of stuff. And during the war, the churches opened up again. And it was able to create this sort of model of the medium of the population that was otherwise kind of divided by an idolatry. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:10:56 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:11:00 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: Okay. So, that's a great point. Thank you. Okay. So, his major contribution to theory, communist theory, is the idea of nationalism. All right? Because what made him different from Trotsky and Lenin was he was only concerned about the Soviet Union. He wanted to maintain the integrity of the Soviet Union, whereas Trotsky and Lenin were concerned about international communism. They saw the Soviet Union as the little brother in the movement. Germany would be the big brother because Germany had the most proletariat. It was the most urbanized. And maybe the French, as well. But the Soviet Union would be the little brother to the Germans when the Germans eventually rebelled and established the communism. Okay? So, Lenin and Trotsky were fundamentally internationalists. Whereas, Stalin understood people don't want that crap. Okay? People want to feel part of a community. People want to feel part of a place. And so, he heavily promoted nationalism, which galvanized the people, as Doug says, into making tremendous sacrifices for the people during World War II. ## Stalin Warped History To His Will -- 1:12:05 - Source title: Civilization #59: The Man of Steel - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtqfIjK1GAc&t=4325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qtqfijk1gac.json) Text: So, people die not for ideas. People die for each other. And that's what Stalin understood fundamentally. So, yeah, Mother Russia was his promise to the people. Okay? Does that make sense? Any more questions? Okay. Great. So, next class, alright, Thursday, the grand finale to the course. We've done the entire human history, okay, from the Ice Age when we were just living in caves. On Thursday, we'll finish the course with the grand finale, which is the American Empire. Trump and the American Empire. Okay? So, hopefully, that will be the best class of this year. Let's end with the best class. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: So good morning. We have three more classes. The first class we are doing today is on the nation -state. Next Tuesday we will do the Soviet Union and then the last class next Thursday will be the American Empire and that will do it for the year. 60 classes we've covered the entire span of human history. So today we are doing the nation -state. Nation -state is composed of two words nation and state. State is easy to understand. It is just the supreme executive authority sovereign to a territory. The nation is a new idea and it's the idea of a people with shared identity whether it's a language or a culture or history or ethnicity. So for example the Jews were for the longest time a nation rather than a state. It was only until the founding of Israel that the Jews had a nation -state. Today there are many peoples including the Kurds who are a people living in the Middle East. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:17 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: They are a nation but they don't have a state. And this idea of a nation -state it is probably the most powerful ideology in human history. It has led people to tremendous achievements but it's also led people to catastrophic wars including World War I and World War II. All right so first thing I want to do is go over where this idea comes from and in many ways it is the culmination of different religious economic and social cultural factors. Okay so let's look at them individually religion. All right so as we discussed last class with the Protestant Reformation there is now a crisis of faith because Christianity creates the idea of the individual. The individual is in direct connection with God. Before the church would mediate this connection. So you didn't have to worry about God you just have to worry about the church. If you did what the church told you you could be promised entry into heaven. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 2:34 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: The Protestant Reformation removes the Catholic Church from the equation. Now you are in direct communion with God and you must show absolute faith if you are to achieve salvation. Okay and so this creates a crisis of faith because as an individual how do you know you truly believe in God? You know you love your mothers but do you love your mother every single day all the time? Probably not okay. But in religion you cannot doubt God ever. You can never throw a temper tantrum at God or you will be sent to hell. So it creates this conflict okay and historically there have been different solutions to this problem. So the first solution that people propose is the idea of money. Let's replace God with money right and that gives us the idea of capitalism. The Calvinists believe this okay like God is money, money is God. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 3:45 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: If you accumulate enough wealth then that shows your absolute faith in God and God's love for you. So that's the idea of money. Then people have said nope God is reason. So as long as you pursue reason, as long as you show enlightenment then that shows your faith in God. Okay and this gives us the idea of the enlightenment, sorry enlightenment as well as liberalism. Then others have said nope God is the individual itself. Okay so as long as you believe in yourself, as long as you engage in a process of self -discovery and self -growth then that will lead you into heaven. And this was most famously proposed and we discussed this last class by Freud and Jung and this has become the basis for what we call modernism right which is still with us today. And then there's proposed another solution to this problem and it's the idea that God is in the nation. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 5:14 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: All right and it turns out that of all these ideas the most powerful, the most resilient, the most enduring is God. And that is this idea that by celebrating your nation you are celebrating your faith in God. Why? Because the other solutions propose a problem and it and the problem it creates is the individual is still isolated from others. Okay it still creates a problem of alienation and the nation solves this problem. Right because the nation has to be by definition a community of individuals on a shared identity. So the nation is the perfect solution because it both solves a problem of religion and it solves a problem of politics and community. In fact the nation is a conflation of both religion and politics. Okay and that's why historically and has been the most emotionally emotionally the most powerful idea, right? Does that make sense? All right, so from a religious purpose, the nation state solves the problem of faith and alienation. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 6:41 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: All right, now let's look at economics. So during this time, you have the Industrial Revolution, and there are many issues created by the Industrial Revolution. The first problem is you need to constantly expand because you need markets and resources, right? So expansion. Another thing is that you need to engage in imperialism. Another problem created by the problem of the Industrial Revolution is the rise of the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie. Historically, it was the priests and the warriors who were the elite of society. But now with the Industrial Revolution, the bourgeoisie is the elite. The industrialists and the capitalists are now the new elite. And as such, they obviously want more political power, but what they really want is property rights, right? They want to be assured that the wealth they've generated can be protected and inherited by their children and their grandchildren and their great -grandchildren. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 8:13 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Now, the problem is this. The problem is, the system of the monarchy cannot really ensure property rights. And the reason why is, the king can be overthrown, okay? Their stock is, he can be overthrown. And this is what happens throughout European history. But the nation state cannot be overthrown, right? Does that makes sense? So the nation state is a solution to the problem of property rights for the bourgeoisie. So the problem of property rights for the bourgeoisie. Also, the nation -state has the resources to engage in imperialism, and it has the desire to engage in imperialism. Monarchies are usually pretty conservative. They like to maintain their position, and they will form alliances in order to maintain their position. The nation -state is aggressive and expansionist and imperialist. Okay? Does that make sense? So from an economic perspective, the nation -state solves the problem created by the Industrial Revolution. Okay? So that's the economic factor. Then let's look at the social -cultural factor, social -cultural aspect of this. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 9:39 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: So what's happening because of the Industrial Revolution is that people are moving from the towns. Oh, sorry. I said this wrong. People are moving from the villages to the cities. Okay? You have this massive process of urbanization. Also because in the Industrial Revolution, there's more trade. There's another market. Right? So these goods are proliferating throughout the entire country. Okay? And this creates the idea of systemization and standardization. And you have mobility of people, of goods, and of ideas. The mobility... And then you have new technology. Right? Not just in factories and not just in like steamships, but also in print. And this spreads literacy and information. So think of this as just the beginning of globalization, right? In China, we're inundated with new ideas all the time because of the internet, because of access to the world. But for people, for most people, this can be frustrating and bewildering. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 11:09 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: And it creates psychological issues. Okay? Primarily the idea of enemy. Enemy just means a loss of sense of cultural rootedness. Right? As things change, you don't know how to adapt to the change. Your values are based on the past. you're not sure if your values can confront the future okay also alienation alienation just means a sense of power layer of powerlessness lessness okay you lack agency these changes are happening so fast and so quickly you don't know if you can control these changes also this enchantment this enchantment this enchantment means all these changes changes are dehumanizing right you'll be coming just a clock and machine you're becoming no more than a machine in today's world AI could possibly replace us all right so it's creating all this doubt all this confusion and the nation state okay so and there are different solutions to this there's communism there's liberalism and ## The Nation Is The New God -- 12:27 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-absorbs-ideologies); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#nation-god-machine-atlas) Text: then there's nationalism and for people okay all three ideas are appealing but communism communism preaches the idea of international solidarity right which can be for people even more confusing liberalism preaches the idea of individual rights but if you're poor the right to speak the right to organize does not really apply to you in fact the matter is that most people are poor but nationalism okay the fact that we are one group of people in a struggle against other groups of people this is powerful okay this is appealing also if you think about it nationalism can absorb other ideas right you can be both of a nationalist and a liberal and in fact most people were you can also be a nationalist and a communist which was what so it was a silent proposed right and that's what Muslims don't propose so nationalism is the one ideology that can absorb and control all other ideal ideologies ## The Nation Is The New God -- 13:31 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: okay does that make sense so for these three particular reasons religious transformation economic transformation and social cultural transformation the nation -state became the best idea all that time and it spread really quickly okay all right so let's talk about widespread okay to understand widespread so quickly let's talk about game theory game theory so let's imagine let's do a thought experiment and say there are millions of us playing a game it doesn't matter what game we're playing okay it could be like checkers it could be chess it could be monopoly it could be game of tag it doesn't matter but there are millions of us individually playing this game we're all individual players the problem is this the problem is that if maybe a group of us maybe three or four or five they decide that they will coordinate they're gonna get they're gonna play the game together maybe because they're a family maybe because they're ## The Nation Is The New God -- 14:29 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-unity-of-will); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: friends it doesn't matter why but the moment they decide to play as a group this automatically forces everyone else to group together okay and that's the idea of the nation -state the moment that France decide we're a nation -state that forces everyone else Germany Russia Italy to become nation -states as well because otherwise you're gonna lose this game right the other thing that's really important for us to remember about this theory is this to win this game now as a nation -state it does not actually matter your size what matters is your cohesion how well you're willing to to work together to to play to play this game right or maybe unity of will so for example maybe there's a bar fight between four brothers and 10 strangers well I would bet the four brothers are more likely to win than the 10 strangers right because 10 strangers don't really know each other they don't ## The Nation Is The New God -- 15:32 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=932s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=932s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#formation-becomes-civilizational-capacity); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#nation-god-machine-atlas); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-unity-of-will) Text: really care there's not much at stake here but the four brothers need to protect each other okay and they love each other and so they're going to fight a lot harder they're going to fight to the death whereas the 10 strangers if they feel they're going to lose you're going to run away okay so that's the idea of the nation -state what determines the strength of a nation -state is unity of will cohesion not size not wealth not territory okay that's really important to remember does that make sense okay so um the idea of a nation -state comes from two different sources the first is the Enlightenment the second is Romanticism okay so to summarize to recap the Enlightenment is this major intellectual trend happening in 17th and 18th and 19th century Europe at this time right the spread of reason as a God the spread of science of literacy of three thinking of debate ## The Nation Is The New God -- 16:39 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: right Romanticism is something we didn't really talk that much about but Romanticism is a direct direct response to the problems created by Romanticism oh sorry by by the Enlightenment because enlightenment preaches the idea of science of um social forces um of an idea called theism which is God has set the rules of the game he's left us and we're free to play the game and this creates a lot of anxiety in people so romantics were a movement to respond to the problems created by Enlightenment so they focus more on nature rather than science okay they believe that um there's a Divine power to nature that we can access by embracing it they believe in the idea of individual will to change the course of history that the individual that we are stronger than the historical social forces um around us okay and they rejected uh materialism they they were they were very spiritual okay and ## The Nation Is The New God -- 17:47 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1067s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: now the romantics are a huge movement of people have you studied this before okay so I don't want to generalize I'm not an too much okay but the romantics were a response to the enlightenment thinkers okay so from the enlightenment we have Rousseau and Rousseau remember wrote a book called called the social contract and in the book he argued that as individuals we are born free with inevitable rights like the right to life and liberty we choose to surrender some of these rights in order for more safety and security and wealth possibilities okay so the people come together and it creates something called the general will which is the collective mind of the people okay and from the general will you have will have the government the government exists in order to serve the general will which serves the people okay does that make sense the government exists in order to protect the individual individual ## The Nation Is The New God -- 19:03 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1143s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1143s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: rights of people to ensure their happiness to ensure their well -being this this is where Abraham Lincoln gets a famous phrase of the people by the people for the people okay he is just reiterating the idea of Rousseau okay and this of course is implemented by the french revolution right napoleon and the french french france okay and the general will becomes manifest in the nation state does that make sense okay so Rousseau proposed the idea and actually discussed the french revolution implements this idea and gives us the first iteration of the nation state now this is really successful because what it does is it conceives of a country as a unified whole almost like as a body this is new in human history because before in the monarchy the monarch the people in the military were all separate okay in fact it was very common at the time for monarchs to hire foreign mercenaries to ## The Nation Is The New God -- 20:25 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-population-war) Text: fight their wars the people weren't really engaged in war but now that in the french revolution when you can see the nation the country as you have a hole you can now draw the people to become your soldiers and in fact when you do this you can create almost an infinite supply of soldiers and because the people believe that they're fighting for themselves they are more motivated they're more energetic they're more willing to sacrifice themselves than foreign mercenaries who are just in it for the money and that's why the french revolution was able to spread throughout Europe and basically including Spain Italy and Germany okay but once the French conquered most of Europe it now stirs resentment against the French because before these were free independent people who had control over local matters and now the French were coming imposing a new political economic and social regime on them and there were foreign troops French ## The Nation Is The New God -- 21:32 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: troops to make sure that you have to obey okay so this creates a lot of resentment and the people's response was to create their own form of nationalism but in response to French nationalism okay so now they're being influenced by Romanticism and in Romanticism their response is is this there is a culture okay and it gives us a people you okay so from the beginning there are no individuals there's only a culture and so it creates a community and the people their responsibility is to protect their culture to enhance the culture to spread the culture and the best way to do this is through the nation -state okay so this gives us a different interpretation of the nation -state and because the French are now in imposing their culture on our indigenous culture then we have responsibility as a people to rebel and fight back all right and this will give us German nationalism so ## The Nation Is The New God -- 22:50 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: it's the Germans who first proposed this idea but then it spreads to Italy as well okay so these are two extremely different interpretations of nationalism in the French interpretation which is also supported by the Americans and the British the nation exists to protect individual rights in a second interpretation a romantic German interpretation the nation said exists in order to protect a culture okay because it's culture that gives life to people okay what the Germans will say is the culture is something that you don't think of it's already in your blood right does that make sense okay so um that's a general introduction any questions before I move on to specific examples in evidence okay great so we're going to summarize and look at the origins of the nation -state okay all right so really important is to understand the nation -state replaces the monarchy okay and there are three fundamental differences that I want you ## The Nation Is The New God -- 24:01 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: to remember and emphasize the first is for the monarchy the bureaucracy is ultimate authority why because the bureaucracy is what represents the monarch right But in a nation state, it's the people or the culture. In a monarchy, the elite are the aristocracy, those that have been rewarded by the monarch. But in a nation state, it's usually the bourgeoisie that are the elite, the industrialists, the capitalists. The monarchy, it's pretty flexible because it is really about shifting alliances. Monarchs cooperate with other monarchs to maintain the peace and to prevent other monarchs from encroaching on their territory. And as a result, the monarchs tend to be conservative people. They like to weigh things as they are, and they work towards that. So after the French Revolution, there's something called the Congress of Vienna in 1815, where the monarchs of Europe basically decided to never fight again. And this was a successful model until 1848, when the people rebelled against them. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 25:08 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: But the nation state... Because it is almost like a new religion. It wants standardization and systematization. It wants everyone to buy into the nation state. And as a result, it's expensive. It's either expensive outwards, or it's expensive inwards. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So let's look at some evidence or support for this argument. So this is a really good book called Seeing a State. It's by James Scott, published by Yale University Press. Fantastic book. If you are interested in this stuff, I highly recommend you read this book. And it explains how the nation state comes about because of the process of systematization and standardization created by all these social forces happening in Europe at this time. Okay? So let's just read quickly what he wrote. Three factors in the end conspired to make what Kula calls the Metrical Revolution possible. Okay? So the fact that we use the meter. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 26:11 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Okay? That came about during this time. First, the growth of market exchange encouraged uniformity in measures. So capitalism. Second, both popular sentiment and Enlightenment philosophy favored a single standard throughout France. Okay? Enlightenment. Finally, the revolution, and especially Napoleon, the Napoleonic state building actually enforced the metric system in France and the empire. Okay? So just summarizing what we discussed in the first section. Okay? And then Scott summarizes. The homogenization of measures then was part of a larger mandatory simplification. At one stroke, the equality of all French people before the law was guaranteed by the state. They were no longer mere subjects of the Lord and sovereign, but bearers of inalienable rights as citizens. Okay? So this is just repeating what I just said, which is the main purpose of the French Revolution was creating a nation state that guaranteed individual rights. All right. This is Imagine Communities. By Benedict. Anderson. And again, he goes into why the nation state was born and how it spread. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 27:18 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: And he explains. What made the new communities imaginable was a half notorious, but explosive interaction between a system of production and productive relations, capitalism, technology of communications, print and the fatality of human linguistic diversity. Okay? So what he means by that is that at Europe at this time, there really is no conception of the idea of a national law. Everyone just spoke their own language. Everyone just spoke what's local to them. There's also no conception of race. Okay? We discussed this. Race is a really new concept that was alien to most people. Okay? But now that you have print, you're able to spread language and you're able to create a national language. And this is key to the nation state. Because print and language. Okay? Allows people to think the same way. And to imagine a shared history. Right? Because culture, it's all just made up. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 28:21 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: History, it's all just made up. There's something real in it. Okay? And because of this, it's destroyed linguistic diversity. So if you were to go to France in the year 1800 and you go from village to village, they would speak different languages. Right? All right. This is too long to read. Okay? This is too long to memorize. And what he says is this. Before the nation state, the elite of Europe, the way they communicate with each other is through intermarriage. Okay? And as a result, there really wasn't a sense of national identity. But now with the rise of print technology, there's now a separation. Right? Because you spoke your own language. Okay? And this is important because the bourgeoisie are the new elite. And in theory, they would want to move their capital around Europe. They would want to move to places where the capital would be more safe, where it would be more productive. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 29:28 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1768s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1768s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: But the idea of a national language prevents them from doing that. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. All right. Jean -Jacques Rousseau, we talked about. We're just going to read a couple sentences from his book, The Social Contract. Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under some direction of the general will and our corporate capacity. We see each member as an individual part of the whole. Okay? But I'm wrong to speak of a Christian republic. Those two terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and independence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. General Christians are made to be slaves and they know it and don't mind much. This short life counts for too little in their eyes. Okay? So this is the theory of the separation of church and state. All right? This is the beginning of the idea of separation of church and state. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 30:24 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: It's one of the fundamental ideas of the French Republic. And that's why in today, there's so much antagonism between Islamists and the government. Okay? Because Islamists want to maintain their tradition. They want to wear the hijab. They want to maintain their cultural customs. But the French nation prevents them from doing that. They prevent them from doing so in public places and in schools. Okay? So as we discussed, Napoleon will spread French Enlightenment principles throughout Europe. 1805, he defeats both the Russians and the Austrians at the Battle of Austerlitz. And at this point, Napoleon should be made Holy Roman Emperor. Okay? He should be made Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as is tradition. But the Emperor at that time, decides, you know what? Rather than give up the throne to Napoleon, I'm just going to dissolve this confederation, the empire. And this was a major blow to these people. Okay? ## The Nation Is The New God -- 31:29 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1889s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1889s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Because the empire in their minds existed for a thousand years. Okay? Ever since Charlemagne. And the Holy Roman Empire is direct here to the Roman Empire. Okay? So for a lot of these intellectuals living in the Holy Roman Empire, this was extremely embarrassing. The... Napoleon will create something called the Confederation of the Rhine, which replaces the Holy Roman Empire. And it's basically a vassal state to the French. Okay? And this will antagonize a lot of the Germans, because they feel as though their culture, their history, it is being eroded. But at this time, this is really important. The Germans don't have a sense of German -ness. They don't really have a sense of a national identity. So what will happen is, to counter the French, German intellectuals will attempt to create a new German national identity. Okay? This is Ernst Arndt. He's a poet. Okay? And he believes that this new identity should be fashioned like this. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 32:29 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=1949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Let the animality of your hearts be your church. Okay? Let us be one people. And let this nation be our religion. Let hatred of the French be your religion. Let freedom and fatherland be your saints, to whom you pray. All right? So he's considered the father of German nationalism, because he's presenting this idea that we Germans must exist in opposition to the French. Okay? And this idea is going to drive a lot of the catastrophes of European history for the next hundred years. This is Johann Fichte. He is a student of Kant. He is a major philosopher in his own right. He's considered the founder of a German idealism school. And he explains that, okay, if we want to create a nation state, we have to figure out how to do so. What unites us as Germans? What unites us as a people? And it's not history, because we have different histories. And he ## The Nation Is The New God -- 33:22 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: decides, because he's a huge fan of Shakespeare, that this shared heritage will be one of language. Okay? We will speak one language together, and this language, the German language, is what will define our culture and our identity. He writes, description and characterization in such a language is itself a directly vital and sensuous matter. Okay? So our cultural identity, our geist, will be manifested in our language. All right? So at this time, there's a tremendous explosion of German literature to spread the idea of language. Okay? He also explains that the nation state, the nation, it is not just a collection of people. Okay? Let's read this passage together, because it's really important. Let the component parts of our higher spiritual life be just as dried out, and thus let the bands of our national unity also be just as torn apart, lying about in wild disorder, scattered and disarrayed, as are the bones of the seer. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 34:24 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Let them be bleached and dried out by many centuries of storms, deluges, and blazing sun. The animating breath of the spiritual world has not yet ceased to blow. It will also take hold of our national body's inner bones and join them together so that they might gloriously exist in a new and transparent life. Okay? So what he's saying is, the nation is not a collection of individuals. What the nation is, it's individuals who are transformed together that creates a nation. A nation will transform everyone. Okay? All right. So let's just summarize. So let's just summarize the differences between Enlightenment and Romanism, because the Enlightenment is what's going to drive the French nationalism, and Romanism is what's going to drive German nationalism. Okay? It's science versus nature, reason versus emotion. Okay? It's liberty versus will and struggle. Okay? Does that make sense? For our struggle as a people, we can liberate ourselves from the French and reforge ourselves as a great nation. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 35:30 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: All right. So main difference between French nationalism and German nationalism. Okay? Separation of church and state. For the Germans, the nation is the church. The French believe in the general will. What's in the best interest of everyone? The Germans believe in the Geist. Okay? In the spirit of your people. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. All right. So I'm going to use an example to highlight the difference between the French form of nationalism and the German form of nationalism. And it has to do with the Jewish question. Okay? So there are lots of Jews throughout Europe at this time. There are minorities in these countries. And the question is, with the rise of the nation state, what do you do about the Jews? Okay? And they're prone because the Jews believe themselves as a nation state. They don't have a state, but they're a nation. And the Jews have the Bible. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 36:24 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Okay? Which gives them a shared language, a shared culture, a shared history. Right? So how do you deal with a people in your nation that are explicitly not part of your culture? And they're very adamant about not being part of your culture. So the French. Okay? There is any sympathism throughout Europe at this time. Okay? But the response to animism is different in different nations. In 1894, there's something called the Dreyfus Affair. Okay? The Dreyfus Affair is this man, Alfred Dreyfus. He is Jewish by ancestry. But at this time, a lot of elite Jews have already acclimatized, assimilated into the popular culture. And in 1894, he was arrested and accused of being a German spy. Alfred Dreyfus was a German spy. He was an officer in the French military. The problem is that French counterintelligence conducted a short investigation and they quickly found out that this man was not the spy. But the French military didn't want to lose face. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 37:37 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Also, there were a lot of anti -Semitic elements within the French military. So rather than just say, you know what? We got the wrong guy. We were wrong. Let's forget about this. Their response was to put this real spy on trial and acquit him. It's like, no, you're innocent, even though the evidence also suggests he's guilty. And we're going to put Dreyfus. And they put Dreyfus in prison in a penal colony far away for his entire life. And so news of this leaks and this creates a national controversy. And a man named Elma Zola, who was probably the most famous writer in France at this time, he writes a newspaper article called I Accuse. I accuse the French military of corruption, of incompetence, of negligence. I accuse the French state of corruption, incompetence, negligence. And so the question then is, why are these people so riled up about this one guy in prison? ## The Nation Is The New God -- 38:41 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: And the answer is, it has to do with the French identity. At this point in history, there's this huge conflict between French liberals who see themselves as heirs to the French Revolution and monarchists, who want to get rid of revolutionary elements. For the liberals like Elma Zola, the Republic is about maintaining the rights of all citizens. And if one citizen loses his right, if one citizen is mistreated by the justice system, then all citizens will be mistreated by the justice system. So even though Alfred Dreyfus is a Jew, the French first and foremost as a French citizen. Because the French nation exists to protect the rights of all those who are citizens of France. Does that make sense? That's why this was a huge deal in France, and it lasted for about 10 years. And of course, the German response to the Jewish question was the Holocaust. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 39:41 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: So these are two different conceptions of nationalism, the French and the German. Any questions before I move on? Is this clear? Great. So let's continue on the nation -state. So before 1848, the nation -state, nationalism, it was contained in Europe because nationalism was actually a threat to the monarchy. Because nationalism would reduce a lot of their powers. But in 1848, there were too many revolutions and rebellions throughout Europe. And monarchs at this point recognized that they can't really hold back the tide of social change. And so certain nations like Germany started to embrace nationalism as a way to contain these social changes. Once the nation -state came into being, they needed a certain philosophy about culture, and this man, Charles Thorin, provides that in The Origin of Species, right? He presents a new theory of human development that contradicts all Christian teaching, which is the idea of evolution. And so the idea of this is that God has no design. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 41:18 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2478s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2478s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: We are who we are by random chance through the process of evolution. And this theory, this will give birth to the idea of systemic racism. Okay? Because if it's true that God has no say in how we develop, if it's true that we develop by chance, then we can also extrapolate from this that, well, there's certain people that must be inherently superior to others. Right? There are certain people that must have evolved to be more intellectual, to be more scientific, to be more brave. And because Europe at this time is the wealthiest and strongest and most advanced part of the world, then we can also reason that Europeans must also be superior as a people to everyone else. The Africans, the Asians. Okay? Right? So this introduces the idea of systemic racism. And this is a really popular thing to do back then. One thing that they were really interested in is a skull. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 42:24 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Right? Because they figured out if they can measure the skull, then they can make generalizations about the different brains of different cultures. And of course, the entire point of this exercise was to prove that, in fact, Europeans were superior. Okay? This also leads to the idea of eugenics. This is Francis Galton, who is a cousin of Charles Darwin. And both Charles Darwin and Francis Galton was concerned about the gene pool. Right? Because for Darwin, evolution meant that bad genes were systematically eliminated from the system. But at a time of improved sanitation, of improved hospital care, then people who should have died are living. Right? And this is going to dilute the quality of your gene pool. So Francis Galton proposed the idea of eugenics. That a nation, a society, should systematically eliminate bad genes from the gene pool in order to maintain its purity. And there are three ways that you can do this. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 43:31 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Right? The first is you can do forced sterilization. So people who might be handicapped or they are criminals, you sterilize them to prevent them from reproducing. That's one solution. Another solution is, well, execution. Right? So if you're a criminal, or you are physically violent, or if you are low IQ, then we should just execute you to prevent you from polluting the gene pool. And the third solution is to limit migration. Okay? Limit immigration and limit migration. And this is an extremely popular idea in the United States. Right? Because at this time in history, you have all these Europeans from low genetic stock, the Polish, the Irish, the Italians, the Eastern Europeans, coming into the United States at this time. And this was posing a real threat to the WASP elite. Okay? And that's why in the United States, this eugenics movement really takes off. Okay? Really the center of the eugenics movement in the world ## The Nation Is The New God -- 44:37 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: at the end of the 19th century, at the end of the 20th century, sorry, at the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th century, is really the United States. Okay? There are many, many states in the United States that pass forced sterilization laws. This is Madison Grant. He wrote a very popular book about how there are different races. And the Nordic race, the Germans, the Scandinavians, and the British, they are the dominant race. They are the superior race. But over time, the numbers are diluting. And therefore, the Nordic people must work together. Okay? And guess who really enjoys this idea? Who is a big fan of Madison Grant? Hitler, right? The Nazis will translate his book and spread his book. And a lot of his ideas will become a basis for Nazi eugenics policy. And the Nazis were notorious for taking the disabled, the handicapped, and basically forcing them into gas chambers. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 45:55 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: This is what he says. A rigid system of selection through the elimination of those who are weak or unfit would solve the whole question in 100 years, as well as enable us to get rid of the undesirables who crowd up our jails, hospitals, and insane asylums. It's hard for us to imagine, but in the 1930s, this is a really widespread idea in America, in Britain, and in Germany. Extremely widespread among the elite. In fact, in 1935, if you asked me what was most likely to happen, then I would tell you that America, Britain, and Germany would ally themselves because they saw themselves as one people, and they would attack the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet Union was a Slavic country that was communist. And both the Slavs and the communists were a threat to the Nordic people who were capitalistic. Right? In 1935, that was the most likely scenario. In fact, there were a lot of people proposing this scenario. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 46:59 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: So, why is it that it would be America and Britain who would support the Soviet Union in destroying Germany? Well, that's a question we will look at in the next class. Okay? Because it's a huge mystery why that happened when in reality, it should have been America, Britain, and Germany versus the Soviet Union. Okay? All right. So, this now gives us the age of imperialism. The Europeans now need more resources, but they're also spreading their cultural mission to civilize the entire world because they are the master race, right? They have the white man's burden to civilize all others. Okay? Now, they didn't go into Africa before because of malaria issues. Okay? If you're a European, you went into Africa, you're going to die. But with major advancements in medicine, they now had medicine against malaria. And very quickly, they basically carved up Africa amongst themselves. They had a conference and they decided who would get who. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 48:08 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: And their imperialism in Africa was notorious, right? It was one of the worst atrocities in human history, especially in the Congo, which was controlled by Belgium. Basically, the king of Belgium, Leopold, had a mercenary army go in, enslave the people and extract all the resources from the Congo. And it was his own personal property, his own personal estate. All right. Also, China. Okay? So, China was basically carved up by the Europeans, right? The Americans negotiated something called the Open Door Policy and everyone agreed to carve China up into different countries. In different sections, okay? We call these the Treaty Ports. Now, the problem for the Europeans, though, are the Japanese. So, where... So, in the European understanding of the world, the Europeans are superior, right? Especially the Northern people. So, everyone else should automatically submit and surrender to the Europeans. And that's what happened in Africa and that's what happened in China, but not in Japan. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 49:22 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=2962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Japan underwent tremendous social change to go from a feudal society into a modern industrial nation that, in 1905, was able to defeat a major European power, the Russians, in a war. Okay? And this was shocking because this went against all... all understanding of the world at this time. What really surprised people was the rapid pace of transformation in Japan. It was as though everyone decided that we, as people, needed to change and we're going to change today, okay? And that's what Japan did, right? So, you look at politics. In 1890, they were established basically, with a parliament. And by 1928, you had universal male suffrage. Okay? Basically, in 1928, every man in Japan could vote. Economically, right? The Japanese economy exploded. If you go to Japan today, you'll be amazed by how well organized the society is. Everyone, almost everyone in Japan reverse parks. If you look at this picture, maybe there's this one guy for whatever reason who decides not to reverse park. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 50:51 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3051s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3051s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: But everyone else reverse parks. There's no law that says you must reverse park. Everyone just does it because of a sense of social cohesion. So, in the 13th century, the Mongols, having conquered Korea and China and most of Asia, launched two invasions of Japan. But both of these invasions failed. Now, the myth is the kamikaze, right? The divine wind which saved Japan from the invasion. That's not true. That's just part of Japanese mythology. The real reason, what really happened is the Mongols were able to land forces both times. But what they discovered was they could not divide and conquer. Usually, the policy of an invader is to find local allies, establish a beachhead on the island, and then slowly expand outwards, okay? That's a policy. But in Japan, the Mongols could not find any local allies. The people were united against the invaders. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 51:52 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3112s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3112s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: And as a result, it became too expensive and too burdensome for the Mongols to take over Japan. Okay? Does that make sense? And this is, and this creates the sense of national identity and national unity that still persists today. All right? And that's why I just say this, but the strongest nation in East Asia is not China. It's Japan. Okay? You have to look at social cohesion. You have to look at how willing people are willing to fight and die for the nation. And historically, the nation with the most patriotism has always been Japan, not China. Okay? So, please keep this in mind. All right. Now, we go into World War I and World War II. In 1871, the German Empire is proclaimed. Okay? The Prussians unite all Germany into one political entity. And now, there are threats to Britain. Because, remember, the British foreign policy is we must always ensure a balance of power in Europe. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 53:05 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3185s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3185s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: If one power arises, we must fight it. Okay? So, when Napoleon arose, Britain spent infinite amount of money and resources to feed Napoleon, which it only did. Okay? Now, with German power in Europe, Britain is now going to challenge it and ensure a balance of power in Europe. Does that make sense? What's happening is the spread of nationalism throughout the Ottoman and Austria -Hungary Empire. Remember, the Ottomans and the Austria -Hungary Empire are these multi -ethnic empires that don't really have any reason to exist anymore in an age of the nation -state and of nationalism. Okay? So, this is the Ottoman Empire. They're based in Istanbul. Okay? But they also occupy what we call the Balkans, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia. Okay? So, the Greeks rebelled against the Ottomans and they're successful in doing so in the Greek War of Independence. Now, we talked a lot of the Greeks and ## The Nation Is The New God -- 54:18 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: it may surprise you to hear, like, most of its history, the Greeks didn't consider themselves as one people, as one culture, as one nation. Right? So, that's why the Greeks never were able to expand that far. Right? The Athenians, the Spartans were too busy fighting each other to deal with others. Ultimately, it was the Macedonians who conquered Persia, not the Greeks. Okay? This is the Italian War of Independence. The Italians rebelled against the Austria -Hungary Empire. Okay? So, the Austria -Hungary Empire comes into threat as well. And again, the Austria -Hungary Empire, it is a multi -ethnic state. And the different ethnicities in the Austria -Hungary Empire, it is clamoring for independence. The Austria -Hungary Empire, there are lots of Slavs, Slavic people within it. And they are calling to Russia for aid. Okay? And, as you know, what starts World War I is the assassination of the heir to the Austria -Hungary Empire by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 55:30 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Right? Which brings the Austria -Hungary Empire into direct conflict with Russia. Which then brings in Britain and Russia, sorry, which brings in Britain and Germany as well. And this creates World War I. And World War I and World War II are the deadliest wars in human history by far. Okay? Millions and millions of people are killed. After World War I you have the rise of extreme nationalism which is what we call fascism. Okay? Fascism is just the extreme version of nationalism. This is Mussolini who is the founder of fascism. And he explains fascism in this way. We have created our myth. The myth is a faith, a passion. It is not necessary for it to be reality. It is a reality in the sense that it is a stimulus, it's hope, it's faith, it's courage. Our myth is the nation. Our myth is the greatness of the nation. And through ## The Nation Is The New God -- 56:30 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3390s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3390s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: this myth, this greatness which we want to translate into a total reality we subordinate everything else. Okay? Fascism is the belief that the nation, the people is in an eternal struggle of the fittest. Okay? It must defeat other nations if it is to survive. And even though the nation looks weak, as long as we stick together, as long as we believe in each other, as long as we fight together, we will be invincible. Okay? And this is the, again, this is the romantic nationalism driving both Italy as well as, Germany. This is a fascist, Filippo Marini, and he says, we want to glorify war, the only cure for the world and militarism, patriotism, and the beautiful ideas which kill. Okay? So for fascists, war is a good thing because war automatically unites people together in the final struggle for survival. And war is a process that you can use to remold people into the most important extremist nationalists. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 57:39 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? This, of course, leads to the rise of Hitler in Germany as well as Stalin in the Soviet Union. Okay? So we're going to focus entirely on Stalin next class. I mean, he's not important of a historical figure. Okay? So, but after World War II, people started to look at the tremendous carnage, catastrophe of what, what had happened. Okay? This is Hannah Arendt and she wrote a book called The Origins of Totalitarianism. It is a fantastic book by the way. It's, it's one of my favorite books. Definitely the, considered the greatest work of political philosophy in the 20th century. Okay? It's, it's basically required reading in university when you go there. And in it, she basically tries to explain why the Holocaust happened. Why World War II happened. How is it possible for the Nazis to rise in power in Germany and for the Communists to rise in power in the Soviet Union. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 58:42 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Okay? And what she explains is this. The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communists but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false no longer exists. So, what she believes, what she argues is that these regimes systematically eroded people's capacity to judge for themselves. Okay? Basically, these regimes destroyed the idea of the individual. And that's what allowed for totalitarianism to arise in these states. Okay? This is Karl Popper. And Karl Popper is like Hannah Arendt, a European Jew who escaped the devastation of the Holocaust and the war. And they both went to America. And he wrote a very famous book called The Open Society. Okay? And he argues The Open Society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence. So, what ## The Nation Is The New God -- 59:47 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: he argues is for peace to happen, for peace to ultimately thrive in this world, we need to celebrate the individual rather than the nation. Also, we need to be skeptical of these grand theories of human history. Okay? We need to avoid Hegel. We definitely need to avoid Marx, but also Plato. These are the three baddies of the Western tradition. Plato, Hegel, and Marx. Because they are anti -democratic, they are anti -individual, but also they have a theological view of history, of things that's moving towards a final end. That is a megalomaniacal view to understand the world. We need to be skeptical. Okay? We need to incrementally make changes to society. And so what he's really doing is he is proposing that Anglo -American civilization is far superior, far more scientific, far more advanced than both Russian and German civilization. Okay? really doing. And that's why Karl Popper's Open Society has become an intellectual basis for the American Empire. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:01:05 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Okay? So very quickly, let's understand the difference between World War II and the Pax Americana, which is the age we live in today. World War II was about the nation state, the rise of nationalism and fascism. The Pax Americana is about the international rules -based order. Okay? The United Nations, human rights, the Geneva Convention, all these things. Okay? It's what they call the rules -based national order. Another difference is World War II was about mercantilism. Okay? Mercantilism is basically you have your own separate trading zone. You only trade within this zone. So that creates an incentive for Britain, for Germany, for France to go and conquer other colonies in order to facilitate their own industrial production. Okay? America is saying, no guys, let's just focus on global free trade. Let's have everyone trade together and if everyone trades together there is going to be peace. World War II was a separation of the unit of will, right? ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:02:06 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: That's what fascism is, the unit of will. We as a people, if we come together, we will be this invincible, inevitable historical force that will overwhelm the whole world. Today, we just focus on consumerism. Let's go buy things, guys. Okay? Buy things, be happy, we're good. All right? So, this is an introduction. We will discuss this when we finish the class with American Empire. Okay? That's next Thursday. All right? But, that is bad. Okay. So, called purpose open society rubric in the American Empire creates these new trends in society that weren't there before. So, for example, identity politics. Okay? Identity politics is one such trend. Identity politics is really the celebration of individual helplessness. Okay? We're all individuals and we all require the state to help us. Okay? So, the state is fundamentally about protecting the vulnerable including minorities, including women, and we're all responsible So, we're all responsible for ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:03:24 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: the impact of Okay? And, that's we're all talking about. So, there are a lot that ultimately creates a conservative pushback. Which is what we're seeing today. Okay? So, the Trump era, which started only a few months ago, there's mass there's deportations going on. It's possible that you guys will not be allowed to go to the United States. You know, Now all this is possible because of this conservative pushback. So in other words, even though the nation state created a lot of problems that the Pax Americana is trying to resolve by focusing on more individual rights, the focus on individual rights is going to create more problems that may also allow for a return of nationalism in the future. And I think that's a very strong possibility that we'll discuss at the end of the course on Thursday. Okay? All right. So that's it. Okay. And again, what's really important for us to remember is that this is all just set up for the next two classes, which will end the course. ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:04:55 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-absorbs-ideologies) Text: All right. So this is all just background information for you guys. But was anything unclear about today? Anything you guys are not clear about? Any questions? Oh, what's the difference between nationalism and a cult? So there's really little difference between nationalism and a cult. There's a difference between nationalism and religion. But a cult is something that we mean it's much more limited, much more small, and it requires rituals as well. Okay? But I think you're right. I think you can make the argument that nationalism, it is a form of religion, definitely. Great. Okay? Does that make sense? Thank you. Any more questions? Okay. Okay, great. So next class. Next class, we will do the communist revolution, the Soviet Union, and the rise of Stalin. Okay? ## The Nation Is The New God -- 1:06:02 - Source title: Civilization #58: Birth of the Nation-State - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tquo1UsC5Nw&t=3962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tquo1usc5nw.json) Text: Bye. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Okay, good morning. Today we do Sigmund Freud. First, what I will do is I will put Freud in the context of the Western religious, intellectual, and literary tradition. All right, so in the beginning, the main religion for us humans during the Ice Age was animism. Okay, and the idea of animism is that we humans are no different from every other living conscious being in the world. We are like the trees. We are like the animals. We're all interconnected together, and life is just a cycle of life and death, birth and rebirth. All right, and this religion is still around today in many primitive societies, for example, in the Amazon. And then we transition to the mother goddess. So as we became more agricultural, fertility was more and more important. We need to have more children, and we need to grow more crops. And so we began to worship the mother goddess, and women were very high status at this stage in history. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:32 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=92s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=92s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: But as populations grew and towns came into being, they came into competition. They started to have relationships with each other. And they started to war against each other. That's created polytheism. Polytheism is the idea that each place has its own god that's its patron. And when these places come into conflict and war, the way they settle disputes is the losing party, their god becomes their servant to the winning god. And this creates the idea of the pantheon that we see in Greek, Roman mythologies, as well as Norse mythologies. Now, the radical break from this tradition was the birth of monotheism. Now, there's going to be a lot of scholarly debate about which was the first monotheistic religion. Some say there are certain Egyptian cults that were monotheistic. Some say the Jews were. Some say the Zoroastrians were. In this class, what you learn is, actually, it was the Christians who were the first true monotheistic religion. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 2:55 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And the reason why is, the Christians introduced the idea of the Holy Trinity. Okay? And remember what the Holy Trinity is. The Holy Trinity, the idea is, the Holy Trinity, the idea is, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, these are different entities, but they are co -equal to each other. They are separate, but unified. They are different, but equal. And this idea, it's very hard for us to logically reconcile. The only way for us to understand this is if God is both nothing and everything. Therefore, it excludes everything. There can be no other God with our God. Okay? And this is the idea of monotheism. And the power of monotheism is that, for the first time in human history, it creates the idea of the individual. Because when God is everything, you have a direct connection with God. And it removes you from the community. Okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Now, this is the idea of monotheism. This will create a lot of problems in the future. But at this point in history, remember, monotheism is being promoted by the Roman Empire as a way to consolidate its rule over its vast territory. At this stage in history, this is not a problem. And the reason why is, mediating you and God is the Catholic Church. But not only that, the Catholic Church mediates God for everyone. So in this way, the Church creates its own community. Okay? So at this stage in history, this is not a problem. But remember, the Church becomes corrupt, and there are many religious reformers who believe that you don't really need the Church in order to access God. In fact, you have a moral imperative to access God directly through the Bible. You have to remove God from your Church. read about Bible by yourself you have to interpret it properly okay and so ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 5:26 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: obviously the most serious reformer is Martin Luther now this is important because what will happen is by limiting the church you create direct access to God and this creates the idea of crisis in faith the idea of crisis in faith is how do you truly know as a person whether or not you love God and how do you know God loves you think about your mother right you know your mother loves you and you know you love your mother but there are many days when you really hate your mother and you fight with your mother okay so it's hard for us not to doubt ourselves and so this creates the crisis in faith because in Protestantism you are required to show absolute faith and devotion in God if you doubt if you hesitate you will be condemned to hell all right so this creates the idea of crisis in faith historically there have been many ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 6:37 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: solutions to this problem different prophets have proposed different solutions so let's look at three different solutions all right so the first solution is the idea of wealth account accumulation all right so these are the Calvinists right they argue that to show your true faith in God and for you to prove to yourself God truly loves you you make a lot of money all right that is a testament to the power of your faith wealth accumulation so that's one solution it's a very popular solution it's what gives us capitalism today the second solution is that if jihad you will die for your faith you're sacrifice yourself to promote the truth of God all right that's also a solution and then there's one more solution that we will discuss today and it's hard for us to truly understand so I'm gonna take some time to explain it fully okay this is idea of transgression so um let ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 7:54 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: me explain it to you slowly the idea is this you must demonstrate complete and apt faith in God to be one of the elect to go to heaven to do so you must demonstrate courage um you must demonstrate financialism the best way to do that is to prove yourself to god by rejecting the laws of man by rejecting human morality by um rejecting social taboos by breaking social taboos as you demonstrate your faith in god all right now i know this sounds like a strange idea um but let me give an example to show you what this means let's just say that in school i decided to start a new class and this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is i want you guys to go shoplift i want you guys to go steal a piece of candy from a small store and of course you ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 9:08 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: are disgusted and you are appalled by this suggestion what do you get caught well you might get expelled from school you might be jailed your parents may punish you you may be outcast from society and then i tell you as and then i tell you have faith trust me when you do this and you break the social taboo that's preventing you from realizing your full potential you will feel an extreme sense of exaggeration liberation excitement and this will motivate you to do greater things in life by breaking taboos by transgression against society and showing your true faith in god you will master your destiny okay and so you guys go and you go steal something from the store you get away with it and guess what you feel excited you feel exhilarated you feel energized okay and that's the idea of transgression and um this has always been a very uh um this and this ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 10:29 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: has been around for us for like hundreds of years as well okay so these are the three main ways that historically um the religious practitioners practitioners have tried to resolve the issue of the crisis of faith right wealth accumulation that's a calvinist jihad and but you also have transgression remember transgression it's very important for discussion okay so remember this idea now um another way to resolve the crisis in faith is through philosophy epistemology epistemology epistemology it really just means the theory of knowledge how do ideas come together what does knowledge come from how do we know what we know right because the crisis of crisis of faith is essentially how do we know so epistemology is really um philosophy's attempt to resolve this crisis in faith remember before we discussed kant and kant proposed the idea of active subjectivity active subjectivity is the idea that we are not just passive consumers of information we actively ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 11:55 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: participate in reality we imagine reality in a way that allows us to understand it what Kant tells us is we imagine space and time onto reality which creates a world of appearance for us to understand the problem with Kant is what is reality and Kant doesn't know in fact he tells us it is impossible to truly understand reality and this creates a problem because if that's the case then how do we know if reality exists or not it's entirely possible that we are in a computer simulation right so Hegel comes along and resolves this issue by introducing the idea of the Geist okay the Geist the spirit the mind he argues that this is the manifestation of God that is the underlying basis of all reality and from this reality comes material world what will then happen is that Marx will come along and he will argue that Geist is really history Hegel believes that ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 13:15 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: the Geist is in a process of working itself with the world it's becoming the world it's bringing us along with it so that one day everyone will achieve full enlightenment Marx inverts Hegel and puts the material world before the world of ideas and he argues that history it is a movement of class struggle and the end of history is when all class class struggle ceases and we all become equal in a diverse paradise why because as capitalism becomes worse and worse as the political increase in number but are exploited in greater uh but but are oppressed by the capitalist eventually the polytheist you and me will develop class Consciousness and we will unite we'll overflow the capitalist class through collective action okay so this is Marx now today we will study Freud because what will happen is Freud will come along and he will present a completely different conception of the movement of history and ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 14:42 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: of the individual he argues that the individual is really just unconscious forces embedded within the brain okay so these three forces are the superego the ego and the id the ego is who we think we are the superego are these social forces that act upon us and the id are these hidden sexual urges and what he will argue is actually these hidden sexual urges are the two foundations of who we are as well as of civilization and he names two of them okay the first is what is called the Oedipal the Oedipal complex the second is electro complex so remember that Oedipus is a character from Greek mythology a king who killed his father and married his mother Electra is also a character from Greek mythology a woman who wanted to kill her mother and marry his father okay Electra is from the Greek mythology a woman who wanted to kill her mother and marry ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 16:16 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: his father okay Electra is also a character from Greek mythology so he argues these are the two fundamental basis of who we are if you're a man you have the Oedipal complex if you have if you're a woman you are the you have the electro complex okay now this is all strange because Kant makes sense Hegel makes sense Marx makes sense and they all seem to flow from each other and then you have Freud okay so the question then is where did he get this idea where where's this from how did he develop this idea all right so so so so we'll look at this question in great detail today all right so up so um everyone so knew that Freud's theory of the unconscious is problematic and he had a very famous student his best student his hair parent named Carl Jung and Carl Jung really saw Freud as a father and he worshiped ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 17:26 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Freud and he wanted to improve on Freud's theory of the unconscious and over time or Carl Jung will do is he was systemized this idea okay so for Carl Jung we have the ego and the ego is made up of two forces the conscious force and the subconscious the subconscious is also divided into the personal as well as the collective sorry it's not subconscious unconscious okay unconscious so the personal conscious are just our our memories our experiences the collective unconscious is the collection of all societies memories and experiences and they are captured and expressed whenever we engage in society when we eat the food we talk to people and watch movies when we read books okay the collective unconscious is embedded through society you breathe it like you would breathe air okay so um can't i'm sorry yoon also says that we have the animus and the anima in other words we sorry in other ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 19:00 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: words we are made up of two opposing forces the male and the female there's a duality to us um so when when we meet people the ego projects a persona okay the persona is just basically our best self in a certain social context so so in school you're a student and you try to be the best student at home you're a daughter um at mcdonald's you're a friend okay so so you are different personas in different social contexts now we try to protect our best self but we are made up of a lot of bad memories bad thoughts so the ego suppresses uh the worst aspects of us in a shadow form okay so the shadow is really the ego of the ego and this yoon argues is what is called the self all right and what he tells us is life is a constant process of self -discovery if you truly want to master ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 20:16 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: yourself you must discover who you are and that will take a lifetime of um self -exploration got it by a psychotherapist all right and self operation got it by a psychotherapist all right and and this sounds much more Será denigradando el ego de ser lo que se acaba aprendiendo entonces nos ocupa la autoconferencia a ser lo que no sabe People think of ego se limitan tanto a los egoнос at a distancia a una persona que qinga el ego e o 첫 önce no podemos saber much more logical, right? And it's become really the standard model for modern day psychology. Now, you would think that Freud would be happy that Carl Jung came up with this new idea on how to improve his theory. But Freud was infuriated that Jung would question his theory. In fact, Freud was notorious for being a control freak. He excommunicated Jung, refused to have anything to do with him. In ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 20:59 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: fact, everyone in the community around Freud were now dissing themselves from Carl Jung, and there would be no reconciliation between the two ever. And that's why Carl Jung had to go and develop this theory, okay? So, and it's strange because all Carl Jung is trying to do is improve Freud. So that gives us a second question. What? Why? Why was Freud so afraid of criticism? Why was he so secretive, all right? And then the third question that we will look at today is, why did this idea become so popular? In fact, the ideas of Freud and Carl Jung will become the basis of a major cultural movement called modernism. And modernism is the cultural movement that we still live in today. Now, there are many different, definitions of modernism, but for us, the easiest definition is cult of the self. We live in a world, in a society, in a culture that's obsessed with ourselves, with self -improvement, with self -empowerment, all right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 22:23 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: So we will look at where this came from, okay? So the three questions we're looking at today is, first of all, where did Freud get this idea for the edible complex? Second is, why was Freud so secretive? And the third question is, what explains Freud's popularity? Why was he so influential? And why was his influence able to spread so quickly? And what I will show you today is, Freud became so influential and so famous, not because his psychoanalyst system was designed to help his patients. Ultimately, his system was designed to protect the interests of powerful interests, powerful men. Okay, that's my argument to you today. Okay, so having made the general argument, what I want to do now is look at the evidence to support the argument, okay? So again, this is a chart that summarizes the different perspectives of these four major thinkers, Kant, Hegel, Marx. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 23:38 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And Freud, okay? So to summarize the main ideas, Freud believes that our sexual urges is what underpins our identity as well as civilization. It's because we cannot control our sexual urges that gives rise to religion, which helps us cope with our guilt, okay? He also believes that truth lies in our suppressed memories. And in his framework, God has abandoned us. There's really no God in his system. We are left to fend for ourselves. We are left to deal with the trauma of being alone. All right, so let's put Freud in his historical context. So Freud lived and worked at the end of the 19th century, primarily in Vienna. And at this time, Europe was going through fundamental, social, cultural, economic, political change. We were transitioning from the pre -modern era to the modern era. Before, we lived primarily in towns and villages where we dealt with each other emotionally. And we had a purpose in our community. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 24:55 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: But when we moved to the cities, it is money and the clock that regulates our life. And it's still true today, right? So when you come to school, what controls your behavior? It's your grades, as well as the clock, right? If you are late for class, if you're absent, then your grades get deducted. All right, so it's the same concept as we have today. All right. Now, because of these social changes, in two new fields, sociology and psychology, are developed in order to try to understand what these changes mean for us, as humans, as human beings, as humans. So in the fields of sociology, there are three major thinkers, pioneers of this time, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and this man, George Simmel. And George Simmel wrote a wonderful essay on the metropolis and mental life, in which he describes what the impact of moving to the city has on people, okay? So we'll just read a couple sentences. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 26:05 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner, thus creating a mental predominance through the intensification of consciousness, which in turn is caused by it. Thus, the reaction of the metropolitan person to those events is moved to a sphere of mental activity, which is least sensitive and which is further removed from the depths of the personality. Okay, so let's use a metaphor. Let's think of food. When you're in the village, you grow your own food, and then you make the food, and then you make the food, you eat it, and that's it, okay? You know exactly where the food comes from, you know how it's made, and you're not really curious about the food. But the wonderful thing about the city is, you get exposed to all different types of cuisine, all different types of flavors, and that excites your imagination. You're much more curious about it, right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 26:57 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: You wanna know where this food is made. The problem, though, of course, is this is all an abstraction. You have absolutely no idea where the food comes from. You have absolutely no idea where the food is made. And quite honestly, you don't even know if the food is healthy for you or not. Okay, so the city life is a higher abstraction. And of course, today we have the internet, which is even a higher abstraction, okay? So you go from the village to the city, now to the internet. Of course, this creates a lot of problems for people, because this transition causes psychological issues. And the three major psychological issues are enemy, okay? And what this means is, before in the village, you know exactly what to do. But when you move to the city, there are different rules, and it confuses you. For example, in the village, if someone punches you, you punch back. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 27:51 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1671s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1671s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And then afterwards, you become friends. In the city, if someone punches you, and you punch back, you both go to jail. So it's confusing for people, okay? Alienation means that you have absolutely no freedom in the city. You work from nine to five. You get up at six o 'clock in the morning, okay? You get up at seven o 'clock, then get to work at nine o 'clock. Then you get off work at five, and get home at ten o 'clock, okay? So everybody has the same regulated life. And you lack freedom, okay? And that causes alienation. The last idea is disenchantment, where you feel as though you are just a machine, and you have lost human agency, okay? So this creates lots of psychological issues. And that's why, at this time, psychology is becoming much more popular. This is Sigmund Freud. And he was a very ambitious medical student who became a psychologist. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 28:49 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And he started to see patients. And these patients were often young women who were historical. Historical is not a word we use anymore. But back then, it just meant that they couldn't control their emotions. They were prone to outbursts, crying. When they saw a man, when they were touched by a man, they screamed, they cried. They couldn't form healthy relationships. And so Freud was tasked with figuring out why this was happening and trying to help these women. And he spent a lot of time with these women. And he did something pretty novel at the time, which is he basically, he just won their trust and asked them directly, why are you like this? And the woman, after many sessions, after becoming friends with Freud, they start to confide in Freud. And they told him the truth, which is, I'm hysterical. I'm afraid of men touching me because when I was young, my father abused me. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 29:55 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And Freud at first was shocked. I think everyone would be shocked. But over time, he would hear this story from so many different patients with the same symptoms that he concluded that they must be telling him the truth. And he wrote a very famous paper in 1896 called The Etiology of Hysteria. Etiology just means origins, okay? And in it, he says, my previously communicated assumption that trauma, specifically sexual trauma, cannot be stressed enough as a pathologic agent was confirmed anew. Even children of respected, high -minded, parenteral families fall victim to real rape much more frequently than one had dared to suspect. Either the parents themselves seek substitution for their lack of satisfaction in this pathological manner, or else trusted persons such as relatives abuse the ignorance and innocence of children, okay? So he's arguing that abuse is much more common than we are led to believe. Even those that we think are pillars of society engage in this sort of abuse. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 31:09 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: So what he's doing is that he's becoming an advocate for these women. He's telling the world they're not crazy, they're not being hysterical, they were traumatized, and that's why they're behaving like this. If you got hit by a car, your leg wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to walk. Well, these women are the same way. They were traumatized physically when they were young, and that's why they were behaving like this. That's why they have problems forming these emotional bonds with others. The symptoms of hysteria, are determined by certain experiences of the patients which have operated in a traumatic fashion and which are being reproduced in their psychological life in the form of mimetic symbols, okay? So what he's saying is this is not made up in the mind. This happened physically, and then it gets represented in the mind. So that's Freud arguing for his patients. Now, let me introduce you to a man named Jeffrey Masson. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 32:11 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And he wrote a book called The Assault on Truth. His story is this. He went to Harvard, and he became very interested in psychoanalysis. And he began to study it, and he became friends with Anna Freud, who is Sigmund Freud's daughter. Anna Freud thought very highly of him, and she trusted him with the letters of Sigmund Freud. And before, this was not open to the public, and no one knew about these letters. But Jeffrey Masson, spent years going over the letters. And what he discovered shocked him. The early Freud and the later Freud are two different people. They have two different theories about trauma and abuse, okay? And in his book, he presents the evidence, which are Freud's letters to friends. All right, so let's just read a couple. This is early Freud. I therefore put forward the thesis that at the bottom of every case of hysteria, ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 33:11 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1991s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=1991s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: there are one or more occurrences of premature experience, occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood, okay? There are a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place, there's the uniformity which they exhibit in certain details. So what he's saying is, I know that people don't believe me, but the evidence is clear. I've talked to different people. They don't know each other. And they're telling the same story. They're providing the same details. So either there's this giant conspiracy, or they're telling the truth. It is less easy to refute the idea that the doctor forces reminiscences of this sort on the patient that he influences him by suggesting to imagine and reproduce them. Nevertheless, it appears to me equally untenable. I've never yet succeeded in forcing on a patient a scene I was expecting to find in such a way that he seemed to be living through it with all the appropriate feelings. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 34:12 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Perhaps others may be more successful in this. When you read Freud, you see him as a very clear, as a very nuanced, as a very balanced thinker. He accepts there are different possibilities. It's possible that he himself is suggesting false memories to his patients. And he says, this is possible, but I have failed to achieve this goal. And there are others who may be better at this than I, but I haven't been able to do it. Okay? So based on this evidence, he argues that these patients must be telling the truth. This is the early Freud. This is Sandor Ferenczi. And for the longest time, they were colleagues. They were best friends. They were both advocates for patients. And then, they had a falling out. Okay? They started to, they basically refused to talk to each other anymore. Okay? And the reason why is, Sandor Ferenczi continued to advocate for patient rights, whereas Simeon Freud completely changed his attitude. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 35:31 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: All right? So let's look at the new Freud. Since child masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so poorly remembered, it must have an equivalent in psychic life. And in fact, it is found in the fantasy encounter in most female patients, namely that the father seduced her in childhood. This is a later reworking, which is designed to cover up the recollection of infertile sexual activity and represents an excuse and explanation thereof. The grain of truth contained in this fantasy lies in the fact that the father, by way of his innocent caresses in earlier childhood, has actually awakened the little girl's sexuality. It is these same affectionate fathers that are the ones who then endeavor to break the child of the habit of masturbation. Okay. So what Freud is trying to say is young girls from very early age, they are sexual animals. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 36:24 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: They have these urges and they have this longing for the father. And it's compounded by the fact that the father in his innocence hugs and caresses his little girl. It's made worse when the father notices that the girl is masturbating and tries to stop her. And this creates a sense of both resentment, hatred, and more longing. Okay. So now what Freud is saying is it's not the father. The father did nothing. He's innocent. The girl is the one who, because of these sexual urges, has all these sexual fantasies that she is no longer able to differentiate between fantasy and reality. All right. So this is from an essay, Fragments of Analysis of Hysteria. The love -hungry little girl, unhappy at having to share her parents' affection with her brothers and sisters, realizes that all that tenderness comes flowing back when her parents are made anxious by her illness. The girl now knows a way of calling forth her parents' love. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 37:32 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: So now he's explaining why hysteria is so common in society. And the answer is very simple. Women are desperate for attention. It's that simple. They're fine. They have no issues. They just want attention. And that's why they are hysterical. Okay. Because they know that illness attracts attention from caregiving males. This is Sigmund Freud's book Civilization and its Discontents. And in it, he expresses his contempt for women in society. All right. Let's read it. Furthermore, women should soon come into opposition to civilization and display their retarding and restraining influence. Those very women who, in the beginning, laid the foundations of civilization like claims of their love. Women represent the interests of the family and of sexual life. The work of civilization has become increasingly the business of men. It confronts them with ever more difficult tasks and compels them to carry out instinctual sublimations of which women are little capable. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 38:39 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: All right. So Freud's saying this. We must thank women because without women there'd be no civilization. They give birth. They raise families. But men are smarter than women. And so men are tasked with the responsibility of building civilization, of creating science, of creating literature, of creating philosophy, of politics, of administration. Okay? And, but what all women want is attention to be dotted on. And that's why women hate civilization. First of all, because they're not smart and they can't really contribute to civilization, but also because it takes men away from them. Okay? So now the question then is, okay, this is like really strange because the Freud that we encountered earlier was a scientist. Very clear, very nuanced, very subtle in his thinking. This Freud, he's like a myth maker. He's almost like a priest. Okay? So what explains the transition? Okay, well, there's a very interesting very simple explanation, right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 39:52 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: A simple explanation, which a simple explanation is, he may be treating his patients who are young women, but who's paying the bills? The father, right? It's the father who's paying Freud. So if Freud went to the father and said, oh, I talked to your daughter, it's your fault that she's like this. Well, they wouldn't be very happy. Okay? So we can understand why at the end of the day, Freud decided that he needed to change his story if he wanted to maintain his clientele. So the question then is, okay, is there evidence to suggest that sexual trauma and abuse was common in Vienna at this time in history, the late 19th century? And the answer is, yes, there is some piece of evidence, okay? Not complete, okay? But there's some piece of evidence to suggest that this was actually a thing in Vienna in the late 19th century. So Vienna's part of the Austria -Hungary Empire, and there are lots of secret societies and religious cults at this time. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 41:02 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Okay? One of them is called Frankenism. And Frankenism rejected Jewish norms and believed they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries. Okay, remember, the crisis of faith, right? How do you demonstrate your faith in God? How do you know God loves you? How do you know you're faithful? Well, you break taboos. And they were breaking a lot of taboos. The Frankenists engaged in sexually promiscuous rites, such as the infamous 1756 incident where they were allegedly caught dancing around a half -naked woman. At its height, Frankenism claimed perhaps 50,000 followers. That's a lot. 50,000 followers is a lot. And a lot of them were powerful people, primarily Jews living in the Polish -Lutheran Commonwealth as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Later, Frankenists were encouraged to convert en masse to Catholicism, okay? And so who are these people? Well, they are followers of ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 42:01 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: a man named Sibetai Zefi who lived in 19th century, who was a Jewish rabbi who lived in 19th century Ottoman Empire. And for many, he was extremely charismatic and he was basically their messiah, okay? He was the Jewish messiah. And he preached a religion of transgression because transgression meant courage. It meant empowerment. It meant true faith. And he had a lot of followers. And that's why the sultan called him and then said, okay, I'll give you a choice. You can either continue doing what you do and I'll kill you or you convert to Islam. So he converted to Islam. But when he did so, he told his followers, I did so because God doesn't care about what you do. God cares about what's in your heart. As long as you're true to God, what you do in life does not matter, okay? And the religion he started is still around today, okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 43:03 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And this is from Wikipedia, okay? All this is from Wikipedia and you can look at it online to make sure that I'm just making this up, alright? So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to suggest that, yes, these women were probably telling the truth and Freud knew so. But Freud ultimately had to change his story in order to protect his livelihood. Okay, but there's also another reason why Freud had to change his story. And it has to do with a man named Ignat Simmelweis. Ignat Simmelweis, lived in 1840s Vienna. And he was a doctor who worked at Vienna General Hospital. And he was in charge of two maternity clinics, places where women gave birth. Same hospital, same staff, but the mortality rate at the second clinic was much higher than the first clinic. Women could die giving birth because of fever. So 10 % of women were dying in the second clinic. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 44:21 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And only about 3 % were dying in the first clinic. So Ignat Simmelweis, he was appalled by this. And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening. And he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure out what happened, what was happening. And he looked at all different possibilities, including weather, including treatment, including personnel, everything, okay? And then he had a radical breakthrough. He had an insight, which is this. In the second clinic, it was a teaching hospital. So doctors would, in the morning, work with cadavers, okay? They would show students how to dissect cadavers. And then in the afternoon, they'd go and deliver babies. And Simmelweis, he didn't know why, because at this time, germs were not a thing. People didn't know about the existence of germs. He didn't know why, but he theorized that there could be connection. So he created a protocol. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 45:19 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: He basically had everyone wash their hands using a formula of water, chlorine, and lime. And we still use it today, exactly the same formula today. And so he tried this protocol, and it was a miracle, because after people started to wash their hands, no one died in childbirth anymore. And Simmelweis, being a rigorous scientist, he collected all this data, conducted a lot of experiments to prove this had to be true, that washing your hands could save lives. And then we presented his findings to the staff, the doctors of Vienna General Hospital, believing that they would praise him and then promote this all throughout Europe in order to save as many lives as possible. Instead, the doctors told him they had to keep this quiet. They'll promote Simmelweis, they respect him, and he did amazing work, but if word came out that this was true, then people would know that they were responsible for the deaths of these women before, and their reputation would be in tatters. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 46:24 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And then Simmelweis of course responded by, yes, I understand that, but if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world know about this, more women are going to die in childbirth. And they fought for a long time, years and years, and then eventually Simmelweis, he was blacklisted, he was not allowed to work ever in hospital again, and then ultimately he was confined to an asylum where he was killed by the guards. And he died leaving a young family. And so that's what happens to you when you defy powerful people in Vienna in the 19th century. And Freud didn't want the same fate. And he also had a young family. So this story is horrible, but if you don't believe me, you can go on Wikipedia. He was institutionalized in an asylum by his colleagues, and in the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 47:22 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: He died 14 days later. All right? So this is the fate that will happen to you in Vienna if you defy powerful people. So now we have an explanation for why Freud made the transition, why he changed his story. But now there's another problem, which is how does Freud convince his patients to go along? Right? Before he told his patients, I believe you, and they trusted him, and now he's changing his story. So how can he convince them that they in fact do suffer from sexual fantasies? And like this experience of sexual abuse, it's all just made up in the head. And that's a very hard job to do. So the solution is the interpretation of dreams. All right? So Freud pioneered a new way of hypnotizing his patients so together they would analyze their dreams. Right? Because if you talk about their memories and their past, you're going to fight back and say, I remember very clearly. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 48:34 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: If you talk about your dreams, that allows you to suggest subtly new ideas and new memories, to basically implant new memories and basically gaslight that person. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So the interpretation of dreams. So that is the story of Freud. Okay? But this leaves a question is, why did this spread throughout the world? All right? And that's something that we will look at in part three. So a lot of the influence of Freud has to do with Carl Jung, who will take his ideas of the unconscious and systemize it for popular consumption. Okay? So we already discussed his framework where we are all dualities. Okay? We have an ego, but we also have a shadow. We have a conscious, but also a unconscious, a personal, as well as collective, an animus, and an anima. Jung popularized ideas of personality types, right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 49:44 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2984s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=2984s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Introvert, extrovert, which is what we still use today. All right. The main influence is in modernism, a transformative art movement beginning around the early 20th century. All right. So arguably the first great modern artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He was an Irish expatriate, and he actually studied Dante in university. So he wrote Ulysses as a way to imitate, almost surpass Dante. And of course, Ulysses refers to Homer's Odyssey. Now, we're going to read a passage from Ulysses to understand the power of its writing. Okay? In irritable modality of the visible, at least that, if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, sea -spawn and sea -wrack, the nearing tide, that rapidly boot. Stark green, blue -siver rust, colored signs, limits of the diaphan, riads, embodies. Okay. What does this mean? I have no idea. All right. I have no idea. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 51:11 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3071s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3071s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: I can explain to you Dante. I can explain to you Homer and Shakespeare. But I struggle with James Joyce. And there are two reasons why. Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay? It's meant to be read out loud. So it's musical. And that's really the power of his writing. He's more focusing on the style rather than the substance. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that he was extremely well read. And everything that he writes, in every sentence, there are multiple allusions and references to other books. Okay? So you must have read what he read. You must have experienced what he experienced in order to understand him. And there are those who argue that Ulysses is the greatest book in the world. In fact, if you go online, you just Google the best book ever written in human history, James Joyce is up there. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 52:09 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-modernism-private-priesthood) Text: Okay? Ulysses is either number one or number two on this list of 50 best books in human history. And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you spend the time to go over what he's writing and reading and connect the references, you will have a transformative intellectual experience. Okay? It's almost like doing a jigsaw puzzle. And that's all true. Okay? But think about what they're saying. They're saying, what they're really saying is that James Joyce believes that he is God. He has the mind of God. And if you spend the time to understand what he writes, and it might take you years, decades, okay, you will access the mind of God. That's very different from Dante, which is trying to use poetry to bring people into the mind of God, which is the truth of the world. Okay? Dante is a lot more accessible than James Joyce. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 53:11 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-modernism-private-priesthood) Text: So let's look at the differences. Modern literature, as represented by Ulysses, it is elitist. It's self -referential. Okay? It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like, what is the bigger story here? And it's used in something called stream of consciousness writing, which is it's trying to capture the mind as it thinks and works. Okay? That's different from Homer, who was very democratic. He was trying to bring beauty and truth to the people through epic poetry. Okay? So starting with modern literature, we have this abrupt change in the nature of literature. Before, it was about empowering people to seek the truth for themselves. Now, modern literature, it's really just this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. James Joyce was good friends with Virginia Woolf. In fact, Virginia Woolf actually published James Joyce. In 1927, Woolf published a book called To the Lighthouse, and it's probably her most famous work. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 54:22 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And in it, she's also trying to respond to Joyce. To the Lighthouse, it's very much based on Homer's Odyssey. And it's a very, it's extremely well written. Okay? Let's just look at what she writes. There were the eternal problems, suffering, death, the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, you shall go through with it. To eight people, she had said relentlessly to that, and the bill for the greenhouse would be 50 pounds. Okay. So what she's doing, she's reading a book, and she's thinking about the issues raised by the book, but she's also thinking about life. Like, oh, I have to go and do something, okay? And that's really how our minds work. So this captures really well stream of consciousness thinking. And she's heavily influenced by Freud, right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 55:10 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-modernism-private-priesthood) Text: She's trying to go into the unconscious and trying to figure out how the unconscious works. To the Lighthouse, it's really about memory, about perception, about remembering. All right? But again, it's extremely self -indulgent. And it's inward looking. And it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discuss Dostoevsky. For Dostoevsky, the heart, it's a deep impenetrable ocean, and our psychology responds to external events. We live in the world and respond to the world. We must surrender ourselves to others to seek salvation and redemption. We cannot rely on ourselves to forgive ourselves, to love ourselves. We must rely on others. We are in a community of people, okay? So these are the truths of Dostoevsky. When we get to modern literature, self -discovery will allow for self -mastery. Our psychology responds to suppressed memories. We can be our own salvation and redemption. It's too optimistic. It's too positive. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 56:16 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: It's saying that, hey, if you're poor, don't worry about it. As long as you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. This idea of positive psychology, right? That we have today. Carl Jung and Friedrich Sömer and Freud also had a major influence on Pablo Picasso. And you can see it from his painting Head of a Woman, okay? Now, what you will notice is it's a cubist portrait of a woman, but if you look further, it's actually two people as well, okay? And so what this is doing is it's visually representing the theory of the self as presented by Jung, okay? So do you see the similarities? Great. Okay. So why is this art spreading throughout the world? Well, I mean, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but let's look at an article, right? Was modern art really a CIA psyop? All right. So this article is from JSTOR, which is an academic journal. Very mainstream. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 57:29 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And let's read what it says. But it writes, In the mid -20th century, modern art and design represented the liberalism, individualism, dynamic activity, and creative risk possible in a free society. Okay? So in other words, right now, the capitalist West is at war with communism. 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, communism is spreading all around the world. It's very popular among people. It calls for collective action. So the capitalist West, the powers that be, they're spreading Freud, they're spreading Joyce, they're spreading Wolf, they're spreading Pablo Castro, they're spreading all this art, this modernist art, in order to create a cult of the self. Because if you believe in the cult of the self, if you believe that you are the source of everything, then you're not capable of collective action. Okay? So in many ways, this is a response to a problem posed by communism. And this will be obviously most obvious during the Cold War. Okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 58:32 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. So why would that be bad? Why would the cult of the self be bad? Well, this is Michael Buchanan, and he explains it very well in his writings. Okay? So let's read really quickly what he wrote. Having human in man and freedom above all is a product of a social collective labor. To be free in absolute isolation is absurdity invented by theologians, and beneficence who have replaced the society of humans by that of God. They're phantom. They say that each person feels free in the presence of God, that is, in the presence of absolute emptiness, nothingness. Freedom in isolation, then, is the freedom of nothingness, or indeed the nothingness of freedom, slavery. God, the figment of God, has been historically the moral source, or rather the moral source of all slavery. So what he's saying is the radical turning point in human history is the invention of Christianity because it allows, it gives us the idea of individualism. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 59:33 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And we think that's a good thing because we're taught that individuality, individualism means free choice. It means freedom. What he's saying is that's an absurdity. We only have freedom from our community. We only have freedom if others are free around us. If we are free when no one else is free, then we are slaves as well. So because individuality prevents us from working with others, from loving others, then that makes us slaves to ourselves. And that allows for the powers that be in society to better control us. And so what he's saying is Christianity is a slave religion. It was designed to make us all into slaves. And this world. And Buchanan lived in the 19th century, but if he read Freud, then he would also argue that the cult of psychoanalysis, it's really about entrapping yourself in your own emotions. As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness but living human reality. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:00:49 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: And we recognize that man can feel free, be free, and therefore can achieve freedom. In order to be free, I need to see myself surrounded by men, by free men, and be recognized as such by them. I am free only when my individuality, reflected in the mirror of the equally free consciousness of every individual around me, comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition. So what he's saying is this. If you want to be happy, if you want to be free, care about others. Be kind to others. Work with other people. Sacrifice your own self -interest for the greater good. That is what will make you really happy. And that's generally true because think about this. If you're by yourself, will you be happy? Probably not. But if you have a family, you have kids, you don't have any freedom, but you're a happier person. And in many ways, you're a more free person because you have better control of your emotions. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:01:46 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3706s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: You have more purpose in life. All right. So let's bring this to the present day. Social media. What social media is, it is the democratization of the call of the self. Before, only the wealthy could enjoy the call of the self, right? Only the wealthy could take the time to self -indulge. But now with social media, everyone can participate in the call of the self. And that has led to a global epidemic of depression, okay? So look at the year 2015. You see this huge spike in depressive symptoms. Because 2015 is the year when we had access to smartphones, right? So now young people feel they can't do anything right. Life is not useful and I do not enjoy life, okay? This huge spike, which has led to a huge spike in suicide, all right? And this is happening throughout the ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:02:45 - Source title: Civilization #57： How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa) - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cylkQPsfFRY&t=3765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cylkqpsffry@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cylkqpsffry.json) Text: world, not only in North America and Europe, but also in Latin America and East Asia as well. So the call of the self, which originated in Europe, has now conquered the world through technology, all right? So that's it, all right? So the answer to the three questions. The first question is, where did Freud get his idea? Second question, why did Freud break with Jung? The third question, why is Freud's idea so popular today, okay? Well, it's all to serve the interests of the powerful. And that's the world we live in today. And the only solution moving forward is if we rediscover our humanity, if we are able to find the courage to care about others, and put the interests of others before our own interests, we ourselves must choose to kill the call of the self, okay? All right, so next class, we will do nationalism, all right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Okay, good morning. Today we do Sigmund Freud. First what I will do is I will put Freud in the context of the Western religious, intellectual, and literary tradition. All right, so in the beginning, the main religion for us humans during the Ice Age was animism. Okay, and the idea of animism is that we humans are no different from every other living conscious being in the world. We are like the trees. We are like the animals. We're all interconnected together, and life is just a cycle of life and death, birth and rebirth. All right, and this religion is still around today in many primitive societies, for example, in the Amazon. And then we transition to the mother goddess. So as we became more agricultural, fertility was more and more important. We need to have more children, and we need to grow more crops. And so we began to worship the mother goddess, and women were very high status at this stage in history. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:31 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=91s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=91s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: But as populations grew and towns came into being, they came into competition. They came into competition with each other, and they started to war against each other. And this created polytheism. Polytheism is the idea that each place has its own god that's its patron. And when these places come into conflict and war, the way they settle disputes is the losing party, their god becomes their servant to the winning god. And this creates the idea of the pantheon that we see. We see this in Greek, Roman mythologies, as well as Norse mythologies. Now, the radical break from this tradition was the birth of monotheism. Now, there's going to be a lot of scholarly debate about which was the first monotheistic religion. Some say there are certain Egyptian cults that were monotheistic. Some say there were Jews, or the Zoroastrians were. In this class, what you learn is, actually, it was the Christians who were the first true monotheistic religion. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 2:55 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And the reason why is, the Christians introduced the idea of the Holy Trinity And remember what the Holy Trinity is. Holy Trinity, the idea is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, these are different entities, but they are co -equal to each other. They are separate, but unified. They are different, but equal. And this idea, it's very hard for us to logically reconcile. The only way for us to understand this is if God is both nothing and everything. Therefore, it excludes everything. There can be no other God with our God. And this is the idea of monotheism. And the power of monotheism is that for the first time in human history, it creates the idea of the individual. Because when God is everything, you have a direct connection with God, and it removes you from the community. Okay? Now, this will create a lot of problems in the future. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 4:25 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: But at this point in history, remember, monotheism is being promoted by the Roman Empire as a way to consolidate its rule over its vast territory. At this stage in history, this is not a problem. And the reason why is mediating you and God is the Catholic Church. But not only that, the Catholic Church mediates God. For everyone. So in this way, the church creates its own community. Okay? So at this stage in history, this is not a problem. But remember, the church becomes corrupt, and there are many religious reformers who believe that you don't really need the church in order to access God. In fact, you have a moral imperative to access God directly through the Bible. You have to read the Bible by yourself. You have to interpret it properly. Okay? And so, obviously, the most famous reformer is Martin Luther. Now this is important, because what will happen is, by limiting the church directly to God, this creates the idea of a crisis in faith. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 5:46 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: The difference is with children. In order for you to reach it, you must first establish whether or not you love God, and how do you know God loves you? Think about your mother, right? You know your mother loves you, and you know you love your mother, but there are many days when you really hate your mother, and you fight with your mother, okay? So it's hard for us not to doubt ourselves, and so this creates the crisis in faith, because in Protestantism, you are required to show absolute faith and devotion in God. If you doubt, if you hesitate, you will be condemned to hell, right? So this creates the idea of crisis in faith. Historically, there have been many solutions to this problem. Different prophets have proposed different solutions. So let's look at three different solutions, all right? So the first solution is the idea of wealth accumulation, all right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 6:54 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So these are the Calvinists, right? They argue that to show your true faith in God, and for you to prove to yourself God truly loves you, you make a lot of money, all right? That is a testament to the power of your faith, wealth accumulation. So that's one solution. It's a very popular solution. It's what gives us capitalism today. The second solution, is that of jihad. You will die for your faith. You will sacrifice yourself to promote the truth of God, all right? That's also a solution. And then there's one more solution that we will discuss today, and it's hard for us to truly understand, so I'm going to take some time to explain it for you, okay? This is the idea of transgression. So let me explain it to you slowly. The idea is this. You must demonstrate complete and absolute faith in God to be one of the elect, to go to heaven. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 8:06 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: To do so you must demonstrate courage. You must demonstrate familism. The best way to do that is to prove yourself to God by rejecting the laws of man, by rejecting human morality, by rejecting social taboos, by breaking social taboos. You are Rocky contradicts me. lebih... actually demonstrate your faith in God all right now I know this sounds like a strange idea but let me give an example to show you what this means let's just say that in school I decided to start a new class and this new class is called individual empowerment and my very first assignment to all my students is I want you guys to go shoplift I want you guys to go steal a piece of candy from a small store and of course you are disgusted and you are appalled by this suggestion what do you get caught well you might ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 9:17 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: get expelled from school you might be jailed your parents may punish you you may be outcast from society and then I tell you as and then I tell you have you have to be outcast from society and then I tell you as and then I tell you have faith trust me when you do this and you break the social taboo that's preventing you from realizing your full potential you will feel an extreme sense of acceleration liberation excitement and this will motivate you to do greater things in life by breaking taboos by transgression against society and showing a true faith in God you will master your destiny okay and so you guys go and you go steal something from the store you get away with it and guess what you feel excited you feel exhilarated you feel energized okay and that's the idea of transgression and this has always been a very this and this has ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 10:29 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: been around for us for like hundreds of years as well okay so these are the three main ways that historically the religious practitioners practitioners practitioners have tried to resolve the issue of the crisis of the faith right wealth accumulation that's Calvinist jihad and but you and you also have transgression remember transgression it's very important for discussion okay so remember this idea now another way to resolve the crisis in faith is through philosophy epistemology epistemology epistemology it really just means means the theory of knowledge. How do ideas come together? Where does knowledge come from? How do we know what we know? Right, because the crisis of faith is essentially, how do we know? So epistemology is really philosophy's attempt to resolve this crisis in faith. Remember before, we discussed Kant. And Kant proposed the idea of active subjectivity. Active subjectivity is the idea that we are not just passive consumers of information. We actively participate in reality. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 11:56 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: We imagine reality in a way that allows us to understand it. What Kant tells us is, we imagine space and time onto reality, which creates a world of appearance for us to understand. The problem with Kant is, what is reality? What is reality? And Kant doesn't know. In fact, he tells us it's impossible to truly understand reality. And this creates a problem because if that's the case, then how do we know if reality exists or not? It's entirely possible that we are in a computer simulation. So Hegel comes along and resolves this issue by introducing the idea of the Geist. Okay? The Geist, the spirit, the mind. He argues that this is the manifestation of God that is the underlying basis of all reality. And from this reality comes the material world. What will then happen is that Marx will come along and he will argue that Geist is really history. Hegel believes that the Geist is in a process of reconciling itself with the world. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 13:21 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=801s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: It's becoming the world and it's bringing us along with it so that one day everyone will achieve full enlightenment. Marx inverts Hegel and puts the material world before the world of ideas. And he argues that history, it is a movement of class struggle. And the end of history is when all class struggle ceases and we all become equal in a workers paradigm. But the world is a paradise. Why? Because as capitalism becomes worse and worse, as the political increasing number but are exploited in greater, but are oppressed by the capitalist, eventually the political, you and me, will develop class consciousness. And we will unite, we will overflow the capitalist class through collective action. So this is Marx. Now, today, we will study Freud. Because what will happen is, Freud will come along and he will present a completely different conception of the movement of history and of the individual. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 14:43 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: He argues that the individual is really just unconscious forces embedded within the brain. So these three forces are the superego, the ego, and the id. The ego is who we think we are. The superego are these social forces that act upon us. And the id are these hidden sexual urges. And what he will argue is, actually, these hidden sexual urges are the true foundations of who we are, as well as of civilization. And he names two of them, okay? The first is what is called the Oedipal, the Oedipal complex. And the second is Electro complex. So remember that Oedipus is a character from Greek mythology, a king who killed his father and married his mother. Electra is also a character from Greek mythology, a woman who wanted to kill her mother and marry his father, okay? Electra is from the Aeschylus play, The Osteia. Freud was remarkably well -read in Greek mythology, as well as world literature. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 16:16 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So he argues these are the two fundamental bases of who we are. If you are a man, you have the Oedipal complex. If you're a woman, you have the Electro complex, okay? Now, this is all strange because Kant makes sense, Hegel makes sense. Marx makes sense. And they all seem to flow from each other. And then you have Freud, okay? So the question then is, where did he get this idea? Where's this from? How did he develop this idea? All right, so we'll look at this question in great detail today. All right, so everyone sort of knew that Freud's theory of the unconscious, is problematic, and he had a very famous student, his best student, his heir apparent, named Carl Jung. And Carl Jung really saw Freud as a father, and he worshiped Freud, and he wanted to improve on Freud's theory of the unconscious. And over time, what Carl Jung will do is, he will systemize this idea, okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 17:37 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So for Carl Jung, we have the ego, and the ego, is made up of two forces. The conscious force, and the subconscious. The subconscious is also divided into the personal, as well as the collective. Sorry, it's not subconscious, it's unconscious, okay? Unconscious. So the personal and conscious are just our memories, our experiences. The collective unconscious is the collection of all of society's memories and experiences. And they are captured and expressed whenever we engage in society. When we eat the food, when we talk to people, when we watch movies, when we read books, okay? The collective unconscious is embedded through society. You breathe it like you would breathe air, okay? So, sorry, Jung also says that we have the animus, and the anima. In other words, we, sorry. In other words, we are made up of two opposing forces, the male and the female. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 19:06 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: There's a duality to us. So, when we meet people, the ego projects a persona, okay? The persona is just basically our best self in a certain social context. So in school, you're a student, and you try to be the best student. At home, you're a daughter. At McDonald's, you're a friend, okay? So you are different personas in different social contexts. Now, we try to project our best self, but we are made up of a lot of bad memories, bad thoughts. So the ego suppresses the worst aspects of us in a shadow form, okay? So the shadow is really the alter ego of the ego. And this, Jung argues, is what is called the self, all right? And what he tells us is, life is a constant process of self -discovery. If you truly want to master yourself, you must discover who you are, and that will take a lifetime of self -exploration, guided by a psychotherapist, all right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 20:26 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And this sounds much more logical, right? And it's become really the standard model for modern day psychology. Now, you would think that Freud would be happy that Carl Jung came up with this new idea on how to improve his theory. But Freud was infuriated that Jung would question his theory. In fact, Freud was notorious for being a control freak. He excommunicated Jung, refused to have anything to do with him. In fact, everyone in the community, around Freud, were now dissing themselves from Carl Jung. And there would be no reconciliation between the two, ever. And that's why Carl Jung had to go and develop this theory. So, and it's strange because all Carl Jung is trying to do is improve Freud. So that gives us a second question. Why was Freud so afraid of criticism? Why was he so secretive, all right? And then the third question that we will look at today is, why did this idea become so popular? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 21:40 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: In fact, the ideas of Freud and Carl Jung will become the basis of a major cultural movement called modernism. And modernism is the cultural movement that we still live in today. Now, there are many different definitions of modernism, but for us, the easiest definition is cult of the self. We live in a world, in a society, in a culture that's obsessed with ourselves. With self -improvement, with self -empowerment, all right? So, we will look at where this came from, okay? So the three questions we're looking at today is, first of all, where did Freud get this idea for the edible complex. Second is, why was Freud so secretive. And the third question is, what explains Freud's feminism? popularity why was he why was he so influential and why was his influence able to spread so quickly and what I will show you today is Freud became ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 22:55 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: so influential and so famous not because it's like what analyst system was designed to help his patients ultimately his system was designed to protect the interests of powerful interests powerful men okay that's my argument to you today okay so having made the general argument what I want to do now is look the evidence just support the argument okay so again this is a chart that summarizes the different perspectives of these four major thinkers Kant Hegel Marx and Freud you just summarize the main ideas first we have the framework of the base Earth earningsienne the choicesmen continue to compete for the year interim 토 Freud believes that our sexual urges is what underpins our identity as well as civilization. It's because we cannot control our sexual urges that gives rise to religion, which helps us cope with our guilt. He also believes that truth lies in our suppressed memories. And in his framework, God has abandoned us. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 24:08 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: There's really no God in his system. We are left to fend for ourselves. We are left to deal with the trauma of being alone. All right, so let's put Freud in his historical context. So Freud lived and worked at the end of the 19th century, primarily in Vienna. And at this time, Europe was going through fundamental, social, cultural, economic, political change. We're transitioning from the pre -modern era to the modern era. Before, we lived primarily in towns and villages where we dealt with each other emotionally. And we had a purpose in our community. But when we moved to the cities, it is money and the clock that regulates our life. And it's still true today, right? So when you come to school, what controls your behavior? It's your grades, as well as, you know, as the clock, right? If you are late for class, if you're absent, then your grades get deducted. So it's the same concept as we have today. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 25:23 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: All right, now, because of these social changes, two new fields, sociology and psychology, are developed in order to try to understand what these changes mean for us as humans. So in the fields of sociology, there are three major thinkers, of this time, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, and this man, Georg Simmel. And Georg Simmel wrote a wonderful essay called The Metropolis and Mental Life, in which he describes what the impact of moving to the city has on people, okay? So we'll just read a couple sentences. Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner, thus creating a mental predominance through the intensification of consciousness, which in turn is caused by it. Thus the reaction of the metropolitan person to those events is moved to a sphere of mental activity which is least sensitive and which is further removed from the depths of the personality. Okay, so let's use a metaphor. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 26:32 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1592s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1592s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Let's think of food. When you're in the village, you grow your own food, and then you make the food, you eat it, and that's it, okay? You know exactly where the food comes from, you know how it's made, and you're not really curious about the food. But the wonderful thing about the food of the city is you get exposed to all different types of cuisine, all different types of flavors, and that excites your imagination. You're much more curious about it, right? You want to know where this food is made. The problem, though, of course, is this is all an abstraction. You have absolutely no idea where the food comes from. You have absolutely no idea where the food is made. And quite honestly, you don't even know if the food is healthy for you or not, okay? So the city life is like this. It's a higher abstraction. And of course, today, we have the internet, which is even a higher abstraction, okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 27:20 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So you go from the village to the city, now to the internet. Of course, this creates a lot of problems for people because this transition causes psychological issues. And the three major psychological issues are enemy, okay? And what this means is before in the village, you know exactly what to do. But when you move to the city, there are different rules, and it confuses you. For example, in the village, if someone punches you, you punch back. And then afterwards, you become friends. In the city, if someone punches you and you punch back, you both go to jail. So it's confusing for people, okay? Alienation means that you have absolutely no freedom in the city. You work from 9 to 5. You get up at 6 o 'clock in the morning, get on the subway at 7 o 'clock, then get to work at 9 o 'clock. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 28:12 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Then you get off at work at 5 and get home at 10 o 'clock, okay? So every day is the same, same regulated life. And you lack freedom, okay? And that causes alienation. The last idea is disenchantment, where you feel as though you are just a machine and you have lost human agency, okay? So this creates lots of psychological issues. And that's why at this time, psychology is becoming much more popular. This is Sigmund Freud, and he was a very ambitious medical student who became a psychologist. And he started to see patients. And these patients were often young women who were historical. Historical is not a word we use anymore, but back then it just meant that they couldn't control their emotions. They were prone to outbursts, crying. When they saw a man, when they were touched by a man, they screamed, they cried. They couldn't form healthy relationships. Okay? So Freud was tasked with figuring out why this was happening and trying to help these women. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 29:24 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And he spent a lot of time with these women. And he did something pretty novel at the time, which is he basically, he just won their trust and asked them directly, why are you like this? And the woman, after many sessions, after becoming friends with Freud, they started to confide in Freud. And they told him the truth, which is, I'm hysterical. I'm afraid of men touching me because when I was young, my father abused me. And Freud at first was shocked. I think everyone would be shocked. But over time, he would hear this story from so many different patients with the same symptoms that he concluded that they must be telling him the truth. And he wrote a very famous paper in 1896 called The Etiology of Hysteria. Etiologies means origins, okay? And in it, he says, my previously ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 30:21 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: communicated assumption that trauma, specifically sexual trauma, cannot be stressed enough as a pathologic agent was confirmed anew. Even children of respected, high -minded, parenteral families fall victim to real rape much more frequently than one had dared to suspect. Either the parents themselves take substitution for their lack of satisfaction in this pathological manner, or, or else trusted persons such as relatives abuse the ignorance and innocence of children, okay? So he's arguing that abuse is much more common than we are led to believe. Even those that we think are pillars of society engage in this sort of abuse. So what he's doing is that he's becoming an advocate for this woman. He's telling the world they're not crazy, they're not being hysterical, they were traumatized, and that's why they're behaving like this. If you got hit by a car, your leg wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to walk. Well, these women are the same way. They were traumatized physically when they were young, and that's why they were behaving like this. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 31:32 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: That's why they have problems forming these emotional bonds with others. The symptoms of hysteria are determined by certain experiences of the patients which have operated in a traumatic fashion and which are being reproduced in their psychological life in the form of magnetic symbols, okay? So what he's saying is this is not made up in the mind. This happened physically, and then it gets represented in the mind. So that's Freud arguing for his patients. Now, let me introduce you to a man named Jeffrey Masson, and he wrote a book called The Assault on Truth. His story is this. He went to Harvard, and he became very interested in psychoanalysis. And he began to study it, and he became friends with Anna Freud, who is Sigmund Freud's daughter. Anna Freud thought very highly of him, and she trusted him with the letters of Sigmund Freud. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 32:35 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=1955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And before, this was not open to the public, and no one knew about these letters. But Jeffrey Masson spent years going over the letters, and what he discovered shocked him. The early Freud and the later Freud are two different people. They have two different theories about trauma and abuse. And in his book, he presents the evidence, which are Freud's letters to friends. So let's just read a couple. This is early Freud. I therefore put forward the thesis that at the bottom of every case of hysteria, there are one or more occurrences of premature experience, occurrences which belong to the earliest years of childhood. There are a whole number of other things that vouch for the reality of infantile sexual scenes. In the first place, there's the uniformity which they exhibit in certain details. So what he's saying is, I know that people don't believe me, but the evidence is clear. I've talked to different people. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 33:39 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: They don't know each other. They're telling the same story. They're providing the same details. So either there's this giant conspiracy, or they're telling the truth. It is less easy to refute the idea that the doctor forces remnants of this sort on the patient, that he influences him by suggesting to imagine and reproduce them. Nevertheless, it appears to me equally untenable. I've never yet succeeded in forcing on a patient a scene I was expecting to find in such a way that he seemed to be living through it with all the appropriate feelings. Perhaps others may be more successful in this. When you read Freud, you see him as very clear, as very nuanced, as a very balanced thinker. He accepts there are different possibilities. It's possible that he himself is suggesting false memories to his patients. And he says, this is possible, but I have failed to achieve this goal. And there are others who may be better at this than I, but I haven't been able to do it. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 34:44 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So based on this evidence, he argues that these patients must be telling the truth. This is the early Freud. This is Sandor Ferenczi, and for the longest time they were colleagues. They were best friends. They were both advocates for patients. And then they had a falling out. They started to... They basically refused to talk to each other anymore. And the reason why is Sandor Ferenczi continued to advocate for patients. Because he believed patient rights. Whereas, Simeon Freud completely changed his attitude. All right, so let's look at the new Freud. Since child masturbation is such a general occurrence and is at the same time so poorly remembered, it must have an equivalent in psychic life. And in fact, it is found in the fantasy encountered in most female patients. Namely, that the father seduced her in childhood. This is a ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 35:50 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2150s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2150s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-memory) Text: later reworking which is designed to cover up the recollection of infantile sexual activity represents an excuse, an exclamation thereof. The grain of truth contained in this fantasy lies in the fact that the father, by way of his innocent caresses in earliest childhood, has actually awakened the little girl's sexuality. It is these same affectionate fathers that are the ones who then endeavor to break the child of the habit of masturbation. Okay, so what Freud is trying to say is, young girls from a very early age, they are sexual animals, they have these urges, and they have this longing for the father. And it's compounded by the fact that the father, in his innocence, hugs and caresses his little girl. It's made worse when the father notices that the girl is masturbating and tries to stop her. And this creates a sense of both resentment, hatred, and more longing, okay? So now what Freud is saying is, it's not the father, the father did nothing, he's innocent. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 36:52 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Okay? The girl is the one who, because of these sexual urges, has all these sexual fantasies that she is no longer able to differentiate between fantasy and reality, all right? So this is from an essay, Fragments of Analysis of Hysteria. The love -hungry little girl, unhappy at having to share her parents' affection with her brothers and sisters, realizes that all that tenderness comes flowing back when her parents are made anxious by her illness. The girl now knows a way of calling forth her parents' love. So now he's explaining why hysteria is so common in society. And the answer is very simple. Women are desperate for attention. It's that simple. They're fine, they have no issues, they just want attention. And that's why they are hysterical, okay? Because they know that illness attracts attention from caregiving, from the eyes of the male. This is Sigmund Freud's book, Civilization and Its Discontents. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 38:03 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And in it, he expresses his contempt for women in society. All right, let's read it. Furthermore, women should soon come into opposition to civilization and display their retarding and restraining influence. Those very women who, in the beginning, laid the foundations of civilization by claims of their love. Women represent the interests of a family and of sexual life. Women represent the interests of a family and of sexual life. They represent the interests of a family and of sexual life. The work of civilization has become increasingly the business of men. It confronts them with ever more difficult tasks and compels them to carry out instinctual sublimations of which women are little capable." All right, so Freud's saying this. We must thank women because without women, there'd be no civilization. They give birth. They raise families. But men are smarter than women. And so men are tasked with the responsibility of business civilization, of creating science, of creating literature, of creating philosophy, of politics, of administration. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 39:02 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: But all women want is attention to be tilted on. And that's why women hate civilization, first of all because they're not smart and they can't really contribute to civilization, but also because it takes men away from them. So now the question then is, okay, this is like really strange. It's really strange because the Freud that we encountered earlier was a scientist. Very clear, very nuanced, very subtle in his thinking. This Freud, he's like a myth maker. He's almost like a priest, okay? So what explains the transition? Okay, well, there's a very simple explanation, right? A simple explanation, which a simple explanation is... Okay. So he may be treating his patients who are young women, but who's paying the bills? The father, right? It's the father who's paying Freud. So if Freud went to the father and said, oh, I talked to your daughter, it's your fault that she's like this. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 40:16 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-memory) Text: Well, they wouldn't be very happy, okay? So we can understand why, at the end of the day, Freud decided that he needed to change his story. He wanted to change his story. He wanted to change his boy if he wanted to maintain his clientele. So the question then is, okay, is there evidence to suggest that sexual trauma and abuse was common in Vienna at this time in history, the late 19th century? And the answer is yes. There is some piece of evidence, okay? Not complete, okay? But there's some piece of evidence to suggest this was actually a thing in Vienna in the late 19th century. So this is... So Vienna's part of the Austria -Hungary Empire, and there are lots of secret societies and religious cults at this time, okay? One of them is called Frankenism. And Frankenism rejected Jewish norms and believed they were obligated to transgress moral boundaries. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 41:17 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Remember, the question of faith, right? How do you demonstrate your faith in God? How do you know God loves you? How do you know you're faithful? Well, you break taboos. Okay? And they were bringing a lot of taboos. The Frankenists engaged in sexually promiscuous rites, such as the infamous 1756 incident where they were allegedly caught dancing around a half -naked woman. At its height, Frankenism claimed perhaps 50,000 followers. That's a lot. 50,000 followers is a lot. And a lot of them were powerful people, primarily Jews living in the Polish -Lutheran Commonwealth, as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Later Frankenists were encouraged to convert en masse to Catholicism, okay? And so... Who are these people? Well, they are followers of a man named Sibetai Zevi, who lived in 19th century... Who was a Jewish rabbi who lived in 19th century Ottoman Empire. And for many, he was extremely charismatic, and he was basically their messiah, okay? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 42:15 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: He was the Jewish messiah. And he preached a religion of transgression, because transgression meant courage. It meant empowerment. It meant true faith. And he had a lot of followers. And that's why the sultan called him in and said, okay, I'll give you a choice. You can either continue doing what you do, and I'll kill you, or you convert to Islam. So he converted to Islam. But when he did so, he told his followers, I did so because God doesn't care about what you do. God cares about what's in your heart. As long as you're true to God, what you do in life does not matter, okay? And the religion he started... The religion he started is still around today, okay? And this is from Wikipedia, okay? All this is from Wikipedia, and you can look at it online to make sure that I'm just making this up, all right? ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 43:16 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2596s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2596s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So as part of this movement, I mean, you can read this, right? Sexual abuse was actually pretty common. So we have evidence to suggest that, yes, these women were probably telling the truth, and Freud knew so, but Freud ultimately had to change his story in order to protect his livelihood. Okay, but there's also another reason why Freud had to change his story, okay? And this... It has to do with a man named Ignat Simmelweis. Ignat Simmelweis lived in 1840s Vienna, and he was a doctor who worked at Vienna General Hospital. He was in charge of two maternity clinics, places where women gave birth. Same hospital, same staff, but the mortality rate at the second clinic was much higher than the first clinic. Women could die giving birth because of fever. So 10 % of women were dying in the second clinic, and only about 3 % were dying in the first clinic. So Ignat Simmelweis, he was appalled by this. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 44:30 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Okay? And so he launched an investigation as to what was happening, and he spent seven months, a long, long time, trying to figure out what happened, what was happening. And he looked at all different possibilities, including weather, including treatment, including personnel, everything, okay? And then he had a radical breakthrough. He had an insight, which is this. In the second clinic, it was a teaching hospital, so doctors would, in the morning, work with cadavers. Okay? They would show students how to dissect cadavers, and then in the afternoon, they'd go and deliver babies. And Simmelweis, he didn't know why, because at this time, germs were not a thing. People didn't know about the existence of germs. He didn't know why, but he theorized that there could be connection. So he created a protocol. He basically had everyone wash their hands using a formula of water, chlorine, and lime. And the protocol was very simple. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 45:28 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: We still use it today, exactly the same formula today. And so he tried this protocol, and it was a miracle, because after people start to wash their hands, no one died in childbirth anymore. And Simmelweis, being a rigorous scientist, he collected all this data, conducted a lot of experiments to prove this had to be true, that washing your hands could save lives. And then he presented his findings to the staff, the doctors of Vienna General Hospital, believing that they would praise him. And then promote this all throughout Europe, in order to save as many lives as possible. Instead, the doctors told him they had to keep this quiet. They'll promote Simmelweis, they respect him, and he did amazing work. But if word came out that this was true, then people would know that they were responsible for the deaths of these women before, and their reputation would be in tatters. And then Simmelweis, of course, responded by, yes, I understand that. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 46:27 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: But if we don't publish our findings, if we don't let the world know about this, more women are going to die in childbirth. And they fought for a long time, years and years. And then eventually, Simmelweis, he was blacklisted. He was not allowed to work ever in a hospital again. And then ultimately, he was confined to an asylum, where he was killed by the guards. And he died leaving a young family. And so that's what happens to you when you defy powerful people. In Vienna, in the 19th century. And Freud didn't want the same fate. And he also had a young family. So this story is horrible. But if you don't believe me, you can go on Wikipedia. He was institutionalized in an asylum by his colleagues, and in the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later. So this is the fate that will happen to you in Vienna. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 47:30 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: If you defy powerful people. So now, we have an explanation for why Freud made the transition, why he changed his story. But now there's another problem, which is, how does Freud convince his patients to go along? Before he told his patients, I believe you, and they trusted him. And now he's changing his story. So how can he convince them that they, in fact, do suffer from sexual abuse? Well, first of all, Freud's story is about sexual fantasies. And this experience of sexual abuse, it's all just made up in the head. And that's a very hard job to do. So the solution is the interpretation of dreams. So Freud pioneered a new way of hypnotizing his patients. So together, they would analyze their dreams. Because if you talk about their memories and their past, you're going to fight back. And he says, I remember very clearly. You talk about your dreams, that allows you to suggest subtly new ideas and new memories. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 48:43 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2923s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=2923s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-privatizes-memory) Text: To basically implant new memories and basically gaslight that person. Does that make sense? So the interpretation of dreams. So that is the story of Freud. But this leaves a question. The question is, why did this spread throughout the world? And that's something that we will look at in part three. A lot of influence of Freud has to do with Carl Jung, who will take his ideas of the unconscious and systemize it for popular consumption. So we already discussed his framework, where we are all dualities. We have an ego, but we also have a shadow. We have a conscious, but also a unconscious. A personal. A collective. An animist. An anima. Jung popularized ideas of personality types, introvert, extrovert, which is what we still use today. The main influence is in modernism, a transformative art movement beginning around the early 20th century. All right. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 50:02 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: So arguably, the first great modern art movement. The first artist is James Joyce, who in 1922 published Ulysses. James Joyce was Irish. He was an Irish expatriate, and he actually studied Dante in university. So he wrote Ulysses as a way to imitate and almost surpass Dante. And of course, Ulysses refers to Homer's Odyssey. Now we're going to read a passage. A passage from Ulysses to understand the power of writing. In irritable modality of the visible, at least that if no more thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I'm here to read, sea spawn and sea wrack, the nearing tide that rasps the boot. Stark green, blue silver rust, colored signs, limits of the diaphan, riads, embodies. Okay. What does this mean? I have no idea. All right. I have no idea. I can explain to you Dante. I can explain to you Homer and Shakespeare. But I struggle with James Joyce. And there are two reasons why. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 51:19 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: Okay. The first reason is he was a singer. So you have to read what he writes as though it's music. Okay. It's meant to be read out loud. So it's musical. And that's really the power of his writing. He's more focusing on the style rather than the substance. Okay. That's the first thing. Second thing is that he was extremely well read. And everything that he writes, in every sentence, there are multiple allusions and references to other books. Okay. So you must have read what he read. You must have experienced what he experienced in order to understand him. And there are those who argue that Ulysses is the greatest book in the world. In fact, if you go online, you just Google the best book ever written in human history, James Joyce is the greatest book ever written in human history. James Joyce is up there. Ulysses is either number one or number two on this list of 50 best books in human history. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 52:17 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And there are many who tell me, yeah, James Joyce is hard. But if you just spend the time to go over what he's writing and connect the references, you will have a transformative intellectual experience. Okay. It's almost like doing a jigsaw puzzle. And that's all true. Okay. But think about what they're saying. What they're really saying is that James Joyce believes that he is God. He has the mind of God. And if you spend the time to understand what he writes, and it might take you years, decades, okay, you will access the mind of God. That's very different from Dante, which is trying to use poetry to bring people into the mind of God, which is the truth of the world. Okay. James Joyce is a lot more accessible than James Joyce. So let's look at the differences. Modern literature, as represented by Ulysses, it is elitist. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 53:18 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what is the bigger story here? And it's used in something called stream of consciousness writing, which is it's trying to capture the mind as it thinks and works. Okay. That's different from Odyssey. Okay. That's different from Homer, who was very democratic. He was trying to bring beauty and truth to the people through epic poetry. Okay. So starting with modern literature, we have this abrupt change in the nature of literature. Before it was about empowering people to seek the truth for themselves. Now modern literature, it's really just this very elite club of very arrogant, haughty people. Okay. James Joyce was good friends with Virginia Woolf. In fact, Virginia Woolf actually published James Joyce. In 1927, Woolf published a book called To the Lighthouse. And it's probably her most famous work. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 54:21 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And in it, she's also trying to respond to Joyce. To the Lighthouse, it's very much based on Homer's Odyssey. And it's extremely well written. Okay. Let's just look at what she writes. There were the eternal problems, suffering, death, the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, you shall go through with it. To eight people she had sent relentlessly to that, and the bill for the greenhouse would be 50 pounds. Okay. So what she's doing is she's reading a book and she's thinking about the issues raised by a book. But she's also thinking about life. Like, oh, I have to go and do something. Okay. And that's really how our minds work. So this captures really well stream of consciousness thinking. Okay. And she's heavily influenced by Freud. Right? She's trying to go into the unconscious and trying to figure out how the unconscious works. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 55:14 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: The Lighthouse is really about memory, about perception, about remembering. All right. But again, it's extremely self -indulgent and it's inward looking and it's very, and again, it's a radical departure from traditional literature. So let's compare modern literature with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discussed Dostoevsky. Okay. For Dostoevsky, the heart, it's a deep impenetrable ocean and our psychology responds to external events. We live in the world and respond to the world. We must surrender ourselves to others to seek salvation and redemption. We cannot rely on ourselves to forgive ourselves, to love ourselves. We must rely on others. We are in a community of people. Okay. So these are the truths of Dostoevsky. When we get to modern literature, self -discovery will allow for self -mastery. Okay. Our psychology responds to suppressed memories. We can be our own salvation and redemption. It's too optimistic. It's too positive. Okay. It's saying that, hey, if you're poor, don't worry about it. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 56:24 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: As long as you think happy thoughts, you'll be good. Okay. This idea of positive psychology, right, that we have today. Carl Jung and Friedrich Schumann for it also had a major influence on Pablo Picasso. Okay. And you can see it from his painting, Head of a Woman. Okay. Now, what you will notice is it's a cubist portrait of a woman, but if you look further, it's actually two people as well. Okay. And so what this is doing is it's visually representing the theory of the self as presented by Jung. Okay. So do you see the similarities? Great. Okay. So why is this? Why is this art spreading throughout the world? Well, I mean, not to be a conspiracy theorist, but let's look at an article, right? Was modern art really a CIA psyop? All right. So this article is from JSTOR, which is an academic journal, very mainstream. And let's read what it writes. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 57:32 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: In the mid -20th century, modern art and design represented the liberalism, individualism, dynamic activity, and creative risk possible ineffectiveness. Modern art was really a political thing that could change the lives of every human being, Now during the Mecca of modern art, modern art wasn't necessarily a political thing. It wasn't. And so it's a big term. You can have a local art to which you can produce posterity, but modern art is, in particular, is a commercial art. There's a big discussion around it. There's a big discussion around it, and I think, from a character's perspective, it's the collective action. One of the things that happened is that we think that modern art can also be reformed for a common purpose. It can be reformed for the betterment of the world. Can be reformed for a better world. in order to create a cult of the self. Because if you believe in the cult ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 58:16 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: of the self, if you believe that you are the source of everything, then you're not capable of collective action. So in many ways, this is a response to a problem posed by communism. And this will be obviously most obvious during the Cold War. Does that make sense? All right, so why would that be bad? Why would the cult of the self be bad? Well, this is Mikhail Bukhanyan, and he explains it very well in his writings, okay? So let's read really quickly what he wrote. Having human in man and freedom above all is a product of a social collective labor. To be free in absolute isolation is absurdity invented by theologians, metaphysicians, who have replaced the society of humans by that of God, their phantom. To say that each person feels free in the presence of God, that is, the presence of absolute emptiness, nothingness, and freedom. Freedom in isolation, then, is the freedom of nothingness, or indeed, the nothingness of freedom, slavery. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 59:18 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: God, the figment of God, has been historically the moral source, or rather, the moral source of all slaveries. So what he's saying is, the radical turning point in human history is the invention of Christianity, because it gives us the idea of individualism. And we think that's a good thing, because we're taught that individualism means free choice, it means freedom. But what he's saying is, that's an absurdity. We only have freedom from our community. We only have freedom if others are free around us. If we are free, but no one else is free, then we are slaves as well. So because individuality prevents us from working with others, from loving others, then that makes us slaves to ourselves. And that allows for the powers that be in society, to better control us. Okay, so what he's saying is, Christianity is a slave religion. Alright, it was designed to make us all into slaves in this world. ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:00:25 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: And Buchanan lived in the 9th century, but if you read Freud, then you will also argue that the cult of psychoanalysis, it's really about entrapping yourself in your own emotions. As for us, we want neither phantoms nor nothingness but living human reality and we recognize that man can feel free be free and therefore can achieve freedom in order to be free I need to see myself surrounded by men by free men and be recognized as such by them I'm free only when my individuality reflected in the mirror of the equally free consciousness of every individual around me comes back to me strengthened by everyone's recognition okay so what he's saying is this if you won't be happy if you want to be free care about others be kind to others work with other people sacrifice your own self -interest for the self interest for further for the ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:01:23 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: greater good okay that is what that what that is that is what will make you really happy and that's generally true because think about this okay if you're by yourself will you be happy probably not but if you have a family you have kids you don't have any freedom but you're a happier person and many more in many ways you're more free person these are better control of your emotions you have more purpose in life all right so let's bring this to the present day social media what social media is it is the democratization of the call to the self before only the wealthy could enjoy the call to the self right only the wealthy could take the time to self indulge but now with social media everyone can participate in the call to the self and that has led to a global epidemic of depression okay so look at look a little year 2015 ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:02:22 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: you see this huge spike in depressive symptoms because 2015 is the year when it access with smartphones right so now young people feel they can do anything right life is not useful and I do not enjoy life okay this huge spike which has led to a huge spike in suicide all right and this is happening you know I had so many questions I have to answer right now I don't know what's羞 world not only in North America in Europe but also in Latin America and East Asia as well so the color cell which originated in Europe has now conquered the world through technology all right so that's it all right so the answer to the three questions the first question is what if I get his idea some question what it for a quick review the third question why is for its idea so popular today okay well it's all to serve the interests of ## Kill The Cult Of The Self -- 1:03:24 - Source title: Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-06-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2v9HkaHz8&t=3804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ra2v9hkahz8.json) Text: a powerful and that's the world we live in today the only solution moving forward is if we rediscover our humanity if we are able to find the courage to care about others and put the interests of others before our own interests we ourselves must change the world we are able to change the world we are able to change the world choose to kill the cult of itself okay all right so next class we will do nationalism right ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Good morning. So today we are doing Karl Marx. And Karl Marx is one of the most influential thinkers in human history. His contribution to intellectual thought cannot be overstated. So what I'm going to do first is I'm going to do a thought experiment. It's just going to be a fun experiment. And let's pretend there are two scenarios. Instead of one, you get into a really good college and you decide to become a lawyer. You go to law school, you do extremely well, you become a lawyer, and you make a lot of money. And you make a lot of money, you can buy a big house, go on vacations to Bali, you can buy a car, you have a BMW, okay? So that's situation one. You're a super lawyer, basically. Situation two is different. You're on a plane with strangers. And there's about 100 of you. You crash on an island. This island, it's very poor, very scarce resources. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:13 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=73s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=73s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And you have to work together in order to just get by, okay? You're not eating well, you're not living well. Every day is a struggle. You're not really sure if you'll get to the second day, all right? So those are the two situations. You're on an island, and you're basically starving. And so the question, the thought experiment is, do you think you'll be a happier person in the first situation or the second situation? Yeah, so you would think, obviously, the answer is number one. But what I will show you today is, that's not necessarily true, okay? Maybe for some of us, the answer is number one. But for many of us, the answer is actually number two. Because as humans, we want to feel as though we have a purpose in life and that we are part of a larger mission to change the world for the better, okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 2:10 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And that's the underlying thesis of Karl Marx. All right, so let's start with Marx. Okay, so for us to understand Marx, we first need to review Kant and Hegel, which we did last class. So Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant's theory of the world is this. We are all endowed with the capacity to reason, okay? And it's born in us. We don't learn it, it is just part of who we are, okay? So, and then this reason interacts with reality, the things in themselves. And then what we see is the appearance, okay? So the crucial argument that Kant is making is, we imagine reality around us. By bringing in space and time. Reality, we don't see reality objectively, okay? Or away from us. We see reality as part of us. And with our mind, we create our own universe. And as we discussed last class, this has been confirmed by neuroscience, by artificial intelligence, quantum mechanics. So it's really a dominant understanding of human psychology we have today, all right? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 3:27 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: But the problem with Immanuel Kant, there are three main problems that we There are three major issues with Immanuel Kant. The first major issue is, if we can never know reality, then how do we know what's real and what's fake, right? How do we know we don't live in a computer simulation? And the answer is, we don't know. So that's the first issue with Immanuel Kant. He does not give us proof of an objective reality, okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is the source for our reason. If we are born with the capacity to imagine space and time and shape our reality, who gives it to us? Where does it come from? And he doesn't really answer that question, right? And the third question is the problem of uniformity, which is to say, how do I know that you and me and others see the world in the same way? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 4:28 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Why aren't we seeing a different reality, okay? And then Immanuel Kant says, well, we don't know either, okay? So these are the three major problems created by Immanuel Kant's philosophy of the world. So Frederick Hegel comes along and resolves all three issues. And what he says is this, he says that the underlying source of reality is called the Geist. The Geist is the spirit of the world. Think of it as a god that's becoming into reality. It's growing, okay? It's almost like the Internet, collective consciousness. And as a result, the Geist has to reason and to see itself and then to imagine its own reality, okay? So the idea of the Geist solves all three problems at once. An underlying reality that gives, that creates the material reality. So Hegel is an idealist, meaning for him what matters is ideas and spirit. And the material world is created from these ideas and from spirit. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 5:30 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? So these are the, so what, this is Hegel. What Karl Marx will do is build on Hegel to create something called dialectical materialism, which is the idea of class struggle, okay? And he will create his philosophy based on his reading of Hegel. All right, so let's go over how Marx interprets Hegel. So again, Hegel has three major ideas. The first is the idea of the Geist. The idea of the Geist. Okay? The underlying superstructure of reality. Second is the idea of the dialectic. Okay. So the idea of the dialectic is how does this Geist become what it does, what it is? How does this Geist learn and think? And the answer is the dialectic. The dialectic is thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. And the concept is just a debate among, in itself. For it to know itself, it must create its opposite. And then when it creates its opposite, it debates itself and creates a synthesis. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 6:47 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? And it's the idea of a debate, where you might have a viewpoint and you engage with someone where another viewpoint that's opposite of yours, you debate, and through this debate, you create a synthesis of your different viewpoints. Okay? And for Hegel, this is the underlying logic of history, of how we learn, of how we progress. Okay? And the third idea that Hegel proposes is the idea of division, okay? Of division. Alright? So, you know, this idea is of division, of the master -slave dialectic and so um hegel thinks that relationship can be broken into a master and slave basically i command you you do as i say you obey me but when but then what hegel says is over time this thesis into this also becomes a synthesis why because as your master as your master i become dependent on you as my slave in fact you're the ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 7:41 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: one doing all the work so about you i can't exist okay so in this way the relationship inverts itself and the master becomes slave to the slave right because the master is now dependent on the slave for his livelihood all right so those these are the three big ideas that hegel is going to take sorry these are the three big ideas of hegel and marx is going to take these three ideas and develop his own theory of the world so marx marx is from prussia um as we discussed uh before a lot of these major philosophers are from prussia hegel himself was also prussian he was very proud to be to be prussian um and marx when he was in university was part of a group called the young hegelians these are individuals a group of them who worship hegel but they misinterpreted hegel okay they thought of hegel as an atheist um because he ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 8:38 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: said god is dead but when hegel said god is dead what he really meant is i am now going to reinterpret god not as this separate entity from us but as part of us in the form of the guys okay um so the young hegelians will reinterpret hegel and basically misinterpret him so the first thing they do is they take the guys and they turn into a material thing okay economics so hegel thinks it's ideas that come first then material reality but these guys the young hegelians they will invert this and say it's a material reality that creates ideas okay it's economic it's wealth that creates culture which gives rise to ideas okay so it's the complete opposite um second thing they'll do is if this is true the dialectic and the master slave relationship um then history is a history of oppression and a struggle for liberation against this oppression okay and so the ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 9:40 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: idea of the uh material world in struggle with itself creates the idea of dialectical materialism and we call this class struggle okay the rich and the poor funny each other and the poor are looking for liberation right so does that make sense okay great so um that's right so this is class struggle and this is the main contribution that marx will make by creating this idea he will lay the foundation for what we today refer to as communism all right the underlying reality of history is class struggle the other thing that marx will take from hegel is an understanding that all of history is theological okay theological this is a big word but all it means is there is an inability to history there's a purpose there's a need to history there's a reason there's a reason there's a reason there's a reason there's a reason okay so let's go over the theology that marx ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 10:49 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: creates all right so we were born as hunter gatherers we all know this okay we're out in the out in the forest hunting food and small tribes and we're happy but there's not enough food to feed everyone so we develop agriculture right and then because of agriculture we have something called surplus value we're able to create more wealth which allows a few of us to settle down and do other stuff for example create literacy okay and this gives rise to civilization and then to justify the civilization to justify this hierarchy the fact that you have a few people who are essentially parasites of society we create the idea of religion right because the elite now are priests right so that's the second stage then what happens is um as we develop more and more technology and the societies become larger and larger we have to go to war against each other okay to fight for ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 11:57 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: resources and so this gives rise to the master slave relationship which then gives us feudalism okay which then allows for the rise of industrial capitalism and this is a stage marx finds himself at and what mark says is this is all given by technological advancement right so agriculture is an advancement and then you have tools and you have weapons um then you have castles knights and now you have steamships okay so it's all part of a technological plan to liberate humanity technology okay now and he's running the year in 1848 okay um and now now industrial capitalism will naturally lead to communism all right he says this this is not something that we can hope for or work towards it's something that's going to happen because of history okay history is god god is history we our world is being developed through the mind of god all right so um first thing he does is ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 13:18 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: he uses the hegelian dialectic right so feudalism is the thesis industrial capitalism is antithesis and then together they will create communism why okay so for marx embedded in capitalism is the seeds of its demise and there are three reasons why okay first is industrial capitalism is imperial it's all consumer it expands and as a result it's going to create a global proletariat and because they're all oppressed they're going to come in and come together and recognize that only for collective action can we live with ourselves from the capitalist class all right and because the proletariat is the majority of people 99 percent then the one person have no have no chance okay that's number one number two is the idea of technology capitalism gives rise to new technology which makes serp which creates surplus value and surplus labor it basically makes our job easier okay which which can we do which can we do in ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 14:31 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: this case we don't have to work as hard as before in order to create value okay so that's technology so for example ai right and the third is the idea of crisis in capitalism okay crisis in capitalism and what this means is for marx capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable it will collapse at a certain point why well there are many reasons why okay so for remarks the main problem is overproduction you're producing all these goods but because you're impoverishing everyone no one's going to buy these goods in which case the market in which case the economy is going to collapse right that's one um possibility another possibility is presented by a man named thomas picketty okay and he wrote a famous book called capital in 21st century and he's working off marks and what he believes the fundamental uh paradox of capitalism is is a problem of uh financial realization so all this is saying is ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 15:38 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: this at first we have to build a factory to generate wealth right but once we have to have enough wealth we want to take this wealth and go invest it somewhere because it's easier for us and we can make more money that way but over time as capitalism grows and grows everyone wants to invest no one wants to manufacture and what happens then is the financial economy is going faster than the manufacturing economy in fact for For Piketty, the financial economy will go up 5%, whereas the manufacturing economy will go up 2%. This means that if you put your money in a stock market, you'll make 5 % a year. But if you open a restaurant, or you create a factory, or you do something useful, you make 2 % a year. So no one wants work anymore, right? So for Piketty, capitalism will have to end at some point. Then you have a name, named Carroll Quigley. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 16:30 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=990s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And he's a historian. We discussed him last week. But he's a historian at Georgetown. He's dead. But he wrote a famous book called Tragedy and Hope. And he argues that capitalism goes in phases. The first phase is consumer capitalism, where companies are trying to create products that consumers want to buy. Then that leads to financial capitalism, where now companies just want to invest their wealth. But over time, the final stage is the idea of monopoly capitalism, where a few companies, basically control all the resources. In which case, we pay a lot of money for crappy stuff. And then we don't want to buy anything anymore. So for Marx, and for Piketty, and for Carroll Quigley, capitalism can only lead to crisis. And then because of the crisis, the proletariat will organize, and then rebel, and then create a worker's paradise, which leads to communism. That's the logic of Marx. That is Marx's understanding of history. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 17:35 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Alright, so what I'm going to explain now is, why would this be popular? Why would this history be popular for people? Because communism was one of the most popular movements throughout the 20th century. And the problem that Marx diagnoses is, capitalism makes people miserable. For three reasons. So the issues of capitalism. The first issue is that it is all -encompassing, all -consuming. So in other words, it just grows and grows. And because it has to grow and grow to create value, it starts wars. So you have imperialism, right? Because as a factory owner, you want to create new markets, you want access to cheaper goods, you want access to cheaper labor. Therefore, you force your government to go invade other countries like China, India, Africa. Okay? So capitalism creates wars and human misery all around the world. It's all -consuming. It's always expanding. Second problem with capitalism is that it consolidates. Consolidating. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 18:43 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And the idea here is this. Capitalism can only lead to extreme inequality. Why? Because the point of capitalism is to generate as much wealth as possible. So to do that, we want to consolidate our wealth. So maybe there's ten of us. We have a million dollars each, right? Well, we're better off just putting our money together, and then investing it together. Right? Which creates massive inequality. So over time, Marx believes that because capitalism is all -consuming and consolidating, it will destroy the middle class. Unless you're super wealthy, you won't have any money. If you are just like a small factory owner, you'll be bought out by a large factory owner. And quite honestly, this is what's happening in the world today. If you are a small house owner in America, well, you're going to be bought out by a company. And then the company's going to use your house to rent to other people. So ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 19:37 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: this is a pattern that's happening throughout the world today, and that's why Marx is seeing a massive resurgence in our world today. Now the third problem is alienating. And here, Marx explains that there are four types of alienation. The first type of alienation is the alienation of labor. And what this means is this. As humans, we want to create stuff. We are fundamentally creative. We want to create art products. We want to cook. We want to teach. We want to express our individuality. And why we want to do that is we want to express our individuality. When we create things, we support the community. So when I teach you guys, you guys learn. And when you learn, you feel good, you thank me, and that confirms my humanity. That confirms my individuality. So society is a mechanism for each of us to exchange our creativity in a way that affirms our own individuality. Does that make sense? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 20:42 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: The problem with capitalism is it takes use value, what this thing is used for, and replaces it for exchange value, which is how much this thing is worth. And these are two different concepts. So use value is, I cook an apple pie, and then I give it to you, and you eat it, and you say, wow, this is a really awesome apple pie. Thank you so much. And then you feel good and I feel good. That's use value. Exchange value is, I cook this apple pie and I give it to someone who then goes and sells it to someone. I never meet that person, and I don't know what happens to the pie, but I'm paid like $5 for it. So that's the idea of exchange value. And as such, what Marxist says is, this exchange of goods does not affirm our individuality. Therefore, it makes us miserable because we don't know why we're doing anything anymore. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 21:43 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: Before, we were doing things in order to support our community, in order to please other people, in order to affirm our humanity. Now we're just making stuff because of wage labor, right? Wages to get paid. So that's alienating for us. This makes sense, right? Great. Second is that it alienates us from ourselves. Why? Because as human beings, we are very complex, we are multifaceted, and we're always evolving. But for capitalism, what matters is division of labor, specialization, because that's what allows for the most rapid industrial growth. And so, in other words, you cease to be you and you become a hand, or maybe a finger, or maybe an eye, or maybe an ear, but you cease to be complete. You just be you. You're just like a cog in the machine. You're just a piece of the puzzle. And that alienates you from who you are really. It prevents you from achieving your full potential as a creative, vibrant human being. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 22:44 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: That's the second issue. The third issue is it alienates us from nature. Why? Because capitalism grows by exploiting humans and by exploiting nature. It cuts down trees. It destroys the environment. It creates air pollution. We can no longer drink clean water. It destroys nature. And it makes us feel that we must destroy nature if we are to feed our families. So it alienates us from our nature, whereas historically, we have been in a symbiotic relationship with nature where we thank nature for feeding us. But we're always replenishing. We're always protecting nature. The fourth type of alienation is the alienation from humanity. All right? So before, for most of history, we were cooperating with each other. We were helping each other out, because that's the only way you could survive. But capitalism forces us to compete against each other. An example, of course, is school, where because of grades, you see your classmates as competitors. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 23:50 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: But if there are no grades, then you might help each other learn. You might tutor each other in homework and help each other with homework and tests. Okay? Okay? So that doesn't make sense. So the idea here is, let's just say that like maybe five people have to carry some goods to a store. Okay? That's your job. One person falls down, breaks his leg, and cries out for help. Well, we should go help that person, right? But the logic of capitalism is you can't do that because the manager will fine you for being late. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So that's why Marx thinks that this will alienate us from our humanity. And this part of Marx, where Marx diagnoses the problems of capitalism, is considered brilliant. Okay? This is a perfect encapsulation of all the issues with capitalism that was true in the 1850s, in the 19th century, but it's also true today. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 24:53 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: If you look at the world today, then we also have these issues. And if you analyze Marxism, Marx's diagnosis of capitalism, then it helps explain why the world is the way it is. Okay? All right. So, and because of these pressing issues, because people are suffering so much, they see Marxism, they see communism as salvation and redemption. That's the appeal. Okay? Because capitalism has made life so miserable for a majority of people. Okay? All right. So, but the problem is we know that this prophecy of Marx, that we will naturally evolve into communism, has not panned out. In fact, communism has caused a lot of human misery as well. And so, why is that the case? And so what I'm going to show you now is, even though Marx has this beautiful theory, it's also wrong. Okay? For a variety of reasons. So let's analyze his understanding of history and show how it's wrong. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 26:06 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? The first thing is, let's go back to the hunter -gatherer agriculture transition. The first class I ever taught, like, a long, long time ago is, the transition from hunter -gatherer to agriculture didn't make any sense. As a hunter -gatherer, you didn't have a scarcity problem. In fact, you ate really well. You worked less. You ate more. And we know because if you dig up skeletons of hunter -gatherers, they're taller than farmers. In fact, they're a lot taller. So hunter -gatherers were on average like six foot, which is like really, really tall. And farmers were like on average maybe five foot. That's a huge difference. Okay? So using the economic argument of Marx, this makes no sense. And what I explained to you before is, it's not economics that drives human history, it's religion that drives human history. Okay? So we settle down in order to ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 26:59 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: practice a cult, to practice a religion, because maybe one place was considered divine for whatever reason. And as a result, we develop agriculture, which led to civilization. So the Marx formulation that religion comes last is wrong. It's religion that comes first. Okay? It's religion that leads to agriculture, which leads to civilization. All right? So that's what Marx gets wrong. Also, the transition from feudalism to capitalism was not driven by technology. It was driven by religion. Okay? So let me explain. Okay. So the feudalism, the dominant religion at this time was the Catholic religion. When we go into industrial capitalism, the dominant religion is Protestantism. Okay? So as we discussed before, the Catholic religion was an imperial bureaucracy led by the Pope. And there were many religious reformers who thought this was abhorrent. This went against the will of God. Okay? And so what they proposed was this. They proposed a religion which was democratic, in which everyone had access to God. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 28:07 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Before you had to listen to the priest. You couldn't read the Bible by yourself. Now you had to read the Bible by yourself in order to access God by yourself. Okay? And there were two major different, there were two major transitions. The first is before, in order to get to heaven, you had to use justification by works. All this means is you do good things. You give money to the church, you probably give money to the church. Okay? All right? But because the Protestants want to reduce the power of the Catholic church, they said, no, what matters is justification by faith. It doesn't matter how much money you give to the church. What matters is do you truly believe in God? Okay? That's what matters. So that's the first major difference. And then the Protestants, in order to reduce the power of the church, because the church said, only if you listen to us can we guarantee you access to heaven. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 28:57 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Right? So what the Protestants said is no. Access to heaven is predestination. In other words, at the beginning of time, God has already decided who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. He's already decided, so it doesn't matter what the church tells you, it doesn't matter how much money you give to the church, you're all going to hell if you don't truly believe in God. All right? So the Protestant religion was a direct response to the Catholic religion. Now this creates a new problem. Okay? The problem is this. How do you know you truly believe in God? How do you know that you are one of the elect? How do you know that you were chosen by God to go to heaven? This creates anxiety, right? Anxiety, as we know, leads to OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder. Right? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 29:49 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So how do you compensate for OCD? Well, you make a lot of money. But not only do you make a lot of money, but you don't spend it because that wealth now, is an indicator to you and to others that you are truly one of the elect, that you are saved by God, that you were chosen by God to go to heaven. And that's the birth of capitalism. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? It was not technology driven because the technology at that time was everywhere. But it was only in Europe did you have industrial capitalism. It was because of the Protestant faith. That's what drove it. Okay. So you're turning this wealth not to appease God, but to appease your anxiety. Do you understand? You won't give money to God because God doesn't need your money. Okay? But having this money is confirmation to yourself that you will go to heaven. Because this money can only be made because of your faith in God. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 30:50 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Do you understand? Okay? How do you know you believe in God? Because you worked hard and God made you wealthy. And that's the logic driving capitalism. So Marx missed this. Okay? So let's summarize and say, look, Marx made three fundamental mistakes. The first is people care about religion, not economics. It's religion that drives human history, not economics. That's the first mistake he made. Second mistake that he made is people care about God, not heaven. Okay? In other words, we're going to heaven not because we think it's a five star hotel with like lots and lots of like, I don't know, like lobsters and steaks and all you eat buffets. That's not the reason we're going to heaven. We're going to heaven to be with God because God represents eternal truth, eternal salvation. We want to be with God. Okay? The third is people care about status, not class. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 31:54 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So in other words, throughout most of human history, we didn't have a concept of money. So for example, the Vikings, when they went off to steal, they stole lots of gold, right? But when they got back to the village, they would hold a big feast for everyone and they would waste all this money. You understand? Because there's actually no point in having money. You couldn't spend it. If you died, you couldn't keep it. So you made money, you generated wealth in order to raise your status within the community. Okay? And that's why you wore gold because the gold signifies that you have high status within the community. All right? So throughout most of human history, and still even today, we seek status, not class. The concept of class is created because of industrial capitalism, because of the free market. Because now people were mobile. Okay? But before, it was about status. Okay. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 32:55 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=1975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And so what this means is this. Because Marx interpreted history incorrectly and he didn't really understand human psychology, what he could not predict is when we did achieve communism, it would become bureaucratic hierarchies with core personalities. In the Soviet Union, you had Stalin, right? He was in charge of a bureaucracy. And in China, you had Mao Zedong, who was in charge of bureaucracy. North Korea is the same situation. Why? Because of these three factors, right? Mao, Stalin all understood that people want a religion. They want to feel close to God. So they made themselves God. Okay? And people want status and that's why it's important to have a bureaucracy. So that's why communism became the way it became in the 20th century. All right? Okay. So does this make sense? All right. Great. All right. So even though the Marx philosophy is very appealing, it's very clear, it's very direct, it's very sexy, he got the history wrong. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 34:06 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: And because he got the history wrong, the consequences were huge. Okay? Because communism created a lot of wars and it led to a lot of disasters like famines and stuff. Any questions before I move on? Okay. Yeah. So that's a really good question. And so the question is, the role of religion should be obvious to people, right? Why do they believe in economics? Okay. Okay. That's a great question. And you know what? I don't have an answer. But I think a clue is this. Capitalism and communism are the same religion. Okay? So as capitalism grows, it reinforces communism. As communism grows, it reinforces capitalism. Why? Because both believe that economics, materialism, is the underlying reality. Okay? Religion doesn't matter. So capitalism spreads by making everyone unified. By turning everyone into an economic animal. Right? Because today, we don't ask you to believe in God. We ask you to go buy things. Does that make sense? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 35:47 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: Communism is the same way. Communism believes that as long as there's equality, as long as there's no property, everyone will be happy. So it's ironic that these two ideas, capitalism and communism, even though they were mortal enemies in the 12th century, the underlying basis of the religion is the same. And as they develop, they reinforce each other. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. But that's a great question. All right. So we instantly understand that religion is more important than economics. But because capitalism and communism were able to spread so fast, we've been brainwashed into thinking that only economics matters. Okay? So, for example, when you read the newspaper, it's always, what's the GDP this year? What's the employment rate this year? What's the inflation rate this year? What's the price of eggs this year? It's never, how do people feel spiritually? How are people religiously? Okay? It's never about your psychology. It's never about your spirituality. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 36:49 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: It's always about how much money do you have? Okay? So, so communism and capitalism together conquer the world. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, great. Any more questions before I move on? Okay. This is a great question. So, Marx himself believed the revolution will happen in Germany first. Because Germany had the most advanced proletariat. But, it never happened in Germany. It didn't happen in France. It didn't happen in Britain. It happened in China and Russia. And in fact, if Marx were alive today, he'd be appalled by the fact that it happened in Russia and China. Because it wasn't supposed to happen in Russia and China. You needed a proletariat in order for the revolution to happen. But Russia and China were peasant nations. Right? So, what had happened in Russia and China? Okay. The main reason is this. And we'll go more into this next week. Okay? The main reason is this. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 37:57 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Because the communist revolution was not a communist revolution. It was a peasant revolution with the veneer of communism. So, communism was the ideology, the religion that they practiced. But it was essentially a peasant rebellion that's no different from previous peasant rebellions in Chinese history. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. But I'll explain this later on. All right? Great question. Any more questions before I move on? Great. All right. So, was this clear to you? This history? Okay? All right. Good. And it's very important because it really helps you understand the world we live in today. Because even though Marx's theory of history is wrong, his understanding of capitalism is perfect. Okay? And it really helps you think about why things are happening the way they are today. Especially the constellation of wealth. All right. Let's do the history. Okay? All right. So, okay. We did Kant and Hegel on Tuesday. We're doing Marx today. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 39:06 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Next Tuesday, we do Freud. Okay? Why are we doing these four thinkers? Because they're the ones, each of them, who created intellectual revolution that finally changed the way we see ourselves and society. Okay? So, remember, Kant made us subjective. Okay? He taught us that the world does not exist outside us. Hegel taught us that there's a guise that compels us. Okay? But the guise is everything. Marx teaches us it's class struggle that's the underlying force of history. Okay? And what he also believes is the class struggle can only end in communism. Why? Because that is the will of God. Because God manifests itself in our history. All right? So, Marx is really building on top of Hegel. What we will learn next Tuesday is Freud. Okay? So, and Freud's going to work on all three to build a new theory of the world. And the theory is amazing because what he does is he takes all these theories and teaches us that we are our own universe. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 40:18 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Everything that happens is because of our memories and our psychology. Okay? But that's next Tuesday. But, just to give you a heads up. All right. So, the entire lecture is about why was Marx wrong. Okay, and as explained, the writings of Marx, I mean, he was like a prophet, right? He comes from a Jewish family. He himself was an atheist, but he came from a long line of Jewish rabbis. And when I say that, you're like, okay, that doesn't sound that impressive. But it was basically the equivalent of saying he came from 10 generations of Harvard professors. That's really impressive, right? So, I mean, he was a genius. His entire family were geniuses. Remember, the Jews are very intellectual people. They were the people of the book. And the rabbis are the most intellectual members of the community. They're the leaders of the community. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 41:09 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So, Marx comes from a, he's basically an aristocrat. Okay? So, he's almost like a prophet. I mean, he is a prophet. He's a poet prophet who's preaching of a new world to come. And he's very certain, he's very clear, and he's very optimistic. Marx explained that was all his downfall. He was too simple in his understanding of human history. All right. So, industrial capitalism is coming to Europe and it makes everyone miserable. It's, it's destroying society because it's taking all these people from the villages and transporting them into the cities without adequate housing, without adequate healthcare, work safety. They're in these slums. They don't have access to clean water. A lot of them are dying. Their children are being forced to work from age five or six. It's all polluted. Okay? So, people are living in absolute misery. Okay? Especially children. And this is causing a lot of anger. What really does it is in the 1840s there's a massive potato famine all across Europe. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 42:23 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? So, remember in the 16th century the Europeans, the Spanish discovered the new world and they brought back the potato. Why is that important? Because a potato will allow Europe to grow its population very, very fast in order to feed its economic needs. The problem though is when you rely on a single crop, the potato, it's prone to disease. Okay? So, the potato because of its lack of diversity it it created a famine throughout Europe. Tens of millions of people died and the population immigrated over to the new world America and South America. The worst hit part of Europe of course was Ireland. So, as you can see only Dublin managed to maintain or increase its population. Everywhere else saw a massive decrease in its population. The red represents a population decrease of 30 % or more in the span of a few years. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 43:20 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? From 1841 to 1851. 10 years. Okay. So this is a dramatic event in Europe and this led to sorry this led to massive uprisings throughout Europe. Okay? And this is what inspired Marx and Engels to write the Communist Manifesto because they believed a new order was coming and we have to prepare for it. Okay? Now, what will happen is the 1848 revolutions are calling for three things. They're calling for nationalism nation states based on France. They're calling for liberalism more political rights and socialism more worker rights. And it's all happening throughout Europe and so Marx and Engels is convinced paradise is coming but ultimately the authorities crack down but Marx and Engels are still convinced paradise is coming at any point. Okay? So they dedicate their entire lives to imagine this new world. The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848 in anticipation of this political victory over the capitalist class. Okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 44:34 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And it is an amazing document. It's beautifully written. I don't think they get enough credit for how wonderful this is written. Okay? But let's read the beginning. A specter is haunting Europe. The specter of communism. So the specter is important because remember it's the Geist. Marx said that the underlying force of the world is the Geist. And what they're saying is the Geist is communism. Communism is the future. It is what will happen. Okay? All the powers of old Europe have entered into a whole alliance to exorcise the specter Pope and Tsar. Okay? So all the authorities of the world are afraid of this Geist. But this Geist is God so it will triumph eventually. Okay? Let's read the following manifesto to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. This is really important because this is one of the first international revolutions. It's going to sweep all around the world. Okay? Replace capitalism. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 45:42 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Capitalism is only the building block for communism. Okay. The Communist Manifesto is powerful. It's wonderfully written. It's poetry. And I think that over the next few years as the economic crisis worsens around the world people are going to refer back to the Communist Manifesto. Okay? But this is really the best part of the Communist Manifesto where Marx and Engels diagnose the problems of capitalism. Okay? The bourgeoisie the capitalist class wherever it has got the upper hand has put an end to all feudal patriarchal relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound men to his natural superiors and has left remaining no other nexus between men and men than naked self -interest than callous self -cash payment. Okay? So remember capitalism it is an all -expanding all -encompassing all -consuming alienating force. And it's destroying the world. But for Marx and Engels this is good because it will lead to the rise of communism right? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 46:50 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: This is part of the thesis antithesis synthesis part of history. The so the bourgeoisie are engaged in imperialism it's destroying all that we've known before to create a new man an economic man only based on self -interest. It's even destroying the family. Okay? So you no longer see yourself as a son or a father as a husband you see yourself as a man who makes $10,000 a year I don't know a car or whatever. Okay? So that's the power of capitalism. But again for Marx and Engels this is good because now it will lead to communism where this new consciousness will transform into a class solidarity. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 47:40 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2860s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2860s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 47:41 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2861s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2861s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: This makes sense right? Okay. So Marx's most famous work is Das Kapital and he spent decades writing this. The problem with Marx is that he's a brilliant man he's one of the most brilliant people but he's extremely undisciplined he procrastinates all the time. So he actually never finished this book in his life. It's Frederick Engels who who was his best friend his collaborator but Frederick Engels was a very disciplined individual. So it's Frederick Engels who put this book together. Okay? All right. All right. So as I mentioned what's really important for us to understand is that Marx he's a prophet he doesn't think of himself as a prophet he doesn't know he's a prophet but he's really a prophet and as such what he's really doing is he's just building on top of Christianity. Okay? He's just extending the logic of Christianity. Right? So let's see how let's see what he does. Christianity is a passive religion. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 48:36 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: You don't have to do anything. Just don't commit any sins and then you go to heaven. Okay? But for Marx what's important is that we participate in the revolution that we are responsible for our lives. Okay? Second difference is Christianity argues that only a few can go to heaven. They argue about who will go to heaven but only a few. Okay? Only a minority of the people. Okay? That's why you have hell purgatory and heaven three different places. But for Marx he believes that work is paradise can be achieved for everyone. Okay? And the third difference is Christianity offers a heaven of God Marx offers a heaven of God but the problem is this no one wants utopia without God. Okay? We discuss this where if heaven was just a five star hotel where you could eat all the best food in the world no one would want to go. People are going to heaven for God. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 49:29 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=2969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? And this is why Marx cannot anticipate the rise of people like Stalin and Mao Zedong. Okay. Um this is a letter that Marx wrote in his early years and it is probably in my opinion his best piece of writing because it really shows you his thinking his optimism his idealism. Okay? So let's read it together. Supposing that we had produced in a human manner in this production each of us would have doubly affirmed himself and his fellow man. I would objectify in my production my individuality and its peculiarity and would thus have enjoyed in my activity an individual expression of my life and would have also had and look at the object the individual pleasure of realizing that my personality was objective. Okay? So you're creating something and this thing is the perfect expression of your individuality of your personality of your creativity and then you show it to other ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 50:27 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: people and they enjoy it and because they enjoy it that process affirms your individuality and your creativity your validation basically. Okay? Alright. I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species and thus have been felt by you and acknowledged as a completion of your own essence that I was confirmed both in your thought and in your love. Okay? So when I cook a meal and you enjoy the meal you're not only affirming my individuality but you're affirming my connection to all of humanity. Okay? Because you're telling me that I contribute positively to the species. Right? Um the problem is this presupposing private property my individuality is so far externalized that I hate my activity. It is a torment to me and only the appearance of an activity and thus also merely a forced activity that is laid upon me through an external arbitrary need not an inner unnecessary one. Okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 51:32 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3092s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3092s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So this is complicated but all he's saying is this I cook you a meal I spent days preparing this meal. Okay? I put it's a labor of love. I cook the best food in the world. Okay? I give it to you you have you are blown away. You are you're in love. Okay? With this food. And then you're like here's a thousand dollars. Right? That's disgusting. Right? All you have to do is say thank you but instead you give me a thousand dollars. And you think wow! I'm giving you a thousand dollars that's a lot of money man. I pay you know I don't pay this much at a restaurant. Okay? So that's what Marx is saying. The moment you put money into the equation it destroys all human relations. Right? So he's talking about extrinsic motivation versus intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation extrinsic motivation is what makes us slaves. Okay? So that's what Marx is saying. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 52:29 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Capitalism makes us slaves because it deprives us of our humanity. Okay? That's what money does. So so does this make sense to you? Great. All right. So again let's just summarize what the feelings of capitalism are. Okay? It creates inequality it exploits and it alienates. All right? So for Marx and Engels the antithesis will be solidarity. And this will lead to a classless workers' paradise. Okay? That's the very logic of Marxism. So again Marx what he will do is he will invert Hegel. Right? So for Hegel it's the ideas that come first. Then this will lead to the material reality. For Marx it's the material reality that gives rise to ideas. Okay? So the ideas is called the superstructure the base is the economics. Okay? So this is a very important idea of of Marx. So Marx diagnoses the problems of capitalism really really well. Okay? And he offers solutions. And what's really important is ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 53:41 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: one reason why communism has failed is capitalism has actually adopted a lot of these policy changes. Okay? Including universal child education including the universal right to work including abolition of child factory labor. Okay? So in many ways communism has won out. And Marx didn't really predict this because he thought that capitalists are idiots. Capitalists all they care about is money. So they're like servants to capital. They're not really in control. And if you're a capitalist and you have any empathy for the working class guess what? You're bought out or you're pushed out of the capitalist class. Okay? So it's only the worst people who can thrive within the capitalist system. But because communism was such a huge threat to the ruling elite they had no choice to make compromises. Okay? And that's why after World War II most countries in the world became socialists even though in name they were still capitalists. Okay. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 54:43 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So let's summarize and this is really important for us. Okay? But what are the four things Marx got wrong? Okay? The first thing is Marx believed that history is a linear process. It's a straight line of inevitability of progress. But that's not true. Okay? History repeats itself. That's the first issue. Second issue is Marx believed in the inevitability of history. But there's always randomness built into history. Okay? Things happen and we don't expect these things to happen. Third is Marx believed class struggle was everything but people care actually a lot more about religion than they care about economics. Okay? And you know this is a huge issue in America because with the rise of Donald Trump then the Democratic Party they don't know what to do about this because they're like you know Trump says that he will lower the price of eggs but he hasn't lowered the price of eggs. So like stop voting for him. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 55:41 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And what the Democrats don't understand is people want to believe in God. People want a leader. People want a religion and Trump for all his feelings he understands that and gives people what they really want which is emotional solidarity. Okay? A belief in a better world. Last thing Marx believed a vanguard needed to lead the proletariat into a paradise. Okay? So Marx really believed that you need an elite of intellectuals scientists technocrats to create the perfect society. But then the question then is why would they give up power? Right? Once they have this power why do they give it up? They wouldn't give it up. Okay? And that's why communism ultimately fails in the Soviet Union and in China. Okay? All right? This makes sense, right? All right. So let's go into specifics. In this class what you learn is it's not class struggle by itself that causes discontent. It's three other things. Okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 56:45 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: The first is elite overproduction. So a really important principle is history is not fought over between the poor and the rich. It's fought over between and the not so rich. Okay? The upper nobility and the lower nobility. Right? Because Marx came from Jewish aristocracy. Engels his father was a very wealthy capitalist. Okay? These are people who were a lot and they wanted more. Does that make sense? So when you have too many people seeking too much wealth and status it creates conflict. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is they have a rat utopia where people live too long. They live too long and they refuse to see status to the young. The third is the idea of financialization as we discussed on Thomas Piketty and Carol Kuechly provide this idea where over time to make more money all capitalists will do is force everyone into more debt. Okay? And these are the three factors that cause society to ultimately destabilize. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 57:47 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: All right? Clear? Great. All right. So let's look at three examples. All right? You look at Soviet Union. You look at China. You look at France. How was it possible for the Soviet Union to defeat Germany? And Germany was at that time the most advanced military in the world. How did China the Chinese economy boom after the Cultural Revolution? And how did Napoleon and France defeat all of Europe? Okay? So what we need to understand is these were not communist revolutions. Okay? These were just revolutions that destroyed the old elite. And all this is saying is this. People are playing a game in society. Over time, you have a few winners who monopolize this game. And this causes discontent. What revolutions do is they reset the game. And that creates a lot of energy. Right? Because people now want to work hard to win the game. Because of this energy, they're able to defeat their opponents. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 58:44 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Same thing with the Cultural Revolution where the Cultural Revolution removed the old elite, the bureaucrats. So in the 1980s when China opened up, you had these young people with entrepreneurial drive to start companies. But without the Cultural Revolution, this entrepreneurial drive could not have succeeded. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. All right. This is really complicated. Okay? But for Marx, the only, what gives rise to industrial capitalism and the bourgeoisie is just technology and the progress of history. But as we learn in this class, it's actually much more complicated than that. Okay? So this is really important. Okay? What, what, what, what we're going to do is we're going to review what we learned previously and put them together to explain what gave rose, what gave rise to industrial capitalism. First thing is the monotheistic revolution. Okay? So remember, before societies were paganistic or polytheistic, and then with Constantine, God became the Holy Trinity. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 59:42 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? The Holy Trinity is the weirdest idea in human history. The Holy Trinity is this. God is nothing and everything. Okay? And what this means is that, God is both real and not real. God is a symbol and reality itself. And because of this idea, people are now forced to think abstractly about the world. And this gives rise to money, nation state, and science. Okay? People are now forced to think abstractly about the world. Whereas people were, were before, could think very concretely about the world. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Second thing is gun power revolution where nation states, countries were forced to compete against each other, and the nation states were forced to compete against each other. Okay? So, you know, there's a lot of conflict between the two. Okay? And the third thing the process of reformation, we discussed this, right? Where you now have anxiety created by this new religion. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:00:41 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And they needed to force themselves to believe they are the elect. Okay? And then, the age of exploration where the old world, Europe could go and create new markets and steal new, steal gold and bring the potato, corn, and tomato back into Europe which allows for population growth. Okay? Okay. So, in other words, history is a very complicated process with a lot of randomness built in. And this is something that Marx didn't really understand. All right. All right. So, to summarize, what people want is status, not class. Okay? People want to feel distinguished, feel superior, feel that they've achieved a great deal. The money doesn't really matter. The money is just a symbol of this. Okay? People want religion, not economics. People want God, not heaven. Okay? And the proof, again, is what happens when communism wins. Okay? So, both the Soviet Union and China became theocracies with polar personalities. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:01:46 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3706s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? They were not common societies. They were theocracies. They were religious. They were no different in many ways than Catholic Europe during the Middle Ages. Okay? The Soviet Union fell apart because the party elite no longer believed in the system and chose to monetize their status and power. Okay? And then the third example is North Korea has a fertility rate of 1.79 while South Korea has a fertility rate of 0.78. Okay? So, North Korea is a theocratic society. South Korea is a capitalist society. Oh, so, polar personality is you believe this person is the manifestation of God. All your hope, all your emotions are invested in this one person. Right? So, Stalin, right? His pictures were everywhere. And in school, you learned about how great he was. You worshipped him. He was God to you. But same thing with China during the Mao Zedong era. Okay? Does that make sense? So, we call this a color personality. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:02:45 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay? Like a new religion based on one person. All right. So, North Korea which is poorer than South Korea has more children. Right? Why? Well, because people in North Korea, sorry, in South Korea are miserable. They have money but they don't have religion. They don't have a purpose. They don't have any meaning. It's all competition. Okay? So, this is like capitalism run amok. Then you go to North Korea and he's president. but he's still president. Why? Because he's divine. He's God. He is the forever president. Okay? Kim Il -Sung. Okay? Right? And I mean like I just say this but if you go to North Korea they're probably happier than they are in South Korea. Okay? And the other thing about North Korea is they're not fighting Ukraine. So, these are people who are willing to die for what they believe in. So, I would say if I had to bet which nation had the best future I would bet North Korea over South Korea. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:03:56 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay. Let's talk about the vanguard idea. So, for Marx a really important idea is you need intellectual elite to lead the proletariat into paradise. And this is a name a man named Mikhail Buchanan. Okay? Buchanan. And he was an anarchist. He was not a communist. He was an anarchist. The difference is this. in the same thing Marx and Buchanan but Marx said you need a vanguard whereas Buchanan said no, a vanguard would destroy everything. Okay? It has to be spontaneous. It has to be from the people. Okay? Buchanan is also of low nobility. His father was a Russian aristocrat. And Marx and Buchanan they were colleagues but they hated each other. All right. All right. So, Buchanan believes at least a lot of things that Marx believes. Right? The freedom of every other individual does not limit my own as the individualists claim. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:04:57 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3897s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: On the contrary it is confirmation realization and human dignity of all persons to see and feel my freedom confirmed sanctioned and expended by universal agreement is happiness. It is human paradise on earth. So, for freedom to be fully achieved everyone must be free. Everyone must be equal. Otherwise no one can be truly free. All right. So, Buchanan will explain why a bureaucratic elite will destroy communism. All right. So, this is a very important passage from Buchanan. Available to everyone will be a general scientific education especially the learning of a scientific method, the habit of correct thinking, the ability to generalize from facts and make more or less correct deductions. But of encyclopedic minds and advanced sociologists there will be very few. It will be sad for mankind if at any time theoretic speculation became the only source of guidance for society. If science alone were in charge of all social administration life would wither and human society would turn into a voiceless and servile herd. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:06:01 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3961s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=3961s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas) Text: The domination of life by science can have no other result than the brutalization of mankind. Okay. This is a very important passage. All this saying is this. Before we were intellectuals. We were curious about the world. Now we are technocrats. We're engineers. We're taught a very specific skill and we're taught to see the world in a very specific way. Okay. And we're run by technocrats. And this has led to the brutalization of mankind because it has led to the alienation of mankind. Right? We are now just parts of a machine. So an example of course is A.I. So these people in charge now want to make A.I. the dominant religion of the world. They want to they want to make humans slave to A.I. Okay. And that's what warning against. Anytime you let a bureaucratic elite take over they will think of ways of how to reinforce their power for technology. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:07:01 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: And this has led to the rise of A.I. Okay. Does it make sense? Okay. And this is describing China very well. Right? The bureaucrats in charge they are they have no imagination. They have no empathy. All they care about is okay are we checking checking all the boxes? Do you have enough food to eat? Right? If you have a house if you have a job if you have health insurance why are you complaining? Right? So that's what Buchanan is saying. All right. The last thing I want to talk about is this. And you brought this up earlier. Okay. It's a great question is the question we're looking at today is why is China so similar to America? Right? America is a capitalist nation. China is a communist nation. But if you talk to Chinese people today they all want to go to America to study and possibly even to live. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:07:53 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4073s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4073s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Chinese want to become American. So in many ways America has conquered China. And so why is that the case? And the answer and I mentioned this before is it's because communism and capitalism reinforce each other. They share a similar ideology. They share a similar background. They're all actually a branch of Christianity really if you think about it. And they have a similar world view. A belief in progress. A belief in class struggle. A belief that you need a technocratic elite to run the world. Alright? So in other words communism in China paved the way for American capitalism. And that's why today you have this going on. Okay? What China is doing to children is unconscionable. Right? Because we make kids sit in school for like 10 hours a day. They have no childhood. They have no freedom. They have no happiness. Most of these kids will not go to school. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:08:56 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas) Text: They'll have depression by age 14. The vast majority. Last week there was a huge news that a nine year old kid in Beijing killed himself. Nine years old. Yeah. Jumped off a building. Nine years old. That's incredible because my eldest son he's like seven turning eight. Okay? I can't I mean how miserable did he have to be to want to kill himself? Right? Even if the kid succeeds and goes to like Beida or Qinghua he'll develop depression because he'll never achieve what he wants in life. Okay? So all that's happening is we're forcing our kids into depression. Into suicide. Why? Because this has become an evil religion almost. Right? The belief that for education you can make more money. And even though everyone else will probably develop suicide will probably develop suicidal depression in the process you won't! Okay? I'm betting you won't. Okay? It's insane. I mean what's happening in education today. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:10:10 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: It's just unconscionable and evil what we're doing to our children in China. Right? And why we're doing this is because in China we've combined communism and capitalism to create the worst possible society. All right. All right. So yeah. Any questions? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:10:39 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Yep. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:11:02 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: Okay. So why is North Korea so poor? Okay. So that's part of the capitalist brainwashing where you measure the success of a society based on its wealth. Okay? But wealth is really just the willingness to exploit your resources. Okay? And also your capacity to engage in global trade. So first of all North Korea is heavily sanctioned to not have to trade with the world. Okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is they focus on their religion is called self -reliance. They want to be independent of the world. Okay? So they purposely choose not to engage in the world in order to maintain the unity of their people. Okay? So that's why we call them the hermit kingdom. For them what's important is to maintain their independence and sovereignty from the world. And but that does not mean people are not happy where they are. Okay? I would argue that even though China was a lot ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:12:14 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: poorer during the Cultural Revolution people were a lot happier during the Cultural Revolution than they are today. Maybe not us, okay? But for most ordinary Chinese they were a lot happier during the Cultural Revolution than they are today because for them life was simple and clear and certain. Today you have globalization you have the internet you have noise you have it's very confusing for people. Right? And one piece of evidence is young people don't have any children today whereas during the Cultural Revolution people did want to have children because they felt that regardless of poverty people were going into a certain life. They had health care they had a job guaranteed for them they had a sense of community there was solidarity going on. Okay? So that really is the trick of capitalism to make everyone think the same way which is like money is everything. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. Any more questions? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:13:14 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: These are great questions by the way. So thank you for asking them. Yeah. So was Marx too idealistic? Marx didn't think he was idealistic. He thought he was extremely realistic. Why? Because he was studying all this history he was studying all this economics and he was coming up with a scientific understanding of the world. Marx saw himself as a scientist as unveiling the truth to people. Okay? He was did you understand? For him it was science it was certain it was it had to happen. Okay? But the thing about Marx is this Marx is also a person that if you if you were to like jump forward today and he saw the world created by communism and capitalism he would be utterly disgusted. He wouldn't be like oh wow I'm famous now. I you know I'm the most famous person one most famous person in the world. I'm like Jesus. Okay? ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:14:34 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: He wouldn't be like that. He'd be like what have we done to humanity? This is far worse than the industrial revolution what's happening where everyone now is a slave as a consumer. Right? In your mind all that matters is I go to school I make a lot of money and I buy a lot of things and that's it. And this would have been unimaginable to Marx and anyone actually a hundred years ago. Okay? It's it's it's it's a fact that humanity has chosen to enslave themselves for like no particular good reason. Okay? And so the question then we're looking at next class is why this happened? And what I'll show you next class is Simeon Freud had a lot to do with this. Psychology had a lot to do with this. Because before on the collective consciousness right? The world as it is. The community. But with the coming of Freud and psychology we now shift our focus to ourselves. ## What Marx Got Right And Why Marx Got History Wrong -- 1:15:38 - Source title: Civilization #56: What Marx Got Wrong - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24LnQ-Ksjk&t=4538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-m24lnq-ksjk.json) Text: So we come to believe that for our own eternal struggle we can be happy. Others don't matter. We ourselves if we're happy we're good. And what Buchanan and Marx have taught us is if if everyone is unhappy you must be unhappy as well. It's only if people are free and happy together can they be free and happy by themselves. And that's the thing that we've forgotten. And that's what's led to the world we live in today. But that's something that we'll discuss next class. Any more questions? Great. Okay so Freud next class. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today we will do Germany and thus conclude our discussion of the four great civilizations that are fighting for global dominance. We previously did Britain, America. Tuesday we did Russia. Today we do Germany. So to recap, Russian civilization is very distinct from Anglo -American civilization, and German civilization is also distinct as well. We're going to focus on the idea of unity of will in German civilization today. We don't know much about German civilization because they were defeated in World War II. And because the Anglo -Americans continued. They control the history of the world. We tend to think Anglo -American civilization is superior to German and Russian civilization. But what I will show you today is that in many respects, the most advanced civilization that humans have ever created is actually the German civilization. Okay, so if you look at a map today in Europe, there's a really interesting fact that may surprise you. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:20 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: The green is Russia. It's the largest country in the world. Over here are the Baltic nations. And over here is a place called Kaliningrad. It's actually Russian. So the question then is, how did this come to pass? How was it that you've got this colony of Russians far away from the motherland? And the answer is this. Because historically, this was not Russian. Historically, this was a place called Konigsberg, which was part of a nation that no longer exists called Prussia. And for a couple hundred years, Prussia was the strongest military, the most advanced civilization in the world. And now it's disappeared. And it's been replaced by Poland. And parts of Belarus, and West Prussia has now become part of Germany. But Prussia is no longer, it's extinct. And the reason why is that in World War II, the allies who won the war, the Soviet Union, the British, the Americans, decided to destroy Prussia. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 2:37 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And the rationale was that Prussia is a militaristic society that is hell -bent on world domination. And by eliminating Prussia, we can now bring peace to the world. The problem though is that Konigsberg, which is now Kaliningrad, was really the center of civilization for a few decades. This is Konigsberg before the 1800s. As you can see, it's a beautiful port city by the Baltic Sea. And it was really the apex of human civilization. And then of course, World War II happened. And then after World War II, Konigsberg was destroyed. It was turned into rubble. And today, it's like this, Kaliningrad. A very Soviet city. A stale city with no character, with no culture, with no civilization. And that's the intent, to destroy Konigsberg, which was for the longest time the heart and soul of German civilization. It is true that Konigsberg and Prussia were an extremely powerful military nation. And as you can see, this is from Wikipedia, by the way. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 4:07 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: As you can see, there are many great generals and officers who are from Konigsberg. We're talking about the city. We're not talking about the nation Prussia. We're talking about the city of Konigsberg. But you also see that there are many intellectuals, writers, who come from Konigsberg. And the most famous of these intellectuals is Immanuel Kant, who we'll discuss next class. He basically changed the course of Western history with his philosophy. So Konigsberg was the birthplace of Immanuel Kant. So how is it that the man who was most responsible for the Enlightenment happens to be born in a military -signation? That's a question. But not only Immanuel Kant, but you have also many other great thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, who was a Jewish philosopher. And who was considered one of the greatest political philosophers of the 20th century. She's also from Konigsberg. Scientists. Just an amazing group of scientists, as well as mathematicians. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 5:22 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And then, of course, you have musicians and artists. So the contribution of Konigsberg to world civilization cannot be overstated. And there are quite a few Jews who lived in Konigsberg. Konigsberg, for the longest time, was considered one of the most tolerant cities in Germany for Jews. Let's now look at Nobel Prize winners in the sciences. Physics, chemistry, and medicine. As you can see, in 1925, the majority were actually from Germany. Germany had the best scientists in the world. 1933, same thing. You go to 1950, same thing. In fact, by 1975, Germany is still dominant. The United States is catching up. It's only by about 2000 when the United States starts to overtake Germany. So again, the question then is, how is it possible for a militaristic nation, hell -bent on world domination, how are they able to produce so many great scientists, so many great philosophers? And this is a very famous quote from Motaire that captures the prejudice of the West against Prussia. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 6:41 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Where some states have an army, the Prussian army has a state. This is pretty insulting to Prussian culture. We've looked at many civilizations that are militaristic, including the Romans, Spartans, Aztecs, Macedonians, and Qing Chinese, among others. They're extremely successful militarily, but guess what? They were not creative. In fact, they were anti -creative. So how is it possible for the Prussians to be both creative and militaristic? And the answer is, because the Western prejudice against Prussia is wrong. They were not a militaristic nation bent on world domination. They were first and foremost a creative, humanistic society that was forced into military confrontation with its neighbors because of its geographic location. So let's go back to the history of the Holy Roman Empire. As we discussed in a previous class, the Holy Roman Empire was a confederation of German city -states. And there were thousands and thousands of them that were in competition with each other. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 7:53 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=473s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Over time, because of competition from the more powerful states like France, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, these city -states were now forced to gel together. The most successful of these city -states is Prussia. And for the longest time, Prussia was a vassal state of the Polish -Lithuanian Commonwealth, or the Swedes. But by the end of the 19th century, by about the year 1700, it started to come into its own through the leadership, through great military leadership. And it started to spread out. And as you can see, it's spreading out really quickly because of its military victories and because of its high culture. By the 19th century, Prussia has dedicated itself to uniting all of Germany. And it starts a series of wars that allow for the unification of all the German people. The first is something called the Dano -Prussian War. Then they fight against the Austrian -Hungary Empire, which is a successor to the Holy Roman Empire. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 9:03 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And they defeat the Austrians really quickly. Then they move on to France, which is the dominant power of this time. And they defeat France, thus allowing for the complete unification of Germany under Prussian leadership. Okay, so how was Prussia able to be so successful? Well, as we discussed last class, there are certain characteristics about these city -states that go on to unify a nation. And the three major ones that Moscow and Prussia share is open cooperative competition. They're surrounded by enemies, and they're forced to be innovative, open, and tolerant in order to succeed. They're forced to be unified, advantaged by disadvantage. So Prussia and Moscow have limited resources, which forces them to focus on human capital, on making sure the citizens were well -educated and the citizens were hard -working and vacillage. So again, Moscow was under the vacillage of the Mongols, ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 10:05 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: and Prussia for the longest time was under the vacillage of the Swedes, the Poles, the Lutheranians. And as a result, they're always engaged in a process of reflection and resilience. And that's really the secret to the success of Prussia. Alright, at the same time, the thing to remember about the Prussians that differentiates them from the Muscovites is because Prussia is situated within Europe, it has a very different attitude towards humans than the Muscovites. The Muscovites, because of their Mongolian heritage, they tend to oppress their subjects, whereas the Prussians are much more democratic, they're much more progressive, they're much more open. So this is Frederick the Great, who is considered the great nation -builder of Prussia through his military victories. What is often ignored is his socio -economic -political reforms. He really is the first Enlightenment despot. He's heavily influenced by Immanuel Kant, they fought very highly of each other, and he was very intent on making Prussia the first enlightened state of Prussia. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 11:18 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So let's look at the few things he did. He radically reformed the Prussian judicial system so that you had rule of law, so that everyone had recourse to justice. Even if you were poor, you could still sue. He abolished torture in the military, and this was revolutionary at this time, because it was always assumed that you kept your soldiers in check by scaring them. He established religious tolerance. Remember, at this time in Europe, there's a huge war going on between the Catholics and the Protestants, and he was tolerant towards both the Catholics and the Protestants, and even, to a certain extent, to the Jews as well. And over time, Konigsberg, which is the heart and center of the Prussian nation, has one of the largest Jewish settlements in Europe, about 5,000 at that point. He grants basic form of freedom of speech. And the most important ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 12:19 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: thing is that in 1763, he establishes a public school system that becomes a source for Prussia's future greatness. And to put this in context, it's only over 100 years later when Britain and France does this. Japan and America will copy, especially steal, the Prussian education system. In 1806, Prussia is defeated by Napoleon. We discussed this. And as a result, Prussia becomes a vassal state to Napoleon. And at this point, what the Prussians do is what they've always done, which is engage in a deep process of reflection. And they decide that in order to defeat France, they must be like France. Remember, this is the French Revolution, and there's a spread of liberalism throughout France in the French Revolution. So the Prussians decide to copy the most important reforms of the French Revolution, which include the abolishment of serfdom. Now, peasants can become landowners. They destroy monopolies to encourage free market competition. They open a civil service to the middle class before it's only available to the nobility. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 13:33 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And the most important thing is the reforms of a man named William von Humboldt. He creates the modern research university. So he founded something called the Berlin University. And so he conceptualized the research university where before you sat in class and you listened to lectures and you memorized what the professor told you, but now you're encouraged to do your own research, to write a thesis, which is what we do today. The most important reform he did was to conceptualize public education as a meritocracy, as an opportunity for the middle class to grow. To give the middle class a greater economic role in society. And these reforms, in only a few years, will allow Prussia to defeat Napoleon and establish itself as a great power again. This is Karl von Clausewitz. And he's considered the greatest military strategist of all time. He's Prussian. He was an officer in the Prussian military. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 14:34 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And he thought very deeply about the war situation. Why is it that Napoleon and the French were so great? And his conclusion is because they were able to mobilize the resources of society for total war. And his conclusion is that in the future, as a nation, if you want to win militarily, then you must engage your citizens. You must increase the morale of your citizens. You must make them want to die for your nation. 1848 is one of the most important years in human history. And the reason why is, in 1848, these red spots, these were all revolutionary hotspots. So after Napoleon was defeated in 1815, the European powers, led by Murdanek of the Austrian -Hungary Empire, he sits everyone down and decides, first of all, how to ensure no wars like that of Napoleon arise again in Europe, how to create peace, but also, most importantly, how to maintain the feudal structure of Europe. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 15:56 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And they were very successful at that until 1848, when the middle class, when the workers rebelled in 17 different places. You will notice that in England, in Britain, there was no revolution. There were no rebellions. And the reason why is because Britain at this point had colonies overseas, right? Canada, New Zealand, Australia. And so these people who were upset about the economic status in Britain could migrate elsewhere. But these other places did not have any colonies. There was no pressure valve for social discontent. And so these revolutions started to take place. A lot of these revolutions were suppressed violently. And you would think that Prussia, because it is a military dictatorship, it would suppress the middle class liberals violently. But that's not what happened. Let's see what happened. So this is from Wikipedia. What happened was that there were public demonstrations because people wanted more political reforms. And the army killed certain people. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 17:08 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And now people are really, really angry. So they erect barricades. They're getting ready for civil war. This is another French Revolution. And at this point, the emperor, Frederick William, what he does is he goes and reassures the public that they will negotiate a peace. And what he does to calm the public is the king also approved arming the citizens. He gives guns to the citizens to ensure that the citizens will feel safe negotiating with the army. But not only that, but when the crowds of people went to the king, the king basically agreed to all their demands, including parliamentary elections, a constitution, and freedom of press. Also, he promised everyone that Prussia was to be merged forthwith into Germany. Because not only is there liberal socialist sentiments at this point, there's also nationalist sentiments. People want to feel united as a German people. And then what calms people down is the king attends a funeral for those citizens who died during the rebellion. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 18:23 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And they war. He and his ministers war the revolutionary tricolor of black, red, and gold, which is, by the way, the flag of Germany right now. So he's showing tremendous respect to his people. And that's his Prussian attitude. Again, the historical image of Prussians is very stern, very austere, very dictatorial. But if you look at their behavior, they're very respectful of their people because they understand that in this world, we're surrounded by enemies. We're under central power with France, Russia, all around them. They need to stay united as a people. This is Otto von Bismarck, the most famous Prussian in world history. He is the founder of something called the Second Reich. The Holy Roman Empire was the First Reich. And the unified Germany is the Second Reich. So he's really the founder of modern -day Germany. He's known as the Iron ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 19:26 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: Chancellor because he gave a speech in which he said that the position of pressure in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power. So he's rejecting the idea of liberalism, of free speech, of openness, of negotiation, of institutions. And he's focusing on the military. Prussia must cultivate its strength and hold it for the favorable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill -designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided. That was a great mistake of 1848 and 1849, but by iron and blood. Through violence and sacrifice. So when you read the speech, you understand that he's repudiating the liberalism of King Frederick Wilhelm. He's saying that, nope, the armies have gone in and killed all the demonstrators. That's what he's saying. And that's why he has a reputation for being the Iron Chancellor. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 20:27 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-welfare-buys-loyalty) Text: A man of violence, a man of sternness. But he was an extremely pragmatic man. And his ambition was to have a unified Germany in which people were content. And so this is another speech he made. Same man, but completely different tone. And so he says, The real grievance of the worker is the insecurity of his existence. He is not sure that he will always have work. He is not sure that he will always be healthy. And he perceives that he will one day be old and unfit to work. So he's sympathizing with the plight of the factory worker. He understands that it's wrong for workers to lose their hand at work and not be compensated. It's wrong for workers to get sick and their entire family to go into poverty. It's wrong for kids who are six years old to go to factories to work. It's wrong for managers to beat the crap out of other factory workers. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 21:32 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt#nation-god-machine-welfare-buys-loyalty) Text: So what they will do is institute the first welfare state, the first socialist state in the world. Look at this. They have health insurance. They have accident insurance. So if you get injured at work, then the state will come in and give you money. They have a pension. They protect workers from abuse. They have Children Protection Act, which means children are not allowed to go work in factories. So in other words, in the year 1800 to 1900, if you could be a citizen of anywhere in the world, you would definitely want to be a citizen of Germany. At this point in Britain, in France, in America, workers are being exploited everywhere. But in Germany, workers are being given rights. And because they're being given rights, they want to fight for their country. They want to die for their country. And this makes Germany the most powerful nation in the world at this time. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 22:37 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And when that happens, in Europe, when you become a hegemon, guess who gets scared at you? Guess who is now going to plot to get rid of you? Britain, right? All right. So at the same time, I don't want to say that Germany is a liberal democracy at this point. It's not. Why? Because as these industrial reforms are happening, there are more groups that are discontent. And they pose a problem to German unity. And these groups are obviously the Catholics. A third of Germany now is Catholic because Prussia has united all of Germany, right? For the longest time, the Holy Roman Empire was Catholic. So a third of all the people is Catholic. Bismarck, his biggest failure, his biggest mistake was his attempt to suppress the Catholics. He basically said, listen, we're not going to fund you anymore. And if you insist on swearing loyalty to the Pope, then we will put you in prison. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 23:40 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: You now have to swear loyalty to Germany. And so the priests all went to prison. And this was a disaster for Bismarck and ultimately he had to compromise and relent. So the Catholics are a huge problem. Then you have the liberals. So you may have heard the term liberalism, socialism, communism. There's a huge difference between these three terms, guys. So let me explain what the differences are. Liberalism means more political rights for the middle class. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, voting power. Why? Because the middle class have economic power and they want to transform that into political power. The socialists want democracy for all. They understand that for democracy to really happen, you need to provide worker protection. You need to create class consciousness. You need to let workers have unions. So that's socialism. Then you have communism, which is more radical. Basically, communists believe wealth should be redistributed. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 24:40 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: We should get rid of private property and redistribute wealth for more equality in society. Also, communism is an international movement. You also have Polish nationalists. A lot of people in Germany at this time are Poles. They're Slavic people who have their own language, have their own ethnic identity. And ultimately, they will form Poland. And at this time, they're a huge problem for the German state and they are suppressed as well. Then you have people called the anarchists. The anarchists are people who believe that we don't need government. We don't need authority. People should just be allowed to do whatever they want to do. People are self -organizing. And as a result, government is bad. So you have all these different political groups and they're all very powerful. And they all pose a problem to German unity. And as a result, they are persecuted one by one. This is important because at the end of World War I, when Germany has surrendered, they will reflect on why they lost. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 25:45 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And one conclusion that they had was because of all these political divisions. There are too many divisions within society. Therefore, we need to suppress this division and create one political entity. And this is what allows for the rise, of course, of Hitler and the Nazis. So this is important to understand. World War I, again, if Germany is too powerful, Britain is forced into action. Britain cannot allow for a hegemon to be dominant in Europe. Britain went into action against Napoleon when Napoleon was a hegemon. Now they're going into action against Germany because Germany is too powerful. And World War I, no one expected this, but World War I was a catastrophe. Millions of people died. And it was an alliance of Britain, France, and Germany. And Russia, basically against Germany. I mean, Germany did have the Ottoman Empire and the Austria -Hungary Empire as allies, but they were not affected. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 26:44 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: It was really Germany versus the world. And what's amazing is Germany was able to create a stalemate. Actually, sometimes when Germany was about to win. And of course, when that happens, if Germany is going to win this war, it forces the Americans into action. Why? Well, first of all, the Americans think like the British. The Americans and British do not want a European power to emerge to unite the heartland. To unite Asia and Europe because then it negates naval trade. Does that make sense? Second reason is the Americans actually lend a lot of money to the British. Something called a land lease policy. So if Britain lost the war, then all that money is gone. So America comes in to save Britain. But even at this point, this is really important. Even at this point, it was not clear that Germany was going to lose the war. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 27:39 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Russia was knocked out of the war. France was divided. Britain was not that effectual. So it was not clear at this point that Germany was going to lose. Chances are Germany was going to lose, but Germany had not lost yet. And if Germany could mobilize all its resources, then Germany could withstand this onslaught. But then something happened that was very important. That changed the mind, the calculus of these German generals. The 1917 Russian Revolution. Why did the revolution happen? Because Tsar Nicholas was too focused on the war. He neglected the political divisions at home. And this allowed for a revolution to happen. So the German generals, who were in control of Germany at this point, they were scared to death of this happening in Germany. Because remember, at this point in history, the nation with the strongest working class, the proletariat, is actually Germany, not Russia. So as a result, this man's name is Paul von Hindenburg. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 28:42 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: He's very important. He's now head of the German military, as well as head of the German nation. And he forced the German government to surrender to the Allies. And this led to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles had many stipulations that were unfair to the Germans. So the Germans had to pay a lot of debt. They could no longer rearm. They had to reduce the military. They lost a lot of land to France. But the worst thing that the Allies did in this negotiation was, it forced Germany to admit complete guilt for starting the war. That was completely unfair. This war happened for many reasons. Everyone was involved. Everyone had a certain blame. But Germany had to take all the blame. And as a result, the government did not want to sign this treaty, because obviously this is going to piss off all your people. But the army forced the government to sign the treaty. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 29:51 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And the thinking of the army at this point is, listen, we've been in this situation before. We lost Napoleon. And so we just paid off a lot of debt to Napoleon. And then we built. And when we rebuilt, we made the nation stronger. We're resilient. So we'll do the same thing here. We'll just surrender, accept all the terms, then we'll start to rebuild and unify the nation and take revenge against everyone. And that was the thinking of the military. Very simple strategy. The Weimar Republic is what follows after the war. And the Weimar Republic is ten years of hyperinflation, social discontent, complete chaos. And when a nation suffers economically, politically, culturally, what it often does is it engages in a deep process of reflection. It goes back into the past and thinks about how to rebuild itself. So some philosophers that are very important for thinkers of how to unify Germany are like Arthur Schopenhauer. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 31:06 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1866s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Arthur Schopenhauer is a very, very important philosopher. His conception of the world is that the underlying force of the world is the will, desire. And the will manifests itself physically in us in bodies. Do you understand the idea? So the underlying force of the universe is the will, desire. And then the will will physically manifest itself in our bodies. And then our bodies will seek to do what the will wants, which is to procreate, to have sex, to have children, to eat food. Now, the great paradox of this situation is before the manifestation in our bodies, the will was just one. There was no differentiation. But once the will manifests itself in our bodies, there's now differentiation. There's multiplicity. And as such, we see the world from our own perspective, from our own selfish perspective, which leads to conflict. You understand? It is because we've forgotten that we are just one that leads to conflict and suffering. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 32:20 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So his great solution to this is compassion. As humans, we must first and foremost be compassionate towards each other and remind ourselves that we are just one people. And we can do that through the appreciation of art, because art is a great unifier. Art is the thing that allows us to contemplate the wholeness and the harmony of the world. And then he says that there are some of us who should engage in self -denial, who should become like monks, who should deny the world, because the world is inherently evil. So when you refuse to have children, when you refuse to struggle, to suffer, then you achieve enlightenment. And this is easy for us to understand because this is a very Buddhist ideology. So he's basically taking Buddhism and Hinduism from India, and he's making it more secular. He's trying to remove the religious aspects of it and make it into a logical system. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 33:16 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=1996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Does that make sense? So he says, Life has no intrinsic worth but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion. And as such, if you can remove the desire from your life, you achieve nirvana, you achieve enlightenment. This is a really important passage. Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of the ideas but the copy of the will itself. Whose objectivity the ideas are. This is why the effect of music is so much more powerful and penetrating than that of the other arts. For they speak only of shadows, but it speaks of the thing itself. This is really important. So how do we know the will? How can we access the will? It's through music. Music is the perfect encapsulation of desire. It is the perfect expression of emotions. And so through music, we discover the unity of the world, the unity of the will. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 34:17 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And why is this important? Because it inspires Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner is the most famous musician in Germany. He's really the national poet of Germany. He's a genius. And his great insight is that all art can be combined into one. And this is before movies. This is before cinema. So you can put in music, paintings, theatre, poetry, philosophy, everything together to create one total art that will inspire and unite the people. And this is why he spends 30 years to create something called the Ring Trilogy. And this is held every year at the Beirut Festival. He creates his own opera house in order to stage a play. And it's 15 hours. It's four parts, 15 hours. And it's the inspiration for the Lord of the Rings movies. I'm sure you've seen Lord of the Rings, right? It's a very similar plot. And the plot is very simple. It's 15 hours. Sorry, it's not a simple plot. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 35:23 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: But I'll put it in very simple terms. It's 15 hours, four parts. So there are people called the Rhine Maidens. These are river goddesses who control the river Rhine. And they have a lot of gold. There's a dwarf, an evil dwarf, who steals all this gold. And with all this gold, he crafts a ring to control the world, to rule the world. And this is important because it's actually taking Schopenhauer's philosophy, right? Desire is a source of evil in the world. And turn it into a metaphor. The ring is desire. The ring is what represents evil and suffering in the world. And because we all seek the ring, we cause misery. All right? Okay. So this is how it starts. Now, up in the sky, there's a god named Wotan, okay? So Wagner's using a lot of Norse mythology that we learned before from the Vikings, right? Wotan is another name for Odin. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 36:22 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2182s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2182s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And Wotan and the gods want to create a palace for themselves called Valhalla. And they hire a giant to build this Valhalla. And they sign a contract with him. But the giants want payment first, okay? So Wotan and the gods steal this ring from the dwarf, okay? And they give it to the giant. But then the dwarf places a curse on this ring. And the curse is that the gods will see their end, the end of days, Ragnarok, every day, okay? So the gods are haunted. And so the gods are like, we need to destroy this ring. Otherwise, we're always going to be haunted. We won't be able to sleep, okay? And so they need to kill the giant and get the ring back. But they have a contract with this giant. So Odin, Wotan, conspires to give birth to a great hero who's half human, half god, but he's not fully god, who will now go kill the giant and get the ring back, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 37:27 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: That's his great idea. So he gives birth to twins, Siglinde and Sigmund. They're separated at birth, they're twins, and then they run into each other and they fall in love with each other. Remember, they're twins, okay? Siglinde is already married, and so Sigmund is determined to kill her husband, Hundig, and marry Siglinde, okay? And this is all part of Wotan's plan. He's really happy. But then his wife, Fricka, says to him, no, no, no, no, no. They've broken the incest law, okay? They're not allowed to have incest with each other. And so you have to kill Sigmund. And Wotan doesn't really have a choice in the matter. He has to agree to the death of Sigmund, okay? So he sends his daughter, a Valkyrie named Bohendi, to go make sure that Sigmund is killed against Hundin. But Bohendi, when she arrives, she ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 38:26 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: sees the love between Siglinde and Sigmund, and she wants to save Sigmund and defy Wotan's orders. Wotan hears about this and punishes Bohendi and kills Sigmund, okay? And what he does by punishing Bohendi is he sentences her to eternal sleep, surrounded by a wall of flames. Only the greatest hero in the world, the hero who is capable of killing a giant and retrieving the ring, can save her. And this hero is named Siegfried, who is the son of Sigmund, okay? This is Act 3 now. Sigmund saves her, kills the giant, and now has retrieved the ring. But because he has the ring now, everyone around him is now conspiring to kill him and get the ring for themselves, okay? The problem of desire, which causes misery. So in the end, what happens is that Sigfrid is killed, Bohendi learns of this treachery, and then she kills those who killed him, and then what she does ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 39:41 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: is she sacrifices herself in the flames and throws the ring back to the river maidens, okay? And then what happens, and this is the ending, is the river maidens destroy the ring. But when they destroy the ring, they destroy everything, okay? They destroy Valhalla as well. The gods are destroyed, Valhalla is destroyed, the entire world is destroyed, okay? And this goes back to Schopenhauer's idea that the source of the world is desire, okay? When you destroy desire, you destroy the world. But when you do that, you allow for a new beginning, okay? So that's the national epic of Germany, the Ring Cycle. And again, this is put on every year at Beirut. It's four nights, and it's 15 hours in total. There are some theaters that put on 15 hours straight, okay? And the Germans love this, all right? So I'm gonna play for you some music from this opera. And this is the most famous part, called the Ride of the Valkyries, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 40:45 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: As you can see, it's very powerful, right? It represents the unity of the will. So as people are watching this, they become united as one. Time, space collapse, past, present collapse. This is meant to depict the will, the unity of the will. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 41:15 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Okay, that's it, great. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 41:40 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Now let's move on, okay? So building on top of Wagner and Schopenhauer is Friedrich Nietzsche, okay? Who is considered one of the greatest German philosophers of all time, okay? And he makes certain corrections to the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner, all right? Here are the three major differences between Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. You can see that Schopenhauer, he's a pessimistic Plato, okay? Whereas Nietzsche, he's an optimistic Aristotle. So Nietzsche's main complaint is this. Okay, Schopenhauer's conception is the source of everything is desire. And from desire, desire manifests itself in physical bodies in order to obtain what it wants, okay? And that's true, that makes sense. And then Schopenhauer's solution is that we must deny this desire, okay? We must negate this desire and then we will bring peace to the world. So for Nietzsche, this is confusing because, wait a minute here. The desire, the will manifests itself in physical bodies. Why would it do that? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 42:51 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: What's the logic of that, okay? And Schopenhauer would say, well, because God is evil, because God wants us to suffer. And then Nietzsche is like, okay, first of all, if God is evil, what's the point of resisting him, right? If it brings us enjoyment to seek desire, then what's wrong with it? Is it possible that God is good and that God lets desire manifest itself in us in order for us to pursue our desire, okay? So this is one of the major differences. For Schopenhauer, we are just biological beings that have a will to life, we want to procreate. But for Nietzsche, it's the will to power, okay? This is a really famous phrase from Nietzsche, the will to power, the will to expand ourselves, okay? The will to achieve our fullest desires, okay? Not just to procreate, but to impose our will on reality itself. That's the true purpose of life. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 43:56 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: That's why God created us, to become gods ourselves. Otherwise, this makes no sense. How do we go from desire to bodies? It only makes sense if the bodies can amplify our desire and help us achieve our desire, okay? The will to power is a really important concept. Schopenhauer believes that multiplicity is conflict. The fact that this will manifests itself in our bodies can only lead to conflict, because we're all fighting for scarce resources. For example, the ability to procreate, okay? But for Nietzsche, multiplicity is creativity. It's because there's conflict that you have action, and action leads to innovation, and innovation by itself is progress, okay? And so for Schopenhauer, the ideal person, the superman, is the compassionate monk, the person who feels sympathy for the world, and as such engages in a process of self -denial, self -negation. He refuses to procreate, he refuses to struggle, he refuses to eat, okay? The monk. But for Nietzsche, the ideal is the obermensch, the obermensch. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 45:10 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: The obermensch is hard to translate. We usually translate it as superman, but you can also translate it as overman, okay? The person above humanity, the person above history. So the ideal, the paragon, the example that Nietzsche uses is Napoleon, right? Who's Napoleon? Napoleon is an individual who can step outside of history to control history, to manipulate history. That's what the obermensch is, okay? We ourselves are always controlled by social forces, right? We don't want to piss off our classmates, we want to please our teachers and our parents. So therefore, we are slaves to public opinion. But, Nietzsche says, to be an obermensch, you have to ignore public opinion. You have to ignore community consensus and just focus on what is right to you. To look deep into yourself and figure out what is right for you and only you. Okay, that's the obermensch. And for him, the ideal example, of course, is Napoleon. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 46:11 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2771s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2771s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Okay, and why is this important? Because his ideas, in the context of Weimar Republic, will lead to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler, okay? Because Hitler is promising himself to be the next Napoleon, right? That's Hitler's promise to the German people. I will be your Napoleon, I will unite you, and I will lead you to victory against all enemies. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 46:32 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2792s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2792s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Right? Okay. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 46:34 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Does that make sense, guys? Are you guys following this? Alright, so let's look at a couple passages from Nietzsche, okay? Nietzsche is a very brilliant philosopher, so he's very complicated, he's very complex, and he can at times be very contradictory, okay? Alright, so let's read a passage from The Genealogy of Morals, which is his most famous book. We can no longer conceal from ourselves precisely what this will, under the direction of the aesthetic ideal, expresses, which is hatred of anything human, animal, or material, abhorrence of the senses of reason itself, fear of happiness and beauty, the desire to escape from all illusion, change, growth, death, wishing even from desire itself. All this means, let us have the courage to confront it, a wish for oblivion, an aversion to life, a reputation of everything vital to existence, but it is and remains a will, to say at the end that which I said at the beginning, men will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 47:36 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: We are desire, okay? It's really a question of how we manifest our desire. In today's society, in the Christian Buddhist worldview, it's important to negate our desire. But when we negate our desire, we negate what our desire could lead us to, which is truth and beauty, and creativity and progress and innovation, okay? And when we negate ourselves, we're not returning back to unity, we are only embracing oblivion, okay? That's the problem with Christianity. It's turning us into slaves. That's a problem with modernity. That's a problem with society. We are all being forced to become slaves, okay? Does that make sense? All right, let's go on. To call the taming of an animal improving it sounds to ears almost like a joke. He who knows what goes on in menageries doubts very much whether an animal is improved in such places. It is certainly weakened, it ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 48:35 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: is made less dangerous, and by means of the depressing influence of fear, pain, wounds, and hunger, it is converted into a sick animal, and the same holds good of the tame man whom the priest has improved, okay? This is a great metaphor. How can we understand the impact of society on people? Well, society is a zoo, okay? We're all caged animals. Think about it, okay? What is school then? School is a zoo, okay? Before, you were allowed to run around and explore the world and learn things for yourself, right? And as such, you mastered the world around you. You could hunt, you could farm, you could kill people, you could build alliances, you could write plays. But in school, what do we ask you to do? We ask you to come to school, we ask you to come to class on time, take notes, take tests, and then we give you a piece of paper, right? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 49:25 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=2965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: We turn you into caged animals, so you lose the capacity to think for yourself, right? That's what school is. So there's nothing wrong with what Nietzsche is saying, okay? This is a good metaphor to capture the essence of modernity, okay? Society, education, it's all meant to degrade your capacity to think for yourself in order to make you more obedient to power, okay? All right. So if you take Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche together and combine them, what you get is a rejection of Christianity and a return to paganism, okay? So let's look at the differences. In the Christian worldview, there is a God. If there's a God, there is a framework of good and evil. So you must do good and you must avoid evil, okay? But in the pagan worldview, there is no God. There's many gods, but the gods themselves have no power over fate. And as a result, it is up to you to define good and evil. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 50:31 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: It's up to you to act and to find meaning in the world, okay? So going back to school, the metaphor, right? Today, we have grades, and therefore, you're focused on getting grades. But if we have no grades, we have no teachers, then you have to go learn for yourself. You would have to go figure out your own education. What's amazing about this idea is you would want to, because Nietzsche says, we are first and foremost desire. We desire to grow. So if we left you alone and said, no grades, no school, no test, it does not mean that you will stop learning. It just means that you will learn what you want to learn, okay? All right, second difference. Christianity demands faith, obedience to God. Paganism demands action, okay? You seek meaning for yourself through action. The last difference is Christianity focuses on individual free will, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 51:24 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Which just means you are free to obey the powerful. But in the pagan mindset, it's about unity of will, okay? If we want to act, we can only do so by working together, all right? We will find a leader to lead us, but the leader only represents the unity of will, okay? Does that make sense? So during the Weimar Republic, with the rise of Nazism, you now have a rejection of Christianity and a return to paganism as a solution to the national humiliation of Germany, all right? And this is what leads to the rise of Hitler, okay? This man is Paul von Hindenburg. The same man who ordered the surrender of Germany. In 1933, he is president of Germany, the leader, and he appoints Adolf Hitler the chancellor of Germany, okay? The question then is, why would he do that, right? Yeah, I mean, like, why would the head of the army, the head of the nation, make Adolf Hitler chancellor? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 52:32 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And the reason is this. Adolf Hitler was a German spy. He was a German, sorry, sorry. He was a spy for the German army, okay? This is really important. Let me explain this. This is from Wikipedia, guys, okay? So I'm not making this up. It says very clearly, as an intelligence agent of the army, Hitler's job was to influence other soldiers and to infiltrate the German worker's party, okay? The Nazi party, National Socialist. Okay, so why is this happening? So remember, the German army surrendered because they were afraid of revolution back at home. Who was leading the revolution? The extreme left and extreme right, okay? What's the difference between extreme left and extreme right? Both are populists. They all believe in workers' rights. The left believe in national solidarity, okay? Specifically with Russia, the Soviet Union, and other workers in the world. The right are nationalists. They believe in German unity, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 53:30 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So the army is like, okay, right now the most powerful group in Germany are the socialists, right? The left. We need to support the right. So Hitler goes into the Nazi party, the German worker's party, and he helps to finance it, okay? Hitler is giving money to these guys. And because he's such a charismatic speaker, he eventually becomes their leader. But there's a point in history, okay? This is really important. This is a really small group of people. But they are a minority. The majority are the socialists, okay? This is something that you're not taught in school. But this is very important to remember. It is the army that finances the building of the Nazi party in order to dampen the influence of the socialists, okay? Because remember, the army now is still dedicated to avenging the national humiliation of World War I, okay? All right. So this is Carroll Quigley. And he wrote a long book called Tragedy and Hope, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 54:33 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And he explains in, oh, sorry. Carroll Quigley, he is a professor. He was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He was Bill Clinton's teacher, okay? He was Bill Clinton's teacher. And he's a widely respected scholar. And in his book, he explains how Hitler was able to rise and take over the leadership of Germany. He explains at this point in history that Germany is threatened by two opposing forces. The first force, of course, is communism, right? The Soviet Union. That's a huge menace to Germany. But another menace that's actually even more menacing is capitalism, okay? Because at this point in history, what's happening is the national capitalists are trying to create a central banking system in order to control the entire global economy. He writes about this. This is 1920s. The powers of financial capitalism had another far -reaching aim, nothing less than to create ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 55:28 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: a world system of financial control in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole, okay? This is really important to understand. 1920s, all these bankers in the world, America, Britain, France, Germany, they're getting together and they're conspiring on how to create a global financial system that can control the world and create a feudal system, right? And guess what, guys? You don't know this, but they succeeded. The system we have today is the one they created, okay? But I will explain this later on in the course, okay? But this is something that the German nationalists like Hitler didn't want, okay? So Hitler, he's allowed to rise and the Nazi party is becoming more and more popular. But again, even though they are popular, they're not as popular as the socialists, okay? So what happens now is the army and the Nazi party get together and assume power, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 56:28 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So the first step for Hitler in order to assume power is something called the Night of the Long Knives, okay? This is really important because the Nazi party is an extreme right -wing workers party, right? So the army orders Hitler to kill all their leaders and that's what happened. This is called the Night of the Long Knives, the brown shirts. The extreme right -wing was eliminated by the army. So now the Nazi party and the army are now symbiotic, okay? They rely on each other. From now on, the Nazi party will ensure total unity of will at home through suppression of people, okay? And the army will now go march and conquer the world. Doesn't make sense, guys. That's the plan. All right. So Adolf Hitler is the perfect man for the job assigned to him by the army because he is a fantastic speaker, okay? He's very charismatic. We're going ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 57:26 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: to listen to his voice so you can appreciate how powerful his speech is, his voice is. What his speeches do is they create unity of will in Germany, okay? Again, the goal is to rejuvenize the nation and reunite the German people, right? And so the unity of will creates the idea of synchronicity. Remember, synchronicity is a secret to modern warfare. Synchronicity means the organization and mobilization of your people into one task. And this is represented by the picture. If you can get people to stand in line for a long time, you can fight a war, okay? And the people and the nations that are really strong at synchronicity, of course, are Germany and Japan, right? Go to Germany, go on the subway. Go to Japan, go on the subway. No one is struggling against each other, okay? No one's pushing everyone. Even though it's crowded, people are standing exactly where they should be standing perfectly. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 58:48 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: That is the idea of synchronicity. If your people can do that, they can fight a war and win the war, okay? So this idea of unity of will, all right? They can stand in line for a long, long time, all right? All right, so we're gonna look at some speeches from Hitler, from Hitler, okay? And we can see from his speeches, he's trying to create unity of will. He's trying to be the, the superman who will unite his people like Napoleon and carry them to victory through faith in themselves, okay? The unity of will. If man wish to live, then they are forced to kill others. The entire struggle for survival is a conquest of the means of existence, which in turn results in elimination of others from the same sources of substance. As long as there are peoples on this earth, there will be nations against nations, and they will be forced to ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 59:41 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: protect their vital rights in the same way as the individual is forced to protect his rights. One is either the hammer or the anvil. We confess that it is our purpose to prepare the German people, again, for the role of the hammer, okay? So he's saying we must unite as a people. We must have unity of will if we are to triumph against our enemies. All right. Nothing is possible unless one will commands, a will which has to be obeyed by others, beginning at the top and ending only at the very bottom. This is the expression of an authoritarian state, not of a weak, babbling democracy of an authoritarian state where everyone is proud to obey, because he knows, I will likewise be obeyed when I must take command, all right? Hitler is not being a dictator. He is trying to create unity of will. He is the leader. He's the uberman, but that's only because God demanded him to be so, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:00:32 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: He will unite the German people into a hurricane, into an ocean to crash itself upon the world. In the course of my life, I have very often been a prophet, and I have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power, it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the state, and with it, that of the whole nation, and that I would then, among many other things, settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time, now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today, I will once more be a prophet. The national Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:01:18 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe, okay? So, we don't actually have any concrete evidence for the Holocaust, okay? So, one piece of evidence for the Holocaust is this speech by Hitler. But I want to explain what he is saying here, okay? What he's saying is, we, the German nation, want to be left alone. We want to be united. We want to be unified. But the capitalists and the communists all seek to undermine us. And who are the communists and who are the capitalists? The Jews, okay? It's the Jews who are a metaphor for a national elite group of individuals who are conspiring to undermine the vitality and the strength of the German nation. All right, so that's what he's saying here. All right, 1939, September 1st, is the beginning of World War II, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:02:18 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And so, he's going to explain why this is happening. As a national socialist and as a German soldier, I enter upon the struggle of a restored heart. My whole life has been nothing but one struggle for my people, for its restoration and for Germany. There was only one watchword for that struggle, faith in this people, one word I've never learned, and that is surrender, okay? So, he's telling the people, we're going to fight this war again. Why did we lose World War I? Because we didn't have faith. We surrendered. If we all came together and we fought to the very better end, we would have prevailed against our enemies, okay? It is quite unimportant whether we ourselves live, but it's essential that our people shall live, that Germany shall live. The sacrifice that is amended of us is not greater than the sacrifice that many generations have made. If we form a community closely bound together by vows, ready for anything, resolve never to surrender, and our will will master every hardship and difficulty, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:03:12 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3792s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3792s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: It is the unity of will that matters. All right, 1942, November 8th, it's basically at a time in history when the Germans understand they've lost the war. They're now in the war. The Americans are getting ready to invade Europe. The German invasion of the Soviet Union has failed, okay? They're bogged down in the Soviet Union. Germany is overstretched. The entire world has allied itself against Germany, okay? So, the war is about to be lost. But let's look at what Hitler has to say. It is with the same conviction that I now stand before you and has never left me, either, since the day on which, as an unknown man in this city, I began to struggle first for the soul of the German people and then on beyond the city for more and more followers. In the beginning, I ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:03:58 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: did not have much more to give than faith, the faith that if anyone pursues a just aim, I will, with unchanging and undisturbed loyalty, and never let himself be diverted from it but puts everything into it, then others will be found who are determined to be his followers and that from this host an ever stronger faith must gradually radiate to the whole people, okay? So, this is unity of will. We reject reality. Reality does not matter, because we impose our will on reality. As long as we have faith, as long as we have unity of will, we will triumph, okay? Alright, so, let's go back to the beginning. We were talking about Kaliningrad, right? It is one of the greatest injustices in human history that Konigsberg, which was, for the longest time, the cradle of human civilization, the epicenter of the Enlightenment, it is now completely destroyed, okay? But, and this is a really, this is an idea from Wagner, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:05:06 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: By destroying this, the world has cursed itself, okay? Let me explain why. First of all, the German question now is more relevant than ever before. You've destroyed Konigsberg, but you have not destroyed the desire for unity among the German people, okay? So, this is the memory that will not fade, okay? So, will the Germans seek vengeance? Will another Hitler arise to unite the German people? Now, what you guys don't know is that the Prussians were one of the main forces opposing Hitler, as well as inhibiting Hitler, okay? Because Prussia had a very proud culture, and it was the very strongest part of Germany. But now that they destroyed Prussia, if another Hitler arises, there's really nothing to stop him, okay? That's the first problem. Second question is, okay, let's go back to this map. Europe and Russia are about to go to war with each other, right? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:06:08 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=3968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: Okay, well, if you are Europe and you go into Ukraine, you're going to be slaughtered, okay? But, this is Klanagrad, Russian territory, 500,000 Russians, right? You can blockade Klanagrad, you understand? So, this could be the start of World War III, right? Does that make sense to you guys? When the Europeans blockade Klanagrad, and they try to starve the people, Putin would have no choice but to intervene, okay? But the main problem is this. Konigsberg was one of the main intellectual, scientific, and cultural centers of Europe. That its laws reduce the innovative potential of humanity, alright? So, what I will show you in the next class when we discuss Kant is, science comes from philosophy, okay? Culture leads to philosophy, which leads to science, which leads to technology. You cannot have science independent of philosophy. When you destroy a center of philosophical innovation, you destroy a center for scientific progress, okay? So, this is something that we will discuss in depth next class as well. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:07:19 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4039s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4039s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So, when we look at Kant. So, that is Germany. Okay, any questions about what we've learned so far? Was this clear to you guys? Okay. Any questions? Excuse me? Yeah, okay. So, where did Hitler come from, right? How did Hitler become so charismatic? Okay. So, there's a lot of randomness to life, okay? There's a lot of randomness going on in life. So, the army wanted to inhibit the growth of the socialist left -wing movement. And it did so by financing these right -wing parties. The Nazi party was just one of many parties that the army financed and supported, okay? Hitler became a spy and he became part of this movement. And as such, he became exposed to a lot of the ideas of the Nazi party. The Nazi party, a lot of the ideas come from Nietzsche and Wagner and others as well, okay? And over time, Hitler came to believe that he was the messiah, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:08:41 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: He was the messiah dedicated to restoring German unity, okay? And, I mean, like, this is hard to understand, but human population is very diverse. So, you always have a subset of people who have these delusions of grandeur. And in certain circumstances, they will be proven right, okay? That doesn't make sense, okay? So, another way of saying this is the army needed someone to play the part of the obermanns, the supermen who could unite the German people and create national unity so the army could seek its vengeance against the rest of Europe and unite the German people, okay? So, they're looking for this role. And then Hitler auditioned for this role. And he got the role, okay? Does that make sense? And this is important because towards the end of the class, we'll discuss Donald Trump. And what I will show you is, this is exactly what happened with Donald Trump, okay? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:09:48 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: So, the American military needs an obermanns to lead America to war against Putin. And there were different people who auditioned. Biden auditioned, he was terrible. Harris auditioned, he was terrible. And they picked Donald Trump, okay? This is a very familiar pattern in human history. You can also argue that Napoleon was the same way, okay? And what makes these people different from us, Napoleon, Hitler, Julius Caesar, Trump, is they are the total expression of the Zion will, you understand? They have absolutely no compassion, no sympathy for anyone. They believe they are here on a divine mission. They are complete, they are the will itself. And they are, and they must impose their will on others to save the world. Does that make sense? So, look at Donald Trump, okay? If you want to understand Hitler, look at Donald Trump. The guy is like almost 80. He doesn't sleep, okay? He's off traveling around the world all the time. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:10:47 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: The guy in his, when he was campaigning, he was giving like three speeches a day, right? He would get up in the morning at 4 o 'clock, fly somewhere, give a two -hour speech. People loved him. Then he would get on the plane and fly somewhere else. And he would, he could not stop talking to reporters, okay? He has tremendous energy that comes from the perfect expression of the will, you understand? Donald Trump is all will, all desire, all ego, and no sympathy, no empathy, no compassion. That's Hitler and Napoleon. Yeah, that's a great question. So, won't people rebel against us? Won't people think this is reckless? And so, what Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and others will say is, what we want first and foremost is a return to unity of will, right? In the very beginning, the will was God. That's a big bang. And then the will expanded itself, right? ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:11:49 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And so, we find ourselves alone in an ocean of alienation. And what our hearts really aspire to is a return to a unity of will. And so, when someone says, you can be part of a movement to transform the world, that's much more appealing to us psychologically than to say, oh, you know what, come to school, do your homework, get good grades, do the SAT, get into a top 50 American school, become an accountant, and for 50 years do something meaningless but make a lot of money, and then you will die a happy person. Like, seriously, there's no competition, right? There's no competition. Donald Trump is saying to the Americans, we will make America great again. We will be a civilization, a great civilization again. It will require sacrifice, it will require my sacrifice, but it will be worth it because we will make the world whole again, right? Okay, so, ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:12:54 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: again, when you go back to the Hitler speeches, from our perspective, it's not that persuasive, okay? But when you're in a crowd of people and this man is speaking to you with his voice, it's like Wagner, okay? It's like going to a concert. The music fills you and it inspires your heart, okay? It makes you want to be the ubermensch, okay? Hitler is just the example, but he's saying you can also aspire to be the ubermensch if you are willing to sacrifice your life for the unity of will, okay? So, this is really important. This is far more appealing to people than the idea of materialism, okay? This is religion, right? Hitler is creating a new religion, and it's intoxicating, right? I mean, like, World War II, I mean, the fact that the Germans were able to fight for so long against the entire world, I mean, it's incredible. I mean, like, it was America, Britain, France, Soviet Union against the Germans. ## The Will That Survives the Destroyed City -- 1:13:58 - Source title: Civilization #54: The German Will to Power - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Nq--qU9Kc&t=4438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-o2nq-qu9kc.json) Text: And the fact that the Germans fought so bravely and fought to the very bitter end. I mean, it just shows you the power of unity of will, okay? And what this also tells us is these things don't die, okay? You can kill a civilization, you can destroy a city, you can massacre people, but you cannot destroy the desire for unity of will because that's what fundamentally makes us human. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, great. Any more questions, guys? But that's a great question, thank you. Does that make sense to you? Okay, great, okay. Any more questions, guys? Okay, so next week we will do Kant, okay? And Kant will lead us to Marx and Freud and modernity, okay? Okay. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay, it's good morning. Today we're doing the Russian Empire. And to review, we've done America and Britain so far, and we've discussed the civilization. Today we'll do Russia, and then on Thursday we'll start Germany. Let's simplify the differences between these three great modern civilizations that are struggling for world domination even today. So as we discussed last week, the defining characteristics of the Anglo -American civilization is their belief in utilitarianism. They want to know what is practical, what works. Their idea of Christianity is the supreme God is a force that elects. And what this means is that not everyone will go to heaven. Only a minority will go to heaven. And this minority are those who are proving themselves the most worthy. Okay, the last idea of the Anglo -American civilization is that the meaning of life is the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Essentially the pursuit of wealth. Okay, so these are the characteristics of the Anglo -American civilization. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:21 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=81s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=81s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: On Thursday, we'll start the German civilization. And what you will see is that the Germans are very different. They are not utilitarians. They are very idealistic, very romantic. For them, God is a force that demands you to be your very best. Okay, not a few people, but everyone. And the Germans believe in the unity of will. Okay, everyone has to work together and promote German civilization. Today we'll do the Russians. Okay, and the Russians are a very different civilization. First of all, they're much more fatalistic than the Germans. And the Americans, they don't believe that you have control over your life. They believe that you can only accept what is given to you and make the most out of it. For them, God is a force that redeems and saves all. God is merciful. God is forgiving. Okay, this is a very different conception from both the German and the Anglo -American conception. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 2:23 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=143s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=143s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: The last concept that we will look at today is, for them, the essence of life is to understand the mystery, miracle, and authority of the human heart. Okay, so whereas the Americans and British place their emphasis on science, on mastering the world, the material world, and whereas the Germans are extremely idealistic. They want an understanding of existence. The Russians are focused very much on the human heart. Okay, for the Russians, the greatest mystery, the most knowledge is within the human heart. And this is what we will focus on today. Okay, so the leading question for today's class, the question that I'm sure you're all interested in is, why did Putin invade Ukraine? What is driving the Russian invasion of Ukraine? And there are lots of easy explanations. What I will show you today is, the answer is actually extremely complicated. What I will show you today is, the answer is actually extremely complicated. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 3:32 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: What Putin himself has said in multiple interviews is there are historical, sociological, philosophical issues at work here. And Westerners don't really understand what he's saying. So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to explain to you what he really means. Okay, so if you look at the year 1300, you could not expect Moscow to eventually become a Russian empire. At this point in history, the Mongols have controlled most of the world. And Moscow, along with other areas in the empire, there are vassal states. They pay taxes, they pay tribute, they provide troops to the Mongol Empire. But it's the Mongol Empire that is the great power at this stage. But if you look at history, okay, you'll see a very different kind of history. You'll see a very similar pattern where it's not really the greatest power that will eventually overwhelm everyone. It's always the marginal power. Okay, so going back to and reviewing what we've learned so far. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 4:47 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Remember, when we discussed the Aztecs, the Aztecs were very much a poor, isolated, backward people. But eventually, through innovation, through tenacity, through resilience, they were able to move forward. They were able to conquer most of Central America. Same thing with the Qing Dynasty in China, right? At this stage in history, maybe 300, 400 BCE, you would not expect the Qing Empire, the Qing Dynasty, to overwhelm all of China and become China's first great national empire. Maybe the Chu, maybe the Wei, Qi, they're all stronger at this point in history. But it's the marginal power that seems weak at first. That will overwhelm. Same thing with Macedon, okay? At this point in history, in the year 400, 300 BCE, it's Athens, Sparta, Thebes that are the powers. But eventually, Macedon will not only overwhelm the Great Peninsula, but they will go over to Persia and conquer the Persian Empire as well. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 5:53 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Same thing with Rome. Rome, at this point in history, maybe 500 BCE, it is the weakest of all these Italian states. The Etruscans are the main power, and they are the poorest, the weakest, the smallest of all these great tribes. But eventually, over the next centuries, they will conquer everyone. Same thing with the Franks. After the Roman Empire, the Franks will slowly expand from Central Europe and overwhelm most of Europe to create the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? And the same thing with the Prussians. Next class, we will discuss the Prussian Empire, which becomes modern -day Germany. They start off as this landlocked, isolated, central area within Europe, but eventually, they will spread out to conquer all of Germany, okay? So, the lessons we can learn from these case studies is there are three forces that drive these marginalized powers to become the great power of the day. Okay? So, for Moscow, it's a constant process of creative destruction. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 7:06 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: First of all, open, cooperative competition. So, they're always surrounded by these adversaries, and because they don't really lack, and because they don't have natural defenses, they don't have mountains, rivers, it forces them to be tough and unified in order to defeat their enemies. And it's toughness and unity that will allow Moscow to emerge as a great power in Central Asia. Advantage by disadvantage. Okay? You're better off being weak, because if you're weak, it forces you to be innovative and open. Okay? So, they say necessity is the mother of invention. The last factor is vassalage. Okay? So, the idea that historical humiliation and subjection force reflection and resilience. Because Moscow, for the longest time, was subjected to vassals by the Mongols, it forced them to be humble. And humility allows you to reflect deeply. On your own weaknesses. To be honest with yourself. And eventually triumph over all your adversaries. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 8:08 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: So, these are the three factors that will drive the massive expansion of Moscow. Okay? Moscow starts off as this very small principality within the Mongol Empire. And then it will eventually become the successor to the Mongol Empire. All right. So, let's look at the origins of Russia. So, the history is... We have to go back to the Viking Age. This is about the year 900, a thousand. Right? So, the Vikings are in Sweden and Denmark and Norway. And because it's so poor, and because it's becoming overly populated, they will start to expand over to England, to Greenland, to other areas. And then... Sorry. Can you open the door? And then, they will start to expand. And then, they will also move east. Okay? Why are they moving east? Because all the great wealth of the age is located in the Byzantine Empire in Egypt, and as well as the Abbasid Empire in Iraq and Persia. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 9:19 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay? So, they're here to establish trading posts. And when they establish trading posts, what will happen is that, first of all, they will intermarry with the local Slavic population. As well as the steppes people. Okay? They will also build an alliance with the Byzantine Empire and become basically vassals to the Byzantines. All right? What will happen is, over time, their trading posts will become cities, and they will expand outwards. So, the tradition, the custom at this stage in history is, if you're noble... You must go and conquer new lands. When you conquer new lands, you can enslave the people to work for you. Okay? This is a very feudal system. Okay? So, this forces a process of constant expansion. If they don't expand, they will only fight amongst themselves. So, the Kievan Rus expands very quickly throughout this area. Eventually, they'll all be conquered by the Mongols. And when the Mongols leave, it leaves a vacuum of great powers. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 10:29 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay? So, the great power of this age is that... The grand ducky of Lithuania. Okay? Novigrad is also a great power. Moscow is the weakest, but again, as I said, over time, because it is weak, it's forced to be united. It's forced to be resilient. It's forced to be innovative. And over time, what it will do is, it will overwhelm Novigrad and become the Russian Empire. Okay? And as you can see, what will happen is, the Russian Empire will expand really quickly until it absorbs the entire Mongol Empire, as well as unify all of Northern Asia. Okay? It is now the largest land mass in the world. Okay. So, the thing to understand about the Russians is that, even though it's a very large country, most of it is not able to be cultivated. Okay? So, it has very low population. Most of the wealth is located over here. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 11:40 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: This is basically Ukraine. This is what's driving the invasion, because historically, most of the wealth in Russia has been located in the Ukraine area. Okay? If you go over here, it's basically just forest and mountains. So, why are they moving eastwards when there's very little resources here? The answer is fur. Okay? Fur. Fur is a very valuable commodity. They go and they... They trade fur for a living. Okay. Some of the great stars of Russian history is Ivan the Great. His son is Ivan the Terrible, who will expand Russia greatly. Okay? The thing to understand about Russian expansion is, it's really not driven by state policy. It's really driven by oppression and misery. What this means is that, because Russia is essentially a feudal state, the only thing that's going to happen is that, the only way to build a better life is if you escape eastwards, and you basically ethically clean that area and build a new settlement. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 12:43 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: So, that's what's driving this. And what will happen is, as these people move further eastwards, the state will follow them in order to collect taxes. Okay? And sometimes, the state will intervene in order to protect these people from their adversaries in the local areas. But it's a very brutal process that takes centuries. And the Russians win out because there's more of them, and also because they have muskets, and the local people do not have muskets. Okay? So, as you can see, the expansion is very rapid, only across about 300 years. And as I mentioned, it is an extremely brutal process. Okay? So, these are paintings of the brutality involved in this eastward expansion. It involves ethnic cleansing. It involves incitement. It involves enslaving people. Okay? Yeah. It's a brutal process. And these paintings are meant to capture the brutality of the process. And you can see the misery involved. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 13:54 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: So, these people who are being conquered, they're either being ethnic cleansed, or they're being forced to immigrate, or they're being enslaved. It's a very similar process with the Americans, and these will eventually become the two great empires. Of the 20th century, as well as really the 21st century. Okay? So, the Americans have the same situation where they're expanding westwards, and the Russians are expanding eastwards. The difference is this. The Americans are expanding westwards for better opportunities. Okay? To get wealthy, to build a better life. The Russians are expanding eastwards because they are trying to escape misery, and oppression, and slavery. Okay? That's the difference. And because of this difference, even though there are many similarities. The fundamental belief systems of these two nations are very different. Americans are fundamentally optimistic. Russians are fundamentally fatalistic, pessimistic. All right. So, let's summarize the differences between the Slavic East, the Russian East, and the Germanic West. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 15:06 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Slavic gives us the word slave. Why? Because for the longest time, the Slavs in Europe, in Eastern Europe, they were pagans. They weren't Muslims. They weren't Christians. And the custom at that time is you can only enslave people who are not of your religious belief. Okay? So, the pagans were the most valuable people because they can be enslaved by everyone. So, the Vikings came, the Muslims came, the Christians came to enslave the Slavic people and sell them off to the Byzantines, the Abbasids. And that's why we get the word slave. Okay? So, let's look at the three major differences between Russia and Germany. The first major difference is that the Russians believe they are here to the Biden Empire, which is a very top -down centralized bureaucracy. And this is something we discussed before. The Germans believe they are here to the Holy Roman Empire, which is a confederation. Okay? As we discussed, when we discussed the Holy Roman Empire, it was impossible for anyone to conquer all of Europe. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 16:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And so, the Holy Roman Empire was based on consensus. It was based on diplomacy. Okay? It was based on intermarriage. So, this is a much more democratic, much more independent system than the Byzantines. Second major difference is the Germans have the Catholic Church. The Russians have something called the Eastern Orthodox Church. This sounds similar, but what I will show you as we move on is it's actually night and day. Okay? These two belief systems are extremely different. Third major difference is the Germanic West, the Germans, they are culturally coherent. They speak the same language. They believe that they come from the same culture. Whereas the Russian Empire, it is culturally incoherent. Okay? It encompasses a vast array of different cultures, languages, and belief systems. All right. Okay. So, the Russian Empire starts with Peter the Great. And what Peter the Great does is ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 17:13 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1033s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1033s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: he modernizes Russia and forces a decisive war with Sweden, which is at Europe right now, the great military power. Okay? So, for most of Russian history, the European powers didn't really take Russia seriously. And they just thought that the Russians are part of Asia. They're really not part of Europe. And it was Peter the Great. Peter the Great was determined to Russianize, Europeanize Russia, and prove Russia a European power. Okay? And he does that for three reasons. All right? Sorry. Sorry. For many reasons. Okay? He does it because Russia right now is an empire. And as an empire, you need a unifying ideology, a philosophy. And for the Russians, for the longest time, even Putin shares this philosophy, is they believe they are trying to restore the Byzantine Empire. And be the third Rome and save civilization. Okay? So, what do I mean by this? All right. So, the first Rome, of course, was Rome. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 18:14 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Second Rome was Constantinople. The third Rome now is Moscow. And not only that, but they believe they are the true heir to the Christian tradition. All these other Christian religions out there, Catholic, Protestant, they are corrupt forms. It's the Orthodox Church that is the true heir to the Roman Christianity. All right? Quest for military supremacy means that right now, at this stage in history, all the great militaries are in Europe. So, Russia basically needs to copy, imitate the Europeans. So, what Russia does is it imports a lot, actually, of German soldiers and mercenaries to learn German military technique. Quest for absolute power means that all these czars, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, they're interested in centralized society. They're interested in authority. They want to remove this feudal system and centralized power and all in their hands. Okay? Delusion of authority of church and nobility. So, in Europe, the Catholic Church is above the kings. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 19:18 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay? So, Peter the Great wants to subject the church to his authority as well as the nobility. Right now, the great threat, the great rival to the Russians is the Ottoman Empire. Okay? And last is the contempt of Russia. Okay? So, even though the Mongols probably influence the Russians much more than the Vikings, the Russians believe the Vikings are their true ancestors, not the Mongols. They try to erase the Mongols from their own history. They're kind of ashamed of it. Okay. So, again, as I mentioned, at this time in Europe, about the year 1700, Sweden is the great military power of the age. And Peter the Great and Charles XII of Sweden, they get into this major conflict. And Peter the Great is not that great. Okay? He has a lot of issues. But Charles II is a complete disaster. And the reason why is he's a young man, he's only about 27 when he invades Russia, who fancies himself as Alexander the Great. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 20:30 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay? And as we discussed, Alexander the Great was very problematic because he was very tyrannical. And also because he believed he was invincible. So, Charles the Great decides to go invade Russia. And this is a disaster. Why? Because Peter the Great will use something called a scorched earth policy. Basically, he knows that he cannot, on the battlefield, defeat the Swedes. So, what the Russians do is they retreat and burn down all the fields. So, the army cannot feed itself. Okay? This is called scorched earth. And this is important because this is how the Russians will do it. They will defeat Napoleon in 1812. And this is important because this is how the Russians will defeat the Germans in World War II. So, this is a very similar pattern in history. As I mentioned, the great enemy of Russia at this time are the Ottomans. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 21:29 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And so, the Russians and the Ottomans will clash over the Kremlin. Okay? The Crimea. Okay? The Crimea. And this will lead to something called the Crimean War in 1854. Okay? So, Peter the Great, again, he wins because Charles II makes disastrous military decisions during this war. But this begins the Russian Empire. Okay? For the first time, Russia is now considered a great European power because it's defeated the great military power of Europe, Sweden. Okay? So, these are paintings celebrating the great Russian victory over the Swedes. So, after this victory, Russia will expand very greatly. And then, after the Peter the Great, the next great westernizer of the Russian Empire is Catherine the Great. What's important first to remember about Catherine the Great is she's actually not Russian. She's actually German. She was born in Prussia. And she married into the Russian Empire. She had a Russian noble family. It was very common at this stage for the European powers to intermarry with each other. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 22:46 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And most of the Russian nobility, a lot of them actually have German blood. And they actually spoke French at home. Okay? So, this westernization created a process where the nobility now is very European. They speak French. They have German ancestry. And the peasants are Slavic. Okay? And so, this creates a massive divide in Russia. Catherine the Great will extend Russia greatly, as you can see from this map. The great event that basically thrusts Russia as a great power is the defeat of Napoleon in 1812. Napoleon, as we know, the great conqueror, he invades Russia in 1812 and he defeats the Russian army. But what the Russians do that no one can possibly imagine they would do is they burn down the capital, Moscow. Okay? Moscow is their cultural capital. It is the heart and soul of the Russian Empire. And they burn it down to starve Napoleon's army. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 23:56 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1436s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1436s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And the Europeans thought this was an incredible act of barbarism. Okay? But for the Russians, they believed it was an incredible act of self -sacrifice. That saved the Russian Empire. In fact, the great Russian composer, he wrote a symphony dedicated to celebrating the victory over Napoleon called the 1812 Overture. Have you guys heard the Overture? All right. Let me play it for you. Okay? By making the sacrifice, they not only saved Russia, but they saved all of Europe. They saved Western civilization, basically. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 24:58 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Okay. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 25:19 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: So, I'm sure you guys have heard of it, right? Okay. But this is to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon by Tchaikovsky. Okay. After the defeat of Napoleon, though, the Europeans take notice of Russia, especially Britain. Remember, Britain is this great naval power that is dedicated to a divide and conquer policy of Europe. They basically gang up against whoever is the growing power in Europe. So, as Russia is growing, the British encourage the Ottomans and the French to use their power to unite against Russia to prevent Russian expansion into the Ottoman Empire. Eventually, the Russians will defeat the Ottoman Empire. The Korean War is a major setback for the Russians. And this creates something called the Great Game, where the Russians are now being helmed in by the British. Okay? So, the British and the Russians will now fight for supremacy over Central Asia. A disaster. The next disaster for the Russians is the Russian -Japanese War, where Russia gets heavily defeated by the Japanese. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 26:29 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And this sort of instigates revolutionary sentiment and fever in Russia. And, of course, what follows next is the Great Disaster, the First War, where the Russians are defeated mightily by the Germans. And this creates something called the 1917 Bullshit Revolution, which destroys the Russian Empire and creates a war. And this creates the Soviet Empire. Okay? So, this is just a brief history. We'll go into the revolution at a future date. Okay? It's a very important event, and I want to dedicate a whole class to it. But that's a brief background of the Russian Empire. Okay. So, now let's talk about the civilization. And, as I discussed, Westernization has been a major trend in Europe. But because of Westernization, there are three major contradictions that are created within the Russian Empire. Okay? And these three contradictions will go on to create Russian civilization. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 27:33 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: These contradictions are, it's both European and Central Asian. Okay? It's both Viking and Mongol. It's both Slavic as well as Tartar. Okay? So, there's a lot of ethnicities, a lot of cultures within Russia. And it's a contradiction. Second great contradiction is Russia. And the second great contradiction is it fancies itself as a Christian Orthodox nation. In fact, the true Christian nation, but it's also very Pagan. Remember, there's this massive eastward expansion in the process. There's a lot of war. There's a lot of violence. Okay? It's very Pagan. And the peasantry, even to this day, maintains a lot of Pagan rituals, a lot of Pagan beliefs. And the third great contradiction is between Enlightenment and Protestantism. and empire. So Catherine the Great, who was Prussian, she tried to saw herself as an enlightened monarch. She was best friends with Voltaire. They never met, but they were pen pals. And she saw herself as an enlightened despot who was trying to bring reason and justice and goodness to Russia. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 28:40 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: But at the same time, it's an empire, and it's a brutal empire. And the Russians engage in a lot of barbarism. So this is also a massive contradiction. And so if you study Russian civilization, it is unique because of these three major contradictions. So let me show you how they influence Russian arts and literature. Okay, let's look at some of the major Russian cultural figures. And there are too many in a name. There's just a lot of them. But I'll just go through the most famous. This is Alexander Pushkin, who is considered... Shakespeare of Russia. He's the great innovator of Russian language. He basically modernizes the language. And he's a poet and a very romantic figure in Russia. He's basically a national poet of Russia. Something really interesting about him is his grandfather was an African general who became a noble in Russia. So he's about one -eighth black and he's very proud of it. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 29:48 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And so what's important for us to remember is again for most of human history race was not a concept. People didn't really care what race you were. This is Anton Chovkif who is considered the greatest short story writer in human history. Music. Russian music is extremely... Russian music is beautiful. I'll play you some some clips of Russian music. This is This is Glanka, who is a very famous composer. The most famous composer, of course, is Peter Tchaikovsky. Okay, and he is famous for three ballets that are still performed today. The Nutcracker, which is performed Christmas. This is his most famous, Swan Lake, okay? So, let's hear some music from Swan Lake, just so you can appreciate the beauty and the depth of Russian music. What's astonishing about this music is that this music can flow into your essence, your soul. Okay, this music comes from the soul. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 31:14 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=1874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And to create music this beautiful, your soul must suffer, okay? Your soul must engage in misery, pain, and suffering in order to create such beauty. So, this is just haunting, beautiful music that Tchaikovsky created. Okay, Sleeping Beauty is also a really famous play by Tchaikovsky. Igor Stravinsky is considered the first great modern composer. And he composed something called The Rites of Spring. Okay, this is 1913. It was first performed in Paris. And it was so well -known. It was so revolutionary that it caused a riot within the Music Hall. This ballet, what it tries to do is it tries to fuse the pagan tradition into modernity. Okay, I'm gonna play some excerpts from The Rites of Spring, and you can see how revolutionary this music is. And what I want you to notice is that is this music expresses encapsulates the contradictions within Russian civilization between the pagan and the Christian you can feel ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 33:21 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2001s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2001s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: the rawness the energy the violence the aggression sensuality so this musical this ballet it's about the rights of spring so it goes back to a Slavic tradition where they celebrate the mother goddess and it's spring so they to celebrate the transition perform games and have festivals and what ends what ends the festivities is the sacrifice of a maiden okay she will dance until she dies and when she dances to her death her heart will explode okay and this symbolizes how the mother goddess gives life to the world by making by dancing and basically pouring out her blood into the world in order for plants for the seasons to change and then her heart will explode and in this world what's important for us to understand is it's all interconnected and it must be balanced out and harmonized so if the mother goddess sacrifices herself and out but does nothing to convey their sex in order ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 35:01 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: for their big life then the maiden might sacrifice herself to thank the mother goddess okay all right so now let's move on to Russian literature in Russian civilization there are two great prophets they are Leila Toisto and Theodor Dgotsevsky together they will create modern Russian civilization the sensibilities the beliefs the philosophies of modern Russian civilization and what they trying to do is you can then use them into conceptualization helps to give about remarks but theyhave different perspectives they can engage with about what is Viseo He shandi They're trying to reconcile the contradictions within Russia through their novels, okay? These are the great novelists in the human tradition. All right, so Toy Story's most famous novel is Anna Karenina, which is considered also the greatest work of literature, the greatest novel ever written, okay? And I want to first read some passages from Anna Karenina. This is the beginning, okay? This is one of the most famous beginnings in world literature. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 36:05 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was confusion in the Oblotskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, okay? So what Toy Story is telling us from the first couple paragraphs is Russianization, Europeanization, it is a process of corrupting the Russian soul. Okay, the idea that you bring in a French girl and the husband's going to sleep with her, it's corruption, okay? Now, this is important because the Oblotsky, the husband, they are now engaged in a divorce. And Anna Karenina will come from St. Petersburg to try to reconcile husband and wife. And Anna Karenina herself will commit adultery. She'll fall in love with a man named... a man named Vronsky. They'll have a very passionate affair. And this passionate affair will destroy both Vronsky and Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina has a husband and a child back at St. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 37:17 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Petersburg. She asks for divorce. The husband won't give it to her. And then she slowly falls into depression. And then she commits to killing herself, okay? So let's look at the monologue that she has within herself before she decides to kill herself. Okay? So she's trying to explain why she's unhappy. My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, okay? Selfish. While his is waning and waning and that's why we're drifting apart. So they've been together for a long time. But she feels that Vronsky is no longer as passionate as he used to be. While she is becoming more passionate. And there's no help for it. He has everything for me. And I want him more and more to give himself up to me entirely. Okay? He wants more and more to get away from me. We walk to meet each other up to the time of our love. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 38:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And then we have been irresistibly driven in different directions. And there's no altering that. He tells me I'm insanely jealous. And I have told myself that I am insanely jealous. But it's not true. I'm not jealous. But I'm jealous. And I... Sorry. I'm not jealous. But I'm unsatisfied. Okay? This is the most important word. Unsatisfied. Okay? It tells us that she's a very selfish person. Who's using love as a way to... To fill the void in her heart. She feels that this relationship... This adultery... Will give her meaning in her life. And what she doesn't understand is... When that happens... When you... Try to possess someone... You can't love that person. Because love is really about... Giving yourself all to another person. Okay? So think about Dante. Dante never got anything from Beatrice. But he loved her regardless. Okay? So this is where Anna Karina fails. She doesn't really understand what love is. And she's very selfish. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 39:11 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-has-its-own-logic); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Also a huge problem for Anna Karina is... Because she betrayed her husband... She now fears that... That Bronski will now betray her. Okay? So do you see the psychology here? And that's why she can't love. Because she broke the fundamental condition... For love which is trust. Okay? So this is telling us... That the heart is a mystery. It's something that you cannot reason out. Something that you can never fully understand. Okay? In theory... If you find someone more attractive... If you think you're better off with him... Then you should go be with him. Okay? That's western civilization basically. Pursue your own happiness. But what Toys R Us is telling us is... The heart is something you cannot master. Okay? Maybe your mind can master. The reason... The logic you can master. But the human heart works by its own set of logic. And you must respect the human heart. If you want to love... ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 40:17 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Then you must give. And not receive. If you want to love... Base your love on trust. Do not betray yourself. Do not betray others. Okay? Does that make sense? Alright. So now let's move on to really... The man who is at the heart and center of Russian civilization. His name is Theodore Dostoevsky. Okay? So let me give you some background about Theodore Dostoevsky. Both Toy Story and Dostoevsky were extremely passionate Christians. They really believed in... They believed in the Christianity. And they had deep empathy for the people around them. Toy Story was born very wealthy. He was of nobility. And he inherited a lot of money. But because he was so distraught by the suffering around him... Because his wealth was basically based on... The oppression of the peasantry, right? He actually wanted to give up all his money. He wanted to throw it all away and become a beggar. He wanted to become poor. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 41:14 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And it was only at the insistence of his family that prevented him from doing what he felt... He felt his heart demanded of him. Theodore Dostoevsky comes from a low nobility. His father was a doctor. And as a young man, he was a revolutionary. And he participated in these literary revolutionary circles. He wasn't violent. But he had these subversive ideas. So he was arrested. And he was condemned to death. He was put in front of a firing squad. Along with others who were part of the subversion. And at the last minute, he was... His sentence was commuted. He was spared by the Tsar. He was sent to hard labor in Siberia for a number of years. And this was very traumatic. But it was also an extremely enlightening experience for Dostoevsky. It made him think very deeply about the meaning of life. He writes something called Crime and Punishment. Which is really the great novel of Russian civilization. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 42:19 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-has-its-own-logic) Text: It has to do with a man, Raskolnikov. He's young. He's brilliant. He's a university student. But he's poor. And he decides that in order to escape his circumstance. In order to control his fate. He's going to murder a woman. A pawnbroker. Who has a lot of money. No one likes her. No one will miss her. And then he will take her money. And then build a new life for himself. And this will become a basis for his greatness. And he reasons out that... You know what? As a great individual. As a genius. I'm going to contribute so much to humanity. So if I kill an old woman no one likes. It won't really matter. So he's been thinking about this for a long time. He's got it all reasoned out. And what crime and punishment will show us is. Reason is nothing. It doesn't really matter. What matters is the heart. Okay? ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 43:15 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: All right. So first I want to talk about Dostoevsky's understanding of God. Which is the Russian understanding of God. So at a bar at the beginning of the novel. Raskolnikov meets a middle -aged man who's a drunk. He's an alcoholic. Named Marmaladov. Okay? Marmaladov. And Marmaladov is an extremely pitiful man. Because what he's done is. He's like a middle -aged bureaucrat. And he's been poor. And he marries a poor widow as well. And they have like four children to feed. So the widow decides to prostitute Marmaladov's daughter, Sonia. To make money. Okay? And then Marmaladov in a fit of tremendous regret. He goes and finds a job. And this seems like it's going to resolve all problems in the family. But he does something that no one really can predict or expect. He decides to steal all the money within the household. Quit his job. And get drunk every day. Okay? And you hear this. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 44:32 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: And you're like. That makes no sense. But again. That's the beauty of Russian literature. It's focused on what drives us psychologically. It's not about what's reasonable. What is logical. It's really about what we do in these circumstances. Okay? And so Marmaladov. He's driven to despair because he feels he sacrificed his daughter. Okay? He hates the fact that his daughter has become a prostitute. And he cannot allow himself and his family to live happily ever after. Now that his daughter is a prostitute. And that's why he decides to become an alcoholic. And then they talk about God. Okay? They talk about God and what the nature of God is. And this is very important for us to understand Orthodox Christianity. He says to Raskolnikov. Why am I to be pitied you say? Yes. There's nothing to pity me for. I ought to be crucified. Crucified on a cross. Not pitied. Crucify me. Oh judge me. Crucify me. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 45:31 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: But pity me. And then I will go of myself to be crucified. For it is not merrymaking I seek but tears and tribulation. Do you suppose you that sell that this pen of yours has been sweet to me? It was tribulation I sought at the bottom of it. Tears and tribulation. And I found it. And I have tasted it. But he will pity us who has had pity on all men. Who has understood all men and all things. He is the one. He too is the judge. He will come in that day. And he will ask. Where's the daughter who gave herself for her cross? Come son of stepmother. And for the little children of another. Where's the daughter who had pity upon the filthy drunkard. Her earthly father. Undismayed by his beastliness. And he will say. Come to me. I have already forgiven thee once. I have forgiven thee once. Thy sins which are many are forgiven thee. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 46:19 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2779s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2779s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: For thou hast loved much. He will forgive my Sonia. He will forgive. I know it. I felt it in my heart when I was with her just now. He will judge. And he will forgive all the good and the evil. The wise and the meek. Okay. So this God. That the Orthodox Christians celebrate. It's a forgiving God. It's a merciful God. It is a knowledgeable God. A wise God. Why? Because we humans cannot be trusted to be wise. We humans are. We suffer the mysteries of the heart. We do not know ourselves. We do not know our nature. And therefore. We are bound to suffer. And God understands this. And that's why God will ultimately redeem us all. When the time comes. When the time is appropriate. Okay. So it's fatalistic. But at the same time. It's also optimistic. Okay. So. Let us summarize. What the differences are between the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox religions. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 47:16 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: Okay. And again. These are different branches of Christianity. And they seem similar. But in reality. They are extremely different. Okay. So the Protestants. Believe that. We choose to sin. We have free will. The Catholics. Don't choose to sin. They don't believe in free will. They say. We are born in sin. And the Orthodox. Are fatalistic. They believe. We are born to sin. We cannot control our own nature. Okay. That's the first major difference. Second major difference is. Only a few will be saved and redeemed. Okay. The Protestant. Is a very unforgiving religion. Only if you work hard. And become very wealthy. Will you be saved. The Catholics. Believe that. No. Everyone can be saved. And redeemed. And the Orthodox. Believe. We are beyond salvation. And redemption. They believe. The human. Our heart. Is so dark. So mysterious. That we are beyond. Salvation. And redemption. And now. That is why. God is great. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 48:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Because only God. Can save. And redeem us. Even though. We are beyond. Salvation. And redemption. Okay. The third major difference is. The Protestants. Believe. That. Our faith. In God. Will save. And redeem us. The Catholics. Believe. Obedience. To God. Only God. Can forgive us. And if God forgives us. We can't really control. All right. So these are the three. Major. Differences. And this is important. Because. The Orthodox. Religion. Is at the heart. And center. Of. Russian civilization. Okay. So. Let's see how this influences. Crime and punishment. So. This is a very important passage. In. Crime. And. Punishment. And. We'll be discussing this a lot. As we move. On. Okay. So. Here. Raskolnikov. He's killed. The old lady. He's stolen her money. But now. He feels. Tremendous. Regret. And he doesn't know. Why. He can't sleep. He's. He. He. Falls. Into. Sickness. He doesn't know. Why. This is happening. Because. He's already. Reasoned. Out. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 49:22 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=2962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Right. And then. He meets. Sonya. Who. Again. Is. Marmoladov's. Daughter. And he. And he confesses to her. What he's done. And not only that. But he tries to explain. Why he's done this. Okay. This is a very important passage. In. Western civilization. I saw. Sonya. That. If. One. Waits. For. Everyone. To. Get. Wives. It. Will. Take. Too. Long. So. He's. Basically. Given. Up. On. Humanity. Afterwards. I. Understood. That. That. Would. Never. Come. To. Pass. That. Man. Won't. Change. And. That. Nobody. Can. Alter. It. And. That. It's. Not. Worth. Wasting. Effort. Over. It. Yes. That's. So. That's. The. Of. Their. Nature. Sonya. That's. So. And. I. Know. Now. Sonya. That. Whoever. Strong. In. Mind. And. Spirit. Will. Power. Over. Them. And. Then. Who. Is. Greatly. Daring. Is. Right. In. Their. Eyes. He. Who. Despises. Most. Things. Will. Be. Lawgiver. Among. Them. And. He. Who. Dares. Most. Of. All. Will. Be. Most. In. The. Right. So. It. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 50:17 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Been. Till. Now. And. So. It. Always. Be. A. Man. Must. Be. Blind. Not. To. See. A. Okay. So. Let's. Go. Back. To. The. French. Revolution. Robespierre. Who. Change. History. Who. Will. Save. Us. Robespierre. Can. Only. Be. Sacrificed. Okay. And. Is. Important. Because. What. Dostoevsky. Wants. To. Show. In. Crime. And. Punishment. Is. That. This. Sort. Of. Reasoning. It. Sounds. Right. But. It. Goes. Against. The. Human. Heart. And. That. Happens. When. The. Reason. And. The. Heart. Conflict. The. Heart. Will. Triumph. And. This. Can. Only. Lead. Raskolnikov. Into. Misery. Also. What. Happen. Is. That. Very. Important. Thinkers. Like. Friedrich. Nietzsche. As. Well. A. Sigmund. Freud. They. Will. Read. This. And. Interpret. It. In. Their. Own. Way. Okay. So. Friedrich. Nietzsche. Will. Read. This. And. Think. That. No. This. Makes. Sense. Okay. It's. That. Raskolnikov. Is. Wrong. It's. That. He. Didn't. Believe. This. Enough. Alright. So. We'll. Talk. About. This. Next. Class. Alright. So. Raskolnikov. He's. Being. Pursued. By. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 51:56 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3116s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3116s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: The. Police. And. It's. Obvious. That. He's. The. Culprit. It's. Obvious. That. He's. Guilty. But. What. Happens. Is. Someone. Else. Confesses. Of. The. Crime. And. Know. Why. But. Someone. Else. Confesses. Of. The. Crime. And. At. This. Point. You. Would. Think. That. Raskolnikov. Is. Now. Happy. He's. Now. Free. To. Do. Whatever. He. Wants. This. Shows. That. It. Is. God's. Will. That. He. Become. Great. Is. God's. Will. That. He. Kill. And. Become. Great. What. Happens. Next. Is. He. Decides. To. Confess. The. Crime. And. The. Confession. Is. The. Confession. Strikes. And. So. Striking. And. So. Nonsensical. That. The. Law. The. Legal. System. Doesn't. Know. Really. Doesn't. Know. What. To. Do. With. Him. So. They. Basically. Sentence. Him. To. Like. Hard. Labor. In. Siberia. For. A. Few. Years. It's. The. Lightest. Crime. So. It's. The. Lightest. Punishment. He. Could. Have. Received. Okay. And. At. This. Point. You. Would. Think. That. He. Was. Of. Crime. He. Doesn't. Feel. Guilty. Or. Remorseful. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 53:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: For. Killing. The. Landlady. Okay. At. Least. He. Might. Have. Found. Relief. In. Raging. And. His. Stupidity. As. Had. Raged. At. The. Grotesque. Blunders. That. Have. Brought. Him. To. Prison. But. Not. In. Prison. In. Freedom. He. Fought. Over. And. Criticized. All. His. Actions. Again. And. No. Means. Found. Them. So. Blundering. And. So. Grotesque. As. He. Had. Seen. At. The. Fatal. Time. In. What. Way. He. Asked. Himself. Was. My. Theory. Stupid. And. Others. That. Have. Swarmed. And. Clashed. Them. Clash. From. The. Beginning. Of. The. World. One. Has. Only. To. Look. At. The. Things. Quite. Independently. Broadly. And. Uninfluenced. By. Commonplace. Ideas. My. Idea. Will. Be. No. Means. Seem. So. Strange. All. Skeptics. And. Half. Punny. Philosophers. Why. Do. You. Halt. Halfway. He. Doesn't. Understand. What's. Happening. All. Right. Now. We. Have. To. All. The. Way. Back. To. The. Beginning. Of. This. Course. We. Discuss. Homer. In. The. Iliad. Remember. Achilles. Had. The. Same. Problem. Achilles. Saw. The. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 54:23 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Death. Of. His. Friend. Patroclus. And. Swore. Vengeance. Against. Hector. And. Then. He. Killed. Hector. And. Then. He. Started. To. Mutilate. Hector's. Body. And. After. Did. So. You. Would. Think. He. Would. Found. Relief. And. Cartharsis. But. It. Only. Made. Him. Even. More. Depressed. More. Miserable. Okay. So. This. Is. What. Homer. And. Dostoevsky. Is. Telling. Us. Don't. Try. To. Reason. Things. Out. You. Try. To. Reason. Things. Out. It. Only. Make. You. Miserable. Because. The. Truth. Is. Not. Within. Reason. Okay. The. Truth. Is. Within. The. Human. Heart. Why. Does. My. Action. Strike. Them. As. So. Horrible. He. Said. To. Himself. Is. It. Because. It. Was. A. Crime. Exceeded. And. So. They. Were. Right. And. I. Didn't. And. So. I. Had. No. Right. To. Have. Taken. That. Step. Is. Only. In. That. He. Recognized. His. Criminality. Only. In. The. Fact. That. Had. Been. Unsuccessful. And. Had. Confessed. It. Okay. So. He. Keeps. On. Reasoning. And. Decides. That. The. Source. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 55:41 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Of. His. Misery. Is. His. Weakness. Okay. He. Killed. The. Lady. And. He. Felt. Regret. For. Doing. It. So. This. Proves. He's. Not. Great. Napoleon. Would. Have. Felt. Any. Regret. Julius. Caesar. Would. Have. Laughed. About. It. Alexander. Great. Would. Have. Bragged. About. It. But. He. Felt. Regret. And. Therefore. He. Is. Weak. Okay. And. That. Is. Where. His. Reasoning. Gets. Him. And. Makes. Him. More. Miserable. Okay. But. He. Finds. Salvation. And. Redemption. And. Finds. Salvation. And. Redemption. In. The. Love. Of. Sonia. So. Right. Now. He's. In. Siberia. In. Prison. And. Sonia. Comes. All. The. Way. To. Be. With. Him. Okay. And. This. Is. How. The. Novel. Ends. How. It. Happened. He. Did. Not. Know. But. All. Once. Something. Seemed. To. Seize. Him. And. Fling. Him. At. Her. Feet. He. Wept. And. Threw. His. Arms. Around. Her. Knees. For. The. First. Instant. She. Was. Terribly. Saves. Him. He. Love. He. Surrenders. Himself. To. His. Love. For. Sonia. He. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 57:01 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Surrenders. Himself. To. Sonia. And. That's. What. Ultimately. Saves. Him. So. Think. Back. To. The. Iliad. Right. So. Have. To. Surrender. Yourself. To. Your. Love. Either. For. The. Other. People. Like. Sonia. Or. To. God. That's. Where. Salvation. Is. Okay. All. Right. So. The. Other. Novel. Of. Dostoevsky. Is. Called. The. Brothers. Karamazov. Okay. And. It's. Much. Too. Long. To. Read. But. There's. A. Very. Important. Passage. It. Within. A. Novel. Is. About. Who. Are. Who. Have. Their. Own. Ideas. Are. Being. Persecuted. They're. Being. Slaughtered. Okay. And. It. Is. A. Nightmare. So. What. Happens. Is. Jesus. In. Heaven. He. Sees. His. Pain. He. Sees. His. Suffering. And. It. Bothers. Him. So. He. Descends. To. The. Earth. And. When. He. Is. Walking. Among. Men. And. Right. Away. People. Recognize. Who. Is. Jesus. They. Worship. Him. Then. He's. Dragged. Before. The. Grand. Inquisitor. He. Becomes. A. Prisoner. To. The. Grand. Inquisitor. At. This. Point. You. Would. Think. The. Grand. Inquisitor. Would. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 58:39 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Be. Happy. To. See. His. God. Instead. He. Gets. Really. Really. Angry. At. Jesus. Thou. Did. Not. Love. Them. At. All. Thou. Who. Did. Come. To. Give. Thy. Life. For. Them. Instead. Of. Possession. Of. Man's. Freedom. You. Did. Increase. It. And. Burning. The. Spiritual. Kingdom. Of. Mankind. With. Suffering. Forever. You. Did. Desire. Man's. Free. Love. That. He. Should. Follow. You. Freely. Enticed. And. Taken. Captive. By. You. In. Place. Of. The. Wretched. Ancient. Law. Men. Must. Hereafter. With. Free. Heart. Decide. For. Himself. What. Is. Good. And. What. Is. Evil. Having. Only. Your. Image. Before. Him. As. His. Guide. But. Did. You. Not. Know. That. He. Would. At. Last. Reject. Even. Your. Image. Was. Laying. Upon. Them. So. Many. Cares. And. Unanswered. Unanswerable. Problems. Okay. Okay. So. The. Idea. Here. Is. This. So. One. Question. That. Jesus. Would. Have. For. The. Grand. Inquisitor. To. Oppress. Everyone. Why. You. Do. That. And. The. Grand. Inquisitor. Is. Saying. To. Him. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:00:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) - Related lens: [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: It's. Because. People. Don't. Want. Free. Choice. People. Don't. Want. Free. Will. They. Only. Told. What. To. Do. And. You. Refuse. To. The. King. You. Refuse. To. Be. The. Emperor. You. Demand. Of. Them. That. They. Reason. That. They. Love. You. Freely. And. People. Don't. Want. To. That. So. We. No. Choice. But. To. Oppress. People. To. Build. A. Church. As. A. Great. Oppressive. Empire. In. Order. To. Liberate. People. From. The. Burden. Of. Free. Choice. Okay. Does. That. Sense. That's. The. Argument. Here. You. Did. Come. To. Give. Sorry. And. How. Are. The. Other. Weak. Ones. To. Blame. Because. They. Could. Not. Endure. What. The. Strong. Have. Endured. How. Is. The. Weak. Sort. Of. Blame. That. It. Is. Unable. To. Receive. Such. Terrible. Gives. Can. You. Have. Simply. Come. To. Elect. And. For. The. Elect. He's. Also. Saying. To. Jesus. Listen. You. Tell. Us. That. Only. By. Believing. In. You. Freely. Can. We. Be. Redeemed. But. That. Takes. Power. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:01:10 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: That. Takes. Strength. What. About. Those. Who. Cannot. Do. Such. A. Thing. How. About. The. Weak. How. About. The. Lost. Where. You. Condemn. Them. To. Hell. That's. Not. Very. Merciful. Okay. Okay. So. This. Is. How. The. Story. Ends. When. The. Inquisitor. Sees. Speaking. He. Waited. Some. Time. For. His. Prisoner. Jesus. To. Answer. Him. His. Silence. Weighed. Down. Upon. Him. He. Saw. The. Prisoner. Have. Listened. Intently. All. The. Time. Looking. Gently. In. His. Face. And. Emily. Not. Wishing. To. Reply. The. Old. Man. Longed. For. Him. To. Say. Something. However. Bitter. And. Terrible. But. He. Suddenly. Approached. The. Old. Man. In. Silent. And. Softly. Kissed. Him. On. His. Bloodless. Aged. Lips. That. Was. All. His. Answer. The. Old. Man. Shuddered. His. Lips. Moved. He. Went. To. The. Door. Open. It. And. Said. To. Him. Go. And. Come. No. More. Come. Not. At. All. Never. Never. And. He. Let. Him. Out. Into. The. Dark. Alleys. Of. A. Town. The. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:02:11 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Prisoner. Went. Away. And. The. Old. Man. The. Kiss. Glows. In. His. Heart. The. Old. Man. Adheres. To. His. Idea. All. Right. So. This. Thing. Is. This. The. Grand. Inquisitor. He. Has. This. Novel. He. This. Philosophy. Of. Why. Jesus. Is. Bad. Of. Why. We. Should. Worship. Satan. Of. Why. We. Need. An. Empire. Why. We. Need. Oppression. And. It. All. Makes. Sense. Okay. And. Now. Jesus. Must. Respond. And. Jesus. Responds. With. An. Act. Of. Forgiveness. With. An. Act. Of. Charity. He. Kisses. The. Grand. Inquisitor. And. This. Is. Exactly. Like. Prime. Kissing. Achilles. Right. Prime. Didn't. Go. To. Reason. With. Achilles. Prime. Went. To. Kiss. Achilles. Hand. To. Forgive. Him. Okay. Now. What's. Important. For. Us. To. Understand. Is. Of. Humanity. The. Bag. Gets. You. Nowhere. Because. People. Are. Stubborn. About. Their. Ideas. But. The. Heart. You. Know. It's. A. Mystery. It's. Still. Loving. It's. Still. Open. So. If. You. Touch. It. You. Change. People. Forever. Okay. All. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:03:37 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Right. So. Let's. Go. Back. To. The. Original. Question. Why. Did. Putin. Invade. Ukraine. What. Putin. Has. Said. Over. And. Over. Again. Is. We. Invade. Ukraine. To. Save. Russian. Civilization. And. That's. The. Answer. Because. For. The. Russians. Their. Civilization. Is. Unique. It. Is. Distinct. And. Is. Beautiful. It's. Worth. Dying. For. Okay. And. Okay. So. Even. Though. The. Russian. Empire. Is. Gone. Putin. And. Russians. Believe. They. Here. To. The. Empire. Okay. So. Let's. Look. At. The. Difference. Between. The. American. Civilization. Or. Russian. Civilization. To. Understand. Why. This. War. Happened. The. Okay. Sorry. To. Be. Very. Clear. This. Is. The. American. The. Russians. See. The. Americans. Okay. Does. That. Make. Sense. This. Is. How. Russians. See. The. Americans. First. Of. All. They. See. Americans. Are. People. Buy. Things. So. We. Just. Let. Everyone. Buy. Things. And. The. Americans. Are. Expansionist. Which. Means. That. Not. Only. Is. It. Right. And. Good. For. People. To. Buy. Things. But. Everyone. Should. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:04:56 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3896s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3896s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Have. The. Right. To. Buy. Things. So. You. Are. Preventing. People. From. Buying. Things. You. Are. A. Dictator. You. Are. A. Tyrant. Okay. It. Our. Responsibility. To. Liberate. The. World. So. We. Can. All. Become. Consumers. North. Korea. Iran. They. Ought. To. Liberated. So. That. Their. People. Can. Buy. Things. From. Us. Okay. So. That's. The. American. Civilization. The. Russians. Think. Like. No. We. Are. A. Spiritual. People. We. Unique. And. We. Demand. Sovereignty. We. Demand. The. Right. To. Live. The. Lives. We. Choose. To. Live. We. Demand. The. Right. To. Be. Who. We. Are. Okay. And. If. It. Means. Fighting. America. It. Means. Our. Deaths. If. It. Means. Sacrifice. We. Will. Do. So. Because. Our. Civilization. Is. The. Greatest. In. The. World. Because. Our. Conception. Of. God. Is. A. Correct. Conception. Because. Our. Truth. Is. The. Real. Truth. Alright. So. In. Other. Words. This. Is. Really. A. Class. Of. Civilizations. And. In. A. Class. Of. Civilizations. There. Can. Only. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:06:02 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=3962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Be. One. Winner. There. Can. No. Compromise. Okay. So. There's. War. In. Ukraine. It. Is. Seemingly. Something. Much. More. Devastating. Much. More. Cataclysmic. Alright. And. So. This. Is. What's. Going. On. Alright. That's. It. Guys. Any. Questions. You. Guys. Is. This. Clear. To. You. Alright. Any. Questions. About. What. We. Discussed. Yeah. Great. Yep. So. Right. So. You're. Right. So. Russian. Literature. Romantic. And. They. Didn't. Remember. Some. It's. A. Response. To. Enlightenment. Because. Enlightenment. With. Khan. And. Rousseau. The. Argument. Is. That. Reason. Is. Don't. Salvation. For. Reason. You. Save. Yourself. And. Can. Save. Civilization. Okay. If. It's. Logical. Then. It's. Truthful. And. The. Romantics. And. The. Idealist. Sorry. The. Romantics. Are. Saying. No. That's. True. Okay. And. What. Dostoevsky. Is. Saying. Is. Telling. Us. That. Is. That. This. Is. Nonsense. Reason. Doesn't. Really. Get. You. Anywhere. Okay. For. Reason. You. Can. Reason. That. It's. Okay. To. Kill. Millions. Of. People. Okay. Logic. Doesn't. Really. Get. You. Anywhere. What. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:08:00 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: You. Have. To. Do. Is. Listen. To. Your. Heart. Okay. Think. About. The. Heart. That's. Where. The. Truth. Lies. All. Right. So. So. It's. Very. Much. A. Reaction. Against. Enlightenment. In. Europe. At. This. Time. Okay. Dostoevsky. Is. Also. Saying. Like. Toy. Story. Westernization. Of. Russia. Is. Only. Corrupting. Us. What. Need. To. Do. Is. Return. To. Our. True. Self. Which. Is. An. Orthodox. Civilization. Maybe. That's. That's. The. True. Christianity. All. Right. So. Great. Anymore. Anymore. Questions. Okay. That's. A. Great. Question. Okay. So. Question. And. It's. One. Of. A. Question. If. Just. Said. That. Russians. Are. Fatalistic. Then. How. Are. They. So. Resilient. Okay. So. You. Can't. Logically. Figure. It. Out. Okay. It's. I. Can't. Logically. Explain. To. You. The. Feeling. But. It's. Like. Knowing. That. World. Is. Doomed. Okay. We're. Heading. Towards. Doom. And. What. We. Do. Isn't. That. Important. It. Compels. You. To. Live. Your. Best. Life. Okay. So. That's. What. Meaning. Is. Meaning. Is. With. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:09:33 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: The. Knowledge. That. The. World. Is. Ultimately. Headed. Towards. Doom. You. As. A. Person. Are. Compelled. To. Live. Your. Best. Life. Nonetheless. Okay. And. That's. A. Very. Very. Pagan. Very. Viking. Mentality. So. Before. Christianity. This. Was. True. For. For. People. It's. Okay. The. World. Is. Going. To. End. What. Matters. Is. The. Life. You. Today. Okay. So. So. I. Mean. It's. Problematic. Because. I. Mean. Americanization. Westernization. Has. Such. A. Huge. Impact. On. Global. Culture. Right. And. We. Think. We. Think. In. Very. Deep. Life. About. That's. The. Meaning. Of. Life. That's. The. Purpose. Of. Life. Even. Though. You. Know. It. Won't. Get. You. Anywhere. You. Should. Still. Do. It. Because. That's. Where. The. Meaning. Is. Okay. If. Think. About. It. If. You. Go. Deeper. Then. It's. Also. Like. A. Profound. Faith. In. God. Okay. Like. You. Know. The. World. Is. Ending. But. You. Still. Work. Hard. To. Make. It. Better. And. That's. What. Faith. In. God. Really. Is. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:11:08 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Doesn't. Make. Sense. If. You. Know. Like. If. You. Something. And. God. Rewards. You. That's. Not. Faith. Really. Does. That. Sense. Okay. So. So. I. Understand. It's. Really. Hard. For. Us. To. Understand. But. What. I'm. Very. Limiting. Okay. Sometimes. You. Have. To. Listen. To. Your. Heart. And. Your. Heart. Knows. I. Know. The. World. Is. Doomed. Because. Because. That's. Just. Reality. But. Nevertheless. I. Responsibility. To. Children. I. Responsibility. To. My. Neighbors. To. The. People. I. Love. To. Try. My. Best. Regardless. And. That's. What. Faith. In. God. That's. What. Faith. In. Each. Other. That's. What. True. Love. Really. Is. Does. That. Sense. Okay. All. Right. Great. Great. Question. Though. And. I'll. Honest. Of. I'm. Confused. By. This. As. Well. Okay. Because. You. I'm. I'm. So. Western. In. My. Thinking. But. I. Think. Again. It's. It's. You. Got. You. To. Yourself. Not. To. Be. So. Logical. At. Times. Right. Okay. Any. More. Questions. Does. That. Sense. To. You. Okay. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:12:35 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4355s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4355s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Oh. Great. Question. Why. Are. The. Russians. So. Pessimistic. Okay. First. Of. All. It's. Really. Cold. In. Russia. Okay. If. You're. If. It's. Cold. You're. Not. You're. Not. That. Optimistic. Right. Second. Of. All. Russian. Civilization. Is. Built. On. Violence. Right. The. Americans. Basically. Went. Over. And. Were. Able. To. Steal. The. Continent. From. The. Natives. And. They. Didn't. Really. Put. Us. Put. That. Much. Much. War. And. Then. And. Then. The. Conflicts. Within. Their. People. Okay. So. Russia. Is. A. Violent. Society. And. So. That. Leads. To. A. Natural. Pessimism. Okay. So. Another. Saying. This. Is. Even. Though. Russia. Is. Huge. It's. Not. That. Many. Resources. And. People. Have. Fight. Over. These. Resources. Whereas. America. Is. Huge. Lots. Of. Resources. And. People. If. Hard. You. Can. Obtain. A. Of. Resources. Okay. So. That. Leads. To. A. Optimistic. Attitude. So. The. Question. Really. Isn't. Why. Russians. Are. Fatalistic. Because. Most. People. Are. Fatalistic. The. Question. Really. Is. Why. Americans. Are. ## Russia And The Mystery Of The Heart -- 1:13:53 - Source title: Civilization #53: Dostoevsky and the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rALqcPWuH0&t=4433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-0ralqcpwuh0.json) Text: Optimistic. Right. Okay. Does. That. Make. Sense. Okay. Any. More. Questions. Was. This. Clear. To. Guys. Okay. And. I. Know. It's. Hard. Okay. But. But. I. Will. Say. Like. Russian. Civilization. Even. Though. I. Personally. Would. Never. Want. To. In. Russia. Okay. Because. There's. A. Racism. In. Russia. But. It. Is. A. Unique. Beautiful. Civilization. And. And. Hope. That. In. The. Future. You. Have. A. Chance. To. Read. The. Toys. Toy. Dostoevsky. Because. They. Are. Really. The. Best. Novelist. Ever. Okay. So. Next. Class. We. Will. Start. The. Germans. Okay. German. Civilization. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. We are discussing the American Revolution today. So to review what we've done so far, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, there are now four major civilizations that are competing against each other for world domination. Last class we did the British. Today we'll do the Americans. Next week, we'll do the Russians and the Germans. Okay, so the Americans. When you think of America, there's a very famous quote from Oscar Wilde, who is an English playwright, novelist, humorist. And he said, America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence, vassalization in between. Okay? So he meant this as a joke. So what did he mean by this? This is a question we will discuss today. And what I will show you is that America, in many ways, it was designed as the anti -civilization. The founding fathers of America recognized the failings and problems of civilization and designed a new form of government based on enlightenment principles. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:27 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument we will look at today. All right. So the history of the Americas begins when the Europeans, led by the Spanish, start to interact with a new world. So the Spanish, starting in 1492, they will come and conquer the Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Incas. Okay? And they will establish, basically, plantation economies where the Spanish are extracting resources, primarily gold, silver, from the Americas. They will also establish sugar plantations on the islands of the Caribbean. And they will man it with slaves from Africa as well as other places. And this is extremely profitable for the Spanish. So of course. The English, the French, and the Dutch Republic, they want to get, they want to get in on the action. Okay? And at first they start to smuggle resources into the new world. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 2:39 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: And they engage in piracy. In 1588, the English Navy defeats the Spanish Armada. And this opens up the new world now for the Europeans to come and colonize it. Okay? The problem though. Is the Spanish. The Spanish control the best parts of the new world. And so everyone else is stuck with North America. And in North America, there's a few, quite a few problems. First of all, the weather's very cold. Okay? So it's not hospitable to colonization. Second problem is that you have lots of Native Americans in North America who are extremely violent. They are used to freedom. And they will fight to the death. At this time in history, the tallest, strongest people in the world are actually the Native Americans in North America. Also, you have lots of diseases that are problematic for the Europeans. So the Europeans spent a lot of time, basically decades, in trying to figure out how to best colonize North America. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 3:54 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: So there are three major nations that are trying to colonize North America. You have the French. And what they will do is they will establish the fur trade in Canada and in the Midwestern United States. They will basically trade with the Natives to bring fur back to Europe. And this is a great deal for both the Natives and the French. The Dutch come in. They will establish colonies. Call New Amsterdam. This is today New York City. The Dutch tried to establish colonies as well. The people who are most successful at establishing colonies are the British. And a lot of it is because it is a very grassroots, very bottom -up movement. So the first major colony for the British is Jamestown, named after James I of Britain. And this is not a very successful colony at first, but they persist. The most successful colony is actually Boston. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 4:55 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: What makes Boston unique at this stage in North American history is that it is established by a company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, that has a charter from the English crown. Also they bring in families into this area. So before it was basically men who came over. Now it's families who come over. And then third of all, the people who come over are Puritans. Puritans, as we discussed previously, they believe in the importance of literacy. Everyone has responsibility to read the Bible in order to interpret the command of God properly. And so Boston, from the very beginning, it's a literate society. It has schools. It has newspapers. It is very political. And it grows very, very fast. Also, if you look at Boston, it is perfectly situated between North America and England. And as England is industrializing, it requires raw resources, mainly agricultural products, from this area. So Boston grows rapidly because of all these factors. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 6:10 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: So in the year 1682, you can see that the eastern United States has been colonized by the British. The French are still in Canada, and they're going to move down to the midwest United States. The Spanish are in the southern United States. This is Florida. They found a colony called St. Augustine. They will also, in California, start to build colonies as well. But as you can see, most of the economic activity in North America is based on the eastern seaboard. Now what's really important for us to remember is the diversity of these colonies. First of all, you have differences in the economy. The northern part will focus mostly on mercantile trade. The southern part will focus mostly on agriculture. To support the agriculture, they will import slaves from Africa in order to provide the labor for Charlestown and other places. Also the motivations of the individuals are different. So some come for economic reasons, but a lot come for religious purposes. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 7:23 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: So for example, there's a man named William Penn, and he's a Quaker. He believes in creating a peaceful civilization. So he has a charter from the king, and he founds a new colony called Pennsylvania, named after him, that believes in religious and national tolerance. So a lot of Germans come over and settle down in Pennsylvania. The capital is Philadelphia. And they are Quakers. So they believe they must not fight against others. And this experiment persists for decades. It's a pretty successful experiment, but over time, they come into conflict with the natives and with other civilizations, with other colonies, and as such, they start to take up arms. There's another colony called Baltimore, and it was founded actually as a Catholic haven. So England at this point is mainly Protestant or Puritan. Or Anglican. And then Lord Baltimore decides to, in Maryland, found a new colony that preaches religious tolerance, especially for Catholics. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 8:27 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: So what's really important for us to remember is that even at this early stage in American history, there's tremendous diversity, openness, and religious tolerance in America. Does that make sense? All right. So. All right. So in 1750, there are about a million British on the eastern seaboard. That's a lot of people. Okay? In comparison, the French, who occupy actually most of the territory in North America, there's only 40,000. Eventually these two groups, the British and the French, will come into conflict, creating something called the French and Indian Wars. Okay? And as you can see, it's not really, it's really not a fair fight. Okay? You've got a million British versus 40,000 French. The Indians will get involved as well, because what's happening is these colonies are practicing a rapid form of colonization and expansion. What they do is they bring in immigrants, then as the population explodes, these ## Empire Of Democracy -- 9:36 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: immigrants will be forced to move out west to settle territory in the western frontier of these colonies. Okay? But as you know, these areas are inhabited by Native Americans. And so this brings the Indians into conflict with the British as well. So the resolution to this is that King George III will proclaim that the American colonies are not allowed to move westwards of the Appalachian Mountains. Okay? Okay? And so this is the reason why the British and the French are trying to maintain the growth of the American colonies, in order to maintain friendship with the natives. And obviously the Americans don't like that. So in 1774, there are three major issues that bring the American colonies into conflict with the English crown. Okay? The first is, as I just mentioned, the English crown is limiting the expansion of the colonies westwards. And they don't like that. Okay? Second is that it was very expensive for the British to protect the colonies against the French and the Indians. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 10:57 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: In fact, at this stage in history, it is the British people, not the American people, that are paying for the defense of these colonies. In fact, the British people pay 50 times more in taxes than the Americans. Okay? Third, the British people don't actually think this is a fair deal. All right? So the British crown tries, in many instances, to impose a tax in order to get the Americans to pay for the defense of their territory. And the Americans don't like that. For the longest time, because of the English Civil War and other factors, the English crown could not actually interfere in North American affairs. And so they were used to a high level of autonomy. Okay? And the third major problem between the colonists and the British is in trade. So at this stage in history, all these nations, Spain, France, Britain, they're practicing a economic policy called mercantilism. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 12:00 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=720s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=720s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Mercantilism is the idea that all trade should be directed by the state for the purpose of generating wealth for the state. And so what this means is that there are different trade zones. There are established in competition with each other. And so if you are a British subject, you're only allowed to trade with other British lands. Okay? So the Americans can trade with England and with India, but they're not allowed to trade with the French and the Dutch and the Spanish. And the Americans don't really like this either. Okay? So these are the three main factors driving division between the American colonists and the British crown. And this will, of course, culminate in the American Revolution. Okay? The War of Independence of 1776. Also, what's really important for us to remember at this time is that per capita, the Americans are far wealthier than the British. Okay? ## Empire Of Democracy -- 13:01 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Now, this is strange. And you ask yourself, why is it that even though England is industrializing far more rapidly than the Americans. Okay? Because they are British citizens, they're Americans. And also, Britain is an empire, whereas America is a colony. How is it that the Americans per capita are able to become wealthier than the British? And the answer has to do with the American work ethic, the American attitude towards life. And this is best expressed by a man named Benjamin Franklin, okay, who is considered one of the founding fathers of America. He is... He had an incredible life. He was born poor, but through hard work, through tenacity, through optimism, he was able to become a merchant, a very wealthy merchant, and an inventor, a philosopher, an ambassador, a politician. Okay? So, he is basically the role model for Americans. Towards the end of his life, he wrote his autobiography. And so, we're going to study his autobiography in order to get insight. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 14:09 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: And so, we're going to study his autobiography in order to get insight into the mentality of the average American at this stage in history. Okay? Now, Benjamin Franklin, by writing his memoir, he starts a new fad in America that persists today. It's called the self -improvement or self -help fad. And these are the best... These are the books that sell the most in America. So, you may have heard of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. There's also Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. Okay? And these books are just telling you how to, as they say, how to be more successful in life. Okay? This is called the self -help movement. And the Americans really pioneered this. Before in history, no one believed that for your hard work, you can actually attain more in life. And in fact, you must go up and obtain more in life. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 15:04 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? So, the Americans really started this self -help fad. All right, so let's read certain passages from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to gain insight into the American psychology. From the bosom of poverty and obscurity, so he was born poor and he was born a nobody, in which I drew my first breath and spent my earliest years, I've raised myself to a state of opulence and to some degree of celebrity in the world. This is the American dream. You can be born poor. But for hard work, you can become rich. Okay? A constant good fortune has attended me through every period of life to my present advanced age. And my descendants may be desirous of learning what were the means of which I made use and which, thanks to the assisting hand of providence, have proved so imminently successful. They may also, should they ever be placed in a similar situation, derive some advantages from my narrative. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 16:04 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? So not only is he going to tell you how to become rich, but he will teach you how to become rich. So if you just do what he does, you'll become rich as well. So this is the American optimism. This is the American dream. All right. So he continues. He's talking to a friend and his friend tells him, your writing sucks. And at this time, he should be angry, right? But instead, he recognizes that he should be angry. Look, there's merit in my friend's criticism, so I will improve myself. Okay? And the way he improves himself, and he writes it, I won't read it because it's too long, but what he does is this. He takes a magazine, The Spectator, which is very well written, and then he summarizes the main points of the articles that he's read. Then he will take the summary and he will rewrite the article from memory himself. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 17:07 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: And then he will compare and contrast. His work with that of the original work. And then he will make adjustments and refinements to his own writing. Okay? Now, if you actually know how to write, and if you actually met good writers, writers don't write like this. Okay? This is not how you learn how to read and write. But again, this shows us the optimism of the American character. That through just pure hard work and tenacity and persistence, you can learn everything even though historically we all know that writers are people of genius. They are sort of born great writers. Okay? You're not going to learn how to be a man of genius just through peer imitation. Okay? But what he's telling us is that, no, through imitation you can improve yourself. Okay? That's a very American outlook. All right. Now he's going to tell us how he became rich. I began to pay, by degrees, the debt I had contracted. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 18:10 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: And in order to insure my credit. And character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be really industrious and frugal, but also to avoid every appearance of the contrary. I was plainly dressed and never seen any place of public amusement. Okay? So this is, he's telling you how he became rich. First of all, he was honest. When he did business, he made sure that he never tricked anyone. Okay? His reputation mattered above all. Also, he dressed in a very simple way. He didn't waste any money. He came across to everyone as someone who was a good Christian, a good Calvinist. Someone who enjoyed making money and someone who saved all his money in pursuit of the praise of God. Okay? And this is how you become rich in America. Right? And you can imagine that there is merit to what he says. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 19:01 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: That if you do work hard, if you are honest, and if you save a lot of money, then it's possible for you to become rich. Okay? And this is the common mentality right now at this stage in America. Okay. He continues. I ought to have related that during the autumn of the preceding year, I united the majority of well -informed persons of my acquaintance into a club, which we call by the name of the Junto, and an object of which was to improve our understandings. Okay. This is really important. What he's telling us is that after he became rich, he met other rich people. And they formed a philosophy club to debate and discuss. The political issues of the day. It was like a book club. Okay? They read John Locke. They read Thomas Hobbes. And they discussed these ideas. So this is a quintessential American attitude. Constant self -improvement. Okay? You can become the wealthiest man in the world, but you still must read books. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 20:01 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Also, this is important because these book clubs will become the foundation of the American Revolution. Right? Right? So these brothers will meet in these clubs. And they will conspire to seek independence from Britain. And a lot of it is they believe that Providence, God, has tasked them with founding a new nation based on Enlightenment principles. So the religion of these people is what we call Deism. Okay? D -E -I -S -M. And the idea of Deism, that's very different from previous religions. They believe there is a God. And God created the universe. But after that, God went away. And now it is the responsibility of humans to make the world perfect. Okay? That's the mission from God. All right. This was the best school for politics and philosophy that then existed in the province. For our questions, which were read once a week previous to the discussion, ## Empire Of Democracy -- 21:05 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: induced us to peruse attentively such books as were written upon the subjects proposed that we might be able to speak about. So they were able to speak upon them more permanently. Okay? So they know that Providence has tasked them with creating a great nation called America. And to understand how to do so, they will read all the books of integrity. They will study Rome. They will study Athens, Sparta, Carthage. They will study the Dutch Republic. They will study the British Constitution. Okay? And by studying these classics, they will come to a consensus on how to build a new society in the image of God. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? This is the foundation of the American Revolution. All right. So not only did America become very wealthy very fast through the hard work, simplicity, and optimism of the people, but as you can see from this map, they basically spread out really quickly. At this time in history, the Spanish, the British, the French are all in North America. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 22:08 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: The Russians are here as well. But over time, the Americans will push everyone out. And this is what they call Manifest Destiny. Okay? All right. So 1776, America declares independence from Britain. And again, this is after years and years of conflict over a myriad of issues. Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers, he writes something called the Declaration of Independence. Why is America declaring independence from Britain? And the answer is we hold these truths to be self -evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 23:13 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay, guys. So what does this mean? It means that Thomas Jefferson, in writing the Declaration of Independence, which is the founding document of the United States, he is just copying, word for word, basically, John Locke's book, The Second Treatise of Government. Okay? This is what John Locke said. We are born with three fundamental rights that God has given us, and therefore, no one can take away from us. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. Government is instituted, created, in order to protect our rights. A government fails to protect these rights. Then we have a responsibility and a right to abolish this government and create a new one. Okay? All right. So there's the War of Independence, and the great hero of this war, of course, is George Washington. Why Americans revere George Washington is that it's not how great he was during the war. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 24:15 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Because ultimately, the Americans didn't actually defeat the British. It was the French, the Spanish, who combined together to defeat the British. And eventually, the British decided that, you know what, the Americans, colonists, they're too problematic. We don't really care. Okay? So let's just focus on Europe. So the Americans fought a guerrilla warfare, and they were very brave. But without the French, the Americans could not possibly have defeated the British. Okay? But what made George Washington so esteemed in the hearts of the American people is, after this war, he retired. Okay? He just went back to his farm and enjoyed his last years in the garden. And that's why Americans worship him, because he's a man who could have become king of America, but instead he chose to grant Americans their freedom and independence. Okay? So the aide -a -camp of George Washington, the genius of the American Revolution, is actually Alexander Hamilton. He is really the founder of America. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 25:28 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: He's really the one who has the vision of where America could go, of what America could be. Okay? His name is Alexander Hamilton. And he is in conflict with Jefferson. These two individuals represent two competing strands of America. After the War of Independence. For Thomas Jefferson, what's important is to maintain the inalienable individual rights of the individuals. He wants a democracy. And because most people are farmers at this point, he believes economic policies should be focused on agriculture. Okay? So this is a Thomas Jefferson ideals of the American Revolution. Hamilton saw the world differently. He believed in his heart, as did many people at this time, America is destined to be an empire. And therefore it needs a strong central government. And in order to become an empire, it must have industry. Okay? So, some certain points. So, the colonists are fighting the British. Because the British are trying to tax them. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 26:42 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: The British are trying to impose an army on them. And because the British are trying to limit their trade. Okay? So, in order to get everyone to fight, they create something called the Articles of Confederation. Which limits the power of the government to impose taxes. Which limits the ability of the government to raise troops. But this is problematic because you can't actually fight a war like this. Okay? So, after the British leave and leave America alone. Problems start to arise. Basically, the main problem is you have lots and lots of soldiers who used to be farmers. They were promised pay when they joined the militia against the British. But because the government has no money, they had no money. Okay? And they're also farmers. And because they had to leave their farms, they fell into debt. And so, rich people came and took over their farms. And this led to something called the Shays' Rebellion. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 27:40 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1660s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1660s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Where farmers are now trying to overthrow the government. And so, the solution was to create something called the Constitution. Which would grant more power to the central government. Especially to collect revenue. To control trade. Foreign trade. And to have an army, basically. Okay? So, that was the solution that was proposed by Hamilton and his friends. Jefferson argued that this would, of course, limit the rights of individuals. So, he insisted on adding something called the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Okay? You may have heard something called the First Amendment, the Second Amendment. The right to speak freely. The right to bear arms. This is from the Bill of Rights. It's actually not in the Constitution. The Constitution is a framework for how to build a strong central government. Okay? Second thing I want you guys to understand is, agriculture and industry, it's a different framework. Okay? It's a different economic framework. With agriculture, you need a lot of slave labor. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 28:46 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Because, obviously, you need people to man the fields and grow the crops. Okay? And that's why, if you want to have agriculture, you have to bring actually a lot of slave labor from Africa. But, if your focus is in industry, you don't want slave labor. You want free labor. Okay? You want the market to decide who does what job and how much they get paid. This is a much more efficient way, to organize your economy, if you are industrializing. And the reason why is, when you're industrializing, you need specialized labor. Okay? You need differentiation of skills. And the market is the best mechanism for skills to be differentiated and to be rewarded. Okay? Also, think about this. If you got really sick, okay? You need heart surgery. Would you rather go to a doctor, who's a slave, or a doctor who's going to charge you a million dollars? ## Empire Of Democracy -- 29:42 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Right? So, free labor just allows for more economic activity, and therefore, more wealth generation in society. All right? So, these are two competing visions of where America should be headed. And, of course, this is a contradiction. Okay? You can't have slave labor and free labor at the same time. The North goes, implements a policy of free labor. The South maintains policy of slave labor, because they are mainly an agricultural society. Obviously, Jefferson is from the South. Hamilton is from New York. This conflict will eventually give rise to the American Civil War of 1861. Okay? So, this conflict has always been there, but in 1789, when they introduced the Constitution, they choose to ignore this conflict until 1861, when this conflict finally led to violence. Okay? So, this is the root of the American Civil War. Does it make sense, guys? All right. Okay. Now, let's look at the Constitution. The Constitution is meant to be the most perfect form of government ever established. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 30:50 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? America is a clean slate. It's a tabula rasa. The Americans can do whatever they want. So, they study all the previous Republican, Democratic, Monarchal, Aristocratic systems, and they decide to imitate Montesquieu. Montesquieu was a French thinker who believed in the idea of separation of powers. If you want to create a perfect government, you need to balance the different factions of society using separation of powers. Okay? So, the American system is, you have three different branches of government. You have the president, who controls the military, as well as foreign policy. Then you have the Congress, which controls the purse, the financing of government. And you have the Supreme Court, which interprets the Constitution, which interprets the highest law of the land. And so, if done properly, what will happen is, these three branches of government will balance each other out. They're meant to be checks and balances. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 31:56 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Each is meant to inhibit the overextension of the other. That is the American system of government that is basically stolen from Montesquieu. All right. The other check and balance is the division between federal, Washington, D.C., the state level, the individual states, and the local level. Okay? So, the responsibilities of each is defined very clearly. And the idea is that they should also balance each other out. Okay? This contrasts, of course, with the Chinese system, where you just have one person in charge, and he has something called the Politburo underneath him. The Politburo then appoints everyone into the government, as well as the army, as well as the military, as well as the provincial and local governments. Okay? So, it's a very top -down system, whereas the American system is meant to be a balanced system. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, the problem now is, now that you've decided that you need ## Empire Of Democracy -- 33:01 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=1981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: a constitution, you need a federal government, how do you convince the people to go along with this? Because for the constitution to go into effect, all 13 states have to agree to the constitution by a two -thirds majority. Okay? So, to convince people, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay write something called the Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers are a series of pamphlets, a series of newspaper articles, that explain why the constitution is necessary. Okay? So, let's... So, we're going to look at a few passages. All of them are written by Alexander Hamilton, who is really, again, the genius of the constitution and the one who is really driving the need for a strong central government in order to facilitate America's imperial ambitions. All right. As this government is composed of small republics and enjoys the internal happiness of each, in respect to its external situation, it is possessed by means of the association of all the advantages of large monarchies. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 34:03 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? So, this idea of a mixed, balanced government, where you are trying to take advantage of all political systems. Within America, it will be a republican system. Okay? And so, you will enjoy, within your area, democracy. But at a national level, in relation to other states, it will be a monarchy, where the president represents the nation in discussions and negotiations and conflicts with the other great European nations. Okay? All right. Another thing that the constitution does is, if the president wants to appoint ministers, if the government, if the government wants to appoint officials, they have to be vetted and approved by the Senate. Okay? And this is new. Usually, a king can appoint whoever he or she wants. But, in the constitution, the Senate must vet everyone. And the idea of this is to create accountability and transparency within government. Okay? So, Hamilton explains this. To what purpose, then, require the cooperation of the Senate? ## Empire Of Democracy -- 35:09 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: I answer that the necessity of their cooperation with the government is to ensure that would have a powerful, though in general, silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit of favoritism in the president and would tend greatly to prevent the appointment of unfit characters from state prejudice, from family connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. Okay, let's just say the president wants to appoint his son to be the secretary of state. Okay? The son appears before the Senate and it is like a job interview. And the son is an idiot. He doesn't know anything. Okay? So, in this instance, the son has embarrassed the president. And it's this fear of being embarrassed that inhibits the president from abusing his powers. Okay? That's a theory. Okay? Does that make sense? And over, actually, over the course of American history, it's worked very, very well. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 36:00 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? The power of public opinion, it's very, very strong. But what's important is that on norms and values. As long as people buy into these conventions and norms, this system will work. But if it's someone like Donald Trump, who does not buy into these norms and values, it may be a problem. Okay? So, we'll see what happens over the next few years. All right. These judicious reflections contain a lesson of moderation to all the sincere lovers of the union and ought to put them upon their guard for the sake of the states from each other and perhaps the military despotism of victorious demigod. Okay? Let me explain what this means. What this is saying is this. As in Hamilton, what he's saying is this. In creating a government, we're not trying to aspire to greatness. We're trying to prevent collapse. This is risk management. We're trying to avoid the risk of government. Okay? ## Empire Of Democracy -- 37:03 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: What's the risk of government? Well, you could have anarchy where people reject the government. You have civil war where the states go to war against each other. You're going to have a perpetual alienation of the states from each other. Division within the government and then military despotism where a tyrant arises. Okay? So, at the point of the Constitution, it's risk management. It's to prevent America from failing. All right. So, at the Constitution, America now embarks on something called Manifest Destiny. The idea of Manifest Destiny is it's the will of God for America to conquer and settle the entire Western Hemisphere. Okay? North America, South America, it's all America because that is the will of God. So, today, Trump is saying how America should annex Canada as well as Greenland. That's part of Manifest Destiny. It's not new. All right? All right. This leads to 1823, the Western Hemisphere. So, President Monroe, before Congress, he announces that, from now on, the Europeans are not allowed to interfere in the Western Hemisphere. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 38:15 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: The Western Hemisphere is entirely American. Okay? So, he says, Europe are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. The Western Hemisphere is henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. Hey, guys. Russia, France, Germany, Britain, Spain, forget the Western Hemisphere. It's our territory. You come over here and we'll beat the crap out of you. All right. So, now, America, to achieve its Manifest Destiny, it needs to expand. Okay? And it uses multiple strategies to expand. In 1803, remember, the Midwest of the United States is controlled by France. It basically buys all this from Napoleon. Okay? So, now, it's extending outwards over to here. Of course, there are natives in these territories. What the Americans do, of course, is eradicate the natives. It's a war of genocide. All right. War of 1812 is when America and Canada come into conflict. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 39:23 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Again, because of Manifest Destiny, America sees Canada as part of its territory, but the British don't agree and this leads to the War of 1812. It's a stalemate. Okay? And after stalemate, basically, the British and the Americans agree that Canada will stay a British colony. But, again, because of Manifest Destiny, we can expect America to eventually take over Canada as well as Greenland. 1846, the Mexican -American War. So, America fights a war with Mexico and takes over Texas as well as California. Okay? Basically, the entire western part of the United States goes to the new nation. This, in 1861, we have the Civil War. Alright? And I've already explained the causes of the Civil War. Right? This conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Hamilton, the two visions for where America is going will eventually lead us to the American Civil War. You may have learned that the American Civil War was about slavery. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 40:23 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: It was not about slavery. It was mainly about state rights. Okay? It was really about democracy versus empire. In a democracy, the states can do much more than empire. The central government is able to dictate a lot of policy. Okay? So, eventually, this will lead to the Civil War. And, of course, the North wins the Civil War because the North is far more industrial, far more wealthier and powerful than the South. And, so, the Hamilton vision is now achieved and it will be expanded throughout the western hemisphere. There's a problem, though. The problem is this. So, at this time, of course, Abraham Lincoln is president of the United States and is considered the greatest president in American history for a reason. The reason is this. The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history. Okay? Let's look at this. Over 600,000 people died in the American Civil War, which is about four years. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 41:24 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Only 400,000 died in World War II. Right? The problem is this. The problem is this. In 1861, the population of America at this time was 30 million people. World War II, the population was 130 million. So, this was, by far, the deadliest war in American history. Brothers were killing brothers. It was a tremendous, um, um, I mean, it was such a bloody conflict. And so, after this war was ended, everyone was asking, why did we do this? What's the point of this? And so, there was shock. Um, there was anger. There was frustration. So, Abraham Lincoln now has to stand up and explain why this happened. Why did this war happen? All right? He needs to form a new vision of America that binds people together, that creates a new union. Okay? So, he presents this new vision in something called the Gettysburg Address, which is considered the greatest speech in American history. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 42:28 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? This is 1863. Um, the Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest war, bloodiest battles in the American Civil War. And he, and I'm, we're gonna read all of it, okay? It's because it's a very short speech and it's very powerful. Four score and seventy years, seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. All right? So, the War of Independence, it was not a war to seek independence from Britain. It was a revolution in human affairs. It was about bringing liberty to the world. Okay? It was about creating a new civilization. Now, we're engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Okay? So, the American Revolution, it is an experiment in the possibilities of human liberation. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 43:24 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: In the Civil War, it is meant to destroy this experiment. Okay? So, we must persist in this experiment. We are met on a great battlefield of that war, Gettysburg. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Okay? But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hollow this ground. The sacrifice of the man is what has made this land sacred. The sacrifice of these men is what made our nation, is what makes our nation sacred. It's what saves our nation. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world with little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 44:25 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Okay? And this ends it. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion. The men are dead. There's nothing we can do to resurrect them. It is the responsibility of us the living to honor the sacrifice and to continue the mission that they died for which is to spread liberty throughout the world. To bring liberty into human civilization. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 45:22 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Okay? So, so again, with Hamilton it's about empire for Jefferson it's about democracy. There's a conflict, right? What Lincoln does which is revolution is say no, this is not a conflict because we are an empire of democracy. We are born in liberty we fight for liberty and we will spread liberty. Alright? So this is a new concept in American history. Not only, not, so now America is not confined to the glorious hemisphere. It has responsibility to honor the dead, honor the sacrifice by creating liberty throughout the world. To create a new chapter in human civilization. Okay? That's the purpose of this speech. To heal America by reminding them of the divine mission to spread democracy and truth throughout the world. Alright, so after the Civil War America is now industrializing rapidly. 1867 it buys Alaska from Russia. Um, 1869 1898 America fights the Spanish and they take over the Spanish colony. So now America has become an imperial power. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 46:32 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2792s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2792s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: Alright? America now controls the Philippines as well as Cuba. Then um, World War I America goes and defeats Germany. World War II is when America becomes um, the global hegemon of the world. And then after Soviet Union fell we now live in something called the Pax Americana. Okay? America has the greatest power in the world. They have complete Lincoln's vision of becoming an empire of democracy. We now live in the empire of democracy. Alright? But now the question then is what is an empire of democracy? What is that? And so we go back to Oscar Wilde's quote. America is not a civilization. Alright? And what does he mean by that? To understand this we have to read another book called Democracy in America by a Frenchman named Alexei de Tocqueville. This is the most famous book ever written about America. Okay? Not by an American but by a Frenchman who visited America for maybe eight months. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 47:34 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: In 1835 he publishes Democracy in America. And he's trying to explain why is it that American democracy works? And why is it destined to eventually conquer the world? Alright. Um now there's a lot of debate about this book. Hopefully you'll be able to read this book in college. It is a fantastic book. It's really one of the best books ever written. And it's a thousand pages. So it's possible for you to interpret the book in many different ways. But what I want to show you today is Alexei de Tocqueville actually is skeptical about American democracy. He is actually afraid of what the spreading of American liberty will mean for the world. Okay? So the argument I will show you is America is really the first mass democratic middle class country. Okay? But because of that the people there are selfish conformist and unimaginative. And he fears that as America conquers the world the world will become atomized uniform and mediocre. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 48:43 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2923s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2923s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: Atomized just means that we live in our own world than ourselves. Uniform means everyone thinks the same way and mediocre means that well no one is striving for greatness anymore. If you think about it okay the world we live in today in the year 2025 this is the world we live in. It's a atomized uniform and mediocre world. So how did this happen? How was it possible for the world to become like this? And for for you to understand this it's important to go back to the Dutch Republic we discussed the Dutch Republic last week and talk about what it means to be middle class. Now as I said last week the middle class is distinct because it creates anxiety uncertainty and competition within the lives of individuals. Okay anxiety comes from the fact that your situation is never stable. You can be rich tomorrow but you can be poor the next day. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 49:43 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=2983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: This is different from history where if you're born poor you stay poor. If you're a noble person you could have no money but your status stays with you. Okay and it goes passes on to your children and your grandchildren. Okay so there's a certainty in that world. Um but in this world if you're middle class you could be a factory owner you could be Jack Ma and then the next day you get unlucky you lose all your money. Okay you're back to being a poor person. This creates anxiety and uncertainty. Also because um status is not given but it must be earned by competition among middle class members to strive for status. Okay and this creates something we call OCD obsessive compulsive disorder and it leads to an obsessive control of yourself uh a focus on cleanliness and a desire to accumulate and achieve. Okay and if you think about it we discussed the the memoir of Benjamin Franklin right? ## Empire Of Democracy -- 50:38 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: Well why is he focused on such a simple living? Why does he constantly want to achieve? It's because of the anxiety of being middle class. You're born poor you get you you earn a lot of money you become wealthy but how do you know you won't become poor? How do you know your children won't become poor? The only way to resolve this anxiety is by constantly accumulating more and more. Okay all right so let's um look at democracy in America. Okay let's look at certain passages about um let's look at certain passages from democracy in America to understand the thinking of de Tocqueville. All right such a democratic society would be less brilliant than aristocracy but also less plagued by misery. Pleasures would be less extreme prosperity more general knowledge would be less exalted but ignorance more rare. Feelings would be less passionate and habits milder. ## Empire Of Democracy -- 51:39 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: There would be more vices and fewer crimes. Okay let's look at to understand. So what he's seeing is this in aristocratic societies in most societies there's a huge gap between the rich and the poor. Okay and there's a huge gap between the great and the mediocre. What democratic societies do is they take this system and they turn it into this system. Okay so the middle class um they're not that great but they're not that poor either. Okay they're not as talented but they're not as mediocre. Okay so you've you've taken this system right and you turn it into this system and that's a theory of democracy and in theory this sounds better. Okay if you if you're just born uh randomly into a democratic democratic society you're much more likely to live a happy life than if you were born into an aristocratic society. Okay so that's a theory but ## Empire Of Democracy -- 52:34 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: de Tocqueville spent a lot of time looking at America and he decided that's not what happened. Okay it's not that you went from this to this it's like you went from this to like this. Okay all right so he explains but what have we done in rejecting the social state of our ancestors and casting aside the institutions ideas and mores what have we put in their place. So what he's saying is the American Revolution was about destroying tradition about destroying civilization but they failed to build new traditions that's evaporated but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. Okay this is key before we worship a man a king and the king made us obedient to his law we got rid of the king and we said well let's keep the law the problem is this the problem is people respect and revere those who are superior to them they do not ## Empire Of Democracy -- 53:35 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: respect and revere ideas and things and laws does that make sense okay so in theory America is a rule of law nation but people don't really understand these laws and people don't revere these laws as much as they would a superior man it strikes me that we have destroyed those individuals who once had the will of all to battle tyranny on their own so in a aristocratic system what will happen is you is you have these great individuals like Robespierre emerge to challenge the system and he feels um and he's supported by others because others see the injustice of the system but in democracy what happens is great individuals are oppressed by the conformity the tyranny of the majority okay does that make sense right if everyone's happy then you say but if you come out and you say listen this system is wrong in an aristocracy everyone knows what's unjust so if you come ## Empire Of Democracy -- 54:39 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3279s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3279s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: out and you speak speak what's unjust people will follow you in a democracy in middle class society which is conformist you're not you're not allowed to question popular opinion and therefore no great man can arise if you think about it in American history there aren't that many great individuals okay it's a great country it's very wealthy um but think about how many great individuals who've arisen what's also unique about America is the people they worship are not generals not leaders but business people Henry Ford Elon Musk Thomas Edison right these are all business people that's who they worship the poor man for the most part clings to his forebears prejudices without their faith and to their ignorance without their virtues okay so the Catholic Church was problematic medieval Europe was problematic now if you're a poor person you're a complete loss in the system okay you're expected to have your own virtues you're expected to ## Empire Of Democracy -- 55:46 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: discover your own purpose in life but if you don't then you're alienated okay and this creates a huge problem that we'll discuss later on alright it continues I see men who in the name of progress seek to reduce men to material being this is the ultimate problem in America before in civilization you die for your nation now you're asked to go make money and buy things okay materialism they look for what is useful without concern for what is just they seek science removed from faith and prosperity apart from virtue having styled themselves champions of modern civilization they have arrogantly placed themselves at its head usurping a position abandoned by others which they are quite unworthy of occupying themselves okay so in this system the worst rise to power the best are trampled down by conformity alright it continues I'm trying to imagine what new features despotism might have in today's world I see in a ## Empire Of Democracy -- 56:57 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: new bromo hosts of men all alike and equal endlessly hastening after petty and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls over these men stand an immense tutelary power which assumes sole responsibility for securing their pleasures and watching over their fate think about the society that we live in today the entire world before we were asked to sacrifice ourselves for civilization before we were asked to be great to work together now we're asked to just buy things buying things will make us happy and it's the responsibility of the government to ensure we can buy things okay that's the world we live in today it's it's impossible to believe that a liberal energetic and wise government can ever emerge from the balance of a nation of servants if you're a consumer if all you're concerned is buying things you are just a slave the possibility of a constitution being republican in its head and also monarchical ## Empire Of Democracy -- 58:04 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: in all its other parts has always struck me as an ethereal monster okay we think we live in democracy we think the government is a democracy that's in charge and that's a monster the vice of those who govern and the imbecility of the government would quickly bring about its ruin and the people tired of their representatives and of themselves would either create free institutions or soon return to prostrating themselves at the fate at the feet of a single master okay so this is a prophecy the prophecy is this America the way it is structured the way it is conceived is not sustainable in the long term either it will break apart in a civil war or a tyrant will emerge and become a monarchy okay that is Beethoven's dark prophecy for America okay so um America is again in competition with these other civilizations all right so what I will do now is just summarize ## Empire Of Democracy -- 59:05 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3545s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3545s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: what we've learned to give you a broad framework for understanding the nature of American society okay sorry all right so I apologize I I know that today was very fast um but let me just summarize what we've learned and you have a much clearer idea um of the ideas today all right so before the focus on civilization what is civilization it's a history culture values okay and before everyone understood the purpose of your life was to maintain protect and defend your civilization okay but there's there's certain problems with civilization that emerges over time the first of course is the idea of prejudice you just believe that you your civilization is superior to that of other civilizations okay everyone believes this um my civilization is better and I would and I my civilization is superior to yours so this leads this is prejudice it leads to war violence it leads to um lack of innovation openness ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:00:29 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: right it's a stubbornness inflexibility it also limits immigration okay does that make sense okay this is the nature of civilization throughout most of human history now this is a problem for America why because as I mentioned America was founded by immigrants right it was it was it's also pretty diverse diversity openness and um so these are the three characteristics of America it's a very diverse place with different religions different cultures it's always trying to welcome immigrants in order to build up its nation and wealth and it has to be open because it needs to steal ideas from Europe basically so what do you do in order to create a society what you do is rather than build a civilization you create a game okay in many ways America is an anti -civilization it's trying to remedy the failings and weaknesses of civilizations in the past it's decided we're going to create a game guys okay ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:01:54 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3714s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3714s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: that's the idea of the US Constitution what's the game the game is this first of all we need to have game masters game masters is the government but the problem is for the game to work it has to be fair it has to be clean okay it has to be winnable for people does that make sense you only play games if you think the game is fair and it's winnable and it's rewarding right it's transparent therefore our government must be fair transparent and democratic for as many people to play this game as possible alright once the government is in place now what we do is we create the rules for the game that are fair just and which is winnable okay so the purpose of this game is to make as much money as possible okay material acquisition if you win this money it's yours okay private property by law whatever you have earned is ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:03:05 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: yours forever it's yours it's yours but it's also your children's okay you understand this is a game that America has constructed if you think about it this is great because now you can bring in as many immigrants as you want because all they do is play this game everyone wants to play this game it allows you to be open because it allows for rapid innovation within your society okay it allows for diversity as well because everyone's striving to make as much money as possible okay so that's what America is America sees itself as a new civilization but it's really an anti -civilization because it's really a game and over time what will happen is because America is becoming more and more wealthy it will be able to conquer the world and establish the game throughout the world in China today we are playing this game right what do we believe we believe that we come ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:04:03 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: to school because we need to get an education go to America get a degree we can become rich when we become rich we can buy things right we're playing this game we've all been brainwashed to play this game okay the problem with this game is eventually the few will win everything does that make sense massive inequality in the world and when this happens people are like this game sucks what do we do now and then people will be like you know what I miss civilization I miss when it was clear what my identity was when it was clear what I had to do in life when I was asked to make sacrifices for the greater good I miss that I'm nostalgic for that okay and of course this is what gives us MAGA right ultimately MAGA is about trying to restore the idea of civilization in America make America great again make America into a ## Empire Of Democracy -- 1:05:15 - Source title: Civilization #52: Empire of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea20aMYfT5I&t=3915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ea20amyft5i@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ea20amyft5i.json) Text: white Christian democratic nation again let us restore the vision of Thomas Jefferson right okay that's it so this is just an introduction to America we'll continue this topic as we move further and further along the course okay so next week we will do the German and Russian civilizations what you will see is that in many ways these civilizations are part of the American empire all right so any questions okay ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So this class we are focusing on William Shakespeare. But before I do that, I want to give you an overview of how we will end the course. To end the course, we will focus on the four great modern civilizations that have fought for global dominance these past 20 years. These four great civilizations are the Russians, the Germans, the British, and the Americans. Now what's interesting about all four civilizations is that they all claim to be the ultimate Christian civilizations that are here to roam. But because of the differences in their geography and their culture, they have different interpretations of Christianity and Roman -ness. Okay, so let's compare and contrast these four great civilizations. The Russians, as you know, Russia is the largest landmass in the world. It is huge. It is also really cold and dark. Okay, so the geography transformed the Russian character. Okay, Germany, in contrast, it is within Europe and it does not have the natural boundaries that the other nations have. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:20 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: It is always being attacked and threatened by adversaries. Okay, the British, it's an island fortress. The Americans are the most interesting because it is a continental fortress. It is not only invincible, it cannot be invaded, but it also has all the resources it needs in order to have a thriving modern economy. Therefore, America can choose to isolate itself from the rest of the world. Okay, now because of the difference in geography, you have differences in Christianity and in its Roman -ness. So the Russians believe that they are here to the Byzantine Empire. And as such, they are the protectors, or something called Eastern Orthodoxy. Okay? So to understand what Eastern Orthodoxy is, think of Augustine, can we read Augustine City of God? So it is a very mystical, metaphorical, collectivist attitude towards religion. In contrast, the Germans believe that they are here ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 2:25 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: to the Holy Roman Empire, first by Charlemagne and as such they are more Catholic than the Russians okay then you have the British who believe they are here's to the real Roman Empire and their religion is Anglianism okay remember Anglianism there's really really little difference between Catholicism and Anglianism when in Anglianism you swear allegiance to the King of England in Catholicism you swear allegiance to the Pope of the Vatican and then you have the Americans who have a who believe that they are they here's to the Roman Republic okay not the Empire the Republic before the time of Julius Caesar the best former government in the world the religion so the elite is something we call it Daesh okay so they believe in God but God as someone who is removed from the world You also have many different sects of Protestantism, okay? So the religion in America is very diffused, very diverse. Okay, so different cultural outlooks will also determine their cultural identities. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 3:42 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: So for example, the Russians, the thing that differentiates the Russians is they have a very dark imagination. So some of the greatest literature, some of the greatest music, philosophy, actually comes from Russia. So think of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky. In terms of music, you have Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky, okay? I will also show you that the Russians produced the greatest geopolitical leaders in history. So in the 20th century, the greatest geopolitical leader was actually Joseph Stalin, and I will show you, I'll show you this is the case when we move to the 20th century. Today, the greatest geopolitical leader in the world is Vladimir Putin. So there's something about the Russian dark imagination that produces men of genius to lead their countries. The Russian cultural identity is the idea of Mother Russia, the land itself, the nation, the people. It is divine, all right? And so the main objective ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 4:42 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=282s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=282s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: of all Russian geopolitical leaders is to protect its borders from enemies because Russia is so huge and encompasses two continents, it has a lot of geopolitical enemies. Okay? civilization, when we move to the Germans, the Germans are really interesting, because the Germans have also one of the great human civilizations in history. Okay, so rather than a dark imagination, the Germans believed in the idea of will to power. We will discuss this when we discuss German philosophy, especially Nietzsche, okay, but the idea is this, that we have the capacity to impose our will on reality. That's the idea of will to power. We are not subject to culture, we're not subject to reality. There are great men among us who can impose their will on all of us, okay, and that's why you have Hitler and the Nazis, okay. What the Germans believed in is the idea of, okay,. I know this is a hard word, it's a German word, but it's actually a pretty easy concept. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 5:48 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: The concept is called living space. So throughout its history, the German people have always been invaded, attacked by its adversaries. So to protect itself, it needs living space. It needs to move out and colonize its surrounding territories, Poland, Russia, Austria, and make it more German so that the German nation can thrive, okay. Very simple concept, okay, but this is the concept that drives the German military strategy in World War I and World War II, okay, limits Rome. You have the British, and the Germans, and the British, as we discussed last class, they are a very practical people. Their philosophy is empiricism and utilitarianism, okay. It's not a question of what is right or what is ideal, it's a question of what works now, okay. The British are extremely practical. The British Empire is based on the concept of white man's burden, meaning ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 6:44 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: that the British culture is inherently superior to all other cultures, and as such, the British have a responsibility to go out and civilize and educate, and enlighten all others, okay. So this is the philosophy that drives the British Empire. The Americans are interesting because they are a new civilization, and they try to base their culture on the ideas of the Enlightenment, okay. So Rousseau, Kant, especially John Locke. Their driving ideology is the idea of Manifest Destiny. So the idea of Manifest Destiny is that it is the obvious will of God for America. for America. to control the entire Western Hemisphere. That's why Trump today is saying, we should take over Canada, we should take over Greenland, because that's always been part of the American understanding of the world. It is God's will that America will eventually control all of the entire Western Hemisphere. And Canada will eventually come into America as well. And eventually, America will drive out all European powers, including Denmark and Britain, from the Western Hemisphere. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 7:56 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: So next class, we'll discuss America in greater detail. Today, we will focus on the British Empire, which is founded by William Shakespeare. So we will discuss William Shakespeare today. Next week, we'll start to focus on the Russians and the Germans. But these are the four great civilizations that will drive history from the 19th century up to today. Thank you. And I will also show you later on that it is actually the conflict between these four great civilizations that will drive human creativity, science, technology, philosophy. And that's why from about 1800 up until 2000, you had a tremendous flowering of ideas and culture. All right, so that's the game plan. For the rest of the semester. Any questions about this framework? Again, you don't have to know these ideas right away. I will explain them in detail to you as we move forward. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 9:04 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: But understand the overall framework is there are four different civilizations that will drive human modernity. And they are in conflict with each other. And it's because of this conflict that drives human innovation. OK, let's move on. So the question we're going to ask is, the question we're looking at today is, how did Shakespeare transform English into the language of empire? So for the longest time, English is what they spoke on the British Isles, OK? Not even the British Isles, primarily in England. So how did Shakespeare transform that into the language that everyone speaks today, OK? English really is the language of empire. You think when you learn English, you're not just learning grammar and vocabulary. You are really learning a culture. A philosophy. An identity. All right? And what's amazing about English is that it has really created, it's really, through soft power, convinced everyone to believe that Anglo -American culture is really the best in the world. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 10:13 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-language-as-imperial-platform) Text: When objectively speaking, it is not. You can make the argument that Russian and German culture is far superior to Anglo -American culture. But everyone, especially young people in the world today, believes that Anglo -American culture is just vastly superior. And the reason why is because most people speak English. And we absorb our understanding of the world through language, OK? So that's the question we're looking at today. All right. So before we talk about Shakespeare, I want you to understand some basic principles about language, art, culture, and civilization. The first major principle is great art. Dante, Homer, Vermeer, Shakespeare. It lifts the soul of civilization and changes the neurological structure of societies, creating a new way of being and seeing, OK? So this is a really important idea where you have to understand that civilization has a collective consciousness. And what great art does is it seeps into this collective consciousness and ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 11:18 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: rewires the brain to make the civilization see the world in a new way, which causes people to behave differently, OK? So we discussed this about Homer and Dante, right? Especially Homer and Dante. Today I'll show you how Shakespeare radically transformed the English imagination. All right. Another idea I need you to understand is how poets transform civilization is they innovate in imagery, grammar, and vocabulary, OK? And when they do that, poets expand a civilization's structure. They expand its capacity to imagine, feel, and think, OK? So we will discuss William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare did not live very long. He died at 52, OK? So he was not alive for a very long time. But his accomplishments are amazing. In his brief life, he wrote anywhere between 38 to 41 plays. And he established the English cultural identity, OK? Shakespeare is really a founder of English culture. And he established his English historical memory, OK? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 12:35 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: And he did this by writing a lot of plays, right? So tragedies, histories, comedies. You've read some of them in school, right? So his accomplishments are tremendous. The reason why we don't know how many plays he actually wrote, OK, is he never published in his lifetime. All his plays were published after his death. By his friends, who are working with his notes, as well as recollections from actors who participated in Shakespeare's plays. That's why... So we don't have actually anything written specifically by Shakespeare, OK? So keep that in mind. In his plays, he used anywhere between 20,000 to 30,000 different words. So his range of vocabulary was just vast. What's really unique about Shakespeare is he introduced anywhere between 1,700 to 3,500 new uses of words, what we call diction, OK? I'll show you what diction is later on. To put this in context, between the years 1,500 and 1650, around 10,000 ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 13:43 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: new words are being introduced into England because of revolutions in agriculture, in trade, in communication, in technology, OK? So at this point in history, England is going out into the world and it's transforming its society, and therefore it needs to bring in new words. What Shakespeare does that's really important is he transforms the British imagination in order to better absorb these new ideas. And he does so through new uses of words, what we call diction, OK? So this makes sense, guys, OK? So let's examine how he does this. Let me give you an example. Let's look at the word dagger, OK? Dagger means just a short sword, OK? And it's a very common English word. But what Shakespeare does is he uses it in a really imaginative, metaphorical way that forces you to reimagine the world around you, OK? So let's look at some examples. And these are my examples, by the way. They're not Shakespeare's examples, all right? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 14:54 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: We will look at Shakespeare's examples later on. All right, so the first example is he has a dagger, fat and short. OK, this is interesting because when we see a dagger, we think of something that is thin, right? And this is saying this is fat, all right? So this forces you to think about what dagger is as a metaphor. And this makes your mind think, oh, he has a dagger, fat and short. So is it possible that on the surface he looks fat and short, but actually, as a person, he is lean and mean. He's very, very clever. He pretends he's stupid, but he has very precise cleverness, OK? All right, so that's what Shakespeare does. He takes a traditional metaphor and he radically reverses or inverts it to force you to reimagine things in a new way. All right, that's the first example. Second example is I daggered him with questions. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 15:54 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Now, the word dagger actually exists in the English language, but it means you carry a dagger with you, OK? So if I say, I am daggered, it means there's a bag in my pocket. And that's a traditional use of dagger. But there's no reason why you can't do what Shakespeare does and says, I daggered him with questions, which means, like, I stabbed him with questions. All right, I'm threatening him with questions. I ask a lot of questions. And this is very visual. It's very imaginative, OK? Now, the third example is his voice is daggerly. Daggerly as a word does not exist. But because you know what the word dagger means, you can imagine what daggerly could mean, right? A voice that is like mine, very high, high, high, OK? And which you feel is jabbing at you, all right? So that's the genius of Shakespeare. He takes words that we use every day and ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 16:47 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-language-as-imperial-platform) Text: he finds new ways of using it in his plays that forces us to reimagine the world in a different way, all right? That's the power of Shakespeare. Now, what this is saying is this. What Shakespeare understands is that language can be a portal into the neurological framework of our minds, right? So you might have studied some neuroscience or psychology. You know, like, our brain, it's structured by these things called synapses, OK? These pathways in our brain. And what Shakespeare understands is that by manipulating language in a new way, you can also perform a sort of surgery on these synapses, all right? All right, so Shakespeare as music. The thing to remember about Shakespeare is his plays were meant to perform as musicals, OK? Today in school, we have you read Shakespeare, but remember, during the time of Shakespeare, no one read him. You experience Shakespeare by going to his plays, and his plays were musicals. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 18:01 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1081s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1081s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: When people spoke Shakespeare, it was as though they were singing. And also, there were lots of, like, dance routines within the plays as well. Remember, these are people who are extremely ordinary, OK? Who are going to Shakespeare as a form of mass entertainment. It's almost like the equivalent of, like, going to a movie today. And the way that Shakespeare creates music in his plays is through a device called iambic pentameter, OK? Iambic pentameter, you know, right? Iambis is just the arrangement of syllables where you have one that is deep and then another that's high. So, deep, high, deep, high, deep, high, deep, high, deep, high. When you have ten syllables, it's called pentameter, OK? So an example, of course, is to be or to be that is the question. So you understand how this works, right? Low, high, low, high, low, high. And Shakespeare does that throughout his plays. That's why it comes across as musical. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 19:08 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: But if it's musical, then it's easy to remember because it becomes like a song, right? It's really easy for us to remember songs. So, flat iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's plays are memorable, beautiful, and resonant, meaning they touch our souls. And again, these are ordinary people. So through iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's performing a surgery on the imagination of civilization. All right. So having said that, let's go into some brief history about Shakespeare. During the time of Shakespeare, theatre is extremely popular around the country. And theatre is primarily the means of mass entertainment, but it's also the means of mass education. If you want to know about history, if you want to know about culture, you go to the theatre. The problem with this is that during the time of Shakespeare, around the 16th century, as we discussed last class, there's a major conflict going on between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion. And so the queen, Queen Elizabeth, is concerned about theatre as a means of creating dissent in society. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 20:22 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: So what they do is, they force all the theatre productions to be placed in the suburb of London. And that's where Shakespeare is going to work. By doing that, Shakespeare is being introduced to all the major theatre of that time. So Shakespeare never actually wrote anything that is unique. So Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, these are all plays that are part of the British theatrical imagination. But what he does that's different is he reimagines the characters, he uses new diction into the plays to make it beautiful. So this is the Globe, which is where Shakespeare performed much of his productions. The Globe Theatre. The thing to also remember about this time is theatre is low class. So in this district, this theatre district, there are lots of brothels. People go to theatre and they get drunk. They're drinking, they're spitting, they're eating stuff. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 21:24 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1284s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1284s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: They're also participating in something called, in a gambling activity called bear baiting. Bear baiting is really strange. But the idea is, you take a bear, you chain him up, you blind him, and then you have dogs attack him. And then you bet who wins, the bear or the dogs. And this is a really popular thing to do at this time. So it just shows you that we think of Shakespeare as very high class, and we teach Shakespeare as high class, but at this time, Shakespeare is very, very low class. And Shakespeare's plays are performed right beside bear baiting venues as well as brothels. But this is important because if Shakespeare is reaching to the masses, he's educating the masses into a global imagination. Shakespeare in theatre is so detested by the upper class that from 1642 to 1660, the Puritans banned it from England. Remember we discussed the Puritans and how they're obsessed with control. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 22:30 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: They hate alcohol, they hate fun, they hate theatre, especially theatre. They hate Shakespeare. So they banned it. So during this time, Shakespeare is extremely controversial. So having gone into history, let's discuss the genius of Shakespeare. You do Shakespeare in school, you've read quite a few of his plays, so I'm not going to go too deeply, but I'm going to focus on one example that distinguishes Shakespeare from all other playwrights. So the example I want to use is Hamlet. Hamlet, the story you know, it's a very simple story. It's about this prince of Denmark called Hamlet. He's going to a university in Germany, I believe Wittgenstein, which is where Martin Luther went. He comes home, and then he's visited by the ghost of his dead father. And the ghost of his dead father tells Hamlet, I was killed by your uncle Claudius, who now has stolen the throne from me, as well as married my wife Gertrude, your mother. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 23:32 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: It is your responsibility as my son to seek vengeance against Claudius. So that's the mission of Hamlet. The problem is that Hamlet, he is a very analytical person. He thinks too much. Paralysis is analysis. So he spends the entire play thinking about how to kill him, kill Claudius, but also whether or not to kill Claudius. And this is why we believe that Hamlet is Shakespeare's best play, because it is a very deep philosophical work. And in many ways, Hamlet is really the expression of Shakespeare. You may not know this, but Shakespeare had a son called Hamnet, and Hamnet actually died when he was young. So a lot of scholars of Shakespeare, and there are like thousands of scholars on Shakespeare, believe Hamlet is Shakespeare's most personal play. All right. So we're going to go into a bit of Shakespeare and look at the most famous soliloquy in Shakespeare to understand how he thinks, how he writes. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 24:36 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: All right. So, again, this is an iambic pentameter. To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the sling and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them, to die, to sleep, no more, and by its sleep, to say we end the heartache and a thousand natural shocks that flesh is here to, to the consummation devoutly to be wished, to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream, ay, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause. There's respect that makes calamity of so long life. Thus conscious doth make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is slinkered over with a pale cast of thought, and then it prizes of great pith and moment. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 25:40 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: With this regard, their currents turn awry and lose the name of action. Okay. So some brief comments about the soliloquy. First of all, as you can understand, it's beautiful. Right? It's also, if you think about it, pretty easy to read. There are lots of really complicated words in the speech, but it's really smooth. Right? If you read it for yourself, it's really smooth. And that's the power of emic metameter. If you really want to be fluent in English, just read Shakespeare aloud for a few months and your English will be perfect. Okay? The British really are the best practitioners of English. If you read Macbeth, it's like the Economist. It's really the best written magazine in the world. And you think to yourself, well, duh, the British invented English. Right? No. Okay? Just because you invent something doesn't mean you're good at it. So the Chinese invented gunpowder, compass, printing, paper, didn't really get us anywhere. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 26:38 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1598s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Okay? The fact of the matter is that in England, you're expected to read and know Shakespeare. Right? So it's Shakespeare that allows the British to have amazing English. All right. So this is very complicated. But it's actually not that deep. Okay? It's not like Dante. Dante is very, very deep. But Shakespeare is actually not that deep. All right? So let's look at what it actually means with these words. Okay? To be or not to be. That is the question. Against the misfortune in our lives, is it more brave and good to bear it or to step against it? I no longer want to bear this pain. Let me sleep. I no longer want to feel my heartache and my body become weak and injured. That is my wish. I want to sleep and to dream. But that is a danger, isn't it? When we are dead, we cannot control what we dream. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 27:28 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: And that is what frightens me. And that's why I continue to bear the misfortunes around me. It is my own mind that has made me a coward and why each time when I become determined, my resolve breaks apart and I cannot act. Okay? That's what he's saying. That's literally what he's saying. No difference. But of course, when you do this, when you simplify Shakespeare, you lose the beauty and richness of Shakespeare. All right? So now the question then is, why is Shakespeare so complicated? What's he trying to do with his language? Okay? So the first thing that he's trying to do is he's trying to use language as a mechanism to convey different realities, different meanings. Okay? So in Shakespeare, with each of his plays, there are many different ways to convey different layers of meaning that can be true at the same time. All right? So let me show you an example of this. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 28:22 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Let's look at the first possible interpretation of to be or not to be. Okay? You can say it means to die or to live. I cannot decide. I do not know if it's more brave to live a painful life or to run away from it and escape into death. So this is saying that Hamlet is overwhelmed by the moral dilemma he's put in. Okay? He cannot escape. He has to avenge his father. Right? Or he cannot sleep. But avenging his father means killing his uncle, who his mother loves. Okay? It's an impossible moral dilemma. He doesn't want to deal with it. So he wants to kill himself. Okay? That's one possible interpretation. Another possible interpretation is to kill or not to kill, I do not know. Is it more good to let those who do evil suffer their own fate or should I stop their evil and end their lives? Okay? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 29:08 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: So you can interpret this as saying he's asking himself, how should he kill Claudius? Should he kill Claudius? Okay? That's a different interpretation. Yet another interpretation is should I follow my fate or should I defy it? Is it more brave and good to do as I am told or to fight against my fate and in so doing perhaps die? Okay? So this is a much more deeper and richer meaning where he's talking about fate and life in general. He's making the argument that we have no free will. We are forced into a situation where we must do what fate tells us. And in this situation, what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to have free will where you're controlled by the forces of fate around you? Okay? So that's a much deeper meaning. And then the last deep meaning is what is the point of existence? I do not know. When we exist, we must face pointless questions in our lives. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 30:02 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Should we suffer or should we fight? Okay? So this is the deepest meaning where he's actually asking what is existence? What is the point of all this? How do we get here? What is the purpose of existence? Okay? So there are four possible interpretations of this speech. And they're all correct. You can interpret them any way they want. Okay? So it's the first power of Shakespeare where he's forcing you to interpret his speech in different ways. Okay? The second power of Shakespeare is it's visual. Okay? In this tradition, in this oral culture where no one reads and writes, well, most people don't read and write, most people are accessing their information through words. Right? And in this tradition, words are images. All right? So let's go over the Silicui and see how these are images. Okay? So when Hamlet says, suffer the slings and arrows ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 31:01 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1861s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1861s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: of outrageous fortune or take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them, the audience is seeing these pictures. They're seeing a movie in their heads. Okay? That's the attraction of Shakespeare. Okay? Do you guys see this? Is it clear to you guys? All right? And because you're seeing pictures, they remember all this. Okay? When you talk to an English person, it's amazing how much Shakespeare that person knows subconsciously. Another image. Okay? In that sleep of death, what do you say? Come, we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. All right? So this is an image of a person who's dead to his soul and goes up to heaven. But what's in heaven? What's in that sleep of death? No one knows. Okay? Another image. The native hue of resolution is slinkered over with a pale cast of thought. Okay? So this is a complicated sentence, but it's really about ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 32:01 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: how something that is clear to us, once we think about it, becomes very dark and unclear. All right? So that's the power of Shakespeare. It's a visual language. All right. Another example. Enterprise of great pivot moment, their currents turn awry and lose some action. All right? So imagine a ship. It's going very, it's going in a direction. You're set on that path. But the moment you think about it, the moment you think deeply about what you're doing, the ship collapses. You don't know where you're going anymore. All right? So is that clear to you guys? All right. So another example of the power of Shakespeare is Julius Caesar. I'm not sure if you read Julius Caesar in school, but Julius Caesar, it's a very, I mean, the plot is very simple. Julius Caesar, he has defeated all his enemies in the Roman Civil War. And his friends, Brutus, Cassius, they're worried that he'll become a dictator. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 33:08 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=1988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: They're worried that he'll become king. So they plot to kill him. And Brutus and Cassius and all the conspirators kill Julius Caesar. And then Brutus and Cassius think this is over. Okay? But Mark Anthony, who is Caesar's lieutenant, he swears vengeance. And Mark Anthony and Octavian will combine forces to destroy and kill Brutus and Cassius. And that's the plot of Julius Caesar. Not very complicated. Okay? But in Julius Caesar, you will find some of the greatest speeches in the English language. It's stunning speeches. Okay? And in the speeches, you will find an example of how Shakespeare understands language as a surgery on the brain. How through speech making, how through language, you can actually transform the neurological structure of the human brain. Okay? So let's look at an example of this. Mark Anthony and Brutus are going to engage in a speech competition. They're going to debate each other. Okay? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 34:12 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Brutus will be the first to give a speech. And then he'll be followed by Mark Anthony. So the strategy of Brutus is to use a rhetorical strategy called the antithesis. Okay? The antithesis is basically very simple. You have two opposing ideas. Okay? And they are opposed to each other. So the idea is, I am Brutus. I am honorable. You know me as honorable because my name is Brutus, which is also the name of Lucius Brutus who founded the Roman Republic. You know me as honorable person. Now, who is Caesar? Caesar is ambitious. Okay? Honor and ambition cannot go together. So I love Caesar, but because he was ambitious, he wanted to enslave us. I wanted to free us. Therefore, I had to kill him. All right? So that's the idea of Brutus. He's trying to create an economy between Caesar and himself. If you know me, Brutus, as honorable, then you must believe that Caesar is ambitious. This rhetorical strategy is what we call the antithesis. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 35:09 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Okay? In the human mind, you just see these two things as separate from each other. Mark Anthony then responds to Brutus using something called the chiasmus. Okay? The chiasmus, it's really interesting. The chiasmus tries to take these two opposing principles and combine them together. All right? So what Mark Anthony will say is that Caesar was ambitious and honorable as honorable and ambitious as Brutus. This is what we call chiasmus. It's an A -B -B -A structure. When you do that, when you have a chiasmus, you, you collapse the antithesis. Remember, the antithesis are two separate ideas that cannot meet together, exclusionary. The chiasmus shows you, like, these are mirrors of each other. Okay? When you do that, in the, in the Roman imagination, the human, Roman mind, you then collapse the economy between Brutus and Caesar. And you see them as one and the same. But, if it ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 36:07 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: was Brutus that killed Caesar, then Brutus must be the less honorable and ambitious, and more ambitious one. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Julius Caesar. All right. So, let's see an example of this. All right. This is Brutus sit, talking to the Roman crowd after the death of Julius Caesar. Okay? He's trying to explain his actions before the Roman crowd. He says, if then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer. Okay? You want to know why he killed Caesar? I'm going to tell you why he killed Caesar. Not that I love Caesar less, but I love Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, then that Caesar were dead to live all free men. This is an antithesis. Right? I love Caesar, but I love Rome more. Okay? This is an antithesis. This is also an antithesis. Caesar, if he were living, he would make us into slaves. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 37:02 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: If Caesar is dead, we will continue to live as free men. Okay? Two exclusionary ideas developed by Brutus. Now, what Mark Anthony says, what he's going to do is, he's going to collapse this. Okay? He's going to change your neurological structure. He's going to change the synopsis within you through his speech making. Let's look at Mark Anthony. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious and sure he is an honorable man. Okay? So he's summarizing the argument made by Brutus. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause withholds you than to mourn for him? Okay? This is a chiasmus. Cause, cause, love, mourn. Okay? You guys see that? He continues with the chiasmus. But yesterday the word of Caesar might have stood against the world. Now lies he there and none so poor to do him reverence. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 38:00 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: O masters, if I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong. Who, you all know, are honorable men. I will not do them wrong. I rather choose to wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you than I will wrong such honorable men. Okay? This is two examples of chiasmus where word of Caesar and reverence match. Stood and lies match. Okay? For the chiasmus he's collapsing this economy. Another example is here. Okay? The red match the green match. This is what we call chiasmus. Does that make sense guys? Okay. Have you guys learned this before? Okay. It's really important. You know these ideas. All right. So that's the power of Shakespeare. Through his language, through his rhetoric, he's transforming the British imagination so that they are more open, more fluid. They can absorb new ideas and they can be more innovative. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 39:03 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Okay? Now, as we discussed way back at the beginning of this course, Homer did the same thing. So let's compare Homer and Shakespeare. How was it able that they were both able to be founders of great civilizations? All right. First of all, they came at a time when there's a cultural tabula rasa. Okay? Tabula rasa just means blank slate. So, Homer came at a time after the Bronze Age collapse of Greece. The Mycenaean civilization collapsed and now you have the polar system. So it's a tabula rasa. Same thing with Shakespeare where Britain at this time, it is not an advanced culture as much as the French and the Spanish. Second is rapid cultural change where Britain is undergoing all these revolutions. When it's undergoing all these revolutions people are anxious and they're looking for new ideas. Oral culture. Okay? We talked about this where if you live in an oral culture people have a stronger memory and have a greater imagination. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 40:12 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: That's why they're able to sit through three hours of Shakespeare at one go and visualize his language. And this is like the most common person in Britain. Okay? These are not the elite. These are just commoners. And so, with an oral culture you have a stronger memory, imagery, vibrancy and flexibility. Look guys, I hate to say this but back then they were smarter than we are today. We have you know Google and ChatGPT but if you think about it all these things are just making us stupid. Okay? Open cooperative competition just means that in their times Homer was just one of thousands of bards that are traveling around Greece and singing legends of the Trojan War and the Golden Fleece. Okay? what they were doing was they were stealing from each other. Shakespeare was stealing from everyone else and that allows for rapid innovation when you have an open cooperative competition. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 41:14 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Democratic sensibilities. This is really important. Okay? Homer was talking to ordinary people. Shakespeare was talking to ordinary people. The problem with today's culture is there's a lot of market differentiation where if you feel that you are high class you're a university professor you don't want to talk to common people you want to talk to other university professors and that leads to stagnation and segmentation. Okay? Free market. Really important idea where how do you know if you look good or not? Okay? Well in a university you know if you're good or not if a professor tells you you're good or not but how do you know the professor knows what he's talking about? The free market provides an objective feedback loop which forces you to constantly innovate and improve. Right? How do you know you're good? Because people come and listen to you. They pay attention to your place. They want to pay for your place. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 42:06 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Right? And it turned out that because of the free market and open corporate competition Shakespeare proved to be the best. Okay? And the last idea is poet as prophet. Okay? This is a really important idea where okay yes Shakespeare became very wealthy because of the place he was producing. He was of a common background. He was not very wealthy. He didn't go to university. That's why today there are scholars who believe Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare because he didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge. Christopher Marlowe went to Oxford or Cambridge but not Shakespeare. Okay? So you have a lot of scholars who actually believe because he's not well educated he could not have written the plays he wrote. But what drove Shakespeare and what drove Homer is the idea that you have a divine mission to spread the truth. Okay? So Shakespeare and Homer they were rich they were popular they were famous but they were not driven by money. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 43:05 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: They were driven by a divine messianic mission to transform the world. Does that make sense guys? This is really important to understand. Great artists are driven by um a messianic mission to change the world for the better. They're not driven by money or power or fame. Alright. So having done that let's recap and summarize the three great poets that have impacted Western Civilization. Okay? And compare and contrast the three. Alright. You have Homer who founded the Greek Civilization. You have Dante who we discussed in great detail this semester. He's the founder of modernity. And you have Shakespeare who was the founder of the British Empire. Alright? So um again Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare were all Democrats in their heart. Homer was a Roman bard who went around the different polices to sing and entertain the masses. Dante was revolutionary because he wrote divine comedy not in Latin which ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 44:09 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: was the language of the educated elite but in the vernacular in Tuscan so that ordinary people could access it. And by doing so he transformed Tuscan into the official Italian language that is spoken today. Um Shakespeare again was a playwright. He wrote to entertain and entertain such I mean it's very offensive someone's language. Alright. Um there are different conceptions of language though. Alright? All right, and this is very key for us to remember. For Homer, language is a window into the human soul. So go back to the Iliad and the Odyssey. It was really about what drove us humans. Achilles was driven by the thirst for fame. Odysseus was driven by his love of Penelope and his son, Tammacus, okay? So both the Iliad and the Odyssey were tremendous psychological studies of what it means to be human. And you have Dante, okay? Dante uses language as a portal into the mind of God. What is the universe? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 45:15 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: How did God create the universe? What does God want from us? Okay, that's a Levine comedy. Shakespeare is very different, okay? Shakespeare creates a new idea of language as a reality onto itself, all right? A reality onto itself. So what I mean by that is with Shakespeare, it's not a really deep meaning. It's very hard to find deep truths in Shakespeare, but the language is beautiful. And this is the culture we live in today where, you know what, people who write novels, they use beautiful language, beautiful description, great imagery, but there's really not great truths, deep truths, grand truths in the novels that are written and produced today, okay? So let me give you an example of what it means to have language as a reality onto itself, all right? So let me show you what this means. And to do so, I'm gonna use a different poet. His name is John Keats, okay, John Keats. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 46:15 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: And this is from his most famous poem, To Autumn, which is considered the greatest English poem of all time. All right, so let's read it together, and then I'll show you how this is a reality onto itself. Where are the songs of spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them. Thou has thy music. Thou has thy music. While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day and touch the stubble plains with rosy hue, then in a woeful choir, the small gnats mourn among the river shallows, borne aloft or sinking as night wind lives or dies. And foreground lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn, hedge crickets sing, and now with treble soft, the red breast whistles my garden crop and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. Okay. So it's beautiful. What does it mean? All right, I'm going to show you what it means, okay? This is language as reality onto itself. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 47:20 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: It is language visualizing a new world, all right? So you see how the words match, right? While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day and touch the stubble plains with rosy hue. It's a painting, guys, all right? This one sentence, it's a painting of a new world. That you can see in your heart. Also, then in a woeful choir, the small gnats mourn among the river shallows, borne aloft or sinking as the light wind lives or dies. Okay? You can see the music within this picture, right? This is a, not just a picture, but it's a world that you can access. Because it's moving, it's alive. It's a power. It's a power of language. Next sentence. And full grown lambs, loud beat from hilly born, head -trickets sing, and now with treble soft, the red -breast whistles from a garden crop. Okay? So you see what's happening where there's poetry, it is entering your soul. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 48:33 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-language-as-imperial-platform) Text: It is activating all your emotions, all your senses. There's the visual, okay? There's a sound, there's a smell, there's a touch. And gathering swallows twitter in the sky. Okay? That's what poetry is. Poetry is the expression of a new world that you can access. All right? And when you access it, when you enter it, it transforms your soul and your imagination, your capacity to think, feel, and imagine. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? All right? All right. So let's summarize what we learned, okay? Shakespeare turns English into the world's linguistic internet, a platform which all cultures, ideas, and world views can meet and cross -breed. Okay? So Shakespeare's transforming English into this extremely flexible, beautiful, memorable language, which allows everyone to learn English well. If you want to learn English well, just read Shakespeare. Okay? That's all you have to do, and then you can master English. So it's a linguistic internet. For ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 49:57 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2997s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=2997s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt#poetry-language-as-imperial-platform) Text: the first time, all cultures are able to meet together within the English language and communicate with each other. Okay? There's a problem with this. There's a problem with this. The problem is this. But this exchange is mediated through Anglo -American civilization, which is, at its heart, utilitarian, skeptical, and empirical. All right? So when you embrace English, when you experience English, you're also experiencing the world's most beautiful, British culture, history, and philosophy. Okay? And as we discussed, the three main philosophies of British culture are utilitarian, skeptical, and empirical. Utilitarian, we discussed last class. It just means that we should do things that works, as opposed to what is right. Skeptical is to be skeptical of our capacity to reason and to think. If you think you know something, you probably don't know it. Okay? And then empirical just means the only thing you can know is things you experience. All right? So in other words, Anglo ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 51:08 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: -American culture, even though it dominates the world, it's pretty lackluster. It's very narrow -minded. It's very practical. It's pretty mediocre. Okay? And if you want to know what I mean by that, think about, think to yourself, what was the last great American novel you read? I mean, there are lots of great Russian -German novels, right? So Russians, you have Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment. The Germans have great philosophy, Kant, Nietzsche, Hegel. We'll go into that later on, okay? But I struggle to think about what great art the Americans have produced, even though they are the most wealthy, most powerful country that has ever existed in human history. Okay? And I mean, Shakespeare is great. I mean, like, I love Shakespeare. King Lear is one of the greatest plays ever written, but Shakespeare compared with Dante, I mean, I don't know, okay? Dante is like, you are in the mind of God. You can feel this is divine, okay? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 52:19 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: But with Shakespeare, you're like, this is beautiful, but is it a pretty nothingness? Okay? That's a question I have. And again, to be fair, it's been a long time since I actually read Shakespeare. I've read most of his plays, but it's been a long time since I've read Shakespeare. So what I want to do later on, maybe a few years from now, is actually teach Shakespeare and see if I'm wrong, okay? But right now, I have to say, Shakespeare is not as impressive as Homer and Dante. And I think Homer and Dante are the two greatest poets who ever lived. All right. So let me give an example of what I mean by how British culture is kind of narrow -minded. All right. So this is considered the greatest epic in the English tradition, called Paradise Lost by John Milton. And it's really about Adam and Eve, right? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 53:20 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3200s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3200s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Why did Adam and Eve eat that forbidden fruit, and why were we banished from the Garden of Eden? And look, it's 12 books. It's 12 books. Which is a model of the great epics of integrity, Homer and Virgil. And there are some parts of Paradise Lost which are beautiful, okay? I mean, I love Paradise Lost. I've taught Paradise Lost before. But the reality is this. As an epic, as a grand vision of the world, it doesn't really work, okay? I mean, like, I don't really think the plot, the vision of Paradise Lost, it is as fully formed and as grand as Homer and as Virgil and as Dante, okay? And so Paradise Lost, you might have a chance to read it in college one day. But it's a very limited and narrow -minded epic. All right. So let's conclude. All right. So we did Britain today, okay? And I hope you understand. There's a lot of British culture. ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 54:35 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: It's an island fortress. It sees itself as here to the Roman Empire. It is an Anglin religion. It's driven by the empiricists and euthanasian philosophies. Okay? And Shakespeare is really the founder of this great civilization. Next class we'll do America. Okay? And then after we do these two cultures that now dominate the world, we'll move on to the Germans and the Russians. Okay? That's the game plan. but what's today's class clear to you do you understand Shakespeare now does this make sense okay any questions anything you're not clear about any questions ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 55:35 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: okay yeah so okay so the question is what is like like so Shakespeare's is ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 56:15 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: played off is performed all the time and you are forced to read Shakespeare in school so where is where do we get these place from okay so let me explain to you what's happening all right okay so Shakespeare's place all right so when Shakespeare was alive he didn't really publish his place okay he didn't publish his place and there are many reasons why he didn't publish his place first of all in this culture at this time there's no no No copyright so if you publish your play someone steals it too bad so you're not incentivized to publish your play second of all people don't really read and write so there's really no market for his place so even if you were to publish his place you wouldn't make any money he would make any money he would not make any money off it okay so what he did was he wrote his place down primarily ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 57:20 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: for his actors to memorize but as but but but the benefit of I make pentameter is that actually the speeches are pretty easy to memorize okay and when he was alive Shakespeare was a national celebrity he perform his place in front of the king and queen he was very very well known extremely famous he was looked down upon by the nobles but I mean he was very very wealthy and he himself will go on to purchase a noble title for himself okay so he was extremely successful um when he was talking about Shakespeare he had a noble title but what he didn't get alive people didn't really fully understand his genius okay it's only about 100 years 20 years afterwards when people really appreciate his genius and his play spread throughout Europe especially Germany to Germany the Germans loved Shakespeare okay and it was only after his death that people realized what a unique genius ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 58:26 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: Shakespeare was so after his death his friends and I don't know their names okay but his friends want to remember him they want to memorize him okay so they start to publish his place it's something called the first folio so basically what they did was okay they took the notes from Shakespeare so some surviving manuscripts not complete okay but some of his notes they also got the actors to basically write down what they remember okay they remember a lot because these are actors actors have extremely good memories okay so they were able to remember remember exactly the speeches and then they'll make they'll make edits okay and this is the first port little first folio okay but as you can imagine over time there'll be a lot lots of additions and mistakes alright but um so today there are a thousand Shakespeare scholars and they argue over certain words did Shakespeare really have this word ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 59:39 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: or was it a later addition okay and I mean it's a really silly thing to do because as I explain to you the genius of Shakespeare was to imagine language as it's very fluid flexible imaginative tool and when it comes to�� 한ожет for you to experience reality onto itself okay so to argue what i mean like was it a dagger or datter or dasher okay and people argue this i mean like does it really matter i mean like a lot of shakespeare's just wordplay right i mean like there's really no deep truth in shakespeare and quite honestly i mean like these words are not going to change the deeper meaning of shakespeare okay so so it's something that i think overpaid english professors do okay just because they have nothing better to do okay they argue about what was the in the first fort leo what was edited out was added to they're trying to ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:00:40 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: figure out what was shakespeare's original intention and i mean shakespeare think of him as a musician okay he's i mean like he's trying to um sing beauty and truth but a lot of it is not intentional a lot of it's not conscious a lot of this is being driven by inspiration and intuition and imagination okay right so when we go back to hamlet the soliloquy if we change a few words it doesn't really change the meaning of the soliloquy okay right does it make sense eva okay great question though right any other questions yes okay okay so it's a great question okay um what means burden okay this is a concept that was introduced during the age of imperialism right at the end towards the end of the 19th century by robert kipling okay the white man's burden we have a responsibility as white people to go and civilize the dark people okay in africa ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:02:07 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: and in china and other places um what's the connection to shakespeare okay first of all shakespeare was not interested in the world okay he he was very provincial he was interested in london and that was about it i'm not even sure if he traveled okay um there's a debate whether or not he actually speaks french and latin he knows a bit of latin but this is about whether or not he speaks french okay so um shakespeare was not an imperialist he was not a globalist he didn't really care about the world but within shakespeare is british culture okay he wrote of histories tragedies and comedies there's like 38 to 41 plays and together the encapsulation of british culture right so as britain was going out into the world and conquering people and colonizing nations they need to explain why this was happening okay why are you going and killing people for like no particular reason ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:03:17 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3797s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3797s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Poetry Creates Civilization](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-poetry-creates-civilization.txt) Text: and this is why shakespeare is important because shakespeare allows him to say well do you have a shakespeare do you have do you have like 38 to 41 that are beautifully written well if you don't then that means you're not civilized okay we have shakespeare you don't have shakespeare that means we're superior to you and therefore we will teach you shakespeare we will educate you in shakespeare we will civilize you okay so this is not just shakespeare there are other um um individuals as well okay but primarily shakespeare shakespeare is really the um greatest cultural product of the british right so that doesn't make sense echo okay so shakespeare himself was not an imperialist he didn't really care about that sort of thing okay but his legacy will be co -opted by british imperialists in order to justify and explain whether going out and killing so many people around the world and stealing their resources ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:04:23 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: right okay but we'll discuss this when we enter the age of imperialism which is towards the 19th century and and then this will lead us into the great wars world uh world war one and world war two okay all right any more questions yeah i i answered the question okay great great so so you're you're doing othello in class and you're looking at othello from the perspective of race and identity and culture right um okay so let's discuss how shakespeare wrote his place okay so he wrote um for around 40 plays before he died at 52 okay which meant that he was basically producing one two three plays a year that's a lot guys if you read shakespeare the themes are extremely diverse okay you have othello who is a moore who kills his wife desimona okay but you also have merchant of venice julius caesar okay so there's a wide range of his plays ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:06:32 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=3992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: and so the question is So, he was stealing it from everyone, okay? Remember, this is a huge market for theater. There are dozens and dozens of really talented playwrights in London, in England, who are producing wonderful works. So he's just stealing these plots from different playwrights. But what makes Shakespeare unique and special and superior to these other playwrights is, first of all, his characters. He has a deep empathy for his characters. He goes into the mind of his characters, and he says, if I'm this person, how would I behave, okay? So that's one thing that makes him unique. Second, as we discussed, is his use of language, okay? Just the fluidity and the beauty, okay? And the flexibility of his language, okay? And the last thing is the, the realism, which is he's trying to make the plot as realistic as possible. He's trying to remove the supernatural elements, okay? He's interested in psychology, okay? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:07:52 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4072s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4072s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: So, when you look at Othello, he's asking himself, why is it that a man who loves his wife, what could drive him to kill his wife, okay? That's the question he's asking. he doesn't see Othello as a black person in a foreign culture he doesn't see it that way he just sees I want to ask myself a question if you truly love a person what would what would drive him to kill her okay but because the theme is so universal it allows you to impose cultural readings okay so he himself was not interested in the issue of race culture and identity quite honestly at this time in history there's no such thing as race or identity okay remember I keep on saying this but for most of you of your ministry we got the fridge ourselves according to race we differentiate ourselves according to community okay so within England people didn't care about the French ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:09:07 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: or the Germans they hate but but you know what they cared about each other and they hated each other remember the main conflict in England at this point is the comic between the Catholics and the Protestants okay so they won't focus on the world they'll focus on each other so these cultural readings come later they come from today Shakespeare himself was only interested in psychology what drives us humans all right and you can see that benefits itself in Othello and in Hamlet all right and quite honestly I'll be honest to you I think it's really unfair to Shakespeare that we're doing this right I mean like like like like isn't that much it wouldn't be much more interesting class we stopped asking ourselves Oh Othello was a black person so how black people persecute it and ask yourself Othello is a man of great achievement he's a man of great tremendous pride and honor but ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:10:03 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: is it possible that in insurance in certain circumstances this can be used against him and that's the that's the plot of Othello which makes it a Greek tragedy right the Greeks could work it's about hubris arrogance fate these are questions that the Greeks were concerned about so in many ways Shakespeare saw himself as continuing the Greek legacy all right and the fact that we're focusing on questions like race culture identity it's really like degrades the play because it's saying like oh if you're a black person then you may always be manipulated and persecuted and quite honestly it's also reinforcing certain racial stereotypes about black people as very violent and emotional okay so if I were to teach Othello it's a great play and I've never taught Othello but I would focus more on the human aspect of Othello as opposed to the racial aspect of Othello does it make sense okay great any more questions ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:11:22 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4282s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4282s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: that's a great question how is Shakespeare able to focus on human psychology given the fact that he's not well educated okay I will make the argument it is precisely because he's not well educated that he focused on human psychology okay when you are educated you're educated into cultural attitudes norms and values of the elite but if you're not educated then what you do is you observe humans as they are without prejudice you want to know you want to know how are we as humans and you have not been indoctrinated to believe believe certain certain things okay if you go to school you don't want school and you go to when you're at university, the first thing you're taught is only well -educated people are capable of deep psychological insights. And that's a prejudice, that's a failing. Because Shakespeare never went to school, he's able to see himself as equal to other people, and therefore he's ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:12:23 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4343s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4343s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: able to have tremendous empathy for other people, and therefore he's able to understand their psychology and his own psychology, all right? He's able to see people as a reflection of his own psychology, and that's what drives his genius. And quite honestly, that's also what drove Homer, okay? I hate to say this, but I did go to Yale University, I studied English literature there, so I spent a year studying Shakespeare. And I was not impressed with the education I got at Yale, because again, the problem with going to these elite universities is, you're taught to think in a very rigid way that inhibits your empathy, your curiosity, and your own psychological understanding, okay? In fact, I'll be honest with you, I watch a lot of YouTube videos and like to do research for these talks, I'm always impressed by how these self -taught historians know much more about history than these academics at Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, okay? ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:13:40 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#fictional-hero-observation-turns-legend-into-person) Text: something that I've observed I'm you're much better off talking to an individual who has a passion for history and who spent his entire life asking himself what is history but never really got a formal education never got a doctorate in history as opposed to a Harvard PhD in history okay that's that's that's a hard lesson I learned in my life it was very hard for me for me except because I am an elite graduate of of elite University okay but what Shakespeare understood intuitively is no it's the common people the ordinary people that's where the truth lies okay not in books but in people that's that's what makes Shakespeare so great he's he is first and foremost an anthropologist a psychologist of people he wants to understand how people think and behave okay when you read when you read his books place that's what that's what you experienced for yourself okay he's really ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:14:39 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: interested in the psychology of Iago Desimona and Othello okay that's that's what he's that's what he's curious about he's not interested in these structural forces that drive conflict and persecution among these people okay that comes later but that's what we do to Shakespeare today okay but back then he was only he was only interested in what it meant to be a human being does that make sense I go okay great any more questions guys you want to ask more about Othello I'd be happy to answer even though my reading of Othello ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:15:25 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) Text: might be different from what you've been taught in class okay okay so the ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:15:54 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#fictional-hero-observation-turns-legend-into-person) Text: question is how does Shakespeare develop his themes okay so so Othello sorry so Othello Hamlet King Lear Shakespeare all these plays are well -known stories okay there's many well -known stories but Shakespeare he is curious about people all right because every day if you work in the theater you you deal with people all the time okay your customers are people your actors are people and what he discovered over time is people are very complicated people are very emotional people have their own psychology there's diversity among people okay and so what he does that's really interesting is he takes these legends and he combines them together okay he takes these legends and he takes his observations of human individuals and combines them together to create Shakespeare in other words what he does that's unique is he takes these characters King Lear Hamlet he turns them into people he's observed all right when you do that you ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:17:03 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt#fictional-hero-observation-turns-legend-into-person) Text: get you get a lot of interesting psychology all right so let's imagine you become Hamlet and you become Othello and you were in the circumstance where your father has come and told and give you a mission to go kill your uncle because he's sleeping with you know your your mother and how would you behave well you probably like Hamlet you'd be like very confused you'd be very distraught okay does that make sense saving Othello where let's just say that you're this great champion you're this great hero well other people are me jealous of you right if other people are going to be jealous of you what they're gonna do is figure out how to get back at you okay so it's not a racial issue it's a human issue if you're the top student in the school and every day the teachers are praising you right I'm pretty sure that's just gonna hate your guts ## Shakespeare, The Language Engine Of Empire -- 1:18:01 - Source title: Civilization #51: Shakespeare's Language of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qms7trnKwqQ&t=4681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qms7trnkwqq.json) - Related lens: [How Fictional Heroes Become Part Of The Self](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-fictional-heroes-become-part-of-the-self.txt) Text: that's Othello right that's a human thing it's not a racial thing it's not because he's black I mean it's because he's such a accomplished individual does that make sense all right great okay so next class we do the American Revolution all right you ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay, so the question we are looking at today is, how did England become the greatest empire in human history? This is about the 19th century, when the British Empire is at its peak. As you can see, it really controls most of the world. So the question then is, how did this happen? Why is it that England was able to surpass Spain, France, Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia, to become the dominant hegemon in the world? So my argument to you today is, it has to do with the fact that throughout its history, England was forced to innovate. In a more rigorous and relentless way than other nations. And a lot has to do with its geography. Okay? So as you can see from its geography, Great Britain, this is Ireland, this is England, Wales, Scotland. It is an extremely mountainous region. They have a lot of rivers, but there are no major rivers. Which meant ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:27 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: that, for most of its history, Britain never had a major population center that could grow and grow until it overwhelmed the entire geographic area. This meant that, for most of its history, England, Britain, was engaged in a process of what we call open competitive cooperation. Not only that, Britain was engaged in a process of open competitive cooperation. But because this area is very mountainous and because these groups, these tribes are divided heavily amongst themselves, throughout most of its history, Britain is actually pretty easy to invade. They have no centralized authority, so it's possible for other groups of people to come and create settlements in Britain, which is what the Vikings did, which is also what the Romans, the Amnaya. So throughout its history, Britain had underwent a series of great destruction, where the elites were constantly replaced by new elites. Okay? And because Britain is poor, because there's so much conflict within Britain, eventually the English people were forced to migrate overseas to create new opportunities. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 2:55 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: And this process of colonial expansion led to the British Empire. Okay? So there's a famous saying that the British Empire was founded by accident. Okay? There was no intention to create this empire, but because of these historical, geographic, demographic forces. Britain became the world's largest empire. Let's very quickly look at Britain's demographic history. So for most of its history, because of its geography, because of the fact that it was poor and divided, the population of Britain stayed very flat. Okay? Up until the year 1000. What happened in the year 1000? Well, Europe became wealthier and wealthier. It engaged in a proto -industrial and agricultural revolution. Which caused the demographic to increase. But unfortunately, if your demographics increase, but you don't have improvements in sanitation, in health, in nutrition, well what happens? You have something called the Black Death, which causes the entire population of Europe, including Britain, to collapse. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 4:05 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay? After the Black Death, the Europeans start to engage in the Gunpowder Revolution. And with that, you have industrialization, urbanization, and that causes the population to increase. But if you see about the middle of the 16th century, 17th century, up until about 1800, the population is flat. This is what we call the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Britain is the first European nation to undergo the Industrial Revolution. And what that meant is you have this massive migration from the rural areas into the urban areas. Especially London. Okay? So why would this population or demographic shift cause the population to stay flat? Well, the first reason is it's really, really unsafe in the cities. Diseases, malnutrition, lack of sanitation cause people to die really, really young. Also during this time, because of the massive inequality in Britain, people are forced to migrate overseas. Okay? In order to seek better opportunities. Mainly America. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 5:15 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: But they will also go to Australia and New Zealand. So even though the Dutch were the first to discover and settle Australia and New Zealand, it is really the British who, because of pressure back home, they will settle in Australia and New Zealand. And today, Australia and New Zealand, of course, they have a British culture instead of a Dutch culture. Okay? Starting in about the year 1800, because of improvements in nutrition, sanitation, the population explodes. Alright? And this is true for, throughout Europe. And this is really why Europe will eventually conquer the world. Alright. So let's go briefly into the history of the British Isles. So at first, we believe that the British Isles were settled by an agricultural people. Okay? These are the people who built Stonehenge. Now, if you remember way back to the beginning of this course, back in September, I discussed Gobekli Tepe, right? Gobekli Tepe is a temple in Anatolia, ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 6:25 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=385s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=385s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: in what is modern -day Turkey, that shows the desire for humans to settle down and found religious societies. Well, Gobekli Tepe is very similar to Stonehenge. They are both astronomical. They have astronomical calendars that measure the stars, measure time, and try to bring divine energy onto the earth in order to feed agriculture. So you can argue that what's happening is the Gobekli Tepe culture is spreading all throughout Europe, and it gets into the British Isles. But eventually, these people are conquered by the Yamnaya. Okay? And if you look at the DNA evidence, a lot of these people were eventually wiped out by the Yamnaya and replaced. This is a process of destruction that will happen throughout British history. The next major development is the Roman conquest of Britain. When the Romans conquer Britain, they bring Roman technology, which is aqueducts, irrigation, urbanization. They will also bring Roman customs, especially law. Okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 7:39 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: So now you have a legal tradition in Britain that continues on to today. They will found a city called Londinium, which is now modern -day London, off the River Thames. Okay? And this city will eventually become the largest city in Europe. After the Romans will come a new group of people who are Germanic. Okay? So these are people who used to live in Denmark and northern Germany. And because of population pressure, they are forced to migrate overseas, and they settle in Britain. There are three different tribes of people that settle in Britain. They are the Angles, the Saxons, and the Dukes. And together, we will collectively call them the Anglo -Saxons. And at this point in history, this culture, this language, it's no different from that of Germany. Okay? So if you were to go to this place in about the year 800, they're speaking the same language, which is West Germanic, and today we call it Old English. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 8:51 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Again, what's really important to remember is it's fairly easy to settle down in Britain because there's no centralized authority. So after the Anglo -Saxons comes the Vikings from Denmark. Okay? And even though England has no major rivers, it has still a lot of rivers. So it's fairly easy for the Vikings, with their very fast longships, to come and make settlements. So as you can see, the Danelaw are territory that is ceded by the Anglo -Saxons to the Vikings. Okay? And now you have this merger of the Viking culture with the Anglo -Saxon culture. This process of creative destruction continues with the Norman conquest of England. This is year 1066. This battle is called the Battle of Hastings. In which, when the conqueror of Normandy in France, he comes and conquers the British Isles. Okay? Britain. Okay? This is significant for two reasons. The first reason is that the Normans are Vikings who settled down in France, in an area called Normandy that's off the British coast. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 10:04 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: And remember, before the Anglo -Saxons were Germanic people, so their focus was on the Northern Europe. Because the Normans conquered Britain, Britain now is united with parts of France. Okay? So Britain is drawn into the politics of France. Which will lead to something called the Hundred Years' War. In which Britain, the English, are trying to maintain their territory in France. Okay? So that's the first major geopolitical consequence of the Norman conquest. The second consequence, which is also rather significant, is that Britain is trying to create a radical change in the English language. So before, the Anglo -Saxons spoke a Germanic language we call Old English. Now you have a merger of the Germanic language with French and Latin. So French is the language that the Normans spoke, but Latin is the official language of the educated elite of Europe. Okay? So now you have ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 11:01 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Latin and French elements blend into Old English, and this creates a new language we call Middle English. And the Middle English, of course, will give rise to Modern English. This is significant because what makes Middle English different from Old English is Middle English is a lot easier to learn because, remember, now you have a very cosmopolitan nature to Britain. You have Vikings, you have Anglo -Saxons, you have French, you have Normans. They all need to speak one language. So the best elements of these different languages are blended into Middle English. And this tradition continues today because if you think about it, English is the most widely spoken language in the world. Why? Because it's the easiest to learn. Now you may argue that, no, it's because we live in the Anglo -American Empire, and therefore people are incentivized to learn English. But at the same time, what I will show you next class is the reason why they were able to establish the Anglo -American Empire. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 12:07 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: A lot has to do with the fact that English is easy to learn, and therefore it's easier to spread soft power. Because when you learn a language, you're not just learning a language, you're also learning a culture. You're learning a history. And this is what we call soft power. And the British did this better than anyone else. Now the Americans do this better than anyone else. But it starts with the Norman conquest in 1066. All right. So as I mentioned, what's really important about Britain is it really never had centralized authority. Maybe now and then you had a great king, like Alfred the Great, but it was never centralized because the king could never assert authority over the different fiefdoms. So whenever a king does that, the nobles get together and they rebel. So in 1215, King John tries to impose taxes. King John tries to impose taxes on the nobles in order to finance wars in France. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 13:08 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Because again, the English are trying to maintain their territory in France. And that creates a lot of conflict with the French themselves. So they fight a lot of wars, and you need money to pay for these wars. So King John was trying to make the nobles pay taxes. So what the nobles do, and this is going to be a consistent pattern throughout British history, is they rebel. And they force King John to sign a document called the Magna Carta. The Great Charter. And the Great Charter is significant because it severely limits the power of the king. Now, this has happened throughout human history before, when the nobles rebel and they force a compromise with the king. This has happened throughout human history, but this is actually the first time that this has been written down and become part of the British tradition. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 13:57 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=837s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=837s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: This will become part of what we call the British Constitution. What makes the British Constitution unique is it's not written down. It's not a document like the U.S. Constitution is. It is a set of traditions and norms. So this begins the British Constitution, the Magna Carta. What I want to do now is look at different clauses in the Magna Carta. It's a very old document, so most of the stipulation, most of the clauses don't really apply. But there are three that do apply. So I want us to just look very closely at certain clauses within the Magna Carta. All right, clause 10. If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heirs shall pay no interest on the debt. This is really interesting. This is year 1215. There are Jews in England. Why are there Jews in England? Let me explain the history of... ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 14:57 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=897s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Europe at this time. So Europe is entirely Catholic. The Catholic religion does not allow for something called usury. And the idea of usury is you charge interest on debt. Okay? Because that goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church. That goes against the teaching of God. Also, it's socially destructive, right? Because if you fall into debt, you're basically stuck there for all of eternity. So the Catholic Church explicitly forbids charging interest on debt. But, this is really important, debt is extremely profitable. So the way that the king and the nobility get around this taboo is they get Jews, okay, to lend out money and to charge debt. And then the king gets part of that, right? Also, because Jews are heavily disliked in Europe, anyway, because they engage in money lending and usury, the king also gets them to go collect taxes. Right? So the Jews throughout European history have been the scapegoats for the elite. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 16:12 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=972s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=972s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: They're the ones who charge usury. They're the ones who collect taxes. They're also the ones who will engage in businesses for the nobles. Okay? So they basically subcontract businesses from the nobles, and they're very good at that. All right? And why do Jews agree to do this? Because the king and nobles provide protection to the Jews. So over time, you have this huge problem where even nobles owe money to the Jews. And the problem of debt creates a lot of social tension within England. So in the Magna Carta, it says very explicitly that, yes, you still owe money to Jews, but if you die, your heir does not have to pay interest. Because the problem of debt, again, is not the debt itself, the principal, but the interest. Okay? All right. So does that make sense to you guys? All right. This is really important because if you want to understand World War II, if you want to understand the Holocaust, it starts way back here. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 17:17 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay? All right. So the two most important clauses in the Magna Carta that are still applied today is 39 and 40. All right? So let's look at 39. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. This creates a new principle in British history called due process. This means that if you commit a crime, you are still guaranteed a jury, a trial, before you are punished. All right? There's a process in which you are found guilty for your crime. This is what we call due process. Number 40. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice. This means that no one is above the law. Okay? So number 30 establishes the idea of due process. Number 40 establishes the idea of rule of law. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 18:16 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Everyone is guaranteed due process. Not even the king has the power and authority to take away due process from someone. All right? And this establishes the British common law tradition. And this becomes the basis for the American Constitution. All right? Okay. So as I mentioned, because of the Norman Conquest, Britain now is forced to defend its territory in France, and this leads to a series of disastrous wars in France called the Hundred Years' War. I don't have time to go into the history, but obviously there are certain very important figures that emerged from the Hundred Years' War, the most famous being Joan of Arc. Okay? Joan of Arc, who is this French mystic, a teenager girl who leads the French armies to victory against the British and their allies. All right? During this time, there's also a civil war fought in Britain called the War of the Roses between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 19:19 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: You may like the Game of Thrones television series. I'm not sure if you've watched it, but that series is actually based on the civil war between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. This goes on for a long time. It's very, very deadly. It almost destroys Britain. But eventually, a man named Richard of York, Richard III, he emerges victorious from this civil war. Okay? But he has a problem. His problem is his family, the House of York, had to borrow a lot of money from overseas, the Florentines, right, the Medici's, in order to finance the war. Once he became king, he thought, well, I'm king and I don't have to pay you back. Okay? So now the bankers are angry at him. And if bankers are angry at you, you have a problem because what bankers will do in this circumstance is finance an invasion of your country. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 20:13 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay? So the Medici's, the Florentine bankers, they sponsored a man named Henry Tudor, Henry Tudor, who is of the House of Lancaster. Okay? But he grew up in France. And they sponsored him to invade England and defeat Richard III. Okay? And this establishes the House of Tudor. And so Henry Tudor becomes Henry VII, and his son becomes Henry VIII, who is one of the most famous kings in British history. He's famous because he decides to negate the authority of the pope. He decides, I'm the king, I don't have to listen to anyone, even the pope. Okay? And this came to pass because Henry VIII was trying to divorce Catherine of Aragon, and the pope would not agree. So the Henry VIII decides to set up his own church called the Church of England and separate himself from the Vatican. Now, what's really important for us to remember is there's only one difference, only one difference between the Church of England and the Catholic Church. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 21:20 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: The Catholic Church swears loyalty to the pope. There's only one. The Church of England swears loyalty to the king of England. That's it, guys. There's no other difference. The customs, the doctrine, the rituals are all the same. Okay? There's only one difference. He will have a very famous daughter called Queen Elizabeth. All right? So, because of the Reformation, there's a huge religious civil war going on between the Catholics and the Protestants. Okay? So, Elizabeth, why she is so consequential is she's on a throne for 40 plus years. And what makes her extremely significant is she brings stability to England by sympathizing with the Protestants, but also by working with the Catholics. Okay? So even though there are all these Catholic conspiracies against Elizabeth in order to instill, install a Catholic monarch, she's still able to resist these conspiracies, these rebellions, and establish a pretty stable nation. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 22:36 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: At the same time, during her reign, Shakespeare will write his plays. Next class, we are doing Shakespeare. Okay? Because without Shakespeare, there would be no English language. If there's no English language, you can also argue there'd be no British Empire. So next class, we'll spend an entire class on analyzing how Shakespeare created the English language and created the possibility of the British Empire. Okay? That's next class. Francis Drake is the most famous pirate at this time. And he is a trusted deputy of Elizabeth. Elizabeth has a policy of piracy. Right? England is poor. Spain is rich. So what do you do? You steal from the rich and you give to the poor. Right? And that's what Sir Francis Drake did. So at this time, England is emerging as a naval power. And it's going to surpass both Spain and France, become the dominant navy in the world. And as you know, it's with the navy that allows the British Empire to control the world. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 23:45 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: The major innovation of the British, of the English, is how they fight at sea. Traditionally, the way you fight naval battles is by ramming the enemy and then boarding the ship and then killing everyone. That's what the Romans did. That's what everyone did. The English decided that's silly because we're always outnumbered. We're always outmanned. Okay? So they pioneered long -range cannon warfare where from a distance, maybe a few hundred meters, you will blast your enemy with cannons. There are lots and lots of problems with this. Okay? The first problem is you could possibly sink your ship because the cannons are very heavy. Also, you could blow up your own ship because the cannons are very explosive. Also, the cannons aren't very accurate. But the English persisted even though you can make the argument that this type of warfare, it's not sustainable. Okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 24:42 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: In the beginning, for the first few decades, the way they fought was terrible. But the thing about the British that made them very similar to the Romans is they were relentless. They were willing to suffer heavy casualties, major setbacks, major failures, and still persist until they eventually won. Okay? That's the mentality of the British. That's very Roman. All right. So this is 1588, the Battle of the Spanish Armada. Okay? And this is something that's heavily celebrated in England because for the English, it marks the day when the British Navy reigns supreme over the seas. Okay? This is the day that the Spanish Armada was conquered and destroyed by the English. Something that's really important for us to remember is that in a year later, in 1589, the Spanish will defeat the English and the English will suffer tens of thousands of casualties. Okay? So what's important for us to remember is that these wars go back and forth. There's no one time when, okay, now the British are dominant. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 25:50 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay? What matters is persistence. What matters is resilience. And in this, in that respect, the English are far superior to the European adversaries. Okay. So Queen Elizabeth dies and King James of Scotland inherits the English throne. Okay? So now Scotland and England are united. What's significant about King James is he produces what we call the King James Holy Bible. This is something that the Protestants have been demanding for a long, long time. Remember, the difference between the Protestants and the Catholics is the Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible. The priests tell the parishioners what to believe, what the orthodoxy is. The Protestants believe that everyone must read the Bible. So the King James Bible, it's the first time that the Bible has been mass produced for everyone. Okay? So this spreads very quickly throughout the English and British Isles. Also, what's really significant is with the Bible, now you've standardized the language. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 26:58 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1618s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1618s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Okay? Now you can make the transition from Middle English to Modern English, the language we speak today. 1620 is significant because it's the year when the pilgrims on the Mayflower, they moved to America to found a new colony, a new civilization, a new empire that will take over the world. So what are the pilgrims moving to America? Well, the Protestants are divided into two major factions at this time. You have the Puritans. Who are the Puritans? The Puritans believe that the Church of England is too Catholic. And so, therefore, we must purge the Church of England of Catholic tendencies, like rituals, like priests. Okay? The pilgrims are what we call separatists. Okay? So there's another group called the pilgrims, is too corrupt, it's too evil, it's too much like the Vatican. Therefore, we should abolish it or we should just separate from it. And so, of course, they were persecuted by the king. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 28:05 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: And, as a compromise, the pilgrims were allowed to go to America to build a new civilization based on their beliefs. And this civilization, of course, will be called America. All right? So that's something that you must remember, that America was founded by pilgrims who wanted to build a kingdom of heaven on earth. And we'll discuss this next week when we discuss the American Revolution. Back in England, there is a civil war now raging. Okay? And it starts again when the king tries to impose too much authority over the nobles. But there's also a religious dimension to it because the Puritans want to impose a religious state Okay? So the fanatics at this stage are the Puritans. And what will happen is the Puritans will emerge triumphant under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell and he will establish something called the Commonwealth of England. And this is a disaster. It doesn't really work out well because it goes against British tradition. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 29:06 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1746s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Remember, the idea of the Puritans is they want to establish a religious centralized theocracy on England. But England has always been pretty independent and autonomous. So what will happen is after Cromwell dies the Commonwealth goes away and the nobles reinstate a new king. Okay? Who is Charles II. After he dies James II will take the throne. The problem with James II is he's a Catholic. Okay? He's a Catholic. And so there are a lot of English who are afraid that he will be too close to France, Spain, and the Vatican. And these are British enemies. Okay? So what will happen is this. The nobles will invite a Dutch king William of Orange who is of British blood to come to England in the year 1688. And William of Orange will bring about 10,000 soldiers to Britain. This is an invasion. This is the very last invasion that succeeds in Britain. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 30:17 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-national-credit-outlives-king) Text: King James has a larger army. But what will happen is King James is not very decisive. He's not very effective. So a lot of his army will desert him. So basically his army dissipates and he's allowed to go to France. And William of Orange bloodlessly not bloodlessly but he's very quickly able to assume the throne. And this is significant because this is called the Glorious Revolution. This is significant because it establishes for the first time officially the sovereignty of Parliament over the king. This is really important. Now it's official. Parliament is the ultimate authority ultimate sovereignty in Britain. And the king is a figurehead. And this is significant because it will now allow Britain to energize the middle class. If you're middle class you now have an incentive to work hard because now there's patents there's trademarks. There's incentive for you to get rich. And this will lead to of course the Industrial Revolution. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 31:30 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-national-credit-outlives-king) Text: All right so the Glorious Revolution is one of the main contributing factors to the Industrial Revolution in Britain. This is also significant because in 1694 the Bank of England is established. All right now I I can't emphasize enough what a huge deal this is. All right so let me slowly explain what is the big deal and I want I want to make sure you understand because now we go into into into finance and economics. And I really haven't taught finance and economics before. I want to make sure that you understand the idea here. to fight a war what you do is you borrow money from the rich and these are usually cartels. All right so the charge of second borrowed a lot of money to fight wars from the goldsmiths of London including a group of Jews. Okay and then he refused to pay it back. Now you have a problem because now you have a credit crisis you have a trust crisis right? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 32:37 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=1957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-national-credit-outlives-king) Text: If the king refuses to pay back the rich for their loan, why would the king ever be able to raise funds ever again? So Parliament solves this problem. Because now if Parliament is the central authority, the central sovereignty in the land, then you are not lending money to the king, you are lending money to the nation. Right? If a king dies, or a king is deposed, you're screwed. You're not getting your money back. But if you lend money to the nation, the people, for the Parliament, then you are always guaranteed to get your money back unless England gets conquered, okay? But we know because of the Navy, England cannot be conquered. And so not only are the rich willing to lend money to the nation now to finance wars, but also foreigners. Foreigners, especially the Dutch, right? Because the Dutch were very wealthy, and they needed a safe place to put their money. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 33:38 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2018s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2018s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-national-credit-outlives-king) Text: So where's the safest place in the world to put your money now? England, right? Because if you are in the Netherlands, you could be conquered by the French or the Germans, which happens a lot. But if your money, your gold, and this is gold, right, goes to London, no one's going to be able to touch that, okay? So now, the Bank of England allows Britain to borrow money from its people, from foreigners, and from the future by printing money, right, by issuing war bonds. And therefore, Britain has infinite financing. And this is a major reason, this is the main reason why Britain was able to defeat Napoleon, right? It took seven wars, seven coalitions, to defeat Napoleon. Each of these coalitions was financed by Britain, okay? And once Napoleon was defeated, Britain became the hegemon of the world. It became the British Empire. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 34:37 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: No one could now challenge the might of Britain. Okay, so you understand the impact of central banking, okay? Central banking allows you to mortgage your nation's future in the pursuit of total war. It allows you to weaponize the trust and confidence of your people, okay? Does that make sense? But there's a problem, okay, this is really important. There's a problem with this innovation. The problem is this. Once you commit to a war, once you raise debt and commit to a war, you're forced to fight the war until the very bitter end, right? Because if you lose the war, your nation goes bankrupt. Does that make sense, guys? Okay, that's why Britain refused to ever compromise Napoleon, right? Napoleon said to Britain, hey guys, I control all of your debt. You're up, let's talk peace. Let's just trade peacefully. And Britain says, no, we can't do that because we lent a lot of money to the Austrians, the Prussians, and the Germans, and the Russians in order to defeat you. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 35:46 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: If we sign a deal of peace, all this money is now gone. And we, the Bank of England, we, the British nation, is completely wiped out. We are completely wiped out. Okay, do you understand? This is really important for the future history of Europe. If Britain fights a war, it does so through financing. It does so through debt. But because it does so through debt, it has to fight the war until it wins. It can never, ever compromise. It can never, ever surrender, all right? And this is important because this explains what happened in World War I, World War II, and this also explains, and I'll discuss this towards the end of the semester, it also explains American foreign policy, okay? Okay, was that clear to you guys? Any questions about what we've learned so far? Okay. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 36:39 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2199s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2199s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Now I want to talk about political philosophy of the British, okay? Because again, we discussed this throughout this course. You can have new ideas, but now you have to justify these new ideas. You have to explain the innovation through philosophy to the people, okay? So Britain at this time is really famous for its political philosophers. At this time, Thomas Hobbes is one of the most dominant, political philosophers. He lived through the English Civil War. He saw all the chaos, all the destruction, and he wrote a book called Leviathan. Leviathan is to justify why Britain returned to a monarchy instead of maintaining a commonwealth, okay? And this is the most famous passage from his book, Leviathan, which you'll probably read in university, okay? There is no place for industry because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently, no culture of the earth. No navigation. No use of commodities that may be imported by sea. No commodious building, no arts, ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 37:45 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death. The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, okay? So he's trying to explain why there's government, and so he gives the idea like we were born in a state of nature, and we're free to do whatever we want. We can kill. We can love. we can steal we can do whatever we want so why would we give up this freedom in order to enter a state of nature it is so in order to have government and the answer is because state of nature sucks okay because you can be killed because because things will be stolen from you because to be no innovation so no matter how bad government is it's absolutely necessary okay now this is John Locke okay and John Locke is writing during the time of the course revolution he is a supporter of ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 38:39 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Parliament he's a supporter of the glorious revolution okay and he writes something called so 1688 is March Revolution in 1689 he will publish the second Treatise on government and this is his most famous work again when you go to university you'll have to study the second treatise but in it he basically explains that okay Hobbes is right we are born a saloon a chair and we do need government but let's remember this when we're born in a state of nature we are born with circumstances that we need to live in because a man has to live with his certain inalienable rights and these three rights are the right to life liberty and the pursuit of property and the proper function of government is to maintain our rights the government does not do that then we have the flexibility we have the freedom to rebel against the government okay so Hobbes is saying government isn't necessary ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 39:32 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: you can never ever challenge it because if you do things will get much worse Locke is saying government is only legitimate if it guarantees us our inalienable rights okay so Locke is considered the founder of liberalism and his ideas will become the basis for the US Constitution which will which we'll study next Thursday okay so I want to remember this all right now what I'm doing now and this is really important okay it's compare contrast the British Enlightenment with the European Enlightenment remember before the British Enlightenment the British Enlightenment the British Enlightenment before we did the European Enlightenment we studied Rousseau we studied Kant Voltaire okay and I told you the British Enlightenment is very different from the European Enlightenment in three major ways okay so now what I will do is explain what the differences are okay all right so let's compare Rousseau and Locke Locke published his theories at the end of the ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 40:32 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2432s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: 17th century Rousseau comes about 50 years later okay and Rousseau will give us a French Revolution so there are three major differences I want you to remember between British ah local philosophy and European political philosophy okay the first is this Locke believes that we are born tabula rasa the blank slate okay which means that we are influenced by the environment if our parents are nice to us will be good people the other parents are mean to us will become bad people tabula rasa okay we are controlled controlled, nurtured by the environment. Rousseau, the Europeans believe, no. We are born inherently good. Not only that, we were born with a capacity to reason. We are given the freedom to reason. Remember, when we discussed Rousseau, he said, do not educate your child before the age of 12. Because if you do, you'll just screw up the child. And the idea is, there's a natural capacity in us that will grow over time that allows us to reason naturally. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 41:36 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: So Rousseau believed this, but also Kant believed this as well. Okay, so that's a huge difference, right? Second major difference is this. Locke believes the purpose of society is liberty. Liberty just means you are free to do whatever you want. You want to eat ice cream? Go ahead and do it. Yes, ice cream will make you fat. Ice cream will, maybe increase your cholesterol. But you should have the freedom, the liberty, to make that choice, okay? That's the purpose of society, to give you the liberty to make bad choices. For Rousseau, the purpose of society is reason. Society, if it's good, should enable you to reason properly. Okay? So the Europeans believe that society should be much more interventionist. It should help you become more reasonable. Because reason is what allows for freedom. Okay? And the last major difference, and this is key, okay guys? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 42:39 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: I need you guys to remember these three differences. The last major difference is this. How do you base laws? On what basis do you have laws, okay? And so for Locke, the answer is very simple. Tradition, guys! It's just what we've been doing all this time, right? British common law. If the Romans did it, and we're still doing it, it's probably for a reason. It's probably because it works. But for Rousseau and the Europeans, it's general will. Remember, okay, so just to remind you, general will is what is in the best interest of people. Okay? This is really important. It's not what people want, it's not what the majority says, it's what is in the best interest of people. So Rousseau talks about this a lot, where, okay, if you let people vote, there's a danger that they'll be influenced by a minority who manipulates them, okay? The idea of the general will is, think about this using a reason. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 43:37 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Think about what is in the best interest of everyone. All right, so if everyone's like, you know, I want free ice cream, okay? This entire school says, I want free ice cream, then we should give you free ice cream, according to Locke, right? But according to Rousseau, no, we cannot give you ice cream, because if you sit down independently and think about what is in your best interest, you would know that ice cream is bad for you. Therefore, we should not give you ice cream, okay? The general will is, what is in the best interest of everyone involved? Not necessarily what you vote for, not necessarily what you believe, but what is in your best interest, okay? If you have reason, if you have the capacity to reason. All right? Now, let's just summarize what the difference is. The Europeans always asking, what is good? What is right? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 44:26 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: The British, and then later on the Americans, only ask, what works, okay? What works? What is the least, okay? Worst world we can live in, okay? So the British are practical. You can also say the British are utilitarian, where the Europeans are romantic, and they are idealistic, all right? Also, and this is really important, because Rousseau's thinking will give us the philosophies of communism and Nazism, okay? Does that make sense? And of course, Locke's ideas will give us the US Constitution, okay? So this is part of the, the Anglo -American political tradition. This will now become the European tradition, which will give us Marxism and communism. All right, all right, let's continue. So one of the most important political philosophers in Britain is Jeremy Bantham. He's the founder of something called utilitarianism, okay? So Bantham agrees with Locke in that we need a more liberal society. We need a more progressive society. But for him, ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 45:36 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: it's really a question of like, how do you, how do you mathematically and logically come to the point where you have a tolerant, liberal, progressive society? And so he develops the idea of utilitarianism, okay? And the idea of utilitarianism is, there are two principles that govern the universe, okay? That motivate us. There's the pleasure principle, and there's the pain principle, okay? And so what he says is, if something makes us happy, it's inherently good. If something is, makes us feel pain, it's inherently bad. Okay? So we should structure a society that mathematically calculates the amount of pain and pleasure we produce, and then we should maximize the pleasure and reduce the pain, okay? And if you do that, then you get to the same point of Locke where people should be guaranteed liberty. People should be allowed to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't really harm other people, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 46:35 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: You wanna eat ice cream, go eat ice cream. You're not harming anyone, all right? Obviously there are lots of issues with this theory of utilitarianism, so along comes his disciple, John Stuart Mill. And John Stuart Mill is considered the most significant political philosopher of the past 200 years, okay? He is the founder of what we'll call classical liberalism. The very basis of classical liberalism is people should be free to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Also, People should be allowed to say whatever they want because free debate, free open debate, is what allows for society to progress. So what John Stuart Mill does is he takes the principles of utilitarianism and refines it in order to explain why classical liberalism is the best philosophy out there. And classical liberalism will include women's rights. It will include prison reform. It will include a more egalitarian society. All right, so another thing that John Stuart Mill does that's very important is he explains pleasure is not what you think it is. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 47:55 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Pleasure isn't like, okay, whatever makes me happy. Because there are different types of pleasure. There's short -term pleasure and there's long -term pleasure, right? Short -term pleasure is eating ice cream every day. Long -term pleasure is having a healthy body and which allows you to climb mountains, which allows you to enjoy life more, okay. Short -term pleasure is just watching Tiktok videos. Long -term pleasure is being able to read Shakespeare. Being able to read Dante and being able to enjoy life more, okay. So that is his major refinement of Bantham. Just because you enjoy something today doesn't mean it's good for you. So we have the capacity to understand there's short -term pleasure and there's long -term pleasure, right. okay long -term pleasure is what he refers to as happiness the purpose of life is to be happy it's ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 48:48 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2928s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: not necessarily to seek pleasure it's it's but it's the purpose is to to seek happiness okay all right so this is a very rough introduction you will learn all the stuff when you get to university okay all right so these are the reasons why the rich Empire came to conquer the world okay all right it's history it's geography its demographics forces it to engage in a continuous series of innovation this innovation will allow to eventually dominate the entire world and even though the British Empire is gone we still have to comment the British Commonwealth okay so these are nations that speak English that believe British culture it's the best in the world and who believe that working together in a community you will be beneficial for all okay the British Commonwealth okay and that's a legacy we still have of the British Empire okay so now that I've done a brief introduction what I'll do ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 49:54 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=2994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: now is summarize the main points so that you are so you have a pretty clear framework to work with as we progress into the American Empire okay all right so what we do now is just summarize what we've learned in terms of what we've learned in terms of what we've learned in terms of the American Empire is to make a relationship withers have a solid relationship what we found is right to make a relationship withers and the answer to this question was obviously that they think of themselves as traditional Britishini their own mission is to form a local Chelsea Conway Union in order to develop try in the protest and slow down their well -being at first what help to be the new Mrs. cook in the British Empire okay let's start with common sense okay so like I mentioned to a lot of times the British Empire grew up in southernérieur in northern conquest ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 50:49 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: its main purpose is actually to to maintain global trade why because remember Britain is the first nation to industrialize therefore it's producing a lot of finished goods if you have finished goods you need markets so the British Navy its main purpose is to open up new markets and then to maintain safe trade routes against pirates okay to facilitate global trade so and this of course made Britain extremely wealthy second major reason is the Bank of England all right I cannot stress enough how important this innovation was also what's really important first remember is the Bank of England was private okay private so we have the powers of a central bank the power to print money issue currency the power to issue debt sell bonds but it was private so it was private so it was private so it was private so it was private meaning was controlled by which stockholders okay and the reason why ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 51:58 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: they did this is it was just the easiest way in order to raise money quickly okay that makes sense right because if you're if you're a public person you may not want to give your money to the government but you're a rich person where you're gonna put your money you're gonna put your money into a central bank that's that's supported by government okay all right and the third major reason is English all right so the development of English which is again the East the world's easiest language to learn so most languages in order to speak it well yet you guys have you actually have to grow up in a place right so once you want to speak Chinese very well then the best solution is to be born in China but English is different English is you can learn at any age and you can learn at any age and you can learn at any ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 52:53 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: age and still have a pretty good command of the language okay that's a huge innovation in human history all right so now let's let's try to figure out why was England able to achieve these three major innovations okay and not other places okay the first principle is the idea of open cooperative competition which I'll explain okay secondly said you have creative destruction meaning the elite is being constantly replaced by a new elite that brings in new ideas the third is expansion okay so colonial expansion where the British are the English are forced to migrate overseas instead of Canada the United States Australia New Zealand and other places as well okay but permanently these places so these are the three major factors that drive innovation and because of all this constant process of innovation you have Britain develop a Navy a bank and a new language that is fairly easy to learn all right really quickly ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 54:10 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: I'm going to discuss the idea of open cooperative competition all right so historically civilization developed like on a major river so if you look at China China developed on the Yangtze Egypt developed on the Nile Mesopotamia Mesopotamia developed on the Tigris and Euphrates. India developed on the Indus Valley and the Ganges. Why, because if you have a major river, you can build a settlement, and then for irrigation, you can expand your population, okay? And once your population expands, it will allow you to colonize other areas, and then your population keeps on growing before it becomes a dominant civilization in an area. Does that make sense? Britain is different, and Europe is different. Why, because there are no major rivers, and therefore, the population is constant. You never have a need to go conquer new territory. You just want to protect your own territory, okay? But because the population is so diffused and limited, it allows for foreign conquests, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 55:30 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Which allows for great destruction. And that's the main factor driving innovation in Britain. So that's the history of the British Empire. Any questions? Anything you guys are not clear about? Feel free to ask any question, okay? But please make sure you guys understand the logic of this, because we're gonna build on this as we go further and further into the present, okay? And remember, this is being influenced by the Dutch, who will now, and then these ideas will then go on to influence America, okay? So America basically just takes all the ideas of the British Empire for itself, all right? So it's really important you understand what's driving the British Empire. Sure, the Puritans. Okay, all right guys, all right. So let's go into, so the question is, what's the difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims? Okay, let's go into the problem of religion in England at this time, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 57:07 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: So when you have a diversity, you have diversity in England, and so even though England is a small place, as I keep on saying, a lot of control is localized, okay? So if you cross from one village to the next, the culture can be very different, all right? So this is a feudal system. So you have a lot of diversity. So this diversity can be very different and diversity is gonna impact your religious outlook, okay? So what's gonna happen is this. So England is Catholic, and then the Henry VIII is going to turn this into the Church of England. But then what's gonna happen is you will have new ideas, basically Calvinism, come in from Europe, okay? Why is Calvinism important? It's because, you know, England is the first to industrialize. It's the first to have a middle class. It's the first to have merchants. Merchants prefer Calvinism to Catholicism, right? In Catholic, in the ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 58:19 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Catholic religion, you have to give all your money to the church, but in a Calvinist religion, you have to keep your money for yourself, right? So Calvinism is a much more popular religion in Britain than the Catholic religion in England, as England begins to industrialize. And so the middle class is rising, rising in power, okay? And the problem is the response to the Church of England. The Church of England, it's not Catholic, but it's using a lot of Catholic principles. And the Calvinists, the feeling of the Calvinists is they're fanatics, okay? They believe everyone should be a Calvinist, everyone should believe in hard work, everyone should be like us, and the Pope is evil. So the Calvinists are not very tolerant. So there are two major responses to the Church of England, okay? There's the idea of reform, and then there's the idea of dissolution, all right? So the idea of reform is, look, the ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 59:23 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: Church of England, it's fine, but there's certain things within the Church of England which is too much like the Catholic Church, so if we get rid of these things, we'll be good, okay? So, but within the reform movement, you have different factions as well, okay? So there's some who want to replace the governance structure of the Church of England, because the Church of England is controlled by the king, and they believe, no, we should all be obedient to God, not the king, so they want to destroy the hierarchy, the governance. There are some who want everyone to read the Bible. There are some who want to change the nature of the priesthood, okay? So there are different theories of change, okay? And these group of people we call the Puritans, okay? The Puritans. But then you have a minority who are extremely violent and fanatical, and they believe, no, let's just get rid of the Church of England, period, because there should be no earthly authority before God, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:00:22 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: And these people we call separatists, okay? And they will become the pilgrims, because obviously the king will persecute these people. They will feel, the king sees them as a threat, and they will be persecuted, they'll be outlawed, a lot of them will be executed, so a lot of them will flee to America in order to practice their religion, okay, in order to found a new religion. All right, so the pilgrims are the ones who flee, the Puritans are the ones who will stay and eventually engage in the Civil War and over for the king. But remember this, okay? While this is happening, while this is happening, and this is really important, there's also a counter -reaction, okay? So there are these Catholics who want to return England into the Catholic fold. And they're, so Scotland is very Catholic, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:01:18 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: You also have other people, called the Armenians, who want to maintain the Church of England as it is, okay? So you have all these massive factions emerging, and they're all in conflict over religion. And religion is a proxy for economic class as well. Okay, so it's obviously the middle class who support reform. There are a lot of nobles who support the Catholic religion. And the king is primarily a sympathizer of the Catholic religion. All right? So during the Holocaust Revolution, they will make a stipulation that no king can ever be a Catholic. Okay? And that's a way to limit the power of the king. Because if you're a Catholic king, you can draw on the French, the Vatican, the Spanish as allies in your suppression of the nobles and of the middle class, you can't be a Catholic. So there's a fear that the king will ally with the Catholic in order to destroy the authority of Parliament. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:02:27 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: And so after the Glorious Revolution, a major reform is the king cannot be Catholic. And in fact, if you adhere to the throne, but if the Parliament suspects you have Catholic sympathies, they will replace you with someone else. Parliament has that power. And they did that actually during its history, okay? So there's a deep fear of the Catholic religion within the, among the English people, okay? But as you can see, this is a very complicated process that will take about 20 years to fully play out. Does that make sense? What's really important for us to remember is this conflict is being, through the pilgrims, is now migrating to America. And these people will make America into the most religious, fanatical, intolerant place of worship. And this is a tradition that continues on Earth in certain places in America, okay? And it's a tradition that still continues today. There are some, certain parts of America that are extremely tolerant, like New York City and Los Angeles. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:03:30 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: But hey, go to, I don't know, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. They're not very tolerant people, okay? And you can make the argument that they are the most fanatical people in the whole world, much more so than the Jews, much more so than the Muslims. Okay? So, does that answer your question? Great. Any more questions? You know, that's a great question, okay? So, how much power does a king have? Okay. So, the thing about the British is, because it's a system based on tradition, there's a lot of flexibility built into the system. So depending on the personality of the king, the king can have a lot of power, okay? So, for example, Henry VIII was a very powerful king. He was considered one of the most powerful kings in the world. Why? First of all, because he was a huge guy. He was extremely charismatic. He was a huge guy that was very good at winning friends with the nobles, okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:04:37 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: So he was very good at building alliances. Also, he was in power for a long, long time, over 50 years. Okay? So he was able to slowly insert his prodigies, his minions, into positions of authority. Okay? And also, he was also very popular in the Middle Ages because he took England away from the Catholic Church. Okay? So, the power of the king, it's not written down. It has to do, and a lot of his power has to do with his personality, his longevity, his alliances, his charisma. Okay? So there are a lot of different factors in place. And that's why the British think their constitution, it's the most perfect in the world. Because it's not written down, so they're not actually constrained by words. It's, but there's traditions that allow the constitution to be living. Okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:05:33 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=3933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: To be flexible and to be pertinent to the present. Okay? And so the English are extremely proud of their constitution. Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. So, that's a great question. So, if these pilgrims went over to America, how was America able to become this multicultural empire? Right? Because that goes against a lot of periodical teachings. And the answer, which we'll discuss next week is, America is a coalition of conflicts. Okay? It is a melting pot of differences. Okay? So, what I will teach you next Thursday, when we do the American Revolution is, there are two dominant strands in the founding of America. There's the pilgrim strand, which is puritanical, which is like, let's create a theocracy. There's also an enlightenment strand, where they believe that they're founding a new empire based on reason. And so, the religion we use for them is deism. Okay? These are deists. And most of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, were deists. ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:06:56 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=4016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=4016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: They wanted to found a tolerant, multicultural, empire. Okay? So these are two dominant strands in America. And, quite honestly, what's really important is, if you want to understand what's happening in America today, Donald Trump, right? You need to understand that it's these two strands that have always been present in America, that are now coming into conflict with each other. Okay? Because you have, on the left, these multiculturalists, like Barack Obama, who believed that America is great because America welcomes immigrants. And you have people like J.D. Vance, and there are lots of others as well, on the conservative side, who say, no, America is great because we are Christian. Okay? Because we have this tradition of Christianity. That's what makes us great. And right now, we're losing our Christianity due to multiculturalism, and therefore, we must close our borders. Therefore, we must reassert the Christian faith in our nation. Okay? ## The Island That Had To Innovate -- 1:07:59 - Source title: Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia! - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=4079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laGSxfvlOfk&t=4079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lagsxfvlofk.json) Text: So we will discuss this next Thursday when we do America, but as this course progresses, I will show you how complicated America is and show you that because of this conflict, America is probably headed towards a civil war. Okay? If that makes sense to you. All right. Great. Any more questions, guys? Okay. So next class, we'll do William Shakespeare. And then after William Shakespeare, we'll do Christian. Okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So we start the very last section of the course today. It's on the Anglo -American Empire, which rules the world today. So we will first look at the rise of the British Empire. And to understand the rise of the British Empire, we first need to discuss the rise of the Spanish Empire. So let's go back, and we discussed that it was the Spanish who were the first to colonize the New World. And they did so because they were looking for gold and silver. And it turned out they found a lot of gold and silver. And all this money was now going back to Spain, and that became the basis of the Spanish Empire. And you'd think it's a really good thing that they found all this gold and silver, but it was a disaster for the nation, okay? And the reason why is that at this time in history, Spain was a feudal, catholic monarchy. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:18 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And all this money just made the system even worse. So let me explain. is that there's a rigid hierarchy of status. The nobles and the clergy at the very top. And because of all this gold and silver, the clergy and the nobility don't actually have to pay taxes anymore, and they actually have to make no contribution to society. So you have this group of parasites that are sucking up a lot of wealth, a lot of energy within Spain. So that's the first problem, this feudal system. Second is the idea of Catholic. So because of the Catholic religion, people don't really care about what happens today. They care about what happens when they die. They care about making sure that they have a place in heaven. So they get all this money from the New World, and none of it goes into industry, and innovation, and technology, and science. All of it goes into religious activities. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 2:29 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: For example, religious festivals, churches, masses. And all this money is being wasted on these religious festivals. And the third thing is monarchy. So they have a king, and this king also happens to be, through marriage, the king of the Holy Roman Empire, which is most of Europe. So if you're a king, you have an infinite amount of money, what do you do? where you go on a series of stupid pointless wars all around Europe and he was fighting the Ottomans he was fighting the French he was even fighting the Catholic Church because he wanted to be stronger and have more authority than the Pope and he was paying for these wars through with this gold but also by borrowing and so at the end of the 16th century Spain even though it was at this point in history the most powerful Empire the wealthiest Empire with the largest army it went bankrupt ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 3:32 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: basically all right so this system was was a disaster for Spain another issue is because of feudalism the Spanish nobility thought it was beneath them the Spanish nobility thought it was beneath them to work hard they believed that it was contemptuous to to exert yourself to be a noble means to sit back and enjoy life okay so this money was a disaster for Spain so to understand what happened just think of an analogy let's just say today I give each of you 100 million US dollars you think that's a lot of money and so you go and you waste it all on ski trips on buying a new Maserati or buying a private plane and then you recognize oh you know what if I keep on doing this I'm eventually going to go bankrupt so what do you what do you do well you go and you invest in businesses right and you recognize that ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 4:37 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: hey if I go to invest in businesses what I should do is borrow money from the bank in order to have greater leverage in order to make more money and the bank says well you have hundred million million dollars so I will give you money and so you get you take about a billion dollars in loans and because you're not a very sharp business person you have to have seen no business yeah you're actually no experience running a business well in ten years time all your business go bankrupt okay and so you find yourself a billion dollars in debt you start out with a hundred million dollars and then through reckless expansionism you have a billion dollars in debt and that's exactly what happened to Spain okay all right but this system created opportunities for those who did work hard okay and these three countries that will take advantage of this system are France England ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 5:37 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: and Holland okay or what we call the Dutch Republic okay don't worry about the name for now and so there are three ways in which you should invest in debt in 10 years. they took advantage of this new system that the Spanish created. The first is through industry. And what this means is the Spanish didn't have any industry. They were still an agricultural -based nation, but they wanted textiles, they wanted finished goods. So the French, the English, and the Dutch, they did work hard because of their religion. They were Protestants, and they believed in hard work. And so this created a middle class for them. So they industrialized because of Spanish demand. So that's the first way that these three countries benefited. The second way is through piracy. So what was happening was that these ships were transporting all this gold and silver from the New World back to Spain, which means that you can just hijack these ships and steal all their gold and silver for yourself. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 6:42 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And piracy became the official policy of the English. All right? So Francis Drake was the most famous pirate of this time, and he was like an admiral in the British Navy, sponsored by the queen, Queen Elizabeth I. And he was a national hero because he would go and he would steal all this gold and silver from the Spanish and replenish the English crown. So piracy was a really important way these three countries made money off Spain. Also because of piracy, these three countries were forced to innovate in their navy. So the system of naval warfare at this time is that you would ram your ship at another ship, you would board it, and then you would take over that ship. Okay, so it was hand -in -hand combat. And what the English figured out was, you know what, we can just have cannons on a ship and then just pound the other ships from a distance, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 7:43 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Basically artillery and long -range fighting. And that's what the English pioneered. And that's why eventually they become, over time, the greatest navy in the world, all right? So piracy was a very important factor in the development of the English navy. The third thing is through trade, okay? But specifically through smuggling. So the idea is all this territory in the New World was controlled by the Spanish crown. And so everyone started to smuggle in order to avoid paying taxes and levies to the crown. So what were they smuggling? Well, they were mainly smuggling slaves, okay? So slaves were, for most of human history, the most profitable product that you could trade. And this was even more true at this time because the New World had these plantations and they needed people to work these plantations. So they started to transport slaves from Africa to the New World. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 8:47 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Now, there is a misconception in history that the Europeans went to Africa, kidnapped these slaves, and then transported them to the New World, okay? This is not true. The reason why it's not true is the Europeans actually did not want to go to Africa and stay there. And the reason why is malaria. So what's happening was that the Europeans set up trading centers around Africa and it was the Africans themselves who would give the Europeans slaves. And the reason why is these nations, these tribes in Africa were fighting against each other and the custom at the time is if you lost a war, then we would enslave the entire population and then sell you to the Europeans. So not only were the Europeans getting rich off this trade, but so were many African clans and tribes, okay? So that is what happened. The other thing is, what people misunderstand is most of the profit was actually not in gold and silver, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 9:55 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: At this time in history, the most profitable product, the thing that was most valuable is actually spices. Things like nutmeg, cinnamon, peppercorn, all right? These are the things that Europeans really valued. One ship of these things was enough to make fortunes for entire families for generations, all right? So in other words, the center of trade was not actually in the New World, but actually in, in Southeast Asia, okay? Southeast Asia, okay? So from China, the Europeans imported silk and porcelain and from the Southeast Asian islands, Indonesia basically, they imported spices, okay? So this became known as the East Indies, the East Indies. And this is where the money was to be made, okay? So the key to world conquest was who could control the trade routes into the East Indies, okay? So the people that first really figured this out were the Dutch, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 11:10 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So the Portuguese are here, but the Portuguese are like the Spanish, okay? They are a Catholic nation. But the Dutch are the ones who figure out how to make a lot of money out of the East Indies, all right? So how did the Dutch, how were the Dutch able to succeed? It has to do with the fact that at this time in history, the Dutch were controlled by the Spanish, okay? The Spanish were in charge of the Habsburg Empire, which included Spain, sorry, which included the Dutch, okay? So at this time in history, the Dutch are part of something called the Low Countries. Low Countries include today the Belgium and the Netherlands, okay? That's considered the Low Countries. And for the longest time, the Low Countries have been part of the Holy Roman Empire. And this system worked well for the Low Countries because they were poor, they didn't have much resources, so they were left alone by the Holy Roman Empire. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 12:12 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=732s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=732s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: They had a lot of local autonomy. They were a very independent and very egalitarian nation. And everyone there, because it was cold, it was poor, people worked hard. And the Low Countries was one of the first places to develop textiles. And as such, they started to trade with Spain. They became wealthier. But over time, as Spain became more and more powerful, it wanted to exert more authority over the Low Countries. What's happening at this time is Protestantism is spreading all across Europe. And the King of Spain wanted to maintain Catholicism in the Low Countries. And it's brought them into conflict with the people in the Low Countries, okay? And this created something called the Eighty Years' War. It was really a war of independence between, so there were certain individuals, certain cities in Low Countries that wanted independence from Spain. And of course, Spain didn't want to maintain control. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 13:09 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: This war would last for 80 years. Now, the problem is that Spain, it is the most powerful nation in the world at this time. The Low Countries, it's like 1.5 million people at this time. Okay, so it's a very, very small place. And so they can't possibly fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight. They can't actually defeat Spain. But they persist because they're led by religious fanatics. And over time, what they realize is, even though they can't beat Spain on land, they can actually beat Spain in the sea, okay? So what they recognize is, you know what? The way to beat Spain is, if we can control the trade in the East Indies, that's gonna give us the military, that's gonna give us the wealth and the resources to defeat Spain. We are a small and poor nation. So how can we best do this? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 14:05 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And the solution would forever change human history. In 1602, okay, 1602, they created something called the Dutch East Indies Company. And it's known as VOC in Dutch, okay? The Dutch East Indies Company. This is really important in human history because this is considered the first multinational corporation in the world, okay? This corporation, it's not controlled by the government, but it has the power of government. It can raise its own military. It can create its own laws. It can issue its own currency, okay? And this company will go on to become the most profitable and most valuable company in the whole world. If you take Apple, Microsoft, and Google, these three companies, and you combine them together, they would still not be as wealthy as the Dutch East Indies Company. And the reason why is they had a monopoly over trade for spices in these indies, okay? So then the question then is, why would the Dutch do this? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 15:26 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Why would the Dutch go out and create their first multinational corporation? And the answer is, is they needed a way to unite the people of the low countries into fighting the Spanish. How do you incentivize the people into fighting the Spanish? Most people were indifferent. They're like, we don't really care, the Spanish are far away. But you had some fanatics who wanted independence, but you also had some individuals who were heavily Catholic. Eventually what will happen is the people who want independence will move north to the Netherlands, and the people who want to remain Catholic will move south to Belgium. That's why if you go to Europe today, if you go to Belgium, it's heavily, heavily Catholic. But if you go to the Netherlands, which is still one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it's actually Protestant. And that's what happened. So they need to unite the people, and the best way to do that is to incentivize them by giving them shares, equity, in a company. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 16:29 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So now people actually have an incentive to actually fight the British. Because if the Dutch East Indies Company makes money, they get rich, and that's what actually happened. The Dutch East Indies Company will become extremely wealthy, and so that will create a middle class in Holland. So the first issue is equity, okay? But also, if you think about it, this is actually a very clever way to raise taxes. Because if you try to get taxes from people, they will rebel against you, right? But if you say, hey listen, we have this company, and if you invest in it, you might get rich. Well, this is equivalent of selling war bonds to people. So that's the idea, and that's why the Dutch East Indies Company, it really marked a turning point in the war between the Dutch and Spain. Also, ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 17:20 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1040s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1040s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: this will allow the Dutch East Indies Company to work hard to control the trade in the East Indies. Because if they work hard, they're the ones who profit, not the king. And over time, what will happen is, the Dutch East Indies Company will push out the Portuguese, and they will monopolize this entire area, and as a result, they will become extremely wealthy. What's important to remember, and this is why the Dutch actually don't really talk about this history, is a lot of battalion horror happens because of this process, okay? Because they're a multinational corporation only interested in profit, they can't do anything about it. They commit ethnic cleansing. They basically wipe out the population. They enslave people to work in plantations to grow these spices. They will constantly engage in a series of wars against the Portuguese, the English, and the French in order to maintain control over the monopoly. But over time, what they ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 18:19 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: will recognize is, they don't actually have the population resources to maintain their empire, so they will retreat and leave this empire to the French and the English, but they will still be subcontractors to the English and the French, and that's why the Netherlands remains one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, okay? A lot of their wealth is hidden, okay? All right, so what's important for us to understand is, this war is actually driving the growth of the middle class and Protestantism in Europe, all right? So let's review the Protestant religion, okay? So this is actually Calvinism. So there are actually two major ideas that differentiate Calvinism from Catholicism, okay? The first is the idea of justification by faith. So in the Catholic religion, you show your faith to God by doing good works, by giving money to the church, basically. But in the Calvin religion, which is what the Dutch Republic adopts, it's justification by faith, which means that you and God communicate. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 19:47 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And God knows if you are faithful, and you yourself know if you're faithful. So if you spend money, if you build stuff, that doesn't matter. The works doesn't matter. What matters is your true faith, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing, which is more important, is the idea of double predestination. So remember from our lecture on the Protestant religion, reformers are trying to destroy the influence of the Catholic church because they think the Pope is evil. All right? So the main power of the Catholic church comes from the idea that it's a church who decides whether or not you go to heaven and for how long. Sorry, whether or not you go to heaven. If you don't go to heaven, then do you go to purgatory and for how long, okay? So the church has control over your afterlife. And so what the Calvinists believe ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 20:39 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: is, no, the church doesn't, because at the beginning, at the beginning of time, even before the world was created, God had already decided who would go to heaven and who would go to hell, okay? That's the idea of double predestination. Your destiny has already been decided. And only a minority, called the elect, will go to heaven. Everyone else will be damned to hell, okay? And again, these ideas were created in order to erode the loot, destroy the influence and power of the Catholic church so that people can be liberated from the church in order to celebrate God in the proper way. But we discussed this. These two ideas will now create a new problem, which is how do you know if you are part of the elect, right? How do you know? Well, I believe so, I believe, but how do you really know, okay? And the answer discovered is you know through your virtuous hard work. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 21:43 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Okay? Through simple, hard work, okay? And so how do you know if you are working hard? How do you know that your life is simple enough? Well, because you're accumulating money. Does that make sense? Money now is actually useful. Before it wasn't that useful. But now, money is now a testament to your faith, okay? And this marks a radical change. Okay? A radical change in human perception and human identity. Before we were people very much focused on status, right? Now we focus on wealth. So let me explain the difference. What does status mean? Status just means how you are perceived in your community. So you work hard in order to win approval from your peers. So remember the Vikings, okay? The Vikings would go on these crazy adventures, okay? Why? Because they would come back and tell these stories that would entertain and impress their peers, okay? Also remember, the Vikings, if they have money, what they would do is this. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 23:00 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Remember the Viking funerals. A third of all their wealth would go into funeral expenses, okay, having a big feast for everyone. A third of their wealth would then go into the funeral clothes, dressing well for the funeral. And a third of their money would then go on to the family members, all right? So for most of human history, we didn't believe it was important to have money. What's important was to impress the community. And that's why if you make any money, you would immediately come back and hold a huge feast for the community, right? And that's still true in China today, where you are from a village, you come to Beijing, you open a restaurant, you make a lot of money. What do you do? You go back to your village and you hold a huge feast. Okay, so that's the idea of status. And that's what before we were concerned about. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 23:54 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Now, we're concerned about wealth. Why? Because wealth is a measure of your faith. It is a testament to whether or not you will go to heaven or not, all right? And this marks a radical change in human perception. And this creates the idea of class now, okay? And the market, all right? So does this make sense, guys? All right, so the other issue is now that the Dutch, through trade, they're making a lot of money, but at the same time, they're actually not allowed to spend their money because they have to exemplify simple hard work, then how do they enjoy their wealth? Okay, and the answer is through art. So now you have an art market in the first time in human history. Before, you had a lot of art. Before, art was something that was patronized by the wealthy. But as the middle class rose in the Dutch Republic, now the middle class can enjoy art. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 25:05 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: And this will mark a radical change in how art is created, okay? And also, because of this, you have a new idea called materialism. So the accumulation of goods. If you don't spend your money on the community, if you don't spend your money on the church, where do you spend your money? money on the house right on where you live so that's why it's important to buy silk and porcelain from China that's why you want to buy spices because it's a measure of your wealth within the household okay remember and this really pointed this is driven by three factors okay the first factor is anxiety anxiety comes from the fact that you don't know either faithful to God or not so you must prove to yourself you are faithful okay so that's the first idea anxiety second is the idea of uncertainty uncertainty means that at this time ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 26:11 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: in history the Dutch Republic is at war of Spain Spain again is the most powerful Empire in the world you don't know you'll survive you don't know if the Dutch Republic will survive against Spain and it probably will not all right you don't know if the Dutch Republic will survive against Spain and it probably will not all right but the uncertainty also comes from the fact that trade is precarious right now you're wealthy because the Dutch East Indies company is profitable and you you have stock in the Dutch East Indies company but it's also possible tomorrow England or France or Spain comes and whips out the Dutch East Indies company okay so there's a lot of uncertainty in your life and the third thing is competition because remember only a few people will go to heaven but there's a lot of wealthy people in the Dutch Republic so how do you prove that you're better ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 27:06 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1626s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1626s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt) Text: than your the other members of the middle class well there's gonna be competition okay you have to prove that you are a more simple more faithful individual all right and because of these three factors anxiety uncertainty and competition it will drive three major developments in human society the creation of money the creation of the art market okay the art market also includes literature by the way but that comes later but the art market also includes literature by the way but that comes later later and the idea of materialism in human life and if you think about it this is now becomes the prototypical middle -class identity right and so even though we're in China and we are not a Christian nation and we've never went through this history the middle class in China still has the values and the ideas that the Dutch had 500 years ago okay Chinese The Chinese middle class is obsessed with money making, it's obsessed with materialism, and it's obsessed with the accumulation of artistic objects. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 28:13 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And so that's the history here. Any questions before I go into the evidence and some of the history? Was this clear to you guys? I know I'm going fast, but we have a lot to do in order to finish the semester. Okay, so let's go over some of the history. Okay, so let's go to an age. Alright, so 1588 is basically when the war between the Dutch Republic and Spain really begins to take off. So let's go over some basic background about the Spanish Empire, okay? So remember, Spain has territories in the New World. What's important is that Spain is not colonizing the New World, okay? Spain is only interested in extracting resources, specifically gold and silver, from the New World, okay? So, there's no colonization going on, there's just economic exploitation going on. And the ships, the navy is designed only to take the gold and silver back to Spain. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 29:50 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And again, everybody knows that. And what this does is it creates opportunities for piracy, which the English and the Dutch will exploit very heavily. Okay, and these centers of economic exploitation will also need a lot of slaves. And so the English, the French, and the Dutch will take these slaves from Africa and smuggle them into the plantations to feed these colonies, okay? So this wealth allows Spain to enter its golden age. And one of the main artists of this golden age is actually Miguel Cervantes. And he's famous because he wrote a novel called Don Quixote de la Mancha. And it's considered the first great novel, or the first novel in human history. It is an amazing book, Don Quixote de la Mancha. I would love to teach it to you at the time, okay? But it's about a thousand pages. But you know what? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 30:51 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: It's easy to read, you can read it by yourself, okay? I highly recommend Don Quixote de la Mancha, okay? But during this time, of course you also had great artists and great literature happening as well. This money was being wasted in Spain, okay? It was being wasted in building these wonderful, beautiful buildings like El Escarrillo in Madrid. It's just outside Madrid, and it took about an entire year, of bringing back gold and silver from the new world to build this building but for the longest time this was the largest building complex in the entire world okay um spanish because the spain business was so wealthy became became the fashion trendsetter for all of europe so um spanish dress spanish clothing became popular throughout all of europe especially england um so what will happen is the spanish royal family will marry into the hapsburg and the haspanic family controls the holy roman empire and the ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 31:57 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: hapsburgs are like the most famous dynasty in europe at this time they will marry uh and then carl charles will inherit both spain as well as the woman uh the holy roman empire which includes the netherlands okay and so this is his empire as you can see it's actually moving to the north of europe this is spain and this is the holy roman empire which includes the netherlands the low countries the problem though is once you have this territory you have to defend it and so he comes in conflicts with all the great powers of the day okay including france which is the peer competitor to spain at this time you he'll also come come into contact with the protestants under martin luther okay he's trying to step up uh the rise of protestantism especially calvinism in europe he'll also come into conflict with with the ottomans um and he will also come to conflict ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 32:57 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1977s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=1977s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: with the pope okay so with all this money uh the king of spain is causing wars with just basically everybody and he becomes a bit of a bully which bankrupts the nation the problem with the hapsburg is they have a terrible terrible reputation for um inbreeding okay they only marry within the family it's a terrible thing right so it's a terrible thing in bілentここ you know in this particular is that his family is poor not the children of the blood the blood of the poor number one is that the blood of the french king he's pretty high up the border okay he's going to destroy the country and so what's his plan for the future uh because the social system is changing the It's rising because it has very strong industry and then it builds trade networks all around the world. So as we discussed, it controls the Baltic trade and what it does is ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 34:08 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: it basically trades textiles across this area and then it will trade slaves across the Atlantic and then it will monopolize trade in the East Indies. And that's why in the 17th century the Dutch Republic will become the wealthiest nation in the world and its middle class will become the most prosperous and wealthiest in the world at this time because of all this trade. All right, so this is a map that shows you the extent of trade in the Dutch Republic. So this is the Spanish and as you can see, most of the trade is actually focused across the Atlantic. All right, this is the French, they get involved as well, but their trade is nowhere near as dense as the Dutch and the British, okay? And eventually, the Dutch and the British will come into conflict with each other in the Anglo -Dutch Wars for dominance over the seas. And what will happen is the Dutch will win most of these naval battles, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 35:20 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: The Dutch are superior sea people, but the British are superior sea people, okay? The British are much more persistent and the British have a much greater population. The British are like the Romans. Remember, the Romans didn't win that many battles, but they just never gave up, they were relentless and they were willing to sacrifice most of the population in order to eventually win, okay? That's just the British mentality, all right? They weren't great at, they were not as superior as the Dutch at sea or against the Spanish and the French on land battles, but they were just much more relentless and persistent, okay? All right, so let's go over the major differences between Spain and the Dutch Republic, okay? How was the Dutch Republic able to rise and defeat Spain and win its independence? Well, the first thing is Spain was a Catholic religion that focused on orthodoxy, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 36:15 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So everyone had to be Catholic and everyone had to obey the power of the church. And so you may have heard something called the Spanish Inquisition, right? So it was the Spanish who created, what people call the Jesuits, who were responsible for enforcing orthodoxy within the Catholic world. And the Jesuits will come to China as well and spread the Catholic religion, all right? Now, Dutch, because they were smaller, they had fewer people, they were forced to be tolerant. So all these Jews that were being expelled from Spain end up in the Dutch Republic. And it's important to have a group of Jews within your nation, why? The first reason is because the Jews, you know, the Jews, they have these trading networks, okay? Remember, there's a Jewish diaspora and the Jews have these trading networks all across the world, especially within the Ottoman Empire, okay? That's the first reason, trade. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 37:09 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Second is finances, okay? So historically, Jews have these financial networks all across Europe. And so if you need a lot of money to start a war, well, you often go to Jewish financiers, okay? The third is intellectual. The Jewish people are extremely open -minded, extremely intellectual, they bring in new ideas. So one of the most famous intellectuals at this time is named Barrack Spinoza, okay? And he's Jewish, all right? But it was not just Jews. Everyone was allowed to practice their religion in the Dutch Republic freely. And that was one of the main drawing points about the Dutch Republic, okay? The tolerance. This is important because the Dutch Republic will become the model for free movement, right? are the American Republic, right? Second difference is, Spain was a empire focused entirely on economic exploitation. They were only concerned about extracting resources. Whereas the Dutch was just focused on mercantile trade. And this is important because if all ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 38:12 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: you do is focus on exploitation, this will lead to mismanagement and this will lead to a lot of wealth inequality. And that was the issue facing Spain. But if you focus on mercantile trade, then you can create a middle class, which is what happened in the Dutch Republic. And the third major difference, of course, is noble and clerical privilege. So only the elite benefited from the Spanish Empire. Whereas the Dutch Republic, because they were small, they had to focus on middle class growth, on making sure that as many people as possible benefited from trade and commerce. It was really trade and commerce that allowed for middle class to become so wealthy over time. And because the Dutch Republic, it's very small and the land isn't great, as the Dutch Republic became more wealthy, they focused a lot of their resources on building canals and on land reclamation from the sea. And so, as time progressed, their land increased. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 39:19 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2359s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2359s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: All right, so another really important thing to remember about the Dutch Republic is that it's a coalition of the Dutch Republic as a federation of different city -states, okay? There's seven different places within the Dutch Republic. That's why it's a republic and not a monarchy, because a lot of their decision -making has to go through consultation and diplomacy. This is also why they created the Dutch East Indies Company, because the fear was that if they didn't have a monopoly, a company to control the monopoly, then if different city -states would open, would compete against each other for the East Indies trade. And they didn't have the resources to do that. That's why they combined the resources to create the Dutch East Indies Company, okay? What's important to first remember is that throughout its history, the Low Countries, the Netherlands, they were an egalitarian, independent, open -minded people. And so, some of the ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 40:21 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: most famous philosophers were coming from this region, including, including Erasmus, who is contemporary of Martin Luther, and who was one of the main, considered one of the great philosophers and theologians. He's primarily responsible for something called the Northern Renaissance. Erasmus will allow for the rise of Spinoza, okay? And again, he's formerly Jewish, but then he becomes, he creates a new religion called pantheism. You might have heard about pantheism, but pantheism is the idea, You might have heard about pantheism, but pantheism is the idea, okay, that God is within every living being, including trees, including animals, including us. And therefore, we're all connected through the essence of God, okay? Let's talk about art, okay? So, I want to focus the rest of the lecture on art, because art will give us a portal into the mindset and psychology of the Dutch people. But before we do that, let's talk about Spanish art, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 41:23 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So, this is the Spanish Golden Age, and a lot of the time, a lot of this money is going into patronizing great art. And as you can see, Spanish art, it's very Catholic. So, if it's Catholic, then it's very allegorical. So, they're drawing images from the Bible and from the Catholic tradition, and it's a worship of the religion, okay? So, this is Madonna, the Mary, and this is baby Jesus. And as you can see, everyone's worshiping Jesus. The Protestants are iconoclasts, which is, they don't, they do not allow, they don't allow, they don't allow, they don't allow for depictions of their God in imagery, okay? This is another great artwork from the Spanish Golden Age. As you can see, it's heavily allegorical, okay? Metaphorical, all right? This is the most famous painting of the Spanish Golden Age by a painter named Diego Valquez, okay? You probably have heard of him. He's one of the most famous painters in the world. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 42:30 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: This is his most famous painting called Las Menedez, The Handmaids, okay? What's amazing about this painting is that we are actually, as we are observing this painting, this painting is actually observing us as well. Okay, does that make sense? Because this is the painter, right? So, the painter is looking at us as we are looking at him. Now, what he's really, who he's really drawing is the royal couple, okay, as this mirror shows. But, as you can see, but, as you can see, but, as you can see, but, as you can see, but, as you can see, we are also within the universe of this painting, okay? I mean, there's a lot to say about this painting. It's one of the most famous paintings in the world, all right? But we have a lot to do today, so I'll move on. These are landscape paintings, and as you can see, there's a lot of spirituality, a lot of allegory, a lot of divinity embedded within these paintings, all right? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 43:24 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So, this is a Catholic mentality, all right? So, let's move on to the Calvinist, Dutch mentality of paintings. All right, so let's do a compare and contrast. This is the Dutch, this is a Dutch painting. This is a Catholic Spanish, no, no, sorry, sorry. This is actually an Italian Renaissance painting by Coraggio, okay? And this is baby Jesus and Madonna, and there are two individuals, supplicants who are worshiping Madonna, all right? So, this is the Catholic mentality, which is God can be with us at any time, all right? So, this is the Dutch equivalent, where this is a middle -class woman, and these are two street musicians who are trying to interact with this world, okay? What's really important for us to understand is, with the rise of the middle class, there's a huge focus on hierarchy and boundaries. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 44:26 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Why, because the middle class itself is a very fluid, very flexible, very, and, and uncertain group of people, okay? So, their paintings will reflect this anxiety and this uncertainty, all right? So, as you can see, the inner world, it's full of light. The outer world, it is pretty dark. And this door is a portal, okay? Within the house, there's this divinity, but in the outside world, there's only darkness and mystery. Okay, so God is within your household, basically. All right, so there's a lot more to be said, but as you can see, there's a huge contrast between the Catholic mentality and the Calvinist mentality. All right, let's move on. So, still life is a very important aspect of Dutch painting. Dutch, still life, it is a, it captures the material world as it is. It's a celebration of the material world, because remember, the Catholics celebrate the afterlife, but the Calvinists, the Protestants celebrate the here and now, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 45:39 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: They do that through depictions of the, of life in the household, okay? And what will happen is this. At first, the Dutch Republic, it's at war, and it's very poor, because all this money is going into the military. But when the war ends, when the Spanish actually concede independence to the Dutch, you can see the wealth for everyone, increases dramatically, okay? And once there's peace established, then the Dutch will become the wealthiest nation in the world. And arguably, okay, arguably, even today, the Dutch are still the wealthiest middle class in the world. But a lot of their wealth is hidden, okay? All right, because the Dutch are Calvinists, they feel that life is a struggle between their urges and their faith. Okay? So in this painting, it depicts that. This man who's fat, he represents festival. He represents giving in to your urges, eating, drinking, being merry. And this person is called Lent, which is the Christian virtue of fasting and showing restraint, showing temperance, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 46:59 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So the Dutch see life as a constant struggle between your urges and your faith, between your emotions and reason, okay? And this picture, it depicts that. And so what paintings are doing is it's taking all this internal anxiety within you as a person, because you're a faith, and it's transposing it, projecting it onto the painting in order to create a visual, visual depiction of your anxiety as to relieve your anxiety, okay? Does that logic make sense to you guys? And that's what drives the need, or the desire, okay? The desire, the demand for middle -class art. During the 17th century, it's only about 100 years, right? From 1600 to 1700, in the Dutch Republic, and we're only talking about between one and two million people, five to 10 million paintings will be sold, okay? Five to 10 million paintings will be sold. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 47:59 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2879s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: That's the, that gives you a sense of the appetite for the sort of visual depiction. Now, one thing that obsesses the Dutch middle class are the poor, okay? Why? Because the middle class, they are an anxious, uncertain group of people. So the way they define themselves is they try to differentiate themselves from other groups of people, including the poor and the nobility, okay? So in their imagination, the poor are, just give themselves up to temptation, okay? They're drinking all the time, they're getting drunk, they're lazy, okay? Alright, does that make sense? And by depicting the poor in this way, it's almost like a talisman to protect themselves from being poor. It's kind of taboo. The worst thing that can happen to us is if we become poor people like these people, because we'll end up drunks. Prostitution is also, very popular theme among the Dutch middle class. So what's interesting is prostitution at this time, it's very popular in the Dutch Republic. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 49:24 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=2964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And hey, if you go to Amsterdam today, it's still popular, right? Amsterdam is sort of famous for the legalization of prostitutes. So at this time, what's happening is you have all these prostitutes, but good middle -class women were responsible for going and negotiating with them in order to satisfy their husbands. Okay, does that make sense? So this is... So the idea of prostitution, it is a huge topic in the Netherlands. And it is a cause of a lot of anxiety and uncertainty and desire within the middle class. Alright, another depiction of poor people. Okay, so as you can see... I'm going to show you a picture of a kind of a men's prostitute who is sitting on a bench. they're having fun all the time and if you focus on these two individuals this man who's who clearly has a sexual urges he's trying to slowly ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 50:23 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3023s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3023s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: take this maiden who's resisting but we can't resist into his world right and so this is saying like if you ever become poor you just cannot resist the temptations and the urges of this world so the worst thing that can ever happen to you is if you become poor another depiction of what it means to be poor okay to surrender yourself to luxury and to the moment this is still life and so the idea of here is one of access okay and so the psychology here it's it's it's very interesting all right but but let me give you an analogy let's just say that you are trying to lose weight okay you're kind of fat you are you're not you're not fat but you feel you could lose weight right so when you're trying to cut back on food you have all these temptations you have all these desires so one way one strategy that ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 51:33 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: you have is if you watch a lot of videos where fat people are binging on food okay just by watching these people your sort of anxiety your desire decreases and that's the strategy of these paintings where you have these paintings of access and wealth and just by observing these paintings by putting up these paintings in your household they become signals to you that you should you should not engage in any excessive activity you should lead lead a life of moderation and temperance okay another picture of a prostitute a poor person okay so you have all these paintings about about the life of the poor. And what's really interesting is, yes, it's obvious we don't be poor, but these paintings are also very seductive, right? They're trying to show you, oh, you know what? It's actually pretty nice, a lot of fun to be poor as well. And that's what the Dutch middle class really enjoy. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 52:38 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: They like to enjoy this anxiety between not having something because it's bad for you and wanting it, okay? This is a very famous painting called the Procurus. So remember, within this world, it's very common for middle class women to go solicit prostitutes for their husbands. And the middle man is someone called the Procurus, okay? And she looks satanic, all right? So this is an image that is supposed to represent sexual desire, but as you can see, there's some demonic qualities. There's some evilness to it, okay? You can see sort of like the evil eyes and laughter of the people involved, okay? Does that make sense to you guys? This is Jan Steen, one of the most famous painters of this time, okay? So as you can see, there are a lot of paintings that follow these themes. At the same time, you have also depictions of what it means to be a good middle class household, okay? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 53:53 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So as you can see, these paintings are ones of simplicity, ones of restraint, ones of temperance, ones of prudence, okay? So within these paintings captures a lot of middle class Christian values, all right? This is another representation, all right? So you can see the simple Calvinist work ethic being depicted in this picture. Rembrandt, who is the most famous painter from this period, okay, Rembrandt. This is probably the prototypical portrait of a wealthy person in the Dutch Republic, okay? She's wealthy, but the most important thing is, for you to understand, she's simple, right? She's not luxurious and decadent like the Spanish are. She is very restrained, she's very focused, she's very temperate in her behavior, okay? So she represents the quintessential, right? The quintessential wealthy middle class woman, all right? All right, so now let's discuss why the Dutch are buying these paintings, okay? The question then is, why is there an art market? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 55:19 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: What's the purpose of an art market? And so there are different reasons, okay? Well, the first major reason is to show that you're refined, okay, to engage in beauty, to show you have taste. Okay, that's the first reason. Second reason is, because of the Calvinist religion, the money now no longer goes to churches, okay? Churches are meant to be simple. If you go into a Catholic church it's luxurious, it's golden. But if you go into a Calvinist church it's very simple, all right? So now people are transferring their wealth to the temple into the household in order to better worship God, all right? So a lot of these paintings are religious in nature because you're trying to turn the house, house into a church. into churches, all right, a second reason. A third reason is the idea of conspicuous consumption, conspicuous consumption, to enjoy your wealth and to show your wealth off to your neighbors, all right. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 56:16 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So when you invite people off to dinner parties, they can see how wonderful your artwork is. Nostalgia is you are thinking about classical Greece, classical Rome, and another reason is meditation, okay. And so we talked about this, where the middle class, they're always afraid of becoming poor, okay. So what they do is they freeze their anxiety, competition, and uncertainty in a contemplative hole, okay. They take their anxiety and they project it onto the painting in order to better meditate on the idea of what it means to be middle class, okay. Does that make sense? But there are other three more reasons which are more important for us. These three reasons are the representation of the other, taboos and boundaries, okay. So as you can see, the paintings of the poor represent the poor as lazy, excessive, and violent, okay, always giving in to their sexual urges. And so they're trying to create the ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 57:21 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: idea of the other, okay, the poor or the other that we must at all times avoid. Second reason is transference, okay. So you have all these desires to eat good food, to engage in sex that you cannot do because of your religion, right. So you transfer these feelings onto the artwork itself. So the artwork itself becomes the subject of your desire. Does that make sense, guys? All right, that's the second major reason. The third major reason is just simply hypocrisy, all right. The artwork is a shield, it's an armor, it's a dress for you to show that you have good values, all right. So these are the three more nefarious reasons why dark becomes popular. And guess what, guys, they're still true today, all right. These are still the reasons what drives culture today, including literature, movies, artwork, okay. And so in every age, you, sorry, so let's now just summarize what we've learned, okay. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 58:30 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: So the Italian Renaissance, you have great artwork from the Italian Renaissance, you have great artwork from the Dutch Golden Age, okay. What are the three differences? Well the first major difference is the Italian Renaissance, it's patronized by the wealthy people, all right. And as such, they're trying to have nostalgia for the past. That's why a lot of the paintings are of classical Greek and Roman individuals and historical and history. And the art is meant to be celebrated, because they're by the community okay that's why they're hung up in churches or public places or in the Vatican okay does that doesn't make sense but that's the main idea of Italian Renaissance when we get to the Dutch going age it's pigeonized mainly by the middle class who are interested in depicting the present in the here and now and they're only interested in their individual contemplation with the art okay their individual communication and dialogue with ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 59:30 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: the art itself and this will give rise to the modern art market right any questions before I move on all right so to summarize art is a response to the anxiety uncertainty and competitiveness of middle -class life okay it's still true today art encapsulates the alienation of the individual and that's still true today all right that's what art is um this is happening because there's certain pathologies to middle -class life that's still true today all right the first pathology is middle -class identity demands the control regulation of yourself and other people all right but why because you are you have a fear of disorder all right so so we did we discuss this where middle -class life it's competitive it's anxious it's uncertain right so this creates pathologies within you and how do these pathologies express themselves well through a fear of disorder but you also have a fear of germs okay cleanliness all right ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:00:42 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: the middle class is obsessed with cleanliness that's why the middle class if you just mentioned the idea of infectious diseases okay germs they just run away okay they're really afraid of the idea of infectious diseases now last is sorry sorry sorry it's a fear of loss okay sorry I this is wrong okay it should be fear of loss so the middle class is also obsessed with accumulation achievement okay and if you think about it okay this explains why Chinese parents are so obsessed with getting their kids into good universities right the Ivy League because of regulation of yourself cleanliness and accumulation achievement so there's no logical reason why your kid must get into Ivy League all right you can't explain to me through peer analysis peer reason pure logic why it's important to get your kid into Ivy League it doesn't really benefit you or the the kid in fact I personally believe that getting ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:01:53 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Ivy League will actually hurt and hamper your life chances for success okay but if you think about the pathology of the middle class what it means to be in middle class the fact that they're uncertain and anxious and getting their kid in Ivy League is a way to relieve their anxiety okay their OCD then it makes sense okay all right all right so now I will conclude by talking about who I think is the greatest artist of the Dutch golden age and his name is Johan Vermeer okay in every age in every movement you emerge a great artist who subverts the movement okay who shows you the pathologies and the problems the ironies the paradoxes within this movement okay so what Johan Vermeer is really good at doing in his artwork is demonstrating to us the hypocrisy of middle -class life all right so this is one of his most famous paintings called view from ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:02:55 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: the depth guys this was painted about 1650 I have no idea how he did this no one has any idea how he did this the lighting is perfect okay it's like he had a camera like like an iPhone and a and he snapped a picture of his city. It's perfect, the lighting is absolutely perfect. How was he able to do this? And so, my only explanation, and again, it's my theory is, what makes great artists different is they're able to dissolve their ego. They're able to dissolve their body, and their soul becomes part of the moment. Okay, does that make sense? So, in other words, what Vermeer did is he became the painting itself. The painting became him, and then he became the painting. And what he's doing right now, he is just expressing his soul, okay? So, that's my theory. All right, this is his most famous painting, okay? I'm sure you guys have seen this. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:04:03 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: Girl with the Pearl Ery, right? This is a beautiful painting, but I will show you something else. I will show you some problems or some ironies in this painting. Obviously, this Pearl Ery is a problem because she's an ordinary person, right? She's maybe a maid, she's a young person. She's poor. Why would she have a Pearl Ery, which is extremely precious, extremely valuable, extremely expensive, okay? That's the question. That's the paradox or mystery within this painting. Then, this leads to the question, this leads to the question, this leads to the question, why is she looking at us seductively, right? She's looking at us with desire, with yearning. And then you recognize, well, she probably has a master, a patron, right? She's probably working in a household. And maybe there's a relationship of sorts between the maid and the husband, okay? And so, it's a story, it's a novel that draws in your imagination. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:05:13 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: But more importantly, it shows you the hypocrisy within middle class life. Because the entire purpose of prostitutes is so that the husband will not do this crap at home, right? Because it's important to maintain the sanity of the middle class household. It's your temple of worship. So you're not allowed to seduce your servants, okay? So this is actually a subversive painting at the same time. It kind of seduces us. It almost begs us to do the same thing, okay? It's trying to demonstrate our own sexual depravity and our own sexual desires, okay? It shows us the relationship between sex and power. Does that make sense, guys? This is the Milkmaid, another really famous painting. Again, and I have no idea how he does it, but the lighting is perfect, all right? The lighting is absolutely perfect. Not only that, but the lighting is able to highlight the blemishes of the wall, right? So he could ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:06:19 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3979s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=3979s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: have just made the wall white, but instead he's showing us the cracks, the blemishes within the wall, which is a metaphor for the blemishes and the cracks within middle class bourgeoisie life, all right? Now, when you first look at it, you think, oh, this is a picture of middle class simplicity and hard work, all right? Virtuous, faithful, young woman who's hardy, who's dedicated to her work, okay? But then you focus on this, right? And there's sexual qualities to this, which is the center of the picture. It's almost like she's peeing or, I mean, use your imagination, okay, you understand, right? So within this wholesome picture, it's embedded, right? It's embedded a picture of sexual possibilities. Doesn't make sense, guys, okay? And the idea here is it's meant to be subversive. It's meant to make you uncomfortable, right? You guys laugh a bit, but if you're a middle class person, you have this painting in your house, you're a bit disturbed by what you see, all right? ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:07:38 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: All right, another really famous painting by Vermeer, okay? Interesting is, we are here, right? sneaking in, right? We are looking in. We're spying into the scene. And that's what Vermeer is saying is, that's what the middle class do. The middle class are afraid of participating, but they love spying, right? They love peering. They love peeking into the taboo and the forbidden. That's why we have art to peer into the forbidden, okay? And as you can see, the painter and the model, there's a bit of a sexual energy between the two, okay? And that's what excites us. That's why we are peeking into the scene. We're hiding ourselves behind the curtain, and we're trying to capture the sexual possibilities between the two, okay? Doesn't make sense, guys. So, these ideas, that middle class life, it's inherently flawed. There are blemishes, there are cracks behind the veneer. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:08:53 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: It's fundamentally hypocritical. It gets captured in literature later on. First in Madame Bovary, okay? And then most famously, the most famous novel of all time, Anna Karenina, right? That middle class life, it's fundamentally hypocritical. So, on the surface, it seems, you know, there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. You know, Anna Karenina, she married a very faithful, very loving husband, and then she betrayed him to have this affair that destroys entire families. On the surface, it shows you the importance of maintaining the sanctity of middle class life, of maintaining rules and order, because if you don't do so, it will lead to disaster and heartbreak, okay? At the same time, you read this novel very closely, it's about a thousand pages, by the way, It also shows you the hypocrisy of middle class life. How Anna Karenina herself has been oppressed by the taboos and the boundaries set upon her by the world that she lives in. ## The Middle Class Learns To Stare At Its Own Anxiety -- 1:09:55 - Source title: Civilization #49: The Dutch Golden Age and the Rise of the Middle Class - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-05-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8P-FZHWnQ&t=4195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jz8p-fzhwnq.json) Text: And this is what's going to drive literature from now on. Okay, that's it. So next class we will do the rise of England. But it's important that we remember that the British Empire, a lot of the ideas of the British Empire are now being seeded in the Dutch Republic, including the idea of multinational corporations, including the idea of capitalism, including the idea of middle class life, including the idea of artwork and literature. Okay, any questions about today? Okay, so next class we will do the rise of England. ## The Empire of Myth -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. Today we finished the French Revolution Trilogy. So we are focusing on Napoleon today. And my argument to you today is that Napoleon would not have been possible without Rope's PR. So to illustrate this point, let us do a thought experiment. I am going to present to you two individuals. And I want you to think about who is the greater genius. Who is the more rare leader. So let's look at person A. Person A has a perfect memory. That's the first characteristic. He is able to have instant recall. He or she is able to absorb all the information that comes his or her way and is able to retain it. Second thing is the ability to have priorities. So what's rare among... really smart people is the capacity to prioritize what is important information and what is not important information. To filter things out, okay? Because once you have the important information, you are much more capable of making the correct decisions, right? ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:17 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: The third thing is the strategic imagination. So a general is able to take all the relevant information that he or she has obtained and then imagine the battlefield across the globe. Across multiple nations. He or she is able to imagine how the battle will progress. And the fourth is the idea of flexibility. So even though the general has a plan, he or she is still flexible during the battle. So if the battle is not going according to plan, then he or she will make adjustments to the battlefield. Because he or she has total battlefield awareness. Okay? So these are the four characteristics of a great leader. Now, let's look at B. And B only does one thing. B is, I promote the talented. That's all B does. That's all B cares about. So who among these two individuals do you think is the more rare individual, the greater leader, the stronger genius? ## The Empire of Myth -- 2:37 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: A or B? Okay. So obviously it's a trick question. Okay? It's obviously B. Right? And so what I'm going to do today is explain why it's B. Because A is Napoleon. Napoleon, like Alexander the Great, like Julius Caesar, is a genius of war. He's able to completely imagine the battlefield and come up with strategies that are shocking, innovative, and unique. That's Napoleon. B is Robespierre. All Robespierre cares about is promoting and rewarding those who are true and loyal to the revolution. Okay? So today I will make the argument that Robespierre is the greater man than Napoleon. So to illustrate this point, I want to ask you a question. Okay? Let's just say that I'm a very rich man. Maybe I'm Jack Ma. And I have a huge fortune. I have a huge company. I employ thousands of workers. I'm extremely profitable. I have a son. He's 18 years old. ## The Empire of Myth -- 3:49 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=229s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=229s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And he's expecting to inherit my company at 40, 50. Okay? But I say to my son, I sit him down. I have a very long dinner conversation with him. I explain to him, son, it takes a particular type of person to run a great company. It takes dedication. It takes virtue. It takes selflessness. You're a great person. I love you because you're my son. But you're not qualified to run my company. I have a team of experts who will replace me after I'm dead. I'm sorry, son, but you have to go do something else. Okay? Because quite honestly, I don't think you would even enjoy running my company. Okay? So that's a thought experiment. Right? Now let me ask you this question. I'm trying to ask one billion people. Would there be anyone in China who would think I'm a good father? No one. Okay? That's why B is hard. Because B requires a selflessness. ## The Empire of Myth -- 4:52 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=292s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=292s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: But not only that, but B requires the capacity to ignore social values and focus on what is good by itself. Okay? That's why B is harder than A. And quite frankly, A, in history. In history, we'll meet a lot of individuals like that. Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler. Even today, there are quite a few individuals like A. But B is rare. All right? So let me explain why B is so rare and why Rose Pier was fundamental to the birth of Napoleon. All right. So we're going to focus on a battle. And this is 1805. Auschwitz. This is considered Napoleon's greatest battle. Okay? This is the battle that made Napoleon into a legend. This is something called the War of the Third Coalition. So Napoleon, the French, are up against three major nations. Right? The Austrians, the Russians, and the British. The Prussians will come in at some point to join the Third Coalition. ## The Empire of Myth -- 5:59 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=359s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=359s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: So Napoleon needs to act first and knock out both Russia and Austria before the Prussians come in. Because Prussia is considered at this point the greatest military in the world. All right? So this is Auschwitz, the battlefield. Let me first give you an overview of what the battlefield looks like. First of all, you have the coalition forces stationed on high ground. Okay? These are about 70,000 troops. Napoleon is scattered. Okay? He's got his forces here and he's got his forces here on the right. This is the right. And these are his main forces. Okay? This is Napoleon. He also has about 70,000 troops. So they look even. But actually the coalition forces have a huge advantage. One, because they're on high ground. Okay? Second is that they are coming, more forces are coming in from behind to bolster the forces. All right? So it looks in the beginning like the coalition forces will overwhelm Napoleon. ## The Empire of Myth -- 7:01 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? But, and so what the coalition forces are going to do is this. They see the right flank of Napoleon. It's weak. So what they will do is they will send a right attack and overwhelm the right and then come behind Napoleon. And then the other forces will come down to envelop Napoleon. This is what we call a flanking attack. Okay? So that is the plan. And quite honestly, this is the most logical, the most reasonable strategy given the circumstances. What they don't know is this. Napoleon anticipates that they will do this. It's a trap actually. Okay? Because what's going to happen is that as they come and attack, Napoleon will now attack the coalition's right flank. And as the coalition tries to muster the right flank, the cavalry will come in and split the coalition into two, forcing them to retreat. Okay? That is the master plan. The problem with this plan is the right flank. ## The Empire of Myth -- 8:15 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: The right flank needs to hold against the coalition attack. Otherwise, the coalition will just sweep in and outflank Napoleon. Napoleon has this plan where coming in to bolster the right flank is his marshal, De Vaux, with 10,000 men. Okay? The problem though is that De Vaux is 100 kilometers away. So it has to be a really quick march. To the right flank. Okay? Now, if he misses, the coalition will just wipe out this army. But he does get here in time. He saves the right flank. And then the rest of the plan goes exactly according to Napoleon's vision, his strategy. It is perfect. Okay? Perfect timing. Perfect attack. Everything is perfect. And as a result, this is exactly what happens. Napoleon splits the coalition into two. They're forced to retreat. And then what will happen is that Napoleon will sweep in and capture this entire army. Okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 9:19 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Once this happens, the war is over. The Russians and the Austrians are forced to retreat. The Austrians sue for peace. The Russians go home. Okay? So this is considered one of the greatest battles in human history. It is up there with Alexander the Great's battles. This is considered the defining achievement of Napoleon. And there are certain characteristics about this battle that make it uniquely Napoleon. Okay? The first is total battlefield awareness. That's the first thing. He is able to imagine an entire battlefield even before this battle starts. He knows exactly where each unit will be. Okay? So total battlefield awareness is what makes Napoleon unique. What also makes Napoleon unique at this time is the idea of speed. This all happens very quickly. Very, very fast. At this time in Europe, battles are fought slowly. And it's really like two forces banging against each other. Okay? But this is really fast. And what you have is a lot of maneuverability. ## The Empire of Myth -- 10:28 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? Okay? Usually in the battlefield, the army fights as one unit. What's amazing about Napoleon is he's able to divide his forces into different smaller armies that operate independently but as part of a larger vision. Okay? So Arsulet is the defining achievement of Napoleon's grand strategy of war. And if you go to military college, if you want to be a general, you will have to study this war, this battle, in great detail. All right? So the problem with this plan is that it should not have worked. Okay? It is a reckless and stupid way to fight a battle. Because there are about 10,000 ways that could go wrong. First of all, you need this guy, the Vaux, to come in. He has to do about 110 kilometers in 48 hours. This was before considered impossible. A really strong army, really disciplined, really well trained, will do at most 20 kilometers in one day. ## The Empire of Myth -- 11:42 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? Think about that. This is the best army in the world. The Prussians will do 20 kilometers in one day. The Vaux is able to do 110 kilometers in two days. All right? And that just shows you how extremely disciplined the French are. Not only are they able to do 110 kilometers in 48 hours, but they come into the battlefield fresh for battle. Okay? They jump straight into the battle, and they are pushing the coalition forces back. So it's an incredible achievement by the Vaux. In fact, if you study military history, you will see a lot of people are doing this. And they argue that the Vaux was the far superior general to Napoleon. Okay? Because it takes a lot of skill to marshal your forces and organize them in a way that they will want to march that fast and that quick on a time. Okay? So the first thing that must have happened is the Vaux had to come in time. ## The Empire of Myth -- 12:37 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: But you know what? There could have been rain. Right? He could have gotten lost. An army could have come in and blocked his advance. All right? So 10,000 things could have gone wrong. Napoleon was really lucky that these things didn't go wrong. Also, in this attack by the French, it was possible that the coalition could have overwhelmed an attack. So in other words, the thing about Napoleon that's really important is, yes, his strategic genius is one thing. But what really matters is the officers under him. Okay? He had a really talented bench of officers who were committed to the battle and they knew exactly what they had to do. Napoleon was the one with the vision. He was the one who had the courage and the boldness to attack. But it was they who executed the plan perfectly. All right? And that's the defining characteristic of the grand army of Napoleon. ## The Empire of Myth -- 13:44 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: All right? So let me explain to you how this happened. Okay? How was it that the French was able to build Europe's greatest army during the French Revolution? All right. So let's compare the Prussians and the French. And the Prussians, again, are considered, at this time in European history, the greatest army ever. All right? So they are run by the nobility. The officers and generals are nobility. And they are called the Junkers. This is very important. I want you guys to remember the term. Junkers. Okay? They are the elite of Prussian society. They are the ones who will take Germany into World War I and World War II. Okay? They are the force behind Hitler. And they are considered the greatest warriors in European history at this time, the Junkers. They are landed nobility. They have their land. And so they can focus completely on warfare. And as time progresses, they become the greatest generals and officers of Europe at this time. ## The Empire of Myth -- 14:43 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Let's look at the soldiers. The soldiers come from France. There are three sources. The first is conscription. Okay? Conscription just means that you draft people from your nation to join the war. Second is volunteers. Why do people volunteer? Because you're often treated better in the military than you are in a nation. If you're a soldier, the nobility can't beat the crap out of you for no reason. But if you're a peasant, the nobility can beat the crap out of you for no particular reason. Okay? And the third, which is the most controversial, are deserters. So the Prussians have a nasty reputation for arresting people who they believe ran away from other armies, like the French and British army. And they are forced into the Prussian army. It's like basically prison. Now, they have a nasty reputation because a lot of these deserters are actually not deserters. ## The Empire of Myth -- 15:38 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: They just happen to be people from neighboring nations that the Prussians kidnap into their army. Okay? So you have these three main sources. Now, the thing that makes the Prussian army unique in Europe is it actually has very strict requirements for joining the military. You have to be tall, basically. You have to be like 5 '8". The average height was like 5 '6", at this time, in Europe. Napoleon himself was 5 '7". You have to be 5 '8". Okay? So Napoleon would not have been able to join the Prussian army. You have to be 5 '8". It's the tallest army in the world. The Prussian king, Frederick the Great, takes tremendous pride in how tall he is. How tall his warriors are. Okay? All right? So this is an extremely disciplined army. But with this army comes three fundamental weaknesses. Okay? The first is they cannot afford to lose that many men. ## The Empire of Myth -- 16:32 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? These men are extremely well -trained. They're extremely well -disciplined. They cannot afford to lose that many soldiers in battle. Okay? That's the first problem. The second problem is they're extremely slow. Why are they slow? Because the officers like to live well. Okay? So wherever they go, there's maybe like three or four different wagons that carry their food, carry their clothing, carry their servants. Okay? So this is a very slow army. But it's fine because every other army in Europe is slow as well. Okay? And so this creates a problem of inflexibility. The Prussians fight one way, and that's the only way they fight. They basically move up front, and because of the discipline of their soldiers, they overwhelm their enemy. They don't have that much flexibility in their army. Okay? So these are the three fundamental weaknesses of the Prussian army. They cannot afford casualties, they're extremely slow, and their strategy is inflexible. ## The Empire of Myth -- 17:28 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: All right? But it's not a problem because every army in Europe suffers from the same problems. Now comes the French Revolution. Okay? The French Revolution robs Pierre, takes charge of organization and personnel, hiring basically for the new French Revolutionary Army. And he makes radical changes to the French military. The first is the idea of a meritocracy. Okay. So before, like every army, most of the French army, the officers, the generals, were of nobility that were appointed by the king. They were loyal to the king, and as such, Rose Pierre saw them as a threat. Right? So he basically replaced the nobility with young men from the provinces who believed in a revolution. So at the beginning of the revolution, about 85 % of all officers, French, were nobility. Five years later, it's about 3%. That's a huge, huge change. Okay? One of these men that's recruited into the French military, and promoted really fast, is Napoleon. ## The Empire of Myth -- 18:29 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Napoleon, by the age of 25, is a general. And that's unheard of at Europe at this time. But it's not just Napoleon, it's like dozens and dozens of really talented young men who are given opportunities. Opportunities they would not have been given anywhere else. Also, what's important for us to remember is that Napoleon himself is not French. He's Corsican. Okay? He's a foreigner. But because of the French Revolution, he's given these tremendous opportunities. Right? So that's the first thing. It's a meritocracy. The second thing is, it is total war. In other words, it is complete conscription. There are no volunteers. There are no deserters. It's everyone must now join the army. Okay? So now France has almost this end supply of soldiers. And that gives the French three major advantages. The first is high casualties. They can actually afford now to lose a lot of men in battle. So the French are now willing to take risks that other armies are not able to take. ## The Empire of Myth -- 19:31 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: For example, Austerlitz, right? Austerlitz was a huge, huge gamble that paid out for the French. But they were able to do so because they were able to replenish their forces if need be. Okay? High casualties. Second is the idea of mobility. Speed. All right? So now you don't have any officers where you can travel really fast. Also, your soldiers can just live off the land. You don't have to feed them like great food. They can just go and find berries or chickens to cook for themselves. Okay? So they are able to travel at least three times as fast as their enemies. That's an incredible advantage because even before their enemies are able to set up camp, the French have surrounded them and overwhelmed them. Okay? And this happens a lot during these wars. So speed is the crucial factor. And the third advantage is flexibility. ## The Empire of Myth -- 20:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: If you have an extremely dedicated army, what you're able to do is you're able to divide them into different units called corps. Okay? This is no different from the Roman Legion. The Roman Legion was the... main tactic of the Roman army back in the old days. Okay? So what you do is you take a huge army, you divide them into small armies. And if they're able to travel really fast, what this army is able to do is really quickly surround the enemy. Okay? If you surround the enemy, the enemy is dead. The biggest problem in war is being encircled because you've cut off their supply routes. They don't know how to respond to encirclement. Okay? So the French, for many years, was just destroying the enemies because of these three factors. They're able to take high casualties, their speed, and their strategic flexibility in battle. Okay? And who created the system? Robespierre created the system. ## The Empire of Myth -- 21:21 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Robespierre. Not Napoleon. Robespierre. All right? So to give you an illustration of what the difference is, let's go to the year 1806. Okay? So the French have destroyed the Austrians. The Russians are in retreat. The Prussians come to battle now. Okay? And all of Europe is like, oh, wow, the Prussians now have taken the battlefield. The Prussians are going to overwhelm the French because the French are just peasant recruits. The Prussians are tall. They're strong. They're fearless. They're going to destroy the French. Okay? So for the first time since the Revolution, the Prussians and the French meet in 1806. Okay? It is a total and utter annihilation. Okay? Never before has Europe seen this. The French in 30 days wipes out the entire Prussian army. It is incredible to watch. Also, there's a very famous battle during this time where De Vaux, he's a court leader, and he gets lost. And he ends up fighting the entire Prussian army. ## The Empire of Myth -- 22:26 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1346s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1346s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? You know about this battle, right? And he's out number two to one. He wins the battle. De Vaux is able to win. Out number two to one against the main Prussian army led by the king himself. Okay? So this is a radical revolution in military affairs. The French, by using this system, is able to dominate Europe for most of Napoleon's reign. Okay? And what this does is, and this is really important, is because the French are dominating the battlefield. It forces the other European powers to make fundamental changes to society. Because of the French Revolution, these societies are forced to become more liberal and democratic and open and progressive in order to defeat Napoleon. So after 1806, the Prussians make a lot of major changes to society. Okay? What they recognize is that our soldiers aren't enough. We need to change the fabric and structure of our society if we are to defeat Napoleon. ## The Empire of Myth -- 23:31 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? So they make two major changes. There's other changes. But there are two major changes that are fundamental. The first is they abolish serfdom. Okay? Serfdom. Serfdom is basically like slavery, where the peasants are tied to the land. And that's the majority of people. When you abolish serfdom, the advantage of that is now you can have more conscription. These peasants are now able to come and become soldiers. Because serfs are not allowed to be soldiers. Okay? So now your army, the numbers have increased. And so all the armies at this time in Europe are increasing because they're allowing more people to join the military. Okay? And the second, which is most important, is the middle class. So before the French Revolution, all of Europe was an extremely structured, stratified society. They were really at the top. But because of Napoleon's victories, the Prussians allowed the middle class to join the civil service. ## The Empire of Myth -- 24:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: That's fundamental. Okay? They are now activating the energy of the middle class. And this allows for innovation. It allows for more economic activity. And so 1806, even though the Prussians are destroyed, it allows them to build a structure that will allow them to dominate all of Europe in about 50, 60 years' time. And eventually, they'll become the dominant power in Europe and the world, basically, before the beginning of World War I. And this was all possible because the Prussians lost to the French, and they learned lessons from the French Revolution. Okay? That's why I keep on saying the French Revolution was a turning point. It was a turning point in human civilization. So that is my main argument. Are there any questions about this argument? Okay. So serfdom. Okay. All right. So the idea... The institution of serfdom, it's basically slavery, where peasants are tied to the land. They cannot leave the land. ## The Empire of Myth -- 25:36 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And this is important because, again, most of these societies are agricultural -based. So you need people actually to work the land. And as such, your... The majority of your population is not eligible for the military. Okay? Does that make sense? When you eliminate serfdom, now every man is eligible for the military. And as such, you can replenish your forces. And a lot of men want to join the military because it's a lot better to be a soldier than it is to be a peasant. All right? As a soldier, you are given rights by the military. Okay? Because the military is a very powerful institution. If you're a soldier, you can't be pulled around by anyone. Whereas if you're a peasant, you're a serf, I mean, you're like an animal. Okay? So if you give people a choice whether or not to join the military or be a serf, they would choose to be a soldier, even though there's a risk of death. ## The Empire of Myth -- 26:31 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1591s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1591s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? But with a soldier comes a possibility of social mobility and social respect, which is not available to you if you are a serf. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. ## The Empire of Myth -- 27:02 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: That's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Yes. So is it more of like a, like we're just a bunch of young men moving up in the world, and this is our new identity as a material? ## The Empire of Myth -- 27:29 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. That's a great question. Okay. So at the beginning of the revolution, these revolutionaries were compelled by sort of a religious fever to die for the nation. Okay? And Robespierre became the role model because Robespierre sacrificed himself for, you know, for France. But in 1804, what happens is Napoleon becomes emperor. And once he becomes emperor, everything changes because now you're not fighting for your nation, you're fighting for your emperor. And there are a lot of French people who felt betrayed by Napoleon. So after 1804, this is really important, France is still the greatest military in the world, but it's basically a military cabal, okay, who run France. Napoleon is just the head of France. He's the head of a group of generals who love war, who benefit from war, and as such, France becomes a military nation where everyone's supporting the French military adventurism. Okay? And even though the French do win a lot of wars, eventually, because you're an empire, you just exhaust everyone. ## The Empire of Myth -- 28:37 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? But I will discuss this during the PPT, okay? All right. So thank you. All right. Any more questions before I go into the PPT? Okay. All right. So one last point is, why is Robespierre creating a meritocracy? Okay? The reason why he's creating a meritocracy is, remember, he's trying to create a new society. And there are a lot of threats to this new society. Obviously, the major threat is these foreign armies, the Prussians, the Austrians, the Spanish, who want to restore the Bourbon monarchy. That's a major threat. Then you have these rebels, these peasants, who want to restore the privileges of the French. They want to restore the privileges of the Catholic Church. That's also another major threat. But the main threat is actually the army itself. Right? Because remember, 85 % of the army is nobility. And there were actually a few times when the army wanted to march against the revolution and restore the monarchy. ## The Empire of Myth -- 29:34 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And the generals didn't do that, even though they wanted to, because they were afraid that the soldiers would mutiny against them. Okay? So this was a huge problem for Robespierre, and that's why Robespierre spearheaded the movement to replace nobles with ordinary men like Napoleon, which gave Napoleon an opportunity to rise among, to rise within the ranks. Okay? Does that make sense? That's the logic of the revolution. All right? All right. So let us now go into the details of this, now that we've done an overview. So, sorry. All right. So the question we are looking at today is, how did a nobody, okay? And this guy literally was a nobody. He was from an island called Corsica, which was not even French. It was part of the French Empire, but it's not actually French. He grew up speaking French, but in a very bad accent. ## The Empire of Myth -- 30:35 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: Okay? So people made fun of him in school. His family was local nobility in Corsica, but they were poor. Okay? So this guy was literally a nobody. And in only like, I don't know, like a decade, he became emperor of France, the French Empire, which at that time was the main thing. The main power in Europe. So how is this possible? How did the nobody, Napoleon, become emperor of France? Okay. So for us to understand this, remember what the French Revolution was. These three classes, we've been looking at very closely at the French Revolution, and my argument to you is, it was a religious crusade. Okay? The irony, of course, is the French Revolution was trying to remove religion from social life. Okay? But if you look at what actually happened in the French Revolution, it was the ultimate religious crusade, where the people were willing to sacrifice their lives in order to build a new society based entirely on reason. ## The Empire of Myth -- 31:31 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: Their new god was reason. Okay? Another idea I want you to remember is that mythologies are prophecies, and prophecies are plans of action. Okay? So embedded in your subconscious are the mythologies of society. In France at this time, these mythologies included the stories of Jesus, but also the stories of Alexander the Great. Okay? And Julius Caesar. Napoleon saw himself as the reincarnation of both Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. And he wanted to create a mythology that he was in fact the Messiah. Okay? So these mythologies are there, and Napoleon saw this as an opportunity in order for him to amass power for himself. That was his main insight. Okay? He was not a great general. That is one of the major misconceptions out there. He was not a great general. He was not as good as Niveau was, but he understood that the underlying framework for society are mythologies. ## The Empire of Myth -- 32:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=1944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: If you can control these mythologies, you can control people. You can become the emperor. Okay? That was his major revelation. Alright. So three things to remember. Mythologies are part of the collective subconscious. Okay? We are all in society governed by the mythology that we share together. That is the first idea. The second idea is that when collective consciousness, authority, breaks down, these mythologies begin to drive history so when you remove your teachers it doesn't mean no it's in charge it just means that now these mythology are in charge okay so think of the cultural revolution in China you could remove these authority figures but then your subconscious takes charge and the third idea is certain individuals will act out the leading roles in these mythologies and capture the imagination attention of everyone else okay that's why Napoleon became Emperor because he saw that the French were looking for Messiah and ## The Empire of Myth -- 33:23 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: he and he's like I will become your Messiah and he did that by acting it out but pretending that's in the great but pretending to be Julius Caesar okay and I'll show you how later on okay so that's a mean idea we're looking at today all right and Napoleon himself said this okay this is a very famous quote that he said while he was in exile in St. Helena okay so he's basically writing his memoirs he's reflecting on his life and he's not that perceptive he's not that bright but in this quote we see his his, his plan his like like how he became Emperor okay let's let's read this I saw the way to achieve all my dreams I would found a religion right he's not like I'm not a general I am a religious leader I saw myself marching into Asia mounted on elephant a turban on my head that is actually ## The Empire of Myth -- 34:13 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2053s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2053s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: in the great that's at Julius Caesar okay and in my hand a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs a Koran a Bible okay so that's what he saw so he understood the French Revolution really was it was a crusade to bring reason into the world and he would become the Muhammad the Julius Caesar that's in the great but Jesus that would achieve this crusade okay does that make sense he understood this from the beginning that's why he was able to succeed whereas Rose Pierre he may have understood this but he refused to act out that role all right all right so even even in his beginning the beginning At the beginning of his career, he was focused on creating mythology for himself. This is when he was first a general and was part of the Italian campaign. And this is a mythology of him leading his warriors into battle, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 35:10 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2110s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2110s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: This didn't really happen this way. It doesn't matter, because he understood that what matters is how people perceive you. The underlying reality doesn't really matter. So when he was emperor, he was focusing on a kind of personality, paintings of himself, stories of himself that would become the official history. So a lot of stuff that we know about Napoleon, his victories, we have to be suspicious about, because he was so focused on creating a myth of himself. All right, so let's go over some details that we discussed. So when Louis XVI was in charge, the French army had a lot of problems. The first problem was you had too many generals. 578 generals, 480,000 men. That's a lot of generals, okay? And the reason why they had these generals is they were friends of the king. They were incompetent, they weren't necessary, but the king liked them, and so the king promoted them. It was a way to ensure the nobility was loyal to you. ## The Empire of Myth -- 36:15 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: But that made for a top -heavy bureaucracy that didn't allow for innovation and change. Okay? So that's the first problem. Second problem is 85 % are nobles, harsh discipline. Soldiers didn't want to fight, they were forced to fight. No conscription, volunteer army, basically deserters. One -third were deserted every year. Okay, one -third of soldiers would run away every year. So that's why this army is problematic, okay? And that's why the Prussians, the English would defeat the French in many battles before the revolution. All right. So this man is named Carnot, and he is actually a friend of Robespierre's. They became friends when Robespierre was in his provincial town of Arras. They'd known each other for like a long, long time. And when Robespierre became prominent in the revolution, he asked his friend Carnot to come up with a new system of reorganizing the military. And Carnot, he's a mathematician, a scientist, he came up with the idea of conscription. ## The Empire of Myth -- 37:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Let's call it a levy. They en masse. So let's get everyone to join the military, so as to dilute the influence of nobility. And it works spectacularly well. And because he's a mathematician, he was extremely well -organized, okay? He is one of the main conspirators against Robespierre because when he amassed power, he recognized that he couldn't really benefit from his power. Robespierre was too virtuous. He demanded on everyone making sacrifices. And so these people that Robespierre promoted, that Robespierre favored. Robespierre would eventually conspire against him. And one of these men is Carnot. And Carnot is also important because Carnot would make Napoleon a general. So the thing about Napoleon that makes him distinctive in the military is he's very good at coming close with political patrons. He's very good at identifying political patrons and getting them to help him in his career. ## The Empire of Myth -- 38:20 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: So as you can see, because of conscription, the French army is, is increasing, and that forces the other armies of Europe to increase as well, okay? So you can see the spike. During this time, because of all these reforms in the military, many young, great generals are emerging in the French military. So Napoleon is the most famous. But there are others who are actually just as good, even better than Napoleon, okay? Dozens of them. And these generals will become the core of the French military. All right? And all of them are driven by a republican idealism, okay? They want France to become a republic. They want France to be, France to be free. They want to spread the revolution all across the world. Not only are they devoted and idealistic, but also their soldiers. Their soldiers are willing to die in battle, whereas the others are, whereas other nations are not, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 39:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: The vow we talked about, okay? Without the vow, there's no way Napoleon could have won his battles. The vow is probably the greatest general at this time. So, so, Carnot makes Napoleon a general. And why is Napoleon given the generalship? Because Napoleon does the Carnot a favor. So after Robespierre's death, a director is set up to basically be the dictatorship of France, okay? Five -man dictatorship, which includes Carnot, and Napoleon. And then, also, Paul Barat, who is also another patron of Napoleon, as well as a friend of Robespierre, okay? And at first, after Robespierre's downfall, both Paul Barat and Napoleon are under investigation, because they are friends of Robespierre. But because they are extremely politically flexible, I mean, he is the opposite of Robespierre. Robespierre was virtuous. He's very cynical, okay? He's your perfect political operator. He's able to become one of the leaders of the directory, and he helps promote Napoleon's career. Napoleon helps them, because at this time, there's a mob, a Paris mob, that threatens the directory. ## The Empire of Myth -- 40:43 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And what Napoleon does is, he fires cannon at them, okay? And as a general, you're not supposed to do that. You're not supposed to, like, actually go kill your own people. But Napoleon, he is ambitious. He's merciless. And he, so the directory owes him a favor, and he asks for a generalship of the Italian peninsula. Why? Because that's where Julius Caesar is from, right? And in the Italian peninsula, he wins a lot of battles. The record is mixed. It's not as great as people make it out to be, okay? But after the Italian peninsula, what's interesting is, he then goes to Egypt. Why? Because Alexander the Great went to Egypt, and Julius Caesar went to Egypt, okay? So even at this particular stage in his career, he understands how to create a mythology of himself, right? And so he goes to Egypt. ## The Empire of Myth -- 41:31 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: He says, okay, I am the new Julius Caesar. I am the new Alexander the Great. And it works, okay, because in 1799, Paul Borat, as well as Emil Csajas, who is now the head of the government, they get sick of the Republic. The Republic, it's corrupt, it's ineffectual. They want to establish their own dictatorship. But for them to establish their dictatorship, they need a general to help them out, okay? So they need the army on their side, and they go to different individuals. They go to First General Moreau, who is right now considered the best general in France. He's the most respected. And Moreau will decide with them, they will have no issues with their coup d 'etat. But Moreau, he's a staunch Republican. He refuses. He's like, no, this goes against the revolution. This goes against the legacy of Robespierre. I refuse to join in your coup d 'etat. So then they go to McDonald, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 42:28 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-myth-must-keep-moving) Text: I mean, at this point, McDonald is like, I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to do this. But have you talked to Napoleon, okay? And so they go talk to Napoleon, and of course Napoleon wants to do this. Napoleon's been dreaming about this. He wants to be the new Caesar who crushes the Rubicon and ends the Roman Republic, okay? And so what happens is Napoleon launches a coup d 'etat in Paris. And at this point, the great fear is the mob of Paris will rise up against Napoleon. But they don't, because Napoleon has done such a great job of creating a mythology of himself as a messiah, right? At this point, after the death of Robespierre, people are looking for a messiah. So Napoleon gets away with it. And then what he does is he knows that now that he's dictator, he needs to fulfill people's mythology of him as messiah. ## The Empire of Myth -- 43:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: So rather than just sit and enjoy being emperor, he decides to go to Italy again, okay? So the first thing he does, which is really interesting, is he crosses the Alps. He crossed the Alps, why? Because Hannibal crossed the Alps, okay? And during, in Italy, he makes a lot of really stupid decisions, okay? So for example, he had the Austrian army encircled, okay? So he had different forces surrounding the Austrian army. And what Napoleon was afraid of is the Austrian army would run away. But if you're a general in the Austrian army, you recognize that, the French are divided, right? So I just bulldoze them, okay? So the Austrians launch this massive attack against the French. And the French are now being overwhelmed. But the French have incredible discipline, so they hold the line, but they're still being overwhelmed because they're outnumbered, okay? Napoleon comes in with his elite group, with his elite soldiers. ## The Empire of Myth -- 44:21 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-myth-must-keep-moving) Text: And the elite soldiers hold their line, but 50 % of them are killed. And so now the Austrians are just bulldozing the French. Napoleon is safe because, the French army is able to come in and save them, okay? So Napoleon is taking all these stupid risks for no particular reason, and it's all to create a mythology for himself as this great conqueror. Because what he recognizes is, I don't have to win this battle because I control the government. When I go back to France, I'll just tell everyone I won, and everyone will believe me. But what's important is action, okay? I need action in order to create my mythology, all right? So after this Italian campaign, what he does next is, create a legend of himself as a new messiah, who will lead the French people into the promised land. Okay? This is the Battle of Marengo, where Napoleon showed up and destroyed, but he got lucky again. ## The Empire of Myth -- 45:19 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And in 1804, he makes himself emperor of France. And this now destroys the revolution, because the messiah's not supposed to do this. The messiah's not supposed to make himself emperor. The messiah is supposed to be selfless, like Rose Pierre, and lead the people to victory, to free the entire world. You're not supposed to become emperor, okay? Because once you become emperor, you have worldly needs. He makes now his brothers emperors as well. He makes his brother Joseph emperor of Italy, as well as Spain. Okay? He then makes his other brother, so this is Joseph. He then makes his other brother, Louis, king of Holland, okay? So he's basically dividing all of Europe, among his family members. And obviously, if you are a French revolutionary, who dedicates your entire life to promoting liberty around the world, you don't see this as a good thing, right? All right, so the other thing about Napoleon, is he was an extremely selfish individual. ## The Empire of Myth -- 46:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: He was narcissistic. He was selfish. And the reason why we know this, is one thing that he spent a lot of time on, is writing letters to his wife, the empress, Josephine. Okay, so let's just read certain sections of these letters. So he writes to Josephine, since I left you, okay, he's in campaign right now in Italy, I have been constantly depressed. My happiness is to be near you. Okay, so he's obsessed with Josephine. He's a general, he's in charge of tens of thousands of soldiers, but every day he's thinking about, hey, is Josephine sleeping with another man? That's like literally what he's thinking. He's like, I know Josephine's sleeping with another man, and I'm going to be really angry when I find out, okay? That's what he's thinking every day. And we know because I don't love you anymore, on the contrary, I detest you, you are a vile, mean, beastly slut, all right? ## The Empire of Myth -- 47:13 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-myth-must-keep-moving) Text: So this is what he's writing to his wife, who's sleeping with another man while he's away on campaign. Also, my mistresses do not in the least engage my feelings. Power is my mistress. So this is a megalomaniac, he's narcissistic, he's obsessed with obtaining as much power as possible. That's what drives him. What he recognizes is this. In order for him to maintain his mythology, in order for him to maintain his image as a messiah, France needs to be constantly at war. So even though Napoleon could at this time just enjoy being emperor, instead he's constantly at war with everyone in order to maintain his mythology. Because the mythology is what controls the French people. If you don't have the mythology, they won't let you become emperor anymore, okay? And so as a result, France becomes the largest empire in Europe, okay? So the blue, the light blue, it's all part of the French empire. ## The Empire of Myth -- 48:15 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: He's controlled France, but he controls Spain, Italy, parts of Prussia, Germany, okay? And the problem with Europe is, as I mentioned in previous classes, the geography. It's very hard to control all of it. So Britain is still impossible to conquer. Right now, Britain has the greatest navy in the world. France has the greatest land army in the world, but Great Britain has the greatest navy in the world, and therefore they can never be invaded, okay? Russia is just too big to be invaded. There's still Austria around. And so now the French army, it is overextended, and people have lost their revolutionary fever, okay? They don't want to die anymore for Napoleon. So now the French army, they're fighting all these battles, they're losing a lot of men, and these men are being replaced with just common people who don't really care about fighting, okay? So now the French army is in decline. ## The Empire of Myth -- 49:14 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=2954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: The turning point, of course, is in the year 1812, and that's the year when Napoleon decides to invade Russia. And even though the invasion is a failure, he's still able to escape. The problem, though, is that in Russia he's lost his cavalry. He no longer has cavalry in battle, okay? So there's a huge disadvantage. Also, his soldiers are fighting a guerrilla warfare in Spain because what's happened is because of Napoleon's conquest, nationalism is on the rise. Before, people fought against Napoleon in order to restore the French monarchy, in order to stop the revolution. Now people are fighting against Napoleon in order to secure the national independence from the French, in order to practice their religion, in order to protect their national values. And so the Spanish rise against the French, Napoleon, but also the Germans as well. So now Napoleon is way overextended, and he no longer has the military that he once had during the revolution, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 50:21 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3021s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3021s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: All right, so eventually Napoleon is defeated. This is called the Congress of Vienna, and it will lead to something called the Consul of Europe. And this peace is being mastered by a man named Mennonick, okay? And Mennonick argues for balance of power. Let's just maintain our borders, and let's no longer fight any more wars. Because Napoleon, his wars killed millions of people. We are sick and tired of war. The people are sick and tired of war. That's why Napoleon was defeated, because people wanted peace. Now, so this Consul of Europe, this peace agreement, and we can think of this as actually like a proto -United Nations, okay? An organization dedicated to maintaining balance of power in Europe. It works extremely well. Napoleon was defeated in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, and after that, there's no more wars in Europe, okay? Until maybe 1856 during the Crimean War, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 51:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: That's like 40, 50 years. So it's an incredibly successful, incredible formula. The problem, though, is this. If you don't let people fight wars, what are they going to do? They're going to revolt against you, okay? So because of inequality, you have all this massive tension in society. So your options are either you take people to war and kill off a lot of people, or these people will rise up against you, okay? And that's what happened in 1848 during the revolutions, when all of Europe was engulfed in revolutions. We will study this later on, okay? But I want you to remember this idea. 1815, Congress of Vienna, Congress of Europe, Minernich establishes peace in Europe, okay? And they think this is a great thing. But then you have the revolutions of 1848, which threaten and destroy a lot of these monarchies. And so after that, what happens? You now have continuous wars, okay? All right? So that's what the elite of Europe discovered because of the French Revolution. ## The Empire of Myth -- 52:28 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: You can either have your soldiers go to war or they will revolt against you. That's your choice, all right? And so this will take us into World War I in the 20th century, okay? So the peace of Europe is one of the major legacies of the French Revolution. But as I mentioned, another major legacy that we must not forget is the increase of liberalism in Europe at this time, okay? There are many nations, that start to adopt French Revolution principles, okay? But there are nations who are forced to adopt French Revolution principles like Prussia, because they have no choice if they are to fight a war. There are other nations like Austria, which will adopt these principles later on, okay? So even though Napoleon will kill the French Revolution, and Napoleon himself will be defeated by the Europeans, the French Revolution marks a radical turning point in history, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 53:24 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3204s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: The French Revolution marks the beginning of liberalism, modernity, humanism, a lot of great things that now define our modern world, okay? We will not be living in the world that we live in today because... Sorry, we will not be living in the world we live in today without the French Revolution, okay? It is probably the most significant event in human history. All right, so let me conclude now by talking about these great figures that have emerged in human history and compare them, okay? So as I mentioned at the beginning of the class, without Robespierre, Napoleon would not have been possible, all right? So this chart shows us how. You compare Robespierre and Napoleon. Robespierre obtained his power through virtue and dedication. He worked 18 hours a day. He was completely dedicated to the revolution. He had no girlfriend. He had no money. He was not being paid for his work. ## The Empire of Myth -- 54:16 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: All he was doing was to ensure the revolution would succeed. And because of his dedication and virtue, the revolution was saved and it succeeded, okay? So without Robespierre, the French Revolution would not have been possible. He was a prophet of reason. He believed that everyone had the capacity to reason. So if you present a logical argument, people would understand it, okay? And that was both the source of his virtue but it was also the source of his downfall because he could not imagine that his friends would conspire against him because they wanted to protect their own self -interest, okay? And the third thing about Robespierre that's important is he saved the French Revolution. Let's compare him with Napoleon. Okay, who's completely opposite. Napoleon got to where he was because of political maneuvering. He was able to identify political patrons early in his career and he did whatever they asked of him. And then together they launched a coup d 'etat against the French Republic. ## The Empire of Myth -- 55:14 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And after the coup d 'etat succeeded, he betrayed his political allies. He amassed power for himself. That's how he became emperor, okay? So Napoleon, he's a great politician. We think of him as a general, but he's really a politician. The thing about Napoleon that made him so successful is his myth -making genius. He understood that people are looking for myths and he knew how to present himself as a mythic figure like the Messiah, okay? And as a result, he destroyed the French Republic. Now what's interesting is that if you look at human history, figures like Napoleon appear always at the end of a republic, okay? So Napoleon killed the French Republic, but they have Julius Caesar, who is of the same personality, okay? Julius Caesar was able to identify political patrons very early on and outmaneuver them as they amassed power. Julius Caesar was focused on creating a myth of himself as this unbeatable general. ## The Empire of Myth -- 56:14 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And as a result, he destroyed the Roman Republic. Later on, we will study Hitler. Guess what, guys? Hitler follows the same pattern, okay? Hitler was able to amass power because he outmaneuvered his political patrons and allies. We will study this, okay? Remember, the Nazis did not come out of nowhere. The Nazis were a force incubated by the German army in order to destroy the communist movement, okay? And Hitler took advantage of this. Hitler got to where he was because he created a myth of himself as a savior of the German people, right? And then he destroyed the Roman Republic, right? Why is this important? Because it's entirely possible we are living at another inflection point in history where the American Republic may be destroyed. Trump, okay? How did Trump get to where he is? Political maneuvering. Why is he president? Because he has a myth ## The Empire of Myth -- 57:05 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: -making genius, okay? That's really important to understand about Trump. Everyone's like, Trump is a terrible business person. He's lost a lot of money. Trump doesn't understand terrorists. He doesn't understand the economy. He doesn't care. He understands mythology, okay? He understands how to capture people's attention. He knows how to instill an image of himself as a messiah in people's minds. That's what he cares about, right? He doesn't need to succeed. He needs to act. And then he needs to present himself in a way that captures people's imagination. What does Trump spend all his time on? He spends all his time talking to the press. That's his job, okay? Do you understand? His job is not to think about economics or military matters. His job is to talk to the press and create an image of himself as a messiah to the American people, okay? So the question then is, okay, well, listen. If we see this ## The Empire of Myth -- 58:02 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: pattern, Napoleon, Caesar, Hitler are the same person, the results are the same, and Trump is similar to Napoleon, Caesar, and Hitler, what's gonna happen? I don't know, okay? All right? But, okay, and this is really important, if, in fact, in the next 10 years, it'll probably take 10 years, if Trump actually destroys the American people, the American republic, okay, then a pattern emerges in history, all right? And if this pattern is consistent, now we're able to control history because we're able to foresee and predict history, okay? So that's the idea. Okay, that's it. Any questions? Was this clear to you guys? All right, good. Rose Pier. Okay, that's a great question, okay. Why did Napoleon succeed where Rose Pier failed? Okay. Okay, so the difference is this. If I'm Rose Pier, I believe everyone is capable of reason, right? Therefore, you have a responsibility to reason for yourself. You understand? I will give you ideas, but you must come to your own conclusions, you must act independently of me, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 59:25 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And Napoleon's like, no, no, no. People don't want to think. People want to believe. People want to obey. If I present myself as Messiah, and I tell people, follow me and I will lead you to paradise, people will want to follow me, okay? And people love this confidence, right? This charisma, this confidence of Napoleon. Think of Trump, right? Maybe you and I think Trump's an idiot, but if you're a normal person, you believe that Trump, he is a genius because he's so confident, right? People are attracted to confidence. Does that make sense? People aren't attracted to logic or reason. They're attracted to confidence and charisma. Trump tells everyone, follow me and the world will be fine. We will make America great again. And, you know, you're like, well, that doesn't make any sense. Doesn't matter, okay? What Trump has done is create a mythology that has captured people's imagination. ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:00:27 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: And as such, people are willing to die for this. Does that make sense? That's what made Napoleon such a great military leader. Because he had this confidence, and people just had to follow him, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Great question. Any more questions? Okay. Myth -making, okay? Myth -making is, all right, there's reality. Okay, why is Trump a myth -making genius? Okay, there's reality, right? These are things that you and I see every day. And then there's myths. These are ideas that we have about how society works, about how the world works. Now, objectively speaking, Trump is a failed business person. His father was a great business person, Fred Trump, who built a real estate empire. And then Trump came along and took this empire over. And he almost bankrupted this empire, okay? And so, Fred Trump was spending a lot of his time thinking about how to make money. ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:01:38 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Like, how do I make a great business? How do I hire good people? How do I motivate them? How do I steal more money from the government, okay? So he was focused on the very specifics of running a business. Trump is like, no! People don't want that. People want to see a successful billionaire, okay? And what's a successful billionaire? He sleeps with beautiful women, right? I'm going to find beautiful women, and I'm going to sleep with them, and the press is going to report it. And then people are like, oh my God, this guy is a god, because all these beautiful women want to sleep with him. Therefore, I should give him my money to spend, to invest, because he's a genius, okay? What? What people want is mythology of success. Does that make sense? So what made Trump actually really famous is a show called The Apprentice. ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:02:29 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: The Apprentice, it's a TV show, it's made up, and the show presents Trump as this extremely wise and forward -looking business person. And he's the opposite in reality, okay? But what Trump understands that's really important is people don't care about reality. People want to watch a TV show that's exciting, that's interesting, that's fun. So if I turn politics into a TV show and everyone's watching all the time, they will always want me to be president. Does that make sense? Yeah, because... Yeah, okay, so is perception more important than reality? And the answer is yes, okay? And the reason why is reality, it is very hard. It's very difficult. All right? People prefer simple ideas, simple myths that allow them to better navigate reality. That's why religion is important, okay? So what Trump's doing is he's creating a religion. He's creating a religion about himself, right? And it's really the same idea as Napoleon. Napoleon says this, right? ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:03:47 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3827s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: I saw the way to achieve my dreams. I would found a religion. I saw myself as marching into Asia, mounted on an elephant. A turban on my head. And in my hand, a new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. Magnet is a new religion, okay? Make America great again. Don't think of it as a political movement. Think of it as a new religion. And I will explain to you why Trump is so powerful, okay? I think Trump will be president of the United States for the next 10 years. It is very hard to remove him because, like, once you remove him, the TV show ends. You understand? Now you have to go back to reality. People don't want that. People want to live in a TV show. Exactly, exactly. That's exactly it. That's exactly right. People want to live in a TV show. It's perfect. Thank you. People want to live in a dream because that's what makes life bearable. ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:04:33 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. That's a great question, okay? So the argument against this is, like, Trump is a terrible economic leader. And so with his terrorist war against China, with all of these policies, it's just going to make the American person more poor, okay? So less money to spend. The American won't be able to afford a house, okay? So this is really important. But you have to think about people's psychology, all right? So, sorry, let me write this down because it's a very important idea, okay? You have to understand people's psychology, okay? People are not capable of thinking in absolute terms. Does that make sense? Like, if I give you a bottle of wine, okay? This bottle of wine, okay? And I give you another bottle of wine. And I ask you to tell me which is better. You're not able to do it, okay? ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:06:00 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=3960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: But I told you this one is $50, this one is $10. You know this has to be better. Do you understand? So people's psychology is very interesting, but people cannot think objectively, okay? People can only compare and contrast. So let's just say, okay, trade war. The American consumer is losing, pushing power, right? So the person is getting more poor. But if China is getting more poor in this time, right? So U.S. goes down, but China goes down even more, people are happy. Do you understand? Okay? I know this is terrible, but this is true. I don't have to make you rich. I just have to make everyone else poorer, and then you're happy, right? Make America great again. Make America great again. Do you understand? Being great, it's just a perception. I'm better than everyone else, and then I'm great. I don't have to be wealthy. I just have to be better off than everyone else. ## The Empire of Myth -- 1:07:15 - Source title: Civilization #48: Napoleon's Empire of Myth - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=4035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enEET_0j_Y8&t=4035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-eneet-0j-y8.json) Text: So the entire world is poorer. America is happier. Does that make sense? Okay? So that's the logic here. Trump doesn't want to make America wealthy again. He needs to make America, a myth again. You understand? He wants to create the myth of a great America because the rest of the world is either at war, or it's bankrupt, or people feel hopeless. Do you understand? And honestly, he's right. Okay? He's absolutely correct in this matter. All right? And that explains why he's doing what he's doing. Does that make sense? Okay, great. Any more questions? All right. Good. Okay, so we're taking a break. And then we'll come back from the break. We start the British Empire. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So we continue the French Revolution today and last class we looked at Jean -Jacques Rousseau and how he is the philosopher poet of the revolution. He provided the dream for the revolution. He told the French that there was a promised land of reason where if you use your reason, which is God's gift to us, you could build a new society, a utopia, a kingdom on earth. In today's class we will look at Robespierre, Maximilien Robespierre, who is a prophet who will take his people into the promised land. So he is the main instigator, the main leader of the French Revolution. And I'm going to make a very strange argument today about Robespierre that no one has made before. So it's going to be very controversial. It's going to be very strange. So I will do this very slowly, okay? Basically, I'm going to make the argument to you that Robespierre saw himself as the second coming of Jesus. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:17 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And because he did so, he sacrificed himself in order to save the French Revolution. Okay? So that's my argument to you today. Again, it's going to be a very controversial, provocative argument. So I will work very slowly to explain it. Alright. Okay. So let's go over some, let's review some information we discussed last class that's very important. Okay. So as we discussed last class, traditionally in Europe, there have been two major groups of people. Okay. There are the peasants and the poor. the slaves okay so basically the lower class the underclass and then at the top are the nobility and clergy now there's always been townspeople there's always been merchants and artisans and crafts people but they're the minority but because of the gunpowder revolution as Europe begins to industrialize these people are going in number and influence and power okay and we call these people today the middle class and the ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 2:35 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: middle class it's an extremely diverse group of people and you can simplify the middle class into three major categories okay there's the bourgeoisie the bourgeoisie remember are the elite of the town so these are bankers lawyers doctors factory owners industrialists merchants okay so they are the elite of a town then you have what what we call later the proletariat okay the proletariat are the lower class of a town they include artisans workers okay they're often the majority and then in between are what we call the petite bourgeoisie or the petty middle class and these are just people who are just stuck in between these two major categories and they include schoolteachers journalists small lawyers okay notaries small business owners okay so this is extremely diverse group of people okay now and as we discussed last class what often happens in revolution is shit. that is that the political see will often be become the counter ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: elites the counter leads are just those who need the people to revolt against the elites the proletariat will be the muscle or the army okay and the forces e are in a very unstable position because at first they will often support revolutions because they want more political power but over time they will become reactionaries or they will try to control the revolution or even kill the revolution because the revolution is threatening threatening their economic interests okay so this is the pattern that we see in human history okay so um let's let's go over some terms that we will need in order to understand the French Revolution okay um so what happens is this the middle class is growing in France throughout the 17th and 18th century in fact they become the main economic engine for France at this time France is the most populous the wealthiest nation in all of Europe but it is an ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 5:40 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: absolute monarchy an absolute monarchy is one in which the king makes all the decisions he decides whether or not to go to war he decides who has the power he decides who has to pay taxes okay he has absolute power an absolute monarchy the absolute monarchy leads France into a series of disastrous wars in this in the 18th century the most prominent the most important is something called a seven years war fought between France and England primarily there are other participants as well and this is a world war okay this is really the first world war you can actually call this world war zero it's fought all around the world in North America in Europe in Asia it's fought everywhere and France loses this war okay when you lose the war you incur a lot of debt but not only that right after seven years war France sponsors the American Revolution okay so France becomes ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 6:44 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=404s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=404s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: the main economic political and military sponsor of the American Revolution in the revolution against the British and of course the Americans win this war when the Americans refuse to pay back the debt that they owe to the French okay so these are two major wars that are now that have now left France in very dire economic straits in fact their Treasury it's empty okay the government has no more money food prices are off the charts people don't have enough to eat there's no food there's no food there's no food there's no food there's no bread the economy's in tatters so what the king needs to do now is he needs to call an assembly of the people okay and this and this what's called the estate general the estate general this happens in the year 1789 and this marks the beginning of the French Revolution and the purpose was estate general it's very simple all ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 7:47 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: the king wants to do is get these people the nobility the clergy and the middle class bourgeoisie to agree to even more money okay to pay more taxes to replenish the Treasury of course the middle class everyone in the middle class is like this is a bad deal for us we are the main economic engine for France we pay the most taxes we do the most work but we have no political power therefore we should have some political power in fact we should check the power of the king to declare war and to raise taxes okay so they want a constitutional monarchy no at this time in history no one is saying that they should depose the king and declare Republic no one is saying that okay all they want is a more a greater diffusion of power all right less power for the king more power for the people that makes sense okay but ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 8:55 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: of course the king and the elite don't really like this idea and the king this is Louis the 16th and he's very indice in decisive okay he wants to maintain the absolute monarchy but he lacks the cutthroat mentality mentality that they would need to achieve his power okay so he should have sat in the military to kill every one of them he would have killed every one of them one but he didn't want to do that he goes back and forth okay and so what happens is now the estate general breaks off in the estate general there are three estates okay three major groups there's the no the first estate is called the clergy the catholic church the second estate is nobility the third estate is everyone else the commoners okay so what happens is the third estate breaks off and they form something called the national assembly and they use national assembly as a ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 9:54 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: mechanism to press for more rights in the national assembly because it's made up of most of the members of the middle class you have different groups of the proletariat the petite bourgeoisie the bourgeoisie um they argue amongst themselves as well so what what's happening now is that within the national assembly these political groups political clubs are forming in order to divide strategy and to consolidate the political system and to consolidate the political system ideology amongst themselves okay and the most famous of these clubs is are called the you guys remember the jacobins right have you guys studied this history okay the jacobins or anyway the jacobins the jackman's and this is just a meeting place for um revolutionaries to come together and discuss ideology how do we best proceed now over time as the revolution develops the jacoblins will split off into other groups okay um and the reason why they split off is because ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 11:02 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=662s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=662s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: the economic interests the political economic social interests of these different groups do not align with each other all right so from the jacobins you will emerge the police the fulhans represent the bourgeoisie they don't want any economic change they want political change they don't want to have a more equal society they just want more power or they don't want a more more for people they don't want more power over the king, okay? So these are conservatives. But then you will also emerge the Girondins. Girondins. Now Girondins are lower Portuguese. These are merchants, these are tradespeople. And what they want is war. They want France to declare war against their enemies, Austria, Prussia, basically. And the reason why is, if there's war, they can make money off war. Okay, because these are merchants, these are tradespeople, these are industrialists. So they see war as an opportunity to enrich themselves. They're speculators, basically. And these are called the Girondins. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 12:08 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And then you will also emerge the Cordeliers. And the Cordeliers represent a more extreme faction of the Jacobins who want universal suffrage. They want the proletariat to have more rights. Okay, at this point, the proletariat is called the Sainte -Colottes. The Sainte -Colottes, okay? These are very important people because they provide the muscle for the revolution. Sainte -Colottes is French meaning without breaches. So the custom at that time is that if you are a middle class person, you wear like silk socks, okay? But they're expensive. So the lower class, the proletariat, they cannot afford these socks. Therefore, they're called the Sainte -Colottes. Okay, the Sainte -Colottes. And the Cordeliers want to galvanize these people to create a full revolution where the complete social, economic, political, and religious order is overthrown, okay? Then you have people called the Herpetists. And what they want to do is overthrow the Catholic Church. Okay, so throughout this revolution, over time, you have different groups emerging with different political interests. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 13:30 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: With different political interests within the middle class. Okay, does that make sense? But at the same time, you have threats to the revolution. Okay? So the main threat is the king because the king is a Bourbon and his brother is king of Spain, he has relatives all over Europe. So he writes to Austria -Prussia to ask for aid. Can you come in, send your army, and crush this revolution for me? Because my army's not listening to me. Okay? So the king is conspiring against the revolution. There are these invasions from Austria and Prussia, okay? And then England also sees the revolution as a threat as well. Because remember, every nation has a new class and they're afraid that the middle class in their nations will rise up against them as well. So you have these external threats coming in. And then you also have internal threats, okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 14:28 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: You have counterrevolutionaries, the nobility who try to raise their own army, to crush the revolution. You also have economic collapse going on, okay? So the revolution at this point, in the year 1990, 1991, it seems threatened. So what happens is that someone emerges from this chaos to lead the revolution. And his name is Maximilien Robespierre, okay? Maximilien Robespierre. And Robespierre, he is just a provincial lawyer. Okay? He is not from Paris. He is from Arras, a province in France. He's a lawyer and he's part of the Petit Bourgeoisie. And he's not imposing. He's not huge. He's not powerful. He doesn't have a faction behind him. And he's not extremely charismatic. He's almost like a nerd. But the thing about Robespierre is that he is completely convinced that the revolution must win. And it will win if he works hard enough. He works 18 hours a day. The moment he gets up, he works. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 15:47 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=947s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: He gives speeches. He gives over 500 speeches in the National Assembly over his career. He is extremely virtuous. He comes to Paris with no money and he leaves Paris with no money. His entire career as a lawyer, back in his hometown, he spent defending the poor and the weak against the powerful. And he has... And he has... He has very clear ideas about how to proceed with the revolution based on Jean -Jacques Rousseau. He sees himself as a disciple of Jean -Jacques Rousseau. Remember last class, we looked at Rousseau's ideas and how to implement a kingdom of reason, okay? So, Robespierre, because he is the most virtuous, he has the most conviction. He becomes the de facto leader of the revolution, okay? He becomes head of something called the Committee for Public Safety. And it's not a dictatorship, okay? He's not a dictator, but he's head of a committee that advises the National Assembly on how to proceed. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 17:02 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And because he is the most forceful, he has the most ideas, his ideas usually win out, okay? And what... And all of this is because he's a dictator. Over time, as he accumulates more and more power, he makes more and more radical proposals. His most radical proposal is called the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror is a time of mass execution, okay? The guillotine in Paris. In order to solidify the revolution, in order to advance the revolution, Robespierre says we must instill terror in our people. Our enemies. We must investigate our enemies and execute them if they are plotting with the king against us. If they are plotting with enemies against us. If they are conspiring against us. If they are engaged in economic speculation. If they're hoarding food. These are all enemies. They're trying to sabotage the revolution. Therefore, we must kill them, okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 18:08 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1088s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1088s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So, over a few years, three or four years, the Reign of Terror will kill, at all, at least 40,000 people within Paris alone, okay? We don't know in the provinces how many people are killed. The Reign of Terror will also execute the king and queen. So they will kill the king and queen as well, alright? So, historians have been debating for a long time if the Reign of Terror was necessary, because obviously it's a terrible thing to kill, 40,000 people for holding opposing political opinions, okay? And a lot of these people were, in fact, just political enemies of Robespierre, okay? So, how can we best understand the Reign of Terror? Well, if you think about it, in this class, we've actually studied the Reign of Terror before, okay? It's the idea of human sacrifice. And we've discussed this before. All societies engaged in war, pre -modern times, practiced human sacrifice. So, Romans did it. The Vikings did it. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 19:27 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: The Aztecs did it, okay? The Aztecs were famous for doing it. So, why would you do human sacrifice if you're engaged in war, okay? Well, there are different reasons. And there are three main reasons. The first reason is you want to unify and energize the people, okay? When people observe or they watch human sacrifice, when they engage in a spectacle, they become much more excited. They have bloodlust. Okay? We call this bloodlust, warlust. They want to kill now. Okay? They're excited to kill. Okay? That's one purpose. Second purpose, of course, is to terrorize your enemy, to put fear in your enemy. Okay? That's obvious. And then there's a third reason, which is the most important. The third reason is to break taboo, okay? To break the taboo. When you break a taboo, you are signaling that you are crossing a boundary. You've crossed a line, and you can never go back. You can no longer compromise. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 20:37 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: You can only move forward, okay? So the taboo they broke in the French Revolution is they killed the king and queen of France. That meant that now all of Europe would unite against the French. And there would come an exact, a bloody vengeance on the people of France. The enemies of France, which include England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Austria, Russia, the five most powerful nations in all of Europe, they will now come, and they will not stop until they have avenged the dead king and queen. Okay? Because the French people have broken this taboo, and the monarchs cannot allow the French people to get away with this. Okay? Because if they did, then this will encourage their people to rise up against them as well. Okay? So by... Terror, Robespierre, breaks the taboo and when you break the taboo then you are now all in. You are fully committed to the revolution. There's no more compromise. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 21:44 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: There's no more surrender. There's no more going back into the past. You are now in the promised land. You are now in a new world. You must fight to the death for this world. Does that make sense? Okay, but what happens next and it's very strange is Robespierre has accumulated all the power in France. He's not dictator. He doesn't have the powers of a dictator but he's de facto dictator and at this point in his life, he's only like in his mid -30s, he could choose to become king, right? He could be like, you know what? For the revolution to fall. For the revolution to fully succeed, I need to become a dictator and the people, the Sainte -Colote love him. The Jacobins love him. He would win, okay, but at this particular stage in the revolution, he decides to just sit at home. He goes into seclusion. He kind of gives up ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 22:52 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: and this gives time for his enemies to conspire against him and he has a lot of enemies because this is the ring of terror. Robespierre is virtuous and no one can be as virtuous as Robespierre and his enemies think this guy is crazy. He's going to kill everyone who is not as virtuous as he is and therefore, we're all going to be killed at some point, okay? So they decide to act first. So the National Assembly conspire to vote for his condemnation. They vote for his death. And he does not resist. The most he does is he goes to the National Assembly and he gives a speech cursing them all, okay? But then afterwards, they send soldiers to arrest him and he doesn't really resist. And then he's sent off to the guillotine and then he's killed and that's the end of Robespierre. And this is a mystery, a paradox to historians like why did Robespierre fall? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 23:58 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Why didn't he resist? Why did he just give up? Okay? All right. So to answer this question, I'm going to provide you with a new idea, okay? And this is a hard idea so please feel free to challenge me or ask questions. Make sure you're clear. Okay? All right. So the thing you need to understand is this. In a time of revolution, when people reject authority, when people say, I no longer believe in God. I refuse to listen to my priest. The nobility is evil. I refuse to submit to the king. The question then is what takes charge? What guides society now? And the answer is mythologies. Mythologies are the subconscious operating system of society. Does that make sense? So what mythology does everyone in France know? Well, the story of Jesus, right? What's the story of Jesus? Um. Jesus is persecuted for telling the truth, for trying to bring about a more equal, more just world. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 25:22 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: In fact, he is murdered. He's crucified. Okay? It's crucification. Okay? And the moment he's crucified, people discover that he's truly the son of God. And then after he dies, he ascends to heaven. Okay? And then he awaits the day when he has to return. Okay? And he does return in something called the second coming. Second coming. And the second coming, Jesus will become the God of war. Okay? The Messiah. And he will lead his people into victory against the entire world. And once he defeats the entire world, he will build a kingdom of heaven, a thousand years of peace. And then after a thousand years of peace, heaven will come onto earth. We will all become immortal. And those who have been good will live in heaven. Those who have been bad will burn in hell. Okay? The final judgment. Okay? So that's a story, a mythology, that everyone understands, that everyone knows in France. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 26:37 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-moves-guilt) Text: And so even though the French Revolution was a revolution of reason when they're trying to reject the Christian faith, the mythology is still implanted in their brains. And this mythology becomes the operating system of the French Revolution. Revolution. Okay? So, using this mythology, let's now ask ourselves, what happened when Robespierre died? Okay? Three things happened when Robespierre died. The first one that happened is, Robespierre became a scapegoat. A scapegoat is someone who takes the blame for all the crimes of the community. So the Ring of Terror is when the Parisians killed 40,000 people. and some of them were innocent and when Robespierre died he took the blame for the ring of terror right they killed him because they call him a tyrant he's the one responsible for those 40,000 deaths and he said sure I'll take the blame okay he becomes a scapegoat that's the first thing that happens ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 27:43 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: second thing that happens is he becomes a martyr for the revolution he died in order to save the revolution Robespierre said to the people if you need me to die in order to cleanse you of your sins then I will do so I will do so because what matters is that my life but the revolution okay he becomes a martyr and when he became a martyr what he did was he made people feel guilty for having persecuted and killed him okay and so the third thing he becomes is a role model okay or a paragon a hero he's telling the French people listen I could have become king and all the power in the world but I chose to sacrifice myself because what mattered most was the revolution if you feel guilty for having killed me then you have an obligation to a revolution to sacrifice to make the sacrifice necessary in order to save ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 28:51 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: the revolution okay so this is what happened the moment he killed himself he became a scapegoat a martyr and a paragon of virtue a hero to the people people will feel guilty for having killed him and now they will transfer this guilt into promoting and saving the revolution and so in other words but the moment that he died Robespierre became Jesus he became in the minds of the French people second coming of Jesus does it make sense okay so that's my argument to you today and so over the rest of the class we will look at the evidence and actually the best evidence is how Robespierre died okay so let's compare the death of Jesus and the death of Robespierre and you will see they match up they line up perfectly okay so let's look at the death of Jesus and then we'll look at Robespierre his death Jesus spends his life preaching the truth ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 30:17 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: to the people and trying to build a more just and equal world but he knows that eventually he must die in order to complete his mission okay so in the Last Supper he tells his followers the disciples one of you will betray me okay betrayal and of course this person name is Julius Iscariot who betrays Jesus to the high priest of Jerusalem okay so the first so the first thing is for betrayal but after the dinner everyone goes to sleep and Jesus goes to a quiet place okay he isolates himself why because he knows that the soldiers are coming to arrest him and to put him to death okay the servants of the high priest are going to come in and arrest him the servants do come in and arrest him and the servants do come in and arrest him come to arrest Jesus and Jesus submits okay submission he does not resist but one ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 31:20 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: of his disciples Peter if he sees what's happening and he rushes to try to save Jesus and Peter cuts off the ear of one of the servants of the high priest and Jesus tells him no no no Peter go home this is what I must do by myself I must go with the with the hype to the high priest okay he goes to the high priest who then presents Jesus to the high priest who then presents Jesus to the high priest okay he goes to the high priest who then presents Jesus to the high priest who then presents Jesus to the high priest who then presents him to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate right and him to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate right and Pontius Pilate says Jesus you've been accused Pontius Pilate says Jesus you've been accused of crimes against your people of defying the laws of your God what do you have to ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 31:57 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: say in your defense and Jesus says nothing Jesus does not defense defend himself okay okay so submission okay and then Pontius Pilate says fine if you refuse to defend yourself then I can only condemn you to death So Jesus, he has to bear a cross, okay? And he's bearing the cross. The Jews line up and see him, and they jeer him, okay? They curse him. They spit at him. They throw stones at him. And all this while, there's someone, a soldier, a centurion, following him and whipping him, okay? This is called a passion, okay? He is punished. And then he is, of course, crucified. And he's crucified. It's the worst way to die, right? Right? People, thousands of people come and watch him get crucified and then die, okay? That's the story of Jesus. Guess what, guys? This story becomes the death of Robespierre, too. So Robespierre is betrayed. He is betrayed by his political allies and friends. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 33:15 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=1995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: He helped these people amass power. And once they amass power, and Robespierre gets rid of all the other enemies, they see Robespierre as the ultimate threat. So they conspire against him, okay? So it's a betrayal. Robespierre is asked to speak to the assembly. He does, okay? But he knows the assembly has already condemned him to death. There's no point in him arguing, okay? So what he does is, after his speech, he goes to a building, a town hall, and he goes to the second floor, and he is isolated from everyone, okay? He knows his fate. He knows they're going to come and kill him, and he just stands there. His friends, his most loyal followers, okay, say to him, Robespierre, they're coming to kill you. Let's rally the people. Let's go to the sections, the Saint -Colote. We have thousands, tens of thousands of loyal followers. Let's rally them. Let's inspire them to revolt. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 34:15 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Let's raise an army and kill the entire National Assembly. And Robespierre refuses, okay? Then you have the Paris Conflict. And you have a commotion, let's call it a Commune. Leaders from the Paris Commune, they've heard what happened to Robespierre. So they send a delegation to the sections and say, hey guys, we need to defend our hero, okay? And so you have this huge crowd moving towards the National Assembly. And they're waiting for Robespierre to appear before them and say, fight, fight, fight, okay? Defend the revolution, save the revolution, save Robespierre. They're waiting for the hero to come out and lead them. Robespierre refuses to say a word. He just sits there. And everyone's begging Robespierre, please, Robespierre, we have to do something. And Robespierre just, he stares off into space, okay? He's like Jesus at this point. He knows his fate. He knows his destiny. He refuses to fight his destiny. He submits, okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 35:14 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2114s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2114s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Submission. The soldiers come, and his followers, they get into a fight. Some people die. But a soldier shoots a pistol into the jaw of Robespierre, okay? And now he's covered in blood. And he's trying to wipe off the blood. But he's in pain, okay? And even though he's in pain, they still take him to the guillotine. So the passion of Robespierre. And he's being driven on a horse cart with his followers, and there's about 100 of them, to the guillotine. They'll be all massacred at once, okay? And 1,000 people line up on the streets to shout, down with the tyrant, down with the tyrant, okay? They hate Robespierre. These are people who lost friends, family in the Ring of Terror. So they want to see this guy dead. And ultimately then, Robespierre then is guillotined. And that's the end of Robespierre, okay? Do you see how these stories line up perfectly? It is ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 36:21 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2181s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: almost as if Robespierre is trying to act, without the story of Jesus, for the French people. That is his intention. That is his legacy. He wants people to understand that it was Jesus who appeared before them. And Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice because he loved his people, in order to rally his people to save the revolution and fight off the enemies of France, okay? These stories line up too well. Now, we know that this story is basically just mythology, okay? But I keep on telling you guys, in history, for us humans, mythology ideas are real, okay? So Robespierre remembers this mythology, or subconsciously knows this mythology, and he acted it out for the French people in order to inspire them, in order to fully realize the revolution, okay? So, in other words, the French Revolution was essentially a religious mythology, in which Robespierre volunteered to play the part of Jesus, right? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 37:47 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: To be Jesus, you need to make the ultimate sacrifice. You need to sacrifice yourself in front of people, and that's what he did, okay? And after his death, people now see that he's Jesus, and now people are inspired to believe that there will be a second coming of Robespierre. Someone will come who will be Robespierre, and who will lead them to final victory against all their enemies. And this person's name is? Who? Who comes after Robespierre? Napoleon! Did you understand? So Napoleon takes advantage of all this mythology, and he uses it in order to become the king of France, okay? Robespierre refused to become king, but Napoleon will become king. And we'll discuss Napoleon next class. And this will end our French Revolution. Trilogy. All right. So this is the main argument, okay? So I've provided basically the basic story. But what's important for us is now to look at the evidence, okay? So we're going to look at the speeches of Robespierre in the context of French revolutionary history, all right? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 39:05 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: To understand his mentality. Right now, what's really important is for us to understand his psychology and ask ourselves, if Robespierre really believed he was Jesus or a prophet, then do his speeches, do his words, actually provide evidence for this, okay? And I will show you that, in fact, there is evidence that he does, in fact, see himself as a prophet. But before I start the evidence, are you guys clear about this argument? Are you clear about the story I'm telling you? All right. Are you guys clear? All right, good. So let's look at the evidence. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 40:02 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: All right. Okay. Yep. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 40:13 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: That is a great question. Does Robespierre, does Robespierre, know that people will know? He doesn't, right? He can't know. And in fact, if you look at the Bible, the Bible is very clear. Jesus himself was full of doubt. He was not completely sure that people will remember him, okay? But that's the problem of faith. If you truly believe in the people, you will have faith in the people. You understand? So it was an act of faith. Right? Robespierre never at any point said, hey, I am the prophet. I need to sacrifice myself in order to save the revolution, okay? He hints at that, but he never really says it outright. And so he himself is an extremely conflicted person. All right? There's a part of him that is pulling him towards his destiny. But there's also another part of him that resists against this, okay? Do you understand? We humans are extremely complicated. Robespierre was a human being. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 41:20 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? He can never be confident that this will work out in the end. But because he took that leap of faith, it radically changed human history. Okay? Because I believe, okay, and I will argue this, if he actually didn't do this, if he actually just became king, right, if he seized the crown like Napoleon did, the French Revolution would have failed. And we really wouldn't remember the French Revolution. And it really wouldn't change the course of human history. What I will show you next class is, because he did survive, and also because he sacrificed himself, it allowed Napoleon to defeat all of Europe. Okay? Without Robespierre's sacrifice, Napoleon could not have become Napoleon. All right? So does that make sense? No prophet ever truly believes he's the prophet. There's always a part of him that is doubtful, that is skeptical. Okay? But he persists nonetheless. And that's what makes him heroic. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 42:16 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? And this is true for all prophets. Does that make sense? All right. French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre. Okay. So some basic biographical details about Robespierre. Okay? He was born in a town called Arras, which is a province of France. And his family there for a few generations was bourgeoisie. They were all lawyers. His grandfather was a lawyer. His father was a lawyer. But his mother, Robespierre's mother, died giving birth to a younger brother. They both died. And then Robespierre's father left the family and died a few years later in Belgium or somewhere. So Robespierre went from bourgeoisie to petit bourgeoisie. His family is still wealthy, but not as wealthy as before. Robespierre becomes, at a very early age, okay, maybe seven or eight, he becomes the man of a family. Okay? He's responsible for taking care of his younger brother and his younger sister. His grandparents are still pretty wealthy. They send him to a Jesuit school where he excels academically. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 43:25 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? His ambition is really to be Jean -Jacques Rousseau. He wants to be a philosopher. He wants to be like a poet philosopher like Jean -Jacques Rousseau. He writes a lot. He dreams of a better world. He's very idealistic. He becomes a lawyer. And as a lawyer, as I mentioned, he spends all his time defending the poor and the weak. He's a champion of the oppressed. The Estates General is organized, and he goes and becomes a representative. And as I said, over the next few years, he rises to the very top. So the question we're looking at today is, how did Robespierre fall? Okay. So as I mentioned, before the Estates General is called, France is in a, is facing economic financial collapse. And so King Louis XVI appoints Jacques Necker to become the finance minister. The thing about Necker is that he understands that, listen, if you want people to pay more taxes, you need to give them more political representation. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 44:34 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? So Necker becomes a champion of the middle class. And he's worshipped by the middle class. Louis XVI doesn't really like what he has to say. And so they have this back and forth for many years where, Louis XVI fires him. The people revolt. Louis XVI hires him back, then fires him again. Okay? So this goes on for quite some time. Necker will also become, okay. Around this time, as the Estates General is being called in order to raise more taxes from the people, the Abbé Sayet, who's a clergyman, he writes a very influential pamphlet called What is the Third Estate? Right? Because the first, second, and third estates are being called. The first and second estates have all the power. The third estate has no power. So he writes a very influential pamphlet asking the question, what is the third estate? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 45:27 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And the answer, and his answer is, everything. Okay? The third estate is everyone in France. 99.99%. What has it been until now in the political order? Nothing. What does it demand to be? Something. Okay? So during this time, pamphlets are like the internet of today. It's how most people get their news. And the pamphlets become extremely violent and call for radical change. May 5th, 1789, the three estates meet. King Louis XVI refuses to acknowledge the third estate. He refuses to meet with them. He refuses to heed their demands. So what happens is the third estate form their own national assembly. Okay? And these people are radical. This is everyone in the middle class. The bourgeoisie, the Sainte -Colote. They want more political power. They want more political representation in government. While this is happening, people's mood is becoming more and more radical and violent. Okay? So the people perish. They don't have any bread. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 46:42 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2802s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2802s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: They're hungry. They're unemployed. They feel hopeless. They feel the king is aloof. So a group of people, they storm the Bastille. The storming of the Bastille happens on July 5th. July 14th, 1789. This is important because the national day of France today is July 14th. Why? Because on July 14th, the people rose up and stormed the fortress of the Bastille in order to get gunpowder. In order to have their own army. Okay? Not only that, but they kill the governor of the Bastille and parade his head in front of everyone. Okay? So people's mood is extremely violent. And this violence is happening all around France. It's been decades of economic stagnation, poverty, military defeat. People want a revolution. August 27th, 1789, the National Assembly declares a new constitution. Okay? This new constitution is something called the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. And it becomes a basis for most constitutions in the world. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 47:56 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? This marks the beginning of a new age in human history. So let's look at a few passages from the Declaration of Rights of Man. For these reasons, the National Assembly do recognize and declare in the presence of the Supreme Being, the Supreme Being is a God of Reason, and with the hope of his blessing and favor, the following sacred rights of man and of citizens. Okay? Do you understand? These rights were not given to you by the government. They were given to you by God. And these rights can never be taken away from you. Okay? First, men are born and always continue free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be found only on public utility. Okay? This is a radical statement. Everyone is equal in the eyes of God and therefore in the eyes of the law. If there's nobility, if there's a clergy, it's only because we agree to give them this distinction based on their utility. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 49:04 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=2944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? Based on the fact that they do public good for us. Alright? So that's a radical statement. Second, the end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. And these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. Okay? These are the fundamental human rights. All government, all laws, all society must be based on these fundamental principles. Liberty, property, security, and oppression. Resistance of oppression. Okay? Third, the nation is essentially the source of all sovereignty nor can any individual or any body of man be entitled to any authority which is not expressly derived from it. So what this is saying is that we have a new God. It's a nation state. France becomes the first nation state. And all authority derives from the idea of the nation. Okay? And no power can supersede the power of the nation. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 50:06 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense guys? Okay? This is the beginning of modernity, right? Four, political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. You can do whatever you want as long as you don't harm someone else. The exercise of the natural rights of every man has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man and these limits are determined only by the law. Five, the law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to society. What is not prohibited by the law should not be hindered nor should anyone be compelled to that which the law does not require. Okay? So this is a new idea of freedom. Negative freedom. Okay? Before it was positive freedom where you had to do certain things to become a citizen. Now it's like if you're a citizen you can do whatever you want as long as you are not hurting someone else and you're not breaking the law. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 51:02 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And so this is the where the modern or our modern idea of freedom comes from. All right. Six, the law is an expression of the will of the community. All citizens have a right to concur either personally or by their representatives in its formation. It should be the same to all whether it protects or punishes and all being equal in its sight are equally eligible to all honors places and employments according to different abilities without any other distinction than that created by their virtues and talents. Not only is the government now responsive to the needs and demands of the people but the people can at any time become the government. Okay? So the people are above the government. Okay? So the hierarchy now is at the very top is the nation and then below the nation now is the people. Below now is the government. The government only exists in order to protect the rights of the people. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 52:04 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So the government only exists at the behest and concurrence of the people. All right. Number 10. No man ought to be molested on account of his opinions not even on account of his religious opinions provided his avowal of them does not disturb the public order established by law. Okay? Number 11. You are free to believe whatever you want. 11. The unrestrained communication of thoughts and opinions being one of the most precious rights of man every citizen may speak write and publish freely provided he is responsible for the abuse of this liberty in case determined by law. You are free to say whatever you want. Okay? This is the freedom of expression. Okay? So the Declaration of Rights of Man basically defines the new liberal order. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 52:54 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3174s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3174s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 52:56 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Last is 17. The right to property being invaluable and sacred no one ought to be deprived of it except in case of evident public necessity legally ascertained and on condition of a previous just indemnity. Okay? So property is also a sacred right. If you have property it is yours by the will of God. Obviously Robespierre does not like this idea. Okay? So Robespierre gives a speech arguing against this idea and he proposes an amendment to this idea. In the last session this is Robespierre speaking before the National Assembly. Okay? In the last session I took the floor in order to make a few important additions to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was my intention to expand your Declaration of the Theory of Property by the addition of a few articles. Let the word property frighten no one. Filthy souls who value only your money I will not violate ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 53:59 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: your treasures even though I know how unclean the source from which they are from which they come. Okay? So Robespierre is saying to everyone I know you guys are rich and you all want to protect your property I won't take away your property but please remember everyone of you stole this from someone else. This is how you became rich through theft through crimes. Okay? So Robespierre has a contempt for the wealthy. Ask any one of these traders in human flesh what is property? Okay? How do people make money? Through the slave trade basically. He will show you the long coffin called a ship in which men are packed together and chained men who seem yet alive and he will tell you bought it head for head. It's a known fact that at this time in history a lot of people are getting rich off the slave trade. Okay? Question this noble man who has goods ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 54:56 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: and subjects and who believes that the world will come to an end now that he no longer possesses them and he will expound similar ideas on property to you. Okay? Rich people love their land. They love their wealth. Question the members of the Carpathian dynasty and they will tell you that the most sacred property is the right of inheritance that they have the ancient right of oppression the 25 million persons now populating the territory of France of destroying them of treating them legally and monarchically according to their own royal will. So what Wilson is saying is that property cannot be a sacred right because property requires the oppression of others. Right? How do you make money off land? By getting people to farm them. Right? You're exploiting people. You're exploiting people. Therefore this is a contradiction. If you're saying that property is a sacred right then you're saying that God gave people this right. But God would never give you the power to oppress others. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 55:58 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: That makes no sense. You have increased the number of articles in order to afford the largest possible latitude the right to one's property and yet you have not added a word in limitation of this right with the result that the declaration might make the impression of having been created not for the poor but for the rich the speculators for the stock exchange troopers to remedy these defects I propose the following addition. So he's saying at this point in the revolution the entire middle class including the bourgeoisie are participating in this revolution. But he's also saying that you the bourgeoisie have written this constitution for your benefit and not for the benefit of everyone for the people. So we need to make changes. First property is that right held by each citizen of that portion of the general goods guaranteed him by the laws. So it's society that gives people property not God who gives people property. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 56:55 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3415s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3415s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: There's a difference. Second the right to property like all other rights is limited by the obligation to regard the rights of others. So when you speak you can do whatever you want as long as you don't harm others. Well what Roesler is saying is that's also part of property. You can own property as long as you are doing so to protect others. And the third is property may not cause any detriment to our security or to our liberty or our existence or to the property of our neighbor. Okay? Owning property should also not harm the national interest as well. So he's putting severe limitations on the idea of property because what Roesler wants is a society based on equality of all. Okay? Now as this revolution is happening there's a man named Joseph Ignatz Guillotin who will create something called the guillotine. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 57:57 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: He's a doctor and he wants to create a more humane way of executing people. The guillotine will become the main mechanism of terror during the French Revolution. Alright? So if you are an enemy of the state they will guillotine you. Um as all this is happening the king is trying to work with the National Assembly but the king is also conspiring against the National Assembly by trying to write to his family and friends overseas to raise armies against the revolution. And um on June 20 to 21 1792 the king and queen actually try to flee France but they're recognized and they're captured and sent back to Paris. A month later August 10th the people actually storm the king's residence and um basically his Swiss Guard the mercenaries who are paid to protect him. Okay? Finally they decide to just kill this guy because he's been he's threatening the revolution. Okay? King Louis is always trying to conspire against the revolution so they break the taboo. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 59:11 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3551s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3551s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? Because remember many people many people believe that the king is a son of God and they kill him. Okay? And Rose Pier is explaining why. And it's very simple. Okay? Louis may die in order that the revolution may live. It's that simple. What matters first and foremost is the revolution. In order to advance the revolution everyone is expandable including Rose Pier. Okay? Rose Pier is only the prophet of the revolution he is not the revolution itself. Um as this is happening there is now counter -revolutionary. So in the Vendée which is in West France peasants are rebelling against the French Revolution. Why? Because French Revolution is calling for a secular state. It's calling for negation of religion. And um the thing about peasants is they love their religion. Okay? So the peasants are now rising up against the French Revolution and it is a brutal war of genocide. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:00:12 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? There are massacres and atrocities on both sides. Um on May uh 31st the French takes command of the National Assembly. This is something called the because he's in charge of a faction called the mountain. Okay? This is French for mountain. And of course he then begins the Ring of Terror. Okay? And we discussed why he starts the Ring of Terror. He needs to unite the energies of people to commit them fully to the revolution. Okay? We can't go back. There's no coming back after this Ring of Terror. We have too many enemies now. Um the thing about the um Ring of Terror is he doesn't he kills his enemies but more importantly he's also killing his political allies. Okay? The people on the left he's also killing as well because they also threaten the revolution. So this is George uh Denton and he's one of the leaders of the Cordeliers which ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:01:19 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: as as I mentioned is a very left -wing political group calling for the uh for universal suffrage for property rights for the Sainte -Colote and he's he's seen as a threat to the revolution and like Rose Pier he's also fanatical he's a fanatical prophet. So the National Assembly votes to condemn him to death and he says in a pantheon here is my head it will it will answer for everything my life is a burden to me I shall be glad to be rid of it. Okay? He's like screw you all I don't care I have done God's work if I must rest I shall rest. Okay? And then he's guillotined. Um Jacques Herbert is the leader of the Herbertists he's a journalist and he's calling for the complete abolishment of the Catholic Church and of course the peasants don't like that the peasants would all unite against you so he's seen as a threat to ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:02:22 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: the revolution even though he is a close ally of Rose Pier and Rose Pier also has him killed. Okay? So Rose Pier is not just killing his enemies he's also killing his friends as well and it's all in order to advance the revolution. Um so now Rose Pier needs to explain why this is happening. Okay? And he presents a vision of the revolution which tells us that he sees himself as a prophet. He's trying to build a new world. Right now there's a war between good and evil and good must triumph no matter what the cost. Alright so his speech before the National Assembly to explain the Ring of Terror to judge by the power and the will of a Republican soldier it will be easy to defeat the English and the traitors but we have another task of no less importance but unfortunately of greater difficulty. This task is a task of frustrating but an uninterrupted access of energy. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:03:26 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? So the Ring of Terror is to energize the people. Right? The eternal intrigues of all enemies of freedom within the country and of paving the way for the victory of the principles on which the general well depends. Okay? So our true enemies are not the English the Austrians the Prussians our true enemies are those traitors within us. They're the ones who most threaten the revolution. This is another speech okay? What's the goal toward which we are heading? Why are we doing this? Why the Ring of Terror? The peaceful enjoyment of liberty and equality. Kingdom of Kingdom on Earth Utopia Paradise. Okay? Justice and equality. The Ring of that eternal justice whose laws have been inscribed not in marble and stone but in the hearts of all men. Even in that of the slave who forgets them and in that of the tyrant who denies them. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:04:30 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3870s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3870s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: This law this justice this equality is what God promised us because it's implanted in our hearts. We all yearn for this world when we are all equal. When justice prevails. Okay? We are fighting for the freedom and liberation of all humanity from oppression. That's why we're fighting. We seek and order things in which all the base and cruel passions are in chains. Okay? So last class we discussed Jean -Jacques Rousseau. And remember Jean -Jacques Rousseau his most famous line is we are born free but we are all in chains. Okay? So this is a rewriting of that idea. So what keeps us in chains are our emotions. So we want a world in which our reason prevails and we are in control of our emotions. Then we will be truly liberated. All the beneficent and generous passions are awakened by the laws where ambition becomes the desire to merit glory and to serve our country. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:05:30 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So your ambition is not to gain wealth at the expense of others. It is to the community grow and thrive. Where distinctions are born only of equality itself. Where the citizen is subject to the magistrate the magistrate to the people and the people to justice. Where our country assures the well -being of each individual and where each individual proudly enjoys our country's prosperity and glory. Where every soul grows greater through the continual flow of republican sentiments and by the need of deserving the esteem of a great people. Where the arts are the adornments of the liberty which ennobles them and calms the source of public wealth rather than solely the monstrous opulence of a few families. Guys, he's talking about communism. He's talking about a world in which everyone is equal. Everyone is free to do what he or she wants and this will lead to the general prosperity, wealth, and happiness of the entire nation. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:06:32 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=3992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So, Rose Pier is dreaming of a world in which everyone is equal. The great purity of the French Revolution's fundamental elements, the very solemnity of its objective is precisely what creates our strength and our weakness. Our idealism is what gives us power. Okay? Our strength because it gives us the victory of truth over deception and our weakness because it rallies against us all men who are vicious, all those who in their hearts plan to despoil the people and all those who have despoiled them in what impunity and those who reject liberty as a personal calamity and those who have embraced the revolution as a livelihood and the republic as it were an object of prey. Okay? So, we are fighting a war of good versus evil. Among us are men of good who want to build a better world, who care for others but there are also speculators among us who use the revolution in order to advance his or her interests. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:07:41 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? That's why we're fighting this war. We're trying to rid the world of those who seek to exploit others, who prey on others. Okay? Who enjoy being bad. That's why we're fighting this war. Hence the defection of so many ambitious or greedy men who since the beginning have abandoned us along the way because they had not begun the voyage in order to reach the same goal. Okay? One could say that the two contrary geniuses that have been depicted competing for control of the realm of nature are fighting in this great epoch of human history to shape irrevocably the destiny of the world. And that, friends, is the theater of this mighty struggle. Okay? This is the end of the world. This is the end of the world. This is good versus evil. Good must triumph. It must. So every sacrifice must be made. Without all the tyrants encircle ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:08:43 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: you, within all the friends of tyranny conspire, they will conspire until crime has been robbed in this situation. The first maximum of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemy by terror. Okay? This reign of terror, it is about the ultimate victory against evil. We are killing our enemies because our enemies destroy want to destroy all good in the world. If the main spring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is, at the same time, virtue and terror. Virtue, without which terror is fatal. Terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice. It is, therefore, an emanation of virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of a general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs. We have to be as brutal as our enemies if we are truly to promote democracy. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:09:50 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: There's no other choice. All right. So, the Ring of Terror is just one policy that Robespierre adopts in order to save the revolution. But he also adopts a new religion called the Festival of the Cold of the Supreme Being. Okay? This is a new religion where God is the God of Reason. All right? So, Robespierre is adopting a lot of different policies. And again, he is working selflessly in order to promote the revolution. But eventually, he gets exhausted. Okay? He just breaks down. He has a nervous breakdown because it's too hard. Like, he wants people to be virtuous. He wants people to be reasonable. And everywhere he sees, like, he sees everyone in front of him and everyone's plotting against him. Everyone's trying to exploit the revolution for his or her own benefit. Okay? And eventually, Robespierre is brought down and he is guillotined. Okay? But, let us look at his last speech to fully understand how he sees the revolution and his own death. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:11:03 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? This is his last speech before the National Assembly. This is two days before he is to be executed. Okay? This is July 26, 1794. The enemies of the Republic called me tyrant. Okay? The National Assembly is now calling for his execution because he's a tyrant. Were I such, they would grovel at my feet. I would gorge them with gold. I should grant them impunity for their crimes and they would be grateful. Right? If I'm a tyrant, then I would make political alliances. I would bribe people. I would benefit people. But I don't do that. I am incorruptible. I am virtuous. Were I such, the kings we have vanquished far from denouncing Robespierre would lend me their guilty support. Okay? So, the kings of England, Netherlands, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia are all aligned against the French Revolution. Why? Because they are afraid of revolution at home. Right? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:12:04 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: So Robespierre is saying, listen, if I just became a king, they would marry their daughter to me and we would all be one big happy family. Okay? They would not seem as a threat. There would be a covenant between them and me. Tyranny must have tools. But the enemies of tyranny, immortality, what tyrant is my protector? To what faction do I belong? Yourselves. Everything I've done is for the people of France and you know this. Since the beginning of the revolution has crushed and annihilated so many detected traitors. You, the people, our principles are that faction. A faction to which I am devoted and against which all the scoundrelism of the day is banded. Okay? It is because I, Robespierre, am the only virtuous person who has fought for the revolution. Now do you conspire against me. The confirmation of the republic has been my object and I know that the republic can be established only on the internal basis of morality. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:13:12 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? Only if we are virtuous can we win out in the end against evil. Against me, against those who hold kindred principles, the league is formed. My life, oh my life, I abandon without a regret. I see the future. I am the prophet. I have seen the past and I foresee the future. You will kill me. I accept my fate. What friend of his country would wish to survive the moment when he could no longer serve it? When he could no longer defend innocence against oppression? You have taken away my powers? Fine, take away my life as well because I serve, I live only to serve. Wherefore should I continue in an order of things where intrigue eternally triumphs over truth? Mocked were passions the most abject or fears the most absurd override the sacred interests of humanity. The revolution has been polluted. It is now corrupt. If you take my life I will be glad to give it to you. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:14:17 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Question history and learn how all the defenders of liberty in all times have been overwhelmed by calamity. All prophets in their time were prosecuted in Jesus and Socrates. But their traducers died also. The good and the bad disappear alike from the earth but in very different conditions. O Frenchmen! O my countrymen! Let not your enemies with their desolating doctrines degrade your souls and enervate your virtues. Now is the time to stand up and fight for the revolution. I may die but the revolution must live. Death is not an eternal sleep. Citizens, efface the tomb that mortal, graven by sacrilegious hands which breaths over all nature a funeral crepe, takes from oppressed innocents its support and affronts the beneficent the desperation of death. Inscribe, rather, therefore, these words. Death is the commencement of immortality. I leave to the oppressors of the people a terrible testament which I proclaim with the independence befitting one whose career is so nearly ended. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:15:33 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: It is the awful truth. Thou shall die. Yes, today I die but so will you. And when we all die we must face our Maker. We must all see God and we must account for our lives. I go to God in full conscious. I am happy to go directly to God and await my fate. And these are his last words. Why should I wish to live under system where intrigue triumphs over truth, where justice is a lie, where the basest passions and the most ridiculous of terrors supersede in man's heart the most sacred duties? Why should I regret to escape from the eternal torture of seeing this horrible secession of traitors who, by concealing the turpitude of the greater the cowardice or their crimes? You, members of the National Assembly, were elected to serve the people. You have only served yourself. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:16:39 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: You have only fought for your own economic interests. And because you see me as a threat, you see Robespierre as a man of purity, of virtue, of reason, you conspire against me. And I am happy to be condemned to death from this evil world that you have created. But upon my death, there shall come vengeance. Okay? So, that's it, guys. That's Robespierre. All right? So, does this make sense? Okay? He sees himself as a prophet who must save the revolution. At first, he believes that he must kill his enemies, the enemies of the revolution, in order to save the revolution. But then, he recognizes that no, no, no. This ring of terror, it's not really about energizing the people. It's really about eliminating the enemies of his allies. Okay? It's really about political intrigue. And so, he recognizes that if this revolution is to really triumph, then he must make the ultimate sacrifice. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:18:00 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4680s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Rather than try to seize the crown, he must give his life for the revolution to set an example for everyone, especially the oppressed and the weak. And, after he dies, this will energize France. It will unite France. It becomes a hurricane. Okay? The French Revolution now becomes a hurricane. All right? And Napoleon will come. He will take this hurricane and he will unleash it on the entire world. Okay? We will look at Napoleon. But, does this make sense to you guys? Any questions? Yeah, go. Okay. Okay. So, the question is, are people conscious of what Robespierre is doing? And, I know this is a hard argument. And, I know this is hard to understand. But, this is all happening subconsciously. Okay? That people are not aware of it. Okay? So, the argument goes like this. First of all, mythology is the collective subconscious. Okay? Mythology is the collective subconscious. That's the first idea. Okay? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:20:00 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Does that make sense to you? Okay? Second idea is this. When authority breaks down, the mythology takes over. Okay? Do you understand? Okay? The argument is this. Usually, someone in authority orders people around. Right? Someone in authority, whether it's a general or a priest or a teacher, tells you what to do. But, when you deny this authority, when you reject this authority, what tells you what to do? Well, mythology. Okay? Your collective subconscious. Okay? You're guided by your collective subconscious, even though you don't know it. Okay? The third argument is that mythology is essentially a play. Okay? A mythology is a play. It's a story. And, this play requires actors. Okay? So, the leaders become now the actors. This play must take place because that's what people want. Now, you need actors. You need volunteers to come and be the actors in this play. So, whoever volunteers now must play that role and then people will follow that person. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:21:33 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4893s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4893s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? So, Robespierre played the role of Jesus so people followed him. Even though people don't really know why they're following him. Okay? Does that make sense? But, they're following him because he's willing to play the role that's required of him in this play that's being acted out during the French Revolution. Okay? But, and this is really important, this play only works if people play the role they're supposed to play. When they speak the lines they're supposed to speak, right? That's really important. Because what happens is if people break the role and say to people, listen, I was just acting. The entire play dies. Okay? The play dies. Why is this important? Because in the next class we will look at Napoleon. Okay? In the beginning Napoleon's playing his role. Right? He's the messiah come to earth to lead the French people to final victory against evil. To unite the world in good. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:22:37 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=4957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: He's playing that role. But then he does something that he should not do and which breaks the play. And which is what? Do you guys know? What does Napoleon do that Robespierre doesn't do? That's right. He declares himself emperor. And you're not supposed to do that! Okay? If you're Robespierre you would never declare yourself emperor. You can make yourself first citizen. You can make yourself council, dictator, whatever. But you cannot make yourself emperor because now you're like everyone else. Right? And when he does that this is very important he destroys the French Revolution. And after that France is now destroyed by their enemies. Napoleon falls. Okay? Does that make sense guys? So only if you are playing your role can this play work out. Once this play works out people are energized to sacrifice their lives. Okay? The reason why Napoleon at first could defeat all his enemies is his soldiers were not afraid to die. ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:23:45 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: Okay? They didn't care. They were like well you know if we die we're going to heaven. That's what Robespierre did. Okay? But we'll discuss this in the next class. Okay? Does that make sense? So it's a hard argument there is a subconscious operating system to society that we don't ever see. Okay? That we don't ever talk about. But once we see this okay? Then it helps us explain the world we live in. It explains a lot of history to us. But you need to be able to see it first. And most people don't see it. Okay? If you look at the traditional accounts of the French Revolution it's always these economic political I'm presenting a different idea here. Does that make sense? Great. Any other questions? Yeah? No. No. The Ring of Terror was a form of human sacrifice. Okay? They literally took their enemies and they killed them in front of everyone. Right? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:25:00 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) Text: And it's no different from the Aztecs no different from the Vikings no different from the Romans. Okay? These are all societies that practice human sacrifice in order to unite the people right? To galvanize the people energize them create blood lust to terrorize their enemies and to break taboo to tell to send a message that we will never go back. We are going towards total victory. We won't surrender we won't compromise. Okay? This has nothing to do with Jesus. In fact Jesus the story of Jesus is to tell us we no longer need human sacrifice because Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? But um but the Ring of Terror what it did was unleash all this energy. Okay? And this energy it's polluted energy because it's it's it's based on violence on vengeance on hatred. Right? So what Wiltshire decides to do and it's very clever of him right? And how do you purify this energy? ## Robespierre Becomes The Scapegoat -- 1:26:03 - Source title: Civilization #47: The Passion of Robespierre - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-Ch2LGDDI&t=5163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ef-ch2lgddi.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#taboo-control-surface-atlas); [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-moves-guilt) Text: By becoming a scapegoat. By sacrificing yourself. By telling the French people the Ring of Terror was not your fault it was my fault. Blame me. Sacrifice me. Okay? For what happened. I will take the guilt for the nation. I will cleanse cleanse you of your sins so that you may move on. Okay? Does that does that make sense? Okay? Good. Any more questions? Great questions guys. Okay. Alright. So this ends part two of the French Revolution. Next class on Tuesday is Napoleon. And this will end the French Revolution trilogy. Okay? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: So today we start a three -part series on the French Revolution, which I believe to be the most significant event in human history. Okay, so let me very quickly explain its significance. So as I keep on mentioning in this class, it is the religious worldview that underpins society and civilization. It is what allows society to function. And to over simplify, there've been four major religious worldviews in human history. Okay, so let's go over them briefly. The first is what we call the animistic, and this is basically during the Ice Age when we were hunter -gatherers and we were just roaming the earth. And there are three major key words that underlieising. When we think about the early 90s, when we think about charges against poverty and this worldview balance harmony and oneness we did not believe that we were different from the plants the animals that lived on this planet we were one with them ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:22 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=82s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=82s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: we were interconnected with them we didn't fear death because life and death were part of the same continuous cycle okay so this is the idea of the animistic worldview from then we moved on to the polytheistic polytheistic many gods and the three main ideas that underpin the polytheistic worldview are action ritual and fate no one not even the gods can escape their fate our fate has been preordained what courage is is the willingness to embrace with with honor and with dignity your fate so think of hector as he is about to battle achilles he knows he is going to get killed and he's afraid he shakes but he still confronts his fate and he dies and that's what's expected of you in the viking world in the greek world in the roman world in the roman world to face your death with honor and dignity to live your life with courage action but in a ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 2:45 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: ritualized manner okay in a way that the community expects of you and to embrace your fate no matter what it is okay that is the polytheistic worldview this then this uh leads us to the monotheistic worldview the monotheistic okay so the monotheistic are the jews the christians and the muslims the three major ideas that are under the underpin the monotheistic worldview are faith orthodoxy and truth there is an eternal truth called god we must have faith in him and faith and truth are expressed through orthodoxy there is a set of beliefs that you cannot question that you must believe and you must live your life according to this orthodoxy okay so these are these are three major ideas underlying monotheistic now we move to the modern period okay another word that we can use for modern is uh diaz okay diaz you may have heard of this but the idea of diaz is that there ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 4:02 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: is a god god created the universe but then he left us he doesn't care about what happens anymore because the word he created was perfect and it is up to us to understand the perfect laws of the universe and then perfect our lives according to these laws okay so let's say you have diaz this is important because diaz is the founding religion of both the american as well as the french revolutions all right and there are three major beliefs that underpin diaz the first is reason okay so rather than faith we have to use our reason because that's the gift that god gave us before he left we are able to using logic using intuition using skepticism to understand how the world works okay reason all right but reason by itself is not enough you have to engage in debate in order to fully use our reason you may not able to reason out for ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 5:14 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: yourself the truth but you have to make But in the debate, you're able to hear out the truth, okay? And if we do this, if we continue to exercise our reason, if we continue to engage in debate, what is often called the marketplace of ideas, this will lead to the idea of progress, okay? So what's happened is that the modern period is responding to the Christian period by replacing faith with reason, orthodoxy with debate, and truth with progress, okay? And these three ideas, reason, debate, and progress, are the foundations of the period we live in today called the modern period. It is about these three ideas are the foundations of our school system, for our universities, for our scientific institutions, okay? Does that make sense? All right, now having gone through these four different periods, I want to do some analysis, okay? The first analysis is to explain to you how these changes manifested themselves. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 6:31 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: So the animistic period is the most natural. It's what makes the most sense. Quite honestly, if animals had a religion, it would probably be an animistic religion, okay? So how do we transition from the animistic to apotheistic? Well, the main reason is because of civilization, okay? Because of mass society, civilization. Because we chose to settle down and learn agriculture and develop religious systems, all right? And with that comes war, comes hierarchy, comes inequality. And as such, we develop the polytheistic worldview, all right? From the polytheistic worldview, we then transition into the monotheistic worldview, why? Because of Christianity, all right? Christianity. Remember, you're usually taught that Christianity is, oh, Jesus dies and then everyone becomes a Christian. That's not what happened, okay? As you learn in this class, Christianity was a mechanism developed by the Roman Empire in order to assimilate the Jews and then later on to assimilate barbarians who were economic migrants, into the Roman Empire. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 7:46 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Basically, it was a tool of control for the Roman Empire, okay? But then you have this massive transition from monotheism, the Christian period, into modernism, all right? And this turning point, which is the most radical turning point in human history, is what we call the French Revolution. Without the French Revolution, modernity could not happen, all right? And what's amazing about the French Revolution is, it is entirely unprecedented. We've never had anything like this before. It was entirely unpredictable. It was unique in human history, all right? So we will start the next three classes to understand how the French Revolution happened, because without understanding the French Revolution, you cannot understand future events, especially communism, the rise of communism, World War I, World War II. None of these things would have been possible without the French Revolution, okay? All right, so another thing that's really important for us to understand is that all four worldviews still exist today, all right? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 9:02 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: There are still people who believe in animism, polytheism, okay, but they're the minority. The dominant people are still the monotheists, okay? And they're in competition with the modernists, okay, who are the anarchists, okay? The educated elite, okay? So this conflict is still going on today. The other thing that's really important for us to understand is none of these beliefs is inherently superior to the other, okay? You cannot make the argument to me, at least, that one is better than the other. But new systems believe they are superior to the other, okay? To the previous. The polytheists believe they are superior to the animists. The monotheists think they are superior to the polytheists. And the deists think they are superior to the monotheists. Okay? And because of this sense of superiority, they try to crush previous worldviews, okay? So these four worldviews are not in competition with each other. But the new ones seek to displace the old ones. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 10:27 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: And this has led to a lot of conflict throughout human history, all right? So this is the overall framework we are working with. I know it's a bit simple, but for the purpose of this class, it's good enough, okay? All right, so now what I'm gonna do is explain the framework for the next three classes. Okay? My argument to you is the French Revolution was ultimately a religious crusade. That is the main thesis of this, of the next three classes. In each class, we will introduce different elements of this crusade that made it possible. For a crusade to happen, you need three different types of geniuses. You need the poet to envision the future. Okay? The poet. But then you need the prophet, who has the courage to take the people into this new land. And then you need the prince, or the conqueror, who has the conviction and the determination to physically conquer this new land and expand the revolution, okay? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 11:52 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: So the poet is Rousseau, Jean -Jacques Rousseau. He wrote the social contract. We will be focusing on Rousseau. We will be focusing on him, mainly today. Okay? He's the one who introduces the idea that it is possible to build a new world based entirely on reason itself. All right? That's Rousseau. Then you have the prophet. The prophet is the one who has the courage to lead the people into the new land, even though it may cost him his life. And this person, his name is Maximilien Robespierre. Okay? Maximilien Robespierre is, in my opinion, one of the most misunderstood and underrated individuals in human history. Next class, we'll focus on Robespierre. Without Robespierre, the French Revolution could not have succeeded. And then, now you need a prince, who will take the ideas of the prophet, and he will militarily expand, into the world, and conquer a new world, and build a new world. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 13:08 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: And this person's name, of course, is Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon. And this is the last class. All right? And my argument to you today is that, without the active cooperation of all three, if they're not able to build on each other's work, the French Revolution would not have succeeded. Because if you just look at the French Revolution, the odds were so high, they were so against the revolutionaries, right? They were not only against the aristocracy and their own people, they were up against the entire world. Britain, Prussia, Russia, Austria. Everyone wanted to destroy the revolution before it threatened their nations. So the odds were completely against the French Revolution, but they succeeded. It was only because of the cooperation of these three particular types of geniuses. Rousseau, the poet, Robespierre, the prophet, and Napoleon, the prince. Okay? So that's what we'll be doing these next three classes. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 14:15 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=855s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=855s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: All right. So, let's talk about the ideas that underpin the French Revolution. The Enlightenment. Okay? How did we get into the modern period where the ideas are now reason, debate, and progress? Okay. So let's go back to Dante. Dante's Divine Comedy is a prophecy. It is a new understanding of the world. Okay? So what the Divine Comedy does is, what it helps people do is take all these new structural forces that are being unleashed onto the world and understand it in a new way that unleashes three major movements. Okay? These are, of course, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Second Revolution. Now, as these things are happening, what else is happening is the Gunpowder Revolution. The Gunpowder Revolution. And these things combine in order to create massive structural changes within European society. Okay? So we discussed this, but there are three major changes that are happening throughout this period. The first is the transition from feudalism to a nation. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 15:46 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay? The idea of a nation. Okay? At first, it's an absolute monarchy, but then after the French Revolution, it transitions into a nation state. Okay? From decentralization into centralization, basically. That's the first major change. Second major change is from rural to urban. Basically, from agriculture into industry. Okay? And the third major change is from religion into science. All right? And this is what's happening in Europe because of the Gunpowder Revolution. Now, what's important about this is with these structural changes comes massive demographic, political, and economic changes. Essentially, what's happening is that new groups of people are being created. And these groups of people are who we collectively call the middle class. Okay? So let's look at the middle class. All right. So, previously in Europe, there are, just roughly speaking, two major groups. Okay? There's the nobility and the clergy. Okay? There's almost no difference between the two because they intermarry. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 17:02 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: They come from the same families. Okay? But they're the leading elite of society. Okay? You have the tall people, the nobility and the clergy. And then at the other end are the peasants and slaves. But of course, I mean, this is not that simple. I mean, you always have, in the middle class, you always have tradespeople. You always have people working in towns. But they're a minority. And what's happening now, because of all these changes in society, is they now become an increasingly powerful group of people. They're the ones who are driving economic change. Okay? Now, the middle class, an extremely complicated set of people, but roughly speaking, we can divide them into three major categories. Three major categories. The first is what we call the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie. Okay? The bourgeoisie is a French term that we use. And it comes actually from the German, which is burger. Burger means the leading citizens of a town. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 18:17 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1097s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1097s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: The burgers. And the leading citizens of a town usually are the factory owners. The merchants. The people who trade. The bankers. The people who have control of the money. The lawyers. Okay? So these are the bourgeoisie. These are the elite. And this is a new group of people that work very closely with the nobility, but they have some differences. Okay? And the thing to remember about these people is they tend to be conservative. Because in terms of status, they already have, all the status that they want. Okay? And over time, what will happen is that the king and nobility will increasingly depend on the bourgeoisie for financing. Okay? So they pay for wars. They pay for new industry. They pay for roads. Okay? So the bourgeoisie are the ones who are most heavily taxed. But they're usually conservative. They're really happy with the way things are. At the other end, sorry, next to the bourgeoisie are what we call the petite bourgeoisie. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 19:28 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: All right? And these people are not rich, but they're solidly middle class. They're comfortable where they are. Okay? These people are school teachers. Maybe they're restaurant owners. Maybe they're notaries. Okay? So the thing about these people is that they tend to be aspirational. They're not happy with their lives. They want more. And as such, they are opportunistic. Okay? Usually, the people who are most likely to lead the revolution come from members of the petite bourgeoisie. Okay? So most of the leaders of the French Revolution, the most radical members, were provincial lawyers. Okay? Lawyers who worked in small cities. They're not part of the elite, the bourgeoisie. Okay? But they're pretty comfortable where they are. Okay? They're the provincial elite. If you look at the communist revolution, Mao Zedong, he was a petite bourgeoisie. He was a provincial elite, not a Beijing elite. And ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 20:39 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: the last group is what will be referred to in the future, not now, as the proletariat. Proletariat. The proletariat are basically artisans, craftspeople, people who work in cities and in the urban centers, and they have a specialized craft. That makes them valuable. Okay? They're not peasants. They're not poor. But the problem is they are very precarious. Okay? Precarious. What this means is that as the Sandic Revolution progresses, new technology will start to replace the artisans. Okay? Like a sewing machine. And as such, they lose their livelihoods. So their lives are very precarious. Therefore, they most likely tend towards violence. So these are the foot soldiers of revolutions. Okay? The petite bourgeoisie are often the thought leaders, but the proletariat are the ones who provide the muscle. Okay? So if you look at most revolutions, this is how it works. What's really important for us to understand is that, first of all, these categories are not strict. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 22:04 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay? There are lots of interchange between the proletariat and the peasantry. There's lots of interchange between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Okay? These categories are not static. The other thing is that the loyalties of each group will change according to the circumstance. Okay? So the petite bourgeoisie is not definite that they will rebel against the bourgeoisie. It depends on their economic interests. And it is not definite that the peasants will work with the petite bourgeoisie against the nobility. In fact, during the French Revolution, this is really important, the nobility and the peasants were working together to suppress the revolution. Why? Because the French Revolution wanted to destroy the Catholic religion. And the peasants love their religion. Okay? The peasants wanted to be Catholic and they want to protect their priests. So there was a massive civil war going on in France between the peasants and the proletariat. And that would be counterintuitive if you think it's like why would poor people be fighting against poor people? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 23:20 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Well, it's because they have different religious interests. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So this is a framework that I want you guys to remember. There are different groups. This is an oversimplification. And their loyalties will change. So during the revolution, the loyalties will change and it will mark different stages in the French Revolution. And you can use this framework to also understand future revolutions, especially the Communist Revolution. And it's also important for us to remember that most revolutions will fail. All right. So this is the middle class. Now think about the middle class. The thing about new groups is that what they have to do is they have to establish group solidarity. Okay? And the way you do that is by establishing group identity. So how is it that the middle class is different from everyone else? Okay? And as we ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 24:28 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: discuss, what the middle class will do is they will slowly adopt the Enlightenment principles of reason, debate, and progress. Okay? That's how the middle class, or most members of the aspirational middle class, will try to differentiate themselves from everyone else, by embracing the Enlightenment. And that's why we have the Enlightenment. Okay? So over time, these things will become much more concrete. Okay? So what makes the middle class identity? The first is the idea of education. Second is the idea of achievement. And the third is the idea of morality. All right? So what is the middle class? The middle class are those who embrace these three ideas, education, achievement, and morality. Right? If you're in the middle class, you'll be much more educated than nobility and the peasantry. You will read books. You will read newspapers. That's why we have newspapers, okay? Because the middle class wants information. Achievement, the achievement ethos is I will always strive to be better. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 25:54 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: I want my children to be better than me. Okay? If you're a peasant, you don't believe your children will live a better life. If you're nobility, you don't really care if your children live a better life. But for the middle class, it's very important that their children live better lives. Okay? So the idea of the achievement ethos, to work hard. Okay? So you guys should understand this because you're all members of the middle class in China. Right? And the last is the idea of morality. Okay? And this is really important. Morality is especially when it comes to sexual morality. All right? Sexual morality. So the idea is that if you're a poor person, the thing about being poor is you have no control over your body. So during this time of industrialization, what's happening is a lot of peasants are moving into the cities. And what are women doing? Well, they're becoming prostitutes. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 26:50 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: There are tons and tons of prostitutes in these cities. At this time in Europe. Okay? We just walk on the street and guess what? There are prostitutes everywhere. So as a poor person, you have absolutely no control over your body. So with the middle class, the way that they differentiate themselves is by saying that we have enough resources to protect our bodies. And if you're part of the middle class, then you're expected to adhere to a very strict morality. Okay? Does that make sense? That's where we get the idea of morality from, from the development of the middle class. As a middle class, you have sexual, you are much more sexually pure, but also you have a new idea called childhood. If you are a poor person, your child at age 6 starts to work. Okay? At age 10, he or she may be working in a factory and by 12 may be dead. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 27:48 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: What the middle class can do is give his or her child a childhood. Okay? The modern concept of childhood comes from this period when we're looking at this. All right? Okay. So that's the idea here. The Enlightenment basically was a movement in which a new group of people, the middle class, they've always existed, but now they exist in quantity. And they have more resources than they used to have before, especially literacy, access to information. They have more wealth. They have more technology. They are the future leaders of the world. And as such, they want to embrace a new identity. And that's why we have the Enlightenment. Okay? The Enlightenment was basically a period when they tried to bring the ideas of science into society in order to create a new middle class identity. And it still exists today. All right. So that is the basic framework for today. Now we will look at specific writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 29:00 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay? Any questions so far? Okay, great. All right. So let's start looking at some major thinkers of the Enlightenment. All right. So today's class is on the European Enlightenment. Now, what's really important for us to remember is that there are major ideological differences between the British Enlightenment and the European Enlightenment. Okay? European just means France, Germany, Netherlands. Okay? Basically, continent of Europe. The ideas that develop in Europe will be different from the ideas that develop in Britain. After the French Revolution, we'll look at Britain specifically. But now I just want to focus on the European Enlightenment. Okay? So please remember that. The British Enlightenment and the European Enlightenment have contrasting ideas, even though most historians consider them part of the same historical movement. All right. So what is Enlightenment? It is a movement to systemize and institutionalize Dante to create a new European middle -class identity. So all these ideas are coming from Dante. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 30:18 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-restrains-reason-through-love) Text: But there is a major difference that we must remember. Remember, the Enlightenment, for the Enlightenment thinkers, what God left us is a capacity to reason. Through reason, we can access the mind of God. Okay? Reason is the fundamental principle of Enlightenment. That's not what Dante said, though. Okay? Dante said love is what God gave us. Love is the light in us. Now you think, well, what's the difference between love and reason? Okay. What I will do over the course of the semester is show you that there's actually a huge, huge difference between love and reason. Specifically, reason is independent. You can, by yourself, reason out things. But love requires you to connect with someone else. Either your child, your wife, your mother, who knows, okay? But you must connect with someone else. And because of that idea, interconnectedness, it puts a restraint on your reason. But if you're capable of reasoning by yourself, you can reason anything, including concentration camps, nuclear bombs, genocide. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 31:37 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1897s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#heart-restrains-reason-through-love) Text: Okay? So there's a huge difference between love and reason. And it's really important that the Enlightenment thinkers see reason as the central organizing principle of human society and not love. Okay? So I just want you guys to keep that in mind as we move on. The Enlightenment happened mainly in salons. These are places organized by wealthy, bourgeoisie, women. And these salons were not political. They were mainly designed to learn manners, speech, refinement. Right? Because they're trying to differentiate themselves from the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry. And one way that they want to do this is through their education, through their knowledge, expertise. Okay? Salons. In Britain, they mainly spread ideas through coffeehouses. Right? Coffeehouses. So the idea of meaning a coffeehouse comes from this period in Britain. So these women, like Madame Labarthe, were the ones who were driving Enlightenment ideas. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 32:58 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=1978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay? And these salons were places for the leading intellectuals of the time to come and debate ideas. Right? So these were the leading women of that time. All right. So there were, there are lots and lots of Enlightenment thinkers. Because this is a time of literacy. Right? People want to read. There's a marketplace of ideas. So money can be made from writing books. And that's why you have this explosion of ideas, the marketplace of ideas during this time. But now I want to just go through some of the major thinkers of the Enlightenment. Okay? The first major thinker of the Enlightenment is René Descartes. And René Descartes wanted, he is a mathematician. He's a philosopher. He wanted to ask two questions. The first question is, how do we know that God exists? And how do we know the soul exists? Okay, these are the two questions that he is trying to grapple with in his philosophy. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 34:03 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: And he wrote a book called Meditations on the First Philosophy. This is a really, really important book in development of Western civilization. We will be referring to this book quite often for the rest of the semester. So I want you guys to remember this book, Meditations on the First Philosophy. And so he's asking these questions. And let's read a few paragraphs from his book to understand his thinking. It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood and that whatever I had since built on such shaky foundations could only be hardly doubtful. All right. So what he's doing here is saying, okay, I want to know if God exists. But first I must ask myself, what do I believe? And how do I know if it's true or not? I must look inside myself. All right. Hence, I saw that at some stage in my ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 35:04 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: life, the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished and that I would have to begin again from the bottom up if I wish to construct something lasting and unshakable in the sciences. And what he's saying here is that after I examine my own beliefs, I recognize that most of my beliefs are not true. Okay. This is a radical departure from previous traditions where you know something is true because someone really smart said it. Okay. You defer to authority, right? That's a practice here we use in China where, well, Confucius said this, so this must be true. And what René Descartes is saying is that, no, that's not true. Okay. I myself have the capacity to know if something is true and I have a responsibility to reflect and question everything I know. And through that process of self -doubt, self -examination, I can construct something that is more truthful. Okay. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 36:00 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: And this is the idea of enlightenment. All right. And this is the idea of education. You know, when we try to teach you critical thinking skills, this is what we're trying to do. Okay. Trying to get you to question things so that you may construct a more eternal truth. All right. But this seemed to be a massive task and so I postponed it until I had reached the age when one is as fit as one would ever be to master the various disciplines. So to get to this point, you also have to go through a long process of education. Okay. You just can't be like, okay, I'm going to do this right now. You have to first learn these beliefs and then you have to go back and then re -examine these beliefs. I've delayed so long that now I should be at fault if I use up and deliberating the time that is left for acting. The moment ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 36:48 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: has come and so today I have discharged my mind from all its cares and I've carved out a space of untroubled leisure. I've withdrawn into seclusion and shall at last be able to devote myself seriously without encumbrance to the task of destroying all my former opinions. Okay. What he's doing here is saying that for me to discover the truth, I just have to rely solely on my reason, not debate, not talking to others, not reading old books, but by self -examination. Okay. And so this is the beginning of the book. We will read other sections later on in the semester, but this is the introduction. Okay. So this project is a process of self -examination. And through this self -examination, what he discovers is everything is false. How do we know the sky is blue? How do we know the sky exists? We don't. How do I know that the words I'm speaking make any sense? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 37:50 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: I don't. It's a constant process of self -negation. Okay. But what then he recognizes is that the only way that I can actually engage in this process of self -examination is through doubt. Right. So what do I know to be true? Doubt is true. I doubt. Therefore, I am. Right. You know the expression, I think. Therefore, I am. Right. It's actually, I doubt. Therefore, I am. The Latin is. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 38:21 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 38:24 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: The thing that I know to be absolutely true is my capacity to doubt. And that is who I am. Therefore, I exist. And so the capacity to doubt is my soul. Right. Now, how do I know that God exists? Well, if God didn't exist, then I would not have the capacity to doubt. Right. Someone must have given me the capacity to doubt, and that must be God, whoever God is. But now, how do I know that God is good? Right. Because God could be a trickster. God could be the devil. And God could be deceiving me. And my capacity to doubt will only lead me into error. Okay. So that's the question he asks now. And then he says, well, because God is perfect. If you are perfect, you are incapable of fault. Therefore, I know God is good. Okay. And obviously, this makes no logical sense. This is not logical. It's what we call a tautology. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 39:31 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Right. God is perfect. Therefore, I know God is good. God is good. Therefore, he's perfect. Okay. It makes no sense. But, what's important is that René Descartes is asking us to challenge our assumptions about the world. To doubt, to reason. And he's saying that the idea of reason is the most powerful force in the world. More powerful than the church. More powerful than dogma. More powerful than society itself. Okay. Our individual capacity to reason is what matters. It is what allows us to have access to God. Does that make sense? Right. So this is one of the major ideas underpinning the Enlightenment. All right. Now let's move on to Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He is considered the greatest German writer of all time. And he wrote a book called Faust. Okay. Faust. And we'll just read a few passages from Faust. But Faust is also a very quintessential Enlightenment work of art. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 40:42 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay. And so Faust the book of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible. In the book of Job it's about this very pious individual who is very faithful to God. Okay. He's very wealthy. He has a lot of children. He's very happy. And he's very devout. He prays to God all the time. He makes sacrifice to God all the time. He gives he's very he's very generous. He has a lot of friends. One day God is in heaven. And he has a meeting with Satan. Okay. Satan in the Bible means adversary. So Satan is actually an archangel. An agent of God who roams the planet. And God is very proud of Job. And he says to Satan have you seen Job? Do you see how faithful he is to me? He's very proud. And Satan says God he's only faithful to you because Okay. You take away his money. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 41:46 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: You take away his children. And he will curse you. And God says fine. I make you this bet. You can do anything you you can do anything you want to him. But you must not kill him. Okay. That's the only condition. So Satan basically makes Job's life a living hell. All his children die in accidents. He loses all his money. He becomes infected with diseases. He's old. He's and eventually he curses God. And he's like why is God doing this to me? And then God appears before him and says how dare you question me God? I create the world. What have you done with your life? Okay. But basically God calls him for a long long time and curses Job. And says you as a human being have absolutely no right to ever doubt to ever question me. I can do whatever I want. I'm God. I'm a mystery. Do not ever think you can understand me. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 42:46 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Do not ever believe you can question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's a very strange story. And it's one that is meant to inspire fear among people. And so what God does that's really interesting is that he reimagines the story of Job and turns it into a much more confident optimistic story that captures the spirit of the enlightenment. Okay. Does that make sense? The story goes like this. Phos, he is a professor. He loves learning. He's very curious. But what he recognizes is that despite all his book learning he doesn't really have access to the truth. He's not really learning new information new knowledge. He doesn't feel as though he's accessing God. So he tries magic. One day the Satan and Satan's name here in Phos is named Mephistopheles. Okay. Mephistopheles talks to God and Mephistopheles says to ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 43:51 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: God you know what the worst thing you ever did was allow humans the capacity to reason. Because you're idiots. You're stupid. If you're stupid and you can reason all it does is confuse you and make you unhappy. And then God is like well have you met Phos? Phos is my favorite person in the whole world because he's curious he loves learning. Eventually through the process of self exploration he will discover the truth. He will get there. I have faith in Phos. And Mephistopheles says fine I'll make you a bet. I bet you I can make him complacent. I bet you that I can make him not want to learn anymore to lose his curiosity. And if I win this bet then Phos will become my servant. Okay? His soul will be will be mine. I will damn him to hell for eternity. Okay? And that's a bet. All right. So let's look at some passages. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 44:49 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: This is Mephistopheles saying to God their lives will be a little easier if you not let them glimpse the light of heaven. They call it reason and employ it only to be more bestial than any beast. Okay. What's important for us to remember is that here Goethe is invoking Dante. Right? Remember Dante in the Divine Comedy says that love is the light of heaven. And here Goethe and the Enlightenment thinkers are saying that no, it's reason that is the light of heaven. In fact in many ways Phos is a rewriting of the Divine Comedy. Right? So Mephistopheles is saying to God reason is bad because it makes people who are stupid more confused. And then God says do you know Phos? And then Mephistopheles says the doctor the Lord says and my servant my favorite person in the whole world Mephistopheles indeed he serves you in a curious way the fool is not content with ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 45:50 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: earthly food or drink some ferment makes him want what is exotic yet he's half conscious of his father. Okay? Phos wants to understand the world he's curious he's driven by his curiosity and his imagination. And Mephistopheles makes fun of him because he'll never get there. Okay? From heaven he claims as his the brightest stars and from the earth all of its highest joys but nothing near and nothing far away can satisfy a heart so deeply agitated. Okay? He's just too curious he can't be satisfied. And the God says though now he only serves me blindly and ineptly I shall soon lead him into clarity the gardener knows when the sapling turns green the blossoms and fruit will brighten future years. Okay? So God is saying if he continues to be curious eventually I God will lead him into the light. Okay? So what's important for us as humans is to be curious and that's how we show our faith in God. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 46:57 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Alright? Now so Mephistopheles and Phos meet and Mephistopheles says to Phos listen I know you want to know the truth about the world I want I know you want to experience the whole world but you can't do it by yourself so I will help you okay? I will grant you the knowledge of the world but if at any point you become complacent you stop striving you're happy with the way things are you're happy with the moment then you will become my servant is that a deal Phos? And Phos says sure because Phos does not believe that he can ever lose his curiosity okay? So what happens is all these strange events where Phos falls in love with a maiden named Gretchen and Gretchen falls in love with him and they try to have sex but the mother gets in the way so Phos has Gretchen kill the mother the ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 47:55 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: brother finds out and tries to kill Phos Phos kills the brother Gretchen is pregnant and then has to kill the baby because Phos has disappeared and then Gretchen basically dies in prison okay? So it sounds terrible but what happens is that eventually Gretchen forgives Phos because Gretchen goes to heaven and then Phos has more adventures he becomes a servant to the king he builds a lot of roads and a lot of cities he marries Helena of Troy he goes back and he's that happen okay? But what's happening is that he's experiencing life for all for all its potential for its all its possibilities and so as he gets older he's about to die and Mephistopheles comes to collect his soul okay? and this is the last speech of thoughts before he dies. A swamp lies there below the hill, infecting everything I've done. My last and greatest act of will succeeds when that foul pool is gone. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 49:00 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=2940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Okay, so he is an architect, and he is an urban planner working for the government. He's a civil servant, basically. And his job is to make the city much more livable for people, okay? To help civilize the world. And he's seeking pride in his work. Succeeds when that foul pool is gone, okay? Let me make room for many a million. Okay, let me make space for more people. Not wholly secure, but free to work on. Green fertile fields where men and herds may gain swift comfort from the new -made earth. Quickly settled in those hills embrace. Piled high by a brave industrial race. And in the center here, a paradise, whose boundaries hold back the raging tide, and though it gnaws to enter in by force, the common earth unites to hold its course, okay? So he's seeking pride in all that he's accomplished and that he will accomplish, okay? He's seeking pride in this moment, when he's actively contributing to the betterment of civilization. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 50:01 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3001s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3001s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: But because he's seeking pride in this moment, he's now lost a bet to Mephistopheles, right? He's now become complacent. He wants to live in the moment. You can't do that. Yes, I've surrendered to this thought's insistence, the last word wisdom ever has to say. He only earns his freedom in the existence forced to win them freshly every day. Childhood, manhood, age, vigorous years, surrounded by dangers, they'll spend here. I wish to gaze again on such a land, free earth, where free race and freedom stand, okay? So to be alive means to constantly struggle to progress things, okay? And this is it. Then to the moment I dared say, stay awhile, you are so lovely. He wants to stay in this moment forever. Through eons, then, never to fade away, this path of mine, through all that's earthly, anticipating here its deep enjoyment. Now I savor it, that highest moment, okay? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 51:02 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: In this moment, when he feels he's contributed to development of society, he feels at peace. He feels fulfilled, okay? And so, the irony is that at this moment, when he's most fulfilled, he's at peace. He should not be damned to hell, right? But, what happens as Mephistopheles is about to claim false soul is, angels appear and steal it from Mephistopheles. Mephistopheles, okay? The angels. Pure incandescence, whom its flames bless. Blissful of goodness is their existence. Gather together, rise now and praise. Spirit can breathe here in pure waves. So God has come to save us. False. They rise carrying away the immortal part of false. False soul is now in heaven. Mephistopheles says, how then? Where did they vanish to? You took me by surprise, you adolescents. Now with what they've salvaged from the tomb as their own prize, they've flown off to heaven. They've stolen a great and unique treasure, that noble soul mortgaged to my pleasure. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 52:22 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: They've snatched it away with cunning even, but whom could I even complain to anyway, okay? So Mephistopheles knows he's been tricked. But he has no say in the matter, okay? And so false, it is considered the greatest work of German literature. And the main message is God loves us. God wants us to be curious. God wants us to explore, to challenge ourselves, to grow. If we do that, God will always protect us, no matter how many stupid things we do, okay? God is ultimately about forgiveness and love and mercy and kindness. Kindness and generosity. So that's a very optimistic and confident view of the world. All right? Any questions so far? Okay, let's move on to Immanuel Kant. Immanuel Kant is the greatest philosopher who ever lived. We'll be spending a lot of time on Immanuel Kant throughout the semester, okay? So I introduce you to him here. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 53:26 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: In the world of our influential essay called What is Enlightenment? Why do we have enlightenment, okay? All right. So, enlightenment is man's emergence from his self -imposed knowledge. Knowledge is the inability to use one's own reasoning without another's guidance. This knowledge is self -imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dear to know, have the courage to use your own understanding is therefore the model of enlightenment, okay? So, what he's saying here is that your students, your parents, and I'm the teacher, okay? I'm enlightened because I'm using my reason, but you're not enlightened because you're relying on my reason, right? And what he's saying is that it's not because you lack the capacity to reason, that's the problem, it's because you guys are lazy, right? It's just easier for you to just sit there and take ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 54:27 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: notes rather than to actually read this text for yourself and understand them yourself, that's why you rely on me, okay? What well... But if you don't ever rely on yourself, you going to be free to think. It doesn't make sense. That's what he's saying here. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain me and my nurse all their lives long after nature has freed them from external guidance, okay? You have the capacity to reason, you can just read these things by yourself, but you're lazy and you're cowardly, okay? You don't want to... you don't make a mistake you don't be wrong thus it is very difficult for the individual to work himself out of knowledge which has become almost second nature to him he has even grown to like it and is at first really incapable of using his own understanding because he has never been permitted to ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 55:24 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3324s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3324s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: try it okay so everyone can do it but only a few can do it so what's the solution to this problem the solution is free and open debate does that make sense if you're able to access information you're able to access different points of view then you're able to do hear the truth for yourself okay does that make sense all right so you don't want to find the truth for yourself but if you're able to hear the truth here the opinions of others then you can make up for your mind make up your own mind that's what the truth is and you can because of access to reason that God implanted in you okay that's a logic here it is more nearly possible however for the public to enlighten itself indeed if it is only given freedom enlightenment is almost inevitable there will always be a few independent thinkers even among the self appointed guardians ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 56:23 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: of the multitude okay so this idea of reason debate and progress if there's a debate if everyone is able to hear different opinions then society will always be able to hear different opinions if there's a debate almost always progress it doesn't make sense this enlightenment requires nothing but freedom and the most innocent of all that may be called freedom freedom to make public use of one's reason all matters now I hear the cry from all sides do not argue the officer says do not argue drill the tax collector do not argue pay to have pastor do not argue believe only one ruler in the world which says argue as much as you please but obey we find we shrieks on freedom everywhere but which restrictions is harmful to enlightenment which restriction is innocent and which advances enlightenment I reply the public use of one's reason must be free at all times and this alone can ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 57:23 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: bring and Lenement to main kind he is arguing for absolute freedom of expression okay even if it's hate speech in you say racist things you're still allowed to say it because people have reason and for the capacity to judge have reasons and for the capacity to judge for himself or herself what is true whenever you censor something you're denying freedom to people okay so this is an absolutist understanding of freedom and this becomes a foundation for of course the American Constitution or the American Revolution in view of this he as preacher is not free and ought not to be free since he's carrying out the orders of others on the other hand as a scholar who speaks to his own public through his writings the minister in the public use of his reason enjoys unlimited freedom to use own reason and to speak for himself okay this is a really important idea all right so ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 58:23 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: I'm your teacher okay I'm your teacher now I can perceive myself in different ways I can perceive myself as a employee of a school in China therefore I must be aware of I must be aware of censorship laws in China I must be aware of what I can teach you and what and what I cannot teach you I must also be aware that my main responsibility is to make you a citizen of China and therefore make you feel good about China okay if I see myself as an employee of a school in China but if I see myself as a free individual in a service of human progress then my job is to ensure と be able to teach and reach out to it I will help class and serve your other students and also go perform at my class my main mission is to work with students who areINKING to different levels of human ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 59:32 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: development in European countries so I have something different in theff I tell the different simplify I try toарищ a traditional statement to show a personal есть the world as a citizen dedicated to the progress of human civilization okay that's your choice but your society of ministers say a church council have the right to commit itself by oath to a certain unultimal doctrine in order to secure perpetual partnership over all its members and through them over the people i say that this is quite impossible such a contract concluded to keep all further enlightenment from humanity is simply no and void even if it should be confirmed by the sovereign power by parliament and the most solemn treaties an epoch cannot conclude a pact that will commit succeeding ages prevent them from increasing their significant insights purging themselves of errors and generally progressing in enlightenment that would be a crime against human nature whose proper destiny lies ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:00:34 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: precisely in such progress okay this is a radical statement what he's saying is that i'm i'm a i'm of an older generation than you right i have absolutely no right to tell you what you think i was absolutely no right to tell you what to think i can show you possibilities i can argue with you but i must not enforce my ideas on you because that would limit human progress progress is determined by a new generation's capacity to question and negate uh previous generations ideas okay does that make sense all right all right so um this is voltaire um voltaire i don't really want to spend too much time on but voltaire is considered a celebrity of enlightenment okay he was very famous at that time because he is what we what we call today a troll okay a troll why because he's always making fun of the nobility and the clergy the powers that ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:01:37 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3697s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3697s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: be and as such the middle class basically um worshipped him okay they love his contributions but he himself was not a very deep thinker okay himself was not a great thinker so i don't want to spend too much time on him all right um so let's go move on to jonathan russo who is the most influential enlightenment thinker in france this is it is his ideas that will drive the french revolution okay all right so he wrote a very influential book called emile emile is his treatise on education how should you best educate children on the subject of the french revolution children okay all right so let's just read some basic passages if the infant sprang at one bound from its mother's breast to the age of reason the present type of education would be quite suitable but its natural growth calls for quite a different training the mind should be left undisturbed till its ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:02:37 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: faculties have developed for while it is blind it cannot see the torch you offer it nor can it follow through the vast expanse of ideas of paths so faintly traced by reason that eyes can scarcely follow it okay so what he's saying here it's a very controversial idea what he's saying here is that kindergarten and primary school make no sense kids come into school to learn math to learn language right but the problem is that their faculty for reason has not fully developed okay it's like me asking you to uh fly even though you don't have wings so what he's saying is this before the age of 12. let kids play because if you ask them to come to school all that will do is screw up their minds right if a child is crawling and you make the child walk all that's going to do is make the bones deformed okay it's going to ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:03:41 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: really screw up the legs and that's what what we're always saying do not ever send kids to learn anything before the age of 12 because their faculty of reason has not developed before the age of 12. and guess what guys this is the idea of childhood okay childhood children should be allowed to play until the age of 12. and it comes from result okay does that make sense therefore the education of the earliest years should be merely negative negative just means like don't have kids jump in the pool by themselves okay but don't be positive don't make them learn mathematics it consists of a lot of things that are true but in preserving the heart from vice and from the spirit of error if only you could let the well alone and get others to follow your example if you could bring your scholar to the age of 12 strong and healthy but unable to ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:04:40 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt) Text: tell his right hand from his left the eyes of his understanding would be open to reason as soon as you began to teach him free from prejudices and free from habits there would be nothing in him to counteract the effects of your labors in your hands he would soon become the wisest of men by doing nothing to begin with you would end with a project of education okay that's the secret of education before age 12 leave the kid alone make sure he's he or she is healthy make sure he or she is eating well but do not teach mathematics okay because because by leaving the child alone you free the child from bad mental habits you allow the child to think for himself or herself okay so the very idea of childhood comes from rousseau and this is this is an idea that a lot of middle class parents will adopt okay i myself um ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:05:40 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: also believe very heavily in this idea i'm not i don't want to send my kids to school before age 12 possibly even age 16. okay i don't i work in a school so i don't really trust schools i don't trust teachers it's it it it's like being a cook and you work in a restaurant like you would you would never actually go eat in a restaurant because you know how how to make the food okay all right let's continue there are two classes of men who are constantly engaged in bodily activity peasants and savages okay there are these peasants who work the farm there's savages who run around the forest all day okay so you think there's no difference but in fact there's a world of difference and certainly neither of these pays the least attention to the cultivation of the mind peasants are rough coarse and clumsy savages are noted not only for their ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:06:34 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=3994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#rival-education-makes-worldly-resilience) Text: keen senses but for great subtlety of mind savages are really smart peasants are really dull why generally speaking there is nothing duller than a peasant or sharper than a savage what is the cause of this difference the peasant has always done as he was told what his father did before him what he himself has always done he's a creature of habit he spends his life almost like an ottoman and an ottoman on the same task having obedience has taken a place of reason the casual savage is very different he is tied to no one place he has no prescribed task no superior to obey he knows no law but his own will he is therefore forced to reason at every step he takes he can neither move nor walk without considering the consequences thus the more his body is exercised the more alert is his mind his strength and his reason increase together and each ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:07:35 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#rival-education-makes-worldly-resilience) Text: helps to explore the other the savage is an explorer the savage is a problem solver the savage is free and independent to make his own destiny that's the difference okay so if you want to educate your child well then let the child be a savage and not a peasant oh man seek no further for the author evil that are he there's no evil but the evil you do or the evil you suffer and both come from yourself evil in general can only spring from this order and in the order of the world i find a never failing system evil in particular cases exists only in the mind of those who experience it and this feeling is not the gift of nature the work of man himself pain has low power over those who have thought little look neither before nor after take away our fatal progress take away our faults and our vices take away ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:08:33 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4113s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: man's handiwork and all as well if you take children out of school you have to play by themselves whatever they want guess what they become smart they become resilient they become educated they become curious they love learning so we if we try to build structure we try to build civilization if we move children away from the state of nature we can only screw things up schools are not designed to educate children schools are first and foremost designed to control children right why because we don't like kids running around okay it's that simple they're not meant for kids they're meant for adults so that parents don't actually have to see them and teachers don't have to deal with them okay and so that's what russo is saying and he's he's absolutely right all right um so that was emil now russo also wrote a really famous book called discourse on the origin of inequality which will ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:09:44 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: have a major impact on the french revolution and enlightenment okay it's an idea of private property where does private property come from the first man who having closed a piece of ground he thought himself of saying this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society okay so we have society because some people want property private property okay from how many crimes wars and murders from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditch and crying to his fellows beware of listening to this imposter you're undone if you cut if you want to forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all and the earth itself to nobody what he's saying is this suddenly one day some people in our society are like oh this is mine this ground is mine you can't ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:10:40 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: come here we should all been like what are you talking about that makes no sense how do you claim this ground for yourself well we didn't do that in fact we claim our own ground or we let we let them have their own crown ground and because of this because of the idea because of the idea of private property we now have inequality patriarchy war okay this is where war and patriarchy and equality come from because of some people's insistence on having private property right okay any questions so far okay it is all clear to you all right so let's move on to the final book the social contract okay the social contract is the bible of the french revolution it is the um book that is most influential in the most influential development of the thinkers of the french revolution all right the most famous sentence um the sentence that begins of social contract ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:11:44 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4304s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4304s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: is man is born free and everywhere he is in chains here is one who thinks he is the master of others yet is more enslaved than they are okay so we were born free but we choose to become slaves but knowing that the people who have enslaved us think they're our masters but in fact they're more enslaved than us because they are trapped by the system you understand slavery is a system that enslaves all it's saving it's not a system where a few oppress the others slavery system where an idea has oppressed everyone especially the masters right we see at once that on this account of things we're talking about as simple as that i'm now going to show you that these are brotherly uh by the French Revolution. All right, so Rousseau is trying to reason from general principles as to how to form a good society, a social contract where everyone chooses to participate in a society, and is not compelled to participate in a society. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:13:14 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: And what he says is this. There are two types of will. There's the general will and there's the particular will. General will is what we can agree on if we are left to reason by ourselves. Particular will is what we believe if we are part of a group of people, a part of an interest. So let's just say, for example, the central government in China is like, I want to spend $10 billion on roads, on new roads. Where should we invest this money? General will is everyone agrees that we should invest these roads where they're most needed in China. Maybe Guizhou, maybe Yunnan, the poorest parts, because they will do the most good. We can all agree on that, right? But, because we are in Beijing, we will be like, no, you should put the money in Beijing. That's a particular will, okay? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:14:12 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: So in other words, society, if it is to function well, must be based entirely on the general will and negate the particular will, on the common interest. And that's why everything works, because if laws are based on the general will, then all the laws are acceptable to people, because the laws are just an expression of the general will. And the king, he's just acting out the general will. So the king is acceptable to everyone, okay? Does that make sense? The problem with this, of course, is that that's not how the world works, okay? There's actually no one in the world who is like, oh, I should do this because of the general will. It's always a particular will, right? Does that make sense? And so this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the, this is the major divergence between the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The French Revolution, it is fundamentally idealistic. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:15:08 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: It believes that people are capable of considering the common interest. The American Revolution denies this, okay? So we will discuss the American Revolution later on, but I just want you to be aware of this, okay? The French Revolution, it's based on the idea of the general will, that everyone is capable of reason and of promoting the common interest. The American Revolution refuses to believe this. All right, each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an individual part of the whole, okay? So as long as we are capable of reason, which we are, we can understand the general will. If the populace held its deliberations on the basis of adequate information about the citizens communicating with one another, what emerged from all that particular will would always be the general will, and the decision would always be good, okay? ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:16:06 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: So if you only think about the common interest, everyone would come to the same conclusion about everything. Okay? If the general will is to emerge clearly, it's important that there should be no partial society within the state, and that each citizen should think only his own thoughts, which was indeed, I'm continually astonished that such a simple sign of good government isn't recognized, or perhaps may do recognize it, but aren't honest enough to say so. This is the purpose of any particular association, the preservation and prosperity of its members. And what is the surest sign of their preservation and prosperity? Their number and their population growth. That's the sign you're looking for. Other things being equal, the unquestionably best government is the one under which the population increases most without external help from naturalizing foreigners or establishing colonies. The government under which the population shrinks is the worst. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:17:05 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Over to you. Calculators. Count. Measure. Compare. Okay. This is a really important idea here. What Rousseau is saying is that not only can we deduce good government from general principles, but good government can be measured, okay? So we can know how we are doing as a society through measurement, by measuring things, by counting things, okay? Count. Measure. Compare. And that's what progress means. Now, what we'll learn later on is this is actually a really dumb idea, okay? But for now, I want you to be aware of this. And the French Revolution will embrace this. And that's why in the French Revolution they will introduce the metric system. The metric system comes from the French Revolution. And the metric system is now used by every country in the world except two, right? There are two countries in the world who don't use the metric system. They are? Do you guys know? There are exactly two countries in the world that do not use the metric system. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:18:06 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: They are? Can you guess? These two countries are the countries that are most, that were most against the French Revolution. These countries are? America and Britain, okay? Yeah, it's true. In China we use Celsius, right? When you go to America, they don't use Celsius. They use Fahrenheit, okay? And when you go to Britain, they use something called the imperial system. So just be aware, when you go to America, you will hear terms like, oh, America needs uh 12 yards and you're like what is 12 yards okay so so so they don't actually use the metric system in america but but everyone else does but i'm wrong to speak of a christian republic those two terms are mutually exclusive christianity preaches only servitude independence its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime genuine christians are made ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:19:09 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: to be slaves and they know it and don't mind much this short life counts for too little in their eyes okay so we're always rejecting religion in government this is the idea of separation of church and state which becomes the basis for the french nation state it's a very important idea and during the resolution this will lead to civil wars between the peasants who want to be christians and the revolutionaries who want to establish a secular state the dogmas of civil religion ought to be few simple and exactly worded with no explanation or a concept of religion the dogmas of civil religion are the existence of a mighty intelligent and beneficent divinity possessed of foresight and providence the life to come the happiness of the just the punishment of the wicked the sanity of the social contract and the laws and just one dominant exclusion in the exclusion of intolerance which is a feature of ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:20:06 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas) Text: the cult we have rejected okay so what we're saying here is that the new society should now have a new religion a state religion that is based on reason okay and this new religion of reason must reject all other religions because these religions are intolerant of each other and that's why in french today there's so much conflict between uh there's so much conflict in in society okay you have a lot of islamic immigrants and they're always in conflict with the french state because the french state insists on secular um on a secular religion the islamists want to practice their own religion okay okay so that's it okay so these ideas that we looked at will now become the basis of the french revolution right so next class we'll look at the french revolution all right so so i know this was a lot but are there any questions about what we've learned so far excuse ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:21:12 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: me why are peasants so loyal to the religion right okay great great question all right sorry let me um all right so what you learned in this class is that the christian religion it is something that is um adopted okay or enforced but over generations right over the centuries it becomes part of your tradition right so what is religion okay good people okay what do we know that people are loyal to people are loyal to their home right their land and that's true right people like being in a place they they don't want to move most people in the world don't want to move if you give Maybe if people of Chinese, the choice of just moving to America, you think everyone would go. But no, no, no. Most people would not go because they want to live where they grew up. So they're loyal to the land, they're loyal to the family, they're loyal to tradition or culture, they're loyal to food. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:22:32 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=4952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: This is true for most people. If you grew up eating, I don't know, rice, you don't want to eat potatoes. You want to eat rice. So what this tells us is that people are, first and foremost, people of habit. Does that make sense? Why? Why are people of habit? Because this is a really important idea. And I know this is a strange idea because it feels good. Do you understand? Because when you do something out of habit, you feel good. You feel good about yourself. When you break this habit, you feel bad about yourself. And the only way that you know if something is good or bad is how you feel about it, okay? Right? Like, you're eating rice and you're happy eating rice because you've been doing this all your life, and now you're eating potatoes, and it kind of tastes weird. But I tell you, hey, no, no. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:23:31 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5011s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5011s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: Eating potatoes is better for you. It's more nutritious, it's cheaper, you don't care. Okay? You're not feeling good. So you resort to habit. And habit is in the land, the family, the tradition, and the food. Does that make sense? And guess what? These ideas are all encapsulated in religion because religion is what determines your culture, your food. It's what your family practices. It is your connection to your family. It's your connection to your land. Okay? And that's why people will die for the religion because religion is really a metaphor for all these things that people understand and know and love. Does that make sense? Okay? Now, what you will learn in this class is people just don't die for religion. They also die for ideas, which include the nation. Right? The nation state. Because all that, because what you will learn in this class is what the French Revolution will do is sort of process where religion becomes part of the nation. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:24:44 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0078](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0078) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0078` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#reason-replacement-religion-atlas); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: Our ideas of religion become transplanted into the nation. Okay? So people will also die for the nation. That's why you have these incredibly devastating wars like World War I and World War II where people will die for the nation. Okay? And they won't even think about it. But it starts during the French Revolution. Okay? Does that make sense to you? Okay. Great. Okay. All right. Good question. So how can a religion be based on reason? All right. So traditionally, religion is given to us by God. Okay? Right? Every religion is like, well, we have this religion because God told us to believe in it. Okay? So the way you do that is through priests who then tell you what to believe. Okay? So this is the way that most religion is practiced. Right? What the Enlightenment thinkers are saying, especially Rousseau is, no, no, no, no. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:26:10 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0079](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0079) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0079` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: This system doesn't really work. Right? Because you have reason. And, therefore, you have the capacity to access God. So you don't really need priests. Right? So we can just think reasonably what religion should be like. And from first principles, you can deduce the religion. Right? Okay? Does that make sense? Now, if you just reason from first principles about what religion should be like, what are they? Well, first of all, there is a God. Okay? First of all, there is a God. Second of all is that there is heaven and hell. You do good things, you go to heaven. You do bad things, you go to hell. Right? That's the second thing. Third thing is good people go to heaven. Therefore, you should do good. Okay? And then fourth would be like, if you believe in these things, you are free to believe anything else. For example, you're like, I don't know. I believe that animals have the same rights as humans. ## Reason Becomes A Religion -- 1:27:20 - Source title: Civilization #46: The Revolution of Reason - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0080](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o/transcript/#seg-0080) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HwZx5kQm9o&t=5240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o@transcript:v1#seg-0080` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-5hwzx5kqm9o.json) Text: Well, that doesn't contradict what we already believe. Therefore, you can believe that animals can go to heaven as well. Okay? Do you understand? So what we're saying is that just from general principles, just if you're able to exercise reason by yourself, you should be able to deduce the basic principles of an organized state religion. And that's what he does in the social contract. And it becomes a basis, again, for the French Revolution. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. Great. Okay. So I apologize for the length of this class, but the French Revolution is really complicated, and I really need to explain some basic ideas to you. Okay? So next class, we'll do Rose Pier. All right? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: Okay, so good morning. Today we are doing the gunpowder revolution. Specifically, we are going to ask the question, how did Europe, starting about the year 1700, conquer the world? So, after the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe became divided, very poor, and very weak, compared with the rest of the world. But then, starting in the year 1700, Europe very quickly, in only about 20 years' time, will go on to conquer the entire world. So, today we are going to examine how this happened. Okay, so before we begin, I want you guys to remember a very important concept that we have been developing throughout this course. And the concept is this. The nature of the military determines the nature of the political, political system in societies, in nations. Okay, so the four specific examples we've looked at are Sparta, Athens, Macedonia, and Rome. Because Sparta had a hoplite army, it became an oligarchy. Okay, oligarchy means ruled by the few, the ruled by the elite. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:24 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And hoplites were farmers who could afford their own armor, and weaponry, okay? Athens had a navy, and so it was a democracy. And the idea here is that anyone and everyone can row a boat. And if you can row a boat, you can fight a war, you can help Athens win, and therefore, you can participate in the political process. So, Athens was a democracy. Macedonia, where Alexander the Great is from, it was a cavalry -based, army, and because only the nobility could afford horses, it was a monarchy. And the last example is Rome. Now, the thing about Rome that made it distinct from these societies is that it was willing to make tremendous sacrifices on the battlefield, because it could replenish its soldiers with allies from neighboring nations in the Italian Peninsula. And as such, it was a republic. Now, the difference between a republic and a democracy is that in a democracy, everyone has the right to vote. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 2:37 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: So, the decisions are based on majority rule, okay? But in a republic, it is ruled by laws and tradition and history. So, people will do what has been traditionally accepted as a norm. And as such, you can bring in immigrants into your society very quickly. This is important for us, because Rome will become the model for America, okay? America is not a democracy. It is a republic. A very important difference. So, I want you guys to remember this idea. The military, the nature of the military, will determine the nature of your political system in your society, okay? All right. So, let's go over some basic military history. In Greece, when the Poles were fighting each other, in very much the same way that the warring states were fighting each other in China, the main soldier is called a hoplite. The hoplite means shield in Greek. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 3:46 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And the thing about the hoplite that's very important is that it was a self -sufficient soldier, meaning that most of the time, he was a farmer. But when there was a war, he would grab his armor and his shield and his spear, and he would go to war. You didn't need an economy to allow the hoplite to exist, okay? This was a self -sufficient system. Over time, the Macedonians will take the hoplite formation and turn it into the Macedonian phalanx. And the Romans will have their legion, okay? Now, the difference between the Macedonians and the Romans, sorry, the difference between this system and the traditional Greek system is now you have a standing army. These are professional soldiers that must be supported by the economy. This is cavalry, the Roman cavalry. And obviously, these are nobility because only they can afford to have horses. These are the Vikings that we've studied before. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 5:02 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Again, this is pretty self -sufficient. The Vikings are able to build their own ships very quickly and repair them. And they are able to go off in small bands, okay? The steppe people became archers, right? So the Mongolians are the classic example. And again, the thing here is that these people, ever since they were born, could ride horses and shoot arrows. And that's why they were so effective soldiers. And that's why, for the longest time, the steppe people were the dominant military force in the world, okay? They could come in and conquer all the agricultural empires. This will include the Yamnaya, which we talked about, but it'll also include the Turks and the Mongolians, okay? In medieval Europe, they developed a new system where the knight becomes the main military force in the army. Now, the knight, as you can see, it requires armored horses and armored weapons. And this is very expensive. And you have to train from an early age to become a knight. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 6:24 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And that's why you now have a system called feudalism, where the entire economy revolves around maintaining knights for war purposes, okay? This is where feudalism comes from. What makes feudalism stick is the idea of castles. So feudalism is about decentralization, where the knights and the lords have control over the local territory, and there's something the king can do about it. Why? Because maybe if there's a fight between the lords and the king, well, and the king comes with his own army, well, the lords can just hide in their castle. And as you can see, it's very hard to besiege and destroy a castle. First of all, there's a defensive perimeter, the moat, and then the high walls, okay? And eventually, the king will have to give up. So in the feudal system, the king is more like a figurehead who is appointed as maybe the chairman or the elected leader, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 7:32 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: But the king does not have that much power. He has more power over the local areas. This changes in 1453, okay? In the city of Constantinople. So for about close to a thousand years, Constantinople was the wealthiest, most powerful city in Europe. They are the heirs to the Roman Empire. They consider themselves the Eastern Roman Empire. And they are invincible because of their high walls. Remember, we talked about the Byzantine Empire before. And for about a thousand years, Constantinople was powerful because they were invincible. You cannot besiege the city, okay? But in 1453, this changes because the Ottoman Turks come in with cannons. And they laid siege to Constantinople and they destroy the walls. And this was unimaginable before. And so it's gunpowder that allows the Ottomans to destroy the once impenetrable Constantinople. And this marks a revolution now in Europe. Now people understand that you need gunpowder if you are to win wars in the future, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 8:54 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=534s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: This is a revolution now in Europe. So over the centuries, what will happen is this. Gunpowder will radically remake the world in three fundamental ways. The first way that's important is the steppe people cease to be a threat, okay? So for thousands of years, the steppes, the Mongolians, the Turks, the Yemnaya, they drove history because they could come in and conquer empires and establish new societies. Now with gunpowder, the cities can defend themselves against the steppe people and eventually over time, the Russians will colonize the steppes. And they will cease to be a factor in development of global history, okay? So this is the end of the steppes. That's the first fundamental change. Second is, this will mark the beginning of Europe as the dominant global power in the world. It is China that invents gunpowder, right? About over a thousand years ago. But it is Europe that will perfect gunpowder as the ultimate military weapon. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 10:12 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And it will allow Europe to defeat everyone, including Ottoman Turks, including the Chinese, everyone, okay? And the third and most important fundamental change is that gunpowder will usher in a whole society revolution that will remake the fabric and structure of European society, okay? So I will explain all three as we move on. But these are the three fundamental impacts of gunpowder. All right, let's talk about the steppes. So before we discuss why the steppe people, the Vikings, the borderland people, they usually tend to win out against empires, even though empires have much more resources, much more people, much more technology, okay? So this is the chart that explains why the borderlands wins out in the end. Because the borderlands have energy. The people are much more courageous, they're much more hungry, they're much more determined. Openness. The borderlands people tend to be much more innovative. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 11:19 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=679s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: They're opening new ideas. They don't invent things, but they take inventions and they apply it to their society. The last is opportunistic, where they will only attack you if they think you're weak, okay? The empire has three advantages, mass, organization, and death. Mass just means a lot of people. Organization means a centralized bureaucracy. And then death just means that they can afford to lose a lot of battles, okay? And for most of human history, the borderlands had advantages over the empire. But with the advent of gunpowder, the dynamic changes. So now that the empire is able to control and crush the borderlands. And the main reason why is with gunpowder technology, you need organization. You need centralization. Remember before, armies were self -sufficient. You needed to go to war. You told everyone, let's go to war. And then the people who were soldiers would get their armor and they would rush down to battle, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 12:27 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: That's what the Greeks did against the Persians. But with gunpowder, you need a professional army, you need engineers, you need the resources that allow you to make gunpowder, okay? So you need specialization. With specialization, you need centralization, hierarchy, and bureaucracy. And that's what empires do very well. And the borderlands don't do this, okay? And that's why eventually the empires will win out against the borderlands in the long term. All right. So there are four major gunpowder empires, meaning these four societies are most equipped, most ready to take advantage of the gunpowder revolution. The first and most important gunpowder empire are the Ottomans, right? They're the ones who took the cannons, the artillery, and they're the ones who destroyed Constantinople. And the Ottomans, after that, became the dominant power in Europe and the Middle East, okay? The Ottoman Empire. What made the Ottoman Empire so fierce was the use of professional soldiers called janissaries. Janissaries are young boys who are Christian, and they became slaves to the Ottomans. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 13:50 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And they were educated to become professional soldiers. And because they're basically slaves, they owe their entire loyalty to the sultan, the king of the Ottoman Empire, okay? And these are professional soldiers who made effective, very effective use of gunpowder in battle, okay? So that's the Ottoman Empire. But then you also have the Mughal Empire, which was the height of Indian civilization. They were also, for the longest time, a centralized bureaucracy, and they were also able to take advantage of gunpowder. Then you have the second empire, the Sepidid Empire, which is in modern -day Iran. They are the heirs to the Persian Empire. And remember, what you learned last semester is it was really the Persians who created bureaucracy in the world, okay? And of course, the last, and arguably the most powerful of these gunpowder empires is China, okay? This is the Ming Empire. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 14:51 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Remember, it was China who invented the gunpowder. But what's interesting is when China invented gunpowder, it was not used that effectively. The Chinese army used gunpowder mainly as bombs or as fireworks, as incendiaries to blow things up, okay? But because of the Islamic Golden Age and because of Genghis Khan's conquest, globalization came into being, and the technology of paper and gunpowder spread all the way to Europe. It was the Europeans who innovated gunpowder and turned it into a propellant, okay? Something that you shoot people at, a projectile. And that's why we have cannons and muskets. And so it was the Europeans who actually invented gunpowder as a projectile. And then what would happen is the technology would come back to China, and China would adapt this into their own army, okay? So that was the process. Yeah, so this is China and the use of gunpowder. Okay, so the paradox is this. It ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 16:06 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: was China who invented the gunpowder, and the four great gunpowder empires are the Ottomans, the Safavids, the Mughals, and the Chinese. But at the end of the day, it is Europe that conquers the entire world, okay? That's the paradox. That's the mystery that we're looking at today. And so the thesis, the answer is European nations would surpass the gunpowder empires because they would adopt a whole -society approach to warfare, okay? So what does that mean? It means that if you are to have, if you are really to integrate gunpowder into your military effectively, you need to change the structure of your society. You have to change the status quo. You have to move from a society that is heavily centralized to one that is both centralized and open as well, okay? So I'm going to explain to you what changes Europe had to make in order to move to become a modern military. Okay, the first change is it went from a feudal system to a nation -state system, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 17:29 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Does that make sense? Feudal is decentralized local powers. Nation -state is you have a centralized bureaucracy. Okay, you need that, and that's what Europe did. Second change is it went from a focus on villages, on agriculture, to a focus on towns and industry, right? Because with gunpowder, you need specialized workers, you need engineers, you need iron workers, and that happens in towns and not in villages, okay? Does that make sense? Also, when you move to towns, you start to create total capitalism, so the merchants become much more important than the bureaucrats because the merchants who go and procure resources necessary for gunpowder. And the third major change that happened in Europe that really didn't happen anywhere else is a shift in focus from religion to science, okay? Religion is asking the question, what does God want from us? How can we best serve God? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 18:37 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1117s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Science is asking the question, how can we win this war? How can we make gunpowder much more effective? How can we kill more people, okay? So these are the three major revolutions that happened in Europe that really didn't happen anywhere else, okay? And when they happen in Europe, it will unleash these extremely violent and powerful revolutions as well. Including the French Revolution, which we'll study, the American Revolution. And it's a bloody process that takes centuries to unfold and to develop. But it will make Europe into the dominant power in the world, and it will allow Europe to conquer the entire world and force nations like China to adopt European social frameworks. Does that make sense, guys? So that's the main thing and the main idea here. Okay. The main advantage that Europe had over the rest of the world was also its main disadvantage, which was Europe, ever since the fall of the Roman Empire, was always divided and poor and always fighting each other, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 19:51 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: The concept we use for this in our class is open cooperative competition. This is the main driver of innovation in the world. When was China most creative? During the warring states period, right? Okay. So this is consistently true throughout history. Whenever a society is fractured and the different constituent parts are forced to fight each other, this will lead to massive innovation, not just in the military, but also in society, in philosophy, in literature, okay? So we talked about the three revolutions in Europe that came about because of the gunpower revolution, okay? All right. So one thing to keep in mind is in the beginning, it was not obvious to people gunpowder was a revolutionary force. It would take centuries before societies, the military, used gunpowder as the main weapon. And the reason why is in the beginning, gunpowder was very unstable. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 21:05 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: It was hard to store. It was hard to make. And the guns that you used were too heavy. So they were only a small part of your military. Also, what's important for us to remember is that there's always been a battle between artillery and fortification, okay? So even though the Ottomans used a cannon to destroy Constantinople, engineers would figure out ways to better defend the city, okay? So the first strategy against gunpowder was the idea of earthworks. Basically, and it's very simple. You just dig trenches around your city. And then, therefore, the cannons cannot come into range of your city, okay? Does that make sense? So there are different strategies you can use to negate the advantage of gunpowder, okay? So earthworks is one advantage. But then what they figured out was something called a star fortress, okay? And this is another revolution in the military. A star fortress is designed differently. Most fortresses before were rectangular because they were the most intuitive and easiest to build. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 22:16 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1336s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1336s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: But with a star fortress, you have different points in the fortress so that even if one part gets destroyed, guess what? You can fill the gaps, right? This part gets destroyed, but then you fill the gaps here. That part gets destroyed, you fill the gaps here, okay? So you basically have to attack the entire fortress at once. And most armies don't have these resources to destroy the entire fortress at once. You can only do it part by part, okay? You want to breach the fortress, but a star fortress allows you to be resilient, okay? To be flexible. Though the word that we use for this is ductile, okay? Ductile just means the resilience of materials. The gunpowder revolution will also mark radical changes in military formation, organization, and hierarchy, okay? So again, at this particular stage, gunpowder is only a small fraction of the entire army. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 23:21 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Most people are using spears and pikes to gather, okay? They also have cavalry as well. So the problem for the Europeans is how do you best utilize all these resources in an efficient and effective manner, okay? So this is one possibility where the pikes are at the back, the gunpowders are in the front, and the cavalry is to the wings, okay? And this provides the most flexibility in your army. And because Europeans are always fighting each other, they're always able to figure out new strategies, okay? This is a picture of an European army in the 16th century, okay? All right, so let's talk about, very quickly, the formation of gunpowder. How is gunpowder made? Well, gunpowder is made using three different resources, okay? They are salt, pepper, sulfur, and charcoal. Charcoal is pretty easy to get, okay? Sulfur you get from, basically, from volcanoes. And in Europe, the place where they had the most volcanoes was Italy, on the Italian peninsula. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 24:37 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So if you look at the history of Europe, most wars, the vast majority of wars, were actually fought over the Italian peninsula. One, because you need sulfur for gunpowder, but also because the Italian peninsula could control trade with the rest of the world, and also because the church was there, the pope was there, okay? Salt, pepper is, the technical name is potassium nitrate, and it comes from manure, okay? Manure. It doesn't really grow naturally, so they have to farm it. They have to make it. And they make it, basically, by taking horse manure, animal manure, and planting it in the ground, and then farming it, okay? So this became an industry unto itself. And salt, pepper is important because as they chemically enhance gunpowder, they discovered that salt, pepper should go from 41 % to almost 70%, okay? So salt, pepper was the main ingredient in gunpowder. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 25:43 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And the Europeans had to figure out ways to mass produce salt, pepper. And that's why they came up with these nitrate, okay, or farms, okay? And this became a very important part of European society. You also had chemists working in laboratories to better refine the technology of gunpowder, okay? Because one huge issue of gunpowder is it's very hard to store. So, for example, if it rains, guess what? No more gunpowder, okay? So they constantly have to refine the chemical composition of gunpowder to make it resilient against rain, to make it easier to store, to make it easier to transport. There's also a good possibility that along the way, the gunpowder explodes on you, okay? So this was an absolute necessity to figure out how to better make, store, and use gunpowder. You also had ironworks, right? Because you need iron and metal to make cannons, which was the main use of gunpowder. These are foundries where they will make gunpowders. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 26:59 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And again, this helps us explain why towns became much more important than villages, right? Because it's towns where you have the specialization going on and not the villages. The thing, to remember about the early guns called the arquebus, is that they're very heavy. Now, these are metal, okay? So the soldier basically needs something to stabilize the gun. But even once a gun is stabilized, it's not very accurate, right? You can't, I mean, you're actually off with a bow and arrow, and that's what most people were using, bow and arrow, okay? The other thing about the arquebus and the musket is, it's very, very slow, right? You have to aim it, then you have to fire it, and then you have to reload it. That could take maybe 10 minutes, half an hour, you know, like the technology will get better and better over time, but it's very, very slow. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 28:01 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So you have two issues with the guns, the musket, the arquebus. One is that it's not very accurate, and second of all, it's very slow. So the only solution is, to have mass army, to have a lot of soldiers firing at once. So you don't even care, you don't even want to aim, you just want to shoot it directly at cavalry or soldiers, okay? And that's the idea. And that's why these armies, like the Ming and the elements, were most able to use gunpower effectively, because they could organize mass armies, okay? So the Ming were one of the main influence innovators of gunpowder armies, using something called a volley, okay? So what would happen is, soldiers would stand in line, they would come up, shoot it, then walk to the back, a new line would come up and shoot it again, okay? They weren't aiming, they were just shooting it, and this is what we call volley fire, right? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 29:01 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So this is the main tactic, okay? So does it make sense to you guys so far? But over time, gunpowder will become much more effective, much more accurate, much faster, okay? And now what you can do is conscript more soldiers. So in other words, what is required now is more conscripts for your army, okay? So this is a picture of a battle. But not only that, but you need your soldiers to be obedient, okay? Because you're asking them to charge into gunpowder, okay? And so you needed to change the nature of people into basically peace -loving, pretty simple individuals who were used to freedom to ones who were obedient, who were bloodthirsty, and who could kill other people, okay? And that's why you now have the invention of something called schools, okay? If you want to know where schools come from, it comes from the need to create as many soldiers as possible for your mass army, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 30:25 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So a concept that I want to introduce you today and we will go over a lot in this semester is the idea of synchronicity, okay? Synchronicity is to structure your society so the people in your society are able to follow the rules, okay? They're able to follow the rules, then your society can become much more prosperous and become better, can have more effective militaries, okay? So the two classic examples in this world of synchronicity, the two societies that do synchronicity the best are Germany and Japan, okay? Go to Germany, go to Japan, and go on the subway. Guess what, guys? Even though it's really, really crowded, everyone stands in line perfectly, okay? Everyone knows history. This or her position in the line, and everyone's willing to wait in line. That's why in the 12th century, Japan and Germany had such effective militaries, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 31:27 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And also why they also have very effective industries, okay? Schools is preparing people not just for the military but also for the assembly line, the workplace. And again, societies that are most able to stand in line orderly will be the most effective in terms of industry and military, and that's usually the European societies and Japan as well, okay? So again, gunpowder marks a whole society revolution, changing not just the military and how wars are fought, but changing the very nature of what it means to be human, okay? Does that make sense? If you want to know where schools come from, it comes from the need to fight wars, all right? And again, China will adopt all these policies and social structures for itself, okay? Let's go over some wars. So what's really important about Europe at this time and why Europe became the dominant power in the world is it never stops fighting each other, okay? It's always fighting wars internally and externally against the Ottomans, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 32:45 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=1965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So the wars began between Europe and the Ottomans are called the Hungarian -Ottoman Wars, and this will last for about 300 years. And in the beginning, what's really important is the Ottomans destroy the Europeans. The Ottomans are able to destroy Constantinople, and they're able to take over most of Eastern Europe, okay? So the Ottomans, for many centuries, up until the year 1700, is a dominant military power in Europe and around the world at this time. There's also something called the Hundred Years' War that is fought between France and England, okay? Let's now go over some wars, and what I will do now is show you the casualty count, like how many people are killed in action, all right? So again, as I mentioned, a lot of wars are being fought on the Italian peninsula. So the Second Italian War, there's maybe 200,000 killed during this war, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 33:46 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: These are soldiers killed, not civilians. But when you get to but a few years later, it's 31,000, okay? And then it goes up to 30,000, and then 75,000, okay? These numbers are going up. Why? Because the armies are getting larger, and the weapons are getting much more precise and effective, okay? This is the reason why more people are dying. The English -Spanish War, it is really important. 40,000 people died. This is important because, remember, last class, I said, last class we talked about how Spain is a dominant naval power in the world, and that's what allowed Spain to colonize South America. But in this war, England will destroy the Spanish Armada, the Spanish Navy. And England now will become the dominant navy in Europe and around the world. And they will maintain this position until America in World War II, okay? So this is a really pivotal point in history. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 34:56 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: The sinking of the Spanish Armada by the English. We said this 30 years before, which was a religious war between the Protestants, Protestant Europe, and the Catholics. This will kill between 4.5 million to 8 million people over a span of 30 years. This is the worst war in Europe before World War I, okay? So these wars are becoming much more violent, much more deadly. Spanish -Portuguese War, 80,000. Franco -Spanish War, 180,000. Okay, you're seeing these numbers go up, right? Franco -Dutch War, 342,000. War of the Holy League, almost 400,000. This is important because this is when Europe is finally able to defeat the Ottoman Empire. This marks a radical turning point where Europe will now become the dominant military power in the world, and the Ottomans will now decline rapidly, okay? Now, you may be asking yourself, wait a minute here, why are all these wars being fought? The answer ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 35:58 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: is, Europe is divided among different kingdoms, and the main policy of all these kingdoms is balance of power. So whenever a new power arises, the other powers get together and try to take down that empire, okay? So before it was Spain, and then Spain was destroyed, then it was France, then it was Russia, then it was Germany, okay? So that's the idea here. Nine Years' War, almost 700,000. The Seven Years' War is really the first world war because it's a war fought between France and England for control of the entire world, okay? It's being fought in North America, it's being fought in Europe, and almost a million people get killed in this war over seven years. French Revolutionary Wars, we'll discuss this later on, but 663,000 killed. The French Revolutionary Wars is important historically because a lot of people who fought in this war, they are not professional soldiers. They're just citizens who have revolutionary devotion and fever. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 37:03 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: They love their country, they want freedom for their country, so they take up arms and they're able to defeat much more powerful European adversaries, okay? So this is the beginning of what we call the nation state, when a citizen is completely loyal to the nation. All right, we'll be talking about this later on, the French Revolutionary Wars. And then, of course, the climax is World War I. And you can't... You can't let 20 million people, okay, 20 million people die in this war. So you can see how the casual rates just go up exponentially over the decades, and that just shows you how fast the Europeans are innovating, okay? They're innovating in terms of bureaucracy, meaning that they're able to tax their citizens much more effectively, and they're able to conscript more soldiers effectively. They're also innovating in terms of technology, because of science, right? They now have, like, machine guns. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 38:00 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: In World War I, they also have trenches. We'll be talking about this later on. All right, so as I said before, the thing about Europe is that it's always divided into different factions who are always fighting against each other. And what you will see, what these maps will show you is two things. First is that the status quo is always switching back and forth between different nations, okay? So in the beginning, in 1448, the Holy Roman Empire is a dominant power in Europe with a population of 15 million people, okay? That's the first thing I want you guys to notice about these maps. The dominant power is always changing over time. The second thing that you will notice is that even though, this is really interesting, even though these wars are deadly, they're continuous, and they become much more violent, the population of every nation in Europe goes up over time, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 39:01 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So 1554, the Ottomans now are in control, and they're at 24 million. The Holy Roman Empire goes down to 19 million, but France is arising, so is Russia, okay? 1623, the Holy Roman Empire is still around. So Holy Roman Empire and Ottomans are the dominant powers. But by the time of 1666, France actually becomes the dominant power in Europe. And because France becomes the dominant power in Europe, all the nations decide to go up against France, okay? And this leads to a series of wars. 1727, France has 23 million. That matches the population of the Ottomans. Russia is rising now, okay? Right before the French Revolution, 1780, France is now the most populous country in Europe, okay? 27 million. The Ottomans have 26 million, okay? And this is right before the French Revolution. 1824, the Russians are now at 49 million. They become now the dominant military power in Europe. And this will bring them in conflict with the rest of Europe, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 40:23 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So England and Russia will fight something called the Great Game. We'll be going over this in a future class, okay? So the rivalry between the United Kingdom and Russia, which still goes on today, by the way, okay? It's still going on today, the Great Game. Germany is now rising in 1890, okay? This is right before World War I. And so Germany now is the dominant power in Europe. So guess what happens? All the nations in Europe combine together to attack Germany. And this leads to something called World War I, okay? All right? So that's the quick introduction to the history of the military revolution in Europe, okay? We'll be going into specifics in future classes. All right, any questions about this? Was this clear to you guys? Okay, any questions? Okay, great question, okay? So the question is, these wars are so deadly, right? And so how's it possible for these societies to be resilient and to recover? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 41:51 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: Okay, so... There are many different reasons. There are different main factors going on, okay? But what's important is the rise of something called the nation state, okay? So the nation state replaces the role of religion in people's lives, right? Before, you had to sacrifice your life to the will of God. You had to serve God. Now, with the French Revolution, you now have to dedicate your life to the nation, okay? The glory of the nation. And what does that mean? It means that you have to do whatever it takes in order for your nation to beat other nations in war, which includes working hard, making a lot of money, but it also includes basically having a lot of children. And this is facilitated by the scientific and agricultural revolution. Remember in the last class, we talked about how, because of the age of exploration, Europeans were able to bring back the potato, corn, tomatoes, squash. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 42:55 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: These are pretty easy to grow, and they provide a lot of nutrition for the European nations, okay? But what's important is, what's really driving the population growth is war and the necessity for having a large population. So the government will provide a lot of policies that promote population growth, okay? Does that make sense? We'll be discussing this in future classes, all right? And I mean, I know it's, it's hard for us to imagine, but war gives people meaning and purpose, okay? Does that make sense? It's like rooting for a sports team. You want your sports team to win no matter what, okay? You're going to go and cheer them on, okay? That's what war does. War really galvanizes the energy of people. So people feel extremely patriotic during wars, even though their children are getting killed. The other thing that's really important about war, is that it gives people hope in the future. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 44:01 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: I know this is paradoxical, okay? So let me explain. With war, a lot of people die. With death comes opportunities that didn't exist before. That creates social mobility. So it's probably possible that you're a peasant, but because of war, the nobility dies off, and your son can go join the army, become like a captain or a lieutenant, come back and start his own business. And that wasn't available before, right? Because in peacetime, the social hierarchy stays stagnant. Okay, does that make sense? So yeah, I mean like, and so if you think about it, it's because we live in a world of peace, okay? Something called the Pax Americana, the American peace. And that's why a lot of young people refuse to have children, okay? Why do young people refuse to have children? They really don't see a future, right? It's like, I'm not going to rise up in a social hierarchy. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 44:59 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: My kids aren't going to rise up in a social hierarchy. There are fewer and fewer economic opportunities. Young old people aren't dying, okay? They're not dying. I mean, I know a lot of old people who are extremely successful, and they will live over 100. They are like 90, 80 right now, and they are extremely healthy. They're happy with their lives. They're very wealthy. They don't have any reason to die. And they won't die. So all that wealth becomes monopolized by old people. And so young people are like, why would I want to have children? Why would I want to work hard? Why do I even want to be ambitious? There's no point, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, all right. Good. Great question. Any more questions before I continue? All right. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to summarize what we learned, okay? Just so you have a clear understanding of how everything fits together. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 45:57 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: All right. So feudalism. What is feudalism? This is a system that was in Europe for 100 years, okay, in something called the High Middle Ages or the Late Middle Ages, which was maybe about the year 1000 to 1400, okay, 1500, okay? So how does feudalism work? Feudalism works because each part of society, it's partitioned into different lands run by lords, okay? Maybe Lord A, Lord B, Lord C. And the king was more of a figurehead. And he really didn't have that much authority over the local regions because each region has their own army with castles. So it's very hard to invade every single part, okay? And so whenever there's a war, what would happen is the king says, okay, guys, we need to go to war. So A would come in with his army. B would come in with his army. Then C, then D. And they would fight independently, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 47:01 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: And what would often happen is that maybe C betrays the king, okay? This would happen a lot in European history. But this is how most wars are fought in the feudal era, okay? Now, with gunpowder, okay, with gunpowder, okay, you need centralization. Why? Because the thing about gunpowder, as I discussed, is you need a huge army in order to best effectively use this gunpowder. So you need two things, taxation and conscription. And therefore, you need a bureaucracy, okay? Does that make sense, guys? You need to resolve these two issues. You have to tax people to create a central army, and you need to constrict people to fill the ranks of your army. You can only do it through a centralized bureaucracy. Therefore, at this time, historians say that feudalism transitioned into an absolute monarchy, where the king now has absolute power, because the king, only the king, can organize a centralized bureaucracy, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 48:18 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: So now, what happened is that the king would ask for conscripts from all lands to create a centralized army, okay? So why you need to do this is the nature of gunpowder. So remember before, soldiers were self -sufficient. If there was a battle, they just went and got their armor, and then the sword, and then they'd go off to battle, okay? With gunpowder, you need different elements, okay? First of all, you need material. The two main materials are sulfur and salt pepper. And therefore, you needed to do trade, and production, okay? You needed to create a gunpowder economy if you are to have a gunpowder army. But you also need specialists. Specialists are just people who are able to make gunpowder and who are able to use gunpowder in battle, okay? You need industry. Industry are people who manufacture gunpowder and manufacture cannons. You need research. And these are just scientists who help you refine gunpowder over time, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 49:48 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=2988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society); [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: You also need a bureaucracy to coordinate. And you also need a military hierarchy. Why? Because these soldiers need to be trained on how to use the guns, okay? So you need a hierarchy to control the training of soldiers and the deployment of soldiers in battle, okay? So I mean, like, this is very simple, what I'm doing. But as you can see, what this means is you need what we call a whole society approach, okay? You have to radically transform your society so that all resources are directed to the use of gunpowder in battle. And the society that is most able to do this will be the most effective. The most effective in war, okay? And who are the people who are most able to do this over time? The Prussians, which will become Germany, and the Japanese, okay? And these are just two examples. Also the Americans as well. And they are the most effective in war, a whole society approach. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 51:03 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3063s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3063s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Now, the question then is, well, okay, the logic here makes sense, but why is it that it's Europe that uses a whole society approach and not China, not the Ottomans, not the Indians, okay? And the reason why is whole society approach means a radical transformation of your social hierarchy and social order. That's the reason why, all right? So the three major changes, as we discussed, is to go from feudalism, okay, basically an aristocracy, to a bureaucracy, okay? A national bureaucracy, bureaucrats. So the power shifts from the aristocrats to the bureaucrats, okay? That's one radical social change. But then you have to go from agriculture to industry. Who? The merchants. So now you have to give the merchants, the capitalists, tradespeople, more power in society, right? And the bureaucrats don't want that, okay? And then you have to go from religion to science. So now ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 52:24 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#strategy-war-form-demands-society) Text: the people with the most authority in your society are no longer priests, which has historically been true, but scientists, right? So this is a radical social transformation that overturns the entire social hierarchy. And that's why this is really important. This is a process that will take centuries and which will lead to traumatic social revolution, including the French Revolution and the American Revolutions, okay? We'll be discussing this later on, okay? So that's what you have to do. And most societies are not willing to do this because the elite don't want to give up power, okay? It's that simple, okay? The elite do not want to give up power. Their power has to be taken away from them, okay? So let me give you an example to illustrate how hard it is to transform society, okay? All right, so let's look at China. Let's look at Europe. Hey, guys. So China is one of the first societies to centralize. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 53:35 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And when you centralize, you accumulate a lot of resources, and these resources allow you to make great inventions. And so the four great inventions of China are the compass, right? Paper, printmaking, and gunpowder. Okay, these are the four great inventions of China. China was the first to invent this by hundreds of years, okay? So the printing press in China was maybe about the year 800. In Europe, it would be 1400, okay? So this is like a huge advantage over Europe. But these four inventions did not really impact society in China. They had no impact on society. But in Europe, when they go over to Europe, the compass will bring in the age of exploration, right? It will allow Europe to conquer the entire world. The age of exploration, right? Paper and printmaking, what does it do? It creates universal literacy. Everyone in Europe is now able to read and write because of paper and printmaking. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 54:50 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: It radically transformed the entire fabric of European society. And because people are now able to read and write, it gives rise to the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Second Revolution, okay? And the gunpowder allows Europe to conquer the entire world. Conquest, okay? So think about that. China was the first to invent all four. And Europe was able to take all four and radically transform the society and make Europe into the dominant power in the entire world, right? So then the question then is, why is it China didn't make use of these four inventions? Just look at paper and printmaking, okay? The problem in China is that you have these Confucian bureaucrats. And what is their source of power? It's the monopoly over literacy and knowledge production, right? So they didn't want to make it possible for everyone to read and write because that would reduce their power over the people, right? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 56:00 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Does that make sense? Same thing with the compass. The compass would allow Chinese to explore the world and bring in new ideas and new goods. The bureaucrats didn't want that. They wanted to protect the social hierarchy. With gunpowder, yeah, it's fine, but the problem is, if now everyone has a gun, they can revolt against you, right? So for China, it was much more important to maintain a social hierarchy than it is to innovate and to dominate the world. In fact, what's important for us to remember is that if you give governments a choice, they would always choose to maintain a social hierarchy rather than to innovate because that's just the easiest thing to do. But, and this is important, Europe didn't have a choice in the matter. It was a matter of life and death. You either innovate or you will get destroyed by your neighbor. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, great. Okay, so we did ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 57:07 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: a broad overview of the history and we'll go into very specific details over the next few weeks, okay? So next class will be on the Enlightenment. Which will then give rise to the French Revolution and the American Revolution, okay? All right? But this is a very broad overview. All right, so questions, guys? Yes? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 57:40 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3460s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Yes. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 57:59 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Okay, so why did Europe innovate, right? Okay, great. So let's look at Europe. Like, let's just look at France, okay? Okay, so as a nation, you are under two types of pressure. External, okay? External just means Britain, Russia, Germany, Holy Roman Empire, okay? You have a lot of enemies, okay? And so you're competing against them. At the same time, this is really important, you have, sorry, internal pressure as well, okay? Because remember, what they're doing now is they're recruiting more and more people to join your army. And the general rule is that if people fight for you, if they die for you, they also have a say in your society, okay? Also, you need to get people to have children to replenish your population. You need to get them to work hard, okay? So you're always afraid of revolution, okay? Discontent, and also the idea of indifference, right? People don't care anymore. So you're under these two pressures. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 59:35 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So because of these two pressures, it creates contradictions in your society. And these contradictions force you to balance these contradictions, which leads to innovation, okay? Does the logic here make sense to you, right? This creates conflict and contradiction, right? Which will then lead to innovation. And if you don't innovate, then you have a revolution or defeat, okay? Does that make sense? If you don't innovate, your enemies will come and conquer you, or your people will rebel and overthrow you, okay? Those are the two options. So you don't have a choice in the matter but to innovate. But sometimes the innovation can keep up with the social change. And that's what happened in the French Revolution, which we will discuss later on, is that, okay, the government was trying to make these changes but you have too many social classes, the merchant class, the educated middle class, lawyers, basically. You have all these ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:00:35 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3635s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: different social groups now who want a greater say in government, but then you have this hierarchy of, like, clergy, nobility, and bureaucrats who want to maintain their privileges, okay? And if you can't resolve this conflict, then the only outcome is revolution, right? So it's either you choose to resolve it or it will be resolved for you, okay? So this is a process of constant innovation and revolution, okay? Yeah? Okay. All right. That's a good question, okay? So why is this happening in China? Okay. All right. So the first thing about China, that's it from Europe, is that China for the longest time has been much more united. And there are natural boundaries that protect China, okay? So the sea, the mountains, the desert to the north, okay? So China has these natural boundaries that Europe doesn't have. So from the perspective of Chinese bureaucrats, they're not afraid of external enemies, okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:01:58 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Because, like, Japan, Korea, they're not really threats to China at this time. They're more afraid of internal revolution, okay? So that's where the focus is, is on, like, how do we maintain internal coherence? And the best way to do that is by co -opting the local elite, by bribing the local elite, okay? And the best way to bribe the local elite is by helping them stamp out local discontent, ensuring that the people that are most loyal to you are always in power in local areas, okay? Does that make sense? So the example is this. The example is, think back to the Japanese invasion of China, okay? World War II. You look at the KMT, the Kuomintang, which is a dominant power, in China. Japan is coming in, conquering most of China, controlling the industrial heartland. And what is Jiang Jiechi doing? Does he care about the Japanese? Not at all. He cares about the Communist Party, these peasants in these caves in northwest China. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:03:09 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3789s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3789s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Why? The Japanese are a much more... are a much greater military threat, but they are not a threat to the social hierarchy. You can work with the Japanese, right? The Japanese are perfectly willing to work with you to control China. The Communists represent an overturning of the social hierarchy. Therefore, they are a much greater threat. Okay? Does that make sense? But that's the logic in China, okay? Maintain the social hierarchy. If foreigners want to come and conquer China, that's fine, because we can work with them to maintain the social hierarchy, okay? But these peasant rebels are the real problem. Yeah. Okay. So, that's a great question, okay? Why is it that Chinese tendencies don't last very long, right? Okay. So, I know this is hard to understand, but what Chinese civilization is, it's a bureaucracy, okay? Bureaucracy. Because a bureaucracy represents a social hierarchy, okay? Confucianism. If the Confucian culture lives on, China lives on. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:04:45 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3885s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: So, what's important is to protect the Confucian culture, which puts scholar officials, bureaucrats at the top of society. So, you can have the Mongols, you can have the Japanese, you can have, I don't know, Zhu Yuanzhang, who cares? The emperor doesn't matter. You understand? The emperor doesn't really matter in this system. What matters is the bureaucracy. And that has been consistent for 2,000 years. Does that make sense? So, the intention, the strategy is to maintain a bureaucracy, even though you may need to put in a foreign leader, okay? In fact, you're better off with a foreign leader because the foreign leader is much more dependent on the bureaucracy than maybe a local leader. Yeah, it doesn't matter. The emperor is just a figurehead. The emperor has no power, right? Because if you think about it, the emperor is just one person. But the information that he gets is all from bureaucrats. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:05:40 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: And therefore, you can control and manipulate the emperor based on the information you provide him, right? So, it's a bureaucracy that has all the power. And that's why China doesn't innovate, because the bureaucracy is too powerful, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, great. Questions? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:06:08 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Yeah. Yeah. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:06:15 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=3975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Yeah, okay. So, that's a great question, okay? So, the big thing about the European nations is that even though they're divided, they are basically one big family, okay? Like, so, for example, the Germans, the Russians, the English, they were just like one big family. They were cousins of each other, but they still went to war and they still killed millions of people, okay? So, how do we explain this? And the answer is, we can use game theory, okay? Game theory. Native game theory is that you can be related to each other, but you're all participants in a game in which they're going to be one winner, right? So, you still have to think about your own survival, and you can survive as long as you have the, as long as you have authority and legitimacy among your people, right? Because if they think that you are representing a foreign interest, your soldiers won't be loyal to you. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:07:21 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: They'll kill you, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, and also, like, look, there's a very common, very simple, example where it's very common that a king dies, right? And guess what, what? The two sons start a civil war, right? They're brothers, but why are they fighting a civil war? And the reason why is, okay, this is really interesting, is they represent different political factions who are all striving for power, and the sons are just figureheads for these political factions. Okay, does that make sense? Okay? Okay, so civil wars are fought between different political factions, and they will appoint maybe son A to be the head, okay? And son A, if he doesn't agree, they'll find someone else, okay? So, everyone's trying to be the top dog. Everyone's, it's really, okay, yeah, so there's a theory, but the theory is called status. What we really want is status. Right? And so, brothers hate each other the most because only one can have status. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:08:48 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: The other must obey. And that's why, throughout history, so much violence has been between princes, okay? Who are striving for this top position. So there are different theories, okay? Great. Any more questions? Okay, so let's go over the history of schooling, okay? So, the modern schooling model that we use today is from Prussia. Okay, Prussia. Okay, schools. Okay, and so, if you are in military, you need soldiers. And what you discover is, if you want soldiers to be obedient, you need to train them from an early age. But not only that, but you need to separate them from their families at an early age. Okay, does that make sense? Because if they are separated from their families, they feel more anxious, they feel more stressed, they're less loved. Therefore, they are much willing to accept authority. And they're much more willing to kill other people. Okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:10:18 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) - Related lens: [Nation As God-Machine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/nation-as-god-machine.txt) Text: So that's a basic theory of schooling. Make them obedient from an early age and separate them from their families from an early age. And then train them to be soldiers from an early age. Okay? And this is a model that we adopt for today, universal schooling. And every country uses this system because not only is it good for the military, but it's also good for industry, right? Companies also want this system, where you go in and you work hard because you're anxious, you want to make money, you want to prove yourself, right? Whereas if you feel loved by your family, you don't care. You're like, you know, like, I don't like this boss, I'm going to go home and be with my mother. Okay? So that's why every nation adopted this system. It was invented for the military, but it really helps with the industry. Okay? So the question then is, why did China adopt this? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:11:10 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Well, because of industry, right? Because China needs factory workers. And this system gives you the best factory workers. ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:11:20 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Okay? ## Turn Society Into The Cannon -- 1:11:20 - Source title: Civilization #45: The Gunpowder Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRJyy-8V54&t=4280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dirjyy-8v54.json) Text: Does that make sense? Great. Any more questions? Okay. So great questions, guys. I really enjoy when you ask questions, and they're really perceptive, okay? And I think that by asking them, you learn a lot as well. So next class, we do the Enlightenment. Okay? And this will pave the way for the American and the French revolutions. There's no class next week because of midterms, but I'll see you after the midterms. Okay? Okay. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today we are doing the European conquest of the New World, meaning North and South America. And so these people who start to conquer the New World are called the conquistadors, which is Spanish for conquerors. These are mercenaries, they're bandits, they're lower class people who have to leave Spain and Portugal and look for new opportunities in South and Central America. Okay, so some basic history. Remember that when we discussed the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Empire is trying to connect the world in globalized trade. And the networks run all the way. From Central Asia, over to China, into Europe, and even into parts of Africa. There's the Maritime Silk Road that they create because they want the porcelain from China. They also have an Overland Silk Road. And at this point in history, Spain, which is called Al -Andusa, it's part of the Islamic world. And it is integrated heavily into... the Islamic world. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 1:22 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=82s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=82s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: It's become very wealthy, very cosmopolitan because of this. This globalized trade becomes much more concentrated, becomes much more rapid during the Mongolian conquests, okay? And because of the Mongolian Empire, the Pax Mongolica, a lot of knowledge, a lot of trade is being transferred from the east to the west, including paper, which is made in, which was first invented in China, but also gunpowder. Next class, we'll talk about the gunpowder revolution, which marks a radical change in how the world works. So historically, we have considered the Vikings to be the first to explore the new world. Remember that when we discussed the Vikings, they made it all the way to present -day Newfoundland and found a call I calliminate. But the colony didn't last very long, and that was the first encounter between the Europeans and the native people of North America. The thing that you learn in this class that's very important to understand is the world has always been interconnected in some capacity. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 2:39 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: It's always been globalized, so we can assume that even before the Vikings, there were some encounters between the old world and the new world. It could have been the Egyptians, it could have been the Harappans of the Indus Valley civilization, it could have also been the Chinese. Just because we don't have written records or archaeological evidence does not mean that there was no contact. We have to assume that there was some limited contact between these worlds. But it's only under the 16th century when the old world and the new world begin to collide with each other violently. And the reason why is that... Spain was eventually reconquered by the Europeans, and it became Christian. And because of that, Spain lost its trade routes in the Islamic world. Also, at this particular time in history, the Ottoman Empire is rising in power. And what's really ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 3:40 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: important is that in 1453, they conquer Constantinople, which was the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire. And so now, for the Europeans to trade with India, China, and the rest of East Asia, they have to pay a heavy tax to the Ottomans and the Italians as well. They don't want to do that. So their response is to discover their own routes to East Asia, to China, to the East Indias. And they do. They hire a lot of these very experienced Italian seamen. So Christopher Columbus is from Genoa. He is Italian. And he was hired to go discover a route to China. And he ended up discovering North America, basically. So all the major powers, France, England, Portugal, Spain, they are engaging in maritime exploration. And it started in the 16th century. What happened is that the Spanish will start to conquer Central America and South America. And they do so in less than 30 years. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 4:58 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: It's a very quick conquest. And so you can see that during the 16th century, there's a lot of exploration going on. There's a lot of contacts being made. The Portuguese are really the first. The first to establish the maritime empire. And so the question then is, why is it that the Portuguese end up establishing colonies in Africa, in India, in China, throughout the East Indies? And the reason why is that the fear was that Portugal and Spain would come into conflict with each other. So the Pope divided the world into two. So the Portuguese got this part of the world. And the Spanish got the new world, basically. And the Spanish obviously got the better end of this deal. But that was the arrangement. So the Spanish got all of present -day Mexico, Central America, and most of South America. And there's a lot of gold, a lot of silver, within these regions. And as a result, Spain became very wealthy. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 6:15 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the Spanish and the Portuguese, they ended up in North America, which was cold and poor and inhabited by lots of very aggressive and violent natives. And it turned out that, in the long run, this would prove to be more beneficial for the British. Okay? In the long run. But currently, the Spanish have accumulated all the wealth in the new world. Okay? So the main thing I want you to remember is that because the old world and the new world collided, this marked a revolution in European agriculture. Because now the Europeans could import these extremely nutritious and easy -to -produce vegetables back into Europe. So the corn was invented by the native people of Central America. Corn is not naturally produced. You have to, basically, scientifically invent it by cross -breeding different crops. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 7:32 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay? It's a very long process. And corn allowed for the man civilization to flourish. So corn is an extremely important nutrient that's easy to produce, cheap, and very nutritious. So is the potato. Okay? The potato, over time, will become the staple food of Europeans. So are peanuts. So are squash. So is the tomato. Okay? So all these foods that we take for granted were actually first domesticated in the old world, which was then transported to the new world. And because of these very nutritious foods, and they're far more nutritious than wheat, you have a population explosion in Europe. Okay? So this is very important. I want you guys to remember this. The potato, the corn, led to a population explosion in Europe. And what did the natives get? Well, they got a lot of diseases. They got a lot of measles and smallpox. So the question we're looking at ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 8:31 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: this morning is, how did a few thousand conquistadors, Spanish mercenaries, basically, how were they able to conquer millions and millions, millions of indigenous people in South America? There were three main civilizations in South America at this time. The Aztecs, the Mayans, and the Incas. And the Spanish were able to conquer all three major civilizations in less than 30 years. So how were they able to do so? Okay? That's the question we're looking at this morning. Okay. Now, the standard explanation is threefold. When you talk to scholars, they have three explanations for how this happened. It was a perfect storm of three factors. Okay? The first is the native people were not in contact with the Europeans. So the Europeans brought with them these diseases that the native people had no immunity against. Okay? And the four major ones are smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera. And this wiped out about 80 % of the population in North and South America. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 9:37 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: It was basically a genocide. Okay? 80 % is a lot of people. We're talking about millions and millions of people. The second major factor is that, there were these internal conflicts, tribal warfare, among the native people. And the Europeans, the Spanish, exploited this. They basically used a divide and conquer strategy against the natives. You first unite with a tribe that hated the Aztecs. You conquer the Aztecs together, and then you enslave the tribes. Okay? So that's a divide and conquer strategy. And the third factor is, the Europeans had superior weapons and technology. Okay? They had armor. They had cannons. They had horses. The natives didn't have access to any of this technology. So that's the three explanations. But if you ask the Spanish at that time, how did you do it? How were you able to, with a few thousand soldiers, conquer this vast territory? And the Spanish would just say, because one, God willed it. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 10:44 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Our God made us conquerors. It was a divine mission from God. Okay? And the second is, we were so powerful that the natives bowed before us. They saw us as gods. That was the standard explanation of the Spanish at that time. And because this is clearly a very racist attitude, right? We're superior. We are white. We're here to civilize you. Scholars have rejected this explanation. Okay? But what I want to show you today, and I know this is going to be controversial, and so please feel free to debate or ask questions or point out inconsistencies in my argument. Okay? But I want to argue today that the original Spanish argument actually has much more evidence. It makes much more logical and coherent sense than the current scholarly interpretation. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So this is my thesis. This is my argument. The religious beliefs and practice of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans made them vulnerable to Spanish conquest. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 11:48 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: So the ultimate weakness of these people was their religion. Okay? You're not allowed to say this today in university because it's not completely correct. But I want you to make that argument because I think this is what makes the most academic, logical, and coherent sense. Okay? That's my thesis to you today. Okay? So a quick picture to contrast the collision of civilizations. Okay? So the Aztec people, they're ferocious warriors, they love war, but they have wooden spears, and they have no armor. Okay? Whereas the Europeans, they have swords, they have shields, they have armor. Okay? So this is a class of civilizations. All right. Okay. So let's go back to the beginning of time. And one thing that we talked about before is how civilizations arise because of three factors. Geography is the main factor. Okay? So you want to be in a temperate climate. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 12:55 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: You need rivers in order to have civilizations. And you need natural boundaries like mountains in order to protect yourself from invaders. Okay? And that's why the five earliest civilizations are all in this latitude. Right here. Right here. And they are China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mayan civilization. All right? And what's amazing is that when you start to analyze all five civilizations, you will discover there's actually a lot of similarities, a lot of common characteristics among these five civilizations. Okay? So yeah. So this part of the world, right here. Okay? The Tropic of Cancer. This is where all five civilizations first developed, around this area. Okay. So the Mayan civilization was one of, was just an astounding civilization. They had millions and millions of people. They spread all across Central America. They had science, they had astronomy, they had mathematics that are written in language. They built pyramids. So these are obviously temples to worship their gods. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 14:28 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: They had something called the Mayan calendar. And it's an astonishing achievement because back then they used 365 days. So the Egyptians were actually the first to use a solar calendar. But the Mayans didn't. The Mayans independently also created their own calendar. And if you actually study the calendar, it's actually a very sophisticated, very nuanced, extremely scientific instrument that they used for agriculture. The most astonishing achievement of the Mayans was agriculture. And this is no different from science. Okay? They not only were the first to invent corn. Again, what's really important for us to remember is that corn is not produced naturally. Nature did not produce corn. The Mayans invented corn. And this was important because it allowed them to feed a large population with very limited agriculture. But not only that, but they figured out the most efficient way to use farmland. And this is called the three sisters planting. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 15:31 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay? What they would do is this. They would grow corn, bean, and squash together in a symbiotic relationship. So that they're all helping each other nourish themselves and grow. Okay? So the corn will provide the structure in order for the beans to climb in order to reach sunlight. Okay? The bean will fertilize the corn and squash by releasing nitrogen into the soil. And the squash will basically prevent weeds and insects from invading the soil. Okay? So it's a perfect symbiotic relationship that we still use today. And because of this sudden breakthrough, the Mayans were able to build a civilization of millions and millions of people. Okay? It was just an incredible achievement. Okay? Any questions? Okay? All right. Let's continue. As we discussed in this class, our goal is to build a civilization of millions and millions of people. All civilizations rise and fall. That's just a natural cycle. There's nothing you can do to prevent them from declining over time. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 16:48 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Same process with the Mayans where over time, because of their breakthroughs in agriculture, they reach a peak in about the year 780, 80 in their population. But after they reach a peak, okay, this is really important, there's a huge decline. All right? And the thing that you learn in this class is that there are three... Sorry. There are... Sorry. So scientists have looked at the reasons for this decline, and what they've discovered is ecological collapse. Okay? So you have this huge increase in population, and this leads to deforestation and soil erosion. Basically, they're not able to grow farmland anymore, and that's why their civilization has collapsed. Okay? But the question then is, is this correlation or is this causation? Okay? Do you guys understand? Right? Because scientists will... Well, scholars will tell you this is causation. It's because they had an overpopulation, so they were using too much of the land, and so it led to deforestation and soil erosion. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 17:55 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay? That's a causation. I... But some other scholars argue it is correlation, and the reason why is that Mayans are really famous for their ecological management. They're masters at being able to... Manage their environment. So this could be a correlation and not causation. So then what's a causation? Okay, well, if we look at all civilizations, there are three factors that lead to the decline. All right? If a civilization is prosperous, stable, and peaceful, guess what? Three things always happen. The first is the idea of elite overproduction, right? The Peter Turchin argument, which is that over time, you have too many nobles, you have too many elites who compete for status. Okay? That's the first problem. The second problem is the idea of rat utopia, where old people live too long, and as such, young people are not able to inherit status. And this leads to a malfunctioning of society, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 18:54 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Because young people feel they have no opportunities. Same thing that's happening in the world today, where in America, there's something called quiet quitting. In China, there's something called lying flat, tongue -ping. Okay? And the third is the idea of financialization, debt slavery. Okay? And the idea here is that if you're a very prosperous society, it's very hard to get people to work, because they don't really want material goods. All they want to do is have enough food to feed their family, and they're good. Okay? That's why if you pay them more, they actually work less. So the only way you get them to work more is if you get them into debt, okay? If you enslave them. And that's what every civilization has done since the dawn of time. Debt slavery, in order to produce, get people to work harder. This idea of financialization. So all three things are correlated. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 19:47 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: They are symbiotic. They work together. And they all spell the end of civilization. Okay? This is true for Rome. This is true for the Mayans. This has been true also for China throughout its history. Does that make sense, guys? All right. All right. So as the Mayan civilization collapsed, people... People diffused all over Central and South America. And they brought with them the main culture. Okay, because the main culture was the dominant culture of that time. It's like China in Southeast Asia. China is this huge sun that shines light on all other countries, including Japan and South Korea. And what will happen over time is that different tribes will fight over to inherit the main legacy. They will take, they will compete against each other in order to become the major empire. And the nation that eventually wins out in Central America are called the Aztecs. And the Aztecs are a really interesting people, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 20:53 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And they're very similar to the Romans. So if you think Aztec, think Romans as well. The main similarity is that both the Aztecs and the Romans are societies that are very similar. It's based on war. They love war, all they want to do is fight war, okay? So the Aztecs are originally from Southern United States. Okay, what is Southern United States? And because of climate change, they have to migrate to Central America for food. Problem is that Central America was already overpopulated. And they start to hire themselves out as mercenaries to the other tribes. And then eventually they came into conflicts with other tribes, and they became isolated in a place called Teno -Teclen, okay? And this is basically swamp land. It's very hard to grow food in Teno -Teclen. Today, Teno -Teclen is called what city? Do you guys know? Teno -Teclen is called what city today? Can you guess? Mexico City, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 21:55 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So Mexico City, if you have a chance to visit there, it is actually on the site of Teno -Teclen, which is a city that the Aztecs founded. And remember, back then, it was all, basically, swamp land. And so something miraculous happened. The Aztecs adapted themselves to the swamp land, and they began to focus on agriculture, okay? And this agriculture was very innovative. They turned, basically, swamp land into farm land, and it allowed for the populations to increase and prosper. So swamp land is bad because, you can't really say, you can't really grow crops, but swamp land is good because it's pretty defensible, okay? So they were able to very quickly expand their population. And so what did they do? Well, they started to conquer other territories because this is a war society, okay? It is a heavily military society focused on war. The religion is to defeat enemies and then sacrifice these enemies to their god, who maintains his vitality, food, blood, and food, not sacrifice, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 23:07 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So the Aztecs were known for the most grotesque forms of human sacrifice. They would sacrifice 1,000 people at once. They would also sacrifice you while you were alive. So they would strap you up and then cut out your heart while you were alive. And obviously, the entire point was terror, okay? To terrorize your enemies and to unite your people. And, what's really important for us to remember is that all war societies, including the Romans, the Vikings, and the Aztecs, practice a form of human sacrifice, okay? Remember this. It's very important. The Vikings, we discussed how they practiced human sacrifice. The Romans also practiced human sacrifice. And this is something that they sort of hid in their history. So the way they practiced their human sacrifice is at the end of every major military campaign, they would have a parade called a triumph, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 24:07 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And they would parade their war captives across the Rome. And then these war captives were taken to the Temple of Jupiter where the parade would end, and then they would be strangled to death in front of Jupiter. That's human sacrifice, okay? That's like having human sacrifice. There's no other word for it. But the Romans said, oh no, no, no, we don't do this, okay? We don't do human sacrifice because we're much more civilized than other people. And they never explained why the strangulation is not human sacrifice, okay? All right. Over time, because the Aztecs were such a violent, aggressive people, they, like the Romans, were able to take over the entire territory of Central America, okay? And they did so with allies, okay? They were the main partners. They're part of something called the Triple Alliance, okay? So three tribes that united against together in order to conquer their surrounding enemies. They were the main partner. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 25:07 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So they were the main partners. The Aztec civilization was, like the Romans, extremely advanced. They had hierarchy. They had priests. They had universal schooling, okay? So every child was allowed to go to school and learn to read and write. They had a system of courts and judges. And they had a very strict legal code. They had a very vibrant economy, okay? So this was a very vibrant civilization. And as such, their city, Tenochtitlan, grew very fast. Very, very large. When the Spanish first came to the city, they were amazed by the extreme wealth and size and prosperity of this city, okay? It made them salivate, okay? So this is another shot of Tenochtitlan. Eventually, the Aztecs were conquered by one man with maybe a few hundred soldiers. His name is Hernan Cortes, and he's an adventurer. He did not have permission from Spain to go and conquer. To conquer the Aztecs, he just did so because he wanted to. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 26:15 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: He was a soldier of fortune, okay? And when he first arrived with the Aztecs, the Aztecs actually treated him very, very well, okay? He was like a novelty, right? Yeah, he had weapons, but there was only a few hundred of them, whereas the Aztecs had millions and millions of soldiers. So their king at this time, Montezuma, welcomed him with open arms. And Montezuma probably wanted to co -opt him. He saw him, Montezuma saw Cortes as an opportunity to use against his enemies, and his internal enemies as well. Cortes just wanted gold, okay? That's all he cared about, gold. So wherever he could find gold, he'd be happy to go. But there was a misunderstanding, because these were two very different civilizations. So during a religious ceremony, when the Aztecs were gearing up, Cortes' men saw this as a threat, and they started to massacre these soldiers. And one thing led to another. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 27:23 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: We don't know what happened, okay? Because the Aztecs were obviously destroyed by the Spanish. The Christian missionaries would come and destroy all written records of the Aztecs, and all we have are these stories that probably aren't true. Okay? But what probably happened is that the Spanish captured Montezuma, and held him as a captive, okay? They wanted a ransom. They couldn't get the ransom, so they killed him. And then very shortly, they were expelled from the city, but then the disease of smallpox hit the population, and they all fell sick. And that gave time for the Spanish to recuperate, and then eventually conquer the city with allies. All right, does that make sense? Okay. All right, now let's go to the Incas. The Incas. They had a very huge empire throughout South America. These mountains are called the Andes, okay? So like modern -day Peru. They were in the highlands, and they also had very advanced civilizations, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 28:31 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: One thing that made the Incas different from the Aztecs is they practiced a form of ancestral worship, a pretty extreme form of ancestral worship. So the idea is the emperor is divine. If you're divine, it means you're immortal. So even thought the emperor dies, he's then mummified, okay? He's mummified. And so he's still alive. If he's still alive, that means he keeps all his lands and wealth. It doesn't go somewhere else, okay? So now the new emperor comes into power and now he has to conquer new lands in order to establish his divinity, okay? So the Incas are endlessly, eternally, just amazing. expansionist. They had no choice in the matter. And if you think about it, this is actually a good strategy to reduce internal conflict, right? Because this reduces the problem of elite overproduction. The old emperors' family and loyal soldiers keep their land, and now the new emperor has to go conquer new territory, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 29:42 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So this results in the issue of elite overproduction. But it also makes your society extremely unstable because it's too spread out and too many enemies, okay? The way that the Incas conquered other people is, when they conquer other people, their gods are incorporated into a pantheon of gods. Like the Romans, the Incas are extremely tolerant people. You can worship any god you want as long as you acknowledge the supremacy of my god, okay? Okay? So the pantheon of gods. So within the Inca Empire, everyone was allowed to practice their own religion as long as they submit themselves and pay tribute, okay? The Incas also had a very advanced bureaucratic system. They had a census, they collected tribute, they collected taxes, they had a legal code, they had a court system. What's interesting about them is they didn't have a writing system, but they had beads. Beads, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 30:47 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And with beads, with numerals, you can create basically a knowledge system. So this is basically like a very primitive computer or calculator. What's left of the Incas is Machu Picchu. If you ever have a chance to visit there, it's beautiful. It's a hike. I want to visit one day with my kids. Okay. The Incas were conquered by... by another conquered student named Francisco Pizarro, okay? The emperor he defeated was Ata Huapá. Sorry, I'm not going to pronounce his name properly. And what happened was that Ata Huapá had just fought a civil war, and now he's the divine emperor. And the legend is that Pizarro fought a battle with Ata Huapá. Ata Huapá had 40,000 soldiers. Francisco Pizarro had 200 soldiers. And Pizarro won and captured Ata Huapá as a hostage. This story is probably not true, okay? What probably happened was that the emperor greeted the Spanish with open arms and say, let's negotiate. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 32:07 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And the Spanish basically captured him, okay? Remember, in this society, the emperor is divine. He's untouchable. So it is beyond his imagination. So the Spanish would capture him, okay? Then what happened is that Pizarro said to the emperor, we'll let you go if you can fill this room with gold. And guess what happens? The emperor issues out a command, and a few days later, the entire room is filled with gold, okay? So this place is pretty wealthy. Then what do the Spanish do? What do you think? They kill him, okay? They kill him, and then they conquer the entire territory. So that's why you should not pay ransoms to pirates, okay? I think Pizarro himself was sort of astonished that there was so much gold, and the Incas could just fill a room like that, right? And then they're like, well, you know, if I can just ask for gold and they'll give it to me, then why don't I just take this entire territory? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 33:08 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=1988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And that's what he did. Okay. All right. So another question is, how did this happen? How was it possible that the Aztecs and Incas were defeated by just a few hundred conquisters very quickly okay in a few decades and what I want to show you now is the religious practice and belief system of the Mayans which then influenced the Aztecs and the Incas okay all right so in these societies religion is spread through oral tradition from priests to people okay but fortunately in about the year 1700 there was a Dominican priest who made it his mission to write down this oral tradition okay and this book we call the Popol Vuh it translates into the book of the community and it's just it's just a literary form of the oral tradition the oral religious tradition of the Mayan people okay so we're gonna look at ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 34:16 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2056s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2056s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: a few passages to figure out their underlying belief system and how it governs their society all right okay so this is a story of the heroic twins so the Mayans worship the heroic twins as the savers of humanity so what happened is the twins had themselves had twin fathers who were captured and killed by demons in the underworld and this is very similar to the Egyptian myth of the Mayans and it's very similar to the Egyptian myth of the Mayans and it's very similar to the Egyptian myth of Osiris who was killed by his brother Set and then sent into the underworld okay and so the brothers want vengeance against these demons and so what they do is they become their friends with the demons and then they make themselves immortal okay when they died they come back to life and then they play a trick on these demons they go to the demons and ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 35:14 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2114s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2114s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: say hey look at us we can play this game where we can't cure ourselves we cut our heart and we come back alive okay and the demons are like yeah we want to play this game as well and they all end up end up killing themselves okay so this is a passage from the Pope of all sacrifice in the same way said one death and seven death to Hanna pool and Zappa Zala quit these are historic twins okay these are the heroic twins very well then surely will be revived are you not deaf but we are here to gladden you Oh Lord along with your vassals and your brothers and your brothers and your brothers and your servants they said therefore to the Lord's okay so they're putting a trick on these demons the first we sacrifice was the very head of all the Lord's one death by name the Lord of Zabava he was ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 35:59 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: dead then this one death next they grab seven death but they didn't revive them thus the Zabavans took their heels when they saw that the Lord's had died so they killed all the Lord's and then they killed all the demons their hearts were now taken from the chest okay their hearts were now taken from the chest it's very important because this is how the aztecs practiced their sacrifice okay so they're trying to with their rituals they're trying to express or bring to life this mythology okay which is what the vikings did as well both of them had been torn open as punishment for what they had done straight away the one lord executed and not revived the other lord had been had begged humbly weeping before the dancers he would not accept it for he had become disorientated take pity on me okay so this is how the heroic twins conquer and destroy all the ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 36:53 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: demons okay and the aztecs will take this story no turn it into the basis of their religious ritual okay all right uh this is a story of the creation of the first man what's interesting is that the men's believe that the gods made different attempts to create humanity the first attempt is by making them out of mud and they fall apart okay so that's a disaster then they try to make men out of wood and that doesn't work either so then they try corn maze okay and that works so that's why the um uh man's consider themselves the children of the corn okay they worship porn as something that's the vine okay um so the the god creates men and let's read the story together then the framer and the shaper asked them what is the nature of your existence do you know it do you not look and listen are not your speech and ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 38:00 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: your walk good behold now therefore and see that which is beneath the sky are not the mountains clear do you not see the valleys try then they were told okay so the gods created man and they want men to be thankful why because the gods created man in order to serve them okay so basically basically the gods created humanity to be their slaves thus their vision of everything beneath the sky was completed and they gave thanks to the framer and the shaper and that this what man says to the gods truly we thank you doubly triply that we were created that were given our mouths and our faces we are able to speak and to listen we are able to ponder and to move about we know much for we have learned that which is far and near we have seen the great and the small all that exists in the sky and on the ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 38:57 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: earth we thank you therefore that we were created that we were given flame and shape we became because of you our grandmother and you our grandfather they said when they gave thanks for the frame frame and shape okay so we humans are paying our thankings thanks to the gods, okay, we're showing our gratitude. Their knowledge of everything that they saw was complete, the four corners and the four sides, that which is within the sky and that which is within the earth, okay? So we now have knowledge and wisdom because of the gods. Now this is really important. But this does not sound good to the framer and the shaper. It is not good what they have said, they that we have framed and shaped. They said we have learned everything great and small, okay? So the gods don't want our gratitude. They want our subservience. They want our obedience, okay? And this becomes a basis ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 39:55 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: of these religions where we have to believe that the gods created us in order to serve them. We are slaves to the gods, all right? And again, this is very similar to the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, where the god Murah creates humans so that the gods wouldn't have to work anymore. This is also very similar to the Catholic Church, which believes that we are slaves to God because God freed us from the devil, okay? This is the god Tohil, okay? Which is the Mayan fire god. And what they believe is that Tohil demands that we sacrifice our enemies to him so that the blood will rejuvenate him. Okay? He's a god of fire and of sacrifice. And he's always hungry. So the Mayans believe they always have to go to war to capture slaves to be sacrificed to their god, all right? And there's a lot of mythology around this god. And this god has always demanded human sacrifice. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 41:12 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2472s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So the humans decide to rebel against him, okay? They try many tricks to rebel against him, okay? They all fail because he's smarter than us. So eventually, humans decide to get together and to fight him, okay? But they all get killed. Thus, only a portion of them were able to return, okay? Those who rebelled, only a few were left alive. Only a few people from the nations were able to escape from Tohil. At first, they tried to flee. When they were caught, they were finished off. They were killed. It was not just a few of the people who died. And of those that did not die, they were killed. When they did not die, the insects came upon them and tormented their hearts. They were no longer able to wage war, okay? So the gods had destroyed our capacity to ever challenge them, to ever rebel. They did not take up their arrows or their shields again. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 42:05 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Thus, all the nations were humiliated and begged humbly before the faces of Balaam, Kitsa, Balaam, Akka, and Mohakkata. Pity us, do not kill us, they said. Very well then, certainly you shall become obedient. You shall be servants, as long as there is sun and light, they were told, okay? So we can never, ever challenge the gods. Because when we tried, we were all killed. And so the gods showed mercy to us. And so from now on, we must obey the gods. But now, it's like, how do you obey the gods? What do the gods require of us? That's the question now. All right, we obey the gods through their priests who understand them, okay? Does that make sense, okay? So let's read. Kokapakas and Kotoa were enchanted people, priests and enchanted lords. Kopa and Kazama were also enchanted lords. They knew if there would be war. Why? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 43:05 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Because the gods tell them. They could see the future, okay? They talk with the gods. It was clear before their faces. They saw if there would be death, if there would be hunger. They surely knew if there would be strife. There was an instrument of sight. There was a book. Palvel was their name for it, okay? So everything that's written down here, it's sacred because it was written down by those who speak directly with the gods. So everything, all these words are the direct words from the gods themselves. But it was not only because of this that they were lords. They were great in their essence, great as well where their fast. In order to venerate their temples and venerate their sovereignty, they fasted for long periods of time and sacrificed before the faces of their gods. Not only do the gods favor them. but they themselves made many sacrifices in order to win the ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 43:57 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: favor of the gods okay they are worthy therefore therefore we must submit them ourselves before them okay and that's how we worship the gods okay does that make sense so think about this the logic is very clear the main credit civilization that is truly religious and hierarchical okay everyone knows the people must worship their priest -king because the priest -king is the direct representative of God right but when you do that you create the condition for the Spanish to come kill that priest -king and become the new priest -king doesn't make sense that's what happened the man's create this religion in order to enslave all everyone around them and that brought the perfect opportunity for special come and take over that role so in history class you may have learned that the Spanish were the first to come and take over that role so in history class you may have learned that the Spanish were ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 44:54 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: extremely cruel to the natives not more so than the previous overlords okay does that make sense guys all right all right so what I'm gonna do now is how to explain the history I'm gonna provide the theory okay I'm going to explain the theory of all this okay but before I do so are there any questions about what we've learned so far what was this clear to you guys the logic of this all right so let me explain the theory okay um okay so what you learned in this class what we talked about this class previously is the idea of game theory okay game theory the game theory idea of game theory is that all human action it's playing a game okay we may forget we're playing a game we're still playing a game so if you understand how people behave you first have to figure out how the game works what the rules of ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 45:57 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: the game okay so I'm going to talk to you about task software that comes with it when I say sistemas with these complex reasons the with what the game school the game system actually means is where exactly what game over here on the top see this one it shows you all of the three img running again okay what see it so the game software which they basically make up is run on theал télé já no humorём At the time, these cities came into conflict with each other because of trade issues, okay? And also because of land issues, so they start to fight. At this point, this becomes a competition, it becomes a game, okay? And whenever there's a game, there has to be rules that underpin this game. And the rule, the first rule of this game was we do not attack each other's cities. Does that make sense? Why? Why? Because the city is the physical manifestation of God on Earth. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 47:07 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2827s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: So you can kill the enemy's army on the field, but you don't attack the city. And also there are city walls to protect the city, okay? And so what would happen over time is this game establishes an equilibrium. Where, okay, they fight all the time, but no one can actually conquer the other cities because these cities are protected by the gods. And so this reaches an equilibrium. This is a form of peace and stability, okay? And there are like these elaborate rules governing warfare among the people of Samaria, okay? But then you had one king named Lugazagesi who was like, screw this. I'm gonna come and I'm gonna kill your god, okay? So he comes, he sacks the city, okay? He basically steals from the temple. The temple is where all the gold, all the valuables are. And he sacks the temple, and even his soldiers are afraid that the gods will come and smite him, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 48:23 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#taboo-control-surface-atlas); [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-hack-transfers-sovereignty) Text: They're afraid, but nothing happens to him. So he does it again and again and again, and he becomes, over time, more and more powerful, okay? So he's breaking the rules of the game. He hacked the game, okay? This is called a hack, or he cheated, whatever. But he figured out what the ultimate taboo is, okay? The ultimate taboo. And he broke it. If you break it, you become god yourself. It doesn't make sense. The idea of taboo are what humans must not break, what humans must not violate. Only gods allow to break this taboo, okay? Only gods allow to kill each other. We humans must not try to kill each other's gods by ransacking their temple, okay? And now, once this rule is broken, what happens is, we have to allow a society, called the Akkadians, to come in and conquer everyone, because they are the most warlike, okay, all right? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 49:26 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=2966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: So how is it possible for a different people, who are much fewer and much poorer, to come and conquer an entire empire? We discussed this, right, the Mongols. When you are severely limited in your resources, so the three forms are escalation dominance. Escalation dominance just means that you will do more than anyone else in order to win the war. It doesn't make sense. That's what escalation dominance means. Second is the idea of terror. So the Mongols were going around and killing people randomly in order to instill terror among the population. The third is the idea of aura of inevitability. And invincibility, okay? You want people to think you are the demon, or the gods themselves. And that's how you get people to obey you. Okay, so the Mongols perfected this strategy, all right? But the Akkadians also used this strategy, Sargon the Great. Sargon, the second of Akkad, okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 50:46 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: And what he did was, he perfected siege warfare to break down the walls. And before, it was thought impossible that you could break down these city walls, but he did so. And so this created escalation dominance, terror, and the aura of inevitability and invincibility, okay? Doesn't make sense, guys. This is how, this is often what happens. When societies are playing a game against each other, when they're in competition, they establish an equilibrium, okay? The equilibrium is held together by an ultimate taboo. But then someone comes along and breaks this ultimate taboo, which then opens up the game, okay? And whoever wins, and who, whoever, whoever now is able to master psychological warfare, escalation dominance, terror, and aura of inevitability, will win this game, okay? Does that make sense? All right, now that we understand the basic theory, let's apply it to the Aztecs. All right, so the Aztecs, sorry, had escalation dominance. They had terror, right? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 52:03 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-hack-transfers-sovereignty); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Because of human sacrifice. And they had the aura of inevitability, and invincibility. This is how they're able to control millions of people, even though they themselves had a very limited population. They employed the same strategies as the Mongols, okay? The Incas also used these three strategies, right? And so, you can just say that it was really about God. The Aztecs proved that their God was superior to every other God, okay? Does that make sense? All right? The problem now is, you have the Spanish who come in, and they don't know how the game is played. They reject all the rules of the game. They reject the idea that God cannot be killed. They killed God, right? They killed Montezuma, who is God of the Aztecs, and they killed the Inca emperor as well. And when you do that, when you put the ultimate taboo, you leave people completely helpless. Okay, does that make sense? So, let me use an analogy so that this makes sense to you. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 53:30 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: In today's world, there is an ultimate taboo among societies, okay? So, China, United States can engage in economic warfare. Russia and Ukraine can engage in military warfare. These are not taboos. The ultimate taboo is no one is allowed to use nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense, guys. No one is allowed to use nuclear weapons, because if anyone uses nuclear weapons, the world would end tomorrow. All right? So, if you think about it, there were actually a couple of instances where we were very close to nuclear war, okay? During something called the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was very close, okay? But there was a chain of command. So, maybe one guy would give the command to launch nuclear weapons. But then you have like 10 other people who have to say yes. And there's always going to be one guy who's like, I don't want to be the guy who ends the world. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 54:29 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Okay? So, I know there's talk about possibly Russia or the United States using nuclear weapons, okay? It's not going to happen, because it's the ultimate taboo. If anyone uses nuclear weapons, the world ends. It's like killing God. No one would do it, okay? But, let's imagine 10 aliens, okay? 10 aliens. Just 10 of them. There's like 8 billion of us, right? They come to Earth on their spaceship. Far away. They're out on the moon, right? They are not inhibited by this taboo of using nuclear weapons, okay? Does that make sense? So, all they would do is use one nuclear weapon against us, and then what would happen? We would all surrender. Does that make sense? Okay? Does that logic make sense to you? Same thing happened with the Aztecs and Incas. Because the Spanish were able to kill their God, everyone was like, what do we do now? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 55:27 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: What do we do now? We exist to serve God. God is invincible. But the Spanish just killed them. Which means what? Which means now, the Spanish are gods. Right? Does that make sense? So, this is what happened. It's game theory. If you're able to figure out the ultimate taboo, and you're able to use it against the local people, then you win. And you don't need that many people. You don't need that many soldiers. You don't need that much weapons or technology. You can just use the ultimate taboo against them. Okay? Because again, the thing that you learn in this class, which is very important, is the worldview, which is basically religion. It's the basis of who we are. It is our operating system. Okay? That your computer cannot run without an operating system. We cannot run without a worldview and a religion. Okay? If you destroy the worldview, it's like cutting off someone's brain. ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 56:36 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: You turn this person into zombies. And slaves. Does that make sense? So what the implication of this is, whenever society has an extremely strict hierarchy, where the majority are forced to worship minority, it makes the society extremely vulnerable to invasion and conquest. Does that make sense? All right? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 57:14 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: Okay? ## Kill The God, Take The Empire -- 57:21 - Source title: Civilization #44: The Spanish Conquest of the New World - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnfGcvZrfA&t=3441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dnfgcvzrfa.json) Text: It doesn't matter how many people, it doesn't matter how many people you have, it doesn't matter how much weapons you have, as long as you have a strict hierarchy, it becomes the ultimate weakness of a society. Okay? You become vulnerable to an outside invasion. All right? Okay. Any questions? Is this clear to you guys? The logic of this? Okay. Any questions? Okay. So next class, we do the gunpowder revolution. Okay? Gunpowder revolution. And this will mark a revolution in radical change in how society is structured. Okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today we do the Second Revolution, okay? And as I mentioned in previous classes, it was really Dante who helped give birth to the idea of modernity. And he really launched three major movements, which include the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Second Revolution. Okay, we would not have modernity without Dante. Okay, all right, so let's see how the three connect together. Okay, we're going to review the previous two classes to connect to today's class on the Second Revolution. So the Renaissance, what it was, was it was a celebration of what makes us human. Before we were focused on the divine, on the idea of God. Now we want to tell the story of what it means to be human. Okay, that's the Renaissance. Protestantism believes that we have direct access. The Catholic religion, the Pope is the divine representative, and the clergy is the spokesperson for God. But Protestantism believes that we have direct access to God. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:14 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=74s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=74s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: We should be able to speak with God directly through the Bible. The Second Revolution, it's really about how can we know God, okay? That's the idea. That's the idea of the Second Revolution. So let's review why we have these ideas. And it has to do with Dante. So remember last week we discussed the dialogue between Beatrice and Dante. Let's review it really quickly. So Beatrice is saying, I just said that God is perfect. Whatever God touches, whatever God creates is perfect. So if that's the case, why is it that there is decay? Okay, destruction and death in this world, what are the forces that give rise to this decay? And then she explains, okay, whatever God creates is perfect. So angels are perfect. They're immortal. They're eternal. But the elements that are in this world, they are not created by God. What is created by God are the divine laws. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 2:26 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: What is created by God are the laws that underlie the universe, God created the atoms, God created the laws that allow these atoms to interact with each other, okay? So the rays and motion of the holy light draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form. So it's these divine laws that create the animals and the plants. But these divine laws also necessitate that they die in order for new forms to come into being, okay? So this is the idea of evolution. We humans are special. Why? Because we are both divinely created and created by the laws of the universe. We have a dual nature. And the main advantage of this dual nature is it gives us a capacity to imagine. Remember, the issue of God is that God is perfect. If you're perfect, if you're eternal, if you're immutable, you lack an imagination. Because there's no body. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 3:29 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: There's no boundaries to you. But if you're human, you're forced to have an imagination because you'll make mistakes. You will fail. There are things that you do not know. And the imagination gives you the capacity to know this world and to perfect this world, okay? So that's what it means to be fundamentally human. Okay, so let's recap, okay? These are the three main messages that Dante is relaying to us through his poetry. First of all, God is within us. How do we know? Because we are capable of loving others. God is the light of love within us. The more we love someone, the more this light grows in us, okay? So we must focus on loving someone who is dear to us. Second idea is we have the imagination and thus responsibility to discover the universal laws underlying reality. God created the laws of the universe. God created us in order to know these laws, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 4:28 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: That's very fundamental to the idea of science. And last idea is we can master these laws to better our reality, okay? So these are the three hidden messages of divine comedy that will influence the development of science in the Western world. Okay, so I want to talk briefly about science that has traditionally been practiced in ancient societies. Okay? So in ancient societies, the major ancient society, civilizations are China, Egypt, and India. And you will see a lot of similarities among these three civilizations on how they practice the idea of science, okay? It's very intuitive, it's very imaginative, it will make sense to you, okay? So the first science that they focus a lot on is the idea of sacred geometry. I'm not sure if you've heard of this, okay? But the idea of sacred geometry is that the underlying fundamental structure of the universe, of reality are geometric shapes, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 5:34 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And from these geometric shapes you can give rise to every possible reality, alright? So this is called the Egg of Life and from the egg of life you just keep on expanding it you will get all reality, okay? These are actually three different 3D, 4D shapes. I can't illustrate them, but if you're curious, go online, these are beautiful ideas. So there are two possible ways to understand sacred geometry. The first possible way is to understand them as solids. So the Egyptians understood them as solids, and Plato understood them as solids. Remember Plato, a lot of his philosophy is derived from the Egyptians. And the idea of sacred geometry, it's very apparent in Plato's writings, and he got this from the Egyptians. So basically the idea is that if you train yourself on how to understand sacred geometry, and how to manipulate sacred geometry in your head, you can access God, okay? So the first idea is to understand it as solids. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 6:46 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: But there's another way you can understand sacred geometry, and it's as vibrations, as energy, as a force, okay? And this is the way that the Chinese understand sacred geometry, right? As chi, as life force, as well as the Hindus. And so imagine a monk who's breathing, okay? Who's meditating. What is he doing? He's breathing, and he's meditating, and he's focusing his energies in order to achieve the sacred geometry within him. The monk will often say things like, om, om, om, okay? He's causing vibrations that try to mimic the sacred geometry. Why is he doing this? Because the belief at this time is that if there is a God, okay? If there's a creator God, the question is, how does it think, right? It's not gonna think with words the way we do. It's gonna think using words. It's gonna think using mathematics, with sacred geometry. And by thinking, he is going to create the underlying universe, and how does he do that? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 8:03 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: He does it by breathing. Breathing in, emitting sacred geometry, and then breathing out, breathing back in, okay? Inhaling, exhaling, and this will give rise to the universe. So if you're a monk or a priest, you practice meditation in order to try to mimic, okay? The act of creation. And if you are able to succeed, then what will happen is, you harmonize yourself with the vibrations of the universe, and therefore you're able to access divine energy, okay? So that's the idea of sacred geometry. And again, it's a very complicated idea, but that's a general gist. Any questions? Okay, and again, this should make intuitive sense, okay? This should make intuitive sense to you. All right, the second big field that the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Indians were really passionate about is astronomy and astrology, okay? So the Egyptians basically created astrology. And the idea is that ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 9:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: you're trying to link the movement of the stars, the cosmos, with events in the world, okay? So by understanding the movement of stars, you're able to divine, or predict the future of humanity. Okay? So every major king had an astrologist in order to divine the future through the practice of astronomy and astrology. All right, and the last thing is alchemy. What is alchemy? Alchemy is basically chemistry and sorcery combined together. This is a polytheistic world. And the idea is that, because it's a polytheistic world, it's a chaotic world, and somehow, if you're clever enough, you're able to, okay? To hack this world, okay? Think of it as hacking. That there are secrets to this world, and you are able to take elements in this world, combine together, and create something called the Philosopher's Stone. The Philosopher's Stone is the power of God in order to give you the elixir of immortality, in order to live forever, as well as to manipulate the environment. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 10:16 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So basically, it turned lead into gold. And again, this was an extremely popular practice in the primitive societies, okay? So these are three major sciences in the primitive societies. China, Egypt, and India. And they promulgated outwards and influenced other societies. We still have them today, okay? There are still people who practice alchemy, sacred geometry, and astrology today, okay? Any questions about this before I move on? Okay, so this is primitive science. So the question then is, what's the difference? Okay, so let's focus on the three major differences between pre -modern science and modern science, okay? The first major difference is, it focuses on the spiritual world, on the outer -worldly. All right, and the point of science was to create harmony between our world and the spiritual world, okay? Because if you harmonize these two worlds, you can have a more prosperous, more peaceful, more meaningful future. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 11:26 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Today, we are only focused on the material world, the world that we can see and know, in order to create progress, okay? We've abandoned the spiritual world, and we focus on this material world in order to manipulate it, in order to promote technological progress. And quite honestly, we have been extremely successful at that. In fact, I will argue we've been too successful at that, okay? So that's the first major difference between pre -modern and modern science. Second major difference is that pre -modern science relies entirely on intuition and imagination, okay? You don't do experiments. You don't have conferences. You don't debate. You just meditate. You just dream, okay? And you often fall into trances in order to communicate with the spiritual world. In this world, they use a lot of heliocerogenics, okay? They... They use a lot of psychedelics, okay? Including magic mushrooms, a drink called soma, which is very important in the Hindu religion, as well as the Zoroastrian religion. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 12:39 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: It's basically a psychedelic, okay? Today, we don't rely on intuition and imagination. We think this is superstitious. We rely mainly on something called the scientific method, okay? And later on, I will... We'll discuss the scientific method more in detail, right? And the last thing is in pre -modern science, people are relying on divine inspiration in order to discover the truth. The big question is what is truth? Today, we care about the question how do we know truth? Okay, it's really the idea of the introduction of doubt. Our main priority is to question and doubt the truth. Okay, it's really the idea of the introduction of doubt. Our main priority is to question and doubt the truth. And what will happen is, because of this emphasis change, we've changed from what is truth to how do we know truth, it will launch a revolution in technological progress. All right? All right, so underlying the Sino -Revolution are three major theological assumptions. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 13:51 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Without these theological assumptions, the Sino -Revolution would not be possible, okay? So the first and most important idea is the idea of monotheism. There is one God, okay? And again, the very idea of monotheism is also revolutionary in human thought. Second idea is that God designed and willed the universe into being. So there is an intelligent design to the universe. And it's up to us to discover this design. God endowed us with the capacity to discover his design and will, okay? So these are the three major theological assumptions underlying the Sino -Revolution. That is why the Sino -Revolution happened in Western Europe and not, say, in China or the Islamic world or India, okay? Because you needed these three theological assumptions. Okay, so what do these assumptions bring us? Okay, so let's look at this. Polytheism, again, throughout most of human history, most societies have been polytheistic. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 15:05 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: What is the difference between a polytheistic worldview of science and a monotheistic worldview of science, okay? So I need you to memorize this chart, okay? The first major difference is a polytheistic system, there's really no design. There's really no progress. It's just chaos and struggle. But in a monotheistic worldview, there is an underlying difference. There is proof to the universe, okay? That's the first difference. Second major difference is the idea of randomness. Things happen for no particular reason. If you win the lottery, that's great, okay? But if you lose all your wealth, that's just random, okay? There's... It's just fate. It's just destiny. There's no purpose or no design to your fate. But in a monotheistic world, there's the idea of good and evil. Things happen to you that benefit you if you're doing good. But if you're doing evil, then bad things will happen to you, okay? So there's a very... ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 16:10 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: There's a deep sense that God is in our lives orchestrating events. The last major difference is that between fate and progress, okay? If there's truth in this world, if there's goodness in this world, then we have a responsibility to... To progress by doing good and by discovering this truth, okay? That's why I keep on emphasizing this, but monotheism is really an intellectual revolution first and foremost. Okay, so the Second Revolution happens, and what drives it, okay? There are three major forces that drive the Second Revolution. The first is the idea of the Protestant Reformation and the Counter -Reformation. So the Protestants have come. They're challenging the authority of the church, and the church responds by what's often called the Counter -Reformation. There is this belief, or there's this prejudice, that the church is anti -science. The Catholic Church is not anti -science. In fact, both the Protestants and the Catholic Church are trying to use science in order to promote their legitimacy and authority, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 17:25 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So the Protestants are heavily devoted to science because they want to... Okay? They want to understand the will and mind of God. The Catholics themselves are also promoting science. The Catholics will create a new society called the Jesuits, who are renowned for being great scientists. In fact, a lot of universities in this world were founded by Jesuits. A lot of Jesuits came to China, and they promoted knowledge and science in China, and this has been true for many centuries, okay? So both the Catholic Church and the Protestant movement... Okay? They are in a struggle to use science in order to promote their own authority and legitimacy, okay? That's the first major force driving the right revolution. Second is war. During this time, Europe is in constant state of war. It's fighting amongst themselves, between the Catholics and the Protestants. It's also fighting with the Muslims, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 18:23 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: The Ottoman Empire, which is, at this point, the strongest empire in the world. All right? And the last idea that's driving science is the age of exploration and conquest. As Europe is trying to expand outwards, if they're going to North America, they're going to South America, they need better navigation tools. They need compasses. They need astrolapse, okay? So science solves all three problems, okay? Okay. So, again. The Second Revolution. The Second Revolution. The best way to remember the Second Revolution is, it's a fundamental change from asking what is truth to how do we know truth, okay? How can we know truth? And believe it or not, but no one really bothered to ask this question before. How can we know truth, okay? And because science is asking this question, how do we know truth, what it's really doing is it's separating itself from religion. And putting itself above religion, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 19:36 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Because religion purports to be the truth, right? And what science is saying is like, how do you know if you're right? Well, we know if you're right because we have methods to test you, okay? So science is putting itself above religion. And as you can imagine, this will create conflicts within the Catholic Church very, very soon, mainly in the trial of Galileo. Okay. So. Because science asks this question. How do we know truth? How do we know truth? What it does is it creates the scientific method, okay? And the scientific method is composed of three main elements. The first is you ask questions and you propose hypotheses. So there are no questions now that are out of bounds. And you have to think of solutions and ideas to solve these questions, okay? So that's the first step. The second step is there are these processes and protocols for testing hypotheses. Okay. The third step is experimentation, basically, right? So only if you can experiment, only if your hypothesis matches experimental results can it be true. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 20:46 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Now last thing is it creates a system of doubt and criticism in order to test all experimental results. And today we call them academic societies and peer -reviewed journals, okay? So if you're a scientist working today at a university, whatever results you have, you must first publish and then you have to present your journal results to a conference of peers who will criticize you and they will look for flaws in your argument. And this is an extremely effective system on how to know what is true. And again, because of the system, it's allowed for a remarkable explosion of wealth and technology and progress in the world today. Okay. And this is the chart that shows us, okay? So for most of human history, progress, meaning productivity, has been flat. And then starting around the year 1700, it starts to exponentially rise, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 21:52 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And this has meant that we are now able to feed more and more people. So before 1700, you really couldn't get above a few hundred million people. Okay. And now we are at nine, we are projected to reach nine billion people. And you can ask, is this a good thing? And I will argue it's not a good thing, but it shows us the remarkable power of science, okay? All right. So now the question then is, what caused the subject method to arise? And it really has to do with a major debate among scientists. It was, it was the geocentric versus the heliocentric. Now, what's interesting is that if you look at the Egyptians, they knew that the sun was the center of the universe. That's why their god was the sun god, Ra, okay? But by the time you hit the Greeks, there was now this divergence between those who believed that the universe revolved around the sun and those who believed it revolved around the earth. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 23:06 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: In about 150, a Greek scientist named Ptolemy, working in Egypt, he developed the first comprehensive cosmological system. And this cosmological system, which he wrote in a book called The Almagest, he made certain arguments. Okay. The first argument is that the earth stands still, okay? The earth does not move. It doesn't revolve. Okay? Second is that all other celestial bodies, including the moon, including the stars, the planets, revolve around the earth in a circular motion. Okay? Why? Because in the heavens, it is assumed that everything is perfect. Okay? So for example, on planet earth, we breathe something called air, right? Air oxygen is what gives us life. But up there in space, air becomes ether. Ether is the air that the gods breathe. Ether is what allows the world, the heavens, to be perfect. Okay? And so, and this is the Arabic edition of The Almagest. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 24:23 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And as you can see, you can't read this, but there's a lot of mathematical detail in the book. And because Ptolemy's perspective aligned with theology. The Bible. It was accepted, it was accepted true for over a thousand years. Okay? The Islamic golden age relied heavily on Ptolemy's understanding of the cosmos. But the first person to suggest that this model is wrong is Copernicus, who is a Polish polymath. He did many things. He did astrology. He also did astronomy. Okay? And when he died in 1543, he proposed the heliocentric model. Now what's really important for us to remember is that Copernicus was a devout Catholic. And many of his friends were major figures within the Catholic church. And guess what? They were extremely supportive of his theory. In fact, they wanted him to publish his theory. Okay? Why? Because at this point, there is no conflict between science and religion. So ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 25:44 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: the saying back then is, it is the job of the church, the Catholic church, to tell you how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go. Okay? So the Catholic church didn't really care one way. They didn't care about the heliocentric model. They didn't care at all. So Copernicus was a devout Catholic. He was heavily supportive. The problem with Copernicus is that the mathematics didn't really make sense. Okay? So if I put two books in front of you, Copernicus' book called On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres or Ptolemy's book, well, most scientists would tell you that Ptolemy's book is better. Okay? There's more math. It's more well argued. And the reason why is Copernicus, his idea is new. And so there was not that much time, he didn't have that much time to refine it. People didn't really have time to work on it. Whereas Ptolemy, thousands of people have been working on it over the centuries. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 26:42 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1602s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1602s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So the heliocentric model, it is much more refined, much more accepted at this point than the heliocentric model. This man, his name is Tycho Braque, and he is a Danish polymath as well. He comes from a very noble family, and he spent a lot of his time doing observations. Okay? He collected a lot of data. He observed how the planets revolved, and his conclusion is that the geocentric and the heliocentric model are both correct. And his proposal was that Earth was the center of the world, but the planets revolved around the Sun. Okay? So the Sun revolved around the Earth, and every other system revolved around the Sun. Okay? So that's what he derived from his theory. That's what he derived from his theory. Now, he had a prodigy named Johannes Kepler. He's a German, and he looked at the data, and he discovered that the data actually makes the heliocentric model, actually supports the heliocentric model more than the geocentric model. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 27:56 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: But because he is not a member of the Catholic Church, he's a Lutheran, okay, the Catholic Church couldn't really do anything about him. Right? And what's remarkable about Kepler is that just from this data, he was able to make certain predictions about the stars that we've confirmed over time. The first is that the Sun, so everything revolves around the Sun. His problem, though, is that he didn't put the Sun at the center of the universe. He put something else at the center of the universe. The Sun revolved around that, and the Earth revolved around the Sun. Second major law of planetary motion is that the orbit is actually not circular. It's elliptical, okay? That's what the data was telling him, all right? And this goes against theology, because remember, in theology, the heavens are perfect, right? Because that's where God lives. But Kepler is saying, nope, the orbit is elliptical. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 28:57 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And then what else he did that was revolutionary is that he discovered that there was a correlation between this orbit and the matter. And that's why he's saying that the Earth is the last of the planet, okay? And this will give rise to Newton, but Kepler made all these revolutionary discoveries. Now comes Galileo. And Galileo, he lives in Florence at this time, and so he's under the purview of the Catholic Church. So he comes from a pretty normal background. When he grew up, he wanted to be a monk. But his dad wanted him to become a doctor instead. And then they made a compromise, and he said, I'll go study mathematics, but his dad was insistent that he go study medicine. Eventually, Galileo managed to go do what he wanted and just do science, okay? At this point, they invented a telescope. And this was not a great telescope. So a telescope could give you three times the magnification of the human eye, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 30:03 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1803s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: But it's not that great. But with this telescope... This new invention, Galileo did amazing things. First thing he did was he discovered that Jupiter had moons. And this was revolutionary because it was assumed that everything revolved around the planet Earth. But now he showed that moons revolved around Jupiter. He also recognized that from the Earth, you're able to see Venus spin around us. And that also was revolutionary because it was assumed that Earth stood still and all the planets stood still, okay? So he wrote this book, and it was a sensation. He became like the core scientist to the Medici family, and the Catholic Church thought this book was great, okay? But the thing about Galileo, which is very important, is that he was a very arrogant man. Okay? And because he was promoting the heliocentrism. He was promoting the heliocentric ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 31:06 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1866s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1866s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: model, he was coming into conflict with a lot of academics that were extremely well established who made their living off the heliocentric model, okay? So they're having these arguments, and Galileo's arguments were very limited. Remember, this is a new idea. It's not really supported by mathematics. It's not really supported by a lot of data, okay? So Galileo's entire logic was, I speak to God, I know the truth, and you're all idiots, okay? So that's basically how he spoke to his enemies. And as you can imagine, he had more and more enemies. And as you can also imagine, his enemies were devising ways to get at Galileo. One thing that Galileo was saying privately that he should not have been saying is that people were saying to him, listen, this heliocentric model, it's fine, but it goes against Scripture, okay? Let's look at Scripture. Scripture says that the Earth, it's firm. It's firm. It's firm and immovable, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 32:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: That's what the Bible says. Also, if you look at Genesis, it's clear that God created the Earth first, and then he created the heavens, the sun and the moon and the stars. So logically, everything should revolve around Earth. So Galileo, how do you explain this conflict between your theory of the heliocentric model and Scripture? And Galileo's response was, it's my job to interpret it. It's my job to interpret Scripture. And this, as you remember from last week, it's heresy, okay? If you disagree with the Church, that's not heresy, that could just be ignorance, okay? But if you believe that you are above the Church, if you refuse to accept the authority of the Church, if you believe that I interpret the Bible better than the Church, that is heresy, okay? So Galileo was called before the Inquisition, he was asked to explain himself, and Galileo was pretty confident. You know? He read Medici's, ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 33:10 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=1990s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: he was a very famous author, he was extremely intelligent, he thought that God loved him, okay? So as you can imagine, it was a complete disaster. It was a disastrous meeting, the Inquisition told him to shut up, okay? You can write anything you want privately, but do not promote your views anymore. And because if you were guilty of heresy, you could be burned at the stake, Galileo had no choice but to follow this order, okay? That is until 1632. What happened in 1632? Well, the old pope died, and the new pope, Urban the Eighth, came into power. Who is Urban the Eighth? Well, he was a very good friend of Galileo's, and Urban the Eighth was a huge admirer of Galileo's, okay? So Galileo felt he now had permission to get back at his enemies. So he wrote a book called Dialogue Concerning the Two -Chief World System. And it was basically almost like a platonic dialogue, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 34:12 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Where he presented his argument again for the heliocentric model. Not only that, but he made fun of his enemies. So it's a dialogue, and the chief enemy of Galileo, his name was Simplicitus, okay? Simplicitus, moron. Not only that, but he put into the mouth of Simplicitus a lot of the arguments from Pope Urban the Eighth, okay? So he was making fun of the pope, even though they were very good friends. So as you can imagine, the pope was really pissed. At first he banned this book, and what happens when you ban a book? You make it into a national bestseller, okay? So everyone was reading this book. So now Urban the Eighth was really angry, and so he called for the Inquisition, okay? So Galileo was halt before the Inquisition, and Galileo now had to explain himself. Okay? And Galileo was coming up with a lot of really silly excuses. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 35:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So what he said is, listen, this book, it's a satire. It's a thought experiment. I know that the heliocentric model is wrong. And so I wrote this book as an intellectual exercise to see how wrong it could be, and to see if it could be right. Okay? So he was saying things like this. Didn't understand. Didn't work. And they basically put him under arrest, okay? At this point, Galileo's friends pleaded with the pope, and the pope said, fine, I'm a generous person. I will commute his sentence to house arrest for the rest of his life, okay? So that is a story of Galileo, all right? So you can make the argument that it was Galileo's personality that was responsible for the trial. For his trial and downfall. It was his hubris. It's a very classic Greek tragedy. But historically, that's not how we remember this story. The reason why is, again, remember, there's a major conflict between the Protestants and the Catholics. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 36:24 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So the Protestants will use this trial as propaganda against the church. And the Protestants will say, you see how anti -science the church is. And Galileo will be... Will be remembered now as the father of modern science because he put science above religion. And even though Galileo was disgraced during his time, eventually what will happen is the Florentines, the people of Florence, they will dig up his grave and put his body beside Michelangelo and Dante, all right? That's how they revered the contribution of Galileo. Okay. All right. So again, even though the theory of heliocentricism, it is correct, the mathematics didn't make any sense. At this time in history, if you had a team of scientists go and look at the geocentric argument versus the heliocentric argument, they would say the geocentric argument makes more or less sense, okay? It was not until Newton when the mathematics came into being that allowed for the heliocentric model to be widely accepted. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 37:36 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Newton, as you know, he's the person who created calculus. The calculus you're learning in school, guess what? He was responsible for the creation of calculus. Now, what's really interesting for us to know about Newton is Newton didn't really see himself as a mathematician or a scientist. These were side hobbies. What he really was was a theologian, okay? So he spent most of his time actually reading the Bible because he was convinced that reading the Bible were the secrets of the universe. Specifically, he wanted to know when the world would end, okay? And he spent most of his life doing these calculations and he told us that the world will probably end, I don't know, 2060, okay? 2050, 2060, around then. So he spent most of his time doing theology. This is important for us because even at this time, even as the scientific revolution is gaining steam, there is no separation between religion and science. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 38:35 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: People understood faith. They understood faith as a very important cornerstone of science. Without faith, how could you have the energy and the inspiration to understand the mind of God, okay? Newton is also famous for being an alchemist. So he spent most of his time also doing these science experiments where he's trying to combine different elements. Unfortunately, chemistry at this point, it's very primitive. So he was thinking mercury, okay? He was convinced that mercury will lead to the colossal stone. He was eating it. He was tasting it. And as a result, he had a lot of mercury poisoning problems. He couldn't sleep. He had delusions. His hair was falling out. He had mercury poisoning, okay? But at the same time, he had the inspiration to come up with the mathematics to prove the heliocentric model is correct, okay? The book he wrote is called the Principia. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 39:32 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: At this time, Latin is the universal language of scientists, right? And also, guys, at this time, they're not called scientists. They're called natural philosophers, all right? Science is considered a part of philosophy. All right, so in 1687, this debate ended with the publication of this book. Newton used mathematics to prove once and for all the heliocentric model. This is one page from the Principia. Okay? And as you can see, there are a lot of mathematics, there are a lot of diagrams, okay? In this book, you also find his laws of motions. So Newton's great insight was that probably the laws of attraction, gravity that govern this world, probably govern the heavens as well, okay? So before, it was assumed that the heavens and the earth were separate. And now he's saying that no, these are combined together. And he created... Laws of planetary motion, okay? He figured out the mathematics that told us the relationship between the size of the planets, the mass, and how they orbited, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 40:53 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Now the problem, though, he had a huge problem. The problem is he had the correlation, he had the mathematical correlation, but he didn't know why the correlation existed. He couldn't solve the causation problem, okay? There's just no way that God would spend his time... Moving the planets around. He was much too busy. So there had to be an underlying cause. He didn't know what it was, though, okay? And who figured it out? Well, Einstein figured it out, right? So at this point, in 1905, we knew that there was a correlation between the size of a planet and how it moved, okay? And gravity. But we didn't know why. And it was the genius of Einstein to figure it out. Now you... You remember Einstein because of his famous equation E equals MC squared, okay? What does E equals MC squared mean? It means that mass and energy are correlated. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 41:53 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And this is a revolution. We didn't... We didn't understand this before, right? We just thought... We just assumed that solids and vibrations are different. And what Einstein is saying is that in order for a solid to exist, there had to be vibrations in the first place. And this map... This formula tells us... This formula tells us that within all objects, there is almost an infinite amount of energy, okay? Because C is the speed of light. And why is this important? Because this formula will allow us to develop the nuclear bomb, right? By splitting an atom, you can create almost an infinite amount of energy in this world, okay? So that's a major contribution of Einstein. But at his... At... At his time, he was mainly known for figuring out the causation process. The causation of the problem in space, okay? And what... And how Einstein figured it out is by developing a new idea called space -time. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 42:49 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: He believed that in the heavens, there was a space -time curvature. And so what was happening was this. A mass, a huge object, it would go into the space -time curvature and warp it. And because it warped it, it drew things into its orbit. And the... And then these things would have to move around this... This... This will be like solid, okay? So space -time curvature now helps us understand the laws of planetary motion first developed by Kepler and then by... And then refined by Newton, okay? And what's amazing about... About Einstein is... And this is like... This will blow your mind, okay? But he did all this while sitting at a desk at a pilot office in Switzerland. He was not in a laboratory. He was not at a university. he was just thinking by himself his daydreaming okay so this was just an incredible ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 43:49 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: achievement okay and so the mathematics is very complicated okay but all you need you need to understand is that he figured out that there's mathematical relationship between the mass of the object and the space -time curvature okay and this formula tells us what the relationship is and the and why mathematics is important is it allows us to make predictions and these predictions will tell us if the if the science actually works or not okay if the model the theory makes sense or not and so so Einstein's theory of relativity space -time curvature it is one more successful models in history because it predicts the black hole okay the black hole is almost solid that is infinitely massive and therefore it attracts everything into it and sucks everything into it including light okay so it predicts the idea of the black hole and we discovered the black hole all right so this confirms the theory of ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 44:56 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2696s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: relativity but um the theory of relativity also predicts the Big Bang because um space -time the idea of space -time is that space is in motion right that's why you have time because it's in motion well if it's in motion then where did it start it had to be like a starting point and that's why scientists not Einstein Einstein was actually against the idea of the Big Bang but a lot of scientists believe that you need a Big Bang okay and and so we have a working model of the Big Bang the problem with this model is that there's actually a lot of evidence against this okay so so there are two examples the first example is using the Hubble telescope the most advanced telescope in the world which is now in outer space we've discovered that they're actually galaxies that came before they were due okay so the idea of Big Bang is that ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 45:52 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2752s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2752s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: is this massive energy explosion and so the galaxies will develop later but our data tells us the galaxies came before much much earlier than we expect okay that's the first thing second problem that we have with the Big Bang model is that this universal expansion it is not constant there are times when actually speeds up which makes no sense why would it speed up okay so this Big Bang model a lot of scientists are now trying to reexamine it okay the problem is and this is a huge problem is we have we don't have a better theory and so to get around the problem of these mathematical inconsistencies in the model scientists create a new concept called dark energy dark energy now you think to yourself dark energy means we can't see it no that's not what it means okay and you're like well dark energy means we can't measure no that's what it means ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 46:52 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: dark energy means we don't know what it is okay doesn't mean it exists and we can't see it it just means we have no idea what it is we can explain why the Big Bang is expanding really fast at certain points and really slow at other points and so we just say it must be dark energy okay doesn't make sense guys so dark energy is not something that you can't see it's just like we don't have no idea what it is okay all right so these are the theories okay but the person who was most responsible for the creation of the scientific method his name is actually Francis Bacon and he spent his entire life promoting the idea of scientific processes and methods he's most well known for his book the new Atlantis so in the new new Atlantis which is like a novel the protagonist he ends up in the honor island where they ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 47:54 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: have the most advanced science in the world and what and the reason why the most advanced science in the world is because they turn science into a bureaucracy a very specialized bureaucracy okay so I'm not going to read all of it all right but there are different offices different hierarchies for different functions so for example we have three that try new experiments such as themselves think good these we call pioneers or miners okay so you have an office a broccoli specifically to do experiments which means that you have an office a bureaucracy specifically come up with hypotheses to ask questions okay also we have three that take care out of them direct new experiments of a higher light more penetrating into nature in the former these we call it lapse so you have a team team to actually audit these experiments and figure out how to improve them, okay? And then lastly we have three that raise the former discoveries by experiments into great observations, axioms, and atherisms. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 48:50 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: These we call interpreters of nature. So these are theoreticians. They're the ones who take this experimental data and combine it into a theory. And so Bacon is proposing a scientific bureaucracy. And guess what, guys? We have basically achieved his vision today. If you look at science today, it's essentially a bureaucracy, all right? Now one of the foundations of this bureaucracy was the founding of the Royal Society of London in 1660. Why is this important? Because for the first time, scientists are allowed to present their findings before a group of peers who will question and doubt them. And this will enhance their research and their research process, okay? So the founding of the Royal Society was fundamental. As you can imagine, what will come next is publications, magazines that will showcase a lot of these new discoveries. The founding members of the Royal ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 49:54 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=2994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Society include Christopher Wren, who was a very famous architect, as well as Robert Dole, who was a very famous chemist. Okay. Basic background into the history of the Second Revolution. Today we are asking ourselves a very deep question. So the Second Revolution separated science from religion. And there's a lot of concern that this has created a lot of ethical issues within science, okay? So let's look at three major issues. The first major issue is the idea of artificial intelligence. Basically, we're trying to create God. And that's a huge concern. What happens when the computers are much smarter than humans? Okay. Second is the idea of nano technology, where we're trying to go into the atomic level and change the laws of nature, okay? We're trying to defy God. The third is the idea of genetics, where we are trying to change people's genetic blueprint so that we can have designer babies, so that babies will be free from cancer. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 51:02 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Also, we're trying to develop immortality. Okay. We're looking for the elixir of immortality. So these are three massive ethical debates within science. And my argument to you today is that this is the wrong question to ask. This is the wrong question to ask. These are not possible within the current scientific framework that we have today. In fact, I would make the argument that these three are essentially illusions. Hocus pocus, magic. Or you can even go as far as to say they are deliberate scams. So artificial intelligence is the example that we are most familiar with, okay? So I'm sure you've all used ChatGPT. Is it any good? No, it's not. Will it get any better? No, it won't, okay? So, but there's so much hype around it, okay? I don't have time to go into artificial intelligence, but if you want to know more about artificial intelligence and why it's a scam, I can do so later on, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 52:13 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Just ask me. All right, so the real problem is this. Okay, the real problem is this. Science has become an imperial bureaucracy. That's the real issue, all right? If you think about the world we live in today, the field that is most like the imperial bureaucracy of China is science today. Science is above nation. It is above government. It does things by itself, okay? And what's science doing? Science is promoting its own bureaucracy. If there's no accountability, if there's no responsibility, if scientists don't actually have to tell us what they're doing, then it's not that they will become God. It's more like they'll become corrupt bureaucrats. Does that make sense? It's more likely that they will take these billions of dollars that governments throw at them, and they'll just waste it all, okay? Why? Because they can. It's much easier for people to be lazy, greedy, and corrupt than it is for them to become God, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 53:18 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: All right, so let me explain. Okay, so I know this is a hard idea, but genius does not come from hard work. It does not come from, say, some sort of process or some sort of method. It comes from intuition, imagination, and inspiration, okay? So remember when Einstein, he was just daydreaming his theories, okay? Remember when Newton, he was working on theology, he was working on alchemy, and then he developed the ideas of calculus, okay? This is true consistently throughout history. This is a passage from the book The Cosmic Serpent by Jerry Narby, okay? This is a passage from the book The Cosmic Serpent by Jerry Narby, okay? I'll just read it to you. Many of science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism. People do not logically deduce these ideas. People do not logically deduce these ideas. René Descartes dreams of an angel who explains the basic principles of materialist rationalism to him. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 54:26 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3266s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3266s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: This is no different from Mohammed, who was meditating in a cave, and the angel Gabriel appeared before him. It's religious. Albert Einstein daydreams in a tree, a tram, approaching another, and conceives the theory of relativity, right? James Watson scribbles on a newspaper in a train, then rides his bicycle to reach the conviction that DNA has the form of a double helix. So what gives rise to great science, to great ideas? Well, imagination, intuition, and also faith that you are correct, right? and also faith that you are correct, right? That's Galileo. Galileo was actually convinced that he was right, even though the science was very sloppy, okay? In fact, there's a very famous story where Einstein, in the 1930s and 40s, he was having a huge argument with scientists who were arguing for quantum mechanics, specifically Niels Bohr, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 55:26 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So if you go and look back in the 1930s and 40s, and you look at their arguments, what you will find is that Einstein was very clear, was very logical, was very clear, was very logical, was very logical, was very logical. was very logical, was very logical, was very logical, was very logical, and was very sound, okay? And you will find that Niels Bohr was unclear, illogical, and very sloppy with his science. But Einstein was wrong, Niels Bohr was right. Today, quantum mechanics is a science that underlines all the technology that we have today, including the computer, okay? The semiconductor, the transistor computer, all right? So that's a really important thing we have to remember about science. At first, it seems wrong, but because of people who believe in it have so much conviction faith they eventually triumph okay all right so that's how science develops and this is the argument of Thomas Kuhn in his book the structure ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 56:21 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: of sonic revolutions okay this is a book that I highly recommend if you ever said this history of science this is a book the first book that you will read because he goes into how science develops over the centuries the central argument is that science does not develop like piecemeal and slowly and methodically okay it goes through revolutions and paradigm shifts all right okay so so I I know this is gonna be a bit long but it's really important that we read him okay paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their counter competitors in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to recognize as acute all right so tolerance for his time was considered revolutionary because he saw the problem of why why is it the moon revolves around the earth okay people about a cosmology that was simple and which fit into theology to be more successful ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 57:20 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: is not however to be either completely successful with a single problem or no success successful with any large number okay so Tommy's solution only solved a few problems it was not the complete solution the success of a paradigm was not the complete solution the success of a paradigm was not the complete solution the success of a paradigm was not the complete solution the success of a paradigm was not the complete solution the success of a paradigm was not the Sils then the parallel you think about what's going to be right now is written that the freedom of function has the normal function but it's also wrong if the problem of Gianna's system is not satisfied then would not have there parallel you know what so science have a full gone on to the diarrhea period no, not that much more of a decline has dopam energetical values has a Essex to blind me and then ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 58:03 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: from that what does scripture take out a the knowledge of those facts that the paradigm displays as particularly revealing by increasing the extent of the match between those facts and the paradigm's predictions and by further articulation of the paradigm itself okay so this is really important guys science is not about discovery it's about refinement does that make sense science will not give us new ideas science will take existing ideas and fine -tune them into something that we can believe that we can use to drive technological innovation okay all right so let's look at another passage turn now to another more difficult and more revealing aspect of the parallel between puzzles and the problems of normal science if it is to classify as a puzzle a problem must be characterized by more than an assured solution there must also be also be rules that limit both the nature of acceptable solutions and the steps by which they are to be obtained. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 59:08 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: To solve a jigsaw puzzle is not, for example, merely to make a picture. Either a child or a contemporary artist could do that by scattering selected pieces as abstract shapes upon some neutral ground. So this is really important. But what he's saying is this. Science today solves jigsaw puzzles. They're trying to take a larger model and fine -tune pieces that make the model much more elegant. It's not trying to reimagine the model. It's not trying to over -trim the model. It's not trying to add new pieces to the model. All it's doing is fine -tuning existing pieces. It's like you take a jigsaw puzzle, and there's one, exactly one solution to the jigsaw puzzle. If you don't provide that solution, you're wrong. Okay? Does that make sense? That's what science is. Nevertheless, such a picture would not be a solution. Okay? So what he's saying is, if you come up ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:00:07 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: with a new picture to the jigsaw puzzle, you might be creative, you might be interesting, you might be imaginative, but you're wrong. Okay? Scientists cannot accept your solution. To achieve that, all the pieces must be used, their plain sides must be turned down, and they must be interlocked without forcing until no holes remain. Okay? Those are among the rules that govern jigsaw puzzle solutions. So if you want to solve a jigsaw puzzle, you're wrong. If you are a scientist working today, you are literally solving a jigsaw puzzle. The solution, everyone knows the solution. If you provide something that goes against the accepted solution, you will be, you will not be accepted. Okay? All right. So he concludes, but paradigm debates are not really about relative problem -solving ability, though for good reasons they are usually couched in those terms. Instead, the issue in which paradigm should, in the future, guide research on problem -solving. The ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:01:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: decision between alternative ways of practicing science is called for and the circumstances that this decision must be based less on past achievement than on future promise. The man who embraces a new paradigm at an early stage must often do so in defiance of the evidence provided by problem -solving. Okay? So this is hard for us to understand. But if you are to be a true innovator. it's not that you come up with a new solution to a problem it's that you must defy the basic premises of bureaucratic science he must that is have faith that the new paradigm will succeed without many large problems that confront it knowing only that the older paradigm has failed with few a decision of that kind can only be made on faith okay so this is why it's almost impossible to separate religion from science if a new discovery is to be made that person must believe that he ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:02:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-blocks-its-founding-genius) Text: is sent by God to tell us the truth okay that's Galileo Galileo if you actually met the person you would think this guy's a complete asshole all right he's arrogant he's obnoxious all he does is make fun of me okay but he's driven by a divine mission to spread the truth and because he created this conflict with the church it became an international controversy and that followed by a conflict with the church it became a national controversy and that followed by a conflict with the church it became an international controversy and that tension of scientists and and they tried to resolve this issue okay so science scientific innovation genius it's not a tea party all right it's a revolution okay so I'm going to summarize what we've discussed okay because these um this was a lot okay but I want to summarize what we did so that you have a basic framework to understand what I'm talking about. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:03:11 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Because there will be other classes on these topics. We'll be discussing quantum mechanics at a future date. So I want to make sure that we understand the argument. Okay, so our argument is this. For most of history, science was part of religion. Science was about validating this religion. But this creates a problem we call confirmation bias. Confirmation bias. Meaning that we will only look at evidence that supports our claims. And we do this every single day. We all want to be right. We all want to feel good. We all want to be confirmed and validated by the world around us. Okay? So there's a very famous experiment called the Dunning -Kreuzig. You've heard of this, right? Okay, Dunning -Kreuzig. The Dunning -Kreuzig experiment. So Dunning -Kreuzig were two American psychologists. And they were teaching an undergraduate class of 400 students. And they made these students do two things. The first thing is they made every student take an IQ test. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:04:25 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Okay? And the second thing is they asked students how they think they did on that IQ test. Were you in the top 5 %? Were you in the bottom 5 %? Were you average? Okay? And it turned out that once they looked at all the results, not one student predicted his or her class ranking. Those who did really well, the top 5%, it was pretty easy for them, so they assumed it was easy for everyone. Okay? So they underestimated their performance by about 10%. Those who did the worst didn't really know what was asked of them. Okay? So they overestimated their performance. In fact, those who got it most wrong were the worst students. So maybe they were the bottom 10%. But they thought they were average. Okay? And what this tells us is this. Doubt, self -doubt, it's really the mark of genius. Okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:05:20 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3920s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=3920s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#scientific-doubt-becomes-bureaucracy); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: If you're able to doubt yourself, if you're able to question yourself, if you're able to self -reflect, that's a sign of an excellent student. Okay? In fact, the best sign of an excellent student. So the question then is, how do you bring doubt into science? What you do is you separate. You separate science from religion, and you create a bureaucracy around science in order to instill doubt in the scientific process. Okay? That's the solution proposed by Francis Bacon. And again, it is the most successful solution in human history. All right? So the scientific process is hypothesis, experiment, data analysis, replication. Okay? Does that make sense? You have a hypothesis. You then test it out. If it works according to data, you then have to replicate the experiment to make sure that you are correct. Now, the beauty of this model is that you can actually make it into a bureaucracy. Right? So each department does its own thing. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:06:42 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4002s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4002s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#scientific-doubt-becomes-bureaucracy); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: And so what happens is that each department is inspecting and auditing the work of the previous department to make sure the results are, are accurate and correct. Okay? Does that make sense? And it turns out if you do it this way, well, it's revolutionary. And it explains the world that we live in today. It explains why scientific progress has been so fast and so remarkable these past 300, 400 years. But embedded in the system are lots and lots of other issues. Okay? Which, which I will discuss. The first is the idea of political control. Okay? It takes a lot of resources to run the system. And as a result, you can allow politicians to come in and interfere with the science. Okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is that over time, each department will over -specialize. Okay? You have over -specialization, which means that these departments are now unable to communicate with each other because the underlying assumptions, the science of each department will be different. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:07:54 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#scientific-doubt-becomes-bureaucracy); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Okay? So if you run experiments, well, you use, you use a lot of instruments, okay? All of these instruments are so complicated that normal scientists don't really understand what you're doing. Okay? So that's the second problem, over -specialization. The third problem is the idea of accountability. Okay? How do you know if each department is doing a good job? Or not? Right? You, you can't because now they're over -specialized. The word we use is they are now, um, aloof. Okay? So there are many problems with this system. Another problem is insularity. Meaning that you have to spend like 20 years in school before you could even be, even enter the system. Okay? Insularity creates gatekeeping. Which means that only if you. You play by the rules. Only if you vet it, you enter the system. Okay? And as a result, you no longer have any creativity. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:09:17 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-blocks-its-founding-genius); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#bureaucracy-institutional-death-atlas) Text: So this is the great irony of science. Science was initiated, inspired by the genius of Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. But today, science has developed to a point where it no longer is welcome. Galileo, Newton, or Einstein. Okay? Why? Because Galileo is an asshole. He doesn't get along with other people. They won't let him in. Newton is crazy. Right? He's alchemist. He believes that the Bible will reveal the end of the world. He's crazy. They won't let him in. Einstein is really bad at mathematics. He doesn't. He would fail all these mathematical tests in order to get into the system. He would probably, he probably would not get into graduate school today. Right? So. So this is the world we live in. So don't worry about artificial intelligence. Don't worry about billionaires living forever. Don't worry about nanotechnology. Worry about the fact that we've come to a point in our civilization where we are now incapable of innovation. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:10:31 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: So that's it. Any questions? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:10:41 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: OK. Modern science is great. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:11:09 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: OK. Well, thank you. Great. Any questions? OK, that's fine. OK. So OK, great. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:11:29 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: I didn't know about that. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:11:38 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: OK. OK. So Newton. OK. So why do we know that Newton predicted the end of the world? OK. The reason why is this. So Newton didn't. He didn't have any family. He didn't have a wife. He didn't have any children. So his entire estate was left to his nephews and his nieces. And Newton also left him a lot of money. These are aristocrats. Newton is actually the first commoner, the first non -royal in English history to receive a state funeral. He's the first commoner to be buried at Westminster Abbey. OK. So it was a very big deal back then. And his relatives, obviously, were aristocrats. But the thing about aristocrats is that over time, they become poor. And what do you do when you become poor? Well, you sell off what is valuable. And so Newton's papers, all his notes were auctioned off in like, I think, the 1930s. I don't remember, OK, 1930s. And you would imagine that everyone would want these notes, right? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:12:50 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Because they reveal genius to you. But for whatever reason, they didn't really sell very well. OK. And the sale was so bad, the auction was so bad, that it was sold piecemeal, OK? And one person who bought the notes was John Keynes, the economist, John Keynes, the economist. And he was so excited to read the papers of Newton. He was like, oh my god, there must be so much mathematics in these papers that will lead to new discoveries, right? So he actually read the papers. He was absolutely aghast at what he discovered. It was alchemy, it was theology. And so what Newton was trying to do was he was trying to read the Bible and look for a secret code. I mean, he was crazy, OK? Look for a secret code within the Bible that would tell him the future. And he was actually convinced of something called the Second Coming. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:13:51 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: He was convinced that Jesus will return. I mean, these are all Christians at this point, right? He was actually convinced that Jesus will return. And so he wanted to know when he would return and how he would return, OK? So I think he made the prediction 2060. But I can't be sure. But he made a prediction when the world would end. What's more important for us is that he became what we know, what we call a Christian Zionist, OK? The idea of a Christian Zionist, and this is really important, is that once you predict the future and you know when Jesus is returning, you want to know how he returns. And Newton became actually convinced that for Jesus to return, certain conditions had to be met in order to facilitate his return. One major condition was the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. Because at this point, Jerusalem was being controlled by the Ottomans. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:14:57 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: OK? He was actually convinced that we had to get all the world's Jews and return them to Jerusalem, OK? Only problem was Jews didn't want to go back, OK? And so I think Newton, and this is completely unknown about him, OK? He's actually one of the founders of a movement called Christian Zionism, is let's figure out how to get all the Jews to go back to Jerusalem, and this will start a process which will culminate with the return of Jesus, OK? So that's Newton. And so what this tells us, OK, and this is also something that is really important, is he was part of a secret society with John Locke and some other really important individuals. And a secret society, I mean, like, they were considered, they considered themselves the true church, right? So Newton, in his notes, he was very clear. He thought the Holy Trinity was nonsense. There's only one God, OK? ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:15:55 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: And he was the representative. He was the representative of God on Earth. He was here on a divine mission. So he was part of the secret society to try to achieve Christian Zionism and to discover when the Second Coming will happen. So he makes his prediction 2060. So whether or not Newton is correct, that's not the issue. The issue is that with his power, with his influence, he was heavily promoting Christian Zionism in England. And as we know, what will happen is these people will go to America. OK? A lot of these people who are Christian Zionists, they will go to America believing that America is the new Jerusalem. And then what will happen later on is these Zionists, Christian Zionists, will link up and they will plot to bring the Jews back to Jerusalem. And this leads to something called the Balfour Declaration, right? Which is to say that after ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:16:53 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, the British Empire now gives permission to all the Jews in the world to return to Jerusalem whether or not they want to. OK? So this is why history is so important. Because you cannot possibly understand what's happening in the Middle East today without first understanding all this history. All right? So does that make sense? OK. All right. Great. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:17:19 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: I'm sorry. He was right. 2060. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:17:24 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: Well, again, OK. I'm just kidding. So 2060, again, that's not the issue. The issue is that there are very powerful people in this world who believe in this and who believe that it is the divine mission to make this come true, to use their power, to use their influence, to use their money to make this prediction come true. It's not really a prophecy, OK? It's really a plan. This is what it is. It's a plan. It's like how do we bring back Jesus? Because when Jesus returns, the world ends and everyone's happy. OK? That's heaven comes on earth. But how do we make it happen? Well, here's the plan. Christian Zionism. All right? So that's my real concern. Whether or not the world ends in 2060, I don't know. OK? But the fact that there are really powerful people of the stature of Isaac Newton with like almost unlimited resources and unlimited power, they actually believe in this and they want to make this come true. ## The Bureaucracy That Forgot How To Discover -- 1:18:23 - Source title: Civilization #43: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-04-01, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0077](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia/transcript/#seg-0077) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4703s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjtUnKcU1IA&t=4703s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia@transcript:v1#seg-0077` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cjtunkcu1ia.json) Text: That should be the major concern. All right? OK? So I apologize for that. I apologize for going on this tangent. But so we don't have class on Thursday. But next Tuesday, we'll start the Age of Exploration. OK? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. This morning we are doing the Protestant Reformation and I will explain to you how it gave birth to capitalism. This class, it's going to be hard conceptually because we're going to take concepts we learned before and combine them to help explain the world we live in today. So if there's anything I'm saying that's not clear or confusing or debatable, please interrupt me, okay? Alright so I want to make sure that you can follow the logic clearly. Okay so first of all what I will do is explain the three major differences between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion. So let's look at the Catholic first. In many ways the Protestant religion is a response to the problems created by the Catholic religion. So there are three main problems between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion. characteristics about the Catholic religion. The first is the idea of orthodoxy or dogma. So there's a set of beliefs in the Catholic religion that you must memorize. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:16 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=76s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=76s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: You're not allowed to question it, you're not allowed to interpret it, you must memorize it. And what maintains the orthodoxy is the idea of hierarchy. So only priests and the ordained, those sanctioned by the Catholic Church, have access to the Bible. Only they can interpret the Bible properly. They are favored by God. The Pope is God's official representative on earth. Okay, so that's the idea of hierarchy. The last concept is the idea of justification. By works. Okay? And the idea here is if you want to be saved, you have to engage in the proper rituals. You have to do what the church tells you. Your actions matter more than your beliefs. Okay? Now, as we discussed in previous classes, these three main concepts that underpin the Catholic Church, they will create problems. Okay? So justification by works. It creates a problem of hypocrisy. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 2:40 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: The idea here is it'd be nice if you believed in God, it'd be nice if you believed in what you were doing, but you don't have to. Okay? As long as you do what you're told, you can still go to heaven. Okay? It creates the idea of hypocrisy. And obviously, there are a lot of people who are opposed to this. All right? Hierarchy creates a problem of corruption. There's no real mechanism to prevent the priests from abusing their powers. And as we discussed last week, the priests do engage in a lot of corruption and abuses. Okay? The problem of orthodoxy is it creates disconnection. All right? And the idea here is that ever since the dawn of human history, we humans have been able to do things that we would rather not do. We are fundamentally religious. Our fundamental, our first and foremost need is to connect with God, to be with God, to work with God, and to access God. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 3:50 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay? And because of these three problems—disconnection, corruption, hypocrisy—there's always been dissent, there's always been rebellion against the Catholic Church in Europe. Remember last week, we discussed the Cathars, the Waldysians. All right? So... issue in the Catholic Church. So the Protestant religion was developed in a response to these problems. Okay, so let's look at the three major responses of the Protestant religion. The first response to Orthodoxy is direct access. You don't need the priest to tell you what the Bible means. You can just read it by yourself. In fact, God wills that you talk to him directly by reading the Bible, okay? If that is the case then the Church must be fundamentally egalitarian. Because if everyone can access God, then everyone is equal in the eyes of God. But the fundamental demand now is justification by faith. you have to truly believe in God you must develop your ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 5:18 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=318s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=318s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: life around this faith in God okay so on one hand the Protestant religion is solving a lot of problems created by the church but on the other hand it's also creating a lot of problems as well okay so let's go very quickly over some of the major problems if it's justification by faith it creates a problem of anxiety why because how do you know you truly believe in God does that make sense how do you really know you have faith if they can't we prove to yourself that you truly believe in God through actions for works okay you have to raise doubt in your mind and this makes you anxious it makes you antic okay so that's one huge problem created by the Protestant religion the second big problem is a problem of diversity if everyone is equal then everyone can start his or her own religion and what we'll see during the Protestant Reformation ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 6:29 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=389s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=389s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: is an explosion of different religions with all their all different sets of beliefs there's only one Catholic Church but there's like tens of thousands of Protestant denominations okay does that make sense okay all right so then with Direct Access you are forced to have literacy okay you are forced to educate yourself alright and this is a good thing right but it's also a problem because if you're poor you may not have access to education alright so this is a problem for a lot of people And that's why in the beginning of the development of Protestantism, most of the adherents to this new religion are actually the aspirational middle class. The people of some means, there are people who want to aspire to more wealth. So this is the basic rundown of the differences between the Protestant religion and the Catholic religion. Are you clear about this? Any questions so far? Is this clear to you? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 7:47 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So now I'm going to go deeper and explain the problems that this new religion creates in the minds of the faithful. So the problem within the Christian religion, as we discussed in previous classes, is the idea of the Holy Trinity. The idea of the Holy Trinity is that Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit, these are different forces that are independent of each other, but they are equal to each other, and they are part of the same thing. So for the human mind, the way that our human minds are designed, it's impossible for us to understand this concept of the Holy Trinity. It's like saying, this pen, it is here and not here. Your mind has to believe that this thing is here and not here. And your mind can't do that. Your mind has to believe in one thing, and it cannot believe in contradictions. But this is inherently a contradiction. The only way that our mind can process this is by believing that this is a symbol. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 9:04 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: The reason why is that this is something, the only way that we can understand the Holy Trinity is to believe that it is both nothing and everything. And that's what a symbol is. A symbol is nothing that represents everything, depending on how you perceive it. The problem with this is that it creates the problem of anxiety. Anxiety. Why does it create anxiety? Because, again, our fundamental need is to connect with God. And the concept of the Holy Trinity means that we can never truly connect with God. It is a symbol. It is an abstraction removed from us. We can never be intimate with God. It's either away from us or through us. But we can never touch it. We can never feel it. Okay? This creates anxiety. Before, this was not a problem because the church stood between you, the believer, and the Holy Trinity. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 10:19 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay? All you had to do was believe in the church, and you were fine. But then, what happens if you get rid of the church? Now you have to grasp, try to grasp what the Holy Trinity is. And again, remember, one of the main ideas of the Protestant religion is that you must struggle with your faith. You must recognize and fully realize your faith in God. Otherwise, you'll be condemned to hell. But as we already discussed, this Holy Trinity is impossible to understand. Okay? So this creates anxiety. Now, the thing about anxiety is it creates the problem of like OCD. Okay? Obsessive Compulsive Behavior. Because anxiety comes about. Because of confusion. Okay? What you want to do is remove this anxiety by ordering your physical world. Right? People with obsessive compulsive behavior, what do they do? They like to clean houses. They like to buy things. They like to lose weight. They're trying to order. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 11:45 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: The word we use is rationalize. They're trying to rationalize the world around them in order to reduce your anxiety. Okay? All right? Does that make sense? All right? Have you studied obsessive compulsive behavior? OCD. All right? It's caused by anxiety. And this anxiety forces you to try to rationalize the world. All right? Now, there's also a third problem in the Protestant religion. And it's the idea of double predestination. All right? Okay. So this is a big concept, but it's very easy to understand. If you remove the church, because the church is too corrupt, the problem arises, like, how do you know if you're going to heaven or not? Who's going to decide? And so a man, a theologian by the name of John Calvin, he proposed the idea of double predestination. And the idea here is this. God, at the beginning of time, has already decided. And this decision is final. You cannot persuade him that he is wrong because he is perfect, eternal, and immutable. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 13:10 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And only a few, the elect, will be saved. Only these people will be allowed to go to heaven. Everyone else will be condemned to hell. And who are the elect? The elect are those who truly believe that they have been saved. Only those who truly believe in God's mercy and God's grace will be saved. Okay? If you think about it, this creates even more anxiety because how do you know if you are one that's saved? You have to work hard now to solve this problem. Okay? So, let's summarize. Because of the Protestant religion, you have three new problems created. The first is the individual believer cannot understand the Holy Trinity. But they must. That's what the religion demands. That's the first problem. Second problem. is the anxiety causes OCD, which makes them want to rationalize the world. It makes them want to order the world according to their faith. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 14:22 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: That's the second issue. The third issue is the idea of double predestination, which says that if you do not truly believe in God, if you do not actually figure out the grace of God, then you'll be condemned to eternal damnation. So these are the three major problems created by the process of religion. And so over time, and this is a process that will take decades, centuries, they figure out a solution. They figure out a solution. And the solution is this. The solution is money. Sorry, money. The solution is money. That's how you resolve these three paradoxes, or three contradictions, three anxieties. So first of all, let me explain what money is. So in the world, we are all different. We have different perspectives. So each individual is unique. Each individual is different. Each individual sees the world differently. And this creates confusion. This creates problems. I'm gonna ask you, while you're in school, you might say, Oh, I don't know. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 15:48 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, I'm here to learn mathematics. I might ask someone else, like, Oh, I want to go to America for college. Another person might be like, I want to learn. Okay? Each person is different. Okay? But what happens is this. If I introduce the concept of money, what it does is it standardizes, systemizes, clarifies, and simplifies everyone's understanding into one concept, into a coherent whole. Okay? So let me use an experiment to show you, like, why this is true. All right. So some experimenters, they gave everyone a wine test. They put three different bottles of wine in front of each person, asked each person to taste the wine, and then asked each person which wine is the best. And most people could not tell the difference. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 16:46 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: They were different. These are different bottles of wine, but they didn't know which one was better. Okay? Then what the experimenters did was they put price tags on each bottle of wine. Okay? $10, $20, $50. And then when the experimenters did this, everyone knew, Oh, of course the $50 bottle of wine is better. Okay? So that's what money does. Money allows us to simplify the world in order to understand it. Okay? So all our beliefs, all our values, all our judgment now is placed into this one symbol, money. But then what happens is we then take this money and we reshape the world according to money. Okay? Does that make sense? Now, I asked you, why are you going to school? Everyone's like, to make money in the future. Everyone agrees on this. Okay? So that's what money is, money is a system to standardize everyone's thought and ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 17:57 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: then once the standardization happens it reshapes reality into a rational order okay does that make sense all right okay so let's go back okay now that we understand what money is we can now explain how money reduces the paradoxes right money is a way for people to rationalize the world you're in your anxious what do you do to you to reduce this anxiety make money make more money don't stop until you make the most money okay then money is a way to resolve the God issue this money is also a symbol so what you can do mentally is conflate God with money money is God God is money makes sense to people right and now because you've completed God of money you can now solve the predestination problem which is like oh how do I know I have faith in God because I have a lot of money because I spend my entire life accumulating ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 19:08 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: money and how do I know I'm going to have it because I'm rich though my wealth shows that I have true faith in God if I have true faith in God then I must be one of those predestined by God to be the elect and therefore I have nothing to worry about all right and because of this the beauty of this system is this it creates a concept of capitalism never before in human history how people people believe that this is a good thing that that you should go accumulate money for the sake of accumulating money okay before it was always about accumulating money in order to increase your social status so wealthy people would always spend their money holding community fees okay on giving money to the poor on helping the community so remember Julius Caesar when he died he was the wealthiest man in the world but he gave a third of his ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 20:10 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: money to the poor people of Rome he gave a third of his money to building parks for Rome okay and the the final third went to his adopted here Octavian okay all right but now what's important is that you try to accumulate as much money as possible don't waste it because if you waste it it's corruption it shows you lack the faith in God all right and that's why we have capitalism because of the anxiety created by the Protestant Reformation all right and again um this is a process that will take centuries it doesn't happen right away okay but it's a process that takes centuries and it's and it's a process that will define the world we live in today okay even though today most people actually not Protestant most people do not believe in double predesignation most people um don't really understand the Holy Trinity most people don't want to rationalize the world we ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 21:17 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: have absorbed this mentality okay we believe that we should accumulate money for the sake of accumulating money that's why we worship people like Jack Ma Ellen Musk Jeff Bezos even though if you think about it they've just accumulated a symbol that their Shotguns you just deserve a 165 00 right? The money is actually nothing. But we worship them because we believe that money is reality itself, all right? That's what capitalism is. Capitalism is to believe that money is reality in itself. All right, so I know conceptually this is hard and this is a lot, but now what I will do is explain the historical context and explain the evidence for this argument. But first, I want to make sure that this argument is clear to you. This is a thesis, okay? This is an explanation as to why we have capitalism today, all right? So any questions before I explain the historical context? This is all clear? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 22:28 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay, good. All right, so now what I'm going to do is explain the historical context as well as provide the evidence, okay? All right, so the Possum Reformation. All right, so the Possum Reformation. All right, so the Possum Reformation is a process that took place from 1517. 1517 is when a theologian, Martin Luther, published his 95 Theses. His 95 Theses is a direct criticism of the Catholic Church, the corruption of the Catholic Church. And it ends really in the year 1648. This is after decades of violent warfare between the Protestants and the Catholics. And at this point, Europe is completely exhausted. They just finished fighting something called the Thirty Years' War, which is before World War I, the deadliest war in European history. It kills, at most, about 8 million people. So all of Europe is completely devastated. In certain parts of Germany, which is where the war was fought, they lost about half of their population, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 23:40 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And this war ended in something called the Treaty of Westphalia, the Peace of Westphalia, which guarantees religious freedom to everyone in Europe. And this ends the Possum Reformation, okay? All right, so again, historians state the beginning of the Possum Reformation to Martin Luther. Last week, we discussed the Crusades, and we discussed how there were many thinkers, theologians, who opposed the Catholic Church. People like John Wycliffe, J.N. Haas, and they were eventually condemned as heretics, and the rebellion was stomped out by the Catholic Church. But Martin Luther, he's fortunate in that he has powerful political patrons. The various princes of the Holy Roman Empire want more autonomy from the Catholic Church, and Martin Luther gives them a proper pretext in order to financially divorce themselves from the Catholic Church, okay? So as I've discussed, what he's most famous for is something called the Ninety -Five Theses, which is a direct criticism of the corruption of the Catholic Church. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 24:49 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: At this time, the Catholic Church wanted to build St. Peter's Basilica, a church in the Vatican, and they wanted this to be a gorgeous building. So to finance the building of this church, the Catholic Church saw something called indulgences. Indulgences are basically like tickets or special letters that will reduce the punishment of your relatives in purgatory, okay? It's basically to reduce the number of sins you committed. It's basically like bribing God, okay, to reduce your penalty. And this was a very popular thing, and it allowed the pope to build St. Peter's Basilica, which is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world today. But as you can imagine, if you are a true Christian, you are insulted. You are offended. you're angered by the idea of this corruption, okay? So, the 95th thesis, or 95 sentences, in which Martin Luther lays out his case against indulgences, and as such, against the authority of the Church and the Pope. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 26:03 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And this is the argument he makes, okay? So, let's look at some sentences. So, the 36th sentence is, every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon, okay? And what he's saying here is the idea of salvation by faith. You don't have to spend this money. You don't have to do what the Church tells you. If you are a true Christian, if you truly believe in God, God will forgive you. You have direct access to God, okay? So, he's denying the authority of the Pope, which makes him a heretic. He also says, Okay, this is direct insult to the Pope. He's saying, like, the person that most offends God in this world is the Pope. Because the Pope is insulting God by telling the world that God can be bribed by money, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 27:03 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So, let's pray for the Pope. Because clearly, the Pope has offended God. He also says, Why does not the Pope, whose wealth is today greater than the riches of the richest, he's saying, Why doesn't the Pope spend this money and build the Church himself? Build just this one Church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers, okay? Why is he exploiting the poor when he is the richest man in the world, okay? And as you can imagine, the Church is furious with him. And they deem him a heretic, and they want to burn him at the stake. But again, he's protected by powerful political patrons, and they fight a war over this issue. And it ends with something called the Peace of Augsburg, which divides the Holy Roman Empire, Germany, into Lutheran areas, where they are free to believe in Lutheran, and Catholic areas, where they still adhere to the Pope, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 28:12 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So, this is the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther, Martin Luther starts this doctrinal debate, and John Calvin also contributes to it by introducing the idea of double predestination, all right? So, Martin Luther, he wants to reform the Church, and then he eventually realizes that he needs to build another Church. But John Calvin, with his idea of double predestination, he's trying to deny the authority of the Church, okay? He's telling people that, because God has already decided, who will go to heaven at the beginning of time, then the Church is lying to you. The Church is fooling you, deluding you, okay? All right? So, he's a Frenchman. He went to the Sorbonne, the University of Paris. And as you can imagine, he's deemed a heretic, and he flees to a place called Geneva in Switzerland. And Switzerland is one of the birthplaces of the Protestant Reformation. The reason why is, there are a lot of individuals, independent towns in Switzerland. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 29:24 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And as I mentioned, the first believers in the Protestant religion are actually townspeople. That's aspirational middle class. They want to be connected with God, and they want a religion that encourages them to achieve more in life. And that's what the Protestant religion is about. There's also another famous theologian that's really not discussed today, but he's considered one of the three major founders of Protestantism. His name is Erich Zingli, and he's based in Zurich, okay? And he's probably the most extreme of the three, okay? All right, so the Protestant Reformation, it opens a kind of worms. It opens a Pandora's box. Because before, the ultimate authority was the Pope, who represented God. But now, you're free to believe whatever you want. So there are lots of peasants who, who rebelled against nobility, because they thought that feudalism was evil in the eyes of God, okay? So this is a proto -communist movement. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 30:34 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: These are people who wanted total equality and democracy and freedom in the world, because they believe that is the will of God, okay? So they rebel against the feudal lords and kill them. And then the entire monarchy unite, the aristocracy unite, because they see these peasants as a threat, okay? Now, there are lots of these peasants. We estimate maybe about 300,000 joining this rebellion. But they are not educated. They are not organized. They have no weapons. And they have no centralized authority. And therefore, they're all massacred by the aristocratic armies, okay? All right, so this is the Peasants' War. And this is important, because eventually we will discuss communism. And communism, will be developed in response to the Peasants' War, okay? So this is the deadliest massacre of peasants before the French Revolution. 1534 is the Act of Supremacy. That is when the King of England, Henry VIII, declares his independence from the Pope, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 31:44 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: But because there's such a strong Catholic contingent in England, Henry VIII maintains Catholic practices. But rather than have the Pope, be at the head of the church, he himself is now head of the church, okay? It's called the Church of England now. And the religion is called the Anglican religion, okay? The Anglican religion, all right? So the thing that we should observe about the Protestant Reformation is that, first of all, it's extremely diverse, okay? There are lots of different denominations. The Lutherans are those who believe in Martin Luther, okay? The Calvinists are those who believe in double predestination. The Anglicans are English who still follow Catholic rituals, but rather than follow the Pope, they follow the King of England, okay? The Hussites are those who adhere to Jane Huss in Bohemia. The Unitarians are interesting. The Unitarians are those who deny the divinity of Jesus. They deny the Holy Trinity. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 32:58 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=1978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: They believe in God, and Jesus is just the Messiah. He's just a prophet of God, okay? So they affirm the moral teachings of Jesus, but they deny his divinity. You also have the Anabaptists, okay? The Anabaptists are interesting as well, because they believe that to truly believe in God, you must choose to do so. Therefore, you must not baptize infants, because when you do so, you force children to believe in God, even though they themselves lack the capacity, lack the reason to believe in God, okay? So only adults can join the faith, and they must do so voluntarily, all right? So as you can see, there's tremendous divergence. There's tremendous diversity within the Protestant faith, and it still continues today, okay? Every day, you have new denominations opening up, because people are interpreting the Bible differently. Another thing that you will notice is that most of the Protestants are actually located in Northern Europe, right? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 34:08 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So the countries of England, Germany, the Nordic countries, Switzerland, they will go Protestant. And in the South, France, Spain, Italy, they will remain Catholic. The only exception is this, the South of France, okay? The South of France. The South of France. The South of France will turn Protestant. It's interesting for us because if you look at a map, okay, the Protestant French are heavily centered in the South of France. And if you remember from last week, that's where the Cathars are also located, okay? So some historians believe that Protestantism and Catharism, they sort of mingle together. They combine and become conflated together, okay? Other historians believe that it's because that culturally, the South of France, because it's like surrounded by mountains, it's always been culturally independent of the rest of France. They speak a local language called Provencal, which is different from French, okay? These Protestants in French, sorry, these Protestants in France, they're mainly the middle class. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 35:28 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: They're extremely well educated. They become very prosperous. And they're joined by the nobility. And as such, the King of France, and France is right now the most powerful country in Europe, the King of France sees them as a threat. And so what he'll do is he'll kill some of the nobles, which launches the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre in 1572. Okay, that's a day when tens of thousands of French Protestants called Huguenots were killed. And this will start a process by which these Huguenots, extremely well educated, extremely hardworking, extremely wealthy, they will move to Protestant countries like England and the Netherlands and Germany. And they will help these countries jumpstart the Industrial Revolution, okay? They will bring their expertise, and they will help these countries jumpstart the Industrial Revolution. So this is a tremendous loss for France, tremendous gain for the other Protestant nations. Okay, so eventually, Europe is divided into two major factions, the Catholic faction and the Protestant faction. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 36:32 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2192s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And these two factions will eventually engage in something called the Thirty Years' War, okay, between the Habsburgs, the Holy Roman Empire, which was supported by the Pope, versus basically the independent states of Germany, okay? And this is a war that will last exactly 30 years. And again, it will kill at most 8 million people. It's the deadliest war in European history up until World War I. What's interesting about this war is that France, which is Catholic, chooses to join the Protestants in this war because they see the Holy Roman Empire as an imperial threat. They're afraid that if they allow the Habsburgs to take over Germany, then eventually they will swallow up France, okay? So it was a religious war, but it was also a geopolitical and imperial war. And again, this war ends with the Treaty of Westphalia, which guarantees religious freedom. So the religious wars will end, and Protestant religion will now be free to develop independently, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 37:39 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2259s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2259s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So this is called the Peace of Westphalia. Okay, so now let's summarize, and let's discuss the evidence for my argument that the Protestant Reformation gave birth to capitalism, okay? So these are the three major differences between a Catholic religion and a Protestant religion. The question then is, why is it that the North will become really Protestant and the South of Europe will stay mainly Catholic, okay? So one thing that we discussed in this class is the persistence of culture. So again, no one knows why this is the case, okay? And you'll hear different arguments. It could have been weather. It could have been personality. It could have been a lot of different factors, okay? But one possibility I want to present to you today is the cultural factor, which is that the South of France and the North of France are culturally different, all right? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 38:40 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So let's look at South of France. Sorry, South of Europe. The Southern Europe, countries of Spain, France, and Italy, were heavily influenced by Roman culture. That's where the Roman Empire was based, right? The Roman Empire eventually became an imperial bureaucracy. There are three core values to the Romans, right? Liberty. Now, liberty is really important. It means obedience to the law, because only by obeying the law can people be free to do what they want, okay? Secondly is the idea of repubblica. Repubblica means public virtue, to serve the public good, which basically means obeying what the Senate tells you to do, okay? Obeying authority. And lastly is the idea of piety, which is to respect the customs and history and traditions of Rome, okay? So these are the three major values of the Romans, and we can believe that they became embedded in the South of Europe. Now, let's look at Viking culture, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 39:42 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And when I say Vikings, I don't really mean Vikings per se. What I really mean are those Proto -Indo -Europeans that never really assimilated into Roman culture, all right? So what are their values? Well, they believe in courage, they believe in loyalty, and they believe in resourcefulness, okay? And we discuss this when we discuss the Vikings. Now, what we're going to do is this. We're going to map Catholic belief with Romans, and we're going to map Viking belief with the Protestants and see what happens. Okay, so the Catholics, they believe in orthodoxy, right? Well, the Romans also believe in orthodoxy. They call it liberty, right? Obedience to laws. Don't question laws, just obey them. Catholics believe in hierarchy. Well, Romans believe in hierarchy as well. They believe in obeying the Senate. The Senate is the ultimate authority, right? Catholics believe in justification by works. The Romans believe in piety, right? Respecting tradition. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 40:37 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: You don't have to believe in these traditions, but you must respect them, all right? So this is pretty close. I mean, it's not perfect, all right? But this suggests that Roman culture had a tremendous influence on development of the Catholic Church. Now, let's look at the Protestants, okay? They believed in direct access to God through the Bible. Well, the Vikings believed in courage. What is courage? Courage is self -exploration. To go out into the unknown and figure out things for yourself, okay? And that's what the Bible is. That's what faith is. To read the Bible for yourself and to interpret the Bible in your own way. And you have to do so using emotional and spiritual courage, all right? Egotitarianism. So the Vikings had a concept of loyalty. And loyalty is basically the idea of mutual love. I'm loyal to you and you're loyal back to me because we love each other, all right? And the last concept is justification by faith. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 41:36 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And the individual struggle to come to terms with what God means to you individually, okay? And the Vikings believed in resourcefulness, right? Which is also the idea of individual struggle. You can figure it out by yourself if you work hard enough. If you will yourself, you have the courage to do so, okay? So again, I leave this as a possibility, okay? Don't treat this as a historical fact. I just suggest this as a way to think about why the Protestants became Protestants, the Catholics became Catholics, okay? And a lot of it has to do with the cultural residue from the past, okay? All right, so this is just a thought experiment. All right, so let's now talk about why is it that the Protestant Reformation won out. Again, they were up against the Holy Roman Empire. They were up against Catholic Church. There were more people in Catholic Europe. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 42:34 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Catholic Europe was wealthier and stronger, but they still won, okay? And the reason why they won is due to the invention of three things. The first thing is the printing press, which allowed for mass literacy and education. Now everyone could read the Bible. Before, you couldn't do so. You couldn't afford a Bible. But now everyone can read the Bible. But not only that, but everyone can now become self -educated. You can read all the classics by yourself. Okay? And the Protestant religion compelled you to be literate and to be educated. And as such, the Protestants as a whole were more well -educated than the Catholics. Okay? That's the first reason, the printing press. Second reason is the musket. This is really important. Before, the main weapon, the ultimate weapon was a knight, the armored knight. And the armored knight was a professional soldier, right? And that's why the knights were the nobility because they had to spend all their time training for war, going to war, fighting wars. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 43:36 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And it's very expensive to be a knight. But now, eventually, you have the gun, the musket. Okay? And it takes about 60 days for anyone to learn how to use the musket. And the musket is... The thing about the musket that's really important is it's able to pierce the armor of the knight, which makes the knight useless in war now. Okay? It's a musket that is important. So, in other words, anyone who has courage and devotion, mainly the Protestants, they're able to fight a war. And the musket will be vital, it will be crucial for both the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Okay? And we'll discuss the musket when we get to the American Revolution and the French Revolution. The last thing is that you have bank notes. Okay? Before, people used gold or coins that were minted with gold in order to... ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 44:31 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2671s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2671s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: to trade goods. Not only... You can use bank notes, which is just money. Okay? And you can now monetize your hard work and frugality. You can now channel your hard work and frugality into bank notes. What's really important now is there's only a finite number of gold and coins, right? There's an infinite source of bank notes. So you can work infinitely hard. Okay? So what this means is before the Protestant Reformation, it was really hard to get people to work hard. Because let's just say that you are an employer and you want to be like, okay, I'm going to pay people more. Right? Well, when you pay people more, they actually work less because they can't spend that money. They're like, well, you know, if I have to work eight hours a day to make $100, but now I have to work two hours a day to make $100, I'll just work two hours. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 45:28 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So we actually work less. And in this system, slavery makes sense. Because the way to get people to work hard is to force them into eternal debt, which is what slavery is. But in this new Protestant system, then slavery is an evil. Because you're denying people the capacity to be with God, right? You are with God if you work hard. But if you're a slave, how do you measure the hard work? You're not able to work hard. And that's why after the Protestant Reformation, one of the main things that they did was eventually outlaw slavery. So there are lots of good things about the Protestant Reformation. You have the Industrial Revolution. You have the end of slavery. You have the rise of capitalism. You have the rise of the middle class. You have lots of really good things. But there's also no denying that there are some bad effects as well, okay? All right. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 46:20 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So this is a printing press invented by Gutenberg. This is what a printing press looks like. You have the musket, okay? So before, people had, you know, bows, right? And the bows were used by trained archers, and they weren't that powerful. But now with the musket, you're able to pierce knight armor, okay? Because there's more energy, 3,100 joules within the bullet. And then you have banknotes as well. And banknotes really is the exception of wealth, okay? Which means that in theory now, you could have infinite wealth. Why are we so wealthy today? Because we abstracted wealth, okay? Before, wealth was limited because gold was limited. But now with banknotes, with money, in theory, wealth can be infinite, okay? Okay. So this is John Wesley, who is the founder of the Methodist Church, okay? And he summarizes the idea of Protestantism really well. We ought not to prevent people from being diligent and frugal. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 47:45 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: We must exhort all Christians to gain all they can and to save all they can. That is, in effect, to grow rich, all right? So Protestantists believe that it is God's calling. It is your mission to get rich. And that's how you know that you're favored by God, all right? And the way to get rich is by working hard and not spending any money. Okay. So what I'm going to do now is present the evidence for my argument that the Protestant religion gave birth to capitalism, okay? And to do so, I'm going to refer to three major thinkers. Max Weber, Imel Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. They're all sociologists. They're considered three major founders of the social sciences, okay? And they're all contemporaries. They were all writing about the year 1900. Why this is important is the year 1900 is really when the Protestant religion is most triumphant, right? This is when capitalism is most dominant. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 48:51 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=2931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Even though most people are not Protestants, Protestant, the work ethic, the belief system, has conquered the world. Germany, Britain, United States are the three most powerful countries in the world at this time. They're the three largest empires. And, they're all Protestant nations. And as such, they can impose Protestant beliefs on everyone else, okay? And the year 1900 is also before World War I. So at this time, everyone thinks that this is the greatest thing in the world. Protestantism, Industrial Revolution, capitalism are all divinely sent by God to bless humanity, okay? And what Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Imel Durkheim are trying to do is figure out what's really going on, okay? And to see if there are any consequences to this system. And what they will show us is, in fact, there are a lot of problems in this system, okay? So let's first look at Max Weber, who in 1904 to 1905, from 1905, he wrote something called The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 50:07 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: He's trying to explain why is it that Protestants are a lot wealthier than Catholics in general, okay? And this is what he has to say. So far as predestination was not reinterpreted, toned down, or fundamentally abandoned, okay? So remember, double predestination, right? The belief that God has already selected those who will go to heaven and you must prove to yourself that you are one of them. Two principle, mutually connected types of pastoral advice appear, okay? So there are two consequences to the idea of predestination. On the one hand, it is held to be an absolute duty to consider oneself chosen, okay? So when a minority are going to heaven, the odds are you're not going to heaven, but you must believe you're going to heaven, otherwise you lack faith in God. Otherwise you don't truly believe in God. And then therefore you'll be truly damned, condemned by God. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 51:06 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And to combat all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self -confidence is the result of insufficient faith and hence of imperfect grace, okay? To prove that God is perfect, to prove that God loves you, you must truly believe that you are chosen by God. If you doubt yourself, then you'll be condemned to hell, okay? Then you become a servant of the devil. The exhortation of the apostle to make fast one's own call is here interpreted as a duty to attain certainty of one's own election and certification in the daily struggle of life, okay? So you need to prove that you are one of the elect by focusing on this world, okay? Focus your energies on conquering this world. On the other hand, in order to attain that self -confidence, intense worldly activity is recommended as the most suitable means. It and it alone disperses religious doubt and gives the certainty of grace, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 52:08 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So this idea of, you have anxiety? How do you deal with anxiety? Work, work, work. Okay? OCD, obsessive compulsive behavior. What kind of work do you do? Make money. Because the money is proof of God's grace, right? Okay, so he continues. There's worldly Protestant asceticism, okay? Asceticism means like you're actually not spending any money, okay? Not only are you compelled to make a lot of money, but you're also compelled not to spend any of it. Not to enjoy it because that leads to corruption. That leads to decadence. Acted powerfully against the spontaneous enjoyment of possessions. It restricted consumption, especially of luxuries, okay? So no one's spending any of this money. Where's this money going? It's going to the bank. And who's using this money in the bank? The government is. And what are they doing? They're using it to fight wars, right? And that's how England and the Netherlands became empires. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 53:11 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: They had access to all this surplus wealth that Protestants weren't spending. On the other hand, it had the psychological effect of freeing the acquisition of goods and inhibitions of traditionalist ethics. Okay, so the idea here is this. Before, if you were wealthy, you were expected by everyone around you to support the community, usually by organizing feasts on religious festivals, okay? You were expected to share your wealth. If you had too much money, it showed that you were against the community, okay? It showed that you were selfish. But now, people believe that if you're wealthy, it means God favors you. The more wealth you have, the more people respect you, okay? It's the complete inverse from the historical case. Historically, we believed that those who have too much money are evil. Now we believe that those who have too much money are inherently good. Okay, it's the complete reverse. It broke the bonds, the ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 54:21 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: impulse of acquisition in that it not only legalized it, but looked upon it as directly willed by God, okay? So before, it was embarrassing to have too much money. Now it is prestigious to have too much money. The campaign against the temptations of the flesh and the dependence on external things was not a struggle against the rational acquisition, but against the rational use of wealth, okay? So what's evil is not to make a lot of money. What's evil is to use that money to enjoy yourself. Okay, so now he discusses the problems with this ideology, okay? The Puritans want to work in a calling, okay? So the Puritans want to be close to God. We are forced to do so. We're not Puritans. Most of the world is not Puritans. We're stuck. We are imprisoned in their world. They create this world and we're stuck in it. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells, into everyday life, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 55:30 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So the idea was in a Catholic church, if you wanted to be an ascetic, if you wanted to deny the world, you went into a monastery. The Puritans made the entire world into a monastery, okay? And began to dominate worldly morality. It did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. He's talking about capitalism, okay? So capitalism was created by the Puritans in order to rationalize the world. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production, which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force, okay? So they create this system, which is industrial production. And this industrial production has made us all into slaves. And the soul of this industrial production system is capitalism, wealth for the sake of wealth. Okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 56:30 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3390s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3390s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And there's no denying this system. You cannot, you can never free yourself from the system. You're stuck inside the system. But not only that, but this entire of industrial production, it has permeated into all aspects of life. It's permeated into the family. It's permeated into the school, okay? Why do you have grades? Why do you have tests? Because of this industrial economy, right? Grades, tests are another form of money. Perhaps it will so determine until the last ton of fossilized coal is burned, okay? What he's saying here is that this system will keep on going until we destroy the planet, okay? Until we run out of resources, because that's what capitalism is. It's the exploitation of the environment. In Baxter's view, the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of a saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment, okay? So the idea of Protestantism is, listen, external wealth, wealth is just a measure of your faith in God. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 57:33 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: That's not what's important. What's important is your faith, right? But the faith decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage, okay? Money was supposed to be a tool. Money was supposed to be a mechanism for us to connect with God, but now money, capitalism, industrial production, it's become our prison. There's no denying it. No one can now escape this, okay? Okay? Does it make sense to you? All right. So now he makes predictions. No one knows who will live in this cage in the future or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals of neither mechanized petrification embellished with a sort of convulsive self -importance. Okay? Sorry, sorry, sorry. I read this wrong, okay? Let me do this again. No one knows who will live in this cage ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 58:32 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: in the future or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas. Okay, so what we're saying is this. As capitalism conquers more and more territory, as it becomes more embedded into everyday life, there will be a nostalgia for the Catholic Church and there may arise new prophets who will rebel against capitalism just like Martin Luther rebelled against the Catholic religion, okay? And these new ideas will happen. They're called fascism and communism, all right? So capitalism will give rise to the Nazis as well as the communists, the Bolsheviks. So this is the future, okay? So he's making a prophecy. But if these things don't happen, then what will happen is this. Mechanized petrification embellished with a sort of convulsive self -importance. We believe today that we have achieved divinity. We have achieved heaven on earth. Capitalism is the greatest good. But if you think about it, our civilization has become a zombie civilization. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 59:42 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3582s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3582s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: It is without soul. It is without spirituality. It is without heart. It's all machine. It's all money. It's all obsession. Nothing else, okay? So I'm sorry that this is not appearing properly, okay? But that's what he's saying here. For of the last stage of its cultural development, it might well be truly said, specialists without spirit, okay? We have scientists who lack purpose. They have no sense of divinity. They have no sense of mission, okay? They're just doing technical work. Scientists who just do technical work. Sensualists without heart. This nullility imagines that it has achieved a level of civilization never before achieved, okay? All right? So that's what he's saying. He's saying like our civilization, it is a zombie civilization. It is nullitited. It is nothing. It is nihilistic. But we believe this is perfection, okay? And if you think about it, he's describing perfectly the world we live in today. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:00:55 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: It's perfect, okay? He wrote this in about 1900. He predicted this would happen. And he's right. We live in a zombie civilization. All right, okay. So this is Georg Simmel, who is a friend of Max Weber's, the contemporaries, the colleagues, the friends. And he's trying to explain where money comes from, okay? And as explained previously, money now has become a substitute for the idea of God. It's become reality itself, okay? And why is that? Okay, here explains it. The projection of mere relations into particular objects is one of the great accomplishments of the mind, okay? So we're able to take an idea and transpose this idea onto a thing. Okay, we're able to take the idea of God and turn it into money. Okay, we can do that. And that's a great thing. When the mind is embodied in objects, these become a vehicle for the mind endowed with a livelier and more comprehensive activity. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:01:57 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3717s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3717s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay, when we do this, we turn God into money, our understanding of reality becomes much more vibrant. We're able to understand reality much better, okay? The ability to construct such symbolic objects attains its greatest triumph in money, okay? Money becomes a placeholder for everything, right? For money, it represents peer interaction in its purest form. How do we know if we're working hard? How do we know if we are succeeding? How do we know if we have friends? Through money, okay? Through capital accumulation. It makes comprehensible the most abstract concept. It is an individual thing whose essential significance is to reach beyond individualities. It centralizes everything, okay? Everyone agrees on money. Thus, money is the adequate expression of the relationship of man to the world, which can only be grasped in single and concrete instances, yet only really can see when the singular becomes the embodiment of the living mental process, which interweaves all singularities and in this fashion creates reality, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:03:03 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3783s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3783s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing, okay? And then it redesigns reality. That's what he's saying here, okay? The last person I want to talk about is Emil Durkheim, and he's a French sociologist, and his most famous book is called On Suicide. He's trying to discuss why is it that Protestants are much more likely to kill themselves than Catholics, okay? And his answer is it's because Protestants believe you have to struggle individually with faith, whereas Catholics don't believe that. Catholics believe that you just follow community rituals and you're good, okay? So, Protestants feel that they're alone and abandoned in this world, and that they must struggle out of this darkness, and that leads to tremendous energy, okay? It also leads sometimes to self -defeat. It leads to hopelessness, and that's why they kill themselves, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:04:16 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So, let's not read this, but that's what he's saying, okay? Okay, but I want to read this. This is really important. He's talking about the fact that Protestants transfer this anxiety and accumulation of wealth, right? They're anxious about what God is. They're anxious whether or not God loves them, and they focus on the accumulation of wealth, okay? And this is a problem because overexcited ambitions always exceeds the results that they achieve, whatever these may be, because they have not been aware that they should not go any further, okay? Right? Let's just say that you want to lose weight. Your obsession is to lose weight. It's possible that you may die in the process because you don't know how much weight you should lose. You don't know what the proper equilibrium is, okay? You just want to lose as much weight as possible. That's the problem with accumulating money. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:05:18 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: You try to get more and more money to prove your worth to God, but you can't stop. You don't know when to stop, okay? Consequently, nothing satisfies them, and all this agitation perpetually sustains itself without reaching any form of satiety. You cannot stop, okay? You look at Jack Ma, the richest man in China at some point, right? He has all this money, $50 billion. What is he doing with it? Nothing. All he wants is to make more and more money. Why? Because only the acquisition of money brings him happiness. Nothing else does. It's a disease. Above all, as this race towards an unattainable goal can give no satisfaction but the race itself, if that can be called satisfaction, should anything chance to get in its way, then one is left empty -handed, okay? You're so focused on the obtaining of wealth that if you lose this process, okay, if you stop this process, you will feel devoid of everything, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:06:25 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3985s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=3985s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: You could have $50 billion in a bank, but if you drop out of this race, if you stop the accumulation of money, you will fall into anxiety and depression, all right? Now, it so happens that at this time, the struggle becomes more violent and more painful, both because it is less regulated and because competition is fiercer, all right? So he's talking about capitalism. How? Because it's all about the accumulation of wealth, and the accumulation of wealth can only bring about more anxiety and more stress. It's bringing out all social bonds, okay? It's bringing all traditional morality. It's bringing out all customs and norms. All classes are caught up in it because there's no longer any established classification. If you're rich, if you're poor, you're stuck in this system. No matter how rich you are, you're still playing this game. You can never escape it. So the effort is all the greater at the moment when it becomes more unproductive. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:07:29 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: How can the will to live not be weakened in these conditions, okay? So, like, I know this is hard, and I know what I'm saying is going to be depressing, but what Max Weber is saying is, we live in a zombie civilization, okay? That's what he's saying. What Emil Durkheim is saying is that this civilization is an abomination. It's on a path to suicide. It's on a path to self -destruction. There's no purpose in this civilization. We exist for the sake of accumulating nothing of value. And eventually, we'll just recognize this and we'll all have to die. Our civilization is on a path to suicide. And you know what? They're right. They're prophets. Think about this. Never before in human history have we been as wealthy as technological progress, right? We have the internet. As more connected. We can fly all around the world. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:08:37 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4117s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: You can go to the United States and study and then come back and work, okay? You have more opportunities than ever before. But again, think about this, okay? Never before in human history have there been more depression, anxiety, more suicides, more feeling of disconnection, okay? So, think about this. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's just say that I have anxiety. And the way that I deal with this anxiety is I collect newspapers. Every day, I'm out collecting newspapers. I fill this room with newspapers and then I go to the next room and I fill up newspapers. Everyone would say that I am hoarding, okay? The word is hoarding. And it is a disease, right? It's a disease. We all know it's a disease. If I were to go talk to a psychologist, he would say, I have a disease. I need... I need to take some anxiety medication. I need to relax, go on vacation, whatever, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:09:40 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: But let's just say this. Let's just say I have anxiety. And all I want to do is make money. I make a million dollars. I don't spend it. I put it in the bank and I go make two million dollars. And then I go make three million dollars. And I'm not spending it. It's all in the bank, okay? How is that different from hoarding? How is that different from me collecting newspapers and just putting it in the house? It's not. There's no difference, right? But everyone would think I'm a great person. I am a good person because I'm working hard and I'm saving money, right? It's a contradiction in our society. It's a contradiction that exists because our society, our civilization is incapable of recognizing that we are a zombie civilization that is on the path to civilization of suicide, right? Okay, so this was depressing, but I feel as though we needed to discuss this, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:10:45 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: And again, this idea that we learned previously, we're combining it, and we are going to use these ideas to understand the future development, okay? All right, so any questions? Great. Yep. Okay, you're absolutely right, okay? You're absolutely right. So in the Catholic religion, suicide is the worst sin that you can commit. Okay? And in the Protestant religion, there are also mechanisms against suicide. But let's go back to the theory. The theory is double predestination. God has already decided who will be burned in hell and who will go to heaven. And only a minority can go to heaven, right? And there's nothing you can do to change this. You understand? So if you follow the logic, you commit suicide, you're doing God's will. Because you commit suicide because you don't believe in God or you don't have enough faith in God, which means that you were condemned anyway, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:12:05 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: So suicide, it's not a sin. It's a sign of weakness. Does that make sense? Okay? But also what's important for us to remember is that suicide, it's also a feeling of disconnection. It's a belief that no one cares if you die or not. No one supports you in your life, and therefore you're better off dead. If you die, you're not actually impacting the community, okay? And that's Emile Durkheim's argument. You're always gonna have people kill themselves in all religions. You can't really stop that. But Protestants are more likely to kill themselves because Protestant is a much more individualistic religion than Catholic, okay? All right. Does that make sense? Great, okay. Next question? Okay, so these three are not philosophers. These three are sociologists. So they're social scientists. They're Max Weber, who is considered the founder of sociology, Georg Simmel, and Emile Durkheim. These are the three major sociologists that really created modern social sciences, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:13:29 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay, that's a great question, okay? Okay, so these are social scientists. And the thing about social scientists is they feel their responsibility is to diagnose problems. And once they diagnose problems, then it's up to us to figure out the solution, okay? So let's figure out what they're saying, okay? So Weber is saying that this anxiety, which leads to capitalism, will ultimately lead to civilizational decline, okay? That's his main argument, okay? So again, he's not writing at the beginning of Protestantism, where Protestantism was a persecuted religion. And where it really gave hope to a lot of people. And it really empowered them to transform their lives, okay? He's really talking about late Protestantism when it's really conquered the world. And he's seeing a lot of issues, okay? And so he's looking at this. He's looking at the anxiety which causes capitalism, which causes civilizational decline. So he says there has to be a response. And there's going to be three possible responses. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:15:02 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: The first possible response is nothingness. In which case, guess what? We become a zombie society. A zombie society just means that we just go on day to day doing whatever, but we don't know why. We don't really care. We have no soul. We have no spirit. We have no energy, okay? That's what a zombie society is. And that's what he's afraid of. But it's also possible that there is a reaction, which will lead to the return of the Catholic Church, which was basically a theocracy. Does that make sense? That's the second possibility. And then another possibility is the idea of new prophets, or people who are trying to channel this discontent with capitalism in order to form new movements in the way that Martin Luther and John Calvin did, right? And in the 12th century, there were two major responses to the problem of capitalism. The first, of course, is called communism. ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:16:10 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: The second is called fascism, okay, or the Nazis. All right, so the 12th century was really about defeating these two critics of capitalism, right? That's what the 12th century really was about. You first had World War II, which defeated Nazism, and then you have the Cold War, which defeated communism, all right? So this is out, okay? So right now, okay, our two paths ahead of us is either a zombie society or a return to a theocracy. And so if I'm a betting man, what our future looks like, I think it is most likely the world becomes a theocracy, all right? And there are theocracies that exist today. So for example, let's look at North Korea. North Korea is a theocracy where people are not allowed to think for themselves. People must do what they're told, okay? And it's all very heavily ritualized society, which worships the divinity of the supreme leader. We may hate this society, we may be disgusted by this society, but guess what? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:17:22 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Okay, this is really important. People in North Korea, even though they're poorer, even though they have less freedom, they are on average happier and more fulfilled and more energetic than most societies. You compare North Korea with South Korea, okay? Right? In South Korea, no one's having kids. That's a sign of complete hopelessness in this society. In North Korea, they're having a lot of kids. That's a sort of faith in our society, okay? So that's what Max Weber is predicting. He's predicting these three possible paths. We tried the new prophet's path. It didn't work, okay? We don't want to become a zombie society. So the only path ahead of us is to become a theocracy, a return to the tyranny of the Catholic Church. But the tyranny gives us meaning, purpose, and spirituality, a connection with God, that we are lacking into this society, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:18:21 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#mass-society-constraint-atlas); [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-narrows-political-freedom) Text: But, okay, let's just say, for the sake of argument, you know what? I like my individual freedom, right? I don't want to go to a theocracy where everyone's a slave. What can we do about this? Okay. So one issue that Max Weber doesn't really address because he doesn't recognize the problem is all these problems we're talking about is a problem of mass society, okay? When you have mass society, your options are much more limited. When you have mass society, you need to feed millions and millions of people. You need to organize them. You need to give them something to do. Therefore, your political flexibility doesn't really exist, okay? So, in other words, okay, thinking ahead, there are two solutions. Either you become a theocracy, or you figure out the problem of mass society, okay? If society becomes, I mean, like, I'm sorry to say this, but, like, if most people in the world died, then we would have more freedom in this world, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:19:40 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-narrows-political-freedom) Text: But if we choose to continue the system where you have eight billion people struggling on this earth, then you're stuck with moving towards a theocracy, okay? So that's what Max Weber is saying. He's basically saying, he's giving us a prophecy about our future, all right? Now, okay, having said that, let's look at Durkheim, okay? Durkheim. What's he saying? He's saying this, okay? And this is really important, okay? It's a hard argument, but this is what he's saying. All right. Why do you have suicide? Suicide is the result of disconnection. We do not think we are valuable in the world. We think that we are alone in this world, we don't want to be part of this world, we kill ourselves, okay? It's a very simple idea, right? But then the question then is, why is there disconnection? Because of anxiety, right? It's a belief that if I don't work hard, God will not favor me, right? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:21:03 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: Why is anxiety important? Because it leads to capitalism. So in other words, these four concepts are interconnected, all right? Disconnection leads to suicide. We have disconnection because of anxiety. But anxiety is what feeds capitalism. If people weren't anxious, they wouldn't go out and work so hard to make money, right? They'd be like, you know what? I'm pretty happy making my $10 a day and stay at home eating noodles because I don't care, right? Your society would collapse. Capitalism would collapse, okay? So do you understand? Capitalism creates suicide. That's why we have the highest suicide rate in the whole entirety of human history, okay? More anxiety, more anxiety. More depression, more suicide, more unhappiness, more loneliness than ever before in human history, okay? So you can't say capitalism is the issue, but if you work out the logic, capitalism is the issue, right? And that's ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:22:05 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt) Text: why today in the United States and elsewhere in the world, they're talking about a return to a theocracy because the direct response to capitalism is a theocracy. Let's just all obey the church and we're good, okay? Now, women will have to stay at home and give birth to kids. Oh, and also, like, if you're homosexual, we're going to have to kill you, but, you know, that's a price we're going to have to pay, okay? So it's a terrible world that we're going to, but what Durkheim is saying is if we continue on the path of capitalism, people are going to choose the path of theocracy. Theocracy is almost a natural outcome of capitalism because of the problem of disconnection, okay? But are you going to be able to defeat capitalism ever? And the answer is no, okay? We tried in the 20th century. It led to the death of tens of millions of people, okay? ## The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety -- 1:23:06 - Source title: Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxlOiJz8V0&t=4986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tcxloijz8v0.json) Text: Good luck trying to defeat capitalism. You can't do it. It can't be done. It's too powerful, okay? Does that make sense? Any more questions? Okay, great. So next Tuesday, we do this. We're going to do the time revolution, okay? All right. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the Renaissance start? Because the Renaissance was an intellectual revolution in Europe that would ultimately change the fate of Europe. Okay, guys? The Renaissance was a reimagining of classical Greece. In a Christian European context. Okay, so what the Renaissance is going to do is combine classical Greece with Christian Europe. And it's going to create modernity. Alright, so the ideas, the values that underpin modernity, the world we live in today, starts with the Renaissance. Okay, so the question we are looking at this morning is, how did the Renaissance start? Okay, and there are lots of very different theories. And what scholars today believe is, it was a perfect storm of cultural, historical, economic trends. Okay, so let's look at the main factors. The first is the decline of Constantinople. So, for hundreds of years, Constantinople was the epicenter of European culture. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:29 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=89s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=89s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. But, as the Ottoman Turks start to encroach on Byzantium territory a lot of the scholars, a lot of the major thinkers, the Byzantine Empire, they start to shift back to Europe. And they bring with them Plato, Aristotle, okay? So that's one major factor. The Crusades! The Crusades, remember we discussed last class, it was a time when Europeans encountered the Muslim world at mass. And as a result, they absorbed a lot of� of the culture and politics of the Islamic Golden Age. Then there was the fact that in Italy, you had many different city -states in competition with each other. And as we discussed in many classes before, when you have that, you have something called open cooperative competition, which leads to innovation. Also, what's really important for us to remember ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 2:29 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in an imperial bureaucracy, if you're a bureaucrat, you can sort of stand outside of history and observe history. But if you're a participant in history, then you are fighting wars. You're a participant in politics. You're always thinking about the relevance of your theory to reality. The three major city -states of Italy that will give rise to renaissance are Florence, Venice, and Genoa. Venice and Genoa are known for their slave trade. So they're trading slaves with the Muslim world. And through this trade, they're bringing back the books, the ideas, the values of the Islamic world into Europe. As well, because of this trade and commerce, these three city -states become extremely wealthy, and that allows them to patronize, recognize the arts. So you have the rise of a merchant elite in Florence. The family is called the Medici's. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 3:40 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Why this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win your legitimacy by fighting the battlefield. If you're a priest, your legitimacy comes from God or the gods. But if you're a merchant elite, the question then is, where does your money come from? And the answer is, you have to have a legitimacy come from and so because of this question the Medici's are forced to patronize a lot of the arts they will patronize the individuals including da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo basically the major artists of the Renaissance okay at this time from 1305 to 1378 there are actually two popes in Europe there's the crisis of legitimacy and authority in the Catholic Church the Pope moves to Avignon and therefore the Pope doesn't really have authority over Italy you also have the rise of universities and monasteries universities ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 4:43 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: and monasteries are places of theological debate and discussion and they store the classics and this is where a lot of new ideas will come from you And then the last factor to think about is in 1440, around then, a man named Gutenberg, he will invent the printing press. And the printing press allows for the rapid dissemination of literacy and knowledge, okay? So what scholars believe is these various factors will coalesce into the Renaissance and mark an intellectual revolution in Europe, right? Now, the thing that you will remember about my teaching in this class is I disagree with scholarship. I think there's one factor that they're missing out, and it's the main factor in the creation of the Renaissance. I believe, I will argue to you today, that Dante, the Divine Comedy, is what ultimately sparked the Renaissance. Without Dante, the Renaissance, this revolution, would not have been possible, okay? So this class, I'm gonna present ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 6:00 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: you the scholarly, mainstream argument, and then I will present my argument, which is that Dante is most responsible for the Renaissance, okay? So, a basic fact that we need to remember. If you look at all the major figures of the Renaissance, okay, including Dante, and Raphael, Galileo, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, okay? The person who was born the earliest is actually Dante, okay, in 1265. So that is a good clue to suggest that perhaps it was Dante that sparked the Renaissance, that he's the secret sauce that made the Renaissance possible, okay? And throughout this class, I will make you this argument. But first, let's just go over through the scholarly, mainstream argument, okay? So, first thing to remember is that, before the Renaissance, Europe was connected with Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through these dense trade networks. As we discussed previously, the three main city -states that are involved in global trade are Venice, okay, Genoa, and Florence. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 7:25 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Venice and Genoa are the ones who benefit the most from this trade because they are by the coast, and they are the ones that are most strategically located to benefit from this trade, okay? And this trade, mainly slave trade, actually, so Genoa and Venice will engage mainly in slave trade. Florence will not engage in slave trade. It will engage mainly in wool, okay? Wool. So this is Venice, and the slave trade made Venice extremely prosperous. This is Florence in around the 15th century. Okay, so one thing to remember about Italy at this point is that it is divided into warring city -states, okay? And as a result, they're always in competition with each other, they're always at war with each other. And as we discussed previously, this scenario will drive innovation in Europe, okay? Mainly commercial innovation. By about the year 1000, as we discussed in the last class, Europe is now prosperous, and they are engaging in commercial trade. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 8:40 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=520s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=520s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: The problem is, how do you facilitate trade, right? So for example, if England has a lot of cotton, and then France has a lot of, and then France has a lot of bananas, what if England doesn't want bananas? Well, England and France cannot trade with each other. So the only way to get around this is by creating a currency that everyone wants, and the currency that everyone wants is gold. So in Florence, they create something called the gold florin, which is a currency of Florence. But because it is so prestigious, because it's mainly gold, everyone wants it. And so the gold florin becomes the currency of European trade. And the family that most benefits from the status of the florin is the Medici family. So this is Cosomo, basically the founding patriarch of the family. And so what he will do is he will pool the resources of rich people in Florence to create a bank. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 9:44 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Meaning, if you're a merchant, you can borrow from this bank. And what he will do is he will set up branches all throughout Europe in order to facilitate and underwrite European trade. And obviously, he gets a cut of all this trade. And as a result, the Medici family become tremendously wealthy. And they create the Medici dynasty. From this family, four popes will emerge. Okay? Four popes will emerge. They will eventually take over Florence and create their own monarchy. As we discussed, if you're a merchant family, you have a legitimacy problem. You didn't win the title. You didn't win your wealth on the battlefield. You don't represent God. All you have is a lot of money. So in order to legitimize themselves, they will go on a massive spending spree in order to make Florence the cultural capital of Europe. Okay? So they will... First of all, fund these massive agricultural projects. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 10:48 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: The most famous church in Florence is called the Santa Maria dei Fori. It's still there. You guys can still visit it. It's the fourth largest church in the world. It's absolutely stunning. Okay? Here's another view of the church and the city of Florence. And it's still there today. If you fly to Florence, you will still see this picture. Okay? It is incredibly well preserved. This is what... Inside... The church looks like. All right? They will also patronize artists. The most famous artists of this time were patronized by the Medici family. So Michelangelo actually lived with the Medici family for a while. And of course, he's most famous for a painting called The Creation of Adam, which we will discuss. Okay? The Creation of Adam is also famous for the statue of David. You also have Da Vinci, who is considered the archetypal Renaissance man. When you think of the Renaissance, you think of Da Vinci. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 12:02 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=722s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=722s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So these are some of his paintings. He is a remarkable genius. He is what we call a polymath, which means that he dabbles or he's interested in every single field of human history. He has a lot of knowledge. The sciences, philosophy, poetry, art, music, everything. And he takes all these different disciplines and combines them into his art. Okay? This is one of his most famous paintings, The Last Supper. And this painting I will show you is a work of genius. Okay? So later on, we will actually discuss The Last Supper. But first, I introduce it to you here. This is the School of Athens by Raphael. One of the most famous paintings in the world. You also have Botticelli, Donatello. And again, these are the most famous artists of the Renaissance. And the Medici has patronized every single one of them. Later on in this class, we will actually discuss these paintings. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 13:11 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=791s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=791s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: But as the Medici are patronizing art and culture in Florence, the printing press is being invented by Gutenberg in Germany. And the printing press, it marks a revolution of literacy in Europe. This is a picture of what a printing shop looks like. So think about this. So the printing press first arrives in Venice in 1469. Only 30 years later, there are 417 printing presses in a city. Think of these as publishing houses. All right? In the first 50 years, there are 20 million volumes of books that are printed in Europe. So the printing press is a revolution of literacy and knowledge in Europe that democratizes knowledge. Everyone now has access to Plato, Aristotle, the Bible. And what they're reading are some of the major thinkers. So now, we're going to look at some of the great writers of the Renaissance. So in terms of poetry, there are three major poets. There's Dante, there's Petrarch, and there's Boccaccio. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 14:33 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: All right? You also have Niccolo Machiavelli, who we still read today. His most famous work is called The Prince. And The Prince is really one of the first political treatises in the world. The question then is how do you best govern a state? And today we remember the prince for its strategy, for its almost amoral strategy on how to rule a state. What we need to remember is that Machiavelli himself, during this time, he was a startant Democrat. He believed that the people needed to have a say over the affairs of Florence. And, as a result, he came into contact with the Medici's who tortured him. But he wrote the prince in order to raise awareness about politics. He believed that if we are to have a well -functioning republic, then everyone needs to understand how politics works. And then you also have, from Florence, Galileo, who we will discuss next week. He is the father of science. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 15:44 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So these are the major thinkers. The philosophy, the value system that underpins all this artistic production is the idea of humanism. So what is humanism? And how is it different from Christianity? So these are the three major differences, guys. So let's look at them. If you're a Christian, the Catholic Church for the longest time struggled with what is the nature of humanism. What is the idea of God? And humanists concern themselves with what is the story of humans. Do you guys understand? This is the major revolution in the intellect brought on by the Renaissance, a transition from a focus on ideas to a focus on stories. The second major difference is Christians always ask, what is the history of humanism? They ask, how do I save my soul? How do I ensure that I go to heaven? But humanists ask, how do I flourish? How do I make the most out of my talents? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 16:59 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: How do I have the best possible life on earth? So the Greek word is eudaimonia. So humanism is actually a return to the values and belief systems of classical Greece. Now the last major difference is Christianity. The last major difference is Christianity. Christians always ask, how can we best serve God? How can we best obey God? But humanists ask, how do we achieve goodness? How do we make the world we live in today beautiful and truthful? So these are the three major differences that separate Christians from humanists. And what humanism will represent is a radical reorientation. Reorientation. Reorientation. Reorientation. Reorientation. Reorientation of focus from the after world into the here and now. Christians care about what happens in heaven, humanists care about what happens today, how do we make the most out of today, how do we make the world a better place. Does that make sense to you guys? So having said that, let's understand concretely how this transition happened. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 18:19 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: It happened through art. So the main transition, to emphasize, is a transition from a focus on ideas to a focus on stories. So what do I mean by that? Let's look at some classical Greek sculptures. If you look at some Greek sculptures, the thing that stands out is the motion, the tension, the emotion in the sculptures. There's a story being told. You can almost feel that this person is alive and thinking. You can almost go into this person's character. It's a story. This sculpture is actually even more obvious. Within the sculpture, there's a story taking place. It's almost like you're watching a movie. And what your mind does when it's looking at the sculpture, when it is in conversation with the sculpture, it is... Imagine what happens before and after. You are making the sculpture alive with your imagination. So that's classical Greece. By the time we hit medieval Christianity, the very concept of art changes. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 19:32 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: It becomes more of an idea. So this is from the Carolingian Renaissance, so basically the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire. And as you can see, the artwork, it's much more static. Okay? It's not really a story here. What's being conveyed to you is an idea. You don't really have to imagine what's going on because there's really no space for you to imagine what's going on. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 20:01 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1201s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1201s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 20:03 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So the main artwork during the medieval Christian period are stained glass windows. So you go inside a church and you see pictures on the windows. And what these are, are almost like visual aids. So when the priest is talking about the stories of the Bible, he's using these pictures to illustrate his point. Because remember, at this point, most people are illiterate. Because of these stained glass windows, the effect that is created in the observer is blinding and awesome. Remember, these are windows and they're high up in the church. So the light is coming through. It makes the pictures wholly illuminated with light. It's awesome. You're forced to stand back. But it's also blinding. Blinding just means that it's hard for you to imagine what's going on. The purpose of this artwork is to make you submit before the power of God. For you understand the awesomeness of God. Okay? Does that make sense? You're not here to participate. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 21:17 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: You're here to submit. Alright? So as you can see, this is a church. You can see how the light comes in. And it blinds you. Alright? And it's hard for you to really participate in the artwork. So this is the idea of medieval Christianity. The idea that you, through artwork, you are trying to represent the eternity. The awesomeness. The mystery that is God. Alright? By the time we hit the Renaissance, the attitude is completely different. Okay? This is Da Vinci's The Last Supper. And from blinding and awesome, we go to compelling and curious. What this means is, compelling means that you are drawn into the picture. Alright? Why? Because of depth. Okay? Meaning the picture moves backwards and it moves forwards. And because of this motion, you are drawn into the picture. Look at this table, right? Look at this table. It's not a complete table. It's too much too small for 13 people to eat. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 22:31 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: It's much too thin, right? So what your eye believes is this table is expanding outwards. And so you are part of this picture. Does that make sense? Okay. And also it's curious because clearly within this picture there's a lot of tension. you see how these different groups are in discussion okay and they're all focused on Jesus so this is the picture the artwork of the Last Supper and the Last Supper which appears in the Bible Jesus reveals that someone has betrayed them there's someone his name is Judas Iscariot he has betrayed them and the next day Jesus will be arrested and he will be crucified and once Jesus announces this everyone becomes anxious is it me is it me am I the betrayer okay there's a lot of tension in this picture and as you can see it's a radical departure this very painting is radical departure from medieval Christian art ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 23:44 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1424s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1424s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: if you look at previous medieval Christian art okay below first of all it's much more static it's much more organized there's not that much tension in the picture and what's most important is the idea of holiness you see this hallow surrounding each person in the picture right it shows you that these are divine figures what Leo Leonardo da Vinci has done which is very important is he's seeing really he's really taking out of the human he's really taking out the humanity in the picture there no hallows what's left is the humanity okay these are first and foremost humans not divine figures okay so this is another picture previously so there's much more detail but as you again as you can see not as much tension not as much drama as in the Vint da Vinci's all right and this is the most recent okay this is the most recent now in this artwork Judas Iscariot ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 24:48 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: stands out from the rest and so that signals him as the betrayer but in da Vinci's work it's not obvious who is the betrayer everyone is afraid that he or she is the betrayer okay and then that this and what this does is it forces you to investigate it forces you the observer to observe the details in order to make the decision about a what he is doing regarding a person Jim what's amazing about this picture is the focus on human anatomy facial expressions right you see the tensions in the neck you see the hen gestures so what da Vinci believed is that the hands the hand motions there are a window into the hands okay and you can see how the hands are all in different motions which signifies different personalities different thoughts inside that person and again you're forced to investigate all right you can see the anxiety the stress the drama in ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 26:11 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: each of the faces da vinci was first and foremost an astute observer of emotions okay how emotions are expressed through the face through body tension through breathing through the eyes um the man who is who ultimately responsible for the betrayal is judas iscariot and you can see how dante subliminally sorry sub with subtlety emphasizes his betrayal right okay so you can see how he's darker than the other individuals so he's turning away from the light he's betrayed god by turning away from the light okay also in his hand he's clutching some silver coins okay and you can see his neck his neck is being emphasized why because all the tension in his neck okay he can't breathe everyone else is anxious you're talking but he cannot bring himself to talk so all the tension is captured in his neck all right so you see all the subtlety here right okay something really fun about the ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 27:29 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Last Supper is becomes up the basis for a very famous book called the Da Vinci Code and then and the Da Vinci Code is a very popular book no scholarship it just meant for entertainment what it argues is that Jesus did not die sorry Jesus died but before he died he married his lover who is Mary you, Madeline okay and so this picture becomes one of the sources for the book so previously scholars have believed that this person is one of the Apostles but when you look at him okay it turns out she's it's almost a she right okay and if you look at how Jesus and this person is stationed it creates an M shape right and M can mean Mary but it stands for their closeness together so people speculate that these two are married and by doing this what Don is really emphasizing is the humanity of Jesus Jesus is first ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 28:43 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: and foremost a human okay so this is this is interesting guys okay scholars don't really agree with this analysis but becomes the basis of the Da Vinci Code which is a really fun book all right something that scholars do believe is the mathematics so if you look at where the hands and the bread are and you map it onto a music sheet you can actually play the music okay it's designed to be musical also look at the configuration it's a three three one three three configuration okay it turns out that the If you look at the Bible and you look for the passage 33, 1, 33, you get this quotation in Lamentations, okay, in the Bible. It says, For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion. So great is his unfailing love, for he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone. And so the idea here is that God will always love you. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 29:54 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: God is love. God is incapable of hating you. He will always find a way to forgive you. And if you remember from last semester, this is the very idea of the divine comedy. Leonardo da Vinci is getting this idea from Dante. And this idea is the backbone of the Last Supper. Jesus knows he's been betrayed by Judas Iscariot. But look at him, okay? Let's go back and look at him. He's called. He's reassured. He's already forgiven Judas Iscariot. All right? There's no hatred in him. There's no anger. The anger and the hatred is everyone else. All right? So that's the Last Supper. And as you can see, it is heavily influenced by Dante. All right. This is the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa. It has captured the imagination of millions of people. Millions of people every year will go to France, ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 30:57 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: the Louvre, to stand in line just so they can spend 10 seconds to look at this picture, okay? What makes this picture remarkable is it's secretly alive. Dante spent 16 years crafting this in a way that by just talking with it, by moving around in conversation with it, it becomes alive. So when you just look at it directly, Mona Lisa isn't really doing anything. She's just smiling. Sorry. She's neutral in her expression, right? But if you turn away from her, what happens is this. What happens is she starts to have a smile. Okay? She starts to have a smile. So your eyes play tricks on you. When you move away from the picture, what happens is your peripheral vision still picks up the picture, but the expression is different. Okay? So this is the central version. We just look at her directly. But as you move further away from her, she smiles. Okay? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 32:02 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1922s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1922s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So what is this saying? What this is saying is the art is alive if you engage with it. Okay? Art is not meant to be blinding and awesome. It's meant to be here and now. Only if you participate in the art does it become alive. Only when it becomes alive does it exist. Only then does it achieve its true meaning. Okay? So this is the Mona Lisa. All right. Let's look at the School of Athens by Raphael. The actual name for this painting is actually not School of Athens. It's actually called Philosophy. And the reason why is it was commissioned by Pope Julius II of the Vatican in order to decorate his papal apartments. So we go inside his papal apartments today. There are four major frescoes, paintings. The first is called Philosophy. And then right beside Philosophy is called Religion. Okay? So Religion and Philosophy balance each other out. They are dependent on each other. And then across the wall are two more paintings, Poetry and Law. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 33:17 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1997s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=1997s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: All right? So that's the very ideal of the Renaissance, open -mindedness, exploration. And holistic learning. All right. So let's look at this painting. First of all, at the very center are two figures. Plato and Aristotle. How do we know? Because they're holding two books. This is the Timaeus by Plato where he discusses the realm of the forms. Remember before in class we discussed Platonic philosophy, right? And how Plato conceptualizes heaven. God is the form of the good. And then form of the good. What will emanate? Concepts. Truth, beauty, justice. Which will then give rise to perfect forms. Okay? And so this is argued in his book Timaeus. Aristotle, his most famous book is called Ethics. How to Lead a Good Life. What's amazing about this picture is you can see that these two are having a debate. So first thing is Plato is pointing upwards. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 34:20 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? What he's saying is, the real world, what matters is heaven. And what Aristotle is saying is, no, what matters is down here on earth. Okay? Aristotle is concerned about earthly matters. Also, look at their colors. So Plato is wearing white and red. White symbolizes air. Red symbolizes fire. Right? These are spiritual. Virtual colors. But Aristotle is wearing blue, which signifies water. And then he's also wearing brown, which signifies the earth. Okay? So they're having this debate. And this debate is, as we discussed previously, it is what underpins the debate within Russian philosophy even today. Okay? Now, what's amazing is that as the two are walking, they're splitting the world into two. There are those philosophers who support Aristotle and they focus on earthly matters. And then there are people who support Plato who focus on spiritual matters, on discovering the secrets of the universe. Aristotle is concerned about everyday science, on uncovering the secrets of a reality. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 35:45 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So they're splitting the two. And as you can see, there's depth to this painting. Okay? There's a sky to the back. There are these arches. And so it's extending forward. And so we're being drawn into the picture. That's the power of depth and perception. This is Pythagoras. You will know him from Pythagoras' theorem. But he's first and foremost a spiritualist. He's concerned about mysticism. He's concerned about God. This is Euclid. Okay? Who is one of the inventors of geometry. All right? And here he's focused on using science, using logic, using deduction to teach his students. You also have in the picture many different personalities. You have Zoroaster who is the founder of Zoroastrianism. Okay? The religion of Persia. You have Ptolemy who investigated how the planets move. All right? And as you can see, Zoroaster, can you see this picture clearly? Okay. This is more clear. Zoroaster is concerned with the heavens, with spiritual matters. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 37:00 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Ptolemy is concerned with the earth, with all reality. All right? So this is Raphael acknowledging that there are two different realities. There's the material reality, but then there's also a spiritual reality. And they're both important. All right? Now what's amazing here is that Raphael, this is Raphael actually. This is a self -portrait of Raphael. He will actually engage in the conversation. He will listen in. He will insert himself in the painting. Okay? Now remember that Christianity focuses on the idea of humility, on self -negation, on removing yourself from the world. But Raphael is reinserting himself into the world and celebrating his curiosity, celebrating his humanity. Okay? And where does he get this idea from? From Dante. Right? Because Dante makes himself the hero of divine comedy. He makes himself the focus of the divine comedy. And to go back to the conversation between Plato and Aristotle, look at this. Okay? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 38:07 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: This is a visual representation of the divine comedy. Because remember, in the divine comedy, Virgil and Dante are engaged in a vigorous debate about the nature of love, the nature of sin. Right? Okay? So this is representing the divine comedy. The structure is the same as the divine comedy. They're also, as they walk from Purgatory, from Inferno to Purgatory, they're also talking to other historical figures as well. All right? So this is directly inspired by Dante. Does it make sense to you guys? Okay? Okay, so this is Raphael. Okay? So not only does Raphael insert himself into the picture, he also inserts his friend into This is Michelangelo. This is Michelangelo. Michelangelo is known for being reclusive. He's known for not enjoying the company of others. And Michelangelo here, he's conflated with another historical figure, a philosopher named Heraclitus, who is also known for not enjoying the company of others. Okay? So this picture just shows you the immense diversity of human thought and human personality. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 39:23 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: It's a celebration of what it means to be human. Okay? So these paintings leave us with a fundamental question. All right? We can now see the radical differences between Christian art and Renaissance art. So now the question then is, how did Dante spark the confident self -exploration and triumphant self -expression of the Renaissance? If you look at the art, it is confident. It is triumphant. Okay? It's celebrating what it means to be human. Okay? And what I will show you now is, what he will do is, he will reimagine our relationship with God, which is the fundamental question of Europe at this time. Okay. So most people, they're grappling with three major questions, especially intellectuals. The first question is, what is God? Okay? What is the idea? What is the nature of God? The second question is, what is the nature of the relationship between God and humans? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 40:25 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: What did God create us? What is our responsibility to God? Okay? And the last question is, how can we best worship God? Meaning, how can we best ensure our divinity? How can we best ensure that we will rise to heaven? All right? So these are the three fundamental questions underlying Christian society at this point. All right? So, you can take these three questions and just ask one question, really, which is, why did Jesus have to die? Why was Jesus crucified? Okay? This is the crucification. Okay? Why is it that the Son of God, the Messiah, had to die? And this idea was first understood and discussed by Paul. Okay? And Paul's idea is this. God created us and gave us paradise. Okay? This is Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. But because we were arrogant, because we were proud, we wanted to become God, we wanted to eat that food from the Tree of Knowledge, which would make us like God. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 41:36 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: And because we disobeyed God, God had no choice but to banish us from the Garden of Eden. Okay? And so, why did Jesus have to come to earth and sacrifice himself? Because... Because without God, we humans can only commit more and more sin. So, to redeem us and to beg for forgiveness from God, Jesus came down and sacrificed himself. Okay? And his sacrifice made God relent and forgive us. And so, now we are cleansed of our sins, and now we can begin anew. All right? That's the idea that Paul is presenting. Why Jesus? Why Jesus is the Messiah, and why he had to kill himself. The problem, though, is as Christianity grows and grows, the divinity of Christ, the divinity of Jesus, expands. Before, he was just a human who was favored by God. Then he became a son of God. But by the ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 42:40 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: time of a man named Tertullian, who lived about the second century, he argued for the Holy Trinity, which is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate but equal. Jesus is God. Okay? Now you have a problem, though. If Jesus is truly God, then why did God have to kill himself? We can understand if Jesus is a son of God, Jesus kills himself to beg for his father's forgiveness. That makes sense. All right? But if Jesus is God, then why did he have to kill himself? Okay? This is now causing a lot of confusion. So, another Christian theologian by the name of Origen... Origen... Okay. So, this is the Trinity. By the name Origen, his explanation is something called the Ransom Theory. All right? And the theory goes like this. When we were cast off from the Garden of Eden, we became subject to Satan, the devil. We became slaves to the devil. Remember, it was Satan, the devil, who tempted Eve to eat that fruit. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 43:47 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Right? And when she ate that fruit, she now swears allegiance to the devil. We are now slaves to the devil. We are now his property. So, the only way for God to redeem us is by ransoming us from Satan. By offering something so valuable that Satan is willing to make a trade. Right? So, what did God offer? God offered his life. The trick, though, is that God cannot be killed because God is eternal and perfect. So, God tricked Satan. But what's really important to understand is this. Before, we were slaves to Satan. But because God made this trade, we are now slaves to God. Okay? We are now slaves to God. And this very idea will be expanded and elaborated by Augustine in order to create the intellectual blueprint for the Catholic Church. All right? This idea of the Ransom Theory. All right. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 44:49 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: So, remember, it's the City of God. Augustine will say certain things. And it's really important for us to remember what he said in the City of God. Okay? The main idea is that because God ransomed us, we are now his slaves. And therefore, we must obey him. We must submit. All right? So, let's go over what he says. Augustine. First thing he says is, when man lives by the standard of man, when we trust ourselves, when we use our imagination, when we use our intuition, and not by the standard of God. The standard of God is to submit to him, to obey him. He is like the devil. Okay? You understand? When we use our imagination, when we use our intuition, we are like Satan. At our core is the essence of Satan. It is only by submitting ourselves to God that we are freed from the influence of Satan. Okay? ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 45:42 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Could anything but pride happen at the start of the evil will? Why did we disobey God? Why did we eat that fruit? Because we wanted to become God. So, there's an arrogance. There's a pride to us that is the essence of Satan. Okay? Satan fell from heaven because of his pride. If we just trust our nature, we will also fall like Satan. His was a venial transgression when he refused to desert his life's companion, even though the refusal entailed companionship in sin. Eve was tempted by the devil. But Adam ate the fruit. Because of his love for Eve. Therefore, love can only misguide you. Love can only trick you. Love can only lead you to an evil path. Okay? Do not trust your intuition. Do not trust your imagination. But most importantly, do not trust your love of others, especially women. Okay? The will derives its existence as a nature from its creation by God. Its falling away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 46:51 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? So, why are we like the devil? Why can't we trust ourselves? Because we were created out of dust. We were created out of nothing. Alright? If we're an angel, we're created by God. And therefore, we are perfect. But because we're created out of dust, we are inherently flawed. Okay? So, we must not trust ourselves. We must refuse who we are. We must deny who we are and submit ourselves to the glory that is God. Alright? We see the two cities were created by two kinds of love. The earthly city was created by self -love, reaching the point of contempt for God. When we love ourselves, we disobey God. And that's what explains the world we live in today. This world is evil because of our pride, because of our self -love, because of love for others. But the heavenly city, by the love of God, carried as far as contempt of self. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 47:48 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: When we deny who we are, when we submit fully to God, we can create a perfect world. We can achieve heaven. Okay? So, again, this is the very idea for the Catholic Church. Self -denial, self -negation. Okay? Now, you can think about this and understand now why the Islamic world raced ahead of Europe. Because in Europe, people were paralyzed. People were afraid to do anything because they couldn't really trust themselves. Okay? But eventually, the contrast between the Islamic world and the European Christian world was so great that even the Catholic Church had to admit there were problems with the theology of Augustine. Okay? If you ask people to deny who they are and to submit themselves completely to the power of the church, it leads to corruption, stagnation, and inequality. Okay? So, there are some major reasons. There are some major reforms undertaken by the church in response to this. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 49:00 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=2940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: One major reform are the creation of the university system. So, this is the University of Paris, which is chartered in 1200. This today is called the Sorbonne, okay? Which is the most famous university in France and in Europe, basically. One of the most famous professors of theology at the University of Paris is Thomas Aquinas. Now, Thomas Aquinas, he's a saint in the Catholic Church. His importance is he's trying to revise Augustine for a Europe in conflict with Islam. Okay? What he's really trying to do is he's trying to take the pure platonic world of Augustine and combine it with Aristotelian science and logic and reason. He's trying to combine faith and reason. Okay? And so, he's trying to update the Catholic Church. But ultimately, he doesn't succeed. And the reason why is people don't really understand what he's trying to do. Also, Augustine has been in power for like centuries. And so, he's really become part of the culture, the milieu of Europe. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 50:12 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3012s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3012s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? He's in the air. You breathe. That's the power of culture. The man who will ultimately free Europe from the grasp of Augustine is actually Dante. And Dante will do so forever. He's going to do that for his poetry. For his poetry, he's going to reimagine the human relationship with God. Okay? So, in Divine Comedy, he will make certain assertions. The first major assertion is this. Okay, guys? Let's read together. The greatest gift to the magnanimity of God as He created gave the gift most suited to His goodness, gift that He most prizes was the freedom of the will. Okay? So, what this is saying is this. When God created us to show His generosity, to show that He is perfect, to show His goodness, He gave us the gift that only God can give us, the gift that He most prizes, which is the freedom from Him. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 51:14 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: All right? You are of God, but now you are free of God. You can do whatever you want. All right? So, that's one of the central ideas of the Divine Comedy. That what makes us fundamentally human is freedom of the will. That we can choose the life we lead. All right? All right. So, let's study the Divine Comedy. This is going to be canto seven of Paradise. And in this canto, Beatrice—remember, they're both in heaven—Beatrice and Dante are engaged in an intellectual discussion. The question that they're trying to figure out is, why did Jesus have to kill himself? Okay? Remember, before, Paul suggested it was to redeem us from the original sin, and then Origen suggested the idea of the ransom theory. Okay? God had to redeem us, ransom us, from Satan. Now, what Dante is going to do is he's going to propose a new theory, and this new theory is going to radically reimagine our relationship with God. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 52:24 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? So, let's look at this now. Let's look at this very closely. You say—this is Beatrice talking to Dante—what I've heard is clear to me, but this is hidden from me. Why God wield precisely this pathway for redemption. Okay? Okay, God wants to save us, but why did God have to kill himself? That's the question here. That makes no sense. Okay? If you're not—if you're non -Christian, it's almost impossible to explain to someone else who is not a Christian why Jesus had to die. All right? It makes no sense. Brother, this ordinance is buried from the eyes of everyone whose intellect has not matured within the flame of love. Okay? This is—and Beatrice is making this argument, which is like, you can only understand this if you truly love someone. It's only through love that you can acquire wisdom. You can acquire empathy and imagination. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 53:16 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: All right? The godly goodness that has banished every envy from its own self burns in itself and sparkling so it shows eternal beauties. Remember, last semester we discussed the nature of God. God is love itself. There can be no hate. There can be no envy. There can be no blemishes within the nature of God. Okay? All that derives directly from this goodness is everlasting, since the seal of goodness impresses an imprint that never alters. So, God, when God creates, what he creates is also perfect. Only man's sin and all man's liberty makes him unlike the highest good so that in him the brightness of his light is dim. Okay? So, God is in us. God is the light that burns in us and allows us to love others. When we love others, the brightness burns brighter. The light burns brighter. Okay? That's how we celebrate God, by loving others. We also have the freedom of the will. ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 54:27 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: Okay? So, these are the two things that God has given us. Freedom to choose, freedom to lead the lives we want to live, as well as the power to love and to imagine. But these things come into conflict when we choose to do bad. When we choose to disobey, when we choose to commit sin, we are turning away from God and therefore dampening the brightness in us. Okay? We are purposely stuffing out the flame in us. And so, when we commit sin, we are simply making amends. And man cannot regain his dignity, unless where sin left emptiness, man fills that void with just amends for evil pleasure. Okay? So, when we commit sin, you must make amends. You must force yourself. You must choose to go on the proper path and make amends. But, for when your nature sins so totally within it's seat, then from these dignities, just as from paradise that ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 55:27 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: nature parted okay sometimes you could commit a sin that's so terrible the light leaves you and that's when we disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden that sin the original sin was so terrible that Adam doomed all his progeny to darkness okay and they could never be regained if you consider carefully by any way that did not pass across one of these two forts okay so how do we forgive how do we ask for forgiveness okay there are two possibilities either for nothing other than his mercy God had to pardon man or of himself men had to proffer payment for his father okay so there are two ways for us to get that light back in us to redeem ourselves in the eyes of God the first way is if God just forgives us if God says I'm total I'm perfect I'm total perfectness I forgive you because that's what I do I forgive you ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 56:26 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: you to show mercy that's one possibility but when he does that the problem is we've learned nothing we haven't grown okay another possibility is if we figure out a way to redeem ourselves if we make amends if we give God all the gold in the world okay but because our crime was so great because we denied the love of God nothing we do never there's nothing we could give God that would redeem us from our sin okay that's a conflict here that's a paradox God cannot forgive us because if he did so we would not grow and learn and there's nothing we can do to redeem ourselves in the eyes of God because our crime was so great so that's the paradox man is limits could not recompensate for no obedience no humility he offered later could have been so deep that it could match the heights he meant to reach through disobedience men lack ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 57:30 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3450s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: the power to offer satisfaction by himself we want to kill God that was the original sin we wanted to eat that fruit become God and then kill God and become God itself that's the greatest crime so how do you redeem yourself are you ask for forgiveness if the crime is to kill God right for God so great a generosity in giving his own self that men might be able to rise then if he simply pardoned okay so for thousands of years God has been able to forgive us so if you have a of years god had to think of a way to redeem us to forgive us but at the same time ensure we would not do anything like this ever again okay and the path he chose was to sacrifice itself for every other means fell short of justice except the way whereby the son of god humbled himself when he became incarnate okay ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 58:27 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: so i'm going to use a metaphor to explain this idea it it's a very it's not a great metaphor but i think this will illustrate what beatrice is saying here about god let's just say i have a daughter named eve i have a favorite favorite dog named johnny i love johnny and i love eve i love both okay i say to eve johnny is my favorite um dog you're my favorite favorite daughter i love you both eve because she's young and she's stupid she decides i only want my father to love me so eve purposefully kills my dog johnny all right now what do i do i'm eve's father if i just say eve don't worry about it you're young it was a mistake eve is probably going to go hurt someone else right i have to teach her a lesson but if i hit her or i punish her then that might suggest to ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 59:26 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3566s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3566s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: eve i don't really love her it doesn't make sense that's a paradox here that's a conflict and so what i choose to do after many weeks of intense thinking is i choose to punish myself on behalf of eve okay i take a bat and i hit myself or i take a whip and i hit myself and my hand is bleeding and eve watches this you can see that when eve sees this she has to cry she has to cry and feel remorse for what she did and she also cries because she knows i truly love her okay that's what features is saying here god loves us so much that he's willing to do everything in order to teach us to be better human beings okay that's the power of god all right all right so the conversation continues and this story makes sense but it's also going to create a lot of problems okay one ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:00:28 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: major problem is if god created us and god loves us why are we making mistakes why are we dying why are we in pain okay and this is what beatrice says you say i see that water see that fire and ear and earth and all that they compose come to corruption and endure so briefly okay so in this world there is death there's dying there's pain there's suffering why is that and yet these two were things created if what has been said above is true then these things never should be subject to corruption if whatever if whatever god creates is perfect then things shouldn't die right brother the angels in the pure country where you are now these may be said to be created as they are in all their being okay yes it is true that god created everything in this world but there's a problem there's a difference whereas the elements that you ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:01:31 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: have mentioned as well as those things that are made from them receive their form from a credit power the matter contained had been created just as within the stars that wheel around them the power to give form had been created the rays and motion of the holy light draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form okay so what this is saying is this god did not create animals and plants god created the laws of the universe you create the atoms the essence that would give rise to animals and plants and so they're not perfect they're the laws are perfect the holy light is perfect but not the creation from the holy light and this creation was meant to die so that new creations can come out okay right when a animal uh dies the atoms break away and then a new form comes into being okay that's the ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:02:30 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: law of the universe so that's perfect but not the animals and plants are perfect but your life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good who so enamors it of his own self that it desires him always okay so another question then is if animals and plants aren't perfect what are humans then right so okay and this is what she says so reasoning you can also can deduce your resurrection you need but remember the way in which your human flesh was fashioned when both of the first parents were created okay so this is the trick you have to remember this animals and plants are created from the laws of the universe which god created angels are created by god himself and therefore the angels are perfect we humans have a dual nature we are both created from the laws of the universe we are both created by god itself all right because when god created ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:03:36 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: adam god created him from out of dust okay but then what god did was breathe life into him so the essence of god is with in adam and therefore us our bodies are mortal but our souls are immortal our souls have the essence of god which is love the more we love the more the light burns in us and as light burns in us it will allow for our resurrection okay because the matter will regenerate the soul is eternal okay so that's what we need okay now we're going to get back to where we said you know when it started, dante is saying here the best way to celebrate god is by loving others when you love others you're activating your imagination you're learning wisdom you're gaining experience and that will only cause the light to grow okay so even though going back to the story of eve and my dog even though i'm hurting ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:04:43 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: myself okay i am using my tremendous imagination in order to come up with this plan in order to redeem my daughter and because of this imagination i'm developing wisdom and this light in me grows stronger all right so that's the purpose of life the purpose of life is to celebrate god by celebrating god in you by loving someone else so wholeheartedly that your imagination your wisdom grows and grows so that your soul becomes eternal when it becomes eternal it becomes eternal when it becomes eternal it becomes eternal when it becomes eternal it will always be resurrected in the world and your soul will remember the love inside you and it will continue to grow and grow okay this is why god created us because if god if you're perfect okay if you're perfect you are incapable of imagination by definition right because you can make you can make no mistakes because we are we are ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:05:42 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3942s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3942s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: the dual nature we are both body and soul we can make mistakes we can ear and in this process we develop we develop experience and wisdom which allows us to love and have imagination and to have wisdom all right all right so let me use an everyday example that you've experienced in order to illustrate this point let's think of think about two teachers a teacher who loves his or her students and a teacher who does not love his or her students okay what's the difference all right so there are three major differences the teacher who loves students or is asking himself or herself are my students students learning in my class are they growing as people whereas another teacher might be like are my students getting good grades all he or she cares about our test scores right that's the first major difference the first teacher who loves you cares about what what is happening ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:06:37 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3997s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=3997s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: inside you what the teacher who doesn't love you only cares about pleasing parents okay second difference is this if you loves you are asking are my students working hard okay because only by working hard can you learn the second teacher is asking students do students like me okay this teacher wants you to write a good good evaluation at the end of semester okay right and then if you had a good uh evaluation the teacher might get a race or some reward right and then the last difference and this is the most important difference is this a good teacher who loves you is always asking am i growing personally and professionally am i growing as a person all right because if you're growing then i'm growing i'm growing and if i'm growing then you're growing that's the power of love okay when you love others you're actually loving yourself and that's how god designed it but ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:07:34 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: if you're a teacher who does not love then you're always asking how much money am i making that's how you measure your success in life am i making a lot of money if if i'm making millions of dollars a year then that means i'm the best teacher in china okay but a really good teacher who's capable of love who loves teaching who loves his or her students is always asking am i growing because if i'm growing then i know my students are growing okay so that's so that's what dante is saying here about love meaning that we have the intuition we have the power to know truth for ourselves because god made it made us this way okay so um something i want you to remember from this class is the italian renaissance was really just another it's it's reimagining the greek civilization okay and as and these are the two major periods of tremendous ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:08:37 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4117s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4117s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: creativity in western europe all right so let's look at the similarities to understand how creativity happens in civilization okay so the first similarity is classical greece had open cooperative competition okay so ideas could flow freely that's the first major similarity second major similarity is in classical greece they transition from linear b which is very complicated um ideographic language to the alphabet okay the alphabet just transcribes the written the spoken word into the written word this allows for massive literacy and the transfusion of knowledge in greece and the idea here is if you are truly a creative society you must be egalitarian you must allow anyone to learn everyone to express his or her ideas which is what the renaissance did okay um the italian renaissance was supported by the fact that they transitioned from latin to the vernacular the spoken language it was dante who allowed this transition to happen okay dante purposefully chose not ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:09:47 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: to write in latin even though latin was the official language of the intellectual class in europe at the time he purposely chose to write in tuscan which is a local language and because he did that he made tuscan first of all the official language of italy they still speak it today but it also makes divine comedy accessible to common people which was the intention okay and the third similarity and this is most important is the perfect storm of factors don't really matter unless you have a great poet a great thinker a great intellectual to create the spark to ignite your civilization okay so in greece they had homer and we today we can think of homer as the father of civilization in it in the italian renaissance you had dante you can think of him as the father of modernity the values that he creates the values that he expresses in the vine comedy will ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:10:44 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: become the basis for modernity especially the idea of individuality of humanism right what's individual an individual is someone who celebrates himself and pursues his or her curiosity to explore the world and this process create goodness in the world to create truth and beauty this is the idea that will underpin the renaissance and which still underpins western modernity uh today okay so that is my argument to you okay great so um the ultimate message the ultimate secret of the universe i want you to remember okay and both homer and dante express this in the poetry is this love is the unifying force of the universe okay love is god god is love it's what unites everyone okay by loving someone else you can become that person that person can become you and the imagination is the animating force okay what gives life to the world is not god but our imagination by imagining the world the ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:11:56 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: world becomes alive so the greater our imagination the more alive our imagination becomes and this idea is most visually expressed in the painting the creation of adam by michael angelo okay this is michael angelo um the creation of adam and so this goes back to the story of how god created adam uh god created um adam out of dust and he breathed the essence of life into adam now there are two ways of looking at this painting okay there are two ways of understanding the title the creation of adam you can first understand it in the typical way which is that god created adam and that they are equals okay you can see that these two worlds the adam and god they're almost equal we are equal to god but they can change perspective and you can say the creation of adam really means god is adam's creation god is what we created from our ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:12:55 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: imagination right now you can see god um is surrounded by his angels okay but you take them away and what do you have behind them guys this is a picture of the human brain right do you see this okay this is a stem okay and this is the human brain okay you take them away and hidden behind is the human brain right which means what which means that god is an emanation from our imagination okay not the true god the true god is like light itself right love itself okay but this god has given us a capacity to imagine so we've imagined another god to um take place of the real god okay you understand so the real god is the human imagination the human brain the human mind that's what gives life to the universe okay so this if you think about it it is a radical revolution in human intellectual history okay do ## Dante's Quiet Revolution -- 1:14:01 - Source title: Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4441s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk&t=4441s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Text: you know where this painting is this painting is on the top of something called the sustained chapel in the vatican it's at the very heart of the catholic church so what donning has been able to do is destroy an empire peacefully for the power of poetry through subtlety for the power of love donna was able to influence michelangelo who was able to take his ideas and implant his ideas work them against one another so this figure of the human within the very heart of the Catholic Church and thus reinvent the Catholic Church. That is the power of love, that is the power of imagination, right? Great. Okay, any questions? Okay, so think of some questions. Next class, we will do the Protestant Reformation, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. Today we are doing the Crusades, which will lead us into the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Simon Revolution, okay? Three questions we are looking at today are, what are the Crusades? Second question is, why did they happen? The third question is, why did they stop? Okay, those are the three major questions we are looking at today. In order for me to explain the answers, I first need to provide a lot of background, okay? First of all, is in the beginning of Christianity, in the Bible, early Christianity was a religion of two things, humility and poverty. Okay, so let me tell you a story from the Bible to illustrate this. One day, Jesus and his disciples were out preaching, and then a young man comes to Jesus and says, I loved your sermon. I want to know how to be a better person. And then Jesus says to him, make sure you follow the Ten Commandments and the laws of the prophets. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:24 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And the young man says, I'm a very pious man. I already do this. I want to do more. And then Jesus says to him, then do this. Give up all your wealth. Give your wealth to the poor. And then follow me. And then, you will have all the treasure in the kingdom of heaven. The young man was really distraught, because he was very, very wealthy, and he didn't want to give up his wealth. So he walked away. And then Jesus turned to his disciples and he said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. which is say it's impossible okay then for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God okay so here Jesus is negating wealth and this is a revolutionary idea at that time because for people in the Western world the entire point of ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 2:27 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: believing in God the entire point of making sacrifices to your gods is to have more wealth in life right how do you know if God favors you well you become wealthy all right so what Jesus is saying here is revolutionary meaning you should live a pious life so that you may enjoy a good life in heaven okay so that's the heart and soul of the Christian religion and what makes it different from previous religions that said the Catholic Church is probably living a good life in heaven okay so that's the heart and soul of the Christian religion and what makes it different from previous religions that said the Catholic Church is probably the wealthiest and most powerful religious organization ever in human history. We have actually no idea how wealthy the Catholic Church is. Their wealth is immeasurable. This is St. Peter's Basilica, the church in the Vatican where the Catholic Church is based. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 3:23 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Inside this church is a lot of gold, okay? A lot of gold. So in its thousand years, close to 2,000 years of history, the Catholic Church has amassed more money than God, all right? So how do we explain this contradiction? How is it the Catholic Church was able to amass so much wealth? Okay, so as we discussed, after the fall of Rome, the Catholic Church basically became the Catholic Church. After the fall of Rome, for the longest time, Europe was poor. But starting about the year 1,000, Europe became increasingly wealthy for a variety of reasons. The main reason is something called the medieval warm period, meaning it was just easier to grow crops, okay? That followed the invention of the water mill, which was a windmill and horse collar, which made it easier for people to grow crops. This is what we call the mini agricultural revolution. Because of this excess wealth, you saw the rise of cities, urban centers. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 4:44 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=284s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=284s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And this allowed Europe to start trading with the rest of the world, primarily the Abbasid Caliphate, which we discussed last week. And as such, Europe was able to become increasingly wealthy. Okay? But what's important for us to remember is with wealth comes inequality. So this also marks the high point of feudalism. You have too many people, too little land, and as a result, you have feudalism, okay? Where the nobility controls all the land, the peasants became poor, dependent, and often indebted. So as you can see, these are the major city centers. of Europe as at this time. The wealthiest city in Europe is still Constantinople, right? But you have Rome, London, Paris, all emerging as major manufacturing and urban centers. What's important for us to remember also is that around this time, one of the wealthiest parts of Europe is Spain, okay? This is important because Spain is not Christian. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 5:58 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: It's Muslim in the year 1000. There's także一个亦是俄国。 And this will create conflictiques two different countries says. All right, so how was the church able to rematch so much power during this time? All right. So how was the church able to amass so much time during this time? Well, because the church pioneered a new way of controlling people that was not possible before. So to illustrate this point, let's compare an empire with the church, the Catholic church. that was not possible before. Okay? So to illustrate this point, let's compare an empire with the church, the Catholic church. First question, who's in charge? Well, an first question, In the Empire, the Emperor is in charge, but it's a human being who is flawed and mortal. He will eventually die. He's also subjective. People understand that he will make mistakes, so that's why you must appeal to him, you must try to convince him. But, with the Catholic Church, the person in charge is God, who is perfect, immutable, and eternal. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 6:55 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=415s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=415s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: He can never make a mistake, and he will always be there. Second difference is an Empire demands labor from you. It demands that you toil and sweat, but the Church demands your soul, your eternal spiritual obedience, your heart and your mind. And the third major difference is an Empire can only put you to death as the worst punishment, but the Church demands labor from you. The Church can sentence you to eternal damnation. The Church can have you burn in hell for eternity, okay? And so this concept of eternal damnation is the source of a lot of the Church's power, okay? So, the Church had something called a faith monopoly. It was the only religion, it was a true religion. And so there are certain ways that this power, this power would express and benefit itself in Europe at this time, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 8:06 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=486s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=486s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: I'm gonna have to go through a lot. This is a lot of information, I apologize, but you will need to know this in order for us to go on in the course, okay? This is especially important for the Protestant Reformation, because the Protestant Reformation will be a rejection of a lot of these practices, okay? All right, so the first thing you need to understand of the Church in about the year 1000 is, it's an imperial bureaucracy. It's an imperial bureaucracy. The bishop is basically the emperor, and then each region has bishops that control the region. It's a huge bureaucracy that's not, that's very similar to the bureaucracy in Constantinople as well as in China, okay? It's a top -down hierarchy. Second thing you need to know is, the official language of the Church was Latin. During Church services, the priest would give sermons in Latin. The Bible was written in Latin. The purpose for this is to tell people that the Bible, that theology was not for them. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 9:12 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=552s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=552s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: They just had to listen and obey, okay? So that gave the priest a lot of power. It was also an explicit rule that only priests could preach the Bible. You had to be ordained, and authorized by the Church, in order to be able to tell what Christianity meant, okay? You had to recite Nicene Creed, which is a holy trinity, okay? So remember we discussed the holy trinity, the idea of monotheism, and this is the dominant belief system of the Church. There's something called the sacraments, okay? Seven holy sacraments that you must pay for. And these are rituals provided to you by priests in the Church. What these rituals are trying to do is, they're trying to channel divine energy of heaven and Jesus and God in order to make your life much more fortunate, okay? So an example of this is called the Eucharist. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 10:15 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And so the Eucharist employs the principle of transmutation. So during the Eucharist, and it's basically called a meal, what the priest will do is, he will channel Jesus from heaven, and his body will become expressed in bread, okay? The bread will become the body of Jesus, and then his blood will manifest itself in wine or water, okay? And then you will feast on the bread and wine. You eat Jesus, you drink Jesus, and Jesus comes into you, all right? And if this sounds weird, it is weird. And that's why the Protestants, a lot of Protestants will rebel against this. They think it's superstitious. All right, you also have the church determining who goes to hell, heaven, and purgatory, as well as for how long. Hell is where you burn for all of eternity. Heaven is where you are with God. Purgatory is if you commit sins, and you need to cleanse yourself of these sins. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 11:21 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So you might be in purgatory for like one year, if you steal, but you might also be there for a thousand years if you killed someone, okay? And the church, it's up to the church to determine how long you're in purgatory for. There's something called the canonization of saints, where the church can determine who are saints. A lot of Protestants in the future will say this is wrong because only the Bible, only Jesus, can determine who is worthy, okay? The church doesn't have the power to determine this. The last thing is, and this is really important, the authority of the clerics was absolute. And heretics were those who denied the absolute authority of the church, okay? So this is important because some people think that heretics are those who disagree with the church. For example, they don't really understand the Nicene Creed. Well, if you don't understand something, it's called ignorance or superstition, you understand? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 12:27 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And therefore, the church has a responsibility to educate you. Once the church educates you, and you still refuse to admit the authority of the church, then you become a heretic, which means you will become excommunicated, okay? Excommunicated means that you will be kicked out of the community of the church, which means you will burn in hell forever. As well, you could also be burned at the stake for being a heretic, okay? Does that make sense? So these are the sources of the power of the church. As you can see, at this time, the Catholic church is a very elitist, very aloof, and very distant religion, okay? It's designed in a way as to be removed from the ordinary struggles of ordinary people, okay? So as you can imagine, with so much power comes corruption. Augustine, in the City of God, he basically, imagined the intellectual blueprint for the Catholic church. He believed the Catholic church had to be this eternal spiritual force that represented God on earth. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 13:43 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So what was really important was for the church to focus on spirituality. With power, the church slowly became more corrupted, okay? So let's look at some instances of corruption that were legal practices at this time, okay? The first is the idea of indulgence. And this means that maybe you committed a lot of sins, but you have a lot of money. What you can do is bribe the church to make your stay in purgatory shorter, okay? This is just basically bribery, alright, spiritual bribery. And obviously, a lot of Christians would have issues with this, okay? Second is the idea of simony. Simony just means that if you're rich, you can buy yourself into the church regardless of your education, regardless of your understanding of the theology, okay? This is called simony. Then you have something called the selling of holy relics. So again, at this time, everyone's very superstitious. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 14:43 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So they want to buy relics in order to channel the divine power of Jesus, right? Well, the church would sell these relics, and a lot of them would be fake. But a lot of Christians, as you can imagine, would find the very idea of the church engaging in commerce to be very offensive. Worldliness means that you have the conjoining, the conflation of the nobility with the church. So a lot of princes became bishops. Kings could pick who could become bishops. And priests were supposed to be celibate. They were supposed to devote their life to God. But a lot of them got married, had kids, and owned property and became very wealthy, okay? So a conflation of the nobility and the church, a conflation of temporal power with spiritual power. Tiths means that parishioners had to pay taxes. Parishioners had to pay taxes to not only the nobility, but also to the church as well. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 15:49 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the land in Christian Europe. And they didn't have to pay taxes to the nobility, to the prince. So as a result of all this corruption and special privilege, the church became the most powerful organization in all of Europe, okay? And again, they had this power because people were afraid of burning in hell for eternity, okay? Even kings were afraid. But we have to remember this, and this is very important. Ultimately, if you're a church, your power, your legitimacy, your authority comes from your ability to enforce your belief system on everyone, okay? This is what I call orthodoxy. The church must enforce right thinking, correct thinking on people. If people disagree, if an increasing number of people disagree, then your authority, your power, will decrease. Now, at this time, in the year 1000, there are five sources of conflict for the church, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 17:14 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Five things that will question the legitimacy of the church. The first thing is this. Muslims occupy the Holy Land. Jerusalem, right now, is being controlled by the Fatimids, okay, which is an Islamic caliphate. And this is embarrassing, right? Because if you are the true representative of God on Earth, why is Jerusalem being controlled by the Muslims? Okay, that's embarrassing. Second problem is, Muslim Spain, okay, it's more wealthy, more cosmopolitan, and innovative than Christian Europe. A lot of the reason why is, Muslim Spain, it is much more open, inclusive, and tolerant than the Catholic Church. It also trades with the rest of the Muslim world. And as we know from the Islamic Golden Age lecture, the Muslim world right now is very, very wealthy. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all get along very fine in Muslim Spain, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 18:20 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So, and it's just right next door. Everyone can see that Muslim Spain, it's much more wealthy. So that's another problem. A third problem is something called the Great Schism of 1054. That's when the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Church in Constantinople, it broke away, it split away from the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. Now you have two different churches, all claiming to be the one true church of Jesus, okay? That's a huge problem. Another problem, of course, is the corruption that we just discussed. Okay? The conflation of spiritual power with temporal ambition, okay? And the last problem is this. The last problem is the set. Now, something that we discussed a lot last semester is that humans are first and foremost religious. Humans have religious needs, and these religious needs often trump their material needs. For example, food, water, and shelter, okay? Humans have a fundamental need for community, intimacy, and truth. But the Catholic Church is denying intimacy and truth to humans. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 19:33 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1173s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1173s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Humans want to be with God. They want to serve God. But the Catholic Church says, no, we are the middleman. You have to go through us in order to celebrate God. Okay? So there's a lot of discontent at this point in Christian Europe against the Catholic Church. All right? So these are five problems. And again, the Catholic Church, the entire source of their power is their ability to maintain orthodoxy. So they develop a three -pronged strategy that they will use basically a lot, okay, throughout the history of Europe. These three -pronged strategies are scapegoating, persecuting, and crusading. Okay? And you guys need to know this because these three ideas will recur over and over in European history. The idea of scapegoating is this. In Europe at this time, even though the Jewish community is a lot smaller, it's still present. Okay? Now the question then is, what are the Jews still doing in Europe? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 20:47 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: And the answer is, well, a lot of them are working for the nobility. Okay? The nobility inherit their wealth. But they don't want to do any work. They don't want to manage their land. They don't want to run their business. They don't want to collect taxes. And they don't want to run their banks. So they get Jews to do this for them because Jews are clever. They're hardworking. But most importantly, they're completely dependent on the protection of nobility. Does that make sense? Because at this point in Christian history, remember, the Catholic Church teaches Christians that the Jews were responsible for persecuting Jesus. And therefore, Christians really don't like Jews. So if Jews want to stay in Europe, if they want to stay together as a community, they are completely dependent on the protection of nobility. And as such, they essentially become slaves to the nobility. They have no choice but to serve the nobility. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 21:56 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: This is bad for them because the peasants don't like being exploited by the nobility. Remember, this is a feudal system where peasants are too poor and too indebted to the nobility. But in their day -to -day interactions, who do they work with? They work with Jews. Jews are the ones who come and collect taxes for the nobility. Jews are the ones who sell them goods. So what happens over time is the peasants' resentment against nobility is channeled towards the Jews. So whenever there's a major conflict, guess who gets killed? Guess who gets persecuted? It's the Jews. And this is a pattern that will be consistent for basically all of European history up until the Holocaust. If you want to understand why the Holocaust happened, this is why it happened. There's a long -term enmity, hatred, of the European people against the Jews created by the nobility. When the conflict becomes too intense, what will happen is the nobility will protect themselves by expelling the Jews. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 23:14 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. But before that, the Germans expelled the Jews in 1100, France in 1306. But before then, you have these massacres going on around Europe. I'm not sure if you can see the black skull, but that's this massacre of Jews. So being a Jew means to be constantly persecuted. And again, they're being scapegoated by the Catholic Church in order to reduce tensions between the nobility and the peasantry. So that's the first mechanism. Then you have the Crusades. So to understand the Crusades, let me give you some historical background. In the year 638, the Muslims take over Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire. They conquer it. And once they take it over, they make Jerusalem into an open, inclusive, and tolerant religious community where Christians, Jews, and Muslims can celebrate their religion openly. So after that, what Christians have to do is make these pilgrimages to Jerusalem. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 24:28 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And for most of this history, it's fine. There are no issues. But what will happen is as the Byzantine Empire becomes weaker and the Abbasid Caliphate becomes weaker, there's now chaos. And as such, bandits roam the land. And pilgrims find it more and more dangerous to venture into Jerusalem. Does that make sense? So now it's become much more dangerous for Christians to venture into Jerusalem because of all the internal chaos going on in the Muslim land. The people who are creating all this chaos are called the Seljuk Turks. Last class, we talked about the rise of Genghis Khan, right? And what I said last class is the steppe people are always invading agricultural empires. So the Turks, they are based in Central Asia. And then slowly over time, they will conquer the Abbasid Caliphate. And in 1071, they will begin to occupy Jerusalem. And the Turks leave Jerusalem alone. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 25:38 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: But because of this conflict, what's happening is the way to Jerusalem, it's much more dangerous. As well, the Turks are now threatening Byzantium, Constantinople, right here. In fact, they're conquering a lot of territory in around... around Constantinople. And as such, the emperor of Constantinople, the Byzantine emperor, he appeals to Pope Urban II, who was the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Can you please help me and save me from these Seljuk Turks? And so what Pope Urban II will do, remember, popes are politicians. He sees the opportunity here to unite Christendom under the authority of Rome, right? He sees the opportunity to reclaim Jerusalem as Christian territory. He sees an opportunity to channel the religious energies of the peasantry against the Muslims, okay? So what he does is, in the year 1095, he will give a speech calling for the First Crusade, which begins the crusading period. Now, we're going to look very closely at ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 26:47 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: this speech, and it's important we do because this rhetoric, this philosophy, will underpin the relationship between Christians, Muslims, and Jews for most of European history, okay? So let's see how the pope thinks. All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. Okay, the pagans are non -Christians, the Muslims, the Jews, okay? So what the pope is calling for is a jihad. All good Christians now must go into battle to reclaim Jerusalem. And if you do so, you'll be granted immediate access to heaven regardless of what you did and how you sinned. Doesn't make sense, guys. This is a jihad. He's calling for jihad, all right? The concept, people think, comes from the Islamic world. It's very much a Christian concept of jihad, where if you go to Jerusalem and you die, you're going straight to heaven, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 27:52 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: You'll be right beside God. Now he also says, oh, what a disgrace if such a despised and base race which worships demons, a despised and base race which worships demons, okay? He's talking about the Muslims. Muslims don't worship demons. Muslims worship the same God as the Jews and the Christians. In fact, a lot of their religious practice is similar to the Christians and Jews. When Muhammad and the Muslims came to conquer the Holy Land, they did so in a peaceful manner, okay? They tried to reduce as much bloodshed as possible. And here, Pope Urban II, he's spreading racism against the Muslims. In fact, what the rumors are is that in Jerusalem, Christian women are being enslaved. Christians are being massacred and kicked out of Jerusalem. Christians are no longer allowed into Jerusalem. These are all rumors. They're all fake. They're not true. But Pope Urban II, he is trying to whip up this racist anger at the Muslims, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 29:06 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1746s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Should conquer a people which has the faith of Omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ. It is embarrassing for us as Christians that the Muslims control Jerusalem. We must fix this, okay? All right, let's continue. Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago. Why did we wait so long to reclaim Jerusalem? They've had it since 638. It's now the year 1095. Why are we fighting ourselves? Why is there war in Europe? We should all be going to the Holy Land and kill all the Muslims, okay? Again, this is important that we read because this rhetoric, this logic, this emotion is going to basically justify the age of conquest, exploration, and imperialism which will follow after this, okay? Let those who for a long time have been robbers now become knights. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 30:17 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1817s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1817s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: Do you understand? You could be the lowest person on earth. You could be a thief. But if you go on a crusade, you are now a nobleman. You are now a knight. You are now a hero, a valiant hero for Christianity. Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in the proper way against the barbarians, okay? Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain their eternal reward. This is what he's saying. If you go on this crusade, regardless of who you are, you will be honored by God. You will receive eternal reward. Regardless of who you are, regardless of what you did, okay? You could be the worst criminal in Europe. It doesn't matter. Once you go on this crusade, you will be saved, all right? So he makes this bargain with the people of Europe. And as you can imagine, there's a groundswell of excitement, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 31:15 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt) Text: A lot of people go on this crusade against the Turks. All right, so let's summarize and look at the individual reasons why people are going on this crusade. There's a long way, and it's very dangerous, but they're very excited to go. Okay, why? All right, so the first reason is penance. So a lot are violent people who have engaged in war, right? They go on this crusade, they will be forgiven for their sins. It's either you go on a crusade or you go join a monastery, okay? Clerical immunity. And what this means is that if you are a criminal, if you killed someone, if you go on a crusade, you will be immune. You will be absolved of these crimes. So as you can imagine, a lot of psychopaths go on this crusade, a lot of criminals. Vengeance. People are hearing rumors that the Muslims are killing Christian women so they want to kill Muslim men, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 32:13 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Elite overproduction. So as we discussed, when a society becomes much more wealthy, you have a problem of elite overproduction. Basically, younger sons who cannot inherit any land. And so they must go on a crusade to win over their own land, okay? To obtain their own land and become nobility locally. Second coming. What this means is that, okay, so in Christianity, there are many powerful ideas. The crucification of Jesus is a powerful idea. But the second coming is the most powerful idea. It's the idea that eventually Jesus will return and he will make the world anew, okay? This is what drives a lot of Christians. And so a lot of Christians believe that this crusade, it's really the end of the world. It's a final battle between the believers and the non -believers. And Jesus will return to Jerusalem in order to fight on behalf of the believers and usher in a new world order, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 33:14 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=1994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: People actually believe this. Adventurism, Romanism, okay? Chivalry. Chivalry means, chivalry, okay, we didn't discuss this, but it's important that you know. Chivalry. Chivalry is a code of honor among knights. The chivalry, the principle, a lot of the principle is loyalty to your lord. So if your lord goes off on a crusade, you have to join him, okay? You have to be loyal to your master, to your lord. Piety, fanaticism, okay, and glory, okay? Why am I listing this? Because, guys, these reasons are also what drives the Europeans into the new world. Okay? Later on, we will be discussing the age of exploration where the Spaniards, the Portuguese, the French, the British, they go into the new world. And they're going into the new world for these reasons. And a lot are going with religious fever and religious energy, okay? So it's important that you understand the complexity and diversity of reasoning. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 34:22 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Okay. So as I mentioned, the year 1095, Pope Urban II declares the first crusade. But over the course of the next 20 years, there will be a series of crusades to maintain the Holy Land, okay? And it's a very complicated process because it's not being organized, okay? It's very much a grassroots movement. Basically, local lords are the ones organizing these crusades. And often, peasants will go by themselves, okay? And as you can imagine, as you can see, it's a very long way to Jerusalem and a lot will get killed along the way, right? In the first crusade, the first crusade is extremely successful because at this point in history, the Muslims don't really care about Jerusalem. It's not that important to them. So the crusaders are able to take Jerusalem and they establish something called the Crusader States. And it's very, very impressive that they do so because they're completely surrounded by Muslims and by enemies, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 35:34 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: But because of their religious fanaticism, they will maintain these Crusader States for the next 20 years, okay? So the yellow are Crusader States. And as you can see, the white is all Muslim territory. All right. In 1099, they take Jerusalem. And as I mentioned, there's a lot of religious fanaticism going on. When the Crusaders take Jerusalem, they do so with vengeance. They kill all the Muslims. They kill all the Jews. They basically kill as many people as possible in the city. Before the siege, the Fatimids, who were in control of the city, they actually expelled the Christians because they were afraid that the Christians would help the Crusaders from inside, okay? So no Christians were killed, but a lot of Jews, a lot of Muslims were killed. It was a very, very bloody event. And the Christians celebrate this, okay? For them, this is righteous. To kill the enemy for the glory of God, it is righteous killing. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 36:49 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2209s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2209s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: This contrasts with the year 1187 when the Muslim leader named Saladin, okay? Saladin is considered one of the greatest warriors in human history. He's celebrated both by Christians and Muslims. He takes Jerusalem without killing any Jews, Christians or Muslims, okay? He does so peacefully. And again, what's important for us to remember is that historically, Christianity has been a very violent religion. And Muslims, there's a lot of violence, but it tends to be much more peaceful, open, inclusive than Christianity, okay? I'm not talking about today, but I'm talking like historically this has been true. Once they control Jerusalem, there are five major military orders of the crusaders, okay? You've probably heard of the Knights Templar, okay? They're the most famous. But you also have a group called the Teutonic Knights who will go on to found a place called Prussia, which will unite Germany, okay? So I ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 37:52 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2272s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2272s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: want you guys to remember the Teutonic Knights because they will form the basis of Prussian society, which will then unite Germany, into modern -day Germany. They come from different places in Europe and that's why there are five different military orders, okay? The Knights Templars are the most famous and they become, over time, extremely influential and powerful. The reason why is they're really the first multinational organization in Europe. So they were meant to protect pilgrims along the way to Jerusalem. What they really did was pilgrims would give their money to the Templars for safekeeping. And then when they got to Jerusalem, the Templars would give the money back, okay? So they were a bank. And as you can imagine, as a bank, they were able to make a lot of investments, they were able to trade. And as such, because they're bankers and they're traders, they are much more sophisticated, well -educated, and cosmopolitan, than the Catholic Church, right? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 39:02 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: The Catholic Church is an imperial bureaucracy. It only cares about maintaining orthodoxy over Europe. But the Knights Templars, they are bankers, they're traders. Also, once they take over Jerusalem and now they have to govern the city, they recognize that you need to work with Jews and Muslims, okay? Because Jews and Muslims have these business connections all around the Muslim world, and they're surrounded by Muslims. So what will happen over time is the Knights Templars will welcome back Jews and Muslims into Jerusalem. And over time, what will happen is not only will these Templars become much more tolerant, but they will start to learn from the Muslims and the Jews. And they will pick up better practices from these other religions. Also at this, in Jerusalem, the Knights Templars are Christians who are considered heretics by the Catholic Church. These are Christians who disagree with the Holy Trinity and with other concepts. And that's why they went over to the Muslim world, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 40:11 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So what the Knights Templars are doing is they're absorbing all this diverse religious belief. And as such, they become essentially free thinkers, okay? They become... A lot of the religion now is based on reason and logic, because that's really the only way that you can manage this religious diversity, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So the Knights Templars really become one of the bases for modern Europe. But as you can imagine, these changes will come into conflict with the Catholic Church. And as a result, in the year 1307, the Catholic Church begins to persecute the Knights Templars. They burn the leaders Jack de Molay at the stake, okay? They disband the organization. But by disbanding the organization, you drive the organization underground, okay? And a lot of their beliefs will start to spread throughout Europe, and it will incubate the Protestant Reformation, and it will actually even influence the American Revolution, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 41:17 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: We'll discuss this later when we get to the American Revolution. The reason for Jack de Molay being burned is the Catholic Church accuses them of being Satan worshipers. All right? There's no evidence that they were Satan worshipers, but they were definitely free thinkers. They were definitely religiously tolerant, and that went against the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay, so Knights Templars, I want you guys to remember, we'll be discussing them later on in the semester. This is just a quick introduction. All right? Let's continue. All right. Now, there are three different directions of the Crusades going on at the same time. The first direction is to recapture Jerusalem. The second is to reclaim Spain from the Muslims, okay? At this point in history, Spain is called Al -Andalus. And you guys can still go to Spain and see a lot of this architecture, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 42:15 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: It's beautiful. It is extremely creative, and it's very powerful, okay? So this is Al -Andalus, the architecture. This is some of their buildings. Spain is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Definitely visit if you have a chance, okay? Okay, this is a mosque. So Spain, again, was for the longest time the most wealthy, cosmopolitan, innovative place in Europe because it was open and inclusive. There were a lot of Jews. There were a lot of Christians and Muslims all working together in Al -Andalus, okay? This is a process that will take about 200 years where Europe will come and slowly conquer all of Spain, okay? But this is also part of the Crusade. I won't go into the history, but as you can see, it takes some time. All right, the last thing about the Crusades is they were also focused internally against dissenters. And there were quite a few dissenters throughout this history, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 43:25 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2605s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2605s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So let's go over some of the major groups. There are, guys, there are hundreds of different groups. I'm only going to go through some of them, okay? The first group I want to talk about are the Beguins and the Beggars, okay? The Beguins refers to women. The Beggars refers to men. How they come into conflict with the church is they want to restore early Christianity. They want to restore the heart and soul of Christianity as a religion of humility and poverty. So they live lives of extreme poverty and charity. They themselves live very simple lives, and they give as much, they give everything that they have to other people, okay? So think of the story of the young man who approaches Jesus, and Jesus tells him to give up everything. Well, that's what they do. A lot of them are pretty wealthy people, and they give up everything in order to celebrate Christianity. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 44:20 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2660s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2660s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Their problem is, first of all, they defy the authority of the church, okay? So they feel informed. They live in their own communities. The second problem is, if these guys are living simple lives, there's contrast with the clerics, right? Who are often fat, wealthy, and corrupt. So it's kind of embarrassing. So they were persecuted, all right? Then you have people called the Waldisians, who also preach a life of poverty. Their founder, Peter Waldo, was actually son of a very wealthy merchant who gave everything up in order to live in poverty and practice the Christian faith. Their problem, though, is they believe that the pope is the devil, okay? The Catholic Church, it is evil because it's corrupting true Christianity. And as a result, a lot of them get burned at the stake, okay? There is a crusade against them, and they get decimated and destroyed. But they're still around even today, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 45:26 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2726s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2726s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: A lot of their beliefs are still around today. The main focus of the Eternal Crusade is something called the Albigenesian Crusade, which lasts about 20 years, okay? So this is complicated. But in southern France, in a place called Albi, this community practices something called Catharism, okay? Catharism is actually a pretty diverse belief, okay? But its main idea is this. They believe in dualism. They believe that this world that we live in, it was created by the devil. Why? Because this world is one of pain, one of torment, one of suffering. And there's no way that the true God would create a world like this. But the devil creates this world, and what he did was he stole souls from heaven. And souls are pure, right? And he puts these souls into our lives. He puts them into our bodies. And that's what gives rise to humans. So we are these pure, divine souls in these corrupt, ugly, painful bodies, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 46:38 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2798s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2798s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So the goal of life is to discover that we are imprisoned and escape our bodies and return to heaven through good works, through beliefs, through knowledge, okay? So these people are also considered Gnostics, okay? Their problem is not only are they heresy, but they have their own church structure, okay? They have their own church structure, and this church structure is extremely open, tolerant, and inclusive. There are women inside the hierarchy, but there are also Jews inside the hierarchy. And what's important for us to remember is this is a belief system in which there aren't that many people, but they're deeply admired by the community because they call themselves good Christians. They practice a life of simplicity, of poverty, and they are kind and charitable to everyone. So the entire community sees them as good neighbors, okay? So when the Pope declares a crusade against these Cathars, what happens is the entire community rallies around them and tries to protect them. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 47:55 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Okay? Obviously, this is a community that is being besieged by European knights, and they will get killed. What's amazing is while the community is protecting them, okay, and they know that the crusaders only want to kill the Cathars, not the Catholics, okay? They're Catholics. The crusade doesn't want to kill them, but they're willing to sacrifice their lives to protect the Cathars. But also, a lot of them will convert to Catharism knowing that they will die because they are so disgusted by the crusades, so disgusted by the Catholic Church, and they feel such a strong emotional bond with the Cathars, okay? So this is a very violent process, but it does not destroy Catharism. Why? Because these Cathars don't care if they die. Remember, we are inside corrupt bodies. So when we are martyred, we will go straight to heaven. So when they're burned at the stake, okay, they go willingly. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 48:59 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=2939s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: They go happily. And this stuns their neighbors, the community, but it also frightens the Catholic Church, okay? Because they know you can't beat people like this. And if you keep on persecuting them, their religion will spread. So the Catholic Church adopts two new strategies to deal with them, okay? The first is they initiate something called the Franciscan Order, the Friars, founded by the Francis of Assisi. And this is a brotherhood focused on a life of humility and poverty, doing good works, right? Just as Jesus said. The thing, though, is they're within the church hierarchy. They obey the Pope, and the Cathars didn't obey the Pope. The Waldensians thought the Pope was the devil, okay? The main invention, the main response is something called the Dominican Order, okay? So you might have heard of the Jesuits, right? The Jesuits were created in order to persecute people during the Protestant Reformation. Well, ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 50:07 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: the Dominican Order was created, just like the Jesuits, in order to deal with the Cathar heresy. These are extremely well -educated people who will now use the power of the pen rather than the power of the sword to try to crush the heresy, okay? What's important for us to remember is, these people who joined the Inquisition, the Crusade, they do so out of the pureness, the goodness of their own heart. The Cathars have been led astray. It is their responsibility to educate them and to save their souls before they burn in hell for all of eternity, okay? They do so with compassion, with generosity, with mercy. And so they're fanatical about it. They are absolutely convinced the Cathars have been misled by the devil. So what they will do is, they will go and interview Cathars and the entire community, okay? Now, before, the community wanted to protect the Cathars, so they will lie on behalf of the Cathars, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 51:14 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: But with the power of the pen, you're able to write everything down. If you're able to take testimony, think of a police interrogation, you know exactly who's lying and who's telling the truth. So they were really quickly able to identify who was a Cathar and to isolate that person, okay? And the power of the pen, this interrogation method, was far more effective than the Crusades, right? So this is part of something called the Medieval Inquisition, and this is something that will repeat itself during the Spanish Inquisition and the Inquisition against the Protestants, okay? Does that make sense? So again, there's this stereotype or this misconception that the Inquisition was a violent act, but there was very little violence, and the reason why is, the Catholic Church, the doctrine, forbids them from spilling blood. So, but this was a very thorough, very effective way to deal with heretics, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 52:17 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: All right, so what brings the Crusades to an end? Why did the Catholic Church start to lose power? Okay, so a lot of their power derives from the belief that they represent God, the legitimacy, right? Well, starting in the 14th century, there were a series of crises. Remember that for 300 years, Europe was in the medieval warm period. The weather was good, but guess what? Weather will change over time. So starting in the year 1303, the Little Ice Age begins. Basically, it rains every day. And it's very cold. So if you were a good Christian, what do you think? Well, you read the Bible, you know the Bible, and you know this is the flood, Noah's flood. God is angry at you guys. You guys committed sin. Who did you sin against? Probably the Cathars, probably the Waldensians, probably those who led good lives. And you know they led good lives, but you killed them anyway, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 53:14 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: This leads to something called the Great Famine of 1315 to 1317, all right? And then this will lead to something called the Hundred Years' War, between France and England, okay? So all of Europe right now, they're either starving or they're at war, all right? And then this will create fanatry. So you have these mercenary groups, basically these packs of young men who go around killing people, all right? And what does it, the final thing is something called the Black Death, which lasts from 1346 to 1353. This will kill at least half of the European population, okay? At least half of the European population, all right? So let's look at the Black Death, all right? It starts in a place called Kyrgyzstan today, in Central Asia, and because of something called the Pax Mangalaka, remember last class we talked about the Pax Mangalaka, right? This disease was able to spread very quickly throughout the world. And ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 54:13 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: because Europe at this time, it's poor, people are at war, people are starving, the plague decimates the population. Because people's immune systems are very weak, right? At least half of the people die, all right? And at this point, people have lost faith in the Catholic Church. And so now you have rebellions going on, okay? Also, and this is really important, the Catholic Church in 1378, it splits apart. Remember in 1045, the Catholic Church split away from the Orthodox Church. But in 1378, the Catholic Church itself divides into two. There are now two popes. The first pope is in Rome, and he's supported by the countries in blue, which is Sweden, Denmark, England, Poland, Hungary, and Italy itself. But you also have a pope in Evonon who is supported by France, which is a rising power in Europe at this time, okay? So this causes people to lose even more faith in the Catholic Church. So now you start to have these rebellions going on. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 55:28 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So you have something called the Docinians. And what they argue for, this is basically a revolutionary party. They argue for the fall of the church, the fall of feudalism. And they want to create an egalitarian society, all right? So in other words, these are proto -communists. Even at this stage in human history, people are longing for, they're nostalgic for a time when humans were free. Open, egalitarian. They want to destroy the hierarchy. They want to destroy the feudal order, all right? This is John Wycliffe. He is an Englishman. He is a theologian, widely respected. But he was critical of the church, and he wrote a lot of books promoting reform in the church. He believed that the priests had too much power. He believed that God should be returned to the people. And so he himself, translated the Bible from Latin into the vernacular, into English so that ordinary people can read it, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 56:31 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Eventually, the church deemed him a heretic, okay? They called him a heretic. But the problem is, at this point, he's dead. So what they did was this. They dug up his body, and then they burned him at the stake, okay? Because that's what you do to heretics. He was already dead, but they burned him anyway. John Hus is a Czech. He was in a place called Bohemia, and he was preaching the same things. And as a result, they decided to call him a heretic and burn him at the stake. But this will lead to something called the Hussite Wars, when the local Bohemians will challenge the authority of the Catholic Church. Eventually, this rebellion, this war will be crushed by the Catholic Church, but this will give way to another reformer by the name of Martin Luther, okay? Martin Luther will start something called the Protestant Reformation, ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 57:28 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: and this will end the authority of the Catholic Church in Northern Europe and begin a new age for Europe, all right? So we'll discuss Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation next week. Okay, so let us conclude by answering the three questions. What are the Crusades? Why did they happen? Why did they stop? The Crusades, in the Western imagination, it's no different from the jihad in the Muslim imagination, it is a religious war, okay? It's channeling all that religious energy against your opponent, right? And the Crusades, even though technically they end in 1290, they will manifest themselves in the Age of Exploration and in the conquest of the New World, which is something we'll discuss later on, right? Why did it happen? As I discussed, it happened because the Catholic Church had a legitimacy problem. The Church was divided between East and West, there were the Muslims in Spain who were more open, more cosmopolitan, Jerusalem was controlled by the Muslims, there was internal dissent. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 58:34 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So the Church was trying to unite Christianity in order to channel the religious energy and fanaticism in order to consolidate its power and authority over Europe, okay? And why did they stop? Well, they stopped mainly because Europe found itself in internal turmoil in the 14th century, but you can also argue, and I'll show you later on, they never really stopped, okay? It's still going on today. The wars in the Middle East that you're seeing on the news, it's really still part of the crusading mentality. All right? Okay? Okay, so I know this is a lot, but any questions? Let's try to clarify some things that you didn't really understand. Yeah? Okay, sure. All right, let's talk about the Inquisition. Okay? All right, the Inquisition. Sorry, let me, why can't I open this? Oh, okay, all right, good. Okay, so, all right, so let me go over the Inquisition because it's very technical, okay? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:00:09 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So in Europe at this time, there are two types of authority. There's something called clerical authority and something called secular authority. Clerical just means the Church, secular just means the nobility, the prince who is in charge of that area. So, the clerical authority passes judgment on you. Okay? It's only responsible for your spiritual life, not your physical life. The secular authority only cares about your physical life, not your spiritual life, okay? That's where the division is. So the secular authorities are those who have the power to kill you. Okay? The secular authority are those who have the right, who have the power to declare you a heretic or unorthodox. All right? So, what's happening during the Inquisition, okay? So the Inquisition is trying to figure out the truth, okay, or the soul, right? Because it is possible that your religion, for example, if you're Cathar, that you can lie. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:01:16 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: Why? Because this world is fake. Who cares, right? I'm fake, you're fake. As long as your soul is pure, that's what matters. So, you try to look for these Cathars, but they won't tell you the truth. But not only that, but the community was also protecting them. So what would happen is, they knew you were going to come in and ask questions. You were basically like the police. You want to interrogate them, right? Well, before then, the community would get together and make up a lot of lies, okay, to protect the minority of Cathars within that community. All right? These are neighbors trying to protect each other. Okay. So what they would do is, they would have these informants who tell them, maybe one and three, okay, person one and three in this community of ten, they are Cathars. So now the problem is, how do you find them out? Well, what you do is, like the police, you would interrogate them individually. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:02:19 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: And because the Dominicans were educated, they could write everything down. Okay? They could write everything down. And, they were tenacious. They were persistent. Because again, they think they're doing God's work. This is a crusade. They're trying to save people, right? So it's possible they stay in the community for like a year. And they might interview you once a week. Right? If you're lying to them, eventually your story will fall apart. Okay? Does that make sense? And the trick is to make sure that you separate one and three from two, four, five, six. Okay? Do you understand? Because during the crusades, you didn't separate them. You killed everyone. Okay? Which is problematic. Because a lot of crusaders didn't want to kill Catholics. They didn't want to kill Cathars. And then the Pope said, God will know his own. Right? I mean like, let God decide who's a real Cathar, who's a real Catholic. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:03:19 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3799s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3799s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: All right? But, you know, that was, that felt unjust and unnecessary. Right? So this was a much more precise, methodical way to figure out one and three and then you burn them at the stake. Okay? To send a message to the community. Right? Because what you're really trying to do is threaten everyone else to cooperate. Okay? And then eventually over time, people recognize that resistance is futile. These people are so persistent, they will figure out the truth. And then they'll punish the Cathars. So there's really no point in resisting. Okay? And again, remember, this is really important. The Cathars are only a small minority of people in Southern France. Okay? Before, they were killing everyone in Southern France and this was uniting all Southern France against the Catholic Church. Now, because of Inquisition, they're able to be much more precise. Does that make sense, Eva? Okay, great. Yep. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:04:20 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3860s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3860s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-moves-guilt) Text: Any more questions? Great question. Any more questions? Okay. Yeah, okay. Skateboarding. All right. So, in the Jewish religion, in Judaism, there's a ritual where the sins of the community will be put on a goat. Okay? So, basically, all the sins of the community of that year, it will all be placed in a goat. And then they will let the goat run away or they might sacrifice the goat. So, in order to cleanse the community of the sins. Okay? So, the idea of skateboarding is to blame someone else for your troubles. Okay? Or to divert people's attention to something else that distracts them. All right? So, remember, in the idea of feudalism, the conflict is between a small nobility, right, and a large peasantry. The peasants often were enslaved by the nobility. They were basically called serfs. And as you can imagine, people would get angry. Okay? They would get frustrated. And if they rebelled, the nobility would have a problem. ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:05:55 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=3955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-scapegoat-moves-guilt) Text: Okay? First of all, there were a lot of peasants, so the nobility might get killed. Another problem is, this is your economy, right? This is your property. You don't want to burn on your own property. is this. You have Jews who work as middlemen. They're the tax collectors. They're the people who manage the land. They're the merchants. So, what you would do is this. You would now and then let the peasants kill the Jews. And you think of this as a ritual sacrifice. Just as in Judaism, they would cleanse the community of its sins, right? Well, you would allow a ritual sacrifice of certain Jews in order to cleanse the peasants of their anger. Does that make sense? Like, I know this is hard, and I know this is disgusting and wrong, but it is a very powerful political tool. And so, you will see the idea of skip voting throughout human history, right? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:07:05 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=4025s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=4025s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So, now that once the peasants have satisfied their anger on the Jews, they go back to work. Does that make sense, guys? All right. So, Echo, is that clear? Okay, great. Great question. Okay, any more questions? Okay, no. So, in this religion, this world doesn't matter. What matters is once you die. Okay? So, everyone, while alive, is thinking, like, how do I ensure a peaceful, happy afterlife? Okay? And, the Catholic Church is what allows you to have a happy afterlife. Okay? But, if you piss off the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church can tell you that, nope, you're going to burn in hell. is the be on good terms with the Catholic Church. And, that's how you ensure eternal salvation. Okay? Yeah, it's a religion. It's a belief system. It's a world view. Okay? Remember, religion is the culture, which is the world view. Right? Right? And, this is what people believe. All right? ## The Church That Demanded Your Soul -- 1:08:48 - Source title: Civilization #40: Church and Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-20, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=4128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw&t=4128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Text: So, in China, people believe that if I get good grades in school, I'll go to good university and then I'll have a really good life. Right? That's a religion. That's a belief system. It's not necessarily true. But, that's what people believe. And, that's what drives your actions. That's why your parents make you study so hard. All right. Good. Is that clear? Okay. Good. Any more questions? Great questions, guys. But, any more questions? Yeah. So, I need you guys to really know this material because we will have to use this material in future classes. Okay. So, next week, we start the Renaissance. Okay? The Renaissance will take us to the Protestant Reformation. ## The World Shatterer -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Good morning. Today we will do Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Conquest. Now, as you know, the Mongols have a terrible reputation for their brutality, for their atrocities. Today, I want to make the argument to you that what they did, given the circumstances, given the constraints they were under, was actually logical and understandable, okay? So that's the argument I will make to you today. All right, so the Mongols. The Mongols, as you know, they are a steppe people. The steppe are divided into the Western steppes and the Eastern steppes. And they basically go from Hungary in Europe. Europe all the way to what is modern -day Mongolia. And as we discussed, steppe culture is very different from agricultural culture that we find in the La Vange, in Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and in China. In the grasslands, the economy is what we call nomadic pastoral, meaning they were... They will raise cattle as their source of food, and they will travel wherever there is grassland, okay? ## The World Shatterer -- 1:39 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=99s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=99s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And because of their economy, they have developed a certain culture. They are extremely violent. Their society, their culture is based around violence. And there's a lot of competition within these certain groups. So rather than thinking... Rather than think of these people as a nation or a race of people, it's better to think of them as a culture, okay? And for the longest time throughout human history, they have been divided among many different tribes. Throughout human history, the nomadic pastoral people of the steppes have always been in conflict with the agricultural empires. So... In response, the agricultural empires, China and the Persians, they have built walls and fortifications to counter their threat, okay? So as you can see, the Mongols will eventually come south and invade most of China. And historically, the response has been the Great Wall of China, okay? But also, in Central Asia, the steppe people have been a threat as well. ## The World Shatterer -- 3:00 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And they have... They have built fortified cities as a response, okay? So even though the steppe people and their agricultural empires have always been in conflict, the Mongols have had a unique reputation in Western history as the most brutal, as the most violent, okay? So the question we're looking at today is, why were the Mongols unique in their retaliation? Okay? So... There are lots of things that were said about the Mongols that we now know today are not true, okay? So for example, back in the day, they had a reputation for cannibalism. They ate their opponents. They ate their enemies. And we know that's not true today. They also had a reputation for being devious. So for example... When they approached an enemy, they would hold the cross, okay? The cross is a symbol of Christianity. So the Christian enemies would see this and think that they are allies, okay? ## The World Shatterer -- 4:13 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And only when they discovered that these are actually Mongols... By then, it was much too late, okay? So the Mongols had a reputation for being extremely devious. They had a reputation for wanton brutality. They would destroy entire cities and kill all the people. Previously, historians believed they killed about 65 million people. Today, that figure is disputed, okay? But if that were the case, then the Mongols killed more people than any other regime in human history before the 20th century. Genghis Khan is considered the greatest conqueror in human history. So the statistic that surprised everyone is 1 out of 200 males today, they are direct descendants of Genghis Khan. So that's like 60 million people, okay? 60 million males in the world are direct descendants of Genghis Khan, right? So that is the reputation. That the Mongols had for most of history. And what I want to show you today is the Mongols are not unique among the steppe people, okay? ## The World Shatterer -- 5:35 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And the way they behaved, there was a strategy. There's a logic to the way they behaved given the circumstances and constraints they found themselves under. Okay. So as you know in this class, the steppe people were... They were the greatest conquerors in human history, okay? So this started with the Yamnaya who were based in the Ukraine area. And we know the Yamnaya who are also referred to as the Proto -Indo -Europeans as well as the Aryans, okay? They spread throughout most of the Western world. So they went to Europe. And as you know, they basically replaced entire male population of Europe. And they intermarried with the local women to create European culture. They also went south and conquered Iran and India. And then they went over to the eastern steppes as well. So it's really important for us to remember. And I know this is hard. But the Mongol people, they are culturally more similar to... ## The World Shatterer -- 6:53 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: To the Yamnaya than they are to the Chinese. Even though genetically, the Mongols may be more similar to the Chinese, okay? In this class, we focus on cultural values rather than genetic affinity. Okay. So over time, what will happen to the Western steppes is it will slowly acclimatize itself to the surrounding agricultural empires. And slowly, the... Western steppes will become integrated into the agricultural... Into their agricultural neighbors. So the example here is Scythia, okay? So Scythia is slowly... It's an empire. It's a steppe empire. But slowly, it's about to integrate itself into what is modern -day Eurasia, okay? From the Scythians, you will have arise something called the Median Empire. Which will then give way to the Persian Empire. Over in the eastern steppes, okay? The steppe people come into conflict with the Han Dynasty. And the Han Dynasty, as we know from last class, is really the last ethnically Chinese dynasty. ## The World Shatterer -- 8:13 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And they are intent on a policy of eradication against the steppe people. So they come into conflict with the steppe people who are now called the Xiongnu, okay? And what this conflict will do is drive these people west, okay? And this is interesting for us because when they go west, they will splinter off into different groups. When they go all the way to Europe, they will be known as the Huns. You may know Attila the Hun. Well, Attila the Hun was the leader of these people. The Huns will drive the western steppe people, meaning the Goths, into the Roman Empire. Causing conflict with the Roman Empire, okay? And the Goths will become the foundation of modern day Europeans, okay? So this is the Hun Empire at its peak when it's in conflict with the Roman Empire. The steppe people, the Huns, will also give rise to a people called the Gorturk Empire, okay? ## The World Shatterer -- 9:20 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And they will sweep down and they will become the Seljuk Turks. Which will take over Mesopotamia. And then eventually you will have emerged the Ottoman Empire from these people. So in other words, the Mongols are just the most successful iteration of the steppe people. And their conflicts with the agricultural empires. So the Mongol Empire is the second largest empire ever in human history. Only the British Empire had more land. The Mongols were the largest contiguous empire. Meaning it was all interconnected together. Alright? At its height, the Mongol Empire extended from basically what is modern day Russia all the way to China. Okay? The empire that will take over. The Mongols centuries later is the Russian Empire. Okay? The Russian Empire will take over a lot of Mongol territory. Because it is so large. After the death of Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei. The Mongol Empire will splinter into four major empires. ## The World Shatterer -- 10:55 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? And these four major empires themselves will assimilate and integrate into the local culture. The Golden Horde will eventually give rise to the Russian Empire. The Yuan Dynasty will eventually fall and give rise to the Ming Empire. Okay? So even though they conquer a lot of territory. Ultimately their empire is not sustainable. And later on I will explain to you why it was not sustainable. And why ultimately the Mongol Empire declined. But while it was still in place. It created something called the Pax Monogalica. Okay? This is Latin for the Mongol Peace. You've heard of the Pax Romana. We are now living in the Pax Americana. Okay? So the Mongols created something called the Pax Monogalica. Which just meant they believed in globalization. They wanted their conquered nation. To trade with each other. Because they could collect taxes on the trade. And they encouraged people. Especially merchants. To travel across their empire. And trade with each other. ## The World Shatterer -- 12:11 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And during this time. A very famous Italian named Marco Polo. Had a chance to visit the world. And his travels. Especially those to China. Captured the imagination of Europeans. This is really the first time that China figured into the European imagination. Okay? So this is a map of Marco Polo's travels. Okay? And as you can see. He basically traveled all across the Pax Monogalica. Okay? The problem though. Is that when you integrate the world like this. You also give rise to disease. So the Black Death. Traveled all across the world. Okay? So we believe the Black Death originated in Central Asia. In a place we call Kyrgyzstan today. And it traveled all over the Mongol Empire. It made its way to Europe. And it devastated Europe. Okay? It killed anywhere between a third to half of the entire population of Europe. It traveled also to the former empire. Islamic Empire. And it traveled to China. ## The World Shatterer -- 13:29 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: But it was not as devastating. Okay? It's very important for us to understand. The Black Death was devastating for Europe. But it was not that devastating for China. And the Islamic Empire. And the reason why is sanitation and hygiene. So in China and in the former Islamic Empire. Their cities were pretty well organized. Pretty wealthy. Pretty civilized. But in Europe. Their streets were literally. Literally filled with manure. Okay? They had horses. They didn't have sanitation. People just threw shit onto the streets. And so like when you walk the streets. They were literally covered with shit. And in that sort of environment. Disease is spread very rapidly. But the Black Death is important for us also because. It will give rise to the Renaissance. Which we'll do next week. Okay? So about the Black Death. Historians believe the Renaissance could not have happened. The Black Death basically meant a reset. Of European society. And it allowed massive innovation in Europe. ## The World Shatterer -- 14:33 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? So as you can see. The Black Death was extremely devastating for Europe. After the Mongols will come another great conqueror. Called Timur the Lane. Timur Lane. And he will be the last great conqueror from the steppes. After Timur Lane. The agricultural empires will develop the technology. To repel the steppe invasion. The invaders. Mainly gunpowder. Okay? The technology and mass armies will overwhelm the steppe people. And eventually. Over time. The agricultural nations. Mainly Russia. Will start to colonize and conquer the steppes. Okay. So let's look at today at Genghis Khan. Who is the founder of the Mongol Empire. Okay? Genghis Khan will first of all unite the warring tribes of the Mongol people. He'll turn them into a confederation. And then the confederation will aim to conquer China. But then it will come into conflict with the Central Asian nations. And so Genghis Khan will embark on the Central Asian campaigns. ## The World Shatterer -- 15:55 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: That are brutal. He'll wipe out entire cities. He'll kill all the inhabitants. He will lay the foundation for the Mongol conquest. That will follow after him. Okay? And again. After the death of his son Ogedei. The Mongols were split into four major factions. And they will attempt to continue the legacy of conquest. But what happened is. After they conquered the Song Empire in 1279. They will attempt to conquer Japan and Vietnam. And when they try to do so. They will be repelled. They try to conquer Japan twice. And even though the legend is. That Japan was saved by the kamikaze. Right? The great divine wind. I will show you that's actually not true. There's another reason why the Mongols stopped invading Japan. So in the east. They've reached the limit of their conquest. They tried to conquer India as well. But when they tried to do so. They were repelled. And historians argue about the reason why this is the case. ## The World Shatterer -- 17:04 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Some believe it was because of the climate of India. Some believe it was because of. Because the southern of Delhi. Had a organized and conservative response. Some other believe it was just internal fighting. Okay? When they try to reach Europe. They will try to conquer Poland and Hungary. And even though they win. Every single battle against the Poles and Hungarians. They will ultimately turn back. And that will be the limit of their conquest in the west. So the Mongolian fighting style. Is great when you fight in flat plains. Okay? These are horsemen with bulls. Okay? So they're fast. They can cover great distances. But when they try to reach Europe. And Europe is thick forest. Right? They really can't conquer that terrain. One really stunning event. Is when they try to conquer Egypt. Remember Egypt for the longest time. Was the wealthiest part of the western world. ## The World Shatterer -- 18:15 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: But when they try to conquer Egypt. They run into a people called the Mamluks. Who fight very similarly to the Mongols. In fact the Mamluks are originally from the steppes as well. And for the first time. The Mongols will be defeated militarily on the battlefield. And this sort of destroys the aura of inevitability and invincibility. That the Mongols had for the longest time. Okay? And this will be the extent of their conquest in the west. And after these conquests. The Mongol Empire will try to rule their respective empires. But ultimately they will fail. Okay? And later on I'll explain to you why they were doomed to fail. And the irony is. The reasons that gave rise to the empire. Are also reasons why their empire ultimately collapsed. Okay? Okay. So I want to first talk about Genghis Khan. And so we don't know much about Genghis Khan. What we do know. Comes from a book called The Secret History of the Mongols. ## The World Shatterer -- 19:27 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: So it is an oral history. Of the life and times of Genghis Khan and his son Ogedei. Alright? Now the story in The Secret History is suspicious. And it's suspicious because it fits very well into the structure of Proto -Indo -European myth. Alright? So let me show you how it's similar. Okay. In The Secret History. Genghis Khan. His mother. And you know again they are in the Mongolian grasslands. His mother is about to be wed to her husband. So she's in her carriage. And she's along the way to her husband's tribe. But along the way she is ambushed and kidnapped. That's a very common thing in that culture. The way that you obtain a wife is by stealing someone else's wife. And so she's forced to marry a stranger. But this stranger. Genghis Khan's eventual wife. Genghis Khan's eventual father. Dies when Genghis Khan is eight years old. ## The World Shatterer -- 20:34 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: When the father dies the tribe abandons the mother and her young children. So they're forced to fend for themselves. Eventually the mother finds a way to find a supporting tribe. And Genghis Khan slowly finds mentors for protection. He eventually finds a mentor who becomes his best friend. And this best friend's name is Jamukha. And the two together are great warriors. And they conquer a lot of territory together. In fact when Genghis Khan's wife is stolen by a tribe. The two will race off and get the wife back. But by this time Genghis Khan's wife is pregnant with another man's son. Genghis Khan raised the son as his own. And he made the son heir to his empire. Which will cause great difficulties when Genghis Khan dies. But that just shows you the generosity all this meant. Eventually Genghis Khan will run into conflict with Jamukha. And the two are competing for control of the Mongol world. ## The World Shatterer -- 21:50 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Genghis Khan kills him to achieve his dominance. And Genghis Khan will overthrow the existing Mongolian social order. Basically all these top chieftains, all these top shamans he will kill. In order to unite the Mongol people and bring about a new social order. So that's the story that we have from the secret history. And that's very similar by the way to other founding myths of other people. Like for example let's look at Rome. Okay? So remember last semester we discussed Virgil's Ineat. Okay? And it's about the founder of Rome. His name is Aeneas. Aeneas is a prince of Troy. And he has to watch the destruction of Troy. He escapes the sacking of Troy where everyone is killed. But he gets lost at sea. Okay? Eventually he stumbles under Carthage where he falls in love with a queen there named Dido. But the gods demand that he leaves Dido, the woman that he loves and he's married. ## The World Shatterer -- 22:58 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And he does. He betrays Dido who then kills herself. Then he goes to Italy where he has to fight a war in order to establish the Trojan people on Italy. And they will eventually give rise to the Roman people. Okay? So it's a very similar structure, the story of Genghis Khan. Let's go to another story from Rome. So the founder of Rome is named Romulus who was a direct descendant of Aeneas. So there's a king called Numitor. And his brother, Aemilius, usurps the throne. And once Aemilius usurps the throne, he puts Numitor's daughter into a temple and makes her a virgin. Okay? But Mars, the war guard Mars, visits her. And then pregnants her. Right? And Numitor is left with twins. Numitor demands the twins be killed. And the twins are left alone by the Tiber River. Okay? And everyone thinks that they will drown. But they are miraculously saved. And a she ## The World Shatterer -- 24:02 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: -wolf nurses them. And a shepherd adopts them. Eventually they discover their true heritage. And they help their grandfather, Numitor, kill his brother, Aemilius, and restore the throne. Then the two go off to found their own city, which is Rome. Okay? But there's going to be one king. So the two fight. And Romulus kills his twin brother, Remus. Alright? And then Romulus becomes Rome's first king, which will eventually give rise to the greatest empire in the European world. Alright? So as you can see, the structures are very similar. So let's go over very quickly. The structure and meaning of Proto -Indo -European myth. The thing I want you to remember is that what mythology ultimately is, it's a collective subconscious of a culture. Okay? By understanding mythology, we can understand the fundamental values that underpin this culture. So what is the structure we're looking at? Okay. The structure is this. First, the gods favor a man with a divine mission. ## The World Shatterer -- 25:14 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: But the man himself does not understand this divine mission. Okay? The gods have picked this man for whatever reason, and this man must fulfill his divine mission. And in the process, he will suffer hardship to become as hard as a sword. Okay? Hardship makes you committed. It makes you strong. And to recognize his mission. Okay? In the process, he's asking himself, why am I being persecuted? Why am I suffering so much? And then eventually, he will have an epiphany. He will recognize. Oh, it's because the gods have a mission for me that I must fulfill. That's why I'm suffering. That's why I'm being persecuted. It's to make me strong and committed. Okay? And he will sacrifice his beloved to prove his commitment to his divine mission. Okay? This is really important. In Proto -Indo -European myth, the hero must always sacrifice his beloved. So remember the story of Genghis Khan. He sacrifices. ## The World Shatterer -- 26:11 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: He kills his best friend Jamukha. Okay? And you think, okay, what's the big deal? Well, in that culture, when two warriors are best friends, they're not just friends. Okay? They're basically lovers. They have sex with each other. And that's why they're such great warriors together. It's a very common thing. So remember the Iliad, where in the Iliad, Hector kills Patroclus. And Achilles becomes so enraged that he goes and kills Hector. Okay? So why did Achilles become so enraged? Because Patroclus was his best friend, which at that time everyone understood to mean Patroclus and Achilles were lovers. Okay? Achilles loved Patroclus. So when Genghis Khan killed Jamukha, he was basically killing Hector. Killing the man he loved the most in this world. Okay? That's a very important part of Proto -Enduro -European myth. You have to show your commitment by making the ultimate sacrifice, which means killing the person you love the most. And once he does that, he will shatter the old world to build a new one. ## The World Shatterer -- 27:26 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? That is the divine mission. The gods do not like this world. They want a flood to destroy this world in order for the world to be made anew. And this man, the Messiah, he is the one. He is the man who will shatter the old world. He is the world shatterer. Okay? He is the flood sent by the gods. Alright? So that's the basic structure of Proto -Enduro -European myth. And when we understand this, now what we can do is understand the power of the Jesus story within Christianity. Why is Christianity the most influential and popular religion in the world? It has to do with the story of Jesus. Okay? In the story of Jesus, according to the Gospels, it says, In the Gospel of Mark, let's look at the structure. Okay? It's very similar to Proto -Enduro -European mythology. ## The World Shatterer -- 28:14 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Jesus has a secret divine mission. Okay? He is sent by God, or he is God, who has come to redeem the world. He must suffer persecution and doubt. Okay? So everyone doubts who he is. No one knows who he is. He is laughed at. He is mocked. Okay? He then is sacrificed to wake the world. He kills himself. Well, he is sacrificed so that everyone knows. How much God loves them. And with God's sacrifice, this cycle of violence ends and a new history begins. Okay? So in Proto -Enduro -European myth, what's important is that you kill your beloved. But the founding myth of Christianity is, no, I kill myself to show you that violence is terrible. Okay? Once God has killed himself, once God has sacrificed himself, it means that all violence now must cease. The cycle of violence, the cycle of using violence to redeem the world, to cleanse the world, must come to an end. ## The World Shatterer -- 29:15 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? And that's the very idea, foundational idea of Christianity. And so what Christianity is doing, and it's very clever, is it's seeking the collective subconscious that is embedded in every individual and then planting a new idea within the subconscious that grows and grows. Okay? It's almost like a virus until people recognize that violence is bad. Proto -Enduro -European mythology celebrates violence. Right? Christianity believes violence is the worst thing. Okay? So let's, sorry, this is a bit, okay. All right. Anyway, I'll just read it to you. Okay? So this is the ending of Mark. Okay? Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last. Okay? So he's been sacrificed. He's died. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The temple is the... The second temple in Jerusalem where Yahweh is. And at the very top of this temple is a room called the Holy of the Holies. ## The World Shatterer -- 30:21 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1821s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1821s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: That's where God lives. And the curtain is what hides God from the world. Okay? So when Jesus dies, the curtain now is torn in half. Meaning God is now released into the world, which means that everyone now has access to God. God is now on earth. Okay? Now when the centurion, the soldier who stood facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, truly, this man was God's son. So the first person that Jesus revealed himself to was a Roman soldier. The first person that recognized the truth of Jesus and the power of his sacrifice was a Roman soldier who's always been taught that violence is the answer to everything. And once he's converted, he recognizes that violence is wrong and evil. Okay? So that's the power of this mythology. Does that make sense to you guys? All right. So now I want to look at real history. Okay? ## The World Shatterer -- 31:32 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Because this is mythology. And what I want to do now is show you that Genghis Khan fits into a pattern of a great conqueror. If you look at all the great conquerors of human history, and I'll list four right now, okay? Sargon of Akkad, Philip of Macedon, Julius Caesar, and Genghis Khan, you will see they are very, very similar. Okay? So let's look at Sargon of Akkad. Remember before, in Mesopotamia, it was divided into the Sumerian city -states that warred with each other. And these were walled cities because these were walled cities. They couldn't really conquer each other. Okay? So Sargon of Akkad figured out a way to conquer everyone and build the first empire in world history called the Akkadian Empire. So we don't know much about him, but this is what we know. First of all, he was probably a mercenary. Okay? It was very common back then to be a mercenary because these city -states were at war with each other always. ## The World Shatterer -- 32:30 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=1950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: He was a cupbearer to the King Ur -Zaba of Kish. Kish is one of the city -states in Sumeria. Now, guys, cupbearer is a very important position. A cupbearer means that when you're the king and you have a feast or a festival for your people, the cupbearer is the man who stands beside you and pours you the alcohol, the wine. Which means this is the man you trust the most. So what does it mean for Sargon of Akkad to be a cupbearer? Well, it probably means that they were lovers. The king and Sargon were lovers who loved each other deeply. Okay? But that doesn't prevent Sargon from killing the king. And taking the throne. Which starts this massive war in the city -states in which Sargon will eventually triumph. Okay? Well, so the thing about Sargon is he is really good at winning the favor of mentors. ## The World Shatterer -- 33:29 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Right? And ultimately he will betray mentors in order to achieve his ambition. Well, that's also true for Philip of Macedon. So Philip of Macedon, he's a prince of Macedon. And at this time in the Greek world, Thebes was the dominant military power. Thebes defeated Macedon in a battle. And Thebes demanded hostages. So Philip was sent as a hostage to Thebes. Where he is now mentored by the greatest military strategist of this time, named Epaminodas. Okay? And so Philip II is learning how to win battles. He's learning all the major military innovations of this time. From the greatest general of this time. And then what he will do is he will return to Macedon. Reorganize the Macedon army. And then take them to conquer Thebes. As well as the entire Greek world at the battle of Chaeronea. Okay? Well, this pattern is also true for Julius Caesar. At this time, which is about like 50 BCE in Rome, Pompey the Great is the greatest general. ## The World Shatterer -- 34:40 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: He's the man that ever lived. He's the man that everyone admires. He has the most political power. So what Julius Caesar does is he marries his daughter to Pompey the Great. And this forms a political alliance between the two. Pompey the Great grants him a generalship of the province of Gaul. Where Julius Caesar will win military glory. Okay? It basically establishes the power, prestige, and fame of Julius Caesar. And this will start a civil war. In which Julius Caesar will defeat his mentor Pompey. At the battle of Parcellas. Okay? Very similar pattern. Well, the same is also true for Genghis Khan. He is mentored by two chieftains, Jamukha and Togol. And he will defeat both in order to gain leadership of the Mongol world. So it shows you how ruthless and ambitious these great conquerors are. But at the same time, let's remember this. Philip II had a really talented subordinate in Parmenion. ## The World Shatterer -- 35:39 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2139s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2139s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Parmenion was really the person in charge of the Macedon army. In fact, it was Parmenion who was most responsible for Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia. Okay? Julius Caesar had a talented subordinate in Titus Labinius. Who was responsible for his victories in Gaul. And then Genghis Khan had a talented subordinate in Subutai. Who was considered one of the greatest military strategists. Ever. Okay? And so what this tells us is they're able to exercise tremendous judgment in people. They know who to trust. They know who not to trust. They know who is talented and who is not talented. They know how to win the loyalty of their subordinates. Okay? That's a very impressive skill. And then the question then is how is it possible that they are ruthlessly ambitious. Yet at the same time, they're able to delegate power. In a very effective manner. And the answer is they all believe they have a divine mission. ## The World Shatterer -- 36:47 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Their goal is not to conquer the world. Their goal is to change the world for the better. As demanded by the gods. Does that make sense? That's the only way we can understand this. Each in their own way believe they are the Messiah. Sent by the gods to shadow the world so that it can be built anew. Okay? And that's what drives them to kill their beloved. And that's what drives them to do what they do. Okay? All four, ultimately, they are able to conquer the world because they develop a professional, meritocratic, and innovative army. Okay? What does professional mean? It means that, look at Sargon the Great. Sargon of Akit. At this time, there were no professional soldiers. Most people were farmers. And you only fought off -season. Okay? You might fight two, three months of the year. Sargon of Akit was the first to say, nope, we will have professional soldiers. ## The World Shatterer -- 37:51 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2271s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2271s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Everyone else will pay taxes in order for me to pay my professional army. But these are professional soldiers. They are full -time soldiers at war. Okay? Meritocratic means the system before was the nobility always had a priority. The nobility was always right. And Sargon of Akit made the system more open and fair and meritocratic. So if you were talented and you were brave, you could rise within the ranks of the army regardless of your heritage and your background. Innovative means they were always adapting and learning. So Sargon of Akit was able to conquer the Sumerian city -states, which, again, were walled by adopting siege warfare. Which was unheard of before. Okay? And the same is true for Philip, Julius Caesar, and Genghis Khan. All right? So, again, Genghis Khan fits into a pattern here of what these great conquerors looked like. Does it make sense to you guys? Any questions so far? ## The World Shatterer -- 39:05 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-terror-as-constraint-strategy) Text: All right. Let's continue. Okay. So now I want to discuss why the Mongols did what they did. Okay? All right. Why did the Mongols commit so many atrocities? What was the logic or reasoning behind their brutality? All right? All right. In order for me to do so, I'm going to introduce to you today a new analytical model called game theory. Okay? The idea of game theory is this. All human action can be perceived as a game in which two people, at least two people, are playing. And they're trying to defeat each other. Okay? So, for example, let's just say, you know, these two guys are fighting each other. Okay? They want to kill each other. Now, according to game theory, each person has a distinctive optimal strategy. Okay? It's called optimal strategy. Optimal strategy is given the constraints of your circumstance. What is the best way for you to win? Okay. ## The World Shatterer -- 40:19 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-terror-as-constraint-strategy) Text: So if you're the big guy, okay? This is the big guy. He wants the game to be fair, which is like, let's just arrange to fight at a certain time. And we'll fight. Okay? And he wants to use this strategy because he is most likely to win. But if you're this guy, a small guy, right? Let's call him A. And you're fighting B. You don't want to do that because you're bound to lose. So what you do is. You figure out a time when B is most vulnerable. Maybe when he's asleep or he's eating and you attack him then. Okay? You basically have to cheat in order to win. So each individual has a distinctive optimal strategy. All right? Now, this sounds easy, but it's not because often there are multiple players in the game. Okay? So you have C and you have D. And when you have multiple players in the game, you have to think about alliances and coordination. ## The World Shatterer -- 41:13 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2473s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2473s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? So it's possible that A and D will form an alliance to attack B, which will force B and C to form an alliance. Okay? But once maybe C and B kill off D, then A and C will form an alliance to kill off B. Okay? So what this tells us is not only does each person have an optimal strategy given the constraints of the game. But this optimal strategy will change according to the circumstances. All right? Also, what's important for us to remember is that there are always these external constraints. External constraints might be just weather or weapons or whatever. Okay? So game theory sounds easy, but it's extremely complicated because you always have to switch perspective in order to better understand why this person is doing what he or she is doing. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So let's look at game theory and apply it to the Mongols. ## The World Shatterer -- 42:22 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2542s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2542s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-contempt-breaks-openness) Text: Okay, remember, the Mongols are a borderland people and they're fighting empires. And remember, if you're a borderland, okay, borderland, empire, you have three distinct advantages. Okay? You have energy, you're open, and you're opportunistic. Okay? These are the three advantages that you have as a borderland people. Like the Mongols. As an empire, your three advantages are mass, you have a lot of people, you have organization, you have depth. Okay? So it seems, so again, given the strengths, it is not that easy to determine who will win. Okay? But we're trying to figure out the mentality of the Mongols. Okay? We know the Mongols have these three strengths and they're trying to defeat the empire. Which has these three strengths. At the same time, we have to remember, the Mongols themselves have three fundamental weaknesses that they must compensate for if they are to win. Okay? So let's go over their major constraints. The first constraint that they have is, excuse me, low population. ## The World Shatterer -- 43:40 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? There are not that many of them. In fact, they're often outnumbered, often 100 to 1. And so that's a major constraint. When Genghis Khan was alive, at his height, he had anywhere between 100,000, 100,000 people. To 200,000 troops. Okay? The second constraint is the idea of distance and geography. What I mean by that is, the Mongols have to fight over huge territory. Because Central Asia, Asia is a huge land. Right? And this is problematic because of supply issues. Supplies. What this means is, if you are the Mongols, the thing that you cannot ever fight is a war over troops. A war of attrition. A war of attrition just means a long war in which you're trying to deplete the other person's resources. If you're the Mongols, the worst thing that can ever happen to you is if you're stuck in a war of attrition. ## The World Shatterer -- 44:43 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: If the siege is too long, or the war lasts for too long. Okay? Because eventually, you'll run out of soldiers. So that's what the Mongols fear the most. Okay? So distance. The last thing, this is really important, is governance. Governance just means, the Mongols are nomadic people who do not know how to govern other people. So they don't want to be stuck in a situation where they're forced to govern other people. Okay? Does that make sense? And what this means is the idea of whole territory. When you conquer a new land, what you usually do is you put in place a new regime. They can't do that because they don't have the personnel for that. Okay? They often don't even have the personnel for siege warfare. But what they will do is recruit Chinese engineers, Indian engineers, in order to implement siege warfare. Okay? But bureaucrats are very hard to compensate for. ## The World Shatterer -- 45:42 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? So these are three fundamental weaknesses of the Mongol system. Low population. They have to fight long distances. And therefore, they have to worry about supplies. And they don't know how to govern other people. Okay? And if we do this. Okay? If we look at what the strengths are and we look at what their fundamental constraints are, then we can figure out what their optimal strategy is. Okay? So this is the optimal strategy for the Mongols. The first is escalation dominance. Okay. Escalation dominance is this. Okay? There's a concept in political science called escalation ladder. The escalation ladder, I mean, it's a ladder. It's a very simple concept. It means like violence always escalates. So, for example, I get into an argument with someone. Okay? Well, what first happens is we start to argue. But then eventually, this argument becomes much more heated. We start to push each other. Okay? Then I might throw a punch. ## The World Shatterer -- 47:00 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2820s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2820s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: He throws a punch back. Then I might bite him. He might bite me back. I might pull out a knife. He might pull out a gun. Okay? This is called escalation ladder. Okay? Violence has to happen over time. Okay? And this is fine. But the problem is what if you're fighting multiple people at once? Right? So what you want to do is show other people that you are more dominant. Okay? So if you insult me, I'll put a gun on you and I'll shoot you. Okay? That's the idea of escalation dominance. I always have the capacity to inflict more damage on you than you could ever do. And that's why the Mongols did what they did. So what will often happen is the Mongols would send a trade delegation to a nation to negotiate a trade deal. And the nation, usually in Central Asia, they would kill all the delegation in order to insult Genghis Khan. ## The World Shatterer -- 48:07 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-terror-as-constraint-strategy); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: In response, Genghis Khan would send his army to his country and he would kill all the people in the city. He would destroy the entire city, burn down the city, and kill everyone. Okay? This is the idea of escalation dominance. You have to prove escalation dominance if you are to be a viable threat to everyone. Okay? So that's the first idea. Escalation dominance. The second idea is the idea of terror, or what we call psychological warfare. If you are badly outnumbered in warfare, then you have to make people afraid to fight you. Okay? If you cannot govern people, if you don't know how to fight people, then you have to properly manage people. You have to make people afraid to rebel. Okay? So the Mongols were notorious for psychological warfare. So for example, what they would do is this. They would conquer some territory, and to ensure the villagers would not ever rebel, they would send one Mongol soldier into the village. ## The World Shatterer -- 49:08 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=2948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? And this is one soldier, and there might be a thousand villagers. And then what this Mongol soldier will do is randomly kill some villagers. He'll say, hey, you guys come over here, line up, and he starts killing people randomly. Okay? And if the villagers ever rebel and kill him, then the Mongols will come and kill everyone in the village. All right? So that's the idea of psychological warfare. But the Mongols do this to themselves as well. Okay? So the Mongols have a system where units are divided into units of ten. Okay? So ten soldiers. And then these ten soldiers times ten make up a unit. So what would happen is this. If ever in a battle, one soldier ran away from battle, all of the people in these units would be executed. Okay? But if one unit ever ran away, then the next unit, 100 of them, would all be executed. ## The World Shatterer -- 50:10 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? So this gives everyone incentive to make sure your fellow soldiers are safe. Your fellow soldier does not run away. Okay? So the Mongols had psychological warfare not just for other people but also for themselves. And that's just the way the Mongols fought. And they had to fight like this given the fact they were greatly outnumbered. And they had to win quickly against their enemies. All right? Does that make sense? Okay? And the last thing, which is the most important, is they had to create an aura of inevitability and invincibility. At this time, people were literally telling people these Mongols are not human. They are demons. They have come from Tartarus. And that's where we get the name Tartarus. They have come from Tartarus, hell, in order to kill everyone. Okay? These are demons. Guess what, guys? The Mongols wanted this reputation. Okay? They definitely could in order to promote this reputation because it gave them an aura of inevitability and invincibility. ## The World Shatterer -- 51:24 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt#game-theory-terror-as-constraint-strategy) Text: They could not be defeated. There's no point in trying to defeat them. So let's just give up. Okay? And most did. Most said, like, the Mongols were able to conquer so much territory so fast because they had this aura of inevitability and invincibility. And most people just gave up. They just paid tribute. And if you didn't do so, then they would use escalation dominance and terror to kill everyone. Okay? And they would send refugees all around the world. So everyone would know about the ferocity and brutality of the Mongols. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? So in other words, I have to say this, but according to game theory, everything the Mongols did made complete sense. Okay? In fact, it's their optimal strategy. Okay? Given the circumstances, given the constraints, what they did was completely logical and reasonable, even though it resulted in the deaths of Mongols. ## The World Shatterer -- 52:26 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And then, of course, the Mongols did something else. So the Mongols were able to kill tens of millions of people. Okay? Does it make sense? All right. Okay. So now let's discuss why their empire collapsed. All right. So there's a fundamental weakness in the entire Mongol optimal strategy approach. It's a great strategy if you are trying to conquer other people. But when you're trying to govern them, okay, it's an issue. All right. So the Mongols, they were really, really, really good. As we discussed, the Mongols are great warriors, like all steppe people, because of their cultural values. This is a culture that emphasizes three things. First is freedom. Second is egalitarianism. And the third is self -reliance. So rather than think of the Mongol, the army, as an empire or organization, it's more like a confederation. People choose to join this confederation because of the immense rewards that can be achieved through conquest. ## The World Shatterer -- 53:46 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: So this is a culture that values freedom, egalitarianism, and self -reliance. And therefore, it makes great warriors. The problem, though, is the cultures they conquer were extreme hierarchies. Where you have maybe the emperor at the top. A bishop. A bureaucracy. And then peasantry at the very bottom. So the vast majority were peasants. Now, I know this is hard for us to understand. But the reason why the Mongols were able to conquer these empires were almost a contempt for these empires. Does that make sense, guys? The Mongols had absolutely no respect for these empires. They thought they were weak. They thought they were corrupt. They thought they were corrupt and decadent. So the Mongols were able to conquer them. Does that make sense? There's a contempt for them. The contempt is this. The underlying optimal strategy of the Mongols is a concept that never existed in human history before. And the concept is this. ## The World Shatterer -- 55:01 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-contempt-breaks-openness) Text: People are an infinite resource. So throughout most of human history, people were the most valuable resource. There was not many people around. Therefore, you have to do this. You have to treat people nicely if you want to maximize their productivity. But where were the Mongols based? They were based in East Asia. They were based in China, basically. And in China, because of the empire, people were treated like an infinite resource. You could massacre them. You could send them off in human wave attacks. It didn't matter because they were an infinite resource. And this idea never existed before in human history. And in the Western world, this concept is radically revolutionary. It was unimaginable, like, you could do this. So remember, Julius Caesar, even though he, when he conquered Rome, he wasn't intent on massacring people. Why? Because people could be sold as slaves. That was the main way he made his fortune. By selling the Gauls as slaves. ## The World Shatterer -- 56:19 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-contempt-breaks-openness) Text: But if you believe that people are an infinite resource, then you don't want them as slaves. You want to kill as many people as possible in order to inflict terror. So that's the issue with the Mongols. First of all, their value system did not lend itself to governing a hierarchy. They didn't know how to. And they didn't want to. Also, much more problematic was their contempt for the local culture. If you have contempt for the local culture, you're going to have problems managing the people. Okay? So in China, during the Yuan Dynasty, the Chinese, there's a class system. The Mongols were at the top, and the Chinese were at the very bottom, okay? The foreigners were sort of in between. And that just shows you the Mongol contempt for Chinese people. And that's why, ultimately, the Chinese people rebelled against the Mongols. Now, eventually, the Mongol leadership would recognize this problem. ## The World Shatterer -- 57:23 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: And they would try to adopt a Chinese -style bureaucracy. But a bureaucracy, and we discussed this, comes into conflict with the nobility. Okay? Nobility. The nobility is intent on maintaining the Mongolian culture. They did not want to assimilate. But the emperor recognized you have to assimilate if you are to have this empire. And because they couldn't agree, the nobility and the emperor couldn't agree, ultimately, it led to the collapse of the Mongols. The Mongol Empire. Okay? All right? So that's the history of the Mongols. Any comments? Any questions? I know Doug is. ## The World Shatterer -- 58:12 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3492s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: I don't have any questions yet. ## The World Shatterer -- 58:14 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: But do you want to make a comment? Because I know you've studied the Mongols quite in detail. ## The World Shatterer -- 58:22 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: I'm kind of scared. This is on YouTube. ## The World Shatterer -- 58:25 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay. Any questions, guys? Like, I know there's a lot to take in. So, you know, ask questions. Tell me where areas you are confused by. ## The World Shatterer -- 58:53 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. ## The World Shatterer -- 59:16 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3556s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3556s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. ## The World Shatterer -- 59:17 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. ## The World Shatterer -- 59:21 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. Yup. So, the Vikings were in Europe, and the Mongols are near China, okay? And I have to say, like, I think if I wanted to be a Viking or a Mongol, I prefer to be a Viking, okay? And the reason why is the Vikings never really adopted a belief that people were an infinite resource. They couldn't. Because Europe was very poor. And the Vikings, regardless, even though they were brutal, they still had respect for their opponents. They never developed a contempt for their opponents. They were surrounded by the Byzantines, the Muslims, and the Europeans. And these were great warriors. So, the Vikings felt they had a lot to learn from these cultures. And in fact, ultimately, the Vikings will assimilate themselves into these cultures in different environments, okay? So... Um... Um... The Mongols are different, though. The Mongols are ## The World Shatterer -- 1:00:59 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-contempt-breaks-openness) Text: based in East Asia, and they did ultimately adopt a belief that people are an infinite resource. And they had tremendous contempt for Chinese culture, okay? And that changes you as a person. When you believe that people are an infinite resource, and you are contemptuous of other cultures, it also, in a way, makes you contemptuous of yourself. If that makes any sense. Okay? Um... And so, ultimately, that's why the Mongols were not able to... Even though they had tremendous wealth, they didn't really produce cultural monuments. We don't have... Like the Vikings, I mean, as I mentioned, the Vikings were fundamental development of Western civilization. The Mongols were not fundamental development of any civilization. I mean, they caused a lot of havoc, and they were great conquerors. But they didn't leave... They didn't leave a rich cultural legacy. So... And I think it has to do with the belief that people are an infinite resource. Okay? Um... ## The World Shatterer -- 1:02:05 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3725s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3725s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So, I would much prefer to be a Viking. I would much prefer to be enslaved by a Viking than a Mongol. Like, if I were a slave, I would much rather be a slave to a Viking than a Mongol. Okay? If I were a slave to a Viking, the Vikings would at least become my friend. They'd be like, hey... Tell me about your culture, or any stories that you can tell us. Okay? And if you were a great storyteller, then they would make you... Um... They would treat you very nicely, because you're helping them learn more about your culture. Okay? The Mongols had absolutely no interest in other cultures. They were interested in conquering and exploiting other people. All right? I could be wrong. All right? And I'm probably making these crass generalizations. But I believe with the Vikings, there's a general curiosity about the world. That comes from a general respect of other cultures. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:02:58 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3778s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Whereas the Mongols were not curious about the world. They were intent on conquest. And enslaving other people, and exploiting other people. Okay? They were predators. And again, that could be my prejudice. But based on my readings so far, that would be my belief. But please change my mind. Okay. All right. Thanks for the question. Okay. Great question. Any other questions? Or... Sorry. Sorry. So, population. Okay? So, the Mongol population is loosely defined. Okay? Do you understand? It's hard to say who's Mongol and who's not Mongol. Because that entire area has a similar culture. And it's very hard to figure out where the borders are. Okay? Like... Yeah. Okay. Great question. Okay. Yeah. So, you're right. So, the Mongols are a low population. So, why would they believe that people are infinite resource? And the answer is because they are always in contact with China. Okay? So, the Mongols were always in contact with China. And as I mentioned, the interaction happens in three ways. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:04:29 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: The Mongols are working as either mercenaries for dynasties in China. Or they are trading. Okay? Or they're raiding and pillaging. Okay? So, for centuries, there's been contact between China and the Mongols. So, where did the Mongols learn... The idea that people are infinite resource? Well, they learned it from China. Right? And why did they learn it from China? Because Chinese warfare was also predicated on the belief that people were infinite resource. Does that make sense? So, basically, the entire idea of warfare in China is... I organize this peasant army. I throw it at my opponent. Okay? And if my entire army dies, guess what? I'll just go and I'll raise another peasant army and throw it at my opponent again. Okay? It's like human wave attacks. Okay? We call this human wave attacks. This was pioneering in China. Okay? And the Mongols just took it and used it everywhere else. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:05:24 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Right? So, if you're the Mongols and you're fighting this enemy and they're just throwing these peasants at you and you're killing them all but no one cares because then, like, a month later, another peasant army comes at you. Okay? You quickly adopt the idea that people are an infinite resource. Right? Does that make sense? ## The World Shatterer -- 1:05:52 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Yeah. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:05:52 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=3952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-contempt-breaks-openness) Text: Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. The Mongols... Yeah. Were a very open society. Like, if you had a benefit to their society... And so, for example, if you're a Chinese teacher or a Chinese scholar or a Chinese engineer or a Chinese merchant, they would quickly assimilate you. Okay? And then they would kill everyone else. Okay? So, they're a pretty open society. Okay? So, does that make sense? Okay. Great. Any more questions? ## The World Shatterer -- 1:06:40 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Yes. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:06:50 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay. Great. Okay. All right. So, let's talk about mythology. All right. So, again, if you're actually studying mythology... What you recognize is there's a structure that's very similar across many different cultures. Right? So, if you look at Greek, if you look at Roman, Norse, Mongolian... Okay? And I could go on and on and on. There is a very similar structure, even though the characters might be different. Okay? But it's a mythology that celebrates violence and individualism as a way to remake the world. Okay? It's about strength, individualism, violence. So, why is that the case? And it's about culture, cultural values. So, as I discussed in this class, cultural values are the most persistent part of who you are. Why? Because it's part of your subconscious. Okay? There's a conscious you, and there's a subconscious. And ultimately, you are your subconscious. And subconscious is composed of your cultural values. Okay? This is the essence of who you are. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:08:05 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4085s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4085s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: So, even though the Proto -Indo -Europeans, they were going into different environments, and they were assimilating themselves into different environments, and they looked physically different, culturally, subconsciously, they shared a similar value system. And this value system will then go on to inform the way they perceive the world, their worldview. And this worldview will then manifest itself through mythology, which will eventually become literature. Okay? Does that make sense? So, they might have changed clothes, they might have changed their hair color, but their soul was still Proto -Indo -European. Okay? And the same is also true for language. And that's why so many words repeat themselves in different languages. Okay? All right? Does that make sense? Okay. Great. Any more questions? Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Great. So, next class, we will go back to Europe. We will do the Crusades, which will then take us to the Renaissance and the Reformation and the Southern Revolution. ## The World Shatterer -- 1:09:20 - Source title: Civilization #39: Genghis Khan, World Shatterer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPQzAPnjYkM&t=4160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-mpqzapnjykm.json) Text: Okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay, good morning today we do China Obviously we are in China and we will we know a lot of Chinese history So I will go fairly quickly and deeply This is an opportunity for us to look back on the theories. We've developed over the course of this year and really Think about how they apply to the Chinese context It's a chance for us to see if our models work if they do work Then they would be true in the Western context and also in the Chinese context. It's also a chance for us to deeply interrogate Our theories and see where flaws might arise Okay, so I'll get I'll be going through some Chinese history, but I will do so By applying the theories we've learned so far Mainly the oceanic currents of history, right? So let's get started today. We're gonna look at a question That is fundamental to China, which is we know That ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:11 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=71s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=71s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: for the longest time China really was the civilized civilization poor excellence in the world It gave us all the great inventions that would make modernity possible including the compass paper printmaking gunpowder Okay, but after Song dynasty, which is about the year 1200 trying to stop being creative and So why did this happen and that is the question that will frame our discussion? This morning. All right, let's go over some quick Chinese history so Chinese civilization as you know developed along the yellow river the yellow river is It's perfect for agriculture and as a result Population expanded very quickly when that happens conflict and war will ensue and that's and that's what will give rise to settlements and fortified cities that will drive the development of the state and civilization and technology Okay, um the Hallmark all China civilization is what we call the warring states period tune chill and At this time the foundations of ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 2:34 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Chinese civilization will come into being at this time You will have something called the hundred schools of thought Confucianism will develop as well Taoism and legalism okay, and these ideas will form the foundation of Chinese civilization and As you can see in this period all these hundred schools of thought developed because of a process we call open cooperative Competition which as we have discussed is the main driver of innovation in human civilization Okay, openness means that there is no centralized authority cooperation means that Even though there's no centralized authority the different states are trading communicating with each other and they are intermarrying into each other and Competition means that there is a lot of conflict between them There are warring against each other for dominance in their region Okay, and in this process this will give rise to The ideas the technology the values the culture that will underpin China civilization for the next 2 ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 3:56 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=236s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=236s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: ,000 years Confucius is obviously Who is best remembered? from this era, but you also have Lao Tzu who is the founder of Taoism? Okay, as well as Zhuang Tzu and Mo Tzu Sun Tzu will at this time write his book the art of war So in a process that is open cooperative competition eventually one state will be the one to win the war The state will emerge to conquer the rest and as we discussed why the state Emerges is because of three things energy. They're much more energetic. They're much more ambitious Second is openness. They're much more willing to adopt innovation in the ruthless pursuit of military conquest and they are opportunistic meaning that they will Do whatever it takes to win? Okay so in this period the state that we eventually conquer all China and create the first Empire is the Qing and again if you think about it in the year 500 BCE ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 5:19 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: We could not possibly predict that the Qing would conquer and unite all of China because of all these states the Qing was the porous it was situated in the mountains whereas The other states are situated in these fertile valleys Its culture was not as developed as the rest and its population was smaller So we couldn't predict that the Qing would eventually unite all of China But at the same time near 500 we cannot have predicted that Rome would unite the Mediterranean and we cannot have predicted that Macedonia would have united the Greek world All right So let's discuss very quickly why the Qing was able to succeed Okay, even though this is the warring states period and there's a lot of warfare going on What we need to remember is that this warfare is heavily regulated War in this period. It's almost like an aerostatic aristocratic game okay, so there are stories where This general ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 6:35 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: was leading sickly the Laying siege to a city and the people inside were starving to death Which is what you do in a siege, right? You starve the population to death, but the general felt tremendous regret and guilt for putting the population Under such misery so he retreated and withdrew to give time for the population to recover and that was considered. What was gentlemanly, okay, that was what was considered chivalrous civilized back then another story Is that an army was crossing the river which is a great time to attack them? But the opposing army let them cross the river because that is what is civilized, okay, what is gentlemanly so this period Was heavily regulated by a gentleman's code of conduct Okay, and then you ask yourself. Why is that the case and the answer is that remember this is a a open cooperative competition environment in which Even though the states are at war ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 7:41 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: they still a lot of intermarriage between them There's still a lot of trade a lot of communication so these states are not trying to use warfare to overturn the social order because they benefit from the status quo they're using Warfare as a means to maintain the social order and that's why warfare is extremely heavily regulated And so let's think about the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. When we look at the war, we know that the Peloponnesian War was extremely bloody, it was extremely deadly, but at the same time it was extremely regulated. And a lot of their strategies didn't really make any sense. It was really about defeating the enemy. So for example, we know that in Sparta, there are people called the Helots, who are basically slaves to the Spartan people. And the Helots outnumber the Spartans ten to one. So all Athens had to do was say to the Helots, if you fight for us, if you revolt against your masters, we will grant you freedom. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 8:47 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: That's all Athens had to do. But Athens never did that. Because by doing that, you would disrupt the social order from which Athens benefited, and you would unleash your power. So it was a major revolution that could possibly engulf the entire Greek world. Also, even though Sparta and Athens were enemies, they were united by intermarriage among their elites. They had a similar culture. And they historically were allies, especially against the Persians. So warfare at this time was about maintaining the status quo, rather than overturning the status quo. And this presents a lot of problems. There was an opportunity for the Qing Dynasty, which is in the margins of the status quo. So the Qing Dynasty started to invent warfare in a way that opportunistically took advantage of the status quo situation. And they committed themselves to total warfare, meaning their entire society was engineered in a way to allow them to win against their enemies. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 9:57 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: So certain characteristics about the Qing Dynasty at this time. First is the idea of legalism. Draconian laws that force a population to behave in a certain way. Something that is very fundamental to the idea of legalism is collective responsibility. What that means is that if you commit a crime, you'll be punished, but so will your entire family. The idea of collective responsibility is pioneering today. The idea of collective responsibility is pioneering at this time in order to maintain a very strict society that can be purposed for war. So that's the first thing. Legalism. Second thing is the idea of centralization, meaning that you have a bureaucracy. You have centralization. And this allows you to actually expand very quickly. It allows you to expand and govern new territories that you conquer. And the third, of course, is total war, meaning you devote all your resources to warfare in order to conquer your enemies. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 11:10 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: The Qing Dynasty was also known for its openness. So if you were a man of talent and you could contribute to the military and the bureaucracy, they would welcome you. So think of the Qing as a revolutionary system that sought to overturn the Qing Dynasty. And the Qing dynasty was a state that tried to maintain the status quo. And the other states like Wei, Zhao, Han, and Chu, especially Chu, they were trying to maintain the status quo. And therefore they were not that well equipped to deal with the challenge from the Qing. Now we know that the Qing would unite all of China, but because their system was so draconian, eventually the other states would rebel against them. and this would eventually lead to the Han Dynasty okay now the Han Dynasty is actually well even though the Han Dynasty disparages the Qing right ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 12:11 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: so our very conception of the Qing comes from Han historians who tell us that the Qing buried scholars and they burned books and that's extreme and that in our eyes is barbaric right we don't know that's true we know that the Qing practice heavy censorship so those hundred schools of thought a lot of these books were censored and destroyed during this period but we don't know for fact that they buried scholars okay but this is what so the Han Dynasty is trying to disparage trying to refute the Qing Dynasty that said the Han Dynasty continues the system first introduced by the Qing okay the Han is a really at this point the height of Chinese civilization there's a confidence there's an arrogance to the Han and one of the top priorities for the Han is now that they've united China they have to deal with the northern steps people okay remember that throughout history the ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 13:16 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=796s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=796s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: steps people have proven to be the most daunting challenge for civilizations they are extremely they're ferocious warriors and the step people were the most ferocious warriors now they're många so the Korean people who were fully fallen Anatolia China then get back to China the Koreans who wanted to take by〇〇〇 but were probably more want to is there can really be someone to step in to bring this to Ganzhou and prove that the Muslim structure is much more modern now right noodles see you and then След 음 yeah it's all right I'm gonna get some treatments ah in Rome itself, until the Han, the Han people are descendants of the Xiongnu, okay? But over time, because of this conflict between the Han and the northern steppe people, this will create tremendous strain on the Han. And eventually the policy will evolve to one of cooperation and dependency. And so what will happen is there will be ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 14:22 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=862s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=862s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: a lot of trade, there will be a lot of intermarriage, and the steppe people will be hired as mercenaries for internal conflicts within China, okay? So open cooperation now switches from the Han, which has become a centralized power, to the steppe people. So within these people, and there's quite a lot of different tribes, there will be now tremendous competition. And one group, one tribe, that will eventually triumph is called the Shanbei, okay? And the Shanbei will give rise to which dynasty, do you guys know? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 15:03 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Hmm? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 15:06 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay, but Shanbei will give rise to which major Chinese dynasty? You guys should know this. What comes after the Han? The Tang Dynasty, okay? So this is one thing that is misunderstood. The Han Dynasty is really... It's really the last Chinese dynasty. It is the last ethnically Chinese dynasty committed to the protection and propagation of Chinese culture. The Tang Dynasty, the founders, the Li family, they're actually of the Shanbei tribe, okay? And as a result, they will switch China into a universal multicultural empire. The Tang Dynasty is famous for being... Extremely open, tolerant, and inclusive, okay? All right, so this is the Tang Dynasty, which is considered the height of power, the height of Chinese power in the world. The Tang Dynasty will try to expand westwards into Central Asia, and it will start the Silk Road and trade networks all around the world. Buddhism at this point will come into China, and it will become, at certain points, a state religion, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 16:26 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: But there are many problems with the Tang Dynasty. So there's a heavy reliance on generals to fight wars, and this will eventually lead to the An Lushan Rebellion, okay? Which lasts for almost 10 years. An Lushan is the top general of the Tang Dynasty, and because he's given too much power, he has too much independence. He's much too trusted by the emperor. He eventually rebels and seeks the throne for himself, okay? This rebellion will kill anywhere between a third to half of the Tang population, okay? Sixty million to 30 million people. And this is devastating and traumatic for the Tang Dynasty, okay? But somehow it recovers. But then you will have another rebellion called the Huang Chao. The Huang Chao Rebellion, which will end the Tang Dynasty. I'll talk about the Huang Chao later on, okay? The Tang Dynasty will give rise to the Song Dynasty, and ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 17:38 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: the Song Dynasty will adopt a policy of diplomacy to build assimilation with the northern tribes, okay? They're trying to avoid the trap of the Tang, where you give too much power to a general, and the general will rebel, okay? So a lot of power. At the time of the Song Dynasty, a lot of power will be invested in the imperial bureaucracy, okay? That's the Song. Eventually the Song Empire will be carved up and conquered. The ultimate winners of this war will be the Mongols, who, in the year 1279, conquers the entirety of the Song Empire and unites China, okay? But the Yuan dynasty... The Mongols are considered a foreign dynasty. So I mentioned that the Tang Dynasty is actually non -Chinese. But the Mongols understood themselves to be non -Chinese, and as a result, they discriminated against Chinese people, which ultimately led to a rebellion that will establish the Ming Empire, and eventually the Ming Empire will give way to the Qing Empire. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 18:58 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: The Manchus are just another iteration of the Ming Empire. They will rule China until 1911, when the empire is overthrown, a republic is established, and this gives way to, of course, the People's Republic of China, okay? So the big question, again, we're looking at is, why is it that the Song Dynasty is the last creative dynasty, all right? And if we use the idea of open cooperative competition, then we know the answer, all right? And the answer is this. Previous dynasties were not able to exert national control. They were always competing against other states within China proper, okay? So you look at the Han Dynasty. Well, the Han Dynasty would give way to dozens of other states that would compete against each other, okay? So in theory, the Qing and the Han united China. Okay? But not for long, all right? And the same is true for the Tang as well. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 20:08 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: China for the longest time was just too large, too diverse to be unified centrally. And as a result, the idea of open cooperative competition would still give rise to innovation. But starting at the time of the Song, we see a radical change. Look at the Song, okay? Okay? The Song is pretty united, and the Yuan is extremely united. So the Yuan Dynasty is able to unite all of China. And then after the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming is also pretty united, and the Qing is extremely united, okay? So in other words, the answer is this. After the Song, and starting with the Yuan, China became nationally unified, and the center was able to exert control. It was able to control the provinces in a way that was not true before in Chinese history, okay? So the idea of open competitive competition died with the Song Dynasty. And that's why after the Song, China stopped being creative, okay? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 21:18 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: So that's the answer. But then this gives rise to another question, which is, how was China able to create national unity? All right? All right. So to answer this question, I want to refer to the work of Professor Wang Yuhua. He is a professor of Chinese history at Harvard, okay? And he wrote a new book called The Rise and Fall of Imperial China, and it's a wonderful book. If you're interested in Chinese history, I strongly recommend that you look at this book. All right. So. So he begins the book by asking a central question, and the central question is this. We know that the Tang Dynasty was really the height of Chinese power. It had about a quarter of the world's GDP, and it influenced the cultures of Korea, Japan, and this extremely diverse, inclusive, multicultural empire that introduced Buddhism to China, okay? But the problem with the Tang is their emperors didn't really live that long. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 22:35 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1355s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1355s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Five emperors, at least five emperors, during the Tang Dynasty were deposed by the elite. The aristocracy got together and were through the emperor, usually by killing him, okay? So this is the Tang Dynasty. But when you look at the Qing, Qing only had 5 % of the world's GDP, and it was wracked by internal rebellions like the Taipei. And it was far behind in terms of science and technology to Europe. But the emperors, like Tianlong, they could rule for 60 years peacefully, okay? They transitioned into a throne peacefully, and they died peacefully. So the Qing, even though it marked a low point in Chinese prosperity, the emperors lived for a long time, which meant that the bureaucracy, the center, was really stable. This is a paradox, okay? Why is it that when China is wealthy, the emperor is weak, but when the emperor is strong, China is poor? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 23:45 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1425s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1425s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: That's a paradox that Professor Wang Yuhua is trying to answer in his book. Okay. So he, so, I mean, he is, he used a lot of social science analysis. He used a lot of social science analysis and research for his book. So first of all, what he does is he analyzes the probability, as an emperor, that you're deposed by the elite, okay? And it turns out, like, the Tang was really the height. But then when you get to the Song, the probability decreases significantly, okay? But at the same time, what we need to understand is, even though the emperor lived longer, he The state's ability to collect taxes, to control the economy, decreased over time, okay? So you can see that starting in the year zero, all the way down, there's a downward slope. Now, this is not straight down, okay? There are peaks, right? So you go down, then you go up, you go down. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 24:53 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: The up is when a new dynasty starts. And so at this time, the new dynasty is run by a very strong leader, like, for example, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, okay? These are extremely capable leaders, and they are supported by really talented bureaucrats. And at this point, they're able to collect a lot of taxes, which strengthens the center. But over time, the trend is fairly clear. Starting at the time of the Song, you see a steep decline in the state's ability to collect taxes, okay? The only exceptions are around the year 1600, when the Ming transitions to the Qing, okay? And so what Professor Wang Yi Hua has discovered is, the reason why you have this transition is the emperor, starting around the time of the Song, he's actually figured out a way to divide and conquer the elite, okay? So, the elite, when they are united, they are able to promote strong centralized policies that promote national growth. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 26:16 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: But the centralized elite can always threaten the emperor, who is dependent on the elite for their support in the military and in government, okay? Starting around the Song… Okay? The centralized elite is now broken down into localized elite. So the trick that China has discovered in maintaining a strong center is by localizing the elites. Okay? So the idea is you localize the elites. When you localize the elites, you can implement a policy we call divide and conquer. Okay? So you get the elites in this province to fight amongst themselves. If they're too busy fighting amongst themselves, they're not going to ever rebel against you, and they're not going to build alliances with other provinces to ever challenge you. Okay? And their priorities and focus is in the provinces, and they really don't care what you guys do in the capital. All right? So that's the thesis. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 27:23 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: All right. And what Professor Wang Yuhua says is the main mechanism that the emperor used in order to achieve this radical cultural shift is the kezhu. Okay? The kezhu is the civil service examination that promoted bureaucrats into positions of power. Okay? The kezhu. The civil service examination. And so the history of the kezhu is that it was introduced briefly in the Sui, and then the Tang Dynasty started to use it. Okay? But it was really the Song Dynasty. That really systemized and promoted it. Okay? Basically, the Song Dynasty institutionalized the kezhu. Okay? And before the kezhu, it was really an aristocratic system where you had to be of noble birth in order to become a high official in government, which is true for most cultures. Okay? So that's what he argues. All right. So he looks at times of major revolution. Major rebellions. And what he shows is that whenever there's massive climate change, you have violence erupt. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 28:44 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1724s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1724s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? Because when you have a centralized system, what often happens is that the nobility engage in rent -seeking behavior. Basically, they exploit the peasants. And that's fine if the weather is good. When the weather is bad and the peasants don't have enough to eat, they often rebel. Okay? And in the Tang, this would culminate in something called the Huang Chao Rebellion, which would last for 10 years. When a salt merchant named Huang Chao, he would lead an uprising that would overwhelm and destroy the Tang Dynasty. The thing that's important for us to remember is that he would go all the way to Chang 'an. And Chang 'an is where all the elite live. Okay? There are about 200 aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty, and they were all killed in this rebellion. When you remove the aristocracy, this gives the Song Dynasty room to implement a new policy and ensure that nobility cannot arise again. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 29:50 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1790s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1790s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? So that is the significance of the Huang Chao Rebellion. It eliminated the idea of aristocracy in China. Okay. So Professor Wang Yuhua. What he does is he shows you how networks work in China. So during the Tang Dynasty, as you can see, there are centers which then moved to the provinces. Okay? So these families are all interconnected together because there's only 200 aristocratic families. If you are a wealthy family in a province, what you want to do is intermarry into one of these aristocratic families. Okay? Because that's the best way to ensure your advantage and privilege in life. Okay? So this is during the Tang Dynasty when families are united nationally. But when you get to the Song Dynasty, what you will see is that the center has been localized, meaning it's been spread out. And what you will also see is that these networks are localized. They're not connected together now nationally. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 31:01 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1861s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1861s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: All right? And this, again, allows now the emperor to divide and conquer. All right? So let's just do a comparison of the Tang and the Song. As you can see, what's really important is, look at this, guys. The networks become more and more localized over time. It is the deliberate policy of the imperial bureaucracy to localize elite networks so that they can never unite and challenge the center. Okay? So these networks are becoming much more fractured and localized over time. All right? Okay. So the main benefit of this system is, of course, national unity. So again, during the Han, you have all these different provinces that form their own dynasties and which challenge the center. Okay? So China was in a constant process of war. The Tang Dynasty was a bit better. But when you get to the Song, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing, it's all pretty unified nationally. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 32:11 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=1931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? By localizing elites, you ensure the center can be challenged, and as a result, you give a semblance of national unity. But the problem with this, as we know, is it comes at the cost of innovation, which will make China insular, poor, and divided in the long term. And it's not really a sustainable system. Okay? But that's a system that China has chosen to adopt for the past thousand years. All right? A divide and conquer policy against the local elites. All right. So let's look at another example of how China became insular, poor, and divided over time. So this is a map of the top 30 cities by population throughout Chinese history. Okay? As you can see, during the Western Han, during the Han Dynasty, most of these cities are centered around the Huang He, the Yellow River. Okay? That makes sense because that's where Chinese civilization began. But starting by the time of the Tang, they're starting to spread out more. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 33:26 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: And by the time of the Song, they're actually congregating to the coast. All right? So why is this happening? It's happening because of maritime trade. Maritime trade initiated by the Abbasid Caliphate. Okay? Remember in our last class, we learned about the Islamic Golden Age and how the Abbasid Caliphate became so wealthy that it established trade networks all around the world. And these trade networks are so powerful that they could influence the national economic development of China. Okay? And we can expect that because of maritime trade, over time, all the major cities of China would all shift. They would shift to the coast. And that's why when Zhu Yuanzhang came into power, he initiated a policy of closed borders. He shut down maritime trade because he was afraid that if this continued, then all the power would be located in the coastal areas, and therefore, the North, the West, the South will become much poorer. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 34:37 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? Therefore, they are much more incentivized to rebel. Also, the coastal areas would have so much power that they could ultimately depose him. Okay? And that's why Zhu Yuanzhang would impose a policy of maritime trade ban. And this would make China much more insular and weak and poor. Okay? So again, remember back to the Islamic Golden Age when the Islamic world united all the entire world. And China pulled China into its system. But because of that, it was causing wealth inequality in China. And that's why the Ming Dynasty will shut down this trade network. Not completely, but mostly. Okay? And that's why you see this massive Chinese immigration to Southeast Asia, because they want to maintain these trade networks. And there's a trade ban enforced in the Ming Dynasty. Okay? And the Qing Dynasty will continue this policy as well. For China, the priority is internal stability rather than wealth and prosperity. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 35:53 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? All right? So that's a quick introduction. All right? Any questions about this so far? Are you guys clear? Any questions? You guys are clear, right? Okay. All right. So that is Professor Wang Yihua's argument. And as you can see, he backs up with a lot of data. Okay? I'm just presenting to you his argument. Okay. So now I want to talk more about the idea of the imperial bureaucracy, because this will inform and help us better understand world history. As we move along. Okay? So to better understand the rise of the imperial bureaucracy, let's first re -examine the history of Rome. Okay? So in the year 500 BCE, Rome became a republic. And Rome, the republic, will become the model for the British Empire as well as the American Republic. Okay? So it's very important that you fully understand the Rome idea of republic. Okay? So a republic is, again, a society governed by laws, tradition, and history. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 37:54 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? And these three things are manifested in the nobility. Okay? What the Romans call patricians. Patricians. And the patricians will exercise power. For something called the Senate. Okay? And it's this very idea that Rome is ultimately a culture, a republic, governed by laws, tradition, and history. It's what will allow it to expand very quickly until it dominates the entire Mediterranean. These patricians are the ones who will establish these international networks that will make the Roman Republic coherent. Okay? And they will do so through the idea of a patron -client relationship. Okay? So the idea is you have a patriarch, and then the patriarch has clients. And this will expand across the entire Mediterranean. So in other words, the emperor is just one among equals. The emperor has his empire, but these patriarchs have their own empires within the empire. Okay? And this gives Rome, even though it's very spread out, a coherence and a unity that most empires don't have. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 39:37 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: And again, this is important for us because the British will copy this model when they build their empire. Okay? As well as the Americans. The problem with this system, though, is that if the patriarchs don't like the emperor, the patriarchs can get together and depose the emperor, which has happened a lot of times throughout the history of the Roman Republic. So think of Julius Caesar, right? Julius Caesar wanted more power for himself, and so the patriarchs got together and killed him. But Julius Caesar was just one of many. There was also Caligula, Nero. And a lot more emperors. Okay? So because of this, new emperors, but especially people like Diocletian. Diocletian was a military general who won the Roman Civil War and so became emperor. They had to fix this problem. Okay? Because obviously, if you're emperor, your biggest problem is how do you stay alive? ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 40:46 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: And in the Roman Republic, the chances of you staying alive aren't very high. Okay? So starting with Diocletian, they start to develop an imperial bureaucracy to counter the power of the nobility. Okay? The problem, though, is that the nobility solves three problems for you that the bureaucracy cannot solve. Okay? The first is a problem of the will to fight. The second is unity. And the third is culture. Okay? So the will to fight means, like, in a war, the nobility are those who have the most to lose. And therefore, they're the most willing to die. So think about the year 216 when Hannibal invaded the Italian peninsula. And he had destroyed all the Roman armies. At this point, Rome should have surrendered. But nobility refused to surrender because if they surrendered, then Hannibal would have instituted changes to their culture that would have destroyed the prestige, power, and wealth of nobility. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 42:07 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: That's why the nobility refused to surrender. They fought to the very bitter end. And eventually, they were able to triumph over Carthage. Okay? So the will to fight. The nobility gives a society the will to fight. Second, of course, is unity. Okay? National unity. And the third is culture. So the people who wrote the history books. The people who wrote the history of Rome were actually the nobility. They were the settlers, the aristocrats. Okay? So when you get rid of nobility, you lose these three things. You lose the idea of a national unity, a national identity. You lose culture. You lose the will to fight. Okay? And that's why, for the longest time, the system stayed in place. Because to reject the nobility, to kill all the nobility, would be to destroy the true tradition, culture, and history of Rome. Alright? But Diocletian would try to solve this problem by implementing imperial bureaucracy. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 43:10 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: But the imperial bureaucracy could not challenge the authority, power, and legitimacy of nobility. Okay? That's why Constantine would, in 330, move the capital to Byzantium and create the Byzantine Empire. Okay? And as we discussed previously, the Byzantine Empire, folk had an imperial bureaucracy and it was the dominant power. And so the Byzantine Empire is not a continuation of the Roman Empire. It is a rejection of the Roman Republic. Okay? So does that make sense? The history of Rome. Okay. This is important for us because the same thing will happen in China. Okay? The same thing will happen in China. After the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty will look at the mistakes of the Tang Dynasty and they will start to implement the Keju system and create an imperial bureaucracy that will rule China for the next thousand years. Okay? Alright. So the Keju. There is a great misconception in China that the Keju is a meritocracy. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 44:33 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: But it is not a meritocracy. It was never designed to be a meritocracy. I know that in school you are taught that they have the Keju in order for the emperor to select the best and brightest in China and because they are the best and brightest, they will rule China virtuously. That's what you've been taught in school. That is not correct. That's not what the Keju is designed for. The Keju is designed for the emperor to localize the elites and to divide and conquer them. Okay? So let me explain why it's not a meritocracy. First thing. First thing about the Keju that's important for us is that there is a quota system in place. Okay? So if it was just a meritocracy, then the very best and brightest would win out. Right? But think about the Gaokao. Okay? If it was just a meritocracy, then who would get into the top universities in China? I assure you that 90 % of all the top students would come from two cities. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 45:34 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Right? Beijing and Shanghai. Right? But that's not how the system works. There is a quota system in place. There's geographic distribution. Only certain number of students from Beijing and Shanghai can get into Beijing and Tsinghua. The rest come from the provinces. Okay? And the Keju is the same system. So let's look at it very quickly. You're at the center. Everyone's trying to get into the center. Let's say you have province A, B, C, and D. And they're all the same. You have 10 wealthy families. Okay? And you have 10,000 poor families. Okay? Peasants. How this system works is A will send two. D will send two. B will send two. C will send two. Okay? And when you do it this way, this creates competition among the local elites. Right? To win these positions. And therefore, they will fight amongst themselves. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 46:32 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2792s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2792s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Does that make sense? If you don't do it this way, if it's just the best and brightest, then what will happen is, like, A, B, C, D will compete amongst themselves. And eventually, one of the provinces, like maybe B, will develop the innovation in order for their children to always finish first or place the top in the Keju. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right? So it's not meritocracy. It's a quota system. That's the first thing. Second thing you need to understand is that it is unfair. Why is it unfair? Well. Because in order to do well on the Keju. Remember, the Keju is testing your knowledge of something called Wen Yan. Okay? Or classical Chinese. Classical literary Chinese. Okay? This is a very hard skill to learn. It will take you decades. You will need prior tutoring. Your family needs to have a lot of money. You need to spend decades on this project, which means that you have a lot of leisure time. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 47:39 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-converts-ambition-to-compliance) Text: You don't have to work. Okay? So in other words, only the elite families of China can compete in the system. And that's the point. Okay? The point is to concentrate the ambition and energy of the elite families into the Keju. Otherwise, they might come up with ideas like rebellion. Okay? They also might come up with new inventions and amazing literature. But they'll also come up with ideas. They'll also probably think of ways to rebel. Okay? That's why you want to concentrate their energies on the Keju. All right? Does that make sense? The third thing that's really important for us to remember is that this system is discretionary. What does that mean? It means that just because you finished first on the Keju does not mean you've become a government official. Okay? Do you guys understand? Success on the Keju does not translate into success in politics. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 48:38 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-converts-ambition-to-compliance); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: It is discretionary. Meaning the emperor. The emperor gets to decide who becomes an official and who gets promoted. Only the emperor. All right? And often what will happen is the emperor will start to promote maybe someone from the poor families. Okay? So not poor, but lower nobility. And the reason why you want to do that is to create a precarious situation in the provinces where no family feels secure enough to feel as though they're the nobility. Okay? You want to create conflict and precariousness in the provinces, divide and conquer. And therefore you can exert greater control over the provinces. But by doing that, you limit economic growth. You limit cultural innovation. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So what this means is the bureaucracy is able to control China. Because of its monopoly. It has a monopoly over three aspects. All right? The first is status. All right? So if ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 49:53 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2993s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=2993s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: you want to be admired, if you want to be respected in China, you do well in the Keju and you become an official. That's a dream of every family in China. Right? It's still true today. Right? Where the dream of every Chinese family is for you guys to get into an Ivy League school or take the Gaokao and go to Beijing or Tsinghua. Okay? The idea of status is still associated with the Keju. Even though we know that success on the Keju and success on the Gaokao does not necessarily translate into success in school or in life. Okay? That's the first thing. The second is the monopoly over literacy. Okay? The monopoly over literacy. What I mean by that is this. In most cultures, your goal is to make literacy more widespread. Because when you do that, you allow for faster economic development. Okay? So throughout history, all cultures have tried to figure out how to make literacy more widespread, more prevalent. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 51:08 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: So let's look at an example of Egypt. Okay? Egypt. Egypt has been around for as long as China. And over centuries, they would make their language a lot easier to understand. So in the beginning, they had hieroglyphics. Okay? So maybe the sun. This represents sun. This is moon. Okay? So that's the first stage. They have pictograms to represent ideas. Okay? Then what they would do is make the symbols shorter. Okay? So that it's easier to remember. And then what they would do is they would make these symbols phonological. Meaning they don't represent ideas. They represent sounds. Okay? So this now becomes the English word monsoon. Right? Does that make sense? And then what they would do is they would take the word and make it into just one consonant. Okay? So this would become S. This would become M. And therefore, you now have the English word sum. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 52:25 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Okay? And that's where we have the alphabet. Because of this evolution of language in Egypt. It was the Egyptians who developed this system. And then the Greeks stole it through the Phoenicians. Okay? All right? So most cultures follow this pattern. Because now it's easier for people to become literate. Which just drives economic growth. Okay? China is the only culture in human history that has made literacy more difficult over time. All right? China took the pictograms and made them even more complex. And added these very complex grammatical rules to the language. And created something called literary Chinese. Okay? Literary Chinese. But that's a nice... That's a euphemism. That's a nice way of saying it. It really... What it is is bureaucratat. Bureaucraties. Okay? Bureaucraties is a language that only bureaucrats can understand. So think of contracts. Right? When you look at legal contracts, you can't read it. Why? Because the language, the grammar, is designed so that only as a specialized lawyer could you understand the contract. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 53:43 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: All right? And this is what we call rent -seeking behavior. You create something that only you can use. And people have to pay rent in order to access your knowledge. All right? So literacy, the problem with literacy, will keep China back from developing. And the third is culture. Okay? Culture. And when I mean culture, I really mean Confucianism. So Confucianism is really a bureaucratic philosophy system designed to maintain the status quo. To control how people think about the world. All right? So remember, in the Confucian religion, what really... What matters first and foremost is balance, harmony. There's also a concept called ancestor worship. So you can't leave your village. Because if you leave your village, you can no longer worship your ancestors. Right? You can't clean their graves. And so people are just stuck in place. And that limits trade and innovation in China. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 54:58 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-converts-ambition-to-compliance); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-monopolizes-meta-reality); [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#confucian-bureaucratism-monopolizes-cultivation) Text: Okay? So the Kuju... Sorry. The bureaucracy, the imperial bureaucracy was able to maintain its monopoly over status, literacy, and culture through three mechanisms. The Kuju, Wenyan, literary Chinese, and Confucianism. Okay? And that stopped the development of... That stopped the cultural economic development of China. Okay. So let's better understand this idea. Okay. In a society, there are different ways to seek success and status. All right? So you have the bureaucracy, of course. And that's the way people do it in China. But you also have the military. You also have nobility. Right? Chinese nobility. You also have church. Religion. Right? By becoming a priest. By becoming a spiritual leader. You also have merchants. Right? Commerce. You can also do it through artistic endeavors. Okay? So these are the main ways people achieve status in society. And in most societies, you have these different systems in place. What is unique about China is the dominance of the bureaucracy. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 56:28 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: Okay? So the nobility was wiped out. And through the Kuju... The Kuju ensures that no nobility can arise again in China. Church religion was outlawed for most of Chinese history. Okay? The merchant and the artistic people are low status in China. So go back to the Confucian system. The scholar officials are at the top. Then you have the farmers. Then you have the merchants. And you have the artists. Right? So the Confucian religion puts the merchants... And the artists at the very bottom. And this is intentional because the artists... Okay. They can promote new ideas. But the merchants are even more problematic because they trade. Okay? And they can accumulate wealth. And that wealth can challenge the authority of the empire. Alright? So the merchants are a problem. The military, as we know, was heavily suppressed... Throughout Chinese history. Okay? So the Song Dynasty, there was these massive conflicts between the military and the bureaucracy. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 57:41 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: The military wanted to go fight and defend Song territory. The bureaucracy wanted to just bribe everyone. Okay? Alright? Okay. So... And because you have too much power within the bureaucracy, this will stunt development in China. Alright. Let's look at one more example. Okay? So we know that by the time of the Song, China had four major inventions. Okay? These four major inventions, of course, are paper, printmaking, compass, and gunpowder. Alright? And these four inventions, guys, will revolutionize the world. Alright? So if you look at paper, it will give rise to bag notes. Okay? So the Song had bag notes. And this will give rise to... Capitalism in the West. Printmaking is important because remember, in the 15th century, Gutenberg created something called the printing press in Europe. And because of the printing press, you're now able to manufacture books at scale. And when you do that, what happens is that people become more literate. So ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 59:04 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: the very idea of the printing press made available all these books, all this knowledge that wasn't available before. And now people could just learn how to read and write. Okay? So this will give rise to literacy. And when you give rise to literacy, you will give rise to things like the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Second Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution. Okay? So this marked a revolution in European affairs. The compass, right, will allow for the age of exploration. So these Europeans are able to discover new lands and conquer and conquer. And colonize them, right? So North America, South America will eventually all become colonized by the Europeans using the compass. Gun power is important because it is the... It is a revolution in warfare. From gun power, you will have things like the cannon. And also, eventually, the musket. The musket is just an individual gun. And this marks a revolution, not only in warfare, but also in human affairs. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:00:08 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Because when you have the musket, now individual soldiers do matter. Okay? Before, it was the knight who was the main weapon in the warfare. But now when you have a musket, you can now equal the playing field. Okay? It's more important to have more soldiers than to have knights. And this will allow for things like the American Revolution. Right? When you have these farmers with muskets, they were able to overthrow the British Empire. It will give rise to the French Revolution. When you have citizens who are not professional soldiers, they will take these muskets and defend their country against a European invasion. Right? So all these are major revolutions that will give rise to modernity. Okay? And again, China, by the Song Dynasty, 1200 CE, had all four invasions. But because of the culture in place, because of the bureaucratic culture in place, neither, not any of these inventions had an impact on Chinese society. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:01:22 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3682s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3682s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: China did nothing whatsoever with all four inventions. All right? So the key lesson here, guys, and this is really important, technology does not matter. You can steal the technology. What matters is the culture. All right? Another example, of course, is the Yuan Dynasty. During the Yuan Dynasty, China was importing a lot of foreign experts, a lot of foreign bureaucrats, Christians, Muslims, Jews. They were importing a lot of foreign technology. And then when the Ming Empire came into place, they got rid of all this stuff. They got rid of the foreigners. They got rid of the technology. China became much more insular and backward. Okay? Okay. So. So that explains why after the Song Dynasty, China did not innovate anymore because the empire did not want to innovate. Innovation is a threat to the status quo. Okay? And what's important is to maintain the status quo, even though by doing so, ultimately, you make China poor, weak, and divided. ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:02:47 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3767s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3767s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#confucian-bureaucratism-monopolizes-cultivation) Text: All right. Good. Any questions? Does it make sense to you guys? Does this conform to your understanding of Chinese history? Yeah. Okay. So the question is, is Confucianism a religion or a culture? So, no one thinks Confucianism is a religion. At most, people will say that Confucianism is a civic religion, okay, or philosophy. All right? So, I would say that Confucianism, ultimately, what it is, is a religion. And one way to explain Confucianism is bureaucratism. I can't even spell bureaucrat anymore, okay? Bureaucratism. Okay? What I mean by that is that it is something that's designed to make everyone believe that a bureaucratic society is the best society. It is one that is the most sophisticated. And it's designed in order to maintain a status quo where bureaucrats are at the top, okay? That's what Confucianism really is. so the example is that if you read ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:04:10 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3850s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3850s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#confucian-bureaucratism-monopolizes-cultivation) Text: Chinese history the most virtuous people are always bureaucrats scholar officials right and this propaganda is so effective that eventually Europeans will stop what will start to mimic this propaganda so Voltaire the French Enlightenment thinker says that Chinese have the best system because they allow only the educated to rule not soldiers not priests but scholar officials mandarins okay so this is so the idea of Confucianism is that it's bureaucratism it's designed to legitimize and give authority to the bureaucratic elite right so so so thank you does it make sense to you okay any more questions okay so I'm gonna in the class of a story okay and the story has to do with you the first emperor of the Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang so Zhu Yuanzhang he is now emperor and he reinstitutes the Kezhu okay the the Mongols got rid of the Kezhu because they had a nobility but Zhu Yuanzhang he restores the Kezhu ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:05:31 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: and everyone's excited okay so everyone comes and takes the examination when the results come out what happens is that the the test takers from the south do a lot better from the north so these northern test takers feel there must be corruption in place so they set the default petition to the emperor the emperor looks at the petition and he agrees there must be corruption how is that no northerner was able to pass the Kezhu so he calls in his chief minister and he says this is a huge scandal I want you to resolve this issue okay figure out who responsible for this corruption and kill them all right and so let's go so the chief minister he really wants to impress the emperor so he spent months painstakingly rigorously examining the issue investigating the issue he has commissioned he has hundreds of staff he personally looks at every single Kezhu and then he writes ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:06:32 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=3992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: his report he presents to the emperor okay and he says to the emperor your majesty I personally have done this investigation and and we have written like thousands of pages of report directly to you I can guarantee you the Kezhu when implemented was a fair open and transparent process the fact of the matter is that people in the south there are more civilized they're more culture they're more educated and therefore they just did better on the better than the northerners and I'm really sorry this happened but I guarantee you the Kezhu is a fair open and transparent process you have nothing to worry about it's all been taken care of so what do you think the emperor did what do you think the emperor did have you guys heard of the story he killed them all he killed the high official he killed the high officials commissioners he killed the test makers he killed those ## The Bureaucracy That Ate China -- 1:07:45 - Source title: Civilization #38: Twilight of the Middle Kingdom - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=4065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LMJerHcKM&t=4065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-a2lmjerhckm.json) Text: who got the very best scores on the Kezhu okay the reason why is the emperor does not want a fair open and transparent system he wants a system in which the localities will not rebel against the center okay and that's what the Kezhu is all right so that is it we will do Genghis Khan next class ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today we do Islam. Some quick facts, some questions that we will look at today about the Islamic Golden Age. The first major question is, while Europe was in its dark ages, Islam was embarked on its golden age. So the first question is, how did this happen? Why was there this divergence? Second question we're going to look at is, what ended the Islamic Golden Age? Why would this period come to an end? The third question we're going to look at is, eventually, how did Christian Europe overtake the Muslim world? So those are the three big questions we will look at in today's class. Some quick facts about Islam. It is the world's second largest religion. Christianity has two billion people. Islam has one billion people. They are divided into two major sects, the Shia, which is based primarily in Iran, and the Sunni, which is everywhere else. The light green are the Sunni people, and the dark green are the Shia people. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:24 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And as you can see, Islam extends all across Africa. Islam extends all across Africa. Islam extends all across Africa. Islam extends all across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and into India. The most populous Muslim country in the world is actually Indonesia. The Shia and the Sunni, the only major difference is that the Shia believe that only a direct descendant of Muhammad's grandson, Ali, can be the leader of the religion, whereas the Sunni do not believe this. Now, this is a religion that is not a religion of Islam. It is a religion of Islam. It is a religion of Islam. It is a religion of Islam. It is a religion of one billion people. So there are many different belief systems, many different sects within this cosmology. But this is really the major difference, okay, between the Shia and the Sunni. So Muslim means to submit yourself to God, to believe in God, and to submit yourself wholeheartedly to Him. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 2:32 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And Islam was founded by a man named Muhammad, who the Muslims consider the prophet of God, the final prophet. And Jesus was the penultimate prophet. And the legend is that at age 40, Muhammad, who is a merchant or a trader, he has a vision. He goes in a cave to meditate, and the archangel Gabriel visits him. And he says, you know what, I'm going to go to the cave. And he says, you know what, I'm going to go to the cave. And he says, you know what, I'm going to go to the cave. And the archangel Gabriel visits him and reveals to him certain visions that he has memorized. And his visions become the basis for the holy book of the Muslim tradition called the Koran. And Muhammad understands that his mission is to be a messenger of God and to reveal the truth of God to the pagan society in the Arabian world. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 3:28 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: So he's based in Mecca. And when he tries to reveal the truth, he is met with a lot of resistance. And eventually he's forced out of Mecca and he goes to Medina. This is called the Hijra in the Muslim tradition, the pilgrimage. And when he goes to Medina, he becomes the leader of the warring factions within Medina, primarily between the pagans, the Muslim tribes, and the Jewish tribes. So there are three major factions. And at this point, Muhammad created something called the Constitution of Medina, which promises religious freedom to everyone within the Muslim tradition. Okay? So ever since the beginning, and this is very important, the religion of Islam was an open, tolerant, and inclusive religion. And they have basically maintained this tradition for the next thousand years. Okay? Eventually, Islam will spread from the Arabian Desert to all across the Middle East. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 4:46 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: They will conquer the Persian Empire and they will take at least half of the Byzantine Empire, including the richest parts of the Byzantine Empire, which are Syria and Egypt. They will also take Jerusalem, where they will build something called the Alam, or the Temple of Jerusalem. And it will be kind of a Al -Aqsaq Mount Mosque, and legend has it that Muhammad ascended to heaven from this place. Now what's really important for us to remember about this place is the Al -Aqsaq Mosque, it's still there in Jerusalem, and it is built on top of something called the Temple Mount. Remember in the year 70, the Romans burned down the Second Temple of the Jews, the holiest site in the Jewish faith, and then the Muslims came and built the Al -Aqsaq Mosque on top of the Temple Mount. Now this is a very strange thing to do. If the Muslim tradition is ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 5:50 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: open, inclusive, and tolerant, and Jews are welcome into the tradition, why would you build a mosque on top of the Jewish holy site? That doesn't really make any sense. And quite honestly, this has been a mystery to everyone. No one has been able to figure this out. So we will today attempt to solve one of the great mysteries in the Islam tradition. Why was the Al -Aqsaq Mosque built on top of the Jewish Temple Mount? As I mentioned, the Arabs will expand from the desert of Arabia. They will conquer the Sassanian Persian Empire, and they will take at least half of the Byzantines. They will try to lay siege on Constantinople, but remember that when we discuss the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople is designed as an impenetrable fortress. So there will be two major sieges, and because of the walls, and because of Greek fire, they will be unable to take the city. The spread of ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 7:04 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=424s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=424s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: the Al -Aqsaq Mosque is very interesting. The era of Islam was lightning fast. In less than 100 years, they spread from the desert of Arabia, really the poorest place in this entire region, throughout most of the Middle East. So the dark green is where they started, and the light green is where they eventually expanded to. And remember, this process takes less than 100 years, which is remarkable. The Umayyad Caliphate was about 700. So let's just compare the Umayyad Caliphate with other empires, including the Tang. The Tang really is the height of Chinese civilization, but as you can see, the Umayyad Caliphate really is the largest empire in the world at this time. And eventually, they will also become the wealthiest empire at this time. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 8:04 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: So that's the first thing. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 8:07 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: There are five pillars of Islam. It is an extremely simple and clear religion, when compared with Christianity and Judaism. There are five pillars to the religion. First of all, you have to believe that Allah, God, is the only God. And this mirrors the Christian and the Jewish faith. There are five pillars. You are required to pray at least five times a day, facing the direction of Mecca. You must give money to the poor. You must fast during the holy days. And last thing is, you must make something called the Hajj, which is a pilgrimage to the holy site in Mecca and perform rituals in Mecca. This is something that all Muslims must do. And you will have the poorest Muslims. They will save their entire lives just so that they could make this Hajj. The Muslim people are probably the most devout, the most religious people you will meet. They take their religion very, very seriously. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 9:23 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=563s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=563s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: This is the Hajj in Mecca. And I was actually in Saudi Arabia, and I tried to go there, and then I was told, only Muslims can go. And so as a train station, I was trying to buy a ticket to Mecca. And they said, what's your Muslim name? I'm like, well, I'm not Muslim. They're like, well, you can't go then. So I was disappointed. But it is a beautiful, absolutely one of the most beautiful rituals in the world today. Okay. So to summarize the introduction, there are three major mysteries to the history of Islam that we still haven't really solved today. Okay. The first mystery is... We know that they have something called the Constitution of Medina. We also know that Jews, who are literate, were part of the early movement of Islam. So why do we have no early records for the first 100 years of the movement? That's very, very strange. Okay. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 10:30 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Another strange thing is, why would the Muslims go to war against two major empires, the Romans and the Persians? That's kind of suicidal. They didn't know they were going to win. So why did they go to war? That's the first mystery we'll solve today. Second mystery is, remember I said that the Shia and the Sunni have a major sectarian divide. The Shia believe that only the descendants of Muhammad's grandson, Ali, can be the caliph, the leader of the Muslim people. The Sunnis don't. So why didn't Muhammad just name a successor and avoid the civil wars that were going to erupt after his death? The third question is, why was al -Aqsaq built on the site of the Temple Mount? And this is still a problem today, because a lot of conflict in the Middle East is driven by this problem, where the Jews want to rebuild the Temple, but to do so, they would have to destroy the al -Aqsaq Mosque, which is the third holiest site in the Islam world. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 11:37 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=697s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=697s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: So this is a very important question that is still relevant to us. Thank you. So we will also look at these three mysteries. And again, no one knows the answers to any of these three questions, and no one will ever know, because so much of the historical record has been lost to us. But I will try to provide you with an explanation, given my understanding of the Islamic world, which by the way, is extremely limited. So please ask questions. Please challenge me. I'm looking at you, Doug. OK. All right. All right. OK. So today's topic is the Islamic Golden Age. So let's just have a quick look at the Golden Age. At the height of Islamic influence, there were a few centers of incredible cultural creativity. One such site is Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It's still there, guys. You can get on a plane, like Doug did, and visit it. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 12:39 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: It is an incredible site. I say that, not actually having visited it, but I've heard terrific things from Doug. And you can go online as well and look at videos. But it is an incredible city, and it shows you the immense creativity, the artistic creativity of the Islamic Golden Age. But the main cultural center of the Islamic Golden Age is Baghdad. OK. It's not so beautiful now. But back then, it was really the center of the world. It's a round city, and it's a new city. This is a topographical map of the city. As you can see, it's surrounded by the Tigris and Euphrates, and it is a round city. OK. One of the few round cities of that time. Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, which started the Islamic Golden Age. The Abbasid Caliphate is the successor to the Umayyad Empire. And this is where the Abbasid Caliphate was. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 13:50 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And this is what Muslims consider the height of their civilization. The thing that's really important for us to understand about the Abbasid Empire is that not only were they influential in the Muslim world, but they eventually would come to create the world that we live in today. OK. So, when we think of globalization, we think of this as a recent phenomenon. But look at the trade route that the Abbasid Caliphate would create over its 300 to 400 year history. It connects the entire world. OK. As I mentioned last semester, globalization has always existed to a certain extent in world history. But the Abbasids, the Muslim religion, would take these existing networks and make them a lot richer, a lot more dense, and a lot faster. So, you may not know this, but the Abbasids traded heavily with the Tang and the Song dynasties. In fact, it is the Abbasids who would initiate something called the Maritime Silk Road. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 15:10 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=910s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=910s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: The overland of the Maritime Silk Road is known as the Maritime Silk Road. The overland Silk Road has existed for a long time, but it is the Abbasids who will eventually create the Maritime Silk Road, and it will bring China into the world to a greater extent than ever before. OK. So, this is the trade. The main center for cultural production in the Muslim world is something called the House of Wisdom. And it's modeled... OK. So, its model is the Library of Alexandria. OK. Remember last semester we discussed the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. And its mission was to be the first university to take all Hellenistic knowledge and culture and systemize it for dissemination. And the House of Wisdom was doing the same thing, where it would take all knowledge and culture. It would take all the knowledge and culture within the Islamic world and outside the Islamic world and systemize it for mass dissemination. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 16:23 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: So, the things that they were doing were they were taking Hindu numerals, OK, so 0, 1, 2, 3. We still use them today. They took them from India, and again, they standardized it and disseminated this knowledge. They took works from Aristotle and Plato, translated into Arabic. OK. And Persian, and then disseminated it. The main contribution of the Islamic Golden Age to world culture is actually mathematics. OK. So, they took all the math in the Greek world and in the Persian world and in the Hindu world, and then they would systemize it and then build on top of it. OK. This is a rendition of the House of Wisdom. This is where the three major creative civilizations would meet and exchange ideas, right? The Greeks, the Jews, and the Persians. They would also take ideas from the Indian tradition and the Chinese tradition as well. The ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 17:36 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1056s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1056s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: major literature or literary work that we still have today from the Islamic Golden Age is the Arabian Nights. OK. OK. So, scholars have looked at this very closely, and most scholars believe that these stories are actually from India. Also, what's important for us to understand is that at the time this was translated, it was actually not that popular within the Muslim world. Poetry, philosophy, mathematics, science were considered the high arts. This was considered low arts. What we have today is that the Europeans would discover this centuries after centuries after after the islamic golden age and they fell in love with these stories and that's why we still have them today um and disney movies are based on on this as well okay so let's look at the some of the major thinkers uh and philosophers of the islamic golden age so at this time in world history we don't differentiate between philosophers poets uh scientists ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 18:42 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: mathematicians okay all intellectuals engage in all these different fields okay so the one most famous is rumi who is persian a poet a mystic a philosopher um ibn sina is probably the most famous intellectual of the islamic golden age um his books his works were admired in europe okay so the islamic philosophy was being exported to europe where where they would have a major influence on many of europe's major thinkers you may have heard a man named leonardo fibonacci you should have heard of him in math class well well at this particular time in history he was going to baghdad to study from the leading mathematicians of this time and taking their ideas and importing them all back to europe okay so this is ibn sana and the latin name is avatina um ibn rusa avaros is also a major intellectual at this time just to show you how influential these two were in europe ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 20:05 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: let's look at dante's divine comedy so dante is in uh hell and there in limbo he's meeting the most influential the greatest philosophers in human history who have influenced european civilization obviously he's going to name socrates and plato okay but guess what he also names avaros and avatar okay so dante is acknowledging the debt europeans have to islam this is important for us because um the muslim intellectual influence on Europe has been whitewashed from history. This is something you do not learn in school, usually. But without Islam, you can make the argument that Europe could not have modernized. And later on, I will explain why that's the case. Omar Khayyam is also another famous intellectual poet, philosopher. This man, Musa al -Hazami, is considered the father of modern -day algebra. His Latin name is algorithmic. And if this sounds familiar, it's because his name will give us the modern English word algorithm. Both algebra and algorithm were originally Arabic words. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 21:37 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1297s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1297s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: So most of the math you're studying in school actually originated during the Islamic Golden Age. This name is al -Hazan. He invented physics, basically. Optics. Again, extremely influential. And again, these ideas will be imported back to Europe, and they will become the basis of the Renaissance. Al -Zahari is the father of surgery. At this time in world history, the very best hospitals are in the Islamic world, by far. This is the first 24 -hour hospital in Baghdad. What's also amazing about these hospitals is that, if you were poor and could not pay, you could receive medical treatment for free. That was just part of the faith. All poor were treated with great charity and kindness during the Islamic Golden Age. This is Al -Kawa William, again guys, I don't speak Arabic. I'm probably butchering the name. But he was found in 859 in fast Morocco. This is important because this is this is actually the first degree -granting university in the whole world. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 22:56 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: It's still there guys Okay, this is the oldest university in the world. What's also amazing is it was founded by a woman who inherited a Fortune from her father and she spent all her money on Building this university. All right Morocco is an amazing country as well. Okay, so 1258, the Islamic Golden Age officially came to an end, or that's what scholars believe and the reason why is on 1258 the Mongols will sack Baghdad and they will burn all the books, okay, or that's what the legend tells us Baghdad had a thriving bookstore culture and this was this was unique in the world Intellectuals or the elite they spent a lot of their resources on buying books and They imported paper from China. They learned how to make paper from China. So books were extremely popular within the Within Baghdad, okay, especially ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 24:12 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1452s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1452s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: among the elite As well because of the Koran it was necessary for the elite to be literate It was the manner of you to be literate and the Koran will also standardize Arabic and make it the official language of the entire Muslim world, okay, but Just because the Islamic Golden Age ended does not mean that creating stopped in The Muslim world. This is Ibn Khaldun and he's considered the father of social science Okay economics Quantity of history politics this man A man invented a lot of these disciplines He is most famous for his idea of asabeya, which is means social cooperation He was actually the first to systematically about Come on. This is scientific theory of war Why do civilization? Why do civilizations rise and why do they decline and? His conclusion is that The borderlands are able to conquer conquer empires because the borderlands, the people there, have asabaya, which just means that they are more egalitarian, more free, more cohesive as a culture. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 25:39 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Whereas the empire, because it's so big, it loses a lot of cohesion, okay? And again, Ibn Khudan is a major inspiration for the history that I try as well. From 1300 to 1700, the world will be dominated by three major empires. The Ottomans, the Safayats in Iran, and the Mughals in India. They are collectively known as the gunpower empires. So what's amazing is, since its inception, about 622, up until the year 1700, the Islamic religion dominated the world. And so the question for us is, why was that the case? How did Islam overtake Europe and overtake Christianity? Okay, that is the mystery and question for us today that we will look at. Okay, so let's go back to the three mysteries that I introduced earlier. Why do we have no written records? Even though we know that the people within the movement, Jews and Christians, knew how to read and write, okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 26:56 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: That's the first question. Second question is, why did Muhammad name his successor? The third question is, why was the Al -Qasa Mosque built on top of the Temple Mount, okay? So, this is a paradox because Jews were an extremely important part of that early movement, right? So why would you offend the Jews like this? Okay, to understand what happened, okay? Let's go back in time. And we know that in 622, Muhammad goes to Medina, and that's what starts the, um, Islamic movement. But let's just go over to Jerusalem and figure out what's happening there. And once we do that, then we're able to figure out what's going on in that world. It turns out that in 622, there's a major war going on between the two major powers at this time, the Persians and the Byzantines. And it is a deadly war that is engulfing the entire Middle East. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 28:03 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? So this is from Wikipedia, alright? Now, guys, um, never trust Wikipedia as a historical source, but it's useful for us to understand what contemporary historians think. Okay? So this is from Wikipedia. The Jews have aligned themselves with the Persians. Why? Because, first of all, the Romans controlled Jerusalem, and in the year 70, the Romans burned down their temple, and in the year 135, the Romans expelled the Jews from Jerusalem, their holy city. So ever since then, the Jews, obviously they want revenge, but they also want to return to their holy city and rebuild the, um, temple. And with the Persians, they saw this as an opportunity. Because historically, the Persians and the Jews have gone along very well. Okay? So, the Jews helped the Persians take Jerusalem and push out the Byzantines. When that happens, the Christians in Jerusalem, they revolt, and they force out the Jews, and then the Byzantines, under their emperor, Heraclius, they return to Jerusalem in the first crusade. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 29:23 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? This is the beginning of the idea of crusade. And they retake the city, and then what they do is, they expel the Jews from Jerusalem, obviously, but then, they start to kill a lot of Jews. Okay? And they force these Jews outside of Jerusalem. So, now, these Jews have nowhere to go. But, there's something called the Constituent of Medina in Arabia. Right? There is a prophet, Muhammad, who is promising religious tolerance for all. All can practice their faith in peace. Right? So, it makes sense for a lot of these Jews, not all of them, but a lot of them, to join this early movement. What's important for us to understand is that, at this point, Islam, Muslim, is not a distinct religion. Okay? All these people are called believers, because Muhammad sees himself as the final messenger of God. Okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 30:32 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Abraham was the first, then you have Moses, then you have Jesus, and now, Muhammad is the very last. So, all these three different traditions, the Christian tradition, the Jewish tradition, and the Islam tradition, in the beginning, were all just one religion, one idea, which is to bring God to earth, and make everyone understand that God is the true God. Okay? To create monotheism on earth. That's the origin of this new religion of Islam. Okay? And this is the Constituent of Medina, which is in the current Quran, and which we know to be historically true. Maybe not the wording, okay? We know that this existed. And these people were called believers. And also, this would also include people who believed in Zoroastrianism. Okay? Because Zoroastrianism was also a monotheistic religion. So, it was, so the Constituent of Medina was an attempt to unite all monotheistic religions into one single tradition that fought for God. Okay? Also, what's really important for ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 31:46 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1906s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1906s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: us to understand is, not only is there all this persecution going on against Jews and against Christians and against Zoroastrians, okay? But also, this is a apocalyptic stage, age, where all three traditions believe this was literally the end of the world. If you were Jewish, you believed in a final battle called Agamemnon between the Messiah who would lead you and against two enemies called Gog and Magog. Okay? Guess what? The Persians and the Romans were fighting each other. So, you could easily interpret this to mean the Persians and the Romans were the Gog and Magog enemy. In new tradition, this would be the final battle. This is when Jerusalem is most threatened. Well, the Romans, the Byzantines, just took your city in a Jewish tradition, this is the end of days. This is the final battle. And the Messiah would emerge and lead you to final victory. That person, a lot of Jews could interpret to be Mohammed. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 32:50 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=1970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? So, for the Jews, this is the end of days. But for Christians, okay, they also believe this is the end of days because there were a final battle between the Antichrist and the Messiah. The Antichrist who is the emperor of the Byzantines who'd been persecuting Christians for a long time. Remember, the official religion of the Byzantines is the Holy Trinity. But most Christians didn't believe in the Holy Trinity and they were persecuted for the refusal to believe in the Holy Trinity. Okay? So, for Christians, this is also the final battle. Zoroastrians believe in a final battle between good and evil. Okay? So, this is an apocalyptic age where everyone believes this is it, the final battle. Muhammad is saying to everyone, guys, we're all one people united by God and we are here to fight for him. Okay? And this is very appealing for people. So, the best evidence for my argument is actually the Quran. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 34:04 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? So, again, we don't have any written records of Muhammad. But what we do believe is, the Quran, it is a collection of many of Muhammad's original sayings that have been redacted over time. Okay? So, let's look at some passages from the Quran to better understand how Muhammad was thinking and what he was preaching to the Christians, the Jews, and the Zoroastrians. Alright. Oh, people of the book. By this, he means both the Christians and the Jews. Okay? Why do you argue about Abraham when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Will you not reason? Okay? So, he's saying, why are we arguing about Scripture? Why are we arguing about belief when we all acknowledge that Abraham is our forefather? Okay? And Abraham came before the Bible. It came before the Old Testament and the New Testament. You argue about things you know, but why do you argue about things you do not know? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 35:09 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Allah knows and you do not know. Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a monotheist, a Muslim. Okay? So, this is what Muhammad is saying. A Muslim is someone who believes in God as the only true God. And that includes Jews and Christians. And he was not of the polytheists. Okay? Let's also look at Muhammad responding to the Christian tradition. Okay? Remember, in the Christian tradition, a lot of conflict arises from a debate over the nature of Jesus and his relationship with God. Okay? And what Muhammad is saying is, guys, the idea of Jesus makes no sense. Jesus cannot be God. Jesus, at best, can only be a messenger of God just like me. And the idea that Jesus is God makes no sense. Jesus is a human, just like me. God is God. He would not represent himself through a human. Okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 36:10 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2170s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2170s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And so, let's look at what he says. They disbelieved those who say, Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary. But the Messiah himself said, the Messiah is Jesus. Right? O children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. He's making a clear distinction. God is my God. I'm not God. I'm not his son. He is God. Whoever associates others with Allah, Allah has forbidden him paradise and his dwelling is a fire. The wrongdoers have no saviors. All right? If you believe that Jesus is God, you are committing heresy against the true God. There can only be one God. There can't be two gods together. They disbelieved those who say, Allah is a third of three. But there is no deity except the one God. If they do not refrain from what they say, a painful torment will befall those among them who believe what he's saying, this is very important, is that Muhammad is saying the Holy Trinity, the idea, is just nonsense. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 37:12 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: They disbelieve those who say Allah is a third of three. Allah cannot be a fraction of anything. He is the one and only. Okay? Now, in our time, when we hear this, we don't really have emotional reaction, but place yourself back in their time, most Christians are being persecuted for refusing to accept the Holy Trinity as scripture because it makes no sense. We discussed this in class. Okay? And now, but if you say it makes no sense, you could be killed. Okay? You'll be persecuted for sure. And now, Muhammad is saying, you guys were right all along. You should have believed in yourself all along. You were right all along. Okay? So let's use an analogy. Let's just say, for example, like the world government. Okay? We have a world government and for whatever reason, the world government tells us the sky is red. And ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 38:16 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: you're like, wait a minute, I know blue and I know red and the sky is blue. But if you say the sky is blue, you will be put in jail. You are not allowed to say the sky is blue. And then, you have people, teachers, like me, telling you the reason why you believe the sky is blue and not red is your eyes lie to you. You cannot trust yourself. You, your eyes are defective. That's a problem with human beings. We can't trust what we see. Okay? And, you have to go through life believing the sky is red even though you know in your heart it's blue. But then one day, someone, says, we've been lying to you all along, the sky is blue. Imagine your sense of relief and empowerment and liberation when someone of authority actually tells you what you've always believed. Okay? That's what Muhammad is doing. Muhammad is confirming to everyone that what they believed, what they knew about God was right all along. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 39:25 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#religion-modernity-needs-dogma-breakers) Text: Okay. So, Muhammad's final message to the people is God is God and only God and He is everywhere. And you can see Him. You can touch Him because He's everywhere. And as such, you can feel Him and He can be inside of you. Okay? And, so this idea will actually occupy most of the Quran. Okay? And this is what he says. With Him are the keys of the unseen. None knows Him except He. And He knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but He knows it. And there is not a single grain in the darkness of earth nor is there anything wet or dry but is in the clear record. All right? God is everywhere. You can see and touch Him in everything. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 40:21 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 40:22 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And so, in other words, what's happening is that Islam is really the first monotheistic religion in the modern sense. Okay? When we think of monotheism we actually think of the Islam in the Islamic version of monotheism. All right. So, what's the power of Islam? And I want you guys to remember this. Islam is the power and beauty comes from how Islam is able to unite two major intellectual traditions in the world. The first is paganism. Right? Remember the Vikings? The Vikings told stories. They acted out rituals. And therefore there was an intimacy, concreteness and interconnectedness to paganism. That made us feel happy and good. Okay? It made us understand the world. It made us feel as though we could influence the world. That's the power of paganism. But Islam is doing the same thing by making God concrete. Okay? You can feel God. God is everywhere. He knows everything. But what Islam is also doing is he's seeing the simplicity, clarity and absoluteness of monotheism. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 41:35 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#religion-modernity-needs-dogma-breakers) Text: Okay? Monotheism is nice because with monotheism everything becomes clear to you. Right? Okay, there's one God. Therefore I just have to follow him. I just have to believe in him. There's like a million gods in paganism. And so it's unclear what you should do or how you should relate to this million gods. But here in monotheism the relationship between God and you it's very, very clear. Okay? So in other words Islam is a major intellectual revolution in human history. And we have forgotten this because Islam the idea has embedded itself into modernity itself. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So what I will show you over the course of the semester is that Islam really is the portal of modernity. When we say that modernity began in Europe we forget Islam really built the basis for modernity. Okay? All right. So fulfillment of the law and prophets. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 42:52 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: It's completing the story in the Bible. It's bringing God to the people. You can now touch God. You can now know God. That's the beginning of the idea of Protestantism. Okay? And create heaven on earth. And this is the idea of science. To make the world better. Because God wants us to make the world better. All right? So a lot of the ideas that will underpin modernity. That God can be in us. And that God expects us to make the world better. It's already there in the beginnings of Islam. And that's why we will have the Islamic Golden Age. Because they are propelled by their devoteness to the one true God. Is this clear to you guys? Any questions so far? Any questions so far? All right. So let me really quickly answer the three mysteries. Okay? The first problem is why were there no written records? The answer is first of all Islam marks a revolution. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 44:10 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2650s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? It is overturning the social order. The problem though is that eventually Islam will become the social order. So you obviously don't want to paint Muhammad as a revolutionary. Okay? That's the first problem. Muhammad represented a revolution against the social order. All right? That's the first thing. Second thing is that we know that his early followers the companions were all wiped out. They're all dead. They all died. The official history says that they died in military conflicts. But here's the amazing thing about early Islam history. We don't have that much evidence of military conflict between the Arabs and the Persians and the Byzantines. We don't. There's maybe one city where there was a siege. But we think that a lot of the conquest happened organically because their enemies surrendered to them rather than fight them. Okay? And that's why I would say it's a revolution. It's not a conflict. It's not a conquest. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 45:28 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: It's a revolution where ordinary people were so disgusted with the current leadership that they opted for a new belief system. Okay? The problem though is that once you amass power and it's a coalition, the question then is who's now in charge? So, for the next 1500 years there'll be a series of civil war to determine who will be in charge. Okay? Those early companions were probably purged. The word we use is purged. They're wiped out including the Jews and the Christians. We know for a fact that in the early days of Islam Jews and Christians were part of the hierarchy. There's a man named Saint John of Damascus who was very famous and he was a leader official in the Umayyad Caliphate. Okay? We know that as a fact. But eventually they were purged from the system. And if they're purged what happens is they're also purged to history. Okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 46:35 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Because if these are the companions of Muhammad, Christians and Jews then they're legitimate. They're more legitimate than you are. So therefore they have to purge that history. Okay? But knowing that there'll be a series of continued civil wars among the Arabs in order to determine who will be the caliph. And obviously they want to disguise this history. They want to disguise this history of civil conflict. Okay? So the first hundred years it was revolutionary but it was also very tumultuous and bloody. And that's why they had to disguise the first hundred years of Islamic history. Right? Does that make sense? I'll get to you guys. And again this is my explanation. All right? There could be other explanations. Yeah? Yep. Right. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 47:37 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Yep. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 47:53 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Right. Right. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 48:10 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2890s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2890s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: That is a great point. Thank you, Doug. So Doug's point is that the idea of history comes to us from the Greeks and the Romans who wrote everything down. Okay? But as Doug says there are many cultures who do not believe or do not understand They don't have institutions to write down history. We sort of take it for granted today but back then it was actually a pretty rare thing to actually want to write down your history. So a good reason why is that you write down the history you're also constrained by the history. Right? And that's why a lot of empires chose to not write down their history. Okay? So thank you. Yeah. All right. Second question is why didn't Mohammed name his successor? Again this is just my theory but if it's the end of days if it's the end of the world you don't need to name your successor because God's coming. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 49:06 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=2946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Right? What's the point? In fact if you name your successor then you are admitting defeat. Right? What Mohammed is saying to everyone is that every of your traditions Jewish Christian Zoroastrian are right. There will be peace on the world. Therefore we will no longer need leaders. You won't need Mohammed. I'm the last prophet man. Okay? So that's that's why I think that's why I think he didn't name his successor but there could be other explanations. Okay? Do you have another explanation? Okay. Now third is why did they build the Al -Aqsaq Mosque on the second on the Temple Mount? And this explanation is going to be very controversial. Okay? So the Jews support the Persians in the war against the Byzantines on the condition that the Persians would allow them to return to Jerusalem but also on the condition that that the Jews would be allowed to rebuild their temple which is exactly what Cyrus the Great did. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 50:15 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Right? Cyrus the Great is called the Messiah in the Bible. He's the only foreign leader called the Messiah in the Bible because Cyrus the Great allowed them to rebuild the temple. Okay? So what I'm saying is this. Al -Aqsaq Mosque was originally the third temple. It was it is what the Arabs promised the Jews for the support. But over time as these Persians happened as civil conflicts happened and the Arabs needed to consolidate their authority so they turned the third temple into the Al -Aqsaq Mosque. That's what I think happened. If you go into the I don't have time to go into the very detailed history of how the Al -Aqsaq Mosque was built but it was a process that took about 200 years. And it's very possible during these 200 years intentions changed. Okay? So again I know this is an extremely controversial statement but I think that's what happened. Originally it was meant to be the third temple. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 51:27 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: But then over time the Arab leaders changed their minds and thought to themselves that if we do this then we make the Jews into very powerful political entity within the Muslim world. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Right? Okay. Again like these are my explanations. It's my interpretation. This is not historical fact. All right. Now that we've done the three mysteries let's go back to the three original questions. First question is why did Islam enter its golden age and Christian Europe enter its dark age? Second question is why did Islam enter its golden age and third question is how did Christian Europe overtake the Muslim world? Okay. To answer these three questions all we have to do is compare and contrast these three major religions together. Judaism Christianity and Islam. All right. There are both strengths and weaknesses to all religions. So let's very quickly ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 52:34 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: compare and contrast these three major religions to see why they thrive in a certain historical context. So Judaism the Bible it's a wonderful piece of literature. It has a very rich history going back thousand years. Right? So the Jews were the first to have a complete history of themselves. There are beautiful stories in the Bible that still inspire today. The stories of Adam and Eve. The stories of the patriarchs. The story of Moses. They still inspire us today and they inspire us to create great literature. And then you have a literary culture. So the Jews were expected to be people of the book. They were expected to be literate in order to practice their religion. Okay? So this helps us understand why Jews are so dominant in academia, universities, in the media and in culture and in the legal profession. Okay? Because these are people of the book. They have a tremendous respect for learning and for literacy. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 53:39 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? That said there are certain problems with the tradition. The first is it's contradictory. When you read the Bible it's always contradicting itself. Okay? It's almost schizophrenic you could say. It's very hard to pick out a definite message from the Bible. And that's why the old tradition called the Torah is actually much more important. Okay? And so Jews have to go to the synagogue all the time where the Rabbi will explain to them the meaning of the Bible because if you read it by yourself it's almost impossible to understand. Okay? Second problem is their God Yahweh He's very problematic. He's extremely problematic. As we know from last semester when we looked at the Bible He doesn't seem to know what He's doing. And He's very very violent. Okay? He often commands the Israelites to go kill all their enemies. Okay? So He's a very problematic God. And the third major problem in the tradition is faith versus history. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 54:49 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: If you believe that you are the chosen people and you believe that Yahweh is only true God then why are you being persecuted all the time? Okay? Why were the Romans able to kick you out of Jerusalem and burn down your temple which is the house of God? Why are you homeless? Why do you lack a homeland? Okay? And this has been going on for thousands of years. And there are no easy explanations to any of these problems. Okay? So within the Jewish faith there's a lot of conflict and debate and doubt. So the Christian faith was created in many ways to try to resolve a lot of the issues within the Jewish tradition. The first major advantage of the Christian faith is it's the precipitation and perfection of divinity. Right? Remember how we said that Yahweh was the now we have Jesus who we can understand. And Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice therefore we know him to be the ultimate good. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 55:52 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? Second advantage is okay now that there's a person we can for him deliver a consistent message of being kind being merciful being loving. Okay? Second coming. Okay? So you may suffer now but don't worry because Jesus is returning and that will end history for us. Alright? So these are the advantages of Christianity. But when you do that when you have Jesus personified God you create a lot of issues. Okay? The first issue is it's a really confusing story. Why would God come down to earth manifest himself as a human and then sacrifice himself? That's really really confusing. Like I know there's a lot of really good explanations as to why this is the case. Still if you're just a normal person you can't understand the story. It makes no sense to you. Okay? Second is that it's counterintuitive. A lot of the ideas in Christianity it's just counterintuitive. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 57:01 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: The Holy Trinity must be the strangest idea in religion where God the Holy Spirit and Jesus are separate but equal. It makes no sense to anyone. The third is distant divinity. Okay? God is out there somewhere. You don't know where. You can't talk to him. You can't see him. You have no idea where he is. Okay? It's a very distant divinity. And so these are the disadvantages of Christianity. And so Islam now makes sense because it's trying to remedy and rectify these feelings of Christianity. It takes the Jewish tradition and the Christian tradition and makes it part of itself. Okay? So it is really the continuation and the perfection of the Jewish Christian tradition. Second is the absoluteness of God. Okay? This is now true monotheism where God is everywhere. And you can see him. But if God is everywhere then what's amazing is that you can now that God can come to you through your faith through your devotion and through your practice. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 58:22 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Alright? And so what this means is you now know how to behave in the world. There's a clarity of purpose and action. You know that as long as you do those five things those five pillars of Islam your life will be good. God is in you. And that gives you strength and purpose and power. Okay? And this is these ideas is what will start the Islamic Golden Age and allow Islam to propel itself past everyone. Okay? The problem though is it's too simple and clear. The advantage of being contradictory is you allow for different belief systems which come into conflict with each other. And with this contradiction and conflict it allows for innovation. That's why Catholicism will eventually will eventually give way to Protestantism. Okay? Which is a reinterpretation of the Bible. But it's because the Bible is so contradictory that this innovation is not to happen. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 59:33 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3573s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3573s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: The Bible was extremely clear the Quran is extremely clear. But if that's the case then you cannot allow for radical rejection of the past and embrace of the future. Okay? Second problem then is it's inflexible. It can't be as innovative as Christianity and Judaism. The third problem is it's Islam purports to stand outside of history. Okay? Judaism is to be inside of history. Christianity is inside of history as well. But Islam is eternal. When you read the Quran it's meant to be the eternal words. These words are always true. But then the problem then is how do you go about and interpret your actions through the lens of history? And how do you improve your society based on this interpretation? Alright? So in the beginning the very aspects the very strengths of Islam will give rise to a tremendous period of creativity. But over time you will have these innovations will become dogma. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:00:51 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And they will ossify and they will prevent further growth in your society. Alright? So does that make sense to you guys? Alright. So let me reframe what I just said in a different way. Alright? So let's just compare sorry um let's sorry So I'm going to compare and contrast Christianity with um Islam. So so this is clear to you. Alright? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:01:31 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:01:31 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: But are there any questions before I continue? Is this clear to you guys? So I apologize I'm making a lot of generalizations but again this is a macro view of of history. Alright. So let's look at Christianity and compare it with Islam. Alright? So as I have said um in previous classes Christianity was developed by the Roman Empire first the Jews and eventually um these barbarian invaders. And therefore the religion is one of empire and power. Okay? It's really about how to control people. But Islam as I just mentioned it is a revolutionary religion that must be open and inclusive and tolerant in order to attract as many followers as possible. Alright? Now the main mechanism of control uh for an empire is the idea of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy just means the correct thinking. Okay? But if you're orthodoxy then you have the idea of heresy. Orthodoxy is with God heresy is against God. If you ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:02:58 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3778s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: agree that the sky is red because I say the sky is red then you are orthodox. But if you insist the sky is blue then it is herethical. Okay? And that constrains or limits the imagination. Alright? And the philosopher that you base your society on is Plato. So the idea of the bishop the idea of the pope it's really the idea of Plato's philosopher king. Alright? So I'll explain uh Plato's philosophy in a bit in a second. Okay? But let's look at Islam. So it's a revolutionary religion and therefore you must activate the energy of all your followers. You must get them to believe and you must get them to fight. Therefore it's a religion based on intuition. God is with you. You know God God is inside you. Okay? And the idea of intuition is what allows for science. You can discover the truth by just observing through empirical observation through your own analysis through your own belief. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:04:11 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? And the person who argues this is of course Aristotle. So this is the argument I'm making to you. Okay? A lot of scholars believe um the Islamic Golden Age happened because the Islamic the Islams had books. They had wealth. But the Byzantines also had access to all these uh major thinkers Plato and Aristotle. Okay? What I'm arguing is that a culture needs to have a attitude a perspective a worldview an orientation. For the Byzantines and the Europeans they chose Plato. But the Muslims chose Aristotle. And that is the major difference. Okay? So let's go over um let's summarize Plato and Aristotle. How were the philosophies different? Okay. Plato the true god is called the form of the good. The form of the good is the beginning of everything. It is what is immutable. That cannot be changed. It is uh perfect. And it's eternal. Eternal means it's always it was always there and it will always be there. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:05:36 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=3936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: The form of the good this god he thinks and he emanates new concepts called ideals like justice uh reason beauty power. Okay? And these ideals will manifest themselves into perfect forms. Okay? Like a horse like a perfect horse the perfect woman. Okay? This we can say is just heaven. We live in something called a shadow world which is just an imitation of heaven. It's a bad imitation so everything sucks. Okay? So for example uh if you fall down and you break your leg it hurts because we live in a shadow world. So in this conception of the universe what we're trying to do is return to uh the form of the good. And for Plato he argues that you can do this through mathematics and geometry because mathematics is what is most like the form of the good. It is immutable perfect and eternal. So by studying mathematics and geometry you are able to ascend back into the form of the good. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:06:54 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4014s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4014s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: But guess what? Augustine will take Plato and he will adapt it to the Christian faith. Right? Because how do you leave this world? By not sinning. By having faith. If you do that then you are allowed to go to heaven. Okay? So in the platonic Augustine understanding we in this world just we all we have to do is not make a mistake. So do nothing. Okay? Do nothing and you'll be good. Aristotle has a different conception of the universe. He believes the form of the good is called a prime mover. Alright? God is a prime mover. So God is the first thing that acts and moves things. Okay? And when he does that when he creates motion other things start to happen as well. Okay? So we're constantly moving about. Where we're going is we are seeking truth. And it's called telos. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:08:02 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#religion-modernity-needs-dogma-breakers) Text: Telos means purpose. So each of us by our nature has a purpose. If you're a soldier your purpose is to be the best warrior. If you're a mathematician your purpose is to be the best mathematician. Okay? And that is the idea of truth. To fulfill your purpose. And therefore you must be constantly acting. Okay? Now the beauty of this idea of motion is you can now study it through empirical observation. You can observe things and then start to understand their nature. And this gives rise to the idea of science. Okay? Right? So the Muslim world had a decidedly Aristotelian world the European world had a Platonic perspective. Now the great thing about history the great thing about civilization is that what will happen is the Europeans will learn from the Muslims. They'll copy the Muslims. Right? They'll bring back Aristotle they'll bring back science and they'll bring back intuition. Alright? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:09:28 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And they will do so through three major events. The first is the Renaissance where they bring back Aristotle. The second is the Protestant Reformation where they will bring back God. Remember the Catholic religion God is aloof. God can only be understood through the pope or the priest. Okay? But the Protestant religion is no. God is with us. God is in us. For your actions you can you can win God's favor. Okay? The last is science. Right? The scientific revolution. And these are the three major events that will give us modernity. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:10:15 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:10:16 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0066](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0066) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0066` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#religion-modernity-needs-dogma-breakers) Text: But guess what? The Europeans are just emulating the Muslims. But and this is really important they will improve on the Muslims. Okay? So the problem with science is yes in the beginning you will have all this tremendous discovery but this innovation will eventually lead to something called dogma. Alright? And so what you need to do is create institutions to destroy dogma. And that's what the Europeans will do which will and this idea that dogma can be destroyed through discussion and debate and analysis is what will become the basis of the revolution which will create the modern world that we live in today. Okay? So we will go through all of these three major movements in future classes. But please remember that it's the Islamic Golden Age which will inspire the Europeans to do all three of these things which in turn will create the modern world that we live in today. Okay? And that's why I believe that Islamic Golden Age is really the proto -modernity of human history. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:11:39 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0067](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0067) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0067` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: All right. That is my argument to you. Any questions? Anything you are unclear about? Was this clear? Okay. Sure. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:12:03 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0068](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0068) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0068` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Sure. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:12:08 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0069](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0069) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0069` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Okay. Sure. Right here. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:12:24 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0070](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0070) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0070` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Right. Very quick. But it was also very. It was done by. What's really interesting is that if you look at the talisman that comes afterwards as Professor said it moves through Baghdad. And right now we think of Baghdad and Iraq as a place. But at that time by moving there it represents partly a change in culture and moving away from an Arab homeland. And there's a whole bunch of there's an amazing cultural openness there. There's context like you said with India and Central Asia of Islam moves into Central Asia with more contact with China and so on. And there's a real cultural going on there. And Islam has to be very open to those cultures and be inspired by those cultures and engage with them in a pretty deep way. Right? So in some ways it's not just the religion that's the deciding factor but just being able to draw on different traditions ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:13:54 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0071](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0071) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0071` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: and bridge traditions in a way that isn't or in western Europe you know ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:14:03 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0072](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0072) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0072` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: . ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:14:04 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0073](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0073) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0073` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Right. Yeah. That's a great point. So let me elaborate on this point. So there's a literary critic Norfolk Fry. Right? Yep. Canadian. Right? So Norfolk Fry is Canadian literary critic. Okay? And one thing that he's obsessed about is how What he's observed is there's certain moment in history when great literature comes about. And the moment is when a nation or a people or a culture becomes an empire. Okay? And the idea here is okay with a nation you have tradition. You have cohesion. Okay? You have a certain literary basis. Right? And then when it becomes an empire it's forced to have a vista. It's forced to have like a global perspective. And this change from a nation or coherent people into a cosmopolitan empire at this stage in history you can it's possible for them to produce great literature. Okay? And there are many examples of this. So the first example of course is Athens. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:15:16 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0074](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0074) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0074` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Athens is the civilization par excellence. Right? And so when did Athens produce all its great like literature? Well it was basically the age of Pericles which lasted from like you know 500 to about 400. Okay? Maybe 350. Okay? But it was not that long. And this is important because this period is also when Athens which was a you know a very small polis suddenly became an empire. And it was this transition that forced it to look outwards. Okay? So Athens is one example but then of course you have King David and the the Israelites. And again after the Bronze Age collapsed David was able to like create an Israelite nation and then conquer a lot of this territory. Okay? So this this people now were a small empire. They weren't a great empire but they were a small empire. Okay? And the last example that we have is England. Right? Think of Shakespeare. When was Shakespeare writing? ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:16:26 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0075](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0075) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0075` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: Around the year 1600. Okay? And that was when England which for the longest time was this poor island island was now becoming emerging as a global empire. And with it a cosmopolitan perspective. Right? So this is the pattern in history which picks up on on Doug's point where the new Islamic empire when they shifted their capital to Baghdad they now became a global empire and as such they had to absorb all these different traditions and cultures and become a multicultural universal empire. Okay? Alright? So Norbert Frey has made this observation. It sounds convincing. I I haven't done enough research to follow fully buy into this theory. Okay? But but he has made this argument and he has made these observations with these examples. Alright? So thanks for that. Okay. Any more questions? Okay. So next class what what we'll do is the Middle Kingdom China. Okay? The reason why is at this stage in history China is being brought into world history. ## Islam As Proto-Modernity -- 1:17:55 - Source title: Civilization #37: The Golden Age of Islam - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-11, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0076](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8/transcript/#seg-0076) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OdO8LoKuo8&t=4675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8@transcript:v1#seg-0076` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-2odo8lokuo8.json) Text: And the reason why is the rise of the Mongols. Okay? So so next class will be on the Middle Kingdom China and after that we will do the Mongols. And after that we will return to Europe and do the Crusades. Then we'll do the Renaissance the Protestant Reformation and the Sino -Semitic Revolution. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Good morning. So today we continue the Vikings. And this morning we will look at their worldview, their cultural system. And as I mentioned last class, I do believe that the Viking culture is truly one of the outstanding cultures in Western civilization. The problem though is we know actually very little about the Viking culture. And there are certain reasons for that. The first reason is that they were purposefully an oral tradition. So it is our prejudice, it is our belief that a literary culture is superior to an oral tradition. It's harder to read and write. But what we forget is that when we transition from an oral tradition to a literary culture, we lose a lot in the process. Yes. And there are many cultures that have the capacity to read and write, but they chose not to because for them, it was much more important to preserve the oral tradition than it was to adopt a literary culture. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:14 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=74s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=74s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And as I explained in today's lecture, there are many actually good reasons why you would want to preserve an oral tradition. That's the first reason. The Vikings were purposely an oral tradition culture. The second reason is that. Eventually, the Vikings would convert to Christianity. And in this conversion process, which would take generations, they had to abandon a lot of their tradition and heritage, including their mythologies and their historical memory. The Vikings were perceived as barbarians by the Christians. And because of the traumatic history of the Vikings, they were considered barbarians by the Christians. Viking encounters with Europe, there was an intention or purpose in trying to eradicate the Viking memory. Okay, so please keep in mind that we don't know that much about the Vikings. What we do know about the Vikings comes from two sources. The first is archaeology. We basically dug up their graves, some of their graves, not all of their graves, and through their graves we were able to reconstruct some of their culture. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 2:38 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: But the main source of our understanding is through Norse mythology. Unfortunately we only have a fraction of their entire mythology. Their mythology, it's vast, it's grand, it's epic, it's beautiful, but we only have a fraction of that. Unfortunately, over time, so many Vikings that we know of, they are actually banging the ground and they're Christian intellectuals want to sanctify or purify the Norse mythology because the Norse mythology is extremely violent and sexual and so they basically clean it up which means that a lot of what we have has been interpreted through Christian lens so please be careful about that okay so I will try my best to reconstruct the Viking worldview but please understand there are severe constraints and limitations and the way I will reconstruct the Viking worldview is by comparing contrasting it with other mythologies other civilizations ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 3:46 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: other cultures and by using literary interpretation and ultimately by using my imagination okay so please take what I what I say with a grain of salt be skeptical be suspicious ask questions challenge me where you feel you need to okay all right so let's get started all right um let's look at the Viking tradition in contrast to the Greeks and the Romans okay so the Greeks how do they see the world remember um their idea of the community was the idea of the polis the polis is gives us our word for politics and the idea is that a community is a group of men only men who come together to debate and argue of the future of the community and as such the individual is someone who stands out okay the word they use is eudaimonia or arete okay eudaimonia means flourishing you can only flourish if you stand out among a group of men ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 5:01 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: arete is proving your excellence among a group of men and so I'll give you two examples of this Greek worldview so the first is Achilles from the Iliad remember in the Iliad Achilles tells everyone I am in Troy to seek personal glory I don't care about the Greeks I don't care about Helen or Troy I don't care about what others think I to stand out I care about my own personal glory and that's why he's willing to let Hector and the Trojans almost destroy the Greek army okay so that's one example another example is from Herodotus his book histories and it has to do with the Athenian leader Themistocles okay so this is a year 480 BC and in the year 480 BCE the Persians are invading the Greek mainland Sparta Athens have united against the Persians the Persians burned down Athens and the Athenian people are on their ships and at this point the ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 6:18 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Spartans who are who is who are in command of the military the Athenians have a huge argument the Athenians want to challenge the Persians on the sea and defeat them and defeat their Navy the Spartans want to use their Navy to protect their homeland the Peloponnese against the Persian invasion and they cannot come to an agreement so what Themistocles does is he sends a spy a servant to the king of the Persians and tell him hey the entire Greek Navy is stationed in Salamis okay and but they're about to run away from you so here's a great chance to send your entire Persian Navy to crush the Greek Navy once and for all and that's what the king does and at the Battle Salamis the Athenians and the Spartans destroy the Persian Navy and churn the course of not only the war but of Western history because if the Persians had won that day then ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 7:28 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: we would be living in a Persian influenced world and that's what the king does and so in the Persian as opposed to a Greek -influenced world, okay? But if you think about it, what Achilles and Phinexes are doing is what we would call sedition or treason or betrayal, okay? But that's just the Greek worldview. The Romans had a very different perspective. They understood community as fundamentally about tradition. And as such, the individual had to be pious to the tradition, had to be loyal to the tradition. They used the word piety. Now, in China, we have a concept called filial piety. Guys, this is very important, completely opposite, okay? In China, filial piety means obedience to your father. What your father says is right, okay? That's what it means. But in Rome, piety means loyalty to the traditions of Rome. So the classic example is Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar wanted to be king, and he was about to break a lot of Roman traditions. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 8:46 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=526s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=526s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So his friends, including his biological son, Marcus Brutus, killed him. It was more important for Marcus Brutus to be loyal to the traditions of Rome than to be loyal to his father. Okay, so that's the Roman tradition. Then you have the Viking tradition. For the Vikings, and this is very interesting, the community is a set of stories, okay? And stories are not the same as tradition. Tradition is what is past. It is what is written down. Stories are memories that are living, that which a community tells about itself. And therefore, there is a flexibility. Okay? There is a flexibility to these stories. They can be reimagined over and over. The basic structure, the outline is the same, but the community has to constantly relive and reimagine these stories. And therefore, the individual is a person who acts out these stories, okay? Acts out these stories. And he acts out these stories by, either through ritual, either through adventure or exploration. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 10:12 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? So, this is a hard idea to understand. Okay? How is this different from the Roman tradition? But let me tell you a story to illustrate this Viking culture. Okay. So, 30 years ago, a long time ago, I was having lunch with a new friend. And he went to a very good school called Georgetown. It's based in Washington, D.C., and it's where Bill Clinton went, okay? This is where the, a lot of his friends, a lot of the Washington foreign policy elite go to school. And he told me that at Georgetown, there's a tradition, a competition among undergraduates. And the competition is who can go the furthest to do the most useless thing. And a lot of undergraduates participate in this competition. So, what my friend and his friend did was, one day, they got in a car, they drove 12 hours to Canada. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 11:11 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=671s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=671s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: The Canadian border. They crossed the Canadian border. Then they got out of the car and went into the forest to take a piss. Then they got back in the car and drove all the way back to Georgetown. They spent 24 hours driving so that they could take a piss in Canada. Okay? Now, you think, this sounds really stupid. But the most interesting thing about the story is that it is memorable. Right? Memorable. And what this means is that 50 years after they graduate from Georgetown, people will still remember what they did. Not only that, but they'll tell their friends, they'll tell their colleagues, they'll tell their children. So this memory will persist over time. No one should remember who got the best grades at Georgetown that year. No one should remember who had the most money, who made the most money in his or her life. Okay? But everyone should remember these ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 12:15 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: two guys who got in their car and drove 24 hours just so that they can go to Canada to take a piss. All right? So that is Viking culture. It's not about winning glory or protecting tradition. It's about doing what is shocking, what is new, what will add to the imagination and the memory of the community. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So their main memory is, of course, their mythology, Norse mythology. And Norse mythology, I would argue, is the greatest mythology in human history. We still have it today. Okay? You might have seen these Marvel movies, right? Thor, the Thor series. There are a lot of TV shows based on the Vikings. So the Viking culture, the Norse mythology, is still celebrated today. Okay? So let me explain to you why I would argue that Norse mythology is probably the greatest cosmological system we have. Okay. So first, it's grand. In this mythology, there are nine realms. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 13:33 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. And it's all connected by a world tree called Idrisel. Okay? No one knows what this world tree looks like, but it's basically the equivalent of God in this system. Okay? And in this, in Idrisel, there are three gods who control the fate and destiny of the world called Anans. Okay? So it's very grand and epic. Also, what's important to understand is there's nothing outside this universe. Okay? This is it. Second is that it's complete. What I mean by that is it has a beginning and it has an end. Okay? The beginning is there's a rift and from the rift steps a frost giant named Imar. And then comes a cow, a cosmic cow who then licks the ice and that releases another god who will eventually give birth to another god who will give birth to the three major gods including Odin. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 14:43 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And these three major gods will kill Imar and from Imar's birth carcass they will build the universe. Okay? That's the beginning. But there's also an end and the end is what I call what's what they call Ragnarok. Ragnarok. And Ragnarok Ragnarok is the end of everything. It is a final battle between the gods who are called the Aesir. Okay? So Odin is the um Allfather the main god but and all children are called the Aesir. Okay? The Aesir will fight a final cosmic battle between them and their enemies. And in this final battle everything will die. Nothing will be left. Okay? Then that's it. Now as I mentioned the Christian uh tradition will take the story and adapt it for its own ends. So in the Christian tradition Ragnarok does happen but guess what? After the end of the world two humans a man and a woman will emerge from the destruction and reconstitute the world. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 15:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=954s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=954s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? That's the Christian tradition. In the Norse tradition in the Norse tradition everything ends. And you may think to yourself oh well this sounds extremely pessimistic. That's only because we're looking at it from our perspective. From the perspective of the Vikings the end of the world means that you must cherish every single day. Live with honor live with glory live with courage. Cherish every moment. Okay? And that's the idea. The third thing about Norse mythology is that it's unified. So all the characters everything that happens is contained within this mythology and contributes to development of this mythology. So this mythology not only includes gods but also includes humans. Okay? Who are champions of the gods. So there's a very famous story within this mythology between um a human named Sigard and a Valkyrie uh who is a servant of the gods named um Brumhilde. Um eventually what will happen is that there will ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 17:19 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1039s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1039s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: be a very famous German composer named Wagner who will take the story of Sigard Brumhilde and this entire Norse mythology and construct something called a cycle which is the most famous opera in German history and this becomes one of the foundations of modern German culture. This Norse mythology will also become the inspiration for Tolkien's epic called Lord of the Rings. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 17:48 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 17:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: these are the two most obvious examples of how Norse mythology um still impacts our world today. Okay? And as we go along the semester I will show other influences. Alright? So what Norse mythology is trying to do is create community among the Vikings and instill certain values. Okay? The three major values that these stories manifest and express are courage. The courage to explore the courage to seek what is new and unknown. To venture forth into the unknown. Because Vikings are mainly explorers and adventurers. Raiding is only a small part of their community. Okay? Second is the idea of loyalty. And this is a very important concept. When you go out on your adventures you usually go out with your brothers your friends. Okay? It's like a band of brothers. You have to be willing to die for them. You have to die for each other. If the survival of the group requires you to make the ultimate sacrifice you have to do so. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 19:17 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? Loyalty. Loyalty means love for each other. It does not mean obedience. Remember, in the Viking world it is very egalitarian. There's very little hierarchy. Okay? There are high status people but they're high status because they're proving themselves worthier than the others because they're braver because they're stronger because they're more clever. Okay? The last Viking value is resourcefulness. So the idea here is when you venture off into the unknown you cannot know what to expect. You can't plan ahead. You can't be strategic. So you can only be resourceful meaning you must respond to the danger as it arises. what we call quick -witted. You have to have street smarts. Okay? So these are the three main values or ideas that Norse mythology is trying to express and instill in the people. Okay? So that's a general introduction to Viking culture. Now what I will do is I will provide evidence and examples for this argument. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 20:33 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? Alright. But first of all let's do the PPT and look at the evidence and the examples. Okay. Alright. The Viking worldview. Alright. First thing I need you guys to understand is that every culture every society fundamentally asks itself three questions that this painting from Paul Gauguin captures. Okay? Where do we come from? Where are we going? Every culture is trying to grapple with these three questions. Paul Gauguin I'm not sure if you know who he is. He is a very famous French artist. He started off actually as a financier a stockbroker and then he basically became disgusted with the material lifestyle of modern society. So he got on a boat and went to Tahiti where he painted. He interacted with the natives and through this inaction he began to grapple with what it means to be a human. What is the human project? And what he ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 21:47 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: believes and what most actually anthropologists believe is to be human is to ask these three questions. Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Okay? And that's ultimately what Norse mythology is trying to grapple with as well. Okay. So again we know our evidence our understanding of the Vikings comes from archaeology. So we are able to dig up their graves. And what we discover is and it's very interesting is that each grave is unique. Okay? And it seems that each grave in its own way is telling a story about who this person is. It's like this grave was not meant just to send this individual into the afterworld but also to remember him or her and his or her achievements and life. Okay? So let's look at some reconstruction of these graves. Okay? And as you can see this woman is buried with tools an arrow as well as a dead horse. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 23:04 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So we're not able to reconstruct her story but obviously those who knew her knew exactly what the story represented. Another example where man is buried with his ship. The Vikings are the only society to bury people in ships. Another example and as you can see they're all unique. In fact what's really interesting for us is to appreciate that funerals were the most important aspect of Viking society. It's what brought the community together and it was what they remember the most. Funerals are what contributed to historical memory in the Viking world. As you can see this funeral is extremely elaborate involving a lot of animal sacrifice. These horses are being gathered up to be sacrificed. There's also human sacrifice and these funerals can last for a long time, 10 days. So again because the Vikings never wrote anything down we actually don't know that much about these funerals. In fact we only have one historical record of a funeral. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 24:23 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And this happened in the Viking Rus. So this is diplomat and traveler by the name of Ahmad ibn Badlan. And he is from the Abbasid Caliphate. And he is in the Viking world in order to negotiate a treaty of trade. The Abbasids and the Vikings traded a lot. And as an honored guest the Vikings invited him to a funeral of a deceased chieftain or king. Now there are certain things about this funeral that's important for us. The first thing is that it would last 10 days. It's a very elaborate affair that requires a lot of choreography and coronation. The second thing is that a third of the man's wealth were spent on the funeral expenses. So basically a feast for everyone. A third was spent on his funeral clothes that was tailor -made for him. So this is like the best clothes. And a third was given to his wife. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 25:36 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: What this tells us is first of all this man even though he was high status he didn't have that much wealth. And second of all the Vikings are a very egalitarian society. The third thing that's important for us they didn't care that much about wealth. Period. Right? They spent a third on the funeral. They just burned away the money. So what's also important for us to remember is there is a funeral director. There's a woman who Ibn Fadin calls the angel of death who is coordinating and orchestrating this funeral. During the course of this funeral there are things that happen that actually disgust him. So before we continue please keep in mind that Ibn Fadin is an observer. He doesn't speak the language. He doesn't know culture. So he doesn't exactly know what's going on. Second of all he's a Muslim. So he has his own cultural worldview that is in conflict with the Viking worldview. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 26:40 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: The third thing is he is writing this down after the fact. And if you do that what often happens is that you will misremember a lot of things. So please take his description with a grain of salt with some skepticism but also please remember that we have no choice in the matter because this is the only written record of a Viking funeral from this time. Okay? So we have absolutely no choice in the matter. So let's look at what he writes and then try to reconstruct the Viking culture and understanding. Okay. So first thing he says is look into and threw the halves into the boat and place the man's weapons beside him. Okay? So again they are celebrating his life. They are memorizing his life. They had two horses run themselves sweaty cut them to pieces and threw the meat into the ship. Finally they killed two cows a hen and a cock and did the same thing Now this is interesting. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 27:52 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: They asked for a human sacrifice and a slave girl volunteers. Volunteers. Okay? Clearly she didn't volunteer but she volunteers. And let's see what happens. Meanwhile the slave girl went from one tent to the other and had sexual intercourse with the master of each. Every man told her tell your master that I have done this purely out of love for you. Okay it's not this is incorrect it should be for him. Alright? So this is really confusing for us. It's a funeral and they're having sex with the woman who is about to be sacrificed. So we don't we have absolutely no idea what's going on. But I'm going to make a guess. I'm gonna use my imagination. Okay? First it's important for us to understand who the slave girl is. She's not a normal person. I believe I would argue that she must be the lover of the deceased chieftain. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 28:48 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Why? Okay. Here's the logic. Remember the Iliad. Okay? In the Iliad the entire story begins with a problem. The problem is that Agamemnon the leader of the Greeks he has kidnapped a girl who happens to be the daughter of a high priest to Apollo. And the king and the priest comes to him and says I will give you all the gold in the world but please give me back my daughter. And all the Greeks are said oh you should do that Agamemnon please give back the daughter. Okay? That's just the custom of war. The father can ransom the daughter you have to return her. But Agamemnon says this I'm not going to return her because I love her. I love her more than my wife. And as a result the high priest prays to Apollo who unleashes a deadly plague among the Greeks. The Greeks are dying. So finally Achilles steps up and says to Agamemnon you have to return the girl. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 29:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Alright? Now Agamemnon has lost face so he says to Achilles fine I will return the girl that I love more than anything else in the world but you must return your girl your slave girl. And Achilles gets so angry at this that he refuses to fight for the Greeks which leads to the disaster of the Trojan War. Okay? So what is this telling us? This is telling us that in this world where these men are far from home and they kidnap these slave girls they fall in love with them. And in the process of falling in love with them these great men confer status and power onto these slave girls. Okay? Does that make sense? Alright? I know this is hard to understand but the slave girl is not a normal girl. She is the lover the mistress essentially the wife of the chieftain who's died. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 30:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? So another question then is why has she volunteered to kill herself? Okay. Well if we continue the logic then I would argue that it's because without the man she has no status and power in the community. She'll go back to being a slave and she might be ostracized. So by volunteering and sacrificing herself she will win status and power and honor for her children and for her relatives in the community. She will make her family part of that community. Okay? That's why she does this. Now then the question then is okay I don't get it now because if in fact the slave girl is the chieftain's favorite mistress and if this slave girl does in fact love this man why is she having sex with everyone? Okay. And the answer is in this world gifts are very important. Basically if you go to war and you win things you have to share it with everyone. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 32:05 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? And so the slave girl will give you one final gift and it's most the greatest treasure that I can possibly give you which is the woman I love. Okay? And that's why each man is forced to have sex with her and they tell this girl when you go to your master tell him I only do this out of my love for him not for you. I don't have sex with you. I do not want to have sex with you but I will in order to celebrate him to honor him to love him. Yes. So June that's a great question. In their imagination are they having sex with the dead master? And um yes. You can make that argument. Okay? Because remember in this world homosexuality is not it doesn't exist. It's very it's okay for men to have sex with each other. It's okay for men to have sex with together with one woman. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 33:18 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=1998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? And that's how they create intimacy and bonding. Because remember when you're out in war you have to be able to make the ultimate sacrifice. So you have to bond with your fellow soldiers. And the best way to bond is through sex. Okay? Sex with each other but also sex with other women. Okay? So so yeah. So you can make that argument. Okay? Again I don't know what goes on their heads. Yes. Then they think they're having sex with the master through the girl. Alright? And that's why they say I'm already doing this out of my love for for him. Not for you but for him. Okay? Um so let's continue. Okay? In the afternoon they moved the slave girl to something that looked like a door frame where she was lifted on the palms of the man three times. So the door frame represents access to the after world. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 34:18 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: The father and mother the second time she saw all her deceased relatives and the third time she saw her master in paradise. Okay? So what this is is she the slave girl who is not who is not part of the community. What she's really doing is implanting her personal memory into the community as a whole. She's making her family part of the community now. Right? She's talking about her past. And everyone again this is a community event everyone's observing. Everyone can hear her. Alright? So they know that after she dies they must honor her memory by honoring her relatives and family. There it was green and beautiful and together with him she saw a man and young people. She saw her master beckon for her and she was brought a chicken which she which she decasipated and which was then thrown on the boat. Okay? Again this is some some strange ritual that I have no idea what it means but it must mean something. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 35:20 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? Often what they do is they reenact mythologies. Okay? So there must have been a famous story where a woman decapitates a chicken for some reason. Okay? And she's doing that. They are reliving mythologies. Alright. Let's continue. Thereafter the slave girl was taken away to the ship. She removed her bracelets and gave them to the old woman. Okay? She took what was most valuable to her and gave her to the old woman who was the angel of death the funeral director. Right? She's paying she's giving her a gift she's bribing her for the honor of being sacrificed. Thereafter she removed her anklets and gave them to the old man's two daughters. Then they took her aboard the ship but they did not allow her to enter the tent where the dead chieftain lay. Okay? She's about to be she's about to be sacrificed. The girl received several vessels of intoxicating drinks and she sang. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 36:15 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: These intoxicating drinks are often psychedelics. Okay? So the psychedelics are meant to enhance her visuals. Okay? Now she's singing. Before the old woman urged her to enter the tent I saw that the girl did not know what she was doing notes Ibn Thalin. Okay? So Ibn Thalin is completely confused by this. But what we need to understand is this is highly choreographed. Right? Every person knows what to do in this process. It's a ritual meaning that there's a script in place and meaning that the chieftain and the slave girl and the old woman all discussed this beforehand. Okay? That's the only way this makes sense. Then the girl was pulled into the tent by the old woman and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks so her screams could not be heard. Okay? So the tent is being surrounded by warriors with shields. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 37:13 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Alright? So six men basically rape her together. And what this is doing is reenacting the memory of being with the chieftain. Right? Going out on raids sacking a city and then raping the woman together. Guys, I know this is terrible. I know this is terrible but again we have to try to understand their worldview and their practice. The two men grabbed her hands and two men her wrists. They put a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. Okay? She's being sacrificed by the angel of death and that's how she dies. Alright? Thereafter the closest male relative of the dead chieftain walked backwards naked covering his anus with one hand on a piece of burning wood with the other. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 38:15 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Again this must come from a certain mythology. Okay? That's the only way we can explain this practice. this ship aflame after which other people added wood to the fire. Okay? And that's how he dies. Alright? Again this sounds gruesome what they're doing is they're celebrating the man and implanting his memory into the community because everyone participates in his funeral the man his memory is now part of the community's for his achievements. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Alright? So this is again a depiction of the funeral. And again the Greeks and the Romans had equivalents so that and we'll discuss these equivalents so you better understand what's going on. For the Romans that's something called a triumph. A triumph was the highlight of Roman life. It was basically a general who won great conquests. And so he came back in a military parade. The parade would offer a lot of things. It would offer some pictures of the conquered territory. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 39:43 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: It would parade treasures like elephants or gold captured from the conquered people. It will also parade slaves and captured people like usually kings. And it would feature the soldiers as well as the triumphant Okay? What's important for us to remember is at the end of this parade they go to the temple of Jupiter their god and they will sacrifice these slaves and these captured kings to the god to the god Jupiter. Okay? So it's very similar to the funeral guys. The Greeks on the other hand had theater to build the community's collective consciousness. Theater. So there were no professional actors. It was community members that participated in the theater. And the community the spectators would judge which theater was the best. It was the highlight of the community to pick the best playwright for that year. It was the greatest honor. It's like winning the Nobel Prize basically. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 41:01 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: The theater was it's very different. They didn't practice any human sacrifice. They didn't parade slaves around. What they did was often was write about war from the perspective of the enemy. Okay? So Euripides wrote something called Trojan Woman where he wrote about the the Trojan Woman who were raped and captured and kidnapped by the Greeks. And Aeschylus wrote about the Persian laws. Okay? And that's why the Greek civilization is considered the most imaginative in human history because it practices empathy. It changes perspectives. It's willing to celebrate everyone. Okay? So that's the Greek world. Okay. All right. Let's talk a little about Norse mythology. Remember what I said was that Norse mythology its purpose is to express and promote three values. Courage loyalty and resourcefulness. Right? So the example of courage is Odin. At the beginning of the world Odin who's a god of knowledge he wants to seek all knowledge. So he flies around Idrisel the ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 42:17 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2537s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2537s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: world tree and he goes into different realms and he meets a god who has something called the well of cosmic knowledge. You drink from the soup you gain cosmic knowledge. So Odin wanted to drink it but he had to make an offering. So he offered what was most valuable to him which was his eye guys. Okay. His eye. So he plucked out his eye gave it to the god and drank from the well of cosmic knowledge. But once he drank from the well and learned cosmic knowledge he became more curious about the universe. And so he started to venture into more unknowns. Eventually he went into the realm of death. And no matter how hard he tried he could not penetrate this world. There are too many There are too many barriers. So he killed himself. Right. Because that's what you do. If you want to enter a death world you have to kill yourself. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 43:12 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2592s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2592s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So he killed himself and was dead for a long time. But in his death he was able to see all the secrets of the universe. And then afterwards he resurrected himself. Okay. So Odin personifies the idea of courage in the Viking world. To seek the unknown relentlessly. Okay. Even if it costs you your life the idea of loyalty. All right. So in the Norse world there'll be a Ragnarok. And there's a wolf Fenris who will foreshadow the arrival of Ragnarok. He's very dangerous. But when he's born he's just a little pup. So the Esar the gods basically decide to adopt him as a pet. Okay. They think And his master is Tyr who is the god of war among the Esar. And but very quickly Fenris grows to be huge. And now the gods see him as a menace. So they try to tie him up. But no matter how hard they try they can't tie him up. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 44:23 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And it becomes like a game. Like and Fenris thinks this is really funny. Okay. But the gods become really worried so they go to the dwarves. And they ask the dwarves to create a magic rope. Which they do. And Tyr goes back to Fenris and says hey let's continue this game of us trying to tie of us trying to tie you up. Fenris is like okay but how do I know that you will release me if I can't get out? Here. Put your hand in my mouth and if you don't release me I'll take your hand. Alright. So the gods discuss this and Tyr volunteers to do this. Knowing that he's going to lose his hand. Alright. And that's what happens. They tie Fenris up and Fenris gets wants to be released the gods refuse because he's a menace. And then Fenris just cuts off bites off the hand. That's the idea of loyalty. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 45:23 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Loyalty to your friends. Resourcefulness. Okay. So the gods are always at war with the frost giants. One day a man named the Builder comes to them and says I can build you a wall to protect you from your enemies for in 18 months. Okay. This is Asgard the home of the gods. And the Builder says I will do this but I want three things. I want the sun. I want the moon. I want the beautiful goddess Freyja in marriage. And Odin the god's like no that's a stupid deal. But Loki who is the god of mischief and the blood brother of Odin says to Odin take the deal but make it six months give him six months. That way he'll get he'll finish about a third of the wall and we can finish the rest. And Odin thinks that's a great idea. Okay. The Builder agrees to this deal on one condition that he's allowed to use his horse in order to carry the bricks and the concrete. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 46:33 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And the gods agree. What they don't know is the horse is a magic horse. And the horse is able to travel as fast as light itself. And so the Builder is able to really quickly build that wall and he's about to finish the wall. Odin says to Loki you got us you got us into this mess get us out of this mess or I will kill you. So what does Loki do? Loki thinks and he's and he's a shape shifter. Right? And he and he's able to shape shape shift into a mirror a beautiful horse. Okay? Like this. The Builder's horse sees the mirror and becomes really excited. Right? And he runs off. And the Builder's not able to finish the wall. And Loki gives birth to a horse. A baby horse that then becomes Odin's horse. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 47:26 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: That's the idea of resourcefulness. There are some really funny stories within Norse mythology. Okay? One of the funniest is this. Thor has a magic hammer named Mjölnir. He loves it. He loves it so much that he sleeps with it. He puts it under his pillow. One day he wakes up and finds it missing. So of course he thinks it must be Loki. Because Loki's always playing these tricks on the gods. But Loki says I didn't do it and I will find out for you who did it. So Loki explores the horse and he finds out that it was the Frostshank King who stole the hammer. The Frostshank King will only return the hammer if the gods give him Freyja as a wife. Loki goes back and Freyja says screw off. I'm not I'm not going to do this. So Loki says to Thor I have a plan. The plan is he's going to dress Thor up as Freyja. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 48:28 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2908s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: He's going to put a wedding dress on Freyja and a veil on Thor and Loki will disguise himself as a bridesmaid. Okay? Stupid plan but they do this. They go off and the Frostshank King doesn't really notice that that Freyja is a huge man. They have this huge feast and unfortunately Thor loves to eat and he loves to drink. So basically this huge feast Thor is eating this oxen he's drinking all this beer and he's burping in the process. So Frost Giant King is kind of like confused but he's also really excited. At the wedding the Frost Giant King presents the hammer Mjolnir to Thor and he lifts the veil to kiss Thor and that's when he realizes that it's actually a man. And then Thor gets his hammer and beats the crap out of the king. So there are many stories like this which are really funny and imaginative. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 49:38 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=2978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: What do these stories tell us about the understanding of the individual in the Viking world? This is Neil Price and to prepare for this lecture I did a lot of research including listening to his YouTube lecture which has over about a million views on YouTube. But he's a Viking expert he's an archaeologist I highly recommend that you listen to his YouTube videos if you're interested in this material. But this is what he has to say about the Viking world view. The Viking the individual is shaped by four forces. First is the hammer the hammer is basically the shell or the shape of the person the outer being. So it may not be the body actually but it's the shell. Second is the idea of the humming jar. The humming jar think of it as a pet who follows you around and it personifies luck. And because it's a pet you can either nurture the pet or not nurture it. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 50:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: You nurture it by showing courage. So in battle if you run off if you enter the battle of courage the pet will be with you. But if you run away and hide yourself the pet might run away. And in the Viking world all that matters is humming jar. You win if you get lucky not because you're stronger. The third idea is hugur and hugur is your essence your soul who you are really. The last idea is feija and feija is what you inherit from your family. It is the guardian spirit of your family. So think of it as the collection of your ancestors who whisper you advice in your dreams. Today we would call this concept intuition. Right? Intuition. That's what it represents. So as you can see Neil Price and other experts are showing us that we think of the Vikings as barbarians but in fact they're very smart and nuanced understanding of themselves and the world. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 52:07 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3127s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Alright? Okay. So another question then is how are the Vikings able to do this? My argument to you is it's because of the oral tradition. We are simply not as creative as people who tell stories every day and who make stories the heart and center of the community. Okay? So I want us to understand this graph before people lived in the oral tradition. What this meant is they told stories. When you tell stories you need at least two people. You need the speaker and you need the listener. You can't do it otherwise. Okay? You can't tell a story to yourself. So you need at least two people but often it was a whole community that participated in the stories. And what this meant is that the stories were living things. They were things that you played with that were flexible. They were like clay. You can change the stories over and over. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 53:15 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Each person who told a story would tell it different. So there are like millions of different versions of these Norse stories that I just told you. Okay? Because each person can interpret that story differently. So these are living memories. And that means that each story is unique. Now there's a concept in cultural theory called the aura. Okay? The essence. The soul. And each story has its own soul if you think about it. Let's contrast this with literary culture. In literary culture reading and writing you have to do it by yourself. You cannot write with a friend. It would be terrible if you did that. Alright? But the benefit is that whatever you write leaves you and becomes part of the page. It's permanent now. And as a result your words can escape time and space. It becomes timeless. We have Homer because Homer's words were written down even though Homer was probably illiterate. Today we live in the visual culture. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 54:29 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So think of videos think of photographs. Right? First thing to understand is that it's passive. Both in literary and oral culture you have to participate. You have to use your imagination to make the thing alive. But with a photograph it's all provided to you. It's a very passive experience. It's self enclosed meaning it's impossible for you to add anything to it. But you get more information that way. So there are benefits to visual culture. So for example a map. Right? If you look at a map it tells you a lot more information than if someone tried to explain it to you with words. And the last advantage of a visual culture is that it is universal. So if an alien species came down to our planet and looked at our pictures they would know what's going on. Okay? Whereas if they heard a story or read a book they would have absolutely no idea what's going on. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 55:28 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Right? So this is the oral tradition in contrast with literary culture and visual culture. The oral tradition is extremely complex. We tend to think that it's just about telling a story. Okay? But if you think about it there are so many variables and nuance and factors in the telling of a story. And that's why each version is unique unto itself. Okay? So I can teach the same material but if we change the classroom if we change the students if we change the lighting the experience of being in this classroom would change. The Norse the Vikings the way they told stories is they would tell it in a big hall. Because remember it's usually cold up north. It's snowing outside. They would tell it in a big hall. And it's dark. So they have a big fire inside the hall. And the storyteller the bard would recite the story or tell the story beside the fire as everyone um listens. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 56:38 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Some important things to know about this. First is the halls were huge. As huge as a Greek amphitheater. So you could see about a thousand two thousand people within the hall. Okay? Second is the idea of darkness. When it's dark and you can't see your ears become much more perceptive. So the words have become alive. They're more colored. They're more detailed. They're much more imagery. Okay? And third is these these these are bouncing off the walls and they're creating echo and resonance. And so these words almost like bonds that unite everyone in the telling of the story. Okay? And if you think about it this experience is very similar to the Ice Age. Remember last semester at the very beginning we did the Ice Age cave paintings. And what we need to understand is people came together in these caves not to paint in ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 57:46 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: the caves but to tell stories about where they came from who they are and where they're going. Alright? And all of our ancestors every one of them for thousands of years participated in this process of converging into ice caves and hearing stories being told to them in these dark wet caves. So this takes us back to the time of the Ice Age. It's activating a nostalgia within us and that's why the oral tradition is so powerful. Okay? Alright. So these stories have been told in a certain way to excite the audience. Okay? So think of this class. In this class we have no tests. I don't even take attendance. So when I present material in this class it has to be interesting for you. Right? Why is it interesting? Because it has it's shocking. It has emotions. It has structure. When I come to class I actually do not script out my class. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 58:55 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: What I do is I think of the narrative structure the story I want to tell and then in class depending on your reactions depending on the question you ask I will change some of the details in the story to make it much more interesting for you. In the oral tradition it's a co -creation collaborative process. That's what makes it so powerful. As an experiment what you can do is this. Think about think about this. In class there might be some material you found really interesting. Right? So then you go on YouTube I post these lectures on YouTube to try to remember the experience. And what you'll find is it's not because we've switched from oral culture to visual culture. The same is true if it's your birthday okay it's your 18th birthday you go out with your friends and you have a wonderful time and you're like I want to take a picture to remember this experience. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 59:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: But what you will find when you do that is the picture doesn't really capture the experience for you. You cannot the picture cannot bring back the feeling for you. Right? And that's why the Vikings were so insistent on maintaining their old tradition and not transitioning into the literary culture. Because their old tradition is what gave the community purpose and meaning. If you gave that up then your community would lose cohesiveness. Right? Does it does it make sense to you guys? Alright. So what's the old tradition? Again we've lost it we've mainly lost it but remember what it is. Okay? Let's take two things that you know very well and merge them together and then you can experience what the old tradition is. It's basically the immersion of a movie. Think of going to a good movie. And remember the power the immersive power of being in that movie. You are in that movie. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:00:54 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: You combine it with the intimacy of a conversation. Just think of like having this like four or five hour conversation with your best friend and talking about life and love in general. Okay? The old tradition combines these two things and that's why it's so powerful. That's why it cannot be remembered. Okay? The Viking old tradition was extremely powerful but it was so powerful that it cannot be remembered. It cannot be written down. But as I will show you in future classes this old tradition will go on to influence major European civilization. Specifically the Germans and the British but also the Russians as well. So again for most of human history we as humans have shared our time together telling stories. Why did we lose the old tradition? Okay? Remember this. Why did we lose the old tradition? Well we transitioned to a literary culture that emphasized reading and writing. So in school we have you read books but we don't have you tell stories. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:02:10 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3730s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3730s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: We don't tell stories to you. We went from paganism to Christianity. Okay? The problem with Christianity is it is extremely uh sanctimonious. It focuses on what is good and evil. Whereas pagan culture is like whether it's interesting or not interesting. Whether it's memorable or not memorable. Okay? Live a memorable interesting adventurous life. And the Christians are like no that's not good because if you do that you're going to create a lot of evil. So live a good life. Avoid committing evil. The last thing is we went from a egalitarian world where everyone can contribute to the story to a hierarchical world where the top the elite insist on indoctrinating us and controlling how we think. Alright? Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Any questions so far? So this is why we left the oral tradition and adopted literary and visual culture. Okay. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:03:17 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3797s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3797s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: So to conclude the class uh I know this is a lot to take in it's a lot of information so I apologize okay but let me conclude with a story. Um so I have two young boys and I sleep with them. Okay? And what I do is I tell them stories. I don't have them I don't have them do math I don't have them read books but I tell them stories where I make them the characters the heroes of the story. So I'll tell you one story that I told my youngest son Maomao. Okay? The story goes like this. It is Maomao's fourth birthday and I tell Maomao on your fourth birthday something magical happens. You can pray to God and whatever you wish for God will grant you your wish. So Maomao is really excited and he thinks a long time about what he wants. On his fourth birthday he prays to God and says I wish for a room where full of strawberries every single day. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:04:25 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3865s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3865s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: He says that and God immediately responds. Immediately in his room it's full of strawberries and Maomao he's he loves strawberries he eats it right away. The next day the room is also full of strawberries and he eats it again. The third day again. But by the fourth day he's kind of sick of strawberries. So eventually strawberries overflow and fill the house. And then they fill the street. At this time the neighbors are really worried. And we have to explain to our neighbors oh it's because Maomao wished for strawberries and that's why we have so many strawberries. But hey let's share strawberries together. And the neighbors are at first happy but then eventually they get sick of strawberries too. And then the strawberries fill the entire street. Then the city of Beijing is filled with these strawberries. Now it's a national emergency. Okay. The military come. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:05:25 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Scientists come. Everyone's trying to resolve this issue. Then the whole country of China is filled with strawberries. Then the whole continent of Asia is filled with strawberries. Eventually everyone has to get on a spaceship and get out of get out into space and go to the moon to recolonize the moon. But strawberries keep on overflowing until they reach the moon. At this point the entire world says to Maomao, listen, your fifth birthday is tomorrow. Please pray to God and tell him no more strawberries. Maomao, if you do this for us we will make you president and king of the world. We will give you all the chocolate in the world. We'll give you all the gold in the world. Can you please do this? Can you please tell God no more strawberries? If you do that we'll give you all the chocolate in the world. Maomao says, yes, I will. And on his fifth birthday ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:06:26 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=3986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Maomao closes her eyes, prays to God and says, dear God, I wish for a room full of chocolate every day. And that's how the story ends. Okay? Now, it's a very strange story. But guess what? My son's going to remember this for a long time. But knowing that it's going to inspire him to think about the story and tell his own story. Okay? All he has to do is change the story a bit and now he has his own story. He can change the characters. He can change some of the details. All right? That's the power of the old tradition. But if I were to write down this story I couldn't say it in this way. I couldn't do it. Okay? Let's see how I would change the story if I wrote it down. Okay? Let's say the same story but now I write it down rather than say it to Maomao himself. For his fourth birthday Maomao prayed to God for a room full of strawberries every day. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:07:26 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Immediately his room filled with strawberries. He ate them happily. The next morning his room filled with strawberries. He ate them. The very next morning his room filled with strawberries. He did not eat them. Okay? So I have to make this story shorter. More compact. So that's easier to read. The house filled with strawberries and the street filled with them. Then the city. Then the country. On his fifth birthday Maomao prayed to God for no more strawberries. His room became clean. And Maomao understood the power of words. Do you understand? Why am I doing this? Why has literary culture changed the story? Because now I know that the words leave me and they leave Maomao. They go out into the wider world. And therefore people will judge my words. They will think like I'm a bad father or whatever. I'm conscious of that. ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:08:22 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: Okay? So I change in a way that is not so offensive. So I change so that people can better appreciate this. You understand? Do you see the difference between oral culture and literary culture? In oral culture you can be intimate. Therefore you can play. You can experiment. You can be curious. You can be adventurous. And that's what leads to the imagination. But in a literary culture everyone is watching you. Hundred years from now people are still watching you. Therefore you have a sense of shame. You're very conscious about your thoughts and how they affect on people. Alright? So a metaphor we can use is this transition from oral tradition to literary culture is really like the story of Adam and Eve. Where because they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge they developed a sense of shame. They understood that they are naked and therefore they're being watched. Okay? ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:09:22 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: And because of this they are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. with that metaphor. Okay? Oral tradition we leave it behind and we think that is a good thing. But we tend to forget the power and beauty of the oral tradition. Alright? So I leave you with three questions. Okay? To help us better understand and remember the lecture. The first question is what is the imagination? What is the memory? Well in the oral tradition we would think that the imagination is just an extension of the memory. By making our stories memorable we excite the imagination. Therefore we allow for the process of creation. Second question is could we have Homer, Dante and Shakespeare without the oral tradition? And the answer I think is no. Okay? I think we would not have the greatest poetry in human history if it were not for the oral tradition. In fact if you think about for the past 50 years what has ## The Viking Memory Machine -- 1:10:26 - Source title: Civilization #36: Memory of the Norse - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-06, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMNsa83NHY&t=4226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tymnsa83nhy.json) Text: humanity even though there's like eight billion of us we have more wealth and technology than ever before what literary masterpiece have we created? I know you guys read the Doylet Club in school and it sucks. Okay? I'm telling you right now it is terrible. It's a piece of crap. And I can't think of a literary masterpiece of the past 50 to 60 years. Okay? There are some very entertaining books alright but not of the stature and power of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare. And the last question I have is does civilization make us less creative? Okay? Does being a civilization make us more ashamed of exploring or being curious or playing? Are we less creative because of civilization? Alright? Okay. So that's it guys. Any questions? Okay. So next week we start we will do the Abyssinian Caliphate. Okay? Alright. So I will see you guys next Tuesday. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay, so good morning. Today, we start the Vikings. We will do it over two classes. And the Vikings are extremely interesting. And I believe that they are one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood European cultures. In the Western tradition, there are two main pillars, the Greco -Romans and the Judeo -Christians. The four traditions, the Greeks, the Romans, the Jews, the Christians, have been overstudied and overappreciated. I would argue that the Vikings are very important and should be part of these four pillars. I think there should be five pillars. And I think that over the next few decades, people will, scholars, will slowly reveal to us the importance of Viking culture to the development of Western civilization. So that's my argument to you over the next two classes, that the Vikings are extremely influential. And so today, I'll do an overview of Viking history and influence. And then next class, I'll focus more on the cultural system of the Vikings, what they believe and how they understood the world. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:27 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay, so let's do a brief historical overview. So the Viking Age is what scholars term the period from the year 793 to 1066. 793 is when there was the first recorded, written down, incident of a Viking raid on a monastery in Europe. And this is really the first, one of the first written records of the Vikings. The Vikings were always there, actually, and there was some interaction between the Vikings and the rest of Europe. For example, Vikings did serve as mercenaries in the Roman Empire. Okay, so there was always a bit of interaction, but for the most part the Vikings were an isolated culture. 1066, the year that the Viking Age is supposedly to have ended, is the year of the Battle of Hastings. That is when Normandy, the Normans who lived in France, they crossed the English Channel and conquered England. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 2:36 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=156s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=156s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: And this is the last time that England would be conquered. And this would mark the end of the Viking Age because it really marked the assimilation or integration of Viking culture into the broader European framework. So that's what scholars mean by the Viking Age. Alright, so the Vikings are from the three countries today we call Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Collectively they are known as the Scandinavian countries. Okay. What's interesting about this area is the geography. This is a topography, okay. Red means high altitude. Blue means low altitude. So by the sea. And as you can see from the topography, the Scandinavian area is extremely diverse. And as a result, the region historically has been very poor, isolated. Okay. And diverse. Okay. So this area for the longest time had tremendous diversity in terms of culture and politics. You had kings. You had tribal chieftains. And then you had different systems as well. Okay. During the ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 4:08 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Viking Age, what we need to keep in mind is this was a period in history when Europe was being invaded. Or attacked. Or pillaged. From everyone, basically. Okay. So the three main invaders are the Vikings, who come in from the north. But then you have people called the Magyars, who are the modern day Hungarians, coming in from the east. From the south comes the Arabs. Okay. Next week we will do the Arabs. The Magyars, just so that you know who the Magyars are, they are just the most recent iteration of the Proto -Indo -Europeans. The Yamnaya. Remember last semester we discussed that three to four thousand years ago, old Europe, who are mainly, which was mainly an agricultural society, they were eventually invaded and conquered by the Proto -Indo -Europeans, the Yamnaya, who lived in the steppes. These are pastoral nomads. And as a result, they brought their culture to them. So the Magyars are just the most recent iteration of this culture. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 5:25 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay. Same as the Huns. Same as the Goths. Same as the Germanic people. What's interesting about the Magyars is that they are mainly land people, meaning they ride horses into battle. And during the Viking Age, they were extremely successful. Penetrating into many parts of Europe before they are eventually defeated and they're integrated into the main European culture, mainly by, you guys remember, making into Christians, right? That's how you assimilate people in Europe, by turning them into Christians. And because this is the Western Europe, a lot of them become Catholic, but some also become Orthodox as well. The Vikings are a very different culture because they attack Europe not by land, not with cavalry and horses, but by sea and rivers. Okay. This is a maritime people. And what's really interesting about the Vikings is how far they extend across the world. Okay. So the first sort of encounter is when the Vikings start to raid and pillage Europe. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 6:54 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay. Northern and Central Europe. But over time, what they will do is they will extend over to the east as well, where they will found two major settlements. The first is Kyiv in modern day Ukraine, as well as Novograd. Okay. So they are going into the Dnipro as well as the Volga. Why are they here? There's some pillaging, but mainly it's for trade purposes. Because if you look at where they are in Kyiv and Novograd, it gives them access to three major centers of global wealth. The first, of course, is the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople, which we studied. Then there is something called the Abbasid Caliphate. Which is the Islamic Empire in Baghdad. And the third, of course, is the Silk Road. Right. Which gives them access to China. So, in other words, the Vikings encountered every major culture in the world at this time through their trade routes. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 8:02 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: And then what they will also do is go west to found colonies. They will make settlements in Iceland, in Greenland. And in modern day Canada. The settlement is called Vineland. And it's in modern day Newfoundland. Okay. So Iceland is still with us today. And Iceland is very interesting for three reasons. The first reason is, even though in this class I keep on saying there's no such thing as cultural and genetic purity, the Icelanders come pretty close. Okay. There's about 330,000 people who live in Iceland today. And they're all related to each other. And that's because for the longest time, Iceland has been isolated from the rest of the world. And it has always been an extremely peaceful, egalitarian, and progressive society. They had the world's first concept of parliament called the All Thing. And that's where every citizen would come together once a year to discuss the major political events of Iceland. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 9:17 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: So in other words, they really built the cornerstone of modern European democracy. But not only that, but a lot of the stories, the mythology of the Vikings were re -conceptualized and written down in Iceland. And these sagas, they're called sagas, okay, would become the foundation of modern European literature. So the cultural contribution of Iceland and the wider Viking culture to the European cultural framework, it cannot be overstated, okay? Also, they will make their way to the British Isles. They will have major encounters with the British people as well as the Irish people. They will found a new city in Ireland called Dublin, which, as you know, is the modern -day capital of Ireland, okay? And what they will also do is they will settle down in Normandy. And the reason why is they keep on attacking Northern Europe, mainly the Coralegian Empire. And Charles the Simple, the king of the Coralegian Empire, he will defeat them in a battle. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 10:37 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: And then he will give them land in Normandy. So Normandy means land of the Norse people. And then from Normandy, as I mentioned, they will cross the English Channel and conquer England in the year 1066 at the Battle of Hastings. So if you look at this map, what you will discover is the Vikings either founded or influenced four major European civilizations. They are Germany, France, Britain, and Russia. Now what's interesting is that for the past 500 years, these four nations were the dominant militaries in the world. And not only that, but they were the dominant civilizations in the world. When we think of modern Russian civilization, we really mean these four nations. Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. That's where the very best literature, philosophy, and art come from. And what I will show you next class, not this class, but what I will show you next class, is this is not just a historical coincidence. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 11:52 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: There are reasons and factors that will help us better explain why this happened. This is the settlement in Newfoundland. So this was actually the first European settlement in the New World, North America. And this is 500 years, at least 500 years before Christopher Columbus. This is a map that shows the Viking expansion over time. So as you can see from this map, they basically expand outwards. And as they gather more information about the world, they continue to expand. So what is the culture, what is the mentality, the worldview that drives this expansion? What is the Viking worldview? And this is something that I will introduce this class, but explain more in detail next class. So today, when we think of the Vikings, we just think of raiders and pillagers. But what's important for us to remember is that the larger Viking culture, most people did not do that. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 13:13 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=793s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=793s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Most people, when they engage with the European world, it was mainly through trade. The vast majority was through trade. And then you had people, Vikings, who joined the European world as mercenaries, because they were very good fighters. And then you had a small minority who were raiders and pillagers. But because they were so violent, they captured the imagination of the Europeans and they informed how we today see the Vikings. This is a map of the Viking expansion. And the yellow are written records, documented Viking raids in Europe. And as you can see, there's a lot of them. They're mainly by the coast. They're mainly by rivers because, again, the Vikings raided mainly by using their longships, their ships. They mainly raided monasteries. And to better understand monasteries, what they were, imagine that they are the equivalent of universities. They're basically the medieval equivalent of universities. These are places where monks spent most of their time worshiping God by celebrating his literary works, mainly the Bible. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 14:43 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: So the monasteries were built during something called the Carolingian Renaissance. And this marked the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire. During this time, there's a major focus. The major cultural focus was on producing books. Our modern conception of the book actually comes from this period. They took all this sort of diverse innovation, such as printing, bookmaking, fonts, ink, and combined to a system of bookbinding. That we still use today. So they mainly focus on religious classics like the Bible. And what they would do is they would illustrate them. It would take about 20 to 30 years for an individual monk to create one of these books. So it was an artwork, basically. During this time, they experimented with different fonts. If you go to a computer and you ask Microsoft Word what kind of font you want to use, like Carolingian or others, a lot of these fonts were actually invented during this time. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 15:55 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: They also invented bookbinding at this time as well. And what they would do to mark their cultural achievement is they would make covers of gold and jewels, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, as a book cover. All right? So these were extremely valuable, unique artwork. This is another book cover. Okay? Extremely gorgeous. Again, they would spend a lot of resources, 20 to 30 years, in crafting each of these books. And that's why the Vikings raided them. Because the Vikings knew, through their trade networks, that the monasteries had this contribution of wealth in them. There was a lot of gold and silver and jewelry in monasteries. And in the Viking culture, these precious metals were a status symbol. They wanted them. Okay? But you can imagine what the Vikings did, because the Vikings were a pagan, non -literate people. They didn't understand books. They had no use for books. So ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 17:09 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: they would come in, and they would take these books, the Bible, rip out the pages, and keep the gold, and then leave. Okay? So you're a monk, and you see this. Right? And it's the equivalent of having your child killed before you. It was extremely traumatic for them. And again, the monks are literate people. So they had actually nothing nice to say about the Vikings. In fact, they thought that the Vikings were basically the equivalent of Satan. Okay? And that's why we have such a negative understanding of the Vikings, mainly through these raiding. Which again, were only a minority of Viking activity during this time. Gradually, over time, what would happen is that, as the Vikings made more wealth from monasteries, word would spread back to the larger Viking culture, and more and more people would partake in these raids. Until eventually, they developed the skill, the systems, and the technology to sack even cities like Paris, which was a heavily fortified city. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 18:21 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? And they would do this multiple times during the Viking Age. So what's important for us to understand is that these Viking raids would drive population growth in Scandinavia, and then this would drive further Viking expansion throughout the world. Okay? So it was a cycle. Let's look at some cultural aspects of the Vikings. So these are pictures of high status, meaning basically warriors, in the Scandinavian culture. And this is a picture of these Vikings in the East. They are called the Rus. Okay? The Rus. And the Rus would become Russia. Okay? So Russia, the country, would borrow its name from the Vikings, Rus. So some things I will point out about these visuals. Look at the helmets, okay? The Vikings, the popular depiction of the Vikings is they had helmets of horns, right? Have you seen movies? They did not have horns, guys, because horns are extremely impractical, okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 19:46 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: You might get stuck on your boat, or your enemy could yank it off you, okay? So these were extremely practical and utilitarian people. They were not that wealthy. They had to be very careful and conscious about everything they did. Okay? So that's the first thing. Second thing is that you will see major cultural differences between Western Vikings and Eastern Vikings. And the reason why is, as the Vikings are, as the Vikings are interacting with different cultures, they are also assembling themselves into different cultures. They are intermarrying, they are adopting local languages and local cultures, and they are also lending their own culture to these cultures. Okay? So history is a continuous process of cultural integration. All right? It's a dynamic process. It never really ends. Okay? And the third thing we need to appreciate is these are a poor people. And as such, they're extremely egalitarian. Even though these are high -status people, they're not that different from the majority of Vikings who are independent farmers, basically. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 20:54 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 21:02 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 21:06 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1266s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1266s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: This is where they usually live. This is called Longhouse. All right? And so because the weather in Scandinavia, it's very cold for most of the year, these are very social people. They live together. They spend most of the time together. Okay? So this is a picture of a Viking hall. Most of the time, the Vikings are together, and they're usually drinking, and they're telling stories to each other. Okay? And so they're very much focused on the oral tradition. Let's look very quickly at their longships, which is the dominant, dominant, maritime technology of the day. Okay? These are not that big, but they are purposely designed to be small so that they have flexibility and maneuverability. Okay? So this is what we think the ships look like, and this is what they really look like. So some points we need to know about the ships is, first of all, from these ships, you can see that there's really no hierarchy in place. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 22:25 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: We don't know who the captain is. There's a captain, but he's really not that different from the others. Okay? So the Viking culture is extremely egalitarian, which is important if you want cohesion on the battlefield. These, the Vikings, rated for gold, but also for slaves. Okay? So they're trading with the wider world, the Arabs, the Byzantines, the Chinese. What they were trading were slaves in exchange for silver, which was very important for their culture. Okay? So these were slavers. The other thing to know about these ships is, they're not that big. And the reason why is, they're usually traversing rivers. When you're traversing rivers, you need to be flexible. So sometimes you might hit some rocks. Well, then what you have to do is move that ship out of those rocks and go somewhere else. Okay? All right. So that's the idea of the longships. And again, this was the dominant maritime technology of that time. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 23:34 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: The Europeans had absolutely no way to counter this. Okay? Also, what's important for us to understand is, the Vikings had also many different designs. So the thing about the Viking ships is, they're extremely lean. And mean. They're extremely efficient. The only way you can achieve this efficiency is through constant innovation. So the Vikings are constantly always thinking about how to better improve these ships. The last thing I will mention is the idea of the Viking funeral. Now, in cultures that we've studied, there's always a spectacle that is the highlight of this culture. So, the Romans, there's something called a triumph, which was a military parade to celebrate a general's military victories overseas. It was like the biggest event in the life of a Roman. Okay? So this would be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize today. The Greeks had, as the equivalent of the triumph, theater. Right? Every Greek wanted to be a playwright. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 24:53 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: That was the highlight of Athenian cultural life. What's interesting for us is that for the Vikings, the spectacle that they cared the most about was a funeral. Okay? Obviously not everyone would get an elaborate funeral. Only the chieftains or the great warriors would get an elaborate funeral. But these funerals would take 10 days and it would be very expensive. Basically, the entire savings of this great warrior would be invested in the funeral. There would be a lot of sacrifices, mainly horse and animals. Humans would be sacrificed as well. And the warrior, the king, would be buried with his ship. Alright? So, next class, what I will do is go into detail about these funerals. Explain to you why they happen and their cultural significance. Alright? Okay. So that's an overview of the Vikings. What I will do now is explain the Vikings in the larger historical framework that we've been studying this semester. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 26:07 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: But before I do that, are there any questions about the Vikings? Yes. Okay. The slave trade, right? Okay. So the slave trade, it is just an integral, interesting part of life in Europe at this time. The population was very limited because Europe was a poor place and there was very few agricultural surplus. Plus there was always these wars to be fought. Okay? So slavery was very important. The people who really drove the slave trade were the Byzantines and the Arabs. And there was always demand from these two cultural centers for slaves which the Vikings provided. Now what's interesting for us about the slave trade is the Arabs are Muslim and the Byzantines are Christian. And the consensus at that time is you cannot enslave a fellow believer. So Arabs could not enslave Muslims. Christians could not enslave fellow Christians. That's why the Vikings were so, that's why the Vikings found slave trade so profitable. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 27:31 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Because the Vikings were pagans. So in theory, they could be sold to anyone. Okay? So the Vikings basically enslaved other pagans and sold them to both the Byzantines and the Arabs. Okay? And look, look, the slave trade, it has been an integral part of human reaction, human trade for most of civilization. Does that make sense? It's only, it's really only until the British Empire that we see a clampdown, an abolishment of the slave trade. But, and also guys, I mean, I hate to say this, but slavery still happens. It just happens secretly. We don't really pay much attention to it. But it still happens. All right? Okay, great. Great question. Any more questions before I continue? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 28:41 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Yeah. That's right. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 28:49 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: That's right. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 28:54 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1734s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1734s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Yeah. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 28:57 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: So, so the question then is, we found in the, like, archaeologists have found a lot of these ship burials, a lot of graves. And there's just a lot of them. And we've had a chance to study a lot of these graves. And here's some interesting characteristics about these graves. Okay? The first thing is, these graves are unique unto themselves. There doesn't seem to be a system of burying someone. Okay? So you have these graves where maybe a woman is buried with a horse. And you have another grave where a woman is buried with a ship. That's the first really interesting thing about these graves. Second thing is, these graves seem to have a record of lineage. And what we mean by that is, these people are buried on top of their ancestors. So if a woman is buried here, then maybe her granddaughter would be buried on top of her. Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 30:04 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: So there seems to be a story going on in these burials. Okay? And the third thing about these graves that we've discovered is that there's been a lot of care and attention paid to how someone was buried. Okay? Clearly, someone put a lot of thought, or the culture has put a lot of thought into how this person will be remembered. All right? And what I will show you next class is, what's important is not the burial. What's important is the funeral, the process of the burial. And that's where the culture expresses itself. And what I will show you in next class is, these burials, they're meant to send the dead into the afterlife. Okay? And that's very important. What's really important, and why they have this pageantry or ritual in the funeral process is, it's really about memorizing that person into the larger culture. Making sure that everyone remembers the contributions of that person. And having that person contribute eternally into the overall culture. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 31:21 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1881s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1881s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? If that makes sense. All right? But again, as you know, most of these graves have not been dug up. So right now, we are making some rudimentary guesses based on the available evidence. Okay? All right. Any more questions before I continue? Okay. So I know this is a lot to take in. But we are spending two classes on this. And hopefully, this will make more sense to you as we move along. Okay? All right, good. So let me discuss the larger historical framework that the Vikings, Vikings are in. Okay. So the major thesis of the semester is the idea of the oceanic currents of history. And so one pattern that we see in history is a culture, you know, what we'll call the borderlands. They're isolated from most of history. Okay? They're not completely isolated, but they're mainly isolated. And then what happens is that an empire, a major civilization, expands so that it starts to interact with this borderline culture. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 32:55 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1975s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=1975s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-oceanic-current-becomes-hurricane) Text: And what will happen for this inaction is the energy of the empire will start to transfer to the borderlands. And the borderlands itself will expand. Okay? And until it comes into conflict with the empire. And when this conflict happens, the borderlands might expand and it might be assimilated into the empire, it might be destroyed by the empire, or it might become the empire itself. All right? So that's the major idea of this class. And we see this throughout history. Okay? So think of the Greeks and the Persians. Think of the Romans and the Carthaginians. Think of the Arabs and the Persians. Okay? So we see this pattern repeat itself throughout history. What I want to do now is apply this idea to the Vikings and explain how this process works. Why does this work? Well, if you think about it, an empire, and when I mean empire, I just mean large civilization. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 33:58 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: An empire and a borderland culture, they are almost complete opposites of each other. Their advantages mirror their disadvantages. They compensate for each other's advantages and disadvantages. So for an empire, an empire usually has three major advantages. They are mass, organization, and death. Okay? Some historians use the word strategic death. Okay? All right. So what do we mean by this? Mass is a very simple idea. It just means a lot, a lot of people. Okay? Very simple idea. Second idea, organization means that there's a hierarchy in place that allows the empire to organize its people in a way that most benefits the empire. So for example, the empire can field large armies. And the idea of strategic death is that the empire can actually afford to lose a lot of battles and still continue the fight. So think about when Alexander invaded Persia. He had already defeated ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 35:28 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: the Persians at the battle of Isis, but Darius was able to go deeper into his empire and assemble another large army for the battle of Guagomola. Okay? And Darius could have, when he lost that battle, he could have also built a third army, but ultimately he was assassinated by his generals. On the other hand, Alexander, the Macedonian, he could not have afforded to lose one battle. All right? If you think about the World War II, Japan had already conquered China's entire eastern seaboard, but the under Chiang Kai -shek refused to surrender. And he didn't have to surrender because he could continue to go inland, right? He first went into Chongqing and then Chengdu. And if he had to, he would have gone to Kunming as well. Okay? So that's the idea of strategic death. Also, remember in the history of Rome, Hannibal had won every single battle on the Italian peninsula. He had destroyed all Roman armies. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 36:35 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: But because of the idea of death, Rome did not have to surrender. And Rome only won one battle against Hannibal in its history, but that battle was the only battle that really mattered. It was the battle of Zama between Scipio Africanus, the Roman general, and Hannibal. And Hannibal lost that battle and so, therefore, Carthage lost the Second Punic War. Okay? That's the idea of death. That's the three major advantages of empire. If you are a borderland, you have none of these advantages. Okay? But you have three other advantages that compensate for your weakness. Okay? The first is the idea of energy. So you have fewer people, but they're more energetic. They're more ambitious. They're stronger. They're more aggressive overall. Second, you don't have organization. Okay? But you have openness. And the idea here is you are open to new ideas. And you can change a society at will. And the reason why is we say this when we talk about Yama, okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 37:51 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2271s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2271s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: There's a very important principle that drives innovation. It's called open organization or cooperative competition. That's why the Yamnaya were able to innovate. That's why the Greeks were able to innovate. Open means there's no central authority. There's no government. Cooperative means that you're separate, but you're still learning from each other. Competition means you want to be better than your neighbor. Okay? And that's true for the Vikings as well. And that's how they were able to develop the ship technology that enabled them to pillage across Europe. Okay? So that's the main advantage of the borderlands. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. So, again, the borderlands have no debt. They can be worked up by an empire very quickly. That's why the borderlands are opportunistic. It's a very important idea. It just, it just, it basically means the borderlands have to be strategic in picking their fights. If you are bigger than me and stronger than me, I'll be your friend. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 39:11 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2351s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2351s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Right? But if you're weaker than me, then I will steal from you. The idea here is opportunistic. You're shameless in taking advantage of those who you can. Okay? Does it make sense? So these are the three major advantages of the borderlands. And I want you to remember this idea because it will repeat itself over and over. Right. So, let me very quickly explain the idea of energy and mass. And for this, let's do a thought experiment. Okay? Let's pretend that you are a 16 -year -old in Scandinavia and you're about 800. Okay? That's when the Viking Age begins. By age 16, what have you learned? What have you mastered? Well, your family are basically independent farmers who will engage in trade in order to supplement their income. Okay? So this is what you can do. You can basically work the farm. Work the farm basically means you know how to grow your own food. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 40:24 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2424s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2424s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#formation-becomes-civilizational-capacity); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#rival-education-makes-worldly-resilience) Text: You know how to cook your own food. It means you know how to take care of animals. If a cow is about to give birth to a calf, you know how to do so. Okay? You know how to save the life of a horse. You know how to speak with a horse. Okay? You also engage in sea trade. Okay? And the idea here is that you know how to cut wood and from the wood build a boat. And you know how to read the stars and sail across Europe. Okay? Also, you're a good fighter. You're able to wield an axe as a weapon. You're able to use a sword as a weapon. You're able to shoot an arrow. Okay? If I dropped you anywhere in Scandinavia, you're able to find your way home. You'll be able to fight wolves. You'll be able to feed yourself in the forest. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 41:35 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#rival-education-makes-worldly-resilience); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And you'll be able to find yourself home. Okay? If I put you anywhere in the European world, you'll know how to navigate yourself as to find yourself home. Okay? And so, this builds the idea that the Vikings at age 16, they're extremely worldly people. Okay? They're strong. When I mean worldly, I don't mean cosmopolitan. What I mean is they have street smarts. Okay? They're very strong and they're very resilient. All right? That's what a Viking teenager looks like. Now let's come back to China in the present day. And what do you guys do? What are you guys able to do? Two things, okay? Memorize useless facts. Do stupid tests. Okay? I'm sorry to tell you the truth, but this is the truth, right? You, throughout your education in China, have learned exactly two things. Memorize useless facts and do stupid tests. All right? And the reason why China is like ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 42:52 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#formation-becomes-civilizational-capacity); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#rival-education-makes-worldly-resilience) Text: this, the reason why most smart societies are like this is they want to reduce your energy, right? They want to be able to control you. They want you to fit into a larger society. Does that make sense? So now you can see the difference between an energetic society like the Vikings and a mass society like China. Okay? I am, I'll be very serious with you. I have three young kids. My eldest is seven. My second one is almost four. My youngest is only one. As you know, I received a very good education. I was at Yale College for my undergraduate. And I've spent the past 20, 30 years thinking deeply about education. And I'll be very honest with you. If I had a choice whether to send my child to Yale or to Viking school, I would send my kid to Viking school. Because I want my child to be worldly strong and resilient. Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 44:03 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Right? And I'm not joking, guys. If there was such a thing as a Viking school where you learned to be a Viking, I would send my kids to that school. Unfortunately, there isn't. Okay. Let's talk about the idea of opportunistic. So the question that scholars have debated for a long time is why did the Viking age start? What prompted the beginning of the Viking age? Why did the Vikings go attack these monasteries? And there are different theories. Okay? The most popular theory is that as Charlemagne and this Holy Roman Empire expanded, it threatened Scandinavia, and so the Vikings had to come out and challenge him. Okay? That's the most popular historical understanding. And then there's some other theories, for example, population growth, climate change, internal conflict within Scandinavia. Today I want to explain a different theory to you, which is just that the Vikings were opportunistic. Opportunity arose that didn't exist before, and they took advantage of it. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 45:10 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? The opportunity are monasteries. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, everyone believes that Europe became a lot poorer. Okay? And that's historical understanding. When you think about it, what really happened is that wealth became much more distributed. Okay? During the Roman Empire, channeled into certain centers. When we don't have an empire, then farmers can keep the wealth for themselves. So after the collapse of the Roman Empire, wealth was much more distributed. But as these kingdoms start to arise under Charlemagne, then wealth became much more concentrated. Okay? So these monasteries, they are universities, they are places of worship and of learning, but much more importantly, they are places where wealth is concentrated. Okay? Concentration of wealth. These monasteries, like modern -day universities, are extremely wealthy. Okay? The first reason why they're wealthy is their banks. So the nobility was actually storing their surplus wealth, meaning silver and gold, in these monasteries. These monasteries were considered to be protected by divine power. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 46:41 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2801s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Right? No one would dare steal from a monastery. Monks are extremely trustworthy. So these monasteries had a lot of gold and silver stored and hidden within their premises. Not only that, but the monasteries were landowners. So, they controlled up to 20 % of local land. And of course, what they would do is, they would take this land and lease it out to farmers. And they made a lot of money that way. They themselves engage in their own businesses. For example, they had their own breweries. Okay? They could make and sell alcohol and beer to locals. Also, as you can imagine, because these are religious centers, the locals would invest heavily in them. Okay? The locals would give them treasures. And as you can imagine, because there's this contribution of wealth, and because monasteries were not protected, because they were considered protected by God, they made perfect places to pillage. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 47:47 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-military-form-locks-hierarchy) Text: Right? The Vikings knew all these places, and so these places were perfect to pillage. And that's what really started the Viking Age, the fact that wealth was now being concentrated whereas before it wasn't. Alright? So, monasteries. Then you had the idea of armored knights. So, the main military innovation in Europe at this time were these tanks called armored knights. And they were fantastic in battle. That's how Charlemagne was able to build the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? When you think about it, armored knights do not like water. They will drown in water. And so these rivers were completely unprotected. And the Vikings had these long ships that were perfect for river navigation. Okay? So that was another opportunity that presented itself. The armored knights would give rise to the idea of feudalism. Feudalism just basically means that these armored knights became land owner, land owning nobles that took advantage of farmers. So, in order to get these knights to fight for them, kings would give them land grants. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 49:12 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=2952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-military-form-locks-hierarchy) Text: These knights would take this land and run it to farmers. Over time, as we know, farmers will incur a lot of debt. Which means that they will not become slaves to these nobles. And this is the idea of feudalism. Okay? And what this means is that by the time the Vikings attacked, Europe was becoming a very hierarchical society. The thing about hierarchies is they don't like to change. So, one question historians had is, well, why didn't the Europeans adapt themselves to these Viking raids? Some did, okay, but most didn't. And the reason why is if you change your military tactic in order to respond to Viking threat, you have to change your hierarchy. You have to change your cultural hierarchy. Remember when we did the Greeks, we learned that depending on your society, the structure of your society, you had a different military. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 50:22 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-military-form-locks-hierarchy) Text: Okay? So, if you were a navy like Athens, you were a democracy. If you had a cavalry like the Macedonians, you were a monarchy. And if you had hoplites like the Spartans, you were an oligarchy. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 50:37 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 50:38 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-military-form-locks-hierarchy) Text: So, the structure of your military determined the structure of your political system. So, the Europeans purposely did not respond to Viking threat because they wanted to maintain their feudal system. Okay? And, of course, this is a very general statement. A lot did respond to Viking threat, but overall, they did not respond to Viking threat with the same emergency as the Vikings did. the Viking age came to an end when the Vikings amassed enough wealth to align themselves with the European nobility. Okay? So, the idea here is if you're abandoned and you steal a lot of money, what do you want to do? You want to become an aristocrat because that's the best way to protect your wealth, right? Once you're an aristocrat, your wealth becomes legitimate. So, the Vikings, once they amassed enough wealth, the Europeans started to intermarry with them. And the Vikings, in turn, became Christians because that was the best way to assimilate. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 51:48 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: And, as Christians, they would convert their own followers and their own people as well. Remember, the spread of religion is usually a top -down process where you first convert the elite who then convert the people. It is not a bottom -up process. Okay? And also, the Vikings provided military protection and support to the European powers. And that's what ended the Viking Age. The Vikings were so successful that they were eventually co -opted into the European nobility. Okay? So, as I mentioned, the Vikings, their culture would heavily influence four new civilizations that we will discuss later on in the semester. And they are the British, the English, the French, the Germans, and the Russians. Okay? And so, what I will do next class is show you why Viking culture is so influential. Okay? And to prepare for next class, what I want to do is give you a preview of how the Viking worldview is very different from other worldviews. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 53:14 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? So, there's a pre -modern understanding of the world and there's a modern understanding of the world. Okay. So, in the modern understanding of the world, in the world we live in today, the community is distinct from the individual. Okay? The individual can be outside the community. Okay? That's why even though you are Chinese, you're still able to go to America. Because you as an individual can be separated from your community. And often in the modern world, we believe that the community and individual are in conflict with each other. So, for example, if you are a woman, historically you have been oppressed by your community. If you are a homosexual, the same is true. If you are a minority, you are often oppressed. Okay? And that's what justifies the idea of a nation state. The nation state is an entity that protects the rights of all individuals against the community. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 54:34 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? So, that's the modern We'll go into this later on in the semester towards the end because it's a very important concept. But first, I want to introduce it to you. Okay? Now, historically, most cultures have not believed this. Okay? Most cultures have believed that the individual can only exist within the community. Okay? The community is that which gives you history, tradition, and a worldview, a religion, a mythology. And it's your interpretation of these things that allow for your individuality. But you cannot exist outside this tradition. Okay? That's why most cultures, the worst punishment they inflicted on the individual was not execution. It was actually banishment. If you killed someone, we didn't kill you, we banished you from the community. Because that was considered the worst possible punishment to a person. You cease to be an individual, you cease to be alive if you're removed from the community that gives you nourishment. Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 56:00 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Now, but within this tradition, within this understanding, there are different ways you can conceptualize the idea of the community and the individual. Okay? So, for example, let's look at the Greeks. The Greeks, sorry, let me, let me do this. The Greeks believed that the community was a, was a polis. Okay? The polis. And that's where we get the word politics from. The polis is a place where people gather in order to discuss the political affairs of the community. Okay? That's what community was. It was where people came together to discuss politics. And as a result, the individual is someone who stands out. Okay? That's why we have the concepts erite and eudaimonia. In this community, you are an individual, you are the best individual if you can speak the best, if you can argue the best, if you can stand out. Okay? So, the prime purpose of Greek life was to stand out so you could achieve eudaimonia, human flourishing, as well as achieve erite, human excellence. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 57:27 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: That is the Greek understanding. Then you have the Romans. The Romans define community as tradition and history and place. As long as you are in Rome and you believe in Roman history and practice Roman tradition, then you are a Roman citizen. Okay? It doesn't matter where you come from, as long as you are in Rome and you practice Roman traditions, then you are a Roman. That's why for Romans, what's important is for the individual to be pious. Right? Individual is a pious person. Someone who is loyal to tradition sorry, someone who is loyal to the traditions of Rome and who extends the traditions of Rome through conquest. That's why everyone wanted to be a general of Caesar to employ for Rome. That's how you show piety to Rome. Okay? So we did the Greeks and the Romans. Now the Vikings are very different. The Vikings are very different people. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 58:55 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: For them, community and the individual are very different. The community is are told over and over by the people inside the community. And as such, the individual has responsibility to add to the story. How do you add to the story? Through exploration, through adventure, through personal courage. That's why the Vikings went off to settle Iceland and Greenland. That's why they pillaged these monasteries in the south. That's why they went to the east and found settlements like Kiev and Novigrad and traded with the wider world. Because they were trying to add to the larger stories of the Viking community. And that's what's important for them. To be remembered by the community through adventure and exploration. Okay? That's a very different concept. And this is what I will explain next class. How the entire culture revolved around this understanding of the community and the individual. Alright? The last thing I will say is what's really interesting for us is remember that these three different cultures are extremely different, right? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:00:49 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: They all come from the same cultural origin which is the Proto -Indo -European culture, right? What's interesting is that as they came into Europe and they settled down in different geographic locations and they acted with different people they adapted their culture accordingly. So the story of human history is always one of innovation, change, and resilience. Okay? Alright. Great. Any questions before I conclude the class? Was there anything you're not clear about? Okay. Okay. So the idea of intermarriage, okay? What's the idea of intermarriage? Okay. So what's really hard for us to understand is that for most of human history we didn't have a concept of race, culture, ethnicity, and borders, and states, okay? These are all modern concepts that we go that we use to apply to history. They're not very useful. So what I mean by that is the Vikings didn't see themselves as a distinct culture. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:02:28 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3748s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3748s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: They didn't think we're Vikings, we are not Greeks, we're not Jews, we're not that way. The Germans broke the sorry, the Vikings their main political unit was the village or the tribe, right? And the way they fought wars is these tribes would join into temporary confederations. But these confederations were extremely fluid. So if you're a tribe and you want to switch alliances you could do so and no one could stop you. Okay? So the very idea of identity was extremely fluid. And what they understood was in order to survive in the world you have to build alliances. That means you build alliances with other Vikings but if you could you could you also want to build alliances with the European nobility because they have far more wealth technology and resources than you do. Okay? So when the opportunity presented itself for them to intermarry into these ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:03:34 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: into European nobility then they did so. Okay? So for example the Byzantines. The Byzantine Empire was as we discussed a walled empire. So it was impossible to invade and conquer. The Europeans really conquered the Byzantine Empire. But at the same time because they were close in the Byzantines couldn't really protect their empire. So the only way they could protect their empire was not through the military but through diplomacy through bribery through intermarriages. Okay? So the Vikings in Kiev the Byzantines made an offer. We will let you guys marry into the empire. Okay? Basically by having the ruler marry a princess. But on the condition of course that you now serve the empire and that you convert to Christianity Orthodox Christianity. Right? And as you can see this makes sense for everyone. The Byzantines now have more soldiers who are proven and who have their own territory and the nobility in Kiev like basically the prince he now has legitimacy. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:05:00 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Right? Because he's also fighting against the other Vikings in the area. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's the idea of intermarriage. To form a political alliance that benefits you. And ultimately if you are a ruler prince you're always looking to intermarry as much as possible. Right? That's why these kings had so many wives. These wives represented different political alliances. It wasn't because he was really horny and he loved sex. It was because as a prince as a king you have to have different alliances. And the best way to form an alliance was through intermarriage. But if you marry someone you must also marry into her faith. Okay? That was a precondition. And that's why the Vikings in Kiev would convert to Christianity. The king converted and then the king would make his followers convert. It was a process that would take generations. Okay? These things are very slow because as I keep on saying in this class culture is persistent. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:06:07 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3967s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3967s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Right? You understand? Great. Great question. Okay. Any more questions? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:06:22 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3982s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=3982s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Yep. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:06:47 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay. So the question then is how were these pre -modern cultures these pagan cultures tolerant? How did they perceive gays and minorities? Okay. This is a propaganda from the nation state. Okay? This is what you're taught today. That we are a much higher civilization because we're much more tolerant towards minorities. And the truth of the matter is again when you live in a culture which doesn't really have boundaries and borders you're a pretty open person. So in the pagan culture there just isn't the idea of homosexuality. Men had sex with each other all the time and no one cared. Okay? And women had fewer rights but in the pagan culture women had status. Okay? Often because they were they practiced magic. Okay? In their culture men weren't allowed to practice magic. Women practiced magic. And as you can imagine that would give women tremendous status. Okay? So the idea the idea that we have that ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:07:57 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: communities suppress the individual is something that we believe we have faith in it but it just is not historically true. Okay? Also remember there's a fluidity within these communities. So it's perfectly possible for you to get up with your family and move somewhere else. No one can stop you. Okay? Does that make sense? So the pre -modern world was much more tolerant than the world we live in today mainly because we did not categorize people back then. Okay? So one thing that we will learn later on in the semester is that the very idea of race and racism it's a new modern concept that didn't exist before. We only have this because of the idea of imperialism. Right? When you go and conquer other people you need to justify it somehow and the best way to do it is through racism because they are an inferior race and therefore we have come to civilize them. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:08:54 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? But this is only in the past 20 years and before we didn't have a concept of race. All right. Great question. Any more questions? Fluid. Yep. Okay. The Vikings? Okay. The Vikings their worst punishment is banishment as well. So for example if you killed someone you'd be banished. Okay? The actual punishment would be determined by a community discussion but it was usually banishment or exile for a number of years. So in Athens you would be banished for at most 10 years. That was considered like the most grievous if you commit the most grievous crime then the worst punishment would be banishment for like 10 years. Okay? Because the understanding was that the worst thing that could happen to you is banishment because again the individual is part of the community. You were nourished by the community. Without the community you were a nobody. You were basically a ghost or a zombie. Okay? Yes. Yes. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:10:25 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: They always come back. Yes. So the Athenians banished a lot of people. Okay? And they always came back. And if they're banished they're always thinking about coming back because again there was no idea of the individual existing outside the community. You were the community. And if you came into a new community then people would just assume that you were a bad person because where's your community man? Right? Because so in the ancient world the first question they would always ask you is not what is your name but where are you from? Right? What is your community? Because that's what matters. Not what is your name. Like what do you like? Who are you? It's always like where are you from? From what family? From what community? From what clan? What tribe are you from? Then we know how to interact with you. ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:11:16 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4276s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4276s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Okay? ## The Fifth Pillar of the West -- 1:11:18 - Source title: Civilization #35: The Viking Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-03-04, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0065](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls/transcript/#seg-0065) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4278s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XoLzwmls&t=4278s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls@transcript:v1#seg-0065` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7k5xolzwmls.json) Text: Great. Great. Any more questions? Great. Okay. So next class we will do the cultural system. The cultural world view of the Vikings. Okay? We'll take this we'll take the idea of community and the individual and expand it. Okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So, today we are doing the Holy Roman Empire. Now, last class we did the Byzantine Empire, which is considered the continuation of the Roman Empire in Eastern Europe. The Holy Roman Empire is considered the continuation of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. So, when we think about the Holy Roman Empire in the West, we think of the famous Voltaire quotation about the Holy Roman Empire. Voltaire is a very famous French Enlightenment thinker. We will talk about Voltaire when we get to Enlightenment. What he said was, the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy nor Roman nor ancient. It was an empire. And this sounds funny, and a lot of historians thought it was a joke, but what I will show you in this class is, actually, this is very true. So, the Holy Roman Empire was started in the year 800, when the Frankish king, Charlemagne, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:27 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And this marked a turning point in Western history, because this was really the first time that the pope could anoint a monarch. Before, it was the emperor who anointed the pope. Now, it's a bit reversed, and this shows the supremacy of the Catholic Church. Historians have debated for a long time why Charlemagne would agree to such an arrangement. And so, this is the topic we will examine in this class. What motivated Charlemagne to agree to such a deal, and what gave the Catholic Church so much power and prestige that they had the power to anoint emperors? Okay, so that's the topic we are looking at today. Alright, so let's first look at Charlemagne's motivations. Charlemagne, his name means Charles the Great. And he is of the Frankish Empire. And he was able to unite most of Europe through major innovations in the military. So, he was the first to ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 2:39 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: introduce the idea of armored knights, which became the standard military doctrine and practice in Europe for centuries. And the idea of the knight would also pave the way for feudalism in Europe. And these are topics we will discuss later on in the class. Okay, next semester. What Charlemagne is most celebrated for is the fact that he started something called the Caroligian Renaissance. Caroligian is the name of his family. And the Renaissance is this period of peace and prosperity in Europe. And he's most famous for the building of cathedrals. He built 14 of them. This is the most famous. It's called the Aachen Cathedral in Aachen, Germany. You can, guys, you can still go visit it, okay? It is beautiful. The cathedrals of medieval Europe are really the pyramids, like the pyramids. They are meant to give people a sense of awe and unity. The cathedral was meant to bring heaven onto earth. One really amazing aspect about the cathedrals are the acoustics, the sounds within the buildings. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 4:04 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: It is designed in a way that when the priest speaks, his voice is projected all around the cathedral, and the walls bounce the voice back. And so the parishioners, the people who listen to the priest, they feel they're surrounded by the voice of God, okay? The voice literally enters you and makes you feel transcendent. It makes you feel you are moving towards heaven and that you are approaching God. All right? And these buildings are still around. So you can actually go and visit them. This is a picture of modern -day Aachen, Germany, where tourists go and visit the cathedral. Okay? So these buildings were designed to be eternal. Okay. So before I talk about Charlemagne and why he chose to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor, I need to give you a little bit of background about the geography of Europe. Now, if we ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 5:12 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: look at the four major civilization empires of early human history, mainly Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China, we will discover that there are three major similarities among all four. Okay? The first, as you can see from this picture, is latitudinally, okay, they are in the same place. They all benefit from temperate climate, which allows for year -long agriculture. That's the first major similarity. The second major similarity is these are all river civilizations, meaning that at the center is a major river surrounded by flatlands that allows for the production of agriculture. All right? So in Egypt, there's the Nile. In Mesopotamia, there are two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. Indus Valley civilization is obviously the Indus River, and in China, there are two rivers, right? There's the Yellow River, and then there's the Yangtze, okay, the Changjiang. All right? And the third major characteristic that's very important is, they're surrounded by natural boundaries, whether it's mountains or deserts or oceans or seas. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 6:32 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay? And from this map, you can see very clearly these three characteristics for Egypt, right? Egypt has the Nile surrounded by natural boundaries, the desert, the Sahara Desert to the west, these mountains, then protect Egypt. And that's what allows unity. The unity to take hold very quickly in these civilizations and what allows this civilization to defend against outside invaders. Okay? The same is true in China, obviously, right? Okay? Surrounded by mountains to the south, to the west, and to the north, and then the sea. Okay? So for most of its history, China was protected from outside invaders. This is all especially true in humanity's greatest empire called the United States. All right? So if you look at the United States, it is a fortress, basically. It's protected by two oceans and then mountains. But within the United States, it's serviced by the Mississippi River, which allows for agricultural surplus and which allows for trade and communication within the United States. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 7:51 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: So very early on, the United States could become very wealthy as well as unified. And it did not have to fear external enemies, and therefore it could prosper without worrying too much about its national defense. Okay? This is very important because none of these three things are true for the European continent. Okay? Especially Western Europe. It's much too north. And it's surrounded by lots and lots of mountains. It also has no major rivers. Okay? So as you can see from this map, in southern Western Europe, it's mainly mountains. And to the north, there are flatlands, but they're usually covered by forests. Okay? So for most of its history, Europe was divided and poor and isolated from the rich. Okay? The other thing about Europe that made it distinct from the other civilizations is, within Europe, there are lots of natural boundaries. And that's why Europe remained divided for such a long time. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 9:10 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-governs-without-conquest) Text: It was extremely hard to unite Europe. Please remember, Rome was not a European empire. It was a Mediterranean empire. That's a huge difference. Okay? So, throughout most of its history, Europe was divided into different fiefdoms. And the princes, the princes, the kings, had complete authority over their kingdom. And it was very hard to compel them to listen to your authority. Charlemagne had, at that time, the greatest army in Europe. But even then, he was still compelled to cooperate with the other kings. Okay? So, he achieved a lot of what he did through conquests, but he also achieved a lot of what he did through alliances and treaties and friendships and marriages. Okay? So, what this means is, if you want to unify Europe, you cannot do so through military conquest. You have to do so through the idea of legitimacy. People have to believe you are the legitimate ruler. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 10:33 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: You cannot compel them. You must win their hearts and minds. Okay? And this explains why Charlemagne would want to be crowned by the pope. Because the pope did have legitimacy. He did have authority. Because the pope was the leader of the Catholic Church. And at this time, there were many kings, not all of them, but there were many kings in Europe who were of the Catholic faith. Okay? So, this is a map of the major cities of the world at the time of the fall of the Roman Empire. Okay? As you can see, most of the cities are located at a certain latitude. And to the north, okay, which is where Europe is, there are not that many major cities. All right? So, at the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was a divided, weak, and poor place. Okay? All right? So, again, please remember, for the rest of the semester, these three factors, right? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 11:45 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Latitude. You need a temperate climate. You need natural boundaries. And you need a major river. And this will allow civilizations to rise and prosper. The great irony here, of course, and we will learn about this later in the semester, is despite its disadvantages, Europe was still able to conquer the world. All right? And it did so because of these disadvantages. If you think about it, these disadvantages compel you as a people, as a culture, to be innovative. To overcome these disadvantages. All right? And this is something that we will learn when we get to the Enlightenment, Renaissance, and Southern Revolution, which we will do very quickly. All right? The other thing about Europe that's very important is it was constantly being invaded. Look, if you look at this map, you will see, like, there are a lot of mountains protecting Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley in China, but there are almost none protecting Europe from the steppes. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 12:58 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=778s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=778s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: As we discussed last semester, the steppes, traditionally, has been the most aggressive place in human history. People are always fighting each other for territory. These are pastoral people who need land to raise their sheep and cattle. And so they're always fighting each other. So what happens over time is these people are pushed further out into the... borderlands. Okay? They're often pushed into Europe. All right? So remember about the Yamnaya people, how they migrated from the steppes to Europe and basically conquered all of Europe. Well, this process never really stops. Okay? So in the time of the Roman Empire, towards the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, there's huge migrations of people from the steppes into Europe. And they're being pushed out by a new, more aggressive people called the Huns. Okay? You may have heard of Attila the Hun. Well, he's of that group. And they are extremely violent. And ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 14:08 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: they have made major military innovations that allow them to out -compete others in the steppes, which force these other tribes and groups into Europe. Okay? Which is the only place they can go. All right? After the collapse of the Roman Empire, these different groups start to form their own kingdoms. Around Germany are the Franks. And then eventually, over time, as these groups compete against each other, the Franks will ultimately defeat them and expand. Okay? But this is a process that will take centuries through multiple kings and through multiple dynasties. But eventually, the Franks will expand out from Germany and conquer most of Europe. Not all of Europe, but they will conquer most of Europe. And in the process, what's interesting for us is they will make contact with the once -isolated Scandinavian countries, the Norsemen. Okay? They're called the Norse. We often refer to them as Vikings, and we will study them very closely. In the next class. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 15:26 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay? But now they're brought into the orbit of this new Frankish Empire. Okay? But again, and this is the Frankish Empire at the time of Charlemagne when he creates the Holy Roman Empire. But again, because this is not really an empire, it's more of a confederation, it doesn't really last much longer after his death. What's really interesting for us is to remember that these emperors, they are not born as emperor. They are elected by other kings. So again, you should see this as an alliance, as confederacy, where each king has voting power. Okay? So this is not a hereditary title. This is something that you are elected to. Okay? So after the death of Charlemagne, a couple decades later after his death, the empire splits into three. Okay? And even though on paper this empire does last into the year 1806, it's a history that is extremely tumultuous. And most, and there are some times when the empire completely disintegrates. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 16:44 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay? But they keep up the pretense of having an empire because again, in Egypt, what matters is not territory or military or power or resources. What matters the most is legitimacy. And the idea of the Holy Roman Empire gives legitimacy, confers legitimacy, mainly through the Catholic Church. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? So we'll be discussing more of this as we go into the history of Europe. But before that, are there any questions? I'm sorry. Are there any questions? All right. So now what I want to discuss is why the Catholic Church is able to confer legitimacy. What gives the Catholic Church the power and authority to confer legitimacy to kings and emperors? Okay? But before I do that, are you guys clear about what I just presented? Pope Leo III, yes. Oh, well, sorry. Okay, so I'll explain. Okay? The pope is considered the leader of the church in Rome. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 17:58 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: So he's a bishop. Okay? We call him pope because historically, Rome was the most powerful of all the churches. Okay? So I'll explain who the pope is later on. Okay? But does that make sense? Good. Any more questions before I continue? Because right now, what I'll do is explain how the Catholic Church became so powerful in Europe. Okay, that's a good question. Okay. So who are these kings? Well, most of these kings are actually, uh, hereditary. Okay? Their fathers were kings. Their grandfathers were kings. And they often related to each other. Okay? But they were in control of a certain fiefdom. Right? And you couldn't really conquer them because they had castles. And they had, and they were, like, in mountains. And they were a very aggressive people. So you couldn't really conquer them. So you needed to, um, get them to, to agree to make you king. And so the way they did that was by having these elections where the kings got together. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 19:26 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: They're called princelectors. And they pick the, the king. And this is also true for the Catholic Church where different bishops would get together and they would elect the pope. Okay? But I'll explain this later on. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Okay. All right. So, um, let's go over the history of the Catholic Church and explain, understand why it became so powerful for the Catholic Church. I want to present to you the official history of the Catholic Church as presented by the Catholic Church. So, um, there was a man named Jesus who was actually a god. We didn't know he was a god but he was a god who came down from heaven in order to sacrifice himself in order to free us of our sins. In order to redeem us. Okay? Now, Jesus had disciples. There were 12 major ones but there were others. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 20:28 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And after his death, Jesus reappeared before them and told them to spread the gospel, the good news that he has freed humanity of their sins and that he will return to create a heaven on earth. Okay? So that's the good news, the gospel. So, these disciples, they're illiterate peasants. They set up and they set up churches in the honor of Jesus. Okay? These are the first fathers of the church. And these people are called bishops. Okay? So the bishop is the head of the church in a certain area. And the tradition is that the very first bishop of all the major churches and there were like five, were disciples of Jesus. That's where their authority and legitimacy comes from, from Jesus himself. As the movement is spreading, Rome sees them as a threat because Rome are pagans and Christianity is an anti -pagan religion. So, there's a lot of persecution ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 21:42 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: going on but the Christians are armored by their faith and their love of Jesus and the miracle that is God. So, triumph and convert all of Rome into Christianity. Now, Christianity is the official religion of Rome and now they have the power to spread the message to all people around the world but especially the barbarians of Europe and convert them. Okay? So that's the official history of the church. And there are lots and lots of other with this story. I mean the first issue, the major issue is how is it that a peasant religion was able to conquer the Roman Empire? There are certainly other belief systems that were much more compelling than the Christian faith. There's a Greek system, the philosophy of Plato. paganism itself has many traditions and as I keep on explaining to you in this class, culture is persistent. People do not want to change their cultures. So it's a complete mystery how Christianity was able to spread and conquer Europe. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 23:03 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: An explanation if you talk to Christians, especially Catholic Church, is it's a miracle guys. It's the power of faith. That's the explanation. That's it. There are lots of issues with this official story. So I want to give you my understanding of the history. I talked about this last semester and I want to review it and apply it to the context of the Roman Empire. What's important for us to understand is during the time of the Roman Empire, the Romans had major conflicts with the provincials, especially the Jews. Okay, Romans and Jews did not get along. In fact, they were often in conflict with each other. The Romans were pagan and the Jews were monotheistic people who only worshiped Yahweh and they refused to worship the Roman Emperor, which was demanded of them by the Romans. Sometimes the Romans were very tolerant and said, well, we'll make a special reception for you Jews. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 24:19 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: But sometimes they were extremely violent. And this led to a series of wars in Judea between the Jews and the Romans. These were terrible, terrible wars that killed millions of people. Three major wars were fought. Another problem is that the Jews were spread all around the Roman Empire. So this was not a problem isolated to one poor province called Judea. This was a problem throughout the Roman Empire. Okay? So, um, historians estimate that Jews accounted for about 10 % of the population of the Roman Empire. That's a lot of people. In certain cities like Alexandria, um, it was a third of the population. And there were a couple of riots in Alexandria by the Jews against Roman rule. Also, the Jews were at, as a whole, a pretty cosmopolitan people who were well educated, uh, and who were very well established, who looked down upon the Romans. The Jews had respect for the Greeks because the Greeks had a very, uh, superior culture. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 25:29 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1529s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Jews and Persians got along really well because Persians are extremely tolerant people. But Jews really didn't like Romans. And the Romans really didn't like the Jews either. Okay? So, of how after the wars, um, between the Romans and the Jews, Jews were enslaved and sent to Rome. And the Romans released the Jews from slavery because they didn't like Jews. Okay? And Jews became traitors and settled, um, in other parts of, of the Empire. Okay? So the Romans and the Jews didn't get along. And so there's this constant conflict going on. And so, um, were very well established within the Empire. And he got along very well with the Romans. He really much wanted to be part of the Roman Empire. And these wars were badly affecting him and his, and his family and, and their friends. Okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 26:30 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1590s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1590s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: So there were a certain segment of the, of the Jewish Diaspora who very much wanted to assimilate into, um, Roman, into the Roman Empire. But their religion, okay, their religion, which believed that eventually a Messiah, who is a prince from the House of David, born of the House of David, he will return and he will lead the Jews to ultimate victory against the Romans. That's what the Jews believed as part of their religion. And, so, this presented a problem for Paul of Tarsus and other Jews who wanted to assimilate. Okay? When Jesus died, he became like a rock star within the Jewish community. And, the fact that he died, the way that, the fact that he was crucified, which is a, which is a horrible way to die, um, it basically captured the imagination of many Jews. And, after his death, there were a lot of people who started to flock to, uh, they were very curious about him, um, so they flocked to, uh, his disciples. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 27:46 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And, so, um, his brother James led his movement called the Poor of Jerusalem. Later on, they'll be called the Abianites, okay? And, these are the people who will influence the Islamic religion. But, there were other groups who started around Jesus, around the idea of Jesus as well. Okay? So, Jesus was a growing popularity, um, and Paul saw an opportunity to resolve this conflict between Romans and Jews. Remember, the problem for Jews is their religion believed that the Messiah would return who would lead them to victory against the Romans. And, this is a problem, uh, because Paul knew that if the Jews united against the Romans, the Romans would probably win, okay? So, Jesus is the solution because Jesus is a prophet of peace, right? Jesus was a prophet who preached the importance of peace, mercy, and forgiveness. Forgive the Romans for destroying our temple. Forgive the Romans for persecuting us. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 29:00 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Show mercy. Because what mattered is not what happens here, what matters is what happens in heaven, alright? So, Paul of Tarsus, backed by the Roman state, started this religion as a way for Jews to practice their faith without incurring the wrath of the Roman Empire, without being a threat to the Roman Empire, okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Now, over time, as the conflict between the Romans and Jews became worse and worse, the Christian movement spread, okay? And eventually, to gain legitimacy, they won the patronage of Roman patriarchs, okay? So, you had a certain segment of elite Jews and a certain segment of elite Romans who came together in the Christian church to build an alliance, okay? Does that make sense? So, in other words, the Catholic church, the beginning of the Catholic church, it was basically an elite church social club for Jews and Romans to get together and to work together, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 30:12 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Does that make sense? Now, what's important for us to understand is there are other Christian factions during this time, but because the Catholic church, the beginning, the portal Catholic church, it's backed by the Roman state and because of its organization and its wealth, it was able to ultimately win out over the other Christian sects, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Now, over time, what the Romans recognize is, wow, the Christian church is great at solving the Jewish problem and then they recognize that, oh, wouldn't it be good for solving all our problems, okay? Because eventually, the Jews cease to be the major problem and these barbarians coming in from the steppes and from the north are the major problem and there's just two many of them, okay? So, remember, you have all these barbarians coming in. What's important to remember about these barbarians is this is not an invasion, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 31:17 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: An invasion. Often, historians will use the word barbarian invasion. They're not invaders. They're migrants. It's a migration, guys. What's the difference? Well, if it's an invasion, these people are looking to conquer the Roman Empire and instill upon the Empire their worldview, their culture, their religion. If it's a migration, these people are looking for better economic opportunities and, therefore, they are willing to conform to your worldview, to your religion, all right? So, think about the United States where, on the southern border, there are millions of people every year who are trying to get into the United States. They're not there to conquer the United States. They're there to migrate the United States and seek a better life. And they know that if they are to succeed in the United States, they must assimilate, okay? And the best way to assimilate the United States, of course, is to go to university, right? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 32:30 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=1950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Because once you're part of the university, you're now part of the social elite, okay? That's the best thing to do. But a lot of people don't have the wealth, the education to go to university. So, what they often do is join the church, okay? The church. If you look at these hundreds of thousands, these millions of Chinese students who have gone to the United States, the group that has assimilated the best are Chinese Christians, right? These are Chinese who are either practicing Christians or they convert to Christianity when they go to the United States. Because when they're Christians, there's an immediate social community for them that welcomes them and supports them, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right? So, this is the United States. But this was true during the late Roman Empire as well, okay? You have all these barbarians, they're called barbarians, and they're coming in and they're trying to assimilate. And the Roman Empire needs to assimilate them as well. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 33:44 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And what they discovered is, the best way to do that is through the Catholic Church, right? Because remember, these barbarians, they're pagans. They worship war, they worship violence. They're a problem in the long term. But they convert to Christianity, which is a religion that preaches mercy, forgiveness, kindness, right? Then, they're easier to manage. And what happens is that a lot do convert, okay? Now, some of you may say, well, this sounds very cynical, right? These people are changing their religion and they're doing so for their own material benefit. Okay, what's important for us to understand is that if you look at any religion, if you go into any church, you will find that the people who most believe in this religion, who are the most fanatical about this religion, are new converts. Does that make sense? If you're born into this religion, if your parents are Christians, you take it for granted, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 35:06 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And you are often dubious and skeptical because children like to rebel against their parents. But, if you convert to Christianity, if you do so out of your own choice, well, then you are fully committed now, okay? And this is because of a psychological principle called the sunk cost fallacy. To turn to a new religion means to give up your community, your traditions, your history, your sense of identity. And because of all this, you are stuck with this new religion, whether or not you truly believe it or not. And because of that, because of the sunk cost fallacy, because you have lost so much in the process, you are now fully committed to the religion. You are so fanatical that you not only convert, but you want to convert others as well, okay? Does that make sense? So, so, with the barbarian invasions, the Catholic Church experiences tremendous growth because now they are letting in lots of converts who are fanatical about the new religion, all right? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 36:24 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2184s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2184s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: The church is also a mechanism of social mobility for the barbarians because Roman society, it's very parochial. It's very close -minded. It doesn't like, it doesn't like, it doesn't like foreigners, okay? But traditionally, in human history, the church and the military were the two major mechanisms of social mobility. If you're an outsider and you want to rise in society, you either join the church or you join the military. And this, and this has been true for, in Europe for hundreds of years, okay? The last thing about the church that's very important is, in trying to co -op new people, it recognizes that it must first co -op the elite, okay? Now, barbarians do not, they do not have, or most barbarians do not have a concept of a hereditary elite. Their leaders are often people who are elected for the moment, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 37:28 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: So it's possible to switch leaders if the leaders aren't performing a good job. What the church does is, in exchange for joining the church, the church can make these leaders, who again are only temporary, into a hereditary elite, meaning their advantages and social status will pass on to their children, which is an extremely appealing deal for these barbarian leaders, okay? Does that make sense? Alright? So, as the barbarians keep on migrating to Rome, the Catholic church is the main mechanism that absorbs them, okay? Also the military as well. Of the Roman Empire, that mainly absorbs them. And this, and because of this idea, the church is a mechanism which allows you to join the Roman Empire, the church acquires tremendous legitimacy and prestige and status, okay? Does that make sense for you guys? Alright? Alright. But in this system, okay, local churches have local autonomy. Because you're trying to let in local elites, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 38:57 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: If you let in local elites, you have to give them autonomy. And, towards the end of the Roman Empire, there are five major churches that rule collectively. The major church is in Rome, okay? Again, the leaders, all these churches are called bishops. There's Rome, there's Constantinople, there is Antioch, there's Alexandria, and these are the four major population centers of the Roman Empire. And then, of course, there is Jerusalem. And Jerusalem is part of this five because of its prestige, right? This is where Jesus died. And this is where the Jewish and Christian religions were born, okay? So, throughout most of this history, these are the five major churches, and for most of this history, they are independent of each other. There are other churches in other places as well that are also extremely independent of each other, meaning they were allowed to, within the Christian framework, give up their own doctrine and practices, okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 40:19 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: But, it was understood the primary church was Rome because Rome was the center, the capital, of the Roman Empire. And because of this, the bishop here is called the Pope in order to distinguish him from the other bishops, okay? Does that make sense? Alright? The problem with this system is that the capital in 330 switches from Rome over to Constantinople. And over time, the Constantinople Church, because it is now the capital, it wants to assert its authority over the other churches, mainly through the idea of orthodoxy, right? Orthodoxy or doctrine. Remember, for most of this history, each local church is free to create its own ideology within the Christian framework, mainly because no one's in a position to enforce doctrine on others. Now, Constantinople want, because it's the capital of the empire, it wants to impose orthodoxy on others. And this is what leads to the idea of the Nicene Creed. Remember, the Nicene Creed is the idea of the Holy Trinity. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 41:40 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And, at this time, when the Nicene Creed is first formulated, most people, most churches, do not buy into the Nicene Creed. They do not buy into the Holy Trinity. But, Constantinople sees the power of the Catholic Church as a source of its legitimacy. Therefore, it will, over the decades, embark on military expeditions to enforce the Nicene Creed on all its centers. Eventually, the Nicene Creed will triumph over other doctrine. Okay? So, the Catholic Church is able to build legitimacy and power by imposing orthodoxy. But, over time, as we know, the Byzantine Empire will decline in power and prestige, mainly because the Byzantine Empire, militarily, is not as strong as it used to be. And, at this point, the Catholic Church is declining. Other churches, especially in Rome, they want now to assert their local autonomy. Okay? So, this created a major controversy called iconoclasm. Iconoclasm. Iconoclasm just means that Constantinople believes that God should not be celebrated in images. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 43:04 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: You cannot paint God. You cannot paint Jesus. Okay? And, the Church in Rome, the Pope, saw this as an opportunity to push back because this was actually a very unpopular decree. And this created a major conflict between Rome and Constantinople. And, what this iconoclasm debate shows us is that Rome wants to maintain its independence. Not only does Rome want to maintain its independence, it wants to regain its lost authority. Okay? And, that's why when Charlemagne comes along, the Church sees Charlemagne as the perfect opportunity to reassert its dogma and its Its dominance over the idea of legitimacy. Okay? Right? And so, they work together to create the idea of the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to the Byzantine Empire and as a mechanism in order to ensure the legitimacy and the prestige of the Catholic Church in Rome against that of its competing churches, mainly in Constantinople but also in places like Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 44:27 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: All right? And this will eventually climax in something called the Great Schism. The Great Schism. And we'll study this later on. The idea of the Great Schism, which happens around 1000, all right, is that these two churches, Rome and Constantinople, permanently break off. They refuse to acknowledge each other. Before, they would have meetings and they would share doctrine, but now they actually refuse to talk to each other, okay? And Rome will become the basis of the Catholic Church, Catholic means universal, which is still around today and which is believed by about 1 billion people, okay? Constantinople becomes the basis of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is Eastern Europe, okay? So if you're Western Europe, you're Catholic. Sorry, if you're Eastern Europe, you're Orthodox. If you're Western Europe, you're Catholic. Does that make sense, guys? And at first, look, there's only one major doctrinal difference between Rome and Constantinople. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 45:39 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Rome asserts that the Pope is the first among equals, okay? So the Pope has the ultimate authority. The Pope is a true representative of God on Earth. Everyone else is lesser than the Pope. Whereas the Orthodox Church asserts that all the churches are equal to each other. There's no higher authority, okay? But later on, because the church in Rome will experience the Protestant Reformation, then their doctrine will rather diverge over time, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any questions about this? Okay, so let's summarize, okay? Let's go back to the year 800 when Charlemagne, he's in St. Peter's Basilica, and he's being crowned Holy Roman Empire by Leo III. Why does this happen, okay? And let's look at it from the perspective of Charlemagne as well as Pope Leo III, all right? So for Charlemagne, it's the three major reasons are legitimacy, unity, and differentiation. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 47:21 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-governs-without-conquest) Text: And this has been true for kings throughout human history, okay? Why did King David sponsor the writing of the Bible? For these three reasons. Why did Augustus Caesar sponsor the writing of the Iniat? For these three reasons, okay? Legitimacy. I'm the rightful king because God said so. Unity. We're all part of the community of God, okay? And that's what differentiates. We're Christians, and everyone else is pagan or infidel or heretic. Differentiation. We are not the Byzantine Empire, okay? So, Charlemagne is trying to create legitimacy, unity, and differentiation with the Holy Roman Empire, okay? So, Pope Leo, why does he sponsor Charlemagne? Why is he crowning Charlemagne the Holy Roman Empire? Well, he's trying to assert his authority, right? He's trying to establish the fact that the pope is a true representative of God on earth, okay? Second is he's trying to protect himself. So, you guys don't know this, but in this world, there's no central power, and the pope is elected by other bishops. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 49:01 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=2941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: But in this process, you always have a faction who refuses to accept the authority of the pope, and this will lead to civil conflict. So, before Pope Leo made Charlemagne emperor, he was almost assassinated by his enemies, right? So, by making Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor, he's actually appealing to Charlemagne for military protection against his enemies, okay? So, there's a lot of politics within the Catholic Church which still persists today, okay? And, of course, differentiation, okay, or competition, sorry, competition. The Catholic Church in Rome is in constant conflict with that in Byzantine. Both the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic Church in Rome are trying to assert that they are the legitimate heirs to the Roman Empire, okay? And obviously, Byzantine has a better case than Rome. And that's why Pope Leo feels compelled to create the idea of the Holy Roman Empire. All right? What ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 50:26 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: I want to show you also, that the idea of the Holy Roman Empire comes from Augustine, okay? One thing that you will learn in this class that's very different from other history classes you will take is the power of ideas. You're taught usually that it's economics or power or kings that move history. You're taught in this class and this is very important. It's ideas that move history. Let me show you how. Augustine wrote a book called City of God which is what we read last semester or parts of it last semester. We discussed it. What is City of God? Well, Augustine, he's basically a high leader of the church. He's Bishop of Hippo, okay? Which is in Northern Africa. And he's a problem because in year 410 Rome is sacked. Okay? And this is only a few a couple of decades after Christianity is made the official religion of the Roman Empire. Now Rome is sacked by the Goths by barbarians who are pagans. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 51:45 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And so what a lot of people start to believe is that the pagan gods are enacting revenge vengeance against Rome for disavowing them. In other words the Christian god is the false god. The pagan gods are the true gods. And this historical event where Rome is sacked is so traumatizing that people start to believe this. So Augustine feels compelled to write the City of God to explain the sack and why Christianity is a true faith. In the City of God Augustine says there are two there are two cities. There's a city of man of empire called Rome. Rome is a place where people pursue power. Where kings try to outdo each other. Then there's Jerusalem. Okay? Jerusalem. Which is the city of God. And this is metaphorical. Rome is temporal it is in time it is off earth. But Jerusalem is heaven itself. And in heaven it's a city a spiritual place where people practice their faith the devotion to God. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 53:03 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And that is what we should be pursuing. Okay? So Rome is trying to create the end of history meaning that it is trying to create an eternal peace. Right? What is called the Pax Romana. The emperors are trying to be the ultimate emperor of humanity. But Jerusalem means out of history. You are taking yourself out of human affairs because human affairs don't really matter. What matters is spiritual faith. Because only spiritual faith will give you salvation and redemption. And that's what matters. Okay? So our mission is to create Jerusalem. And that's what the Catholic Church does. The Catholic Church is the city of God. It's the new Jerusalem. It's what allows humanity to step out of history and to celebrate God on earth. Okay? And the city of God in other words becomes the basis of the Holy Roman Empire. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 54:14 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: In other words Charlemagne and Leo worked together to create the Holy Roman Empire in order to achieve Augustine's vision of heaven on earth. was an intellectual blueprint for the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? Does that make sense guys? In fact what's really interesting is Charlemagne who apparently was illiterate I'm not completely sure but apparently he was illiterate every day he had the city of God read to him. That's how much he loved city of God. And he basically made city of God the official text of the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? Does that make sense? And that's the power of ideas. Charlemagne in the city of God had already created the intellectual framework for the Holy Roman Empire that 400 years later Leo and Charlemagne could take in order to build the Holy Roman Empire. Without the city of God they could not have imagined the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? make sense guys? That's the power of ideas. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 55:27 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: You need someone to imagine the idea before you can actually implement it on earth. All right. So let me conclude by going back to Voltaire's quotation that we looked at at the beginning of class. The Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy Roman or an empire. And as I promised you I will show you that this is true. Okay? So let's look at this. Holy Roman Empire. The idea of holy is that the Catholic Church is really the power in charge. But that's just pageantry. That's the fiction. Okay? The entire Holy Roman Empire is a useful fiction. Okay? So the king and the pope are benefit from pretending the Catholic Church is in charge in order to confer legitimacy onto the king. Okay? And the king and the pope benefit from displaying an alliance to the people of Europe. Okay? To create a sense of unity. But this fiction depends on the pope and the emperor getting along. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 57:00 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3420s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3420s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: And after Charlemagne what we'll see is that they don't get along. Because the pope insists on having power over the emperor. The emperor insists on having power over the pope. But not only that remember the pope and the emperor are all elected by local lords. Okay? So the pope is elected by the bishops of Western Europe. The emperor is elected by the prince electors. And these people are also extremely ambitious. Okay? So with the idea with the idea of the Holy Roman Empire there's still conflict going on. There's still wars and competition going on that will last for centuries and carry us into basically the 20th century. But it all goes underground. They all hide it. They pretend that Europe is at peace when really it's at war. Okay? And some of the most atrocious gruesome stories will come from this medieval period. It's a Game of Thrones situation. Okay? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 58:13 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: So it's not holy. Everyone pretends the church is in charge but it's not really. Okay? Roman. So the authority of the Catholic Church comes from the fact that it is the direct descendant of the Roman Empire. In fact the Catholic Church goes out of its way to appear like the Roman Empire. Latin is the language that the Catholic Church uses for bureaucracy. A lot of their practices or cultural practices are like the Roman. Okay? Remember that in the Roman Empire it's the Senate that confers legitimacy onto the Emperor. And in this world it's the Catholic Church that confers legitimacy onto the Emperor. So the Catholic Church is trying to present itself as a continuation of the Roman Senate. But as we discussed in previous classes what matters is the culture. And as I explained to you the culture of the Romans died with the Empire. And the death of this culture started in the year 212 when Roman citizenship was given to everyone within the Empire. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 59:30 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay? So the Roman Empire died a long time ago. The Roman Empire died a long time ago. Okay? So the Byzantines were an empire because they had an imperial bureaucracy and its own military that could enforce its will on the provinces. The Holy Roman Empire was never truly an empire in the sense that the Emperor's will was absolute. He needed the support of his allies. And there were many times throughout this history when the Emperor tried to enforce his will on the Prince and the Prince's electors of Germany and so they rebelled against him because they need to protect his autonomy. And this idea that what matters the real powers is in these princes in the local areas this is what will give rise to the idea of feudalism in Europe. Okay? Before the Kings decide to assert their authority over everyone. All right. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:00:36 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: So the Holy Roman Empire was a useful fiction for its time in order to present the idea of legitimacy and unity across a divided Europe at war with each other. All right. Okay. So next class we'll do the Vikings. All right. But before we end any questions? ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:01:13 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Yes. Yes. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:01:30 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3690s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3690s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-governs-without-conquest) Text: Okay. That's a really good question. Okay. What's the relationship of the prince -electors to the emperor? Okay. Um so this is a really interesting question. Okay. So let's think about this if you are a prince -elector. You are a local prince um in Europe. Okay. How do you benefit from the Holy Roman Empire? Well you benefit because the Holy Roman Empire confirmed the first legitimacy to you as well. Does that make sense? Right? Because if you're a local prince you also have people who want your throne. You also need to keep your people united. And the Catholic Church the religion of Catholicism was an important mechanism for you to assert authority over your people and to keep you safe from your enemies. In many ways the Catholic Church it's trying to be the freelance imperial bureaucracy of Europe. There's no emperor. The emperor has no power. So the Catholic Church is trying to be the imperial bureaucracy where it's trying to create the culture or the meta -reality of all Europeans. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:02:55 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: Okay. And it does that through its local churches. Right? The priests. Because if you think about it um the people are interacting with the local priests not with bureaucrats. Right? So through the priests you can collect information on the people like how much money they're making so you can tax them better and you can better control their thoughts. Okay? So everyone's benefiting from this relationship. But it's a delicate balance because the local princes even though they're benefiting from this relationship they still demand autonomy. Right? And the Catholic Church and the emperor they want to assert authority over the local areas. So it's a delicate balance. Right? Okay? Great question though. Does it make sense to you, Echo? Alright, great. Any more questions? Okay. Great. So um next class we will do the Vikings which will be a lot of fun. ## The Useful Fiction That Made Europe Governable -- 1:04:04 - Source title: Civilization #34: The Useful Fiction of the Holy Roman Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-27, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dwvgtc7XzY&t=3844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-1dwvgtc7xzy.json) Text: ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. Today, this morning, we are doing the Byzantine Empire, and I will be looking at three questions. The first question is, why do we have the Byzantine Empire? Historically, we have seen the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of the Roman Empire. We have the Byzantine Empire because Constantine the Great, in 330, transfer the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which later became, which he called New Rome, and which eventually was renamed to Constantinople. So, why did he make that transition? That's the first question. Second question is how did the Byzantine Empire rise? It fell... So it lasted from 330 until 1453 when the Ottoman Turks overran the capital of Constantinople. So it lasted for over a thousand years. Arguably it is the most enduring world empire in human history. So how was it so successful? That's the second question. And the third and last question is why did it ultimately decline? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 1:24 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Why did it collapse? What were the factors that led to its eventual demise? So those are the three questions we will be looking at this morning. And what I want to do, first I want to present the scholarly consensus. What is generally accepted? What is generally believed about these three questions? And then I want to present my own perspective in order to refute the scholarly consensus. All right. So let's start. This is the Roman Empire in 117. And as you can see, it is huge. It spans across the Mediterranean. This is Spain. Over here is Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant. So it is a huge world empire. And that's a problem. It's just much too big. Unlike China. China. In the Indian Ocean. It has no natural boundaries. And throughout most of its history, it was invaded by barbarians. What the Romans call barbarians. Basically these Germanic Gothic tribes from the north. It also had a major adversary in the Persian empire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 2:46 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: At this time they were fighting against the Parthians. But later on they would fight against what is what we call the Sassanid Persian. empire. And so this was not a really sustainable empire. Internally, as we discussed last class, there was a contradiction. They were an empire, but they believed themselves to be a republic. It was important for them to maintain republican institutions like the Senate, even though it was to the detriment of the management of the empire. What I mean by that is that throughout this time, on paper in theory, it was committee, it was rule by committee. The Senate was really in command. And as we discussed in previous classes, the Senate is composed of the Roman aristocracy, the ruling houses of Rome. When you have that, when you have committee, rule by committee, committee, when powers divide up evenly among the ruling houses of an empire, the only thing they can really agree on is to be corrupt together. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 3:59 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=239s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=239s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And so the Senate was a huge problem because they basically monopolized wealth. And there was a lot of discontent in the provinces. There was a lot of discontent among the people. And the Romans tried different solutions to this. But none of the solutions worked. And eventually, we had something called the third century crisis, the crisis of the third century, which basically meant the Roman Empire was about to disintegrate. There were civil wars going on. There were these invasions in the north. There was economic collapse. There was a plague. So in the third century, it really seemed the Roman Empire was on the brink of complete implosion. Then a military genius by the name of Diocletian, he reunited the empire, and he recognized we basically needed to change the system. And we needed to make radical changes in order to save the Roman Empire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 5:09 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: As you can see, it is extremely difficult to protect Rome against the barbarian invaders over time. Eventually, the western portion of the empire will be overrun by these barbarians who we call the Germanics, the Goths, the Slavs, the Huns. Basically, these are the successors to the Yamnaya people, and they come from the steppes. So they are extremely aggressive, mobile people who will eventually overrun the Roman Empire. And they will establish... Basically, the Roman Empire. The tribes that will eventually give us the modern states of Germany, Britain, France. So basically, these are the ancestors of Western Europeans. So as you can see, these barbarians, they will establish their own empires. And all that will be left after about the year 500 is the Eastern Roman Empire, which is a successor. It is a successor to the Roman Empire. And even though they call themselves Romans, and they identify themselves as Romans, historians refer to the Eastern Roman Empire as the Byzantines. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 6:39 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Again, they themselves did not call themselves the Byzantines. It's what later historians call them. So the man who makes this transition... Who basically is the founder of the Byzantine Empire. His name is Constantine the Great. And what he does that's very important is that he shifts the capital from Rome to Byzantium on the Bosporus. And today we call this place Constantinople. It's still there, guys, if you want to visit. It's called Istanbul in Turkey, and it's a beautiful city. Definitely one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Now. The question is... Sorry, I skipped. The question then is, why was this move made? And what modern historians believe is that this was a strategic decision. First of all, Rome was not easily defended. So it's very common throughout its history for it to be overrun by a provincial military governor. So think of Julius Caesar. But also ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 7:45 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: there were others as well who did the same thing, who were extremely successful in the provinces. Okay. And they took their military and conquered Rome. It was very easy to overrun Rome and then declare himself emperor. So by moving into Constantinople, the city, the capital is now impregnable. Okay. It is impossible to besiege. It is easily defensible. And how so, I will show you later on. Okay. The other thing that's really important about this transition is Constantinople is really at the center of the empire. Now, Rome was too far to the west and most of the Roman Empire's most wealthy provinces, the most important province like Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant were actually in the east. Okay. So it's recognition, the fact, the center of gravity in the empire was really in the east. And the third reason is, again, throughout most of its history, Rome's main competitor were the Persian Empire to the east. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 8:55 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And so by moving to Constantinople, it allows the emperor to most easily and most directly respond to the threat of the Persians. Okay. So this is the scholarly consensus. Okay. But as I will show you later on, I disagree with this consensus. I think there was a much more important reason why Constantine made this move. Okay. The Byzantine Empire becomes the birthplace of modern Christianity. Okay. Constantine the Great is the first Christian Roman Emperor. He converts to Christianity. But not only that, but he lays the intellectual basis for modern day Christianity through something called the Council of Nicaea. The pronunciation is different. Okay. It's properly pronounced Nicaea, but most people pronounce it Nicaea. Okay. So the Council of Nicaea. We talked about this last semester, where the Council of Nicaea was established to answer a theological debate in the Christian world. What is the nature of Jesus? What is the relationship with God? As we ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 10:10 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: discussed, one more popular interpretations, explanations is the idea of Arianism, where Jesus is a lesser divinity to God. Okay. The Council of Nicaea established the idea of the Holy Trinity, which is that God, Jesus and Holy Spirit are co -equal. They are separate, but they are co -equal. We call this the Holy Trinity, the Godhead. Okay. So that is Constantine's major contribution. After Constantine, one of his successors, Theodosius, makes Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. Okay. So there is now a crackdown on both the idea of paganism, which used to be the religion of the Roman Empire, as well as the idea of heresy, especially the idea of Arianism. He also builds something called the few Docian walls, which makes Constantinople basically impenetrable. Okay. It makes it an impenetrable fortress and allows Constantinople to stand for a thousand years. Okay. As you can see from the field Docian walls, it's huge. Okay. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 11:24 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=684s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=684s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: This is just a person. You can see that there are two walls. There's a moat protecting it. So for a thousand years, these walls protected the city. There weren't that many soldiers in the city. You didn't actually need that many soldiers to protect against invaders. The other thing, so these walls are still standing today. You can actually go get on a plane. Fly. Fly to Istanbul and visit these walls. Okay. They were basically designed to stand for all eternity. And that was the idea of Constantinople, the eternal city. They also had sea walls. So not only could you not attack Constantinople by land, you couldn't even attack it by sea. One of the great inventions of Constantinople is the idea of Greek fire. Okay. The story is that they were being attacked by fire. They were being attacked by the Muslims. This is in the eighth century when the Muslims are expanding throughout the world. They're conquering both the Sassanian Empire as well as the Roman Empire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 12:36 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And they want to obviously overrun Constantinople. And ultimately what saves the city is the invention of something called Greek fire, which is basically kerosene. Right? You take kerosene. You throw it at someone. And then the boat is lighted. The boat is lighted on fire. And the story is that this was invented by a Hellenized Jew who converted to Christianity. And he has this great idea and then he approaches the emperor with this invention. The emperor believes that he is an angel sent by God to save the city. Okay. And so it is impossible to actually launch a naval expedition against Constantinople because they'll just burn down your ships. At the height of the Byzantine Empire, it almost reestablishes, reconstitutes the entire Roman Empire. And this is the year 565. At this point, the emperor is Justinian. And at this point, the one who is leading the military of the Byzantines, his name is Belisarius. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 13:46 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And he is considered the last great Roman general. Okay. His military genius is on par with that of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar, Hannibal, all the great generals. And through his military conquest, the Byzantine Empire is able to expand its influence. But as we learn in this class, once you reach a peak of empire, there are problems. Okay. So the first problem is that your city becomes overpopulated. And when your city becomes overpopulated, it becomes susceptible to the plague. Okay. So there's something called the Justinian Plague, which wiped out. It wiped out anywhere between 50 to 60 % of the entire population of Constantinople. At this point, the population of the city is about 500,000, half a million. The plague killed 300,000 people. That's a lot of people. Okay. Even today, scholars debate where this plague came from. Originally, we believe it came from grain ships from Egypt, right? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 14:49 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=889s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=889s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Because Constantinople imports all its food from Egypt. And so there were rats on these ships, and these rats spread basically the bubonic plague. Now historians believe that it actually came from the steppes, the Huns, and through their invasion. Okay. So we don't know what happened. We just know it killed a lot of people. And this greatly reduced the power of the empire. Also when you have these military conquests, you overextend it. Okay. So it is very difficult to maintain this empire. And the third problem is that whenever there's a military expansion, the empire, the emperor, comes into conflict with the general. So even though Justinian and Belisarius, they were great friends, the wives were great friends, they themselves had a lot of personal conflict. In fact, towards the end of his life, Belisarius was actually tried for treason. And there were many times when Belisarius was on military campaign, it was clear that Justinian was trying to sabotage him. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 15:56 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Because obviously if you're emperor, you're afraid that your general, your great conquering general will eventually come back and take your throne. Okay. So because of what happened between Justinian and Belirius, basically this was the last time that the Byzantines embarked on a massive military campaign. Okay. From now on, they're defensive. And also they focus on the idea of diplomacy, basically bribing their enemies not to attack them, especially the Huns, but also the Arabs as well as the Persian Empire. Okay. This is the Hagia Sophia, the Cathedral to Wisdom. And this is the great monument, the great legacy of the Byzantine Empire. It's absolutely beautiful. Again, guys. This is what's amazing. It's still there. Okay. You can actually get on a plane, go to Istanbul and visit this place. It's absolutely gorgeous. Definitely worth visiting. All right. Now why did Constantinople fall? And so what happened was that again, even though Constantinople itself is impenetrable, it's invincible, it's still an empire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 17:22 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And so eventually its regions were eventually overrun by great enemies. So for example, in about the year 1450, and this is three years before the eventual fall of the city, the Ottoman Empire just, it's basically taking over the Byzantines. Okay. And the only city left standing is Constantinople. Okay. So you can see over here are the Ottomans. Over here is the Ottomans. Okay. The Ottomans were able to conquer the city because of the invention of the Byzantine of siege engines. Okay. These are, these canyons are as big as houses and they basically overwhelm the walls and allow the Ottomans to overrun the city. Now what's important to understand is even though the Byzantines were Christian and the Ottomans were Muslim, and even though the Turks overran the city, the Turks were extremely respectful to the citizens of the city. Because they were considered the heirs, the successors to the Roman Empire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 18:31 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And this was the center of what we call the Orthodox Church. So the, so, so the citizens were treated extremely well. Okay. This again is another picture of the siege of Constantinople. All right. Let's talk lastly about the significance and power of the city. The city was the center of the world. Okay. Constantinople was the center of the world for hundreds of years, both intellectually, because it, again, it was the here to not just the Roman Empire, but also to Greek civilization. It was also in terms of trade, the capital of the world, because it was a meeting place of both the Aegean, which leads to the Mediterranean, as well as the Black Sea, which leads into what is Russia today. Okay. So if you wanted to go anywhere, you basically had to go through Constantinople. It was really the center of the world. And through trade, taxing trade, the city became extremely wealthy. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 19:32 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Also because it was the center of the world, it was very multicultural, very cosmopolitan. You had basically all major ethnicities living inside the city. Jews, Christians, Muslims were all treated with extreme tolerance. They basically had their own quarters within the city. Okay. As you can see, at its height, the city was extremely beautiful and very wealthy. It was really, for a hundred years, the capital of the world, the capital of the universe basically. As you can see, it is almost impossible to besiege. Okay. You can never cut it off from supplies. You can never isolate the city because it is the meeting place of so many rivers. Okay. This is the Bosporus. Okay. So that is the Roman Empire, okay? So this is the, again, what we know about it. And now I'm going to explain my theory to these three questions. Why did Constantine make the move from Rome to Byzantium? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 20:44 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Why did it rise? Why did it decline? Okay. But before I start with my explanation, are there any questions about what I just presented? This is all pretty basic stuff. This is stuff you can find on the internet, on Wikipedia. You can ask, chat to Bettina, and he'll probably give you the same answers, okay? But are there any questions so far about Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire before I present my ideas? Was this clear to you guys? Any questions, guys? Right. Okay. That's a great question. So culturally, were the Romans at this time Greek or Roman? And you're absolutely right, Doug, in that. Greek culture is really the hegemon, right? I mean, it's so much so superior to Roman culture. I mean, Romans really were peasants who built an empire, but the Greeks basically built Western civilization, okay? You had Homer. You had Plato. You had Herodotus. The Romans ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 22:42 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: were aware of this, and this was a conflict within Roman culture, civilization, for a long, long time. Because they felt that even though they had conquered the world, they didn't want to conquer They were about to be conquered culturally by the Greeks. So the Romans were aware of this, and they rebelled against this. And you weren't here for my lecture on the Aeneid, but really, Augustus Caesar sponsored the writing of the Aeneid in response to the hegemony of Greek culture. So even though you're right in that most of the Roman aristocracy, they embraced Greek culture, such as, like, Mark Anthony, right? Mark Anthony saw himself as more Christian. He saw himself as more Greek than Roman. There was a lot of pushback from the empire against this, okay? But eventually, as we'll see, eventually Greek culture does triumph, all right? So let me explain how. All right. So the first question I want to look at is, why did Constantine make the move from Rome to Byzantium, okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 23:50 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: So let me give you some background. Okay. So during the time of Augustus, Augustus, we today see him as the first Roman emperor. But he didn't himself see himself as the first emperor. He just saw himself as just a citizen of Rome, okay? He is what we call a princep, or he calls himself a princep. And this is where we get the modern English word prince, as well as principal, high school principal. And it just means first citizen. So again, the problem with Rome is that... You had the aristocracy, through the Senate, monopolize all wealth and power. And this led to a lot of contradictions and conflicts within the Roman Empire. And so the solution that Augustus proposed is, make the princep, make me the CEO, okay? This is still committee. It's still rule by committee, but I'll be the coordinator, I'll be the CEO, okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 24:50 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And the idea here was... Okay. So even though this was not a great system, it did preserve the culture, okay? The history, the legacy, and the traditions of the Roman people. And that was what was important, to protect and preserve the culture, especially the idea of libertas, okay? Liberty. But this system didn't really work, right? You had these civil wars. You had a lot of provincial riots. Okay? Rebellions. So this system simply didn't work. And this led to what we call the crisis of the third century, when basically the Roman Empire was about to collapse, okay? And again, as we said, a governor, a commander named Diocletian, he saved the Roman Empire by reuniting, okay? And at this point, he's like, this system doesn't work. What we need to do is study the Persian Empire, because even though we don't like the Persians, their empire seems a lot more sustainable and continuous than our empire, okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 25:58 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And so this started a period, what we call the Dominate, okay? Basically the idea of starting an imperial bureaucracy, centralizing power with the emperor through the bureaucracy. And the Romans hated this idea, okay? What emperors discovered is this cultural shift. What? The Romans just found it absolutely disgusting. Go back to the assassination of Julius Caesar, right? The Romans were extremely culturally arrogant. Why did they assassinate Julius Caesar? And the people who assassinated Julius Caesar were his best friends. In fact, we believe Marcus Brutus, who was one of the lead conspirators, was actually his biological son, right? Why? Because Julius Caesar was threatening the cultural traditions of Rome. They were afraid that Julius Caesar would become king. Okay? So what these emperors, first under Diocletian, but especially under Constantine, discovered is it's really hard to change culture. And there's really one solution to this problem. Okay, to understand this, let's run a thought experiment, okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 27:11 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: So you understand the persistence of culture. So we're at school, and this school is known for being innovative. It's known for being innovative. It's known for being student -centered. It focuses a lot on activities and extracurriculars, right? And that's great. I'm very supportive of this. But let's just say that the school brings me in as a consultant and asks me to help improve the school. And I spend months interviewing students and teachers, and I feel this school is great in terms of innovation, but it needs to focus more on academics. Kids need to focus more on academics. Kids need to read more. Kids need to focus more on test scores. And then you have a perfect balance, okay? And that's my solution. Well, I'm pretty sure if I tried that, I'd be fired within a week. Okay? And the reason why is I am attacking your cultural traditions. I'm attacking your identity, your sense of self. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 28:17 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1697s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1697s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: So if I want to implement my vision, I can't force my vision on you. Okay? So what I can do is switch schools and build my own school. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Okay? And this is a pretty persistent thing throughout the world, okay? So that's why Constantine made the move to Byzantium. He recognized that if I'm going to build an empire, and Rome needs to be an empire if it is to endure, I need to switch cultures. And the best way to switch culture is by moving your capital from Rome. Rome to Byzantium. And when he did that, the entire culture shifted. Okay? So let me very quickly explain the cultural shift. In Rome, it was pagan. Okay? Oh, by the way, pagan is not the word that they use. Okay? Pagan is a word that Christians use to insult them, basically. Okay? But for the sake of convenience, we'll use the word pagan. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 29:20 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: That was their religion. They were Roman, meaning that they had a distinct cultural identity. And lastly, they were republic, meaning they were run by the Senate, basically. Okay? Not just Senate, but by tradition and by custom. Okay? By Senate poll, okay, the Byzantine Empire was completely different. First of all, it was Christian. And the pagan and Christian worldview are in conflict with each other. This is a major shift. Second is they were multicultural. So, as Doug says, in the time of Rome, in the time of Augustus, there was a major conflict, major debate between Roman culture and Greek culture. But when they switched over to Constantinople, they completely embraced Greek culture. In fact, the language switched from being Roman to Greek. They spoke Greek. And they embraced Greek culture. Herodotus. Plato. Plato were major thinkers that the Byzantine Empire embraced and celebrated. And lastly, it switched from ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 30:41 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: being republic, meaning that it went, being run by Senate, to an empire, which basically meant it was being run by a bureaucracy. Okay? So, Byzantine, the Byzantine Empire, is a very distinct entity from the Roman Empire. Historians today argue the Byzantine Empire is a continuation of the Roman Empire, but that's only a superficial and shallow understanding. Culturally, the Byzantine Empire was a radical departure from the Roman Empire or the Roman Republic. Okay? And so, I will explain what these differences are. And this, it's been important because it's going to inform our understanding of future events in Western civilization. Okay? So, let me first explain the difference in worldview between the pagan and the Christian. All right? All right. Pagan. And again, guys, I will have to make a lot of generalizations, but it's a useful framework for the understanding of ancient cultures. Okay? So, what's the pagan worldview? Well, in the pagan worldview, there are different layers to your understanding of the world. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 32:00 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1920s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1920s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: The forces, the superpowers. The two supernatural forces that you interact with intimately are the gods. Okay? And the gods is really a metaphorical way to understand nature. Right? So, in nature, there are all of these natural forces that we can't really see. For example, the wind. We can't really see the wind. But also, we can't really see creativity or luck. Well, in the pagan worldview, these hidden invisible forces are the forces of nature. Okay? So, these invisible forces are rendered and expressed as gods. Okay? And the gods are those that we interact with every day on an intimate basis. It was very important for us to maintain good relations with the gods by making ritual tributes to the gods. Okay? So, sacrifice and rituals were a very important part of the pagan worldview. Above the gods are actually even higher invisible forces that no one has seen before. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 33:03 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=1983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: No one has control of. Okay? Which includes fate. Which includes luck. Okay? Fortune. Okay? But there are these invisible forces that even the gods must submit to. And then, at the highest level, are what are called unwritten and immutable. Immutable just means unable to change, eternal, laws of the universe. And think of this structure. As giving the universe some order and structure. Okay? So, think of gravity. Right? It's an unwritten and immutable law of the universe. And what they really mean by this is the idea really of karma or justice. Right? If you do good in the world, good will happen to you. If you do evil in the world, evil will happen to you. It may not happen to you, but it may happen to your children. Okay? So, there is a cosmic balance to the world. And this is really the pagan worldview. Right? The Christian worldview is very simple. There's you. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 34:14 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Okay? You. And then there's God. And the thing that matters is your personal relationship with God. That's it guys. Alright? So, let's look at the three major differences between the pagan worldview and the Christian worldview. Okay? And again, this is a generalized, simplified version. And we use it. We use it in order to be clear about the differences and that there are, in fact, differences. Alright. So, the three major differences are this. The Christian worldview introduces into the Roman world three ideas that really didn't exist before. Okay? They are truth, evil, and the individual. Now, these ideas actually existed in other traditions, like the Jewish tradition and the Persian tradition through Zoroastrianism. But they really didn't exist. They existed in the Greek and the Roman tradition. So, the counterpart to truth in the pagan tradition is the idea of chaos or luck. Okay? So, there's no structure to the universe. In the Christian worldview, there's a God who has designed the universe. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 35:31 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And that is the truth. Okay? So, the intention of God is the truth. The plan is the truth. Whereas in the pagan worldview. There's no design, guys. It's just complete random chaos. And you just have to do try your best in this world. Okay? In the Christian worldview is the idea of evil. Which is if you go against the intention of God, you commit sin. That is evil. Now, what's interesting for us is in the pagan worldview, the opposite idea is action. Okay? In other words, in the world of chaos. You have to act. Okay? You have to do stuff. If you refuse to act, you are a slave. So think back to the Iliad. Right? In the Iliad, Achilles says why he is in Troy. Why he's fighting in Troy. And he says that before he came to Troy, he was told his fate. He could either die old back at home or he could die young in Troy. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 36:46 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: But by dying young in Troy, he'll become famous. He'll be remembered forever. And for Achilles, that's not really a choice. What he's being told is you must come to Troy and you must die. And that will win you eternal glory. Okay? It's the idea of action. Also think of the Romans. Okay? In their legends, they have a name named Musius. Remember? At the beginning of the Roman Republic. The Romans are besieged by the Etruscan king. And Musius is a young, normal man, only 20 years old. He decides to assassinate the king in order to free the Romans. He swims across the Tiber and he's about to do his deed, but it's payday. And the king is with his secretary. And they look alike. They dress alike. They look alike. And Musius is hiding with his dagger and he knows it's 50 -50. Okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 37:43 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Now, for us, we'd be like, you know what? 50 -50 is terrible odds. So let me come back another day. Or let me be more patient. But for Musius, it's fortune favors the bold. So he's like, 50 -50 is great. It's great odds. I'm never getting better odds. So he takes his dagger and he kills the secretary. Okay? He misses. Then he's captured by the king and the king wants to torture him and force him to confess. And the king threatens him and says, I will burn you alive. Okay? There's a great fire beside Musius if you do not tell me the truth. And what Musius does is he puts his hand into the fire and lets it burn in front of the king. And that scares the king. Okay? That's the idea of action. You make your fortune through your action. You cannot sit and wait. You cannot deliberate. You cannot be clever. You're just apt. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 38:43 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: You're just brave. Okay? That's a pagan worldview. This is important for us. This is important for us because the people who will feature in our course who's very important and who follow this worldview are also the Vikings. Okay? So the Vikings share this similar worldview. It's a pagan worldview. The last thing is the idea, in the Christian worldview, it's an individual that matters. The individual's soul is what matters. Okay? But in the pagan worldview, what matters is the community. Why are Achilles... Why is Achilles fighting in Troy? Why is Musius sacrificing himself for Rome? Because they want to be remembered by their community. Alright? So let me give you two examples of this. Let's go back to the Iliad. Hector. Remember Hector? Hector, in the Iliad, he is the greatest Trojan warrior and he's destroying the Greeks because Achilles refuses to fight. But then Achilles enters the battlefield. And at this point, he's not fighting. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 39:51 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Hector's lieutenant tells him, Hector, Achilles is back. Let's go home. Let's go hide behind the walls of Troy. We'll be fine. But Hector says, no. Fortune favors the both. The gods are with me. And so, of course, Achilles and the Greeks destroy the Trojans. And they're all forced to run back to the walls of Troy. Every Roman enters Troy except for Hector. Hector stays outside the walls of Troy. And waits for Achilles to come. He knows for a fact that Achilles will kill him. Achilles is a god. He's a great warrior, but he's not a god. And at this point, he knows he's about to be killed. And most of us would just sneak back into the walls of Troy, right? He can't do that because he's afraid of being laughed at by his lieutenant. He's afraid of shame. He has to die for his community. He has to die for his community. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 40:50 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2450s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Okay? So that's Hector. But also, think about Lucretia. Lucretia. Lucretia, remember, is the woman, noblewoman, who is raped by the son of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. And this is what starts the rebellion that overflows the Roman monarchy. Lucretia is raped. And then she kills him. Lucretia kills herself because she's dishonored. And Augustine, remember Augustine in the City of God, he writes about this. Okay? And from his perspective, it was a crime for Lucretia to kill herself. Why? Because we are all the creation of God. Therefore, we are the property of God. Therefore, when we kill ourselves, we are committing a sin against God. We are basically stealing. We are stealing from God. And that's why if you commit suicide, you'll be condemned to hell forever. Okay? You'll be condemned to damnation forever. And then Augustine explains Lucretia killed herself because she's afraid of the shame that she would have to endure if she lived. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 42:13 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: She was afraid that she'd be laughed at by the other woman of Rome. Okay? And that's the idea of community versus the indemnity. Okay? And that's the idea of community versus the indemnity. So, it's a radically different worldview, the pagan versus the Christian. Let me explain some other differences. For example, the attitude towards sex. Okay? Christians, because we live in a Christian world, we know that sex is bad. Okay? Sex should only happen between husband and wife, and it should only happen for the purpose of procreation. We shouldn't do it because we enjoy it. The pagans have the complete opposite attitude towards sex. Sex was to be embraced. It was to be enjoyed. It was to be celebrated. Why? Because if the gods didn't mean for us to have sex, they wouldn't make it so much fun. Okay? So, sex was a very important part of pagan life, as well as violence. Okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 43:21 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: They also embraced and celebrated violence. Okay? So, think about the Vikings. Think about the Romans. Right? They loved violence, and the Christians hated violence. So, the argument is that the Christian worldview is an improvement on the pagan worldview, because the pagans, they had things like orgies. They had things like child sacrifice. They had things like genocide. Okay? This is all bad, right? But, remember, and this is really important. Okay? These are just two different worldviews. And it's hard for us to objectively assess which one is better. We can only say that they both have their benefits, and they both have their consequences. Okay? So, an example is food. If we were to go to America today and look at the food that Americans eat, we'd be disgusted, right? Hamburgers, Coca -Cola, French fries. But guess what, guys? If Americans were to come to China, they would be equally disgusted by the food that Chinese eat. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 44:32 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Okay? Like malatang and this stuff. Okay? Some of this stuff is really bad for you. So, I would keep that in mind. It's easy for us to be culturally arrogant and say, like, we are so better than these ancients. But it's all a matter of perspective. If we were to go back in time and look at the pagan world, we'd be disgusted by the murders, by the violence, by all the sex going on. Okay? But at the same time, and this is really hard for us to understand, but if they were to come here, if they were to time travel and come here and see our world, they'd be disgusted. Okay? Because, like, from their perspective, we'd behave like slaves. Achilles is out winning glory on the beaches of Troy, while we are in school memorizing useless facts so that we can get useless pieces of paper so that we can make useless things. Pieces of money. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 45:28 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Right? Money is paper. They would not understand why we're doing this to ourselves. All right? So, I would keep that in mind. Like, the pagan worldview is very different from the Christian worldview, and that's it. All right? And, in fact, we will later in the semester discover that there are some thinkers such as Nietzsche, Frederick Nietzsche, who believe that the switch from the pagan worldview to the Christian worldview was a major setback in the development of civilization. Okay? All right. Any questions about the difference between the pagans and the Christians before I move on? Any questions? Was this clear? All right. Now, let's move on to the idea of republic versus empire. Okay? And, look, I mean, the differences are pretty stark. Right? So, in a republic, it's usually just like egalitarianism. Okay? Everyone's opinion does matter. And, in an empire, there's a hierarchy. Okay? So, that's the first major difference. Okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 46:47 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: In a republic, people are egalitarian. And, in an empire, there's a hierarchy. So, think about this. In the Persian empire, if you were to meet the emperor, what you have to do was prostrate yourself first and then kiss his feet. All right? That's the idea of empire. But, in a republic, you didn't do that. In fact, even though Rome was becoming a welfare city, a major tradition in Rome was you didn't lock your doors. You didn't have guards. So, a senator who was in charge of Gaul, he could literally put millions of people to death if he wanted to. He didn't lock his door. So, you, the lowliest Roman, could just walk into his house and have tea with him or coffee with him and talk about life. Okay? That was the tradition in Rome. Also, another thing is when Roman senators walked the streets of Rome, they always carried an umbrella, something called a, to protect themselves. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 47:53 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Okay? And the reason why is this. Roman houses were two stories, and they didn't have a sewage system. So, if you did go to the bathroom, you did so using a bucket on the second floor. Okay? And so, what would happen is, if you saw someone you didn't like walk the streets, you would actually take your bucket and throw all this shit at him. Okay? That's literally what they did. So, if you were a senator, you could be the most powerful man in the world, but you could still literally risk having shit thrown at you. Okay? So, that's the Roman world. It was egalitarian. Where there's an empire, there's hierarchy. So, in the egalitarian world, it means there's openness. People are open to new ideas. There's debate. Okay? Literally anyone could propose a new idea. Whereas, in the empire, it was a very closed system. Okay? They didn't like new ideas. So, go back to the example of Greek fire. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 49:01 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=2941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Right? A guy, and it's a story, so we don't know if it's true. But a guy had to go to the emperor and get his approval before the military could adopt it. That's really inefficient, guys. Okay? The Greeks would have just gone and done it. The Romans would have let the commanders make their own decisions. It would not have been the decision of the Senate. It would have been the decision of the military commander that was appointed by the Senate. Okay? So, the republic would be much more innovative than the empire. Okay? Because the republic would be much more open. Okay? So, there would be a lot more diversity in a republic. And in an empire, things would be much more conformist. Okay? You would have a lot more creativity, a lot more diversity within a republic than within an empire. All right? And that's kind of intuitive ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 50:00 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: because, if you think about it, an empire has so much more people and so much more wealth and resources than a republic. But, historically, we found that republics and democracies are much more innovative and creative than empires. And the reason has to do with the idea of a bureaucracy. All right? Something that a democracy or a republic does not have is the idea of an imperial bureaucracy. All right? They have bureaucracies, but they're not that big and they're not imperial. So, let's talk about bureaucracy. All right? And this is a very important idea that I want you guys to remember for the rest of the semester because we will refer to this idea. All right? Now, in the beginning, bureaucracies are good for empires because what they do is they do centralization. All right? They're able to centralize the empire, unite the empire, basically. Something that they do that's important is the idea of systemization. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 51:08 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: All right? Basically, keep records, create laws, systemization. And last is the idea of standardization. Standardization. Uniformity. Okay? So, getting people to speak the same language, getting people to use the metric system, getting people to use money. All right? And this creates tremendous wealth within the empire in the early years because, again, what you have is you have the creation of money because you have a legal system. You have a monopoly on violence. Monopoly on violence just means that these neighbors don't fight anymore. Okay? Because there's a police. There are these courts. They can just sue each other. There's a legal system and people are now using money. This leads to contracts and this leads to trade and increased economic activity. So, you have peace and prosperity. People feel safe. People feel that life is predictable. So, they do more. They work harder. Okay? And this leads to, in the early stages of an empire, to tremendous prosperity. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 52:25 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#bureaucracy-institutional-death-atlas); [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: Okay? But, over time, what will happen is this bureaucracy will ossify. Meaning, the people within the bureaucracy will think of how to use the bureaucracy for their own personal benefit. Okay? We can say this is corruption. Okay? So, centralization leads to corruption where just a minority of people with all the power use it for their own personal benefit. They're basically parasites. The technical word we use for this is rent seeking. Okay? Rent seeking. So, think of landlords who charge rent to their tenants. Well, if it's a monopoly, they can charge as much as they want. There's nothing you can do about it. Okay? It's what we call rent seeking. Okay? So, centralization eventually leads to corruption. Systemization leads to, ultimately, stagnation. Okay? There's nothing new going on. And, centralization leads to the idea of conformity or homonization. Okay? Where everything becomes the same. Where everything is bland. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 53:46 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-monopolizes-meta-reality) Text: Okay. So, why this happens? What happens is because even though the bureaucracy is only an institution among different institutions. Okay? So, think about this. You have the pure bureaucracy, but they are competing against the court system. Okay? Which is basically emperor. Okay? And, the court is usually controlled by eunuchs. Okay? So, these are servants of the emperor. The bureaucracy is up against the court. It's also up against the nobility. Right? The traditional power of society. It's also up against the military. It's also up against the church. Okay? So, there are different institutions that can counter the bureaucracy. But, over time, in terms of peace and prosperity, if things are really stable, eventually, the bureaucracy triumphs over all these other institutions. Okay? And, the reason why is this. First is the bureaucracy can monopolize status. Okay? And, mobility. So, if you're just an ordinary person, well, the best way to rise from a society is through the bureaucracy. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 55:16 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-monopolizes-meta-reality) Text: This is certainly true in China. Right? Where everyone wants to be a bureaucrat because that's seen as the mechanism of achieving social status as well as social mobility. Also, bureaucracies monopolize information. It controls what information flows into the system. It controls what the emperor sees. Okay? So, we can say this is about censorship and secrecy. And, the last thing that it does is it monopolizes the idea of narrative. Okay? It controls the production of culture. And, we can... So, and it does this mainly through the process of writing history. Okay? So, remember, history is the creation of a cultural narrative to bind people together. And, it's usually the imperial bureaucrats who do this. In other words, what's important for us to understand is the bureaucrats have a monopoly of literacy and knowledge. They control the schools. They control the media. They control history writing. They control how you think and write. So, even though these are... ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 56:51 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3411s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3411s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt) Text: They are competing institutions, the bureaucracy, by controlling this meta -reality that's culture, it controls the way that these other institutions behave. Okay? So, the example I want to use... The example I want to use is the idea of the Godhead. Alright? The Godhead. So, my argument to you is the Godhead, it's really a bureaucratic invention. Alright? Because, remember, during the Council of Nicaea, there's a debate as to the nature of Jesus. There are these Aryans who believe that Jesus was a lesser divinity. Then, there are people who call... Who believed in modalism. Who just believe the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and God were different forms of the same entity. Then, you have partialism, which is to say that they are part of the same entity. Okay? And these three different explanations make sense. They make intuitive sense. The idea of the Godhead, where God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are co -equal. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 58:13 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: Separate, but the same thing. Makes no sense. And the reason why they would do this is to create a sense of mystery. Right? And distance. And secrecy. And that, my friends, is the definition of a bureaucracy. Right? I'm not sure if you've dealt with bureaucracies. I have. They suck. They dehumanize you. So, think of... I'll just use a silly example. Right? So, in America, there's something called a census. And on the census, you have to write down what racial group you belong to. And the racial group I belong to, if I were American, is Asian American. Right? Guess what? Guess who else belongs in that group? Indian people. Vietnamese people. Japanese people. Korean people. That makes no sense. We know that in Asia, the Indian culture is vastly different from the Japanese culture, which is vastly different from the Korean culture and the Chinese culture and the Vietnamese culture. Okay? These are different people with their own belief systems. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 59:25 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: But in a bureaucracy, it just categorizes everyone together almost randomly or indifferently. Okay? And that's why I would make the argument that, ultimately, multicultural societies are not as creative. They're not as creative as tribal societies. Okay? Tribal versus multicultural. Think about the multicultural societies that are around us today. Okay? Singapore is a multicultural society. Canada is a multicultural society. They're not very creative guys. They're very bland. They're very conformist. They're very bureaucratic. Okay? Very tribal societies, like the Greeks. The Greeks were extremely tribal. They were extremely chauvinistic. Okay? They were extremely creative. Right? As were, as are the Europeans. Okay? As are the Vikings. And the reason why is, tribalism is energetic. It makes you passionate. It makes you think deeply about the world. Whereas in a multicultural society, people have to spend their energies getting along with each other. It's important not to be offensive. Okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 1:00:53 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) - Related lens: [Bureaucracy As Institutional Death](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/bureaucracy-as-institutional-death.txt#bureaucracy-blocks-its-founding-genius) Text: And so, it's because of these three reasons, the certain cultural construct of the Byzantine Empire, it was Christian. It was multicultural. The word we can also use is cosmopolitan. Okay? Also, it was bureaucratic. The Byzantines were not a very creative people. Okay? Even though they had access to every culture in the world, even though they had access to the classics like Plato, Homer, Herodotus, as well as Virgil, they were not that creative. In fact, if you had a genius like Homer or Dante living in the Byzantine Empire, well, he would just become a bureaucrat. We would never know the genius of Homer and Dante. Homer and Dante could only arise in tribal societies. So, does that make sense to you guys? Okay. And again, this is just an introduction to the conflict between these political systems. Empire versus Republic. Bureaucracy versus... Yeah. All right? We will continue these themes and these topics as we move on throughout Western history. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 1:02:20 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: But I want to say something. But I first want to introduce these ideas to you. It's really important that you understand the difference between paganism and Christianity because we'll be referring to this conflict, this division, later on in the semester as well. Any questions about this? Please feel free to argue. Okay? Please feel free to ask questions, to argue because when you do that, it helps me improve my own thinking. All right? Any comments? Any feedback? Okay. So, I want to give you guys some time to think about questions. But before I do that, I want to look ahead over the next couple of weeks and tell you what we'll be doing. Okay? So, we did the Roman Empire, then we did the Byzantines. So, as I explained to you, the Roman Empire, Western Roman Empire, will collapse in the year 476. When? When the last emperor, Romulus Augustus, is deposed. Okay? ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 1:03:36 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: But when he's deposed, people don't understand the Roman Empire has come to an end. Okay? Because the people who are still in charge think the Roman Empire is continuing. But now, we have a long period of civil wars throughout Europe. All right? And these civil wars will eventually lead to something called the Holy Roman Empire, which is something that the... Which is what Charlemagne of the Franks will create. And this will lead, interesting for us, to the rise of the Vikings. Okay? Okay? And the Vikings are important because they will go on and basically influence British culture, as well as Russian culture. All right? So, Russia comes from the idea of the Rus'. Okay? And the Rus' are basically just Vikings. Over here, we will begin, we will see the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate, which is really the golden age of the Muslims. But, eventually, they'll be conquered by the Mongols. All right? And the conquest of the Mongols will eventually take us into the Renaissance, Dante. ## The Empire That Swallowed Its Geniuses -- 1:04:59 - Source title: Civilization #33: The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-25, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abs6z7VPEMc&t=3899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-abs6z7vpemc.json) Text: And this will mark a new beginning in world history. Okay? So, I just want to explain to you what we'll be doing. We will definitely have to do the Holy Roman Empire. That's number one. Then, this will lead us to the Vikings, number two. Then, we'll talk about the Abbasid Caliphate, number three. And then, we'll talk about the Mongols, and then the Renaissance. Okay? So, this is what we'll be doing over the next two to three weeks. All right? We'll be going very fast throughout. We'll be going very fast this semester. Okay? So, just to let you know. All right? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So welcome to the first class of the second semester. This semester we are going to build on what we've learned the first semester to better understand human history and to better understand what's happening in the world today and also to be able to predict the future. Okay, so if you have been following current events, and I hope you have, there are now three major conflicts in the world. The first and most devastating is the war in the Ukraine, where Russia and Ukraine have been in conflict for about three years now, and a lot of people have died. There's controversy over the exact number, but it's possible. It's possible that over a million soldiers have died in this war so far, and even though President Donald Trump of the United States has shown signs that he wants to end the war, we don't really know when the war will end. Okay, so this ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:23 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=83s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=83s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: war in Ukraine, it is still happening, and it's affecting everything and everyone because obviously, it brings a lot of instability and uncertainty in the world, but it's also driving up prices and it's making things inconvenient. So when you fly the United States, you'll discover that it takes you long enough to fly the United States because you can't fly through Russia. You have to fly around Russia, okay? So that's the first major conflict. The second conflict, which is not as deadly, but which will probably prove to be even more dangerous, is the war in the Middle East, the conflict in the Middle East. As you know, for the past couple years, Israel has been in conflict with basically most of its neighbors. It's launched an expedition into the Gaza Strip against Hamas, what Hamas did on October 7th. It's launched a war against Lebanon. It's involved in Syria, and it's a war against Israel. And the signs tell us that this conflict will spread. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 2:44 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Trump has come in and promised a resolution to the conflict, but as I will show you this semester, there are historical structural forces that make this conflict possibly the beginning of World War Three. This conflict will only increase. The great fear right now is Israel attacks Iran and drives the United States into war with Iran. And this will mark the beginning of World War Three, and this could possibly lead to the end of the world as we know it today. If the United States attacks Iran, both Russia and China must intervene in some capacity. Does that make sense to you guys? Iran right now, is the linchpin of the global economy. The first reason is there's a lot of oil in Iran in the Middle East. And China, South Korea, and Japan get most of its oil from the Middle East, right? So if the oil supplies ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 4:04 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: cut off, then the Chinese economy, the South Korean economy, the Japanese Basically, all of East Asia faces economic collapse and catastrophe, okay? But second is, if you look at a map, Iran is really the center of the world, meaning most of the world's trade goes through that area, especially something called the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has a capacity to cut off all trade in the Strait of Hormuz, and that would be catastrophe for the global economy. And if that were to happen, then the Western powers would need to get involved in order to free up the Strait of Hormuz, and then Russia, India, China, who knows? Okay, but a lot of people would have to get involved in order to protect their economic interests. So I will go into the semester and I will go into the semester and I will go into the semester and we'll talk a lot about what's driving the conflict in the Middle East. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 5:17 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: There are these geopolitical factors, as I've discussed, but there are also these religious factors that we looked into a bit last semester, but I will explain more this semester, okay? And then the third and final conflict is basically the United States against the world. What I mean by that is, that ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, we have been living in something called a unipolar moment, meaning there's only one hegemon, one superpower. And as such, the United States has been able to dictate policy, especially economic policy, around the world. The United States controls all trade. We have to use the US dollar, we have to use the US dollar in order to trade. The United States also uses its military to protect shipping lanes. And this is a criticism called the Pax Americana, the American peace. And this, of course, has brought tremendous prosperity to the world. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 6:35 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: China would not have grown as fast as China did without the Pax Americana. It is American ships, American warships, that allow Chinese ships to sail safely around the world, to deliver goods around the world. But this unipolar moment has also created a lot of conflict. The main conflict being, the United States can invade any country for no reason. 2003, it invaded Iraq for no reason. It destroyed Libya for no reason. It almost destroyed Syria for no reason. So the number of countries, the United States has gone and destroyed, are just staggering. So, and that's why Russia, under Putin, because it felt bullied, it felt disrespected, that's why Russia is now in conflict with the United States. And strangely enough, this conflict has caused the United States to go into conflict with the rest of the world, okay? So as you may know, the United States right now, under Trump, has declared, or is about to launch trade wars against a lot of countries. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 8:01 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=481s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=481s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Canada, Mexico, quite possibly, very quickly, the European Union, and the United States is already at economic war with Russia and China, okay? So we will go, this semester, we will also discuss this semester why this is happening. Again, my argument to you is that if you know enough history, if you study the history of the United States, if you study the historical structural forces that drive global conflict, then you will understand what's going on, and you will also be able to predict what will happen. Does that make sense? Okay, so what I want to talk today is about a new model of historical analysis. How can we understand the movement of history. Why do people do what they do? Why do nations go to war? Why do nations have peace? Okay, so I'm looking at grand history. I'm looking at the large structural movement of history. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 9:24 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: And in the past, there have been two main models for understanding historical development. Okay, so the first is the idea of a cycle or a circle. And this makes sense, right? Because this mirrors what we experience in life. When we are born, but then we die. And then other people are born, and then they die. Okay, so it's a cycle. You look at the seasons. There's winter, but that gives rise to spring, which then gives rise to summer, then the fall, then winter again. It's a cycle. Okay, so for most of human history, most people have understood the movement of the world as a cycle. This is certainly true in Chinese history, right? Dynasties rise because they have the mandate of heaven. Heaven favors them. And then they rise because they have the mandate of heaven. Heaven favors them. And then they do justice when they first arise. But over ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 10:27 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=627s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=627s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: time, for a variety of reasons, because of corruption, because there's a bad emperor, they lose the mandate of heaven, which allows a rebellion, which then creates a new dynasty. So Chinese history is almost a continuous cycle of dynastic rise and decline. Okay, now, in the Western context, there's also a cycle. There are many different cycles. But let me explain. One cycle that we've noticed in the Greek and Roman world. The cycle is this. There are three major factions in a society. There is the people, there is nobility, and then there is the king, or a great person. Okay? And each of these factions have a particular strength. The people, their strength comes from their numbers. Right? They have mass. The nobility is only minority of people, but they have authority. They are respected, because they know more. They are better at war than ordinary people. But they have authority, okay? People respect them. And the king has the army. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 12:09 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Okay? so these are the three major forces or factions in a society and these three factions are always in conflict and what happens is a changing alliance where the two of the three get together to beat one okay and then this forces a new alliance right so what happens is this you first have something called a oligarchy where the nobility is in charge and everyone has to do what they do what what they command okay but over time this oligarchy becomes corrupt and the way and the the way they become corrupt is by exploiting people for debt all right so in an ability the nobles own the land you have to work the land but you get a share and that's fine you get a share and that's fine but sometimes the weather is bad so you can't work the land you can't pay me the rent so I give you ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 13:23 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=803s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: a loan and over time this loan becomes a debt and at a certain point you can't pay off the debt so what happens you become my slave and your children become my slave as well okay so this creates a lot of conflict in society how is this conflict resolved because one of nobility is the nobility and the other is the nobility and the other is the nobility wants to be king and he sees an opportunity in the civil conflict between the people and the nobility okay so he tells the people if you make me king I will clear your debts and this creates a monarchy and the first king is usually a good king because you have to work hard to obtain his position and people love him for the fact that he cleared his debts and he's a good king because he has to work hard to obtain his position and people love him ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 14:24 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=864s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=864s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: for the fact that he cleared away their debts this this is what we call jubilee by the way the word is jubilee and this happens a lot in human history but the problem is the king has a son who's not so good and then the son has a son who's awful okay and so the nobility get angry the people get angry and the rebel and they create a democracy okay but then in the democracy because what happened is they in a democracy is it's the best people or the best speakers the wealthiest people who control the votes and so they get together and what do they do they and what do they do they create an Arlarchy okay you see how the cycle works the cycle goes on and on and on these three factions always in conflict with each other and they're and and the way they form alliances creates a certain form of ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 15:27 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: government okay when the nobility is in charge in an Arlarchy when but then a king and the people work together or throw in a create a monarchy and then they and the king becomes corrupt and so the nobility and the people work together create a democracy okay and you can see the cycle happening today United States as well right because who is Trump Trump is a king does that make sense to you guys what is king what what is Trump Trump is a king does that make sense to you guys what is king what is Trump saying Trump is saying to the people the elite are corrupt the elite are stealing from you the elite are lying to you vote for me and I will destroy the elite and I will give you more economic opportunities okay do you understand so this is a really important idea Trump is not only president for four years ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 16:21 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: his ambition is to be king okay and we see the cycle throughout human history four years his ambition is to be king okay and we see the cycle throughout human history so that's idea of a cycle right we also have so that's idea of a cycle right we also have another model of human history another model of human history of human historical development which is a line of human historical development which is a line okay a line the idea of progress okay a line the idea of progress towards truth okay so that's the other towards truth okay so that's the other competing model okay there are two main competing model okay there are two main models there's a cycle and then there's models there's a cycle and then there's a line and the idea of a line is human a line and the idea of a line is human society does not go on and ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 17:03 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1023s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1023s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: on us in a useless cycle it is moving towards a truth is moving towards a good end okay so then this idea has been around for a very long time remember in the Bible but when King David first sponsored rhyme a Bible the Bible was a line where yeah with a God he was looking for a friend he was looking for someone who could trust to rule his kingdom of heaven and he first tried Adam and Eve and they disobeyed him then he tried Noah then he tried Abraham and then he tried Moses and then he found his true friend who is David okay so the truth is David you in the Hebrew Bible then you have the Romans okay remember the Romans Virgil was something called the Iniat and in the Iniat Troy was destroyed so that Rome could be founded and when Rome was founded Rome will have to fight this series of ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 18:25 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: wars that will eventually lead to the rise of Augustus Caesar and this will create something called the Pax Romana and this is the end of history this is where all movement ends because once you achieve the Pax Romana there'll be no more war okay so the idea of a lie obviously this is not true but back then when they came up with this history they thought it was true and if you know a little bit about current history then you know about a man named Francis Fukuyama who's an American who works for the government and he was something called the end of history which is an In an essay arguing that when the Soviet Union fell, it showed the end of history. Before history was a battle of ideas, communism, capitalism. And now with the fall of the Soviet Union, we now know that Western liberal consumer democracy is the best system in the world. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 19:31 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: We no longer have to argue about this. Everyone should try to be a liberal consumer democracy, including China. And if everyone became a consumer liberal democracy, there will be no more war. We won't want to fight because we're too busy spending money. And the best way to make money is through trade, not war. We now also know this is not true. But the main proponents of the line theory of history, progress of history, are actually Christians. Why? Because they believe that Jesus marks a turning point in history. And when Jesus came, it marked a progress towards truth. What is truth? Truth is the second coming of Jesus, which will mark the end of the world. When Jesus returns, he will usher in a millennium, a thousand years of peace. When he will be king, we will all have to obey him. What I will show you in the future, when we discuss crusades, the crusades, ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 20:50 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: is that this idea, it sounds like a simple idea, but this idea is what's driving a lot of the conflict in the Middle East. Believe it or not, but there are millions of Christians, they're called Christian Zionists by the way, who want war in the Middle East. Because if there's war in the Middle East, and the world is about to end, Jesus has to return from heaven to save us. Okay? You think this is silly, you think this is crazy, but I'm telling you right now, this idea, which millions of people around the world believe in, it's one of the main causes of the war in the Middle East. And guys, crazy as it may sound, it's not true. Crazy ideas make crazy events. Alright? So there are people who literally believe that we can save the world by ending it. It's only the threat of nuclear holocaust, it's only the threat of the end of Israel that will force Jesus to return, issuing the second coming. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 22:05 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Alright? Now, what's important for us to understand is that these are the two basic frameworks of history. But there are variations to these two basic models. Okay? So for example, Hegel. We'll discuss Friedrich Hegel later on in the semester. He's really important. But he has this idea called the dialectic. The dialectic just means a conflict, a conversation. So what he believes is that history is driven by ideas that are in conflict with each other. Okay? Wherever there's an idea, for example, let's just say you have capitalism. Then what will happen is a new idea will arrive to challenge the existing idea we'll call communism. And then what will happen is these two ideas will merge together and they will draw on the best parts of each other and we can call this socialism. Alright? So it's a line. Okay? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 23:18 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: But it's like this almost. Right? There's an idea, something comes into conflict and this leads to a new idea which then leads to a new idea. Okay? But he still believes that we are progressing towards the truth through this conflict. Alright? So we'll discuss Hegel and his theory of the dialectic later on in the semester. And this will lead, the idea of the dialectic will lead to, of course, Marxism. Okay? So Marx is drawing a lot on Hegel and another philosopher named Immanuel Kant. For his theory of communism. But we'll do that later on in the semester. Alright? So these are the two main models of historical development. You have the cycle, the circle, or you have the line. You either believe that things move in continuous motion or they're moving towards an end. Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions about these two models so far? Okay. So what you will learn this semester is a new model of historical development. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 24:42 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? It's a much more complicated model than these two models. But I think it is much more useful in helping us predict the causes of historical development. Okay? I want to argue why these two models don't really work. And it has to do with the fact that history as an economic discipline is just not very good. It is not. What I mean by that is you look at the world today. There's this Trump presidency. There's this conflict in the Ukraine. There's the Middle East conflict. And you would expect historians to come out and say, oh, this has happened before. And we can then predict what will happen. And so this is what's going to happen. Okay? But guess what, guys? They're not doing that. Also, they're not very good at predicting things. They're just not. History is notorious for not being able to tell us much about the future. And historians say, well, it's because we look at the past. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 26:10 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And for me, this is frustrating because if the history is any good, if the history is accurate, then it should help us predict the future. Or at least better understand the present. Okay? So the idea of truth. What is truth? Well, truth does two things. First, it explains. Why did this happen? When did World War II start? And the answer we have today is like, Hitler was a bad guy. He was evil. Okay? That doesn't explain much for us. And then it also has to predict. It predicts. If it's truthful, then it predicts. And history doesn't do that. So I want to fix this problem by introducing a new model of history, which is a lot more complicated. Okay? I'll be honest with you. It's a lot more complicated. But I think for our purposes, it's more useful at explaining why things happen the way they do. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 27:15 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1635s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1635s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-oceanic-current-becomes-hurricane) Text: And it helps us also predict what will happen. Okay? And this model is what I call the oceanic currents of history. Imagine the world as a huge ocean. And within each ocean, there's an ecosystem, which has currents. And then these currents come into conflict with each other, which leads to a new development. Okay? So think about hurricanes. And the thing that's really important about this model that I'm going to show you, what I'm proposing is there's no moral judgment in it. Okay? I mean, obviously in the line, the end where we're going is good and where we're at now is bad. But what I'm saying is this moral judgment saying this is good, this is bad, it's not helpful. It doesn't really tell us anything. All right? Okay. I'm much more interested in explaining why this happened, how this happened, and where this is going. Okay. So let's look at the world to understand this theory. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 28:31 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: What I want to show you is the world is divided into cultural ecosystems. Cultural ecosystems. This is a really important idea you need to know for the rest of the semester. What I will argue is that culture is the meta -reality. Meta -reality. So what's meta -reality? Meta -reality is the understanding of the world from which all other understandings derive. So what I'm saying is that culture is the most important part of who you are. Much more important than your gender. Much more important than your race, your ethnicity. Much more important than your economic demographic. Okay? Your rich, your poor. Okay? So to understand this idea, why culture is so important, I will do a thought experiment. Okay? A thought experiment. And the thought experiment is this. Let's take a random guy from China 2,000 years ago. Okay? Just a random guy. We'll take him off the streets and we'll put him into China today. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 29:55 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: All right? Now, in 2,000 years, China has changed a lot. Right? We now have the Internet. We have computers. We have cell phones. We have skyscrapers. We have cars. We have roads. Okay? So China has changed a lot in these 2,000 years. How long would it take for him to adapt to the new China? And I would say, I would say at most 5 to 10 years. Because even though on the surface China has changed a lot, deep down inside, China's culture has stayed consistent for the past 3 to 4,000 years. So he would understand how to make friends. He would understand, if he were to get a job, how to associate with his boss and his colleagues. If he were to get married, he would know how to raise his children to have them succeed in China. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? It would take him ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 30:58 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: time to learn how to use a cell phone and how to use a computer and how to drive a car, but he can do so. Does that make sense? Now, let's do another experiment. Let's take a random guy from China today and put him in Germany today. Germany. Okay? What I will argue is this. He will never, ever be able to adapt to the culture. He may get a job as a pizza delivery man. Who knows? Okay? But he will never, ever make friends who are German. He won't find a German wife. Whatever job he does, he won't know how to succeed. He won't know what to say to his boss. He won't know how to associate with his boss. Okay? Does that make sense? This is a guy who knows the internet, who knows how to drive a car, who can speak English, but because of the culture, he's always a stranger. Does that make sense? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 32:09 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=1929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: This thought experiment, I hope, shows you the persistence of culture. It's the most important part of who you are. It drives everything else. It drives how you see the world. It drives how you interact with others. Okay? So what matters is the culture and nothing else. What I want to show you is, this semester, is the world can be divided into cultural ecosystems because of the history, because of the geography, because of the demographics. Okay? Does that make sense? So, look. Europe is a great country. It has a great cultural ecosystem. All right? Meaning, someone from Germany can go to Italy and still feel at home. They don't speak the same language. The geography is different. But they share the same cultural orientation, the same cultural values. All right? Someone who lives in the Middle East. Okay? Well, someone called the Levant, Israel and other places. Okay? But basically the Middle East. That's also another cultural ecosystem. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 33:27 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And then you have the steppes. Okay? So remember the steppes are this grassland, this ocean of grassland that basically extends from Hungary to Mongolia. Okay? And then you have China, India. Okay? So there are these different ecosystems, cultural ecosystems, that are determined by their geography, their history, and the demographics. And culture is a response to geography, history, and demographics. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Now, what I will show you is that within each ecosystem, they're always interacting with each other. Okay? They're always interacting with each other. And when they change, they change their interaction with each other. All right? So let's ask a really important question, which is why do empires, why do they fall, why do they decline, why do they fail? And this is a really important question. How was it possible for the Roman Empire to collapse? How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persian Empire? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 35:13 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2113s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2113s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: How were the Mongolians and the Manchus able to conquer the Chinese Empire? All right? And what I will show you this semester is when this happens, when an empire is conquered, the pattern is the same. There's a consistent pattern in this. All right? So let me explain the pattern. And then for the semester, we'll go into specific instances of this pattern to explore the specifics. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So what happens is this. Why empires fall is there's usually an empire. Okay? And as they expand, they encounter something called the borderlands. Okay? Borderlands. Borderlands are just places that are the intersections of empires. Okay? So Mongolia is the borderland of the Chinese Empire. Right? Arabia is the borderland of the Byzantine and the Sassanian Persian Empires. Okay? And the borderlands and the empire become one. They become at first symbiotic. Okay? Meaning they depend on each other. They work with each other. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 36:36 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? In three ways. The first and the first most simple way that they interact is through trade. Okay? They trade with each other. Second way they interact is through military cooperation. So what often happens is the empire needs mercenaries. And it turns out that people who live in the borderlands make very good soldiers. Okay? Because they live in a time of war and chaos. In the borderlands, there's no central authority. So they're always fighting each other. So they make very good soldiers. And then the third way they interact with each other is some people in the borderlands will raid and pillage the empire. The outskirts of the empire for resources. Okay? So they are interacting with each other. So the pattern is this. The borderlands first start off as maybe an isolated world. A region of the world. So Arabia, the steppes, and the Germanic north. Okay? What we call Scandinavia today. Okay? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 37:47 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-oceanic-current-becomes-hurricane) Text: The north mid. So these are all isolated parts. But as the empire expands, they start to interact with these isolated ecosystems. And when they interact, what happens is these borderlands become energized. Okay? It's like the empire is adding fuel to the borderlands. By giving them more wealth. By giving them more knowledge. By giving them more access to information. Okay? Does that make sense? And over time, what happens is, because of this new energy, the borderlands become much more populated. Much more wealthy. Much more knowledgeable. And then it creates internal conflicts within their borderlands. And the only way for them to resolve this conflict is to create internal conflicts. And the only way for them to resolve this conflict is to expand. Okay? They have to expand now. And in the process of expansion, what happens is, now and then, they will conquer the empire. All right? That's a pattern. The borderlands are first these isolated regions that no one knows much about. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 39:05 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2345s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2345s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: They're like the stuff of legend and myth. When the empire expands, it energizes these borderlands. The energy makes these borderlands more wealthy, more populated, and more militarily sophisticated. That creates conflicts within the borderlands. Too many people. So what are they forced to do? They're forced to expand. And during this course of this expansion, they come into conflict with the empire. And now and then, they will conquer the empire, become the new empire. That's a pattern. And it happens all over human history. Okay? This is how the Mongolians conquered China. This is how the Manchus conquered China. Before the Mongolians and the Manchus conquered China, there was trade. The Chinese empire was using them as mercenaries. Okay? There was also a lot of small conflict. Does that make sense? All right. So now that I've explained the pattern, the question then is, why would this happen? Why would this happen? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 40:08 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: How is it possible for the borderlands, which, again, is only a fraction of the wealth, the population and the resources of the empire, how were they able to conquer the empire? And this is a really important lesson you will learn in this class, which is empires are destined to collapse. Empires must collapse. All right? So, why is that the case? In this class, you will learn there are three boundary conditions of all societies. Eventually, all societies must collapse for three reasons. All right. The first reason is elite overproduction. The second reason is rat utopia. And the third reason is financialism. All right. So, let me explain the first, financialism. What do I mean by that? All right. When a society first starts, it's important for a society to start. It's important for people to contribute to its growth. Right? And I can do that by starting a farm. When I build a farm, I make goods. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 41:39 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: I'm creating wealth for the society. Right? You can also do that by building a factory. But over time, what happens is you eventually realize that it's more profitable for you to lend money than to build things. Does that make sense? It is much profitable. Much easier. Much easier for you to be a capitalist than it is to be an entrepreneur over time. So, there's this very famous French economist. His name is Thomas Piketty. And he wrote a book called Capital in the 21st Century. It's a very good book. It's very easy to read. And it's one of the most discussed books right now. And he makes the argument why inequality happens. Inequality in society happens because of the nature of capital. Right? The nature of money. What money does is it seeks to grow for the sake of growing. And what's the best way for capital to grow? By consolidating and charging rents. Okay? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 43:00 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Does that make sense? So, the example is, okay, there are five restaurants in Beijing. They're obviously trying to compete against each other for customers. So, they lower prices and try to create better food. But eventually, at some point, they figure out, hey, we're five restaurants, man. We can just get together and negotiate a cartel, a deal, where we charge all high prices. Right? Then we make more money that way. That's something we call rent -sinking behavior. Rent -sinking. Native rent -sinking is to create a monopoly which forces people to buy whatever prices you charge them. Okay? That's the ultimate goal of industry or society or business. Okay? To engage in rent -sinking behavior. And over time, because capital consolidates, it's much more profitable to engage in capitalism than it is to engage in entrepreneurship. Okay? Meaning, you're better off actually investing in the stock market than you are in getting a job. In fact, what he shows is the return on financial capitalism is 5 % a year. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 44:32 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Okay? On average, if you put $100 in the stock market, you make $5. All right? But the return on the real economy is only 2%. Meaning, if you start a factory and you hire people, or you start a restaurant, which contributes real growth, real wealth to the economy, you're going to make 2%. All right? And that's why if you go to America, and you will go to America eventually, you'll find that young people your age, they're not working. What are they doing? They're investing in Bitcoin. They're playing the real estate market. They're investing in stocks. Do you understand? Because you make more money doing that than you do by doing real work, by creating a company. Do you understand? In other words, your society isn't producing any value. And as a result, your economy can't move on. Right? Does that make sense? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 45:44 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And when you're in this situation, what are you forced to do now? If you're a society and you want to continue, what are you forced to do? See me? No. What do you do? Historically, what have societies done in order to get out of this situation where financialism has destroyed your society? Make war, guys. Do you understand? When you make war, you destroy things. When you destroy things, you are forced to rebuild things. It doesn't make sense. That's why we have war. Because war means a game reset. It allows society to rebuild. It allows society to rebuild itself. So that's the first idea I want you guys to understand. Over time, the economy matures to a point where everyone becomes a renter. Sorry, a rentier. You're trying to be a landlord. You're trying to charge people to use your land. You don't want to work. This is true throughout the world. In China, it's the same thing throughout Chinese history. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 46:56 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Right now in the West, it's the same thing as well. And at that point, you have no choice but to start a war to reset your society. Or your society will continue to decline. So the first boundary condition, war societies must die. Second boundary condition is the idea of rat utopia. So we discussed this a bit last semester. I want to refresh your memory. Rat utopia is an experiment that's been done many times. But the idea is this. What happens to rats in a perfect world? Normally, rats have an extremely ritualized society. So for example, if you want to mate, what male rats do is they go on top of a mound where all the female rats can see them. And the male rats start to dance. They dance really in a very strange way. But that attracts the attention of the female. The male rat sees the attention of the female rat. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 48:07 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And the male rat starts to chase the female rat. The female rat runs back into her burrow, her home, and hides. The male rat has to stand outside and wait for the female rat to come out. When she comes out, she will start running again. And he will start chasing her. And then she'll run back into her furrow again. And they do this multiple times until eventually the female rat lets him catch her. And then they will have sex. And they'll be married and have children. So that's rat society. And it's no different from human society. You like a girl or a boy. You guys go out for a coffee date and a lunch date and a dinner date. Then eventually, after a couple of years, you might have sex and get married and have children. No different. It's a very heavily ritualized society. What experimenters did was they asked themselves, What would happen if we made a perfect world where no one had to fight for food? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 49:16 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2956s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=2956s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Everyday food would come down from the heavens. And all the rats could do whatever they want. They would have complete freedom. This is what we call rat utopia. It turned out all society collapsed. It was a complete disaster. The male rats start to rape female rats. There's no more playing around. There's no more ritual. It was all just rape and murder. It was a complete breakdown of society. Why did this happen? There are many different theories. But one thing that you need to understand about rats and humans is we all like status. Status. The idea is this. We humans, we're all standing in line to go onto a mountaintop. The mountaintop, everyone respects you. You make a lot of money. You feel good about yourself. And we're all standing in line. And this line takes a long time. But eventually you will get to the mountaintop. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 50:20 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: How this game works is people on the mountaintop have to fall off and die in order for other people to climb up. Does that make sense? But what happens when the people on the mountaintop don't die? Well, you're just stuck in line. When you're stuck in line, I'm not sure if you've been stuck in line for like hours and hours, but you get angry, right? You get frustrated. So what do you do? Well, you hit someone behind you. And then that person gets angry and hits you back, okay? Eventually, that's this line, everyone's fighting each other. And people at the mountaintop are enjoying each other, are enjoying the view, they have status, and they're never going to die. They're never going to fall off. And this is our society today, guys. Okay? The people in power in China, in the United States, all around the world, have been there for a long, long time. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 51:08 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And they're not dying. So what are young people doing? Tengping, Bailan, right? Quiet quitting. Lying flat. Because you don't see any opportunities. What you want is not money. What you want is status. And that requires you to achieve a certain level in society. But those positions are being occupied by people who refuse to die. And as a result, society collapses. Young people refuse to work. They refuse to get married and have children. So your society dies. You understand? So radiotopia is the second boundary condition. Does that make sense, guys? You're seeing this all around the world today. All right? Ask yourselves, why is it that you yourself are not motivated? And the answer is, you really don't see an opportunity to climb to the top and enjoy status. You just don't. Because people aren't dying. They're just not. And why? Because we've achieved a certain level of abundance and wealth that allows people to keep on living. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 52:18 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions before I continue? Are you guys clear about this? And the third boundary condition is the idea of elite overproduction. What is elite overproduction? Well, it's the same as radiotopia, but radiotopia is a conflict between the haves and the have -nots. Elite overproduction is a conflict among the haves, okay? The very wealthy. Because even though there's a certain number, a limited number of status positions, too many elite people are being produced. Okay? So it's not only that the children of poor people are being screwed over in the system, it's the children of the elite are being screwed over in the system. And this creates conflict. In the system. Because the poor can't do anything. They can just fight each other in line, but the elite can do something. They can go to war against each other. They can start killing each other, okay? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 53:28 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: This creates civil war. In fact, if you are to look at America today, you can say there's a civil war going on between two different factions of the elite. Okay? Does that make sense? And this is what drives a lot of history. Where a lot of revolutions happen not because the poor are trying to overthrow the rich, it's because the low nobility is fighting for opportunities against the upper nobility. Does that make sense, guys? And we're seeing this again today in China and also in the United States. Alright? So these are the three main boundary conditions. So, now let's apply to these three boundary conditions and ask ourselves why empires collapse. Well, the first reason is because most people in the empire don't want to live there. They're just stuck living there. Why do most people don't want to live there? Because they are in debt. Okay? Debt. And landlessness. Throughout most of ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 54:51 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3291s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: human history, empires that have persisted for the longest have this huge problem where the majority of the population suffers from too much debt and suffers from too much landlessness. No opportunities. Okay? Then what happens is the elite starts fighting amongst themselves. There's corruption. Why is there corruption? Because the elite are struggling to engage in rent -seeking behavior amongst themselves. Okay? They're trying to steal more. They're stealing more and more. So there's corruption. There's civil conflict and there's corruption. So it's only a matter of time before the empire collapses. But during this time, what does the empire do? Okay. It's really strange and funny, but what they do is this. They import the people from the borderland in order to try to resolve their civil conflicts. Okay? Does that make sense? You can't trust the army anymore because the army is made up of people who have too much debt and who are landless. So what do you do? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 56:05 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: You hire foreign mercenaries. Right? That's what China does. Or that's what China did in its history. You can't trust your own army, so you hire foreign mercenaries. And eventually what happens is you replace your army with foreign mercenaries. And then, eventually, what happens? The foreign mercenaries take over your empire. That's what happened in Rome. That's what happened throughout human history. Okay. So now that we've discussed the empire, I want to look at the borderlands. Why is it true that the borderlands are able to conquer the empire? And my argument to you is cultural. Sorry, culture. It's cultural. All right? So we have this prejudice or misunderstanding about civilization. All right? Civilization. Civilization is about cities. It's about writing. It's about technology. It's about wealth. And if you looked at it that way, then you don't really understand why is it these borderlands, the Mongolians, the Mongchus, the Vikings, the Arabians, the Greeks, why are they able to conquer these empires? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 57:50 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3470s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: That makes no sense to you. Right? So what I'm trying to say, what I'm trying to tell you is this is a wrong way of looking at it. A better way of looking at it is culture. In the borderlands, there's a certain culture that develops because it's the borderlands. It's a culture that focuses on freedom, egalitarianism, and self -reliance, independence. This is true throughout the borderlands. If we were to go back to Mongolia during the time of Genghis Khan, if we were to go back to the European north of the time of the Vikings, these are cultures that emphasize freedom, egalitarianism, and self -reliance. And as such, these were amazing warriors. Okay? So let's look at an example. Let's look at the Vikings, okay? The Vikings didn't know how to read or write. They didn't have any mathematics. They didn't have cities. But from age two or ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 59:10 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3550s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3550s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-oceanic-current-becomes-hurricane) Text: three, their kids were learning how to swim, how to row boats, how to cook, how to hunt, how to fight, how to ride horses. Does that make sense? And what are civilized kids doing? They're learning how to do test questions. Right? In a war, who's going to win? Well, obviously these guys. Okay? Does that make sense? So these are the, this is the idea of the oceanic currents. Okay? You have these isolated areas that are ecosystems amongst themselves. As the empire expands, okay, just think of it as a current, the imperial current. It's expanding, expanding. And so that's what empires do. It energizes these areas. And these areas actually have much more energetic potential than the empire, which is dying. Okay? And this energy forces so much energy in this borderland that they are now become like a hurricane. And they have to ride through history. Sometimes they're defeated. But sometimes, like the Greeks, like the Vikings, like the Mongolians, like the Arabians, they win. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:00:32 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-oceanic-current-becomes-hurricane) Text: And when they win, they create a lot of destruction. Okay? And that's the idea I want you to implant in your head. These are currents. These are natural forces that are unstoppable. Once they start, you cannot stop them. Okay? This war in Ukraine, it is a hurricane that will engulf all of Europe. This war in the Middle East, it's a hurricane that will engulf the entire world. Once it starts, you can't have a conference and decide to end it. These things cannot end until they reach their natural course. Okay? The hurricane stops when it runs out of energy. Does that make sense? The hurricane does not negotiate with you and say, oh, well, you make a very good case for why I shouldn't destroy you, so I'll just stop. Hurricanes don't do that. Okay? These are natural forces. All right? And this is what I will show you this semester. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:01:39 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And I will also show you how this connects to current events. And then, once we do that, we should be able to predict current events. And just to let you know, spoiler alert, things will not end well. Okay? We are looking at the complete and utter destruction of the world we live in today. Nothing will be the same because these are oceanic currents. They destroy everything in its path. Once you unleash them, they must destroy. It's only a question of how much. All right? All right. Was this clear to you guys? Any questions? Anything you want me to clarify or elaborate? Again, I know this is a big theory, but we will be doing a lot of examples throughout the course of the semester. All right? And this will give you a unified theory of history. And you'll see how everything connects together. All right? Any questions? Oh, that's a good question. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:03:04 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Okay. What starts these hurricanes? Or what starts this process? All right. So, if you look at an ocean, you will discover that these currents are happening all the time. You understand? There's no start. They're always in motion. All right? So, once you start an empire, you're starting already to unleash a hurricane in the borderlands. Once the hurricane matures in the borderlands, it will overwhelm an empire, which will then start to energize a new borderland. Does that make sense? So, that's a really good question. And unfortunately, the answer is there will always be hurricanes. Hurricanes are always forming. You just have to figure out where they're forming in order to predict where they're coming from. Okay? But obviously, the two big hurricanes right now are what's happening in Ukraine and what's happening in Israel, in the Middle East. Okay? But, other hurricanes are coming. Okay? For example, there will eventually be a conflict in East Asia. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:04:11 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: All right? Now, a lot of people are saying the conflict will be between China and the U.S. I do not think that's the case. I do not think the conflict will be between the United States and China. I think it will involve Japan and South Korea. All right? It will not be over the Taiwan Strait. It will be between it will involve South Korea and Japan. How, so I don't really know. Okay? Another conflict is what's happening in America. America is itself a hurricane. Eventually, America will have to fight a civil war. And when you go to America, you will see how divided the country is. All right? And people are already predicting a civil war. It's only a question of when. I think things will speed up in 2028. And the reason why is the election in 2028 will be heavily contested. People are going to argue over who won. And it will be very unclear who won in 2028. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:05:09 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And there's a very good chance Trump will run again in 2028. Okay? But I, but I think these are two big hurricanes that are coming along the way. Not now, but they're coming along along the way. The big scary hurricane, of course, is Iran. Okay? Eventually, the United States and Iran will come in conflict with each other. Okay? And this will drag in the entire world. All right? Does that make sense to you, Eva? Okay. Thanks for the question. Okay. Any more questions? Until it overwhelms the empire. That's a great question. Okay? All right. So we have to figure out what is driving the hurricane. And the answer is the internal conflicts within the borderlands. Okay? Does that make sense? So there's just too many people and there's just not enough status positions. So they go off and they conquer their own territory. So if you look at the Vikings, okay, the Vikings, the Vikings are interesting. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:06:30 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=3990s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: The Vikings, which we'll discuss a lot, they're in Northern Europe. And for most of human history, we had actually no idea they were there. Okay? They were in the north in Denmark, in Norway, in Sweden. And they basically kept to themselves. They still traded the world, but we didn't really know much about them. They didn't come out of nowhere. And they did three things. They went over to colonize Greenland and Iceland. All right? And they also went to actually North America. So they were actually the first Europeans to reach North America. So one side that they had was to expand and explore and colonize. Okay? But then you also had a group of Vikings, Northmen, who went to attack France. And they were so, such a huge problem that the French decided to give them called Normandy. Okay? Normandy. The land of the North people. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:07:24 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: Normandy. All right? And then they went over here to Ukraine along the river because they were trading with the Islamic Empire. And they founded colonies or new settlements. And this was a peaceful process. Okay? Because they were trying to establish trading posts. And this became the basis of which country do you guys know? Russia. Okay? You see, people will call it the Rus'. I actually don't know what Rus' means but it just means Rus'. And that's where Russia comes from. So this is the beginning of a new country called Russia. All right? And Normandy is interesting because they eventually went off to conquer a new country called, do you guys know who they conquered? Who did the Normans conquer? 1066 guys. England. Britain. All right? You understand? So, the hurricane stops when the people just run out of energy because they've reached a point where they can't go on. Okay? ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:08:41 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: The hurricane is created because they have wealth, power, but they don't have enough status positions so that they expand to fill these status positions. Okay? This is actually what drives empire building. Does that make sense? It's not because you lack resources. It's because who want status and you can't fill them, you can't leave them in society because then they will overthrow you. So you send them somewhere else. Okay? All right? Good. Is that clear, Echo? Great. Any more questions? Great. Okay. So, I hope this was clear. We will continue discussing this throughout the semester because this becomes a framework for which we understand all of European history for the past 2,000 years. So next class, we'll do the Roman Empire, the fall and decline of the Roman Empire which will lead us into the rise of something called the Holy Roman Empire which is not the Roman Empire. Okay? It's basically the French Empire. Okay? Or the Frankish Empire. ## The Oceanic Currents Of History -- 1:09:55 - Source title: Civilization #31: The Oceanic Currents of History - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-02-18, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIoYQBbBllk&t=4195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hioyqbbbllk.json) Text: And the Frankish Empire will lead to the rise of the Vikings. All right? All right. So those are the next three classes. All right. Great. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So we finished Dante today and this will be our last session before the semester breaks. We'll come back in a month and we'll start the second semester. Second semester will be very exciting. We're gonna do the Crusades, we're gonna do secret societies, we'll do basically the rest of human history. Okay, so before we begin, let's review what we learned last class. The first point is that there are secrets, mysteries, and paradoxes embedded into Dante's Divine Comedy and the ultimate secret of the universe is that we are in God and God is in us. And that's the ultimate secret, and it breaks apart the idea of the Holy Spirit. Trinity remember the idea of the Holy Trinity is that it's an equation that makes God exclusive from us and at the end of the vine comedy Dante inserts us back into God which turns the equation back into a story a story that ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 1:14 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=74s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=74s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: we are empowered to write okay and it creates the idea of infinity um the idea behind this and this goes back to Homer is for Dante love is the unifying force of the universe remember that God is the force within us that enables us to love and connect with others and then the imagination is the animating force of the universe the more we love the more we can imagine and it is our responsibility it is our legacy it is our gift that we are able to imagine the universe and continue the work of God and the prime example of this is of course Dante what inspires Dante to create the universe that is the divine Comedy is his love for Beatrice it is unrequited they never got married they never consummated their love in fact Beatrice died when she was very young but features died when she was very young but body have no knowledge ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 2:26 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: of the I never forgot about her, and it was this love for Beatrice that would inspire him to create the Divine Comedy, which is the greatest literary achievement in human history. And as we discussed, the second point is that the Divine Comedy, it is historically significant because it becomes an actual blueprint for the Renaissance, for the Protestant Reformation, and the Sino -Revolution. And then you ask yourself, wait a minute here. When I read the Divine Comedy, I don't really understand what's going on. So how did it come to be so historically significant? And the answer is this. The answer is that it is poetry. And poetry is a very important part of the history of the world. And poetry is a very important part of the world. It is a unique form of writing. Poetry is meant to be memorized. So the way you learn, the way that you're educated for thousands of years in Western history is through the memorization of classical poets. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 3:42 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: So remember the Greeks, how did they educate themselves? They memorized Homer. The Romans memorized Virgil. And the Italians, aliens memorize Dante, and poetry is uniquely designed in order to be memorized. And so that's the first step. And then the second step is this. Think of poetry as a superfood for the brain. You are what you eat, and your brain thinks the way that it has consumed information. And so poetry is this extremely dense, nutritious food that the brain will use in order to formulate its understanding of the world. Okay? And what's really interesting is the brain actually works 99 % subconsciously, meaning we are not consciously aware of what the brain is doing most of the time. And what the brain is doing? most of the time is trying to figure out the patterns of the universe the brain does not like paradoxes it does not ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 4:59 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: like mysteries it doesn't like it doesn't like contradictions okay so it's always trying to resolve these contradictions in order to formulate a coherent understanding of the world that's why paradox is so powerful within the divine comedy as we discussed last class the divine comedy is full of paradoxes which force your brain to constantly work to resolve these paradoxes um the greatest paradox within the divine comedy as we discussed the last class is the fact that we are within god and that creates a paradox for the brain to slowly resolve and once it resolves it formulates a new understanding of the world and because of that this new understanding will become the renaissance brain the scientific brain which will power the rise of modernity okay does that make sense so and so the third point the most important point is what dante realized when he wrote the divine comedy is he if is that if he ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 6:06 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: has to create a new modern brain if he has to create a new scientific romantic mind then his true enemy is actually not augustine okay it is actually virgil because at this time every educated individual um was educated through virgil it was virgil's understanding the world that captured the imagination of the european mind and so dante when he writes the divine comedy his mission is to supplant virgil it is to remove virgil from the brain the mind of the european he basically needs to he basically needs to um poetically do surgery okay and the way and so what i'll do is this first i'll explain the thesis and explain what he's trying to do and then we'll study the divine comedy to see how he does that okay so so dante understands that if virgil has become the basis of your mind okay if the iniat um is the way that people find and believe ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 7:23 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-surgical-release) Text: understand the world you cannot get go into an open conflict with virgil because people will just reject you right people will choose their customs their habits first and so if you threaten their habits and customs then they will see you as a threat they will reject you so dante has to perform um surgery on the brain that is nuanced and subtle and sophisticated okay the way he does is the way he does that it's very clever dante makes his arch nemesis virgil the hero of the divine comedy okay virgil is the guide the narrator the protagonist of the divine comedy what happens is that we start off with dante the poet lost in the woods and it's a symbol or metaphor for his midlife crisis he doesn't know where he's going uh he's confused by the world and suddenly virgil appears before him and says i am virgil the poet and i've been sent by ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 8:39 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-surgical-release) Text: the lady beatrice in heaven to guide you through inferno and for purgatory where you will learn the secrets of the universe where you will learn the truth about the world and i am your guide i will tell you the truth okay so right from the start we learn that virgil is the hero the guide that's the first thing that happens and the second thing that happens is dante turns him into an unreliable guide we will discover that virgil does not speak the truth in fact virgil contradicts himself all the time and the third thing that will happen is virgil over time will become displaced by other figures including beatrice all right so it is one of the greatest literary tricks where dante understands virgil his ultimate nemesis and in order to defeat virgil he makes virgil the hero of this epic okay does that make sense all right so it's the idea of the unreliable ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 9:58 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=598s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: narrator all right so we're going to study some passages from the divine comedy to see how dante does this and it's very clever it's almost impossible to spot unless you recognize what dante is trying to do okay once i tell you what he's doing it's not as obvious but again if you were to read divine comedy by yourself you wouldn't notice it okay but again the brain works subconsciously and the brain will slowly over time pick up these problems with virgil and construct a new world view that is anti uh virgil and pro dante okay that's a trick of the divine comedy any questions before i continue are are we clear all right so all right so virgil and dante are now going to explore in the inferno hell and they first end up in limbo okay and limbo is the outer circle of hell and it's a very nice place it's not paradise it's ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 11:07 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: not great it's still part of hell but it's a place specifically for virtuous pagans who were born before the time of jesus you can only be saved by jesus if you are baptized into the faith and so if unfortunately you were born before the time of jesus you are put in limbo and that's where virgil is okay so virgil explains to uh dante the kindly master okay so there are all these encomiums for virgil virgil is the father to dante virgil is the master to dante all right do do you not ask who are the spirits whom you see before you i have you know before you go ahead do not sin okay these people are virtuous including himself these are people who include plato um homer um julius caesar okay these individuals are virtuous though they have merits that's not enough because they lack baptism okay the fundamental rule of heaven is you have ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 12:18 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: to be baptized into the faith the portal of the faith that you embrace and if they live before christianity they do not worship god in fitting ways and of such spirits i myself am one okay this is why i'm here in limbo I am as virtuous as can be but because I was not baptized in the faith I am stuck here okay of course this raises a question because Dante has nothing but questions and Donna asks him this question is this an iron law of the universe or were there exceptions okay so he asked did any ever go by his own merit or others from this place towards blessedness were they able to ascend into heaven based on his or her own individual struggle and merit and this is what Virgil says there was only one time in the entire history of the universe when it was possible for people in limbo to ascend into ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 13:29 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: heaven and that was the death of Jesus Christ remember that he was crucified and he was crucified and he was crucified and he was crucified and he was crucified and he died before he was resurrected and then when he died he ascended into the inferno and while he was there he took the most virtuous members of the Bible okay who include Abel Adam Noah Moses Abraham David Israel he took all of them into heaven but that was it okay and that was a rare event right because Jesus God only dies once but that's it alright and so that's what Virgil is saying okay so now that they've been through limbo what they're gonna do is they're going into the inner circles of hell and the first circle of hell are reserved for those who died who sinned because of love because of lust okay and what's gonna happen is that there's gonna be parade of ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 14:36 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: all these souls all the gods these spirits who are burning in hell because they died for love or lust they sin out of love all right so um the first of those about whose history you want to know my master told me once ruled as empress over many nations her vice of lust became so customary that she made license elicit in her laws to free her from a scandal she had caused she is semiramis of whom we read that she was nina's wife and his successor okay that's the first person they see she held the land the sultan now commands all right but now there's a second person the other spirit killed herself for love and she betrayed the ashes of psychias the water and cleopatra follows next all right so this is interesting what's going to happen is there'll be a lot of people who are going to be killed by the spirit of ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 15:31 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: love and she betrayed the ashes of psychias the water and cleopatra follows next all right so this is interesting what's going to happen is there'll be about there'll be about a thousand spirits who are parading before dante and virgil and what's interesting is that virgil names every one of them except this person the other spirit killed herself for love and she betrayed the ashes of psychias this person her name is dido who is dido dido is from the iniat right she is the leader creation of virgin this is really interesting because why is dido in the inferno because virgil put her there and not only does he put her there he does not even bother to acknowledge and name her this is a complete contrast to the relationship between dante and beatrice now um when you actually read the Aeneid what you discover is that there's only one realistic character in the epic and it's ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 16:43 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1003s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1003s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Dido the way that she behaves her love for Aeneas it's actually it actually makes her a sympathetic character but it's her love for Aeneas that causes her to to die okay and so who is Dido who is Dido really well if she's a literary creation of Virgil's I can guess we can surmise that Dido must have existed and Dido was someone who possibly could have spited Virgil right and that's why Virgil has such venom for her right remember in the in the Ad Dido dies by flinging herself into a funeral pyre okay she burns herself to to death it's a terrible way to die and she dies driven into madness by love so you can almost make the argument that you can surmise Virgil really hates this person and she wanted he wanted to punish her for refusing him in real life and this is interesting for us pieces go this is time actually opposed ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 18:07 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1087s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1087s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: to what Dante did right Don T lovely actress but he could not he could not possess Beatrice so what he does is he creates the divine comedy so that Beatrice can be in Paradise for the rest of her for all eternity okay this is that actually opposed so right away in the from this we can understand that Dante and Virgil have opposing perspectives on love these are not friends these are enemies all right now let's continue Virgil refuses to name Ditto okay but what Dante will do is name Ditto okay those spirits left the ranks where Ditto suffers where Ditto suffers Virgil you refuse to acknowledge your creation but I will because she deserves our mercy she deserves our charity and our generosity so you can see how within the poetry there's this massive conflict going on between Virgil and Dante and it's all very subtle okay okay now they go through inferno and they ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 19:32 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: end up in purgatory purgatory is this isolated mountain that is the halfway point between inferno and paradise people have to ascend the purgatory in order to get into paradise okay and this look these are the first lines of purgatory I saw a solitary patriarch near me his aspect worthy of such reverence that even son to father owes no more okay this person is Cato Cato is a Roman patriarch who opposed Julius Caesar and when Julius Julius Caesar was about to win a civil war Cato killed himself he committed suicide rather submit to Julius Caesar now what's interesting about about this is that Cato and Virgil are contemporaries they knew each other in Rome and when they died they went to limbo right what's interesting is this where's Cato now Cato is in purgatory he's left he's left limbo he's left inferno and not only that but he's become the guardian of purgatory he's the one ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 20:51 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1251s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1251s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: who controls access into purgatory so Virgil is wrong remember Virgil said it's impossible to leave limbo regardless of your merit and this right away tells us no Virgil is not a reliable narrator Cato has left okay now you would imagine that because Cato and Virgil know each other they're like good friends okay so Virgil so Cato says to Virgil and Donna who are you two how are you able to escape from from hell okay and then Virgil says let me do the talking because I know this guy okay we're friends right I did I come through my own self there's a lady sent from heaven okay this lady's Beatrice her pleas led me to help and guide this man but since your will would have a far more full and accurate account of her condition my will cannot withhold what do you request you want to know why we're here let me explain to you ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 22:00 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: why we're here this man had yet to see his final evening he's not dead but for his folly little time was left before he did he was so close to it he was facing a midlife crisis as I've told you I was sent to him for his deliverance the only road I could have taken was the road I took I had to take him through heaven okay and that's why we're here I showed him all the people of perdition now I intend to show him to him those spirits who in your care remember Cato is the guardian of purgatory are bent on expiation okay so people are here in purgatory in order to absolve themselves of their sins so they that they may ascend into heaven now this is what Virgil says to Cato you know it who in Utica found death for freedom was not bitter when you left the garb that will be ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 22:55 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: bright on the great day so I know who you are your Cato you're the person who killed himself in Utica rather submit to the tyranny of Julius Caesar eternal edicts are not broken for us this man's alive and I'm not bound by minos but I am from the circle where the chaste eyes of your Marcia your wife are I know your wife and she still prays to you o holy breast to keep her as your own for her love then inclined to us remember my wife Marcia your wife allow our journey for your seven realms I shall thank her for kindness you bestow if you would let your name be named below so what Virgil is doing is saying to Cato listen you may be the guardian of purgatory this is your your master of this realm but I have power in hell so I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna be nice to your ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 23:51 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1431s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1431s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: wife Marcia right so give me some face here man you know and this is what Cato says while I was there within the other world Marcia so pleased my eyes he then replied each kindness required I satisfied now that she dwells beyond the evil river she has no power to move me any longer such was the law decreed when I was freed so Cato is upset with this Cato says to Virgil how dare you bribe me how dare you do this you're the guardian of purgatory you're the guardian of purgatory you're the guardian of purgatory you're the guardian of purgatory Marcia is back in limbo which means she is no longer as pure in my eyes as I used to think if I'm able to ascend into purgatory based on my own merit then so was Marcia and if she's not if she's not able to come with me that means that means she's not ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 24:49 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: as virtuous as I once thought okay so you can see right away that Virgil is not reliable he has no authority over Cato Cato does not respect him even though they know each other very well okay does that make sense again this is very very clever it's almost impossible to see unless I tell you what's happening okay all right now the question then is what makes Virgil so unreliable what is his problem and what Donnie will reveal to us is it's really Virgil's conception of love that's the issue okay remember Virgil is someone who condemned Dido into hell and it is Dante who sent Beatrice into heaven okay so these people have these two individuals have radically opposing conceptions of love so let's so we know what Dante thinks about love okay love is the God force is the God force within us that connects us with God and the entire universe and the more ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 26:09 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: that we love the more imaginative we will be okay so so you have to direct this love at someone but it doesn't really matter that person loves you back that's not relevant okay what's relevant is that you love so let's look at Virgil's understanding of love the soul which is quick to love to respond to everything that pleases just as soon as beauty wakens it to act okay so the first thing we have to understand is that we are animals with souls that respond to beauty if I see a beautiful woman across the street I stop and I chase her okay that's the first thing he says the apprehension draws an image from a real object and expands upon that object until soul has turned toward it but then you're like but you don't know this beautiful woman and what Virgil says is what happens next is your imagination will take over and you will ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 27:09 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: turn this woman into a fantasy woman that you can now control okay so let's go back to the example from last class where you meet this beautiful woman and you say I want to marry you because you're so beautiful and she says I will if you give me ten million dollars now if you think about it she's clearly saying no to you but it is your imagination that tricks you into believing that as long as you give her ten million dollars she will love you okay love is something that you can master and control and possess and if so turn the soul ten steadfastedly then that propensity is love it's nature that joins a soul in you anew for beauty okay you must possess her you will do you would do everything possible in order to possess her and that's what love is all right you see someone beautiful you turn her into a fantasy ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 28:11 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1691s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1691s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: and then you chase after this fantasy until it's yours and you become a box with your love and you twist her and she will be out of this world if you love her or you see someone beautiful you turn her into a fantasy and then you chase after this fantasy until it's yours that's what love is then just as flames ascend because the form of fire was fashioned to fly upward toward the stuff to its own spear where it lasts longer okay so you can understand that what Virgil uses is off natural imagery okay fire so these are things beyond control right we are consumed by our lust and our love for this woman so does the soul when sees move into longing emotion of the spirit never resting till the beloved thing has made a choice we have to process it we don't process it then we will be depressed now you can plainly ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 29:02 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: see how deeply hidden truth is from screwness who would insist that every love is in itself praiseworthy okay there's some people who believe that love is beautiful no no no it depends on who you love okay and they are led to error by the matter of love because it may seem always good but not each seal is fine although the wax is okay if you love a woman who loves you back that's fine but if a woman insists that you go rob a bank for ten million dollars then that's bad all right your speech in my own with that follow it I answered him this is Dante have shown me what love is but that has filled me with greater doubt if our loves offered to us from about and it's the only foot with which soul walks so going straight or crooked has no merit okay this is really interesting question if it is ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 29:54 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: true that when we see someone beautiful we must have her then we have no free will we have no free choice we're just all animals and this is what Virgil says what reason can see here I can impart past that for truth of faith it's Beatrice alone you must await every substantial form at once distinct from matter and conjoined to it and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 30:43 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and gathers to the earth and g both are in you just as in bees there is the honey making urge such primer will there's there's no praise it deserves no blame okay we just lust for what is beautiful that's just how we are made ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 31:14 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1874s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1874s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: now that all other longings may conform to this first will there is in you inborn the power that counsels people of the threshold of your assent this is the principle of which your merit may be judged for it garners and winnows good and evil longings okay so what we can do our choice our free will in the matter is to resist our temptation to say no that's what Augustine would say right we just say no no no yes I want her but it's bad for me so I will stop myself from doing so okay those reasons who reach the roots of things learn of this inborn freedom the bequest that thus they left on to you to the world is ethics okay even though we allow necessity as source for every power that inflames in you the powder curve that love is still your own the power to curb that love is still your own ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 32:14 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1934s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=1934s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: we can resist we can say no we can deny our love there's no more power is what Beatrice means by free will therefore remember it if she should ever speak of it to you okay so this is the conception of love from Virgil okay does that make sense Love can be good or it can be bad it's you who must decide if it's bad for you then you must resist and so what is Dante's response to this argument do you guys remember what's a response to this the response is this response is if you truly love someone then you only want what's best for that person and so if the person says to you I will only marry you if you give me $10 million then you know that person doesn't love you so you turn away from her and says all I care is about is your happiness if you're happier without me then ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 33:32 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2012s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2012s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: I will leave but I certainly will not degrade you like by thinking that you're only worth $10 million to my eyes you're priceless and you you only degrade yourself if you think that you're only worth $10 million it doesn't make sense okay so love is not about possession it's about respecting the person for who she is okay that doesn't make sense right all right so let's continue so now they're climbing up the mountain of purgatory and purgatory is an isolated mountain okay there's a force field around it I protects it from natural elements But every now and then, there's an earthquake, okay? The entire mountain trembles. And the reason why is because a soul within that mountain has cleansed himself or herself of her sins. She's absorbed herself of her sins. And therefore, he or she now has access to heaven. And the heavens celebrate this with a shake, okay? With an earthquake. Earthquake. So, ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 34:56 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Virgil and Donna are climbing, and they meet a man named Statius, a poet, who has just expiated himself, okay? Who's just released himself from his sins. And he's so excited because he's going to heaven, all right? And this is what he says. So had the will to climb before, but that will was opposed by longing to do penance, as one should sin instilled by divine justice. Okay? So, the people in Purgatory, are those who have committed a sin, and they need to do penance before they go to heaven. Now, this is really important. Why? Because, actually, I'll ask you this question. If hell is a place where people go because they've sinned, and Purgatory is a place where people go because they've sinned, what is the difference? Right? Okay. And what we will learn is this. The difference is the question of will. People in Purgatory recognize that they have committed a sin, and that they must do penance before they go to heaven. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 36:04 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: But they're willing to admit that they've committed a sin, and they're willing to do penance. And the penance could be a thousand years. It could be one year. It doesn't matter, okay? But they're willing to commit themselves to penance. Hell is a place where you go because you refuse to admit you've committed a sin. You refuse to admit you're... You're wrong. If you refuse to admit you're wrong, you can never do penance. You can never absolve yourself of your sins. And that's the difference. Guys, that's the only difference, okay? In terms of, like, crime, in terms of sin, it's the same. But the difference is those in Purgatory have committed themselves to redeeming themselves. So, let's continue. And I, and this is Stadius, by the way, who have... He has lain in the suffering 500 years. He's been here 500 years, okay? ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 37:04 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: And more, just now have felt my free will for a better threshold. Thus, you have heard the earthquake and the pious spirits throughout the mountain as they praise the Lord, and may he send them speedily upward. So, if you are able to relieve yourself from your sin, you are now... There's an earthquake, and now you have access to heaven. So did he speak to us, and just as joy is greatest when we quench a greater thirst, the joy he brought cannot be told in words. Stadius is the happiest person in the universe at this point, because he has found paradise. And my wise guide, and this is Virgil, I now can see the net impeding you how one sips food and why it quakes here, and what makes you all rejoice. And now, may it please you to tell me who you were. In your own words, may I find why you've lain here for so many centuries. Tell us who you are, okay? ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 38:00 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Who are you? How are you able to accomplish this? In that age, when the worthy Titus, with help from the highest king, avenged the wounds from which the blood that Judas sold had flowed. Okay, so this is about 70. And Titus is the Roman general who attacked Jerusalem, sacked it, and destroyed the temple. And the Christians saw this as revenge for the killing of their savior, Jesus. At sufficient fame beyond, that spirit replied, I bore the name that lasts the longest and honors most, but faith was not yet mine. So he's trying to explain who he is. So gentle was the spirit of my verse, that Rome drew me, son of Tullus, to her, and there in my brow deserved a crown of myrtle. On earth my name is still remembered, Statius. I sang of Thebes and then of great Achilles. I fell along the way of that last labor. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 38:55 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: So he's an epic poet, just like Virgil. The sparks that warm me, the seeds of my ardor were from the holy fire, the same that gave more than a thousand poets light and flame. So what inspired me is the holy fire. Who is the holy fire? We would think God, right? Nope, it is Virgil. I speak of the Iliad. It is Virgil who is the holy fire. It is Virgil who is God. When I wrote verse, it was mother to me, it was nurse. My work routed would not weigh an ounce. I was inspired by God. I was inspired by the Iliad and Virgil to write my poetry. Virgil is the God, the mother, who nursed me. And to have lived on earth when Virgil lived, for that I would extend by one more year the time I owe before my exile's end. I've been in Purgatory for 500 years. But if I had a chance to meet Virgil, I would stay one more year. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 39:57 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: That's how Virgil, that's how much I love Virgil. That's how much, how important Virgil is to me. He doesn't know that the person sitting next to him is Virgil, okay? These words made Virgil turn to me and as he turned his face, his face grew silent and said, be still, okay? He's like, shut up, man. I don't want to know who, who, who I am. All right? So what's going on here? Well, what's really important for us to understand is that this shows us that Virgil was lying. Virgil told us in the beginning of the, of the Divine Comedy, it was impossible for Merit to leave Limbo and ascend to Paradise. He told us that you have to be baptized in order to get into Heaven. Statius was not baptized, right? Statius is exactly like Virgil, a Roman epic poet. But Statius is able to ascend to Heaven. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 41:01 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-surgical-release) Text: But Virgil is not. Does that make sense? And the reason why Statius is able to go to Heaven is Statius wants to, okay? He's willing to admit there are flaws in his thinking. He's willing to admit that his understanding of the world is flawed and he needs to undergo introspection, reflection, to improve himself. Virgil is not. Does that make sense? All right? So let's go to the very last passage and then we'll end. And this is, this is Canto 30. And this is when Beatrice is ascending from Heaven. Okay? No, she's, sorry, she's descending from Heaven on a chariot. And it is, and she's beautiful, okay? And at this point, if you're Virgil, you might be like, wow, this is my chance to get out of Limbo and go to Heaven, right? Because Beatrice, who's in Heaven, asked me to do her a favor. Guide Dante through Inferno and Purgatory. I've done that, man. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 42:16 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: Now she owes me. Now here's my chance to say to Beatrice, hey, could you do me a favor and, like, get me into Heaven? That's all he has to do, right? That would make sense. Let's see what happens. So this is Beatrice descending from Heaven. And Dante is enraptured, okay? He's just completely, she's completely focused on Beatrice. Within her presence, I had once been used to feeling tremulous, trembling, wonder, dissolution. But that was long ago. Still, though my soul, now she was veiled, could not see her directly, by way of hidden force that she could move, I felt the mighty power of old love. All right, so it's been decades since he last saw her, but he still feels for her. He's trembling, okay? He's completely enraptured by Beatrice. As soon as that deep force had struck my vision, the power that, when I had not yet left my boyhood, had already transfixed ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 43:20 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt) Text: me, I turn around and to my left, just as a little child, afraid of in distress, will hurry to his mother anxiously, he's turning around. Who does he want to talk to? Virgil, right? There are butterflies in his stomach. He's excited, he's trembling. He said, Virgil, Virgil, it's Beatrice! Okay? He sees Virgil as his father. He wants to share his joy, with Virgil. All right? And where is Virgil? To say to Virgil, I am left with less than one drop of my blood that does not tremble. I recognize the signs of the old flame. Virgil, it's Beatrice. I've waited decades for this moment. He wants to share this happiness with Virgil. But Virgil had deprived us of himself. Virgil, the gentlest father. Virgil, he to whom I gave myself for my salvation. Virgil has run away. At this climax, at this moment, when Dante is finally reunited with Beatrice, the moment that Virgil has completed his quest, Virgil has run away. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 44:36 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-surgical-release) Text: Okay? He's ran, he's run away. He's disappeared. No one knows where he is. And even our ancient mother lost was not enough to keep my cheeks though washed with dew from darkening again with tears. What Dante wants more than anything else is for Virgil to share his happiness. What he wants more than anything else is for Virgil to ascend to heaven like Dante will. And Virgil has disappeared. And Dante knows at this point Virgil will never change. Virgil has run away because he refuses to admit he is wrong. You understand? Once Virgil sees the love between Beatrice and Dante, then Virgil knows his conception of love is wrong. Because never once did Dante possess Beatrice. But never once did Dante stop loving Beatrice. So love is not about possession. It's about trust. It's about faith. That's what love is. And so rather than admit he is wrong and go to heaven, by the way, Virgil is like, screw this, I'm going back to hell. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 46:01 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) - Related lens: [The Guide Who Becomes A Trap](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-guide-who-becomes-a-trap.txt#guide-trap-surgical-release) Text: Because I'm happy there. I'd rather burn in hell for eternity than admit I'm wrong. Dante, though Virgil is leaving you, do not weep yet. You'll need your tears for what another sword must yet inflict. Beatrice says to Dante, let him go. Let him go. You can't save him. You have to save yourself. There's no point in trying to save those who don't want to be saved. There just isn't. And so this is the last we will see of Virgil. And as you can understand, at this point, in our hearts, we've also learned to let Virgil go. And this means that slowly from our minds, the Inead will dissipate, will dissolve itself. And we will have a new memory called the Divine Comedy come into place, which will reshape the way we see it. See the universe. Okay? ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 47:11 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Does that make sense, guys? Is this clear? All right. Any questions about this? Yeah. Go ahead. No, no, no, no. I'm finished. Yeah. Yeah, no worries, no worries. Yeah. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 47:49 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: That's right. Okay. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 47:57 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Yeah. Right. Okay. So how did Virgil put Dido in hell? Okay. So this goes back to the Inead, which everyone will have read. If you read the Divine Comedy, you will certainly have read the Inead. So what happens in the Inead is that Aeneas, Prince of Troy, he's going to Rome to basically found the Roman Empire. Okay? That is his divine mission sent to him by the gods. But along the way, he gets shipwrecked on Carthage. And Dido, who is the queen of Carthage, welcomes him. And his people. And they fall in love. And then they get married. They have sex and all that. But then the gods get angry because they didn't want Aeneas in Carthage. They want him in Rome. Okay? So they sent Mercury, the messenger god, to tell him, hey, man, Aeneas, go to Rome. And Aeneas, because he's pious. Okay? That's what he's famous for, for being pious. He just basically says, fine. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 49:06 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2946s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=2946s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Okay? And Dido, he's going to Rome. of course, gets very upset. And he warns Aeneas, if you leave, I can only kill myself. I love you that much. And Aeneas is basically like, yeah, go kill yourself. Okay? So he leaves. And she kills herself. Okay? She basically throws herself into a, I can't remember. I think she just stabs herself with a sword. And then throws herself off into a fire. Okay? So, Dido is dead. Now, on the way to Rome, Aeneas has to go through hell in order to get a prophecy of the founding of Rome. And in hell, who does he meet? He meets Dido. And Aeneas is kind of, it's awkward for him. And he's like, hmm, I just go say hi. Okay? But the moment he tries to say hi to Dido, Dido runs away. And what's happening is that in hell, not only is she burning in hell, but she's lost the power to speak. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 50:04 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Which for the Greeks and the Romans was even worse than death. You've lost the power to speak. So, that's what happens in the Aeneid. And, Darnay is continuing this idea in the Divine Comedy. He's assumed that if you're reading the Divine Comedy, you've already read the Aeneid. Which, I mean, again, the Aeneid is what you have to memorize in school. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. So, so, so yeah. So, in Virgil's cosmology, Dido has to be in hell because she's a Christian. And, Aeneas is there as well. So, Aeneas is actually in limbo and Dido is in the first circle of, of, of hell. The, the problem though is that Virgil does not acknowledge Dido. Okay. So, it's like Virgil wants to block Dido from her own, from his own mind. He, he's trying to ignore the fact that Dido is, is his creation. He, he feels kind of embarrassed about, does that make sense? ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 51:24 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3084s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3084s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Yeah. Okay. Did you have any questions? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. Where, where do these ideas limbo and purgatory come from? Okay. So, what's happening is that Darnay is dealing with an entire cosmology of Christian thought. Okay. Because throughout Christian history there have been a lot of problems. One big problem is, let's just say that you're a baby and you are born before the time of Christ. Okay. And you die because you're sick. Okay. Well, that makes no, well then, according to Christian theology then the baby would burn in hell. That's, doesn't make any sense. Right? Because, because it's a baby. He or she is without sin and he got unlucky. Right? So, they create this place called limbo for these special cases. Okay. that's where we get the idea of limbo from. And then, purgatory is another idea that was created in order to, basically, as a middle ground between hell and heaven. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 52:57 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Okay. Because there are lots of special cases where, okay, this person did some sin and so doesn't can't have access to heaven but the sin doesn't qualify for purgatory. So, the genius of Dante is he's basically accessing all this cosmology and like, there are different conflicts within this cosmology. Right? And he's creating his own cosmology. All right. So, before Dante, the idea of purgatory was not that common. But after Dante, purgatory became a much more common concept in Christian theology. All right. Also, what, if you actually read the Divine Comedy, it's clear that Dante is drawing a lot of his ideas from Gnosticism. Okay. So, in other words, what's happening is that even though the Catholic Church is trying to impose orthodoxy on the European population, most people are actually resisting, especially the educated elite. They're resisting and they're creating their own theology in opposition to the Catholic Church. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 54:06 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: So, they all believe in Jesus but the interpretation of Jesus is different. Okay. So, one major difference in the Divine Comedy is that it's orthodoxy that Jesus died for our sins. But when Beatrice and Dante talk about Jesus, Beatrice tells Dante, no, Jesus died to awaken us, to educate us, to our own flaws. Because otherwise, we could not look ourselves in the mirror. Okay. The death of Jesus was so shocking that it forced us to look ourselves in the mirror and to see the sin within us. Okay. So, it was an act of education, it was an act of inspiration rather than an act of redemption. Okay. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 55:58 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: That's right. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 56:03 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Yeah. The other thing that we didn't really discuss is that at this point in European history, this year, about 1300, right, as Doug says, there's a lot of reflection going on. Like, people within the Catholic Church hierarchy understand that Augustine, his theories, his theology are problematic. Okay. And so, what happens is that a new theologian named Thomas Aquinas comes and his orthodoxy starts to replace that of Augustine. and Aquinas is a much more enlightened, much more open -minded individual than Augustine is. Okay. They're basically dealing with two different social millennials. When Augustine was around, Rome was at the height of its power. The Catholic Church was an empire. But obviously, a few hundred centuries later, there was the Arabian conquest and there was the Mongolian conquest as well. So, there was a lot more self -reflection going on. And so, if you look at the ideas of Thomas Aquinas and Dante, they align very closely. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 57:15 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3435s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3435s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: But, what's important for us to understand is philosophy is not as effective as poetry. Philosophy is about ideas and you can debate these ideas. But, poetry goes into your subconscious and they become the building blocks of your psyche. Okay. poetry is language. And, as we discussed, it was very common back then. It was actually a great practice for people to memorize poetry. They didn't actually know what they were memorizing but they just memorized it. And, it made them much more fluent in language and much more fluid in thought. Okay. And, that's a cultural practice that we no longer do to our detriment basically. Right? Okay. So, are there any more questions before we That's right. Right. Okay. Okay. So, the key idea of the Protestant Reformation is that you have direct access to God. Right? And, how do you access God? Through the Bible. Right? You don't need a priest to be the middleman because if there's a middleman priest all sorts of problems are being created. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 59:06 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Corruption is a huge issue but also orthodoxy. And, so the idea of the Protestant Reformation is that you can access God through the Bible itself. Okay? And, why that's and why you're able to do that is because God is within you and you're within God. And, therefore through self -study, So, that's the main idea of the Protestant Reformation. Does that make sense? Okay. And then, when we talk about the Second Revolution, the main idea of the Second Revolution is the institutionalization of doubt. Right? What does that mean? It means we encourage you to ask questions. We encourage you to debate because that's what God wants. And, where do we get this idea from? Because, in heaven Peter and Daniel are arguing all the time. It's divine to doubt. It's divine to experiment. All right? Remember, the father of the Second Revolution is Galileo. ## Dante Performs Surgery On Virgil -- 1:00:14 - Source title: Civilization #30: Dante as the Second Coming of Homer - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-14, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asbKjezwIJM&t=3614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-asbkjezwijm@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-asbkjezwijm.json) Text: Where's Galileo from? Florence. Right? So, Galileo grew up immersed in the divine comedy. All right? These things aren't accidental. Okay? Right? All right. Does that make sense? But, I will go into these topics and themes much more specifically next semester. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. Great. So, I will see you guys next semester then. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So today we do Dante, and Dante really is the height of civilization. It does not get better than Dante. I've taught Dante for three years now. This is my third time teaching Dante, and what's amazing about it is that all students love Dante, but also each time I teach Dante, I'm able to discover new insights about Dante that I didn't realize before. My theory is that Dante is someone you can spend your entire life studying, and you will never truly understand his power, his truth, his beauty, okay? So we will do, we will spend two classes on Dante today and next Tuesday, and this will be the third one. So, I'm going to start off by telling you about Dante. I'm going to will end the first semester. Dante is extremely complicated. I can only give you a glimpse into how wonderful he is, these next two classes. All right, so let me give you a quick introduction into Dante. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 1:10 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=70s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=70s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: All right, so his book, his poetry is called The Commedia, The Comedy. It's not called The Divine Comedy. Divine Comedy is something that we call it later on. He first referred to it as The Commedia. Why is it called The Comedy? Well, because in writing epics, there are two styles. There's the tragic, or high, and there's the comic, or low. Tragic means, tragic high means that it usually deals with gods and kings, and it's written in extremely sophisticated style. Comic low means that it deals with ordinary people and written in, in a common vernacular. At this, at this period in European history, this is the year 1308 to 1321, okay? Those are the 13 years that he spends writing The Comedy, and he will die after he finishes it. At this point in European history, the high language is Latin. And what Dante does, which is very interesting, is, he, he chooses to write it in Tuscan. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 2:33 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And this is the, of course, the local language of Florence, where he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan will become the official language of the Italian peninsula, okay? So, today in Italy, they speak the Tuscan dialect of the language. The Divine Comedy, it is an epic, divided into three structures. Dante goes on a spiritual journey into the cosmos in order to seek truth, to seek God. He starts off with a midlife crisis. And so, he has a guy named Virgil who takes him through inferno, okay? And then they go to purgatory. And then he goes to paradise. Paradise is heaven, inferno is hell, and purgatory is hell. Purgatory is the land, the mountain, in between the inferno and paradise. Today, we will look at the very ending of The Divine Comedy, canto 33. And I want to set up the poem, okay? ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 3:55 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=235s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=235s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Give you some context and some background. Dante is in paradise. And he's trying to figure out the spiritual truth underlying the universe. And then, he says, as he goes on this journey, he concludes his journey by meeting God, okay? But the problem with God is, no one knows what it is. It's a mystery. It's the biggest mystery in the universe. What is God? God is there, right there. But no one knows what it is. God is surrounded by a heavenly host. These are angels that have proved themselves worthy to be around God. And these include people like Mary, the mother of Jesus, as well as Rachel and Leah, who we learned about when we did the Hebrew Bible. And they have absolutely no idea who God is either, okay? They're in a place called the Imperium. And Dante is being guided by a man named Bernard, an angel. Okay, St. Bernard. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 5:05 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And to the left, to the left, is God. And he is this pristine, ball of light. No one knows what it is. Not even God knows what it is. And over here is the host, okay? And at the very center is Mary. What is amazing about divine harmony is how Dante restructures Christian theology. Remember, in Christian theology, Jesus is the epicenter. But in Dante's rendering of Christian theology, Mary is at the center. And the reason why is, ask yourself this question. Is it a greater miracle that a God could come to earth and die for our sins? Or is it a greater miracle that a mortal woman is able to give birth to a God? Okay? This is something that, if you think about it, it's kind of shocking and bewildering. And that's what happens during the divine comedy. There are two literary devices that Dante will use throughout divine comedy. The first is the idea of paradox. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 6:27 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Think of paradox as a puzzle. Okay? What is the hand, what is the sound of one hand clapping? Okay, a paradox. A truth that seems like a contradiction. He will use this all the time. And the other is structure. Okay? The divine comedy, it is mathematically precise. It is brilliant. It is a hundred cantos. And there is so much mathematics within the divine comedy. So to use a metaphor, you can see divine comedy as almost as an intellectual jigsaw puzzle. The human mind does not like contradictions. The human mind does not like paradoxes. So what happens is this. If you are to engage in the stage of divine comedy, you are, you become enthralled in it. You become obsessed with it. And then what happens is your mind will slowly over time, all by itself, you actually don't have to do anything. Okay? Your mind will start, will start to unravel these paradoxes and create a new truth of the universe. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 7:51 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And so we are talking about the creation for the divine comedy of a new mind for humanity. If Homer was the father of Western, sorry, of Greek civilization, then Dante is the father of modern European civilization. And the reason why is the divine comedy, because it is a jigsaw puzzle that will unravel the truths of the universe. It becomes the intellectual blueprint for three major movements in Europe. The first is the Renaissance. Remember the Renaissance starts in Florence. Right? Second is the Protestant Reformation, a religious revolution against the Catholic Church. And the third is the Sinic Revolution. Okay? I will show you today why that's the case. How implanted or imprinted in the poetry are the seeds of these three major revolutions. Okay. Any questions so far before we look at divine comedy? All right. Doug, could you... Okay. So, first thing to know about divine comedy is that it is part of a literary genre called apocalyptic literature. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 9:24 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Apocalyptic literature just means God reveals the truth to us through a prophet or a poet. Okay? So this is Ezekiel, which is one of the earliest books of the Hebrew Bible. And this really starts the tradition. And so what happens is Ezekiel, he is an Israelite prophet, and he goes to heaven where he meets all these monsters and demons and angels. And he meets God himself. And then God gives him a scroll, puts it in his mouth, says, eat it. And he eats it. And he returns to earth to tell the Israelites the words of God. And so this starts the idea that a prophet is someone who speaks the word of God. Okay? He said to me, this is God, Yahweh. O mortal, eat what is offered to you. Eat this scroll and go. Speak to the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth and he gave me the scroll to eat. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 10:30 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: In my mouth, it was as sweet as honey. Okay? So this is the idea of the upper level tradition. What Dante will do is completely overturn this tradition. Okay? All right. Okay. Yeah. Next slide. All right. So before we look at divine comedy, let's review Augustine. Because as we discussed previously, Augustine, the city of God, is what starts the dark ages. Right? Because of the way that the world is presented. Okay? So let's look at a few quotes from the city of God to remind ourselves of what the mentality of the dark ages was. First, when man lives by the standard of man and not by the standard of God, he is like the devil. Okay? And the idea here is that the devil is within us. We must constantly fight against our own nature if we are to be with God. Okay? ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 11:38 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=698s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=698s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Second is, now could anything but pride have been the start of the evil will? And the idea here is, if left to our own devices, we will strive to be like God. Pride in the city of God is used almost synonymously like the word ego. Okay? Basically who we are. We humans are born proud and will strive for Godhood if we are allowed to. Okay? Third is, his was a venial transgression when he refused to desert his wife's companion. So he's talking about the story of Adam and Eve. Eve was clearly the disobedient one. Right? But Adam, why did he eat the fruit? Because he didn't want to abandon Eve. Therefore, love is sin. Okay? If you love, you will commit sin. You cannot trust love. It is because Adam loved Eve that he ate the fruit and condemned humanity. Although the will derives its existence as a nature from its creation by God, its falling away from its true being is due to its creation out of nothing. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 13:01 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Its creation out of nothing. So the question then is, if God created us, why are we so bad? And the answer is, because God created us out of dust. He created us out of nothing. That's why we are so flawed. Okay? Again, we are a failed science experiment. We see then that the two cities were created by two kinds of love. The earthly city was created by self -love, reaching the point of contempt for God, the heavenly city by the love of God. Okay? When we love ourselves, we create evil. When we love God, we create evil. Do good. And the last one. In the heavenly city, then, there will be freedom of will. Okay, this is a hard idea to understand. What does it mean to have freedom of will in the city of heaven? It means that in heaven, we will discard our bodies, and only our souls will remain. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 14:04 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: The body is flawed because it's created out of dust, out of nothing. But the soul is perfect because it was breathed into by God. Okay? Once we are, once we are freed of our bodies, we have no more desire. We don't want to have sex. We don't want to eat. We don't want to fight. Our emotions will all be dissipated. Therefore, we will be perfect. Okay? And what will be left are to enjoy, unfailingly, the light of eternal joys. Okay? We will be one with God, and we will know an eternal bliss. That's what we're striving towards. Okay? Salvation. Everything on earth does not matter. Okay? So it is a negation of human will. It is a contempt for human love. It is a distrust of all human agency. And these ideas are what will lead to the Dark Ages. Dante is trying to rebut Augustine and free us from the Dark Ages. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 15:15 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Okay? So let's go to Dante. And remember, Dante will be a rebuttal to all these ideas. All right. So this is the Imperium, the final level in the structure of the Divine Comedy. And Dante has a mission. His mission is to meet God and tell us who God is. Because God doesn't know, and neither does all the other angels around him. Okay? And the reason why is if God is omniscient and omnipresent, if he knows everything, and he knows everything, and he is everywhere, then God, by definition, lacks an imagination. Okay? This is hard. I didn't understand, but I'll explain it. Okay? God does not know who he is because he lacks an imagination. All right. So what's happening is this. Bernard and Dante are together and they're staring at Mary because Bernard will invoke the love of Mary to empower Dante to see God. Okay? ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 16:29 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: So he's trying to channel Mary's energy to empower Dante. And not only is Bernard doing this, but everyone, the entire Heaven, is praying to Mary to empower Dante. Okay? All right. Virgin Mother, daughter of your Son, more humble and sublime than any creature, fixed gold decreed from all eternity, you are the one who gave to human nature so much nobility, that its creator did not disdain his being made its creature. Okay. Right away, what you will see in Divine Comedy is paradox after paradox. Virgin Mother is a paradox. Right? A mother who gives birth without having sex. Daughter of your Son is a paradox. A creature from its creator is also a paradox. And you will see this in Divine Comedy all the time, these paradoxes. Then this is the paradox. Okay? You are the one who gave to human nature so much nobility that its creator did not disdain his being made its creature. If we ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 17:40 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: agree with Augustine and say and believe that everyone is born in sin, and we are incapable of redeeming ourselves from our sin, then how do we explain Mary? Right? Mary gave birth to Jesus. If Mary had sin, then God has sin in Him. How do you explain that? Well, the only explanation is Mary gave birth without sin. Therefore, she cleansed herself of her sin before giving birth to Jesus. And how did she do that? A mother's love for her child. Right? So this is what Donny is saying. Love is without sin. Love cannot have sin. Now, I mean, you hear this and you are like, no, that doesn't make any sense. Let's just say that I love this woman. Okay? She is beautiful. And I say to her, I love you. Will you marry me? And then she says to me, I will, but I want $10 million. So I go and I rob a bank. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 18:42 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Right? That's love, right? What Donny is saying is, that's not love. That is not love. Ask yourself this question. If your mother and your child says to you, mother, I only love you if you let me eat chocolate every day. Is that love? As a mother, you will say back to him, I love you. Therefore, I will not allow you chocolate every day. I care about your health. I care about your happiness. That's what I care about. I don't want to degrade you. Okay? That's what Donny is saying here. Love is the ultimate power. All right? And because she cleansed herself, she has so much nobility that she was able to give birth to God. Okay? That's what nobility is. Nobility is not in being free of sin, but redeeming yourself from sin through sheer will power, through love. Okay? Let's continue. All right. The second thing this man, this is Dante, of course, ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 19:47 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: who from the deepest hollow in the universe, he came from hell, okay, up to this height has seen the lives of spirits one by one. Now, please. Okay? He's been on this amazing spiritual journey. He's seen everyone. Through grace to grant him so much virtue that he may lift his vision higher still, may lift it toward the ultimate salvation. The ultimate salvation is God, right? But look at this phrase, vision higher still. Okay. What does it mean? It means, hey, you cannot see God. You have to imagine God. God is something that you do not see. God is something that you imagine through your will. All right? Next one, please. Thank you. And I, who never burned for my own vision more than I burned for yours. This is radical. This is Bernard. He is the highest of the angels. And he says, his vision, I burned for his vision. I want to know the truth. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 20:47 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And only this man Dante, can give us the truth, even though we are angels. Only Dante, a mortal man, has access to truth. We angels do not have access to truth. This is radical and revolutionary. Okay? And honestly, if the Catholic Church actually could understand any of this, then Dante would have, his manuscript would have been burned. Okay? This is, this is a revolutionary idea. Do offer you all my prayers and pray that they may not fall short. That with your prayers, you may disperse all the clouds of his mortality, so that the highest joy be his to see. The clouds of his mortality basically means his fear, his doubt. Okay? There's two, oh queen, who can do what you would. I ask of you that after such a vision, his sentiments preserve their perseverance. Preserve the perseverance just means he's able to remember what he saw. Okay? So imagination is one thing. You can imagine God, but then you must turn this imagination into a memory. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 21:47 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And what is radical about this is that our most advanced neuroscience, our most advanced scientists who understand how the brain works, they will tell you this is exactly how the brain works. You imagine the world and then over time, you turn the world into a story. And the story becomes your memory. Okay? So, 800 years before, Donnie knew our neuroscience, how our brain actually works. Next slide, please. Thank you. And I, who is now nearing him, who is the end as I ought, lived my longing to its ardent limit. Okay? Now, Donnie is turning towards God. Now is the time for him to experience God for the first time. Bernard was signaling. He smiled to me to turn my eyes on high. But I already was doing what he wanted me to do. Because my sight, becoming pure, was able to penetrate the ray of light more deeply. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 22:46 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1366s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1366s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: That light, sublime, which in itself is true. From that point on, what I could see was greater and then speech couldn't show. At such a sight, it fails. And memory fails when faced with such excess. He is, he's being blinded. Okay? His mind is being blown apart. He does not know what he's seeing. It is so vast. It is so beautiful. It's so powerful that he's being blinded. Okay? Okay. Next slide, please. And it's profoundly I saw and gathered and bound my love into one single volume. What in the universe seems separate, scattered, substances, accidents, and dispositions as it can join in such a way that what I tell is only rudimentary. What he's seeing is this. He's seeing God as the universe before the big bang. When the universe was this pool of substances that was chaotic. Okay? And then the big bang released all of it into the universe, creating our universe. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 23:53 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1433s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1433s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Donnie is experiencing God as the universe before the universe. Before the big bang. And he's seeing how everything is connected. But he's immortal. He cannot connect all the pieces. He does not know what he's seeing. He just knows what he's seeing is so vast and interconnected. Okay? All right. Any questions so far? All right. Are we clear about what's happening? Can you keep on going? So was my mind completely wrapped, intent, steadfast, and motionless, gazing, and it would get whoever more enkindled as it watched. He's trained all his life for this one moment. And he's trying his best. Whoever sees that light is soon made such that it would be impossible for him to see that light aside for other sight. Because the good, the object of the will, is fully gathered in that light. Outside that light, what there is perfect is defective. Okay? God is good. The very goodness, okay, is in God. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 24:54 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Okay? So think back to Plato. Goodness. It's encapsulated embodied in God. Okay? It is what is perfect and good. Keep on going. What little I recall is to be told from this point on in words more weak than those of one whose infant tongue still bathes at the breast. Okay. So this is complicated. Okay? What he's saying is this. This is now 10, 20 years after his experience of God. And what he's doing is he's sitting by himself trying to write down what he saw. He spent the past 10, 20 years writing writing Divine Comedy to share with the world the truth of God. And so it's not that experience. Okay? That is now gone. It is now his imagination of that experience. All right? And not because more than one simple semblance was in the living light at which I gaze for it is always what it was before. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 25:57 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: But through my sight which as I gaze grew stronger that so appearance even as I altered seemed to be changing in the deep and bright. Okay? Can you continue please? Essence of that exalted light. Three circles appeared to me. They had three different colors. But all of them were of the same dimension. Okay. So he spent 20 years trying to figure out what he saw. And now he's able to slowly put the jigsaw puzzle together. And what he sees are three circles. And this of course is the Holy Trinity. So he's figured it out. Okay? He's figured out that the very essence of the universe the very foundation of the universe is the Holy Trinity. Okay? One circle seemed reflected by the second as rainbow is by rainbow and the third seemed fire breathed equally by those two circles. Separate but equal. Okay? These are separate but they're the same. The Holy Trinity. How incomplete is speech how weak when set against my thought. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 27:02 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1622s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1622s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And this too what I saw is such a great one please. But he keeps on looking. What does he see? Eternal light you only dwell within yourself and only you know you. Self -knowing self -known you love and smile upon yourself. That circle which begotten soul appeared in you as light reflected when my eyes had watched it with attention for some time within itself and colored like it in itself to me seemed painted with our effigy effigy so that my sight was set on it completely. There's a problem here. Effigy means a mirror image. Okay? What he's saying is this. Within the Holy Trinity there is an image of us. We are in God. We are at the very essence of God. We are within God. How is that possible? That should not be this should not be happening. Okay? This is the deepest darkest secret of the universe now. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 28:14 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: How is it that a human is within God itself? That should not be possible. We are separate. God is good. We are evil. Right? That's what Augustine told us. Keep on going. As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle if you want to know where the phrase square the circle comes from it comes from this. Okay? But he cannot reach through thought on thought the principle he needs. So it's a paradox. He can't figure it out. This is the ultimate paradox. He cannot figure out what's going on. So I searched that strange site. I wish to see the way in which our human effigy stood the circle and found place in it. How is it we are in God? What is going on here? My own wings were far too weak for that. Okay? So he's been for the past 20 years trying to figure out why this is the case. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 29:07 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: But then my mind was struck by light that flashed and with this light received what it had been asked. He now has an inspiration. He now can imagine what God is. He now knows the answer. He knows the answer. He's figured out the universe. He's figured it out. Okay? And this is it. Here force filled my high fantasy but my desire and will were moved already like a wheel revolving uniformly by the love that moves the sun and the other stars. Uh -oh. This is the ending, guys. He doesn't tell us anything. He doesn't tell us what he saw. Okay. We spent I don't know years reaching this point and Don has figured it out. And he's not going to tell us. Why won't he tell us? Because because it's a jigsaw puzzle, right? Because it's something that you have to figure out for yourself. This thing only works if you spend the time putting the pieces together. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 30:19 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Okay? And it's a lifetime it's a lifetime journey. Don has spent 20 years doing this. Okay? So I encourage you all to go on this journey. But you know what? This journey is way too long. So I'll give you the my version of the jigsaw puzzle answer today. Okay? It may not be the best answer. It may not even be the right answer. But it is an answer. Okay? To what Don is saying. Remember, this is a mystery. This is a paradox. This is a puzzle. It's something that you will have to unravel for yourself. But I will tell you my understanding. All right? Okay. Okay. So let's go back to the beginning of Paradise. And this is when Dante is with Beatrice. Who is Beatrice? Beatrice is someone that Dante has loved all his life. They met when they were 10 years old. They and always were friends. But unfortunately, Beatrice came from a very wealthy high status family. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 31:16 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: And Dante was wealthy, but not as wealthy as Beatrice's family. So Beatrice was betrothed to someone of her social status. And she died when she was 24 giving birth. Okay? Dante never forgot about her. She wrote poetry after poetry reminiscing about her. Celebrating her. He wrote Divine Comedy for her. And to basically pay him back, she invited to visit him in heaven. Okay? So now they're in heaven. And you would think like, okay, they're in heaven. They love each other. They can do whatever they want. Maybe they'll have sex. Maybe they'll just snuggle. Maybe they'll, I don't know, eat chocolate together. Who knows? Okay? But what they do is they start asking themselves questions about the universe. They're in heaven. And they want to know about the secrets of the universe. How do the stars work? How does the moon work? Okay? ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 32:19 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1939s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=1939s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: So, so this is what Beatrice says to Dante. Direct your mind to God in gratefulness, she said, Beatrice. He has brought us to the first star, which is the moon. Okay? In this cosmology, the first star is the moon. I answered, with the most devotion I can summon, I thank him who has brought me far from the mortal world. But now tell me, okay? The first thing he does is, hey, I want to ask you a question. What are the dark marks on this planet's body? Okay? Why is, what are the dark marks on the moon? Next slide, please. Okay. So they talk. And Beatrice says, your mortal mind can't possibly comprehend the truth. But try. Tell me what you think causes the dark spots on the moon. And Donnie answers, what seems to us diverse up here is caused, I think, by matter dense and rare. Okay? What does he mean by this? Let me explain. What he's saying is this. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 33:24 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: The moon has parts that are dense and rare. Dense just means there's lots of rocks. Okay? Rare means like there's an opening. So light will pass through what is rare, what is hollow. And so it becomes dark. But light will hit dense parts like mountains, and it'll be reflected back. Okay? And that's why there are dark spots on the moon. And this is the generally accepted theory. But Beatrice says, no, no, no. You're wrong. Okay? You're absolutely wrong. There are two possible explanations for this. The first explanation is the moon, there's some parts that are completely hollow. Light just passes completely through. But then ask yourself, a solar eclipse. In a solar eclipse, the moon is able to cover the sun completely. But in a solar eclipse, there should be some light that, if the moon, there are some parts of the moon that is hollow, there should be some holes in the solar eclipse. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 34:24 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Right? And then she's like, okay, then your theory is there are some caverns in the moon that go deep. Okay? But I'm going to show you that's not the case either. In the spiritual universe. She's not talking about the physical universe. She's talking about the spiritual universe. All light reflects brightly, no matter where it is. Because light comes from the essence of God. Okay? Move on. All right. So, can you skip this please? Okay. You can skip this as well actually. All right. So, then she just says this, okay, you don't believe me. So, here's what you're going to do. We will do an experiment. Guys, they're in heaven. And they're doing an experiment. Why? Because Dande doesn't believe her. Dande thinks she's full of crap. Okay? So, this, she's saying, let's do an experiment. Right? This is not a revolution. If you don't believe someone, do an experiment. All right? It's okay to doubt. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 35:33 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Doubt is heavenly. It's divine. Yet an experiment were you to try it could free you from your cavern. The cavern is all light reflects just as brightly as anywhere. Okay? And the source of your light is what your arts course brings from experiment. Taking three mirrors, okay, this is an experiment. And you guys can actually do this at home as well. Place a pair of them at equal distance from you. Set the third in midway between those two but further back. Then, turning toward them, at your back have placed a light that kindles those three mirrors and returns to you reflected by them all. Okay? Although the image in the farthest glass will be of lesser size, there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest. All right. So, here's the experiment. Okay? All right. There's a candle, there's a candle and there's three mirrors. The third is the farthest, okay? ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 36:33 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: Within, if you're holding the candle, within the three candles are these images of you holding the candle. Now, in the third mirror you'll be smaller. What Beatrice is saying is the candle will just be as bright. Is that true, physically? It is true physically. You can actually do this at home. Now, what's really fun about this experiment is you can keep on going. This is the first layer, right? Let's do another layer. Okay? Let's do another layer. Five mirrors all back, okay? Are they still as bright, the candle? The answer is yes. How about a third layer? Okay? Are they just as bright? The answer is yes. Let's go a million layers. Will they just be as bright as the first candle? The answer is yes. That's the experiment. It shows, it proves that no matter how far, how far the candle is, if it is reflected by the first candle, it will just be as bright as the other candles. ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 37:40 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: All right? That's the experiment. Sorry. Hold on. Now, guys, let me ask you this question. What is this? You remember? It's a Godhead. It's what Donny saw when he experienced God. You remember, he saw three circles and inside were three candles. It's because he saw a human being and a candle. in a human being. It doesn't matter or you're just human. So he's telling us that God is that candle that burns in you and reflects the ultimate good. It reflects the good. and it burns in everyone and it unifies everyone together the more you love the brother the kennel burns and the brother kind of burns the closer you are to God when you love you experience God that is why you are without sin when you love okay this is the Godhead okay does that make sense okay go back all right sorry sorry say ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 39:01 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: kiki go back please okay sorry next slide all right next slide no no no no no no no yeah yes okay this is the ende all the dry in comedy all right let's read it again now that we have this information here force -filled my high -fügure see but my desire and will were moved already like a wheel revolving uniformly by the love that moves the Sun and the other stars he tells us here God is love love that moves the Sun and the other stars he tells us here God is love love is God love is the universe is the force that binds everything together it is the unifying force of the universe it is the force that makes things move brightly okay the problem is before we could only see but now we can now imagine okay God is something you cannot see God is something that you must imagine so that's divine ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 40:13 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: comedy any questions about this so far um that's a really good question who is he writing to who is his audience um so he's writing in Tuscan rather than Latin and he calls it the Commedia so I think he's trying to avoid the Catholic Church right because at this time the Catholic Church is not a Catholic Church it's not a Catholic Church it's not a Catholic Church writes mainly in Latin so he's trying to avoid the Catholic Church that's his main enemy okay because if the Catholic Church actually understood what he was doing they would have basically burned his manuscript right so I I know it sounds strange but he's really writing for the universe if that makes any sense he's leaving it here as a secret box and then someone in the future is going to come and they're going to read it and it's going to entice them it's it's it's like they're ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 41:27 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: curious as to what this is and at first they can't figure it out but they stick at it and over time it begins to transform how they see the world okay does it make sense he's a prophet he's a poet and so he's not really writing it to make money or uh because he has to he's running because he has a moral mission to speak the truth and when you speak the truth you're you're speaking to the universe not to an individual all right yeah yeah no no sorry sorry yeah thank you yeah okay so okay at this time remember before we we said that all writing projects had to be sponsored by a patron and before it was Kings um so he does have a patron um it's it's like a count or something and clearly there are parts in the Divine Comedy which are appealing to his patron right but uh he's really ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 42:35 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2555s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2555s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: using this as a pretext in order to speak the truth okay does that make sense he he needs he needs funding he needs a patron but what drives him is obviously not the money what drives him is he believes God has spoken to him and he believes that he knows God he believes that it in the Divine Comedy are the secrets of the of the universe he himself probably doesn't know all the secrets but he believes that they're all there if someone is willing to look hard enough does that make sense okay but but you're right he did have a patron yeah okay any any more questions okay oh yeah yeah yes okay um so there have been multiple translations of the Divine Comedy um this man is named Alan Mendelbaum and um um he's the one I prefer the most just because he's the most um relatable he's the most accessible I mean there ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 43:49 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: are there are these translations by um Longfellow which is uh beautiful but it's really complicated um I think um extra pound has also done a translation and then there are translations which arrive okay so so there are different translations uh minimum is is I just think is I think just the easiest to teach okay and and so um um because of translation issues this again was written in Tuscan I've tried I tried to avoid a close reading okay uh because with close reading you want to analyze the word specifically the diction but I I can't do that because it depends on the translation okay but the ideas are the same okay but but thanks so this is menable okay we'll do a lot of close reading when we get to English literature which is like Shakespeare and Milton okay because then the reason uh you can't do close reading it it's too dependent on the ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 44:55 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2695s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: translation okay any more questions okay so so um so so so so can we do one more slide the Augustine slide and then we'll end yeah okay yeah so let's go to Augustine okay Augustine says here man lives by the center of man not by the standard of God he is like the devil okay guys we are in God because God is in us God is the candle the love that burns in us if we love the candle burns brighter it brings us closer to God okay this is how we know we're doing good because we know okay our hearts will know your faces will know people will know everyone knows what good is pride will be the start of the evil will no pride is who we are we all strive to be better his was a vino transcation when he refused to desert his wife's companion life love is sin love is sin ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 46:03 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: love is the greatest force in the universe because it is God we're created out of nothing no we're created out of God okay God is in us God is with us the heavenly city was created by self -love the love of God uh was created by contempt of self all right so this is a really important idea but the idea is this love only exists between humans it does not exist outside of humans you can't love money you cannot love money you cannot love chocolate you can only love each other because God is within us okay if you love God you don't love God because God is an idea you have to love each other you have to love Beatrice you have to love your mother you have to love your son okay um in everything say there will be freedom of will enjoying unfilling the delight of eternal joys sorry guys okay Divine Comedy ## Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God -- 46:52 - Source title: Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gfqji0qevok@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Text: says this there is no end to the universe at no point will we know everything we exist because we are continued God's Legacy when we imagine things we are create we are engaged engaged in the act of creation that is God we are like God and when we imagine when we love okay that is our ultimate mission in life to love and to imagine because then we create new worlds for God to celebrate okay all right all right so that was the first lecture on Dante next Tuesday we will um do the second okay ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So we are doing Muhammad and the rise of Islam today. Muhammad, as you know, is one of the most important and influential figures in human history. He is as important as Jesus. But, ironically, we actually don't know that much about Muhammad. In fact, we probably know more about Jesus than we know about Muhammad. With Jesus, at least we have a lot of his quotations, a lot of his sayings, which give us insight into his philosophy, his religion, his thinking. But with Muhammad, we don't have that many quotations, we don't have that many written sources. In fact, the Quran, which is the holy book of Biblicalism, the Islamic tradition, doesn't really mention him even though, in theory, it is written by him. In fact, one of the earliest written documents about Muhammad is actually from a Christian bishop, written about 20 -30 years after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. Okay? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 1:24 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=84s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=84s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: So we know he existed, so we know that he was a real person, and he was a founder of the Islamic tradition. And this is what Sibyl says about Muhammad. At that time, a certain man from along those same sons of Ishmael, whose name was Mahmet, okay, so Mahmet is Muhammad. In fact, we don't even know what his real name is. Muhammad just means blessed one in Arabic. A merchant, okay, so he was a merchant. As if by God's command, appeared to them as a preacher. So he was a prophet who rallied the Arabs to his cause. Abetting their vain cults, they turned to the living God who had appeared to the father Abraham. Okay? So Muhammad converted the polytheistic Arabs to the monotheism of the Jews. So Mahmet legislated for them not to carry on, not to drink wine, not to speak falsely, and not to engage in the worship of God. And so, he said, with an oath God promised this land to Abraham and his seed after him forever. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 2:41 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: And he brought about as he promised during that time while he loved Ishmael. Okay? So what he's saying is the Arabs are the descendants of Abraham, just like the Jews and the Christians. But now you are the sons of Abraham and God is accomplishing his promise to Abraham and his seed to you. Okay? You have been after Abraham and his seed. you have god promised you the promised land and now this land has been taken away from you okay jerusalem um israel has been taken away from you and now we will take it back by going to war jihad holy war love sincerely only the god of abraham and go and seize the land which god gave to your father abraham no one will be able to resist you in battle because god is with you okay so this is actually ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 3:35 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: very similar the story of moses in the bible right the jews were enslaved in egypt and moses appeared before them and promised to take them back to israel right so this is clearly following an ancient tradition and so mohabit in many ways is like moses in fact what's really strange is that in the quran the most um quoted figure the figure that is most mentioned is moses not muhammad or jesus okay so let's try to figure out what's going on here first of all um what muhammad is saying is that christians jews and arabs are all one big family why because in the bible it says that abraham made a covenant with yahweh yahweh abraham swore allegiance to yahweh in return yahweh gave him the promised land the promised land is not israel the promised land is all that territory going from the nile to the tigris in modern -day iraq so especially the entire ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 5:00 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: middle east okay that's what the promised land is now this is important because abraham had a wife sarah sarah for most of a lot of her life was not able to give birth and if you don't have um descendants if you have children they don't get the promised land right so in desperation sarah gave abraham her maid named hagar and abraham impregnated hagar and hagar gave birth to a son named ishmael and then ishmael went to the arabian desert and he is the father of the arab people okay and that's where muhammad comes from the arabs sarah by the miracle of god would eventually be able to give birth to the israelites okay and as we know the israelites will eventually become the christians so in other words the christians the jews and the muslims they have a covenant with ishmael and abraham and they are the only people who are the common ancestor in ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 6:16 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: abraham okay so this is what so this is what this is saying so even though we don't have that many written sources about muhammad we have something called the hadith okay the hadith the hadith is arabic and it just means an oral tradition so there are these stories about muhammad that has been passed on orally from generation to generation celebrating his life and so let's go over what is traditionally understood about muhammad so muhammad was born in the year 570 into um an arabic tribe okay and he's born born in a place called mecca in the arabian desert he became a trader because a merchant because most people at that time were either nomads or merchants and at a very young age he married a very wealthy widow and that's why he was called muhammad and until the age of 40 his life was prosperous but uneventful then at age 40 he started to meditate ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 7:33 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: in a cave okay that's a very common thing to go to a cave and to meditate as a form of religious worship and while he was at the cave the angel gabriel appeared before muhammad and he said he was going to go to a cave and he said he was going to go to a cave and he said to muhammad you and your family have lost the way you are the descendants of ishmael who brought the religion of yahweh to the desert back then you were monotheistic but then over time you became corrupted and became polytheistic and so you have a mission to tell your fellow arabs the story of yahweh the story of the bible and return them to the love of yahweh return them to monotheism and so gabriel in a series of visions would tell muhammad the story of the bible okay including moses um his taking the people uh the trojan ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 8:47 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: people the jews from egypt back to the promised land and this is considered a miracle and true because muhammad was an illiterate merchant who had no exposure to the bible so this had to be true and this shows that um this is all a miracle so muhammad is now inspired by the archangel gabriel to preach the word of god but at this time arabia is a polytheistic primitive and backward society so the people of mecca reject him he spends 30 13 years in mecca preaching the word but they reject him so eventually he decides to move to medina okay and this move is very important it's called the hijab okay the immigration he and his followers move from mecca to medina and this starts the islamic tradition and this marks the year zero in the islamic calendar just as the birth of jesus marks the year zero zero in the christian calendar okay so he ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 10:06 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: goes to medina because the tribes there have invited him to be a judge the tribes there uh one of the tribes is actually jewish they're fighting amongst themselves and they need someone to arbitrate to arbitrate their disputes and so muhammad goes and creates something called the constitution of medina which promises the freedom of religious um expression to all people okay there will be no religious prejudice in medina eventually over time more and more followers are attracted to his message of monotheism and he starts to build a following an army and but because he's preaching a faith that is counter the mainstream faith he gets attacked by other arab tribes and there's some setbacks but through the love of god through the will of god he triumphs over them and he unites the arabian peninsula now at this point they are a threat to the two major world empires at this time the byzantine empire for ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 11:18 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: the here's the roman empire as well as the sassanian persian empire and they both attack him sorry they both attack the muslims but again through the miracle of god the muslims are able to defeat both empires and and in less than 100 years they conquer most of the world okay it is one of the greatest mysteries in world history how this happened all right how was it possible for desert people okay these are desert nomads who are poor primitive and backward how they were able to defeat two world empires and conquer most of the world their empire at their height was stretched from spain in the west all the way to india and would include egypt the levant mesopotamia and um iran okay very impressive how do they do that and this mystery has never been solved we will try in today's class to solve this mystery in today's class we'll try to answer three ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 12:40 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: major questions first of all who was muhammad really who was this person what did he believe what did he want that's first question second question is how was this new religion islam able to triumph all right and the third and last question is why do we know so little about the early history of islamic tradition okay so given that we know so little all about the early history and given that there are few written sources about the early history and very little archaeology has been done because mecca medina are the two holiest sites in the islamic tradition all right so we don't have that much evidence in this situation we can only use historical analogs are there historical incidents that mirror or similar to what happened in the arabic peninsula 1500 years ago and the answer is there are some there are actually many many similarities all right so i always look at three ones ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 14:05 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: three i'll just look at three okay the first is from 1850 to 1864 in china there's something called the taiping rebellion i'm not sure if you know the story but what happened was there was this um young man only in his 20s but his name is hong xiu trent and he's trying to become a scholar official by taking the national by taking the um examination and he's failed three times already after his third attempt uh he runs into a christian missionary who gives him a pamphlet and he just peruses that pamphlet and he learns about jesus then he has a dream where he meets jesus and jesus tells him you're my brother you're my little brother and after he fails the exam for the fourth time he decides to abandon um the that scholar official uh root and embrace his destiny as the brother as a chinese brother of jesus and eventually over the course ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 15:19 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=919s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=919s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: of 10 years he's able to build a following that eventually conquers most of china and he's almost able to overthrow the empire but there are some other factors at work for example the western powers mainly the british empire intervene on behalf of the of the qing dynasty so a very similar situation with the muslim conquest of the world right these are peasants who have this very strange new religion and somehow they're able to beat a major empire and what the story of the taiping rebellion then tells us is a new religion that is revolutionary in the right social historical economic circumstances can be very powerful okay so what drove the tai ping soldiers in battle was both the idea of religious devotion god is with us and revolutionary zeal we are making a new world and when soldiers are infused with both religious devotion and revolutionary zeal they're not afraid to die they will fight ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 16:46 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: to the death and that's why they were able to overwhelm the government's soldiers okay same thing happened in something in something called the war of the canudos from 1896 to 1898 in europe the canudos is a northern province in brazil and brazil um for its his parts for most of its history was an extremely racist society where minorities were persecuted by the predominantly spanish and white colonizers and it was extremely unequal society where a few landlords controlled all the wealth so the canudos was a rebellion to overthrow these landlords in a static a kingdom of heaven it was led by this preacher who preached the coming of the kingdom of heaven just like Jesus and he was surrounded by these peasants who overthrew the landlords he was surrounded by bandits who were criminals basically they didn't have any guns they didn't have any weapons they didn't have any soldiers the prison army saw them as ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 18:00 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: a threat and they saw they sent three expeditions against these peasants all three times the prison prison army was destroyed they they lost the battle why because again when peasants have revolutionary zeal and which devotion they're not afraid to die and so hand to hand they were able to defeat the prison soldiers who are well armed and well trained so um so you with the fourth expedition the prison army decided to send everyone the entire prison army was sent against this peasant uprising because he saw this as a threat to the social order and what they did was rather than engage the peasants in hand -to -hand combat directly they surrounded the area with artillery and they bombarded the peasants until they're all dead they basically nuked the peasants okay because they could not defeat the peasants hand -to -hand or directly and in both times the typing rebellion and the war of the canoes ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 19:15 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: you can say it was a religious movement but they were both revolutions there they were trying to overthrow the established social order okay so let's look at one more example of this which is the French Revolution now we're gonna spend a lot of time on our French revolution next semester so I don't spent too much time on it right now okay but but you know the basic outline of the French Revolution right where the nobility and the monarchy were overthrown, and they established a new revolutionary government. And the monarchies of Europe united against France because they saw France as a threat to the established social order of Europe. And the French revolutionaries were able to defeat the combined armies of Europe. And under Napoleon, they established a French empire. So all three incidents are very similar to what happened in the Arabian Peninsula in 600 C. So in other words, what I believe happened is the Muslims were the world's first global revolution. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 20:44 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: So let me explain what I mean by that. First of all, let's better understand the Arabian Peninsula at this time. So this is the year 600. And again, there are two major world empires between the Arabian Peninsula. There's the Byzantine Empire, which is basically like this. These are Byzantines. And they are the heirs to the Romans. They're basically the Eastern Roman Empire. And they still figure themselves out. They still consider themselves as the Roman Empire. But historically, we call them the Byzantines now. And over here are what we call the Sassanian Persian Empire. And as you can see, they're huge. This is India, and this is Spain, by the way. And this is Egypt. So these are huge world empires. And then you have the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula, which is just desert. And if you look at this map, you'd be like, oh my God, ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 22:02 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: how was it possible for the Arabs to defeat both the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire? And the answer is this. What people don't understand, what is not recognized is, in 600 CE, the hotbed of innovation was actually here in the Arabian Peninsula. This was the most creative, the most open, and the most cosmopolitan center in the world at this time. And that's what people don't really understand. So let me explain why. As you can see from this map, the Arabian Peninsula, it's a desert. But it's basically the center of the world. And remember, in this class, what you're taught is, the world has always been connected through trade. Okay? So the Arabian Peninsula, even though you can't really have cities, because you don't have any rivers, and you can't really grow crops, you can't have agriculture, they've been trading with other nations and civilizations for thousands of years. Okay? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 23:18 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Because there's a crisscross of empire. So if India wanted to access Egypt, because again, Egypt for the longest time was the wealthiest civilization, then they had to first send their goods to Arabia. And then the nomads would transport the goods into Egypt. Okay? So what does it mean to be a trading center? Well, the first thing that it means is, you have access to the most advanced technology, information, and knowledge in the world. Because you're a trader. You go everywhere. And you bring back not just goods, but stories and information. Okay? They know everything about the world. They know exactly what's happening in the Byzantine Empire. They know exactly what's happening in the Sassanid Empire, even though most people don't know what's happening in the desert. Okay? Also, because you're traders, they're extremely open -minded and cosmopolitan. They have no prejudices. They have to be friends with everyone. And the third thing is, because you're a trader, they have to constantly learn new information. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 24:32 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1472s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? So that's the first unique characteristic about the Arabian Peninsula at this time. These are open -minded, cosmopolitan people who are constantly absorbing new information, new knowledge to better their society. The second thing about the Arabian Peninsula is that it's a war society. You don't have cities. You don't have centralized control. It's all just tribes. Okay? Just different clans, different families fighting each other. So honor is very important. If you offend someone in my family, we go to war. Okay? But guess what? Because they're always at war, these are strong, brave people who know how to fight. And that's why both the Byzantines and the Sassanians hired these people as mercenaries. Okay? And so as mercenaries, they were learning the most advanced warcraft, military doctrine of both the Sassanians and the Byzantines. These were the best soldiers in the world, basically. And what happened is that over time, the Byzantines and the Sassanians would establish client states within the Arabian Peninsula. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 25:59 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay? So these are client states. All right? So that's the second thing. This is a war society. Okay? Who know how to fight. The third thing that makes the Arabian Peninsula so innovative is its diversity. All right? So what do I mean by that? Okay. So as we discussed last class, Augustine creates this intellectual blueprint for the Catholic Church. And the focus is on obedience. Okay? The idea is orthodoxy. Meaning there is only one proper way to understand our religion. If you disagree, then it's heresy. Okay? And as we discussed, the problem with the Christian religion is it's very different and very, very confusing. So we talked about the example of the Godhead. Right? Jesus, Holy Spirit, and God are one and the same. Well, this creates a lot of problems. For example, the very basis of the Christian religion is that Jesus died for our sins. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 27:08 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Right? Jesus was sacrificed, he was crucified, and he suffered for our sins. Here's a question, though. How does God suffer? How does God die? That makes no sense. So one debate that has never ended, okay? Even today, Christians still fight over it. It's the idea of Christology. What is the nature of Christ? Is he divine? Is he human? Is he both? Is he half -half? Was he human here and then divine up there? There are lots of possibilities. And even today, Christians cannot agree. Okay? So from the first day, Christians have fought over each other, over the nature of Christ and the nature of the Godhead. And again, because of Orthodoxy, there's only one interpretation, and you must follow that interpretation. And if you don't follow that interpretation, guess what? You either have to go somewhere else or you die. And so they're forced to go east, right? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 28:24 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: They either go to the Sassanid Empire or they go to the Arabian Desert. Many Jews go to the Arabian Desert. Why? Because in the Arabian Desert, there's no sense of authority. You are free to practice the faith as you choose. And guess what? Often, those who are the most heretical, those who want to practice their own faith, are the most innovative because they like to ask questions. They like to explore. They want to practice a personal faith. They believe that God is someone you communicate with. Right? The Catholic Church demands that you can only access God through priests. You're not allowed to read the Bible. You're not allowed to question Orthodoxy. And the most intelligent people want to do that. They want to speak to God. They want to practice their own personal faith. They want to ask questions. And in this world at this time, the only place you can do that is the Arabian Desert. So you have lots of Christians. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 29:23 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Here are Christians who, even though they are very controversial, they all end up in the Arabian Desert in order to practice their faith. You also have a lot of Jews in the Arabian Desert. Why? Well, first of all, I mean, the Arabian Desert is very close to Jerusalem, right? So there's always been Jews there as traitors. And when they go to the Arabian Desert, remember, this is a common story about how the Arabs and the Jews come from one big family, Abraham. So they're able to coalesce, intermingle, intermarry fairly easily. You also had a lot of Jews who are escaping persecution, right? You also had a lot of Jews who fought in the civil wars against Rome. And they lost and had to run to the Arabian Desert. So you have a lot of Jews here as well. You also have Zoroastrians from the Sassanid Empire who, again, want to practice their own personal faith. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 30:31 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So the Arabian Desert, it is a hotbed of religious diversity and religious tolerance. You are allowed to practice any faith, and people respect that. Okay? And again, they have some of the smartest Jews and Christians and Zoroastrians in the world at this point. People who will eventually, lend their expertise to the Arab military machine. Alright? So they will help the Arabs develop innovative siege warfare and military doctrine and science as well. Okay? Does that make sense? At the same time, while Arabia is increasing in terms of innovation and wealth and diversity, both the Byzantines and the Sassanians are declining in terms of social stability. Okay? So as we discussed in this class, whenever you have stability, what happens is you will eventually have inequality and corruption. So people within the Byzantine Empire are extremely unhappy for three reasons. The first reason is the problem of landlessness. The second problem is debt. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 32:01 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: These are problems that have existed throughout human history. Why are there so many revolutions in Chinese history? Because of these two problems, right? Because there are few people who control all the land and because the peasants get into debt, so much debt, they can't pay it back. And their entire family, for generations, are enslaved to the landlords. But also, at this time, because of the Catholic Church, you also have the problem of religious persecution. Alright? You are not allowed to practice your own faith. You are only allowed to practice a faith that the Catholic Church demands of you. And the same situation is also true in the Persian Empire. Alright? So the people are extremely unhappy. At the same time, there's a lot of instability within the government of these empires. Why? Well, first of all, because they're always fighting each other, okay? So wars, they're always fighting each other. And that causes them to lose a lot of resources. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 33:08 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=1988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Okay? Second is, whenever you have large cities, you have the problem of plagues, right? Disease. Plagues. So there are these plagues called the Justinian Plague that wiped out about 10 to 20 % of the population at this point. And the third problem is civil wars, right? Because whenever an emperor dies, they fight over who's next emperor. So in other words, we think it seems that the Byzantines and the Sassanids are really strong and the Arabs are really weak. When you actually analyze it, you realize that, oh, wow, the Byzantines are extremely weak, the Sassanids are really weak, and the Arabs are really strong. The problem with the Arabs though is they're divided. Right? They're divided into like thousands, tens of thousands of different tribes. So the question now is, how do you unite them? So you need a leader to come and inspire the people. Okay? And this is Muhammad. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 34:17 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2057s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2057s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Now, what's important for us to understand is there are lots of different prophets who think they are the Messiah at this point. Okay? Because both the Zoroastrian religion and the Christian religion and the Jewish religion believe that the Messiah will come. Okay? And we call this apocalyptic eschatology. This is very, very popular. Right? Because with empires, because the more stable empires are, the more corruption, the more inequality, the more social stagnation there are. Okay? So people actually turn towards the idea of apocalyptic eschatology. So there are a hundred people who figure themselves as the Messiah. But eventually, Muhammad becomes the Messiah of the Arab people. Okay? And why? Well, fortunately, we have a formulation of a great leader that we've learned in this class. Alright? So let me remind you of this formulation. The first is the person is so strategic that he becomes visionary. Second is the person is so innovative, he becomes revolutionary. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 35:32 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: The third is the person is so disciplined, he becomes selfless. Right? And so there are many individuals we've met in this class that follow this formula. So for example, Philip of Macedon, as well as Julius Caesar. Philip and Julius Caesar, we imagine warfare. They made their armies into meritocracies where the very best and the most loyal were able to rise up in the ranks regardless of class or caste. Okay? And they were selfless. They were always the first in battle. They put their lives, they put the soldiers' lives first. Okay? And so we can say that whoever Mohammed was would fit this description. Okay? So let me explain. Alright. You are in the Arabian Peninsula. There are tens of thousands of different factions, different tribes who have been fighting each other for centuries. They don't really like each other. Now, how do you unite them? How do you get everyone to work together and defeat both the Byzantines and the Sassanians? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 36:53 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Well, you have, if you have three different messages, you can unite everyone. Okay? The first message is this. We are all God's children. Okay? Arabs, Jews, Christians, we are all descendants of Abraham. Therefore, we are all God's children. We are one big family. There should be no religious differences and persecution among us. And because we are all God's children, and because we are all different, we should be free to practice any religion we want. The Christian religion is just as valid as the Jewish religion. Okay? So the first thing that you say. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 37:45 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 37:45 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Second thing that you can say is that we are, we, okay, so you're basically creating a meritocracy. The idea of meritocracy is basically revolution. Right? The idea of class, the idea of caste, the idea of tribal loyalties goes against the will of God. Because we're all God's children. We're all equal in the eyes of God. Therefore, those who are most willing to work hard to achieve God's vision on earth should rise to the top. Regardless of your religion, regardless of your class, regardless of your caste. It's a meritocracy. And the third message is God gave us the promised land. This land that extends from the Nile to the Tigris is what God promised us. We are all God's children so each and every one of us should have land. But, the Byzantines, the Persians, stole this land from us. But the landlords, the wealthy, stole it from us. Therefore, we must fight a jihad to take it back. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 39:07 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Because that is God's will. When we take it back, when we take it back, we will establish a kingdom of heaven on earth. We will follow God's law. God's law demands equality. It demands mercy and tolerance. It demands openness. That is God's law. Okay? So that's Mohammed. So in other words, Mohammed was a revolutionary who wanted to overflow the social order in order to establish the kingdom of heaven. He was the Messiah, promised to the Jews and promised to the Christians. And who will now unite Arabs, Christians, and Jews in achieving the kingdom of heaven on earth. That's who Mohammed was. Okay? And so, let's go back and re -read the description of Mohammed and his army by Sibyls to see if this is correct. Okay? At that time, there was a certain man from along the same lines, same sons as of Ishmael, whose name was Mohammed, a merchant, as if by God's command. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 40:19 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay? So he is the Messiah. He's the promised one. God has ordered him to do this. Appeared to them as a preacher. Okay? So he united them. Okay? And they started to see themselves as all the children of Abraham and therefore the children of God. And then, Mohammed gave them the law of God. Not to eat carrion, not to drink wine, not to speak falsely, and not to engage in fornication. This is a law of God. This is the kingdom of heaven. He said, with an oath, God promised this land to Abraham and his seed after him forever. This is the land that God promised to us, his children. But the Romans have it. The Persians have it. The landlords have it. And he brought about as he promised during that time while he loved Ishmael. But now you are the sons of Abraham and God is accomplishing his promise to Abraham and his seed to you. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 41:23 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay? I have come to you as God's messenger, as God's prophet, to tell you that this land is yours and you must take it back. Love sincerely only the God of Abraham and go and seize the land which God gave to your father Abraham. Seize the land. Overthrow the tyrants. Overthrow the landlords. Take it back. No one will be able to resist you in battle because God is with you. Okay? So this combines revolutionary zeal overturning the social order with religious devotion. God is with us. And this is the same mentality that drove the French Revolution, the War of the Canardos in Brazil, and the Taiping Rebellion in China. And so this is the first truly global revolution. And this explains why the Muslims were able to triumph over both the Byzantines and the Thessalonians. Because wherever they went, they freed the people from debt and landlessness and religious persecution. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 42:41 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-engine-victory-risks-center) Text: You are now allowed to practice any faith you want. You have that freedom now. That's important to people. You now have some land where you can grow crops. And we will wipe away your debt. Okay? So in less than 100 years, okay, look what happened. They were able to conquer the entire Persian Empire and half of the Byzantine Empire. That's the power of religious devotion and revolutionary zeal. So that's how they were able to do it. Now the last question we have is, why don't we know any of this? Why isn't this taught in history books? And the answer is because the Revolutionary worked out. Because they won. They achieved the Revolution. But now after they achieved the Revolution, they've become an empire. If you're an empire, you don't want people to revolt against you. So you have to whitewash this history. Right? You don't want people to know that Muhammad was a revolutionary. So you change the history. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 44:05 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2645s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2645s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: The history is that Muhammad was disgusted by the inequality and corruption he saw in the world around him. And he promised the people freedom from religious persecution, from debt, and from landlessness. And that's what drew followers to him. Right? You don't want another Muhammad appearing in your empire. So you change the history and say that, oh, no, no. The real conflict was that Muhammad wanted monotheism. The Arabs wanted polytheism. That's what the problem was. Okay? And the same is true in China today. Right? Who created the Chinese Revolution? Who enabled the Communist Party to control China? Mao Zedong, right? Do you learn about Mao Zedong in school? No, you don't. Same thing. You understand? So they're trying to whitewash their history. Because it's embarrassing for a global empire to celebrate a revolutionary who hated corruption and inequality. ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 45:27 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: Okay? ## Muhammad As The First Global Revolutionary -- 45:28 - Source title: Civilization #28: Muhammad's Revolution of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2025-01-02, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2728s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9rzPGJ0wm4&t=2728s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-c9rzpgj0wm4.json) Text: And that's why there's so little written about Muhammad. And that's why the Koran doesn't really tell us that much about Muhammad. Okay? Because his revolution won. Okay. Is this clear to you? Do you have any questions? Okay. All right. So we have two more classes before the semester ends. Okay? And they're both on Dante. The reason why is Dante is the greatest poet, the greatest prophet in human history. And he's really the second coming of Homer. Remember, Homer created Greek civilization. Well, Dante, with his work, The Divine Comedy, will create modern European civilization. Okay? So next class, next Tuesday, we'll start looking at Dante. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Good morning. So we are doing Augustine today. And even though Augustine is not as famous as some other thinkers we've looked at this semester, he's actually very important because he's actually the intellectual architect of the Catholic Church. And in this world, the Catholic Church is the largest organization. It has 1.5 billion members. And it's been around for almost 2,000 years. So, and Augustine really is the individual who conceptualized the idea of the Catholic Church. So, for us to understand what the Catholic Church is and why it's endured for so long, I want to introduce a new idea. I want to introduce a new idea to you called the end of history. This is a concept that was introduced by an American State Department official named Francis Fukuyama at the end of the Cold War when the Berlin Wall fell. And his argument is that history has been a struggle of ideology. We've had paganism. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 1:15 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=75s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=75s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: We've had communism. We've had socialism. We've had democracy. And through this dialectic, through this constant struggle, struggle of ideas, we have now reached the end of history where liberal consumer democracy is the best idea. Not only is it the best idea, but it's the perfect idea that will allow us to endure for the rest of history. Therefore, it is the end of history. Now, of course, we know this idea is wrong. But what's interesting for us is this has been a recurring theme in human history. Where, in fact, there's been a lot of talk about it. Where every major political leader who's come to power has announced that this is the end of history. That all of history has led to this point where I am now ruler. And from now on, we can enjoy paradise on Earth. So let's look at some examples that we looked at this semester. First example is King David. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 2:17 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Remember that we discussed that when King David came into power, he sponsored the running of the Bible as an apology to explain why he's king. And we also looked at the story constructed by the Yahwehs. How Yahweh, the God, he builds the world because he's a poet, because he's lonely. And his history is a journey of Yahweh trying to find a good friend that could accompany him for eternity. And it turns out, eventually, he finds David. And it turns out, eventually, he finds David. And it turns out, eventually, he finds David. And it turns out, eventually, he finds David. And so when he finds David, he anoints the house of David as the permanent rulers of our world. Okay? So that's the Bible. But then you have Augustus, who sponsored the writing of the Inead. And remember, the Inead, it's really the journey of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, as he leaves Troy and he is destined by the gods to found the city of Rome and the Roman Empire. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 3:24 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=204s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: by the gods to found the city of Rome and the Roman Empire. And why does he do this? Because eventually, Rome will become the greatest empire on earth, with Augustus as the first emperor. And so that's the end of history. Once the Roman Empire is constructed, then peace, eternal peace, is now on earth. Okay? And then you had Constantine, who was emperor after he fought a brutal civil war. And then you have théiano, who scriptureHi, the состо dragged and the Roman Empire to reunite the Roman Empire. And once he rebuilt the Roman Empire, he converted to Christianity and he organized in 325 the Council of Messias, where they agreed to introduce the idea of the Godhead. Remember, when we discussed in the last class, how the idea of the Godhead, it marks a major intellectual revolution in human history. It's the beginning of monotheism. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 4:22 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: It's the the idea that God gave God to long snacker systems, for us to read and to live in all kinds God is both everything and nothing, which is also the idea of empire. There's also a major civil war after Constantine dies. Another Roman emperor, Diocesus, comes to the throne, and in 380, he issues something called the Edict of Thessalonica, which established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. And when he does that, they begin to root out paganism and other religions. And at this point, you can also think this is the end of history. We've discovered Christianity, which will make paradise on Earth. The problem, though, of course, is that in 410, Rome is sacked, and this is a problem. This creates something called a crisis of power. A crisis of faith. Why? Because a lot of people believe that Rome was sacked by the barbarians, by the Visigoths, precisely because Rome converted to Christianity before Rome was a pagan society. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 5:42 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=342s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=342s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-institution-outside-history) Text: And they believe that by converting to Christianity, two things happen. The first thing happened was the old gods, Jupiter and the others, became furious at the Romans and were determined to punish the Romans by sending the barbarians, okay? Also, they believe that Christianity, it's a religion of slaves. It teaches us to be merciful and kind and compassionate. But that's not the way the world works, okay? So now you have a crisis of faith. And the very authority of the Catholic Church is challenged. And so at this point, Augustine, who is a bishop of the Catholic Church in Northern Africa, he comes up with this theory that establishes the Catholic Church as beyond the world, okay? So other individuals have introduced the idea of end of history. But what Augustine does is he takes the Catholic Church out of history, okay? Out of history. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 6:46 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-institution-outside-history) Text: What does that mean? It means that history is really about mortals battling for power. But the Catholic Church, it is a representative of God on Earth. Therefore, it will remove itself from history. You guys can battle it out. But we will always be the representative of God on Earth, okay? And to establish this, he writes a book called City of God. And he talks about two cities. You have Rome, which is the earthly city. It's a city of power and greed and the self. And then you have a city called Jerusalem, which is the spiritual city. It is the city of God, of spirit, of selflessness, of paradise, okay? And the Catholic Church will always be centered in Jerusalem. And if you follow the Catholic Church, if you're obedient to God, then your spirit can also enter Jerusalem. Otherwise, you'll always be trapped in Rome, okay? What he also does that's very important is, by establishing this theory, he solves the problem. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 8:07 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-institution-outside-history) Text: He solves the major problem for political leaders. Remember, before David, Augustine, Constantine, whenever they came into power, they faced three major problems. The first is legitimacy. Why are you the king? The second is cultural cohesion. How do you unite the people behind a common ideology? The third problem was cultural differentiation. Why are you different from other people, okay? And what the Catholic Church, under Augustine, proposes is, we'll solve all three problems for you. We, the Catholic Church, will give you legitimacy because you are the representative of God on Earth, okay? And that's why, even though in the following few centuries, there will always be power shifts, the Catholic Church will always be at the center of these power shifts because they are the ones who are able to provide authority and legitimacy to whoever comes into power, like for example, Charlemagne, okay? So that's what Augustine is proposing. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 9:18 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: So today what I want to look at are some of Augustine's writings to see what is the ideology or doctrine that underlies the Catholic Church. This is important for us because it is Augustine's ideology that will drive European history for the next thousand years. In fact, I will make the argument to you today that it is his ideology that will mark the coming of the Dark Ages in Europe, 500 years when society lacked social innovation and you weren't allowed to criticize authority, OK? So that's the argument to you today. Oh, thank you, OK. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, yeah, this is why I don't use computers. OK, yeah, it's fine, OK? All right, so we are going to look at two major works of Augustine. The first is Confessions. And Confessions is very famous. It's something that most people would have heard of. And it's really the autobiography of Augustine. And in fact, it's considered the first authentic autobiography in the world. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 10:40 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And in the story, he talks about, about his life, where he grows up with a pagan father and a Christian mother named Monica. And in the beginning, he is a very disobedient young man. He refuses to follow the wishes of his mother and refuses Christianity. And he goes on a long journey of youthful sin, OK? He has a mistress who he doesn't marry. OK? And in the beginning, he explores heresies like Neoplatonism and Manichism. But then one day, he has a, what we call a Damascus moment, right? God speaks to him and says, Augustine, open the Bible. He opens the Bible, and he starts his religious journey. And at age 42, Augustine becomes the bishop of Hippo. And from then, he begins to construct the idea, the ideology that will underpin the Catholic Church, OK? Now, for whatever reason, historians think this memoir is authentic, or he's telling the truth. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 11:59 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=719s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=719s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And the one thing that you will learn in life is whenever a politician or a powerful individual writes a memoir, it's complete BS, OK? There's nothing authentic or true about it. So we're going to read a bit of Confessions. And this is really the most famous part. It's part of the Confessions. It's really Augustine's rewriting of a story of the Garden of Eden, OK? So this is what he says when he's a young man or a young boy. I wanted to carry out an act of theft and did so driven by no kind of need other than my inner lack of any sense of or feeling for justice, OK? So one thing that he points out over and over again is we are born in sin, we are of sin, we are evil people, OK? And that's why the Catholic Church is important, because only the Catholic Church can steer us into goodness. If left to our own devices, we can only commit sin. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 13:04 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=784s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=784s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And this starts from the womb, OK? We are born in sin. We are born of sin. I saw something which I had in plenty of much better quality. My desire was not to enjoy it. Not what I sought by stealing, but merely excitement of thieving and the doing of what was wrong, OK? Why do we sin? Because we enjoy sinning. Because that is our nature. When we steal, it is not because we're hungry or because we need something. It's because we enjoy stealing, OK? It's pure pleasure. There was a pear tree near our vineyard laden with fruit, though attractive in neither color nor taste, OK? So again, this is the... We're telling of the Garden of Eden, where there's a tree of knowledge, right? Well, here there's a pear tree, OK? To shake the fruit off the tree and carry off the pears, I and ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 14:00 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: a gang of naughty adolescents set off late at night after we had continued our game in the streets. We carried off a huge load of pears, OK? So they stole a huge load of pears from someone. He doesn't tell us who, but it's someone, OK? And then they didn't eat any of the pears. They just gave it to pigs, OK? They just did this because they enjoyed sinning. Now, OK, let me make a few comments. First of all, we would think it's just boys having fun, right? They don't mean any harm by this. They're just playing. They're just being curious. They're just exploring, which is part of human nature, right? Well, all this thing is saying is that's exactly the problem. Curiosity can only lead to evil. Exploration can only lead to sin. That's why we commit sin, because we think curiosity is a good thing when, in fact, it's an evil thing that can only harm others, OK? ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 15:12 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=912s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=912s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And the other thing is this is clearly a retelling of the Garden of Eden story, right? Where Adam and Eve, they eat that. They eat that. Fruit. And here, what Augustine is saying is, first of all, Adam and Eve are stealing, OK? That is not—stealing is not a word used in the Bible, OK? But Augustine is saying they are stealing. That's the first thing. Second thing is Augustine is saying that the stealing was intentional. They knew what they were doing was wrong, but they did it because it felt good, OK? So, this is a radical reconceptualization of the idea of original sin. Remember, Paul introduced the idea of original sin to us, where—why did Jesus have to come to redeem us? Because we disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. It was a mistake, and Jesus had to pay ransom for that mistake, OK? That was Paul's argument. What Augustine is saying is something radically different. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 16:35 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: He's saying that God is not guilty. In fact, first of all, we didn't make a mistake. We are the mistake, all right? We are the ones born to sin. Therefore, we will always disobey. And then what else he—what else—but what else he's saying is this, and this is really important. This happens in about 350—right? This is about 300 years after Jesus sacrificed himself for us, and he's still sinning. So he's negating the sacrifice of Jesus. Right? Just because Jesus sacrificed himself does not mean we've stopped sinning. In fact, we continue to sin, OK? So this is a radical, weak conceptualization of the Christian faith. We are born sinners, and we will always sin unless we are taught to obey God. That is our fundamental mission on earth, to obey God, OK? OK, so let's go to the city of God now. And again, the city of God. The city of God becomes the ancestral blueprint for the building of the Catholic Church. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 18:06 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1086s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1086s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And one thing that he talks a lot about in the city of God is the idea of rape. And so what's happening throughout this time, and what was very common, is if a woman were raped out of wedlock, or if a woman were raped by her husband, what they will often do is kill themselves. Why? Because the Christian faith taught them that chastity was a sin. That chastity was very important, OK? And if you're the ruler of an empire, this is a problem for you, right? Because you can't have women killing themselves because of rape. Rape happens all the time. If women kill themselves, eventually you're going to have a population implosion, OK? So actually, what Augustine will do is spend a lot of time explaining why rape is not a bad thing, OK? So to do so... So he talks about Lucretia. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 19:08 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Lucretia. Remember who Lucretia is. Lucretia, we discussed Lucretia when we discussed the history of the Roman Republic. At first, Rome was a monarchy, and the king, the king's son, he was a sinful person, and he liked to rape other women. He liked to rape women. And Lucretia was a woman. And Lucretia was famous in Rome for her chastity, for her virtue. So he thought it would be fun to rape her. After she was raped, she called her husband and her husband's best friend named Lucius Junius Brutus together. And she made them swear that they will avenge her dishonoring. And they did. And to make sure that they would follow out on this, she took out a knife and she stabbed herself in the heart, killing herself. And this marks the beginning of the rebellion. The Roman Republic. So in the eyes of Romans, her death, her suicide, is what gave birth to the Roman Republic. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 20:14 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1214s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: So she's honored and considered a hero by the Roman people. And what Augustine will say is, no, she's not a hero because she killed herself, not for the good of Rome, but for her own vanity, for her own pride, for the fact that she lost faith. She was embarrassed. She didn't have the glory of being considered the most chaste and virtuous woman in Rome. And that's why she killed herself. And this is pride. This is arrogance. This is ego, which goes against the will of God. So let's look at very quickly what he's saying. Her killing herself, her suicide, because although not adulterous, she had suffered and adulterous embraces. What's due to the weakness of shame. The weakness of shame. She died because she felt ashamed. Not to the high value she set on chastity. She was ashamed of another's foul deed committed on her, even though not with her, as a Roman woman excessively eager for honor. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 21:29 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Pride. That's what killed her. Her pride. Sorry. I hate computers. Okay. Okay. Christian women do not kill themselves. If you are a true Christian. You do not, you would never kill yourself. Why? Because murder is a worse crime than rape. Also, rape is something that happens in the mind. It's not real. Christian women do not kill themselves. They have the glory of chastity within them, the testimony of their conscience. They have this in the sight of God. If you were raped, but you needed, you need consent to it. don't worry because God knows and so God will forgive but if you kill yourself that's committing wrong against God okay so this argument I mean it's really gaslighting okay and he does this a lot in his in his thing in his logic okay he's really gaslighting he's making certain points about the nature of humans okay first of all we each and ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 22:59 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: every one of us is God's property we are not free of ourselves we are God's property therefore when we kill ourselves we are offending God okay that's the first thing second thing that he's saying is we can do no good because we are burdened by our pride and our sin and we can do no good because we are burdened by our pride and our sin sin if we choose to act we can only do wrong okay so what he's saying is this if you are walking the forest and you see a young boy drowning in the lake don't jump in the lake to save him because one you might die and two everything is controlled by God therefore everything has an intention so you jump and save the boy you might be interfering in God's plan therefore the only solution to salvation how do you make yourself good in the eyes of God don't do ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 23:59 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1439s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1439s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: anything God knows everything God has a plan just obey the will of God and the will of God means doing nothing and in fact doing nothing is the best thing you can do because if you are born of sin and you're only capable of sin when you do nothing you are doing good in the world okay so again this is gaslighting but this becomes the doctrine of the Catholic Church and it begins what we call the Dark Ages because it forces people and most people want salvation most people want to be good in the eyes of God it forces people to be passive and obedient and unable to question and explore okay so any questions so far before I move on okay let's look at another line from the City of God thus when men lives by the standard of man and not by the standard of God he is like the devil all right ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 25:08 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: think about this when you choose to follow your nature you are like the devil there's only by negating yourself there's only by denying yourself can you be good all right if you trust your instincts if you trust your intuition if you use your imagination you are like the devil okay this is exactly what he's saying with this sentence the other thing that he does is he's very repetitive so he'll keep on going like this for a very long time all right I mean this is all just repetition even an angel should not have lived by the angel standard but by God so I should stand firm in the truth and speak the truth that comes from God's truth not the lie that derives from his own falsehood okay even angels must live by God's standard so only God has the power to choose we can choose but we can only do evil so we should ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 26:08 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: not choose yeah so this is a so so the thing about August that's very important for us to understand is he studied rhetoric and so he's very good at gaslighting okay so twisting things in order to force your compliance all right so he says when men lives with a standard of truth he lives not by his own truth he lives not by his own truth he lives not by his own truth he lives not by his own standard but by God he's just repeating himself same sentence but he's repeats over and over okay so why is he doing this why is he doing this and any ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 26:51 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: thoughts what is city of God the city of God we yeah yeah that's a great ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 27:09 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: question that that's exactly it who is his audience exactly his audience is clearly not for us or ordinary people because at this time most people don't read and write right so his on is actually for the priesthood okay his audience are for those individuals who are about to be anointed by the Catholic Church to preach to the layman and as a priest you are forced to encounter a lot of theological issues right and so what Augustine is doing when writing citizenship of God in confessions is creating a rhetorical manual for the priest to basically gaslight the constituencies does that make sense okay so think of this in many ways as the equivalent of the Confucian classics in China right so when when you apply to become a bureaucrat in China you have to take the Confucian examinations right and how do you pass examinations by memorizing this crap all right and if you look at ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 28:13 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: it if you think about it rhetorically you see thinking of the underlying theories it's really the same thing the Emperor's always right just do what the Emperor wants all right so this is a this is in many ways it's all it is is a rhetorical manual that priests have to memorize if they are to become anointed by the church right and once you memorize this then whatever problems that you may encounter you just recite from this manual right and the main argument is hey we're born and raised in China we're born and raised in the US we are born of sin therefore you can do no good even by asking questions you are exposed to the devil in yourself right even by questions at church by asking me this question you're showing the devil in you and our responsibility the only path the only path of salvation in this world is by fighting the devil ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 29:16 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: within us okay so focus your attention on the devil within you ignore the fact that the world is corrupt and evil you know the fact that the landlord is exploiting you you know the fact that the Catholic Church is stealing from you okay ignore that that doesn't matter what matters is the internal world in you life is a conscious struggle against sin because the devil is in you and you must purchase devil if you are to find salvation in God okay so that's the logic of the argument any questions okay are we clear about this okay it's not sophisticated argument but it's a clever argument that becomes the basis for the dominance of how Catholic Church during the Dark Ages in the Middle Ages right right now what he's gonna do and this is very important is he's going to analyze the story of Adam and Eve okay he's going to explore why did this ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 30:24 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: happen why did Adam and Eve go to heaven and why did they go to hell and why did they go to and Eve in paradise why did they disobey God all right so let's let's look at his logic it was in secret that the first human beings began to be evil and the result was that they slipped into open disobedience okay what this is saying is why why do they disobey because Eve and Adam conspired in secret against God does that make sense okay that's what he's saying here it was in secret okay they conspired that the first human beings Adam and Eve began to be evil it was because they talked to each other that they conspired to disobey God all right for they would not have arrived at the evil act if an evil will had not preceded it why did they do this evil act because they themselves were evil all right ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 31:17 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: that's important to understand they were not tricked by the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start of every kind of sin and what is pride except a longing for a perverse kind of exhortation okay they want to become God the serpent told them that if you ate this ate the fruit you become God that's what tempted them okay the pride for it is a perverse kind of exhortation to abandon the basis on which the mind should be firmly fixed and to become as it were based on oneself and so remain what this is saying is pride means we are leaving God and becoming more of ourselves okay there's two ways you can go you can move towards God which means to obey God or you can move towards yourself okay which is to sin this happens when a man is too pleased with himself and the man is ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 32:16 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: self -complacent when he deserts that changes good in which rather than him in himself he ought to have found dissatisfaction pride okay pride makes us happy it makes us ambitious but it will blind us from God this decision is voluntary for the will have been unshaken its love of the higher changes good which shed on it light to see and kindle in it fire to love it would not have been diverted from this love to follow its own pleasure okay we abandon God and the will would not have been so darkened and chilled in consequence as that the woman believed that the serpent had spoken the truth the man to put his wife's will above God's commandment okay so here's the problem the man listened to the woman Adam was tricked by Eve right and disposed that this was a venial transgression when he refused to do his life's companion even though the refused to ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 33:18 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=1998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: entail companionship in sin okay so Adam was forced to make a decision Eve had already eaten a fruit so either Adam could follow God and disavow Eve or he could follow her in sin he followed her in sin and that's why we are doomed okay so what doomed Adam what doomed Adam it was love he loved Eve and that's why he decided that yes I am I am yes Eve is doomed but I love her so I must do myself as well that's why Adam ate the fruit because he could not stand to leave Eve he was by it by his love so what is this telling us this is telling us that there's only one true love and that's the love of God which is obedience to God every other love our love for each other is the falsehood okay it is a lie it only lead us to sin and disaster now let ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 34:27 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2067s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2067s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: me ask you a question who else at this love can only lead you to disaster it is a disease you must deny it you must recognize it for the disease that it is who else said this Virgil right Virgil Virgil in a in need member talk about diddle now diddle fell in love with Ineos and then in love with Ditto. But then the gods tell Aeneas, obey us. Go to Italy so you may found Rome, which is your destiny. And Aeneas, because he's a pious man, abandoned his love and did his duty. So he was honored by the gods. But Ditto became consumed by her love for Aeneas. And so she committed suicide. She destroyed herself. Love will destroy you. Love will blind you. Love is evil. Only obedience is good. Let's continue. Thus the evil act, the transgression of eating the forbidden fruit, was committed only when those who did it were already evil. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 35:51 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: That bad fruit could only come from a bad tree. Further, the badness of the tree came about contrary to nature because of a fault in the will, which is against nature. It certainly could not have happened. But only in nature could it have happened. Nothing could have distorted by a fault. Consequently, although the will derives its existence as a nature from its creation by God, it's falling away from its true being, its true creation out of nothing. So this raises a very important question for us. If it is true that we are born of sin, it is also true that God created us, then is that a contradiction? God is perfect. Why would God create a flawed, sinful person? And the answer is this. Because God created us out of nothing. We are a creation out of nothing. In other words, we are a failed science experiment. We are in a science experiment gone wrong. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 36:53 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: God created Adam out of dust. And he created Eve out of Adam. The Adam's rib, basically. So he's creating us out of nothing. And this was an experiment. And because we were created out of nothing, we were born of sin. So the only path, the only way forward is for us to embrace God, to become more like God by obeying him, and to deny who we are. Because if we were to become more of who we are, if we listened to ourselves, if we loved, if we thought, if we were curious, if we moved into our nothingness, but the more we obey God, the more we move towards enlightenment and salvation. So that's the logic here. So he concludes. That is why humility, humility just means self -denial, self -negation. Complete obedience. Forget who you are. It doesn't matter. Just obey God. Which is the Catholic Church, right? So God really means the Catholic Church. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 38:23 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: This is why humility is highly praised in the city of God, and especially enjoined on the city of God during the time of its pilgrimage in this world. And it receives particular emphasis in the character of Christ, the king of that city. We're also taught by the sacred scriptures that the thought of exaltation, pride, the contrary of humility, exercises supreme dominion in Christ's adversary, the devil. So he's creating a dichotomy. In the city of Rome, in the city of earth, pride triumphs because that's the seat of the devil. In the city of God, humility triumphs because that's the seat of Jesus. This is surely the great difference that shunners the two cities on which we are speaking. The one is a community of devout men, the other a company of the irreligious, and each has its own angels attached to it. In one city, love of God has been given first place. In the other, love of self. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 39:22 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Pride, ego, will. All this is found in the city of Rome. But in the city of God, the only thing that exists is humility and love of God. Any questions so far? Oh, that's a great question. So, Jesus is dead, and Jesus didn't really do anything because we're still born of sin. So, why did God send Jesus? And the answer is to awaken us. To show us that there's something wrong, and we must correct ourselves. To lend us, to show us the light. But it is we who must walk towards the light. Does that make sense? Alright, so we'll conclude with this passage, and this is towards the end of the city of God. In the heavenly city, then, there will be freedom of will. This is really curious because for the entire book, he's been talking about how freedom of will is bad. Because we're born of sin. Right? ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 41:12 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2472s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: It will be one and the same freedom in all, and indivisible in the separate individuals. It will be freed from all evil, and filled with all good, enjoying unfailingly the delight of eternal joy, forgetting all offenses, forgetting all punishments. Okay? So what's the logic here? The logic is this. When we are on earth, we are by ourselves. We are separate from God. But when we, in the city of God, we will have complete reunion with God. We will return to God. We will be the same as God. God is in us, and we are in God. And therefore, we will be incapable of sin. And at that point, we will have complete freedom of will because our will is the same as God's. Okay? So, I know that it's hard. Life sucks on earth. You're getting exploited by the landlord. You're getting raped by the landlord. You're getting killed by your neighbors. Who knows? Okay? Life sucks. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 42:16 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: But, just focus on your internal salvation. Focus on obedience. Because when you do so, you will ascend to Jerusalem. And at that point, you will be one with God. And everything that you suffered on earth will be forgotten. And it will just be endless paradise. You are making a sacrifice so that you may be saved. You are sacrificing yourself so that you may be saved. Okay? And this is a very powerful logic. Because this becomes the logic of many powerful movements throughout human history, including that of communism. Right? Think about the logic here. Communism. What is communism? Communism is we work really hard today to build a socialist paradise. Once we build a socialist paradise, we have complete freedom of will. We will be one and the same. We will be indivisible from each other. We will have complete freedom to do what we please. We can, as Marx says, we can fish in the afternoon and read in the evening and discuss politics with our friends whenever. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 43:36 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Okay? We will achieve paradise. So it's the power of the city of God. Not only does it provide a framework for the Catholic Church to assert dominion over all of Europe, but it becomes the catalyst for revolutionary movements throughout human history, especially communism, but including other movements as well. Okay? All right? So any questions? Okay. You want to know more about the biography of Augustine, okay? Okay. I'll do so, but this is the very ending of the city of God, okay? So let's look at the ending together and then I'll discuss the biography of Augustine. It will not forget its own liberation, nor be ungrateful to its liberator. Okay? So we have escaped this world of evil and of sin, and we are with God, our great liberator. It will remember even its past evils as far as intellectual knowledge is concerned, but it will utterly forget them as far as a sense experience is concerned. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 45:00 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Okay? So what this means is, yes, we will remember the pain we suffered on earth, but the pain will mean nothing. Okay? We will remember what we experienced, but we will not remember the pain. It will be eternal paradise. No more pain, no more suffering, no more sin. Okay? For the highly trained physician is acquainted with almost all diseases as far as they can be known in theory, while he is ignorant of most of them in respect of personal experience, since he has not suffered from them. Okay? We will become God -like in our understanding. We will understand why we suffered, and then we will understand suffering means nothing, because we are now united with God. Okay? Does that make sense? So that's the logic of the Sea of God in Augustine. Alright, so now you want to know who this guy is. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 46:01 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Alright? So, there's a lot of controversy over who he is. In his biography, and again remember, if a biography is written by a politician, it's going to be BS. Alright? Just so you know. He tells us that he comes from a pretty normal family. His father is a pagan. His mother, Monica, is a devout Christian. And then through his own hard work, he started to study rhetoric in university. He became a professor of rhetoric. And then when he was converted, when he saw the light, when God spoke to him, when he had his Damascus moment, he started to study the Bible rigorously. And then he was spotted by his talent, by the church, and at 42, he was appointed to become the bishop of Hippo, which is in northern Africa. And he was in that position until his death. One thing that Augustine is known for is the fact that he's prolific. Alright? ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 47:10 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Prolific. Which meant that he wrote a lot of books. It's possible he wrote hundreds of thousands of pages. And his two most famous are Confessions and The City of God. So, most people, most scholars, take his story for what it is. They believe him. But one thing that you learn in this class is to always be skeptical of power. So if at age 42 he's appointed the head of the church in this region, what does it tell us? It tells us that he comes from an extremely powerful family. Right? Because one thing that you learn in this class is the way the Catholic church grew, the way that Christianity grew, is by marrying itself to power. Christianity had a very strict hierarchy. And that enabled it to be co -opted by the power elite. Okay? So this tells us the fact that he was appointed bishop, that he comes from an extremely powerful family. It's possible his father was a governor, a Roman governor. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 48:18 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: It's possible a general. Okay? But this is not a typical, normal, middle -class family. It can't be. Okay? Does that make sense? That's the first thing. Second thing is he was prolific, which meant he wrote a lot. Now, in our class, there's also another individual who was extremely prolific. And who was that person? Meaning that he wrote a lot. Like, way too much. This person is Aristotle. Right? The thing that we said about Aristotle is he was a censor. For the Macedonian Empire. He was trying to justify the supremacy of Greek civilization. And so, when he wrote, he probably didn't write anything by himself, but he had a team of students around him who wrote everything for him. So you can surmise something about Augustine. As bishop, he had hundreds of scribes, hundreds of priests, who basically took his theories and turned them into books. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 49:25 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=2965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: And that's how he was able to be so prolific. So think of him as a professor, basically. A university professor, a science professor, who's in charge of a lab. He doesn't actually do his own work. He has assistants for that, but he's the one directing the research and the writing. You can also see him as a propagandist. Does that make sense? But he's clearly a genius. There's no denying he is a genius. Any more questions? Okay, so even though this is all genius, it's only because they're an empire. And they can gaslight their people. Okay? So the logic is basically like this. The logic is, I push you down, and you turn around and say, hey, why did you push me down? And I say to you, I didn't push you down, you slipped. There's a difference. Alright? And I can do that because I'm powerful and you're not. So this is really the logic of empire. ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 50:41 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=3041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=3041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-institution-outside-history) Text: Alright? Augustine is really using the logic of empire. He's trying to force people to be obedient. Right? Because obedience leads to salvation. Hey, you can disobey me, you can fool around, but this means you'll burn in hell for all of eternity. Do you really want to take that chance? Most people don't. Okay? Most people during most of this time choose to become passive in order to avoid sin. And this will mark the beginning of the dark ages in Europe. Okay? But there are many people who choose to rebel. There are many who believe that exploration, curiosity, intuition, imagination is fundamental to being human. If you refuse to let me be human, then I will go somewhere else. So where do they go? Well, they go east. Okay? They go east to two places. The first is the Sassanian Persian Empire. But another place they'll go that's very interesting is Arabia. Why do they go to Arabia? ## Augustine Takes The Church Out Of History -- 51:51 - Source title: Civilization #27: Augustine's Empire of God - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=3111s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdbZBVUIVDE&t=3111s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gdbzbvuivde.json) Text: Because Arabia is basically like a lawless desert. There's no real authority in the desert. And there are lots of Jewish people and Christians who escaped Arabia in order to practice their faith. One thing that you will learn in this class or that you have learned in this class is that people take their faith very seriously. I'd rather die than not practice my faith. So all these people are going to the desert in order to practice their faith. Why is this important? Because from Arabia will come a new religion called Islam. So these are the people who will give birth to a revolutionary new religion called Islam that will challenge the authority of the Catholic Church and of Augustine. And this is what we will discuss next class. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. We are doing monotheism today, and I will show you that the first monotheistic religion is Christianity. And monotheism actually marks an intellectual revolution in human history, and it really created the conditions for modernity, the lives we're living today. All right, so let's get started, and I want to review Christianity and why it grew so fast. So if you talk to Christians, they have a very easy and coherent explanation for why Christianity would come to dominate Europe. Okay, so let's look at the Christian tradition. So it's called the Christian tradition, which is to say we don't have much evidence that this is true, but this is what Christians believe. And what they tell each other. All right, so in the Christian tradition, Jesus came from heaven to redeem humanity from our evil ways. He sacrificed himself, and after he sacrificed himself, he started a new beginning in human history. He was resurrected, ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 1:20 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: and then he went before his apostles and told them to spread the good news, the gospel. So they told him that he has come, and he will return, and then he will bring paradise with him. Okay, so there were 12 apostles plus Paul, and they went all around the world to spread the good news. Paul became the apostle to the Gentiles, which meant that he was trying to bring in everyone into the new religion of Christianity to show their authority and to show that they are, actually, the true apostles of Jesus. They are all martyred, okay? Martyrdom. Meaning that you know that they were telling the truth because they were persecuted. They went to India, they went to the Levant, they went everywhere to spread the good news, and they interacted, or they challenged the traditional religious authority, the pagans of that area, and so they were killed. They were stoned to death, or they were executed. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 2:31 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: And after they died, their students would continue their legacy, okay? And these students would become head of the local church they set up, and they became known as the bishops, okay? And throughout all this time, they were being persecuted by the Romans and by the pagans. But because of their faith in God, and because of the miracle that is God, they would eventually triumph, and they would spread throughout the world. And so they were killed. And so they were killed. And so they were became true U ole, unfortunately, 좋을 porque fueron� Einheit in Brazil and... the Middle East and Egypt, until they became a very dominant force. Eventually, the Romans said that if you can't beat them, join them. And the first Roman emperor to convert was Constantine. So Constantine was the first Roman emperor to become a Christian himself. And then a later Roman emperor would make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 3:31 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: And this would create a Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is called so because Catholic means universal, or the one and only. And the Catholic Church, with the creation of the Catholic Church, you had a new idea called orthodoxy, or right thinking. And then, so one mission of the Catholic Church was to combat heresy, or challenging orthodoxy, to make sure that everyone stayed on the true path, okay? And so this is the official history told by the Catholic Church, and what Christians believe today. But as we discuss in our class, historically, that's not what happened, okay? So let's go over, let's review what we discussed in this class. So Jesus, I argue, was a religious genius, and he, his idea would be what we call Gnosticism today, okay? And unfortunately, he got unlucky, and he ran into the Roman governor of Judea called Pontius Pilate. Pontius Pilate had a problem. He was trying to enforce the imperial cult. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 5:05 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=305s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=305s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: The imperial cult basically just means to think of the Emperor as God, and so think of a cult of personality. His picture, his statues, were everywhere, including coins. And the Jews hated that because for them, that went against their religion, okay? The first commandment is you should have no God before me, Yahweh. You shall not worship false gods. And so Pontius Pilate was having a very tough time dealing with the Jews. He threatened the Jews, and the Jews said, well, if you don't, if you don't get rid of this religious cult, then you have to come kill all of us, okay? And so Pontius Pilate had to back down. He lost face, and he killed Jesus. He crucified Jesus as basically a middle finger to the Jewish people, right? But because he did that, what he didn't expect is it would make Jesus into a national hero, a martyr. And so his followers became called the poor of Jerusalem, okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 6:10 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: They established a church in Jerusalem, and they were supported by the Jewish leaders, and they were called the poor of Jerusalem. of Jerusalem. They were led by Jesus' brother James the Just. These people will eventually become the Ebionites. This is important for us because the Ebionites will eventually spread to Arabia where they will help develop a new religion called Islam. So from the Ebionites we will develop a new religion called Islam. The poor got along very well with the Jewish people because they just saw themselves as a branch of Judaism, as following the Law of Moses, but in a manner that conformed to how Jesus saw the world. Then you had a man named Paul and Paul was a Roman citizen and he was part of the Roman elite and he had a problem. He was part of the Jewish diaspora and because of the religious fanaticism in Jerusalem, that was creating conflict between the Romans and the Jewish diaspora. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 7:20 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: The Jews believed the Romans were evil. Eventually a Messiah will emerge from the ranks from the house of David who will lead them in a final victory against the Romans. So Paul saw Jesus as an opportunity to basically divorce the Jewish diaspora from the Messiah. That's why he created proto -Christianity because what he believed, what he taught, is Jesus is the Messiah but rather than a prophet of war he's a prophet of peace. So he basically offered an opportunity for members of the Jewish diaspora to assimilate themselves into Roman society. If you consider yourself a Jew, then you believe in the Messiah who will return and fight against the Romans. But if you believe that, then eventually the Romans might come and kill you. So what Paul said is if you believe in Jesus, you can still be Jewish because ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 8:30 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Jesus was Jewish and this is a Jewish religion, but you will be part of the Roman Empire now rather than part of just this very parental religion. But what's really important for us to understand is most people refuse to follow Paul. Okay, only very small, minor people actually follow Paul. Most people who believe in Jesus were following the Ebeneitz. Okay, there's also other groups of people who believed in Jesus. For example, the Gnostics which we discussed before and also you had these mystery cults. Mystery cults were the most popular form of religious worship which meant they were just like small groups of people who believed in Jesus. They were the most popular form of religious worship which meant they were just like small groups of people who practiced the religion secretly, and what made these mystery cults special was their focus on group religious devotion and worship and they were trying to achieve a sense of oneness, unity. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 9:36 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: They're trying to be egalitarian. They're trying to be anti -hierarchical. Okay and what made them interesting was they used psychedelics a lot. Okay they were in fact apparently something like that. Of course I know muchos chloründenwindeln Cadet they use drugs a lot in order to achieve a spiritual sense. And a lot of them start to believe in Jesus because Jesus could be easily incorporated into a religion, okay? So you have these different early Christian groups around. But what we know is that eventually Paul's group, which again is the smallest of these groups, would eventually triumph, okay? And the question then is why? Why is it that Paul's church, which was the smallest of all these different denominations of early Christianity, why would they triumph in the end? Okay, first of all, the dominant group were obviously James the Just and the poor, right? Well, what happened was this. From 66 to 73 CE, okay, the Romans fought a major war with the Jews. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 10:49 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: And during this war, three things happened, okay? The first thing that happened was the temple was burned down. Remember, the temple is important because it is the site of religious worship for the Jewish people. It's the equivalent of Mecca today. So when Jews in the diaspora, when they prayed, they prayed in the direction of the temple. Well, now you have a problem because the temple has been burned down. So now you have to redefine what it means to be a Jewish person. And as it happened, Paul had a new definition of what it meant to be a Jewish person. You believe in Jesus as Messiah rather than make sacrifices at the temple, okay? Second thing that happened that was very convenient for Paul and the Romans was James and his group were wiped out, okay? Not everyone was killed, but the majority of them were wiped out. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 11:51 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Their denomination in Jerusalem was targeted, and they were extinguished, okay? So this is important because remember, the major authority figure at this time is James the Just, because he's the brother of Jesus. If he's dead, there's no more authority. Therefore Paul can claim as he does to be the real authority, okay? And the third thing that's important is it basically scares the Jewish diaspora. It scares the members of the Jewish diaspora, and a lot of them, some consider them to be victorious of Jesus. now see Paul's church as a very good alternative they're afraid of what they're afraid that that the Romans might target the diaspora and so to show their allegiance to the Romans but still to to but they still want to maintain the Jewish identity so a lot of them start to join Paul's church not a great deal okay but an increasing number this would just start one ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 13:00 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: of three major wars between the Romans and the Jews okay it would be two more major wars and both both wars a lot of Jews would get killed a lot would get enslaved and this would drive more participation into Paul's church okay so a lot of Jews are now joining Paul's church because of these wars the church was seen as an escape mechanism for diaspora Jews from these wars does that make sense okay all right the other thing about Paul's church and what became dominant is it mirror it mirrored the social structure of the Roman Empire all right so the Roman Empire the social structure is called the pater familias and this is basically the idea of patriarchy there's one man the father who's in charge of the entire household and the household is basically a small Empire onto itself okay you have the immediate family okay so you have the sons the children you ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 14:07 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: also have the freed man okay so these are slaves who are freed to work in household and then you have the slaves okay so they were in charge of their own household but they also had clients okay the client the patron -client relationship and Chinese we call this a quality right so someone who would sponsor your business and the goal from society for vocês, a salvation, e Platôm! was to have as many clients as possible because this gave you the idea of face, okay? Or what at that time was called dignitas, dignitas, right? Social prestige. The more clients you had, the more people who obeyed you, the more dignitas you had, okay? So the Polish church was a hierarchy as well modeled on the paterfamilias, okay? So at the top was the bishop, okay? And the bishop was in control of something called dogma, which is like how Jesus is to be understood. And this ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 15:21 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: is important because the problem with most early Christians is they were egalitarian, which meant that you could have your own interpretation of Jesus. But in this church, which is hierarchical, only the bishop or the person in charge had the right interpretation and you had to follow his interpretation. And this allowed the church to scale out into other churches, right? But much more importantly, after you reach a certain size, it made sense for the church to participate in the patron -client relationship of the paterfamilias, which meant that they would now invite the local aristocrat to become the bishop. And if that would happen, the local bishop would then convert his entire network and become Christian, right? And the aristocrat would agree to do this because it allowed him to more quickly scale out and expand his patron -client network. The church became a mechanism for him to expand his social network, and politically, to foster the political power. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 16:55 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Eventually, Christianity would reach a point where it actually challenged the authority of the emperor himself. Because, remember, throughout history, the nobility was always in conflict with the king, the emperor. And now that the nobility was able to better organize because of the structure of a church, the emperor saw it as a problem. So there were some persecutions, local persecutions, not, like, global, Not imperial persecution of Christians, there's some local persecution of emperors because of the power struggle. But eventually emerged an emperor named Constantine, and he had fought a very bitter civil war in order to reclaim the throne. And as we know from our history, from our reading of history, great kings always want to introduce new religions to consolidate their authority, okay? So think of King David introducing the new religion of Judaism. Think of Augustus introducing the Iniat to the Roman people, okay? So Constantine wanted to introduce a new religion to unify the empire and to consolidate his authority, and that became the Christian religion. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 18:24 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: That's why he converted to become Christian. And so he began to sponsor the beginning of something called the Catholic Church. And guess what? He was the first pope, or the head of the Catholic Church, the first head of the Catholic Church, okay? But now that you have a Catholic Church, you now have the idea of orthodoxy, okay, orthodoxy. And that's a problem because, remember, throughout this history, there are many divergent forms of Christianity. And so the Catholic Church began a process of eliminating all, all of its competitors until it became the most dominant. But the problem with orthodoxy is that a lot of Christian history is made up. It's made up on the spot. And so there are a lot of contradictions. The major contradiction, one of the major problems in Christianity is, okay, Jesus came from heaven to sacrifice himself, right? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 19:39 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: So what is the relationship between, okay, Jesus came from heaven to sacrifice himself, right? So what is the relationship between God and Jesus? Like, who is Jesus, real, okay? And this is a fundamental problem in Christianity. It was a fundamental problem back then, and it still remains a fundamental problem today. So throughout this time, there have been different solutions, different theories proposed to solve this problem. What's the relationship between God and Jesus? There's also something called the Holy Spirit, which we haven't really discussed, okay? But think of the Holy Spirit as the expression of God on earth. So when God wants to do something on earth, for example, he wants to move this table, he does it through the Holy Spirit, okay? So the Holy Spirit is the expression of God on earth. It's what we interact with. When we pray, we pray to the Holy Spirit rather than to God. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 20:34 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay, so there have been different theories proposed to explain the relationship between God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. Okay? Okay, so let's look at them. The first theory is called modalism. Modalism, and it's the idea that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are the same being, but they are in different modes, okay? So the metaphor is, think of water. If it's really cold, water becomes ice. If it's really hot, water becomes vapor. Now, water, ice, and vapor are the same being, but they're in different forms. And that's the idea of modalism. Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit are the same thing, but they're expressed differently in different times, okay? But this is logical, but this creates a problem because if you actually read the Bible, you will see some passages where Jesus prays to God, right? That doesn't make any sense because why would you pray to yourself? All right, so it's a theory, but it's not a great theory. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 21:57 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Another theory that's popular is called partialism. Partialism, and the idea is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are parts of a higher being. So think of the ocean, right? There's one ocean that covers the entire planet, but it has different parts. For example, there's the Pacific Ocean. There's the Atlantic Ocean. There's the Indian Ocean. Okay? And that's the idea here, where God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are just parts of a higher being. But then the question then becomes, then what is this higher being, okay? So again, this makes sense. It's not a great, but it's not a great theory, okay? The last theory I wanna talk about is the idea of Arianism. And Arianism was created by a religious teacher named Arius. And his understanding was, look, if God created Jesus, then that means God came before Jesus, which means God has to be superior to Jesus, okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 23:04 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: So God is a higher being than Jesus. Jesus is still great, but God is the superior being, okay? And again, not great, okay, but it makes sense, all right? So there's this huge controversy as to the nature of God and the nature of Jesus. And so what Constantine does, what Constantine does is in 325 CE, he orders all the bishops of the Roman Empire to converge in a place called Nicaea, okay? The Council of Nicaea. And during this conference, they have to figure out what the nature of God is, okay? So these are all the bishops from the various churches. And the four major churches, of course, are Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. And they're all there trying to figure out what, what the nature of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and God are, okay? And this is the solution. And this is the solution that, even today, no one really can figure out, okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 24:16 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: But this is the solution. There are three beings, God, Holy Spirit, and Jesus. They are not the same thing. They're separate, they're not equal, okay? Which are three different entities, but they're all God. Okay? This is called the Holy Trinity. And this is the major idea underlying Christianity today. God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit are not the same thing. They're not equal. But they're all God, okay? This is called the Godhead, all right? So let's try to figure out what's going on here. Why did they pick this theory? Okay, first of all, what we need to understand is, these first three theories, modalism, partialism, and Aaronism, are really stories, okay? They're stories of who God is. This, the Godhead, is an equation, okay? Now, what's the difference? Well, in a story, you can personalize it. You can put yourself in the story, and you can talk to God. And therefore, you can interpret the story the way you want to interpret it. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 25:59 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: And therefore, you can argue about the story with others. Right? That's what stories do. But you can't do that in an equation. Like, how do you put yourself into this equation? You don't belong anywhere, right? The system is closed off to you. You're excluded from it. You can't interact with the Godhead. Therefore, you cannot argue here, you understand? There's no room for argument. There's no room for interpretation and argument, okay? There's no room for debate. That's the first major advantage of the Godhead. You cannot debate anything because there's nothing to debate. You either accept it or you don't accept it. There's no in, there's nothing in between, okay? Second thing is, before, we understood faith as something that you experience personally. You can talk to God. You can feel God. But with a Godhead, it's something that you have to believe, okay? You have to believe in miracles, which forces the idea of faith as blind obedience. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 27:21 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay? Do you understand? Faith is something that you have to, before the Godhead, faith is something that you have to experience for yourself. Now faith is just blind obedience. You have to accept this as it is. You have to memorize it, okay? It's like mathematics. When you go to math class, you're not asked to figure out why the proofs work. You have to just memorize the proofs. And the third thing about the Godhead is it's exclusionary. Meaning, it's not exclusive. Exclusionary just means that you can't put any other theories in here. And if you look at these three theories, modalism, partialism, and eruditism, you can actually put them together, okay? They're not contradicting each other. They're not fighting against each other. They're different, but you can actually put them together. Whereas with this equation, it's exclusionary. You cannot put any other theories into it. And you cannot put this into any other theories. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 28:28 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: All right? And so what this means is this. If you put these three things together, something that you have to accept, you cannot debate it, something that forces your blind obedience, something that is exclusionary, okay? It creates a new idea in human history called monotheism. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 28:55 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 28:55 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Monotheism. And this is a new radical idea in human history. Never before could we imagine something called monotheism. Before there were some religions with one God, right? But this one God would also interact with other gods. Or this one God would create new gods. But the idea of monotheism is there's only one God and that's it. And this is radical in human history. So let's try to figure out monotheism, okay? And by the way, monotheism, I think it's a very hard idea to understand. So it's okay if we don't really understand it today, but over the next few months as we explore the impact of monotheism. Okay? On society, we'll have a better understanding of it, okay? All right. So let's look at monotheism. The first thing we understand about monotheism is if we memorize this formula, and you're forced to memorize this formula, your understanding of reality changes, okay? And there's only one way to understand reality that makes this true, and the understanding is this. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 30:13 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-symbols-become-reality) Text: God is nothing and everything, okay? Does that make sense? There's only one way that reality is structured that makes this statement true. God is Holy Spirit and Jesus, but God is not Holy Spirit and Jesus. And the understanding of reality is God is nothing and everything, okay? Meaning God is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Meaning that God is all of reality. What this tells us is this. Symbols. Symbols become reality, okay? The symbols of reality, the representation of reality becomes conflated, okay, into reality itself. And then if we do that, this creates three new ideas that become the underlying basis of modernity, okay? And these three new ideas are capitalism, science, and the nation state. Before we didn't have these three ideas. Capitalism, science, and the nation state. But now we do because we have come to believe that symbols are reality. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 31:41 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: We have come to believe that God is nothing and everything, okay? So let's look at this, okay? What is the underlying basis of capitalism? Money, right? Okay. So let's talk about money, okay? Because I think money is the best way to understand this idea that God is nothing and everything. Okay? So, you and I go back in time, and we ask the people there, what is the basis of wealth in your society? And they might say, gold or silver. And we ask, why is that the case? Why is gold and silver the basis of wealth in society? And they say, well, because gold is beautiful. You can make jewelry out of it. Also, it's very hard to get gold. You have to go mine it, and it's very hard to mine it. And also, it's rare. So, you're like, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, gold can be the basis of wealth. Now, let's imagine ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 33:00 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=1980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-symbols-become-reality) Text: some people from a thousand years ago, they transport to our classroom, and they ask us the same questions. What's the basis of wealth in your society? And we say, money. And then they ask, what is money? And then we say, well, money are... you know, paper that the government prints. And then they're like, okay, but that... but wait, wait, wait, wait. That makes no sense, because the government can print as much money as it wants. And we're like, yeah, that's right. And they're like, but... and how do you... how do you trust the government? How do you trust the government not to print, like, $20 trillion today? How do you trust the government to behave itself? And we're like... we don't know. And they're like, then why do you think money is valuable? You understand? Okay? So why do we think money is valuable? Because we have... we believe money is God. Because money is nothing and everything, because the symbols have become reality. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 34:18 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2058s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2058s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: You understand? Okay, now the question then is, why do we believe this crap? Why do we believe money is God? Why do we believe money is valuable? Because the... the power of monotheism is that it destroys other realities, okay? It crowds out realities. The first is that it symbolizes reality, the second is that it crowds out realities, because before, in human history, we believed there were many realities, there was a spiritual reality. There were many spiritual realities, and in those realities, money didn't really matter, okay? But now, with monotheism, we've destroyed those other realities. Only the material reality exists. But not only that, but for monotheism to work, it has to expand until it becomes true. It's a self -fulfilling prophecy, okay? So aggressive expansionism. Not only will it expand, but it has to destroy those who criticize it, okay? So in society, you are not ever allowed to... ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 35:57 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt#power-alchemy-symbols-become-reality) Text: You are not allowed to ask the question, wait, what if money has no value because the government can print as much money as it wants? You are not allowed to ask this question. You are not allowed to think of this question. You are not allowed to imagine the possibility of this question, okay? So that's what monotheism is. There are three main characteristics of monotheism that has enabled it to create the world that we live in today, okay? First is it destroyed the idea of symbols. Symbols are now reality, okay? Money does not represent wealth. Money is wealth. Second is the idea that it has destroyed all realities except for the material reality that we live in today. You are not allowed to think of spiritual realities. In school, we do not teach the idea of a spiritual reality, even though in our hearts, we know it must exist. The third is the idea of aggressive expansionism. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 37:07 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Expansionism. Expansionism is a very important thing because only by expanding can it be true. And that's why the two major monotheistic religions of our time, Christianity and Islam, are so violent, okay? They are the source of most major wars throughout human history, right? So we think capitalism, science, and the nation state are all really good things, okay? But why? Let's look at science. Science only concerns itself with the material reality. So if you can't see it, it doesn't exist. But then this creates a problem because science refuses to engage in hard questions, okay? One question that I think is very interesting is, what is thought? What is consciousness? How do we think? And science, the response of science to all these questions is, don't think about it. It's not a problem. And you're like, wait a minute. Consciousness is what makes us human. We can't figure out what consciousness is. If consciousness is, then we will never know what it means to be human. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 38:26 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: And science response is, a human being are just a sum of biological parts, right? You are just your brain, and your head, and your eyes, and your arms put together, because that's what we can measure. But the question of what is consciousness, how do we imagine things, how do we understand things, science doesn't know, and it refuses to engage in this problem, all right? So what is thought? One more point about symbols. So one thing that you're taught in school, which is not true, is we're so much more sophisticated than ancient civilizations, because ancient civilizations had these superstitious beliefs, like gods, okay? Like Apollo and Athena, and obviously don't exist. So the fact that these ancient humans believe they exist demonstrates how stupid they are. But here's the thing. If you go back to these societies, and you were to analyze thoroughly ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 39:51 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: how they understood Apollo and Athena and other gods, you would understand that they didn't actually believe these gods existed, okay? But they believed these gods were metaphors and symbols for forces in nature that could influence our lives. Does that make sense? Okay. So for example, take the idea of hatred and vengeance. Well, hatred and vengeance would become manifested in gods like strife, okay? And nemesis, okay, nemesis, strife. And the ancients believed this was a better way to understand the world. They understood that these forces were so powerful that we couldn't really control them. Therefore, we must be conscious of these forces and control them better ourselves. Okay? And unfortunately today, we believe that because these gods don't exist, they're just symbols, then hatred and vengeance don't really exist either. They're just states of mind. They're just emotions. And you can just pretend they don't exist, and then you're fine, okay? The word we use for this is positive psychology. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 41:15 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Have you studied positive psychology? It's the dumbest idea in the world, okay? It's the idea that if you think you're happy, then you're happy, whereas the ancients thought that these were external forces. Okay? And we have to work hard to tame them or to understand them. And I think the ancients had a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of reality than we do, okay? Another idea that we don't have today is evil, right? The ancients, okay, struggled with the idea of evil. What is evil? Where does it come from? And there was a very popular book about evil. At that time, it's something called the Book of Enoch. And the Book of Enoch explains why there was a great flood. Remember in the Bible, there's this flood that wipes out humanity. Onan Noah survives, right? So the Book of Enoch tells a story of why God had to destroy the world. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 42:29 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: So after God created the world, his angels, called the Watchers, saw humans, and they thought that humans were stupid and evil. So they came down to better manage us, okay? But then they started to lust after women, and they started to have children with these women. And these created giants, okay, called the ephelim, the nephahim, okay? Sorry. Nephilim. And these were giants. And so we humans just saw them as, like, gods. So remember the Epic of Gilgamesh? Well, Gilgamesh was a nephahim. And so we started to... We started to make sacrifices and pay tributes to these giants. But over time, these giants became more and more greedy. And so they started to devour us and fight amongst themselves. And so now God, up in heaven, he recognizes this problem. So he creates a flood to destroy these nephahim, these giants, okay? So now they're wiped out. But because they are... Because they are born of angels, they are immortal. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 43:41 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: And so they become these evil spirits. These evil spirits that roam around the earth, okay, and they try to create chaos. There's one great king called Solomon, King David's son. And he discovers these evil spirits, and he captures them with a ring. But these evil spirits recognize that we as human beings are all flawed. So they tempt him with a beautiful woman. And Solomon wants to have sex with her, but she says, to have sex with me, you must want to worship my God. And so Solomon agrees, and he becomes controlled by these evil spirits. Now after monotheism, after the Catholic Church, they banned the Book of Enoch. Because obviously if you're a powerful person, you don't want ordinary people thinking that you can be tempted by evil. If you're an evil spirit, you're going to go tempt powerful people, right? Because it is the most advantageous to you, and the powerful people are the most easy people to tempt. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 44:54 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Because they love power, right? So today, we're not allowed to ask the question about evil, where does evil come from? Why are people evil? You're not allowed to think it, okay? So monotheism is crying out different realities and possibilities from us. And we live in a world that I think is, I think we live in a world that even though we are much more wealthy and technologically advanced. We are much less sophisticated than in historical times, alright? So let me conclude by summarizing what we discussed and explain what monotheism is and the consequences on our lives because of monotheism, okay? Okay, so the first thing is, back throughout most of human history.... We human beings have lived in a very, very corrupt, very corrupt world. believe that gods are everywhere every day we're not in regards because we believe in spiritual realities okay ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 46:15 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: so and again gods are metaphors so this is pre -modern this is modern now what do we believe we believe that money is God we structure our lives around the idea of money why do we come to school to get good grades so that we can get in university why because we need a job to make money why because buying things will make us happy okay that's what everyone believes God is money money is gone and the ultimate consequence of this in our lives is life is alienating think about the number of depressed people in the world depression is a new idea it didn't exist before think about the number of people who live depressing lives who are unhappy who are angry who are who just hate themselves in their lives okay something that we believe most most of human history is spiritual reality is real okay there's a higher plane there are higher dimensions ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 47:37 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: there are these spirits who roam in these dimensions when we die we will enter these spiritual realms and therefore we must prepare for entry into the spiritual realms by living spiritual lives on earth okay spiritual reality is real now today we only believe that material reality is real is real, and only material reality is real. When we die, we're nothing. We came from nothing, we live our lives, then we die, we become nothing. That's pretty depressing. So what this means for our society is facts matter more than truth. In school you learn facts, you don't learn truth. It doesn't make sense. In science class, you're learning facts, you're not learning truth. There's a huge difference. Facts are things that happen in the world. Truth is how the world works. There's a difference. You don't learn how the world works in science class. You just learn things that happen in the world that happen to be true. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 48:58 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=2938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Now the last major consequence is this. Pre -modern, we believe that slavery was the worst evil. If you believe in spiritual realities, and you believe that when you die, you will just ascend to the heavens, to the spiritual realm, then you want to live your best life on earth. You don't want to be a slave. But now, what are you taught? You're taught dying, death, is the worst evil. The worst thing that can happen to you is dying and death. Because when you die, you become nothing. So what does this mean? It means we are all slaves. If you're afraid of dying, you can't live your best life. You're not going to take risks. You're not going to ask questions. You're not going to explore. We are all slaves, every one of us. Because we are afraid to die. Okay? If you think about it, monotheism is what creates the world we live in today, and it explains why we live the lives we do today. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 50:26 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3026s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3026s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Alright? Now, what's important for us to understand is, this is a story. This is not an instant change, okay? This is something that will have to be fought over for about 1,000 years. Because monotheism, this godhead, it is such a strange idea that people refuse to believe it. This is a minority religion at that time. But again, because this is a religion that must expand, it will eventually triumph and create the world we live in today. But only by killing millions of people. Millions and millions of people in these religious wars. So from the first day, from the day the Catholic Church was built, it was engaging in crusades and inquisitions against people who refused to believe in this orthodoxy. Alright? Okay. So, I know this was a lot to take in, alright? But are there any questions that you have? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 51:40 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: That's right. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 51:46 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay, so I argue that we are less sophisticated than before. Because before, everyone was very intuitive. And very imaginative. Meaning that they could imagine themselves living in different realities at the same time. Right? There's the physical reality that you experience. But then there's also this high dimension, the spiritual reality that you could feel. Okay? So, for example, if I were to fight with you, okay? If we had a fight, I would experience that. But I could also see maybe this god behind me pulling my strings, and the god behind you pulling your strings Okay? So, when you read the Iliad, there are all these other realities that exist on top of each other. The reality that we live, but also a higher reality where the gods negotiate amongst themselves. And again, this is a metaphor, a symbol for these structural forces that govern the universe. Does that make sense? Alright. So, when I mean sophisticated, I really mean much more intuitive and much more imaginative than we are today. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 53:10 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay. So, what made us lose the ability to imagine, right? Okay, well, it's these three things really. Capitalism, science, and the nation state. Right? Do you understand? Because with capitalism, what it teaches us is that money is the only good, the highest good. So, it crafts on other things, like for example, love of each other, interconnectedness. Right? If you are a mother who loves your child, guess what? It doesn't matter. But if you think about it, the most beautiful thing in the world is a mother loving her children. But because of capitalism we're taught, that doesn't exist. Because you cannot financially exploit it. You can't measure it. Okay? Then you look at science. Science is the ultimate religion. Because everyone believes it has to be true. It's objective. But what you will learn next semester, I think, is that, okay, we ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 54:15 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3255s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3255s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: won't do it this semester, but what we will learn next semester is the idea of objectivity. Okay? Objectivity. It doesn't exist. And this is suddenly proven. Okay? This is something that elite scientists know, but which no one else, but like, which we don't really understand. Objectivity doesn't exist. All right? In fact, what elite scientists now know, and this is a very strange idea we will explore next semester, is the universe, reality. It is a collective, it is a collective hallucination. Do you understand? We'll learn this next semester. Okay? But the idea is that the universe is what we imagine it to be. It doesn't exist on its own. Does that make sense? Okay? But we believe it exists on its own because of science. All right? So when you go to science class, you think you're learning the truth, but you're actually learning a religion that, um, hinders you from imagining other realities. Okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 55:37 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) - Related lens: [Power As Alchemy](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/power-as-alchemy.txt) Text: And of course, the nation state. The nation state now is like God. Right? Who are you? Well, you are a Chinese citizen. But before, we didn't think like that. We just saw ourselves as members of a community. And it could be a global community. Okay? And you could have many identities. But now, if you're a Chinese citizen, you're not an American citizen because you're in competition with each other. Okay? Does that make sense? So these are the three underlying ideas of the reality we live in today. And this wasn't true before. ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 56:17 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: Okay? ## The Godhead Equation That Made Money Real -- 56:19 - Source title: Civilization #26: Constantine's Monotheistic Revolution - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za30rbC3tTg&t=3379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-za30rbc3ttg.json) Text: So this is a hard idea to understand. But next semester, it will become clearer and clearer. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. All right. So, um, good. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So last class we talked about the central paradox in Christianity. What Jesus believes is different from what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. Okay, so let's go over, let's review what Jesus believes, teaches, and what Christianity teaches us about Jesus. Okay, so Jesus. Remember that Jesus is one of our great spiritual leaders and geniuses, like the Buddha. And there's a three -tier approach to his religion or philosophy. There's an inner approach, which is the secret teachings, his secret understanding of the world. There's an inner leer, which is what he teaches his disciples. And then there's a public leer, which is what he tells other people in public. And the public leer we know very well. He believes in generosity, in mercy, in focusing on being a good and kind person. The inner leer we also know very well. He demands that the people follow him. Give up all. Give up all worldly possessions and pursuits. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 1:29 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=89s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=89s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: If you're rich, if you want to follow him, then you must abandon all your wealth. And he demands self -sacrifice from all his apostles. Okay? And then there's a secret leer, which is the philosophy that underpins all these religious teachings. And the secret is that this world we live in is false. And what's really true is the divine spark within us that allows us to connect to the true reality of the monad, or the one, okay? The world that we live in has been controlled by a monster. And that's why you should not hate the rich. You should pity the rich, because the rich are pursuing what is false. And in the pursuit of what is false, it is causing them to feel anger. Um... And self -hatred. So Jesus has this great metaphor. And what he says is that the pursuit of wealth is like drinking salt water, okay? The more you drink, the more thirsty you become, and you feel it's because you have not drunk enough. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 2:47 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So you drink more and more salt water, and eventually you will poison yourself, right? So that's how he feels about the pursuit of wealth. It is poisonous. It will only lead to your ultimate demise. And that's why it's important to focus instead on our humanity, on our connection with others. That's why it's important to be compassionate, okay? And you should most be compassionate towards the rich, because you're the ones who are most guided, the ones who are most misguided and deluded, okay? So that's the Jesus. And again, his teachings are no different from, say, Buddhist teachings or Hindu teachings. Or Zoroastrian teachings, okay? So all these major religions are aligned in this belief. But then you have the Bible, the Jesus of the Bible. And the Jesus of the Bible is portrayed very differently, right? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 3:44 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: In the Bible, Jesus is the Son of God. And there's a conflict between God and humanity. Remember, we humans committed the original sin. We disobeyed him. And ate from the fruit of the tree of knowledge and good and evil. And therefore, God banished us from paradise. Ever since, we've been living in misery. God expects us to acknowledge our failings and ask for forgiveness. But because we are ignorant and misguided and sinful, we refuse to apologize. Therefore, Jesus has to return, has to come to earth. And sacrifice himself in the crucifixion, has to crucify himself in order to atone for our sins and to wash us of all our past sins so that we can begin anew, okay? And after he has completed the sacrifice, he has become resurrected. And he now ascends to heaven and he prepares for the day when he will return and destroy all evil and build an eternal paradise. And this is what is known as the second coming, okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 5:08 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And this is an extremely powerful story, but it's also very complicated and in many ways contradictory, okay? So if Jesus is the Son of God, then what is God's role in this? And how does a Son of God, a God, actually die on earth? And why does he have to die first before he can return again, okay? So there are a lot of contradictions in this story that you don't have in the first Jesus teachings, all right? So the question I want to ask today is, how did we get from here, okay, Jesus teaching us about the kingdom of God, that the kingdom of God is within us and accessible to all who are willing to do good? To this idea? Which is? Which demands that we believe that Jesus is the Son of God who came to sacrifice himself to redeem us from our sins. And he will eventually return to bring eternal paradise to earth, all right? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 6:21 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: These are two very different worldviews. So how did we get from here to here? Okay. So a lot of the clue lies in the Bible. And the story of Jesus. In the Bible. So what's interesting about the Jesus story is, Jesus gets into trouble when he goes into Jerusalem. Before, he was in the provinces, and he was putting a large following, he was healing people, he was spreading the kingdom of God message, and he was very popular, and he was very safe. But then he got, he went into Jerusalem, and he ran afoul of the religious elite in Jerusalem. The high priest. And eventually, they rallied the Jewish people against Jesus, and they persecuted him, okay? And eventually, Jesus was betrayed by a man named Judas Iscariot, one of his followers. And the Jews brought Jesus before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, and at first Pontius Pilate refused to punish him, but the Jews insisted. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 7:39 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And so, Pontius Pilate had to eventually crucify Jesus, in order to satisfy the will of the Jewish people. Okay? Now, this story is constructed in a way that's very, very clever. In history, who was also persecuted by his own people, which caused his death? You guys remember? Which truth teller? Exactly. Okay? Socrates, right? So this story reminds us of Socrates. Right? The persecution of a truth teller. That's Socrates, right? Reminds us of Socrates. Now, let me ask you another question. Who else was betrayed by his own followers? Julius Caesar, right? You see how clever this is? The two most famous individuals in world history at this point, Socrates and Julius Caesar, are brought into the story of Jesus, so that it conflates. All three together. Jesus is Socrates is Julius Caesar. All right? That's very, very clever. And you can only do this if ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 8:53 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: you have a very nuanced understanding of Greek history, Roman history, and the Jewish Bible, the Hebrew Bible. Right? And in fact, at this time, there are individuals who possess all three sets of knowledge, and they are called... Hmm. Hellenized Jews in the Roman Empire. Right? If you are a Hellenized Jew, meaning you grew up with a Greek education, and you're in the Roman Empire, you have access to all three major sets of knowledge. The Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and Roman history. Okay? And the major individual in the Bible who is a Hellenized Jew in the Roman Empire is named Paul. And he is credited with the Greek history. He is credited with most of the writing of the New Testament. About a third of the New Testament, which is the Christian Bible, either is written by Paul, or it's about Paul. So that's why we believe that not Jesus, but Paul is the real founder of Christianity. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 10:11 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? Christianity, again, is not by Jesus, it's not a religion by Jesus, it's a religion about Jesus. And there's a difference. Okay. Now, let's talk about the life and times of Paul, because it's a very interesting story. Okay? And, again, everything I'm telling you comes from the Bible, a book called Acts of the Apostles, which is about what happens after Jesus dies. Okay. So, after Jesus dies, his brother, James the Just, becomes leader of his movement. Okay? And they're often called the poor. They're often called the poor. Why? Because they're focused on a life that denies worldly goods. Okay? They believe this material reality we live in, it's evil, and we have to focus on the spiritual life. And that's why they demand poverty. Okay? That's why they themselves are poor, and they demand everyone who believes in them are also poor. Okay? And the word for them is called Ebionites. And this ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 11:32 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: is important because the Ebionites will eventually leave Jerusalem, where they are now, and go to Arabia, where they will help found the religion of Islam. Okay? So, I want you guys to keep this in mind. Okay. So, James the Just and his followers, they're in Jerusalem. And what this tells us is, if they're in Jerusalem, and they're not from Jerusalem, then they're being protected. They're being protected and honored by the Jewish elite. Okay? And this, again, is evidence that it was not the Jews who killed Jesus, it was the Romans who killed Jesus. Because if the Jews killed Jesus, then all his followers would have to leave Jerusalem. Right? But after his death, they're all in Jerusalem, basically. So, this is a major contradiction in the Bible. Let's talk about Paul. Who is Paul? We actually know very little about the early life of Paul. We know that he's from a place called Tarsus. Tarsus, which is part of the Jewish diaspora, okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 12:31 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=751s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=751s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: He himself is Jewish. He's a Roman citizen. And that's pretty rare for a Jewish person. And you only get citizenship by doing three things. The first thing is, you're born of citizens, which is probably the case with Paul. Okay? He tells us in the Bible, I'm born a Roman citizen, therefore my parents are citizens. Which means his parents were very wealthy and part of the Roman elite. Okay? Second thing, the second way you get citizenship is by being a soldier for 20 years. And the third way is through service to the emperor. The emperor honors you with citizenship if you have shown devotion and service. Okay? So it's very hard to be a Roman citizen. But Paul is a Roman citizen. And as a Roman citizen, he grew up secular. He grew up learning Greek rhetoric. He learned Socrates, Plato, Homer, all that. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 13:25 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: For whatever reason, he converts and becomes a Pharisee. Okay? Remember, Pharisees are Jewish priests who eventually will become rabbis. And as a Pharisee, he's very fanatical. We know that if you convert, you actually become very fanatical. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 13:45 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 13:46 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And as a Pharisee, he was tasked with destroying the Jesus movement. And that kind of makes no sense. Because we just said that if James is just. And the followers of Jesus are in Jerusalem, that means they are being protected and honored by the Pharisees. Right? So this is actually a major contradiction that no one has actually explained to us. Okay? But you'll see a lot of these contradictions in the Bible. Okay. Anyway, the story continues. He's a Pharisee, and he's fanatical about destroying the Jesus movement because it is heresy. It is Jesus thinks of himself as a Messiah, and he's not. Okay? Eventually, Paul decides to go to Damascus to destroy the Jesus movement in Damascus. But on the road there, he sees the light. Okay? He sees the light. And it's Jesus talking to him and saying, Paul, stop persecuting me and my people. And then Paul, at this point, has something called the Damascus moment. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 14:48 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? The Damascus moment is a very famous metaphor in English. It means to see the light and to change your opinion. Okay? And to convert into the true belief. And at this point, Paul becomes a fanatical follower of Jesus, even though he's never met Jesus and he's never met the followers of Jesus. This is extremely weird. Okay? But he becomes a fanatical follower of Jesus, and he decides he's going to spread the message of Jesus. To everyone. Okay? And the way you do that is, you just go to synagogues and tell Jews that Jesus is the Messiah. Okay? And eventually, he will begin to build the structure and the organization of Christianity. Right now, they're not called Christians, they're still Jews. And Jesus and his followers are considered a branch of Judaism. Okay? But there's some major differences. The first major difference is, Paul believes that Jesus is the Messiah. And what's really important is, he teaches us that through faith in Jesus, you will achieve salvation. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 16:18 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=978s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=978s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: This is very different from what Jesus himself taught. It is through good works that you will achieve salvation. But Paul teaches us, nope. It is belief in Jesus as a savior that will offer you salvation. The good works don't matter. It's the belief, the faith in Jesus that matters. Okay? That's the first thing. The second thing that's different about Paul is, he's focused on organization and structure. Okay? Jesus and his followers were very egalitarian. They didn't believe in organization. They didn't believe in hierarchy. They didn't believe in structure. But Paul insists, only if you have hierarchy and organization and structure will you have the ability to fully promote Jesus' message to the people. Okay? So he's putting churches around the Roman Empire. For Paul, what mattered first and foremost was to convert as many people as possible. Because belief in Jesus meant salvation. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 17:26 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1046s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1046s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So we have a duty to save as many people as possible. Okay? So it's important to make compromises. For example. Circumcision. So there were many in the Jewish diaspora around the Roman Empire who weren't circumcised. Why? Because their fathers were Greek and their mothers were Jewish. And Paul felt it was very important to bring these people into the religion. And so he basically said, you know what? If you're 20 years old and you're not circumcised, don't worry about it. The law doesn't matter. What matters is your faith. Your faith in Jesus. Okay? So these are the three radical changes that Paul makes to the religion that's being developed around Jesus. Okay? And as you can imagine, this is pissing off Jewish people, especially back in Jerusalem. So James the Just hears about this from all his Jewish friends and say, this is guy Paul, growing around the Roman Empire. And teaching everyone that it's not important to follow Jewish law and customs. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 18:43 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: It's not important to be Jewish. What's important is to believe in Jesus. And so James the Just and Paul start to have a major argument. Okay? James the Just is running to Paul and says, Paul, what's going on? Why are you telling people you don't have to follow Jewish law? And Paul writes back and says, what matters is not the letter of the law. What matters is the spirit of the law. If Jesus has come and he's the savior, then believing in him is what matters. And we need to get as many people to believe in Jesus as possible. Okay? So for example, Gentiles, non -Jews, want to believe in Jesus. But they're 20, they're 30, they're 40. How can they circumcise themselves? I'm just trying to open up the religion. I'm the apostle to the Gentiles. Okay? So Paul names himself Apostle to the Gentiles, the non -Jews. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 19:39 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: I am liberating this religion. I am bringing this religion for all. I am bringing this religion to everyone. Greek and Jew alike. Greek, Roman, and Jew alike. All right? Eventually, this conflict becomes so bitter that James the Just spreads rumors about Paul. And many of Paul's churches now start to abandon him. Okay? Because remember, James the Just is Jesus' brother. Okay? So if there's an authority, it's James the Just, not Paul. And Paul becomes very angry. Paul takes many, many tricks. For example, he tries to bribe James the Just by offering him money. Okay? He also writes letters complaining about James the Just and saying, Well, just because you're Jesus' brother doesn't mean you know what he actually says. Because Jesus talked to me, man. Jesus came to me in a vision. Therefore, I'm the one who really understands Jesus. All right? Eventually, Paul decides, you know what? This conflict is so bad. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 20:41 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Everyone's leaving me. That I have to go to Jerusalem and sort things out with James. Okay? So he goes to Jerusalem. And he meets with James. And at first, the meeting goes well. But then, in Jerusalem, the people who don't like Paul recognize him. And they start to mob him. Okay? They want to kill this guy. And what's really interesting about how this is written is it's very similar to the Jesus story where Jesus is being mobbed by Jews. Okay? And at this point, okay, Paul is about to be ripped apart by the Jewish mob. But then, Roman soldiers come and save him. And Paul does something that's different from Jesus. Paul tells the Roman soldiers, I am a Roman citizen. And the soldiers are like, oh, wow, okay. Then we must protect you. We must ensure that you get fair treatment. Okay? And so, Paul is brought to the Roman governor. And the Roman governor doesn't believe that Paul has broken any laws. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 21:52 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: But there's a Jewish mob out there who want to kill him. Okay? So now, Paul says to the governor, let me talk to the Roman emperor. I will make my case before the Roman emperor. And the governor is like, well, then I have no choice. I no longer have the authority to judge you myself. You, as a Roman citizen, have the right to talk to the Roman emperor. So, therefore, I will send soldiers with you to Rome to be judged by the Roman emperor himself. Okay? And so, if you actually read the Bible, these two stories between Jesus and Paul, you will see how many parallels and similarities there are. Okay? The difference is this. The difference is Paul is a Roman citizen. Jesus is not. Therefore, Jesus was killed because he was not a Roman citizen. Okay? Does that make sense? If Jesus were a Roman citizen, he could preach all he wants. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 22:45 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? He could say whatever he wants. But he wasn't. And, therefore, he was killed. So then, Paul goes back to Rome. And this is how the Acts of the Apostles ends. Okay? Let's read it together. Because the way it is written is extremely fascinating. Okay? When we come into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself. With a soldier who was guarding him. This makes no sense. Paul is a criminal. The Jews are accusing Paul of violating their laws. Paul has returned to Rome to be judged by the Roman emperor. But this is what the Bible says. Paul was allowed to live by himself. He was being guarded by a soldier who was protecting him. That's a contradiction. What's going on here? Okay? But then, it gets more interesting. Next paragraph. Three days later. He called together the local leaders of the Jews. What? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 23:50 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: This makes no sense. The Jews consider him a criminal. Yet, he has the power and authority to call all the major Jewish local leaders of Rome into his house for a meeting. Who gave him this power? From the perspective of Jews, he is a criminal. He's asking people to break the laws of Moses. What's going on here? Then, when they had assembled, he said to them. Okay? This is him talking to them. Brothers, thou had done nothing against our people or the cousins or our ancestors. Okay? So, he's denying any wrongdoing. All right? But he clearly committed wrong because circumcision, guys, and we talked about this. Circumcision is how Jews know they are a chosen people. There's a covenant between Abraham and Yahweh, God. The covenant is... The... Abraham and his ancestors will circumcise themselves as a mark of allegiance to Yahweh. In return, Yahweh will give them the Promised Land. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 25:00 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1500s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1500s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So, circumcision is core to what it means to be Jewish. In fact, it's the main feature of being Jewish. And here, Paul tells people, oh, you don't have to circumcise yourself. So, he's clearly breaking the customs and laws of their ancestors. He's saying, nope, I didn't do anything wrong. Okay? And again, these are Jewish leaders who know for a fact Paul is guilty of this. But the Jews don't speak up. And Paul continues, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and then over the Romans. When they had examined me, the Romans wanted to release me, okay, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case. The Romans wanted to let me go, but the Jews insisted that I be killed. So, it was the Romans who saved me. Right? But the Jews objected. I was compelled to appeal to the emperor. Okay? So, when the Jews wanted to kill me, I told the governor, listen, there's a higher authority than you, and it's the emperor. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 26:04 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And I want to go speak to the emperor. The governor had no choice but to send guards, soldiers to take me to Rome, to be tried by the emperor. And now, okay, this is the most important sentence, even though I had no charge to bring against my nation. What Paul is saying is this. Paul is saying, I could go talk to the emperor, but if I talk to the emperor, then it's because I accused my people, the Jews, of a crime against a Roman citizen. You understand? So, what he's doing, it's very clever, is he's making a real threat to the Jewish leaders of Rome. If you mess with me, I'm no threat to the emperor. And accuse you guys of attacking a Roman citizen. Okay, do you guys understand this? Do you see how radical this is? This speech is radically different from the story before in the Bible. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 27:11 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1631s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1631s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So, gee, Paul is accusing the Jews of committing a crime, whereas before, the Jews were accusing Paul of committing a crime. And what Paul is saying is, like, I'm right because I have access to the emperor, and you don't. Okay? And this is how the Bible, this is how the book ends. Okay? The Acts of the Apostles, this is how it ends. He lived there two whole years at his expense. He's clearly very wealthy, right? Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. No one could touch this guy. This is how the story of Paul ends. He's in Rome, he can do whatever he wants, and no one can touch him. Alright? So, who is this guy? How did he do this? He's in Jerusalem. The mob's trying to kill him. The Roman soldiers come and save him. And then he goes back to Rome, and he tells the Jewish leaders there, hey guys, don't mess with me. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 28:16 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1696s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1696s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And they leave him alone. And some even convert. Who is this guy, Paul? Alright? So that's the question. So, any questions so far? Alright. So, again, there are a lot of questions in the story of Paul that don't make any sense. Okay? The first thing that doesn't make sense is, like, who is this guy? Right? He has all this power and money, and he can do whatever he wants. And no one can touch him. Alright? So that's the first big question. The second big question is, why does he convert? Right? His conversion story doesn't make any sense. We're like, okay, well, because he saw Jesus. Okay. That's fine. But guess what, guys? After Jesus talks to him, Jesus sort of disappears from the story. And you would think that if Jesus was so important to Paul. Paul would quote from Jesus. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 29:33 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Right? But he doesn't quote from Jesus. Jesus has a lot of message, a lot of sayings. But Paul rarely quotes from him. Okay? But not only that, we already said that the message of Jesus and the message of Paul are very different. Jesus believed the kingdom of God was within us. For our generosity, for our mercy, we can achieve salvation. Paul taught everyone it's believing Jesus that will allow you to achieve salvation. And only believe in Jesus. You can do as much good as you want, but if you don't believe in Jesus, you'll be damned to hell. So all those Buddhists, all those Hindus, all those Zoroastrians who are doing good in the world? Too bad. They will be burned in hell. Okay? And that goes against a lot of the teachings of Jesus. Okay? So he did convert. But he's not spreading the gospel. He's not spreading the gospel of Jesus. All right? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 30:34 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1834s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1834s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: All right. The other question then is why is he focusing on organization? Okay? Why is he focusing on organization? The heart of religion is spiritual truth. Right? But Paul doesn't really care about that. He cares about the organization, the church, who's in charge, how many members we're attracting, how we can appeal to them more, how to resolve internal political disputes within the church. That's what he cares about. That's very odd. Okay? And then the last question then is why does he get in trouble with the Jews and why did the Romans save him? Okay? So these are questions. Now, let's first go over the Christian explanation. And the Christian explanation is Paul was part of the divine plan. Okay? So Jesus brought truth into the world. Right? Now, the truth of Jesus, that's what Jesus teaches. But it was Paul who created the structure and the organization that allowed Christianity to spread. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 32:01 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1921s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1921s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So an analogy or a comparison is the story of McDonald's. McDonald's. You guys all know McDonald's, right? Well, guess what? In the 1950s, McDonald's was one restaurant. It was the best restaurant in California. It had amazing hamburgers. And it really had the best hamburgers. And a man named Ray Kroc visited this restaurant. And it was being run by the McDonald brothers. That's why it's called McDonald's. Okay? And Ray Kroc says to the brothers, you know what? You guys have an amazing restaurant. Let me scale it out. Let me convince others to open McDonald's around America and the world. This is called the franchise model. Okay? The franchise model. The franchise model. And so the brothers said, yeah, sure. And what Ray Kroc did was he drove everywhere, like Paul. And he had these meetings, like Paul, where he convinced people of the American dream, like Paul. Ray Kroc said to everyone, if you open McDonald's, you will get rich and you will live the American dream. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 33:15 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=1995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Right? Paul said to everyone, if you believe in Jesus, you will achieve salvation. And because Ray Kroc was such an amazing salesperson, McDonald's eventually became the largest restaurant empire in the world. Same thing with Paul. Because Paul was such a convincing salesman, Christianity became the most dominant religion in the world. So this is all part of God's plan. Okay? It's very similar to the story of McDonald's. Here's the problem, guys. Jesus was not selling hamburgers. In fact, Jesus hated hamburgers. Right? The central message of Jesus is wealth is wrong. Business is wrong. Hierarchy is wrong. What matters is the spiritual truth in your heart. All right? So even though this is the Christian belief that both are part of the divine plan, and Paul was doing, Paul was basically Jesus' business manager. Okay? Problem is, Jesus didn't want a business manager. And Jesus believed that ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 34:32 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2072s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2072s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: he was doing business. It was our own individual responsibility to discover our own truths through him. Okay? So what are some other explanations for Paul? Okay. All right. So, I mean, the most basic answer for people who hate Paul is he was just an opportunist, a charlatan. Okay? He saw a business opportunity. Everyone loved Jesus. Jesus had gone viral, right? He had gone viral. And he was a meme now around the world. And so he wanted to take advantage of that. He wanted to monetize that. The problem with this is he worked really hard, man. He traveled around all, he traveled all around the Roman Empire to spread the message. He was fanatical about it. Okay? And opportunists are not fanatical. They're kind of lazy. So I don't really buy this idea that he was an opportunist. He really believed in what he was doing. He was driven by a sense of mission. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 35:36 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And also, guys, remember. If he's a Roman citizen. And his parents are Roman citizens, then he's probably wealthy himself. He doesn't really need this money. Also, what's important for us to understand is Paul comes from a very well -educated background. He's very wealthy. He speaks Greek. He writes Greek beautifully. He's classically educated. He doesn't want to deal with James the Just, who is not well -educated. Right? He doesn't want to deal with these people. So why is he dealing with these people? Right? So I don't really buy this explanation. Another explanation is sequel conspiracy. The idea here is Paul and maybe many who supported him hated the Roman Empire. And they believed Christianity would be a weapon that would eventually destroy the Roman Empire. Which is what happened historically. That's 300, 400 years in the future. How did Paul know that? And also, what does Paul have against the Roman Empire, really? Right? He's a beneficiary of the Roman Empire. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 36:50 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2210s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2210s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: He's wealthy. His parents are wealthy. All right? So another explanation, which, by the way, I've never heard before, but which I do believe. All right? So take this with a grain of salt. But I believe he was a spy for the Roman Empire. All right? Okay. He was a spy. Okay? So let me explain the idea here. What is he doing? And all right. So the Jews have always been a problem for empires. Both the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire. Why? Because the Greeks and the Romans are pagans. They celebrate pagan gods. But the Jews believe that their god is the only god. And every other god is false. And so they refuse the authority of the empire. And this has led to many wars. Okay? From 167 to 167 BCE, there's something called the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. It lasted seven years. Killed a lot of people. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 38:06 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? And then there'll be the Romans and the Jews will fight three major wars. From 166 to 173 CE. And this is around the time of Paul. The first war. Right? The first war will be fought. The Romans will burn the temple down and ban all Jews from Jerusalem. And the Romans think through this aggression that the Jews will be cowed. They'll be scared. Right? No, no, no. It makes them even more angry. So that two more wars are fought. From 115 to 117. And then the third war will be from 132 to 136. Okay? So the Jews are fanatical. That's what gives the Jews power. They're a poor province. They're not the servants of the Roman Empire. But they're fanatical. And guess what? Romans respect fanaticism. Okay? Remember, 216 BCE. Hannibal invades Italy. And he destroys all the Roman armies who are against him. In the Battle of Cannae, he has killed at least 20 % of the Roman adult male population. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 39:22 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And a third of the Senate. And at this point. The Romans should have surrendered. And talked peace. Right? But the Romans are fanatical. They refuse to surrender. And eventually they're able to destroy Carthage. Okay? So now the Romans see the Jews. Who again. It's a poor small province in the Roman Empire. And they continue to rebel. So this fanaticism of the Jews. It both scares and it awes the Romans. Okay? They understand. The Romans above all understand how powerful fanaticism is. Fanaticism is the ultimate weapon. It cannot be defeated. And because there's a diaspora. A Jewish diaspora. It can never be rooted out. Okay? You can destroy Jerusalem. Which is what they did. But there are Jews all around the world. So you can never destroy this fanaticism. And because of the long history of the Jews. This fanaticism only grows. Through persecution and through suffering. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 40:38 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: So you have to somehow destroy this fanaticism. If you are to win this war against the Jews. And there are three central beliefs underlying this Jewish fanaticism. Alright? The first is the idea of purity. Why is it that if the Jews are God's chosen people. They're always being pushed around by these larger empires. Like the Assyrians. The Babylonians. The Persians. The Greeks. And the Romans. And the answer is because we Jews have not been pure enough. We have not been loyal enough to Yahweh. So it is only through purity that will allow us to eventually triumph over our enemies. Okay? Otherwise we will continue to be bullied by others. Second is the idea of purity. The persecution complex. The persecution complex. The entire world is against us. Because we are God's chosen people. And therefore we must stand united and stay pure. Who the Jews really hated were the Jews who assimilated like Paul. Right? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 42:03 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-victory-recoded-as-adaptation) Text: They hated these people. Because they were traitors to the nation of Israel. Alright? Second belief. And then there's a third belief. Which is the coming of the Messiah. Don't worry about today. Okay? This pain. This suffering. This persecution. It's all part of the divine plan. It's testing us. It is making us strong. Eventually the Messiah. The anointed one. Will come from heaven and lead us into a final battle against all our enemies. The Roman Empire. And we will destroy them. And then we will establish the nation of God. The kingdom of heaven on earth. Okay? And so these are the three major beliefs that underpin Jewish fanaticism. And it makes the Jews almost invincible. Because it makes them fearless. They're not afraid to die. Dying is part of the divine plan. Suffering is all part of the process of achieving the kingdom of heaven on earth. It's their responsibility to die for their faith. Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 43:12 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2592s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2592s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Alright. So now that we understand this. Jewish fanaticism. We can now understand why Paul is doing what he's doing. Right? Think about this. Purity means absolute obedience to the law of Moses. Right? But what Paul is saying is. No guys. Circumcision. Circumcision is. We don't have to enforce circumcision. Because we want more non -Jews into our religion. Okay? Why is circumcision such a big deal? Well because circumcision is basically what separates the Jews into a different group of people in any community. Why? Because in most cities there's a place called gymnasium. Gymnasium is really the heart and center of life in the community. It's where men go to do sports and athletics. Like wrestle and run. Okay? The thing about gymnasium is. Everyone goes in naked. Right? And why is this a problem? Because if you're Jewish. People know right away you're Jewish. Therefore it's hard for you to go into gymnasium. Because you'll be ridiculed by the Greeks. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 44:33 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2673s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2673s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Therefore there's no way for the Jews to associate with the Greeks and other people. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why circumcision is so important. Once you say to the Jewish people. You don't need to be circumcised. You just have to have faith in Jesus. It's easier for them to assimilate into the larger culture around them. Right? Persecution complex. Jews are being persecuted. Why? Because they're not Roman citizens. Right? Let's go back to the story of Jesus. Why did he get persecuted? Why did he die? Because he was not a Roman citizen. If he were a Roman citizen. Then Pilate would have protected him from the Jews who wanted to kill him. Just like how the Roman soldiers protected Paul from those Jews who wanted to kill him. So guys. Focus on being a Roman citizen. And you can believe anything you want. You will no longer be persecuted. You'll be part of the Roman Empire. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 45:35 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-victory-recoded-as-adaptation) Text: Right? And the last thing is. The coming of the Messiah. Right? Jews believe the Messiah is going to come. And lead them into final victory against all their enemies. Especially the Roman Empire. But what Paul is saying. Is this. The Messiah has already come. He's Jesus. And Jesus taught a message of eternal salvation. Internal salvation. To recognize the evil within you. And to become a better person. So if you are. If you want to be saved. You must believe that we are born evil. And Jesus has come to cleanse us of our evil. Jesus was a prophet of peace. He had nothing against the Roman Empire. He was fighting against evil. In the world. Okay? So. If these three things are true. Then fanaticism will be destroyed. Now. Obviously. If you're fanatic. You don't believe any of this crap. Okay? But. Paul's message was not for fanatical Jews. They were still a minority. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 46:53 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-victory-recoded-as-adaptation) Text: His message was for Diaspora Jews like him. Who were stuck between the Roman Empire. And the Jewish faith. Right? They were part of the Jewish Diaspora. Maybe their fathers were Greek. And their mothers were Jewish. Okay? And these are a lot of people. So Paul's message was for these people. You can still be Jewish. If you believe in Jesus. And once you believe in Jesus. Then you can now assimilate. Into the Roman Empire. And this will free you. To believe whatever you want. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 47:31 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Okay? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 47:36 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2856s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2856s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-messianic-victory-recoded-as-adaptation) Text: So. This is. Paul. His message. Paul's mission. Now look then the question then is. Why is Paul doing this? Why would Paul do this? And I think the answer is this. I don't want to say Paul is opportunist. Or he's evil. I believe he was also a believer in his mission. His mission was what? To save his people. If you want to continue to live with the Roman Empire. You have to adapt yourself. You have to make compromises. You can't wait for the Messiah to come save you. You have to save yourself. by adapting to the Roman Empire and look there are lots of advantages to Roman Empire you can become very happy and prosperous if you've played by the rules of the Roman Empire like he did okay so in many ways what's odd about Paul is he teaches us that Jesus is a messiah but in his heart and you can tell by ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 48:38 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=2918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: his writings he himself believes he's really the Messiah who has come to save his people and that's why he's so fanatical about building a church of Christianity the church that will eventually become Christianity okay again at this point in history they're not Christians they're still Jews okay but there will be a lot of consequences because Paul is doing this he radically changes the meaning of faith and religion all right because again the story of Jesus doesn't really make any sense and his story doesn't really make any sense and his story doesn't make any sense either okay he's lying he's lying about who he is so he creates a new concept and he radically changes the concept of faith okay before faith is what you experience now faith is something that you must believe right he introduces the idea of miracles now if something can't be can't be explained it's because it's a miracle and this ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 50:00 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: is a new idea that didn't really didn't exist before and the use of miracles is to explain the contradictions or the inconsistencies in the story of the Bible okay so that's one major revolution of Paul's teachings another is the idea of tradition tradition is more important the Bible okay so the stories interpretation of the Bible is now more important than the Bible itself and the Paul's Church will eventually become the Catholic Church and one thing about the Catholic Church is you are not allowed to read the Bible the Bible is sacred it's forbidden only priests are allowed to read the Bible because of the fear is if you read the Bible you might misinterpret the Word of God okay you don't have the spiritual power in order to fully interpret the Bible properly okay all right okay so there are lots of major changes to the idea of religion because of Paul's work all right ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 51:13 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3073s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3073s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: so that is my central argument about Paul are there any ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 51:17 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3077s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3077s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: questions about any of this yes okay you have a question about Islam can we can ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 52:00 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: we save Islam for later on yeah yeah but I'll answer it when we get to Islam okay that'll be like next week okay that's a great question like who wrote the Acts of Apostles all right so um we don't know who wrote the Acts of the Apostles okay but this is what we do know whoever will be asked to the Apostles was written by the guy who wrote Luke okay the gospel of Luke which is the one of four main Gospels of the Bible why because the Acts of the Apostles is gonna do is the continuation of the story of Jesus found in Luke okay so every wrote Luke is also a person who wrote after the Apostles that's the first we know something that we know is the Luke the The Luke Gospel was written maybe between 80 and 90 CE. So this is about 50 to 60 years after the death of Jesus. ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 53:10 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: And Paul might still be alive at this time. What we also know is this Acts of the Apostles is very pro -Paul. So what's important to understand is the story I'm telling you is a story that comes from individuals who are trying to promote a positive picture of Paul. And why are they doing that? Because at this point in history, there are a lot of people, especially Jews, who hate Paul. They feel that Paul has corrupted their religion, especially the teachings of Jesus. And I believe at this point in history, because of the way that Paul behaves, it's an open secret that he's working very closely with the Roman Empire. He's either a collaborator or he's a strategist. He's a spy, okay? And that's why they have to write the Acts of the Apostles, to sort of like apologize or to clean up the image of Paul. And again, we've seen this throughout history, right? ## Paul, Rome, and the Invention of Christianity About Jesus -- 54:10 - Source title: Civilization #25: Paul of Tarsus, Messiah of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuMhSFXnr5I&t=3250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kumhsfxnr5i.json) Text: Remember, the Bible started out as an apology for King David. So this is extremely sympathetic towards Paul. And again, what we're showing you is that through a close reading, you can see how problematic it is. So, does that answer your question? Any more questions? Okay. All right, great. So, let's talk about next class, okay? Next class, we will talk about monotheism, the coming of monotheism, okay? Because this is a revolution in human history and human thought, all right? So, there are many scholars who believe that monotheism means believing in one God. What I will show you in the next class is monotheism. It's a radical reconception of reality, okay? And that's what I will teach you next class. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So, let us do an overview of the history of the ancient Israelites, okay? From about 1010, the year 1010 BCE, until 586, this is what is referred to as the first temple period. So, remember, the nation of Israel is created by King David, and it's a coalition of different tribes, different cultures, different religions. And what makes this nation possible are two things. The first thing is the charisma of David. The second is the tremendous literary power and genius. The third is the power of the Yahwehs, the individual who wrote the first stories of the Bible, Adam and Eve, the patriarchs, Moses, okay? And what centers or unifies this nation is the first temple in Jerusalem. Remember, to create centralized authority, David and Solomon, his son Solomon, they build a temple. Where everyone has to come in order to make sacrifices to Yahweh, okay? So, the first temple is the house of Yahweh, all right? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 1:41 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: And at this point, there are certain characteristics about this new religion, or this new nation. And again, I will have to oversimplify for the sake of clarity, okay? So, the first thing I would say about this new religion is it's polytheistic, okay? It aspires to a monotheism, but it's only aspirational, because the reality is it's a multicultural coalition, and people are going to believe what their fathers and their grandfathers believed, okay? They may, and so people at this point have multiple faiths, and so the religion that we refer to today as Judaism is only shared by an elite. Okay? They may, and so people at this point have multiple faiths, and so the religion that we refer to today as Judaism is only shared by an elite. Okay? They may, and so people at this point have multiple faiths, and so people at this point have multiple faiths, and so the religion that we refer to today as Judaism is only shared by an elite. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 2:34 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=154s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=154s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: The elite people, okay? King David, his family, and the priests, and maybe other people in the elite. Okay? Second thing is it is a monarchy, okay? And the third thing is this religion is an open, tolerant, and optimistic religion. Because remember, the Bible, it's really the story of two people, Yahweh and David, forming an everlasting friendship that becomes the basis for the nation of Israel. Also remember that in the Yahweh's understanding of Yahweh, Yahweh is a poet God. He's fallible, he's sensitive, but he means good. He's willing to grow and help the Israelites grow as well. And in this religion, to show faith to Yahweh, to show your devotion to Yahweh, you must argue with him. You must learn and grow with him as well. So this is a very open, confident, generous, and optimistic religion. By the time we reach the second ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 3:53 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: temple period, from 539 to 70 CE, 539 BCE to 70 CE, this is called the second temple period. Why? Because in 586, their temple is destroyed by the Babylonians. Okay? By the time we reach this period, the Israelites are no longer referred to as Israelites, they're referred to as Jews. And the Jewish people and the Israelites, they share the Bible, but in terms of culture and values, they're very different. So at this point, the Jewish people have become what we call Hinnotheistic. The idea of Hinnotheism is you believe there are gods, but your god is the best. Okay? Your god, Yahweh, is superior to all gods. And all the gods are false idols. They are deceivers. Second thing about the second temple period is it's very anti -monarchy. Okay? And so it focused on the priesthood and the idea of ritual, religious ritual. So by the second temple period, the focus of power has shifted from the monarchy to the priesthood. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 5:30 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=330s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=330s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: And in a minute, I'll explain why there was this change. Okay? And the last thing, for our purposes, to understand about the culture is it's become extremely focused on purity. Okay? You can also say it is focused on fanaticism. It's a very closed and conservative culture now. They believe their culture is the best, and they believe it's important not to intermix with other cultures. So for example, Jewish women are explicitly forbidden to marry foreign men. Okay? And then, from about 100 CE onwards, there's another transition. Another transition to the religion. And the reason why is, remember, in the second temple period, religious worship is centered around the second temple. But in 70 CE, the Romans destroyed the temple and banished the Jews from Jerusalem. And so this makes massive changes to the religion after about 100 CE. That carries it to the present day. The first thing is, it becomes fully monotheistic. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 6:56 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=416s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=416s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: They only believe there's only one God, and that's it. Second is, because there's no more temple, and you can no longer make any sacrifices to Yahweh, the center of authority in this religion, called Judaism, are the rabbis. And rabbis means teachers. Okay? So the word for this period is called rabbinical Judaism. In other words, the Bible becomes the center of religious worship in Judaism before it was a temple. Now it's the Bible. It's the rabbis who interpret for you what the Bible means. The last thing about this is the idea of diaspora. Diaspora just means they are now spread out all around the world. They are no longer in Jerusalem. They're spread out all around the world. And as such, you'll have multiple strands of Judaism, because their religion now has to interface with local culture and local customs. So this is a very broad overview of a thousand years of the history of the development of Judaism. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 8:19 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: As you can see, there are these massive cultural changes about every 500 years. And the reason why is the historical circumstance of the issue. The history of the Israelites and the Jewish people change over time. Remember, the nation of Israel was founded as a historical accident. It was because of the Bronze Age collapse. Historically, the Levant was controlled by a superpower either in Anatolia or in Egypt or Mesopotamia. But because of the Bronze Age collapse, the Hittites and the Egyptians have to retreat from the Levant, which gives space for a localized, centralized empire to emerge. And that's Israel. But over time, because the Levant was so strategically important, empires started to take over the Levant as a staging post for an invasion of Egypt. So what would happen over time is the Assyrians and the Babylonians would come and conquer Israel. Also, because the nation of Israel was mobilized by the Babylonians, they were able to conquer Israel. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 9:35 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: The Levant was a country that was not only a multicultural and multilingual. It was only held together by the personal charisma of David. So when he died, it was very hard to hold the nation together. And when his son, Solomon, died in 931 BCE, the nation of Israel was divided into two kingdoms, something called the Northern Kingdom Israel and then Judah. The problem with this is the nation of Israel is centered around the religion. And the religion religion is centered around religious rituals in a temple. So, and the temple was founded in Judaism in Judah. So the people in Northern Kingdom had to make changes to religion, basically change the sites of religious worship. In 586, the Babylonians came and destroyed Judah and they burned the first temple. And the policy of the Babylonians was to capture the elite and hold them hostage in Babylonia and then send in a foreign delegation to control the territory. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 10:56 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: And this is what is called the Babylonian captivity. And while the Israelites are there, they're trying to hold on to the memory of who they are, okay? There are two memories that sustain them in this period. The first is the memory of the greatness of King David, how they were once a united monarchy under the leadership of David, okay? So that's, they're very proud of that, that's what sustains them. The other thing that sustains them is the Bible, the stories of the Yahwehs, okay? Adam and Eve, the patriarchs. And because they are so focused on these memories, and because these memories are written down, they specialize, the Israelites specialize in intellectual activities, okay? So in Babylon and then elsewhere, they become very successful. They become administrators, they become teachers, they become intellectuals, okay? And they, over this time, will also produce their own literature as a diaspora of people to sustain them and to unify them, okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 12:05 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=725s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=725s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Also at this time, what's important to understand is, Okay? Also at this time, what's important to understand is, the identity as Israelite people becomes much more concrete and much more locked in. Before, when they were back in Judea, in the Levant, their identity was very fluid, it was very open, it was very dynamic. But now that they are part of the diaspora, they have left Jerusalem, their identity becomes much more concrete. And the analogy would be, here in China, we use simplified Chinese. And the analogy would be, here in China, we use simplified Chinese. But guess what? When you go to overseas Chinese communities, the diaspora, right, in Southeast Asia, they all use traditional Chinese characters. They hold on to Chinese culture much more fanatically than in China, right? Does that make sense? Okay, so a very concrete identity emerges So a very concrete identity emerges during the Babylon captivity. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 13:07 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Also, what's important is, they need to, if they are to survive as a people, they need to explain why this is happening to them. During the Davidic Kingdom, okay, they were at the height of their power. And the Bible was written at that time, and they believe that from now on, this Kingdom of David will last forever. And that's what God promised. So why is it that the Norman Kingdom and Judah split, and why were they conquered by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians? And why have they lost their land that God promised to them? And the answer is because they broke their covenant with Yahweh, right? There's something called a covenant, a contract. If you, the Israelite people, are loyal to me, meaning you only worship me, then I, Yahweh, will protect you as my chosen people. So if Yahweh, has abandoned us, it's because of three reasons, okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 14:15 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=855s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=855s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: The first reason is because we start to worship foreign gods, okay? That's the first reason. Second reason is because we start to have kings, and our religion does not allow kings, because the authority of kings contradicts the authority of Yahweh, okay? And the third reason is because we, because we, Yahweh, we worship Yahweh. And the fourth reason is because we broke the Ten Commandments, because we continue to sin as a people. And the people who argue this are called the prophets, okay? So after the first temple period, beginning of the second temple period, the Jewish people adopt a prophetic tradition. They believe that Jewish people must remain peer to their love of God if they are to survive as a people. Okay? Okay. That's it. So they are in Babylonian captivity for almost 70 years. So they are in Babylonian captivity for almost 70 years. And then the Persians conquer the Babylonians. And the Persians' empire is really the first multinational empire in human history. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 15:38 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-mercy-needs-status-grammar) Text: And their ruler, Cyrus the Great, he is known for being an extremely open, tolerant, and generous ruler. So he releases, So he releases, the Jews from Babylon, and have them return to Jerusalem, where they will rebuild their temple, called the Second Temple. And this starts the beginning of the Second Temple period. And the Jews are so grateful that Cyrus the Great is called the Messiah in their Bible. Okay? Messiah means the anointed one, the one chosen by God to save the Jewish people. And Cyrus the Great is the only foreigner, And Cyrus the Great is the only foreigner, who is called Messiah in the Bible. Cyrus the Great sponsors both the building of the Second Temple, as well as encouraged the Jews to start the project that we now refer to as the Bible. Okay? And this was led by a priest named ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 16:49 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Ezra, who was part, who was in Babylon, but he returned to Jerusalem to rejuvenate, but he returned to Jerusalem to rejuvenate, but he returned to Jerusalem to rejuvenate, their religion, and to start the Bible. Okay? So that's the very brief overview of the history of the first thousand years of Judaism. of the history of the first thousand years of Judaism. Any questions so far? Are you guys clear about this? Okay. So what I will do now is, I'm gonna focus specifically on this period, okay? When Cyrus conquered Babylon, and released the Jews to return to Jerusalem. And released the Jews to return to Jerusalem. Because this marks a fundamental shift in the religion. At this point, what will happen is, the merger of the Persian religion with the Israelite religion, which creates a new religion, okay? Now, the religion of the Persians is called Zoroastrianism. All right? And the merger of these two religions will ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 18:00 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1080s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1080s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: become the basis of a new religion, will become the basis of a new religion, that will come to dominate the world called Christianity. All right? Okay. So, to understand this history, I will have to first talk about the history of Mesopotamia, okay? So, as we discussed in class, the history of Mesopotamia is one of violent struggle. Because there are many violent people in this area. And this area is the center of the world, basically. It's where all the trade goes through. It's very wealthy. It's very multi -ethnic and multi -national. So conflict and violence arises all the time, okay? So you have over here a place called Arabia. And Arabia are nomadic people, okay? And over here, you have something called the Zagros Mountains. Up here is Anatolia, which is also very wealthy. And over here are the two rivers, okay? The Euphrates and the Tigris. And the city -states are built along... the two rivers. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 19:13 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: The nomadic people in the desert of Arabia and the mountains of Zagros are opportunistic, okay? They will trade with you, but they will also raid you and steal from you, okay? They'll possibly be raiding and trading with these city -states. What keeps them in check is these city -states have walls. Okay? As well, these city -states have walls. These city -states will fight each other for dominance, okay? Because in Mesopotamia, the religion is people must fight for the honor and glory of their patron god. What keeps the city -states from destroying each other is they believe that each city -state... in each city -state, in the temple, lives a great god. So you can destroy the enemy's armies. You can destroy the army in the battlefield. But you can't go and ransack the city and the temple because that would incur the wrath of the god. Okay? So there are these religious taboos that keep the system in check. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 20:31 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: And so for centuries, they've been fighting each other and struggling against each other. And in this process of struggle, they will create many tremendous innovations that will forever change human history. For example, they create many forms of knowledge, like mathematics and astronomy. Okay? So this is considered the cradle of civilization. This system broke down when a king named Luka Zagazi, of a city -state called Uma. And Uma is always in conflict with a city -state called Lagash. And Luka Zagazi, he is so ambitious, that he's willing to defy the gods. He decides, this is stupid. I keep on attacking my enemy, but I have to retreat after I win because I'm afraid of offending their god. Well, I'm going to test their god. I'm going to go into Lagash, destroy the temple, steal all their wealth so I can fund other military adventures and see if their god will seek revenge. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 21:48 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Okay? So he's bringing the taboo. It's basically like the equivalent of using a nuclear weapon today. Okay? So he goes to Lagash and destroys Lagash, burns down the temple, steals all their wealth, and nothing happens. In fact, he becomes even more successful. And he goes around and starts slowly and slowly conquering the city -states of Mesopotamia of Sumer. And he's about to unite all of the entire region. And now the city -states are unified in their hatred of this person. He has defiled their temples. He has mocked their gods. Okay? This creates an opportunity for another warlord named Sargon of Akkad. And Sargon of Akkad is to determine to destroy Lugazagesi and restore the honor and glory of the gods of Mesopotamia. Why is he doing this? Because he himself has a legitimacy problem. Okay? He was a mercenary and he was part of the city -state of Kish. Okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 23:04 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: So he was supposed to be loyal to the king of Kish. But he was an extremely ambitious and charismatic soldier. So he did what David did and he usurped the throne. And so now this creates a legitimacy problem. Because remember, in this religion, kings are descended from the gods. So now you, by usurping the throne, have offended the gods. So Sargon, his name means legitimate king, by the way. Okay? Legitimate king. Which tells us no one thought he was legitimate. Okay? He decides that he will create legitimacy by destroying Lugazagesi. And he does that. Okay? He destroys Lugazagesi. He captures him, parades him around, and then kills him to show that he is favored by the gods. And by doing this, Sargon of Akkad unifies all of Mesopotamia and he creates the first world empire called the Akkadian Empire. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 24:09 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 24:10 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1450s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1450s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: But also by doing this, by creating the first empire, Sargon of Akkad will now unleash a cycle of violence. Okay? And so, over time, everyone will be forced to become more violent in order to maintain balance. It becomes an arms race of fear, terror, and violence. And empires rise and fall all the time. Okay? Again, the problem with this area is you have extremely aggressive nations and there are no natural boundaries to protect you. So even though it's very easy for you to take control of the empire, to build an empire, it's also very easy for you to lose the empire. Okay? By 600 BCE, there are three major powers in this region. Okay? Over here in Anatolia are what people call the Lydians. The Lydians. Okay? The Lydians. Over here in Mesopotamia are what people will call the Babylonians. And over here, okay, are the Medians. And these are three superpowers that check and balance each other out. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 25:36 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: They're powerful, but they're not powerful enough to destroy each other. Okay? Around this time will emerge a new power center called the Persians. They were led by a great king named Cyrus the Great. Okay? He is considered to be the greatest ruler in human history. Axel the Great saw him as a role model. When Axel the Great invaded Persia and he saw that the tomb of Cyrus the Great had been desecrated or abandoned, he was furious and he stopped his campaign to make sure the tomb was renovated and returned to its former glory. If you go to Iran today, you can still visit the tomb of Cyrus the Great. Because throughout history, everyone had a higher opinion of him. Okay? Even the Greeks thought he was fabulous. His own people, of course, loved him. So for the longest time before Axel the Great and Julius Caesar, he was considered the greatest ruler in human history. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 26:51 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-mercy-needs-status-grammar) Text: Okay? So, but the problem is because we don't have access to writing, their writing, we have absolutely, we know very little about him. Okay? Here's what we do know about him. He was in charge, he was king of a local people called the Persians who, of course, are descended from the Amaya. Okay? So they use horse archers in their warfare. Over time, he's able to conquer the Medians. King Croesus of the Lydians saw this as an opportunity to conquer the Medians as well. So he attacks. But Cyrus the Great defeats him. Okay? So now Cyrus the Great is in charge of two empires. What he does next is revolutionary in Mesopotamia. Instead of parading them around, like the captor kings around, and executing them like Sargon of Akkad, Cyrus the Great decides to make them advisors to his court. He shows mercy. He shows clemency. He shows forgiveness. And this shocks and awes the people of Mesopotamia. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 28:08 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: It shows Cyrus the Great is confident, is powerful, and is favored by the gods because he is willing to show mercy to his enemies. But knowing that, what happens next is really interesting. The Babylonian Empire is the last empire in Mesopotamia. Okay? If Cyrus the Great wants to unify Mesopotamia, he has to conquer the Babylonians. At this time, the Babylonians have an internal conflict. The king and the nobility aren't getting along. The king wants to change the official god of Babylon from Marduk to Sin because the king wants to establish his own religious authority. So this creates tremendous conflict eternally in Babylon. And normally, they would go to civil war. And normally, when they hear that Cyrus the Great has conquered the Medians and the Lydians, then they would think they have to unify in order to defeat Cyrus the Great. But they hear that Cyrus the Great, he's merciful, and he's generous, and he's wise. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 29:17 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: So what they do is the nobility strikes a deal with Cyrus the Great. And Cyrus the Great conquers Babylonia without doing anything. And in the official history of Cyrus the Great, he claims that the conquest of Babylonia was the greatest conquest, was his greatest conquest, because he did it through his generosity and his mercy, as opposed to killing lots and lots of people. Okay? And at this time, what Cyrus the Great and the Persians realize is if you really want to control people, you have to use a policy called divide and rule. And the idea is this. Before these empires, the Akkadians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, they believed they had to use violence and fear to control people. But when you do that, all you do is you anger people, unite them, and force them to rebel against you. Okay? But, if you recognize that in each society ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 30:29 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-mercy-needs-status-grammar) Text: there are these natural factions who are in conflict with each other, and you're able to balance these factions, then they're relying on you for stability. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, this is what we call divide and rule. So, the Persians created not an empire, but what we call a federation. In other words, a federation is the idea that people choose to be part of this federation because it benefits them. Okay? Why does it benefit them? Because, first of all, it brings peace. If there's a conflict, you don't fight each other, you go to the Persians for a conflict resolution. Okay? So it brings peace. Second of all, it brings prosperity through trade. Okay? So the Persians create all these roads that enable trade within the empire. And so you're better off actually trading than you are fighting. Okay? And third of all, you're able to access new knowledge and culture through this process. So the Persians were the first to create a national imperial postal system. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 31:55 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: It was very, very clever. So all they did was they set up checkpoints throughout the empire. And these checkpoints, they were like hotels for postmen. They had food, they had new clothing, they had a place to sleep. These postmen would, on their horses, carry mail throughout the empire and stop at these checkpoints to rest. Okay? So, the Persians showed that by participating in this empire, you could benefit a lot more than if you didn't participate and therefore you should participate. And so it was an amazing achievement because remember, these nations were at war with each other throughout their history. And these are very aggressive people with lots of religious differences. And Cyrus the Great and his descendants were able to create a system that allowed them to work together and prosper together. And that's why he is remembered today, Cyrus the Great is remembered today as the greatest ruler of all time. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 32:59 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1979s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=1979s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#administrative-filter-binds-loyalty) Text: Okay? In human history. No one comes second. And also, why the Jews refer to him as Messiah, God's chosen, God's anointed, a man picked by God to come to save the human people, the human race. So with this federation, with this empire, what's important is the idea of administration. Okay? Administration. You need administrators who will be conscientious and loyal and good people. Okay? Because remember, they are working with local governors. So each region is allowed local autonomy. And each governor is called a satrap. So they are working with the satraps to govern the local area. And remember, these satraps are allowed maximum autonomy and freedom. To do what they believe. Everyone's allowed to practice their own religion. Okay? So what the administrators are doing is ensuring divided rule. Right? That there's enough internal conflict within this region so that they're all dependent on the empire for guidance and authority. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 34:20 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#administrative-filter-binds-loyalty) Text: These administrators have to be, have to be, they can't get into bed with the satraps. They can't be cropped together. Okay? Because the system will break down. So there had to be a system to keep the administrators loyal to the empire. And this system is a religion called Zoroastrianism. Okay? Zoroastrianism. And this is the religion of the Persian people. And this is the religion of the imperial administration. If you want to be a bureaucrat within this system, you have to believe in Zoroastrianism. You have to participate in the rituals and the rites of Zoroastrianism. And what made this system work is Zoroastrianism was at this time, 600 BCE, 500 BCE, the best religion in the world. Okay? So this is a new concept for us. The best religion in the world. We've discussed the best military in the world. Right? The best military in the world has three characteristics. Discipline. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 35:30 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: They fight a lot. They have a lot of experience. Cohesion. They like each other. They get along. And devotion. They have a common purpose. They have a great leader that they love. Okay? It turns out religions can also be measured. And there are certain religions that are better than other religions based on three criteria. Okay? These three criteria are grandness, completeness, and unity. Okay? Grandness, completeness, and unity. And this is not a hard concept. So think of religion as a story. Think of what makes a good story. What makes a story so wonderful you want to hear it? And it's these three things. Grandness. It's a big topic. Kings and gods and wars and love. Okay? Completeness. There's a beginning and there's an end. And unity. There's a plot. Things are united. Okay? So if I were to tell you a story about Gilgamesh who's a king who fought these gods in a search for immortality and in the end he discovers immortality is impossible well that's a complete unified and grand story. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 36:48 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Okay? And you wouldn't want to hear that story. But if I were to tell you a story about a guy named Robert who wants to get A's in school and so he studies all the time you don't want to hear this story. Okay? It's not grand. It's very boring. It's not complete. There's no ending. It's not really unified because something really happens. Okay? Does that make sense? It's the same with religions. The problem with most religions is the structure. Okay? So the typical religion is a three tire structure. So at the center are gods. And gods are the ones who participate in human affairs. They're the ones manipulating us. But there's also a higher tier that governs the gods as well. Okay? These are cosmic forces like fate and fortune. And then the highest tier are these invisible laws of the universe that give it structure. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 37:49 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: What is referred to as the immutable and unwritten laws of the cosmos. Okay? And this is what the Greeks believed. This is what the Romans believed. Okay? And as you can see this system it's not complete. It's not unified. Okay? It may be grand but it's not complete or unified. It's a very loose system. Zoroastrianism is the first really grand complete and unified religion. Okay? So let's talk about Zoroastrianism. So in the religion they believe there is a creator god. Okay? Called the Ahura Master. And he is the god of creation. He's the god of light. He's the god of order. And he creates a perfect world. Perfection. And within this world we humans are created. Okay? But then there is an evil presence. An evil god which comes and corrupts the perfection. And this evil or darkness is a match for the creator god. Okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 39:09 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#zoroastrian-truth-disciplines-administrators); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: So the world is a perfect balance of dark and light. What tips the balance is the human race. We have free will. Therefore we can choose to fight for goodness or to fight for darkness. To fight for the truth or to fight for the lie. Okay? So the two main the economy is truth and lie. You fight for the truth you're making the world a better place. But if you fight for the lie you are corrupting the world. Okay? So that's our choice. Eventually a savior a hero will arise to prepare for the final battle between dark and light. In this final battle light will triumph. Once light triumphs a river will emerge. Okay? A river will emerge and everyone must cross this river. Everyone will arise from the dead and everyone has to cross the river. If you have been good if you have fought for the truth you will cross this river and it will cleanse you. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 40:21 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt#zoroastrian-truth-disciplines-administrators); [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden.txt) Text: You will feel purified. You will become an eternal soul who will live in paradise but if in your life you have lived the lie if you have committed evil if you have done wrong against other people then you will burn in the river and you will be condemned to hell for the rest of your life. Okay? And this is the idea what we call eschatology. Eschatology. Okay so this is a hard word eschatology but I need you guys to remember it because it's a very important word. Eschatology means an understanding Zoroastrianism is the first eschatological religion. It has an ending a final battle good versus evil where everyone will be judged. Okay? And so now we understand why the Persian system works because if you are to be an administrator if you are to work for the empire and you believe in Zoroastrianism then you have a duty to fight for the truth. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 41:38 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Okay? We're here at most for sixty eighty years and what we do in these sixty eighty years will be will decide how we live our lives for all of eternity. Okay? We either live in paradise or we will burn in hell depending on how we perform these sixty to eighty years. So the Persians are under tremendous pressure to be a good person. This is radical in the history of humanity. Okay? So remember the Mesopotamians believe you are good if you achieve. Right? How do you know you're good? Because you've achieved a lot and by achieving a lot you show that God favors you. And the Egyptians believed in status and others believed in just good luck. Okay? But the Persians believe you have to be a good person. You have to show generosity compassion and mercy to others. And by the life and works and words of Cyrus the Great. So that's Zoroastrianism. And this ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 42:52 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: is so powerful that it will be adopted into Judaism and eventually become the basis for Christianity. Okay? But this is where it started. Zoroastrianism. Any questions so far before I continue? Are you guys clear on what's happening? Okay you know that's a good question. if this is the best religion what are the worst ones okay you're right there's really no bad religion okay um but the most common religion is folklore religions right so so you live in a village and you believe in a local god okay does that make sense um and so when i say it's best what i mean is intellectually it's the best it's it's it's a religion that can attract the best and the brightest you understand it's a religion where um um um if you are a very intelligent person you are attracted to this religion okay does that make sense but if you are just a normal person you're ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 44:10 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2650s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: just going to believe what your father and your grandfather believed okay so think of this religion almost as the equivalent of the confusion classics in china how do you show cultivation in china by reading the confusion classics and if you want to become a scholar official you have to memorize the confusion classics right the same concept here where zoroastrianism um you have to believe in this religion if you want to become an administrator and the problem with this religion that makes it hard for people to understand is it's very abstract okay that's the main feeling of this religion it's very abstract it's very intellectual and that's why a lot of people don't really see this as a religion and it's very abstract so what i'm saying is the abstraction is what makes this religion appealing right because the persians are trying to attract the best and brightest for for for their menstruation so they don't ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 45:18 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2718s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2718s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Religion As Administrative Filter](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/religion-as-administrative-filter.txt) Text: want a popular religion they're not trying to they're not they're not trying to promote their religion okay they're trying to use their religion to filter out uh the best and the brightest okay does that make sense okay so you're right it's i can't say this is the best religion but it's the religion that is the most intellectual will attract the best administrators in the Persian Empire and that's why it's effective okay great question okay any more questions yes okay so if completeness is eschatology okay an ending because most reasons don't actually have an ending they don't have didn't know like okay this is when the world ends okay so for example King David the Bible right it's telling us that King David is really the end of history and from now on we will live forever in this Davidic Kingdom okay this is the best we can do but it's not saying okay King David ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 46:37 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2797s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2797s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: we will eventually reach a point when the world ends and when God returns to the earth no religion is doing that before Zoroastrianism okay does it make sense okay so think of completeness as a circle right because if you look at Zoroastrianism they say this is a perfection right but now this corruption so the story ends when corruption ends and we return to perfection so the circle closes okay does that make sense the same with the Bible where we start out in the Garden of Eden and then we are corrupted we are forced out of the Garden of Eden right but no one does it say we'll return to the Garden of Eden and but when we reach Christianity that's what will happen Jesus will prompt will know kids about for you and we can start to see the universe into the second and so on and we're doing that okay this is what I'm ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 47:48 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: it into their own religion okay and we have size the great who is this wise generous and merciful leader okay but he is this way because he is strategic okay he's strategic so when he allows the Jews to return to Jerusalem he's doing so for strategic purposes okay he's not doing it because he feels sorry for the Jews he's doing it because there's a certain strategic purpose and allow them to return to Jerusalem and the reason why is Jerusalem Lavan as we discussed is very important geographically it marks access into Egypt which is what such the great dimension wants to conquer because Egypt is the wealthiest nation in the world at this time so he needs to bring stability to Lavan and in the age you in the Persian world worldview what creates stability is the balancing of forces within the local area okay so we need to create conflict in the Levant at this ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 48:58 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2938s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=2938s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: point in the Levant there are still Israelites living there and they are now call this the Samaritans okay and then you have the Jews okay the Jews is a Persian word it means people who live in the province of Judea which is a Persian province okay so they're called Jews now and not Israelites Israelites are now called Samaritans these come from the same people okay but the difference is this the Israelites who stay have adapted to new circumstances and so what this means is they still practice their religion but they've also intermarried with women of different faiths so now it's common for a household to practice many different faiths whereas the Jews in Babylon they're more fanatic they're more religious they're more religious they're more religious radical. They believe it's important to practice only one faith. So when Cyrus the Great sends the Jews back to the Levant, this immediately creates conflict between the Samaritans, ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 50:06 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: who believe they are the true descendants of the Israelites, and the Jews, who believe they are the true descendants of the Israelites. So this creates religious conflict in the Levant, which means the Persians are able to become the arbiter, okay? And this creates divided rule. Now, what's important for us to understand is the Jews who return to the Samaritans are only the most fanatical Jews, okay? There's only a minority of people. The rest of the Jews are perfectly happy in Mesopotamia. They have very successful careers as administrators, as intellectuals, as teachers. They're happy. What's the difference? They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. They're happy. So it's only the most religious extremists who return. And they're in the minority. The Samaritans are in the majority. So the Persians support the Jews who've returned, and trying to create purity, okay? ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 51:06 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: So the Jews argue for purity, the Samaritans argue for tolerance. And so this is a power struggle, a religious power struggle. In 443 BCE, around the same then a priest a Jewish priest named Ezra he returns to Jerusalem and he's determined to win this war okay so there are certain things he does the first thing he does that is extremely controversial is he announces if you are a Jewish man you must divorce a foreign woman if you're married to a foreign woman meaning a woman who doesn't share our faith then you must divorce her in order to maintain the purity of our people okay he also announces that from now on it is mandatory for Jewish man to observe religious rituals to go to temple and make your sacrifice okay so he's trying to stop his purity but his main contribution which is most important is ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 52:23 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3143s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3143s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: he wants to unify the Jewish people into one faction okay so let me explain why this is important so as we discussed there are multiple Bibles out there okay and so there's at least four different schools or four different strands there is the house of David school called the Yahweh's right the Yahweh's or J remember this is the idea of Yahweh that Yahweh he is a fallible good meaning well -meaning poet But the main point of the Yahweh is God has chosen David to be the legitimate ruler of Israel. God has also ordained David to build the temple where God will reside. So this is to legitimize the authority of David and to make people understand the central authority of this religion is the temple in Jerusalem. But as we discussed, eventually, the northern kingdom will break away from Judah. But once you break away, you can't access Jerusalem anymore. So now you have to have other sites where you can practice your religious rituals. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 53:51 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: But you do that, you have to change the Yahweh manuscript. And so they do that and create new mythologies. This is what's called the E manuscript for Elohim. Elohim is Elohim. It's just a different word for God. Does that make sense? So you have two competing Bibles. At the same time, you have the priestly manuals. So remember, Judaism at this point, it is a religion focused on ritual, like most religions. So you need manuals in order to tell you why you're doing these rituals and how you should do these rituals. They have to be very precise. They have to be effective. At the same time, the northern kingdom fell as Judah was conquered by the Babylonians, as the Jews are forced into captivity. You have to explain why this is happening. And while this is happening, most people choose to not follow religion anymore. They adopt a new religion or they move somewhere else. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 55:02 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: But the religious fanatics have to explain why this is happening. And the explanation is because the Israelites continue to disobey God. And this faction, which is basically looking at Jewish history and explaining why this is happening, is called the Deuteronomists, the D -School, the Deuteronomists. So these are four major factions. Do you understand? And these are four different Bibles. Now what I actually want to do is put all these four Bibles together to create the impression of a unified religion and a unified people. And the way he does that, which is very interesting, is he basically just takes different parts from each of these books and puts them together. And now this is the Bible. And that's why if you actually read the Bible, you'll find it completely unreadable. But he also makes changes to the Bible, which is very important. Remember, before, the most important person was David. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 56:19 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Because he's really the founder of the nation of Israel. He's the founder of religion. Now, the most important person is Moses. Because Moses is a priest. He's the one who was given the laws by Yahweh. So there are other changes as well, but this is the most important. There are other changes that will come over time as Zoroastrianism merges into Judaism. So there are three major changes. The first is the idea of eschatology. Meaning, there will be an endpoint to history. And the endpoint of history is when the entire world, when all the empires of the world, because they defy God, converge against the nation of Israel in one final battle. And in this battle, of course, Israel will win. And this will create eternal peace in the world. Because God has chosen Israel as his people. The second big idea is good versus evil. Before, the religion of Judaism was very personal. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 57:38 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: Good and evil was in you. But now, there is actually good and evil. Israel stands for good. These other nations, these other empires, like the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans, they represent evil. And the third change, which is the most important, is there will be a hero who will come to lead the nation of Israel against all its enemies. And he is called the Messiah, the Son of Man. And he will come from the house of David, as written in the Bible. And why is this important? Because the Christians believe the Messiah is Jesus. Okay? So the Christians basically take all this, this merger of Zoroastrianism with Judaism, and their claim is the Messiah is Jesus. Okay? And this creates Christianity, which we will discuss next class. All right? Okay. Any questions so far? Are you guys clear about all this? Yep? Excuse me? Okay. Yeah, okay. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, okay. All right. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 59:19 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3559s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3559s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: So let me explain what's happening. Okay? So remember, the Babylonians in 586, they take over Jerusalem. They burn a temple. They destroy the religion of the Jews. And they take the elite, about a few thousand people, and they move them to Babylonia. Okay? But who's left behind are the majority of Israelites. Okay? But now they have to adapt to a new elite. And so they preserve their religion, but they also adopt the religion of the elite, who are the Babylonians. You also have Israelites who go off to Egypt. Okay? So now you create something called a diaspora. They're either in Babylon or they're in Egypt. But the majority are still at home in Judea. And in this time, because these are just ordinary people, they will adopt many faiths. It's very common back then for a person to have multiple faiths. Okay? The faiths of your father, the faiths of your mother, the faith of your wife, the faith of your neighbor. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 1:00:28 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3628s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3628s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: Okay? Because this is how people got along. Right? If you said that my God is better than your God, you will piss off your neighbor. You will piss off your colleague. Why would you do that? So it's very common back then for people to have multiple faiths. A faith you might practice at home, a faith you might share with your friends, a faith you might have to share with your king. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So these are extremely multi -religious people. And as we discussed, when the Jews are, when the Israelites are forced to go to Babylon, they are forced to have a more fanatical religion in order to maintain their identity. Right? It's like, how do you separate yourself from these other people? Because if you don't do that, what happens is you become assimilated. Right? You lose what it means to be Israelite. And, quite honestly, most people chose to be assimilated because that was the easiest thing to do. ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 1:01:25 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: But there's a fanatical minority, mainly priests, who were determined to keep alive their religion. Because, only by keeping alive their religion could they keep alive Yahweh. Could they keep alive Israel. Okay? So, when these Jews were allowed to return to Judea, they were horrified. Horrified by the corruption and impurity they saw. Right? They were like, we were in Babylon and for 70 years we fought hard to save our religion. To maintain the purity of our religion. They go back and they see their people, the Samaritans, now adopt foreign gods. And they were like, this is why we fail as a people. This is why Yahweh punished us. Because we refused to be loyal. So, what they're thinking is like, I would rather all these people go away than have them stay around. You understand? We don't want to get ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 1:02:30 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#purity-minority-preserves-tradition-atlas) Text: a law. We want to maintain the purity of our religion because that's the only way to save our people. Okay? And that's why they say, hey, if you're going to stay, you have to divorce your wife, who is a foreigner. If you don't want to do so, go away, man. The Persian Empire is huge. Go somewhere else. But Jerusalem, it's only the land of the pure. Okay? Does that make sense? So, I know this is a controversial idea, but it's really only the extremists who keep the religion alive. This is true for all religions. Okay? Does that make sense? It's only people who are most willing to die for their religion that keeps the religion alive. If everyone's willing to compromise, the religion dies very quickly. Okay? And the Jewish religion, Judaism, is able to keep the religion alive. It's able to stay alive for 3,000 years because there are lots of people in ## Cyrus Makes Mercy Into Empire -- 1:03:30 - Source title: Civilization #23: Cyrus the Great as Messiah - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3810s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVTNTPzq7E&t=3810s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-hvvtntpzq7e.json) Text: the religion, a minority, but still a lot of people who are willing to die for the religion. That's something we'll discuss later on this semester. Okay? So, thanks for the question. Any more questions? Okay. So, next class, we will discuss the rise of Christianity. Okay? Jesus, basically. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. We are continuing the Hebrew Bible today. Last class, we talked about King David of Israel and how he created the Bible, the project of the Bible, in order to create legitimacy and authority, okay? And we are continuing along this theme today. So, let's go over the chronology of the Bible, okay? So, in the beginning, there was God, okay? In the Bible, his name is Yahweh. And he created the world. And then he created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. And people who take the Bible literally believe this was about four thousand in BC okay as we know Adam and Eve because they disobeyed God they were banished from the Garden of Eden and they had two sons Cain and Abel and then the family started to populate the earth but then humans started to misbehave we went to war we were greedy and so God decided to destroy the ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 1:27 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: world in something called the Great Flood and this is a story of Noah's Ark remember Noah was beloved by God so God told him to build a great ship and then he will be able to live okay after Noah's Ark came along a man named Abraham and this was about 2000 BC Abraham was born in the city of Ur in Mesopotamia and he was beloved by God because he was a righteous and decent man and God made a covenant with him covenant and a covenant is a contract it's a promise and the contract is this if you Abraham swear allegiance to me Yahweh I will make you and your descendants founders of a great nation called Israel that will stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates that's a promise land and return as a mark of this covenant Abraham and his ancestors will engage in circumcision they're basically the foreskin of their penis will be ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 2:44 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=164s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=164s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: certainly surgically removed at birth okay so that's a covenant Abraham had a son named Isaac and Isaac had a son named Jacob okay um Jacob is the younger son of Isaac so Esau should have inherited the birthright and the blessing from his father Isaac. But Jacob played a trick on Esau and stole the birthright. Esau was very angry, so Jacob had to run away and live with a relative for a couple of decades. And while there, he married two sisters named Leah and Rachel. And then together, they had 12 sons. And these 12 sons became the 12 founders of the 12 tribes of Israel. Jacob will be renamed by God as Israel. So Jacob really is the founder of the nation of Israel. Jacob's youngest son is named Joseph. And he is beloved by Jacob so much that his brothers became jealous of him and sold him into slavery. In Egypt, Joseph was also beloved by God, and he had a special gift of reading dreams. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 4:14 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And he became a special advisor to the Pharaoh. And he became very wealthy. Meanwhile, back in the land of Israel, Jacob and his sons, their family, are facing this massive famine. So Joseph comes and rescues them, and the entire nation of Israel moves down to Egypt. Where they become slaves. They become very wealthy and prosperous. And because they have many children, eventually, after a couple of decades, they become a threat to the establishment. So the new Pharaoh, who has no memory of the contributions of Joseph, enslave the Israelites. And he wants them to die. So he basically forbids them to have sons. And he basically... So he basically forbids them to have sons. So he almost tries to sanction the Israelites as much as possible. Eventually, a man called Moses is born into the Israelites in Egypt. And because he's a boy, he has to be killed. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 5:22 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So his mother puts him in a basket and then this basket drifts down the Nile and into the hands of the Egyptian princess. So Moses grows up to become an Egyptian prince. But eventually God signals Joseph to protect Joseph. informs them of who he really is and he's the prophet who will deliver the israelites back into the promised land the pharaoh refuses to let the israelites go there's a major contest duel between moses and the pharaoh and then god sends down like 10 plagues okay 10 plagues to force the pharaoh to release the israelites moses is taking the israelites into the promised land and then pharaoh has a change of heart and he wants to destroy the israelites before they can escape so the pharaoh chases them moses causes the sea to part they they cross the valley and when pharaoh and his army are about to enter the sea the sea ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 6:27 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: closes in on them and drowns them okay and then when moses and the israelites are in the desert moses ascends the mountain to receive the law of god and this is what we call the ten commandments but while moses away the israelites create an idol to celebrate yahweh and yahweh hates this because yahweh does not want to be represented on earth so yahweh um sends him to a long exile in the desert and he tells moses you will deliver the people from egypt and that is your mission and east told him you will never leave rome you will very will always lead your old nation but you will not enter the promised land you can see the promised land but you will not enter the promised land so the mission goes to joshua who is moses disciple and joshua and the israelites start a massive military campaign into the land of canine which is a ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 7:31 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: promised land and over the span of years they basically massacre the people and they create the nation of israel and then we enter the period called Judges and these are 12 individuals who become the tribal leaders of Israel and Israel at this time is at war with all the neighbors the Moabites the Edomites the Philistines the Canaanites and this period lasts for a long time until the Israelites pick a king named Saul to lead them King Saul and then as we know from King Saul will come David who will use up the throne from Saul and be the great king of Israel that we remember today okay and David is considered the real founder of the state of Israel as well as the Jewish faith so that's the chronology of the Bible now because the Bible is written almost like a historical document for most of the human history people believe that God is the ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 8:41 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: creator of this world and that he is the one who this to be literally true okay but in the past 400 years 300 years there are many archaeologists who have tried to prove the events in the Bible for example Noah's Ark if there really was a flood well there will be a geological record there would be a ship okay there would be a memory of this but there was never but we have never been able to found any concrete evidence to support North Arctic okay how about the Garden of Eden well if the Garden of Eden really existed well we can also find it and we've never been able to find it all right how about Abraham Isaac and Jacob again no evidence that any of these individuals ever existed how about Moses well we would think if Moses really did exist there would be some records of him in the Egyptian history right I ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 9:43 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: mean ten plagues is a travesty and a disaster on the Egyptian people no record of that the parting of the sea no record of that the judges Joshua nothing okay it's only it is only until we get to David when we begin to see historical records and prove that David actually existed but before then nothing in the Bible has proven to be historical okay and so this is very confusing so what I will show you today is if you see the Bible as a historical record you only get confused you see this as a chronology this makes no sense if you see this as a work of fiction like a lot of people do this doesn't make much sense either okay because when you read the Bible these events aren't actually interconnected with each other David has no memory of Moses for example that's weird Moses has no memory of Abraham okay so these stories ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 10:51 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=651s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=651s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: are not interconnected so if this is not a historical record if this is not a work of pure fiction what is this thing okay what I will show you today is this is not a chronology this is a cosmology cosmology ok It remember last class we talked about the second image all right now about why things are written down in the ancient past and as I said King sponsor writing projects for three major reasons the first reason is to create legitimacy and authority the second reason is to create a national identity cohesion among the people the third reason is the idea of differentiation to tell people who they are not we're Israelites we're not Egyptians we're not Canaanites we're not Philistines okay so these are the three major reasons why Kings sponsor writing projects and for the Israelites and David these three imperatives are particularly salient okay they're really necessary right so let me explain ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 12:19 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: why that's the case so legitimacy remember David usurped the throne from Saul Saul came from a noble family and he was elected by the chieftains to be their king and then David launched rebellion and eventually usurped the throne so David has a major legitimacy problem so how he solves a problem as we discussed last class is the Bible presents him as a poet King okay This is a very important concept, poet -king. There have been warrior -kings, kings who go to war and they win legitimacy by defeating all their enemies. There have been priest -kings, kings who are head of a major religion. But David is the first poet -king. He writes poetry. He sings songs. He's a sensitive soul. That's what explains his affair with Bathsheba. And that tells us he could never have possibly been ambitious and wanted to kill Saul. He's the first poet -king. So why is he king of Israel? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 13:31 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Because guess what, guys? God is the poet -god. Yahweh is the poet -god. So this is a radical conception of divinity in the ancient world. Gods previously have been priests or warriors. And this is the first time in human history where gods have been priests or warriors. And this is the first time where God, Yahweh, has been presented as a poet -god. When you read the Bible, it's very interesting how he creates the world. He speaks and things are created. He says, let there be light. Let there be heaven and earth. He speaks. And when he speaks, a new world is created. And then he looks at this world and says, and this is good. So he's like a writer who speaks words, and then who edits his words in order to create something much more beautiful. He's a poet. And as a poet, he's very sensitive. Which means he creates Adam and Eve because he's lonely. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 14:45 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=885s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=885s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: He wants friendship. So, in other words, the Bible is fundamentally a story of friendship, of two poets who are alone in the world and who found friendship. Friendship and comfort in each other. And the way the Bible accomplishes this is through the idea of covenant. So, in the Bible, there are four covenants, promises. So the first covenant is between Noah and Yahweh. It's what we call the Noah -Had covenant. The Noah -Had covenant. The idea of this is this. After Yahweh destroys the world, he feels tremendous remorse for what he's done. He promises Noah. As long as humans are not too evil, I will not destroy the world. If humans stay good, I will not destroy the world. The second covenant is between Abraham and Yahweh. It's called the Abrahamic covenant. And in this covenant, Yahweh says to Abraham, if you and your ancestors, I'm sorry, if you and your descendants stay true to me, I will create a great nation out of you. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 16:02 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=962s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=962s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: I will give you the nation of Israel. The third covenant is between Moses and Yahweh. It's called the Mosaic covenant. And the idea is, if the Israelites follow the Ten Commandments and worship Yahweh, only Yahweh, then Yahweh will protect them as a nation. Yahweh will show them favor. Okay? So those are the three covenants. But, when we get to David, called the Davidic covenant, something interesting happens. All three priestly are what we call conditional covenants. If you do this, then I will do this. But when we get to David, it's unconditional. Yahweh will promise that you, David, and your descendants will forever rule Israel. The house of David will forever rule Israel. Okay? It's an unconditional covenant that shows his everlasting friendship with David. In other words, the Davidic covenant marks the end of Biblical history. Yahweh, this great God, poet God, who searched the universe for friendship, has now found his great friend in David. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 17:28 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1048s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1048s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And so his search has ended, and Biblical history has ended. Okay? So this is a radical new idea in human history, how a king and a God can be poets, and how the world, how reality can be constructed through words. Okay? And that's why in the Bible, there's a very famous phrase called, in the beginning, there was the Word. And that's why Jewish people are so literary. Okay? Because that's part of their tradition. If you look at some of the most famous writers, some of the most famous writers, some of the most famous thinkers in the world, they're mainly Jewish. And again, a lot of it is because the Jewish faith is the first faith to focus on literary creation. So that's the idea of legitimacy. Cohesion. There's a lot of cohesion. Okay? The second purpose is great cohesion. And as we discussed, after the Bronze Age collapsed, the land of Canaan was in complete chaos. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 18:35 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1115s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1115s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: You had all these different groups within Canaan. You had the nomads from the desert, okay? The Bedouins. You had the hill people of Canaan. You have refugees from the cities of Canaan and these cities have been destroyed. You have Egyptian priests. You have foreign mercenaries. And now you have sea peoples, these Greeks and these other peoples who are coming into Canaan because they've lost their lands back at home. Okay? So you've got this very different group of people together. They're in competition with other groups, like the Philistines. So now they need to create a national identity out of all this, right? And that's what the Bible is doing, guys. Okay? Remember, there's a concept we learned that's very important in class called syncretization. Right? Syncretization. It means when you bring different religions together and create a new religion. So, for example, let's say my god is Zeus and your god is Hera. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 19:48 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And I conquer you and I make you part of my people. Okay? So what we do in this instance is we marry our gods to each other. So now Zeus is married to Hera and they have children like Aphrodite and Athena. Okay? And this is a way to soothe the process of conquest because even though I've conquered you, I still have to live with you. Okay? So we have to blend in our different cultures. This is also true for the idea of genealogy. Family history. Every tribe has a patriarch. Okay? And the reason we have a patriarch is to tell the people we've been in this land for the longest time. And that's why we have legitimacy and control over this land because we were here first. Okay? Now, when tribes get together, they intermarry, they form alliances, what they do that's very common is their ancestors merge together and they become sons and fathers of each other. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 20:52 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1252s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1252s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So as though it's like one family history. Okay? You take these different family histories and you merge them into one line, the same process of syncretization. Okay? So if you look at this instance, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it's basically three major tribes of Israel coming together to form one family history. In this instance, the most powerful family is that of Jacob because Jacob, Israel, gives his name to the new nation of Israel. The second most important person or tribe is Abraham because he's the progenitor of this family. Okay? And third will be Isaac. And in fact, in the Bible, Isaac receives the least amount of attention. Okay? But the syncretization process also helps us explain Moses because we've been looking for a hundred years and we have not found any evidence that Moses ever existed or anyone like Moses existed in Egypt. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 22:05 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1325s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1325s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? So what's Moses doing? Well, what Moses is doing is explaining why there are Egyptian priests in the nation of Israel. Right? And why are priests important? Because if you're David and you're now king, you want to create legitimacy and you want to create authority and the best way you create authority is by centralizing your power. Back then, the best and easiest way to centralize power is by centralizing religious ritual. Does that make sense? So what he did was this. He made his new capital Jerusalem and he built something called the Temple of Jerusalem which became the house of Yahweh. This is where Yahweh lived. So if you wanted to worship Yahweh and you had to because he was your God, you had to come all the way to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice. And who controlled the sacrifice process? Priests. Okay? And why did the priests, Egyptian priests, why are they controlling the sacrifice process? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 23:15 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Because they're the ones, Moses, who led the people of Israel out of Egypt. They're the ones who delivered the Israelites into freedom. Moses is an Egyptian name. It means son of, okay? So it's a very common Egyptian name. So for example, Ramesses means son of Ra. Okay? So Ramesses is a very famous Egyptian pharaoh. Ramesses means son of Ra, the sun god. So both Moses and his brother Aaron, these are Egyptian names for Egyptian priests. Okay? So David was heavily reliant on these Egyptian priests in order to centralize authority. Also, the idea of circumcision, it is an ancient Egyptian practice that priests specialized in. Right? So if the new law is to be a member of Israel, to be an Israelite, means you have to get circumcised, you have to circumcise your children, you're going to go to the Egyptian priests to circumcise your children because they're good at that and they know how to do that. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 24:29 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Does that make sense? So by making circumcision the major, the major mark of what it means to be an Israelite, it gives authority and power to these Egyptian priests. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? The judges. What we believe is the judges are these local heroes that bring in all the other tribes of Israel together. Okay? So in other words, if you are a member of this new nation of Israel, you have a deity or an ancestor within the cosmology of the Bible. Okay? And this explains why the history of Israel is so convoluted, contradictory, and complex. Because they're trying to create a national identity where everyone, all tribes, all, everyone is able to contribute effectively to the creation of the nation of Israel. Okay? Any other questions before I continue? Is this clear to you guys? What's, what's going on? Any other questions? All right. Now the last question is differentiation. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 25:48 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1548s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1548s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And this is the most important. Okay? Because remember, you have Egyptian priests in Israel. How do we know they're loyal to Israel and not to Egypt? Because the Egyptian priests went to war with the Pharaoh. We have Canaanites within the state of Israel. How do we know they're loyal? Because they went to war with the Canaanites. Okay? So in the Bible, what's interesting to you with the Bible is the Israelites in their history went to war with everyone. Okay? The Egyptians, the Philistines, the Canaanites went to war with everyone. Why? Because they had members from every single geography and location in that area. And so they needed to differentiate themselves. The best way you differentiate yourself is by going to war with them. Does that make sense? Also, guys, when I use the word nation, I have to warn you, this is not the modern sense. Nation, it's a loose political affiliation that is fluid. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 26:53 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Today, the nation state, you're Chinese, you're stuck being Chinese. Okay? But back then, if you're an Israelite, guess what? You could walk across a street and become a Moabite. Okay? So the idea of identity back then was extremely loose and fluid. So when we use the term Moabite or Canaanite, basically we're talking about a geographical location that has some political force. But it's not a fixed identity. Okay? The very idea of ethnicity, race, group identity, back then was extremely fluid, was basically nonexistent. Okay? So Israel, the very idea of Israel, it's a literary creation. The idea of Israelite, it is a political creation. Does that make sense? Guys? Any questions so far before I move on? Okay? Are you clear? Okay. All right. All right. So this explains why the Bible is structured the way it is. Okay? But then the question then is, and this is a very important question, is, okay, you know what? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 28:09 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: This was standard cultural practice back then. Everyone did this to create identity. So why is it we have the Bible today and not, say, texts from Egypt or Mesopotamia? Why is it that the Bible was able to conquer the world, basically? Right? Because you have two billion Christians. You have a billion Muslims. The Bible was able to conquer the world and capture the imagination of humanity. And here, I want to explain why the Bible is so powerful. It was how it was written that made it so powerful. Okay? So, last class, we talked about the apology of David, about the Bathsheba story, about the Abner story. And we believe the person who wrote those stories are what we call the court historian. We have absolutely no idea who he is. He's basically the official historian of the court of David. Okay? And every court will have an official historian. And those stories are good, but they're not literary. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 29:25 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1765s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1765s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? They're just propaganda and spin. But the person who wrote the Bible, especially Genesis, was a unique literary genius of the statue of Homer and Plato and Dante. Okay? The person who wrote the Bible, who first wrote the Bible, was an incredible literary genius. And we call her the Yahwist. Okay? Why do we call her the Yahwist? It is convention because she uses Yahweh as the name of God and other writers too. They don't actually use Yahweh as the name of God. Okay? So by convention we call her the Yahwist. Another question then is who is she? And we're fairly certain she's a well, it's a she. Okay? And as I will show you, we're fairly certain it's a she because she focuses not on war, not on conflict, but on domestic tragedy and this is unique in human history. Okay? So we're fairly confident it's a she. There are many who believe she is of the court of David. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 30:47 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1847s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1847s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: The reason why is first of all what she writes is very favorable to the court of David. Also back then as you can imagine only aristocratic woman had the privilege of reading and writing. Okay? She clearly had access to the mythology of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia. She has access to a great education. So we believe she's a princess. I will further make the argument that she must be either the daughter or the granddaughter of King David. Okay? I would make this argument that she has to be the daughter or the granddaughter of King David. And the reason why is what she wrote and I'll show you what she wrote. What she wrote was so controversial and so unique and so imaginative that the priesthood could not possibly accept what she did. If she was just a priest or if she was just an aristocratic of low birth there was no way her writings would become part of the Bible. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 32:00 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1920s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1920s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? So she must have been someone of high authority. actually a precedent for this. So for example we know that in about 2000 BCE this is a you know at least a thousand years before the Yahwehs began to write the Sargon of Akkad who is the first great empire builder. Okay? The first emperor basically. And this is someone that back then during the time of King David everyone knew and worshipped. Okay? King David knew about him and he knew about his practices. When King Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia he appointed his daughter named Enhe Duanna to be like the high priestess of their religion. But what's interesting about her is she's a poet. And she is the first name author in human history. Okay? This is 2000 BCE. She wrote a lot of poetry. So there is a history, a precedent for these kings to appoint their daughters to be the official poet of their nation. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 33:10 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1990s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=1990s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So that's what I think the Yahwehs But honestly we'll never know and it's not important. Okay? We just have to know she was an exceptional literary genius who made the Bible what it is today. Alright? So let's go over some of her literary contributions very shortly. And again, because the Bible has been redacted for about 2,000 years, 3,000 years, we've lost a lot of her original writings. Okay? So I will analyze a couple of stories that we know for sure she wrote. The first is called Adam and Eve. The second is the story of Jacob and Rachel. Okay? Alright. So you think you know the story of Adam and Eve but I guarantee you it's wrong. Okay? I guarantee you even if you know the story of Adam and Eve it's wrong. Alright. So let's go over the official or the mainstream understanding of the story of Adam and Eve. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 34:14 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: God told Adam and Eve listen, this is the Garden of Eden. It's paradise. You can do whatever you want. Life is easy. Apples fall from the sky. Okay? You can pick tomatoes and carrots from the ground. But there's one rule and only one rule in the Garden of Eden. And the rule is do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because it's poisonous. And of course Adam and Eve had to disobey God. And God became so angry that he banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. And now see our act of disobedience. The first act of disobedience our first sin the original sin that has doomed us forever until the redemption of Jesus. Right? That's a story we all know. The story is completely and utterly wrong. That's not what it says in the Bible. Okay? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 35:20 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So I'll explain first what the Bible says and then I'll explain how we can interpret the story. Okay. So God says to Adam and Eve don't eat that fruit. Okay? And then Adam and Eve are curious. Why can't you eat that fruit? And then Eve meets a serpent on the ground and Eve and the serpent talk. And Eve basically says we can't eat that fruit. And the serpent says why? Eve says it's poisonous. The serpent says no it's not poisonous. You're being lied to. The reason why Yahweh does not want you to eat from the fruit is once you eat it you'll become like God. Your eyes will open. You'll have the knowledge of good and evil. And then Eve gets angry because she feels manipulated. And she convinces Adam to eat the fruit as well. So they eat the fruit and their eyes are open now. They have knowledge of good and evil. Yahweh visits them in the garden and he discovers they're hiding from him. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 36:38 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And when Yahweh commands them to come out and he sees right away they're embarrassed about their nakedness. They're embarrassed about being confronted by Yahweh. So Yahweh knows they've eaten the fruit. Adam says to Yahweh it's Eve's fault. Eve says to Yahweh it's the serpent's fault. And Yahweh decides to punish all three. He says to the serpent from now on you will slither on the ground and you'll be hunted by men. Eve from now on you and all your descendants will suffer the pains of childbirth. Childbirth will be an extremely painful process. And then he says to Adam from now on you must sweat to grow food to feed yourself. From now on life will be hardship. It will be toil and pain and suffering. Okay? And then he says and then he does this. Okay? This is very interesting. And this is where the Bible demonstrates its genius. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 37:48 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then the Lord said see the man has become like one of us knowing good and evil. And now he might reach out his hand and take also the tree of life and live forever. Okay? This is where the Bible is genius. Because it's telling us why God is banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. It's telling us. It's because there's another tree God didn't mention to them. It's called the tree of life. And it allows you to live forever. So why is this a problem? Well there are two things that differentiate God from us humans. The first thing is God has knowledge of good and evil. Second thing is God lives forever. That's it. Okay? That's the only difference. So if Adam and Eve now know good and evil if they eat from the tree of life they can live forever. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 38:55 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So God's afraid will become like God. Therefore to protect the tree of life he has to banish us from the Garden. Okay? Yeah? Excuse me? Yeah exactly. Okay. What is good and evil? Okay. So this is what so this is a really complicated idea. Okay? But good and evil does not mean you know God and you know Satan. That's not what it means. It means you know what's good for you and what's bad for you. So for example before I knew good and evil I hit this table. Okay? I feel pain. Right? And I'm like what pain? What is that? Is that good or is that bad? I don't know. So I do it again. Okay? And I do it again. I cannot learn from my mistakes because I cannot differentiate what's good for me and what's bad for me. So I hit this thing. I feel pain. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 40:02 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Therefore it's evil. Therefore I shouldn't do it again. Therefore I should avoid this table. So knowing good and evil means you have the capacity to learn and to grow through a process of self -reflection. Once you have judgment once you're able to differentiate what's good for you and what's bad for you you can always grow as a person. Does that make sense? And if you can do this forever you're going to live forever. The tree of life and live forever it means you become God because your knowledge is now infinite. Okay? Does that make sense? That's what knowledge of good and evil is. The ability to differentiate for yourself what is good for you and what is bad for you. To engage in a process of reflection and self -growth. Okay? So God's afraid that if we continue to grow we will become as powerful as God himself. Any questions? Any more questions? Before I continue? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 41:17 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2477s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2477s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 41:20 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 41:20 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: The key line is this. The Lord God made garments of skins for the men and his wife and clothed them. This is right after he punishes Adam and Eve. This is right after he scolds them. Right? This is God giving pitying them and giving them a present. This is very strange. This is paradoxical. Why would God do this? Okay? There are different ways to interpret this but I think this is God showing remorse and regret. Okay? This is a radical idea but this is God saying to Adam and Eve I'm sorry for this. This is God showing remorse and regret. Why is God showing remorse and regret? You show remorse and regret when you just think wrong, right? But what did God do wrong? What did God do wrong? Why is God in the wrong here? It's a radical idea but can you figure it out? Okay. God lied to Adam and Eve. God said to Adam and Eve do not eat from this tree because it's poisonous. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 42:42 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2562s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2562s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Right? So imagine this. Imagine you're my two daughters. Okay? And you're like six or seven years old. And you see me at night drinking whiskey or beer. I'm really happy because I'm drinking whiskey and beer. So you two are curious and you say to me dad what is this? And I say it's um poison. And then you're like why are you drinking poison dad? I'm like well because because I'm older than you are. When you're as old as I am you can drink this poison. Okay? You two are now curious. Right? You're curious. Why is dad drinking poison? So your uncle comes to the house one day and you ask your uncle hey is alcohol poisonous? Your uncle is like of course it's not poisonous. What are you talking about? And so of course what you two do is you break into the uh alcohol cabinet right? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 43:45 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: And you drink whiskey. And you're very you become very happy and you throw up. I come home and I shout at you you guys are terrible. I told you not to drink that. Go to your room and you're suspended for a month. Okay? You go to your room and you cry. And then I come knocking and say hey uh do you guys want to go out to McDonald's and have a hamburger together? Do you understand the story? Because I know I'm not wrong. I should not have said to you alcohol is poisonous. Okay? I'm your bad parent. So what we remark about this story is it's basically a domestic comedy. You understand? This is what happens among families all the time. This is the power of the story of Adam and Eve. This is the power of the story. It's a domestic comedy. It's something we can all relate to. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 44:37 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: It's something we can all understand. What's also really powerful about the story is God is fallible. God is has made a terrible mistake. What's important is this. God understands he's made a mistake. That's why he's showing remorse and regret. Okay? So again Yahweh he's a poet God. He wants to have friends. But he's inexperienced. He's naive. He's a new father. So he's going to make mistakes. Making mistakes is a process of growing up. What makes humans exceptional what makes humans unique from animals is our capacity to make mistakes and to learn from them because we ate from the knowledge of from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Okay? Do you see how radical all this is? Radical new ideas in human history. God is fallible. What's important is to understand and admit your mistakes and grow from them. Okay? Okay. The story continues because now Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden of Eden. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 46:15 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: They have two sons named Cain and Abel. Abel is a shepherd. Okay? And Cain is a farmer. But they both love God. They both want the respect and attention of God. So they present they they give presents to God. Um Abel um is a shepherd so he offers mutton. Okay? To God. And then Cain is a farmer so he offers I don't know like wheat or vegetables to God. God tastes both. And then God's like this mutton mwah it's tasty awesome thank you uh Abel. And then he eats Cain's offering and Cain's very anxious. He's very excited. And then Cain's like and Abel's like oh sorry sorry and then God Yahweh is like this food sucks man. Alright? And this is what it says in the Bible. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. He hated Cain's present. He loved Abel's present. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 47:38 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So Cain was very angry and his countenance fell. The Lord said to Cain why are you angry? If you do well will you not be accepted? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 47:49 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 47:51 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: So again it's a domestic comedy. You're my girls you're my you're my daughters you go to school and you work very hard on presenting a present to me. Right? And I say to one of you oh this is an awesome present thank you and I say to the other you suck man. Okay? I'm being a bad parent. God is being a terrible parent. Okay? If you do well will you not be accepted? You suck man. The problem isn't me the problem is you. You just suck. Okay? And of course what happens next is Cain kills Abel. But then what happens next is interesting because Yahweh finds out about this and he banishes Cain. And then Cain says to God hey if you banish me people will know I committed wrong and therefore I will be killed by other people. Yahweh says to Cain okay I will put a mark on you the mark of Cain and if anyone touches you then I will punish that person. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 49:04 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=2944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: I will protect you okay? And this is again God showing remorse and regret for what he's done. Because God knows in his heart he's done wrong here. But what allowed God to understand he committed wrong is because Cain argued with him. Okay? Cain argued back. So this is a radical conception of faith in the Hebrew Bible. Faith love of God requires you to argue with God. Because it's only for the price of argument that God who's fallible will learn and grow. So when you argue you fight back you're helping the other person grow. Okay? Any questions about this story before I move on? As you can see it's a powerful story that reveals so much about the idea of faith and justice and divinity. Okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So again the Yahwist is a literary genius. And there are two things that make her stand out that make her unique in the history of literature. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 50:41 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: The first is her economy. Economy just means using as few words as possible to express as much as possible. Okay? the story of Adam and Eve the story of Cain and Abel is very economical. She's using very few words but within these words are a universe of ideas. Almost infinite meaning. You can interpret these stories any way you want. Okay? The second idea is irony. Irony just means she's funny. Okay? If you tell your kids don't eat that apple don't eat that fruit because it's poisonous guess what? Your kids are going to eat that fruit. Okay? And then you're going to look like an idiot because it's not poisonous. So it's ironic. She's making fun of Yahweh. She's making fun of the highest authority in the Israelite faith. And again that's why if she were not the daughter of David or granddaughter of David there's no way this story would have gotten into the Bible. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 52:01 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? But it's a great story that has infinite literary power. Okay? Does that make sense? The last story I will mention is a story of Rachel and Jacob. It's a very short story. Okay? So what happens is this. Jacob runs away from his brother Esau because Jacob stole Esau's birthright and blessing. And Jacob ends up with a relative And Laban has two daughters Leah and Rachel. Leah is the eldest. Rachel is the younger one. And Jacob falls in love with Rachel right away. And he says to Laban I will work for you for free for seven years and then I will want your daughter Rachel's hand in return for my for my work. Laban says well you're a relative and it's better for me to give her to you than to complete stranger. So yeah. Okay? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 53:09 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Seven years pass and there's a wedding between Rachel and Jacob. That night Jacob has sex with a woman. He wakes up and sees it's not Rachel it's Leah. He slept with Leah. He is now married to Leah. Then Jacob says to Laban you've tricked me. And then Laban says it is the custom of our people to marry the firstborn first. We have to marry Leah off first before we can marry off Rachel. If you continue to work for me for seven years I will give you Rachel as well. And Jacob agrees. Okay? So it's a very short story. And there's a lot of economy and irony in the story. But again within the short story there is a universe of ideas and emotions. If you're able to think very clearly and closely about the story we will discover that A Rachel and Leah hate each other. How do we know that? Because Leah stole Jacob from Rachel. We can imagine that when Laban announced that Rachel would marry Jacob Leah was very disappointed. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 54:40 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: for seven years every night at dinner Leah would cry and scream at her father. How could you embarrass me like this? I'm your first born. Do I mean nothing to you? We can imagine the family drama and the comedy. Right? Laban's like you know what if after seven years Jacob marries Rachel they're going to run off together. Right? And for the rest of my life I'm going to be stuck with Leah screaming at me and hitting me in the head for the rest of my life. Right? So he's like I need to figure out how to get out of this deal. Right? So that's why he tricks Jacob. We can also figure out that Rachel and Jacob love each other. Their love is the greatest love in the world. Because first of all Jacob's willing to put up with this crap for another seven years in order to be with Rachel. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 55:37 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Right? Second of all Rachel's willing to wait for Jacob. She could at any time just run off and be with someone else. But she's willing to endure. She's willing to suffer. Okay? So we can imagine the entire family dynamic in history based on just a few sentences in the Bible. That's the power of the Yahwehs. Okay? The power the Yahwehs she's really writing about what it means to be human. What it means to have a family. And that's why the Bible endures to this day. Because there are these powerful stories in the Bible that tell us that reveal to us what it means to be human. What it means to love. What it means to forgive. What it means to have family. And that's why the Bible has inspired people for thousands of years. Okay? Because it's part of the writing process. It's co ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 56:52 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3412s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3412s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: -creation. Okay? Your meaning co -creation. Your meaning your understanding your interpretation is what gives life to these words. There are not many words but your understanding of these words is what makes these words powerful to you. And again these stories are unique in human history. The story of Adam and Eve is everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve. You can also argue the power of Adam and Eve is because it makes us nostalgic for the Ice Age. Right? Remember the Ice Age we were in egalitarian society where everyone was equal. And the Garden of Edom is a metaphor a symbol for that time. Okay? So it is provoking or activating our nostalgia for that time. Within each of us must be that a long lost memory of a time when we humans were alone in the world there were not many of us but life was fairly pleasant. Okay? Food was plentiful. We were all friends with each other. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 58:15 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3495s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3495s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: We didn't really struggle against each other. We really didn't struggle against nature. We were one with nature and with each other. Okay? Any questions? Okay. Who do the Christians believe to have been in the Bible? Well, God! Right? This is the exact these are the words of God. And so in the Bible there are people called prophets. Prophets. And how prophets work is they visit heaven or they visit by an angel. And there's one scene where the angel or God takes a parchment and puts it into the mouth of the prophet. So the prophet is speaking every word that's a direct word of God. Does that make sense? Like, it's almost like he's just a mailman. I'm God. I put a parchment in your mouth. You come back to earth and you basically announce the word of God. Okay? So there are people who believe God wrote every word. Okay? ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 59:37 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: But this is only my note of Christians. Most Christians believe that whoever wrote the Bible was inspired by God. That these are prophets who were inspired by God to write down the truths of God. But if you actually try to read the Bible by yourself it's impossible. Okay? Because it's been redacted so many times. As I explained to you last class there are at least four different sources in the Bible randomly. And it's been edited constantly over the centuries. Okay? But honestly no one reads the Bible in its entirety. What usually happens is people only read sections of the Bible. Most people get their get understanding from the Bible from preachers. Okay? And preachers will explain to you what these stories mean but you won't actually read them. Does that make sense? So what I'm offering you today is not a scriptural interpretation of the Bible. I'm offering you what we call a literary interpretation of the Bible. ## The Bible Is Not Chronology, It Is Cosmology -- 1:01:00 - Source title: Civilization #22: The Literary Genesis of the Yahwist - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3660s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLd_h1QsL4&t=3660s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ghld-h1qsl4.json) Text: Okay? Any more questions? Are you guys clear about this? Okay. So we'll continue the Bible next class. And next class we will look at the religion of Zoroastrianism. Because when the Persian Empire conquers the world Zoroastrianism their religion will start to merge with the Bible which creates new ideas. Okay? That will eventually become the basis of Christianity. Okay? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Good morning. So today we start the Bible, which will be the final unit before the semester break. Hopefully, this will be the most interesting section we do. It's certainly the most important, because the Bible is the most important book ever. And it is driving a lot. It has driven a lot of history. It's driving a lot of history today. So if you want to fully understand the conflict in the Middle East, what's happening between Israel and Iran, what's happening in Palestine, you cannot do so without a full understanding of the Bible. At the same time, the Bible is, because it's so important, the ideas around it are very controversial. There are billions of people around the world who believe the Bible is the Word of God. It's Holy Scripture. Every word in the Bible comes to us from the divine, the divinity himself. And obviously, that's not what I believe. More so, I'm going to ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:11 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=71s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=71s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: make arguments in this class that go against not only the traditional understanding of the Bible, but also the mainstream academic understanding of the Bible. So to be fair, to you, I want you to be very skeptical of what I say. Come to class with doubting my authority, doubting my understanding of the Bible. So feel free to challenge me, and I want you to challenge me, because what I will say in this class will be extremely controversial. So let me give you a brief introduction to the Bible. And then I will explain some of the history behind the Bible. Okay? And this overview is going to be very broad, very general, but it will help structure our understanding of the Bible for the next few classes. Okay? Alright, so the Bible. The Bible is Greek for Books. And it really means Library. So the first thing you need to understand is the Bible is a collection ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 2:24 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: of different works, by many different authors so there's no worldview or consistency or continuity in the Bible you can find whatever you want in the Bible because it's such a it's a library it's a huge collection of ideas there's about 2,000 pages okay so there's very few people who actually read the Bible in its entirety there are people who might read certain sections of the Bible okay but most people will will receive the understand a Bible from authorities like priests or rabbis okay the Bible itself is divided into two major sections the first section is what we call the Hebrew Bible and so this was originally written in Hebrew and this was this is the major this is the book of the Jews okay what are the Jews believe they believe in the the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible itself is divided into three major sections. The first is, so the Hebrew term for the Bible is the Tanakh. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 3:37 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: So you may hear some people say the Tanakh. It just means the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is T and K. And this is the Hebrew term for certain ideas. The T stands for Torah or teachings. So this is the laws of the Jewish tradition. For example, the Ten Commandments. Second is N, which means prophets. And the prophets themselves are divided into minor and major. So in Rome, the people who are most admired are the generals, right? Julius Caesar, Pompey. In Greece, the people who are most admired are the poets, Homer and the playwrights. In the Jewish tradition, the people who are most admired are the prophets. These individuals who speak the truth of God. They're social critics. And they're people who challenge the authority of the kings in order to promote the laws and teachings of God. Does that make sense? The prophets are the people who are most admired in the Jewish tradition. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 4:56 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: And the third RK is writings. So basically, things that don't really belong in teachings and prophets, but which have some cultural or religious significance to the Jewish people. So this is the Hebrew Bible. And then we get to the New Testament, which is something that only Christians believe. Alright, so Jewish people do not accept anything in the New Testament. The New Testament calls the Hebrew Bible the Old Testament. Why? Because the Old Testament is the promise of salvation. The promise of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is the deliverance or the fulfillment of this promise in Jesus Christ. It's the coming and the work of Jesus Christ. The New Testament itself is divided into many different works. It's a lot smaller than the Old Testament. So there are the Gospels. The Gospels is Greek for the good word. And the good news is that Jesus is on earth. And he's here to deliver us from our sins and our suffering. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 6:20 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: There's letters, mainly by someone named Paul. And these are the work of Jesus' apostles, who are the Gospels after the death of Jesus. They go around the world and they promote the gospel of Jesus, the good news. And this is about what they do. And then there's something called, there's some other books as well, but the major one is called Revelation, which is about the end of the world. And it's the idea of the second coming. How even though Jesus is dead, he will return and he will bring peace, eternal peace, to the world. Now, from the Bible, an interpretation of the Bible comes the Koran. And this is the basis for Islam. So eventually we'll do all three, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Koran. We'll start with the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible. So the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, is what we'll start with. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 7:35 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: And to do so, I will have to teach you a lot of history. And this history will be extremely broad. But over time, I will be more precise. I will go into specific details about this history in order for you to better understand the Bible. There are three ideas about the Hebrew Bible that Jews believe, that Jews today believe, which are not true. The first idea is the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish religion, has always been monotheistic, meaning the Jews have always believed in one God. His name is Yahweh. And he is the God of the Jews since Abraham, who is the patriarch of all Jewish people. That's what Jews believe. I will show you this is not true. In the beginning, Jewish people, like everyone else, were polytheistic. Monotheistic is a modern idea that has been retroactively put back into Jewish history. So that's the first myth that I will correct. The second ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 8:54 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=534s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=534s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: myth that I will correct is that Jewish history, or the Jewish religion, has been continuous for at least 3,000 years, possibly 4,000 years. And what I will show you is that's not true. The Hebrew Bible, the Hebrew Bible, has always been monotheistic. That's not true. And so there have been many major changes to the religion. And these changes are so drastic that you can argue these are very different people. So the Israelites, the people who founded the religion, are very different from the people we call Jews today. And I will show you why in the next few classes. That's one really important idea you need to understand. The first idea is that the Jewish tradition of the Israelites and the Jewish people are not continuous. Does that make sense? Any questions so far? Are you guys following along? The last idea is the Bible, or the Hebrew Bible, is a historical record. And what I will show you is... ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 10:19 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=619s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=619s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#symbolic-media-makes-worlds) Text: We've been trying for at least 3,000 years. 300 years, 200 years, to prove that the Bible is a historical record. There are archaeologists who have spent fortunes, their entire lifetimes, looking for things like Noah's Ark, looking for people like Moses. Can't find them, okay? And this tells us, pretty conclusively, that the Bible is not a historical record. It is a work of our imagination. It is a literary work. Now, it's a very powerful literary work. And that's what explains its relevance and its power today, okay. I will explain why it's powerful but I want you to remember it's not a historical work. It is a literary work. It is a work of our collective imagination, all right. Okay. Now, I'm going to talk a little about the broad history of the Israelite people. Okay? So in the Bible... What's this? In the Bible, what it tells you is ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 11:27 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: one more part of the story that Jesus was involved Maybe about 2,000 BCE, there's a man named Abraham. And he's from the city of Uruk, okay? In Mesopotamia. Or is it Ur? Okay, it's one of the two, sorry. And then God, Yahweh, thought Abraham was the best man in the world. So God, Yahweh, made a covenant with Abraham and said, You are the most righteous and dignified man I've ever seen in the world. And I will make you a father of a new nation called Israel, okay? And these people will become eventually the Israelites. And the greatest king of the Israelites is named David. And then David, and then God says to David, David, you are the greatest man I've ever seen. I love you as you love me. Therefore, I will make your house, the house of David, eternal, okay? You, the house of David, will reign over Israel for all of eternity. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 12:40 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: I will make Israel into the mightiest of nations, okay? So that is what it says in the Bible. The historical record is a lot more complicated, all right? So let's start in the year 1200 BCE. And this is... Towards the end of the Bronze Age, right? We're about to enter the Bronze Age collapse, which lasts about 400 years. At this time, let's look at the world. The issue is in a place called the Levant. And the Levant has always been important because as we discussed in previous classes, Levant was one of the first centers of agriculture. So Jericho is in the Levant. But it's also important because the Levant is, where three major civilizations and empires meet, okay? They are the crossroads or the nexus of empire. These three empires are Egypt, which again, for most of its human history has been the wealthiest and the most powerful nation, okay? Over here is Mesopotamia, which is the cradle civilization. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 14:01 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: This is where human civilization first developed mathematics. Writing. Astronomy. Architecture, okay? And up here are the Hittites, or Anatolia. Anatolia, again, is extremely wealthy. So the Levant is sort of sandwiched between three extremely aggressive, wealthy, and powerful nations that are extremely advanced and sophisticated. So the Levant has always been a colony of the Levant. It's a colony of either Egypt or Anatolia, okay? It's not been very independent for very long, and it can't be because it's at the edge of empire. But because of its position, okay, the Levant is what we call a melting pot, or a meeting place. So every culture, every language, every religion that was imaginable at this time met in the Levant, okay? Mainly for trade purposes, right? Because, again, Egypt and Mesopotamia are extremely wealthy. For the Levant, you can go across the Mediterranean into all of Europe and into Northern Africa, okay? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 15:26 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: So the Levant was really the center of the world for most of its history. And so it was a meeting place, mainly for traders, right? At this time, Levant was divided into different sections. A province called Canine was a private, a province of Egypt. And Canine was special to Egypt because the Egyptians loved two things. They loved wine, they loved olive oil. And the Levant was very good at harvesting both wine, good wine and olive oil. So, but the Egyptians didn't really like to go outside Egypt. So the people administrating the Levant were local elites tied to Egypt, but also foreign mercenaries. And these foreign mercenaries were from as far as Greece. And we know this because we've discovered Greek pottery that dates back to this period. These foreign mercenaries would then intermarry with a local woman because, as you can imagine, these are young males, okay? You also had lots of nomads living in the Levant. The Levant because of Arabia, right? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 16:48 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Lots of nomads, people we call the Bedouins. You also had people living in the hills of the Levant, the hill people. And you have these cities, okay? The Canaanites. You also had, believe it or not, Egyptian priests living in this area. Why would they live in this area? Well, because they had a certain religion. That was considered heretical or controversial in Egypt, so they had to leave to practice their religion. Or maybe they were priests who got into a political struggle and as such, they were exiled to the Levant, okay? So does that make sense? The Levant, it's not at this point a nation. At this point, it's really a meeting place, a melting pot of cultures, languages, and religion. It's as diverse as can be. And historically, this has always been the case, right? Then what happened, of course, is the Bronze Age collapse. The thing about the Bronze Age collapse is you have this massive migration of people looking for food, right? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 18:15 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: These are called the Sea Peoples. They're basically like pirates. And there are these massive waves of Sea People attacking the Hittites, attacking the Levant, and attacking Egypt. And again, these are like refugees, okay? This is a forced migration, and they're trying to feed their families. They basically overrun the Hittites. They destroy the cities of the Levant. And they almost destroy Egypt, but Egypt, because it's so wealthy, it's able to hold off the Sea People. Eventually, what happens is the Sea Peoples and Egypt come to an agreement and say, listen, stop attacking Egypt. Stop attacking us, and we'll give you land in the Levant. You can settle down there. You can grow your own food, and you can feed your families, okay? And this place is what we call Philistia. And these people are called the Philistines. So these are basically the Sea Peoples, mainly Greek, actually. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 19:19 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: There are a lot of Greeks among the Philistines. But this creates a problem for everyone in the Levant, because now you have a foreign messenger, sorry, you have a foreign presence that is very aggressive and expansionist, okay? So now the people in the Levant need to come together and fend off this threat from the Philistines. They also have these neighbors as well, these other cultures that keep on attacking them, okay? So these are extremely diverse people, and so what they agree to do is elect a king to lead them in war against the Philistines. And this person is named Saul, King Saul, all right? And King Saul is a very good king. He's a very good military leader. He's helping the people in the Levant fend off the Philistines and aggressive neighbors, okay? So this is a military alliance. King Saul employs a lot of mercenaries, and one of these mercenaries is named David. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 20:36 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1236s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1236s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: David. David is an extremely capable, charismatic soldier who develops a following. David, as you can imagine, because he's very charismatic, is also very ambitious, and eventually he has a falling out with Saul, okay? David is Saul's best general, best soldier, but David is too ambitious, and Saul sort of suspects David. So what David does is he runs off and joins the Philistines, okay? He's not fighting for the Philistines. What's really important for us to understand, and I know it's a hard concept, okay, but borders and alliances and allegiances are extremely fluid at this time. If it benefits me, I'll fight for you, but if it doesn't benefit me, then I'll betray you, okay? There are different factions within all alliances. So the Philistines are divided among different ethnic groups. The people in the Levant are divided into different political factions. You have these hill people, you have these nomads, you have these foreign mercenaries, and they're fighting for different reasons. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 21:57 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: So these alliances are always shifting, okay? So David goes off and fights for the Philistines. King Saul and his sons are eventually killed in battle, and David sees a political opening. So he turns back into Levant, and he starts to politically maneuver to be the new king, okay? And his power base is in a place called Hebron, or in the south, the Levant. But the house of Saul is still around, and so there's a civil war now going on, and eventually David triumphs. And then David's able to unite these people, and he creates a new nation, called Israel, all right? And then Israel is able, under David's leadership, is able to basically put down any aggressions from its neighbors. And they're able to build an empire, a small empire, okay? Nowhere near Egypt, but it's an empire, all right? So this is what we know from the archaeological record. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 23:19 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: But David is so charismatic that when he dies, his son Solomon is not able to hold the empire together. So what happens is Israel divides into the northern kingdom and Judah, which is where the house of David is, okay? Now again, the Levant is a very important strategic location. So as these empires, major empires, start to consolidate the power, they want to take over the Levant, okay? So the Assyrian Empire comes in and destroys the northern kingdom. And then eventually, the Babylonian Empire will come in and destroy Judah, okay? The Babylonians will take the Israel elite, basically the royalty, and force them to go to Babylon, where they will be held as hostages or captives. Eventually, what will happen next is the Persian Empire will come and defeat Babylon. And what they do next is very interesting. They decide they will release these Israelite elite, have them return to Jerusalem, and Israel, ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 24:57 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: and have them govern the Levant based on... and have them govern the Levant, okay? Does that make sense? And it is only at this point that we get the term Jews, okay? This is a Persian idea, the Jews. Before, they were called the Israelites. And this is about 500 BC, okay? 500 BC. And now we have a radical departure from the tradition, okay? And so I'll explain three major differences. And then I'll explain... I'll go into detail about these differences in future classes, okay? The first major difference is Israel, under the Israelites, it's a polytheistic religion. They have one god, Yahweh, but Yahweh... but they also have a pantheon of gods, which is the same... which is true for every other religion, right? There's a pantheon of gods. Yahweh is at the top, but they also celebrate other gods, like Baal and Asherah, okay? We know because they're written down in the Bible. So we know at this point, Israel is still a polytheistic religion. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 26:14 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: But after the Persian... but after the Persian Empire returns them to Judaism, they became a monotheistic religion, or the beginnings of a monotheistic religion. Why? Because when the Jews are... released from captivity by the Persians, their religion merges with that of the Persian religion called Zoroastrianism. And Zoroastrianism is a dualistic religion, okay? Meaning there's good and evil. So that's the first major difference. At the beginning, the Bible was very much a polytheistic religion, and then after the Israelites became the Jews, it became monotheistic, okay? Second big difference is this. Second big difference is, during this time, the people with the power in Israel were the kings, okay, the monarchy. But after 500 BCE, the Jews decided they didn't want any kings. And they couldn't have kings because their overlords are the Persians, right? So the center of power became the priesthood, okay? The priests. The people with the absolute authority are the priests, not the kings. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 27:44 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1664s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1664s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: There are kings, but the kings are not subservient to the priests who speak on behalf of Yahweh, okay? Because now it's a monotheistic religion. And then there's one other difference. The other difference is, remember, at this point, they're polytheistic and they're kings, okay? Which means they are tolerant. They're welcoming of other religions, right? Because you're polytheistic. But also, as kings, you need to establish diplomatic alliances with other countries, who have different religions, right? So when you marry someone from another political dynasty, you also are marrying into that religion. Does that make sense? So Israel, under the kings, is a very tolerant religion. But if you're run by priests, right, you become intolerant because you insist that your religion is the best. And that's why, after the Persians lost control and the Greeks came in to the Levant, this is the Seleucid Empire, okay? The ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 29:05 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1745s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1745s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Jews rebelled against the Greeks because the Greeks were polytheistic and the Jews considered themselves monotheistic, okay? They refused to acknowledge the culture and the religion of the Greeks. And then things got really bad when the Romans came in, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so this is the history of the Jewish people up until the birth of Jesus, okay? Any questions so far? Do you guys understand what's happening? Excuse me? Okay, so how did the Bronze Age collapse? Okay, we talked about this, okay? We don't know why it collapsed. The mainstream economic understanding is it was a perfect storm of several factors, including climate change, including civil unrest, including natural disasters like earthquakes, okay? Including competition among empires. What's important to understand is when you talk about the Bronze Age collapse, we're really talking about basically this area. If you go east to Mesopotamia, where the Assyrians and the Babylonians are, they're fine, okay? And ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 30:38 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: it's the Bronze Age collapse that allowed the Assyrians and the Babylonians to eventually become world powers. So the Bronze Age collapse was not a global phenomenon. It was a localized phenomenon to the Mediterranean, okay? But why the Bronze Age collapse is important is because the Bronze Age collapse will give us Greek civilization, Homer, and Plato, okay? It will also give us the Bible, right? Because if you look at this history, Israel would not have come into being without the Bronze Age collapse. Egypt or the Hittites would continue to control the Levant, right? And it's important to understand the Greeks and the Bible are the basis, the two fundamental pillars of Western civilization. You understand? That's why Westerners are so fascinated by the Bronze Age collapse, because in their minds, the Bronze Age collapse is part of God's divine plan or design to create classical Greece and the nation of Israel so that his vision for the world can be achieved through Jesus. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 32:05 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=1925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Yep. Yeah, that's fine. Yep. Okay. So that's a good question. So the argument I'm trying to make to you is, the Bible says Abraham is a patriarch of the Israelites. But the historical record, the archaeological record is, we barely have evidence of David. We have absolutely no evidence of anything before David, okay? So I think David is the founder of the nation of Israel, not Abraham. Next class, I will explain to you why they constructed this mythology, okay? All right? But first, I want to give you a broad overview, all right? Next class, I will explain to you where these ideas, Abraham and Moses, came from. It'll make sense when I explain it to you, okay? But do you guys have any more questions before I go on? Yep. Okay. Right, okay. Okay. So what happened during the Persian period, right? Okay. So at this point, the religion of Israel is no different from the local areas. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 33:42 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: It's a polytheistic religion with a pantheon of gods, okay? And maybe Yahweh's at the top, or maybe Yahweh's co -equal, okay? We don't know. And at this point, there are many divergent religions, okay? But what happens is, Babylon conquers Jerusalem, and then the Jews are sent in exile. So now the religion is sent overseas. And the religion is detached from the culture and the people. Does that make sense? And what we know is, when you do that, when you detach the religion, and you put it into a place that has no interactions with the local people and the culture, it becomes much more fanatical. It becomes much more focused and fanatical. Okay, do you understand? Okay? Do you understand? Because if it's in Israel, and there are different cultures, the religion has to be tolerant and please different factions among the people. Okay? Does that make sense? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 34:54 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: But once this religion goes off to Babylon, it's now divorced from the people, from local reality. So the elite can design it in a way that they think is most appropriate. And we call that fanatical. Does that make sense? So an example of this, okay, it's a bad analogy, but maybe this will help you. Right now, you're not sure what it means to be Chinese. Okay? You're Chinese, but Chinese in China, it's a very fluid, very diverse identity. When you go off to America, right, then you have much more concrete, much more clear understanding of what it means to be Chinese. Your Chinese identity becomes much more formed. Does that make sense? Okay? The same thing with religion. Within Israel itself, the religion is constantly changing. It's very fluid. But when they're off to Babylon, they have to use the religion to survive as a people, as an identity. And so it becomes much more formed. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 36:01 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Okay? Much more concrete. Does that make sense? And then what happens is, as it's, now that it's much more concrete, it now interacts with Zoroastrianism, which is the religion of the Persians. And at this point, the religion becomes basically what it is today. Okay? So I'm sorry, I don't think I've explained this clearly to you, but I want to wait until we get to this period. Okay? Right now I'm just giving you like a broad overview. Any more questions before I begin, before I continue? All right. Now I want to talk about the Bible. Okay? Because the Bible is the mythology. It's a collective memory of the Israelites. Okay? And so I'm going to discuss why the Bible was first created in this class. And what I will explain to you is the Bible was first created in order to explain and to justify and create legitimacy for David. Okay? This is what we call an apology. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 37:22 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: And this is a very common practice. The idea is this. Most kings, every king, obtains power through really nefarious means. Okay? They either kill a lot of people to obtain power, or maybe the younger brother kills the older brother to usurp the throne. Okay? Usually kingship requires ruthlessness. But the problem is, when you're ruthless, you have a legitimacy problem. Right? So the way that most kings resolve this issue is by sponsoring writings or an apology to explain why he or she is king. And the answer usually is because God willed it so. Because I had no choice in the matter. I'm not ambitious. I was not at all ambitious. But the circumstances forced my hand. To save my people, to do God's work, I had to kill my brother. I had to kill my enemies. Even though I myself am not a violent person. Okay? That's usually how the apology goes. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 38:33 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-scripture-outlives-spin) Text: Okay? So remember, back at this point, the very idea of writing, it is new. It's a new technology. But it's also a very expensive technology. Meaning you need to buy the materials. Okay? Which are rare. But you also need the people to be able to write. Okay? And they're also very expensive. And you basically needed to be able to support a team of scribes to create any work of fiction. So writing back then is like movie making today. Okay? It's a very expensive endeavor that was usually sponsored by the king in order to justify or explain why he is king. In order to create legitimacy. Okay? Does that make sense? So the Bible was created first as an apology for David. And explains why the house of David is now in charge of Israel. But as we discussed, okay, eventually the house of David, Israel, divides into two nations. Now the house of David, the Bible, goes with the house of Judah. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 39:51 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2391s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2391s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Okay? To Judah. But the Northern Kingdom now needs its own mythology. Its own Bible. Right? And so a second Bible was created. The people who are in charge of the Bible, the priest class, are interested in promoting their own interests. Mainly the importance of ritual. It doesn't make sense? Like what are rituals? Why do we need them? Why are priests important? Then you have people at this point in the Babylonian captivity looking back at the history of Israel and trying to figure out why the house of David collapsed. And their answer is because the Israelites refused to follow the will of God. Because the Israelites became polytheistic or they became immoral. Okay? Does that make sense? In other words, the Bible at this point are divided into like four major factions or schools. Okay? The school that supports the house of David, the legitimacy of the house of David is called the J school. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 41:08 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2468s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2468s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Okay? The J school. Don't worry about this. I'll explain to you next class what these things mean. The people who support the Northern Kingdom as legitimate house of Israel is called the E school. E. The school that supports the power of the priest are obviously called the P school. Okay? For priest. And then the school that tries to go back in history and examine why Israel fell and which believe it's because the Israelites betrayed God. These people are what we call the D school. Okay? The D school. So E, G, P, and D. And these are just four of the major schools. There are other schools as well. Alright? And so at this point the Bible is divided into like four major schools or documents controlled by different factions. When the Persians take over they insisted you need one religion guys. You need one document. And so all four were put together to create the Bible. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 42:24 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: The way they did it was very interesting. All they did was just put them together. Okay? You understand? So if you read the Bible it's like A, B, C, D. A, B, C, D. Okay? So one line is from the E school. The next line is from the J school. The other line is from the P school. It's very confusing to read. If you don't understand this history it is impossible for you to read the Bible. I'm not sure if you've tried to read the Bible it's not readable. Okay? So why would they do this? Why would they just put all four texts together without major editing or revisions? Why? Do you guys know? Why would they do that? It's very I mean they just made a complete mess of the Bible. But why would they do that? Okay. Okay. So let me explain. The first major reason is most people didn't read or write back then. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 43:29 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#legitimacy-fiction-becomes-real); [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-scripture-outlives-spin) Text: So the Bible itself didn't really matter. What mattered was the oral explanation of the Bible controlled by the priest class. Does that make sense? The people didn't read the Bible. So how the Bible was actually written was not that important. It was important for the priests to have access to the Bible. Okay? But the people didn't actually read the Bible. That's the first reason. The second more important reason is because the Bible is political real estate. And I want you to remember this idea. Okay? This is the most valuable political real estate in the world. Everyone wants to be in the Bible because to be in the Bible gives you legitimacy. It gives you power. Right? So if you're a king and you have four sons who all want to be king well your best solution is to divide the kingdom among the four sons. Same with the Bible. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 44:27 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: You have four extremely powerful schools and political factions. So the best way to resolve the issue is just to say listen we'll put you all in the Bible together. Okay? And you when you merge them it's a lot easier than if you just try to do it by order. Okay? Like E school goes first and J school then P school then D school. Okay? They just put them all together. Does that make sense? Okay so this is a very important idea. The Bible is the most valuable political real estate in the world. Everyone wants to be in there. And what ideas you can find in there will ultimately shape human history. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 45:21 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Okay? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 45:21 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Any questions so far before I continue? Alright. So the last thing I want to talk about today is the apology of David which is the beginning of the Bible. Okay. So when kings come to power they have three major problems. Right? The first major problem is legitimacy. What gives you the right to be king? Second problem is the idea of identity. And this is a huge problem for the Israelites because the Israelites is a multicultural entity. You have people speaking different languages different cultures. They practice different cultures they practice different religions. So now you need to create an identity that everyone accepts. Okay? The third thing is differentiation. You need not only for these people to get along but you need them you need to get them to divorce their former culture. Does that make sense? Because you have Egyptian priests in there. You have to tell these Egyptian priests you are now Israelites and you're not Egyptian anymore. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 46:41 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2801s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: And the example that we use for this is Augustus Caesar and the writing of the Inead. Okay? Remember the Inead it's a book about a character named Aeneas. And it provides political legitimacy to Augustus Caesar because Augustus Caesar is a direct descendant of Aeneas who is the founder of Rome. Also what the Inead said is Augustus Caesar is the endpoint of Roman history. Everything before Augustus Caesar led to him. Augustus Caesar is like the Jesus of Rome. Okay? He is the salvation and he is the redemption of Rome. That's what the Inead does. Okay? Second thing about the Inead is it creates a new Roman identity that focuses on piety loyalty over liberty. Remember the problem for Augustus Caesar was Romans didn't like kings. Well now he's a king. So how do you get people to obey? Well you tell them piety is more important than liberty. Alright? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 47:53 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [How Stories Control Reality](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/how-stories-control-reality.txt#stories-trojan-horse-inverts-inherited-world) Text: The third idea is the Inead remember it's anti -Greek. The problem for Rome at that time was Greek culture was vastly superior to Roman culture and so a lot of Romans were adopting Greek cultural practice like Mark Anthony. And so the Inead said Greek culture is like a Trojan horse. If you let into your city Greek culture will corrupt you and destroy you. Okay? So guess what guys? Every king has to resolve all three issues. Okay? Legitimacy identity and differentiation. And that's what David is trying to do with the Bible. Okay. So let's so I'll give you three examples three stories from the Bible that illustrate David's quest for legitimacy. Next class we'll talk about identity and differentiation and how the Bible achieves that. Okay? But this class I want to focus on legitimacy. So now that David is king a lot of people don't think he's legitimate. Why? Because he ruthlessly tried to usurp from Saul. Right? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 49:28 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=2968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Saul is the king that everyone picked or elected and he was a good king. He was good at war. He was someone that most people liked. And David took stole the throne from him. Okay? So now what is David's problem now that he has a throne? Others will try to steal it from him. Right? You understand? Because if you David are if you set the president if you um steal the throne then others are now empowered to steal the throne from you as well. Okay? So the first thing the Bible does the apology for David does is show us David loved Saul. He was not at all ambitious. He cared only for the well -being of his king. Okay? And so one story that illustrates this there are actually many many stories in the Bible that does this. But one story that illustrates this is this. So Saul thinks David's trying to kill him. So he's chasing after David with his army. ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 50:34 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: Okay? Trying to kill David and his followers. One one day Saul is alone in a cave praying to God for deliverance. David sees Saul alone and he sneaks up behind Saul. Then he takes his sword and cuts a piece of Saul's clothing. Okay? And then David disappears. Saul leaves the cave and then David rushes to him and says Saul my king I beg of you give me a second. Let me explain to you. Back then in the cave I could have killed you. This is a piece of clothing to prove I could have killed you. But I didn't because I love you. Because I'm loyal to you. I would never kill you. And then Saul says oh this is this is proof that you were you never meant to kill me. Okay? And this is a story in the Bible. Obviously this story cannot be true. Okay? ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 51:30 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3090s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3090s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: But this is what the Bible is trying to do. It's trying to first show us that David is not all ambitious. In fact the entire apology of David is focused on the lack of ambition of David. Okay? So that's the first story. Let's look at the second story. Okay? So Saul is dead and his son who's a young man comes into the throne. There's a gentleman named Abner okay? Abner who was loyal to Saul but now that Saul is dead and David is very popular among the people Abner sees the political winds changing and Abner tries to align himself with David. So Abner writes a long letter to David and saying listen I will swear loyalty to you to Saul in the house of David. You will unite Israel. And then David writes back and says yeah come to my come to me I'll give you a feast and then we'll be friends. And so Abner ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 52:39 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: comes David gives him a feast and then as Abner leaves he runs into David's general named Joab Joab and Joab and Abner go a long way Joab's brother and in an act of anger Joab stabs Abner to death and Abner is dead and once Abner is dead the house of Saul basically gives up and David is able to unite Israel. Now that's the story in the Bible. David is so angry by this that he curses Joab and he and he gives Abner a great funeral right because David does not does not want to betray his friends. Why is this story wrong or completely made up it's not made up but it's it's what we call spin right clearly Abner and David had a feast together and clearly Joab killed Abner but why is the Bible version of of this event wrong or incorrect it can't be true you guys know okay this is hard okay ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 54:14 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: but the reason is this if you're David and you're king which person in the world are you most afraid of if you're the king there's a person in this world you're most afraid of or you're most suspicious of who is that person hmm Abner okay yeah he is suspicious of Abner but in general you should be suspicious of Joab right because Joab has access to your army Abner is your enemy but Joab has access to your army so if Joab wants to betray you he could okay so in other words because David is most suspicious of Joab if Joab were ever to act independently then David would need to kill him does that make sense and in this circumstance Joab acted independently David told Joab Abner was an honored guest and Joab didn't care he was angry about the death of his brother and he kills Abner this cannot possibly be true you understand Joab ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 55:19 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: had to kill Abner because he was ordered to by David right now why would David want Abner to be killed because in his mind he thinks oh if Abner can betray he can also betray the house of David he is an ambitious man and why would he think like that why would David come to this conclusion because he himself is like that do you understand he he himself betrayed Saul so he's very very careful or cautious about people who betrayed their leaders right Abner betrayed the house of Saul and it was very likely that he would betray David at some point as well and so David had to have him killed right but he could not say this publicly because if you were to say this publicly it would show he in fact knew this because he betrayed Saul does that make sense the logic of this okay but you can see how wonderful the ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 56:35 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: spin is it's almost impossible to see the truth from this right if you're a person you know okay um David uh um you know that Job killed Abner and you were told this story you would believe this story it's just because Abner was angry that he killed uh sorry it was it was just because Job was angry he killed Abner okay you believe that right but you think about it it can't be true okay now I'm gonna give you one more story and this story is actually even harder to figure out because of the spin okay now that um David is king of Israel Israel has many enemies so his armies are always at war okay one day David is on the rooftop of his house so and this is Israel is not a very rich place okay so these are palaces they're just houses okay and so David is strolling on his rooftop and ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 57:37 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: across from him is a woman named Bathsheba Bathsheba and she's bathing naked and David is overcome with lust he's like I must have this woman okay and he's king he orders his servant to go get her she comes they have sex okay the problem is we have sex but she gets pregnant okay the problem now is Bathsheba's married to a man named Uriah the Hittite and Uriah the Hittite is one of David's best soldiers and he's fighting for David and he's fighting for David in Israel somewhere else so David's like oh this is a problem because once Uriah comes home and he finds Bathsheba has a new child he's gonna know it's not his so either he's gonna kill her or he's gonna figure out it's David to come kill him okay so David being very clever has a solution to this he invites Uriah back home okay so Uriah comes home from the war ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 58:49 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3529s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3529s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: and Uriah thinks oh the king has called for me therefore it's an emergency okay so he rushes back and David meets Uriah at his house and David says listen Uriah you've been just doing such a great job um you're such a great soldier you're so loyal I wanna give you a vacation go home and be with your wife and Uriah's like oh my king my comrades are dying they're starving out in the battlefield I cannot abandon them how can I find pleasure in my wife when my friends are suffering I refuse to go home I will not go home until the battle is won and David tries his best but he can't convince Uriah to go home so then David tells Uriah you're such a great soldier you're so loyal I'm so happy and proud that you fight for me and he gives Uriah a letter and he gives Uriah to his general Joab okay ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 59:54 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3594s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3594s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: and the letter instructs Joab to kill Uriah he Joab will send Uriah with his soldiers out in the battlefield and then at the last minute Joab will recall his soldiers leaving Joab by himself at this point the enemies will swarm Uriah and kill Uriah okay and that's what happens and once Uriah is dead David marries Bathsheba and they have and they're about to have a child together at this point David is visited by a prophet named Nathan and Nathan says to David I want to ask you a question and David says sure go ahead Nathan says let's imagine there are two shepherds there's a rich shepherd with a hundred sheep and there's a poor shepherd with two sheep there's a traveler a foreign guest who comes to the town and the rich shepherd wants to honor him with a feast the rich shepherd the rich shepherd steals the poor man's shepherd to feed the traveler ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:01:01 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3661s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3661s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: who's in the wrong and David says of course the rich shepherd is in the wrong he's indignant he's angry how could a man be so unrighteous as to steal another man's sheep and then Nathan says you David are the rich shepherd you have violated God's law you are in the wrong and as punishment God will take away your son or your child with Bathsheba and that's what happens and David is goes into mourning okay he is distraught he's depressed and he writes a lot of poetry okay so this is a very powerful story and this is a story that has captured the imagination of everyone for thousands of years but it's complete spin this is not what happened okay how do we know okay first thing is this Nathan says to David you have stolen a man's shepherd sorry you have stolen a man's wife therefore you are in the wrong what's the problem with ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:02:11 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3731s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3731s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: this logic what is David's crime real crime guys he killed Uriah right you understand you've you've forgotten this fact he had Uriah killed that's a real crime he killed Uriah yeah he slept with Bathsheba that's bad but it's much worse if you murder someone okay so another question then is why would he murder Uriah why not just talk to him honestly and says Uriah I'm sorry I love your wife I I had sex with her I'm sorry why did he why did David have have to have to get Uriah killed why was Uriah killed yeah because the loyal the army is loyal to Uriah right so why would David fear Uriah because Uriah is is a popular brave soldier just like David and David used his popularity in order to usurp the throne from Saul right therefore David thinks Uriah could do the same thing to me therefore I have to have to get him ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:03:33 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-scripture-outlives-spin); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: killed in other words this Bathsheba thing must have come later to disguise the fact that David killed Uriah because he feared Uriah's popularity does that make sense right do you see how clever this story is the historical truth must have been David feared Uriah's popularity and he needed to get rid of Uriah so he concocted this plan and then after he killed Uriah he needed to explain to his army okay who loved Uriah why this happened and then David was like oh because I fell in love with his wife I couldn't control myself I'm just a man okay God is God I'm a man I'm a king I can't be God I can't control my emotions does that make sense but the irony of this is because David is working so hard to disguise his ruthlessness he's creating very powerful leadership literature he created a very powerful story that has captured the imagination of readers ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:04:54 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: for a long time if you think about it if you think a lot about the story it unleashes a lot of ideas in you okay you have to ask yourself what is man what is God are we capable of controlling our emotions so in other words this story is extremely well constructed that inspires you to imagine your own personal and emotional and moral life we call this literature right so guys it's no coincidence that today the Jewish people are the most creative people in the world when you go to America for university most of your professors are Jewish most of the best thinkers in the world are Jewish these past 200 years there have been revolutionary thinkers Karl Marx Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud they're all Jewish who are who are stepped who are who have been raised in the Jewish tradition of asking deep questions about what it means to be human right does ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:06:14 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=3974s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: that make sense okay any questions about this okay that's a great question okay so the question is why would people believe this apology of of David and well the answer is most didn't believe the apology of David okay most were very clear about David's ambitions but when you're king you need to impose your reality on others okay so this is why this is written and so it was written for people who were part of David's political coalition you understand his enemies wouldn't believe this right but it was meant it's basically meant to appease or convince those who want to believe David does that make sense okay spin and it's it happens today guys when you watch the news it's spin right it's distorting reality and so most people will believe the media right there are some people who will never believe the media like I don't believe anything the media tells me whether it's Chinese ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:07:34 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: media or American media I I know a lot of history to understand the media is is distorting reality okay but uh most people will will believe this because they have absolutely no interest in not believing it right David's king if you don't believe it then you have to then you have to believe your king is a murderer okay does it make sense yeah yeah yeah echo oh yeah that's a good question okay I yeah this is really important what's the mainstream understanding of the story so the mainstream understanding of the story is it has to be true why because it puts David in a bad light you understand and it shows the genius of David because David is wrestling with his own morality David is being honest right so the mainstream understanding is David is a poet king he's a man who prays constantly and engages in a process of self -reflection and that's what ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:08:43 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: makes David great right he's constantly praying to God in fact the Bible just goes on endlessly about this how David is constantly in communication with God and in this communication he's praying and asking for light for for truth in his own weaknesses okay to be delivered from his failings as a man and the Bathsheba story is emblematic about this because why would a man make this up right well I've told you why but most scholars don't see that most scholars think okay well this Bathsheba story puts David in the worst possible light therefore it must be true and therefore it shows us David is a poet king who is constantly thinking about his own moral failings and so he's an inspiration to his people okay that's the mainstream understanding okay any other questions yep that's right oh okay so the question is if people at that time were mainly illiterate why was this written down ## David's Apology Turns Murder Into Scripture -- 1:10:07 - Source title: Civilization #21: The Apology of King David of Israel - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpGrRUgjnk&t=4207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rkpgrrugjnk.json) Text: or how would they know this story okay so the idea is this first of all this was written for the elite for the people around David to know what story to tell people doesn't matter doesn't make sense okay so this was for internal consumption and this was to basically preserve David's historical legacy so maybe 20 years from now when everyone's dead when people who knew Uriah and Bathsheba were dead well what what is truth now the truth is what's been written down okay that's why they're saying history is written by the writers right history is not written by the winners history is written by the writers okay does that make sense any more questions okay great so next class we'll continue the Hebrew Bible okay because it starts off as an apology for David but it evolves into a much larger mythology right so that's next class ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay, so good morning. We finished the Bronze Age today with the Indus Valley Civilization. So we've done Egypt, we've done Mesopotamia, now we're doing the Indus Valley Civilization. And today I'm going to look at three questions, okay? First of all, what is it that makes the Indus Valley Civilization distinct or different from other civilizations? Second is, why did they decline? They reached their peak about 2600 to 1900 BCE, and then for the next 300 to 400 years, they declined and ultimately disappeared. Why did it happen? And the last question is, what is their legacy? What is their contribution to the development of Western Civilization? So let's look at the Indus Valley Civilization. To do so, we need to first understand the Indus Valley Civilization. We need to first understand the world at this time. And this is about 2500 to 2000 BCE, okay? This is what we call the Middle Bronze Age, because most people were using bronze for weapons, for tools. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 1:14 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=74s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=74s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So over here is Egypt. And as we discussed, by far, Egypt is the wealthiest, most advanced civilization in the Bronze Age. Over here, across the Red Sea, is Arabia. And even though Arabia isn't really discussed that much in world history, it's still significant because it's part of the trading network, okay? So the Arabia, it's many nomads who take goods from Mesopotamia over to Egypt and then into the Mediterranean, which accesses all of Europe. This is... This is... Sumer, which is the beginning of the Mesopotamian Civilization, okay? Up here is Anatolia, the Levant. And then the Indus Valley Civilization is over here. And today, it would cover the countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northwest India. What makes the Indus Valley Civilization important is... It's really by the coast, which allows it to access Mesopotamia and Egypt, okay? Meaning, during the Bronze Age, these three civilizations, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and the Indus Valley Civilization, were heavily interconnected through trade. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 2:55 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=175s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=175s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: And the Indus Valley Civilization, what was unique to them are certain products, for example, indigo dye, which was really sought after in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. Their handicrafts, their jewelry, were also very famous throughout the world. They usually traded with Sumer and Egypt by trading with the Gulf state nations of Bahrain and Oman and Dubai, okay? And they actually had a colony by the Persian Gulf. This civilization was so good at trading that we believe they even traded with China, which is pretty far away, but their ships were huge and they were very good navigators. As the Bronze Age developed over time, bronze was in heavy demand, and the main components of bronze are copper and tin. Tin is mainly found in the mountains of Afghanistan, over here. Which meant the Indus Valley Civilization started to now expand over to Afghanistan in order to access the tin trade. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So tin was really sought after, but there was also another stone called lapis lazula, which is really sought after by the Egyptians for its spiritual and aesthetic qualities. And over here, because of the trade with Afghanistan. Afghanistan then would start to develop into Anatolia and Mesopotamia, okay? And as well, because of this trade in Afghanistan, new civilizations started to develop as well. And they're not as advanced, as large as the three major ones, but they're still pretty advanced. So for example, up here is what we call the Oxus Valley Civilization. The technical term... The technical term used by archaeologists are the Bactrian -Margiana Archaeological Complex. You don't have to know this, okay? It's called BMAC. What makes this civilization important is it interacts with the Steppes people, okay? Called the Andromino culture. So as you can see, the Indus Valley Civilization, through its partners, the Oxus Valley Civilization, and its colonies over here, now trade with the entire world. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 5:54 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=354s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=354s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: There's no piece of the Western world that the Indus Valley Civilization does not touch. Okay? Does that make sense? So this is a world about 2500 to 2000 BCE. It's a world that's heavily interconnected, and there are two major sources of demand. The Egyptians are extremely wealthy. And they want these valuable sources. valuable jewelry and handicrafts for their burials, okay? That's one source of heavy demand. The main source of demand is actually Mesopotamia, where the city -states of Sumer are fighting wars against each other. And in wars, bronze makes a huge difference, because bronze armor is much more stronger than copper armor, okay? So these two places are driving demand, and as such, the Indian Valley civilization is growing wealthy through trade. Does that make sense? Any questions so far before I continue? Okay, so even though the Indian Valley civilization is connected with Egypt and Mesopotamia, it's a radically different civilization, okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 7:06 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: So the first thing that makes the Indian Valley civilization interesting is it's a huge area. It's actually, in terms of size, larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. It has a population of, at its peak, about five million people, okay? So this is a huge area. What's really interesting is we have found no evidence of any organized warfare in this region during this time. The reason why is this region is connected through trade. Okay? So what we have found is five major urban centers in the Indian Valley civilization, and these urban centers, you can consider to be what we call value -adding processing centers, okay? These are urban centers that specialize in taking raw goods like metals and agricultural products and turning them into finished products like jewelry, handicrafts, to be shipped, to be traded with, mainly Mesopotamia, but also Egypt, and possibly China as well. It also goes north to the Oxus Valley civilization, which then trades with the steppe people, the Andenov culture, okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 8:36 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: What we know as the Yamnaya people, all right? So this trade network, it's very, very complex. And everyone is involved in some capacity in this trade network. Okay? So that's the first thing that's interesting about the Indian Valley civilization. They trade internally peacefully. They trade externally peacefully as well. We have absolutely no evidence that they ever had organized warfare. We have absolutely no evidence that they have any intention of organized warfare, meaning we have not found any weapons. We have found tools. We found hunting weapons. We have not found, like, maybe armor, and helmets. Okay? Yeah? Yeah, great question. So how do we know there's no organized warfare? So we know there's a lot of organized warfare in Mesopotamia and other places because of what we have dug up. So we look at cities, we see parts of the city that have ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 9:49 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: been built on top of or destroyed, meaning there might have been some fires or there might have been some warfare, okay? But with these five urban centers that we've dug up, we have found them pretty intact, meaning they were not built on top of or they were not destroyed when they were around. So that's the first major piece of evidence. The second major piece of evidence is we've dug up their graves. So if you look at maybe the civilizations of the Andronovo culture or Mesopotamia, they tend to bury warriors with their weapons. Okay? So... You know, helmets and armor. But when we look up the IVC culture people, first of all, we don't find a distinct cast of warriors. Also, we don't find any helmets or armor or weapons. Okay? So that's what led us to believe they don't engage in organized warfare. But there's also evidence to suggest our evidence is not solid, okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 10:53 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: The first piece of evidence is they don't bury their dead. These people don't have a tradition of burying their dead. Some are buried, okay? But not everyone is buried. Second of all, we don't know where they buried their dead. We assume they buried their dead in the cities. But that may not be true. Okay? So the evidence leans towards they were a peaceful civilization. But as we dig up more and more over time, we may discover this was not true. Okay? But right now the evidence suggests they were peaceful. And also what's really important about the IVC, the Innis Valley civilization is this is a new discovery. We've only known about them for the past 100 years. So what's interesting is the Indians themselves never knew they existed. It was the British who discovered these cities and started the work in archaeology to start to reconstruct their civilization. Okay? All right. But thanks for the question. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 11:56 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: Okay. So as I said, the first thing that's interesting about their civilization is it was relatively peaceful, okay, compared with what's happening in Mesopotamia. The second thing that was interesting for us is and surprising is for a very large civilization, they are egalitarian. Okay? Meaning in Mesopotamia, when we look at these old cities, Ur and Uruk, there were these huge palaces and temples, which suggested a culture of power in the priesthood and in the king. Okay? But when we look at these five urban centers of the IVC, there are no palaces. There are no temples. Okay? In fact, these cities are extremely well designed. There are these walls around the city, and then as you go into the city, you're able to access every single part of the city. But if you were to go into a city, say in Sumer, if you go into the city, you're only able to access the temple or the palace. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 13:17 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=797s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=797s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: Okay? So authority is centralized in Sumer. Whereas authority is sort of decentralized in the IVC. Now here's a question. If we know, if we suspect they are not engaged in warfare, why do they have walls? Why would, there are a lot of walls inside these cities. Why are there walls? Can anyone guess? Okay. Customs. Taxes. Okay? Meaning this is, again, a value -added, adding process center. And the way they survive economically is by collecting tolls and customs on people who trade. And the way they collect taxes is when you enter the city, you have to go to the customs house and then you pay whatever is required of you and then you can access the city. Okay? And that's the way they centralized, centrally controlled the economy and trade in the IVC. These cities are amazing. These are the first people to invent the sea toilet. The private sea toilet. And this is about the year 2800 BCE. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 14:36 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=876s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=876s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: Okay? So, when you go into these cities, you'll find that in private homes, everyone has a private toilet. And then the thesis is put into a sewage system and the water flushes it out. Okay? That's pretty amazing. These are people who are very concerned about the well -being of all its citizens. So, when we look at skeletal remains through DNA analysis, we've discovered the majority of the people ate about the same high quality of food. There wasn't these disparities between people as you would find in other civilizations. At least half the people, we think, lived past the age of 55. That was an amazing achievement back then. In terms of innovation, they have reservoirs. Okay? They also have public baths. They also have really amazing things called wind towers. I'm not sure if you've studied these wind towers, but they're basically air conditioners. What they do is, these are high towers and there's a hole on top. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 15:49 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So, what happens is, the higher the air is, the cooler it is. Right? So, this wind that's cool gets strapped into the wind tower. It comes down. It pushes out the hot air from the other side. This is what cools the houses in the summer. Okay? This is a pretty advanced technology. Another really cool thing about the IVC is, even though it covers a huge area, they have standardized weights and measurements. Okay? They have standardized weights and measurements. Which means that every brick that they have is the same size. Which means that their buildings, their structures, are extremely stable and resilient. That's why, 5,000 years later, we still have their cities intact. You can actually go to the cities and live in them. That's how stable the technology was. Okay? So, this is a pretty advanced civilization. Unfortunately, we don't know what their writing system is. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 17:03 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1023s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1023s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? So, if they had writing, and we don't, we can't know for sure if they had writing, it was like Chinese in the idiographic language. Meaning, it is not phonological. Their speaking, their spoken language is not the same as their written language. In other words, it is impossible for us to decipher their written language. We don't have that many artifacts of writing. We have seals with characters written on them, but we don't have anything else. And the reason could be, if you look at Egypt, they use papyrus. Okay? Papyrus is stable or it keeps in the dry Egyptian air. Okay? If you look at Sumerian culture, Mesopotamian culture, they use cuneiform on clay tablets, which keeps forever. Okay? But if they had a writing system and they did write, it would be on palm leaves. Which degrades very easily in the jungle air. Okay? So we don't have access to their writing. This is problematic because without access to their writing, we don't have access to their religion. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 18:16 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1096s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1096s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: We don't know what their religion is. And one thing that you've learned in this class that's very important is religion or mythology, it is the operating system of the culture. Okay? It is the collective consciousness, the collective worldview that gives life to their culture. It explains why they do what they do. And unfortunately, we don't know their religion. But, so, it's a complete mystery to archaeologists, to scholars, as to why this very advanced civilization was very peaceful and very egalitarian. We can only speculate. All right? Any questions so far before I continue? Okay. So, I'm going to speculate as to why they were peaceful and egalitarian. So, what, so, again, the key is the religion. What is the religion? Because that will give us clues as to their mentality, their value system. Right? We know that the Mesopotamian people, their religion focused on struggle and achievement. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 19:31 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: We know that the Egyptians, their religion focused on the afterlife. Okay? This life that we live is we, it, the, the, what, what's important is not the here and now. What's important is what happens afterwards. Okay? That's, that's why the Egyptians built the pyramid. That's why they focused so much on funeral rites and on burial goods. All right? So, there had to be a religion in the IBC that was different from the belief system in Sumer and Egypt that made it into a peaceful and egalitarian civilization. So, what is this religion and why were they different? My speculation is this. The key is to understand that this is a civilization based on trade. And, they've been traders ever since they were born as, as a culture. Meaning, they were trading for at least 7,000, 8,000 years before they became a civilization. Okay? And if you're a trader, first of all, you're able to access the entire world. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 20:40 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So, we know for a fact they traded with Sumer and the Persian Gulf states because we have, we have artifacts from the IBC in these places. Okay? We know for a fact. We can speculate it. They also traded with Egypt and with China just based on their technology and their trade networks. So, this is a civilization based on trade. And, as, as traders, they're able to see what's going on in Mesopotamia and Egypt and Egypt. They know they built the pyramids in Egypt. They know there's massive warfare in Sumer. And, I would think that if you were a trader and you saw these things, you wouldn't be impressed. Okay? In fact, you might be disgusted, especially by the warfare in Mesopotamia. This idea called the dialectic, right? And I think this is a very important idea for us to appreciate how history is often driven by the idea of the dialectic. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 21:48 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So, an example that we have in today's world is, you look at Japan and China. Okay? These are two radically different societies that are next to each other. And the question then is, why are they still different? I think the answer is because Japan knows China very well. And, a lot of cultural practice Japan developed over, over the centuries, have been in response to what they see as failings or successes in Chinese culture. Okay? Another example that Doug will appreciate is Canada and the United States. The United States is probably the most belligerent nation in the world. Okay? They cannot get their hands off anything. And then you go north, Canada, and, you know, Canada and the United States share the world's longest border. Basically, Canadians are cousins of the Americans. Okay? I mean, like, there's really no difference. We speak the same language, we have the same cultural practices. But, while Americans are the most belligerent nation ever in human history, Canadians invented peacekeeping. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 22:57 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? The idea, like, nations should strive for meditation, for mediation and, and peace. Okay? And, I think a lot of Canada values, especially its political system, is in response to what it believes to be failings and successes in the American model. Okay? You also have New Zealand and Australia. So, there are many different examples of the dialectic going on in our global political systems. And I believe that's what happened with the IBC, where these traders saw what's happening in Egypt and saw what's happening in Mesopotamia and they were kind of disgusted especially by all this warfare in, uh, Mesopotamia. Okay? Um, warfare back then was pretty awful. And so, in Mesopotamia, the way they fight is they fight with these, um, clay bullets. Okay? And you take a, you take a slingshot and you throw it at someone. And these things kill. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 24:04 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: They hurt. So think of David and Goliath. Okay? And if you're a trader, you know, you'll see this warfare going on. You'll see people being, uh, beheaded. And why are they doing this? They're doing it in the name of God. Okay? Every city -state has a patron god that it believes it must defend, uh, and honor and protect. And whenever, whenever there's a, there's a dispute, it's because they feel their god has been dishonored by another city -state. So they go, go to war and they kill each other. Okay? And again, if you're a trader and you see this, you don't think this is a good thing. Um, and you go to Egypt and you see these pyramids and these pyramids are, again, extremely impressive. But at the same time, you also need to see the consequences of these pyramids which is just massive inequality, massive corruption, just massive waste. Alright? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 24:56 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1496s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1496s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: So, I think that by trading with these two civilizations and other civilizations, um, it reinforces the deep cultural values of the IVC people and it, and it basically compels them towards peace and egalitarianism. Okay? That's what I believe happened. Alright? Now you could, there are, there are other arguments. Uh, for example, maybe, um, uh, these people are just genetically peaceful and egalitarian. But I've made the argument that, from the onset of early human history, we were peaceful and egalitarian people. But, uh, different geographic circumstances changed our outlook. Okay? So, for example, uh, the people in the steppes, who we call the Anar people, because of the grasslands, because it is such a poor and rugged and unforgiving environment, they're forced to be cattle ranchers. They're forced to engage in cattle raiding. Okay? And over time, their culture became very aggressive, expansionist, and opportunistic. Opportunistic just means they'll do whatever it needs to survive. If they face a, um, they'll trade with people if it, if it's not, if that's what benefits them. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 26:23 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: They'll kill people if that's what benefits them. They are not that moral. Okay? They're very optimistic, opportunistic. And, and as, and I remember, as I said, these people with their cultural values would go in and conquer all of Europe in about 200, 300 years. Okay? And they were called the Anar people. Uh, back in the steppes, these Anar people continued to evolve over time. And over time, they became even more aggressive, more expansionist, and more opportunistic. Okay? Eventually, the Mongols, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, will, um, come from the civilization. Okay? So, that's my argument to you. And again, uh, it's my speculation. It is because of their interaction with other cultures that convinced them to pursue a peaceful and egalitarian lifestyle. Now, there are still inequalities in IBC. We know there are classes. We know there is wealth inequality. But, ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 27:23 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: relative to Mesopotamia and Egypt, it was a real, it was a relatively peaceful and egalitarian society. Okay? Okay, any questions before I continue? Okay, so the question is, were they invaded the IBC? Okay, because as we discussed, um, in previous classes, when you're peaceful in an egalitarian society, we know that old Europe, okay, before the Amna invasion, was a peaceful and egalitarian society. You will eventually get invaded by other cultures. Okay? And for the longest time, um, there was a theory out there, uh, first proposed by, uh, basically the Nazis, okay, called the Indo -Aryan Invasion. And the idea is, you have these white people sweep into India, conquer the people, and introduce civilization to the Indians. Okay? This is called the Indo -Aryan Invasion. Even though this theory has been discredited, there is a slight kernel of truth to this theory, okay, which I will explain to you. Okay. So, let me explain this theory and what happened. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 28:56 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1736s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1736s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So, you have the IVC, which is a very advanced civilization. The problem with this civilization is, their entire economy is basically based on trade. Right? Now, we know in about, there's something called the 4.2 kiloyear event, which is, which is basically a massive climate change around the world. And the 4.2 kiloyear event brought basically an end to the Egypt Old Kingdom. Right? It also brought an end to what we call the Akkadian Empire in Sumer. A man named Sargon of Akkad conquered all of Sumer and built the Akkadian Empire. And because of this, all this drought, because of climate change, his empire collapsed. Okay? So, in other words, trade networks that the IVC is heavily dependent on start to collapse. Okay? And, as a result, their cities now, which are dependent on trade, start to depopulate. Meaning, a lot of people start to return to the farms where they are from. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 30:12 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: They start also migrating to the rest of India. To the Ganges. Okay? As well, because of this climate change, the IVC itself is being affected heavily. Okay? So there's drought, the rivers are drying up. Remember, like the Indus Valley civilization, it's called the Indus Valley civilization because it's dependent on the Indus River, among other rivers. Okay? So there are some drought issues. Also, what we learned in this class is, over time, all civilizations face eternal tensions. Okay? And these eternal tensions can be divided into two major tensions. The first tension is a conflict among the classes. Okay? So, the idea of elite overproduction. You have too many families striving for limited status. Right? And the conflict is mainly between upper nobility and lower nobility. Okay? And so, here in the IVC, we can imagine the conflict might be between these families that are large training houses against families that are small training houses. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 31:31 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1891s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1891s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? Or it could be internally among the families. Okay? But there's going to be some social tension going on. The other social tension that we discuss is the idea of rat utopia. Where, and it's basically conflict between the old and the young. Again, the problem in the IVC is you have too many old people living for too long. Which means less opportunities arise for achievement for the young. Okay? And that creates conflict as well. So, what we believe that it also is that during this time there was massive social tension within the IVC. And some people would even say it was a revolutionary time. Okay? When old customs and old mores were being overthrown. Okay? Because of climate change the people in the culture now are forced to leave the steps. Because the steps are no longer suitable for their lifestyle. Okay? So, the idea here is this is not an intentional invasion. Okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 32:51 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=1971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: It's not like you have a general in your army and they go into the IVC and then they conquer it. Okay? It's more opportunistic. Where at first you're trading and as the IVC declines because of trade trading networks because of the declining trade networks they will start to come in and push out the people. And again the culture of these people is very aggressive so there are two strategies that they will employ. The first strategy is they might wipe out villages. Okay? These villages are depopulated anyway. They come in and they wipe everyone out which means they kill everyone. The second strategy is to come in they'll kill all the men and marry all the women. Okay? And again this is a gradual process of assimilation cultural conquest. But it's not a military invasion. Okay? Does that make sense? Now after the internal culture and the axis culture merge this creates a new civilization a new culture called Proto Indo Iranian. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 34:05 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? Why is it called that? Because now what they will do is they'll go south to the Iranian plateau and they will become eventually the Persian people. Okay? And they will invent a new religion that becomes a great world religion called Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism comes from this merger of the Proto Iranian culture into the Iranian plateau. This is a process we call synchronization by the way. Synchronization where two major religions merge and share the same gods. There are three distinct characteristics of the Proto Indo Iranian culture that becomes salient in the new Zoroastrian religion. Okay? The first is the use of a ritual drink called Soma. Okay? Soma. Again you don't have to know this but I'm just telling you the cultural impact. Okay? Soma is comes from the Proto Indo Iranian culture. Second is the worship of fire. Okay? Fire rituals. Fires are used heavily in the religious practice. Okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 35:23 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2123s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2123s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: And as we know Zoroastrianism does use a lot of fire rituals. The last is horse sacrifice. Meaning that warriors are buried with their horses. And so this is an emphasis on the warrior culture of these people. Okay? So that's what happens in Iran. They become the Persian people. We will discuss the Persian people at a later point. Okay? Not now but I just want you to know this is what happened. These people will also push into the IBC and over time and this is a process that takes about 500 years. They'll push out the indigenous people. Okay? And then the indigenous people move into South India where they merge with the folk culture. The animism of the local people there. Okay? And guys what's amazing about this is this process will create two major world religions that are still influential today. Okay? The first we know as Hinduism. Hinduism is the merger the synchronization of Proto -Indo -Indian religion with the local IBC religion. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 36:46 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? And as the IBC pushes south this will create a new religion called Buddhism. Okay? Alright? But Buddhism is just the major one. There are others that are being created as well through this process. Right? The others are being Jainism and Shikism. And again these are the major ones. Okay? That are still with us today. Like basically this process created thousands tens of thousands of new religions. Alright? So this is what happened. It's not a military conquest. It's not an invasion. But it's a process of you could argue cultural genocide. Okay? Where new people come in and over time because they are aggressive experiences opportunities and culture they will eventually take over the culture. Okay? Mainly by marrying the local woman because the people who come in are basically males. Okay? They will marry the local woman and they will either kill or enslave the local man. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 37:54 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? And this is where we get the caste system from in India. Alright? So this is a more subtle explanation of the Indo -Iran invasion theory. Okay? And this is what scholars today accept happen. And again what's really important is to avoid generalizations and simplifications because this is a process that took about 300 years, 400 years and there are different strategies employed by different people. Some of it was peaceful. Some of it was violent. Okay? It was a mix. It's hard for us to generalize. But the overall general effect is the creation of Hinduism and Buddhism which now are the two major world religions. Okay? Any questions? But thanks for the question, Nicole. Any more questions? Before I move on. Actually, you can ask because I'll have some time to rest. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 39:09 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yep. That's right. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 39:24 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yep. Yep. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 39:37 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2377s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2377s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay. So that's a great question, Doug. Okay? So when you trade there's always a problem of piracy and banditry. So how do you protect yourselves against that? Okay. We know like Mesopotamia became violent because it was being surrounded by violence. Right? The nomads in Arabia, the nomads in the Zagos Mountains were all pretty violent people. You had to be because to survive you had to be aggressive and opportunistic. So how is it the sorry the IBC was able to be peaceful yet at the same time trade? And the solution is they set up colonies and trade partners in order to facilitate trade. Okay? So we know for example they traded heavily with the civilization. There were lots of trade agreements, long -term trade agreements. We also know they had a colony within the civilization. Okay? We know they traded heavily with a place called Dilman which is now modern -day Buran. Okay? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 40:40 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So these are their main trading partners. And so you would think their trading partners were the ones who were responsible for local security. Okay? We can also suspect they also went to other places as well to seek new trading partners. What's important about this world is this is still a relatively peaceful world. There's tremendous violence in Sumer. But that's still rare. Right? And there are some unique characteristics about Sumer that make it a violent people. But in this world and this is about 5,000 years ago people are still relatively peaceful. Organized warfare is still new and rare in the human experience. And that's why I think the experience in Mesopotamia was so shocking because the idea that you could sack a city the idea that you could kill hundreds of people at one time that's like breaking a massive cultural taboo. Okay? So I think culturally speaking people at this time prefer to trade rather than to fight. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 41:51 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: And because they've been trading for such a long time we're talking like you know they start maybe trading about 7,000 6,000 BCE they have a lot of trading networks around the world. They have partners they can trust basically. Okay? Any more questions before I continue? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 42:10 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2530s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2530s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Maybe one more but I actually ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 42:16 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yeah I'm actually moving into Buddhism. Okay. But any more questions before I continue? Okay. So the last thing I want to discuss is what is the legacy of the IBC? They were a great civilization are they completely lost to us? What is their contribution to Western civilization? So the legacy of Egypt are the pyramids right? We know Egypt because of the pyramids. The legacy of Mesopotamia are many they invented a lot of things like writing cuneiform also they introduced world literature right? The Epic of Gilgamesh. What I want to argue now is the legacy of the IBC is in their spiritual practice. Okay? Their spiritual values. So if you look at Hinduism okay it's very different from Zoroastrianism and that's kind of strange because they're both Proto -Indo -Iranian religions right? But let's look very quickly at Hinduism. Hinduism believes the reality we live in is false. Okay? The real reality is called Brahman the true absolute reality. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 43:34 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So we live in this false reality. As we live in this false reality we collect karma. Karma is basically just an accounting of your good deeds and your bad deeds. And guess what? Throughout your life you're going to accumulate more bad deeds than your good deeds. And your karma means your soul called the Atman is stuck here. Okay? Because the Brahman is pure. You can only return to Brahman to heaven if you're a pure person. So it will take many lifetimes for you to cleanse your soul your Atman in order to return to the Brahman. This process of cleansing your soul is what they call Dharma. Okay? Dharma. The right path. If you if the Dharma over thousands of lifetimes if your Dharma is correct if you achieve Dharma you will achieve what is called Moksha. Which is basically liberation. Moksha releases you, your soul from the physical world and allows you to return to the Brahman where you will live eternally in paradise. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 44:52 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Okay? That is the one of the basic ideas of Hinduism. Another really important idea of Hinduism is this entire process is being meditated or sorry mediated or gate keep by priests called Brahmins. Okay? So you think being a good person is enough. No it's not. You have to listen to the Brahman because only the Brahman understands Dharma. Okay? And depending on who you are your Dharma will be different. So in Hinduism there is a hierarchy. Okay? At the very top are of course the priests and the Brahmins because they have access to spiritual knowledge. Below them are the warriors and the kings. And then below them are the farmers and the merchants who keep the economy running. And at the very bottom are the servants and the laborers. Okay? Now what's what's really interesting about the system is this system can be differentiated by the color of one's skin. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 46:14 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Right? Remember the Proto -Indo -Iranians they have white skin. The IVC culture the people who call the Proto -Dravinians no sorry the Proto -Dravinians okay they have darker skin. So the IVC people of the lower class don't you know mix with the Proto -Indo -Iranians. And so basically the Proto -Indo -Iranians accumulated centralized power through the idea of Hinduism. Okay? They're the priest class. So that's a basic theory of Hinduism. And again Hinduism is an extremely complex religion. I don't want to oversimplify it but I have no choice because I want to explain the differences. Okay? So in this system who's really unhappy now in this system? Which group of people are like very upset with this system? Can you guys can you guys can you guys echo? Can you can you apply what we've learned in this semester and answer the question all these four groups who's the unhappiest? ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 47:24 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2844s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2844s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: And who who most wants change or revolutionary change? Excuse me? The lower nobility and who's the lower lower nobility in this system? The kings. Okay? Does that make sense? The kings actually in this system are the lower nobility. The upper nobility are the Brahmins. It's the Brahmins who control access to the Brahmins. Okay? And so the kings must obey the priests. So the kings aren't happy with this. And so for this conflict you have the creation of Buddhism. Right? Remember Suharto Kottama who's considered the first Buddha he was actually a prince before he became the Buddha. And the man most responsible for spreading Buddhism in India he was the king the emperor of the Moran Empire. And he was the one who institutionalized Buddhism as state religion who sponsored missionary projects to China to Greece to Egypt. Okay? So these rulers don't like Hinduism because they see the Brahmin class as a threat to their power. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 49:00 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=2940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-trade-peace-access) Text: So Buddhism follows this system except for one major difference. You don't need the Brahmin to access Nirvana. Okay? You don't need the Brahmin to access spiritual enlightenment. You can do it by yourself through spiritual guidance by monks. Okay? That's a major difference. And as you can see Buddhism is in many respects a revolutionary religion to overthrow the power of the Brahmin class. In response to Buddhism what do the Brahmins do? Do you guys know? They create the caste system. Okay? After the rise of Buddhism Hinduism started to implement what we call today the caste system. Which is to say these classes must separate from each other. They are not allowed to intermingle. They're not even allowed to touch each other. They're not even allowed to touch Okay? These people at the very bottom are what we call today the untouchables. And this system was developed by the Hindu priests the Brahmins in response to the threat of Hinduism. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 50:22 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Now over time because Hinduism like the Proto -Iranian people are aggressive expansionist opportunistic they will defeat Buddhism in this struggle. Okay? And the one way one really important way they defeat Buddhism is by adopting most of Buddhism's practices. Okay? So like yoga meditation and also Nirvana. Okay? The Hindu Brahmins will adopt whatever is popular in Buddhism. Another thing that the Hindu priests will do is they will start basically assimilating other religions as well. So most Indians throughout its history believe in their local folklore gods. Right? Eventually all these gods will be assimilated into the Hindu hierarchy. That's why you have like a million gods in the Hindu religion. Okay? Because they were all over time assimilated into the hierarchy. And obviously these gods are lesser gods. The higher gods the Holy Trinity are Brahmins gods. Alright. So now's the chance for Doug to ask his question about Buddhism before I continue. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 51:45 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 51:46 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3106s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3106s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yeah. Yeah. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 52:04 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3124s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3124s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: That's right. That's right. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 52:10 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yep. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 52:11 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3131s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3131s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Yep. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 52:26 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3146s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3146s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Okay. Great question. Okay. So what is the IVC religion? The portal religion? Okay. I want to make an argument. And again it's speculation. It's a very strange argument. And most scholars probably will not agree. I think the religion of the IVC is Proto -Buddhism. And the reason why is if you look at Zoroastrianism and you look at Proto -Indo -Iranian the religion there are a lot of similarities. Okay? And Zoroastrianism actually fits into the larger Proto -Indo -European religion framework. When you look at Hinduism you've got this strange idea. You believe in Dharma, Dharma, reincarnation, impermanence, Brahma, the ultimate reality. Like this is not part of the Proto -Indo -European religion in anywhere. Okay? So at the same time Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shikism all share this fundamental belief in the world that this world is a false reality. It's a reality created by our false beliefs. And if we learn to tame our emotions, ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 53:45 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: we learn to see the underlying reality governing all human structure then we will be released from this world. Okay? Now where would that come from? That must have come from the IBC because there will be no other place. Also it explains why these religions have such huge followings in India. Right? They don't have any followings anywhere else. Okay? Like Hinduism is basically localized to India. So is Jainism. So is Shikism. So they are appealing to a fundamental sense of the world among Indians. They're basically appealing to nostalgia. Right? And where is this nostalgia from? It must be from the IBC. Okay? So I would make that argument. I would believe, I would bet that if we were able to construct the religion of the IBC, the proto -religion, we would see a proto -Buddhism. Okay? The beginnings of Buddhism. It would be very different. Okay? Because Buddhism evolved over thousands of years. But the underlying assumptions about the world, basically the idea of oneness. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 54:58 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? Okay? The idea of false reality. I think these two ideas would be very apparent in the IBC. As they are apparent now in all four major Indian religions. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Okay? Do you want to continue or? No, no, no, no, I'm finished. But do you want to respond to my argument? Okay. Are you guys following along? Does this make sense to you guys? In fact, I would argue that we as humans fundamentally have nostalgia for these two ideas. Oneness and false reality. Okay? Because if you look at the West, okay? If you look at us today, there are two ideas that are the most powerful today in Western civilization. The first idea is Plato's Allegory in the Cave. Right? The idea that we live in a shadow world and the truth is out there but we have to seek it. It's a very powerful idea. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 56:24 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Right? And it's very similar by the way to the ideas found in Hinduism and Buddhism. Okay? The Allegory in the Cave is the first powerful idea. And then the second powerful idea is the idea of the second coming. The return of Jesus. Because what does the return of Jesus signify? It signifies paradise on Earth. It signifies the destruction of our current reality and the replacement of a new reality that creates oneness, completeness and wholeness on Earth. So, in many ways this is very similar to what the Indians are proposing as well. So, what this is saying is at a fundamental level everyone has a nostalgia for a distant past. Okay? And what is this distant past? The distant past is the idea of animism. So, remember 10,000 years ago 20,000 years ago we were in the Ice Age we were hunter -gatherers. And the way we saw the world was very different from the way we see the world today. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 57:38 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: Okay? Back then if you were a hunter -gatherer you could only think you were the same as the tree or as the animal. Okay? It's the idea of oneness. We're no different. We're all part of the life cycle. We're all part of Mother Nature. Okay? The Mother Goddess. All right? We also believe we inhabit different realities at the same time. Right? We live in this world which is the material reality but we're also inhabiting the spiritual reality as well. And what we do spiritually matters a lot more than what we do materially. Okay? So, we can hunt and kill animals as long as we pay the proper respects to the animals we kill. As long as we contribute spiritually to the cycle of life and death. Okay? So, I think that's where Buddhism comes from. It comes from animism. This Buddhism became reinforced and became ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 58:43 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: much more concrete because it was experiencing a reality in Mesopotamia and Egypt that was abhorrent to the people experiencing that. Okay? War goes against the human experience. Inequality and corruption in ways goes against the human experience. We fundamentally believe this to be evil and wrong. Okay? So, that is my argument about the IBC. Any questions? Any comments? Okay, that's a good question. Do I believe that human nature is fundamentally benevolent? I don't believe human nature is benevolent. I believe humans naturally seek a spiritual understanding of the world. I think humans want to know why. Why are we here? Where are we going? Where do we come from? Okay? We want to know why. We're also curious. We want to explore the world. Okay? So, I think trade is not a new invention. I think it's a very inherent thing to human nature. I think the idea of globalization, this was a globalized world like 5 ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 1:00:25 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: ,000 years ago. Extremely sophisticated, complex, globalized world. So, I think that's what makes us fundamentally human. Okay? And you can say this is a good thing or a bad thing. And I would say, well, it depends on the circumstance. Right? But I think what drives us as humans is our curiosity and our imagination. Okay? That's what I think being human is. And sometimes this is a good thing. Sometimes this is a bad thing. Okay? Sometimes in the IVC this will lead to peace and egalitarianism. But this also is what drives the idea of the second coming which is what's driving the conflict in the Middle East today. Okay? So, it depends on the context. It depends on the circumstance. If this curiosity, this imagination is channeled effectively, then I think that's a good thing. If it's channeled opportunistically, then it's a bad thing. Okay? But thanks for the question. Any more questions? Okay. ## The Lost Trade Civilization Behind Buddhism -- 1:01:39 - Source title: Civilization #20: The Proto-Buddhists of the Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-12-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvI8rukoda8&t=3699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-cvi8rukoda8.json) Text: So, this ends our Bronze Age unit. Okay? So, we looked at the three major Bronze Age civilizations. Egypt, Mesopotamia, and IVC. Next class we'll start the Bible. Okay? The Hebrew Bible. All right. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: Okay, good morning. We are doing Mesopotamia today. This is the Bronze Age. We did Egypt last class. We are doing Mesopotamia today. In the next class, we will finish with the Indus Valley. So, before I begin, I want to make three general points about the study of history and how civilizations develop. The first point is this. Every culture has a mythology. And the mythology is the collective worldview of the people that lets them understand the reality around them. So, another idea that we can say is mythology is a shared reality. And every civilization has mythology. So, for example, today, our mythology would be science. And history, right? We think they are true and objective, but they're actually mythologies. They're a shared reality. And every civilization would have its own mythology. And that's what makes the culture unique. So, that's the first point. So, what we will do today to better understand Mesopotamia is to compare and contrast its mythology with that of the Egyptians. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 1:31 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=91s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=91s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Second point is, there's this universe called the dialectic. And there's an idea proposed by the German philosopher called Frederick Hegel, in the 19th Century. He believes that history is driven by opposing ideas. So whenever you have one mythology, or one idea, there always must arise another opposing idea that challenges it. That's what drives History. history, and history is always moving towards a synthesis of ideas, okay? So the example would be, there's capitalism, and the opposing idea would be communism. The synthesis of the idea would be socialism. And what's really important to understand is that ideas can be living things that change over time, okay? The third idea I want to introduce is the idea of diversity and differentiation. And the idea here is, we humans have some fundamental natures about us. So for example, we're all religious in some aspect. Another fundamental instinct about us, we strive to be different. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 3:07 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=187s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=187s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: And that's why diversity is the iron law of society, okay? So the example is, in a family, all the siblings will be different. In a classroom, the students will be different. And you could be a certain way in a classroom, and then you go to another classroom and you figure out the students there are similar to you, so you will change as a person to differentiate yourself from other people. Okay? So that's also another principle of history. Societies strive to be different from each other. They strive for diversity and differentiation. We cannot make generalizations about societies. The only thing that we can say is, societies or cultures fall into a spectrum. Okay? And they're usually defined by the elite or generalizations, okay? So this is another way of saying, today I'm going to make very broad generalizations about these societies and civilizations and they're useful for our purposes. But I want you to be aware that these are simplifications. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 4:33 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=273s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=273s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: These are generalizations. Okay? All right, so let's start. Okay, so Mesopotamia is a very different culture and civilization than Egypt because. Great. of its geography okay so if you look at the geography of Egypt it has natural boundaries so for example to the west is a Sahara desert to the north is the Mediterranean Sea to the east is the Red Sea okay and then to the south are the cataracts so it makes it hard to travel up the Nile from the south okay so they're really only two access points into Egypt which can be easily defended the South and also from the Levant okay which is basically Israel Syria Jordan and because of its natural boundaries Egypt doesn't really feel threatened by external enemies right also it has the now Nile River, which is the foundation of its civilization. Remember last class, we talked about how the Nile was very generous. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 6:01 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: It flooded predictably every season, and so it made agriculture very productive in Egypt, which allowed them to sustain a very large population, which then can be used to create monuments like the pyramid, okay? So for most of its history, Egypt was stable and prosperous. Mesopotamia is completely different, okay? So first of all, Mesopotamia, which is in what we call Iraq today, it has no natural boundaries. Mesopotamia is Greek for the land between two rivers. These two rivers are the Euphrates and the Tigris, okay? Euphrates. And the Tigris. To the west of Mesopotamia would be Arabia and the Levant, okay? To the north would be Anatolia. To the east are the Zagros Mountains. The thing about Anatolia is, it itself is a very prosperous place. So it will become, eventually, a very prosperous place. It will be home to certain empires, like the Hittites, who will always threaten Mesopotamia, okay? ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 7:39 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=459s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=459s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: So Anatolia is a threat to Mesopotamia. The people of Arabia and the Zagros Mountains are nomads. And as we know, nomads are a very aggressive people. And so they will constantly launch raids against Mesopotamia, which threatens its safety. Okay? So Mesopotamia, throughout its history, has always been at war with its neighbors. The other thing about Mesopotamia is, even though it's fertile, it's part of something called the Fertile Crescent, which extends from Mesopotamia into the Levant, it's called the Fertile Crescent, the Euphrates and the Tigris don't really cooperate. They're very chaotic. They change course all the time. And so the only way to tame the Euphrates and the Tigris is through irrigation, okay? Because if you farm too close to the bed, the riverbank, you're going to get flooded, okay? So they had to develop irrigation in order to tame the Euphrates and the Tigris. Okay. So the geography, all these two cultures are very different, and therefore the history is very different. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 9:14 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: For most of its history, it's very different. For most of its history, Egypt was unified as an empire. It was very stable. But Mesopotamia was always in flux, okay? So the first great civilization of Mesopotamia were the Sumerians. They were eventually conquered by the Akkadians. And then you had the Assyrians and the Babylonians. And these four civilizations are what we call Mesopotamia, okay? Okay. Any questions so far before I go into the brief summary? Brief history of Mesopotamia. Okay. Yeah. That's a good question, okay? But what is the relationship between these four relationships? The Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Babylonians, and the Assyrians? Okay. So the very first civilization were the Sumerians. And then they were eventually united by the Akkadians, okay? So Sumeria was not really an empire. It was a culture and a civilization that was divided into city -states, like the Greeks, okay, before the conquest of Macedonians. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 10:29 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: And the Akkadians, under Sargon of Akkad, or Sargon the Great, united these city -states and gave us the idea of Sumerian civilization. After the Akkadian Empire fell, North Mesopotamia became the Assyrian Empire. South Mesopotamia became the Babylonian Empire. They all saw themselves as heirs to the Sumerian civilization. So even though they're different civilizations, they share a common mythology, okay, which I will discuss later in the class. Okay? Does that make sense? Great. Okay. So I'm going to talk very briefly about how Mesopotamia developed, okay? So remember that in the beginning, agriculture first appeared in two places, Anatolia and the Levant. Okay? Then there was something called the 8.2 kilo year event. And we can see this as dramatic climate change that radically changed the geography and the climate of this world. Okay? And because of the cooling and temperature, the people in the Levant and the people in Anatolia were forced to spread out. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 12:01 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=721s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=721s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: So they went to Europe, they went to Egypt, they went to Mesopotamia. And when they did that, they spread agriculture. And remember, the agriculture, the mythology is the mother goddess, which meant that they were mainly peaceful, egalitarian people, okay, who were very artistic. So this is a very peaceful, stable world. Okay? But then you have the 5.9 kilo year event. Okay? This is about 6,000 years ago, 4,000 BCE. And again, you saw a radical change in temperature, which, again, forced migration and forced these civilizations to change. Okay? One of the major changes in Mesopotamia is the founding of a place called Uruk. Okay? Uruk. And Uruk is interesting. Sorry, it's here. Uruk is interesting because it is considered the first city of the world. And so this is the beginning of what we call civilization. Okay? The modern idea of civilization. And that's about 40,000 years ago. 40,000 people. And this is what we consider the beginning of the Sumerian civilization. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 13:48 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=828s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=828s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: And the Sumerian civilization is considered the cradle of civilization. It is the beginning of the foundations of modern civilization. They gave us irrigation technology. They gave us mathematics. They gave us astronomy. They gave us writing. Okay? Cuneiform writing. They gave us the legal system. Okay? They gave us hierarchy and religion. So, there was an explosion of innovation with the founding of Uruk. Now, Uruk eventually would become a huge city which compelled the people to migrate and found cities that are similar to Uruk. Okay? They're basically colonies. And they're scattered throughout Mesopotamia. Okay? And these are city -states that at first were part of the Uruk civilization. But eventually, they became prosperous and wealthy themselves. And so, they broke away from Uruk. And this led to tension and conflict and maybe sometimes even outright warfare. But please remember, like, during this time, the idea of, ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 15:03 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=903s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=903s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: like, massive warfare that we would see during the Greek and Roman periods, it's still pretty absent. There's conflict. It's short -term. And they have conflicts in order to resolve, like, territorial disputes. Okay? Or trade disputes. But they're not trying to wipe each other out. Okay? One of the great mysteries is where the Sumerians come from. We have this problem because when we discovered cuneiform and we translated the Sumerian language, we discovered the spoken language is very different from the surrounding regions. Who spoke something called a Semitic language. Okay? So, the language spoken in the area are part of a Semitic language group. But Sumerian is not part of that group. There's not enough similarities. Also, there is no other language like Sumerian in the world. Okay? It's what is called a language isolate. It is unique. And so, this has puzzled scholars for decades. And quite honestly, no one knows why this is the case. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 16:21 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Okay? No one knows. There are different theories. One theory is the Sumerian people are people who came from Anatolia and settled in the Euphrates because it was good for agriculture. Okay? So, that's one theory. But there are other theories. There are other people who believe the Sumerians came from the Zagros Mountains. Okay? There are other people who believe they came from Arabia and settled. And then there's another group of people who believe the Sumerians are people who came from the Indus Valley. Okay? We'll talk about the Indus Valley next class. But all you need to know is the Indus Valley, it is a very advanced civilization. It's very large. Five million people. And it covers three major areas. Afghanistan. Pakistan. And northwest India. It is larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. Okay? So, people believe that the Indus Valley sent a colony to Mesopotamia, which found it in Uruk. And it makes sense because it's actually pretty easy to get from Indus Valley to Uruk because of the Arabian Sea. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 17:44 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Okay? So, these are the different theories. But then there's another theory. Okay? Which I think makes the most sense. Which is this. Sumerian is a Creole language. It was invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages. Okay? And it's very similar to the Mandarin we speak today. Right? Where Mandarin didn't exist. But because you had so many different cultures coming to the palace. They had to create their own language in order to communicate with each other. And we call that language today Mandarin. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, why do I think this idea makes the most sense? And again, just to be absolutely clear. No one knows. And we'll probably never know the answer. But I believe that Sumerian is a Creole language. This theory makes the most sense because of this. Why was Uruk able to develop into the first city? ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 18:50 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1130s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1130s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: What makes it special? The answer is this. It is at the center of the world. Okay? So, let me explain. From Uruk, you're able to access the Indus Valley. You're able to access the Arabian Desert. You're able to go north to Anatolia and the Zagros Mountains. Okay? And these civilizations we know traded with each other. Because it's the Bronze Age. Right? Because to make bronze, you need to create an alloy between tin and copper. But also, what's important to understand is we humans have been trading with each other since the beginning. Because we like to explore. And we like to experience different cultures. Okay? So, that's what explains why Uruk was able to prosper so fast. Because it's the center of the world. To get anywhere, you have to go through Uruk. Okay? But if that's the case, if it's a trading center of the world, it makes sense for it to be also a multicultural and multilingual community of people. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 20:08 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1208s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1208s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Right? Because these traders from Arabia, Anatolia, the Zagros Mountains. Also, let's not forget about the Yemeni, okay? Who are up here in the steppes. They also trade with these people. People from the Indus Valley. It makes sense for them to come together in this trading community and develop their own language and their own culture, which eventually spreads. Also, because this is a melting pot, it's really an immigrant culture. They're able to bring the most advanced ideas from all around the world and combine them together, which creates new inventions like writing, like legal system, like mathematics, like astronomy. Okay? And that's why Samaria became the cradle of civilization. Because of the meeting place of the world's cultures and ideas. And because of the very instability of the environment. Okay? Meaning they had to tame the Tigris and Euphrates. And because they were always threatened by outside enemies. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 21:20 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: They had to develop a new culture, a new mythology based on struggle. Right? The Egyptians can afford to be passive. Okay? They can afford to be fatalistic. Let the gods decide. But because this is an immigrant community, they have to focus on struggle and achievement. Which is very much like America today. Okay? Does that make sense? So, again, this is my theory of the Samarian people. Where they came from and why they are who they are. Okay? Any questions so far? Before I continue? All right. So, next, what I want to do is I want to compare two things. Egyptian mythology with Mesopotamian mythology. To show how the geographic and cultural difference translates into the mythology. The shared reality of the people. Okay? So, let's look at Egypt first. All right. So, again, Egypt is a very ancient civilization. And their mythology is extremely complex. They have different versions of the same stories. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 22:45 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Okay? But I'm going to give you the generalization which will be useful for our purposes. Okay? So, let's look at Egypt. So, and then we'll look at Mesopotamia. Okay? Egypt. Egypt believed the first god was Ra. Okay? There are other gods who they believed to be the first god, like Atum and Amon. Okay? But let's just say the first god is Ra, who is a sun god. He comes to our world and he creates life. Okay? And basically gives life to everything. Okay? Including humans. And as such, we worship him. But eventually, we start to become misguided and we start to worship another god, a false god. Ra becomes angry and kills many of us. And, but after he kills many of us, he has tremendous regret and he decides his time is up. He should give his throne to someone else. Okay? And this other god becomes Osiris. Now, Osiris is a great god because he gives people civilization, which includes cities, which includes the pyramids, which includes writing. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 24:07 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Okay? So, it's Osiris who gives us civilization. Now, here's a brother named Set. And Set is very jealous of the fact that Osiris is worshipped by the people. So, he plots to usurp the throne from Osiris. So, what he does is this. He builds a sarcophagus, a tomb. Okay? He presents to Osiris and says, Osiris, my great king, this sarcophagus is the most beautiful and comfortable sarcophagus in the world. You will love lying in here. And Osiris is like, oh, that's interesting. Let me try. So, Osiris, like, gets into the sarcophagus and Set closes it forever. Okay? Then he kills Osiris and dismembers his body. Osiris has a wife, Isis. And when he hears about the death of her husband, she looks for his body and assembles it together. But she can't find the head. And then Osiris becomes the god of the underworld. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 25:19 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1519s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1519s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Okay? After Osiris is reassembled, he impregnates Isis. They have a son named Horus. Horus eventually grows up and he's angered by the fact that his uncle, Set, has usurped his throne. Okay? So, the two are going to battle. And the gods, who judge all, tell them they have to challenge each other to a duel. Okay? So, they have a series of duels. One duel is they both turn into hippopotamus. And they try to stay in the river for the longest time possible. Horus sees this as an opportunity to kill Set. He tells his mother, Isis, while Set is distracted, while he's a hippopotamus, take a spear and kill him. And Isis agrees. But when she tries to kill Set, she is paralyzed with fear. And she fails. Horus, in anger, strikes Set. He beheads her mother. He doesn't kill her, but she loses her head. That's how angry he is. So, Isis and Horus continue their challenge. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 26:39 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Eventually, Set decides to poison Horus. But before he can do so, Horus first poisons him. And Horus becomes king. And he gives Egypt the institution of kingship. So, every pharaoh is a direct descendant of Horus. Or another reincarnation of Horus. That is the Egyptian myth of creation. Now, the Mesopotamians have a different myth of creation called the Enuma Elesh. From up high. The Enuma Elesh. And this is the story of the Enuma Elesh. There are two gods. The first god is Tiamat. Tiamat, who is basically salt water. Then you have Apsu, who is fresh water. The two great gods get together. And they give birth to other gods. Their children. These gods then give birth to other gods. Eventually, Apsu gets annoyed with his children. Because children are loud. And he can't sleep. So, he resolves to kill all his children. And bring peace to the world. Tiamat finds out about Apsu's diabolical plan. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 28:09 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: He warns. She warns her children. The gods get together. And they kill Apsu. Tiamat is enraged by the death of her consort. And she resolves to raise a great army. And destroy her children. The gods get together. And they elect Mardok. Who is the son of the gods. He is basically a third generation god. They elect Mardok. To lead them in battle against Tiamat. So, you have these two massive armies. Converging against each other. And then Tiamat turns into a huge water serpent. And challenges Mardok to a duel. They fight. Mardok unleashes whirlwinds into the mouth of Tiamat. And that sort of like dizzies her. And then Mardok strikes her down. After he kills her. She uses her body to create the world. She uses half of her body to create the sky. And she uses another half of her body to create the continents. He creates the moons. And he creates the stars. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 29:28 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1768s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1768s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: He creates the entire universe basically. From the body of Tiamat. After that. The gods all decide to rest in peace. But they need people to take care of them. They need people to watch the land. To farm and till the land. So they create humans as their slaves. Humans. And that's how the Enemilish ends. Okay. Each city has its own god. And the humans in that city must revere and take care of that god. To be their slave for all of eternity. Alright. So as you can see right away. There are massive differences between Egyptian mythology and Mesopotamian mythology. Okay. The first major difference is the gods are benevolent. Right? The gods give us everything. We just sit back and the gods will give us life. They will give us civilization. They will give us kingship. They will give us the pyramids. So all we have to do is respect and revere and worship the gods. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 30:49 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: We humans don't need to participate in the order of things. But in the Enemilish we find out that gods are extremely violent. And they demand our servitude. They are our masters. Okay. So we must constantly work to please the gods. That's one major difference. Second major difference is as you can see from the Egyptian mythology. The main virtue that wins out is cleverness. Okay. Deception. Trickery. And you can say this is because for the longest time Egypt was an empire. So what mattered was not the ability to go to war. But the ability to manipulate eternal politics. Okay. What we call palace intrigue. And this is no different from China. Right? Because remember in China we have something called Shunzi Bingfa. The art of war by Shunzi. That is a manual on palace intrigue. Right? How to trick other people. It's not a manual on how to go to war. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 32:13 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1933s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=1933s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: But here the value that is most prominent in Mesopotamia is bravery or strength. Okay. Not cleverness. There's no trickery going on. It's just pure power. Pure bravery. Okay. And the third major difference is in Egypt they believe the gods are helping each other. Okay. They build on top of each other's legacy. That's what progress is. That's what improvement is. But in Mesopotamia they believe in something called creative destruction. Which is to say in order to create something new you must destroy the old. Okay. Tiamat represents the old. Therefore she must be destroyed. And from the old you can build a new civilization. But you must first destroy the old. And conflict is destroyed. source of creativity okay does that make sense and again they have these two different mythologies because they're reflecting the shared reality of the different geographies and history okay any questions so far before i continue are you clear okay great great ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 34:02 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: okay all right let's continue all right okay so both egypt and both mesopotamia they are in a struggle to prove their mythologies are the best okay the reason why is remember that this is a time when all these civilizations are trading with each other but also what's important to understand is there's a lot of migration going on and people have a choice if you're not happy here you can always uh move somewhere else okay there isn't any idea of like nation or culture or race people have autonomy okay so you need to constantly prove that your civilization is the best to attract people which provides the labor to drive your civilization right so the egyptians created something called the pyramids the pyramids to show the people around them we are favored by the gods because it's only the gods who could inspire us to build the pyramids okay so now the people master practice have ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 35:29 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2129s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2129s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: a problem because how do you compete against the pyramids right i mean at first they tried they created things called the ziggurats the ziggurats which are temples to house the gods okay but then they did something that was completely different and which made them immortal just as the pyramids made they just immortal the Epic of Gilgamesh and today we celebrate the Epic of Gilgamesh as the first work of world literature okay so let me first explain the plot of the Epic of Gilgamesh and show you how it reflects Mesopotamian culture and values and then explain the meaning of it okay so the Epic of Gilgamesh so there was a king of Uruk okay the first city Uruk he's a and he's the king of the first city and he's a demigod okay he's huge he's a giant and he's very brave the problem is even though he's built this great city Uruk high walls prosperous ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 36:57 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: land advanced civilization he gets bored very quickly he starts to bully the people around him so he sees young man he chances challenges him to a fight and he beats him up okay he's a bully he also rapes all the young women in Uruk and this drives their parents to pray to the gods for relief so the gods decide to create an equal to Gilgamesh and his name is Enkidu. Enkidu is made of clay. The two fight and even though Gilgamesh defeats Enkidu in battle, Gilgamesh is happy because he thinks he's found a good friend, someone who is equal, who he can share adventures with. So the two become great friends, the best of friends. They go on these adventures together and these adventures are tremendous challenges. For example, they challenge gods to battle. And at first they're afraid, but through their friendship and through their bravery they're able to triumph in the end. There's a god named Ishtar and she falls in love with Gilgamesh because he's so heroic. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 38:29 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: But Gilgamesh rebuffs Ishtar because Gilgamesh basically knows that Ishtar wants to turn him into her sex slave. He doesn't want that. He wants his freedom. He wants to prove he's a great hero. Ishtar feels rejected, feels ashamed, so she sends something called the Bull of Heaven to destroy Uruk. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight the Bull of Heaven, and they kill this great bull. The guards now are really pissed off at Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and they decide that Enkidu must die. So they inflict a disease on Enkidu, which kills him. At this point, Gilgamesh is heartbroken. He's lost his best friend, and at the same time, he knows death is waiting for him. He has all these accomplishments. He's a great king. He's built this great city. But eventually he must die, and he does not want to die. He fears death. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 39:33 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2373s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2373s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: So he hears about this immortal man, this man who has lived forever. And he will live forever. And he decides to seek him out. On his journey, he has to overcome many hurdles. And along the journey, everyone implores him. Gilgamesh, give up this vain project. Immortality is for the gods. We are humans. We must die. That's what makes us different from the gods. Enjoy your life. Drink. Be merry. But Gilgamesh... Gilgamesh refuses to turn back, and he insists on continuing on his journey. Eventually, he finds this immortal man, who explains to him he was made immortal because he survived the great flood. The gods created humans, but the humans became too loud for the gods. So the gods resolved to kill them. But this man, this one man, was favored by one god, so he was told about this plot. And he built a boat and put a lot of animals in the boat in order to escape. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 40:54 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2454s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2454s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: And this is the basis of the story of the Norse flood in the Bible. After the flood receded, this man came down and built an altar to worship the gods. The gods felt regret for what they did. So to compensate, they promised never to do this again, to never destroy humanity again. And also, they grant this man immortality, okay? So, but this is just a one -off. The gods will never do this again. And so the man tells Gilgamesh, the search for immortality, it's pointless. Just go home. But Gilgamesh refuses to give up. So the man challenges Gilgamesh to not sleep for seven nights and six days. Sorry, six days and seven. Uh, six nights and seven days. Okay? Gilgamesh tries, but he can't do it, so it's all futile, and then he goes home, but the moment he goes home, he has an epiphany. He sees the great walls of Uruk. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 42:05 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2525s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2525s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: He sees the people happy in Uruk, and he realizes this is what immortality is. Immortality is not living forever. Immortality is to be remembered by God. The people who love you. So the irony of all this is he goes on this search for immortality, and he fails. But because he goes on this search, because he goes on this quest, he becomes immortal because his story, his struggle is remembered and celebrated by the people in the epic of Gilgamesh. Okay? So this is a reflection of the values of Mesopotamia. The point isn't the achievement. The point is not in the value. The point is in the exploration. The point is in the struggle, and that's why the Mesopotamians were so innovative, and that's also why they went to war with each other all the time, okay? And this is the beginning of the idea of literature, where memories can be shaped in such a way that ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 43:34 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2614s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2614s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-fails-material-audit) Text: becomes so beautiful that it becomes implanted in the minds of others for centuries, which will inspire them to greater heights of achievement, okay? So now we have the beginning of literature, and that is the legacy of Mesopotamia, the legacy of the Egyptians were pyramids, a testament to the tremendous creativity of humans of Egypt, okay? The humans in Egypt. But the epic of Gilgamesh is also a testament to the tremendous creativity of that civilization, okay? And if you think about it, the epic of Gilgamesh was written because it is in a dialectic with the pyramids, right? The epic of Gilgamesh is also saying to the pyramids, immortality, it is an illusion. Eventually these pyramids will collapse. For the Pharaoh to seek immortality is an illusion. What matters is for the Pharaoh to look after the well -being of his people here and now, because that's why he will be loved and remembered for eternity. He will ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 44:52 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2692s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2692s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: die if his people die, but if your people live on because of your contributions, then you'll remember forever. You'll become immortal, okay? And that's the story of Gilgamesh, okay? Any questions? Is this all pretty clear? Okay. All right. So I will make a final point about the story. Okay? Within these stories, we can see the evolution of societies over time, okay? So let's go back to the story of the Enuma Elesh. So remember, Tiamat and Apsu create the world. That's the first story. Then the gods are created, okay? And they inhabit the world, the second story. And then Tiamat and Mardut go to war. And then from the victory of this war, Marduk creates the universe, okay? So basically, we're seeing three different mythologies embedded within this mythology, which gives us the idea of social change and evolution in Mesopotamia at this time, okay? So the first story is Tiamat, right? Who is Tiamat? She's the mother goddess, right? ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 46:28 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2788s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2788s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: She's the one who gives life. So this shows Mesopotamia as an agricultural civilization. And then you have the emergence of the gods, which the urban people would celebrate, okay? And then, finally, you have the battle between Tiamat and Marduk. And this shows the battle between the old society with the new society, okay? The urban and the agricultural. The agricultural, it is egalitarian. It is peaceful. The urban is patriotic. Patriarchal, right? So why, how do we explain, or how do you justify the transition from an equal society to a patriarchy? The answer is this, the answer is embedded in the mythology, right? Tiamat represents chaos. Marduk represents order. So even though we are letting go of the old, we're destroying the old, it's to create a more peaceful and orderly world, okay? So remember, Tiamat is the water serpent. And for the longest time, we believe the water serpent represents life and divinity, okay? ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 47:47 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Why? Because if you think about it, the serpent, the water serpent, looks like the river. And the river is the basis of all civilization, right? So, and this is true for most civilizations. In China, what do we call the water serpent? What do we call the water serpent in China? Long, right? Okay? The problem is the river floods. And if you flood too much, you destroy civilization. So it's chaotic, okay? And that's why it's important to have a patriarchy or an urban elite, because they can help us, command us to create irrigation, to build walls, which will tame the river and the water serpent, okay? Does that make sense? So within this mythology, we are seeing the evolution of society, from an egalitarian one to a patriarchy, okay? Also, in the Ebb of Gilgamesh, we are witnessing the transition from a society based on a great king to one that is more organized around a bureaucracy. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 49:21 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2961s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=2961s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: Right? Right? Because remember, the, theガ The story starts with the king going on all these adventures. The story ends with the king coming back and recognizing what matters is the well -being of his people, and for that you need a bureaucracy to manage everyday affairs. And so this represents, you can interpret this as representing the beginning of a bureaucratic elite. Which will help the king order the world in a way that brings more stability and prosperity to the people. But first, the king must recognize his own hubris. He must become humble. So the great fear of the Mesopotamians is the king will become like a pharaoh who will channel all resources to building this monument which will create inequality, corruption, and waste in society. Which will lead to massive suffering during times of drought. Okay? Okay, any questions? Yeah, so Mesopotamia, the irrigation was very advanced because the Tigris and Euphrates were very uncooperative. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 51:16 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=3076s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=3076s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: They would change course all the time. So they had to build very advanced irrigations that would change over time. The thing about Samaria is because it's trading and because there are different city -states, this is, it becomes a hotbed of innovation. Because if one city -state creates a really good irrigation system, another city -state can just crop it really easily, okay? Does that make sense? Any more questions? Okay, so next class we'll discuss the Indus Valley civilization, okay? And the Indus Valley civilization, if we just use the analysis we did today, we're basically, geography is destiny. You would think the Indus Valley civilization is very much like the Egyptian civilization where you have a monarchy, you have centralized authority, and where they build these great monuments, okay? The irony is when you look at the Indus Valley civilization, and it's a huge, huge civilization, they have very advanced technology. They have these big cities that are very well designed. ## Gilgamesh Against the Pyramid -- 52:48 - Source title: Civilization #19: Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia's Quest for Immortality - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-28, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=3168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92jyBMmAyM&t=3168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-e92jybmmaym.json) Text: They have plumbing. They have sanitation. They even have air conditioning. They have these towers that sort of like trap hot air. People live for a very long time. Like I think over half of the population will live past 55, which is incredible, which is an incredible achievement. But what is startling about the civilization, the Indus Valley civilization is, it's peaceful and it's egalitarian. So it's a complete mystery as to why the Soviet Union is so different from Egypt and Mesopotamia, okay? Because again, Egypt, it's a centralized empire. Mesopotamia is always at war, okay? So next class, we will look at the Indus Valley civilization and try to resolve the paradox as to why it is advanced, prosperous, but at the same time, peaceful and egalitarian. Okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So this would be a fun class today. We are doing the Great Pyramid. Okay, so the Great Pyramid was built about 2500 BCE, that's 4500 years ago, by a pharaoh named Curfew and it was one of the seven great wonders of the ancient world. It's the only one that's still standing. From 2500 until 1400 CE, which is about 4,000 years, it was the tallest man -made building in the world. Okay? Great Pyramid, the direction is true north, meaning you can actually use the pyramids as a compass to tell the direction. Let's look at the architecture of the Great Pyramid. So the center is something called the King's Chamber. That's where the King's mummy rests in the sarcophagus. There's a grand gallery that gives you access to the King's Chamber and then a slope and then it's a pyramid structure and on the top of the pyramid is what is called the Ben -Ben or the, uh, the Pyrrhonion, okay, the Pyrrhonion, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 1:37 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=97s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=97s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And it is extremely significant culturally and religiously in Egypt because in Egyptian mythology, the religion, the creator god, Atum, he's known as Atum, he's also known as Ra, the sun god, first came into existence on the Benben. So imagine a large, dark ocean, and there's nothing, and then suddenly emerges a mound, okay, called a Benben, and that's where comes the creator god, Atum, or Ra. Okay, that's one legend. The other legend is from the dark ocean of space comes down a Benben, and on top of it rests Atum, okay? So this idea of the Pyrrhonion, the Benben, it is central. To the idea of creation in Egyptian mythology. So this is an extremely powerful and beautiful monument to Egyptian culture. Architecturally, Napoleon, who visited the Great Pyramid, he calculated that if you took all the stones from the Great Pyramid, you could actually build a wall around the perimeter of France. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 2:58 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: There's more material in the Great Pyramid, except for two. The first structure is the Great Wall of China. There's more stone in the Great Wall of China, okay? And there's more stone, there's more material in the Three Gorges Dam, also in China, okay? And it took about 26 years to build this pyramid. So today, in today's class, I'm going to look at three questions. The first question is, how did they build this? Because it's still with us today. You can actually go to Egypt, and visit Egypt, and visit the Great Pyramid. Second question is, why did they build this? What was the purpose? And the third question is, why did they stop building the pyramids? Okay, so those are the three questions we're looking at today. How was it built? Why was it built? And why did the Egyptians stop building the pyramids? So, how it was built is an extremely controversial question that has plagued historians and Egyptologists, and archaeologists for hundreds of years, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 4:11 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=251s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=251s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And originally, a Greek historian, Herodotus, proposed the idea the pyramid was built in steps, okay? So it was first a step pyramid, and then using pulleys, they pulled the stones up, okay? And it was the accepted idea for the longest time, because there was no better idea. But architecturally, that has been disproven, okay? It can't work that way. Then, about ten years ago, there was a French architect named Jean -Pierre Houdin, okay? H -O -U -D -I -N, Houdin. And he's an architect. He's never been to Egypt, doesn't speak Arabic, never studied Egypt. But his father and him were very interested in how the Great Pyramid was constructed. So he came up with this theory. And they've run computer simulations and discovered this to be true. There's also a lot of physical evidence to suggest this theory is true, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 5:09 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=309s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=309s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So this is how they built the Great Pyramid. What they did was they first constructed an external ramp in order to build the base, okay? So you now have the base. And then from the base, what they did was they built two structures, okay? And this is what they call counterweights, okay? So these counterweights are like pulleys, which allows them to pull the stones up to up high, okay? And then surrounding these two structures is what they call an eternal spiral ramp, okay? To carry the stones up. And so what they did was they basically built the pyramids from the inside out. And then once they built the structure, they covered it up with limestone so that it reflects in the sun, okay? If you actually were living back then and you saw the pyramids from a distance, you would think it was the star that has come down on the planet Earth, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 6:19 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So that's how they built the pyramid. But then this raises another interesting question, is how they come up with this plan, and how were they able to do this without blueprints and without basically writing or modern engineering techniques? And the answer is, if you think about it, what they did was they built a model right beside the pyramid, which allowed them to figure out how to build the larger pyramid, okay? But it's still believed this was not possible because they believe that Egyptians didn't have the intellectual capacity to imagine this to be true, okay? And I'll show you later on that they actually did, that we underestimate their imagination and their intellectual capacity, right? So that answers the first question pretty easily, how was it built? A more controversial question is, why was it built? And for the longest time, the accepted theory is this was a tomb, okay? A tomb. The reason why is Egyptians believed in the afterlife. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 7:36 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=456s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=456s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And so the theory is, this pyramid is designed to ease the Pharaoh's transition into the heavens where he would become a star or a sun. And so the common phrase is, this is almost a resurrection machine where the Pharaoh goes up to the sky and then after a few centuries, he reincarnates inside the pyramid. And the structure is meant to accomplish this. And again, this is the generally accepted theory today. But there are three major problems with this theory, which basically makes it, which basically discounts it, okay? The first major problem is, there are about a hundred pyramids in Egypt, okay? A hundred or more, we don't know, okay? We have not found a mummy or a body inside any sarcophagus inside the pyramids. So this is a problem. If this is a tomb, why is there no body? We can't find the body, okay? So that's one problem. Second problem is this. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 8:58 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: For this to be a tomb, this implies that the Pharaoh, because the Pharaohs are divine, right? They are basically the emanation of God on earth. This means that when they come to the planet Earth, and they become the Pharaoh, their priority is to build their own tomb, right? Does that make any sense? They come to earth and they're like, okay, well, I'm gonna die, so I wanna get out of here as soon as possible, so let's build that tomb, right? Now, the problem is that this would imply that the Pharaoh sees the Egyptian people as his slaves, right? You exist in order for me to live. And so, but the problem is that in Egyptian mythology, gods are considered benefactors of the human race, okay? So for example, Atum -Ra, he is the one who gave life to the world, but then his son, his descendant Osiris, another god, gave civilization to Egypt. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 10:08 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=608s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=608s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And then Horus, the son of Osiris, gave the institution of kingship to Egypt. Okay, so these gods come to earth in order to, to help the human race develop in some capacity. So it doesn't make any sense that the Pharaoh's primary purpose when he's on earth is to create a tomb because that's a very selfish reason, okay? Does that make sense? And the third problem with this is just pure logic. If you're a Pharaoh and your primary concern is the afterlife, resurrecting yourself, and the pyramid is a primary means of accomplishing this, and it takes about 26 years or 30 years to build a pyramid, how can you be sure that you won't die before the pyramid is built? Right? That's a problem, okay? So these are three logical problems. But again, Egyptologists insist that it is a tomb, okay? Primarily because of the way that Egyptians understand the afterlife, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 11:18 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So here's some evidence to suggest it is a tomb. This is considered a writing of a Pharaoh to his son about what the pyramid represents. So this is what he says. Make your grave well furnished and prepare thy place in the West. The West is where they go off to die. Look, death counts little for us. We can conquer death. Look, life is valued highly by us. We want to become immortal. The house of the dead, meaning the tomb, is for life, okay? So the pyramid is what will make us immortal, all right? So this is, again, highly debated today. So logically speaking, it doesn't make sense that the pyramids are a tomb, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest it is a tomb. And because of this debate, different theories have been proposed as to the purpose of the pyramid. And there are lots of really strange theories out there, okay? Lots of really strange theories. One ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 12:21 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: really interesting theory was proposed by a man named Nikola Tesla, the founder, the creator of electricity, basically. And his idea was this. He studied the architecture of the pyramid, and he proposed the pyramid was a battery system, okay? In order to create free, sorry, to create free, clean energy. And the theory is this, okay? The theory is, first of all, if you look at the king's chamber, the sound frequency in it is F sharp. And F sharp is also the frequency of planet Earth, okay? So it seems like the pyramid is attuned to the planet Earth. Second of all, if you look at where the pyramids are geographically, it's true north, okay? It's put in a place that matches, the directions of the Earth. And so the theory is, the direction of the pyramid is capturing the energy from the electromagnetic field that the Earth generates, okay? And the third explanation is, inside the pyramid are granite stones, and outside are limestones. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 13:47 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=827s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#sacred-machine-coordinates-life); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: And this is a perfect way to trap and store energy, okay? So think of a solar panel, where the sun and the moon reflects light onto the pyramids, and this energy is stored inside the pyramid, okay? And so this is a great theory. And again, there are lots of people who believe in this, because this is actually much more plausible than the tomb theory. But the problem with this, of course, is it doesn't work scientifically. And also you have the question of, if they produce all this free, clean energy, what are they using it for, okay? So this leads us with a big question. Why did they build the Great Pyramid? And today I want to propose to you another solution, okay? The solution is this. My belief is the Great Pyramid was designed as Egypt's Manhattan Project, okay? The Manhattan Project, as you know, was a World War II project in order to build the nuclear bomb. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 14:59 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And you can argue nuclear bomb is humanity's greatest invention ever. It took about 130,000 people over five to six years working in the United States, in Canada, in UK, and these are the best scientists in the world at this time, okay? Working collectively in order to create the nuclear bomb. And you can also make the argument that there are many working on the project who believe the Manhattan Project was about bringing peace to Earth, eternal peace. It was ultimately about mastering the secrets of the universe, channeling the power of God in order to create eternal peace, to bring God on Earth. And you can also argue that because we've had no major war after World War II, fingers crossed, they were right, okay? So that's my argument to you. The Egyptians conceptualized and created the Great Pyramid in order to harness the power of ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 16:12 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=972s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=972s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: God in order to create eternal peace on Earth, to bring an end to history, to bring an end to pain, suffering, and death, okay? So before I provide the evidence, let me explain this theory in general, okay? And again, this is my theory. It's speculation, it's imagination, but I think it makes sense, okay? So let me explain the theory to you. The trick is the body of the Pharaoh, the mummy, okay? Now, if the Pharaoh was divine, and the Jews believed he was divine, then after his death, the body would be sacred and divine, right? But knowing that, if you think about it, after the Pharaoh dies, he would ascend to the heavens and become a star or a sun, right? The body then becomes a portal or a mechanism for you to communicate with the Pharaoh while he's in the heavens. You could also argue the body, the mummy, could be a mechanism for you to channel the Pharaoh's powers on Earth, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 17:34 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-bridges-invisible-order); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#sacred-machine-coordinates-life); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-powers-public-life) Text: So imagine this. You have the sarcophagus. The mummy is inside, okay? Okay, and then you have the grand gallery. And inside the grand gallery what are people doing? They are there praying and worshiping the Pharaoh, which then draws the energy from the stars onto the Earth. And then, because of the limestone, this energy is reflected across Egypt. So the entire nation can bask in the divine energy of the Pharaoh, okay? So Nikola Tesla said that this was a battery in order to channel free, clean energy to power Egypt. Well, what if you change this to divine energy instead? The pyramid was a battery to channel divine energy in order to power Egypt, right? Now let me discuss if you are a worshipper in the grand gallery, what are you experiencing, okay? Well, first of all, you're experiencing the collision, the nexus of life and death, right? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 19:08 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Because the Pharaoh, he's dead, but he's still alive for your faith. Even though you're mortal, you are now communication with God, okay? So this is a nexus of life and death. This grand channel, sorry, this grand gallery, if you actually have such a visit, it in Egypt, okay, you'll recognize that this almost looks like a womb, okay? All right? So it's almost like you're inside a dark space that's taking you back to the point of your birth, right? But it's also, you can also be seen as a tomb, a place where you're being buried. So this is also like another collision or conflation or nexus of being born and dying. If you were outside and you just saw the pyramid, again, you would think of it as a star that has landed on earth, right? So this is a conflation, a nexus of heaven and earth. It's a collision, a nexus of myth and reality. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 20:31 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: You can also make the argument that through divine worship, what you're really doing is you're reversing the great bang, sorry, the big bang. You're reversing the big bang. You bring it into this one space, and you are creating oneness, wholeness, and completeness. You have achieved the union and the unity of all things through your faith in the Pharaoh, which gives you divine energy to be born anew, cleanse of your sins, and to cleanse others of their sins to create a moral Egypt, okay? Does that make sense? All right, so that's the theory. So now let me explain the idea of eternal peace. Why would the pyramid create the idea of eternal peace? Well, the first reason is even though Egypt was an empire, a dynasty at this point, it was still divided culturally, okay? There were at least four different cultures scattered around Egypt, and they all had their own mythologies. They had their own religious practices. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 21:59 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: They had their own faiths, right? So the point of this pyramid was to unite all these faiths into one singular object in the worship of the Pharaoh. If you were an Egyptian citizen, if you were in Egypt, and you looked at the pyramid, you could not help but think, this is God on earth. Okay? This centers your faith, and it forces your obedience and your submission to a higher authority, which is the Pharaoh, okay? That's the first reason, unity. Second is the idea of awe. So let's just say you're a powerful army, and you're an enemy, and you want to conquer Egypt. Well, you send your scouts to Egypt, and they see the pyramids, right? The Great Pyramid. What are they seeing? They're seeing God on earth, okay? So you're not going to attack God on earth. You're going to run away. So it creates a sense of awe around the world, right? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 22:58 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: The last thing is the domination of nature. So through divine inspiration, Egyptians are able to summon the Great Pyramid, and it shows God's ability to control nature. Why is this important? Because a source of Egyptian wealth and power is the Nile River. Okay? The Nile River. And basically, it's the Nile River that has made Egypt the wealthiest country in the world for thousands of years, okay? So the thing about the Nile is if it's in a good mood, you live a very good life, because the Nile just floods, just floods the banks and leaves this rich soil, and then you just throw some seeds in it, and then you can grow all these crops very easily, okay? It's a very easy life, and you can become very wealthy that way. So if it's in a good mood, then you are a very happy person. But if it's in a bad mood, okay, for example, it doesn't flood, or it floods too much, you could die of salvation or of drowning, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 24:07 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So it's very important for you to be able to control the moods of the gods, and that's what the pyramid is meant to do. The Egyptian word for Egypt is kemet, which basically means black earth. So the source of all life, in Egypt, is the soil, right? The black earth. And that's, okay? So let's go back to this quotation, and now we can actually understand it in a different way, right? Make your grave well furnished and prepare thy place in the west. That's fine. Now, look, death counts little for us. We're gods, we're pharaohs. We will never die, so we don't worry about death. We don't have to worry about dying. Okay? Look, life is valued highly by us. What is life? Life, our humans, the Egyptian people. Our concern as pharaohs is for the well -being of the Egyptian people. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 25:12 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-powers-public-life); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So that's our primary responsibility, okay? The house of the dead, the pyramid, is for life. The pyramid is our legacy to the Egyptian people. It is our benevolence. It is our generosity. It is how we will make Egypt eternal and stable and prosperous, okay? So that's my theory of what the pyramid is. It is really the Manhattan Project, an attempt by the pharaohs to bring eternal peace. Okay, any questions about this idea before I elaborate on it and present the evidence for it? Any questions about this? You guys don't find this controversial? Are you confused by anything? Do you want to challenge me before I present the evidence? Okay, all right. So let me start presenting the evidence, okay? So the first piece of evidence is, again, Egyptian mythology, all right? So in Egyptian mythology, and it's very different from other mythologies we'll study in the future, like that of Mesopotamia, the gods give everything to the people, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 26:47 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: The people don't really do anything special. Ra gives life, Osiris gives civilization, Horus provides the kingship, okay? So the Egyptian understanding of the relationship with the gods is basically if they worship the gods well enough, the gods will always reward them, okay? So the idea that the gods will make the people build tombs doesn't really make any sense, okay? It makes more sense the pharaoh, the pharaoh is helping the Egyptians achieve eternal peace by inspiring them to build the pyramid, okay? The second thing is the architectural quality of the pyramid. Now, there is a misconception, a myth, that pyramids were built by slaves. They just had slaves, they used slaves, but they never used slaves for religious purposes. Right? Because slaves, you can't really trust slaves. So it was tens of thousands of laborers who built the pyramid together. And it's a complete mystery to people how they're able to achieve such a miraculous building, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 28:13 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And so the answer is this. Let's think about for the past thousand years. The most impressive buildings in the world are usually churches. Churches, temples, mosques, right? So that just demonstrates the power of religious devotion in the act of creation. So if the Egyptians saw the pyramids as the ultimate temple, as bringing God on earth, you can imagine every one of them would work very hard in order to do their best. Does that make sense? Okay? The third is the idea of the cult of the skull. So around this time and throughout the world, people practiced ancestor worship. So the way they did that usually is maybe they have an ancestor who was well regarded, okay? They would keep a skull around. They would decorate it with clay and ochre, and they would use this skull as maybe a portal into the outer world, into the spirit world in order to draw inspiration, to draw good luck from this, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 29:32 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So the idea that they would use the Pharaoh's body as a portal into the heavens is a very, would be a very common idea at that time. All right? And then you have cave paintings. So remember way back, way early in the semester, we looked at Ice Age cave paintings. Inside, so these paintings inside caves. And we discussed these paintings were a means of religious worship, of bringing the spirit world into our world, connecting the two, okay? In order to celebrate life and hunting. Okay? Then you have a place like Gopalapetample, which is considered one of the earliest temples. Okay? Remember it is a religious monument on top of a hill. Okay? Which would be also another way for you to connect our world with the heavens. And for your worship, draw divine energy from the heavens. So this, in other words, there's a pattern of humans trying to connect the spirit world with our world through religious worship. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 30:53 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And the pyramid represents the ultimate temple. Okay? Does that make sense? So the pyramid is a continuation of this sort of religious devotion and worship and religious practice. Okay? All right. Okay. Any questions before I move on? Okay. So now the last question is, why did they stop in the pyramid? And there's a very good reason why they stopped in the pyramid. Because remember, this pyramid was about creating eternal peace, pleasing the gods, unifying the world. Right? That's a theory. The problem is this theory doesn't work because in about 2200 BCE, the 4.2, 4.2 kilo year event happened. Okay? Think of this as a mini ice age where for about 100 years there's a drought in Egypt. Well, that's a problem, right? Because the entire point of the pyramid, why people sacrificed themselves so hard to work on the pyramid was to prevent a drought in Egypt. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 32:27 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=1947s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-fails-material-audit) Text: Right? It was to control the Nile. And they failed. So this creates, first of all, a crisis of faith. Okay? A crisis of faith. Many now are forced to reject their faith in the Pharaoh. And now you see the rise of the priesthood. Okay? And other gods as well. So the first major reason why they stopped building the pyramids is a crisis of faith. Second problem is in order to build the pyramids, you need a pyramid economy. Okay? A pyramid economy. And what the pyramid economy represents is centralized planning, right? Centralization. The Pharaoh and his palace are able to coordinate all the resources of the state in order to create the pyramids. We know that when you have a centralization, you have three problems. The first is inequality. So if you're part of this planned economy, you do very well for yourself. Okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 33:35 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2015s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2015s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: But if you're not, then you become poor. Okay? So inequality is a huge issue. But you also have a problem of corruption, where people in the system, they want to steal. Because it's just easier to do. Okay? And the third problem is just waste. It's not very efficient. So basically a pyramid, a pyramid economy is just a complete waste of resources. All right? And the third problem is this. Okay? And this is actually a much more... Okay? This is a huge problem. Okay? This idea of a nihilistic religious belief. What this religious saying is, life doesn't matter. It's death that matters. It's death that allows us to be like God, to be eternal. Right? And in order to ensure our ascent into Godhood, one, we have to be close to the Pharaoh. Okay? We have to be loyal to the Pharaoh. But two, we have to ensure we obtain a lot of wealth in our life. Okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 34:53 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#sacred-machine-coordinates-life); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-fails-material-audit) Text: So basically what Egypt was doing during the pyramid economy was taking all its grain, all its resources, and then selling it overseas in order to bring back precious metals that they could put in their graves so that they could take these precious metals, gold, jewelry, into the afterlife with them. Okay? So basically they were just taking all this tremendous wealth of Egypt, almost unlimited wealth of Egypt, and just squandering it, gambling it away, basically, in the promise of an eternal afterlife. And they really didn't care about the here and now. They didn't care about building a great nation. They really weren't concerned about ensuring everyone was well off and prosperous and happy in a nation. Okay? So you had an elite who was concerned about abusing the power in order to steal as much money as possible in order to ensure a good afterlife. Okay? And this is the three major reasons why they stopped building the pyramids. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 35:57 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Okay? One, because it's a Christ of faith. It doesn't really work. Second is the centralization creates inequality, corruption, and waste. And third is religious belief can only lead to the corruption of the state and tyranny. Okay? So I answered those three questions. Any questions before I continue? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 36:29 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2189s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2189s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Okay? All right. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 37:13 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So yeah, that's a great point. Okay? So you're actually right. Even though they stopped building pyramids, this civilization would go on for another 2,000 years. And it was still, for the majority of that, a very prosperous, stable nation. That was basically the hegemon of the Western world. Okay? So this is the Old Kingdom. That's what they... The Old Kingdom focused on building the pyramids, but the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom would also have a lot of glory as well. So I don't mean to denigrate the society. Okay? I'm just pointing out some logical flaws in the society that will lead to their eventual decay. Because even though the Old Kingdom will collapse, the society is very resilient. So as I said, the Old Kingdom will be replaced by the Middle Kingdom after a large civil war. Also, they will make changes to society that will make society much more stable. And the major change ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 38:20 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: is to take all the centralized powers of the pharaoh and then devolve it into the priesthood and creating a priest bureaucracy. Okay? Which is very much like the Confucian bureaucracy in China. And they will also start importing new ideas from overseas. So I apologize if I'm implying that this is the end of Egypt. It's not. After the Old Kingdom, after they stopped building the pyramids, you will have a new flourishing of creativity and innovation in Egypt. But they stopped perceiving the pyramids as the end on beyond. And the point I'm trying to make is, during the Old Kingdom, they did perceive the pyramid as the Manhattan Project. They really thought, if we build this thing, then there will be eternal peace. And you can also make the argument that the Israelites in the Bible make fun of them because there's the Tower of Babel story, right? The Tower of Babel story where the humans are erroringly trying to build a tower up to heaven to be with God, right? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 39:35 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2375s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2375s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And you can argue that that's what the pyramid is. And God laughs at them and mocks them. And they never succeed. And then God punishes them by making them speak different languages, okay? All right? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 39:54 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Sure. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 40:13 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2413s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2413s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Okay. So this is a great question, okay? What do the Egyptians remember about the Great Pyramid? So Herodotus was running about 400 BCE, okay? And this is about 2,000 years after the Great Pyramid. And Herodotus travels around Egypt, and he's basically a historian. He's a journalist. He wants to know how they built the Great Pyramid. And what he discovers is the Egyptians don't know. Not only do they not know, but they don't even know how to rebuild one, okay? If you ask the Egyptians in 400 BCE, can you build a pyramid, they've lost their expertise, okay? And so let me elaborate on this. When I talk about the pyramid economy, I'm talking about three things. I'm talking about specialization, right? Just massive specialization, including how to carve granite, how to move granite, how to do measurements, okay? You have specialization going on. Then you have something called institutionalization, which is basically creating a memory of this knowledge. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 41:22 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And you do that by passing this knowledge to your sons and your grandsons and to maybe in a guild or workshop, okay? And then you also have systemization, which is to say you have to bring all these pieces together, okay? So the pyramid economy, was extremely complex because you needed all three things to happen at the same time. Specialization, institutionalization, and systemization. You can also argue the man who created this system, the pyramid economy, his name was Imhotep, okay? And he's revered in Egypt as a divine figure, okay? I mean, he was a basically grand vizier to the pharaoh. He was royalty, but he was a man. But he was able to contribute so much to Egypt that they deified him basically, okay? And you can argue like his major contribution was in creating this pyramid economy that are all three elements, specialization, institutionalization, and systemization, okay? Because it's actually very hard to put the pieces together. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 42:29 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2549s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2549s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: You need writing, a writing system. You need a financial system. You need a lot of elements, okay? I'm making this sound a lot easier than it really is, okay? So that's the first thing. Very complex. Second thing is, remember, for the Egyptians and for the pharaoh, the pyramids represented God and Earth, right? So there has to be mystery and secrecy around the building of the pyramid, right? So as I said, what makes the most sense is for them to build these models around the pyramid so that these working teams would know where to go at what time, okay? But after they build the pyramids, it would make sense for them to destroy all records in order to maintain a sense of divinity and inspiration, right? They're trying to create awe and fear and inspiration, so they would not want for people to know how to build the pyramids. They would think this has to be a gift from God, from the pharaoh. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 43:35 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Does that make sense? Okay, but that's a great question. Thanks. Okay, any more questions before I move on? Okay, that's a great question. Where was the mummy of the pharaoh? Okay, so in this theory, you have to understand what matters is not the pyramid. What matters is the body, the pharaoh, right? Because it's the pharaoh's body that's sacred in the vine. So if it's sacred in the vine, then you need a priesthood, a cult of the pharaoh to secure and take care of the body, okay? Does that make sense? So in other words, there has to be a team taking care of the pharaoh's body, the mummy. And that ensures, first and foremost, its safety, okay? So the Great Pyramid was part of a complex called the Giza Complex. So there are actually two other pyramids. And then around the pyramids are these tombs of people who worked for the pharaoh but who were not the vine, okay? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 44:47 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And you can make the argument what they're trying to do is create a constellation, right? Because when you look at the sky, stars don't travel by themselves, they travel in constellations. So it makes sense for the son and the grandson to be buried alongside curfew but as lesser deities, as lesser pyramids to show the Egyptian people the harmony, balance, and order of the system, okay? And what's great about the system is it ensures loyalty of people working for the pharaoh because if you're loyal, you're granted a tomb around the pharaoh which guarantees your ascension into the eternal afterlife. So you can be eternally with the pharaoh, okay? So this is a system of morality basically, right? So this is fine because there's lots of protections for the pharaoh, right? He's surrounded by many different systems. But when the system was ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 45:57 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: breaking down, it was clear that Egypt was, um, breaking into civil war, then the cult of the pharaoh had a responsibility to take the body and place it somewhere that no one could find it, right? Because again, what matters in this system is not the pyramid, what matters is the body. The body is what gives the pyramids energy and power. So they have to protect that body at all costs. So the reason why we can't find the body is they made sure we could not find the body, right? Because the body is the mechanism, the portal by which the pharaoh will resurrect himself. If we have that, then we control the pharaoh. We control God, okay? Does that make sense? So they must have a secret caves or places where they put these bodies. And the purpose is to ensure they can never be found. Okay, so great question. Thank you. Any more questions before I finish the class? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 47:29 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2849s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2849s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: Okay. So what's inside the pyramid? So first of all, the pyramids have been around for about 4,500 years. And tomb raiding was a huge problem, right? So what's actually in the pyramids we can't be sure about, right? Because of time, because of tomb raiding, okay? We didn't find that much inside the pyramid. Okay? There were no pictures, artwork. There were very few hieroglyphics inside the Great Pyramid. There were hieroglyphics and paintings in other pyramids, okay? But inside the Great Pyramid, we haven't found that much, which I think gives even more credence to my theory that this was meant to be a temple of worship, okay? And this is also why people believe it's a tomb, because there's so few artwork. If it were a temple instead, you would imagine there would be a lot of artwork. Okay? Any more questions before I finish the class? Are you guys clear so far? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 48:43 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2923s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=2923s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: All right. So I want to finish the class with a different question, which is why is it that my interpretation is so radically different from the mainstream academic interpretation, okay? And I want to propose the way that our minds work today are radically different from the way that the minds of people like the Egyptians worked, okay? For three reasons. Today, the Egyptian people had a pre -literate mind. They also had a pre -science mind, also pre -capitalistic. So let me explain. Pre -literate is very simple. It just means they didn't read and write. They just spoke. And we are taught the literate mind is more powerful than the oral mind. But that's not true, okay? If you think about it, the oral mind works through imagination. The oral mind is capable of tremendous memory. Because back then, in order to do anything, you have to memorize a lot of information. Now we can just go online, right? ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 50:09 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: So their minds, even though were pre -literate, they were much more imaginative than we are today. And their memories were stronger. That's why they were able to build the Great Pyramid. Because everyone was able to memorize the model and figure out his or her place inside the structure. They were also able to imagine in their heads the Great Pyramid. Remember Homer and Virgil. The way that children learn Homer and Virgil is by memorizing them, okay? And you can do that. There are people today who memorize the Koran and who memorize the Torah. It takes some time, but you're able to do that. So back then, they were able to build the pyramid because they were able to visualize the pyramid in their minds. And you can do that with a pre -literate mind. Second is the idea of pre -science. So in today's world, science is our god. So in school, you're ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 51:16 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3076s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3076s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: taught the scientific method, which is basically you collect information, then you synthesize it, then you write your thesis, okay? It's a step -by -step logical process. But if you're a pre -scientific mind, then where do you get your ideas from? You get your ideas through divine inspiration, through God, right? So you can make the argument, like back then, they were capable of these grand ideas that we're not capable of today because we're locked in by the discipline of science. The other problem with science is it's very materialistic, meaning we're focused on the here and now. We're focused on what we can see as opposed to what we feel or what we believe, right? So when we look at the pyramid, we're always about what was built instead of, like, what were they feeling when they were building this? And that's a huge difference. And the third difference is pre -capitalistic. Today we do things to make money. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 52:22 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3142s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3142s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: We come to school because we want to get a job, because we want to make money and we want to buy things, okay? It's a very utilitarian mindset. But for most of human history, most civilizations were not capitalistic. They were religious. They were focused on community. They were focused on what they could contribute to the betterment of the people around them. They were concerned about their relationship with God. They were concerned about how to create peace in the world. They're asking big questions like what is good and what is evil? What is justice? What is fairness? What is justice? And so they were much more focused on building a pyramid as a way to build community and peace and eternity on Earth, okay? So in other words, what's interesting is even though we are much more technologically advanced, we're much wealthier than the Egyptians, we don't have the imagination, we don't have the will to build something like the Great Pyramid again. ## The Pyramid That Tried To End History -- 53:31 - Source title: Civilization #18: The Great Pyramid as Ancient Egypt's Manhattan Project - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-26, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSSCznYrGo&t=3211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kssscznyrgo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kssscznyrgo.json) Text: And that's why I think even today the Great Pyramid captures the imagination of so many people around the world because it's really beyond our own imagination. It really shows the limitations of our own imagination, all right? Okay, that's it. Any questions? Okay. Yeah, let's all be intuitive and free science here, yeah, yeah. Okay. So this begins a broad age. Okay? This is part of the Bronze Age. Egypt is the greatest civilization of the Bronze Age. Next class, we'll look at Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilization. Okay? So there are three great Bronze Age civilizations, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay, good morning. So this is going to be a very long class today, and I'm going to throw a lot of information at you, okay? The reason why is I want to summarize and review what we've learned about Rome so far, compare and contrast it to the Greeks, and then look forward on how the Romans and the Greeks would influence the development of Western civilization, including Christianity, okay? So I'll be throwing a lot at you today, so if you have any questions, please let me know, okay? If I'm being unclear, please let me know, all right? Just raise your hand, okay? All right, so let's review what we know so far. So the Romans and the Greeks are very different civilizations. If you remember the Greeks, the Greeks are scattered across the Aegean and across the Mediterranean, okay? They have colonies all over the place. So the Greeks are primarily focused on trade, especially with the great empires of the Near East, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 1:11 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=71s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=71s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Primarily Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia, okay? The three great civilizations that we will discuss starting next week. And so the Greeks have colonies all over these three civilizations. And as such, the Greeks are able to absorb new ideas pretty easily. And because the Greeks are focused on trade, maritime trade, they're a very open -minded people, okay? So that's Greek civilization. The Romans are completely different because they are across the Adriatic in Italy, and they're inland. So they're a much more insular and conservative people. than the Greeks. Also the Romans have historically been surrounded by very aggressive people, including the Latins, the Sabians, the Atruscians. And so Rome has always had to struggle to survive in this very hostile environment. And in order to survive, they develop a cultural system that made them Urbans. the world's greatest military machine okay and the three pillars of this culture are piety ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 2:48 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: right piety obedience and loyalty to the gods to Rome and to your fathers second principle is the idea of liberty which puts the nobility at the very heart and center of Roman society liberty means no Kings no no dictators no tyrants and the third and most important pillar is idea of Republic ah right the public good media here is everyone my sacrifice himself for the honor and glory of Rome in fact there's a competition you want you want prestige by winning new territory for Rome okay and this is the idea of the Republic of Rome the Republic of Rome is a great system if you are a poor small nation always at war and under threat from larger nations so remember in 216 BCE Hannibal destroyed every Roman army but the same time the Romans were able to rally themselves and ultimately defeat Carthage in a second Punic war okay so the great system if ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 4:14 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: you're a small and poor and nation always at war with larger nations but this isn't breaks down when you become rich big Empire and you're the main major hegemon in the area and this system will lead to three major problems in the Roman Republic corruption division right civil wars and so on the decibels subirgtion and typeает anarlton� and also inequality so now the Rome is in crisis and the ultimate resolution to all these problems was the beginning of the Empirerics ever emperor gave his all of March briefly became the emperor he is now known as Augustus Caesar and again what he does is he centralizes all military authority in his hands Egypt is now his private estate and he uses it to bankroll the army which is now composed of professional soldiers before they were citizen soldiers so they only volunteered when Rome was at war but now in the Empire there's a professional standing ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 5:49 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=349s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=349s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: army and they serve like 20 years or 30 years they're all paid by one man the Emperor through his land holdings in Egypt okay he also established something called the Praetorian Guard the Praetorian Guard is basically the secret police of Rome okay so there are no soldiers in Rome but there are there's a Praetorian Guard they're responsible for peace and security in Rome they're only responsible to one man okay the Emperor so even though but even though Augustus Caesar has conquered Rome and basically most of the world he still has three major problems that he must resolve if he has to be Emperor fully okay the first problem he must solve is the question of legitimacy why is he emperor and traditionally in the ancient world your legitimacy comes from the actual your family. How old is your family? How established is your family? Now, there are two major myths about the founding of Rome, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 7:12 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=432s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=432s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: The first is Romulus, right? The first king of Rome. The second is Lucius Brutus and the founding of the Roman Republic. Now, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar are not, do not come from either of these two myths or families, okay? So, he has to construct a new myth that shows that his family, called the Julii, go way back. They go back, they go back to before Romulus, okay? So, while he was alive, Julius Caesar planted the seeds of this. Remember, Julius Caesar is a great myth maker, okay? So, the myth he came up with is this. There is a man, and he is a man, and he is a man, and he is a man, and he is a man, and he is a man, named Aeneas. And Aeneas is from Troy, right? When Troy was destroyed, Aeneas was able to escape with some survivors, and they came to Italy, and they built the foundations that would become Rome, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 8:21 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: So, in other words, Romulus is descended from Aeneas, but Julius Caesar is also descended from Aeneas. Okay? So, that is how Augustus Caesar will cement his legitimacy, by promoting the idea that his ancestor was Aeneas, who is the real founder of Rome, okay? So, he's winning a new myth, and he's trying to popularize it. So, it's the first problem he's trying to solve, legitimacy. There's a problem he's trying to solve, is like a new Roman cultural identity. Okay? So, remember, the old Roman cultural identity was based on piety, liberty, and repulchre. And this creates problems in the emperor, because remember, Marcus Brutus and Decimus Brutus, they thought that they were descendants of, sorry, they thought they were descendants of Lucius Brutus, and therefore, they had a responsibility to kill all kings, all tyrants, and that's why they assassinated Julius Caesar. So, you can't allow this cultural identity to exist, right? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 9:43 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Because it will encourage other Buddhists to come kill you, the emperor. So, you have to change this. You have to get rid of the idea of liberty and repulchre, okay? You have to promote a new Roman identity focused on obedience, piety and obedience. And then there's a third problem that Augustus Caesar must resolve as emperor. Which is this. Even though the Romans have conquered most of the world, okay? Basically, the Mediterranean world, culturally, it's the Greeks who are dominant. Because the Greeks have a superior culture. They have Homer. They have Plato. They have Thucydides. They have Aeschylus. Okay, so all Romans acknowledge the fact that Greek culture is superior. And as Romans embraced Greek culture, Augustus Caesar believes they are corrupted okay for Augustus Caesar he believes that Greek culture it is too hedonistic and that's ultimately what happened to Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony was this good Roman who went off to Egypt and became corrupted and seduced by Cleopatra and Greek culture. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 11:06 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=666s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=666s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Mark Anthony became more Greek now that's why he betrayed Rome. Augustus Caesar also believe that's why Rome began descending into civil wars because Rome was starting to embrace Greek culture and it made everyone more individualistic, more hedonistic, more selfish and that's why they fought these civil wars okay? So Augustus Caesar now has to somehow destroy destroy Greek culture or the influence of Greek culture on the Roman soul. And he knows the very essence, the very basis of Greek culture is Homer, especially the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two books were essentially the bible of Greek civilization. This is how children were educated. When they were young, they memorized the Iliad and they memorized the Odyssey. That's what taught them how to speak well, how to think well, and how to debate well. So Augustus Caesar understands that to defeat Homer, he needs to create a Roman epic to replace Homer in the schools. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 12:34 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=754s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=754s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: So he invited a man named Virgil, who at this time is considered the greatest man in the world. He invited this living Roman poet to write another epic in Latin to replace Homer as a cornerstone of the education system. And he wrote something called the Iliad, which is really about the journey of Aeneas as he creates Rome, as he founds Rome. So from 29 BCE until 19 BCE, for about over 10 years, Virgil worked on the Iliad. And he wrote the Iliad under the direct supervision of Augustus Caesar. So they were basically co -authors. Virgil was the poet. He was the one who could put the words together. But it was Augustus Caesar who had the vision of what the Iliad should be. The Iliad will accomplish all three of these major challenges. It will establish the primacy of the July family as the first family of Rome. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 13:45 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=825s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=825s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: It will establish a new Roman cultural identity focused on Rome. piety over liberty and it will show that Greek culture is one of corruption and hedonism and it must be repelled okay so you can make the argument that Virgil's Ennead is the greatest work of propaganda ever in human history right so that's what I will show you today okay to do this what I will do is compare contrast the Iliad and the Odyssey with the Ennead to show you how different the Roman worldview is from the Greek worldview okay so before I start are there any questions about this framework is this clear to you okay all right so let's start with you the Iliad okay and remember this is a very important idea Homer and Virgil are two different individuals they're both poets but Homer was writing when Greek civilization was just beginning so he's trying to create the seeds of civilization okay he's ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 15:18 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: trying to be a great teacher Virgil is writing when Rome is an empire that is everywhere and everything it's basically God okay so it's trying to teach people how to be part of this empire okay did you understand so so you can argue that Homer is an educator whereas Virgil is a propagandist all right okay so let's talk about the Iliad okay so um the first thing is the Iliad is a very complicated work it's a universe on a to itself with like dozens of characters okay I'm only going to focus on one character Achilles and tell his story okay but but but please be aware um the story I'm telling it is my interpretation there are different interpretations okay but it's a one interpretation found in the universe of the Iliad okay so the basic story it's very simple Helen is the queen of Sparta married to the king of Sparta Menelaus she is ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 16:35 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: seduced by the prince of Troy named Paris they fall in love they run off together to Troy Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon they raised an army to rescue Helen or to retrieve Helen back from the Trojans who refused to give her up and what follows is a ten -year war between the Trojans and the Trojans and the Trojans and the Trojans and the ten year siege of Troy and the Greeks aren't really getting anywhere because Troy it is the um largest city in the world at this time it's a walled city and the Greeks don't know how to break through the trojan walls okay the Iliad starts when at Achilles who is the greatest warrior of the Greeks he gets into a fight with Agamemnon they get into a fight and Achilles calls Agamemnon You insult me. I fight for you. I will not refuse to fight for you. I will let the Trojans kill all of you. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 17:42 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And Agamemnon, the king, wants to save face. So he tells Achilles, I don't need you. But in fact, the Greeks do need Achilles because the Trojans have a great warrior named Hector. And Hector recognizes that Achilles has retired from the battlefield. And Hector leads his army against the Greeks. And they push the Greeks so far back, the Greeks are now trapped on their ships by the coast. And what Hector wants to do is burn down these ships. Because if he burns down these ships, the Greeks cannot resupply themselves. And they will eventually die in Troy. So at this point, Agamemnon has no choice but to beg Achilles to return to the battlefield. Because only Achilles can defeat Hector in battle. But Agamemnon doesn't want to lose face. So he sends a delegation of generals led by a man named Odysseus to beg Achilles to return to the battlefield. So Odysseus goes and sees Achilles in a ship. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 18:56 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And Odysseus says, listen Achilles, we're dying out here. If you don't fight for us, we're all going to die. Hector is destroying us. If you fight for us, Agamemnon will give you everything. All these treasures we are promised in Troy, we'll give to you. Agamemnon will give you anything you want. He'll give you the world. And Achilles, because he's an asshole, says, no, I want Agamemnon to come beg me himself. So this goes nowhere. And Agamemnon refuses to come beg. So the Trojans advance further and further. And they're about to burn their ships. Patroclus sees his best friends with Achilles. And he sees that Achilles is conflicted. Because Achilles wants to jump into the fray. Achilles had a prophecy before he came to Troy. And the prophecy is this. He has a choice. He can either choose to die an old man at home. And be a nobody. Or come to Troy, die young at battle, in the battle. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 20:15 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And be remembered forever as the greatest champion of the Greeks. And for Achilles, that's not a choice. Because for him, as a warrior, he loves to fight. He can only achieve eudaimonia in battle. So for him to sit in a ship and watch the Greeks being destroyed, it is the worst punishment on earth. But at the same time, Achilles, he's arrogant. He's vain. And he demands Agamemnon to come apologize. Which Agamemnon is not going to do. Agamemnon would rather see the entire Greek army demolished than to apologize to Achilles. So Patroclus tells Achilles, listen. Let me jump into the battle to save the ships. And Achilles says, Fine. I will let you stop the Trojan advance. But do not, under any circumstances, fight Hector in battle. So Patroclus jumps into battle. And he fights the Trojans. And then what does he do? He fights Hector, right? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 21:27 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1287s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1287s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And then what happens? He gets killed. Achilles hears about the death of Patroclus. And Achilles is so angry at the death of his best friend that he forgives Agamemnon. He lets go of his anger at Agamemnon and directs it at Hector. He jumps into battle. He challenges Hector to a duel. And he kills Hector. Okay? Then what he does is he takes Hector's dead body. He ties it to his chariot. And then he drags Hector's body around the walls of Troy. And on top of the walls of Troy are Hector's parents, King Priam and Queen Hecuba. And they are screaming in anguish. They hate this devil who not only killed their son Hector, but is now humiliating and mutilating him in front of the entire Trojan people. Okay? So at this point, you would think that Achilles has achieved immortality. He's defeated Hector in battle. He saved the Greek army. And he'd be very happy. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 22:45 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: But it turns out he falls into a deep depression. He cannot sleep. He cannot eat. All he does is think about Patroclus. But he's so depressed he can't even cry for Patroclus. So this is where Homer is really the first psychologist. Because Achilles is feeling this way. Because he is wrapped with guilt. If you think about it, it wasn't Hector who killed Patroclus. It was Achilles who killed Patroclus. Why? Because Patroclus wouldn't be dead if A Achilles did not get in that stupid fight with Agamemnon. Okay? B Achilles just forgave Agamemnon when Odysseus came begging. Okay? And C if Achilles did not agree for Patroclus to go into battle. Okay? So while knowing it, because Achilles lacks self -awareness, he is trapped by his guilt over the death of Patroclus. And he is taking out his rage on Hector. Okay? He is supposed to return Hector's body for a ransom to the Trojans. Because everyone ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 24:13 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: believes at this time that the dead can only find peace in the afterlife if they're buried. Okay? So for Achilles to torment Hector's body like this means that Hector can never find peace in the afterlife. His father Priam is back in Troy and he can't sleep either because he's depressed over what's happened to his son. So eventually the gods broker a peace deal. Okay? And they tell Priam to go to Achilles and Achilles will return the body to Priam. Alright? So late one night, Priam sneaks into the tent and he's standing behind Achilles who is busy discussing military matters with his generals. And at this point, Priam can take out a knife and stab Achilles to death. And he wants to because he's so angry at this man who's killed and mutilated his son Hector. Instead, and this is the genius of Homer, okay? Priam kneels down and kisses the hand of Achilles, the man who has killed his beloved son. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 25:36 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And in response, Achilles stands and he is in awe of this old man who at this moment has demonstrated more courage, more strength than Achilles has ever witnessed. Okay? So, in this act of submission, Priam has emotionally defeated Achilles. And Achilles is ashamed of himself. And by forgiving Achilles, Priam allows Achilles to now forgive himself. Okay? Does that make sense to you? Alright. And so, the two then start to become friends. Because in the face of Priam, Achilles sees his father, Peleus. And he pities Priam for having lost his son. And in the face of Achilles, Priam sees his son Hector. And they both hug and they cry. And this is the first time that Achilles has been able to cry since the death of Patroclus. And these tears release him from the ghost of Patroclus who is haunting him. Okay? And this is how the Iliad ends. What ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 27:04 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: we've witnessed in the Iliad is the character transformation of Achilles from a cold -blooded, merciless, vain and arrogant warrior into a man who is capable of pity, self -reflection, and self -forgiveness. Okay? And you can argue that this is a process of civilization. And so, the point of the Iliad is even though it's about war, it's really making the argument that love is the basis of civilization. It is what unites us and inspires us. Love is the unifying force of the universe. Right? Even though Priam and Achilles are the most bitter enemies, because of Hector's love for Hector, because of Priam's love for Hector, and because of Achilles' love for his father, Peleus, they're able to find common ground and become friends. Right? That's the Iliad. Does that make sense? Right? So, again, it is arguably the greatest work of literature in human history. And this is only one interpretation. There are different interpretations. Okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 28:27 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1707s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1707s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: But you can see how rich and complex, sophisticated the Iliad is. Okay? It is, by reading it, you'll be inspired to reimagine yourself and the world around you. Okay? That's how powerful it is. All right. Now let's move on to the Odyssey. The Iliad is about Achilles and its transformation into self -awareness. The Odyssey is about Odysseus. And unlike Achilles, Odysseus does not want to go to the Trojan War. Okay? Achilles jumps at the chance to win glory at Troy. But Odysseus was given a prophecy, which is this. If he goes to Troy, he will be gone for 20 years. He lives in Ithaca with his wife, Penelope. And they just had a newborn son, Telemachus. Okay? And the prophecy is if you go to Troy, you'll be gone for 20 years. 10 years at war in Troy, 10 years lost at sea. And Odysseus, who loves his family, does not want to go to war. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 29:41 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? So, he pretends to be crazy, insane. And so, what he does is he takes salt and a plow. And he plows the field and salts it, which kills the field. Okay? So, clearly, this is a sign of insanity. But the Greek soldiers who come to retrieve him are determined to get him. Because they know that Odysseus is the most strategic and the wisest of the Greeks. He will be the one who will deliver victory to the Greeks. And so, Odysseus will come up with the Trojan horse strategy. Right? He will, it is his idea, the Trojan horse strategy. So, they need him. So, to test him, to see if he's really mad, they put his son, Tanarchus, who's only like six months old, in front of him. Okay? So, if he's really crazy, he would run over his son. If he's not crazy, then he would stop. And obviously, he's not going to run over his son. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 30:42 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? So, his trick has been revealed and he's forced to go to war. And he hates going to war. Okay? But he's determined to win the war for the Greeks. The first reason is he believes the Trojans are unjust. How dare you steal another man's wife? Right? Second reason is he wants to build a legacy for his son, Tanarchus. He wants to go home to Ithaca and tell his son what a hero he is. Okay? He wants to build a legacy for his son. Right? And the third thing is he wants to reunite the family which has been broken. Right? Menelaus and Helen. Just as he wants to return to his wife, Penelope. Okay? So this is what we call his worldview. The way he understands the world. And the worldview is what allows us to be human and to exist. Right? The worldview explains to us who we are, what do we want, and what we should do. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 32:08 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=1928s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: The problem is after Odysseus comes up with a Trojan horse, they sneak into the city and they open the gates. The Greeks come flooding in. Okay? And now it's total mayhem because the Greeks are killing everyone inside the city. Odysseus kills a Trojan soldier who's attacking him. The Trojan soldier falls to the ground and then suddenly his wife screams at the death of her husband and she comes and sobs at the body of her dead husband. Okay? And this creates something called cognitive dissonance. Okay? Cognitive dissonance is when the worldview and the reality do not match. There's conflict between the reality and the worldview. Remember, Odysseus came to Troy to for justice, to build a legacy for his son Timarchus and to reunite a family. And what he's doing now is destroying families. The Greeks are just massacring everyone. It's not justice. It's just slaughter. It's just complete mayhem. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 33:27 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And so what happens is Odysseus is traumatized by what he sees. Okay? And this is what we call PTSD, right? Post Traumatic Stress Order. And after Troy, Odysseus becomes lost at sea and he becomes like a sex slave called Calypso who's trapped him. And he's basically like a sex slave. Okay? And every day when he's not having sex with Calypso, which sucks, he's crying on the beach. Okay? He has PTSD. And he doesn't want to go home because he's ashamed to face his family. He's so ashamed by what's happening in Troy, he cannot face his family. So he's just stuck where he is. Meanwhile, at home, Penelope, his wife, she is waiting for him to return. But after some time, people think Odysseus must be dead. So there's about a hundred young men, hundred suitors, who come and demand her hand in marriage. Okay? But, she refuses to believe Odysseus is dead. So, she falls into depression as well. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 34:58 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2098s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2098s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Right? She's waiting for her husband to return. But, all the signs are that he's dead. She's been courted by a hundred suitors, and she can't say no to any of them because she's afraid her husband is really dead and she doesn't want to be alone. Okay? So she becomes depressed as well. She becomes paralyzed. So she's stuck. Right? This means that Timarchus, the son, is stuck as well. And he becomes a depressed teenager because if Odysseus were dead, he would inherit his legacy. He could become his own man. But Odysseus is not dead yet. No one knows if he's dead or alive. So he's stuck where he is. If Penelope were just to marry and go somewhere else, he would inherit the property, right? But she's just stuck in her room. So he's depressed as well. So this entire family, okay, is depressed. Odysseus is depressed. Penelope, Timarchus, they're all depressed. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 35:59 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2159s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2159s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: So they're just stuck there. Athena, who is the goddess of wisdom, okay, and she favors Odysseus. And she pities the family. And she resolves to bring the family back together again. So she goes and tells Calypso, hey, you've had your fun, but you have to let Odysseus go, okay? So now Odysseus is free to go home. And Athena tells Odysseus, listen, do not, when you go home, you can tell Timarchus who you are, but don't tell Penelope and anyone else who you are because you might be killed, okay? There's 100 suitors who would kill you if they knew who you were. So Athena disguises him as a different person, as a beggar basically. Beggar. And when Odysseus returns to Ithaca, the first thing he wants to know is does Penelope still love him? Remember, Odysseus is suffering from post -traumatic stress disorder, okay? He's lost his ability to fight, to imagine. He's lost his capacity for love. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 37:20 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: So he doesn't even know if his wife still loves him. So he meets with Penelope, okay? And again, he's still this guy. Penelope has no idea who he is. And he cannot reveal himself to her. He sees Penelope is distraught. And he tries to comfort Penelope by telling her that he has seen Odysseus. Odysseus is still alive. Penelope breaks down in tears at the thought that her husband is still alive. And then she asks Odysseus, how do you know my husband is still alive? Prove to me that you've met my husband. And Odysseus says, I will describe something intimate about him. Okay? He has a brooch that he carries on his cloak. And this brooch is beautiful. And he goes into poetic detail and describes this brooch. And at this point, when Penelope hears this, she breaks down in complete tears because now she knows this beggar must be my husband, Odysseus, in disguise. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 38:40 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: How does she know? Because only Odysseus will know all the details of the brooch. What is the brooch? The brooch is what Penelope gave Odysseus as Odysseus set sail for Troy. Right? It is Penelope's gift to him. And it is Odysseus's promise to her that he will return. So, even though Odysseus has lost the brooch in war and at sea, the brooch is implanted in his mind. The brooch symbolizes his everlasting love for Penelope. Okay? So, now that Penelope knows Odysseus has returned, they still have to figure out how to get rid of these hundred suitors, okay? How to kill them because they're still a threat to the family. So, Penelope has this great plan, okay? She's going to organize an archery contest. Odysseus has a bow. If the suitors can string the bow and shoot a target, then Penelope will marry that suitor. So, she organizes competition and all the hundred suitors, they fail one by one, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 39:58 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: They cannot string the bow together. Then the beggar, who is Odysseus, says, let me try. And the moment he strings the bow together, the suitors are afraid because they know this can only be Odysseus. Only Odysseus can string the bow together and use it. And then one by one, Odysseus takes his bow and he kills all the suitors. What the bow symbolizes is his identity, who he is. The bow, by stringing it together, it represents the resurrection, the stringing together of his worldview, okay? He now remembers that he's a father, a hero who fights for justice. He fights to protect his family. That's who he is really, okay? And so, this story is the power of love to heal trauma after war. And again, the main message is love is the unifying force of the world. It is what will heal you. It is what will bring people together. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 41:11 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? So that's the Iliad and the Odyssey. Does that make sense? And again, the argument is love is the basis of civilization. It is the thing that makes us human. It is what gives us our strength, our courage, our power. Okay. So, are you clear about the Iliad and Odyssey before I move on to the Iliad? Any questions? Okay. Let's do the Iliad. Okay. So, neither the Iliad or the Odyssey talks about the Trojan Horse. But the Iliad, the first thing it does is talk about the Trojan Horse. So, the Trojans wake up one day and they find this huge Trojan Horse, wooden horse, outside the gates. And most are like, this must be a Greek trick. Let's just burn it down. Okay. But then they capture a Greek soldier. And this Greek soldier is very eloquent. With logic and with beauty and with power, he tells a false story of how the Greeks became disheartened by the progress of the war. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 42:44 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2564s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2564s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And they decide to sail home. And to ensure their safe journey home, they built a wooden horse for the gods to win their favor. Okay. And the story is so moving and so beautiful that Trojans believe him. Okay. And they let the Trojan Horse in. So, the Iliad is not as subtle as the Iliad. The real Trojan Horse is Greek culture. Right? Logic, philosophy, and theater. Okay? That's what Greek culture is. Logic, philosophy, and theater. And that's what the Greek soldier uses in order to manipulate the Trojans to lie to them. Okay? So, the message here is if we Romans embrace Greek culture, embrace logic, philosophy, and theater, then our culture will be destroyed. The real Trojan Horse is Greek culture. Therefore, we must resist it at all costs. So, Aeneas wakes up and he finds the city in flames. The Greeks are going around massacring everyone. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 44:14 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? So, Aeneas goes and he tries to save Priam. He runs to the palace and Priam is on his throne and he sees one of his sons being killed by Achilles' son, Neo -Ptolemus. Okay? Neo -Ptolemus. And Priam curses Neo -Ptolemus and he says, your father, you insult the honor of your father. Your father was an honorable man. We were friends. And then Neo -Ptolemus goes up to Priam and kills him and says, my father is dead. You should join him in the underworld. Okay? It is a horrific scene. Okay? So, what this is telling us, again, this is not subtle. Okay? There is no place for love, friendship, and forgiveness. That's all a lie. It's all just trickery. Okay? Only brutality and force will triumph in the end. Aeneas is trying to save Priam, but then Priam dies. And then he discovers that hiding somewhere, he sees Helen. Okay? And he thinks that Helen is the one responsible for all of this. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 45:49 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: She's a whore. She's a slut. If she just did her duty, if she just stayed at home where she was supposed to be, this war would have started. So, he really wants to kill her. Okay? In fact, he is about to kill her. Then suddenly, a goddess named Venus. Okay? Also, so the Romans call her Venus. The Greeks call her Aphrodite. And she is the mother of Aeneas. She appears before her son and says, my son, you are destined for greater things. Leave Helen. Return to your family. So, Aeneas has no choice but to obey his mother. And he runs home. And he sees that his family is fine. His son is named Julius. He has a father and a wife. And they're fine. So, he's like, okay, you guys are fine. I'm going to go and kill some Greeks. I'm going to die with this city. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 46:52 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: I'm going to fight until my dying breath to save my city. And the wife and the father are begging him to not go because you are one man against an entire army. You're going to get killed. But Aeneas is stubborn and he's angry right now. Suddenly, Julius here is on fire. And it's like a golden crown, okay? And the father says, you see, Aeneas, this is a sign. This is a sign that your son will be the founder of a great empire, okay? We know it's an empire to be called Rome, okay? And this is what stops Aeneas from committing suicide. He's like, okay, now I understand. It is my duty to save my son and my family. So he carries his father who is unable to walk. He carries his son and he carries both of them to safety. They're looking for ships, okay? And his wife follows behind. They get to the ship and Aeneas turns around and he discovers his wife has disappeared. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 48:03 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2883s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2883s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: He goes back and he's discovered that his wife has killed herself. Why? Because she knows that in this new world that they're going to she can only be a hindrance, okay? She wants him to embrace the future and let go of the past. Also she's afraid that if she lives she'll be captured and become a slave to the Greeks and she does not want to dishonor him like that, okay? So that's what a good wife is, right? That's a bad wife because she's independent and she's looking for love. But a good wife is someone who will kill herself for her husband, okay? So Aeneas and his people, they're on ships and they end up in Carthage and they're guests of a queen named Dido. And Dido falls in love with Aeneas. They get married and Aeneas is very happy in Carthage, okay? ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 49:00 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2940s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=2940s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: The gods look at Aeneas and says, hey man, we told you this many times but you have a destiny to go to Rome. Your son will be the founder of a great empire, okay? That's the plan, that's the destiny, that's your mission, that's your duty. Stop fooling around in Carthage and do what you're told. So Aeneas has to go see Dido and say, listen, I have to go, okay? And Dido goes insane because she's in love with Aeneas and she kills herself, okay? So the message here, again, this is not subtle, okay? The message here is love is a disease, right? Love is a disease, a plague upon the world. It was Helen's love that caused the Trojan War. It was Dido's love for Aeneas that will cause the war between Carthage and Rome, okay? Because before she dies, Dido instructs her people to destroy Rome. In the future, a great city called Rome will arise. You, the Carthaginian people, have a responsibility to honor my memory and destroy Rome. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 50:17 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: And that's why Hannibal went to attack Rome, okay? Again, this is that subtle propaganda. Aeneas ends up in Italy, like he's supposed to. And there, he meets the local king, his name is Latinus, and he's the king of the Latins, okay? And he is mesmerized, stunned by the nobility of Aeneas. And he wants his daughter to marry Aeneas. But his daughter has already, um, is already supposed to marry another prince called Churnus. And this starts a war between Aeneas and Churnus. And this war goes on for a very long time. It's like the Iliad. And Churnus kills one of Aeneas' friends, okay? And he sees that the friend of Aeneas has this really nice belt. He takes it for himself. And this belt was a gift from Aeneas to his friend, okay? Eventually, Aeneas and Churnus get into a duel. And Aeneas overpowers Churnus. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 51:44 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: He wants to show mercy. He's like, I've beaten you. You're no longer a threat. I can show some forgiveness, okay? I can be merciful. But then he sees the belt that he gave his friend. And he knows Churnus has killed his friend. And so he just plunges his spear into Churnus. And that's how the Aeneid ends, okay? Now, the Aeneid is very confusing for scholars because it's pretty awful. And so scholars have debated whether or not Virgil was able to finish the Aeneid. And the argument is, the ending is too abrupt and therefore Virgil couldn't have finished the Aeneid. Okay? It's unfinished. But you think about it, it is finished, okay? Because remember in the Aeneid we see a character transformation of Achilles, right? Well, we also see a character transformation of Aeneas in this book, alright? So remember, when Aeneas sees Helen he really wants to kill her. And it took the ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 53:06 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: and he only stopped because the gods intervened, okay? Remember, Aeneas wanted to abandon his family and get killed in the streets of Troy. The gods had to send him a message, okay? So another divine intervention. Remember, Aeneas wanted to stay at Carthage and be with Dido. So the Greeks had to send a messenger to tell him, okay? But, at the very end, when Aeneas wanted to kill, when Aeneas wanted to kill Churnus, the gods didn't have to intervene, okay? He wanted to show mercy to Churnus and he recognized, no, my duty is to kill this guy. You understand? Okay? So Aeneas has become the embodiment of piety and duty. Before, do his duty. Now he recognizes what his duty is and he embraces it, okay? Now, what's important for us to just remember that throughout this play, oh, sorry, throughout this book, there's the idea of destiny. That what Aeneas is doing has been preordained ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 54:34 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: by the gods because the real purpose of Aeneas is to go to Rome so that his son can build the Roman Empire. So another major message of this book is the end point of history is Augustus Caesar, okay? Everything that is happening is to move towards, converge to Augustus Caesar because Augustus Caesar will create the Pax Romana, what we call the Roman Peace, which is the idea of eternal peace. Peace on Earth. Remember that before Augustus Caesar, there were all these civil wars that were killing millions of people, right? Well, after Augustus Caesar became emperor, there is now the Pax Romana, eternal peace on Earth. And this is the end point of history. The Roman Empire will mean there will no longer be any wars. There will no longer be any conflicts. Why? Because what the Roman Empire will do is transition us from love to piety. Okay? Homer believed that love is the basis of civilization. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 55:57 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: What the Roman Empire will show is is that piety is the basis of civilization. Love is the force that comes from within you. Okay? It grows within you. Within. But piety is what is told to you. Okay? It is what you must accept. Love is what you can feel. Love is the embrace of your emotions. Piety means the rejection of your emotions. Don't listen to your feelings. Listen to what you are told. By embracing your emotions, you have imagination. Okay? But piety believes imagination is destructive. What matters is stability and harmony. Okay? Stability. Stability and obedience is what will give peace to the world. Okay? So, for Homer, love is the unifying force of the universe. But for Virgil, love is the force that creates conflict in the universe. Right? Think of Helen. Think of Diddle. For Homer, the imagination is the animating force of the universe. It is what gives life. But for Virgil, the imagination is the destructive force of the universe. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 57:35 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: It is what destroys. It is basically you disobey that creates chaos and conflict. And so, we now have a transition from the Greek world to the Roman world that is focused on piety. What Virgil is trying to create is the idea of eternity. Right? Eternity. Something that lasts forever. What Homer is trying to create is the idea of infinity. How we can create the world through our actions and emotions. Okay? In the Pax Romana and Augustus Caesar, all you have to do is obey and the world will be perfect. We have come to the end of history. History has stopped because we have found the perfect, we have found perfection. We have found the perfect model to organize human civilization. We are the perfection. We are the end. Okay. And so, this is the idea of Roman, Roman eternity. And this marks a radical transition in Western civilization. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 58:53 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? One last point is this. Okay? The Romans were like the most non -creative people in the world. They were anti -creative. So, everything that they had they sold somewhere else. Somewhere else. Okay? So, the question then is where do they get the idea of eternity from? Can you guess? Egypt. Okay? Next class I will show you that the Romans are using the Egyptian sense of eternity. Alright? So, I know this is a lot to take in. So, feel free to ask for clarification on any point. Okay? Are you okay with this? Sure. Well, Augustus Caesar wants them to reject the Roman culture because it's so powerful. Right? So, okay. So, this lecture is not about what happens in reality. This lecture is about the new conception of reality as introduced by the Roman Empire. Okay? But eventually this will become the new reality. It will take time. ## Rome's War To Defeat Homer -- 1:00:42 - Source title: Civilization #17: Homer, Vergil, and the War for the Soul of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3642s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myTurqU7NxU&t=3642s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-myturqu7nxu@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-myturqu7nxu.json) Text: Okay? Okay. So, looking ahead the Romans will introduce a new idea that will make piety and obedience the cornerstone of society. Okay? This idea is called Christianity. Okay, looking ahead, right, I, like, this is not happening right now because the Roman conception is not as appealing as the Greek conception. Okay? But eventually the Romans will create a new religion called Christianity that will dominate and make piety the cornerstone of society and civilization. But looking ahead. Any questions? Okay. So, next class we will discuss Egypt. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: So we are doing Octavius and the birth of the Roman Empire today. Okay, so Let's review where we are The year is 44 BCE and Julius Caesar has just been assassinated And the three main conspirators There are 60 senators, but the three main conspirators are Marcus Brutus who is considered the leader of the conspiracy Cassius and decimus Brutus, okay, and after they assassinated Caesar obviously Rome is in turmoil and Mark Anthony who is currently The council or the head of state in Rome He reaches an agreement with These conspirators the agreement is this Mark Anthony who is a staunch Ally of Julius Caesar, he will not seek retribution and in return the conspirators will declare That Caesar was not a tyrant. He did not want to become king Okay, so a peace settlement was reached to avoid a civil war The problem is that Mark Anthony was working behind the scenes to work up Roman ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 1:32 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=92s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=92s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: people against conspirators and eventually Public sentiment was so much against the conspirators had to flee to the provinces Okay, and then Mark Anthony read the will of Caesar. Okay, Caesar's will Remember that there's private property in Rome. And so when a man dies He has a will and then this will stipulates how this private property will be distributed. Okay and there are three really surprising things about the will the first thing is that Caesar right now is the wealthiest man in Rome and he stipulates that upon his death Every Roman citizen will get three months of a soldier's wage. That's a lot of money Okay, that's extreme generosity He also stipulates that a lot of his private property will be turned into public parks for the benefit of the Roman people So this will demonstrates Caesar's love of his people. Okay, the second thing is actually more surprising Mark Anthony believed that he would be ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 2:54 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=174s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=174s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: named the heir to Caesar's legacy and wealth in the in the will but in fact Caesar names this complete stranger to be his heir his name is Octavius and Caesar named Octavius to be his adopted son and so Octavius name is actually Gaius Octavius and upon adoption of Upon his adoption. He is now named Gaius Julius Caesar Octavius This is like much too complicated. So historians use the shorthand Octavian Okay, so we will name now name this person Octavian and this is the historical shorthand Even though this is this is not his real name So there's a second big surprise in the will and the third big surprise is this Caesar names secondary here. These are individuals who Will inherit Caesar's property and legacy if Octavian were to die Mark, Anthony is a secondary here, but so is decimus Brutus one of the men who conspired to kill Caesar and Okay So this will of ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Caesars it is shocking and it shows to the wrong people that Caesar really loved them and That Caesar loved everyone including the people who conspired to kill him. Okay, Mark, Anthony Is very upset about this will so that when Octavian and Octavian right now he's only 18 years old Okay, he's only 18 years old and he returns to claim his legacy Mark and the Arthur mark Anthony is so upset that he refuses to meet with Octavian and he refuses to give Caesar's property and wealth to Octavian remember the first stipulation of the will is that every Roman citizen will be given 3 months of wages, okay and Octavian what he does is to honor Caesar's will He borrows money Okay, this is a lot of money in order to ensure that every citizen got three months of wages So in this situation, okay, and this is only a few months after Caesar's death This is ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 5:31 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=331s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=331s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: now a volatile Game of Thrones situation Game of Thrones Mark Anthony considers himself the legitimate here of Caesar and refuses to acknowledge Octavia Octavian Octavian has returned and demands to be acknowledged as the here. Okay, so that's one Conflict the other conflict is you have these three conspirators decimus buddhist Marcus buddhist and Cassius and they're not in Rome, but they're in the provinces with huge armies. Okay, so decimus buddhist he is in Gaul Marcus buddhist and Cassius are in the Roman East which includes Anatolia and Syria Okay, extremely wealthy provinces where they have many loyal soldiers And they understand that eventually there's a conflict coming So they raised a huge army about a hundred thousand soldiers to prepare for the eventual Conflict and this is like the largest army ever assembled in Roman history You also have a name named lepidus who Is a very competent administrator and he has his own army and he ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 6:48 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=408s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=408s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: actually wanted to avenge Caesar but market they stopped it and Okay, so lepidus is also part of the equation. In the center is a name named Cicero. Cicero is considered one of the greatest orators in Roman history. It was very common, it's very common as part of a liberal arts education to study the speeches of Cicero. Okay, and Cicero is the last remaining optimist. When the optimists are the ones who are conservatives and who believe in the primacy of a Senate. So Cicero is right now in charge of the Senate and everyone in this game of thrones has a different motivation, right? So Cicero, his main motivation is to maintain the supremacy of the Senate. So he wants a balance of power. So what he will do is he will play everyone off against each other in order to maintain the supremacy of the Senate and therefore his authority. Okay, that's Cicero. Octavian wants to be the heir of Caesar. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 7:50 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=470s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=470s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: But so so is Mark Anthony. And lepidus also wants to be a heir as well. And then on the other side are Decimus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, and Cassius who are fighting for their own legacy. Okay, so this is this is a situation in 44 BCE and it's a game of thrones situation and you could you would expect the one who would most likely lose this game of thrones is would be Octavian, right? He's 18 years old. He's got no army and he has no allies in Rome. What happens over the next 15 years is one by one Octavian destroys all his enemies. What happens first is that Mark Anthony goes to war with Decimus Brutus. Decimus Brutus is in charge of Gaul and Mark Anthony wants the armies of Decimus Brutus. So Mark Anthony marches against Decimus Brutus and then Cicero, to maintain a balance of power, he authorizes Octavian to raise his own army to challenge Mark Anthony. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 9:06 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay, so now they're at war with each other. Eventually Mark Anthony loses and then he steals basically lepidus army to march against Decimus Brutus again. And at this point what happens is very strange. The three of them, Lepidus, Octavian, and Mark Anthony, they sit down together and they agree to share power and form their own dictatorship. This is what we call the second triumvirate. Okay, the second triumvirate is brutal. The first thing they decide to do is kill all their enemies, anyone who could challenge them, including Cicero, who was previously the patron of Octavian, right? So they killed about a third of the Senate and replaced everyone with, replaced the Senate with their allies. Then Mark Anthony and Octavian marched against Marcus Brutus and Cassius. Okay, Decimus Brutus has been destroyed. They now march against Marcus Brutus and Cassius and then in 42 BCE they fight the Battle of Philippi in Macedonia. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 10:21 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay, Philippi is a city named after King Philip. And in this battle Mark Anthony and Octavian triumphed in the largest battle in history at that time. Okay, and after this battle where Marcus Brutus and Cassius are killed, Octavian, Mark Anthony, and Lepidus agreed to share the world. So Octavian would get Rome, Lepidus would get Northern Africa, and Mark Anthony would get Egypt and the Near East, Anatolia, Syria. So Mark Anthony basically gets the lion's share of the Roman world. Okay, and they agree to share it. Then what happens is Lepidus comes into conflict with Mark Anthony. Well, sorry, Lepidus comes in conflict with Octavian and Octavian gives a speech to Lepidus' soldiers who all defect over to Octavian. Then Octavian comes in conflict with Mark Anthony and in 31 BCE at the Battle of what's that battle called again? 31? Actium, sorry. Actium in Greece. It's a huge battle where Anthony's forces are aligned with Cleopatra's forces against Octavian. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 11:44 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: In this battle what happens is basically Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, they run away from the battle, and then they return to Alexandria and then Octavian goes and hunts them down, and they both commit suicide before they're captured. And then this ends in 27 BCE when Octavian returns to the Senate, the Roman Senate, in triumph, and they declare him Augustus Caesar. Okay, Augustus Caesar. His name has now changed to Augustus Caesar. He's considered the first emperor of Rome. So this is the brief history. Now I want to ask the question, how did Octavian, again, who in 44 BCE, he's only 18 years old, he has no army, and has very few allies in Rome, how was he able to triumph over everyone, okay? All right, and there are different explanations. The first you can say is just, well, he got lucky, okay? Yeah, I know he was lucky, and that is a possibility, but you don't become emperor by becoming emperor. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 13:00 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: You become emperor by being lucky, okay? So that's, that doesn't suffice. Second is, you can say he was brilliant. Julius Caesar was brilliant, right? King Philip of Macedon was brilliant. These are all brilliant people. Very few people say Octavian was a brilliant person. He didn't have the charisma of Julius Caesar. His oration was good, but nowhere near as good as say, Mark Anthony's or other Romans, okay? And he, and, it was, it's generally agreed upon that he was a terrible, terrible military leader and strategist. He won, he lost a lot of wars. Sorry, he lost a lot of battles during this conflict, okay? So he was not a great military leader. So he was not brilliant. I mean, he was brilliant in his own way. He was brilliant politically, but he was not brilliant in the traditional sense, okay? The third explanation is, well, he's just ruthless. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 13:59 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=839s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: He will do anything for power. And again, this is true. There is some truth to this. But guess what? In the Roman world, everyone was ruthless, right? Mark Anthony was especially ruthless. Mark Anthony killed his own wife. So that doesn't explain it. Fourth is the legions, the army. They remembered Caesar, Julius Caesar, and now that Octavian is considered the son of Julius Caesar the legions swore loyalty to him. And that is true. Okay, but they also swore loyalty to the legions. We also usually think this way, 7uito -cy playback. to Mark Anthony. And you can argue Mark Anthony had a stronger claim to Caesar's legacy than Octavian. So that by itself doesn't explain it either. Next explanation is Marcus Agrippa. And Marcus Agrippa is considered Octavian's partner. And he was considered a great general. And it was actually Marcus Agrippa who was responsible for all of Octavian's major military victories, especially the Battle of Actium, which basically ended the Civil War. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 15:07 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-founder-outlives-death) Text: And this, again, is true. Marcus Agrippa is a brilliant military leader. But so were Cassius, Decimus. There were other brilliant military leaders. The other issue is that in this ruthless world of Roman politics, how could Octavian trust Marcus Agrippa? And why did Marcus Agrippa stay loyal to Octavian? Okay? So these are five explanations. And there's also some truth to that. Okay? But I want to offer you today another explanation. And the explanation is this. The death of Caesar allowed Octavian to become emperor. Okay? And here's my argument. Remember last class, we said that Caesar, his greatness was in his myth -making genius. He created a myth of himself that he, was a man of destiny who would save the Republic. But his myth was counter to other myths that were more dominant in Rome, especially the myth of Lucius Brutus, right? Lucius Brutus, the man who created the Republic and killed the king. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 16:27 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=987s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#legitimacy-fiction-becomes-real); [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-founder-outlives-death) Text: And so Caesar had this great myth, but it was against other dominant myths. When Caesar was killed, it made his myth the dominant myth. That myth was his myth of Rome. In fact, it turned his myth into reality. And it was this new reality that propelled Octavian into power. Okay? So another simple way of saying this is that it was the love of the Roman people that propelled Octavian into power. And we see this in history all the time, right? So for example, in Canada. Doug is from Canada, so am I. So the first king of the Roman Empire was a great There's a man named Justin Trudeau, the most incompetent person, politician you will ever meet, okay? But he's prime minister, and he's been prime minister for like 10 years, right? Why? Because his father is Pierre Trudeau, who is considered one of the most popular prime ministers in Canadian history, right? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 17:34 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1054s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1054s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-founder-outlives-death); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So it was basically people transferring their love of Pierre Trudeau onto their son, okay? So that's one example. The other example, of course, in America is George W. Bush, right? Whose father was George H. W. Bush, who was considered, you know, a very good president, okay? So is it – yeah, Doug? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 18:13 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Yep, that's right. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 18:24 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-reorganizes-board); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: That's right. Yep, that's right. So if you think about it, politics, political change, it's really about myths, right? If you want to create political change, you have to change the myths. And new governments will create new myths, okay? All right, great. All right, so that's the basic thesis, okay? So let me explain it some more, okay? So let's go back to the death of Julius Caesar, the assassination of Julius Caesar. And there were three major assassins, as I said. Decimus Brutus, Marcus Brutus, who was considered the leader, and Cassius. And they were just the leaders of a huge conspiracy that involved 67. That's about 7 % of the Roman Senate. That's a lot of people, man, right, 7 % of the Roman Senate. And each of these individuals had a different reason for wanting Caesar dead, okay? So Decimus Brutus was considered Julius Caesar's most competent general, okay? And he wanted to be acknowledged as such. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 19:40 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-mercy-needs-status-grammar) Text: So you could say that Decimus Brutus, he was driven by jealousy, or maybe thwarted ambition. Okay? He wanted to prove that he was better than Julius Caesar. So that's Decimus Brutus. Cassius is a different story. Cassius fought for Pompey the Great. And because Cassius was such a great general, Julius Caesar showed mercy to him and forgave him and made him a general, his own general, okay? So this is Caesar demonstrating his benevolence. And clemency and mercy. The problem is that in the Roman world, mercy is not considered a good thing, okay? So by showing mercy on Cassius, Cassius could have interpreted this as Caesar showing contempt for him. Caesar didn't really see him as a threat, okay? And so Cassius might have been motivated by a sense, like a desire for vengeance, right? Marcus Brutus. Now, Marcus Brutus is the most interesting person here. And actually, you know, Shakespeare wrote a play about Marcus Brutus called Julius Caesar, okay? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 21:01 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1261s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1261s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: But it was really about Marcus Brutus. It was trying to explain the psychology and motivations of why Marcus Brutus would want Caesar dead, okay? Marcus Brutus did fight for Pompey the Great. But he's also the son of Julius Caesar's son. And so he was the son of Julius Caesar's favorite mistress, favorite lover. And so Julius Caesar made a point of telling his soldiers, do not kill this guy in battle. If you see him, capture him and send him to me. And so Marcus Brutus was captured. And Julius Caesar adopted him basically as a son. And he basically fast tracked Marcus Brutus' career. And so Marcus Brutus had every reason to thank Julius Caesar, right? Right? But instead, Marcus Brutus becomes the major, the main conspirator. And in the play by Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, the argument that Shakespeare makes is, Marcus Brutus is driven by his own sense of virtue. Okay? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 22:06 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Basically, vanity. He believes, or he's told, that he's named after Lucius Brutus, the founder of the Republic, and therefore, he has a responsibility to save the Republic from wannabe tyrants like Caesar. And that's what drives him. What Shakespeare doesn't mention, though, is what Romans believe is that Marcus Brutus is the son, the biological son, of Julius Caesar. Okay? So maybe there was that interpersonal dynamic where Marcus Brutus despised Caesar. Okay? All right, so it's a very complicated situation. But what unites everyone is that it's a feeling that Rome was changing too fast. Okay? So remember, Julius Caesar, he did what he did in order to save the Republic, to restore the Republic. And so when he had obtained power, he was making changes that were necessary, but which changed the Roman sense of themselves. Okay? So one example is he brought in senators from the provinces. And these were aristocrats who spoke perfect Latin, but ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 23:25 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1405s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1405s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: because he was from the provinces, and they were foreigners, the Roman people were very upset by this. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is Caesar ended corruption in the provinces. And that goes against the interests of the nobility, because one way for you to become rich as a noble person is to go to the provinces and steal a lot of money. Okay? So Caesar was doing a lot of things that were good for the empire and for the Republic. And this was good for the Republic in the long term, but which hurt the interests of the senators and nobility in the short term. And this is what caused the conflict. Okay? And because Caesar was so fast and so effective in his reforms, it not only sort of disturbed the nobility, but also disturbed the people as well. Because Romans were very conservative. They were not used to all these changes happening so fast. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 24:23 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1463s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1463s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: And so this is what compelled the conspirators to act against Caesar. Okay? But this raises a very interesting question. Caesar is a genius. He's brilliant. How could he not see this coming? Right? How could he not imagine the possibility that people were conspiring against him? And the answer, okay, and this is hard for us to understand today, but it was unimaginable that they would conspire to kill Caesar in the Senate. Okay? So there are lots of taboos in Rome. One major taboo is the idea of the promerium. Okay? The promerium just means the boundary of Rome. And the idea here is that Rome, the city of Rome, the physical geographic space of Rome, it is sacred and divine. It is sacred. It is protected by the gods. And therefore, you are not allowed to bring weapons into Rome. Okay? If you're a soldier, you must come in as a private citizen. You are not allowed to come in as a soldier. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 25:39 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: You are not allowed to commit acts of violence within the promerium. Otherwise, the gods will spite you. The gods will take vengeance against you. Okay? So that's the first taboo. Second taboo is this. The Senate is considered the most sacred and divine space in the entire, in all of Rome. And so no one's allowed to bring weapons. No one's allowed to commit violence in the Senate. Okay? Also, the Senate's laws are basically the laws of the gods. The Senate declared the body of Julius Caesar to be sacrosanct. Okay? Meaning divine and sacred. You are not allowed to touch the body of Julius Caesar. Okay? The third thing is, is that everyone in the Senate was personally appointed by Julius Caesar. So everyone owed their good fortune to the generosity of Julius Caesar. Okay? Do you understand? It was just unimaginable for Julius Caesar to think that his friends could be conspiring against him. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 26:52 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense so far, guys? It was beyond the imagination of Julius Caesar. But if this is true, then something else is true, which is that Julius Caesar did not want to become king. Because being king was the ultimate taboo in Rome. Does that make sense? Julius Caesar could not imagine that Buddhists would kill him because he, like all Romans, believed in these taboos. And the ultimate taboo was Rome could never, should never have a king. So he himself did not want to become king. He was behaving very arrogantly. He was behaving like a king. But he would not become king himself. Because it would go against the Roman Republic. It would defy all the taboos of the Roman Republic. Okay? And also, before Caesar, there was also another dictator named Sulla. Okay? An example of Sulla is, he's a man who comes into power, kills all his enemies, and then he retires. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 28:08 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? He could become king, but he chose to not become king because to become king would mean the death of the Republic. And that's not taboo. That's a rubicon he refused to cross. Okay? So we can imagine that Caesar saw himself as a better Sulla. Okay? As a more merciful Sulla. He would not kill his enemies. He would show generosity to his enemies. And he would restore the Republic to its greatness. He would make the necessary reforms. Then he would retire and lead the Republic as it was. Okay? Okay. Does that make sense? All right. So, it was unimaginable for Caesar to think that he would be killed. And also, what's interesting is, what do you think happened to these three individuals after they killed Caesar? Right? They killed Caesar because they feared Caesar would become king. But after they killed Caesar, what they recognized is they could only kill Caesar because Caesar did not want to become king. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 29:20 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Right? Otherwise, Caesar would surround himself with party guards. Otherwise, Caesar would not make himself available to his enemies. So, upon the death of Caesar, all his enemies, Decimus, Marcus, and Cassius, realized they were in the wrong. But not only that, but the very attitude of the people of Rome changed. Right? While Caesar was alive, the Roman people were very skeptical towards Caesar because they feared that he would become king. Right? They loved Caesar, but they were afraid that Caesar was too ambitious. But upon the death of Caesar, the Roman people felt tremendous guilt for doubting Caesar. Does that make sense? Right? Because it was their doubt that allowed the conspirators to kill Caesar. If all they did was believe in Caesar, if they believed in Caesar's myth that he was here as a man of destiny to restore the Republic, and that's all he cared about, he didn't want to become king, then Caesar would still be alive. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 30:29 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? And to compound the guilt, Caesar showered the people with generosity upon his death. Right? Okay? So, you can see how the death of Caesar creates this new reality where people now recognize Caesar did not want to become king. Right? All he wanted to do was save the Republic. And people are now, they're sort of paralyzed by their guilt. All right? So, the evidence for this is this. While Decimus Brutus was being attacked by Mark Anthony and the later Barthabian, Cassius told Marcus Brutus, hey, maybe we should come to this guy's aid. He's our ally. If he falls, they're going to come after us next. And Marcus Brutus did nothing. He refused to act. All right? And the reason why is he could not act. He killed Julius Caesar because Julius Caesar was too ambitious. But if Marcus Brutus were to move his army against Rome, then Marcus Brutus is the ambitious one. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 31:39 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1899s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1899s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: He's the one who wants to become king. Right? Therefore, Marcus Brutus and Cassius could only wait for their deaths. Because if they're the case, the belief that Caesar wanted to become king wasn't true. It couldn't be true. And therefore, they committed wrong against Rome by killing Caesar. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 32:05 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 32:07 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1927s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=1927s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Does that make sense? So, this explains his enemies. How about Mark Anthony? Okay. So, Mark Anthony had a different problem. Mark Anthony loved Caesar so much, he wanted to continue Caesar's legacy. And Mark Anthony sort of felt betrayed by Caesar when Caesar named Octavius. He wanted Octavian to be the heir and not Mark Anthony. Okay? And so, what does Mark Anthony want to do now? Well, he wants to prove that Caesar's wrong. Mark Anthony wants to prove that he is the rightful heir of Caesar. And to prove so, he will continue his legacy. Okay? So, Mark Anthony started to do things that were against his own personal self -interest and which ultimately led to his self -destruction. The first thing that he did was he marched against the Parthians. The Parthians are Rome's last great enemy. Okay? Rome destroyed Carthage. Rome destroyed the Greeks. But the Parthians still had an empire to the east of Rome. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 33:20 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: And Roman generals failed to make inroads against Parthia. And in fact, Julius Caesar, he wanted to basically end his life by invading Parthia. Okay? So, Julius Caesar's plan before his death was to attack Parthia, conquer it, then sweep back to Europe and conquer Germany. Okay? Basically conquer the whole world to prove he's better than Alexander the Great. So, Mark Anthony decides that this is how he will prove he is Caesar's rightful heir, by finishing Caesar's legacy against the Parthians. Okay? The problem is Romans are not good at war against the Parthians and the Persians. Okay? Because the Romans are infantry -focused and the Parthians and the Persians are cavalry -focused. Right? They have horses. So, Mark Anthony goes over to Parthia and he gets his ass kicked. All right? He gets his ass kicked. He's not Julius Caesar. He's not the heir to Julius Caesar. And he falls into a major depression. He basically becomes a drunk. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 34:31 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2071s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2071s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? That's his first major mistake. Second major mistake he makes is he falls in love with Cleopatra. Cleopatra is the queen of Egypt. But much more importantly, she is the mistress of Julius Caesar. In fact, rumors were that upon his retirement, Julius Caesar would bring Cleopatra to Rome and they would live happily ever after. Okay? That's the rumor. So, Mark Anthony goes over to Egypt and he becomes the lover to Cleopatra. Okay? Because he's trying to be Julius Caesar now. And this is a problem because to marry Cleopatra, he has to divorce his wife, who happens to be the sister of Octavian. Okay? So, this causes a personal rift between Octavian and Mark Anthony. And the third thing that he does, which is what causes a rift. What causes his demise is he names in his will. Okay? He names in his will that his children of Cleopatra will become the heirs to the Roman East. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 35:47 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: All the property, all that land that Mark Anthony controls will be given to his children with Cleopatra. They're foreign citizens. And also, Mark Anthony does not have the authority to give that land out to his children. Only the Senate has the authority. Okay? So, Octavian uses the will as a pretext to attack Mark Anthony. And he's heavily supported by the Roman people. Okay? So, Mark Anthony, because he's trying so hard to escape the shadow of Julius Caesar, because he's trying so hard to prove he is a legitimate heir to Julius Caesar, he basically self -destructs. He didn't have to do any of this, but he did. And by doing all this, it guarantees his destruction. Okay? So, Mark Anthony basically self -destructs. Let's look at Lepidus. Okay? Lepidus, he is an extremely effective administrator, but he is not as charismatic and as blunt as Julius Caesar. And Lepidus basically shied away. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 36:58 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2218s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2218s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? He didn't have the confidence to challenge Octavian for the ultimate power. And seeing this lack of confidence and this insecurity, his soldiers basically went off to join Octavian. Okay? And a lot of soldiers did that. A lot of soldiers that were fighting for the enemy's side would just jump ship because Octavian is the heir of Julius Caesar. Okay? He is the new Julius Caesar. And they all worship Julius Caesar. Now, let's talk about Octavian. Why did Octavian succeed so much? Again, he became partners with Marcus Agrippa, who was a much better general than him. But Octavian... Again, he was not a blunt man. He was not charismatic. He was not a great general. But he believed himself to be the heir to Julius Caesar. For whatever reason, Julius Caesar believed in him. And therefore, he had a responsibility to finish the legacy of his father, which is to restore the Roman Republic. And that meant he had to do whatever sacrifice was necessary in order to do so. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 38:03 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? So, the difference between Octavian and the others... was he acted. He wasn't very successful, but he was willing to act, whereas Marcus Brutus was not willing to act. And when you act, sometimes you will succeed. Okay? And only a few successes will allow you to become the emperor of Rome. He was driven by the fact that he believed himself to be the heir of Julius Caesar. He was a son of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar believed in him. Therefore, he had his responsibility to... to restore the Republic. And that's why he trusted Marcus Agrippa. Okay? And that's why Marcus Agrippa trusted him. They were all fighting for the legacy of Julius Caesar. And that's why ultimately the Roman people allowed Octavian to amass so much power. Right? So, remember, the Roman people have been taught to fear kings. But, over time, Octavian was in power for 40 years. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 39:12 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? Augustus Caesar was in power for 40 years. Over time, he became even more powerful than a king. This is what he did. He amassed all powers to himself. After he conquered Egypt, he made Egypt into his own personal property. Okay? This was his private estate. He used all the money from Egypt. And again, remember, Egypt is right now, and for the longest time, the wealthiest country in the world at this time. Okay? They have so much wealth. He used his money in order to... To have his own army. Before, the Roman army was loyal to the Senate. Now, because it was Octavian himself who personally paid every soldier in the army, which is now a professional army, they're now loyal to the emperor. Okay? He took Gaul, which was, you know, which was land that Julius Caesar basically depopulated with genocide, and he gave the land to his veterans. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 40:14 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Okay? So, basically, he made the entire army loyal to him personally. So, he now has the power of God. The Roman people allowed him to do that because they believed that, like Octavian... Sorry, like Julius Caesar, Octavian was driven by his sense of mission, his desire to save and restore the Roman Republic. But ultimately, because they believed him too much, Augustus Caesar would destroy the Republic and concentrate all power in his hands. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any questions? Yeah? Okay. That's a great question. Okay. So, why did Julius Caesar name Octavian as the hero and not Mark Antony? Okay. So, Octavian is the great nephew of Julius Caesar. So, Octavian was Julius Caesar's sister's grandson. Okay? And so, Octavian basically grew up with Julius Caesar. Like, they knew each other very well. But, as Echo says, Mark Antony is the man who is most loyal to Caesar. Okay? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 41:43 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: The most trusted lieutenant of Caesar. Why didn't Caesar trust him? And the answer is, Caesar, as a genius, he doesn't care about loyalty. He cares about talent. He cares about ability. And Mark Antony was a notorious hothead. He had a violent temper. He was a drunk. Okay? I mean, he just had, like, terrible, terrible personal qualities. So, an example of this is, while Caesar was off campaigning against Pompey, he put Mark Antony in charge of Rome. And all Mark Antony did was piss everyone off. He got into fights with the Senate. He was so bad that Caesar had no choice but to replace him with Lepidus. Okay? So, Mark Antony was a notorious hothead. He was emotionally unstable. He was emotionally volatile. And so, Caesar didn't really trust him. Even though Mark Antony would give his life for Caesar. Does that make sense? Okay? So, Octavian was considered much more competent, much more level -headed. And Caesar was correct in his assessment. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 42:50 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2570s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2570s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Because Octavian was a brilliant political manipulator. Okay? Being an emperor is very hard. He was emperor for 40 years. So, he had to balance all these different political factions within Rome. Okay? So, great question, Nicco. Okay? Any more questions? Or comments? About this argument? Is it all clear? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 43:20 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Sure. Yes. That's right. Yeah. That's right. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 44:27 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: That's right. So, yeah. I mean, it was very hard to kill Caesar. Okay? So, they were in the Senate. There were 60 conspirators. Okay? They all brought knives. They hit the knives, the daggers, and the toga. Okay? They were all supposed to, like, lunge Caesar together. So, but when you... But only five senators. Five senators. Only five senators actually physically attacked Caesar. Everyone else just stood paralyzed because, as you said, it was taboo. It was the ultimate taboo to commit violence in the Senate. So, they were all paralyzed by this fear, even though they had this intense hatred of Caesar. Okay? They had, for months, imagined how they would go about killing Caesar. Okay? They had this plan meticulously. But when it came to actually acting it out, they couldn't do it. Okay? Only five actually managed to take out their daggers and stab Caesar. In fact, the first person who attacked Caesar stood behind Caesar while Caesar was making... ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 45:27 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: Talking to the Senate. And he was shaking. Okay? And he only managed to, like, pinprick Caesar in the back. Okay? This is where we get the idea of backstabbing from. Okay? So, and it... And Caesar didn't really notice. He was like, hey, what are you doing, man? Okay? Caesar wasn't really hurt by this. Even Caesar, even though he was being attacked, could not imagine that anyone would be so bold enough to break all these taboos and attack him. So, I mean, it was an incredible act that forever changed Roman history. All right? It was just unimaginable that anyone could attack anyone in the Senate. Like, physically. Okay? Especially the dictator. The Julius Caesar, who was considered the king. He was considered the most truly holy and divine and sacred by the Roman people. Okay? So, it was an incredible act of violence. Okay? And the only five people actually participated in attacking him. ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 46:26 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: And it took a very long time because it was so hard through much of the strength to stab Caesar. And, again, all these senators are like soldiers. Okay? They're officially very strong. They're generals. They're used to killing people. There wasn't fear of death. There was this fear of bringing this ultimate taboo of time. this woman Senate okay so thank thanks for that doc and any more questions before I finish okay so um Octavian Augustus Caesar was considered the first and the greatest emperor of the Roman Empire and like Julius Caesar him he did not consider himself the Emperor he considered himself like first citizen okay or the first man in the Senate and his responsibility was to ensure the eternal prosperity and stability of the Roman Republic and so towards towards his old age he had to consider the public sorry he had to consider the problem of succession right he was ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 47:39 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2859s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2859s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: a great emperor but the second emperor had to be had to be great as well and so his solution was this his solution would be he would adopt the most competent relative that he had to be Emperor he would create this new system where emperors would be adopted okay so the best man in Rome would always be adopted into the imperial throne and Augustus Caesar had the perfect man his name was Germanicus Germanicus was very much like Julius Caesar brilliant speaker loved by his soldiers. The problem was that he was too young, okay? Germanicus was too young, so he needed a transition. And so he appointed his stepson, Tiberius, who was pretty old at this point, okay, to be the transition. Tiberius was not charismatic, he was not very popular, but he was competent. He was a competent administrator. He'd be emperor for like five to ten years, and then when Germanicus came of age, ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 48:50 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=2930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: then Germanicus would inherit the throne, and he'd be a good emperor, and as a good emperor, you would then be able to find someone else who had good talent, and you would appoint him the next emperor. If you had this system, this system could go on forever, right? And so this is a good system. The problem was Tiberius, okay? Tiberius didn't like the idea that he could not appoint his successor, okay? So what did he do? Well, he killed Germanicus, but not only did he kill Germanicus, he killed basically all of Germanicus' family, okay? And not only did he kill Germanicus' family, but he killed, well, he killed a lot of people, okay? And then he adopted someone named Caligula, who was Germanicus' youngest son, to be the emperor, and Caligula was a notoriously bad emperor. Okay? So this system broke down very quickly, even though Augustus Caesar, his intention was to continue the legacy of Julius Caesar and create an eternal prosperity for the Roman Republic, okay? ## Caesar's Death Made Octavian Emperor -- 50:11 - Source title: Civilization #16: Julius Caesar's Will and Octavian's Birth of Empire - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-19, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=3011s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc54IquR7ik&t=3011s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-dc54iqur7ik.json) Text: And by the time you got to Tiberius, this system collapsed, and you could make the argument that Tiberius marked the death of the Roman Empire, okay? The Roman Empire would continue for another, like, 300 years. But it was basically dead, okay? Meaning that it was wracked by all these internal revolts and internal tensions, and it was only because of its size and inertia that it was able to continue for so long. So next class, we'll finish Rome by discussing the Roman legacy, okay? What is Rome's contribution to Western civilization? And this will mainly have to do with the legacy of Augustus Caesar, right? Any questions? Okay, all right, great. So we will continue, we'll finish with Rome next class, and then we'll start Egypt, okay? And Egypt will be a lot of fun. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay, so today we are doing Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar is considered the greatest historical figure of all time. He's also one of the most controversial. So today we're going to look at three questions about his life. And I want to provide an argument about his life. So the first question we're going to look at is, what did he want? What were his motivations for what he did? Did he want to become a king of Rome? Or was he trying to save the Roman Republic? Okay, so this is a historical debate that's been around for us for about 2,000 years. And no one has resolved it. Second question I want to look at is, why was he so successful at what he did? I mean, he was a man who basically took on the Roman Empire and he won. Okay, so how was he able to accomplish so much? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 0:59 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=59s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=59s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#legitimacy-fiction-becomes-real); [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-reorganizes-board) Text: In only... 55 years. And the last question is, why did they kill him? Because he was killed, actually, by his friends, by his allies, by people he grew up with, by people he fought wars with, by people he pardoned and showed mercy and generosity to. Okay, so why did they kill him? All right, so my central argument to you today is that, why did Julius Caesar was so successful? Because he was a myth maker. Okay, myth maker. A myth maker are individuals who changed the course of human history because they see themselves as a men of destiny who must change the world for the better. And they do so by constructing a new reality that begins to absorb the old reality and alters it. Okay? And they do so through their words, their speeches, their writings, and through their actions. So they see themselves as the main character, the protagonist, in a novel that they are writing. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 2:24 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=144s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=144s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: All right, so this is a hard concept to understand, but let's use some examples to better understand this concept. So the first example let's look at is the idea of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a famous writer. Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, but he was first and foremost a myth maker. Okay? So Steve Jobs, the joke about Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs had a secret weapon. It was called a reality distortion projector. Basically, Steve Jobs lied to people. But he lied to people in such an appealing manner, in such a beautiful way that it changed the reality. Basically, Steve Jobs imposed his reality onto others. And today that's why we use Apple computers, right? We all have Apple computers. Why do we do this? Because we are participating in the myth that Steve Jobs created for us. Right? That if you use Apple computers, you are using the most advanced technology, and you are participating in a pleasing lifestyle. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 3:35 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? So it's about technology, but it's also about lifestyle. It's also about attitude. And that's why we are all using Apple computers today, because we are trying to participate in this myth. Okay? Another example is the idea of movies. Right? Movies are reality creation machines. When you go see a movie, if it's a really good movie, it will stick in your mind, and it will change the way you perceive reality. Okay? So someone like Julius Caesar, what he was trying to do in his life was create a new narrative that would redefine reality. The last example I want to use, and I'm really sorry for using this example, is Donald Trump. Right? Because Donald Trump wants to make America great again. And so for his speeches and for his actions, he's trying to construct or conceive a new understanding of America that absorbs the imagination of everyone around him. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 4:43 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? That's what a myth maker is. And that's why ultimately Julius Caesar was so successful. Okay? But the problem with being a myth maker is by creating new myths, you are disrupting old myths that people rely on for their understanding of the world. Okay? You're creating something called cognitive dissonance. And people don't like cognitive dissonance. It makes them uncomfortable. So they killed Julius Caesar because his new myth of Rome was surpassing the old myth of Rome, and that made the old guard uncomfortable, and that's why they had to kill him. All right? So that's my argument to you today. All right. So now that I've made the general argument, let me provide some historical background so we understand the historical context that Julius Caesar was operating in. Okay? So let's go back to 216. Last class we talked about 216 BCE, and this was the Hannibal invasion of Rome. And remember at the Battle of Cannae, Rome lost about 20 % of its adult male population. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 6:03 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And at this point, Rome should have surrendered or negotiated peace terms. But Rome instead chose to fought on. And it fought on because it had a mythology about itself that was based on three principles, right? The three principles are piety, liberty, and republica. And because of these three principles, every Roman felt he or she had to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save Rome. Okay? And so everyone made a sacrifice. The rich made sacrifices, by basically paying for the war. Okay? Also the rich freed their slaves so the slaves could become citizens in order to fight for Rome. The poor also made a lot of sacrifices because they had to fight in the army, but also because the way the Romans decided to defeat Hannibal, and it worked, is something we call a scorched earth policy. Scorched earth policy. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 7:17 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Basically make the land unfarmable. So then your army has no access to food. Okay? And that's how the ultimate defeated Hannibal. Because they burned all the land and they couldn't grow food on the land and so Hannibal's army could not feed itself. Okay? So everyone made the ultimate sacrifice. The rich fought, the rich and the poor fought alike. The rich paid for the war. The poor lost their land. Okay? And this was all possible because of the nature of Rome at that time. Remember, Rome at that time was poor, a very small place where everyone knew each other, and ultimately it was threatened with existence. Hannibal proved to be an existential threat to Rome and that's why everyone became united and made the ultimate sacrifice. Okay? And for Romans, this was the finest hour. This was the moment they celebrated when their very existence was threatened by Hannibal, but they came together and made the ultimate sacrifice and ultimately defeated Hannibal. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 8:34 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=514s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=514s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: The problem was this. The problem was that after Rome won the war, the question then is, who got the rewards? Right? Everyone made the sacrifice. The poor lost their land. The rich lost their land. The poor earned money. And because the rich controlled the government, remember, Rome is a republic, it's not a democracy, it was decided the rich would get most of the rewards of the war. In fact, the poor got very little. Okay? So an example here is the idea of common land. Common land is, what do you do with the new territory that you conquer in Spain and from the Carthaginian Empire? And normally, common land would be given to everyone, right? Maybe in proportion, but it would be given to everyone, especially the poor who lost their land. But Rome made the decision that the rich would be compensated for letting money to republic during the war, meaning the rich got the lion's share of the new land. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 9:49 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=589s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=589s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: But not only that, the remaining common land, the rich just pretended it was theirs. Okay? Meaning that they illegally occupied common land. They didn't pay for it, it wasn't theirs, but they just assumed it was theirs. And so now Rome had a problem. Rome was great when it was poor and small and was threatened by its neighbors like the Tristians, the Carthaginians, and the Greeks. But by 146 BCE, Rome had vanquished all its major enemies. And basically, it was an empire. And by 146, Rome had become a contradiction. Okay? The contradiction is this. It is an imperial republic. Okay? It is an empire now, but its form of government is a republic. And this was a contradiction. And suddenly, these three values, okay, piety, liberty, and republica, these values that made Rome strong were now problems for the Roman people. Okay? So let me explain how. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 11:14 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Let's look at republica. Republica means public virtue in Latin. It's the idea that the best and brightest in Rome are in competition with each other to promote the Roman national welfare. Okay? To bring glory to Rome. If you were the best and the brightest, then your responsibility to your family and to the gods and to the nation was to win new territory for Rome. Okay? And so, the first thing you had to do was basically win political office. And when Rome was poor, it was basically a meritocracy, right? You had to prove, like you were the best speaker, or you had the best resume in order to be promoted. But now that you have money, what you realize you could do is just bribe people, okay? And then so, very soon, bribery just became a fact of politics in Rome. Once you won political office, you could then become a general to go off to provinces to fight wars to win new territory for Rome. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 12:36 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? But because you got into so much debt to win the political office, when you went to a province, you did two things. First of all, you exploited the local people. Okay? Because you need to get back that money that you spent. The second thing that you did was you start wars for no reason. Okay? You antagonize the locals in order to start wars. If you start wars, you win a lot of money, right? You can enslave the people and make money that way. But also, you will receive something called a triumph. Okay? Triumph. Now triumph is just a military parade that establishes you as a hero of Rome. And not only do you benefit politically, but your entire family benefits. Okay? So your sons, your grandsons, your great -grandsons will all be remembered and celebrated because of your triumph. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 13:32 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And they are much more likely to win political office, okay, in their careers. Okay? So the triumph is a very, very big thing. The problem is while the best and brightest were in competition with each other, the poor were suffering. Okay? So the first problem is land. Remember, during the Hannibal Wars, the Second Punic War, the poor lost a lot of land and they were never compensated for it. But then what happened is as Rome was continuing to fight these wars, the poor was being drafted into the army and they were going to like Spain and Syria. These are faraway places and they were stuck there for like years. That meant their land couldn't be cultivated and therefore they got into debt. And they couldn't pay off the debt. So what happened was the rich would come in and buy off the land at very cheap prices. Okay? And so the rich became major land owners. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 14:40 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And there's a problem because first of all, the poor didn't have any land in order to grow food. So they were forced into the cities. Okay? Their problem is the rich didn't want to grow food to feed the people. Right? They want to grow food as cash crops for export. So suddenly for the first time in its history, Rome couldn't feed itself. You have to rely on imports from the provinces. Okay? So the land was a huge issue. But then you also had issues like debt. Right? So the poor couldn't pay off their debts and they became overwhelmed by interest. And so this created lots of problems for Rome. Okay? So you had a lot of violence. You have a lot of corruption. You have a lot of inequality. Okay? And so this started a cycle that Peter Churchill calls elite overproduction. Right? So in times of peace and as your population grows, you're going to have too many elites who are now in competition with each other. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 16:04 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: And it's usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? So upper nobility are people who are established. They're the wealthiest citizens in all of Rome. They're very happy with the system as it is. The lower nobility are people who are born into wealth, but they want more. They want prestige. They want honor. They want the triumph. And so they're struggling against the upper nobility for political power. And usually you do that by aligning yourself with the people. Right? And the people who now number in the millions are pissed off because they have no land, they're too much in debt, and no jobs. Okay? And so these two factions in Rome would be called, the upper nobility would be called the optimates. Okay? Optimates just means best people. We're the best. And our responsibility is to uphold the tradition of Rome, which is piety, liberty, and republica. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 17:07 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1027s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1027s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? And these people, lower nobility, who want to change, they're called populaires. And that's where we get the term populist folk. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 17:17 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1037s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1037s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 17:18 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1038s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1038s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: So in 146 BCE, after Rome had become an empire and it had defeated all its enemies, these two factions start to emerge and they clash with each other. So historians normally believe the first clash happened with the Gracchi brothers. Okay? The Gracchus brothers. And these are, again, lower nobility who had a very simple idea, land reform. Okay? The idea is very simple. You have rich people who have too much land and not using the land properly. They're using the land as parks for themselves, like these private parks for themselves, or they're growing crash crops, which does not feed Rome. Most of this land, which is again, common land, the rich are occupying it illegally, is not being used productively. So what they proposed was a simple land reform law. Okay? And the idea is this. Rome, the government of Rome, would buy out the rich from the land they are illegally occupying. Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 18:22 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this makes perfect sense. Not a problem, right? And once Rome buys out this land, it will then redistribute it to the poor so the poor will have like a social safety system. They'll be able to feed themselves. And they'll usually grow grain and other crops for sustenance, and this will enable the feeding of the Roman population in general. Okay? So this sounds very simple to us, but the rich didn't like this idea because they didn't like change in general. Okay? They liked the idea of piety, liberty, and republica, which means things must stay the way they are. And what's really important is the rich cannot be challenged by the poor because if that were the case, then the social system would be overhauled. Okay? So the rich were so pissed off that they assassinated both brothers, the Gracchi brothers. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 19:26 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And most historians believe this is the beginning of the fall of the Roman Republic because it tells us that the system is incapable of change. Okay? The system as it's set up, which focuses on piety, liberty, and republica, it's a contradiction now. And this contradiction cannot be internally resolved. All right? So any more questions? Any questions before I proceed on? I know this is a lot, and maybe I haven't organized it properly, but are there any confusions about this history so far? Again, I'm just providing some background and context before I move on to Julius Caesar. Yeah? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 20:14 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1214s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1214s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 20:25 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1225s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1225s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Yeah, this is a great question, okay? What's the relationship between the Ottomans and the popular leaders? Okay, there's exactly 20 noble families in Rome. Okay? And so these people, the Ottomans and the popular leaders, all come from these 20 noble families. And they're like cousins of each other. Okay? So the Ottomans are maybe like the fathers and the grandfathers, and the popular leaders are like the sons. Does that make sense? Right? Because the fathers don't want any change, but the sons want political power. And so they're all related. They all grew up with each other. They all know each other. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. All right. Echo, are you good? Is this clear to you so far? All right. All right. So the first major conflict is the Gracchi brothers. Second major conflict that happens is something called a social war. And the social war is basically this. The people who fight the wars are the allies, the Italian allies of Rome, okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 21:36 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: People who live in the neighboring provinces. They're the ones who fight the war. And after Rome keeps on winning these wars, Rome refuses to grant citizenship to them. Okay? So these neighbors rebel, and there's a civil war going on in Rome, and Rome loses this war. And Rome is forced to grant citizenship to these neighbors. But the question then is, what is the nature of citizenship? Like, how much rights do you get? How much power do you get? Because Rome is a republic, and so one thing that's hard for us to understand is not all voters are equal. Okay? So if you're a rich voter, you have more power than if you are a poor voter. Okay? So the question then is, these new citizens of Rome, what sort of voting rights will they have? And this is an issue that became a huge issue over the next few decades, okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 22:37 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: So the social war. Then you have these slave revolts. What they call the Servile Wars. Okay? Then you have these piracy going on. So the Roman Republic is constantly in turmoil and in conflict. Okay? And the war between the optimists and the populars becomes so intense that ultimately they fight a civil war. Okay? A civil war means two armies killing each other. Okay? And so the civil war was between Sulla and Marius. And the civil war becomes so intense that both Sulla and Marius do the unthinkable and they march their armies into Rome and kill their enemies. This has never been done in Roman history before. As a general, you're not supposed to take your soldiers and march against your own government, against your own city, and kill your own people. Okay? Sulla wins the civil war and he understands, like all Romans, that this can't go on. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 23:50 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? There has to be a solution. And Sulla's solution is, well, you know, if the problem is the conflict between the populars and the optimists, let's just kill all the populars. And then the problem will be solved. Then you have stability in Rome. Okay? And this is what we refer to as proscription. Proscription. And proscription means this. There's a list, a public list, of about a thousand, two thousand, okay, individuals. And these individuals are basically sanctioned to be killed. So if you go kill them, you'll be rewarded by the state and you'll be given the property of those you killed. Okay? And it's called proscription. And this is a new invention by Sulla in order to resolve the conflict between the optimists and the populars. One of those individuals who was designated to be proscribed, his name is Julius Caesar. And he's about 19 years old now. And Julius Caesar comes from a very prestigious Roman family called the Julii. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 25:03 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And he's the nephew of Marius. And that's why he was, he was proscribed. Okay? Now, the good thing is, if you're rich, you can bribe your way out of these things. Okay? And Julius Caesar's family was extremely wealthy and he was able to bribe Sulla into letting him go. Okay? So Julius Caesar's life was speared. And Sulla believed that by doing this, by killing off the populars, by making the optimists the supreme power in the land, this conflict would go away. But after Sulla died, this didn't happen. Okay? In fact, the conflict became even worse. Okay? So Julius Caesar grew up in this conflict. Right? He grew up in a time of the imperial republic, a contradiction. And he saw himself as the man of destiny to save the republic by implementing the reforms necessary in order to restore stability in Rome. Okay? He basically wanted to make Rome great again. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 26:16 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Any questions so far? Is this all clear to you guys? Okay? All right. So let's talk about the life of Julius Caesar. Okay? From an early age, Julius Caesar saw himself as special. But not only that, but from an early age, Julius Caesar cared a lot about his public image. He cared about how people perceived and remember him. Okay? So here's a story to highlight the myth -making genius of Julius Caesar. Okay? So when Julius Caesar was 25, he was sent off to Anatolia to work as an official there. Now, the problem with sailing at this time is there's a lot of piracy. Right? Because there's a lot of corruption, inequality, and poverty in the empire. And so when he was 25, Julius Caesar was kidnapped, captured and kidnapped by pirates. Not a big deal, because he's of the nobility. And it's obvious he's of the nobility. And so the pirates asked for a ransom. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 27:29 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: They started to pay the ransom, and Julius Caesar was free to go. Okay? Now, very simple story. But what Julius Caesar did was he imbalanced a story. Okay? He made certain adjustments to the story that made it memorable to people so that people would discuss it everywhere. Okay? The first embellishment he made was this. The pirates asked for a 20 silver talent ransom. Okay? Which is a lot of money. And Julius Caesar said, when I heard this, I felt insulted. How dare you ask for 20 silver talents? I'm worth at least 50! Okay? So, hey guys, don't ask for 20, ask for 50. My family can afford it. Okay? So that's the first embellishment. The second embellishment he made was, Julius Caesar said, I became friends with the pirates. We drank together. He's a very charismatic individual. And I told them while we were drinking, hey guys, after I go home, I'm going to come back and like capture all of you and crucify every one of you. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 28:35 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1715s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1715s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: The pirates are like, that's really funny, man. Okay? So that's the second embellishment. The third embellishment is, Julius Caesar, after he was released, he set up a navy. He went and found every one of these pirates. And crucified every one of them. Okay? And that's the third embellishment. Because we actually don't know if he actually did this. But again, the thing that Julius Caesar understands is, it doesn't matter if the facts are true or not. What matters is, how appealing are the details. Right? So this story, you'll remember forever. And you will tell others about it. So through this, he's creating a myth of himself. Okay? Does that make sense? And again, there's no way any of these things are true. He's like, oh, 20 talents. I'm insulted. Ask for 50 guys. Okay? And while he's drinking with these guys, and these are pirates. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 29:33 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: These are like psychopaths. Right? He's like, I'm gonna come back and kill every one of you. Every one of you. Right? But again, that's a myth -making genius of Julius Caesar. So, again, as a young man, the greatest honor in Rome is to achieve the triumph. And you do that by starting wars. So, through bribery and through charisma, Caesar is elected a praetor. And then as a praetor, he goes off to Spain. He fights these wars against the tribes of Spain. And then he wins a triumph. Okay? And what he wants to do is, he wants to basically use a triumph as the springboard for his political career, to win the consulship. At this point, okay, the optimists hate Julius Caesar. Because Julius Caesar, again, he's a myth -making genius. He's telling all these stories. And it's pissing off the optimists. Because they see Julius Caesar as, you know, as, he's just a braggart. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 30:45 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? He's arrogant. He just brags all the time. He's appeasing the people. He's exactly, what Romans should not be. Okay? He's impious. He doesn't care for liberty. He doesn't care about the public good. All he cares about is his own personal glory. And he's got a reputation for this. He's also got a reputation for being a libertine. Okay? Meaning, like, he sleeps with men and women everywhere. Okay? And the Roman optimists, okay, people who include Cato, Scipio, and Cicero. Okay? These are the three most famous. They hate Julius Caesar. They hate him. They hate him with a passion. They think Caesar represents all that's wrong with Rome. Here's a young man who has talent and charisma, and he's a genius of some sort, but he's using it, not for the glory of Rome, but for his own personal political advancement. Caesar represents to them the corruption of the Roman Republic. Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 31:48 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1908s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And they develop, you can use this phrase, Caesar derangement. Syndrome. Okay? They have decided that they will do whatever they can to destroy this guy. Okay? So, Caesar wants a triumph, and he wants to win the, and he wants to get the consulship. Okay? The problem is, you can only be a general to get the triumph, but you have to give up your generalship in order to stand for election for the council. Okay? So, the optimists give him a choice. You can either, have the triumph, or you can have the consulship. It's your choice. And they think, this guy, he's so arrogant, he will never give up the triumph. Okay? And, Caesar surprises everyone, by giving up the triumph. He's like, I don't want this crap. I want to stand for election. All right? So, that's the other thing that's really surprising about Julius Caesar. He's unpredictable. Okay? Or, you can also argue, he understands the mentality, or the motivations of his opponents, but his opponents never understand him. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 33:06 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1986s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=1986s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? They always underestimate him. Okay? So, Caesar is consul, and as consul, he wants to do what everyone wants to do, and promote stability in Rome. Okay? So, he's promoting land reform. And here, the optimists try to obstruct him wherever they can. Okay? The other thing is, after the consulship, Caesar wants to go take over Gaul. Okay? And Gaul is a northern province in Rome. And there, he wants to win glory for himself. Okay? That's the plan. The optimists understand this, and, so, beforehand, they decide, the next consul will be sent to Italy. Okay? Which is like, basically Rome. If you're in Rome, you can't fight wars. You can't fight wars, you can't win glory. You can't have triumph. Okay? And that's the idea. We'll let Caesar be consul, but we'll have him in Italy, building roads, and cutting wood, and cutting trees. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 34:11 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2051s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2051s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? We're not gonna let him go fight wars in Gaul. That's for sure. Caesar knows about this, and he does something that's really unexpected. He forms an alliance with two other individuals that the Senate hates. Okay? The first is Pompey, and Pompey is considered the greatest general of Rome. Okay? Pompey is great. And, he's also pissed off at the Senate because Pompey the Great wins all these wars for Rome, and he has to settle his veterans. Right? He has to give land to his veterans, but the Senate refuses. Okay? So Pompey's pissed off at the Senate as well. And then there's Crassus. And Crassus is the richest man in Rome. He's the wealthiest man in Rome, and he's pissed off at the Senate as well, because the Senate is blocking a lot of his political career. Okay? So they form a secret alliance called the First Triumvirate. And so they do a lot of these deals. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 35:08 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? So Caesar, as counsel, will help settle the veterans of Pompey. He'll promote some tax reform that Crassus wants. And in return, Pompey and Crassus will give him Gaul as the promise that he will take over once he leaves this country. Okay? So that's the plan. When Caesar becomes leader of Gaul, the provincial governor of Gaul, the proconsul from 58 to 51 BCE, at this point, Caesar becomes a legend in Rome. Okay? This is where his myth -making genius really shines. He goes and commits genocide in Gaul, basically. Okay? In the words of Caesar, I went to Gaul. I killed a million Gauls in war. I enslaved a million Gauls. And then I let a million Gauls live. Okay? So he basically committed genocide against the Gauls. And it was all for his personal glory. And he was starting all these wars in Gaul in order to accomplish three things. Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 36:18 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2178s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2178s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: The first thing he wanted to do was money. Okay? He got into a lot of debt because he had to bribe a lot of people in order to secure his consulship. And he has to pay them off. Right? So he made a lot of money. The money that he had left over, he sent back to Rome to organize feasts and festivals for the Roman people. Okay? The term we use today is called bread and circus. Bread and circus. Okay? So that's what Caesar was doing in order to engrate himself with the Roman people. Okay? So that's the first major purpose of these wars. Second major purpose of these wars is to create the world's greatest army. Remember, Rome is mainly at peace. At this time. And if they're fighting wars, they're fighting wars against a lesser opponent. Okay? But Gauls are tough warriors. And the Roman, his Roman soldiers are getting the best training in the world through eight years of constant fighting the Gauls. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 37:18 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2238s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2238s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? So through this process, he created the most loyal and the most disciplined army in the world. And they're all loyal to him personally. Okay? Because he's the one rewarding them. And he's the one who brings victory to them. All right? The second thing. The third thing, which is the most important, is he creates the myth of Caesar as the great conqueror. Okay? Romans loved generals. Romans loved conquerors. And while Caesar was in Gaul fighting these wars, what he would do is he would write down dispatches or maybe reports. Right? Then he would send a soldier back to Rome and in the form of Rome, okay, the main place, public place, he would stand up and he would read the accomplishments of Caesar of that week. And the things he was doing was, I mean, it basically captured the imagination of Rome, of all Romans. Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 38:20 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2300s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2300s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: So for example, he attacked Germania. Germania, and Romans thought the Germans were so barbaric it was impossible to attack them. The second thing that, that Caesar did to capture the imagination of Romans is he invaded Britain. Britain in the imagination of Romans was this mystical imaginary place and no one knew what it was. And Caesar launched two major expeditions against Britain that didn't really do anything, but that was not the point. The point was Caesar ventured into the unknown. Okay? It's basically equivalent back then of the moon landing. Does that make sense? It was just unheard of. Like why would you go to Britain? Aren't there like dragons in Britain? Aren't there like sea monsters in Britain? And Caesar went and went there twice. Okay? So at this point, the Romans worship Caesar. Okay? Caesar's bribing them with like bread and circus and he's winning all these military exploits in Gaul and he's constructing a new reality of Caesar as the great conqueror. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 39:38 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? So does it make sense so far? Okay? He's a myth maker. So while Caesar is doing this, the optimists in Rome, back in Rome, Cato, Scipio, and Cicero, they now see what a threat Caesar is. They realize this guy's not beatable. If he runs for elections, he's gonna win all the elections. His allies are gonna win the elections. So they decide, to strip him of his command, of his military command, and put him on trial for all the things he did illegally. Okay? And Caesar, he's not a nice person. He's done a lot of illegal, immoral things in order to accomplish power. Right? So the Senate has a major case against him. And at this point, Caesar recognizes that, listen, these guys mean war. So what Caesar does is, he basically declares war on Rome. He crosses the Rubicon. Okay? And the Senate is appalled by this, and ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 40:49 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: they appoint Pompey, who again, is considered the greatest general in Rome at this point, at this point, to counter Caesar. Okay? And this starts the second civil war. The first civil war was between Sulla and Marius. Okay? So now it's Caesar, versus Pompey. Any questions so far? About this? Sure. Oh, that's a great question. Okay? So the Senate is about, it's about 300, 400 people. It's a lot of people. Okay? But the power in the Senate is not distributed equally. So if you are, so think of the Senate as maybe many circles. Okay? If you are the main, if you have the most power, you sit at the front. Why is that important? Because you're able to speak if you sit at the front. Does that make sense? So even though technically voting, everyone has the same voting rights, the people at the front are those who are able to set the agenda and control the debate and make speeches. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 42:02 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Everyone back here are not allowed to say anything. Okay? Because you go in turns. The people who sit at the front are the optimists because they come from the most prestigious families and they have the most illustrious political careers. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So when Caesar invades Rome, basically he declared war on the Roman Senate. Okay? So let's look at a map of Rome at this time. This is the year 49 BCE. All right. So Rome is an empire. You have Italy here. This is Rome. Over here is basically Northern Africa. Over here is Spain. Over here is Rome. Over here is Greece. Over here is Anatolia. Syria. Okay. So that's the Roman Empire. Okay? At this point, when Caesar crossed the River Cod, he controls basically Gaul, which is poor, which is poor. Okay? He controls Rome. The optimists in Pompeii, they control Spain, Greece, Anatolia, Syria, and Northern Africa. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 43:23 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? That's a problem for Caesar because remember, Rome gets its food from the provinces. Okay? So in other words, all Pompey has to do is wait. This is what we call a containment strategy. Containment strategy. Look. Caesar can't do anything. Right? And eventually, because Romans are starving because of this blockade, then the Romans will rise against Caesar. Game over. Okay? That's all the optimists have to do. Just wait it out. Over time, Caesar will lose the loyalty of his troops and of the Roman people. And then he will have, and then he will be weak. And then, and then at that point, they can attack him. Okay? The war will be over. Does that make sense? All right? So the odds are against Caesar because he is basically one man versus an entire empire. Okay? But Caesar has two advantages. Okay? He has two major advantages. The first advantage he has is he has, again, the world's greatest military who have fought eight years in Spain. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 44:35 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2675s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2675s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: They're extremely disciplined. They're extremely devoted to him. Okay? That's the first major advantage. The second major advantage is the division within the ultimate opposition. Okay? Because even though the optimists, Cato and Cicero and Scipio, they don't really, they hate Caesar. They don't trust Pompey either. Right? Because as this war continues, more and more power will accrue to Pompey. Right? He's going to have more and more power. So even though Pompey wants to drag this war out, the optimists don't want this war to drag out. They're afraid that, like even if Caesar, as dictator, they will make Pompey the dictator. Because the optimists, what they want to do is like maintain the status quo. Right? They don't want a new king to arise. They don't want a situation where Caesar loses but Pompey wins. Okay? Does that make sense? So optimists are pushing Pompey to end the war as quickly as possible. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 45:41 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: All right? And this division will be costly. In fact, it will basically cost Pompey his life. So given these two advantages, the divisions within the ultimate opposition and given that Caesar has the world's greatest army, Caesar decides he must take the offensive. Okay? So first thing he does is he takes his army to Spain and crushes all opposition in Spain. When he crushes opposition in Spain, he does something that's not very Roman. Okay? He offers clemency to the enemy. Basically he tells his enemies, okay, we're all Romans. We're all fighting for the greater good of Rome. So I've won this war. Will you promise not to fight against me? If you promise you won't fight against me anymore, I'll let you go. Okay? And when he did that, some chose to just go home. But there were also many who were like, who chose to go and fight for Pompey in Greece. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 46:51 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? All right? But that's what Julius Caesar is doing. He's winning these wars against his opponents and he's letting them go. He's forgiving them. So that's the first thing. That Caesar does. And then he marches to Greece. And again, at this point, Pompey doesn't have to do anything. And Pompey doesn't want to do anything because he knows that Caesar has a superior army. Okay? These are two of the greatest generals Rome has ever produced. Okay? Caesar and Pompey. They understand each other. They understand warfare. And Pompey just wants to use a containment strategy and starve Caesar out. Caesar wants to fight a battle right away. Okay? And what tips a balance is the Ottomans, who force, sorry, the Ottomans, Cato, Sibyl, and Cicero, who forced Pompey to fight a battle. And in August 48 BCE, at a place called Pharsalus, the two armies meet. Okay? Pompey and Caesar. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 47:51 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Pompey chooses to use the anvil and hammer strategy. Remember what the anvil and hammer strategy is, where your infantry locks the enemy, the enemy army into place. Okay? It locks in place. And then from behind, the cavalry comes in and wipes out the enemy infantry. Okay? That's the strategy. This is what Alexander the Great, this is the strategy that Philip and Alexander the Great used against the Greeks in Persia. Okay? The problem is the, Julius Caesar's army is so disciplined and so experienced that they withstood the cavalry charge. And they wiped out the army at Pharsalus. Okay? Then, Caesar took his army to Egypt, conquered that, to Syria, conquered that, and to Anatolia, conquered that. Okay? The Senate asked for a report from Caesar, like how's the war going? What's happening? Okay? And Caesar said the most famous line that he ever said. And again, he's myth -making genius, right? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 49:04 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=2944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: He basically said, Vinni, vedi, vici. Okay? Beautiful Latin. The most powerful Latin phrase ever spoken in human history. It means, I came, I saw, I conquered. Okay? And again, this captured the imagination of the Roman people. After Caesar calmed the Roman ease, he goes to Africa to fight the Romans. And it's in Africa that the Romans are fighting Cato and Scipio at the Battle of Pharsus. Okay? And again, Caesar wants to show clemency. He wants to show how generous and merciful he is. When at this point, his soldiers, who are getting very old, they just want this war to end and they want to go home. So at this battle, what they do is to defy the orders, direct orders, of Caesar not to engage. they took it upon themselves to attack the enemy and at this point they're winning the war right the winner battle Caesar orders them to show mercy the veterans his veterans massacred their enemies ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 50:22 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: to ensure they can't fight back again okay the last battle is in Spain at the month Manda and here the enemy is on a hill and you're not supposed to fight uphill okay you're not supposed to go up a hill and fight your enemy there because you're at a major disadvantage right Caesar's soldiers now are so experienced and disciplined that they can do that they can just march up the hill and destroy the enemy okay so that's how powerful Caesar's enemy sorry that's how powerful Caesar's army is at this point they basically wipe out every army they fight against like we conquer the Roman Empire okay does that make sense Caesar goes back to Rome in 44 in 44 And this is the year he will be assassinated by his friends. He launches legislative reform to reform the Roman Republic, okay? He launches land reform. He launches debt relief. He creates something called the Julian calendar. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 51:33 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: The Julian calendar is what we still use today. Before Julius Caesar, the Romans used the lunar calendar. And then Julius Caesar, working with astronomers, they designed together the Julian calendar which is exactly what we still use today, okay? That's a major reform. He offered clemency to all his enemies. Basically, if you're willing to work for the good of Rome, he will invite you back into the Senate, okay? He offered citizenship to his soldiers and to Italians, okay? He brought in citizenship in Rome. So what Caesar was doing was... He was basically trying to resolve a lot of the contradictions that led to instability and civil war and revolution in Rome before then, okay? And he was successful. And he was considered a genius. He was loved by the people. In fact, he was everywhere. He had busts of himself everywhere, okay? And then he minted coins, money. That is... He was based on it. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 52:56 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: So he was basically creating what we call a cult of personality, okay? And he wanted to continue to expand the Roman Empire. His plan was to go fight a place called Parthia, which is the old Persian Empire, and then he wanted to go conquer Germania, okay? He basically wanted to conquer the entire world. That was his ambition. His ambition was to make Rome great again. And he almost succeeded except, ultimately, he was killed. Okay? By his friends. He was assassinated in 44 B.C., okay? So let's look at those three questions again, okay? First of all, what motivates Caesar? Second question is why did he succeed? The third question is why did they kill him, okay? So I think what motivated him is exactly what motivated someone like Sulla and Marius and other great generals of Rome. They wanted to make Rome great again. They're nostalgic for the Rome of the Hannibal Wars, right? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 54:13 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: When everyone came together and made the sacrifice necessary in order to protect and save Rome. They wanted to return that era, okay? And that's what motivated him. He didn't want to become king. And if he became king, he didn't want to stay as king. Remember, Sulla won the war and he could have made himself king. But he didn't do that. He implemented a lot of reforms and then retired because that was the Roman way, okay? That's what the ancestors did. And he wanted to be loyal to the gods, to the ancestors, and to Rome, okay? So Caesar didn't want to become king, he just wanted to save Rome. Second question then is how is he able to succeed? And this is a more difficult question, okay? So again, the argument is he's a myth maker. What does that mean? Okay. So. So there are different individuals in society that promote the social good, okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 55:17 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3317s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3317s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Or they're able to accomplish great things in different aspects of society. The first is a general, right? The general. The general, he is bold and disciplined. And he's fair, right? That's why the soldiers follow him. He's bold, he's disciplined, and he's fair. He's also concerned about power. Organization and logistics. How do you move an army from place to place? How do you feed your army? Okay? That's what the general does. That's what a great general does. That's what Hannibal did, okay? Then you have the politician. And the politician, he's basically like an avatar of the people. He's able to capture and represent the emotions and the dreams and the longings of the people, okay? He's very charismatic and he's very manipulative, okay? He's able to tell stories that capture the emotional imagination of the people. That's what the politician does. Then you have the administrator or the legislator, okay? And this person is very concerned about details and law and legal aspects, okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 56:41 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Regulation. And the person, you can say, is almost a systems design thinker. Very big picture, very macro, and trying to figure out how the different pieces fit together. If you think about it, these three individuals, the general, the politician, and the administrator, the legislator, they're very different personalities. They're in contradictions with each other, okay? So for example, Pompey was a great general, but he's a terrible, terrible politician, okay? Hannibal was a great general too, but he was not a very good legislator. Okay? The thing that made Julius Caesar distinctive is he was all three together, okay? Because what enables you to be all three together is the imagination. That was Julius Caesar's secret power, his imagination. He was able to imagine himself as different people at once, and therefore, he was different people at once. He had multiple personalities. And that's why he was so unpredictable. That's why he was able to understand the motivations of his opponents. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 58:04 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: And that's why he was able to accomplish so much. Okay? Does that make sense? And so he became a myth maker. The problem with being a myth maker is you ultimately have to change reality. And by changing reality, you make people who are accustomed to reality uncomfortable. Okay? Okay? So that's why he was killed. He was killed by not his enemies, but by his friends. Okay? So there were four major conspirators against Julius Caesar. They were Decimus Brutus, who was basically Caesar's lieutenant in war. You had Trebonius, again, the major lieutenant of Caesar, but you also had Cassius. Cassius was actually fighting for Pompey. But Caesar thought he was such a great general that Caesar pardoned him. Okay? And you also had Marcus Brutus, who Caesar actually saw as a son. Okay? So these are the people who are closest to Caesar, and they ultimately killed ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 59:20 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Caesar because even though Caesar was making Rome better, he was changing Rome, which caused them to feel uncomfortable and anxious about the future of Rome. Okay? Does that make sense? So an analogy is this. Let's just say that one day the Chinese government says, we're going to outlaw rice, white rice, because white rice has proven to be scientifically bad for you. Okay? It's not nutritious for you. Instead, we're going to make every Chinese eat steak and potatoes and broccoli so that Chinese can be strong and healthy. Okay? How does Chinese feel about this? They'd be pissed. Okay? Do you understand? So it's unfortunate that Caesar did nothing wrong. And everything that Caesar did was for the good of Rome, but change, reform, causes cognitive dissonance. Okay? It makes people anxious and uncomfortable. Okay? It disrupts your identity, and that's why there's a conspiracy that ultimately killed Caesar. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. So the question, how did Caesar challenge the identity of being Roman? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:00:57 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3657s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3657s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay. That's a great question. All right. So let's look at his reforms. First of all, he had a Julian calendar, right? The Julian calendar. So he was challenging people's sense of time, time. You understand? So before you had the lunar calendar, now you have the Julian calendar. Second thing that he did was he was doing all this stuff. He was doing all this stuff by himself. Okay? He was winning these military victories by himself. He was introducing reform legislation by himself. He was a great man. But if you're Roman, what you have been taught is these three ideas, piety, liberty, and republica, which is to say no one is above Rome. Everyone is equal in the eyes of Rome. This general who won against Hannibal or Carthage or the Greeks, it wasn't because he was a great man. It was because he was fighting for Rome. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:02:07 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? So the fact that Julius Caesar was a genius, that he was so brilliant and he was able to accomplish so much, it made them jealous, right? It made people jealous. But at the same time, it made them... It made him... It made him... It made them see him as a threat to the very stability of Rome. Does that make sense? Because people like Julius Caesar aren't supposed to exist. Rome does not need kings. In fact, Rome is anti -monarchy. Okay? So they were very much afraid that Julius Caesar thought of himself as a god and he would make himself king. And in fact, Julius Caesar, I mean, had hubris. Right? Obviously, if you believe that you by yourself can change Rome, you have hubris. But he was not showing enough deference to the Senate. He was creating a cult of personality. He was being very arrogant. It seemed very much like he wanted to become king. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:03:14 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So there's a lot of evidence to suggest that Caesar wanted to become king. And that's what made them uncomfortable. Okay? But what I'm saying is the real issue is the idea of carnal dissonance. Okay? Where the very existence of Caesar challenged their perception of what Rome was and what Rome meant. Okay? Does that make sense? But very good question. Okay? Any more questions? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:03:52 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Crassus. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:03:57 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3837s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3837s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Oh. Okay. So Pompey and Crassus and Caesar, how did they form their alliance? Right? Okay. So the first thing to understand is Pompey and Crassus were both optimists. Okay? They were supporters of Sulla. Remember, Sulla is the one who crushed the populars. Right? So Pompey and Crassus were conservatives. They were optimists. Caesar was a populare. So their alliance was secret. It was completely unexpected. And that's why they were able to accomplish so much. Because politically, they were at odds with each other. The reason why they formed an alliance is... It's basically expedience. Pompey had issues that he wanted to pass through the Senate. Crassus had issues that he wanted to pass through the Senate and Caesar as well. So they decided it would be politically expedient to work together. And that's the genius of Caesar. Okay? He's very charismatic. He's very manipulative. So he was able to form an alliance with people who were technically his enemies. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:05:11 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3911s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3911s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? Pompey and Crassus were his enemies. They were politically at odds with him. But Caesar was able to put aside political differences and form an alliance for the sake of interest and expediency. Okay? Does that make sense? But obviously, this would not last very long. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:05:30 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:05:31 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So next class, we're going to look at the world that Caesar created. Okay? Because after he dies... The Republic falls. So we will look at what happens after he dies and look at the birth of the Roman Empire. ## Caesar Changed Rome's Reality, So Rome Killed Him -- 1:06:00 - Source title: Civilization #15: The Myth-Making Genius of Julius Caesar - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qQgsEFGgc&t=3960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-f8qqgsefggc.json) Text: Okay? Okay. Okay. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay, so we start Rome today, and we will spend the next four classes on the rise of the Roman Republic and then the rise of the Roman Empire. So Rome, traditionally, we believe Rome was founded in the year 753 BCE, but we don't know, okay? That's just what tradition says, that's what the Romans believe, but we actually don't know, okay? So around this time, Rome, it's just like a small, insignificant kingdom in the middle of Italy, okay? It was founded on the Tiber, this is Rome, and it's part of Italy called the Latin area, okay? So these people are known as the Latins. Now at this time, and over the next centuries, Rome would be a small, poor kingdom. Always at war with its neighbors, okay? Primarily the Sabines over here, and then you have other tribes as well. At this time, the dominant civilization is what we call the Etruscans. And the Etruscans are the most advanced civilization in Italy during this time. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:20 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And it is very similar to Greece in that there are different city -states, and they trade with each other. And because they are by the sea, they are able to access cultures and ideas and goods from all around the world, okay? Then across the Mediterranean, you have a place called Carthage. Here is Italy, Sicily, okay? An island called Sicily. Sicily is important because it's basically the main island of the Mediterranean. So if you want to control the Mediterranean Sea and the trade, you have to control Sicily. All right? So across the sea is Carthage. And Carthage is from, it's a colony of Phoenicia, which is in the Levant, okay? And over the next few hundred years, Carthage would become the dominant economic power of the Mediterranean. Because they're very good at trade, and they're very good at sailing. Okay? So they'll travel and sail all around the world and found new colonies. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 2:35 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And slowly, they'll build up their own little empire across the Mediterranean. And they are, for the longest time, the wealthiest city in Europe, basically. Okay? And, of course, over here are the Greeks, right? And we spent a lot of time discussing the Greeks. So around this time, about 500 BCE, if you were to look at these three major civilizations, right? Oh, sorry. There's actually four, right? The Trischians, the Greeks, the Carthaginians, and then you have these Romans. No one could expect or predict that the Romans would become the great empire that it did become. Right? So what we will look at the first class is, how did Rome become so powerful? And the easy answer is, it's good at war. It's really good at war. And then the question then is, well, why is it good at war? Why is it better than the Greeks or the Carthaginians? And the answer is, because the Romans are not afraid to die. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 3:51 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And because the Romans have a different conception of citizenship than the Greeks. Okay? Remember, the Greeks were extremely jealous of citizenship. It was very hard to become an Athenian. It was very hard to become a Spartan. You basically have to be born into the polis. Same thing with the Carthaginians. They were not as strict as the Greeks. They were pretty inflexible as well. They were very proud of being a citizen. Rome, because it was the poorest and smallest, it had no choice. They wanted to immigrate to Rome. They welcomed you as a citizen. And as such, they could, throughout its history, draw on the vast manpower pool in the surrounding areas. Okay? And as such, with their almost unlimited manpower resources, they could eventually overwhelm the Greeks and the Carthaginians and become the dominant power in the Mediterranean. By about 200 BC. That's the easy answer. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 5:01 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And that's what most historians and most scholars believe. But I want to be more precise. Okay? I want to show you that ultimately it's the value system or what is known as the character of these different civilizations that ultimately determine their fate and future. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So. So about 500 BCE, Rome becomes a republic. And at this time, the Etruscan culture is dominating Rome. In fact, three out of Rome's seven kings previously were Etruscan. Okay? So culturally and traditionally speaking, the Etruscans have this huge impact on Rome. But because Rome is very good at war, it's slowly able to expand and conquer the Etruscans and basically control all of Italy. Okay? And because the Romans are expansionists by nature, they are a war -like people. They are basically a war machine. They now want to control Sicily and the coast. Okay? And this brings them into conflict with the Greeks. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 6:23 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=383s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=383s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Because remember, the Greeks, when they built colonies, they built it either on islands or near the coast. Because that's what allows them to trade and also connect with the Greek diaspora around the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Okay? And in about 280, the Greeks in southern Italy, they call for help. And remember, at this time, the Greek world is dominant throughout the world. Okay? So, Alexander conquered most of the world and his generals now control most of the territory. And one of the successors to Alexander, his name is Pyrrhus. Okay? He decides this is an opportunity for him to build his own empire. So, he responds to the Greeks who call for help against Rome. Okay? So, Rome is threatening the Greeks in southern Italy. The Greeks are asking for help from the compatriots. Pyrrhus comes with an army to help his compatriots. And remember, at this time, the Greeks have the best military in the world because of the hoplite phallus. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 7:37 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And Pyrrhus is destroying the Romans. Battle after battle, Pyrrhus is destroying and decimating the Romans. Eventually, Pyrrhus says this, Wow, I'm winning so many wars. I'm winning so many battles. And if I continue to win battles, I will be completely out of men. I will have no more soldiers left. Okay? And this is where the phrase Pyrrhic victory comes from. Right? You can win, but the costs of victory are so high you might as well have lost. All right? And so, what this means is even though the Romans were militarily inferior to the Greeks, the Romans weren't afraid to die and they inflicted so many casualties on the Greeks that the Greeks eventually had to withdraw. Okay? And this will start many centuries of war between the Romans and the Greeks. Remember, at this time, in the beginning, the Greeks are wealthier, more numerous, and more militarily dominant than the Romans. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 8:48 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=528s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=528s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: But eventually, because of the Roman way of war, Rome will eventually conquer the Greeks. Okay? So that's the Greeks. Eventually, the Romans went to Sicily. And this brings them into direct conflict with Carthage. And this starts what is called the First Punic War. Now, there's a problem. Carthage is a naval power. Rome is a land power. Rome has no navy. So what Rome does is, slowly over time, it builds its own navy. And at first, it sucks. They lose a lot of ships. And so the Romans build more ships. And they get slaughtered by the Carthaginians at sea. So they build more ships, and more ships, and more ships. And eventually, they overwhelm the Carthaginians. And so, after 20 years of war, in what is called the First Punic War, Rome becomes a dominant naval power in the Mediterranean. Carthage becomes second. Then something strange happens. Okay? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 10:03 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Carthage, it is a trading power, is a maritime power. And while it's able to dominate its neighbors, it establishes an empire in Northern Africa and in Spain, it loses a lot of wars against the Greeks and the Romans who are just better warriors. But then, the Carthaginians produce a man named Hannibal Carba. Hannibal Barca. And Hannibal Barca is considered by many military historians to be the greatest general who ever lived. As a military strategist, Hannibal had no competitor. And Hannibal Barca, he hates Rome with a passion. He understands this. He understands that Rome is fundamentally an expansionist military power. Rome will not stop until it has conquered the world. So even though technically Carthage and Rome are at peace, eventually Rome will come for Carthage. So it is better to take a fight to Rome first than to wait for Rome to come to you. Okay? Now, Carthage at this time, it is basically a republic like Rome. And it's run by people called by something called Council of Elders. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 11:44 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And these are the wealthiest citizens in Carthage. And there's elements of democracy and Arlacher as well. But it's primarily republic. Okay? It's run by these people. And these are merchants. These are wealthy people. War is bad for business. Okay? So, they were not supportive of Hannibal in his desire for war against Rome. So, Hannibal did two things. Okay? The first thing is he was in charge of civil mines in Spain. And what he did was he conquered a lot more, a lot of Spanish territory for Carthage. And so he was able to amass more wealth. He took this wealth and he used it to basically bribe the Council of Elders to leave him alone. Okay? And to support his military adventures in Spain. And again, these are business people. If it's profitable, they will support you. And then what Hannibal did was he did something that was unimaginable before. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 12:56 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: He took his army and he crossed the Alps. Okay? He crossed the Alps. Sorry, the Alps are here. Into Italy. He is now at Rome's doorstep. And again, before Hannibal did this, it was found impossible to cross the Alps, especially in winter, with an army. Okay? But Hannibal did that. He lost a lot of men and elephants, war elephants, in his crossing. But he was able to cross. And when he crossed, he was able to summon a lot of allies to his side. Okay? Because Rome was at war with everyone in Italy and with the Gauls to the north of Italy in France. Okay? So Rome had a lot of enemies. And so Hannibal was able to replenish his forces once he landed in Italy. He was also a very charismatic speaker, a great general. Okay? Rome heard about this, and at first Romans were shocked, but they weren't scared. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 14:01 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Rome is a war machine. Okay? So they decided to send an army against Hannibal. And army after army fell against Hannibal. Hannibal was able to defeat Roman, Roman soldiers and armies using superior military tactics and strategies. Okay? Then the Romans decide, you know what, here's what we're going to do. We'll take two years off, and we're going to build the world's largest army. Okay? 80,000 men. And at this time, Hannibal had about 40,000 men. And then we'll take these 80,000 soldiers and we'll just throw at Hannibal and crush Hannibal, and the war will be over. Okay? That's the strategy. That's just the Roman way. Okay? The Romans are not creative. They are just brutal, bold, and direct. Okay? That's just their way of war. And so Hannibal meets this 80,000 soldier army at something called, at a place called Cannae. And they fight something called the Battle of Cannae in 216 BCE. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 15:13 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And this is the most famous battle in human history. Okay? Remember, the Romans outnumbered Hannibal two to one. And what Hannibal does is he decides on a place to face the Romans. Okay? And in this place, it's a small valley. And so even though the Romans are numerically superior because the valley is small, they're forced to march in a straight line as opposed to in a wide line. Okay? If you have more numbers, you want to march in a wide line. But because of the geography, they're forced to march in a straight long line. Okay? So they're marching this way. Hannibal is uphill with his army. And he does something strange. He organizes his army not in a straight line, but in a concave line. Okay? Like this. Concave. And the Romans look at this and they laugh because they've never seen anything like this before. And they think it's a sign of weakness. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 16:20 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: It means the military under Hannibal, it's undisciplined. They're just amateurs. This will be over in an hour. So the Romans are marching confidently against Hannibal. They're attacking. On the wings of both armies are the horsemen, the cavalry. Okay? So what happens as the Romans march against Hannibal is Hannibal sends his cavalry against the Roman horsemen cavalry. And they overwhelm the Roman cavalry. Okay? And now they're turning back in to attack the flank or the back. Meanwhile, the Roman attack, it's so powerful, the surge is so strong that the concave of Hannibal's army turns upside down. Okay? It turns upside down. When it does so, it traps the Roman army in a circle. Okay? Do you see this? Okay? Now they are inside a circle and the army is coming around and attacking from the back. Okay? Militarily, we call this the double envelopment strategy. Okay? Double envelopment strategy. And so the Romans are circled completely. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 17:49 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1069s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1069s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And what follows is the greatest massacre in history, militarily, until World War I. The army of 80,000 that the Romans sent lost almost 70,000 men. 70,000 men died that day. And again, no military would lose so much men until World War I when they had much larger armies like millions of people and when they had machine guns. All right? So this is like the greatest military disaster in human history up to this point. Okay? The disaster is so great that right now, Rome has lost 20%. Okay? 20 % of its adult male population. To put that in context, in World War I, the Germans lost anywhere between 10 to 15 % of their adult male population before they were forced to surrender to the Allies. Okay? So Rome has lost 20%. It's lost a third of the Senate. The Senate is the highest governing body of Rome. So a third of their leadership is dead. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 19:12 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1152s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1152s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#strategy-tests-story-against-material-reality); [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: At the same time, Hannibal is able to convince the Greeks to start a second front against the Romans. Okay? So at this point, the war is basically over. And Hannibal sends envoys to Rome and says, listen, the war is over. I'm willing to negotiate a peace settlement. I am willing to negotiate peace terms. And then something strange happens. And this is unique in human history. Okay? The Roman Senate, they come together and they discuss a situation. It's bleak. It's hopeless. But there are Romans. Romans do not surrender. So the Senate told Hannibal, we will continue the war. We will raise another army. If you want to come attack us, come. We will be ready for you. And this is completely unexpected. Hannibal does not know what to do. And this war continues. And this again is 216. This war continues for another 15 years. And then 15 years later, the Romans have won. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 20:40 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: They destroyed the Carthaginian presence in Spain. And they've conquered, and they've landed in Africa. And forced Carthage to surrender. All right? Okay, so this is the mystery. Why did the Romans not surrender? And how were the Romans able to defeat not just the Carthaginians, but also the Greeks? And also like everyone else. Okay? Because at that time, Hannibal basically united the entire world against Rome and Rome. In the end, even though it was very costly, right? They did win. So that's a mystery. Okay? So, first thing we need to understand is traditional military doctrine about who wins wars, it's basically wrong. Traditionally, we understand the military about three things. Okay? Manpower. How many soldiers do you have? Technology. How good are your weapons? And resources. How wealthy are you? Okay? Traditionally, we've understood war making. Like, if you're good at war, you will have these three things. Okay? Lots of soldiers, lots of technology, and lots of money. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 22:07 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And if you analyze it this way, then Rome should be no match against Carthage. Right? Carthage is a lot wealthier. It has more technology. It has the greatest general in Hannibal. But then at the same time, the Athenians should not have been able to defeat the Persians. At the same time, Alexander and the Macedonians should not have been able to defeat the Persians. In fact, throughout human history, we have a lot of instances, cases, where smaller armies have been able to defeat much larger armies. So think of Genghis Khan. Think of Muhammad. Okay? So clearly, this is wrong. But if this is wrong, what is a better way to understand military strength? Well, I would argue how strong a military is, is based on three criteria. The first is cohesion. Do the soldiers like and identify with each other? Are they united? Okay? Cohesion. Second is the idea of discipline. How well trained and experienced are they? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 23:22 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And the third is devotion. How committed are they to winning? Okay? So if you want to see how powerful a nation is militarily, you have to ask yourself these three questions. Are they cohesive? Are they disciplined? Are they devoted? Okay? And I would also argue that each nation has a certain culture, a certain value system, which gives it a certain character. And this character will tell you if they are likely to win a war or not. Okay? All right. So let's examine briefly the characteristics of Rome, Persia, as opposed to the Greeks and the Carthaginians. Okay? So let's do a table. Let's just say, okay, you have Greeks, you have Carthage, you have Rome. All right. We know a lot about the Greeks. And there are three major concepts that define Greek culture. Okay? All right. So the first question is what makes you a good person? For the Greeks, it was the idea of erite. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 24:39 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1479s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1479s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? Erete just means action. Excellence. You could be an asshole. You could be a jerk. But if erite, like you have talent, then you are a good person. Okay? And the erite that the Greeks are most concerned about is the ability to speak well and the ability to fight well. Okay? That's erite. Second thing is what is the thing that matters to you? Okay? The most valuable thing in your life. Well, why do you fight? Well, for the Greeks, it was the idea of freedom. Okay? And for them, the idea of freedom means the ability to speak your mind in front of your peers. Okay? The freedom of speech, basically. And the last question for the Greeks is what is the purpose of life? Okay? And here, the Greeks have an easy answer. It's eudaimonia. Remember, eudaimonia is Greek for flourishing. You can only be happy as a person if you are achieving your true potential. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 25:46 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: If you are flourishing as a person. So, that's Greek culture. And if you think about it, this explains why the Greeks were the most creative civilization in human history. Right? They're very creative. At the same time, they're also very selfish. Right? And that's why they were never able to come together except in times of national emergency like when the Persians invaded. And only then, but even then, only a few of the Greek city -states came together and some even joined the Persians. Okay? So the Greeks are notorious for being creative but also for being selfish. So that's Greek culture. Now, let's look at the Carthaginians. Okay? Now, unfortunately, we don't know anything about the Carthaginians. The reason why is Rome wiped Carthage out of history. Okay? Rome destroyed Carthage, killed everyone, and erased Carthage from the history books. But, we do know they are a mercantile empire. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 26:52 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1612s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1612s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Meaning, they are focused on trade. We also know that in their political system, it's the wealthiest citizens who have the most political power. Okay? And so, they are basically a merchant culture. A merchant, mercantile culture. And from that, we can make certain guesses about their value system. Okay? So, what is good for the Carthaginians? It's the idea of being lucky, right? You succeed in life if you're lucky. That's how business people, right, are. And that's why they're very superstitious. The Carthaginians are notorious for being extremely religious and superstitious. And one example of this is, of all these major civilizations, the Carthaginians are known for practicing human sacrifice. In fact, in times of war, they will even go as far as practicing child sacrifice, killing children, killing children and sacrificing them to the gods in return for divine favor in times of war. Okay? So, they are known for focusing on fortune and luck. What do they care about? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 28:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1680s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1680s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: They care about their own interests, right? What's profitable? What's their purpose in life? Accumulating wealth. Right? Does that make sense? Because these are business people. So, that's how they structure their society and their culture. And that's why for most of their history, they were extremely wealthy. Okay? They were notorious for being extremely clever business people who made a lot of money for themselves. Okay? Rome, let's look at Rome, okay? What is good for them? What's a good person? The answer is piety. Piety just means duty to the gods, to the city, Rome, and to your father. Okay? They believe heavily in filial piety. The best person was someone who practiced filial piety. Okay? What do they think was most valuable in their lives? It's the idea of liberty. Okay? But liberty is a different conception for the Romans than for the Greeks. Remember, for the Greeks, what mattered was the opportunity and the ability to speak your mind in front of your peers. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 29:20 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? That's what freedom was. The Romans believed liberty was about respecting the law, the institutions, and the history of Rome. It is only by respecting the law could you be free. Otherwise, we'd all just be savages. Okay? That's the conception of liberty. Now, the last question, then, is what's the purpose of life? And for the Romans, what really mattered to them is the idea of re publica. Re publica. This is Latin. And it's translated as usually public virtue for the public good. Okay? And this is where we get the term republic from. And so, for Romans, the highest honor, the highest privilege, the purpose of life was to serve Rome and make it stronger and better. Okay? Does that make sense? Standing for political office and being head of the military was the highest honor Rome could bestow on you. That was the entire point of point of your life. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 30:38 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, if we just do a compare and contrast, we could easily figure out, oh, it's the Roman ethical system that will allow them the most cohesion, discipline, and military. And therefore, over time, in a war, the Romans should be able to defeat both the Carthaginians and the Greeks. Okay? Does that matter? Sorry. Does that make sense to you? Okay. Any questions so far? Is this clear? My argument? Carthaginians. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, Rome, in the third Punic War from 149 to 146, they would go and destroy Carthage. They would burn it And then, they would burn all the books that Carthage ever produced. So, we don't have anything written by them. But, we have a lot written by Greeks and Romans, right? Because the Greeks and Romans were always in conflict with the Carthaginians. And, what's interesting for us is, before all ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 31:58 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: the conflict started in about 300 BCE, the Romans and the Greeks had nice things to say about the Carthaginians. Okay? They were good fighters. They were brave. They were very prosperous. Carthage was like the wealthiest city in the world. Okay? They had all these praises for Carthage. And after, when war started between the Carthaginians and the Romans, then they focused on child sacrifice. The Carthaginians were offended by the gods because they practiced child sacrifice, which was barbaric and that's why the gods smited Carthage. Okay? Remember, back at this time in human history, we didn't believe in human agency. Everything was ordained by the gods. Okay? So, if Carthage was destroyed, it's because the gods will it. Why did the gods will it? Because the Carthaginians practiced child sacrifice. Okay? And that's what the Romans and the Greeks insisted. Of course, that means we have to be skeptical of what they say, right? But at the ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 33:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1980s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=1980s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: same time, we've done a lot of archaeological excavations around Carthage and we have found human remains that show signs of human sacrifice. Okay? So, we have the, we have, we also, Carthage comes from Phoenicia, right? We know a lot about Phoenician culture. Okay? So, we've lost a lot of information about Carthage but we're able to piece them back together slowly. Does that make sense? Yeah. All right. Okay. But again, unfortunately, we know nothing about their culture, right? We don't know nothing about their literature, about their mythology, about their religion because it's all been destroyed. The writing has all been destroyed by the Romans. Okay. So, these three characteristics that define the Roman identity, right? Piety, liberty, and republica. I want to explain them slowly. Okay? So, what the Romans really did well is they, they basically created history as mythology. Okay? So, the Greeks separated mythology from history. Mythology is what humans did. History is what humans did. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 34:25 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? So, basically, the Greeks invented history. The Romans, they basically elevate their history into mythology. Their, their history became their religion. Okay? So, let me explain what I mean by that. So, there are legends that surround the founding of Rome. So, Rome was supposed to be founded in 753 BCE by Romulus. Okay? And there, there are legends surrounding Romulus. And there are lots of legends surrounding Romulus. But the idea is this. There was a king and he was overthrown by his brother. And, the brother banished the king's daughter to a temple to be a virgin for the rest of her life. But then, she got pregnant. And then, so the brother says to the king's daughter, why are you pregnant? And the daughter says, I was visited by Mars, the god of war. And he impregnated me. Okay? The king's brother obviously does not believe her. So, he banishes her and he orders for the twins who are born to be killed. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 35:41 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? But, as the case with these legends, the person charged with killing the twins takes pity on them and somehow they are left to die in the woods. A she -wolf, a wolf, comes and nurses them before another shepherd comes and adopts them. Okay? Eventually, they realize who they are and they help the king overthrow the brother and take back the throne. Now, the brothers are asked to go and basically found their own city. So, they go to Rome and it's all just hills, right? And they decide this is the place to build their kingdom because there's a river, the Tiber, and there are all these hills that provide good defense. Okay? The problem is this. They're twins. There's two of them. Romulus and Remus. So, and only one can be king. So, they're, so they get into a battle and Romulus kills Remus. Okay? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 36:47 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2207s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2207s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And that's the founding legend of Rome. And from this legend we can sort of understand or make some extrapolations about the Roman psychology. They believe that violence is at the core of human existence, right? I mean, like, sometimes you have to kill your own brother and that's the right thing to do because that is ordained by the gods. Okay? So, that's the first legend. Second legend is this. Romulus has to build Rome and he becomes a very open person. He welcomes immigrants into Rome and he grants them citizenship and status right away. Okay? Rome becomes a nation of immigrants. Eventually, their rise startles their neighbors and their neighbors go to war with them at once. The Romans are so good at war that they fight back the neighbors. The neighbors are called the Sabines. The Sabines decide, listen, we can't put them in war but at the same time, Rome is only has males. Right? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 37:54 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Rome only has males. So, we will just isolate Rome. Our daughters will not marry into Rome and in 20 years time, Rome will have no population. Okay? Romulus hears of this plan and he devises a strategy. What he does is he organizes a huge festival and invites all his neighbors. So, fathers bring their daughters to attend this festival. At this festival, they invite the women The women are kidnapped and they basically raped. That night, Romulus visits every one of these women and apologizes for what has happened and promises that they will be safe in Rome. That they are now citizens of Rome and therefore they will be protected by him personally, the king. The fathers and the brothers are obviously very upset about this. So, they organize this huge army and they march against Rome. The Roman citizens come out to face them in battle. Okay? And just as they're about to clash in battle, ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 39:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: the women come and run between them and beg the new husbands and their fathers and brothers not to fight. At this point, Romulus appears and says he will make everyone a citizen of Rome. Okay? And by doing that, he basically doubled the population of Rome. All right? Again, from this legend, we can understand the Roman psychology which is everything can be sacrificed in the pursuit of Roman glory and basically to ensure that Rome survives. Okay? Because what matters is Rome. Okay? It's a cult of Rome. All that matters is the survival of Rome. Morals don't matter. Nothing matters. All that matters is the survival of Rome. So after this, Rome starts to grow slowly. And this is a period known as the Seven Kings. So there's seven kings who rule Rome and they do so for a very long time, about 200 plus years. And most of them are very, very good kings. Except the last king. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 40:14 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2414s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2414s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: His name is Tarcanus Superbus. Okay? Superbus is Latin for arrogant. So he's often referred to as Tarcan the Proud. Okay? So Tarcan the Proud, he is, as his name suggests, a very arrogant king. What makes him arrogant is his hubris. He refuses to listen to the nobility. In fact, those in the nobility who challenge his authority often get killed. All right? He has a second son. And the second son, he's a jerk. He likes to abuse his power. And one thing he enjoys doing is raping the woman of Rome. There's one woman who's notorious or who's famous for her virtue. His name is Lucretia. And the prince thinks raping her will be the most fun. Okay? Because she will be the most insulted by this. So he rapes her. And then she goes and confronts her husband. Okay? Her husband. And then her husband has a friend. His name is Lucius Brutus. Lucius Brutus happens to be the nephew of the king. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 41:37 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And he is very much opposed to the tyranny of the king. And Lucretia says to her husband and to his friend Lucius Brutus, I've been raped. Will you promise me to avenge my honor? And the husband and Lucius Brutus see she's distraught. Okay? And so they sue for her and promise her they will do if they can in the morning. And Lucretia, she doesn't really believe them. So what she does is she takes a knife out from her dress and she stabs herself in the heart and she dies before them. Now, they are honor bound to avenge her death. And so what Lucius Brutus does is he calls a meeting of the nobility and they decide to gather to overthrow the king. The king is out campaigning and he's basically at war. And what they do is they lock the gates of Rome. Now the king is furious. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 42:38 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2558s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2558s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? And so what the king does is he decides he's going to go back to Etrusca where he's from and he's going to rally his friends the kings. Okay? Because if the Romans can overthrow him well, other people can overthrow their kings. Right? So this is a bad president. So he's going to organize a huge army to march against Rome. Meanwhile, Lucius Brutus he's instituting the republic. Okay? Now the king the thing about the king is that all powers are invested in the king. These powers include military, judicial, deciding cases, legislative, making laws, administrative, bureaucratic, right? And religious. Okay? So these are the five major duties of the king. And this is where his power comes from. So what Lucius Brutus and the Romans do is they separate his powers not into individuals but into institutions that are now elected by the people. Okay? This is the heart of republicanism. So the military will now run by the council. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 43:50 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: The council's basically the head of the state. Okay? And again, he's elected. The judicial is run by the praetor. Legislator is the senate. Administrative is the adile. And the religious is the pontifex maximus. And again, they're all elected by the people. Now what's important to understand is it's usually nobility who are in these offices. But back then, there wasn't much separation between nobility and ordinary people. Okay? So nobility are what we call patricians. The patricians. And the ordinary people are what we call the plebeians. And honestly, there wasn't that much difference. The patricians are just come from the families who have been in Rome the longest, the oldest families. And they were wealthy, but not that much wealthier from ordinary Romans. So maybe you have one car, right? Well, I have three cars. Also, the people could go visit each other's homes without any ceremony. Okay? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 45:04 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2704s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2704s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: So you could be the head of state. You could be the council. But if I'm an ordinary person, I can just come to your house and have dinner with you. Okay? There were no doors. There were no guards. There was no separation. Okay? So, Lucius Brutus instituted a new system where the king's powers were divided among different institutions. And now, people didn't have to obey the king. They had to obey the republic. And the republic was three things. The laws, the history or traditions, and the institutions. Okay? That's the republic. And this system, unbelievably, incredibly, will not change for about 500 years. Okay? So it's pretty stable. Now, what's important to remember is these are not innovations. The Romans just basically copied this from the neighbors. Okay? The Etruscans. So, the Romans have a republic. The problem with a republic is everyone's equal. And so, if you come from a privileged background, you find this very annoying. So now, there's a conspiracy to bring back the king. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 46:26 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And this conspiracy was discovered and everyone was caught and imprisoned. It turns out Lucius Brutus has two sons. Okay? He has two sons. And they were both part of this conspiracy. They were tried by the senate and they were all sentenced to death, including the two sons of Lucius Brutus. Okay? The problem is this. The problem is the council has to oversee the execution of the prisoners. Whose council? Lucius Brutus' council. Okay? So, Lucius Brutus has to oversee the execution of his two sons. Now, if Lucius Brutus is like, you know what, I'm going to resign my office. Or, hey, you know what, I'm sick. Everyone would be like, we understand. Take the day off. Don't worry about it. Okay? Instead, Lucius Brutus showed up for work and he oversaw the execution of his two sons. All of Rome came to the execution. Okay? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 47:34 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2854s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2854s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: It was a public event. Everyone was watching the face of Lucius Brutus. Okay? We know the two sons are going to die. They're going to be beheaded. But everyone wanted to see Lucius Brutus' reactions. He was crying throughout the execution. These are to his two sons. Right? He has no more sons. This is his legacy now. And his two sons are about to be killed. In fact, he's the one charged with killing his own sons. He has to do it. He has no choice. So everyone's watching him. And throughout this process, he's crying. His tears are flowing down his face. He can't help himself. But he's still standing still. And he's still slowly ordering the execution of his two sons. And the Romans are just shocked by this public display. Okay? This is the idea of devotion. Right? You are so devoted to Rome that you're willing to sacrifice your own children to ensure its survival and its glory. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 48:49 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2929s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=2929s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Tarchinus Tarchin the Proud hears about this and he gets really angry. So he allies himself with kings and they march against Rome. Lucius Brutus is counsel. He's in charge of the military. So he marches his army against Tarchin the Proud. One of the sons of Tarchin the Proud sees Lucius Brutus and he charges ahead because he wants to kill the man who insulted his family. Lucius Brutus sees the king's son running they're both on horses, right? Running, galloping towards him and Lucius Brutus gets angry and so he charges ahead as well. Lucius Brutus throws his spear, javelin, the king's son, the prince throws his spear as well and they spear each other to death and they both die. Okay? And so Lucius Brutus is at this point considered the greatest Roman who ever lived. Okay? And for most of Roman history he'll be considered the greatest Roman who ever lived until Julius Caesar. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 50:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And it was in the memory and honor of Lucius Brutus that they would assassinate Julius Caesar. But we'll discuss this next class. Okay. So, the king's army is overwhelming the Romans and the Romans have to flee back into the city. There's a drawbridge that connects Rome to the mainland. Okay? So there's the river Tiber crosses it, crosses around Rome. There's a garrison that's supposed to be protecting the bridge but they see the army coming. The army marching towards them. They get scared and they run all into Rome. One guy he says cockles. He decides I can't run away because I run away the army just marches into Rome and kills everyone. So he descends he decides to make a last stand. And there's just one guy. There's one random guy. Okay? And what he does he starts shouting insults at the enemy army. He's like you guys are slaves. We're Romans. We will always be free. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 51:09 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3069s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3069s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And the enemy army and like there's thousands of them. Okay? They have absolutely no idea what's going on. This is one guy on a bridge shouting insulting insulting them. Okay? So they they freeze. Eventually they realize oh this guy is just distracting us because his friends the other soldiers at this point two other Romans. Okay? Two officers run besides Kakos and together the three of them hold off the invading army together. Okay? With their shields. They fight for their lives. Eventually the bridge is about to be cut down. Okay? The two officers run away and Kakos makes the last stand. And the bridge falls and what Kakos does is before it falls completely he jumps into the Tiber and he survives. He doesn't drown. So this tells us hey anyone can be a hero of Rome. Right? Lucius Brutus he's the king's nephew. He's nobility. But Kakos he's just an ordinary Roman who had the courage he had the devotion to fight for Rome. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 52:27 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? And by doing so with his devotion he's able to save Rome by himself. So Rome right now is surrounded by this huge army. And one young man his name is Lucius and he's a Roman nobleman. Okay? He goes to the Senate and he says to the Senate listen we're being surrounded by an enemy army they're huge we're starving to death. I have a plan to win this war. I'm going to swim across the Tiber sneak into the enemy camp and kill the enemy king and this war will end. The Senate gives Lucius his approval and Lucius sneaks into the enemy camp. It's payday which means the soldiers are getting their wages right? Lucius sneaks into the front and he sees on the podium there are two individuals who are giving out wages to the soldiers. They both look like the king. One's a king and one's a secretary. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 53:31 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3211s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3211s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: They look the same. Lucius doesn't know who's the king and who's the secretary. You know at this point an ordinary person would be like I'll come back later. Okay? Like let me figure out let me spy first and figure out who the king is and then when a better opportunity arises I'll kill the king. Lucius is like it's 50 -50 man. So he takes his knife rushes the podium and stabs one other man who happens to be the secretary. Okay? So he's arrested and the king is interrogating him. He wants to know if there are other spies in the camp. The king says to Lucius tell me the truth or I will burn you alive. Okay? And he shows Lucius the pyre with this huge fire. Lucius says I am one of a hundred young Romans who have pledged their lives to kill you to free Rome. He's lying. This is not true. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 54:40 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: You kill me there'll be 99 more. Okay? We are not afraid of you. You say you will burn me if I do not tell you the truth? Now what he does is he puts his hand into the fire. His hand is burning. Okay? And he holds it together. And what makes him hold it together is what he sees is the face of Lucius as he orders the execution of his two sons. Right? Because ordering the execution of your two sons is a lot harder than burning your hand alive. Okay? Than burning your hand. And the king he looks at this and he thinks the Romans are the craziest bastards I have ever met. Screw this I'm going home. And he lets Lucius go. And the war is over. Okay? And that's how the Roman Republic survived the invasion and became the Republic. So this is the history of Rome. And this history is something that can be taught to anyone who becomes a citizen. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 56:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3360s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3360s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: If you are a Roman you it's because you believe in this history. Believing in this history knowing this history is what makes you a Roman. Okay? So that's the first concept. Piety. Loyalty to Rome. Second concept that makes you Rome unique or powerful is the idea of liberty. Okay? What Chagos did what Lucius did what Lucius did was preserve the liberty of Rome. Remember what liberty means is respecting and following the laws institutions and history of Rome. Because that's what makes Rome Rome. That's what allows you to have freedom. Okay? And that's why in 216 even though Hannibal had defeated the Romans the Romans refused to surrender. Because surrendering would mean surrendering their liberty. Right? Because Hannibal would impose peace terms that would that would make basically Rome into a client state of Carthage. They would lose their liberty. Right? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 57:07 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And if you don't have liberty your life isn't worth living. Give me life or give me liberty. Okay? The third element of Roman greatness is the idea of this. Republica. Right? So what this means is every nobleman if you have the ability you want to serve Rome. Okay? So what they did was this. They turned Roman politics into a competition to produce the best men. Okay? It was basically a meritocracy. So once you have the financial means you stood for election. And this system is called Okay? You first stood for election to become an adile and then you became a praetor and then you became a council. Once you're a council you have the opportunity to win the highest glory. Okay? What you can do is become a governor of a far away province. And then if you are governor of this far away province and you can win more territory for Rome then you'll be given something called a triumph. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 58:21 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Triumph. Triumph is a big parade where you are celebrated by all the Roman people. And that's what every Roman soldier aspired to. To become a great general who would receive his own triumph because he's won new territory for Rome. Okay? And that's why even though a third of the Roman Senate was wiped out by Hannibal they didn't give up because the other people were like okay now here's my opportunity to prove myself. Right? And one of these young people his name is Scipio he would go on and lead an army into Spain conquer Spain and then lead an army against Hannibal in North Africa in Carthage and destroy Hannibal. Okay? Because the point of life is to receive the triumph. And if you receive the triumph then you will be remembered by Romans in their history. Okay? Which is what gives your life meaning. Okay? Alright. So do we understand these concepts? Piety ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 59:37 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Liberty and Republica because they are the essence of the Roman identity and they are what made Rome great. Sure. Okay. Alright. So sorry. Lucius Brutus. Okay? Lucius Brutus overthrew the king and he established the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic is now a nation of laws. His two sons are princes and they lost their privileges. So they partake in this conspiracy to bring back the king. Right? This conspiracy was discovered and as punishment they were all sentenced to death because they wanted to destroy the Republic and bring back the king. Okay? Does that make sense? So what the story and again we don't know if these stories are true. They're probably not true. Okay? What this story is telling us is if the founder of the Roman Republic can sacrifice his family in order to make sure the Republic survives well you can as well. Okay? No sacrifice every sacrifice must be made to ensure Roman greatness. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:01:00 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3660s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3660s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: That's basically the message. Right? Any more questions? That's a great question. Okay. So how do we know this? The answer is this. For most of this time this is what we call oral history. Okay? So this is like you know mythology and it was basically passed from generation to generation. This oral history was written down in books but because Rome was at war so much Rome was conquered once and Rome was burned down and so we lost a lot of the written history. Okay? different versions of oral history. Okay? So there are different versions of these stories. And then a man named named Livy during the time of the Roman Empire when it was first founded he sat down to write the official history of Rome. And this is where we get all these stories from. Okay? And again we don't believe these stories to be that true. Okay? But whether or not he did these things we don't know. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:02:20 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3740s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3740s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? It's debatable. But what matters is this is what Romans believed. Okay? Do you understand? What matters is what they believed as opposed to what really happened. And this is what creates the Roman identity. Right? Great. Any more questions? Okay. So yeah I mean that's basically it. Okay? This is what made Rome great and that's what allowed them to come back from the defeats that Hannibal inflicted on them to eventually win the war. Any more any more questions? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:03:07 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: 80,000 army against Hannibal. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:03:28 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Yes. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:03:31 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3811s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3811s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Hmm. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:03:46 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay. That's a great question. Okay? So like you want to know more about Hannibal's invasion of Italy. Right? Okay. All right. So Rome what Rome is able to do is offer citizenship to anyone who fights for Rome. And Rome has been for the longest time been fighting its neighbors. Right? Once it conquered its neighbors its neighbors promised to send soldiers to Rome in times of war. So Rome is able to draw on soldiers from all around the Italian peninsula. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that when Hannibal invaded Italy he was doing so with many Gauls. Okay? Who are the invaders of Italy. And these Gauls have traditionally been the enemy of the Italians. So when Hannibal did so Rome's neighbors rallied to Rome's support to support Rome. Okay? Because they saw the Gauls and Hannibal as invaders who threatened their culture. Okay? That's the second thing. The third thing is Hannibal had an invading army. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:05:05 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Right? But he had no organizational and logistic support. He had no food supply. Because he was basically doing this on his own initiative. Carthage is too far away. Okay? And Rome had the best like navy in the Mediterranean. So there was no way that Carthage could resupply Hannibal. Sorry. There's no way Carthage could resupply Hannibal. Right? So Hannibal was forced to spend a lot of his time foraging for food. Do you understand? And that's ultimately why he lost the war. Because it's possible for you to win all these battles because you're a military genius. But you still have to feed your soldiers. And what Rome did after the Battle of Canaan was they recognized this fact. They recognized that Hannibal's main problem was logistics. And they started to not they decided we will never fight Hannibal in a battle again. We will cut off his food supply. Okay? ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:06:05 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=3965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: And so Hannibal had to spend most of his time foraging for food. Meanwhile, Rome could rebuild itself by freeing its slaves. Okay? And by recruiting more neighbors to join their cause. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. That's why that's why armies don't win wars. Nations win wars. Does that make sense? So another thing that you need to understand is while Hannibal was winning glory in Italy the Council of Elders and Carpets were they happy about this do you think? These are business people right? Are they happy about this? They're not happy about this because one it's going to cost them a lot of money to continue the war. And listen Italy is poor so there's no profit to be made from conquering Rome. Okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is if Hannibal were to win glory in Italy he would come back and become king of Carthage. Right? Does that make sense? So Hannibal was being undermined by Carthage itself even though Hannibal was trying to save Carthage. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:07:25 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4045s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4045s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Does that make sense? And that's what makes Rome unique. Rome has been united for most of its history whereas most places like Greece and Carthage were divided into different political factions. That's what caused Carthage to ultimately be undermined. So ultimately Rome was able to come back from this defeat and defeat Carthage because Carthage again saw Hannibal as big as a threat as Rome. Okay? This would be costly for Carthage because after the war is over 50 years later Rome a Roman senator named Cato the Elder he visits Carthage because he's curious what's happened to Carthage after the end of the war. And to his dismay and to his shock Carthage has become wealthier than ever before. Okay? 50 years of peace means that Carthage is able to accumulate more wealth than ever before. It's able to pay off the indemnity that Rome imposed on it. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:08:38 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? It's basically able to pay off pay Rome off. And Cato the Elder he is traumatized by this. He goes back to Rome and says we have to destroy Carthage. Okay? There's a huge debate in the Senate. He says listen if we let Carthage survive Carthage will always be a threat to us. And the other senators were like listen Cato I know you want to destroy Carthage but remember Carthage threatens us. If we destroy Carthage we Rome will no longer have an enemy. We will no longer have a threat. We will change as a people if we destroy Carthage. But Cato the Elder insisted eventually an army was dispatched to destroy Carthage. The Romans have a habit of always blaming the enemies for starting a war. Okay? So they didn't want to instigate the war. So they made these dumb excuses and said that Carthage was violating the peace treaty. And the Romans said to Carthage listen if you surrender all your weapons we will go away. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:09:54 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: The Carthaginians believed the Romans and thought if they surrender all their weapons they go away. The Romans got all these weapons they were like we didn't expect this man. So the Romans said to the Carthaginians you know what we also need you to move your city from the coast 10 kilometers inland. Okay? And at this point the Carthaginians knew Rome was going to destroy Carthage. So there's a three year siege and then at the end of it Rome conquered Carthage killed everyone inside enslaved others burned all the books and wiped out Carthage from history. As well as the history books. Okay? So that's a Roman mentality. Devotion means all or nothing. Okay? You don't surrender but you also don't show mercy to your enemies. Okay? So Hannibal was right. Rome was a threat to Carthage. But because Carthage has a merchant culture run by business people they could never recognize the threat. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:11:02 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0061](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0061) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4262s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4262s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0061` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:11:12 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0062](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0062) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4272s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4272s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0062` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Good. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:11:20 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0063](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0063) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0063` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Public virtue. Yeah. Okay. So why do people want to come to Rome? Well, the fact of the matter is that for most of history for most of history people didn't want to go to Rome because Rome was considered a like for example Greeks didn't want to go to Rome because they thought Rome was uncivilized. And Rome but Romans wanted to go to Athens because they thought Athens was the height of civilization. Right? The Carthaginians certainly didn't want to go to Rome. It's basically like North Korea even. You can even say it's like North Korea. Okay? It's a militaristic society that's barbaric. Right? The Greeks like to watch theater. The Romans like to watch gladiator shows or lions eat people. Okay? So for most of its history people avoided Rome. When becoming a republic you had no choice but to go to Rome because that's how you could build your career. It was the capital of the world. ## Rome's Cult Of No Surrender -- 1:12:33 - Source title: Civilization #14: Hannibal Barca, Lucius Brutus, and the Triumph of Rome - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0064](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo/transcript/#seg-0064) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4353s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdcE7XGDayo&t=4353s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo@transcript:v1#seg-0064` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tdce7xgdayo.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? So another way of saying this is there were many people who wanted to be Greek because they were attracted by the culture. Nobody wanted to be Roman. The Romans made everyone into a Roman through their conquest. Okay? So the Romans were repugnant in many ways. Okay? They just were a repugnant people. Okay? Any more questions? Any more questions? Okay. Great. So next class it's a fun class. Julius Caesar. Okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay, so today we will finish the Greeks by discussing Aristotle. And a lot of what I will say today will be controversial, okay? So feel free to challenge me, feel free to ask for clarification. Feel free to ask any questions, okay? So here's my argument. Aristotle is a paradox. He is one of the mysterious figures in world history. He's one of the most famous, but he's one of the most mysterious. He's a paradox for three reasons, okay? The first reason is he is considered to be one of the greatest philosophers in human history. He's next to Plato. He's certainly as influential as Plato. But what is unique about him is we do not have anything originally written by him, okay? We have no text that we believe was personally written by him. And that's unique in human history, okay? We say Shakespeare was a great writer, and we can prove it or show it by reading his text. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 1:17 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: We believe Aristotle is a great thinker, a great writer, but we have no evidence, no text to show us this is the case. But we believe so, okay? So this is the first paradox of Aristotle. Second paradox of Aristotle is he was a very prolific writer and thinker. In fact, we believe there's about 200 works attributed to Aristotle. What is unique about his work is the range of his thinking and his research. So he's written a book on politics, right? What is the best political system? He's written a book on... Poetics, theater, basically. What makes for a good tragedy? He's written a book on ethics. What is a good life? What makes a good person? He's written a book on rhetoric. How do you convince the audience that you are correct? He's also written books on physics. He's written books on metaphysics. He's written books on biology, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 2:31 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: It's just a range of books. The range is just incredible. We have no analog in human history like him, okay? He's simply unique in the range of his curiosity, okay? Second paradox. The third paradox is most problematic, okay? We know that Aristotle studied under Plato for 20 years. And so we also believe that Aristotle was Plato's... Most famous student. The paradox is Aristotle's understanding of the universe is radically opposed to Plato's understanding of the universe, okay? And that's, again, is unique in human history. You would think the best student would carry on the master's work, or at least build on it, right? But Aristotle, his understanding of the universe, is inconsequential. It's in conflict with Plato's work. In fact, you could also argue that Aristotle is negating Plato's worldview, okay? So let me explain how. So we know Plato. We know that for Plato, there is a god, and it's called the form of the good. And the form of the good is what is eternal, perfect, and immutable, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 4:06 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Now. Plato emanates other perfections. What he calls the form of the ideal, okay? So these are concepts like justice and beauty and reason. And then these concepts manifest themselves in forms like horse, right? Or a woman, okay? And these are like the ideal, perfect, immutable, eternal manifestations, okay? So, what is the ideal? So there's only one horse. It's up in heaven. Everything else is a copy of this horse, or imitation of this horse, okay? So we live in a shadow realm, okay, a shadow realm, where everything is imitation, okay? This is our reality. It's a shadow reality. And that's why art and poetry and theater are so bad, because they are really an imitation of an imitation, okay? So this is Plato's hierarchy. Okay? So, from this hierarchy and this worldview, we can make certain extrapolations, okay? The first extrapolation is, for Plato, what is good is if you approach or return to the form of the good. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 5:27 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=327s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=327s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: What is evil, what is bad, is if you move away from the form of the good, okay? Right? So poetry is evil. Mathematics is good. Okay? Now, why is mathematics good? Okay. Because mathematics is what allows you to approach the form of the good, all right? So let me give you an example of this, okay? Let's say there's a circle, right? Now what Plato argues is, no matter how hard you try, you could never, ever draw a circle in this world, okay? Because a circle has an edge, so it's like literally impossible for you to create something perfect without an edge, right? You're like, well, I can draw on the computer. But if you go at a microscopic level, you will always find an edge, okay? So how do you create a circle? Well, you create a circle by imagining it in your head, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 6:28 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: So what you're really doing is you're imagining the circle because you're accessing the realm of the forms. You're approaching the form of the good, okay? So it's only pure. It is only through a process of pure thought, pure philosophy. Okay? Pure mathematics, that you can actually start to understand this world, all right? That's Plato's understanding of the world. Aristotle has a completely different understanding, okay? So Aristotle starts with this, that God's a prime mover. So the prime mover, just imagine a big bang, right? Something explodes, boom, it moves, and it forces other things to move as well. So what Aristotle is saying is everything is really in motion, okay? Everything is change because it was all caused by the prime mover. And in Aristotle's world, what is good is if the thing that changes moves towards its purpose, okay? Or the word he uses is called telos. Telos. Okay? If you're moving towards your purpose, you are doing good in this world. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 7:51 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay? If you're moving away from your purpose, you're doing bad in this world. Okay? So the example is a soldier. The purpose of a soldier is to fight and win wars. So if you go fight and you do your best, you're doing good. But if you run away from a war, you're doing bad. Okay? So this is Aristotle's worldview. And as you can understand, as you can see, these two worldviews cannot harmonize. They are in conflict with each other. You have either one or the other, okay? So let me highlight the three major differences between these two worldviews. Okay? And again, I need to emphasize this. I am not an expert on Aristotle. I'm not an expert on Plato. Okay? So I am committing oversimplifications. Scholars who are experts will hear this and be outraged, okay? But for the purpose of this class, I'm not an expert on Plato. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 8:53 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: I feel these oversimplifications provide clarity. Okay? All right? So the first oversimplification is Plato is what we call a rationalist. Aristotle is what we call an empiricist. All right? So these are two big words. But the rationalist is just someone who believes that you can access the truth through pure thought. Okay? Mathematics. An empiricist is someone who believes you can only access the truth through observation and what we call empiricism. Induction. Okay? Inductive logic. All right? So if I see a woman wearing a dress and I see another woman wearing a dress and a third, I'm like, okay, well, from this, I can logically deduce or induce that all women wear dresses and that's what separates women from men. Okay? So for Aristotle to seek the truth, you have to observe and you have to induce. Okay? So that's the first major difference. Second major difference is Plato is what we call a dualist. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 10:04 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And Aristotle is what we call a materialist. A dualist is someone who believes that there's a body and a soul. Okay? And if you believe there's a body and a soul, you also believe the soul is more important because the soul is eternal, whereas the body will decay and die. Aristotle, he's a materialist. Okay? So for him, the focus is on the body and what happens to the body. Okay? There may be a soul. There may not be a soul. He doesn't really care. For him, it doesn't really matter. What matters is what happens to the body. The third major difference is Plato believes in the idea of immutability. Okay? Or what we call eternity. For Aristotle, almost nothing is immutable. Most things are mutable. Okay? The only thing that's really immutable is really God. But everything else is mutable. It will change over time. And so for Aristotle, the concept is infinity. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 11:08 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Things will always change. Things will always move. There's no stopping movement. Okay? But for Plato, things are eternal. There's a grand design, and nothing that changes really matters. It doesn't really affect the grand design. So for him, it's eternity. So these are the three major differences between Plato and Aristotle. Now, what's really interesting for us is this conflict between Plato and Aristotle is what will inform the philosophical debate for all of Western civilization, okay? So there are two major camps in Western philosophy. There is the rationalist camp, all right, so people like Descartes. And then there are the empiricists, okay, so people like David Hume, all right? And for most of Western history, philosophers will go back and forth between these two extremes, okay? Either the Platonic ideal or the Aristotle reality, okay? Does that make sense? All right? Is this clear? Any questions? Sure, go ahead. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 12:21 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Yeah. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 12:35 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Yeah, so that's a great question. And for Plato, okay, what we, like our lives, the reality we live in is not real. It's ephemeral. Whereas the form of the good, that's what's concrete. That's what's eternal, okay? So I mean, like, I understand. That's what's concrete. That's counterintuitive to us. But the reason why it's kind of counterintuitive to us is because we're mainly influenced by Aristotle, right? We live, we are materialists, right? Science is materialistic. But back then, and I would say back then in Plato's time, and for most of human history, it was assumed that our world was transitory or transient or ephemeral, okay? And it was a spirit world, okay, that was real and that was eternal. Does that make sense? Great. Okay. Again, this is oversimplification, okay? Like if you go to a scholar who understands itself, I will probably, he'll probably criticize me, okay? But I'm saying that for the purpose of this class and for our understanding of Western civilization, this will do, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 13:46 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Just understand there's a major conflict between Plato and Aristotle. This will go on for thousands of years, and this will inform the debate in Western civilization, okay? This is the fundamental debate in Western philosophy, all right? So let's go back to, let's summarize where we are. Aristotle is a paradox, right? We have nothing that he wrote originally. The range of his work is just incredible. It's unique in human history. And then lastly, even though we know Aristotle sat under Plato for like 20 years at least, Aristotle came up with a very different conceptualization of the universe. In fact, it is in direct conflict with Plato's understanding, okay? So how is this possible? How are these paradoxes, how can we resolve these paradoxes, okay? So I'm going to make an argument. And I will slowly make this argument, but it is a controversial argument, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 14:47 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=887s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=887s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: My argument is that Aristotle was not a philosopher. He was not a thinker. He was not a writer. What he was ultimately is a philosopher. He is what I refer to as a censor, censor. You can also use words like synthesizer, okay, or editor, or systemizer, okay? But basically, nothing that he thought was original to him, but he decided what would be political convenient for the moment, okay? That's what we mean by censor. And it's my argument that we understand Aristotle as a censor. Then these three paradoxes go away. We can explain away these paradoxes, all right? So let me make my argument. Okay, my first piece of evidence is we need to compare and contrast the life of Phyllis Sackett and Mastodon and Aristotle. When you do that, okay, when you put their lives side by side, interesting parallels emerge, okay? So let's look at their lives. Very simple. Aristotle. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 16:05 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: He was born in year 384. Philip II was born in year 383. That's about the same age, right? Now, Philip II, he's a prince of Mastodon. His father's the king, right? Aristotle, his father was the court physician to the king. He was the king's personal doctor, right? So from these two pieces of information, what can we guess about Philip and Aristotle? They grew up together, right? Does that make sense? Aristotle's father was the personal doctor to the king. Philip was the son of the king. It would make sense. They grew up together. It would make sense. They would be educated together, all right? Second thing that's interesting is from 367 to 348, okay, Aristotle went to Athens to study Plato. Now, around the same time, okay, in the year 369 to 365, Philip went to Thebes to study military innovation under the best generals in Greece. Okay? All right? And here I would extrapolate and say the teenagers, they're going to further their education, right? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 17:23 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1043s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1043s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And learn the best scientific and military innovations in order to bring back to Mastodon. And this happens all the time, right? In the 1980s, China sent its best and brightest to America to study science. Okay? So we can also surmise that even while they were away, they were still in contact with each other. All right? Now, in 359, Philip became regent, or basically king. And from then on, he started this massive military campaign to conquer all of Greece. Now, one thing that was interesting about Philip's conquest of Greece was that the Athenians didn't really oppose him. Okay? And this is one of the great mysteries. One of the great mysteries historians struggle with. Why is it that Philip II, he's going around, he's conquering all these places that are in conflict with Athens. And Athens doesn't really resist. All right? And one possible theory is, well, Philip II just bribed all these Athenian aristocrats. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 18:35 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1115s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1115s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: In fact, the man who most opposed Philip, this Athenian statesman named Demetrius, he actually said this in speeches. He said, listen. I'm telling you right now, Philip tried to bribe me. Okay? And I know Philip's bribing all my opponents. But I'm telling you, Athenians, Philip is a menace to democracy. And that's why we must oppose him. All right? So we can surmise that Philip was bribing these Athenians to support him, and that's why there's so little Athenian resistance to Philip. If that's the case, then who's the middleman? Who's the person who's in contact with these Athenian aristocrats? Aristotle. Right? Why? Because remember, Aristotle was at the academy for 20 years. The academy in Athens at that time is like Harvard, Oxford today. Right? It's where all the rich and powerful go to study. So for 20 years, Aristotle was in contact and became friends with the most powerful individuals in Athens. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 19:43 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And that's why when Philip needed to negotiate with Athenians. It would make the most sense to send Aristotle. Okay? Does that make sense? And then we know that Philip united Greece in 338. And then 335, three years later, Aristotle started a new school in Athens in competition with the academy called the Lyceum. Okay? So what is the purpose of the Lyceum? Okay? So that's what I will discuss next. But does that make sense? There are direct parallels between the lives of Aristotle and Philip. And we can guess or extrapolate or deduce that Aristotle and Philip were very close throughout their lives. And they were helping each other. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So now the question then is, why was Philip going around conquering all of Greece? Well, Philip had a vision for the world. And it's something we call the Pan -Hellenic Project. Okay? So Pan -Hellenic Project. Okay. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 20:58 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1258s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1258s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: So at this time and throughout most of its history, Greece was divided into city -states all around the world. Okay? Mainly in mainland Greece, but also across the Aegean in Asia Minor, Anatolia. Okay? Across all these different islands and into North Africa and across the Adriatic Sea. Also into Italy as well. Okay? So you have this sprawling Greek world. And there were many who believed that this Greek world should unite together. Because there's a common ancestry. All right? So it was a dream of many philosophers that a great man of history would arise and unite all of Greece by basically defeating Persia. And Philip II said, hey. That's a great idea. And it should be me. Okay? But the problem is the Pan -Hellenic Project assumes a common Greek identity. And it didn't really exist at that time. In fact, Greeks probably had more common with their local cultures than with each other. Right? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 22:12 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1332s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1332s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-knowledge-becomes-empire) Text: So if you were Greek living in Asia Minor, you were probably more Persian than you were Greek. Okay? So in other words, Philip needed someone. A censor, basically, to create a Greek identity. Right? And the way you do that is by taking all this vast universe of knowledge that the Greeks created. Right? And you create an encyclopedia or a series of textbooks that define what it means to be Greek. Right? You standardize and you systemize Greek knowledge. Does that make sense? And so that's probably what Aristotle was doing when he started the Lyceum. He had lots of students. Okay? Yeah. So throughout history, all conquerors did this. Okay? Because by standardizing and systemizing knowledge was the best way for you to co -opt the elite and to showcase your legitimacy. Okay? Otherwise, the intellectual elite would think of you as a barbarian conqueror. All right? And the best way that you co -opt the intellectual elite is by showcasing a new systematic knowledge. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 23:43 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. So the problem is that in 336, Philip was assassinated and his son, Alexander, came to a throne. Came to the throne. And as we discussed last class, Alexander was assassinated. Alexander had a very different vision from his father. His father wanted to unite the Greek world. Alexander wanted to conquer the entire world to show he was superior to his father. Okay? And unbelievably, incredibly, he was able to do so, conquer most of the world in about ten years' time. So now, suddenly, you have this sprawling empire all around the world. Okay? So let's just sketch out how vast this new empire was. Okay? So you have, you know, Greece and Macedon. All right? Okay? So that's the Greek homeland. Thank you. That's the Greek homeland. All right? But, hey, over here, you have Anatolia. This is Mesopotamia. Over here is Afghanistan. Oh, sorry, sorry. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 25:04 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: It should be Iran. Sorry. I'm sorry. Iran, Afghanistan. And you also reach as far as Pakistan. Okay? And down here, you have the Levant, and you have Egypt. All right? This was not supposed to happen. Philip and the Panhellenic Project imagined, like, their conquest would extend up around here. Okay? Because you're uniting the Greek world. Alexander went too far, and now you've conquered most of the known world. Okay? Then Alexander died, and then the empire was divided into three major fragments. Over here, you have something called the Antigonid Empire. Okay? The Antigonid Dynasty. Okay? So that's one piece of the empire. Down here, you have Ptolemy. Ptolemy was one of Alexander's generals, and he took over Egypt. And over here, you have something called the Seleucid Empire, founded, of course, by the general Seleucus. Seleucus. Okay? And over here, you have other smaller kingdoms as well. So you have this vast empire, and this is something that was unplanned and unexpected. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 26:27 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Now that you've conquered these places, your concern or your problem is, how do we govern? Okay? So you need a new culture. And so these different generals adopted different strategies. So, for example, here, the Persian culture is extremely well -established, and the Seleucid king and his hearers decided a process of localization. Okay? Or another word we can use is synchronization. Synchronization. Okay? Meaning two different religions or two different cultures come together and coalesce together. Okay? So throughout the Seleucid Empire, it was really a process of synchronization. The Greeks adapted themselves to local customs and to local culture. Okay? At the same time, the Greeks were conquerors. So they still needed to maintain a coherent identity. Okay? So it made sense for them to adopt a lot of Aristotle's work. Okay? Because remember, Aristotle was creating a pan -Hellenic identity. And so he basically created a lot of textbooks. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 27:49 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: He basically created an encyclopedia. So it made sense for them to import Aristotle's works. Also, what's important is, remember, Aristotle was Macedonian. And for the longest time, Greeks did not consider Macedonians to be Greek. Okay? This is why it's called the pan -Hellenic project, not the pan -Greek project. Okay? Also, Greeks were very condescending towards Macedonians because they saw Macedonians as barbarians. So it was in the best interest of these new Macedonian conquerors to exaggerate or to highlight the intellectual contributions of Aristotle. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Ptolemy's Egypt was very different. Okay? Egyptian culture has been around for thousands of years, and Egyptians are very proud of their culture. And this is a problem because you're very proud of your local culture. You don't like foreign rulers. And this is something that the Persian Empire struggled with throughout the centuries that it dominated Egypt. Okay? The Persians were famous for their openness and tolerance. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 29:06 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1746s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1746s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Basically, you were allowed to practice your own religion. And they were very supportive of that. Okay? The most famous example are the Jews. Right? Who the Persians supported in rebuilding the Second Temple. We'll get to the Jews later on. But because the Persians were so supportive of local culture in Egypt, the Egyptians rebelled against Persia many, many times. So Ptolemy and his hearers didn't want to make the same mistake. Okay? They wanted to impose a new culture on the Egyptians in order to show that they were superior and therefore more divine than the Egyptians. Okay? So Ptolemy, he did many things that started this process. The first thing that he did was he stole Alexander's body from Babylon, where he died, and brought it back to Egypt. Okay? Because the Egyptians saw Alexander as a god, as the son of a god. Right? So to establish legitimacy in Egypt, Ptolemy went on a military expedition. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 30:14 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1814s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1814s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And stole the body of Alexander. Which started something called the War of the Diokai. Okay? Basically the successor wars. That's the first thing he did. Second thing that he did was he established a new capital in Alexandria. Called Alexandria. Okay? So this was mainly a Greek city. It was a new Greek city. Founded by Alexander. And this is where they housed Alexander's body. And the third thing that he did was he started to sponsor something called, we call today the museum. Okay? The museum is the root of the English word museum. But the museum was really the world's first research university. So Ptolemy and his heroes brought together the greatest Greek scholars in the world to basically continue. The work of Aristotle. To standardize and systemize Greek culture. So that they can impose it on the local Egyptian culture. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? And the most famous aspect of the museum is the library of Alexandria. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 31:40 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And the Ptolemy spent a lot of money on the library of Alexandria. Mainly by going around and collecting original manuscripts. All right? So a representative went to Athens and said, we at the library of Alexandria would like the original copies, the original manuscripts for the three great playwrights. And the Athenians were like, we can't do that because they're like gods here. Okay? We're not going to give you our original manuscripts. And the Egyptians said, all we're going to do is we're going to take these manuscripts back to the library of Alexandria. Where our scribes will copy them out. Okay? That's all we're going to do. And then we'll give it back to you. And as a guarantee, we're going to give you like 15 talents of silver. That's like a billion dollars back then. The Athenians had never seen so much money. So the Athenians would say, well, okay, well, if it's just to spread Greek culture, we can actually deal with that. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 32:46 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=1966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay? So we'll take the deposit, 15 talents, and we'll give you the manuscripts. The Egyptians took the manuscripts. Placed it in the library of Alexandria and said, hey, Athenians, keep the money. Okay? Because the Egyptians under Ptolemy were focused on turning the library of Alexandria and Alexandria into the intellectual capital of the Greek world. All right? And so what happened was that after Alexander died and his generals took over, the pan -Hellenic project really became what we call the pan -Hellenistic project. Okay? It went from uniting the Greek world into spreading Greek culture all around the world. And that's why we have Greek culture still with us today. Okay? Because of this process. So let's go back to the original paradox. All right? Why? There are three paradoxes, right? The first paradox is why do we have nothing original from Aristotle? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 33:51 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: The answer is because Aristotle didn't write anything original. He stole everything from other thinkers. And he had his students copy it out in manuscript form. Okay? Does that make sense? Second is why are his works so diverse? Why is the range so great? And the answer is because he was trying to capture the essence of Greek knowledge. Okay? He was trying to unify Greek knowledge into an encyclopedia for dissemination around the world. Okay? And the third thing is, okay? The most interesting thing is why is Aristotle's philosophy so different from Plato's worldview? Okay? That's a really interesting question. Why are they so different? So let's switch our perspective and ask ourselves. If you were king of Macedon, if you were Philip Alexander, what's your problem with Plato's philosophy? You have a problem. What is it? Any guesses? You're Alexander. You're Philip. You really hate Plato. Why? Why? Well, the problem with Plato is you go to Plato. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 35:26 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: You're Alexander. You go to Plato and he says, I want to conquer the world. Right? Plato would say, what's the point? It's all not real, Alexander. You're just wasting your time. You can conquer the world, but all you're doing is conquering a shadow. What's real is the form of the good. Right? Alexander, study mathematics, man. Okay? Do more math. Stop going around and killing people. Do more math. Right? And we know what Alexander would do here. Right? Alexander would probably cut off Plato's head. So Alexander and Philip hate this thing. Right? This thing is idiotic. I want to conquer the world, but this philosophy is telling me it's pointless. What matters is mathematics. What matters is philosophy. All right? Now, let's now compare this with Aristotle's prime mover theory. Right? What Aristotle is saying is everything is motion. And what is good is if you fulfill your purpose. Right? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 36:36 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Now, if you're Alexander or Philip, this makes more sense. I'm Philip. My purpose is to unite the Greek world. And the more I unite, the more good I'm doing for this world. Right? Also, if you're a king, you want your citizens, your soldiers, your workers to work hard. Right? Well, for Plato, working hard is just useless. You're imitating an imitation. Right? When you create art. But here, working hard is what gives you purpose. It's what gives you happiness. Okay? So Aristotle also promoted two major concepts. The first is erite. The second is eudaimonia. Okay? Erite is just excellence. Okay? Alexander has erite because he's an excellent general. When you have erite and you are achieving your purpose, then you achieve eudaimonia. Okay? Which is just flourishing or happiness. And that's the purpose of life. To have erite and to achieve happiness. To achieve eudaimonia. So work hard. Okay? Fight for Alexander. Support him as he conquers the world. Because he's making the world better. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 38:09 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2289s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2289s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. That's a great question. Yeah. Thanks, Doug. Okay. All right. So the question then is, if I'm a soldier and I'm, you know, working hard and winning battles, am I not approaching for my good? And the answer is, for Plato, it's not. The reason why is, what do you do? What do you do in this material world is pointless. Okay? Because this material world, it's not real. So whatever you do is not real. Does that make sense? Okay? So what you need to do is return to the form of the good. But your body can't do that. Your soul can do that. So your use of the body is pointless. You have to use your soul. You have to use your mind. All right? Therefore, you have to be a good person. Therefore, you have to engage in philosophy and mathematics. And that's how you return to the form of the good. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 39:28 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2368s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2368s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Your use of the body, you're just deluding yourself. Okay? All right? And if you engage in art, then you are deluding others. And that's more evil. If you're Alexander and you're conquering others and forcing them to believe your fake philosophy, then you're committing the most evil in the world. Does that make sense? All right? All right. So yeah. All right. So this is my theory of how to best resolve the three paradoxes of Aristotle. Okay? Does that make sense? He was basically a censor who was working for Philip and Alexander. And he was trying to develop a pan -Hellenistic identity in order to unite the world they conquered. Okay? So that's my argument. Any questions about this overall argument? Does it make sense to you guys? Okay? Go ahead. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Go ahead. That's a great question. Yeah. Okay. All right. So how do we know he didn't write any of his works? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 40:45 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2445s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2445s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay. The answer is this. When you write something, you're actually manifesting your thought. Right? But your thought comes from your personality. Okay? So if you look at any work of genius, it's original and unique. Okay? Does that make sense? In other words, if you read Shakespeare, guess what? There's no other Shakespeare in the world. If you try to imitate Shakespeare, you look like an idiot. Okay? Homer is unique. Plato is unique. There's no point in trying to imitate them. You can't do it because you are not them. Okay? Now, when you look at Aristotle, there's something unique about Aristotle. So, you know, when you read Plato, the Republic, there are certain ideas that stand out. Like, how to go to the cave. Okay? There's certain phrases that capture your imagination. That doesn't exist with Aristotle's text. Okay? They're really like textbooks. So the argument for the longest time was Aristotle did write his own books, but they were lost to us. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 41:53 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2513s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2513s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And his students had to reassemble his thinking. And they had to reassemble his thinking from their own memory. Okay? So, yeah, that's how we know. But this is generally agreed upon. We have nothing that Aristotle wrote originally. Okay? That's right. Yep. Okay. So thank you, Doug. Okay. Yeah. So there are many different possibilities of how Aristotle can become so influential. Okay? The first possibility is, as I argue, he was actually a partner of Philip's. That they were friends. That they were both trying to promote the panhellenic project. Okay? That's the first possibility. But the other possibility is, as Doug says, he was just a philosopher. He was a student of Plato's. He was very smart. And he was a very good teacher. And after Alexander and his generals conquered the world, they needed, like, a symbol of Macedonian cultural superiority. And they just decided upon Aristotle because it was most convenient. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 43:24 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Right? So that's another possibility. Okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 43:40 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2620s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2620s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: That's right. Right. Yep. Yep. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 44:23 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2663s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2663s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Exactly. So, yeah. So it is entirely possible that Aristotle was a materialist because that was just his personality. Right? The influence from his father who was a physician. Okay? But that creates another problem. Which is. If you are so opposed to Plato's understanding of the world. Right? Because you're a materialist. And he's a dualist. Why were you studying under Plato for 20 years? Does that make sense? So that creates another problem. All right. So the other thing I want to point out is. Okay. How we have Aristotle's works today. There are three different possibilities. Okay? The first possibility is that Aristotle in his lifetime. He organized his students and created this encyclopedia. Okay? And it's no different from professors at universities today. Right? Professors who are scientists. They actually do very little of the original research. They have their students do it. They're the ones who supervise the entire process. Okay? So it's possible. That's the first possibility. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 45:27 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Aristotle was supervising the work of creating a Greek identity. The second possibility is after Aristotle died. His students started. They started to remember, recall his lectures. And that's why so much of his work is fragmentary. Okay? We don't have complete manuscripts. And the third possibility. Okay? And it's entirely possible is Aristotle is a fiction created by scholars at the Library of Alexandria. Okay? So it's really the scholars at the Library of Alexandria who created Aristotle. And they did so by synthesizing all this work. And then they gave it to. They accredited it to. Attributed it to Aristotle in order to create the legend of this philosopher. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. the original writer or the original thinker, but what is not debatable is the tremendous influence he had on the entire world, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 46:55 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2815s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So there are three aspects of the Greek legacy I want to discuss. The first aspect is the Greeks created a new way of being human, all right? So let's look at the major thinkers. You have Homer, you have the playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euboides, and you have the philosophers, Plato and Aristotle. All right, so the Greeks created a new way of being human. What do I mean by that? Homer was an oral bard, okay? He would get up in front of audiences and he would, for hours, recite this beautiful poetry about the Trojan War, the Iliad, okay? And in the process, listening to Homer created empathy and imagination, right? Because the point of listening to Homer was to enter Homer's world and become Achilles or Odysseus. And through this process, you became a different person, and therefore, you learned empathy, but you also expanded your imagination, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 48:08 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: So that's what Homer did for the Greeks. Then you have Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euboides, and what they did that was different is, rather than sing directly at the audience, they had the characters face each other in a dialogue, in a debate, okay? And by doing this, what happens is you create the capacity for perspective and inner debate, right? Because before, you were part of the story. Now you have to step back and judge the story, okay? There's a debate going on. You have to switch perspectives in order to understand the characters, and this creates the capacity for an inner monologue, okay? And inner debate in you. And then you have Plato and Aristotle. What Plato did that was unique was, he took all the dialogue in the play and he transported onto the page. But now, you're reading it by yourself, and you have the benefit of time, okay? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 49:26 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2966s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=2966s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: And so, this creates a capacity for reason and reflection, okay? You can sort of reason out if the words make sense to you. You are no longer influenced by the crowd or the emotions of the actor. You can just look at the words themselves and judge them on their own merit. You also have the capacity now to reflect, meaning you can go back to the words over and over the course of your lifetime, to concentrate. You can constantly reflect on their meaning and logic, okay? You understand? So, when you add these three things together, Homer created the capacity for empathy and imagination. The playwright created the capacity for inner debate and perspective. The philosophers created the capacity for reason and reflection. You now have a new human mind, okay? And when you study all of them, this is what we call, ultimately, a liberal arts education. This is what we call, ultimately, a liberal arts education. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 50:30 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3030s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3030s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: All right? And guess what? Our greatest thinkers came to us through the liberal arts. Our greatest thinkers came to us through the liberal arts. All right, so in the future, we'll study people like Kant, Hume, Hegel, okay? we'll study people like Kant, Hume, Hegel, okay? Just the greatest thinkers of the past 20 years. They all, what was common about them is, they all read the Greeks. And that was just their education, all right? So this is the first legacy of the Greeks, a new way of thinking. Being and seeing. Okay, does that make sense? Second thing is, now that you have this Greek world, okay? The Greeks need to establish a cohesive cultural identity. And they did that by promoting a Greek education, okay? But not only that, but they had to bring in local people into this education. So one major function of the Library of Alexandria was to standardize the Greek culture. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 51:39 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3099s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3099s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And how did they do that? and systemize Greek knowledge, and they did this by standardizing the texts, okay? So there's different texts of Homer. The text of Homer that we have today was developed by the people at the Library of Alexandria, okay? Standardization. They also did something called commentaries. So commentaries are basically like teacher handbooks, okay? They teach you how to teach this stuff. And they create like footnotes, and chapters, and page numbers, codices different ways, okay, indexes. So the point was to make Greek education available and accessible to anyone. And what this means is, we in China now can actually read Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato for ourselves, even though we are not culturally Greek. And that's the benefit of the pan -Hellenistic project. And the third major benefit is Greek knowledge meant a global revolution in innovation. And what I mean by that is, remember, Greek knowledge is being spread around the world and then they're interacting with powerful local cultures. ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 53:01 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3181s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: And through the process of synchronization, new forms of knowledge are being created. So the Greeks spread the knowledge to India, and now it's interacting with local Indian philosophy and religion, including new ideas, right? So the most famous synchronization is in the Levant, Greek knowledge was being spread to the Jews. And so when you put the Greeks and the Jews together, you have a new idea that would forever revolutionize human history and it's called Christianity, right? So Christianity would not have been possible it were not for the work of Aristotle, okay? All right, so those are three major legacies of the Greeks. And so it is, I think it's perfectly fair to say, the Greeks were the most influential and consequential civilization of all time. They were certainly the most creative. No other civilization even comes close, flows to their creativity, right? Okay, so that's it. Any questions? ## Aristotle, The Censor Who Made Greece Portable -- 54:20 - Source title: Civilization #13: Aristotle and the Greek Legacy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-11-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3260s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTOxE4DTFA&t=3260s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-wotoxe4dtfa.json) Text: Okay, so, okay, so we are finished with the Greeks. Next class, we start a new unit on Rome, Roman history. All right, so, great. ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: Okay, so we are doing Exum the Great today. Let us review last class where we discussed the father -son dynamic between Philip II and his son Alexander, okay? We said that the father, he is the founder and the builder of a great organization and as such he will have three particular characteristics unique to him, okay? First of all, he will exercise really good judgment because he's starting with nothing and he has to build up slowly his nation or his organization, okay? Second thing that we said is he will promote talent, okay? He will be a very generous and fair -minded individual who will actively spot talent and create a meritocracy, okay? And the third thing we said was this person will be selfless, extremely disciplined, and this person will put the greater good before his or her own interests, okay? And that will inspire loyalty from his or her workers or soldiers. ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 1:18 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-founder-machine-carries-inheritor) Text: We also said the son will be very different, okay? Because the son is inheriting this enterprise or this nation. The son will focus on expansion growth, okay? So the son will be, the son will be a very aggressive risk taker, okay? The second characteristic of the son is because he is under the father's shadow, he will promote obedience and loyalty, promote loyalty. And the final characteristic, the final contrast between father and son is the son will be very selfish, late the son will be very selfish, because the son will be focused on personal glory not And the reason why is the son is insecure, right? The son will hear people in the background, in the shadows, whispering, oh, everything you've achieved is because of your father. And so the son is desperate, very anxious, to prove his own self -worth, okay? So we see this dynamic in literature and in history, in our own lives, right? This is a very common dynamic. ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 2:31 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: Now, we said that this would be a, this is really a thought experiment, okay? But if you think about it, this is also a analytical model, okay? It's a way to understand the world around us. And in an analytical model, we have to test if it's true or not. And if it's true, it does two things, okay? First thing it does is it explains. Does it help us understand, better understand the motivations and behavior of people around us? In last class, we focused on Philip II, and that really helped us to understand his motivations and behavior, okay? Today, but the second thing it must do is predict, okay? It has to predict the future. If this analytical model that we have is correct, then it will allow us to predict future events and behavior. Okay, and that's what I propose today. I propose to use this model to predict the life of Alexander the Great, okay? ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 3:42 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=222s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=222s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: So, from this model, we can extrapolate three characteristics of Alexander's reign when he takes over as king, okay? What's the first characteristic of Alexander when he becomes king, okay? Echo, do you have any ideas of what he will do as king? Exactly, okay? So, the first thing we will say is that he will focus on expansion, okay? He'll be a very aggressive risk -taker. He will take risks that are not strategically wise, okay? That's the first prediction we can make about him. What's the second prediction we can make about him based on this? Exactly, and we call this a tyrant, okay? He's gonna become a tyrant, and a tyrant is someone who, who demands obedience from everyone, okay? Does that make sense? And so, if he's a tyrant, what is he gonna do to all these tyrant people that his father promoted? He's gonna kill them, right? Okay, he's gonna ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 5:12 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-founder-machine-carries-inheritor) Text: get rid of them because he needs to promote his own people and because his tyrant people will counter his tyranny, okay? So, we predict he will demand complete and total obedience. From his followers, okay? And what's the third prediction we can make about him? Well, the third prediction is that he, the question is, will he ever be happy? When will he stop his ambition? Never, okay? So, his ambition is boundless. So, these are the three predictions we can make about Alexander if he were to become king, just based on our understanding of the father -son dynamic, okay? The first is that, if he were to become king, he will focus on aggressive expansion. He will take risks that his father will not take, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is, he's gonna become a tyrant who will demand total loyalty and obedience from his followers. And if you, for his own good, speak up ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 6:26 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: and try to reason with him, he will see you as a threat, as disloyal, and as an enemy who must be eliminated, okay? The third prediction we can make is his ambition is boundless. He will never stop expanding. He will never stop going to war, okay? These are the three predictions we can make based on this analytical model, okay? And it turns out, these three predictions basically capture the essence of Alexander's life, okay? All right? So, now I will slowly explain the life and times of Alexander the Great. All right? So, any questions so far? Okay, so we are using this analytical model to understand the life and times of Alexander the Great. And while we're doing this, we're trying to see if there are problems with this model, okay? All right, so we have to take a very skeptical attitude. We have this prediction model. We're gonna use it, we're gonna apply it to ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 7:35 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=455s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=455s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: Alexander the Great, and we're gonna see that on the surface, it does actually capture well, or explains well. What is his life? At the same time, we want to be generous and skeptical, okay? We want to ask ourselves, is it possible that we are blinded by our prejudice? And maybe we are being unfair to Alexander the Great, okay? Does that make sense? All right, so let's start with the first major event in Alexander the Great's life, which is the death of his father in 333 BCE, okay? And Alexander right now, he's only 20. And when his father dies, he is automatically coronated as the king of Macedon. Now, I want to explain the circumstances of Philip's death, because it's very important for us to understand the sort of psychology of his son. So two years before his death, Philip actually remarried, okay? Now, remember that Macedon is a society that promotes polygamy, okay? ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 8:42 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=522s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=522s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: So Philip, at this point, already has six or seven wives. The problem is that only one of his wives, named Olympias, has given birth to a son, and therefore a heir, okay? The son is Alexander. The other wives have failed to give birth to a heir. And it seems Alexander will be anointed king at the death of his father. So when Philip marries, her name is Cleopatra Eurydice, it's extremely controversial. Controversial. Okay, and it disrupts the political order of Macedonia. The first reason is Cleopatra Eurydice, she is actually Macedonian before Philip married foreign wives for diplomacy reasons and what this means is if Cleopatra Eurydice gives birth to a son This son will be more legitimate I'll be more legitimate here than Alexander and this pushes Alexander out of the line of succession. Okay So this is extremely Controversial and it's like dynamite almost. Okay, so that's first problem. Second problem is Eurydice is the wife of One of Philip's great generals at Attalus. ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 10:04 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=604s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=604s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: Okay, and actually at the wedding ceremony Between Eurydice and Philip, Attalus gave a toast and he said here's a toast and I pray that Macedon will soon have a legitimate here and this is direct insult to Alexander. Okay. The other problem is that Attalus his father -in -law is Parmenion Who is really Philip's partner. Okay, the greatest general that Macedon has the person in control of the army Okay, so it seems like Alexander is being pushed out of the line of succession and Alexander and his mother Olympias are both freaking out. Okay, so in 336 BCE Philip is assassinated by his bodyguard and no one knows Who why this happened? Okay, but we know what happened afterwards what happened is first of all Olympias killed Eurydice and her her Daughter and son the son was going to be legitimate here to the throne now. They're all dead. Okay, ## Alexander Under the Father's Shadow -- 11:25 - Source title: Civilization #12: The Tyranny of Alexander the Great - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=685s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTuRB48Of9Y&t=685s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-iturb48of9y.json) Text: that's the first thing that happens second thing that happens is Attalus Becomes afraid and he's about to rebel. Okay, and that's listen again. It's a general at this stage at this point ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay, so today we will be discussing how Greek culture spread around the world and how it can dominate the Western world and became the basis of Western civilization. Now normally, Westerners understood this process as one of the fusion, meaning that Greek civilization was the best and so everyone wanted access to it, okay? So it spread because Greek civilization was the best. Historically that's not true. What happened was that Greek civilization spread through a process of conquest, primarily by Alexander the Great, okay? So the question I want to answer today is how did Alexander the Great conquer the world? Because Alexander the Great himself is not Greek, he's Macedonian. So he's like a close cousin, but he's not considered culturally Greek. He's from a place called Macedon, okay, which is in, which is north of Greece. And for most of its history, Macedon, the kingdom of Macedonia, was poor, it was weak, it was divided. So ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 1:18 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=78s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=78s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: how was it possible that Macedon, the kingdom of Macedon would conquer the world and not Sparta or Athens which for most of Greek history were the dominant powers okay so for me to explain what happened I need to explain to you two thought experiments okay so we're gonna do two thought experiments to develop the analytical tools in order to better understand the process of military conquest okay so let's do a thought experiment there's a father and there's a son okay and they're both business people they start a business the father starts with nothing and he makes ten million dollars okay which is a great accomplishment the son takes his business and expands it okay and he turns ten million dollars the inheritance into ten billion dollars okay and this happens a lot so you know who is most more impressive the two the father the son the father is more impressive because he started with ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 2:37 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-founder-machine-carries-inheritor) Text: nothing right it's much harder to build something from nothing than this to expand something okay the problem though is that we in society in history in the media we celebrate the son because ten billion dollars is a lot of money okay does that make sense so it's a father who does all the work who does all the work and he takes his money okay he and builds the organization and the capacity for growth. It's a son who expands it and gets all the credit, okay? And this happens a lot in history. Now what we're gonna do is, we're gonna think about the qualities of a father and a son that allow them to succeed, okay? So what can we say about the father? How was he able to build a great business? He is what? And the first thing we can say is he is innovative, right? Meaning, he has a new idea that allows him to capture markets, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 3:41 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=221s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=221s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: Now, it's possible that he stole the idea, but that also shows that he has wisdom and judgment, right? So he's innovative or he has wisdom and judgment. Okay, does that make sense? That's the first major quality of the father. He's very innovative, okay? Or he's wise and has good judgment. Second quality about the father we can say is that he's a very effective manager of people, okay? Because remember, he has nothing. So he has to build loyalty among his workers. He has to find workers, he has to recruit workers, and he has to make them work hard for him, right? So what can he do to, okay? To find good workers and ensure they work hard for him and build a business? Why would you want to go work for someone and work hard for him? Well, they pay you good money, but a lot of people pay you good money. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 4:51 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=291s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: What's different about this business? Good, okay. So the vision, right? Or the dream. So the business has a vision and a dream that compels you, okay? You see the potential for growth, okay? So not only is the father in, he's innovative, but he's also a visionary. He's a dreamer, and that's what attracts you to him, okay? The other thing is that he's fair, meaning that he promotes talent, right? You want to work for someone who will treat you fairly, who will be honest with you. So if you work hard, he'll tell you, wow, you're working really hard. Thank you so much, okay? But if you're not working so hard, then he might give you some feedback on how to improve, okay? And that's very hard, because normally what do we humans want to do? So a good boss would promote talent, and most people would do what? Promote his or her friends, right? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 5:57 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=357s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=357s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) - Related lens: [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt#borderland-founder-machine-carries-inheritor) Text: Promote people that they like. Promote people who suck up to them, okay? That's the natural human instinct. So in other words, the father, he's almost like selfless, okay? He's always thinking about the greater good, which is really the company or the business. So he's going to work harder than everyone else. If you come to work at 7 o 'clock in the morning, he'll come in at 6 o 'clock. If you leave at 10 o 'clock at night, he'll leave at midnight, okay? He's always working harder than you to show that he is the most loyal to the company, and that's what makes you loyal to the company as well. Okay, does that make sense? So these are the three distinct qualities of a good business person, okay? A good founder, innovative, a good manager of people, and by sharing the vision, by communicating the vision, and by being fair to people, by promoting talent, okay? And also selfless, very disciplined, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 7:01 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Will work very hard in order to achieve the greater good, to ensure the company succeeds. Now, it turns out that these personality traits are consistent with extremely successful people, okay? So when we study other great leaders, for example, Genghis Khan, Mohammed, then we will recognize they all share very similar personality traits. And I want you to remember the three distinct qualities that make them great world leaders, okay? The first is they are strategic to the point of visionary. This means they have a vision. They have a vision of what the world should be. And then they have a long term plan on how to achieve that, okay? They're very strategic. The second thing is they are innovative to the point of revolutionary, okay? So what they understand is if you want to change the world, you must destroy the status quo. You must change the way society is structured, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 8:19 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=499s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=499s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And they're willing to do that, even though they know it'll be a very bad or it'll be a very bloody process involving lots of wars, okay? That's the second quality that they have that's different from everyone else. The third quality is they are extremely disciplined to the point of selfless, okay? They are fanatical and obsessed with achieving their vision. They won't eat, they won't sleep until they achieve their vision. For them, it's all about achieving the vision and the greater good as opposed to personal happiness, all right? Does that make sense? So this is a pattern that we'll see over and over again where the great world leaders that have changed history forever have possessed these three distinct qualities that make them unique of their time, okay? And so Genghis Khan, Mohammed are two examples, but also like Napoleon and Julius Caesar, okay? Basically, all the great world conquerors in human history have these similar characteristics, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 9:32 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Does that make sense? Now the son is very different, okay? So if the father succeeds because he is innovative, why does the son succeed? No, he's not actually. How do you transform $10 million into $10 billion if you're a business person? What must you do? You must be aggressive, right? You're an aggressive risk -taker. The father is not a risk -taker because he has no opportunities to take risks, okay? So the example here is you have $10 million, you can go to the bank and say, I have a great business, can you lend me $1 billion so I can buy out my competitors, okay? Now when you do that, that's risky, but that's how you expand very quickly, right? So the first thing about the son that's very different from the father is he succeeds by taking risk. That no one else will. They are willing to take, okay? That's the first thing. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 10:37 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Who does he promote? His father promotes talent, who does he promote? Who does he want around him? Exactly, he wants his friends, okay? So he's going to promote loyalty. All right? If you listen to him, if you're obedient to him, if he likes you, then he will promote you, okay? The father is very different. The father will not do that. Because if you do that, that's going to hurt the internal structure of your company, right? And... father is selfless what does the son care about what drives him what does he really care about what so the father is motivated to build a great company right he wants to achieve his vision what drives the son usually it's the idea of personal glory okay he's very selfish you understand he wants to be remembered he wants to be famous he wants to be admired and respected okay the father cares about the vision the son cares ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 11:52 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: about the personal glory why would the son put personal glory first and first think about his psychology what drives him what does he want to prove exactly exactly you understand he's greater than his father it's insecurity because everyone will say to him you are where you are because your father built a great organization so for him he must prove he's better than his father than the father by expanding and by winning glory for himself okay does that make sense and again we will see this pattern in human history all the time and we will you i want you to remember this because this describes perfectly the relationship between philip the second of macedon okay the man who actually built the greatest military in the world and action of the great who will take this army the greatest army in the world and conquer persia okay does it make sense all right so over the next ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 13:02 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=782s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=782s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: two classes i will show you philip how this relationship between the father and son describes very well the personalities of philip and alexander okay all right does that make sense okay so and this repeats itself throughout history this makes sense to you right you will see this in life you will see this throughout history okay now the other thing i want us to look at another thought experiment is throughout history what we discovered is poor countries often conquer rich countries and for us that's very confusing because normally we think if you are rich you have a strong military you have advanced technology and you have a lot of resources right and therefore it's very hard to be conquered but we see in history all the time where poor nations poor countries quickly conquered rich nations okay so how can we explain this and to explain this we'll do another thought experiment okay so let's compare ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 14:15 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=855s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=855s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: north korea with south korea okay and these countries are same culture right same people but they're night and day north korea we know is poor south korea is rich north korea is primitive meaning they are not they don't have that much of that technology south korea is very advanced right technologically advanced right think of samsung the phones the cars and the phones they produce and the computers they produce right a very advanced country the last thing is that north korea is a dictatorship uh and south korea's democracy so if we were to take a snapshot of north and south korea today right then then we could easily put it on the map of the world you know and i'll predict that in 20 years time north korea would be poorer south korea would be richer right okay but that may not happen what is south korea's problem what is south korea's biggest problem do you ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 15:26 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: do you know it's not having children in fact it has the world's lowest fertility rate at 0.8 okay it's women are refusing to have children and not only that but south korean culture is becoming more and more anty -family they hate kids kids there are lots of restaurants lots of places that refuse to let kids in okay so this is a very weird state of affairs right what's driving the low fertility rate do you think usually why are young women refusing to have children because yeah right inequality right if you feel that if you're just a normal person the rich have all the resources it's very hard for you to advance so why have children okay now North Korea doesn't have this problem right because it's poor therefore it has equality and because it has equality people there are united right they're not divided they're united and what else they're obedient right they listen ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 16:48 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1008s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1008s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: to what the government tells them to do and last thing is they're hungry they will work very hard for very little okay you understand so it is possible that in 20 years time North Korea overtakes South Korea because its people are willing to work harder than the South Korean people okay doesn't make sense so um evidence for this is that right now North Korea is sending weapons and soldiers to the war in Ukraine doesn't make sense so when you do that you make a lot of money for yourself right and so with this money you can make a lot of money for yourself right and so with this money you can upgrade your military and what you can do is threaten South Korea okay North Korea can say to South Korea our military is not stronger than your military and what will South Korea do in response you think North Korea is like we're gonna ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 17:54 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: come and invade you what will South Korea do in response someone wants to attack you right so how do you get this person not to attack you exactly you understand alright give them money so North Korea doesn't even have to attack South Korea. North Korea just has to threaten to attack South Korea and South Korea will give them a lot of money not to attack. Do you understand? And by doing that, right, North Korea becomes richer and more military advanced. South Korea just becomes poorer. Do you understand? And because North Korea, the army is fighting in other places like Ukraine, it's developing all this experience and expertise that will allow it to eventually overwhelm South Korea. Does it make sense? So in this thought experiment, it's possible that North Korea can eventually conquer South Korea. Okay, does it make sense? And this gives us an understanding of why Macedonia, Macedon, was able to conquer all ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 19:05 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: of Greece even though Macedon was by far one of the poorest places in Greece at that time. Okay, does that make sense? Because the people are hungry, united, and obedient. All right, any questions so far about this? Okay, so I want you to remember these two thought experiments because they will help us explain a lot of history and I will refer to these two thought experiments some more as we go along in the course, okay? All right, but does this make sense to you so far? Great. All right, so now let's focus specifically on Macedon, Philip II of Macedon. How was he able to conquer all of Greece given that his nation, Macedon, was poor, weak, and divided, okay? All right, so King Philip, okay, he was born in 383 BCE, okay? And I want to talk about the world of Greece and Macedon at the time of his birth. Okay, so around this time, there are three major powers in Greece, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 20:30 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: There's Athens. Remember that even though Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, it's still very wealthy and it still has the best navy in all of Greece, okay? So it's still a major power. Then you have Sparta, which for most of Greek history was considered the best military, right? And then you have, sorry, let me try to use another, okay? So the map, okay? So this is Sparta here to the south. This is Athens. And then to the north, it's a place called Thebes. And what's interesting is at this time, Thebes has become the most dominant military in Greece, primarily because Sparta and Athens decimated each other during the Peloponnesian War, okay? So because of the war, Thebes has become, became the dominant power in Greece at this time. Okay, and then to the far north is Macedon, okay? The kingdom of Macedon. Now Macedon is very poor, weak, and divided. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 21:43 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1303s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1303s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: So let me explain why it is. First of all, it has a geography problem. The nation is divided between agricultural farmland to the south, and mountains to the north, okay? Most of its land can't even grow crops, and where it can grow crops, its farmers are just peasants. Now, the problem is that there are lots of tribes in the mountains, and the way they make their living usually is by coming and raiding your farmland, and there's nothing that you can do about it because if you go chase them, they go back to the mountains. So that's the first problem, the economy is very divided, and the people don't have that many resources. That's the first problem. The second problem is Macedon is completely surrounded by hostile powers. So you have the kingdom of Phrase over here, and that's a long -term enemy, and you have Illyria over here. And these are warlike mountains. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 22:54 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1374s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1374s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: These are mountainous people who live in fortresses. It's almost impossible to invade them, and it's easy for them to come and attack you. So they're a huge problem. To the south is a place called Thessaly, and they have one of the best militaries in Greece. They're known for their cavalry, their horsemen. And then, of course, you also have Thebes, Athens, and Sparta, which also want to play a role in controlling Macedon. And over here, of course, across the sea is called Persia. And for some of its history, Macedon was actually a province of Persia. Okay? Persia actually conquered or subjugated Macedon. So Macedon is always being threatened by a more superior power, and it keeps on losing these wars. Okay? The third problem it has is that it's a kingdom, it has a king, and the king has many, many wives. And why would this be a problem? Exactly. There are a lot of sons, and they fight over who will be king. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 24:06 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And the thing is that these sons are always supported by another foreign power, okay? Because the foreign powers want Macedon to be always in conflict, okay? So for most of its history, Macedon was poor, weak, and divided. And then Philip II changed all that. So he's born in 383. Okay? And then from 369 to 365, for about five years, he's a hostage in Thebes. The reason why is Macedon lost the war to Thebes, and to ensure that Macedon does not rebel against Thebes, Macedon had to send hostages. And so Philip was a hostage in Thebes. But he's a prince, so he's treated very, very nicely in Thebes. And he can do whatever he wants. Okay? And the thing that he wants to do is, he wants to understand why Thebes is the dominant military power in Greece at this time. And he learns from the best Theban generals. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 25:16 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1516s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1516s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: They become his mentors. Okay? So what makes Thebes so effective is the idea of the Sacred Band of Thebes. This is the secret to the power of Thebes. Okay? These are 300 soldiers who spend every day training to be the best soldiers they can. And in many ways, they're like special forces, okay? And this is modeled off Sparta, right? The difference is this. The difference is in Sparta, only citizens, only aristocrats can be soldiers. But in Thebes, these 300 people were volunteers. They were called volunteers. They were commoners who wanted to be soldiers. And so the first thing Philip learned in Thebes is anyone can be a soldier, not just the rich. Okay? With proper training, anyone can learn to be a great soldier. That's the first thing he learned. Second thing he learned is when you have an elite group of soldiers, it's really about how to use them effectively. Okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 26:33 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1593s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1593s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: So the traditional warfare in Greece at this time. It's called a phallax. Right? The hoplite phallax. Okay? So remember, it is like a moving wall. They move together slowly and try to crush the enemy. Okay? The innovation the Thebans did was say, we're going to do a slant. Okay? The reason why is when you do a slant, you can put the 300 sacred band first against the best soldiers of the enemy. Okay? And we know that in a fair fight. These 300 will always destroy the first soldiers of the enemy. When you do that, there's a massive psychological effect. And so what happens is the phallax breaks formation. And if the phallax breaks formation and people start running away, they're all dead. Okay? So that is the major innovation of Thebes at this time. Okay? And from the best generals of Thebes, okay, Philip understood the importance of discipline in an army. And this is new. Okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 27:51 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1671s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1671s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Because in Greece, remember, the Sporans had discipline. But most armies, like the Athenians, they were citizen soldiers. They did this for fun. They did this as a civic duty. They did this part -time. Okay? So they weren't really training when they weren't fighting. Now, when you train, you develop discipline. With discipline, you have three major strengths. Okay? The first major strength that you have is the idea of mobility, speed. And what this means is your army can march much faster than other armies. Okay? So maybe this is important because maybe you want to attack a city. Right? If you get there really fast, you're able to siege a city. And destroy it. The city cannot ask for reinforcements. Okay? Because reinforcements will come too slowly. Does that make sense? Okay? So this is a major innovation, the idea of mobility. Okay? Second is the idea of coordination. Coordination. So different military units are able to work together. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 29:01 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And this is really important. So in Greece at this time, there are maybe two different land forces. Right? There's a phalanx. And then there's a cavalry. And they do their own thing. Okay? But with discipline, you can actually get them to work together. And if you get them to work together, you create something called the anvil and hammer strategy. Okay? Anvil and hammer. Okay? So the idea of an anvil is you put something in place. Okay? And the hammer is you just knock that thing apart. Okay? So in this attack, the cavalry becomes the hammer. The anvil is a phalanx. So with discipline, the phalanx is able to attack. It's able to lock the other enemy army in place. Okay? And then what happens is the cavalry sees this and they stream in from the back and destroy the enemy. Does that make sense? It's called the anvil and hammer strategy. And the Thebans used it, but Philip started to use it as well. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 30:05 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And you can use this with discipline. Okay? If every soldier knows his or her role in the army. And with coordination, you can also have the idea of coordination. Flexibility. Okay? So remember the Greeks fought using the hoplite phalanx and that's it. But what Philip understood is, hey, if I have coordination, I can change my strategy and tactics according to the enemy. Right? So he had different units. He had archers. He had shield bearers. Okay? People whose job was to hold shields. He had phalanx and he had cavalry. And in response to different enemies, he would change his strategy. Using these different units. Okay? Does that make sense? And so as over time, this army, if you have these three things, mobility, coordination, and flexibility, you'll be invincible. No one could beat you. Okay? Because the very idea that an army could do this at that time was unheard of. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 31:09 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1869s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1869s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So that's what he learned in Thebes. It is possible for you to transform your army in a way that makes sense. That makes it highly disciplined. And once you have discipline, it will become invincible. Okay? So he became resolved to take all this education and transform the Macedonian army. Okay? He got his chance in 359. Okay? The reason why is his brother died and the brother's son, his nephew, was too young. So he became regent. Okay? He became the sort of placeholder before the son can become of age. Okay? But once he became regent, he basically became de facto king for his entire life. And as regent, he was determined to transform the Macedonian military. And at this time, the Macedonian military was getting destroyed by everyone. Okay? Illyria attacked and destroyed the army. Thrace attacked and destroyed the army. Okay? The Macedonian army was a complete joke. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 32:21 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=1941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And he became determined to transform it. And what he recognized is, if I want to transform the army, I need to turn it into a meritocracy. Okay? Meritocracy. So traditionally, because in Macedon you have a nobility, it's always, like, all decisions are made by social status. Okay? So a person rises according to his social status as opposed to his merit. And Philip was determined to change that. And the thing that he did that was extremely controversial was he made the cavalry, which was full of nobility, equal to the infantry, which was made of commoners, peasants. So in this new system, as long as you perform well in battle, you'll be promoted. Okay? And one of the people he promoted very heavily and who would become his most successful general, his name is Parmenion. Parmenion. Okay? I want you to remember this guy. Parmenion. Okay? Because he would basically become Philip's partner in war and his greatest general. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 33:39 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Even though Parmenion, he was not, he was born into the lower nobility. Okay? He certainly had some money. But Philip treated him as a partner. And he allowed Parmenion. Parmenion to lead armies on his own. He was not afraid that Parmenion would rebel. Okay? He trusted Parmenion. So Philip was a tremendous, tremendous, he had tremendous understanding and judgment of people. He knew who to trust. And he knew how to use people effectively. The other thing that he did that was very important was he needed to make the army loyal to him. And what he understood is if you want the army loyal to you, you need to do three things. Okay? The first thing is you need to fight with them. You understand? He was not in the back watching the battle. He was in the front leading the battle. He was training with them every day. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 34:43 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: He trained harder than everyone else. In fact, in one battle, Philip lost an eye. And he had many battle wounds and scars. Okay? And so because of that, his soldiers were fanatically loyal to him. Okay? And also because Philip was fighting with his soldiers every day, he did not want to risk the lives of his soldiers. You understand? He was very strategic. He would not put his soldiers in harm's way. And so his soldiers became even more loyal to him. Second thing that he did was he ate and drank with them. Okay? These common soldiers, he would spend his time just eating and drinking with them. And that told the soldiers, hey, we're equals. We're friends. And I'm willing to listen to your complaints. Okay? Here's your opportunity to complain about Commander. Here's an opportunity to complain about me. I'm willing to listen to you. Okay? Does that make sense? And the third thing was he was an excellent communicator. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 35:47 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: He would give speeches explaining his vision. Right? He wanted to make Macedon great. He wanted Macedon to conquer Greece and then conquer Persia. He wanted glory for his country. Okay? But not only that, but he praised people like Parmenion. Okay? He used his speeches to praise soldiers that were good examples. And obviously that made Parmenion feel really good. Right? That made him even more loyal to Philip. Okay? So Philip, over time, was able to build a strong, loyal, unified, disciplined army using his strategies. Okay? So the other thing that Philip did was he started to, while he was starting to build his army, his enemies were still attacking him. Right? And what he did that was counterintuitive was he basically negotiated. Understand? He used diplomacy. He understood that having the best military is just a, sorry, let me rephrase this. Having smart diplomacy is just as good as having the world's best military. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 37:14 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2234s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2234s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Right? Does that make sense? Because remember, at this time, it's basically Game of Thrones. Every nation is at each other's throat. Okay? And they hate each other. Okay? So Sparta hates Thebes. Thebes hates Athens. They really didn't get along. So what Philip could do was use diplomacy to build alliances against other enemies. Okay? So he was using diplomacy a lot in order to buy time for him to train up his army. Okay? He would also marry the princesses of other nations. Okay? As part of his diplomacy. So Philip was known as a great strategist. But much more importantly, he was known also as a diplomat. Someone who knew how to negotiate and deceive his enemies. Okay? So after he started to build his army, he started to make his move. Okay? The first thing he did was he basically secured his northern frontier. He got into these wars with his enemies to the north and he secured his northern frontier. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 38:22 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: That's important. Okay? Because he wants to move into the south eventually. But he needs to make sure that he's not attacked from behind. Okay? So that's the first thing he does. Second thing that he does is in 347, he invades a city called Amphipolis and he conquers it. This is important because Amphipolis has gold mines. Okay? Now he has resources. He has money. And with these resources, he can pay his soldiers. Right? Because his soldiers are training every day. They're not farming. They're training every day. So he can now pay them. He can now buy the loyalty of the nobility and he can stir national settlement in Macedon by building projects, by building roads. Okay? He can improve the economy. Okay? And the last thing that he does with the money is he starts bribing everyone. Okay? He basically starts bribing the nobility of Athens, other nations to support him. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 39:24 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? So he's being very strategic and very clever. In 356, his son in here, Alexander the Great, is born to his wife Olympias. Okay? And the last major event is in 338 BCE is the Battle of Tyrrhenia. Tyrrhenia. This is the last battle between Philip and the people who opposed him. So in Tyrrhenia, the two nations that opposed him are Thebes and Athens. But at this time, the problem is the great generals of Thebes have all died. Okay? And Athens felt basically brought the aristocracy to support him. So Athens didn't really put out a great army. And this Battle of Tyrrhenia, Philip II with his like modern, highly disciplined, loyal army destroyed everyone. Okay? He crushed Thebes. He crushed Athens. And... He united all of Greece. So he destroyed all, the entire army of Athens. And he almost destroyed Thebes. But what happened was, when it was clear that Thebes was about to lose the battle, the sacred band of Thebes, okay, stood in the way. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 40:46 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2446s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2446s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? They basically sacrificed themselves so the other army, the other soldiers of Thebes could escape. Okay? And so the sacred band of Thebes was forever destroyed. The irony, of course, is... It's the sacred band of Thebes that taught Philip how to build a great army. Okay? And in his last act, he destroyed the sacred band of Thebes. And now he united all of Greece. Now that he united all of Greece, his ambition now is to take his army and conquer Persia. Okay? So what he did was, he sent his great general Parmenion into Persia. Okay? They remember in Anatolia at this time, which is today Turkey, there are lots of Greek colonies that are under Persian rule. And for the longest time, they wanted to be free of Persian rule. Okay? So Parmenion went over with a vanguard, about 10,000 men, to begin the invasion. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 41:47 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2507s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? Okay? And Philip was about to go over and lead the invasion, but his daughter was about to get married. Okay? So he had to attend the wedding. At the wedding, he had one bodyguard, because at the wedding, there'll be lots of Greek diplomats, right? So he wanted to appear approachable. So he didn't have his entire bodyguard in place. He had one bodyguard. Okay? His bodyguard took his sword and stabbed him in the rib, killing him. And then his bodyguard was killed by the other bodyguards. So Philip was assassinated before he could launch his invasion of Persia. Okay? And when he died, it was like 337, okay? Okay? So Philip was really in the prime of his life. He had like 30, 40 years of military conquest to go. Okay? He died very young. And his son, Alexander, who was like 18, 19 at this time, he now became king. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 42:59 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: It was Alexander who would lead his army into Persia and conquer all Persia and move all the way to India. Or like the, or Pakistan, really. Okay? So for the longest time, historians do not know what happened. How is it possible for this great man, Philip II, to be assassinated in the prime of his life? All right? Now, there are three explanations. There are three major explanations. The first explanation is, was Persia. Persia knew that Philip was about to invade, and so they hired the bodyguard to kill him. Okay? That's the first explanation. Second explanation is, it was personal. Like, so the story is very complicated, but apparently the bodyguard and Philip were lovers. Okay? They were homosexual lovers. And then Philip found someone else, and the bodyguard became very jealous. And so it's a very complicated story. Okay? It was personal. And then there's one more explanation. The other explanation was, it was the mother of Alexander, Olympias, and Alexander. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 44:07 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2647s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2647s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? Right? So these are the three explanations. So if you want to, and like, honestly, we'll never, ever know what happened. Okay? But if you want to evaluate a murder, you always look at two things. Look at opportunity. Who has the chance to kill him? You look at motive. Okay? Do you understand? So if you look at these two things, let's evaluate all three possibilities. Persia. Okay. It had the motive, but it didn't have the opportunity. You understand? How could it access Philip's inner court? Right? And Philip's not a dumb guy. He would know exactly who to trust and who not to trust. And usually, if Persia was afraid of Philip, what they could do was basically give Sparta and Athens all their money to attack Philip. Right? So I don't think it's Persia. I think most people agree it was not Persia. Okay? Second possibility is, it was personal. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 45:13 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: And that's kind of strange. Right? Because Philip, he's very good at inspiring loyalty from others. He's also good at reading people. Right? So I don't think it was personal. I mean, it could be, but I don't think it is. Okay? And this leaves us the possibility of Olympias and Alexander. And here, it makes sense because they both have both the motive and the opportunity. Okay? So let me first explain motive. The motive is very easy to understand. If Philip were to die, Alexander would become king. Right? And this is at the height of the glory of Macedon. They have the world's greatest military. They conquered all of Greece. Persia is an easy target. Okay? And maybe they were afraid that if Philip goes to Persia, it would be too late. The other problem is Philip is an excellent judge of character. And what's clear about Alexander, from a very early age, is he was a very violent young man. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 46:25 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2785s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2785s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: He couldn't really control his emotions. You have Philip, right? You're kind of like, do I really want this guy to be the heir to my empire? Could he manage the empire? Plus, remember, Philip has a lot of wives. Right? So over time, he could have new sons. Okay? Does that make sense? So the motive is very clear. And the opportunity makes sense. Because they're all one family, right? The bodyguard is in constant communication with Olympias. Okay? And what gives evidence? What provides evidence for this line of thinking is after the death of Philip's bodyguard named Pausanias, Olympias actually made a monument to him. Okay? And next class, when we look at the life of Alexander, we will see a lot of evidence that suggests he wanted his father dead. Okay? Maybe he didn't participate in the killing of his father, in the plotting of the assassination, but he clearly wanted his father dead. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 47:37 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2857s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2857s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Okay? And next class, we will discuss this. All right? So does it make sense to you? Okay? And again, what we will understand is, this pattern of a great man emerging, who creates a revolution that transforms the world, it will repeat itself in this way many times, including with Muhammad and with Genghis Khan, with Napoleon, with Julius Caesar. Okay? But they all have this sort of similar personality, and they're all working within a similar social context. Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions so far about this? That's right. Hostage. That's right. That's a great question. Okay. So the question, why do they treat Philip so well, and why do they give him so much knowledge? And the answer is, first of all, no one thinks Macedon will ever be a threat. Do you understand? No one takes Macedon seriously. It's like today, no one would take North Korea seriously. Right? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 48:57 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=2937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Do you understand? Everyone thinks in East Asia, the major powers are China and Japan. And everyone thinks North Korea is a complete joke. Okay? This place will collapse in five years' time. So no one during this time ever thought Macedon could ever challenge Sparta or Athens or Thebes. Okay? No one did. Okay? So it was just overconfidence. Second thing is, if you're the Thebans, you want, you want, your enemies are Sparta and Athens. Okay? So you want to build allies. The best way to build allies is by building strong relationships with weaker nations who then rely on you. Right? And the best way to do that is by indoctrinating the future leaders of that nation. Right? Like Philip. So basically, they wanted to treat him nice so Philip would be thankful to Thebes. They didn't realize Philip had other intentions. Okay? And it's impossible because Philip is one of these individuals, these men who we call great men of history. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 50:06 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: They stand outside of history. They are in many ways not human. Okay? They don't behave, normal humans behave. Right? Normally, if you're a prince, you just want to have a good time. Right? You just want to enjoy your wealth. You want to promote your friends. Right? And you want personal glory. But Philip wanted to change the world. And so you can't possibly predict that. Right? Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Okay. Great question though. Okay. Any more questions? Oh, great. Great question. Okay. The phalanx. All right. Okay. So Philip not only learned military strategy from Thebes, but he was also a military innovator. Okay? So he made a lot of changes to the phalanx. So the phalanx, it's very strong, but there are a lot of issues with it. Okay? The first major issue with it is it's not very mobile because everyone's carrying heavy armor. So the first thing that Philip did was, he made, he lightened the load. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 51:22 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: So he had his, he had his soldiers wear less armor. Then the question then is, well, if you wear less armor, then how do you protect yourself? And the answer is two things. Okay? He did. The first thing he did was, he made the spear very long. It was a, it became a pike. Okay? So it became very hard to reach the phalanx because the spear was in the way. Okay? The pike was in the way. And the other thing that he did was, he added a new weapon. He added a new unit called shield bearers. Okay? So the shield bearers were on the flanks, on the sides to protect the phalanx. Okay? So that's how he improved the phalanx. And so when the Macedonian phalanx came into contact with the Greek phalanx, the Macedonian phalanx proved superior because of these invasions. Okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 52:13 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3133s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3133s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Remember, they were lighter. They could move around faster. And they had longer spears. Okay? So they could maintain distance from you a lot longer. And also, they had these shield bearers who were mobile and could adapt to situations. Okay? So if one part of the phalanx was being threatened, then the shield bearers could converge on that and basically leak that down. Does that make sense? Right? So what made Philip such a genius was, he was very flexible. Okay? He was always looking at what happened at battles and making adjustments in order to become stronger. And that's why his soldiers were so loyal to him. Because he was such a great general. And he put the lives of his men first and foremost. Okay? And what we will discover in the next class is, Alexander is the complete opposite. He's always risking the lives of his men. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? Any more questions? But that's a great question. ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 53:11 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. I obviously don't have enough time to go into all the details. Okay? There's a lot of changes. Okay? But the phalanx is a major innovation. Right. You have the shield bearers in place. To me? Above you? Okay. Well, they have helmets. And they have shields as well. Okay? Do you understand? That's right. Yeah. So the shield bearers were really the secret sauce of the Macedonian army. Okay? Because the shield bearers were meant to resolve any issues that might arise in battle. Yeah. But yeah. So do you understand how this works? Okay? Okay. But you have the flexibility because this is a very short term. These are extremely disciplined and loyal men, okay? And what we will discover is, when we get to Alexander is, even though Alexander was bold and aggressive, he would make mistakes, but the loyalty and discipline of the Macedonian army would compensate for a lot of his strategic mistakes, okay? ## Philip Built The Machine Alexander Rode -- 54:34 - Source title: Civilization #11: The Greatness of Philip II of Macedon - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3274s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6AroD58jkE&t=3274s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-l6arod58jke@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-l6arod58jke.json) Text: Does that make sense? Great, any more questions? Okay, so was this interesting for you? Okay, and this is clear, right? Okay, because again, the thing about this class that's different is we build on all this knowledge, okay? We will see how military strategy changes over time, and we'll see how the Greeks, the Macedonians, will influence Greek culture, okay? All right, so next class, we will do Alexander the Great. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Okay, so we are doing Socrates and Plato today. Last class we did Greek theater and remember I said that Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eupodes, they're really prophets of democracy. They see themselves as teachers who teach Athenians how to practice democracy. We also said that there are three major benefits to democracy. The first major benefit is kings are bad. Kings have hubris and hubris creates all sorts of problems. So remember in the play Antigone by Sophocles, the king Creon sentences Antigone to death even though it was unjust and that was because of hubris. Second major benefit of democracy is it is a gift from the gods that teaches citizens individual responsibility. So remember that in the original Hristia, Aeschylus told us that democracy is a gift from Athena in order to promote justice and truth in the world. And the third major benefit is democracy is really the best way to promote justice and truth in the world. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 1:17 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: If citizens come together and they deliberate and act with in good faith, then the world will be a better place. So that is the argument from the playwrights of Athens. Now obviously there are people who disagree with this perspective and one of the most famous opponents of democracy is Socrates. Socrates lived during the time of the golden age of Pericles in Athens and he was a very vocal opponent of democracy for the following reason. In order to practice democracy properly, people need to access the truth. But to access the truth you need to have reason. And his argument was that most people are not capable of exercising reason in their thinking. And to prove this, every day he would be standing outside the Agora, which is the marketplace of Athens and this is where everyone came together and he would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. He would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 2:29 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=149s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=149s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: He would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. And showing the flaws in your reasoning. Showing you why you don't really understand the world when you think you do. Trying to prove that you are ignorant. So let me give you a demonstration of what Socrates did. So give me a statement that is fundamentally and inherently true. Give me a statement that you think is fundamentally and inherently true. The earth is a sphere. The earth is a sphere. And so this is a statement that we think is true, right? And so what Socrates would do is he would slowly and methodologically expose the flaws in this statement, okay? So the first question for you is what is a sphere? Explain what a sphere is. Okay, so your three -dimensional round shape energy, okay? And give me an example of a sphere. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 3:46 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: A ball, right? So you're saying the earth is like a ball. Is that correct? It's all around, okay? And how do you know that the statement is true? Who told you this? I mean, you can know a ball is a sphere because you hold it in your hand, right? But you're not a God. You don't hold the earth in your hand. So how do you know it's true? Anyway, I didn't go on like this obviously for a very long time and so this is what Socrates did. And this is what he called a sphere. psychotic dialogue and actually we still use this in many different places like for example law school so in American law schools if you have if you ever make the stupid mistake of ever applying to law school and you get into law school they will teach you using the psychotic dialogue okay but the idea is to show ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 4:43 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=283s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=283s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: the flaws in your reasoning and obviously if you get an argument Socrates you come out as a very mad person okay so the reputation of Socrates in Athens during this time was he was either a you guys see him as a bully okay it was an intellectual bully or he was a clown or the most common understanding of Socrates was he was a trickster okay he tricked you into making statements that were illogical because fundamentally language does not capture the truth okay language is just a convention we have to in order for us to communicate okay but it's not meant to reflect reality okay and Socrates was exposing the fundamental flaws in our language system um so any questions about this so far all right so to give you a sense of how Athenians thought about Socrates at that time let me describe to you a play by Aristophanes okay Aristophanes Aristophanes was a very ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 5:56 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: famous satirist in Athens and he made fun of all the very famous individuals of Athens including Pericles who as we said was the de facto king of Athens at this time but also Cleon who replaced Pericles as the leader of Athens he also made fun of Socrates okay and the play was produced in 423 BCE and the play was called the clouds so let me first explain the plot of the clouds and then we will interpret what it meant okay so in the clouds this is Athenian farmer a normal citizen and he's he's in a lot of trouble because his wife spends a lot of money so he owes a lot of money to creditors and his creditors are banging at the door and demanding their money back so he comes up with with this plan to get rid of his debts there's a school called a thinkery okay and it's run by a man ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 6:59 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: named Socrates the thinkery proposes to teach you reason logic truth so that you can go and deceive jurors okay you can basically go and manipulate people and deceive them in a trial to get out of your debts so he wants to send his son to the thinkery to learn how to lie to juries his son who is a playboy refuses because he says that Socrates he's a cheat he's a liar he's a fraud I refuse to go the man decides to check out the thinkery by himself he goes in and he sees Socrates okay hanging from a basket from the ceiling and the man's curious like what are you doing up there and Socrates says well from up here I have a clearer and higher vision of the world I can access truth better also from here I can draw inspiration from the clouds who are the true gods okay not Zeus not Heracles the ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 8:02 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=482s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=482s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: clouds are the facts and they're the ones who give me inspiration to come up with all these brilliant ideas okay so the man of Socrates has they have a very long conversation and he's completely convinced Socrates is a sage okay he's a philosopher he runs back and he tells his son you must go enroll in the thinkery and learn from Socrates okay so the man the son decides this is the path of least resistance he goes to a thinkery and he becomes Socrates students meanwhile the man's creditors are banging the door and and saying to him where is my money and the man says the man is not going to use all the tricks that Socrates taught him okay so what he says is I don't owe you any money and then the creditor says you swore by Zeus that you would pay me back the man says oh guess what Zeus doesn't exist okay ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 9:03 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: he's not a god so I swore an oath to nothing therefore I owe you nothing the creditors the credit obviously gets angry and he leaves okay now the son comes back and he and the first thing he does is start beating his father and the father is like why are you beating me son and then the son says Socrates taught me to beat you and the father's like what he didn't why is he teaching you that and the son says justice now when I was young did you beat me the father says yes of course I beat you because you were a naughty boy and then the son says therefore I can now beat you because you're a naughty person for refusing to pay back your creditors okay the man gets very angry and he decides to go burn down the thinkery with Socrates inside it okay and that's how the play ends now um ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 10:00 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: this is not a great play okay this is not a famous play of Greece but it tells you what Athenians thought of Socrates at this time okay um and it shows us that Athenians didn't think much of Socrates he worships the clouds right which is nothing so what they're saying is Socrates makes things out of thin air okay he's just a fraud he's a manipulator he's a liar but so he did have a lot of fans specifically people who really hated democracy and so the people who really really hated democracy were the children of the rich okay these were aristocrats born into the wealthiest most noble aristocratic aristocratic families of Athens who hated the fact that the normal people thought they were their equals okay so what Socrates did was he taught them basically mental or linguistic Kung Fu right to go beat up these commoners who dare to think they're equals one one most ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 11:05 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: famous uh the most famous of Socrates students included Plato who we all know but also um who was one of the um wealthiest members of Athenian society and actually became leader of Athens as well okay so um Socrates had his fans um and because Athens was such a wealthy and open and tall society they allowed Socrates to basically do whatever he wanted okay until 404 um this was the year that uh Athens lost the Peloponnesian war to Sparta okay and when Athens lost the war Sparta did not burn Athens down Sparta had the right to burn Athens down but it did not okay instead Athens imposed a dictatorship called the 30 tyrants and the 30 tyrants came from the wealthiest uh families of Athens who also happened to be students of Socrates. Socrates did not actually participate in a tyranny. Socrates refused to participate in a tyranny, but there were many of these tyrants who were Socrates' students. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 12:24 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=744s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=744s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: And they were terrible people. They killed at least 5 % of the Athenian population. They stole a lot of wealth. And they were so terrible that ultimately the Athenian people revolted against them and reinstalled their democracy. So when the tyranny was overthrown, the 30 tyrants were exiled, but most people were given clemency. They were forgiven if they participated in the regime. Then what happens next is very strange. In 399 BCE, Socrates is put on trial. Remember, this is after the democracy is reinstated. And this is when people who participated in the tyranny were forgiven, okay? But in 399 BCE Socrates was put on trial. He was put on trial and charged with two crimes. The first is impiety. Which basically means he was insulting the gods of Athens, including Zeus. Which is what he did in the plague clouds, okay? The second is corrupting the youth of Athens. okay, basically miseducating the youth of Athens, which is also what he did in the clouds, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 13:51 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: So it almost seems like this entire trial was a cruel joke put on by the people of Athens to teach Socrates a lesson, okay? Does that make sense? So the people of Athens expected Socrates to apologize, make some jokes, be funny, and then all is forgiven, right? During the trial, Socrates refused to defend himself. What he said was this, I am not a good speaker. I am bad with words. I'm just a poor person, okay, who comes from a poor family who spends every day seeking out the truth. I spend all my time seeking out the truth, thinking about the truth, that I have no time to practice rhetoric. I'm not good with words. Also, I should not have to defend myself because you're all capable of reason. You're all capable of logic. Therefore, if you just think for yourself, you will realize I'm not guilty. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 14:58 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: I have absolutely nothing to do with the 30 tyrants. I spent all my life trying to help Athens. Therefore, if you're stupid, you will vote me guilty. If you're stupid, there's nothing I can do about it, okay? So, obviously, the jury was insulted by his speech and they voted out of 500 people, 280 to 220, they voted that he is guilty, okay? They declared he was guilty of these two charges. Now, as you can see, it's still a pretty close vote, okay? I mean, Socrates was basically being a jerk during the trial and they still, they voted him guilty, but it was a pretty close trial, 280 to 220. Now, let's talk about this. The second part of the trial is, if you're found guilty, they have to figure out what your punishment is, okay? So, the jury asked Socrates to propose a punishment for his crimes. And then what Socrates ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 15:57 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: said was, you have found me guilty, and the reason why you found me guilty is because I speak the truth. I'm a gadfly, okay? Gadfly. I go around and I point out the nasty truths of Athenian society. I put a mirror to your face and I show you your warts, your pimples, your ugliness. Therefore, you hate me. But what I've been doing all my life has been for the good and betterment of Athens. I'm a public servant. I am the most selfless public servant, okay? Because I speak the truth, and by showing the truth, I make you a better person. Therefore, I think a just punishment would be a pension, okay? You guys should pay me to retire in peace. But you know what? I'm a generous and forgiving individual. Therefore, if you don't want to give me a pension, I will understand. Therefore, I am willing to pay a small fine, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 17:02 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: I'll pay a fine, okay? And then we're good. How about that? And again, the Athenian jurors were pissed off, right? So they voted to condemn him to death by tricking him with a hemlock, okay? They basically gave him the death penalty. After they did so, they came to realize that they were perhaps tricked by Socrates, okay? Socrates was 70 years old. That's very old for back then, okay? 70 years old was probably the age limit back then. He really didn't have much to live for. And here was the opportunity for Socrates to be a martyr for the truth, right? All his life, he's been trying to convince people democracy does not work because people are incapable of reasoning out the truth. And what this trial shows us is he was correct, right? Does that make sense? So in many ways, you can make the argument that for Socrates, this trial was a type of performance art. He was a performance artist. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 18:14 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Okay? And so the people of Athens realized that they were probably tricked and they were trying to get out of condemning Socrates to death. But Socrates insisted. And it came to a point where Socrates was just left alone and he had to demand to be given hemlock. And he had to administer the hemlock by himself. And so when he drank it, he died, okay? Now, after his death, Socrates remained an extremely controversial figure. He was a very controversial individual in Athens. And he had a student, Plato, who was maybe 28, 29 at the time his mentor died, okay? And he loved Socrates. And he committed the rest of his life to restoring and redeeming the reputation of Socrates. So when he was 40 years old, he founded a school called the Academy, okay? Which was inspired by the vision of Socrates. As a philosopher who sought the truth. In 375 BCE, he wrote a book called The Republic. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 19:27 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: And The Republic is the most famous of Plato's work. It is arguably the greatest work of Western philosophy. And many today consider The Republic the greatest book ever written, okay? There are people in this world who read The Republic and it forever transforms the way they see the world, okay? It's a life transforming event to read The Republic. And next semester we will actually read The Republic together, okay? But let me give you a quick introduction to The Republic. So in The Republic, there's a very famous metaphor and it's called Allegory of the Cave. And this is really the most famous allegory or metaphor or analogy in Western thought, okay? By far. Nothing comes second to this. So before I start the Allegory of the Cave, are there any questions so far about what I've discussed? Anything unclear? Anything you would like to question or doubt or argue with before I continue with the Allegory of the Cave? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 20:37 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1237s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1237s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Okay? Clear so far? All right. So this is the Allegory. Imagine a cave deep under the earth, okay? There's a cave. Now in this cave, at the back, there's a large fire that shines light into this cave, okay? There are these prisoners who are chained to the floor. And they're chained so that they cannot move their necks. They can't move around, okay? They can't move. The only thing they can do is steer at a wall in front of them. That's the only thing they can do, okay? Now there are these people behind them who are like puppeteers. They hold up cardboard pictures of like maybe like rats and birds, okay? And the fire will project these pictures onto the wall. And so these people, who again cannot move around and they can only see the wall in front of them, they come to think that this wall is the truth. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 21:39 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: It's the only reality that exists. And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games and try to figure out who can create the best language, okay? And then they give awards to the people who create the best language. Who are playwrights, right? Um, okay? So what Plato is saying is that we may honor art and poetry and drama, but they're all lies, okay? Now, one day, for whatever reason, we don't know why, but one man finds his chains are loosened and he's able to get up, okay? And he swims around and he sees a light. Coming from the top. So he's curious and he climbs all the way to the top and he's now outside in the free world, okay? And it's painful because his eyes are not trained to see the sunlight, okay? So the sunlight, it's like burning him, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 22:50 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: It's like burning him alive. And so at first, all he's doing is staring at the ground. And so he's seeing reflections in the pond, in the pool. But then he slowly acclimatizes himself to the sunlight and he starts to see the world around him. And it's beautiful, okay? But it's so beautiful that it's beyond language. He doesn't have the language to describe this world that he's in, okay? This is beyond language. And finally, he develops the courage to stare up in the sky and he sees the sun, okay? The sun. And he is amazed by how the sun is a source of all life. And now, for the first time, he fully understands the truth of the world, okay? And when he does, he is seized by regret because he remembers he has all these friends who are still trapped and in prison in the cave. And he pities them. So he swears that ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 24:00 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: he will, even though he loves where he is, he will still venture back into the cave in order to show people the truth of the world and to tell them that you've been living a lie all your life, okay? So he goes back into the cave. Now remember, his eyes are now accustomed to sunlight. So in the cave, it's all dark. So he stumbles around. He stumbles around, he falls, and he hurts himself, okay? And then he goes and talks to the prisoners and tells them, hey, I've been to the outside world. I've been to the sunlight. I know what truth is. And then they're like, can you describe to us what it's like then? And he can't do it, okay? And then they're like, tell us what you see on the wall. And because he's been so accustomed to truth, he can no longer use human language to describe anything, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 24:57 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1497s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1497s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: And so the people are convinced utterly convinced he's an idiot. He's insane. He's a clown. And so they refuse to follow him. And at some point, because he insists on revealing the truth to them, they kill him, okay? That's the allegory of the cave, okay? And you'll remember this allegory for the rest of your life. Now this allegory is powerful for three reasons, okay? And I want you to remember these three reasons because we will go into them later on. In the course. The first reason is, who's the man who goes out in the sunlight and sees the truth? It's obviously Socrates, right? So with this allegory, Plato redeems the reputation of Socrates, right? Because remember before, Socrates was despised, he was laughed at by the Athenians. And what this allegory is saying is, that's because Socrates is a philosopher of the truth, okay? And people cannot deal with the truth. So that's why today, we celebrate Socrates as the greatest philosopher who ever lived. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 26:15 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Not only that, but we consider him the first philosopher, even though he was not the first philosopher, okay? So that's the power of the allegory of the cave. This image forever transforms the way humanity understands and perceives Socrates. That's the first thing. Second thing is, this allegory becomes so powerful that in the imagination of Christians, Socrates becomes Jesus, right? Does that make sense? Socrates is Jesus for Christians. Because Jesus was God and he came down to our world in order to speak the truth. And because we feared the truth, we killed him, okay? So for Christians, allegory of the cave is really the story of Jesus as well, another martyr for the truth. But, and the last thing is, this allegory of the cave becomes the framework for Christianity, okay? It becomes the intellectual framework for the religion of Christianity. So let me show you how, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 27:35 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: So this is an allegory. And behind the allegory, there is an understanding of reality, a philosophy, a religion, okay? So here is the platonic understanding of the world. There's something called the form of the good, okay? And the, obviously, the metaphor would be the sun, okay? And the form of the good is a source of everything, okay? It's a source of all truth. It is the truth. It's called the form of the good. And emanating from the form of the good, are concepts and ideals that structure the universe. And they are reason, beauty, and truth, and justice, okay? And there are others, okay? But these are the main ones. Reason, truth, beauty, and justice. They emanate from the form of the good, okay? And then emanating from these concepts are these forms that are perfect, okay? So for example, maybe the perfect horse, which represents beauty, okay? Or the perfect woman who represents justice and beauty as well, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 28:53 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: But this is all perfection. And from this higher world comes the lesser world, the reality we live in. So everything that we see here, everything that we are here, is only an imitation, a shadow of this world, okay? Does that make sense? Imitation. So there are horses, but these horses are just copies of that perfect horse up there, okay? So the major difference is, in this world, this world is eternal. It has always existed, and it will always exist. It's eternal. Second is, it is immutable. Immutable just means it will never change, okay? And the reason why is, it's perfect, okay? So these are three distinct qualities of this higher world. Eternal, immaculate, and perfect. And everything down here is basically the complete opposite, okay? We will all die. We will all feel pain. But up there, no one feels any pain. No one dies. It's all perfect, okay? Does that make sense? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 30:04 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Guess what, guys? What is this? This is the Christian universe, right? This is God. This is heaven. This is earth, okay? Does it make sense? This is the allegory of the case. And you can see how it does these three things. It redeems the reputation of Socrates. It gives Christians an understanding of Jesus. And it becomes the framework from which Christians will build their understanding of the world. It becomes the basis of the Christian religion, okay? So Plato is the real founder of the Christian religion, not Jesus, okay? And we will go more into this when we discuss Christianity in the future, all right? Any questions? You look confused. Just ask any question. Let's start having a discussion, okay? Because I know this is a lot. Let's try to unpack it, okay? Yep. Oh, great, okay. The Republic, okay. Okay, so the Republic isn't really about the allegory of the cave, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 31:35 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1895s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1895s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: The allegory of the cave actually appears in the Republic. The Republic itself, Plato's story, Plato is trying to answer the question, what is a good society, okay? What is a good society? That's the question he's trying to answer because it's clearly not democracy because democracy kills Socrates, okay? So it's clearly not democracy. So what makes a good society? And the answer is, it's a society that's based on justice, okay? It's a society that's based on justice. But then what is justice? It's truth, okay? But then what's truth? Well, truth is the fact that it's a form of the good. Then what's a form of the good? It is the thing that philosophers can access for their own reasoning, right? Therefore, a good society is one that is ruled by philosopher kings because they're the only ones who can access the truth, okay? And this society that's perfect, he calls the Republic. That's why it's called the Republic. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 32:40 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=1960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: The Republic, and we'll read this again next semester, is it's really trying to figure out what makes a good society, okay? And to further his argument, Plato uses the allegory of the cave. And like, listen, 50 years from now, you will still remember the allegory of the cave. Maybe you won't remember the Charles Socrates or anything else you've learned in this class, but you will definitely remember the allegory of the cave, okay? Because it's embedded. First of all, it's a beautiful metaphor, but it's also embedded in our society, okay? So, does that answer your question, Echo? Do you have more questions? All right. Something else I want to explain is, okay, some might be interested as to why Plato is considered the greatest philosopher of all time, okay? All right. So it's not because he's the best, all right? It's not because he's the best. I would say there are three good reasons why he's so influential today. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 33:52 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2032s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: The first is Plato, the way he writes, it's unique and original to him. Plato originally trained as a playwright, okay? So he wanted to be Aeschylus. He wanted to be Sophocles, Eupatius, because everyone wanted to be a playwright in Athens. It was the highest honor. So he learned the art of dialogue, okay? Because dialogue is the basis for theater. And so what he did that was innovative, and no one did this before, was he basically taught people how to hook the dialogue of the stage, and he transferred onto the page. So when you read Plato, it's actually a lot of fun, okay? Because it's basically Socrates, his main character, having arguments and conversations with other people. So in terms of readability, Plato is definitely probably one of the most readable philosophers, okay? He's definitely the most readable famous philosopher. Later on in the semester, we will talk about Immanuel Kant, and Hegel, and they are not readable, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 34:57 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2097s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2097s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: They're just not. But Plato, anyone can read Plato and enjoy Plato, okay? So his readability, the originality of his writing is one really good reason why he remains so popular today. Second is, he is extremely anti -democratic, okay? His thinking is, because remember, the most traumatic event in his life was the death of his mentor, Socrates. And so it was the Athenian democracy who killed his mentor. So he passionately hates democracy, okay? Well, you know who else hates democracy? Kings hate democracy. And throughout most of human history, kings ruled the world, right? So what's amazing about Plato is, he's the only, writer in human history who has been read continuously for 2,000 years. Does that make sense? We lost Homer for a bit. We lost the playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Eupatius for a long time. But Plato has always been read continuously. And he's been the most, and ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 36:16 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: as a result, because it's easy to access Plato, he's become the most influential philosopher of all time. Okay, does that make sense? And third of all, was his academy, okay? And the academy in Athens at that time, it's like Harvard, right? Or Oxford today. It's a place where all the elite children went, okay? So his students were the most powerful people in the world, basically. And his most famous student was Aristotle. And as we'll discuss in future classes, Aristotle is the one who basically packaged and promoted Plato. And Plato became a very important individual in the spreading of Greek culture. In fact, he was basically the main hero in this process, okay? So does that make sense? All right. Feel free to argue with me, by the way. I mean, like, if you feel I've said anything controversial or you sort of disagree with, let me know, and I will rebut. We can have a psychotic dialogue, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 37:30 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: Any more questions? Ask a question, okay? Okay. That's a good question, okay? What are the influences of Plato, okay? So you can make the argument that Socrates was not that much of an intellectual influence on Plato. And the reason why is, remember, Socrates questioned your wisdom, but he himself did not propose any of his own theories, okay? Right. So what we know is this. First of all, during this time, this was the golden age of Greek philosophy, right? You had lots of philosophers in different polices, different places, proposing all these wonderful theories. So Plato definitely had access to them. Plus they were all friends, okay? And we also know this world of Greek thought was heavily influenced by Egypt, right? Because Egypt was really the epicenter of learning and philosophy at this time. And Egypt was actually very close to Greece. Also Mesopotamia, right? The Persians, okay? So 399 BCE, Socrates dies, and then Plato spends the next 12 years traveling around the world. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 39:04 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: And while he's traveling, he's absorbing lots of different philosophy, okay? So look, we don't have access to Egyptian sources, right? So we don't know what sources would influence Plato. But we know the Egyptians heavily influenced the Greeks. So we can make the assumption that the Egyptians were heavily influenced on Plato, as well as Mesopotamia, as well as the other Greek philosophers, like Pythagoras and Democritus. And so what's really important is Athens at this time was not an isolated society. It was part of a larger intellectual landscape. And a lot of these places had richer intellectual histories than Athens, okay? Egypt, definitely. Mesopotamia, okay? So does that answer your question? The answer is we don't know, okay? And the reason, again, is most of this is lost to us, right? I'm sure there were philosophers at this time who were the equal of Plato in terms of originality, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 40:09 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2409s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2409s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: But we don't know who these people were. Because remember, citizenship, it's not really just about changing the past. It's also about eliminating most of the past, right? Okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 40:22 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2422s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2422s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: It was very common. ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 40:53 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: It was very common for Greeks to think they should rule the world. It was just very common. So Plato himself actually went to a place called Syracuse. Syracuse is a city on the island of Sicily. It's very prosperous. And the king of Syracuse invited Plato to come counsel him on how to be a tyrant, a good tyrant, right? He wanted to be, like, a philosopher king. And then Plato basically said to him, well, you should let me be the king, and then you will have a philosopher king. And, of course, the king of Syracuse didn't like this idea, so he almost killed Plato, okay? But Plato had very, again, Plato has very wealthy friends, and he was very rich himself, so he basically ransomed his way out of Syracuse. So as a politician, as a practitioner of philosophy, no, sorry, as a practitioner of his philosophy, he's terrible, okay? He tried his philosophy in Syracuse, didn't work out, pissed off a lot of people, okay? ## The Cave That Makes Socrates A Martyr -- 41:52 - Source title: Civilization #10: The Trial of Socrates and Plato's Allegory of the Cave - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2512s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlTtdNww_k&t=2512s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lwlttdnww-k.json) Text: But everyone wanted to be a philosopher king. Any more questions? Okay, so next class, we will do the rise of Macedonia, okay? So remember, these are ideas that are being incubated in Athens and in Greece at this time. But ultimately, these ideas conquer the world, right? Greek theater, Greek philosophy spread all around the world. And the main reason is Macedonia. The main reason are two individuals, Philip II of Macedonia and Alexander the Great, okay? Who together will create the Hellenistic Empire. And this is why Greek culture will spread all around the world and become the basis of Western civilization. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Okay, so we will do a quick theater today. Now, as a society, every society has a problem. The problem is, how do we organize the thinking of the people within our society? Okay, how do you create an identity? And in modern society, there are three institutions that create a collective identity for society. Okay, so the first would be what? Exactly, thank you, schools, right? So public schools, you're here to learn about the history of China. You're here to learn about the politics of China, right? The idea is to make everyone think alike or have the same basic knowledge and worldview, okay? What's another institution that does this in society? The media, right? Okay, so the media. Okay, so mass media. So when you turn on the TV, when you read a Chinese newspaper, it's presenting a particular worldview. And when you absorb this worldview, you become more Chinese, right? And what's the last institution that helped us form a collective identity in China? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 1:32 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=92s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=92s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: Entertainment, right? Mass culture. This includes, you know, TV shows. This includes movies, okay? This includes books. Does that make sense? So through these three institutions, societies can create a national identity. And depending on your society, you create a different worldview, right? So in America, Americans would want to create an individualistic identity, whereas in China, we want to create a collectivist identity, okay? So what I will show you today is Greek society, Athenian society was doing the same thing, okay? Okay? It was doing it through theater. And the main function of theater was to create an identity as a democratic citizen, okay? Democratic citizen. Why do we have a democracy? What does it mean to live in a democracy? What is your responsibility as a citizen to be in a democracy, okay? So that's what theater does in Athens. So let me give you some background about theater. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 2:49 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=169s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=169s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Theater was the form, the basic structure of Athenian society. So there are two months of the year when everyone went to the theater, okay? So once in winter and once in the summertime. And they were called the festival of Dionysus, okay? Dionysus was the god, the Greek god of the theater, of art, of music, of society. And they were called the festival of sex, of wine. And so the festival of Dionysus, there were religious elements to it, but it was mainly about watching theater. And through the process of watching theater, Athenians created a national identity that they all believed in, okay? So this happened twice a year for one month. And it was free for everyone. So it was the rich who paid for all the plays, too. To be performed. And that's how the rich, their aristocratic families, won favor from the people. In fact, Athenians considered going to theater the greatest birthright of being an Athenian, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 4:05 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: That was the privilege and the right of being an Athenian. It was the highest honor in Athens to participate in the festival as a playwright. And every festival, there'd be two, there'd be two competitions. There'd be two competitors, okay? And they were called the protagonist, okay? And antagonist. So today, we know that protagonist means the hero of a novel. Antagonist means the villain of a novel. But back then, all this meant was, you were the first competitor, and then antagonist was the second competitor, okay? And the entire point of theater was to promote democracy in Athens. And they did that through many mechanisms. First of all, whoever won the festival was decided by popular vote, okay? The entire process of theater was democratic. So there are no professional actors in Athens. People were selected from the community to act out the play. And everyone participated in watching the play. In fact, the largest amphitheater, these are all amphitheaters, outdoor theaters in Athens, could hold 10,000 people, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 5:28 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#tragedy-makes-democracy-see-heart) Text: 10 to 15,000 people. The maximum population of Athens was 50,000 people, okay? So this is a huge community event that brought everyone together. And they loved the theater. The three most famous playwrights in Athens at that time were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, okay? And these were really playwrights, poets, but they were first and foremost prophets of democracy. They were teachers of democracy who told the Athenian people, why do we have democracy? Why is democracy good? And how should we protect and promote our democracy? All right, so in their plays, the very heart and soul of their plays was about the promotion of democracy in Athens. And these three were the most admired of all the playwrights. Everyone at that time wanted to be a playwright because that was the highest honor in Athens, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 6:39 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: So to win first place at the Festival of Dionysus is like winning the Nobel Prize in physics today, okay? So what I will do now is go over the most famous plays so we can understand how they promoted democracy through their artwork. But are there any questions so far before I continue? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 7:10 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Yes, it's an amphitheater. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 7:20 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=440s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=440s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Okay, so that's a great question about acoustics. We call this acoustics. So how the theater was designed was like this, okay? You have the stage, and then the theater was designed like this, like an oval, okay? So in other words, the sound was captured in like a cavern in a cave, so there was resonance. But obviously, you were required, okay? You were required to shout out the words slowly so everyone can hear, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is these plays were so popular, everyone memorized the lines, do you understand? So they already knew the content of the plays, but they wanted to participate in the community aspect of the play. It doesn't make sense. So the two things is the theater was designed in a way so that sound traveled very freely. Okay? So you can hear it in the theater, so everyone can hear, but also, everyone memorized the lines anyway, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 8:18 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Does that make sense? Okay, great question. All right, any more questions before I continue? All right, so let's talk about Ishulis, okay? Because he was really the first of the major playwrights. And he wrote a play called Oresteia. And I will explain to you the plot of the Oresteia before I explain to you the meaning and the interpretation of the play, okay? So all these plays comes from Greek mythology, because everyone knows mythology. And so what the playwrights did was they took material from Greek mythology and packaged it in a contemporary context to explore modern themes, okay? All right, so Oresteia, the play is set in a place called Argos. And during the Mycenaean period, okay, so this is before the Bronze Age collapsed, Mycenaean Greece, Argos was the most powerful city in Mycenaean Greece. And when the king died, he left the throne to his eldest son named Atreides, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 9:29 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: But often what happens in these cases is the younger brother refuses to accept the authority of the eldest, and he rebels, okay? So war was fought over the Argos throne, Atreides won, and then his brother comes and begs, for forgiveness. And Atreides, being the king, says, you're my brother, I'm a benevolent king, so I will forgive you. And to show that I forgive you, I will host for you a banquet and a feast, okay? And so the younger brother is very happy about this. But during the feast, before the feast, what Atreides does is he kills all the sons, all his younger brother, and he cooks them. And during the feast, he feeds it to his younger brother. And when his younger brother finds out about this, okay, he dies after this, but before he dies, he curses Atreides and says, curse upon you and your house, because a feast is a contract between you and the gods, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 10:43 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: When you hold a feast, you promise to God, this feast will be peaceful. And so people trust you and come and eat your food. So when you poison your food like this, you are in the son of the gods, so I curse you and your entire house, okay? And then he dies. But before he dies, his son, Agittas, okay, Agittas, escapes, okay? So his only remaining son is Agittas. And Agittas is responsible now for eventually the death of his family, okay? All right. So Atreides becomes king. He has two sons who inherit his throne, okay? The first is Agamemnon, who becomes king of Argos, and he is the king of kings. He is the one who will start the Trojan War and launch an invasion of Troy, okay? And his brother is Menelaus, who becomes king of Sparta. And they both marry sisters, okay? They marry two sisters. Agamemnon marries Cladamestra, and Menelaus marries Helen, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 11:49 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=709s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=709s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: This is important because, remember, Helen runs away to Troy, and Menelaus tells his brother, Agamemnon, gets upset, and they agree to organize this massive Greek army to invade, destroy Troy, and get Helen back, okay? But when they're about to set sail for Troy, there's no wind, and Agamemnon knows the gods are not happy with them, okay? So Agamemnon consults a fortune teller who tells him how to win the favor of the gods. He tells Agamemnon, you have to sacrifice your daughter, Iphigenia, and at this point, Agamemnon should be like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna sacrifice my daughter, Iphigenia, so that I could go to Troy, and why do I wanna go to Troy in the first place, right? Helen's not my wife, it's Menelaus' wife. Not my problem, right? I should just give this up, because obviously the gods don't want me to go. That's what he should do, but instead, he's like, fine, I'll sacrifice my daughter, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 13:00 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: So he kills his daughter, Iphigenia. The wind is released from the skies, and they set sail to Troy, okay? And we know what happens. They're there for 10 years, and they end up destroying Troy. Who's really pissed now? Who's really angry now? Who's really angry about all this? Cladamestra, right? The wife of Agamemnon, because their daughter has been killed for no reason, okay? So Cladamestra, while Agamemnon is away for 10 years, she plots her revenge. What she does is she finds Aegytus, and they become lovers, okay? And they plot how to avenge the death of Iphigenia. So 10 years later, when Agamemnon comes back from Troy victorious, Cladamestra kills him, okay? And she makes Aegytus now king of Argos. The problem is that Agamemnon has a son named Orestes, and Orestes, during this time, was exiled from Argos, okay? And now Orestes, upon hearing the death of his father, he's now honor -bound to kill his mother. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 14:28 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Now, obviously, he doesn't want to do that, okay? So he's struggling emotionally about what to do. So he consults Apollo, who is basically the god of justice. And Apollo tells him, you are right and just to want to avenge your father, okay? So Orestes goes back to Argos, and he kills his mother, Cladamestra, and Aegytus. And now he's king of Argos. The problem now is, because he's killed his mother, there are these demons called the Furies who come up from the underworld, and they begin to haunt him, okay? They're torturing him. And Orestes becomes so tortured, he runs away from Argos. And he's trying to run away from the Furies, but the Furies refuse to let him go. And Orestes says to them, I killed my mother in order to avenge my father. That was the right and just thing to do. And the Furies say to him, we are old gods. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 15:37 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: We are responsible for maintaining order and structure in the universe. One thing that you cannot do is kill your parents, especially your mother. By doing so, you are breaking the order of the universe. Therefore, we will haunt you for the rest of eternity. We will not let you go, okay? Orestes goes, talks to Apollo, and Apollo tries to intercede on behalf of Orestes. And the Furies say to him, you are a young god. You are a new god. We are the old gods. We are much older than you are. We are much wiser than you are. You have no authority over us. We don't care about justice. We don't care about the laws of men. We care about the laws of the universe. And Orestes has broken the laws of the universe, okay? So now Orestes is in a lot of trouble. And so, in an act of desperation, the last thing he does is he runs to Athens, where Athena is. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 16:39 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And Athena is the goddess of wisdom. So Orestes tells Athena, the goddess, his story, and he begs for her help, okay? And Athena takes pity on Orestes, and she says, basically, I'm going to convene a jury, okay, of 500 Athenian citizens. And you will tell, you will make your case before them. The fairies will make their case before them, and they will decide whether or not you are guilty, okay? So both Orestes and the fairies make their case, and morally speaking, both cases are compelling, okay? Right? Because even though Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon, the fact of the matter is, Agamemnon was an asshole, right? Agamemnon, killed the daughter for no particular reason. And then he went off to Troy and killed a lot of people for, like, no reason as well, okay? So both cases were very strong. And so at the end of the day, 250 Athenians decided Orestes was guilty, 250 decided he was innocent, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 17:55 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: So it's what we call a hung jury, okay? It was divided evenly. So what then happens now is, Athena comes in and says that, because you are deadlocked, I will be the deciding vote. I vote in favor of Orestes, okay? So now Orestes is free to go home and live his life in peace. Now the fairies say to her, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't accept your laws, Athena, okay? And then Athena says to them, fine, you guys. I'll make you a deal, okay? Right now, you're demons, and everyone fears and hates you, but I will now make you stand for justice, truth, and righteousness so that we, the Athenian people, will worship you and admire you, okay? And the fairies say, okay, that's a pretty good deal, okay? So the fairies accept this deal, and Orestes is allowed to go home, and the story ends, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 18:58 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Does that make sense? So that's the story. So what's the relevance of this story? Well, for Athens, it tells them where democracy comes from, okay, right? Athena, the goddess herself, gave democracy to Athens, right? But it also tells them what a tremendous gift this is, because by giving the Athenian people democracy, it basically gave them the power of gods, right? Because when you have these 500 jurors, each of them has the same power and authority of the god Athena herself. Athena can only cast one vote, right? Okay? And so what this is telling the Athenian people is the gods gave you democracy, honor them by taking it very seriously, okay? When you vote, do so very seriously, because when you vote in a good way, meaning you've fought very clearly over your decision, then you bring justice, truth, you bring justice and truth and righteousness into the world, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 20:13 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1213s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1213s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Does that make sense? And that's why I say Aeschylus is a prophet of democracy, because through this play, he is telling the Athenian people where democracy comes from, what's important, and what they can do to ensure democracy stays in Athens. Okay? Any questions so far about this? All right? Okay. Let's move on to Sophocles, okay? So, Sophocles wrote many plays. His most famous is the Oedipus Trilogy, okay? Oedipus Trilogy. Now, you may have heard of the Oedipus Trilogy, but I will summarize the story for you, okay? So what happened is, in the city of Thebes, a king and his wife, they have a young son, and as is the custom at that time, they go see a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells them, your son is going to kill you, the father, and marry the mother. And the king freaks out, and he's like, I don't want that. So he tells, he orders his soldier to go out and kill the baby, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 21:26 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1286s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1286s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And the soldier takes the baby, and again, it's just a baby, like, you know, maybe a few days, a few weeks old. He goes out in the woods. He goes out in the woods, and he's supposed to kill the baby. But he's a soldier, and he feels it would be dishonorable to kill a baby. So what he does is, he just leaves the baby in the woods, and runs away, thinking maybe the wolves will come and eat the baby, okay? Instead, a shepherd from another city comes and finds the baby, and he takes care of the baby, okay? He goes home. In this city, the king and the queen have no child. They have no son. They have no heir, okay? So the shepherd presents the baby to the king, and the king names him Oedipus. And Oedipus grows up to the point to be a very strong, very noble, very handsome young man. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 22:20 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: When he is of age, he goes and talks to a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells him, I am sorry, but you are cursed. You are cursed to kill your father and marry your mother. So Oedipus freaks out and says, I don't want to do that. I don't want to kill my parents who love me. So he runs away from his city, okay? And he's going to Thebes. And on the way to Thebes, he gets into an argument with an old man and his friends. And he kills all of them, okay? And this old man happens to be his real father, the king of Thebes. He goes into Thebes, and everyone's crying. And Oedipus asks what the problem is. And the citizens there tell him, well, our king is dead, and also there's a Sphinx, an evil demon who is haunting us, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 23:17 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: So Oedipus volunteers to challenge the Sphinx to a duel. And the Sphinx asks Oedipus a riddle. If Oedipus can get it right, the Sphinx will go away. But if Oedipus gets it wrong, then the Sphinx will eat Oedipus, okay? And the riddle is, what walks in the morning with four legs? What walks in the afternoon with two legs? And then what walks in the evening with three legs? And the answer is, black man, okay? So it's a very famous riddle. Oedipus gets it right, and the Sphinx loses, and he flies away, okay? The people of Thebes are so thankful, they make him king of Thebes. If you're king of Thebes, you marry the queen of Thebes, okay? So he's done this. He's married his mother, and he killed his father, okay? 20 years later, there's a plague in Thebes. And Oedipus, now the king, knows that somehow he's angered the gods. So he ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 24:25 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: talks to a fortune teller, and the fortune teller tells him, well, the gods are angry at you because you've killed your father, and you've married your mother, and you've had children of your mother, okay? So all your children are products of incest. So the gods are angry at you. So what Oedipus does is, he blinds himself, and he exiles himself, okay? To die somewhere else, okay? Now the problem now is, who inherits the throne? So his eldest son is supposed to inherit the throne, but he has another son named Polyneses. Polyneses. Who rebels, and he fights for the throne. The two brothers kill themselves in battle. Okay? They kill themselves, fight each other, and now Creon, who is the brother, to the dead queen, the queen has killed herself, okay? He now inherits the throne. Okay? And the first thing he does is announce that the dead king will be given a state funeral. Okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 25:33 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1533s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1533s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: We will honor him. But Polyneses, who rebelled against the king, and who caused all this suffering and misery in the world, he will not be given a funeral. He will not be buried. And the reason why is, Greeks believe that only by burying the dead can they find peace in the afterworld. Okay? So it's a very serious thing not to bury the dead. Antigone, who is the daughter of Oedipus, and the sister of Polyneses, she finds out about this, and she thinks this is unjust. Polyneses has done a lot of bad things, but no one deserves this. Okay? So she secretly buries Polyneses. Creon finds out and demands Antigone to be arrested. And Creon says to her, how dare you defy my laws? How dare you disrespect my orders? And Antigone says to him, your laws are unjust. And Creon says, the laws are the laws. Without laws, there will be complete chaos. And Antigone responds by saying, human laws must conform to justice. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 26:55 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1615s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1615s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: There are these laws in the universe that are divine, unwritten, and immutable. And we must respect these laws. Human laws cannot override these laws of justice. Okay? And this makes Creon very angry. And so he sentences her to death for disobeying him. Okay? The problem is, Antigone is the fiancee of Haman, who is Creon's son. So Haman, the prince, comes and begs his father to relent. And Haman says, can you please forgive Antigone? And Creon thinks his son has betrayed him. Right? Your love for Antigone has blinded you from seeing the truth, from doing what is right. And Haman responds and says, father, I'm not doing this for Antigone. I'm doing this for you. And the reason why is, the people of Thebes fully support Antigone. They think she is a hero. They think she is just and right to want to bury her brother. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 28:08 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: They think you are a tyrant, father. And Creon says, should I obey the mob? Should I, the king, listen to the mob? And then, Haman says, no, you should listen to what is right and just. Creon gets very angry and kicks Haman out. But then, Creon has a change of heart and he doesn't know if he's done the right thing. So he talks to a fortune teller. And the fortune teller tells him, Antigone is right in this situation. You have to save her. If you don't save her, if she dies, the gods will be very angry at you. And that scares Creon. So Creon and his guards, they look for Antigone. But when they find Antigone, she's in a cave and she's dead. She's killed herself because she doesn't want to be executed. And weeping over the body of Antigone is Haman. He's crying. He's so depressed and sad. And Creon sees his son crying and he tries to put his hand on him and console him. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 29:21 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1761s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1761s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: The moment that Haman sees his father, he becomes so angry, he lunges at him with his sword. Okay? But he misses. And when he finds out he has failed to kill his father, in his anger and in his grief, he kills himself. So both Antigone and Haman are now dead. And when Haman's mother finds out about this, she kills herself too. And now Creon is alone. He's alone in the world. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, does this story make sense to you? All right. Now, what does this story mean? Well, remember, Athens is a democracy. And so, this is a message that's very much anti -king. Right? Like, let's not have a king because kings do stupid things. And why do kings do stupid things? Because of hubris. The problem with kings, with monarchy, with power, is people develop hubris, arrogance, right? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 30:26 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Violent, excessive arrogance. And that makes them do stupid things. Like, listen, like, refuse to listen to what is right and good and just. That's why kingship is a bad thing. That's why we, Athenians, have democracy and not a king. Okay? So that's the first message. The second message is basically, the world works when the old give way to the young. Okay? The old must always listen to the young. So, remember that in the Aristeia, the play ends with the Furies, the old gods, giving way to the new gods who bring justice into the world. Okay? The Oedipus trilogy ends in tragedy because the old king refuses to give way to young people. Okay? So the other message is, society works. There is truth and justice in the world when the old give way to the young. Right? So those are the two main messages of this play. Any questions so far? Before I move on. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 31:47 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Oh, that's a great question. Why do people trust the fortune tellers? Because remember, everyone's religious. So the fortune tellers speak on behalf of the gods. Okay? They're called seers or prophets or uh, divine need horse. Okay? So their job, what makes them special is, they're able to interpret the will of the gods. And that's why the kings listen to them. Okay? And remember, this is, for most of human history, um, humans were extremely religious people, including the Greeks. The Greeks were especially incredibly religious. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Okay. Any more questions before I move on? All right. Let's talk about, um, Euripides. Okay? And Euripides was, he's the youngest of these three. And he's the least, he was the least prized or the least respected in Athens when he was alive. Okay? And the reason why is, as you can see, there was the, uh, in the Oedipus Rex, um, trilogy, they celebrate Athenian democracy. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 33:07 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1987s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=1987s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: But Euripides, he criticized Athenian democracy. All right? So, the example is, in 415 BCE, and this is the height of the Peloponnesian War, okay? He put on a play called Trojan Woman. And this play is about the aftermath of the Trojan War. So, at the end of the Trojan War, all the Trojan men are killed. Right? And the custom is to enslave the Trojan, uh, woman. Okay? So, uh, one character is Hecuba. And Hecuba is the queen of Troy. And Priam, um, her husband, he, he's been killed. Okay? Hecuba is a tragic figure because, um, she's seen all her sons die. And then, one of her daughters has been sacrificed, killed, uh, for Achilles. Achilles died in, in the war. And Achilles is dead. So, they sacrificed a young girl who's a princess of Troy, Hecuba's daughter, in order to accompany him in the afterworld. So, either, uh, so all her daughters have either been killed by the Greeks or they've been enslaved. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 34:21 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Okay? And been forced to be the mistress or concubine of the Greek, uh, heroes like Odysseus. Okay? Then you have Andromache. Andromache um, is the wife of Hector, the prince of Troy who died at the hands of Achilles. Okay? So, she saw the death of her husband and she has a young baby. And this young baby is only a few months old. But, he's a boy. And the law at that time is all boys must be killed because the Greeks fear if he goes up and he's a, and he's the son of Hector, right? He might want revenge. Okay? So, Andromache must witness the Greeks killing um, her son who's only, again, only a few months old. And then, and then Hecuba is dragged away to be a slave, to be basically a mistress, a lover of a Greek general, Odysseus. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 35:22 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And so, Hecuba must portionally bury the dead child. Okay? And so, it is a play that made everyone in Athens weep. What makes this play powerful is that the year before, 416 BCE, and this is, again, during the height of the Pelagian War, Athens was attacking everyone, okay, including Melos, an island called Melos. And when they attacked Melos, they killed all the men and enslaved all the women. So, in many ways, the children and women is a direct response to what happened in Melos. Okay? Euripides is telling the Athenian people, do you see how terrible we are? We are a terrible people. Do you see all the hurt and suffering we've brought onto the world because of our empire? Okay? Now, obviously, the Athenian people didn't like this play, and so he lost in the competition to this obscure nobody, okay? And Euripides got really angry about all this. He was very bitter about all this. So he exiled himself to Macedonia, okay, where he died. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 36:37 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2197s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2197s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Okay? He died away from Athens. And his last play, he wrote his last play called, the Bacchae in Macedonia. And after he died, his friends brought this play back to Athens. And this play, Bacchae, is considered his masterpiece, his best play. Okay? So again, what I will do now is I will explain to you the plot of the Bacchae, and then I will explain what the interpretation is, okay? All right. So, there's a god, there's a god named Dionysus. Another name for Dionysus is Bacchus, okay? So, the Bacchae are people who worship Dionysus, the god of theater, of music, of festivals, of wine, of sex, okay? Now, Dionysus, the legend is, he was born in Thebes to a Theban princess. And his father was Zeus, the king of the gods, okay? Zeus likes to go around and rape women, okay? Dionysus. But when the princess of Thebes announced that she's been impregnated by Zeus, no one believed her. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 37:55 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Everyone laughed at her, okay? And the people of Thebes refused to worship Dionysus. Now, Dionysus is worshipped all around the world, including in India, as far away as India. So, Dionysus has always been bitter about all this, okay? He's bitter about the fact that his wife, his mother was insulted by the Theban people. He's also bitter about the fact that Theban people don't pay homage to him, okay? So, he plots his revenge. What he does is he disguises himself as a wanderer, okay? A stranger. And he makes the woman of Thebes insane, okay? He makes them worship him. And what they do is they run off to the mountains where they have sex orgies, okay? They're having, like, sex. They're doing all these crazy things in the worship of Dionysus. The king of Thebes, his name is Pentheus, Pentheus, he hears about this. He hears about all this chaos. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 38:59 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2339s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2339s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And he decides, you know what? I'm going to get my army, go in the mountains and kill everyone, okay? Because the Bacchae are too disruptive. They are amoral, okay? And he's about to do this, but then Dionysus, the wanderer, tells him, hey, I'll make you a deal. Don't kill the Bacchae. I want to take you into the mountains and together we can watch them have sex together, okay? We can watch their sex parties. And Pentheus says, okay, that's interesting, okay? So together the two go into the mountains and they hide behind a rock as the Bacchae are about to worship Dionysus. Pentheus is hiding behind a rock and he can't really see that clearly, okay? But he's really excited. He really wants to see the Bacchae in action. So Dionysus says, why don't you climb that tree and that tree will give you a better view of all the action, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 40:02 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: So Pentheus climbs the tree and he hangs by the branch, okay? And he has a very clear view of the Bacchae who are in a circle. Then what Dionysus does is he lowers the branch so like Pentheus is now in a circle of the woman. And Dionysus commands the woman to kill Pentheus, to rip his body apart, okay? And when the woman in that circle is actually Pentheus' mother, all right, okay? So Pentheus dies in the mountains. The people of Thebes are now very anxious. The king has disappeared. The women of Thebes are in the mountains. Then Pentheus' mother comes back and she's running, she's really excited, okay? And she's holding the head of Pentheus. And she's shouting to the people of Thebes, look how wonderful I am. Look how brave and courageous and strong I am because I'm holding a lion's head. By my bare hands, with my bare hands, I killed a lion and ripped the head off his body. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 41:12 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2472s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2472s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: Here it is, okay? And it takes a very long time for the people of Thebes to convince her, that's not a lion's head, man, that's your son's head, okay? So this is an extremely weird play, okay? Very weird. And there are different interpretations of what this means. And I'll tell you my interpretation, right? So think about this image, okay? A mother holds the son's head in her hand and she's celebrating how brave she is, right? Now, I think this is a metaphor for war and empire. And the reason why is, war and empire happens when old people send their children to die, to fight and die for their glory. Does that make sense? Right? So this image of a mother holding the son, holding her son's head and shouting to the whole world, look how brave I am, look how great I am, okay? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 42:27 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2547s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2547s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: It's really a metaphor or an image for war and empire, okay? Because remember, the Pelagian War is really about building empire, right? Athens wants to build its empire and it's sacrificing its young people in order to accomplish this. So the Bacchae is a direct criticism of the Athenian Empire and it's direct criticism of the Pelagian War, okay? Does that make sense? All right. So some further evidence to support this interpretation is in 431 BCE, the Pelagian War between Sparta and Athens started. And about a year afterwards, a lot of Athenian men are dead. And it is the custom at that time to honor the war dead by holding a huge state funeral, okay? So the state Athens will pay for the burial of all its war dead. During this huge funeral, about Pericles later on, but Pericles, he's basically the first citizen of Athens, which basically means he's the king of Athens, okay? And he gives his funeral oration during this time. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 43:50 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And the funeral oration is considered by many to be the greatest speech ever made, okay? It is beautiful. It is extremely eloquent. It's very powerful. In the speech, he says this, Athens is the greatest place ever. And that's because we celebrate excellence. Athens is a place where anyone can come and through hard work, through talent, can achieve greatness. We are an open, tolerant, cosmopolitan people. We have a democracy where everyone can participate in the civic life, the political life of Athens. That's what makes Athens glorious. Therefore, we must protect our democracy through war. It is good that the young go out and fight for our empire, our democracy, because that's what gives meaning to their lives. These men who are dead before us, they are and defending our democracy. And we should have all young men go and fight for us. OK? That's a speech. That's literally what he says. So, ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 45:16 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2716s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2716s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#tragedy-makes-democracy-see-heart) Text: Euripides was probably in the audience, right, because everyone was in the audience when the speech was given, OK? And he reimagines his funeral as the mother holding the son's head and saying to the world, look how brave I am. OK? What Pericles is really saying is, we're an empire, an empire is so good because it brings glory to the old people. And so, the young must protect the glory of the old people by dying in a war. Does that make sense? OK? But, if you think about it, OK, even though Euripides is criticizing Athenian democracy, what he's really doing is also trying to defend Athenian democracy. Because a democracy only happens when citizens are engaged in a process of argumentation, debate, and self -reflection. And so, what Euripides is really trying to do is put a mirror before Athenian people, and he's saying to Athenian people, look how awful we are. We can do better. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 46:35 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2795s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2795s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And that's what a democracy really is. It's an open and honest discussion about how we can be better. OK? And again, these three, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides are considered the three greatest playwrights in Athenian history. And these plays are actually still performed today. OK? So the Orestia, Oedipus Rex, and the Bacchae are still performed in theaters around the world today. That's how amazing they were. So, any questions? Oh, OK, great question, OK? So, the Bacchae, how do other scholars interpret the Bacchae, right? OK, so there are different interpretations, but the most common interpretation is it is a play that explores the idea of religious yield, religious devotion, or religious fanaticism, OK? Does that make sense? That's the most common interpretation. This play is really about the power of religion and faith and how it drives us into madness, OK? That's the most common interpretation. Another interpretation is, well, Dionysus is the villain, OK? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 48:18 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: He's not really the villain, but he's the main focus of this play. And Dionysus in his life, Euripides was participating in the festival of Dionysus hoping to win first place, right? To be the protagonist, to win first place. But most of the times he lost because he kept on offending the Athenian people, right? So another interpretation is this play, Bacchae, it's a satire on the power of Dionysus and of theatre in general, OK? It's a direct criticism of the festival of Dionysus. And what Euripides is really saying is, the festival of Dionysus, it's not about art and reflection and democracy. It's really just a wild sex party that's trying to please everyone, OK? So you can also interpret this as a direct criticism of democracy itself. Democracy is just a wild sex party, right? So these are the two major interpretations that it is, that Bacchae, it's about the power and dangers of religious devotion, fanaticism, OK? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 49:43 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2983s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=2983s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And also the play, Bacchae, it's a direct attack on the idea of theater itself and democracy, OK? But I don't see it that way. I think the most likely explanation for me is, it is a direct criticism of empire, OK? And you can believe whatever you want. And that's the power of Athenian theater. There are different ways to interpret it, OK? So even today, modern audiences are still amazed and inspired by Great, great question. OK, so revenge. OK, you're right in that all these plays have the idea of revenge, OK? And the reason why is if you think about human motivation, what really drives us, right? What really drives us to violence? Well, it's revenge, OK? So revenge is the main plot device we use to drive action. It's what motivates us to do violent things. And that, that's why throughout all these plays, revenge is a common theme, OK? But a very, very common, but another very common theme is the idea of hubris, right? ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 51:14 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#tragedy-makes-democracy-see-heart); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Hubris. Arrogance. And this is what the Greek tried, this is what the Greek playwrights focused a lot on. What they discovered is things go awry in society when the leaders, when the elite, when the kings, they develop hubris, OK? And it leads to bad judgement. But what they also discovered is hubris is just a part of human nature, OK? If you put someone in a position of power, he or she will always felt hubris. So, hubris is basically the most common theme throughout all these plays. And you're right in that revenge is also a very common theme as well. So yeah, there are these common themes. And the reason why is these playwrights, these poets, they're trying to explore what it means to be human. They're trying to decipher the essence of being human, OK? They're trying to look into the human heart and trying to figure out what makes us human, basically. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 52:20 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#greek-theater-trains-consciousness) Text: And all humans are alike, OK? OK? Any more questions? Yeah, the Athenians, OK, so the thing about Euripides was that we today, scholars will all agree all these three, Euripides was the most talented, meaning his use of poetry, his use of metaphors, imagery, it was the most imaginative, OK? We also agree that he is the most shocking, OK? His ideas, the way he presents things, it is the most visual and imaginative, OK? So, in terms of peer talent, he's the most talented. But, when he was alive, OK, he was an extremely arrogant person who believed theater should be about awakening people, should be about challenging people's sense of reality, OK? It should be about education and edification. And these people tend to be hated by contemporaries, OK? But, after they're dead, later generations respect them, respect them more. So, even though Cho Jung Won did not win first place, the Bac Chai did win first place. ## Tragedy Makes Democracy Face Itself -- 53:53 - Source title: Civilization #9: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides as Prophets of Democracy - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96hzWlozdHw&t=3233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-96hzwlozdhw.json) Text: And that's because well, Euribides was dead, OK? And they were able to see the genius and imagination of the Bac Chai much more closely, OK? Does that make sense? OK? So, Euribides basically had his image, his reputation was rejuvenated after his death. But during his lifetime, he was despised by a lot of people, OK? People respected his genius, but they didn't like the fact that he was so arrogant and candid, OK? And that's true for most of human history where, you know, if you are a controversial writer, you are not respected by contemporaries, but after you're dead, people appreciate your genius, because you are really famous writers. Any more questions? These are great questions, by the way. OK, great. So, next class, we will do Socrates and Plato, OK? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay, so we are starting an overview of Greek history. Remember the story so far. We talked about the Bronze Age and where Mycenaean Greece was trading and fighting with the rest of the world. And then the Bronze Age collapse happened and Mycenaean Greece came to an end. And because of its destruction, this allowed for massive innovation throughout Greece. So we saw the introduction of the polis, the city -state. We saw the beginning of the use of the alphabet. And so literacy rates increased radically throughout Greece. And we saw Homer, who gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey. So today... Today, I'm just going to go over the overview of Greek history, mainly focusing on the polis, okay? So one thing to understand about the polis is that geography is destiny, okay? Geography is destiny. And this basically means that your geography will determine the culture. The economy and the political structure of your society. And we see that with the Greek polis. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:33 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=93s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=93s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: The Greek geography is very diverse. There are mountains, there are rivers, there are plains, and there are coastlines, okay? And this... And depending on where you are geographically in Greece, you will have a different type of polis. And so the two classic examples are Sparta and Athens. Sparta and Athens are the two most dominant polis in about the year 500 B.C., okay? So let's first talk about Sparta. So Sparta is located on the Pelonese... This is Sparta. And the land around Sparta, it's basically plains, which makes it ideal for agriculture, okay? So for most of its history, Sparta... Sparta was an agricultural nation. And because it is ideal for agriculture, it needs people to work the land. And through its conquest, Sparta developed a slave system, okay? And these people are called helots. And helots are just slaves in Sparta that work the land. They're farmers. And these are people who have been conquered by Sparta. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 2:56 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And because there are so many helots, okay? The ratio is about 10 to 1. So for every one helot... Sorry, for every one Spartan, there's 10 helots. Sparta had to become a military society in order to control the helots. So it created an education system in order to train its citizens to be soldiers. So the system worked like this. About 8 -7, you left your family. And you were put into a boarding school where you're watched over by kids who are older than you, okay? Maybe 11 or 12. And obviously, if you put young kids with older kids, the older kids will beat the crap out of these young kids who are about 7 or 8. And this instills the idea of emotional discipline into the children. Now, when these children became teenagers, they were peer... They were peer with a mentor who was maybe 25 to about 30, okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 4:02 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: An older adult. And they became lovers. The Spartans did not consider this homosexuality. We would consider it homosexuality. But they themselves did not consider this homosexuality, okay? They just considered this as a way to build emotional cohesion, love, among its soldiers. And about age 18 or 19, the students would graduate. And they would go on to marry and have their own families. But the Spartan soldiers were all required to eat together, okay? So the soldiers, even though they had families, they were still required to train together and to eat together. Spartans had no private property. Everything, including the helots, belonged to everyone. So it's basically like communism or proto -communism. They had no money system. They had no wealth. Everything belonged to everyone. And it was a brutal state, okay? The Spartans were notorious for being brutal people. So an example is the helots. So they had a campaign of terror to maintain control over the helots. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 5:23 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: So young soldiers would often... They would often be required to patrol at night, okay? They would maybe lie in the fields. Because now and then, some helots would break curfew. They would, at midnight, try to sneak out and have some fun. And if you, as a Spartan young man, saw a helot be out at night, well, they would kill you. They would take out a knife and stab you in the neck, okay? And this was meant to instill terror in the helots to prevent them from rebelling, okay? But the problem is, because there were so many helots and the Spartans were so brutal, rebellions and revolutions would break out often, okay? So this created a society which focused on maintaining control in the Pelonese. So the Spartans were not at all interested. They were not interested in foreign policy, okay? They had absolutely no interest in the world outside Sparta. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 6:28 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=388s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=388s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: The Spartans, as a culture, were very conservative, okay? They liked the way that... They liked the way... They wanted things to stay the way they are, okay? So it was a very conformist culture. Now and then, you had some kings or individuals who tried to change society, and the Spartans would kill those people, okay? You were not allowed to question authority. You were not allowed to promote change in Sparta. The Spartans were also isolationists, okay? Their entire policy was, if you leave us alone, we'll leave you alone. And so that was the society of Sparta. When you think about it, in many ways, it's very much like China throughout its history, okay? So the analogy is China, which... China has always been, throughout its history, very conservative and very isolationist. China is just not interested in the outside world. Why? Because it's focused on maintaining control over its peasantry, okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 7:47 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=467s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=467s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: There's too much internal chaos. China just is not interested in the outside world. So China, for its history, has both been conservative, doesn't like change, okay? And very isolationist. It's not concerned about the outside world. Does that make sense, guys? Any questions so far about Sparta before I move on to Athens? Okay, so Athens was a completely opposite society to Sparta. And the reason why, again, is geography. This is Sparta. Sorry, this is Athens. And Athens is in Attica, and it's by the coast. And Athens, the countryside is very hilly. So it's bad for growing crops. But Athens has two major advantages. The first major advantage is it has a very good harbor, okay? And also, it's hilly, but the hilly terrain is actually good for growing olive trees, okay? Olives. It's also very good at pottery. So because of this, Athens, for most of its history, focused on trade, right? It was a trading nation. And because they are traders and merchants, they have a very different culture to the Spartans, okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 9:14 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=554s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=554s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: So the first thing is they're very expansionist, okay? They're aggressive. And the idea here is the Athens will go and seek out new markets. They'll also plant new colonies throughout the Aegean. To the west is the Aegean Sea. To the south is the Mediterranean Sea. And they will plant colonies throughout this area. And they have to encourage their citizens to go out and explore the world in order to find new markets, in order to bring goods and ideas back to Athens, okay? Because Athens was expansionist, its cultural system, its cultural beliefs, was very different from the Spartans, okay? So whereas the Spartans were very conservative, the Athenians had a policy, had a belief in the idea of eudaimonia. Eudaimonia. So eudaimonia is a Greek word, and it means human flourishing. Flourishing. And the idea here is to be the best that you can be. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 10:33 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=633s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=633s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: All right? So the example of eudaimonia, the most famous example of eudaimonia is this. In Homer's Iliad, the main character is Achilles. And Achilles is the best warrior of the Greeks against Troy. And Achilles says this in the book. He says, Before I came to Troy, I saw a prophet, I saw a fortune teller, and he told me my fortune. He said I could choose to not come to Troy, and live a very long, healthy life, but I'd be a nobody. If I came to Troy, I would die young, but I would die as a hero. I would be remembered by everyone. Everyone would sing of my glory and my triumph. So that was my choice. I could live for a very long time and just be a nobody, or I could be a hero and die young. And he said, Well, for me, that's not a choice. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 11:39 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: For me, to be alive means to achieve eudaimonia. I have to be the best that I can be, and therefore, my only option is to come to Troy and die a hero. And that's the mentality in Athens. It is much better to die young as a hero than to live a long time as a nobody. Whereas in Spartans, we're the complete opposite. Okay? It's just better to be a nobody and get along with everyone than it is to die as a hero. Okay? So very opposite societies. And what this did, this idea of eudaimonia, it made Athens into a very competitive society. Okay? Because if everyone's trying to achieve eudaimonia, then you're going to have a lot of competition. Okay? Because they're going to be one hero. If everyone cannot be a hero, they're going to be one hero. So again, the example is Homer's Iliad. And when Achilles got into a fight with Agamemnon, Achilles basically says, I don't like you, you're a dog, I'm not going to fight for you. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 12:55 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=775s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=775s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And Agamemnon says, I don't need you. What Achilles did was he went to his mother, who was a goddess, and Achilles said to Thetis, his mother, could you please get the gods to help the Trojans so that Agamemnon would have to come beg for my help against the Trojans. Okay? He was basically committing treason. And in the Greek world, you're allowed to do that because the most important thing is eudaimonia, to achieve eudaimonia. Okay? Does that make sense? It's a very weird world, but in Athens, it's extremely competitive where everyone's trying to backstab each other in order to become the hero. And because of this, because there's so much competition, Athens created a new system called ostracize. Okay? So the idea here is because the Athenians were so at each other's throat, if someone was breaking the rules or if someone ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 14:02 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: was being too competitive in the pursuit of eudaimonia, the Athenian people could choose to ostracize this person. And what this meant was you'd be banished. Okay? Banished or exiled from Athens for 10 years. And this was considered even worse than death. Okay? This punishment was worse than death. The reason why is in the Polish system, the only people that mattered were citizens. Okay? And the Greek world was very chauvinistic or closed, which meant that, you could not earn the right to be a citizen. You had to be born to become a citizen. You understand? You have to be born into citizenship. You could not become a citizen for your own hard work and for your merit. Okay? Does that make sense? So in other words, if you were banished from your Polish, you became a nobody. You were basically dead to everyone. These only citizens had rights in the Greek world. If you were a slave or you were a foreigner, you had absolutely no rights. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 15:09 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: You could not own land. You could not even speak in public. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So Athens was a democracy where everyone had the right to speak and to vote. Okay? But really, when we talk about democracy in this world, we're not saying that everyone could become president or everyone could become a leader. Really, political power can only be held by people of nobility. So democracy usually was a battle between different factions of the nobility, usually between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? And this is a lesson that's true throughout history. Okay? So remember, usually we think history, societies, the conflict is between the haves and the have -nots. Right? The poor and the rich. All right? Halves versus have -nots. What I will teach you in this class, one important thing I will teach you in this class is this is not true. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 16:28 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=988s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=988s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? When you look at history, the conflicts in society are usually between the have a lot and have somewhat more. Does that make sense? Okay? It's usually between the have a lot versus the have some, but I want more. Okay? And throughout history, we call these people different names. So in this society, these are basically the lower nobility. Okay? These are the nobility who have money, but they want more. Okay? And in the French Revolution, we'll call them the petite bourgeoisie. And today we call them the middle class. Okay? Does that make sense? The poor people do not rebel. They might riot, but they do not revolt. It's usually the middle class or the lower nobility or the petite bourgeoisie that revolt. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So Athens is a democracy and it's usually a conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Sparta is an oligarchy. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 17:40 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? Which is basically means rule by the few and they hate democracy. So these systems, these cultures, Sparta and Athens, are diametrically opposed to each other. They hate each other. They're always in conflict with each other. Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions so far about Sparta and Athens? Are you guys clear about this? These two different cultures? All right. So this is about the year 500 BCE. Around this time, the Greeks are colonizing the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Okay? And this territory, belongs to Persia. The Persian Empire is considered one of the greatest empires ever in human history. We will do the Persian Empire later this semester. Okay? But I want to focus on the Greeks for now. All you need to know is the Persian Empire spread throughout most of the world, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, and what we call Iran today. Okay? It was a huge, huge empire that was extremely enlightened for its age. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 18:56 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? It was really considered the best empire at that time. And there were Greeks who lived in Anatolia, or what they call Asia Minor back then. The thing about the Persian Empire is if you were a subject city, you could do whatever you want, but you have to pay taxes. And these people did not like to pay taxes. So they revolted. And in the revolt, they went to Sparta and to Athens and sought help. Okay? They basically said, look, we're all Greeks. We're being oppressed by the Persians. Could you please help us? What did the Spartans say? What was the Spartan response? No. Because we don't care. Okay? Your problem, not my problem. And what did the Athenians say? Yeah, sure. Let's achieve eudaimonia, man. Let's be Achilles. Let's go over and help them and maybe make a lot of money for ourselves. Okay? So because the Persian Empire was so powerful, they destroyed the rebellion. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 20:02 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? And in 490 BCE, the Persians decided to attack Greece to teach the Athenians a lesson. And this was called the Battle of Marathon. And in the Battle of Marathon, we actually don't know that much about it. Okay? The sourcing is very limited. But what they say, okay, is in the Battle of Marathon, there are about 10,000 Athenians versus 25,000 Persians. That's a huge advantage for the Persians, right? Well, the Athenians destroyed the Persians. Okay? The Athenians lost about 192 men. The Persians lost about 5,000. It was a slaughter. And a lot of the reason why is in military tactics. So the Persian Empire is huge. Okay? Lots of flat land. And in this geography, your main advantage is cavalry, right? Horse archers. That's what the Persians were known for. Men on horses who would run around and shoot arrows at you. Okay? The geography of Greece was different. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 21:15 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: It was hilly. So you didn't really use cavalry. It was mainly infantry fighting against each other. What the Greeks did over hundreds of years, was develop a new military tactic called hoplites. Hoplites. So hoplite comes from the word hoplin. Hoplin is Greek for shield. So these are men with large shields and spears. Okay? The way they fought was using the phalanx formation. Phalanx. And the innovation of phalanx innovation was, it was basically a wall. Okay? So men would stand together and behind each other so that they made a wall. And because they had these shields and spears, it was a moving wall. Okay? And the Persians didn't have armor. So when men with armor went to battle with men without armor, usually armor wins. Okay? So the Greeks, the Athenians, destroyed the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. That made the Persians even more angry. Okay? So in about 480, B.C.E., Persia organized a massive invasion force against Greece. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 22:38 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And this massive invasion force, again, the numbers, the data, we can't confirm it, but we think it's about half a million people, half a million soldiers. That's huge. Okay? But not only that, you had a huge navy. And basically, Persia called on Egypt and every nation of its empire to fight against Greece, which included Egypt. Okay? Which included the Phoenicians, which also included Greeks who lived in the territory of Persia. Okay? And these Greeks are called the Ionian Greeks. Okay? So it was a massive invasion force. And Sparta and Athens became allies to resist the Persian invasion. But there were also some Greek polices that sided with the Persians, including thieves. Okay? The Macedonians to the north was also siding with the Persians. So the invasion came north from Macedonia down here. And you may have heard of the Battle of Thermopylae. Okay? The Thermopylae. This was made famous by a movie called 300. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 23:58 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1438s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1438s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: I'm not sure if you've seen the movie 300. Okay? But basically, it was about 300 Spartans and about 5,000 other Greeks who tried to make a stand against the Persian invasion. And they got destroyed. Okay? So the Spartans, so the Persians came in and the Greeks decided, okay, you know what? Their numbers are so much bigger than ours. Let's retreat. Okay? Back to Sparta. And here at Corinth, they decided to build a wall to stop the Persian invasion. The problem though is Athens is here. Okay? So the Persians came in and burned down Athens. Now, what's important to understand is the Greeks have, the concept of polis, it's not a place. It's a community. Okay? A polis is wherever the Greeks choose to be. So what happened, that's very interesting, is even though the Athens came to destroy, sorry, even though Persia came to destroy Athens, the Athenians just got into their ships. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 25:03 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1503s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1503s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? They just boarded their ships because Athens is a naval power and they just sailed away. Okay? Do you understand? So Athens was not destroyed. The city of Athens was destroyed, but not the community, the polis of Athens. And so, but now the Greeks are in a lot of trouble. Okay? Because what the Persians can now do is basically take their ships and sail around and attack Sparta from behind. And this is a huge problem for Sparta because why? What is Sparta's ultimate weakness? Why is it so easy to defeat Sparta in a war? What's the problem? Do you guys remember? What are the Spartans really afraid of? The helots, right? Okay? The helots. Remember, there's 10 helots for every one Spartan. And the helots hate the Spartans because the Spartans are terrorizing, have terrorized them for centuries. So all that Persia has to do now, okay, very easy, is ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 26:12 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: take their ships, land on Sparta, and build forts, defenses, and the helots would run into them. Then the king, King Xerxes of Persia says, I, the benevolent king of Persia, declare the helots to be free people now. Now you have a revolution. Okay? The helots are now armed by the Persians. And guess what? The Persians are gonna, the helots are gonna go kill the Spartans. Game over. Okay? You understand? The war is over. That's all the Persians have to do. Take their ships, sail around to the coast of Sparta, build forts and defenses so the helots can run to them, give the helots weapons, and then let the helots run loose against the Spartans and the war is over. Greece is forever destroyed. Okay? You understand? Very simple, right? The Persians did not do that. Okay? The Persian king, King Xerxes, had a war council. And there were a lot of generals, his generals who said to King Xerxes, King, we've won the war. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 27:20 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1640s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1640s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? We're all over Greece. We have half a million men in Greece. There's nothing the Greeks can do about this. Okay? So, the Persians were feeling very confident. And the Greeks, the Greek navy was on an island called Salamis. Okay? Salamis. And everyone was freaking out. Okay? And what the Spartans wanted to do was say, let's take our navy and defend the coastline of Sparta. Because we know the Persians are going to invade Sparta at some point. They're going to land their ships on Sparta. Let's take our navy and defend Sparta. There was one Athenian general. Okay? His name is Themistocles. Themistocles. And he said, you know what? That's great for you guys. Okay? But remember, our city, Athens, has been destroyed. We need to take on the Persians head on. We can't wait. And the Spartans are like, yeah, that's fine. But the outnumber is three to one. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 28:22 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1702s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1702s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: They have three more ships. They have three ships for every one ship we have. There's no way we can beat them in a naval battle. And Themistocles says, we either fight the Persians now and achieve eudaimonia, or we, Athens, we'll be like, screw you, Spartans. We're going to go take our ships and sail off west to Sicily or Africa. Who cares? Okay? But we're going to go away and we're going to leave the Persians to kill you guys. Okay? So Spartans say, no, we don't have a choice but to listen to Athenians and fight. Then what Themistocles did was he sent a spy to King Xerxes. And King Xerxes was having this war council about what to do. And most of his generals were like, my great king, we've won the war. Let's just take our ships and attack Sparta and the war is over. Okay? Then the spy sent by Themistocles says to King Xerxes, oh, great king, the entire Greek navy is stuck in Salamis. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 29:24 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: But they want to run away. Now's your chance to attack them and destroy the Greek navy once and for all. Okay? And, at this point, King Xerxes made the decision to send his entire navy, okay, to destroy the Greek navy at Salamis. And his generals were like, don't do that, man. That's a risk you don't have to take. Why do that? Why take the Greeks on? Why fight the Greeks head on when we can just starve them out? And King Xerxes said, no, I came to defeat the Greeks. Okay? I'm the great king. I want to defeat them at Salamis and build a monument to celebrate my great victory over the Greeks. My father, King Darius, set an army in 490 BC and the Athenians killed or destroyed his army at Marathon. I'm going to prove I'm a greater king than my father by defeating the Greeks at Salamis. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 30:23 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? I don't want this war of attrition, this slow war. I want one great battle so that history will remember me forever. Okay? So he sends his entire force, about a thousand ships, to Salamis. And Salamis, it's, it's a straight, okay? It's very narrow. So the ships have to line up and attack the Greeks one by one. Okay? And at Salamis, in a headlong battle, okay, the Greek ships were heavier and the Greek ships were manned by hoplites with armor. And in this battle of Salamis, the Greeks destroyed the Persian navy. Okay? Do you understand? The Persian army had won the war. And at Salamis, they lost the war. Okay? Now the problem is, when, now that the Persian navy has been destroyed, supply lines are in trouble. Okay? Do you understand? Because Greek is, Greece is very poor. Greece is a very poor nation. You cannot resupply yourself in Greece. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 31:28 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1888s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1888s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: How do you feel what, half, half a million people? Well you need to bring in supplies from Persia. But now your navy has been destroyed. So now King Xerxes freaks out and he goes home. He's like, you know what? I burned down Athens. That's good enough for me. Okay? And he leaves his cousin, General Mardonis, to fight the Greeks. Okay? And at this point, Mardonis could have chosen to not fight the Greeks. Right? Because Athens has been destroyed and Sparta is still under threat. So all Mardonis had to do was, he was in Thebes. Okay? He was in Thebes. All he had to do was stay in Thebes and wait out the war. Okay? This is what we call a war of attrition. Where you wait out the other enemy because the other enemy has basically less resources than you. Okay? Does that make sense? Again, really easy for the Persians to win. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 32:24 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=1944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: But, Mardonis chose to fight the Greeks at the battle of Palatia. And here, it was about equal forces. 100,000 Greeks versus 100,000 Persians. And the Greeks destroyed the Persians. The Persians lost five times more men than the Greeks. Okay? And General Mardonis was killed in this battle. So, this war that the Persians should have won very easily, the Persians lost and were completely destroyed. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, any questions so far about the Persian invasion? Okay. And because of this war, Greece now became extremely wealthy. The reason why is Persia is forced to retreat from Asia Minor and the Greeks were able to capture a lot of treasure. Okay? Now, after this, Persia switches strategies. Okay? Persia never again invades Greece because they think this is stupid to invade Greece. Okay? But, the Greeks don't know this. The Greeks think, okay, the Persians will come back at any point. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 33:48 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2028s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2028s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? So, the Athenians say, let's take the battle to Persia. And what do the Spartans say? The Spartans say, no, we're gonna go home and that's it. Okay? So, to battle against the Persians, the Athenians create something called the Delian League. The Delian League is a defensive alliance between Athens and these colonies and islands in the Aegean. And the idea is, if the Persians come back, we will master forces and fight the Persians at sea. The problem is that only Athens had a navy. Everyone else didn't. We didn't have a navy. So, everyone else is like, we don't have a navy, but we'll contribute money. Okay? And they agreed that this money, this treasury could only be used against Persia if Persia invades. Okay? So, they put all this money on a place called Delos. Okay? An island called Delos. That's why it's called the Delian League. All right? Does that make sense? So, basically, Athens would put up a navy and everyone else would put up money. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 35:01 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2101s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2101s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And this money, this treasury of the Delian League can only be used in a war against Persia. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, while this is happening, Athens is the rising power in this world. And in 461 BCE, a new political leader called Pericles comes into power. And as you should know from your research, Pericles is considered the father of Athenian democracy. He is the one who spreads democracy throughout Athens. And historians today worship Pericles. Okay? Pericles is considered one of the greatest leaders ever in Western history. Okay? I'll talk more about Pericles and democracy in future classes. Okay? But I want to show you that Pericles was first and foremost a politician who was concerned about amassing and increasing and keeping power. Does that make sense? So, he did a lot of wonderful things for Athens. But I want ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 36:17 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: to show you these things that he did even though they seem great, they really were about him amassing power for himself. Okay? So, the first thing he did was he spread democracy to everyone. Okay? He basically gave every citizen the right to respect democracy. Athens creates democracy. This is great. Right? But the reason why he did that was to change the balance of power in Athens. So, he basically represented the lower nobility versus the upper nobility. Right? Usually, the upper nobility has more power because it has more money. Okay? It has more prestige. So, the way for the lower nobility to defeat the upper nobility is by aligning itself with the people. Okay? Does it make sense? You do that by giving people the right to vote. And so, by doing this, Pericles basically made himself king of Athens. Does it make sense? In fact, he stayed in power from 461 to 429. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 37:34 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2254s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2254s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Does it make sense? All right? And to please the people even more, he basically made corruption official. Okay? What he did that was very important was he basically took the money from Delos and brought it to Athens. Basically, Pericles said to the Delian League, you know what? This money in Delos, it's a lot of money. I'm afraid that the Persians will come and steal it. So, let's take it to Athens. Okay? When he brought it to Athens, the next thing he did was he spent all of it. Okay? He built a lot of really impressive buildings including something called the Parthenon. The Parthenon is this great temple to Athena which is a patron goddess of Athens. They made the Athenian statue out of gold. Okay? They spent billions and billions of dollars on this temple. The reason why is when you do that, right? You give people jobs and you give people who support you money. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 38:41 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? So, this is basically official corruption. Now, there are people in the upper nobility who thought what Pericles was doing was terrible for Athens. And, basically, in meetings, they wanted to ostracize Pericles. They want to they accused Pericles of corruption of basically bribing the city of Athens and they said, you are corrupting our morals. Okay? You are hurting our democracy. Therefore, we want to ostracize you. And, what happens? You guys know? The people voted to exile Pericles' opponents. Okay? Those who criticized Pericles were now exiled from Athens. Therefore, Pericles no longer has any political opponents and Pericles can do whatever he wants. And so, the two big innovations of Pericles is democracy. Okay? Right? Let's give people the right to vote and let's give people more money. But also, empire. The reason why is after Pericles basically stole the money from the Dalian League, the allies were obviously angry, right? You stole our money. So, we are out of this league. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 40:01 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2401s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2401s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And, Pericles said, well, if you leave our league, we're going to come and invade you. So, Athens started this expansionist campaign in order to maintain its empire. So, the Dalian League basically became the Athenian Empire. And now, Athens got basically 20 % of its revenue from its allies. Okay? Doesn't make sense. So, that's what Pericles was doing. He was promoting democracy in order to make sure people voted for him. He was promoting empire in order to maintain the easy money flow into Athens. Empire is important because remember, Athens has a culture of eudaimonia. So, empire makes the rich extremely wealthy. You understand? Empire makes everyone rich, but it makes the wealthy even more so. And so, the lower nobility, okay, the lower nobility became very jealous. And so, the way to resolve this issue is the lower nobility could choose to invade other places. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 41:14 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And if they win, they can make a lot of money themselves. So, one place they chose to invade was Egypt, but that failed. Okay? So, throughout this time, you had a lot of Athenian expeditions throughout the world in looking to conquer new territory and sometimes they succeeded, but a lot of times they failed as well. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, as Athens is expanding and becoming much wealthier, other Greek colonies, other Greek policies start to get angry at Athens. Okay? the big bully. They were afraid of Persia before, but Persia didn't really bother the Greeks. Whereas, Athens was a big bully. They wanted to control all of Greece. Okay? They basically were a mafia organization that was forcing these islands in the Aegean Sea to pay tribute to Athens. They were trying to take more territory from other Greek policies. So, in 431, the Greek policies united around Sparta and started something called the Peloponnesian War. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 42:24 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2544s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2544s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? And, historically, what most historians will tell you is this war was started because Sparta was afraid of an emerging Athens. Okay? Sparta was the hegemon. Sparta was the most dominant power in Greece at that time. And now that Athens was rising, Sparta felt threatened by Athens and therefore declared war on Athens. That's not true. Okay? That's not the reason. The reason why is because Athens was an empire and it was going around and bullying everyone. And so, you didn't have a choice in the matter. You got to fight Athens now or wait for Athens to invade you. Okay? So, it was because Athens was an imperial power and so other nations had to other Greek had no choice but to stand against Athens. Okay? And Athens was an imperial power because of its theory of eudaimonia. Okay? So, the great irony here and you will see this pattern repeat itself throughout history is the thing, the culture that allows a nation to rise. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 43:36 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? And this eudaimonia will also cause it to decline. Does it make sense? Okay? Because, it's because of the Peloponnesian War which lasts from about 431 BC to 404 BCE 27 years that Athens loses its empire. Okay? So, the culture, eudaimonia that causes Athens to rise will ultimately lead to its decline as well. Alright? So, are you guys clear so far? Please let me know if this is clear to you. If you have any questions before I continue. Okay. So, even though Sparta and Athens are now at war with each other, this war again should have been pretty easily won by Athens. Why? What can Athens do to destroy Sparta? Do you guys know? What can Athens do, really easy, to destroy Sparta? Helots, right? The Athenians have ships. They can choose to do what the Persians should have done but they didn't do. Which is ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 45:00 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: to basically take its navy, land its navy on the coast and support the Helots in the rebellion. Okay? If that would have happened, Sparta would have been destroyed very quickly. The Athenians didn't do that. The Athenians didn't do that. Now, Sparta, to counter this threat against Athens, what should it have done to counter this threat from Athens? Exactly. Thank you. Okay? Its only option in this scenario is to free the Helots and save the Helots. If you fight for us against Athenians, we will give you your liberty. Okay? And the Helots would have been, yeah, let's go fight for the, for the Spartans. Okay? So Sparta would have increased its army ten times and it could have destroyed Athens. Sparta didn't do this either. Okay? Do you understand? So, from a military strategy perspective, the way the Peloponnesian War didn't make any sense. The only way to understand what happened is to understand that the very basis of conflict in society is between the upper nobility and the upper nobility. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 46:17 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2777s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2777s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? Do you understand? The upper nobility is only interested in maintaining the status quo. They're very conservative. They don't like wars because you could lose wars and also because if you win wars, you have people who are now richer than you are. Okay? Do you understand? So the upper nobility is very conservative in both Athens and Sparta. The lower nobility can only become upper nobility through war or revolution. Okay? That's why the status quo. So even though this war is going on, internally, there's still conflict between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Okay? And that's why you look at the Peloponnesian War, a lot of military strategy doesn't make any sense because Sparta isn't really trying to win a war against Athens. Sparta is trying to maintain the status quo in Sparta. Okay? Athens is not really trying to win a war against Sparta. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 47:11 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Athens is trying to maintain the status quo The war starts in 431 B.C. And a lot of people are saying, Pericles, hey, let's go invade Sparta. And what Pericles says instead is, oh, no, no, no. The Spartans are the greatest warriors in the world. We have no chance against Sparta. So what we'll do is we have these walls. Okay? We have these walls. We'll hide behind our walls and let our navy protect us in the sea. Okay? That was the defensive strategy of Pericles. And so what the Spartans could do was they could come to Attica and destroy all the farmland. And the Athenians could only watch as the Spartans destroyed the farmland. This was a disaster for the Athenians because if you think about it, over time the Spartans could starve out the Athenians. The other problem is you have too many people in one place what happens? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 48:21 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2901s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2901s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: You have too many people living in a city what happens usually? Disease. Right? Disease. So because of the overpopulation in Athens they had the plague which killed one third of the Athenian population. Okay? Do you understand? One third of the Athenian population. If the Athenians went to war against Sparta and they lost they would have at most lost about 10 % of their population. Okay? But because they chose not to fight and hide behind the walls not only did they lose their farmland but they lost a third of their population including Pericles who died because of the plague. Pericles died as well as his two sons. Okay? Doesn't make sense. Right? So again the strategy makes no sense if you think of from a military perspective it only makes sense if you understand there's a internal conflict in Athens between the upper nobility and the lower nobility. Pericles represents the upper nobility he wants to maintain the status quo. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 49:31 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2971s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=2971s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: There's a war going on but he doesn't really want to fight this war. Okay? He just wants to wait it out because he does not want to change the status quo. Okay? Does that make sense? So after Pericles dies the low nobility become ascendant. Okay? And because of this war they propose an aggressive strategy against the Spartans. Okay? Basically it's like let's go attack the Spartans and cause a revolution in Sparta. Okay? And this was the this was proposed by Cleon who after Pericles died became basically the de facto leader of Athens. And he was considered a demagogue. Okay? If you look at the history um everyone says bad things about this guy. Okay? But really what he is he's low nobility who's trying to achieve eudaimonia. Okay? And he's basically like Fair Mexico please. Okay? Alright? And he's a great military strategist as well. So Cleon proposes this aggressive strategy against Sparta and and guess what happens? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 50:44 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3044s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3044s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Athens is now destroying Sparta. Okay? Now Sparta is under under a lot of pressure. It's losing the war. So now what Spar Spar um what Sparta does is it picks a new general Brasidas and says to Brasidas listen we're losing the war what can we do? So Brasidas um goes north and he starts to win these victories against Athens. And his policy is this. Listen um we need to change our social structure in order to win against Athens. So I so what he does is he tells the helots if you fight for me I'm gonna give you your freedom. And so so a lot of helots fight for Brasidas and Brasidas wins a lot of wars. And this is and and how and how do the Spartans feel about this? Brasidas who's a Spartan is now winning wars against Athens. And so how do the Spartans feel about this? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 51:43 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Are they happy about this? No they're really unhappy about this. Okay? Because it's changing their social structure. You understand? They don't want this crap. They want the helots to be slaves. They don't want the helots to be free citizens who helps them win wars. Okay? So what ultimately happens is even though Cleon and Brasidas have both proposed strategies that allow Athens and Sparta to win the war ultimately what happens is Cleon and Brasidas get into a battle with each other and they both die in battle. That's extremely convenient guys. Okay? That's really really convenient. So I'd be very surprised if they actually did both die in battle. My guess is what happened is they were both assassinated during the battle against each other. Does that make sense? Because ultimately um both were the bigger threats to the social structure of Sparta and Athens than losing the war itself. Does that make sense guys? Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 52:51 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3171s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3171s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Any questions so far? Okay. Does that make sense? Okay. Okay. So um now so this war keeps on going and then what happens is the Persia gets involved and gives Sparta a navy. Basically Persia gives Sparta a blank check and because Sparta is so conservative and insular it doesn't really know how to um have a navy. It doesn't know how to fight with a navy. Sparta is militarily like in terms of strategy it's actually very weak. Okay? If it's like Spartan soldiers by themselves are very strong but in terms of like overall military strategy Sparta because it's so conservative and insular it's very weak again it's very weak compared with Athens. But Persia has a lot of money and Persia is bankrolling Sparta. Okay? And eventually Persia says to Sparta hey guys why don't you try a new strategy? The strategy is this if a general is winning against the Athenians promote the guy! Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 54:05 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3245s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3245s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: And you're like okay well that makes total sense. The Spartans didn't do that. Okay? The Spartans were not concerned about winning the war they were concerned about maintaining their social order. Do you understand? There's a social hierarchy in Sparta that's what's important not winning the war. And then there was a Spartan commander Lysander and he was really the only Spartan who knew how to win naval battles. The problem with Lysander was he was a half citizen which meant that his his his father was a Spartan but not the mother. Do you understand? Only if both of your parents are citizens are you allowed to be a citizen. So Lysander was really looked down upon in Sparta but he could win naval battles so he wasn't promoted. The Persians said to the Spartans listen this is stupid okay? Lysander is a great commander you have to promote him. The Spaniards didn't really have a choice in the matter and so Lysander after he was promoted single -handedly won the war against Athens. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 55:12 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: He laid siege to Athens in 404 BCE and then Athens had no choice but to surrender because they were out of food. Okay? Does that make sense? Now for 27 for 27 years Sparta and Athens were at war with each other they were killing each other. Now Athens had finally been defeated. So what do you think should happen now? What should what should happen to Athens now? Okay the answer is nothing happened to Athens. Okay? Usually if you lose a war in this world what happens is they come and kill all the men and enslave all the women and that's what the Persians wanted. Okay? That's what that's what the other Greek cities wanted to happen to Athens. The Spartans didn't do anything to Athens. They left Athens alone. Okay? And there are many different explanations for this. One explanation is Sparta wanted to maintain a balance of power in the Greek world. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 56:21 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? They destroyed Athens then Persia could come back and destroy Sparta. Okay? Um but another explanation is well guess what guys? The upper nobility of Sparta and the upper nobility of Athens they're good friends with each other. Okay? Do you understand? Rich people tend to marry each other. They tend to be good friends with each other. Okay? So Athens and Sparta weren't really enemies. Do you understand? They had to fight this war because of the internal pressures from the lower nobility because this war is killing off so much lower so much lower nobility it maintained a status quo. Does that make sense? Alright? You guys understand so far? Any questions? Alright. So I'm going to conclude with evidence for this theory. Okay? So what I just said like war is really about um killing off internal dissent not really about beating the other enemy that's very controversial. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 57:27 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3447s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3447s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay? So I will give you some evidence for this theory and it's called rat utopia. So in the 1960s and 70s there was an American researcher American scientist his name is James D. Calhoun. Okay? And he was interested in the question what would it be like for humans to live in a world of abundance? What would it mean for humans to live in a world where everything was perfect? Where you didn't have to fight for food? Where food was just given to you? Okay? A utopia. What would it be like? Well he couldn't really experiment on humans so he decided to experiment on rats instead. Okay? So he built this universe. Okay? Basically this big house and food was plentiful for rats. The food the water was plentiful for rats. So rats could just play all day. Okay? Now I'm not sure if you know anything about rats but ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 58:31 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3511s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3511s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: the thing about animals and this is a very important idea is that animals live in a heavily ritualized and rules based world. It doesn't make sense guys. We think of animals as chaotic. No, no, no. If you actually study their society ants, monkeys, rats they live in an extremely rule based heavily ritualized world. Okay? So let me give you an example of this. So rats when they mate with each other what happens is this. A female rat is interested in having sex. Okay? So she's going out and then and then a male rat spots this. He sees the female rat in heat. So what he does is he gets on he gets on a mount. Okay? Where she can see him and he starts to dance. Okay? He starts to dance. And the female rat becomes interested and he sees she's interested so he comes down and they start chasing each other. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 59:37 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: They're having fun together. And then what she does is she runs home and hides her and the male rat just stands outside and waits for her to come out. After some time she comes out and they run together again and then she runs back again. They do this many many times until finally she lets him catch him and then they have sex. Okay? And then after they have sex they have children and they start a family together. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? That's how rats usually behave. When they they often like to play with each other so there's lots of rules there's lots of rituals in this rat society but that's out in nature. In the world of James B. Calhoun he creates rat utopia. Okay? Where everyone has enough to eat and at some point the society breaks down. Okay? These these rituals these rules all break down. What happens is male rats when they start fighting each other they become very violent. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:00:48 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3648s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3648s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: They're no they're no longer playing they're actually trying to kill each other and some actually die. Okay? And this like mating ritual it breaks down. So the male rats don't even try to dance. Okay? They're not dancing. They just see a female and they rape her. Okay? And it's like gang rape. It's not one male it's like lots of males raping her. These gangs of rats they try to break into burrows homes and try to rape the wife. Okay? The mother. And at first the husband is fighting off these other rats. Right? But eventually what happens is he gets tired and he just runs away. Okay? He just abandons the family. Now the female rat is responsible for fighting off now the other rats. But she becomes so traumatized she starts to beat everyone up including her own children. So she kicks her children out of the house. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:01:41 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: It is a complete social And after a few more months of this crap the entire colony of rats dies. The entire society collapses. Does that make sense? Alright? So this is what we call rat utopia. It's been done many times. And each time they do this this happens. At some point the society will collapse. Okay? And this makes no sense to us. Everyone has enough food to eat everyone should be happy. Okay? Why does society collapse? Okay. So there are different explanations for this. James B. Calhoun his argument is if there's so much food there's overpopulation. There's overpopulation then that creates conflict. And the conflict causes the rules to collapse. Okay? The problem though with this theory is the colony never became overpopulated. Okay? There was space for everyone. But at some point everyone started to fight each other. Alright? So this is my theory and this goes back to the Peloponnesian War. It has to do with the idea of status. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:02:54 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3774s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3774s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-status-lock-turns-youth-violent) Text: So in a world of abundance in a world of wealth who benefits the most? It's the elderly old people. Okay? Old people can live a lot longer in a society that is wealthy and abundant. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? But then what happens is the status becomes locked in which prevents younger rats younger people from ascending into power and status. Does that make sense? Okay? So the idea is the metaphor is these rats are online. Okay? I'm waiting for to climb the mountain. Okay? This is the mountain top. You're waiting and waiting to climb the mountain. And everyone's moving along. It's slow but you're still moving along. And eventually you'll reach the mountain top which is where you want to be. But let's just say for whatever reason the line stops moving. Okay? Everyone's stuck in place. Well then you get very anxious. You get very stressed out. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:04:05 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-status-lock-turns-youth-violent) Text: You get very agitated. You're like when is it my turn? And it's never going to come because the people at the top won't leave. Okay? So what do you do? Well you start kicking the people behind you. Right? You start fighting with each other. You understand? That's what we call rat utopia. In a world of abundance in a world of extreme wealth old people do not die. If they do not die it is impossible for young people to ascend into power and status. And so they have all these energies and because they cannot reach their potential they become violent and start attacking each other. So that's rat utopia. That's what rats do. But if you look at the Peloponnesian War and what happened between Athens and Sparta it's really no different. Okay? It's really no different. They were killing each other for no reason. Extreme violence which led to nothing. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:05:13 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=3913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) - Related lens: [Gerontocracy As Intergenerational Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/gerontocracy-as-intergenerational-extraction.txt#gerontocracy-status-lock-turns-youth-violent) Text: 431 BCE the political world was no different from 404 BCE. The only difference is a lot of young people died. Okay? There were wars against each other. So that's my argument to you. If societies become too wealthy you have a problem of rat utopia. Okay? Rat utopia societies will then engage in wars that will lead eventually to its collapse. That's what happened to Athens. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Alright. Any questions about this? Does it make sense to you guys? Alright? Any questions? Okay. So the question is in the rat utopia why do the mothers want to start attacking the kids? Okay? Okay. So this is actually a complicated question. The answer is this. Humans are different from rats. Okay? So humans have the ability to reason and to adapt to new circumstances. Okay? Does that make sense? Rats don't. There are these rules in place. Okay? And if these rules are broken then the rats don't know how to adapt. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:06:50 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0057](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0057) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0057` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: So if you're a rat mother you have a husband. Okay? Your understanding is the husband will protect you from strangers. Okay? Your understanding is if someone is violent towards you you have to be violent against that person. Okay? So in a situation where the husband leaves the husband runs away or is dead the mother does not understand this new order anymore. So the mother becomes the word we use is traumatized. If you're traumatized you can no longer reason. Okay? You're so focused on protecting yourself you attack everything and everyone including your own children. Does that make sense? Yeah. This is an experiment because obviously this would not happen in real life. Okay? There's no way the rats get free food in real life. So they have this experiment where the experimenters this is what happened. No, no. So the experiment is the rats were left by themselves. Okay? ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:08:02 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0058](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0058) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4082s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4082s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0058` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: The rats could do whatever they wanted. The only thing the experimenters did was feed them every day. Okay? If you do that if there's abundance in this well then you have complete social collapse. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:08:13 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0059](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0059) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0059` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay. ## Rat Utopia And The War That Preserved Status -- 1:08:23 - Source title: Civilization #8: Rat Utopia and the Peloponnesian War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0060](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde/transcript/#seg-0060) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNCQ_gNqdE&t=4103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-npncq-gnqde@transcript:v1#seg-0060` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-npncq-gnqde.json) Text: Okay. All right. So okay. All you need to understand is this. Okay? The entire society collapses. Okay? How it collapses can be different at the end. Okay? Do you understand? Okay. Any more questions? Any more questions? So I know this is a lot to take in. Okay? This is very confusing and this is very hard. But it's okay. Just ask any questions or points where you want me to clarify. Okay. So next class we will do Greek theater. And then after that we'll do Greek philosophy which includes Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. Okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay, so today we start Greek civilization, and it is incredible what Greek civilization is. It is the greatest, most creative, most significant civilization ever in human history. The Greeks really created Western civilization, and not only were the Greeks the greatest civilization, there's really not been a second great civilization, okay? So, let's think about how incredible the Greeks were. If you look at literature, the Greeks basically created literature with Homer, okay? Homer wrote two books called the Iliad and the Odyssey, and he wrote these books about 3,000 years ago. Now, last year, I taught the great books to the students, and we read many books, and by far, their favorite book was the Iliad, okay? So, think about this, how a Greek writer writing 3,000 years ago for a Greek audience, his book still resonates, still impresses, and still impresses students in China today, okay? So, that's Homer. Then you have Plato, philosophy, Plato. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 1:23 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=83s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=83s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And even today, there are many who consider Plato the greatest philosopher who ever lived. There are many people who read... The Republic by Plato, and they say it transforms their lives, okay? It makes them think very differently about the world. Then you have, in history, a man named Thucydides. If you are a military leader today, you read Thucydides, okay? There are still many generals today in America, in Russia, in Europe, who believe reading Thucydides will help them win wars. So, not only do the Greeks create civilization, but their works, their books, are still widely read today, and considered amazing, okay? So, now the question I have is, how did this happen? How were the Greeks able to create humanity's greatest civilization in really about 200 years, okay? They really were not... Dominant for a long time. They really created all these works in about 200 years altogether. So, how is this possible? Okay. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 2:46 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So, let's go back to last class. We talked about the Bronze Age collapse, right? And we talked about how, in about 1200 BCE, Greece was united in a place called Mycenaean Greece, okay? So, basically, the Mycenaeans controlled Greece. And Greece was a monarch. And it was no different from any other place in the world. At this point, in 1200 BCE, the world was basically the same, okay? And then, the society collapsed because of the Bronze Age collapse. And three things happened, okay? First of all, centralization. The idea that you had a unified society. It went away, okay? So, Greece became chaotic and decentralized. That's the first thing that happened. The second thing that happened is... Greece became illiterate. So, the Greeks lost the ability to read and write. We call this the Dark Ages. So, from about 1000 to about 600 BCE, but for 400 years, the Greeks basically lost the ability to read and write. We call this the Dark Ages because we don't have any books or writing from that period. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 4:04 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: It's completely dark to us, okay? So, the second thing that happened. The Greeks became illiterate. The third thing that happened is... The Greeks became poor, okay? So, before, the Greeks traded with the world. It was very prosperous. And then, because of the Bronze Age collapse, it started to become more isolated. It became a lot poorer, okay? So, these are the three major consequences of the Bronze Age collapse in Greece. It became decentralized. It became illiterate. It became poor. And the amazing thing is... It's because of these three things that Greece became the most creative civilization in the world, okay? So, remember this. It is because of the destruction of old Greece. It's because Greece became chaotic, illiterate, and poor that Greece eventually became the greatest civilization in the world, okay? So, let me explain how this happened. Okay. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 5:07 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=307s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=307s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So, there are three major reasons why Greek civilization became dominant. The first reason is the polis. The polis, it's hard for us to translate it. We usually translate it as city -state, okay? A city -state. And this is where we get the word politics. But really, what it means is community, okay? Community. And the idea of the polis is... A community of people who discuss politics together. How to best run the town, okay? And because of this chaos, there were thousands of policies around Greece of about a thousand people each, okay? So, it's a very small community. And this became the main political structure of Greek society, okay? So, the polis is one factor. The second factor that happened is... The alphabet. So, after the Greeks became illiterate, they had to relearn literacy, okay? They had to relearn how to read and write. In the process, they adopted a new writing system called the alphabet, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 6:32 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Which further transformed the society. The last thing is Homer. Homer was a poet who introduced to the Greeks a new way of imagining the world. Okay? So, these are the three major factors that led to the rise of Greek civilization. And if you look at each factor, okay? So, the polis was a political revolution. It's forever transformed society, okay? The alphabet was a language revolution. It forever transformed the way people communicated with each other. And Homer was really an intellectual. It was an intellectual revolution. It forever transformed how Greeks saw and imagined the world around them, okay? So, let's go over each of these revolutions one by one, okay? So, the polis. There were three things about the polis that allowed for innovation and creativity in Greece, okay? The first thing about the polis was competition, okay? These polises were all spread out and they were all competing against each other for resources. They were constantly at war with each other and that allowed for massive innovation, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 8:09 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=489s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=489s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-creates-human-type); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [The Borderland Engine](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/the-borderland-engine.txt) Text: And again, remember, there's no centralized authority now. That's the first thing. Second thing is diversity. So, if you look at a map of Greece, Greece has very diverse geography, okay? It has farmland. It has mountains. It has plains. It has coastal land, okay? And depending on where you were geographically in Greece, you develop a different economy and culture and society based on the geography, okay? Does that make sense? And so, you have a lot of diversity. And the last factor was the idea of democracy, okay? So, Greek civilization introduced... The idea of democracy or the modern sense of democracy to us. And the reason why is at this time, Greece was very poor, okay? If you're very poor, you need everyone to participate and work hard, especially in battles against other polises. So, the rule was you could be rich or poor, but if you fought for us, you had the right to speak, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 9:29 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: You could be the leader of this polis and you had the right to speak. But if you... You could be the poorest person in this polis and you still had the right to speak because everyone had a responsibility to defend the polis, okay? So, this introduced the idea of democracy. And what this meant was that everyone basically had to participate politically. So, you could be a farmer. But you still had to think about the political life. And you still had a responsibility to speak up in front of your peers, okay? And this is where we get the idea of polis from. And this was a major driver of innovation in Greece, okay? So, does this make sense, guys? The polis. Any questions so far? We might move on. Okay. So, one of the major innovations of the polis was the introduction of the alphabet. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 10:34 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=634s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=634s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So, this was the introduction of the alphabet into Greek society, okay? So, let me explain the development of writing systems over time to you, okay? And this is going to be a bit complicated. So, make sure you're following along. If I'm saying something unclear to you, make sure you interrupt and ask me questions, okay? All right. So, writing was first developed in Europe, in Western society, in Egypt. And in Samaria. And they did so to solve an economic problem, okay? So, these societies were very wealthy. And they needed people, farmers, to help them build roads and build irrigation networks and build temples, okay? To do so, I need to pay these workers, right? So, writing system became a contract, all right? A contract. So, basically, the writing system, at first, was a pictogram, a pictograph, that served the function of a contract. So, for example, if I do this, okay? Two people, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 11:48 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So, what this is saying is, if you work for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so, when you have this, you can then give it to me, and I have to give you the wheat. Does that make sense? So, they first started out as pictograms. And what they recognized is, hey, we can just have this as symbols, right? So, maybe just two faces and then two Vs. And this could represent the same thing. Because everyone understood what it meant. So, you went to symbolism. That's the next step, all right? But then what they recognized is, hey, these symbols can also represent ideas, okay? So, here's an example, all right? So, you have maybe a sun and a moon, right? Okay, sun and moon. They can represent the sun and the moon. But if you put them together, okay, sun and the moon, you get the concept of day, right? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 12:52 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=772s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=772s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So, now you have a concept, an idea, day, okay? We call this an ideogram. And guess what, guys? Chinese is an ideogramic language. Does that make sense? Okay. And then, as they continued developing writing, they recognized that, you know what? It would be a lot easier for us to communicate if these ideograms represented syllables and sounds instead, okay? So, rather than representing ideas, let's get them to represent sounds. So, for example, this is sun, right? And this is moon. Well, now, if we do this, it becomes moon -sun, right? Which is the English word for monsoon, which means storm, okay? So, now, this tells us to read it as monsoon, okay? And then, the final recognition is, guess what? We can actually just have the sound represent a consonant, okay? The simplest sound. And this would be an M, this would be an S. So, if I write something like this, it now becomes S -M or sum, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 14:18 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=858s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=858s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And we call this the alphabet. Does it make sense? Okay? So, this is the development of writing. And the reason why we do this is with each innovation, with each development, we're allowed more flexibility in our language to communicate our ideas. Does it make sense, guys? Okay? So, now, with the alphabet, something remarkable has happened. Before these different stages of writing required a professional class of people to manage the writing system. Okay? We call these scribes, right? Scribes. The reason why is that writing is not speaking. Speaking is one language, but writing is a different language. This is true for Chinese, right? Well, it's true back then as well. So, to learn to read and write, you had to have professional scribes to do so, because it was such a complicated task. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? But now, with the alphabet, writing can become speaking. And this marked an incredible revolution in human thought, in the capacity to think. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 15:52 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? So, let me explain why. Before the invention of writing, we lived in an oral culture. An oral culture. Okay? An oral culture means we don't write, we just speak to each other. All right? Now, we live in a writing culture, a literary culture, where we don't actually speak to each other. We mainly just write to each other. Okay? So, mainly through email or texting. Okay? Now, there are certain advantages to both writing and writing. Both cultures. With oral culture, the first major advantage is it's very emotional. Okay? When I'm speaking to you, I'm trying to get you excited. I'm trying to get you to pay attention. So, I'm trying to think about how to rouse your emotions. So, oral culture, it's very emotional focus. That's the first major advantage. Second major advantage is it's very innovative and open. And what this means is, I can create words when I speak. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 16:57 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1017s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1017s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Right? I can say, Okay? That means nothing. Okay? But I can create it. And when we're speaking, you can figure out what I mean. So, when I'm speaking, I can create all these different words. So, there's room for innovation and imagination in oral culture. Does that make sense? Okay? The third thing is, the thing about oral culture is it forces everyone to have a really strong, strong memory. The reason why is when I speak, I have to remember my speech. Right? And then you have to remember my speech in order to respond to my speech. And these speeches go on for like hours and hours. So, back then, during oral culture, everyone had a photographic memory. Okay? Does that make sense? So, back then, they were a lot smarter than we are today. And it's the same as, remember, during the hunter -gatherer stage, right? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 17:58 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: When we're out in the field. Guess what, guys? They were a lot stronger, faster, and healthier than we are today. Because today, all we do is sit around. Right? Does that make sense? So, back then, they were a lot smarter than us. So, these are the three major advantages of oral culture. It's a very emotional language. It's very innovative. And it forces you to have a really strong memory. Okay? But there's also a lot of advantages to writing culture as well that oral culture doesn't have. So, for example, the first major advantage is, rather than emotional, it has to be logical. Right? It has to make sense by itself. I can't trick you with rhetoric. All right? I have to use reason and logic to persuade you because you can read it at your own time. Okay? So, that's the first major advantage. Second major advantage is it's very disciplined. Okay? Meaning, okay, I can't make up words. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 18:56 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: I have to use words we agree with. I have to read on. Okay? The third major advantage is even though it decreases my memory, it stores up brain space for me to think deeply about the argument, for me to reflect on your argument and find logical problems in your argument. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, we are basically, before they were in oral culture, and that had certain advantages. Now we are in a literate culture and we've lost the oral culture. Okay? But when the Greeks discovered the alphabet, what happened was they combined the advantages of both cultures. Okay? They were, most of the time, they were speaking, they were living in oral culture, but they also had the opportunity to write down their thoughts, which allowed them the advantages of the literate culture, to have a more disciplined, focused, logical mind. Okay? Does that make sense? And this marked an incredible revolution in the capacity for human beings to think. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 20:17 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? Any questions so far? Okay? This is a very complicated concept. I want to make sure you're following along. Okay? Any questions about what I just said before I move on? All right. Now, let's move on to Homer. Okay? Homer. So, we discussed the polis and how it is a new political structure. Which allows for freedom and democracy. We discussed the alphabet, which marks a revolution in our capacity to think. Okay? Now it comes on Homer. And Homer is a poet. And back then, there were many poets who went around and told stories about the world. Okay? Legends, mythologies. And the very best poets are usually hired by kings. Okay? Rich people. Because kings need poets to solve three problems. Okay? Kings usually hire poets to solve three problems. The first problem is legitimate authority. Okay? What this means is you have to answer the question if you're king, why are you king? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 21:33 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1293s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1293s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Now, we know that most kings get power by killing a lot of people. Okay? That's how they become king. By fighting wars and by winning wars. So, when they become king, they need to clean up their image. Okay? They need to legitimize their authority. So, what they tell people is usually what? Why am I king? Why? Exactly. God chose me. And how do I prove God chose me? How do I prove that? Because there's a poet who sings a beautiful song about me. And this song can only come from divine inspiration. Right? The poet is a vessel. A vessel for divine messages. Right? Does that make sense? This poem, this song is so beautiful, it must be divine. And if this divine song is saying, I am born of a god, the gods want me to become king, then I must be divine myself. Does that make sense? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 22:45 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1365s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1365s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? So, that's the first major function of poets in the society. To legitimize authority. Second function is to create a cultural identity. So, you know, in China you have books like San Guanyin, okay? Romans of the Three Kingdoms. You have the Bible. All these literary works, the function is to create a common cultural identity. Okay? It tells us what it means to be Chinese. Does that make sense? Because then you unify the people who then obey the king, who unifies them. Right? That's the second function. The third function is that, the idea of cultural differentiation. To know who you are, you must also know who you are not. We're Chinese, so therefore we are not Japanese. We're not Korean. We're not American. Okay? Does that make sense? So, most literary works that we have were sponsored by leaders, kings, to solve these three problems. Okay? So, in the future we will read the Inayat, which is what the Romans had. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 24:02 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1442s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1442s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: We'll read the Bible. Okay? In China you have like the Romans of the Three Kingdoms. And all these literary works were designed to serve the powers that exist at that time. Okay? Does that make sense? The problem with Homer is, when he was around, and we don't know actually when he was alive, maybe about 600, 800 to 600 BC. Okay? Around then. We don't actually know. Okay? But, there was no king. There was no one to pay him. Therefore, he could only make his living by appealing to the people around him. Okay? He had to appeal to ordinary people. And so, the question then is, if you're a poet, how do you get ordinary people, who are poor, to pay you money? Why would they want to pay you to sing songs for them? Okay? Well, there are three reasons. The first is just entertainment. Today, we listen to songs, we go to movies. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 25:18 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Well, back then, their entertainment, their source of entertainment, was to pay people like Homer to sing songs to them. Okay? That was what they thought was fun to do. That was their source of entertainment. Second reason is education. So, remember that back then, Greece was poor. They didn't have schools. But, because of the Polish system, they had to speak in front of their peers. So, how did you learn to speak well? Well, you learn, you do so by imitating people who do speak well, who are usually poets. Right? So, when you listen to Homer speak and give speeches, you can imitate him and copy what he does to make your own speech in front of your peers. Okay? So, second reason is educational. Basically, Homer was a teacher as well as a poet. Okay? And the third reason, and what made Homer special, is what we call edification. Edification. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 26:27 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Edification means to be a better you, to be a higher you. Okay? And edification, the way that Homer, accomplished edification, is by changing the way that you saw the world around you. The way you felt about the world, the way you imagined the world. Okay? So, let me explain how he did so. But, first of all, before I continue, are there any questions about this so far? Anything you are not clear about? Anything I've said that you are not clear about or you're confused by? Before I continue. Okay. So, Homer was a poet who told stories. And the most popular story at that time was something called the Trojan War. So, the main story of the Trojan War is this. Okay? So, there was a Greek goddess named Nemesis. And Nemesis likes to create problems. She's always thinking of ways to get the gods to fight against each other. So, one day, she creates this apple. It's a golden apple. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 27:48 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And the golden apple says to the most beautiful goddess in the world. Okay? It doesn't say who. It just says to the most beautiful goddess in the world. And then, she just puts it on Mount Olympus for the gods to find. Three goddesses find this apple and they fight over it. Okay? The first goddess is Hera who is the queen god. Okay? The second goddess is Athena who is the goddess of wisdom. And the third goddess is Aphrodite who is the goddess of love. They're fighting over this apple all the time. And they're creating a huge ruckus. And so, the king god, Zeus, gets tired of all their fighting and he finds a human stupid enough to be the judge. Okay? So, this human, his name is Paris. His job is to pick who is the most beautiful goddess in the universe. Okay? Is it going to be Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 28:47 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1727s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1727s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? And again, he's stupid enough to want to piss off two goddesses. So, all the goddesses try to bribe Paris. Paris says to Paris, Paris, if you pick me, I will give you your own kingdom. I will make you king of the world. Paris is like, oh, that's pretty good. Athena says to Paris, I will make you the wisest man in the world. I will give you all the knowledge of the world. And Paris is like, oh, that's pretty good. And then, Aphrodite says, hey, I will give you the most beautiful woman in the world to marry. And then, Paris is like, I want that. Okay? And so, Paris, but the problem is, the most beautiful woman in the world is Helen, queen of Sparta. She's a Greek who's married to a Greek king. Paris steals Helen, takes her back to Troy, and then, the Greeks get angry and they raise this huge army. And for ten years, they attack Troy, which is a walled city. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 29:54 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? And the war ends when a Greek general named Odysseus, he comes up with this idea called the wooden horse. Okay? So, the Greeks pretend they give up, they're going to go home because they're homesick. And as a present to the Trojans, they leave behind a wooden horse. The Trojans take the wooden horse into the city. At night, the Greeks jump out of the wooden horse, open the gates, and the Trojans are slaughtered. Okay? And this is the story of the Trojan War. And the Greeks love this story because it's really the Greeks being heroes, right? The Greeks have this great victory. People love to win battles. What's amazing about Homer's story, okay, it's called the Iliad, and we'll read this next semester, that there are three things that Homer does in the Iliad that's really never been done before. Okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 30:53 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1853s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1853s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And so, with the Iliad, we have the invention of literature. The first thing that Homer does is, rather than telling a story from the Greek side, he tells a story from both the Greek and Trojan side. In fact, when you read the Iliad, you'll discover that the Trojans are actually more heroic, more courageous, and more brave than the Greeks. Okay? That's pretty amazing. So, in the Iliad, And by switching perspectives, a new idea comes into being that never really existed before. And we call this idea empathy. Okay? Empathy. The ability to see the world from the perspective of other people. And before, in human civilization, this didn't really exist before. Okay? But Homer creates this for the Iliad. The second thing that is new and unique to the Iliad is human psychology. So for the first time, Homer discusses what motivates the characters in the Iliad. Okay? Why are you fighting this war? And so, the story is between two individuals, Achilles and King Priam. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 32:27 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=1947s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? So Achilles is the greatest warrior of the Greeks. Priam is the king of the Trojans. And they hate each other. Okay? Because they're enemies. Achilles is trying to kill Priam. Priam is trying to defend his family and his home. So, the Iliad starts like this. Achilles at the beginning gets in a fight with Agamemnon who is the king of the Greeks. Okay? They get in a fight and they curse each other and Achilles says, you're a dog, Agamemnon. I'm never going to fight for you again. And Agamemnon, the king, says, I don't need you, man. So, Achilles refuses to fight. Okay? The problem is, Achilles is the greatest warrior of the Greeks. And the Trojans, led by Hector, who is a son of Priam, he sees an opportunity because Achilles refuses to fight. And Hector leads the Trojan army out of Troy and they're destroying the Greeks. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 33:27 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And the Trojans are about to crush the Greek army. So, the Greek generals say to Agamemnon, could you please beg Achilles to return to the battlefield? And they go and they talk to Achilles and Achilles basically says, screw off. I'm not helping you guys. Okay? His friend, Patroclus, okay, Patroclus is basically like his younger brother. He feels sorry for the Greeks so he pretends to be Achilles and goes off to battle against Hector. Hector kills Patroclus angers Achilles. Okay? Achilles is so angry that he jumps into the battle and he kills Hector. Once he kills Hector, he does something very odd. Okay? Usually, when you kill someone's body, you return that body to your enemy for a ransom because the belief back then is only if you bury your dead can the dead find peace in the after world. Okay? But, Achilles is so angry at Hector that he's torturing Hector's body which is torturing Priam. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 34:38 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: But even after Achilles does this, he can't sleep and he feels tremendous sadness even though he's avenged the death of Patroclus. And the reason why is in his heart, Achilles knows he was the one responsible for killing Patroclus. Right? Because if he didn't get into the stupid fight with Agamemnon and if he did not refuse the Greeks when they requested help, then Patroclus wouldn't have died. So it's because Achilles was so stubborn and so proud that his friend Patroclus died. So he feels tremendous guilt for what happened and his guilt turns into an intense hatred for Hector and that's why he's torturing Hector's body. Then what happens is Priam, King Priam, who can't sleep either because his son is being tortured. His son is dead but his soul is still being tortured by Achilles. He sneaks into Achilles' tent and he's right behind Achilles while Achilles is talking to his generals. And at this point, remember, Achilles doesn't see him. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 35:47 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-creates-human-type); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#symbolic-media-makes-worlds) Text: He's standing behind Achilles. He could take his knife and stab Achilles in the neck. Right? And that's what most people would do. But Priam doesn't do that. Priam instead kneels down and kisses the hand of Achilles which forces Achilles to be in awe of this king who has knelt down before him. And he admires Priam's courage and love for his son so much that he feels shame and remorse for what he's done to Hector. And he returns Hector's body to Priam as compensation. And that's how the Iliad ends. Okay? The main message of the Iliad is it's not war that creates civilization. It is love that creates civilization. It is Priam's love for Hector that gives him the courage to defeat Achilles in battle. And in this defeat, Achilles becomes a better person because he's able to forgive himself and he's able to do what is right and just and return Hector to his father. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 37:04 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? That's the Iliad. As you can imagine, this is extremely complicated psychology. And it forces you to think deeply about who we are as humans. Okay? Okay? Does that make sense? And the third thing that is shocking about the Iliad is the use of metaphors. So, what are metaphors? Metaphors are connections between things that were unseen. Okay? So, for example, if I say the sky is a snail. You're like, oh, I didn't know that. Okay? Do you understand? That's what a metaphor is. A metaphor is connecting two things that before were not connected. If you think about it, what this is is a new thought. And there are lots of metaphors in the Iliad. Okay? So, essentially, metaphors teach you how to think. Okay? They are the tools for thought. So, these are the three distinct characteristics of the Iliad that make it unique in the world. Okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 38:22 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2302s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2302s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-arranges-life); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-creates-human-type); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: It's switching perspectives all the time which creates empathy. Right? It talks about human psychology all the time and it uses metaphors which enables you to think much more deeply about the world. Okay? If you put these three things together, what this is ultimately is a theory of human. Okay? It's a theory of what it means to be a human being. Before, we thought human beings fought over land. They fought over a woman like Helen. Okay? They struggled for power. What Homer's saying is what it means to be a human is someone who has empathy, imagination, and the willingness to think. Okay? Only if you're willing to see, feel, and think are you human? This is a new theory of human that becomes the basis for Greek civilization. And that's why the Greeks believed the founder of the civilization was not a general. It was a poet named Homer. Okay? And it's because of the Iliad that they all read and memorized and they could recite. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 39:55 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Okay? Because again, this is an oral culture where you're trained to have a very strong memory. And because they memorized the Iliad, it further transformed them as humans. Okay? This is a new theory of what it means to be human. And this becomes the basis for Greek civilization which then becomes the basis for Western civilization. And it's because of these three reasons, the polis, the alphabet, and Homer that we have Western civilization as we know it today. Okay? Any questions so far? Any questions so far, guys? All right. Now, I'm going to spend some time and discuss, okay, why is Greek civilization different from Chinese civilization? Okay? And this will help you better understand Western civilization. So, the first question is, why is it the Greeks developed alphabet? Okay? The alphabet. And the Chinese did not develop the alphabet. Okay? And the answer is this. The answer is, um, Greece was not an isolated culture. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 41:16 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2476s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2476s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Okay? So, the people who actually developed the alphabet were the Egyptians. Okay? Egyptians. And the reason why is, Egypt was constantly in contact and communication with many different societies and cultures, including the Sumerians and the Greeks. And they could adopt new practices to advance their language. Okay? So, it was the Greeks, it was the Egyptians who developed um, the alphabet. Um, the Phoenicians were traders. And they, the Phoenicians connected the Egyptian culture to everyone else. Okay? So, it was the Phoenicians who brought the alphabet to the Greeks who, because they became illiterate, were looking for a new language system. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why, that's how the Greeks got the alphabet. Again, the question is, why didn't China develop the alphabet? And the answer is this. China, for most of its history, was isolated from the rest of the world. But not only was ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 42:20 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: China isolated, but it was stable for most of its history because for most of China's history, China was run by a class of people called scholar officials. Right? Confucian scholars. What was their power? What was their secret power? It was the ability to read and write. That's what differentiated them from everyone else. Right? That's what made them indispensable to the emperor. That's what that's why they were so powerful. And so, when you have a monopoly over literacy, you don't want to give it up. You want to increase it. And the way they did so is by creating a new language called Classical Chinese. Literally Chinese. Okay? Does that make sense? That's why there was this divergence between Greece and China at this time. Because China, literacy was monopolized by an elite who benefited from this monopoly much more effective by introducing a new language called Classical Chinese that only they could master. Okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 43:26 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: Does that make sense, guys? Excuse me? Because the scholar officials, they were in charge of bureaucracy, right? If you're running a bureaucracy, you need the ability to read and write. You need the ability to basically transport information from one place to the next, right? That's through reading and writing, through literacy. Does that make sense? So, only they could become bureaucrats. Okay? So, does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Second question is, why is it that Greeks had Homer and the Chinese, we Chinese, we never had Homer? Okay? And again, the problem are the scholar officials. If you look at Confucian thought, there's a hierarchy in Confucius thought, right? At the very top are scholar officials. They're the most virtuous, they're the most well -educated, they're the most cultivated, okay? They're the best people. Next to the, below the scholar officials are the farmers and the artisans, right? Because they produce wealth for society. Below them are the merchants, right? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 44:53 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: And then, at the very bottom are who? The artists, right? The poets. In Greece, this was the complete opposite. They placed Homer at the very top of the society. Everyone wanted to be a poet like Homer, okay? So, when Plato was writing the Republic, he was trying to become Homer. He was trying to become a teacher of civilization, an inspirer of civilization, okay? A begotter of civilization. That's what Plato wanted. But guess what? Thucydides, when he wrote the Peloponnesian War, he was trying to do the same thing. He was trying to inspire civilization. He was trying to inspire new ideas because they all wanted to become Homer, okay? Because they all knew Homer was the father of civilization and they wanted to continue his legacy. And that's what made the Greeks unique in human history because only the society put poets first and foremost at the top and no other society did so, okay? ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 46:03 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2763s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2763s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: In China, it's the complete opposite because if you're a scholar official, what you're most afraid of is independent thinking, okay? So censorship, censorship was their main role, okay? Controlling how people thought through censorship and that's why China never really produced a Homer or a great thinker, okay? Does that make sense, right? And so this is going to be strange but it's only because Greece got destroyed by the, at the end of the Bronze Age. It became decentralized, it lived in poor that they could then become a great civilization. It was only through destruction that they could have the polis, the alphabet and Homer, okay? And that's the main message of human history. It's through destruction that we have innovation and it's only through this process that human beings are able to rejuvenate their society, okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? Was this clear to you guys? Okay. ## Destruction, Homer, and the Birth of the Human -- 47:16 - Source title: Civilization #7: Homer's Iliad and the Birth of Greek Civilization - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2836s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677rmlRgvLQ&t=2836s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-677rmlrgvlq.json) Text: So we'll continue in the Greeks, okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay, so today we will discuss the Bronze Age collapse. I want to paint you a picture of the world in about 1200 BCE. So, in this world, the center of this world is what we call Mycenaean Greece. Across from the Mycenaean Greece, across the Aegean Sea, this is the Aegean, is what we call Anatolia. Today we refer to Anatolia as Turkey. And in Anatolia, the Hittite Empire rules Anatolia. Further south is a place called Canaan. Canaan is important. When we talk about Anatolia, we do the Bible because that is the birthplace of the Israelites. So, Canaan today is what we refer to as Lebanon, Syria, and Israel today. Canaan is a province of the Egyptian Empire. So, this is Egypt. Over here is a place called Mesopotamia. And we today call Mesopotamia Iraq. Over here is today what we call Iran. Back then it was basically Persia. Over here is Afghanistan. And then next to Afghanistan is India. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 1:44 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=104s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=104s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: And of course, remember, these are the steppes. So, for Mycenaean Greece, you also had the Mediterranean. And over here are the islands of Cyprus and Crete. And then over here is the Mediterranean. And over here is a place called Iberia. And over here is Britain. So, this is a map of the world in 1200 BC. And what's really important for you to recognize about this world is it's interconnected. Meaning that they are trading and communicating with each other. This is what we call the Bronze Age. And why is it called the Bronze Age? Because they're trading basically bronze during this period. Back then, bronze is like oil today. It is the basis for the economy. The very structure of their economy. Bronze is an alloy made of copper and tin. Copper and tin you have to mine. And only a few places will have these resources. So, tin is found in Britain, in Iberia, in Anatolia, in Afghanistan. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 3:18 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=198s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=198s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Copper is mainly found in Cyprus, and Crete, and also in Anatolia. Now, meaning, and what this means is, in order to make bronze, you basically have to trade with the entire world. So, India, this world, the trading would go as far as from India to Britain. Even China over here was part of this world, but not to the degree as these other places. In this world, there are different ways that you can profit or make money. The first way is mining. So, basically extracting resources, tin and copper, in order to make bronze. The second way is industry manufacturing. So, making bronze from tin and copper, and then turning bronze into weapons, into pottery, to be sold elsewhere. The third way you can make money is by what? Trading, right? So, in this world, if you look at this map, basically profit the most from trading. If you look at this map, who would make the most money from trading? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 4:55 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: This area, right? Does that make sense? Because it is the center of the world, you have to pass through this world in order to access everywhere else. Okay? And this place over here, if you look at the map, it becomes the center of the world. Because this place becomes the logistics hub of the world, right? To get to anywhere, you have to pass through this place. And so, this place can basically collect tolls, right? This place is called what? Do you guys know? You mean? Yeah, it's the toll gate of the world, right? You have to pass through this place in order to access other places. Therefore, this place is very wealthy. This place, can you guess what this place is called? You guys, can you guys guess? Troy. Have you guys heard of the Trojan War? Okay, we will do the Iliad next semester. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 5:58 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=358s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=358s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: We will discuss the Iliad next class. But I want you to understand this place is called Troy. And because this place is so important, for centuries, they've been fighting wars over this place. Because it's really the center of the universe, right? If you can control this place, you become very wealthy because everyone has to pass through you. You can collect tolls. You can trade, okay? Does that make sense? And the last way you can make money off this world is what? What's the last way in which you can make a lot of money in this world? You can do it through mining, industry, trading. What else can you do to make money? Piracy, right? Does that make sense? Steel, right? Piracy, right? So when we read the Iliad, what you will discover is the Greeks who attacked Troy, they were basically pirates. Troy made a lot of money off trading and pirates went to steal a lot of their resources and wealth. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 7:08 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=428s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=428s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? So the main point is that this world was interconnected. It was a globalized world. We call this globalization. But at the same time, it was very chaotic. It was very dynamic, okay? They traded with each other, but they also fought wars against each other. Does that make sense? And these places in the center of the universe, Mycenaean Greece, okay? Became very wealthy because they traded and they engaged in piracy. The Hittites became very wealthy. Egypt became very wealthy, okay? Because they were the center of the universe. But a couple of decades later, this entire world collapsed. This world disappeared. Meaning that Mycenaean Greece, was destroyed. It was completely burned down. And they lost about a quarter of their population. Okay? The Hittite Empire? Destroyed. And even though Canaan disappeared, and even though Egypt was not destroyed, it ceased to be a hegemon. It ceased to be a global power. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 8:24 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: And a few decades later, they were conquered by outside powers. Okay? After 1200 BCE, Egypt ceased to be a hegemon. A power. So, this is what we call the Bronze Age Collapse. And for the decades, scholars have been trying to figure out what happened. Why is it that in 1200 BCE, this world was wealthy, it was interconnected, and then a few decades later, it all disappeared. It collapsed. And that's a great mystery that no one has been able to solve. Okay? So, let me tell you what we know. We know that what caused this collapse are what we call the Sea Peoples. Sea Peoples. And we know because Egypt has written records of battling the Sea Peoples. So basically, over the course of a few decades, people were coming in from the west and attacking Egypt. Okay? This was not one people. This was a series of different people attacking Egypt from the sea. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 9:39 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: And Egypt had to spend decades in order to repulse the Sea Peoples. What we know is the Sea Peoples, whoever they were, they did destroy Egypt, but they did destroy the Hittites, and they did destroy the Mycenaean Greeks. Okay? So, and what we know is the Sea Peoples, they were basically a combination of pirates and also refugees. These people attacked Egypt because Egypt was the breadbasket of the world. That's where all the food was. So they were attacking Egypt for the food. Okay? These are people who are hungry. They joined with pirates at ships, and they were trying to take over Egypt together. They destroyed Mycenaean Greeks, they destroyed the Hittites, and they failed to destroy Greece. They were stopped in Egypt. So another question then is, what's driving this population movement from west to east? Okay? That's a great mystery. And over the past few decades, different solutions, different ideas have been proposed. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 10:50 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=650s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=650s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? Before, we thought that it must have been an invasion. So the idea is that what's happening is, you had people from the north of Europe invade Mycenaean Greece, which drove them westward. Okay? That's the first idea that we had. But we have not found any evidence to this, we have not found any evidence this is the case. Okay? So even though this was one of the first theories, there's actually no evidence to support this. Second theory that we had is basically, a natural disaster. So the idea is, maybe there was a volcanic explosion somewhere. Okay? And this caused the weather to change. And now farmers could no longer feed themselves, so then they started to move westwards and attack Egypt. Okay? That's the second theory. And there's more evidence for this, but the theory that we have today is a perfect storm. Okay? Or a systems collapse. And the idea ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 12:03 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: here is that, it was not one thing in one year that caused this system to collapse, it was a series of events over decades. Okay? And these three major events are, natural disasters, or so basically earthquakes. So we have archaeological evidence, that there was a series of earthquakes in this region at this time, which destabilized the region. Okay? So earthquakes happened. We have, we also have evidence of climate change. Okay? So the weather became cooler over the course of this period, which meant that it was harder to grow crops. Okay? And we also have evidence of eternal revolt. Okay? Meaning that people rebelled against the elite, overthrew kings, and there was a lot of war and violence. Okay? So the theory that we have today is, what caused the Bronze Age collapse, was a perfect storm, basically a multiple factor, which led to systems collapse. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Any questions so far? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 13:21 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=801s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=801s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Any questions so far? Are we clear? Alright. So, one thing that you have made, that you have made notice in this class is that, I have a very different understanding of history, than other people. Okay? So I happen to disagree, with, this theory of the perfect storm, even though it is the scholarly consensus. Alright? So I want to explain to you today, my theory of what happened. Alright. So the first thing you need to understand is, this system collapse, even though it was traumatic for Europe, it is not unique in human history. This sort of stuff has happened before. Okay? So if we go over here, to North America, to the Mayas, okay? So the Maya, the Maya civilization, existed in Central America. Okay? Guatemala basically. And so, we find similar pattern, where, in about 200 AD, okay? In the year 200, their civilization started to, explode. Okay? It started to increase. It reached its peak, in about 900 AD. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 14:30 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=870s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=870s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? In the year 900, its civilization was over the place, in Central America. But then, after the Mayas, after 900, it went all the way down. Okay? So, about 30 years time, by 1200, they're basically, their entire civilization, almost collapsed. So it's a very similar pattern, to what's happening, in the Bronze Age. So, the question then is, why does this happen? Alright? And so, to understand this, I am going to present you, with a new theory, that we will use a lot, in this class. So, I want you to understand, this theory. Okay? But it comes from, a historian, by the name of, Peter Turchin. Peter Turchin. Who's a historian. He's American, but he, came over from Russia. He's basically, Russian American. And, he has a theory called, Elite Overproduction. And, Elite Overproduction, the theory, is very interesting, because, it's, it's, arguing against, the way we traditionally understand, why societies collapse. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 15:52 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=952s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=952s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? So, the way we, we usually understand, why societies collapse, is, we get it from Karl Marx. And, basically, what Karl Marx says is, eventually your society, collapses because, the people revolt. Okay? So, basically, people rebellion. So, in other words, Karl Marx believes, that society collapses, because it is a, bottom up process. Okay? If you treat workers badly, they will stop working. If you force them to work, they will go on strike. If you force them to work again, they will fight against you. They will rebel. A worker revolution. Okay? That's what Karl Marx, argues. And, Peter Turchin says, okay, that's a really interesting theory, but if you look at the historical data, if you look at the evidence, the problem, is in the bottom. Okay? If you look at, why societies collapse, it's not because of, the people rebelling, it's because, there's, infighting, among the elite. Okay? So, there's civil war, among the elite. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 17:11 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Does that make sense? That's his theory. If the problem with society, isn't that you, there's too many poor people, the problem, the problem is, there are too many, rich people. That's the real problem. And, that's why, societies collapse. All right? So, let me explain to you this theory slowly. Okay? All right. Elite overproduction. All right. All right. Okay. That's fine. All right. So, in this world, about 1200 BCE, we have something called a, permanent, hereditary, elite. Okay? Permanent, hereditary, elite. Permanent just means, they're always there. Okay? Hereditary means, they pass on their status, and their privilege, to the children. And, this is new, in human history. Because, before, there was an elite, but they were, not permanent. Meaning, they could be changed, over time. And, they didn't pass their privileges, on to their children. Everyone had to earn, their privilege, and power. Okay? So, the elite, was constantly shifting, in society. But now, in about the year, 1200 BCE, you had a, permanent, hereditary, elite. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 18:41 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1121s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1121s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: When you have that, you have three advantages. Okay? What the elite gives society, are three major advantages. The first major advantage, is the idea of, organization. Right? Basically, think of the elite, as your brain. As society's brain. They can help, ornate resources. Okay? That's good, for, war. If you're fighting an enemy, you need an elite, to lead you, into battle. Okay? It's also good for, public works. Okay? So, think of the pyramids, in Egypt, in the Great War of China. Right? You need an elite, to, organize, your resources, in order to create, public works, that benefit all society. So, the main, the main thing here, would be, irrigation. Right? Yes? So, you need an elite, in order to have irrigation. So, that's the first, major benefit, of having, a, permanent, territory, elite. Second major advantage, is, because you have better organization, you have more wealth. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 19:54 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1194s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1194s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? So, it becomes wealthier, if you have a, permanent, elite. People work harder. Okay? And, even though there's more inequality, inequality also forces people, to work harder. Does that make sense? Okay? And, because you have these two things, organization, and wealth, you also have, scale. And, what scale basically means, is, your population, now, can move up. Before, in the, egalitarian society, when you didn't have, a permanent elite, at most, society could reach, about 10,000 people. But now, when you have a, permanent, elite, you can reach, about a million people. Okay? So, now you can scale up. So, these are three, major, advantages, to, having, an elite. Okay? But there's a problem, with having an elite. And the, the problem is, they engage in something called, rent, seeking, behavior. All right? I want you guys, to remember this term, rent, seeking, behavior, which is very important, for our class. So, what does this mean? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 21:10 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: It means, basically, to think of a landlord, right? A landlord, doesn't really care, to do anything, but a landlord, has land, that it can rent, to you, the farmer, in exchange, you give me, a share, of your crops. Right? So, I don't do anything, but because I have land, I can rent it out, to you. Right? It turns out, the elite, mainly, make their money, through, rent, seeking, behavior. So, let me give you, another example, of rent seeking behavior. All of you, want to go to university. What's your purpose? What's your purpose, in going to university? Be honest. It's to get the degree, right? Okay? The degree. Okay? And the degree, is your ticket, to success in society. Okay? You believe that, you go to university, you are, getting a ticket, the degree, in order to access, social mobility. Okay? To access, wealth in society. In other words, the universities, are trying, to charge you, rent. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 22:28 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? So, the degree is basically, rent. Does that make sense? Okay? Now, some of you may say, wait, that's wrong, because, I'm going to university, to learn. Right? It's about learning. Well, guess what? When you actually, go to university, you're going to discover, they don't actually, teach you that much. Okay? They don't have to teach you, that much. And the reason why is, you're stuck paying, the rent. You need the degree, right? So, you don't have to actually, teach anything. You have to come to class, anyway. Does that make sense? The same thing, for the school, where, in order to get to, university, you have to go for this, high school. So, you're here, paying tuition, and you're paying rent. Does that make sense? You're not here, in the school, to learn. You're here, in school, to get the degree, so you can access, university, and get that degree. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 23:26 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1406s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1406s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And all this process, is paying rent. Right? So, if you are, if you have, a school, you can charge for rent. Just as, if you're a landlord, you can charge for rent, for renting your, room, or real estate property. Okay? Does that make sense? This is what we call, rent seeking, behavior. Now, you're like, okay, well, this kind of sucks. Okay? And it does suck. But what keeps, the system together, is the idea, of a social contract. Okay? Basically, the idea of a social contract, is, yes, we the elite, we know, we are charging you rent, and we know, this sucks for you, the people, but we have a contract. So, as the elite, I'm obligated, to, help society. Okay? So, the way to help society, is, by, giving back to society. Okay? So, what the elite do, throughout society, in the past, is, they organize, public feasts. Okay? And also, public, temples. So, in today's society, you know, like the parks, the schools, they're built, by the government. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 24:51 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1491s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1491s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Right? But back then, they didn't have a government, they had the elites, who were responsible, for building temples, for building, for, for holding public feasts. Okay? So this, this idea of a, social contract. Okay? And the reason why, you need a social contract, is, because if you don't have a social contract, and you just charge rent, people will leave. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So in this world, it's very chaotic, but there are different, places, there are different social organizations, you, you can go to. So if you are in, Egypt, and you don't really like Egypt, guess what? You can go to Mesopotamia. Okay? So these cities, were in competition, with each other, for people. Because people provided, labor and resources. Okay? Does that make sense? Alright? So, this is how it usually works. But over time, this system will break down. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 25:52 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1552s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1552s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: This system will break down. And it's, and it's because of, rent -seeking behavior. Okay? So the first issue, is this. With rent -seeking behavior, you create something called debt. Okay? So, I'm a landlord, and you're, you are, paying me rent, in order to use my land. Right? And that, land, and that rent, is usually, a portion of your crops. Okay? So you, does that make sense? Maybe 10 % of your crops. But let's just say, for example, it's a bad year. It doesn't rain. Okay? And you don't have any crops, to pay me rent. So what do you do? You're supposed to pay me a rent, but you don't have the money, so what do you do? No, that comes later. What do you do first? Hmm? Exactly. Thank you. Yes. Okay. So the first thing that happens is, boring. Okay? You basically go into debt. Okay? So you promise, to pay me double, in the next year. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 27:05 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1625s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1625s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And I'm like, okay, fine. Right? But, you get unlucky, and the next year, it's also a bad year. And so for five years in a row, you, are in debt. The problem with debt is this. Something called, compound interest. Okay? Meaning like, over time, the debt becomes so large, there's no way you can pay it off. If you can't pay it off, what happens, what happens now? Okay. Good. Yeah. So the idea is debt slavery. Okay? So if you can't pay me back, you become, you become my slave. Okay? You promise me that your children will work for, work for me for free. Okay? And so, debt slavery, becomes the natural product, of rent seeking behavior. Does that make sense? Over time, you're always going to have, a percentage of your population, who go into debt slavery. And this creates a lot of, instability in society. Because obviously, they either want to run away, or they, they want to rebel. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 28:21 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? Does it make sense? The other problem, is, elite overproduction. And the idea here, is, everyone wants to be, the renter. Right? Everyone wants to be the landlord. Right? But there's only so much land. So now, people are competing, for, the power, to charge rent. Does that make sense? Okay? So, over time, in any society, as the population increases, the number of people, who go into debt slavery, increase. And therefore, people at the bottom, are very angry. But at the same time, the elite, the number go up, but there's only, a set number, set amount of land. And therefore, they have to fight over, the land. Okay? Does it make sense? And, so eventually, what happens, is, the society, goes, into, war. Okay? As the elite, fight each, over, as elite fight each other, for the right to charge rent. Okay? Does it make sense? And so, the ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 29:47 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1787s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1787s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: main message, of elite overproduction, is, unless, you can control, the amount, the number, of the elite, in your society, your society, must, collapse. Does it make sense? It must collapse. Because you have, too many people, fighting for, too little power. It must collapse. So, historically, what are ways, you, what are things, you can do, to control the elite? What are things, you can do, to control, the number, of the elite? Excuse me? Kill the elite? Okay. Okay. So, so, but then, where does the property go? Okay. So, okay. So, one possible thing, you can do, is the idea of, land redistribution. Okay? So, historically, this is, one mechanism, you can use, to control, the growth, of the elite. And this is, how kings, came into power. Okay? So, most societies, have an elite, and then, one person, from the elite, said, listen, this society is not working, let me, redistribute the land, and cancel debt, in order for our society, to keep on going. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 31:22 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? And this person, became the king. So, that's one, possible, solution. Okay? What's another possible solution? Okay. So, you can also have a civil war. Okay? Civil war. Okay? The elite can fight, amongst themselves, and whoever wins, gets everything. Okay? So, it's a second possible solution. What's another possible solution? What's another possible solution? Okay. Empire building. Right? Does it make sense? Empire building. In other words, let's not fight, amongst ourselves, let's go and conquer, new territory. It doesn't make sense. So, because you have, you have a, permanent, territory elite. Okay? Over time, they're going to reach, a mass. Too many people. We have too many elites, you have to resolve this issue, through three ways. Okay? The first thing you can do is, kill the elite, and redistribute the land. That's what a king does. Second thing you can do, is have a civil war. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 32:50 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1970s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=1970s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: The third thing you can do, is, create an empire. Okay? But, these three solutions, by themselves, are, also, unstable. Okay? Because land redistribution, is basically a revolution. Right? Civil war, is war. Empire building, is also war. Does it make sense? So, no matter how you do these things, you're always going to create instability. And, eventually, your empire, your society, will collapse. Does it make sense? Alright? So, let me give you another example, of how this works. To clarify for you. Okay? So, there's a book called, Capital, in the 21st Century, by Thomas Pickens. Thomas Piketty. Thomas Piketty, is a French economist. And, this is a very famous book, that's been, that's been, recently published. And, in the book, he looked at, the past 100 years, of economic growth. And, what he discovered, over time, is, the, financial economy, grows faster, than the real economy. Capital, grows faster, than manufacturing. Okay? So, if you look at, capital, grows at, 5%. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 34:26 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2066s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2066s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Real economy, grows at, 2%. Alright? If things stay stable, over time, this will happen, to all societies. Capital, will grow faster, than the real economy. What this means, is, let's just say, you have a million dollars. Okay? I have a million dollars. I have different options, to invest my money. I can start a, factory, or I can start, or I can put all my money, into, real estate, or the stock market. Where should I put my money? I can, I can open a factory, right? Or I can, put it in a stock market. Where should I, where should I put my money? Yes. And why? Exactly. Do you understand? If you have money, today, you do not put your money, into the factories. You do not open a new business. You, put it in the stock market. Because, you make more money that way. What's the problem with that? It's, yeah, exactly. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 35:40 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2140s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2140s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: It's just a bubble, guys. Okay? Why is it a bubble? Because, capital isn't real. It's a fiction. You understand? So, in other words, you, you don't work anymore. You understand? You're just renting now. Okay? You, you're engaging in the, rent -seeking behavior. We have too many people, doing that. You have a society, where, nobody works. Doesn't make sense. Nobody, does, any work. Because, all the, wealth, is being put, into, rent -seeking, behavior. It's being put, into, speculation. So, no one's doing, any more work. No one's creating, any more wealth. And this eventually, leads to, social collapse, at some point. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, Peter Turchin's theory, of elite overproduction is, because, the number of rich people, can only go up, over time, your society, must collapse, at some point. Unless, you choose, to have a revolution, or, you have a civil war, or, you go, invade other countries. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 36:57 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Those are your three options. But, if you did that, that creates, more instability. So, over time, no matter how, you structure your society, it will collapse. Does that make sense? Okay? So, that's what happened, during the Bronze Age collapse, where the societies, much in Greece, high tides, Egypt, Canaan, they were, fundamentally, unstable, because, of, red seeking behavior. Okay? Same thing with the Mayans, where, okay, they were growing very fast, but eventually they collapsed. All societies, will do this, at some point. No society, is stable. Okay? And the reason why is, you have, an elite in charge, who, help society grow, but over time, they will just engage, in red seeking behavior, which will eventually lead, to collapse of society. Does that make sense? Right? And this is a pattern, that we'll see, over and over again, in human history. And we'll discuss this idea, throughout this semester. All right? Does that make sense? Any questions? All right. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 38:15 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: So, let's look at a very specific example, of red seeking behavior. My city in Greece. All right? My city in Greece. So, my city in Greece, and you may remember this, from last class, it was a long time ago, but last class, we talked about, the Yemnaya, right? The Yemnaya. The Yemnaya. Right? They conquered Europe. So, the Mycenaean Greeks, and the Hittites, are direct descendants, of the Yemnaya. And as you remember, this is a warrior culture. Okay? So, these societies, are warrior societies. Meaning, like, the warriors, are in charge. And, they have a system, called a palace economy. Right? A palace economy. A palace economy, is basically, the palace, is at the center, of society. Okay? And, everyone, brings their wealth, to the palace, to be redistributed, to everyone else. Okay? So, the idea here is, we're all farmers, right? And, maybe you have, 100 bushels of wheat, maybe 20 bushels of corn. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 39:30 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Everyone, brings everything, to the palace. And then, the king, redistributes, everything, to you. Okay? But also, obviously, he takes a cut. Understand? So, this is called, renting behavior. Where, I'm, where, you're basically, paying taxes. Okay? Does it make sense? Okay? Now, this is fine, when, things are good. Okay? But, if there's, if the weather becomes bad, this system starts to, collapse. Why? If the weather is bad, things, start to, uh, become chaotic. Why? Okay, the reason why is, the elite, still want their cut. You understand? It's not like, oh, this year, the weather's bad, so let's just, suffer together. Okay? Let's make sacrifices together. No, it's like, no, we don't care if the weather is bad, you still have to pay our, pay our cut. Okay? You still have to pay your taxes. Right? And that creates strain, on the people. And the people get very angry. Okay? So, that during the Bronze Age, there was a, internal revolt, in, Mycenaean Greece. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 40:58 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: And the reason why is, we can dig up, Mycenaean Greece, okay? The palace, and we, and what we see is, the palace is burned down. But, the surrounding houses, are fine. Okay? Does that make sense? We also have written records, uh, from Mycenaean Greece, that show, how the palace economy worked. Okay? We can also dig up, the history, the graves, of the kings, and show that over time, they became wealthier, and wealthier. Because, um, when they were buried, the things they were buried with, were became, were, were very expensive. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? Um, so that's Mycenaean Greece. Any questions so far? Okay, it's clear, clear about this idea. Okay? So, so what, a lot, of scholars believe, is that, this is, the Bronze Age Collapse, was a unique event, in European history. And what I'm trying to show you is, it was not a unique event, it was not a revolution, it's just part, of the natural cycle of history. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 42:16 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Because when you have the elite, who engage in rhetoric and behavior, eventually, this society will collapse. Because you have too many elite, who want their cut. Okay? And, when we look at, other, societies, you would, you would discover this, this pattern, repeated over time. It repeats itself. All right? So, this is, this is Peter Turchin, his theory of elite, over, production. Are we clear? Yes? Okay. All right. So, okay, let me clarify, about my city in Greece. Okay? All right. The problem is, that you have too many, rich people, who want to charge rent. Right? And that creates pressure, on society. And this instability, means that your society, is no longer, sustainable. You're resilient. Resilient. And the idea, idea of resilience, is, that it survives, disasters. Right? So, think of a tower, that's about to collapse. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 43:36 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2616s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2616s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#collapse-transition-surface-atlas); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#elite-overproduction-status-bottleneck-atlas) Text: It will not collapse, on its own. Something must hit it, for it, for it to collapse. But this one thing, could be anything. Okay? It could be, the people get angry, and they riot. It could be, the weather turns bad. Okay? It could be, there's an earthquake. It could be, there's a fire. My city in Greece, high tides, the Canaanites, they collapsed, for different reasons. But, the fundamental reason is, because their societies, were unstable. The reason why, they were unstable is, you had too many, elite people, trying to charge rent, on everyone else. Does that make sense? Okay. Any, any more questions? That, that's a good question. Thank you. Excuse me? Oh, can you avoid this cycle, in today's society? Okay. That's a good question. And the answer is no. Okay? It is impossible, to build a society, that, that is stable, over, a long period of time. In fact, you can make the argument, that it is good, for societies, to rise and fall. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 44:49 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2689s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2689s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? It's the same thing as, it's really the same question as, is it possible, for us to live forever? Is it possible for us to live forever? And then the question then is, why would we want to live forever? You understand? Innovation happens, when we die. Okay? So, what's amazing about, about the Bronze Age collapse, is, because the Bronze Age collapsed, Mycenaean Greece, changed, into a new society, that gave us, Greek civilization, which then gave us, Western civilization. Okay? So in other words, if Mycenaean Greece did not collapse, we would not have, today. Also, because Canaan collapsed, a new society, came into being, called the Israelites. Okay? Israel. And Israel gave us what? You guys know? The Bible. Right? And guess what, guys? The Greeks, and the Bible, are the two foundations, of Western civilization. So we would not, have Western civilization, if, these, societies did not collapse, and new societies could come, into being. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 46:09 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2769s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2769s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Alright? So you can make the argument, that, innovation, progress, is driven by, death and collapse. Alright? Do you understand? And if we, if, if we did not die, if we, if we did not, if we did not die, if we did not collapse, there'd be no progress. Okay? Does that make sense? But that's a good question. Okay? But, but, and people will have been, debating this question, for a long time. But I think the answer is, that, it is impossible, to build a society, that lives forever. Even though people have tried. And also, we shouldn't even try. Okay? Because, collapse is good. Also think of a, forest fire. Have you, have you guys studied forest fires, in school? In science class? Forest fires. Forest fires guys. Each time there's a forest fire, okay, the forest burns down, that's good. Because, it allows, the forest to, regenerate, and become stronger. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 47:22 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2842s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2842s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Right? What happens if you don't have a forest fire? Do, do you guys know? Okay. The resilience goes down. Okay? And also, the ecosystem, is less, vibrant. There are less, there are less animals, the trees are less strong. Okay? Do you understand? So that's why, it's important to burn down the forest, now and then. Because you don't burn down the forest, and there's, then, it's less resilient. So there's a, big forest fire, it will just spread, and destroy the entire forest. Okay? Does that make sense? So it's good for societies, to constantly, change, over time. Any more questions? Okay. That's a great question. Okay? All right. So, before we talk about, egalitarian societies, right? How they were at most, 10,000 people. And they did have an elite. Okay? They had an elite. They had people in charge, but this elite, didn't own the property. There was no property. There was no private property. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 48:44 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? So it's egalitarian. And, so, these societies, were, pretty stable. Okay? And the reason why is, usually, it was, the woman in charge, and the woman, could, were good at controlling, population. Okay? Because as a woman, you have control over your body. So you could choose, not to have children, or have less children. And, it was very peaceful. Right? People didn't really fight. There was nothing to fight over. Everything was owned by everyone else. Okay? The problem, with, egalitarian societies, are these three things. Okay? They're less organized. Meaning, like, they are less willing, or less able, to create public projects. Okay? They have less wealth, and therefore, they have less scale. Okay? You can have, at most, 10,000 people. Which means what? Which means, like, eventually, they'll be conquered. Okay? Does that make sense? Because, if you are, one of these societies, okay? It does constantly expand, in order to, please the elite, basically. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 49:52 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2992s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=2992s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? Either you expand, or you fight a civil war. And so, you take over egalitarian societies, and you make them into, your society. Okay? Do you understand? So, for most of the human history, we're egalitarian. But that's because, we didn't have that many people. Right? But, over time, as population increases, then, you are less egalitarian. You become more unequal. You stay egalitarian, you will eventually be conquered by, a, not an egalitarian society. Does that make sense? All right? All right. But that's a great question. You're exactly right. Okay? For most of the human history, we're egalitarian. But, once we start to develop, elite societies, okay? Kingdoms, then it could easily conquer, egalitarian societies. Any more questions? But, but that's, that's a fantastic question. Okay? Any more questions? And when we do, so, we are skipping ahead, but when we do Samaria, Samaria, which is basically, many different city -states, in Iraq, Mesopotamia, what we, what we will discover, is that, there are different social structures. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 51:18 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3078s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3078s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? There are different social structures, including societies that were egalitarian. But, when you're in competition with each other, societies that are, you know, more organized, more wealthy, now bigger populations, will always win out, over, other societies. Okay? You have these three things, you need a, permanent, territory, elite. Because then they are more, incentivized, in order, to, work harder. Okay? Does that make sense? And then the question then is, okay, why is that true? And it's true, because, for societies, that are, become wealthier, you don't need everyone, to work hard. You just need a, certain number of people, to work hard. You just need a small group of people, to work hard. Okay? Does that make sense? So think of, like, China, right? How China became wealthier, these past, 30, 40 years. And the reason why is, you had a small number of entrepreneurs, who worked, really, really hard. ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 52:21 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: Okay? Not everyone worked hard. Okay? But, because you had these people, who did work really hard, does that make sense? Okay? Any more questions? Okay. So, great. Okay? So, again, what makes this class different, from other classes is, we are looking at the entire scope, of human history. All right? And so, it's very important for you to, not understand, not remember the facts. Okay? I don't need you to remember the facts. Okay? I don't need you to remember, Mycenaean Greece, or, the Sea Peoples. But I do need you to remember, the concepts, and the ideas. Okay? How, the world, history, is constantly in competition, with each other. And, why is it that some ideas, win out, over other ideas? Okay? So, I'm not saying, this is the best idea. Okay? I'm not saying, a permanent, territory elite, is a really good idea. I don't think it's a good idea. Okay? ## Too Many Rich People, Too Little Power -- 53:22 - Source title: Civilization #6: Elite Overproduction and the Bronze Age Collapse - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-10-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3202s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwfB-vXXKWU&t=3202s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-qwfb-vxxkwu.json) Text: But I'm showing you, why it wins out. And, how it impacts human history, and the development of civilization. Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Well, that's it. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Okay, so last class, we talked about Maria Kumbotas, who is an anthropologist, and she makes the argument that for the longest time, for most of its history, Europe was egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic. But today, we are a patriarchy, there's a lot of inequality, and we're always at war with each other. So what changed? Okay, and last time, we discussed that old Europe was conquered by a warlike people, who we call today the Yemenite. Okay, so... Three questions I want to answer in today's class is, first of all, who are the Yemenite? Second question is, where did they come from? And the third question is, how did they conquer Europe, okay? Alright, so let's go back in time and look at the world about 10,000 years ago, okay? So we believe that about 11,000 years ago, in the Near East, we developed agriculture. We developed the technology of farming. And as we discussed in ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 1:33 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=93s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=93s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: our very first class, it was because humans are a religious people, and farming allows us to celebrate our religion, okay? And the reason why farming was founded in the Near East is, for the longest time, there's an ice age. So you couldn't farm. You had to move around from place to place to hunt and find food, okay? So after the ice age, which ended about 12,000 years ago, the climate became warmer, and the Near East became the area where you could grow crops, the easiest, okay? So Near East is what we call the Middle East today, which includes Turkey, Jordan, Syria, and Israel. That's where farming was invented. About 7,000, 8,000 years ago, the weather became a lot cooler, okay? There was another ice age for a very short amount of time, and this forced people to start to immigrate or migrate to look for new land, okay? So people in the Near East, they went off to Europe, and these people were very lucky. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 2:54 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=174s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=174s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Because the geography of Europe was not that different from the geography of the Near East. So they could take their religion, they could take their technology, move over to Europe, and still be about the same, okay? There were some minor changes, but they were more or less the same, okay? So these people were very lucky. And these people, as Maria Kambuta said, these people have the same religion as the people of the Near East. They worship the Mother Goddess, who gives life to everything, okay? They believe in the ideas of unity. Unity just means that we are the same, okay? Every one of us are the same. We have a responsibility to love each other and to love each other's children. We're the same as animals. We're the same as plants, okay? So we must do our best to protect nature. The farms allows us to eat food, but we should not destroy nature. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 3:56 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=236s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=236s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: We should protect nature because it's all the Mother Goddess, okay? We're all the children of the Mother Goddess. So we also believe in balance and harmony. And this is the religion, as we discussed before, of many indigenous peoples around the world. If you go to Africa, Australia, the Amazon, and you meet these indigenous peoples, they have the same religion. Which is, we come from a Mother Goddess, and we have a responsibility to protect the nature, the earth, because that's the gift from the Mother Goddess. And everyone has a soul. So after we die, our soul still lives on. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? So this is the religion of old Europe. And because of this religion, they were egalitarian, meaning there was no real difference between men and women. In fact, because women had the power to give birth, to give life, ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 4:58 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=298s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=298s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: they were considered in many ways superior to men, and the political class was mainly governed by women, okay? They were peaceful. They really didn't have to fight each other because they felt their resources was enough for them, okay? And they were artistic. So they focused their intellectual energies on creating art, to celebrate the Mother Goddess and their religion, okay? So the people in the Near East and the people of Europe were very similar, okay? The problem starts when these people went off to what we call the steppes. The steppes is a huge ocean of grassland that basically extends from Europe into Mongolia, okay? And you know, the Chinese word for this is. Now the problem with the grassland is people can't eat grass. And you cannot grow crops on grassland that easily, okay? So the people on the steppes, they struggle to survive. And the people on the steppes engage in a process we call social evolution, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 6:21 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=381s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: So you may have heard the term evolution. I want to explain what the term evolution means for our class, because we will refer to it a lot as we progress through human history, okay? So for us, evolution means open, cooperative competition, okay? So this is what evolution means. And evolution has historically been the greatest source of human innovation and creativity, okay? So let me explain why. Open means there's no central authority. There's no great power, okay? There's no hegemon. Everyone's competing against each other. Competition just means these people, these many different people, they're trying to compete to survive, okay? There are very scarce resources in the steppes. It's not as wealthy as the Near East and as Europe, and they're all trying to survive. They all adopt different strategies in order to survive, okay? At the same time, cooperative means they're still communicating with each other. They're still trading. They're still friends. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 7:44 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=464s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=464s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Maybe they'll exchange wives, exchange presents, okay? So this is a process of social evolution that has created the most innovation in human history. So in Chinese history, this most resembles what period in Chinese history? In Chinese history. Which part of Chinese history does this process where you have many different people in open competition with each other but still learning from each other? This period in Chinese history is called? Exactly, right? And that's where most of Chinese innovation and creativity came from, from that period. Confucius came from that period. Laozi, okay? A lot of major intellectual breakthroughs came from that period, okay? But not only the of China. As we move on, we will also look at two other major periods where there was a major outburst of innovation and then very similar social structure as like this, okay? So we will also be studying the Greek city -states. In fact, we will spend a ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 9:06 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=546s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=546s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: lot of time on the Greek city -states like Athens and Sparta and Thebes because before, we actually thought the origin of Western civilization were the Greek city -states, okay? We no longer believe that, but for the longest time, we believe Western civilization came from the Greek city -states. And when we look at the Greek city -states, you will discover the system they had back then is very similar to this system, okay? We will also look at the Sumerian city -states, okay? Which is very similar to the Greek city -states. Yes, okay? So we will be studying these different periods, okay? But I want you to remember the first important principle is whenever there is an open cooperative competition, tremendous innovation happens, okay? That's the first principle I want you to remember. The second principle I want you to remember is eventually someone triumphs in this competition, okay? And the group, the people that triumphs are the people who are most open to adopting innovation in order to destroy others, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 10:39 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=639s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=639s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Does that make sense? They are the most ruthless in adopting all innovations for the sole purpose of destroying others and becoming the sole hegemon, okay? So we saw this with the Greek city -states where for hundreds of years they were in competition with each other. And then there was a people called the Macedonians who weren't actually Greek, okay? They were marginal. They were marginal to the Greek city -states. And the Greeks didn't really consider the Macedonians part of their civilization. But they were on the outskirts and they observed all the innovations that the Greek city -states were creating, especially in terms of military innovation, adopted all innovations for their purposes, and then conquered the city -states before they moved on and conquered Persia and Egypt, okay? And the leader of the Macedonians was called, do you guys know? Who was the leader of the Macedonians who conquered the Greek city -states? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 11:48 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=708s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=708s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: I'm sure you know who he is, but you may not know he was Macedonian. Who's the most famous Greek you've heard of? Yeah, he was actually Macedonian, okay? Alexander the Great, okay? And what's amazing is we see the same pattern play out with the Sumerian city -states where for hundreds of years the city -states were in competition with each other. They were all trying to conquer each other without success. And then an outside people, a neighbor called the Akkadians, the Akkadians, they adopted all the innovation and technology of the Sumerian city -states and then they conquered the Sumerian city -states and established the first great world empire called the Akkadian Empire. And the founder of that empire, we will learn, is called Sargon the Great, okay? Sargon the Great. And Sargon the Great is considered the world's very first empire builder. So even though ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 13:01 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-changes-together); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: we know almost nothing about what was happening here, from our knowledge of the Greek city -states and the Sumerian city -states and what happened to them, we can guess or hypothesize the same process played out here where these different tribes, these different groups, were creating all sorts of different innovations. Then one outside group came in, adopted all the innovations, and then conquered everyone, okay? And these people are what we call the Anaya, who originated, we believe, in Ukraine, okay? So let's now discuss the innovations that these people created, okay? And the innovations were pretty incredible because they forever transformed human history. Okay, so the first innovation they adopted was a pastoral economy, okay? A pastoral economy, basically raising cattle, raising or herding cattle, or cows. All right, so we cannot eat grass, okay? But cows and sheep and goats can eat grass, and then we can eat the cows, the goats, and the sheep, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 14:23 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Does that make sense? So what we realized what these people realized is they can take the cows, the goats and the sheep, from the farmers, okay? Because there was a lot of trading back then, and then raise them in the steppes, and because there's so much grass, they'll grow very fast, and then you can use that as the source of your food, okay? So they created a new economy. What the second innovation is, what then they realized is, you know what? We can also drink their milk, okay? Dairy. And this is important because for most of human history, we cannot drink milk because we're lactose intolerant, okay? In fact, most people in the world today are still lactose intolerant. But they developed the enzymes, the peptides, in order to drink milk, okay? They became lactose tolerant. So that's their second big innovation, the ability to drink milk, okay? And now, if you're able to eat protein and you drink milk a lot, what happens to your body? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 15:35 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=935s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=935s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: What happens to your body? Exactly, okay? You become very tall, very strong, okay? So because of these two innovations, the people in the steppes were on average, okay, just average, 20 centimeters taller than the farmers in the Near East and in Europe. 20 centimeters is a lot, guys, okay? The reason why is the farmers didn't drink milk, they could not eat meat, mostly, and they could not drink milk. They ate vegetables, okay? So the third big innovation is the domestication of the horse. The reason why is the grassland is huge and they needed to travel huge distances to trade, to communicate, okay? So they started to domesticate the horse. And it's very hard to domesticate the horse because horses are trained, or horses are programmed, hardwired, to run away from humans, right? If they see a threat, they run away. So this process, we believe, took at least 3,000 years, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 16:50 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1010s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1010s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: But they kept on trying because the ability to ride horses was very important for their society and their economy. And so now they have the ability to ride horses. That's the third big innovation. Then they invented the wheel. Okay? And what is important is if you have the horse and the wheel, you can create the wagon, okay? If you have the wagon, it means you are no longer stuck in one place. You can move from place to place. And so this is what we call the nomadic pastoral economy, okay? Does that make sense? They're able to move from place to place because, basically, what happens is you have a lot of cows, they're going to eat all the grass, right? Okay? Now you have to move somewhere else for them to eat the grass, okay? Does that make sense? Now, the problem with this is what? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 17:50 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: If you move from place to place and the cows are eating all the grass, what happens usually? Conflict, right? Because you are now in competition for what we call grazing rights. Grazing rights. If your cows go into a grassland and they eat all that grass, well, that's preventing other people from going in and having their cows eat that grass, okay? So now they're fighting over land and grazing rights, okay? What else are they now going to fight over? How about cows, right? Because in this economy, one way to survive is to feed your cows. What's another way to survive? What else can you do in this economy, in this world? Steal other people's cows, right? Does that make sense? Okay. So the protection of the cows meant there was a greater emphasis on men, okay? So remember, in this society, in the Near East, in Europe, these are agricultural societies, and for them, what mattered was life -giving, giving birth, and maintaining a harmonious society. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 19:22 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-arranges-life); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-changes-together); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: So women were more important. But in this society, where there's a lot of violence, there's a lot of conflict, men became more important, okay? So with these innovations, they start to change their economy, their society, and their religion, okay? Economy, society, and religion. Okay, so in terms of the economy, the first major change from this society is the idea of private property. Private property, okay? Because cows are private wealth, and you have to protect that wealth, okay? So that's the first major innovation, the idea of private property, where this belongs to you, and only you, and not to society or to the mother goddess, okay? And that's very different from the farmers in Europe who had no concept of private property. From the idea of private property, the society changes and becomes a patriarchy, okay? Where men are in control, and in a patriarchy of private property, the problem now is one of inheritance, right? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 20:44 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1244s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1244s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: So let's just say I have 10 sons, and I have 100 cattle, and I die. Who gets my cattle? Who gets my wealth? It has to be the older son. Why? The eldest son, why? Exactly, okay? So we need 100 cattle to survive as a family. If I start splitting the wealth up between the 10 sons, we become a lot poorer, right? The 10 sons have 10 sons, then by the third generation, everyone has one cattle. So everyone's now poor, okay? So the only way to solve this problem is if I, the patriarch, the father, give everything to the eldest son, okay? And this is what we call primogeniture. So this is a new innovation, primogeniture, where the eldest inherits everything, okay? Now the problem is, what happens to the other nine sons? Exactly, okay? So the eldest son gets everything, and the nine other sons, too bad. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 22:03 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1323s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1323s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: You have to go build your own wealth. And that means basically stealing cows from other people, okay? So this creates a war culture, a war culture, right? So does that make sense? That's your society. This is a society which honors men above women, which has private property and celebrates private property, which encourages young men to go out and expand their civilization and fight wars, okay? So if you're making these changes, you now have to change the religion, okay? The religion. So their religion makes major changes to the mother goddess religion, okay? So the first major change is who's now God? Who do they now worship? A man, right? Because men fight wars. So they worship someone called the Sky Father, and he's the source of who the Greeks call Zeus, the thunder god, okay? And who the Romans call Jupiter, also the thunder god. So the first god is called the Sky Father, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 23:22 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1402s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1402s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-can-protect-or-dominate); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-changes-together); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: That's the first change. The second change is whereas the mother goddess gave us everything, right? Nature. The Sky Father gave us cows, cattle, money, and wealth, okay? So the third change is whereas the mother goddess asked us to love everything and protect everything, the Sky Father asked us to fight each other for the right to have wealth. Does it make sense? That's now their new religion, okay? And so they adopt this new religion. Okay, so these are all major changes and major innovations, okay? And again, the one group who comes in and adopts all these innovations are called the Yamnaya. And so if you're a group and you adopt most of these innovations but not all these innovations, then you're going to lose to the group called the Yamnaya who adopt all the innovations, okay? Does that make sense to you guys? This is what we call social evolution, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 24:29 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1469s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1469s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: And when they adopt all these innovations, then what happens is their religion becomes aligned with their society, which becomes aligned with their economy, okay? And so this is a people who are obsessed with collecting wealth and fighting wars and expanding into new territories. And so what happens is over a process of a few thousand years, they conquer the steppes, okay? Their culture spreads throughout the steppes. It doesn't mean they're one people. It means they're one culture. They practice the same beliefs, okay? Does that make sense? Any questions so far? So these are the Yamnaya people. This is what they believe. This is where they came from. This is how they behave. Next thing I'm going to look at is, fine, how do these people conquer Europe, okay? Now, I already said the Yamnaya are stronger and bigger and more militaristic than the farmers of old Europe, right? But what advantage do the people of Europe have? Over the Yamnaya? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 25:39 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: What's the major advantage that Europe has? If you have farming, what happens to your population? It grows very fast, right? So in other words, Europe has more population than the steppes. Does that make sense? Okay? So in theory, okay, well, yeah, the Yamnaya, they have this warlike religion. They're extremely militaristic. They're very strong. But in theory, Europe could have withstood the assault of the Yamnaya because Europe has more people, okay? So the question now is, how did the Yamnaya conquer Europe? So what's a problem with people who live on farms? What's their ultimate problem? Thank you, the plague, okay? Do you understand? Because you're living next to pigs and rats, and there's a lot of garbage around, okay? So it's very easy for diseases to spread, okay? So we believe two things happened to reduce the population of Europe significantly. The first thing that happened was the plague, okay? And this wiped out entire communities. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 27:23 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1643s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1643s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Now the thing is, though, the plague spread around the world. Okay? Because remember, what's important to remember is, these people in the steppes, in the Near East, in Europe, were all in contact with each other because they were trading with each other, okay? So the plague, we know from DNA research, was in Europe, the Near East, and the steppes. Why did it wipe out the population of Europe but not the population of the steppes, even though the plague was everywhere? Why? The answer is, because the people in Europe were living in one place, right? Whereas the people in the steppes were moving from place to place. Does it make sense? So even though the plague did impact the people in the steppes, the impact was far greater in Europe. In fact, we believe that most of the people were wiped out by the plague in Europe, okay? So that reduced the population significantly, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 28:31 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1711s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1711s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: So that's the first thing that happened in Europe. The second thing that happened in Europe is what we call climate change. So about four, sorry, yeah, about, let me do the math, about 5,000, 6,000 years ago, there was a mini ice age in Europe. And if you're a farmer, that's really bad for you, okay? Because you can't grow crops. And it's bad for you if you live in the steppes because a lot of your crops will die, but not as bad, okay? And the other thing is that now, the ice age, because of climate change, people in the steppes are now forced to expand further into Europe, okay? So this is what we think happened. Three things, okay? That destroyed Europe. The first thing is the plague. That's actually the most important thing because it wiped out most of the people, okay? So think of when Europe conquered North and South America. What killed most people in North and South America? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 29:41 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1781s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1781s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Was actually the plague, right? Europeans had these diseases they brought over and that killed most of the local population, okay? So the plague was the main culprit that destroyed all Europe. Then climate change, and then finally the Yemenite people who came into Europe and started to colonize Europe and destroy the local population, okay? So let me now explain why the Yemenites decided to kill Europe. The people, the farmers of Europe, okay? So let's just say that in Europe you have a village. Maybe a hundred men, a hundred women. You have a hundred men, young men, who have no wealth and no wives, okay? So what do they want to do? If you're a young man and you have no wife and you have no wealth, what do you want to do? Yeah, you want to steal other people's wife and property, right? So they came in, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 30:46 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1846s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1846s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: And what do they do? You have a hundred men and a hundred women in this village. So what do you do? No, yeah, but... Yeah, they kill the men, okay, guys? Okay? And then they married all the women. And that's what happened, okay? Now, there were some circumstances when the Yemenite came in. Because again, this is a culture. This is not one people. It's a culture of people. And they adopted different strategies. Some of them decided to come in and said, listen, we'll take all the women and we'll let the men go. And what did these men do in return, in response? What would you do? Yeah, so they went to get their neighbors, got a thousand of them, came back and killed everyone, okay? So this was actually a violent process with violence on both sides, okay? But eventually, what happened was the Yemenite conquered all of Europe, okay? And they even got to England. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 31:58 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1918s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=1918s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: They conquered England, okay? And then not only did they conquer Europe, then they went to conquer India and Iran. So this spread everywhere. And even Mongolia, okay? But not to China. Why didn't it impact China? What were the reasons why the Yemenite could not conquer China? What's between India and China? They conquered India, right? Why could they conquer China? If you have horses, okay? You can't cross the Himalayas, okay? So that's what saved China, the geography. Also, China had a huge population, right? So even if the Yemenite came, the population could have repulsed the attack, okay? But China was not conquered by the Yemenite. So China, for most of its history, was isolated from the rest of the world, okay? Does that make sense? So, but this conquest meant now there's a common language among all these people in India, in Iran, in the steppes, basically Russia, in the Near East, and in Europe, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 33:27 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: This language is what we call Proto -Indo -European. That's a language they spoke, okay? Now they have a common religion. So from this point on, this world, okay, stretching from Europe all the way to India, was in constant communication from, was in constant communication with each other, trading ideas, people, and gods, okay? And this is what we call today the West, okay? And it's distinct from China, which was isolated from this world. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, any questions? Yeah? The Mongolian people are descended from the Yemenite, yes. And if you think about it, the Mongolian people are very similar to the Yemenite, right? The Mongolians are also nomadic pastoral people who are also very much warlike, okay? And in fact, what we will learn later on is that Genghis Khan adopted very similar policies as the Yemenite, okay? So we'll see a lot of similarities between Genghis Khan and his conquest and the Yemenite conquest of the world. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 34:55 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: Okay, let's talk about the plague, okay? The plague, yes. It killed most Europeans, yes. Because Europeans were living on farms, right? So they were living together. Yeah, because it reduced the population of Europe, so they were less able to resist the invasion. Okay, all right. So the plague was all around the world, okay? And this is actually the bubonic plague, okay? The bubonic plague. It's spread by rats. And we have DNA of this plague, okay? So we know the bubonic plague has been with us for the longest time, okay? So the plague kills people who live closely together. Do you understand? Because then it's easier to transmit the disease, okay? So if you live closely together, you're much more likely to catch the disease and die. Does it make sense? But if you live far apart, then you're less likely to catch the disease. So in Europe, people were living on farms. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 36:31 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: And there's like 10,000 people who might live on a farm, okay? That's a lot of people who live very closely together. They're also living with animals. So it's very unclean. But if you're living in the steppes, okay? First of all, you're living far apart. That's the first thing. Second thing is your life is much more hygienic, okay? Because you're not living with pigs and rats. And the third thing is your body is a lot stronger. You're drinking milk, okay? You're getting a lot of physical exercise. Does that make sense? So these people are less likely to die from the plague. All right. Any more questions? Exactly, yes. Okay. So basically, everyone in Europe, except for a few, few people are the descendants of the Yamnaya, okay? The Indian people, the Iranian people also consider descendants of the Yamnaya. Now, when the Yamnaya came, these farmers in Europe, okay, there were maybe three major responses, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 37:44 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: The first response is, let's fight them. And then they got killed. The second response is, let's try to cooperate with them, okay? The third major response is, let's move somewhere else. So the people who moved to islands, okay? So for example, there's an island called Sardinia, okay? In Italy, okay? It's an island. They survived against the Yamnaya, and they have less Yamnaya DNA than other people, okay? But if you can't run off to an island, you're going to get wiped out, okay? But basically, all of Europe was conquered by the Yamnaya. And later on, I will show you the DNA evidence. When you look at that evidence, it's pretty stark, okay? All right? That's a great question, okay? Thank you. All right. So this process took a long time, hundreds of years, okay? And during this time, this is a spread of a culture. So it's not one people. It's not one nation. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 38:49 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2329s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2329s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: So what's happening was, as they conquered different territories, they had to adapt themselves to that territory because the geography is different, okay? So in the steppes, you're leading a, nomadic pastoral lifestyle. And at first, they tried that. So for example, we have evidence that in Norway, which is in North Europe, they burned down all the forests because they were trying to replicate their homeland, okay? But then eventually they discovered, this is not going to work, okay? It's too hard. So then they start to mix their lifestyle with the local lifestyle, and they became more focused on agriculture, okay? Does that make sense? All right. And as it kept on spreading, they also stole the technology of the local people. So even though the Yamnaya people had no shipbuilding technology, they couldn't sail the seas, they were able to conquer people here off the coast who did have access to the sea and who did have boats, okay? ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 39:58 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2398s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2398s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: And then they stole the technology. They killed the people, and they learned the technology, okay? Once they had the technology, then they sailed off to England and killed everyone in England. Does that make sense? Okay, so it's a very slow process. And these are different groups of Yamnaya, okay? Okay, but that's a very good question. Any more questions? Are you guys clear about this? Okay? All right. All right. Absolutely clear? Okay, good. So when we come back from the break, okay, we will discuss the new world that this creates, okay? Because when you think of Western civilization, the Greeks, the Romans, well, they all come from this world, okay? So basically what the Yamnaya do is they create a new history for humanity. Before the Yamnaya, humans were egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic, okay? And now with the Yamnaya, you have patriarchy. You have war. You have money. But before, we didn't have these concepts. ## How the Yamnaya Made War, Money, and the West -- 41:14 - Source title: Civilization #5: The Yamnaya Conquest of Europe - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-12, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2474s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HTFJWl5D8&t=2474s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-j4htfjwl5d8.json) Text: So this marks a new history for humanity. When we come back from the break, we'll start exploring this history, okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay, so the story so far is that 200,000 years ago, we humans, Homo sapiens, we were born in Africa. And then about 50,000 years ago, because of climate change, we started to spread around the world, okay? We went into Europe, then into Asia, then we crossed the Bering Strait into North America, then South America, then Asia, went to Australia, okay? And 50,000 years ago, there's about a million of us all around the world. And the argument that I've made to you in this class is that from the very beginning, we were religious, okay? And we know from the Ice H.K. paintings, we know because of places like, Kobletepe, and Kanahoyak, that we had a religious belief that told us who we are and what we're doing here. And as we discussed in class, this religious belief is animistic, meaning we believe that we all come from one source, the Mother Goddess. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 1:16 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=76s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=76s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: And we are all the children of the Mother Goddess, including animals, plants. And because of this, we were a very compassionate people that were egalitarian. There was no difference between men and women. That was peaceful. We were violent, there was some violence, but we didn't really fight wars, okay? And we were artistic. We celebrated the Mother Goddess through paintings and through artwork, okay? And another question then is, if we were like this for most of human history, how is it that today we have war, private property, and patriarchy, where men make all the rules and women have little agency and power? And so this week, I will explain to you how this happened, okay? So in today's class, we will discuss, really, the height of this civilization. And this is what the anthropologist Maria Gimbertas called Old Europe, okay? So to begin the story, I want to tell you what we discovered in terms of linguistics. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 2:43 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So for many hundreds of years, many people have speculated that maybe English, German, Greek, Latin, all came from the same language that's been lost to us. This is a language we call Proto -Indo -European. And through decades of strenuous research, linguists have been able to conclusively prove that all these languages that we speak in Europe, okay, all come from the same mother language, the first language. But not only that, but also Iranian and Indian, okay, Hindi, okay, all come from Proto -Indo -European. So does that make sense to you guys? So we know this because there are many words that sound the same in many languages, okay? So for example, father. In English, it's father, right? But in Latin, it's pater, okay? That's where we get the word paternity, okay, from the father. Greek, pateris. Persian, padar. Hindi, in India, pita, okay? So the word father seems to come from just one word in all these different languages. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Then you look at the word mother, okay? Mother, matar, matara, madar, mat, okay? Also sounds very similar. So again, for hundreds of years, people have speculated that there was just one language. And if you look at this map, okay? So for example, the English word for two, okay, the number two. You can draw a schematic that shows you how all these languages, the word two, derived just from one word, dua, okay? So languages have been able to piece together this proto -Indo -European language. We've also been able to figure out how this language spread, okay? So there are two hypotheses. Either the language spread from Turkey, Anatolia, or from Ukraine, okay? Basically Russia. And we know it spread all around the world, okay? So basically all of Europe. And including Iran and India, okay? So this is the first language of all these languages that we speak today in most of Asia and all of Europe, okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 5:38 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So any questions so far? All right. Now, the problem for linguists is how do you piece together the language, okay? Because this language is lost to us, okay? So this language is lost to us. And so what linguists did, okay, and this is a very slow process, is they basically looked at all the words that seemed to come from the same word in different languages. And what they discovered is that there are certain words that are distinct to the first language. So words like bull, cow, ox, ram, eel, lamb, pig, piglet, sour milk, wine, curds, field, dog, shear wool, textiles, scratch plow, oxen, yoke, grain, shaft, furrow, rustling, grinding, pestle, household, okay? What do you guys notice about these words? Do you see patterns in these words? What patterns do you see in these words? Okay. So what these words tell us is the culture and lifestyle of the language. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 7:04 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=424s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=424s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The culture and lifestyle of the Proto -Indo -Europeans, okay? Does that make sense? So from these words, we're able to figure out four things about the Proto -Indo -Europeans. The first thing is that unlike other cultures, these people have a word for wheel. In fact, they have five different words for wheel. And what this tells us, what we can guess that these people, whoever they are, they invented the wheel. Okay? Does that make sense? Because they have words for wheel and other cultures don't, okay? So they were the first to invent the wheel. Second is that they have words for dairy products, okay? Cow milk. And this is important. Why? Do you guys know why this is important? Why is this strange? Yes. Okay. So they were raising livestock, okay? Okay. What makes it strange is that for most of human history, we were lactose intolerant. Meaning we did not have the ability to drink milk. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 8:18 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=498s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=498s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So these people, not only did they invent the wheel, but they changed their system, biological system, so that they became lactose tolerant. They now have the capacity to drink milk. Okay? Does that make sense? So whoever these people are, are the first people to drink cow milk. Okay? The second characteristic, sorry, the third characteristic is they really don't have that many agricultural terms. Okay? So maybe they farmed, but they weren't focused on farming. Okay? Whereas other cultures were focused on farming. Okay? That's the third thing. And the fourth thing is they have words for horse. And this is important because this tells us that they were first to domesticate the horse. Meaning that they could control the horse. Okay? This is important because throughout history, horses, if they see a human, they run away. Okay? Because that's the best way to survive. If you see someone coming, you run away. This is what we call excitability. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 9:27 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=567s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=567s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? Horses are excited. So it took thousands of years for these people, the Proto Indo Europeans, to domesticate the horse, which means they could ride the horse. Okay? Does that make sense? So we don't know who these people were, but based on their language, we're able to guess four things. Okay? So this is a theory. Now, what's interesting is that archaeologists start to dig up things, and they start to discover the language were right. Okay? By studying the language, the language had four hypotheses, and the archaeologists were able to provide evidence this is true. Okay? The most exciting thing is that for the past five to ten years, advances in genetics, DNA technology, we've been able to look at the DNA of these skeletons, and we've been able to confirm a lot of these hypotheses. Okay? Does that make sense? So what I'm telling you is, for the longest time, we guessed ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 10:37 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=637s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=637s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: that the Proto Indo Europeans existed, but now we have conclusive scientific evidence that they did exist and who they were. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, wheels. Okay? So again, they have five different words for wheels, and we're able to know from the archaeological evidence, the wheels were invented about 3500 BC. Okay? In this area. Okay? In Russia. And because wheels are part of Proto Indo European, then this language, whoever starts to first speak it, must have been speaking it after 3500 BC. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. There aren't that many agricultural terms in Proto Indo European. Okay? We have a lot of words for milk. Okay? To milk. Milk, sour milk, buttermilk, cheese, cow. Okay? So whoever these people were, dairy products were a very important part of their culture and their diet. This is DNA evidence that shows us that these people who we call the Yanaya, okay? These people are called the Yanaya. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 12:21 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: They were able to develop hormones that allowed them to be lactose tolerant. Okay? Okay, in about 4500 BCE, very few people could drink milk. And by the time of the Anaya, about a thousand years later, they could basically all drink milk. And because they could drink milk, what happens to their body? Can you guys know? What's the difference? If you drink milk, exactly, okay? So we know from the evidence that these people are taller than everyone else. In fact, these people, because they drink milk and they eat a lot of protein, they were on average 20 centimeters taller than farmers. Okay, does that make sense to you guys, okay? Yeah, go ahead. Okay, okay, okay, so the milk we drink today is very different from the milk that they drank before. You understand? The milk they drank before came from cows that were raised in grassland. You understand? So it was all natural. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 13:44 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=824s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=824s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The milk we drink today comes from cows that were raised in factories. And we inject a lot of drugs and hormones into these cows. Did you understand? No, no, no, if you drink milk a lot, your bones will be healthier and you'll grow taller, okay? That's just biological evidence, okay? Does it make sense? But the milk we drink today, we put a lot of chemicals into the milk, and the source is the body. the milk is from factories okay and and the reason why is we want to make the milk cheaper but it's worse for you okay so in other words if you really want to be healthy what you should do is go buy a cow and drink from that cow okay do you understand all right okay so so are we clear okay all right now what's really interesting is the domestication of the horse okay so again there's a ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 14:54 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: gene in the horse for excitability okay basically the horse is programmed to run away if it sees danger a human being and it took us about 3 000 years okay from 5500 bce until 2020 bc to domesticate the horse because it's very hard to make horses not run away when there's danger it doesn't make sense so this is a very long story it's a long process but they were able to accomplish it um the further evidence for the domestication of a horse is we've been able to dig up skeletons okay and what we see is the skeletons of the anaya are different from other skeletons and it's because they ride horses okay that changes the curvature of the skeleton okay does it make sense guys okay so the evidence is pretty overwhelming um eventually they were able to put all the pieces together okay they were able to put the horse and the wheel together ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 16:08 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: and as such they create the wagon the wagon meant they could move from place to place and they they became what we call nomadic pastures pastoralists okay so have you guys been to mongolia have you guys been to mongolia to me yes same okay but you see the way they um the way they make a living is they have like cows and sheep right and they take the cows and the sheep from place to place to eat the grass right and they're able to do that because they're able to put all the belongings into a wagon and move from place to place okay does that make sense so these are the people who were the first speakers of proto -indian indo -european and eventually they're able to spread their language all around the world okay from europe to india to iran okay it doesn't make sense guys now the question is okay we're able to ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 17:13 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1033s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1033s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: confirm that these people actually existed and we are able to confirm that they um did spread the language around the world now the question the debate is how do they do so okay and there's two sides to the argument the first side um the first side believes these people were conquerors okay so think genghis khan and the mongols they went around they at least they they were able to spread their language by conquering other people okay so think genghis khan and the mongols think of the european conquest of north and south america where the english and the spaniards and the french went to north and south america and eradicated them and eradicated the local population okay so that's the first belief the second belief is that it was not violent okay it was just cultural diffusion meaning i came to your country or your village and i was able to influence you and convince you ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 18:23 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1103s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1103s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: that my language is superior okay so we call this cultural diffusion so think of english where okay okay china has not been conquered by the west but we want to learn english because we think that learning english will give us more life opportunities okay does that make sense so there's two sides of the debate either one of conquest or one of cultural diffusion and this debate went on for a long time okay and for most of the time we believed it was cultural diffusion okay so for now for the past five ten years we have overwhelming dna evidence that it was in fact conquest it was a genocide it was a violent conquest and this is what i will show you next class okay but in today's class what i will show you is the europe before the conquest okay does that make sense okay and then next class we will look at how europe ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 19:28 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1168s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1168s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: was conquered and how it was changed because of a conquest okay any questions so far okay so so the so so there's a good question okay the question is what's the difference between conquest and diffusion okay the answer is this if I conquer you I eradicate your genes I kill you okay therefore your genes do not come into the present day whereas if it's diffusion your genes are still around does that make sense okay so now what I will show you next class is sorry a lot of these genes have been eradicated therefore it must have been a violent conquest it doesn't make sense okay all right so um let's now look at Europe before the conquest and a lot of what we know about Europe comes from a very famous anthropologist her name is Maria Gombatis okay and we'll be spending a lot of time on this and we'll be spending a lot of ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 20:48 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1248s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1248s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: time on this and we'll be spending a lot of time this today talking about her theories but what we know is okay remember the ice age and about 12,000 years ago okay now the planet is warming which allows for agriculture we also know that agriculture started in Anatolia Turkey and in Egypt and in Mesopotamia okay basically this region and the reason why is this place was the first to warm up but also had better soil than other places okay so they discovered farming in this region and about 600 BC e agriculture start to spread around the world ok to Europe and then over to England does it make sense guys okay another question then is what propelled this migration from Anatolia to Europe can you guys guess well what would what would propel the this migration? Okay, a good guess is war, okay? But we don't have any evidence of war around this time. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 22:01 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: What's another explanation why people wouldn't move? Exactly, thank you. Climate change, okay? The weather became a lot cooler during this time, make it harder for people to farm, okay? Also, they've been farming for a long time in this area, which meant that the soil is longer as good as before, okay? So you had these massive migrations of families into Europe. Because Europe at this time, the weather was becoming a lot warmer, which allowed people to start to grow agriculture in this area, okay? So in about 6500 BCE, people started to move from Anatolia into this area. And because they were moving, they brought with them their religion, okay? Okay, remember like the religion of Kobletepe and Kanahoyak is one of the mother goddess, giving life to everything, okay? And because of that, we know that the people in this area were mainly egalitarian, peaceful, and artistic. Okay, does that make sense? Okay, what we'll study next class is that there were two massive migrations into Europe, all caused by climate change. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 23:27 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The first migration are farmers, okay? The second migration are pastoralists. And what I will show you next class is that we will look at the DNA evidence, okay? So if you look at the DNA of people today, what you will see is that about 4500 BCE, most people in Europe, their genes were a mix of farmers who came from Anatolia, as well as hunter gatherers who were there originally, okay? Does that make sense? But then, after 3000 BCE, you have this green come in, okay? And the green are the Yanaya, okay? The Proto -Indo -Europeans. And so I will show you this next class, okay? But I want you guys to understand what happened, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so again, this is a map of the migration, okay? So agriculture was started in about 9000 BCE, in the Near East, Turkey, Anatolia, as well as Israel, Syria, Jordan. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 24:45 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Then it spread from about 7000 to Europe, okay? And then the purple is the Yanaya people, okay? Who we believe were from Ukraine, the steppes, and they spread around the world. Next class, we'll discuss who the Yanaya were and how they conquered the world, okay? But at first, I want to look at the, let's look at the farmers who built Europe before the conquest of the Yanaya. So, again, Maria Gumbutas, who is an anthropologist, originally from Lutherania, but who worked at Harvard and UCLA, she's done decades of research into old Europe, okay? And her conclusion is that old Europe was conquered by the Yanaya people, okay? And this is what we know as the Kurgan hypothesis. So let me explain what the Kurgan hypothesis is. We know the burials of the farmers is very different from the burials of the Yanaya people. The major difference is this. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 26:05 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1565s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1565s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The people who are farmers are buried together, okay? But the people who are farmers are buried together. The people of the Yanaya, they're buried alone. Not only are they buried alone, but they're buried with weapons and with cattle and horses. So what we can guess from this, okay, we don't have evidence, but what we can guess from this is that the farmers were people who did not have private property and who were egalitarian, okay, and who were peaceful because they didn't have any weapons. And the Yanaya were the complete opposite, okay? These were warriors who believed in private property and which was male -dominated, okay? Does that make sense? So this is what we refer to as the Kurgan hypothesis. And for the longest time, this is something that Maria Gumbates argued. And she was laughed at. Why was she laughed at? Why would people laugh at her? She's saying that, okay, ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 27:12 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: before these Yanaya came to Europe, Europe was a place that was basically governed by woman, and it was artistic, and it was peaceful, and it was egalitarian. Why would people laugh at her? Yeah, they don't believe in her. Why? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 27:36 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Excuse me? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 27:45 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Yeah, first of all, in universities, it's the men who are the professors, right? It's the men who are scholars. So there are many men who are like, there's no way woman can be in charge. They're idiots, okay? Why would woman be in charge? They're stupid. They're useless. It's men who are always in charge, okay? That's one reason why they laugh at her. What's another reason why they would laugh at her? Okay, there are also a lot of people who believe, like, people are violent. We've had wars always, okay? The idea, like, for, like, thousand years, Europe was peaceful can't be true because people are violent. Humans are meant to go to war against each other. Okay? And the third reason why people would laugh at her is we think, like, we are motivated by money. Right? If you don't have money, then why would you do anything? Does that make sense? So Maria Gumbotas had this radical idea that challenged the way that men saw the world. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 28:58 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Okay? For men, men have always been in charge. There's always been wars. And there's always been wealth and money to motivate people to work hard. Okay? And that's what men believe. And Maria Gumbotas said, no, that's not true. For thousands of years, from 6500 BCE until about 2500 BCE, 4000 years before they were conquered, Europe was ruled by women. And because of that, Europe was peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. Okay? This is a radical idea. And again, what I will show you next class is this idea that was laughed at for decades has now been confirmed by DNA evidence, meaning that this has been proven true by science. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So let's look at what Maria Gumbotas said. And she's written quite a few books. These are two of her most famous. The Language of the Goddess and The Civilization of the Goddess. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 30:06 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1806s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1806s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? So her main theory is that Europe at that time, their main belief is in the mother goddess who gives life to everything. Okay? And so what she did was she went and she dug up their graves to look at their art. And she studied their language and their cultural practice. Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions so far? Okay. So this is from The Civilization of the Goddess. And we'll read this together. Okay? And so this is her main argument about old Europe at that time. The goddess in all her manifestations was a symbol of the unity of all life in nature. Okay? So we are all connected together. Animals, trees, humans, we're all connected together. Okay? We're all one big family. Her power was in water and stone, in tomb and cave, in animals and birds, snakes and fish, hills, trees, and flowers. Hence the holistic and mythopoetic perception of all the sacredness and mystery of all there is on earth. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 31:17 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? So everything in the world is sacred because it is blessed by the mother goddess. If there's a mosquito, don't kill that mosquito because it has the energy of the mother goddess. Okay? If you are walking on a, if you're walking and you see a bird, a small bird, pick it up. And heal it. Okay? Because that comes from the mother goddess. Okay? Does that make sense? This culture took deep delight in the natural wonders of this world. Its people did not produce lethal weapons or build forts in inexorable places as their successors did even when they were acquainted with metallurgy. Okay? So in other words, they had the technology to make weapons. They had the technology to build forts and make war, but they chose not to. Does that make sense? Okay? These people chose, purposely chose, not to commit violence against other people. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 32:16 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1936s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=1936s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable house in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long -lasting period of remarkable creativity and stability and age free of strife. Their culture was a culture of art. It doesn't make sense. They spent all their time and energy in producing art to celebrate the mother goddess and to celebrate nature and to celebrate themselves. Okay? And this was remarkably peaceful and stable. Does that make sense, guys? Okay. Any questions so far? Okay. What was amazing about this culture is they invented writing. Okay? Now, for the longest time, we believe that the Sumerians, which we will discuss later on, the Sumerians who lived in Iraq, we believe they discovered writing. Okay? And we discovered that writing came about for economic purposes. Okay? So, for example, if you are in Sumeria and you need to build a temple, okay, what you do is you create writing. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 33:27 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2007s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2007s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So, for example, okay, here's a clay, and I say this. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 33:39 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2019s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2019s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 33:40 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So, this is writing, right? What does this mean? It means, like, these two people, this family of two, will get two bushes of wheat from one tree, and two baskets of bread for their work today. Okay? Does that make sense? So, we thought that for the longest time, people created writing because, or for economic purposes. Okay? In order to have an economy. But what Maria Gumbatis has discovered is, no, we actually created writing before for religious purposes. Okay? So, for example, if I have a painting, okay, and it goes like this, okay, and it goes like this, then what I'm saying is, the mother goddess blesses this sculpture with her life and with the abundance of water in nature. Okay? Does that make sense? So, writing is a way to communicate with the mother goddess. It's a way to make divine and sacred our art. Does it make sense, guys? Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 34:52 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2092s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2092s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So, these people are sophisticated. They invented writing. Okay. Now, I want to go over some of the cultural differences between that culture and our culture to show how stark the difference is. Okay? So, for example, in today's culture, when we think of snake, we think of poison, danger, right? We've been taught that snakes are dangerous. But in this culture, the snake was a symbol of life, energy, and regeneration. So, in today's world, because, you know, snakes can shed their skin. Right? A most benevolent, not an evil creature. Okay? So, that's one major difference. Another major difference between our culture and their culture is, in today's world, we think that white is good, black is bad. Right? And we can't imagine that black is good, white is bad. Right? But in their culture, that's exactly what they believe. Okay? Black did not mean death or the underworld. It was the color of fertility. The color of damp caves and rich soil, of the womb of the goddess where life begins. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 36:05 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2165s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2165s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: White on the other hand, was the color of death, of bones. Okay? Does that make sense? So, back then, for most of human history, we thought that white was bad because it symbolized death, and black was good because it symbolized life. And we can't possibly imagine that today. Right? Okay? The last thing I want to talk about, and this is actually the most controversial thing, is back then, for most of human history, woman had power and agency. Okay? What I mean by that is, back then, a woman's body was her body. She could choose to do whatever she wants with her body. Does that make sense? In today's world, a woman can choose to do whatever she wants If you get married, right? If a woman gets married, then we assume the woman's body belongs to the husband. Only the husband can sleep with her. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 37:06 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? But for most of human history, this was not true. Okay? All right. So, you look at sexual taboos today. Okay? Why do we have sexual taboos? To shame woman into proper behavior. Okay? So, for example, okay, if a man sleeps with a thousand women, we think, great. He's a stud. He's good looking. He's rich. He's tall. He's a stud. Right? But, hey, if a woman sleeps with a thousand men, she's a slut. She's a bad person. She has no ethical, uh, she lacks ethics. She lacks morality. She's a, she has no character. Therefore, we must avoid her. Okay? Why does this make any logical sense? Why is this true? Guys, why is this true? Okay? Yeah? Exactly. We, we have this, okay? We have this prejudice because men are considered superior to women and, therefore, men want to control women. And the best way to do that is by controlling the woman's body. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 38:39 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So this is just a cultural prejudice. There's no biological evidence this is true. Okay? All right. So, um, we have a lot of evidence that, um, women want sexual agency. Okay? Women want to have sex. There's something wrong with that. Okay? So, for example, we look at monkeys, Reese's monkeys. And females will aggressively seek males out for sex. Okay? So it's the females that are proactive. You also look at Bonobo's monkeys. Okay? And Bonobo's monkeys, it's interesting because the females are in charge. The females have sex with each other. Why? Why do they have sex with each other? Why will females have sex with each other? What's the purpose of that? Unity, right? Does it make sense? Unity. To get along. To cooperate better. Okay? And then they will also have sex with males. But they initiate the sex. Okay? There are some cultures where it's the female that will initiate the sex with the male. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 40:07 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2407s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2407s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? All right? So, at Harvard and UCLA, they discovered, okay, the moment they discovered the plow, agriculture, these societies have lower levels of female participation in politics in the labor force. Okay? Meaning, like, before, where men and women did the same work, both had the same political power. But once men showed that they could contribute more to society, men started to have more power. Okay? Does that make sense? So, in other words, differences between men and women are not biological constructs. Okay? They are cultural constructs. And for most of human history, they were equal. Okay? Any questions so far? Okay. So, the idea of black and white, it's a, like, white is good, black is bad. It's a recent construct. Okay? It comes from the idea of race. Okay? And race was invented about 20 years ago. Why? Because Europe was going around conquering the world. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 41:41 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2501s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2501s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: And they needed to justify why they were doing this. And the theory is because we're superior people. Our race is better than your race. Okay? Does that make sense? So, race is a recent cultural construct. And, um, it was to justify imperialism, the conquest of other people for no reason. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, all this is recent. Okay? All right. There's a really fun book called Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan. Okay? And what he argues is that for most of human history, women had sexual agency and they had multiple sexual partners. And one piece of evidence is this. Gorillas, right? They're the biggest primates. They're huge, right? Well, it turns out their penises, when fully erect, is only four centimeters. Okay? Men, who are a lot smaller than um, gorillas, when erect, they are at least almost four times as big as the gorilla penises. Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 42:56 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2576s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2576s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: So, the question then is, why is this the case? And, one theory is that when women have multiple sexual partners, the men with the bigger penis will spread his gene forward. Does that make sense, guys? Okay? And so this is a, this is evidence that for most of human history, women have had multiple sexual partners. Okay? That, okay. So, even when women had partners, okay, a husband, they still had sexual partners. Okay? And in some societies, women have many husbands, usually brothers together. Okay? All right. Let me ask you this question. Why do they do this? All right? Because we've been taught this. We've been taught, okay, we exist to spread our genes. Right? You understand? So, if I marry someone, only if I'm sure that the offspring, the children, are mine, will I work hard to ensure that the children are fed and raised properly and educated? Okay? Does that make sense? So, we've been taught for a long time that we first care about our genes. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 44:37 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? That's why men want to have as many wives and children as possible, and women want to find the wealthiest husband. But, before most of human history, this was not true. Why? Why, guys? Okay. So, it has to do with the idea of religion. Okay? So, the first thing is that we all come from the mother goddess. We're all equal, right? So, it doesn't matter if my, if, it doesn't matter if it's my son or my friend's son. They're all the children of the mother goddess, and therefore, I have responsibility to protect the children. Okay? Does that make sense? So, there was no concept of individual. There was only a concept of community. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is they really didn't understand genes. Okay? They didn't, they didn't understand like, okay, a child has 50 % genes from the mother, 50 % genes from the father. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 45:55 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? How they understood was, okay, you have the woman, she gives life. The, the man gives energy. Okay? Does that make sense? Therefore, what? If you believe this, then, what? If the mother gives life, the man gives energy, what? What? Right? But how would you get better energy? More men, right? You understand? If men are giving you energy, the more men you have sex with, the more energy you have. Does that make sense? So, the evidence is if you look at people in Melanesia, okay, they believe that semen provided energy. And so, you need, you need a lot of semen. Okay? So, what would happen is that when a woman married a husband, what would happen is the members of the husband's family would come and have sex with her that very night in order to get as much energy as possible from the family. Does that make sense, guys? Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 47:21 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Any questions so far? I know this is controversial, but I'm just trying to show you how our cultural beliefs is radically different from the cultural beliefs of people in the past. Okay? Does it make sense? Okay. So, one last piece of evidence is this. When you don't know who your, who's, when the, when the people don't know who the father is, everyone has a responsibility to protect the child. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Okay? So, the story is this Christian missionary, he goes into a village and he finds people just sleeping with each other. Okay? There's no marriage, there's no husband and wife. People are just sleeping with each other. And the priest says to them, you people are shameless. And one of the villagers replies, you have no sense. You French people love only your own children but we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay? You understand? So having multiple sexual partners is a way to build community for everyone. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 48:48 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2928s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: If you're a small community, okay, maybe 15, 20 people, it makes sense to make sure that everyone loves each other and everyone will protect all the children. Does it make sense guys? All right. So, let me tell you to illustrate this fact. We know that in World War II, okay, in World War II, American pilots, okay, what they were doing for, what they were doing is they were sleeping with each other's wife. Okay? Does that make sense? The reason why they were doing this is American pilots were more likely to die in war than any other soldiers. Does it make sense guys? Therefore, you slept with the wife of your colleagues in order to ensure that if you died, they would protect your children because there's a good chance you would die in war. Okay? You were afraid that if I died, who's going to look after my wife and who's going to look after my children? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 49:59 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2999s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=2999s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: And the way you build intimacy and community is by sleeping with each other's wife. So you became one big family. Okay? Does it make sense guys? Any questions so far? I know this is controversial. I know this is hard to understand. Okay? But, we have evidence that for, for, for most of human history, woman had sexual agency and power and sex was a way to build community. Okay? Does it make sense? Yeah? Okay. That's a great question. Okay? So the question is, is this backwards or is it primitive? Okay. And, what I want to show you this semester is that, okay, guys, there's no such concept as backward and primitive. Okay? The reason why we care about sex more than any other people is the idea of private property. Okay? Private property. Okay? So, for example, if I have a wife, and, I do have a wife. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 51:52 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3112s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3112s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? We have three kids. Okay? I want my three kids to inherit the money. Right? But, if my wife goes to sleep with other people, then who gets the private property? So, in other words, we have the idea of sex as shameful because we live in a patriarchy. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Okay. Sorry. Let me explain some more later on. Okay? All right. Let's move on. All right. So, I want to conclude with this idea. I want to conclude Maria Gumbutas argued that old Europe was ruled by women or women were part of the political class and because of that, Europe at that time was more peaceful than at any other time in its history. Does that make sense? So, another question then is why would women as a political class be more effective than men as a political class? Okay? And there are three reasons. All right? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 53:08 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3188s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3188s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The first reason is women are more willing to cooperate and collaborate. Does that make sense? So, men are competitive. We like status. We like power. But women are much more humble. So, women are much more likely to compromise and cop and collaborate than men are. Okay? Does that make sense guys? Okay? So, if you if men are in control then men want all the power. But if women are in control then women are much more willing to share power with men. Does that make sense? The other thing is let's just say like your community gets in conflict with another community. Well, what would happen is the women leaders of your community would get together with the women leaders of that community and you could quickly negotiate a compromise. Right? But men are competitive. They like status. They like face. So, it's much more likely that when men start to negotiate it becomes violent. Does that make sense? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 54:23 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: Okay? So, that's one thing that women are better at. Women are better at collaborating and compromising. That's the first thing. Second thing is that women have more emotional intelligence. Does that make sense guys? Meaning like men care about rules. Right? Women care more about you as a person. Therefore, women are much better at managing people. Does that make sense? Okay? The third thing is that men can use violence to coerce other people. Right? Women are not as physically strong as men. Therefore, they have other strategies for controlling men. And the two main strategies are gossip. Okay? Basically, talking about you behind your back which forces you to conform. But also, sex. Okay? So, if the woman spreads sex evenly among the men, the men have no reason to fight. And if someone, the man, does something bad against the community, the woman can choose to not have sex with this man. Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 55:41 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3341s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3341s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: As a way to punish him. But this is all very subtle and non -violent ways of forcing people to conform to the rules of the society. Okay? Okay? Does that make sense? Any questions? This is confusing to you guys. Right? Okay? So, let's conclude. Okay? Before the conquest of the Yanaya, all Europe was a peaceful egalitarian society. Okay? And a lot of the reason why is that women were given higher status in society. So, it was women who made the rules who were the political class in society. And because of that, women are able to use non -violent ways to control society. Making society much more peaceful and stable. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Any questions? Excuse me? Okay. Okay. So, the question then, the question is, if people are not violent, how do you control society? Okay? And so, the way you control people is by, is through the idea of shame. Okay? ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 57:33 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Because everyone wants to get along. Okay? All right. So, all right. Here's a fun experiment. Okay? Here's a fun experiment. What you guys can do is every time you walk the hallways and you see a person wearing red, like a girl wearing red, you tell her, you look fantastic. Okay? I guarantee within like two weeks, all the girls in the school will be wearing red. Does that make sense? So, you're controlling people, but you're not using violence. You're using the idea of gossip, shame, and flattery. And that's what women do really well. Do you understand? Okay. Does that, does that answer your question? Okay. Okay. So, any more questions? Yeah. So, you don't have to use violence. You can also use flattery. Okay? Right? Any more questions? Okay. So, next class, what we'll do is we'll look at the Yemnaya people. Okay? Because the Yemnaya people are violent, they love war, they're patriarchy, and they have private property. ## The Civilization That Chose Not To Make War -- 59:01 - Source title: Civilization #4: The Paradise Lost of Marija Gimbutas - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-10, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3541s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT_ZUDjHrM&t=3541s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-rat-zudjhrm.json) Text: The question then is, okay, how do they come about? Okay? What's their origin story? And why were they so successful in conquering old Europe? Okay? So, that's the story we will look at next class. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 0:01 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay, so I want to summarize and review what we have learned so far. So the main message is that for most of human history, we have been peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. So about 300,000 years ago, our species, Homo sapiens, we were born in Africa. And then 50,000 years ago, because of climate change, we started to spread around the world, okay? And throughout most of our history, we have been hunter -gatherers. And we don't know that much about our history. We can only guess. But based on the available archaeological evidence, we have, we were, for most of the time, peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. Okay, so peaceful does not mean we were not violent. There's lots of evidence that there was in -group conflict. So, for example, we discovered in burials people with skull fractures, okay? So there's been violence. But there's been no evidence of organized warfare. That comes much later, okay? That's the first thing. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 1:38 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=98s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=98s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Second thing is that we were egalitarian, meaning that there was no difference in status and power between men and women. Men and women were considered equal. There was no hierarchy, meaning that there were people who were considered more wealthy than other people. We know that. Because we could not find any evidence of hierarchy, meaning larger houses, meaning groups with special privileges. Now, there are individuals who might have higher status. And we know because they were buried more elaborately than other people. So, for example, shamans, right? Shamans were their religious leaders, and as such, they were quoted higher status than everyone else. Okay? And the third thing is artistic. So, as we know, they were engaged in cave paintings. They built monuments in order to celebrate and worship their religion. So, for them, art really was about the expression and celebration of their religion. Okay? So, for most of human history, we were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 2:56 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=176s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=176s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: And we know that today we are not peaceful. We are not egalitarian. We are not that artistic. So, what changed? Next week, I will explain to you what changed. Okay? Basically, a new group of people called the Yamnaya came into being. And they had a different religion that celebrated warfare, patriarchy, and wealth. Okay? And eventually spread all around Europe and Asia, and they conquered everyone. And they created a new history of humanity. That's next week. Okay? So, I want to explain the evidence for why we think most of human history, we were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic. Okay. So, something else that we discussed in class is we don't know what their religion was, but we suspect that it was animism and shamanism. Okay? Remember that animism is the belief that we all come from the mother goddess, from one source of life, including trees, animals, and humans. So, every living being has a soul. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 4:17 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=257s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=257s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) - Related lens: [Taboo As Control Surface](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/taboo-as-control-surface.txt#taboo-control-surface-boundary) Text: Okay? And the other thing is that the soul is permanent. You can never kill it. Okay? The body and the soul are different. So, it doesn't really matter if you die because your soul will go somewhere else and maybe come back. Okay? So, death was not a big deal. And the third thing is that there's a spirit world or another world which is more real than our world. Okay? Our world is just a manifestation, a physical manifestation of the spirit world. But what matters is a spirit world. And the last thing is that there's an order to the universe. We have a part to play. So, for example, we can kill animals to feed ourselves, but we must pay tribute to these animals before and after we kill them in order to maintain the harmony of the universe. Okay? So, that's what we believe the religion of early humans were. Everywhere in the world. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 5:26 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=326s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=326s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay? Including in China, including in Europe. This is Gopalatepe. And you can see that this is a teal pillar. And it's meant to represent a human. And inside the teal pillar is an animal. So, basically, the teal pillar represents the manifestation of the animal spirit in us. And we believe that this is a religious festival. That they would have before they went hunting. And the evidence for this is that at this site, we found a lot of animal bones. Okay? So, does that make sense, guys? All right. So, again, this is all just review. This religion goes back a long time. Okay? So, this is 40,000 years ago. We found this small figurine. Okay? It's a very small figurine in a cave in Germany. And this dates back to 40,000 years ago. Okay? So, remember, 50,000 years ago, we started to leave Africa and venture into Europe and around the world. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 6:37 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=397s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=397s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay? So, this goes back to the beginning, the dawn of humanity. This is a flute. Okay? That goes back to the same time. So, at the beginning of humanity, we were religious. We celebrated our religion through music and through art. And through shamanism. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Yes? It's a figurine. It's a doll. Okay? So, they believe that these dolls have religious qualities. Right? Okay? Does that make sense? It's like paintings. Okay? So, remember, they also have these cave paintings where they're celebrating the mother goddess. And they're celebrating the fact that life is a circle. After you kill the animals, their soul goes back into the earth. Into the spirit world. And then through proper tribute and worship, you can bring them back into this world. Okay? Okay? This is a shaman dressed as an animal. Okay? So, now the question then is, okay, if we cannot go back in time and observe their religion, how do we know what their religion is? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 8:04 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: And the answer is, we have a field of study called anthropology. Okay? Anthropology. Anthropology is a study of other cultures. And if our theory is right, then we should be able to find other cultures that are still alive today that practice this religion. And what we've discovered is that if you go to places in the jungle, in South America, and in Africa, in Australia. Okay? They do practice this religion. Okay? So, understanding the religion gives us tremendous insight into the thinking and religion of early humans. And that's what we will do today. Okay? To truly understand what early humans thought and how they understood the world. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So, the first passage we're going to look at is... From a book called The Wayfinders by Wade Davis. Okay? This is a great book. If you guys ever have a chance, please read this book. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 9:17 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay? It's extremely well written. Wade Davis, he's an anthropologist, Canadian. And this recently came out. Okay? So, he spent a lot of time traveling around the world to explore and to understand indigenous peoples. People who are native to the land. And they've been there for a long, long time. So, this is what he says about a tribe in the Amazon forest. Okay? In the beginning, before the creation of seasons, before the ancestral mother, Romi Kumu, woman shaman, opened her womb, before her blood and breast milk gave rise to rivers and her ribs to the mountain ridges of the world, there was only chaos in the universe. Spirits and demons, known as Hul, preyed on their own kindred, bred without thought, committed incest without consequence, devoured their own young. Romi Kumu responded by destroying the world with fire and floods. Then, just as a mother turns over a warm slab of ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 10:29 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: maniac bread on the griddle, she turned the inundated and charred world upside down, creating a flat and... Empty template from which life could emerge once again. As woman shaman, she then gave birth to a new world, land, water, forest, and animals. Okay? So, this is what we call a creation myth. And every single civilization, every single people have a creation myth. So, let me ask you this question, okay? Why? Why do you need a creation myth? What's this creation myth doing? What does it explain? Okay, how the world forms, okay? But there's something much more important than that, which is what? Excuse me? Who are we? Where we come from? Yes. But there's something... Yes, it explains all that. Who we are, where we come from, okay? That's what all creation myths do. What else is this myth doing, which is very important for us? Excuse me? Okay. So, it's telling us how the universe was formed, okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 11:52 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: What is in here that's very important and which is important for society to function well? Okay, so the woman shaman is the mother goddess, but what's in this paragraph that's very important in order for society to function? What do you need for society to function? You need rules and laws, right? So, what this creation myth is doing, what all creation myths is doing is explaining to you the legal structure of your society. Why you can't do certain things, okay? So, for example, you can't commit incest, okay? You can't eat your young people. You can't kill the young people, okay? Why? Because that's what evil people do. You understand? So, what this creation myth is doing is it's basically explaining the legal system, the rules, and why we have them. We have these rules because they're evil. They represent the evil spirit. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay. The other thing that you will notice about this creation myth is that it's very sophisticated and very elaborate, okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 13:14 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=794s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=794s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: So, this is a visualization of their understanding of creation. As you can understand, it's very complicated, okay? Does that make sense? Why is it complicated? Why is it complicated? Why is this so complicated? There are reasons for it. Why? Okay. So, one thing that you will learn in this class is that what's really important is for you to believe that your religion is correct, okay? It is as correct as science. And what makes people believe that your religion is correct, you have to accomplish three things, okay? The first is grandness, meaning that it is huge, okay? It's vast. And as you can see, this is a vast universe. It's a vast religion, a vast cosmology of how things started. So, grandness is very important. Then you need completeness. And the idea of completeness is that everything that you see in the world must be explained in this cosmology, okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 14:40 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=880s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=880s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: So, what this is doing is explaining to you how everything started, okay? Where everything comes from. So, completeness is important. The last thing is unity. Meaning that there's a beginning and there's an end, okay? As you can see, there's a beginning and then there's an end, okay? So, this is something that we will learn in this class as we explore other religions, including Judaism and Christianity, where for religion to be powerful, for it to be authoritative, you need these three ideas. Grandness, completeness, and unity, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Let's keep on going. All right. So, thus, for the people living today in the forest of the Paraparana, okay, this is the Amazon forest, the entire natural world is saturated with meaning and cosmological significance, okay? They feel that everything around them has life and it's all connected. It's one unified whole, okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 15:50 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=950s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=950s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Every rock and waterfall embodies a story. Plants and animals are but distinct physical manifestations of the same essential spiritual essence. Okay? We all come from the woman shaman. We all come from the mother goddess. Therefore, we all have the spark of life in us. And therefore, we must be respected, okay? The plants and the animals all must be respected as much as we are respected. At the same time, everything is more than it appears, for the visible world is only one level of perception. Behind every tangible form, tangible means concrete, physical, okay? Every plant and animal is a shadow dimension, a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman. So, in other words, our world is a world we can see. But there are other worlds, the shadow dimension, which is more real, which captures our essence, where the soul resides. Okay? That's more real. And it's the job of the shaman to see and communicate with this world. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 17:02 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1022s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1022s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: This is the realm of the He Spirit, a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive. Plants and animals are human beings, sap and blood the bodily fluids of the primordial river of the Anakana, hidden in cataracts behind the physical veil of waterfalls in the very center of stones are the great malakas of the He Spirit, where everything is beautiful. The shining feathers, the koka, the calabash of tobacco powder, which is in itself the skull and brain of the sun. Okay? Now, reading this, what can we say about their religion? What can we say about their religion that would be surprising to you? Okay? First of all, it's very imaginative, right? It's very imaginative. They have a vivid imagination. Okay? The other thing is that it's extremely sophisticated and complex. So, one major prejudice that we might have of these people is, well, they don't drive cars. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 18:27 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1107s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1107s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: They don't have cell phones. Therefore, they must be stupid. But clearly, from our understanding of their religious beliefs, they're actually extremely imaginative and extremely imaginative. They're extremely sophisticated. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. So, this is their shamans in religious practice. Okay? What can we say about this picture? What stands out about this picture? What surprises you or what catches your eye about them? What can we say about their beliefs based on this picture? Okay. Yeah. So, there's a lot of... Okay. There's a lot of thought put into what they wear. Okay? So, again, sophistication. Their clothing, the way they dress, suggests that this is a very sophisticated religion. Okay? It's not like they just put on anything. It seems they put a lot of care and thought into what they wear. Okay? That's the first thing. What's the other thing? What's the other thing? Do you know what I mean? Okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 20:03 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1203s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1203s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Well, there aren't that many of them. There's three of them. But what do you notice about the way they look and their bodies and the way they stand in relation to each other? What do you notice? Yeah? Okay. Yeah. I mean, he probably has a higher status. Okay? And he stands in the middle. Okay? What else? Excuse me? Okay. So, you're right in like... Okay. If this is a tribe and all of them are from the same tribe, what do you notice? Well, that's part of the reason he's always sitting in the middle. And that's the thing. If you're talking about your presence within a tribe, you're saying, well, I'm from a different tribe. You're from a different tribe. That's not just random. So, everyone's different. So, it's making a difference. So, if you're talking about the same tribe, then why don't you start with the same tribe? Yeah. Right? Let's have a more professional conversation. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 21:21 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1281s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1281s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay. So, he's really cold. Okay. What is the most important thing? life. So the other thing I would say is you can see there's some organization in order to it, right? So as you say, the person, the elder, stands in the middle, okay? And these two, can you see the symmetry? Okay? It's clear that they are doing a religious ceremony, and because of this religious ceremony requires their bodies to be a certain way in relation to each other. It requires them to dress a certain way, it requires them to say certain things, okay? Clearly they are in prayer of some sort. We call this the idea of ritual. Ritual is just the expression of religion in everyday practice. In other words, their lives are extremely ritualized, meaning what they do every second has a religious meaning and a religious significance. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Right? So for example, you come to school and you think your life is very ordered, right? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 22:36 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1356s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1356s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Because maybe at 8 o 'clock you start class, and then when class starts, the teacher takes attendance, okay? That's all ritual. And then at 8.45, the bell rings and then you go off and get some water or something, okay? If you want to go to the restroom, you have to raise your hand. This is all what we call ritual. So your lives are extremely ritualized. And the thing about ritual is behind the ritual, there has to be a belief system, okay? So for us, the school, we believe the system is set up so that you learn how to do well in life, right? You learn how to be on time. You learn how to respect authority. You learn how to read books, okay? It's exactly the same way where every minute of their lives, there's order and structure to what they do that has meaning and purpose. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 23:41 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1421s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1421s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay. So let's talk about their ritual, okay? It's to the realm of the He Spirit that a shaman goes in ritual. So the shaman is responsible for entering the world of the demons and the gods and negotiating and communicating with them, okay? That's his role. That's why he has his power and authority. Contrary to popular lore in the West, the shaman of the Barasana never uses or manipulates medicinal plants. His duty and sacred task is to move in the timeless realm of the He, embrace the primordial powers and harness and restore the energy of all creation. He is like a modern engineer who enters the depths of a nuclear reactor to renew the entire cosmic order, okay? So if, for example, plants are dying outside, what does this mean? If plants are dying outside, what does this mean? If animals and plants are dying, how can we fix the problem? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 25:06 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Why are bad things happening? Bad things are happening because the spirits are unhappy, right? Does that make sense? So therefore, you must go into the spirit world and understand why the spirits aren't unhappy and fix it, okay? And that's the role of the shaman. And what this is saying is this. What this is saying is that our world doesn't matter, guys, okay? Our world is insignificant. What matters is the spirit world. Because the spirit world is our world is what controls everything. Does that make sense, guys? Okay. Among the Barasana, such renewal is a fundamental obligation of the living in practice. This implies that the Barasana see the Earth as potent, the force as being alive with spiritual beings and ancestral powers. To live off the land is to embrace both its creative and destructive potential. Human beings, plants and animals have the essential potential to protect the share the same ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 26:21 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1581s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1581s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: cosmic origin and a profound sense are seen as essentially identical responsive to the same principles obligated by the same duties responsible for the collective well -being of creation there is no separation between nature and culture without the forest and the rivers humans would perish without people the natural world would have no order or meaning all would be chaos dozen norms that drive social behavior would have no order or meaning sorry would also define the manner in which human beings interact with a wow the plants and animals the multiple phenomenon of the natural world lightning and thunder the sun and the moon the scent of a blossom the sound order of death okay so everything is connected with each other we're all equals okay does that make sense guys all right this is what we call animism all right so let's talk about hunting okay there's some similar we talked about last class if we are ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 27:29 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1649s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1649s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: the same if we're if we are the same as animals and plants what allows us what gives us permission to kill other animals okay and this passage explains it when men go to the forest to hunt or fish it is never a trivial passage you you you cannot just go and hunt okay you need permission first the shaman must travel in trance to negotiate with the masters of the animals forging a mystical contract with the spirit guardians in exchange based always on reciprocity okay reciprocity means give and take if i give you a present you must give me a present okay the brassarana compared to marriage for hunting too is a form of courtship in which one seeks the blessings of a greater authority for the honor of taking into one's family a precious being meat is not the right of a hunter but a gift from the spirit world to kill about permission is ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 28:30 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: to risk death by a spirit guardian be it in the form of a jaguar anacona tap or harpy eagle okay it's something that we discussed in the cave paintings why did they spend so much time painting these animals and we said this it's because they're trying to pay tribute to the animals right if i kill you i must thank you for taking your meat to replenish myself but i also must ask for your forgiveness otherwise the animal soul may seek vengeance okay does that make sense so this is the essence of the religion if we hunt we must first pay tribute okay and that's ex and that's what explains kind of hoyt right okay the bull and the people before they go hunting they must pay tribute to all the animals okay this is true and you also look at the cave paintings right they have all these cave paintings and what they celebrate is ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 29:40 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: not themselves what they celebrate are the animals because it's the animals that give them life that give them nourishment and meat okay does that make sense so and you can see this in caves all around europe and around the world okay all right as the ritual begins time collapses there are two series of dances separated by the liminal moments of the day dawn dusk and midnight okay so the shaman during the ritual is once needs to communicate with the animals in the spirit world okay to do that he changes he changes the from fish to animal to human being and back again transcending every form becoming pure energy flowing among every dimension of reality past and present here and there mythic and mundane his chance recall by name every point of geography met on the ancestral journey of the anaconda okay so as you can see before the hunt the ritual is extremely elaborate sophisticated ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 31:07 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1867s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1867s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: and complex and its main purpose is to celebrate the unity of life and to ask permission and to ask for forgiveness as the hunters go kill the animals okay does that make sense guys and again this explains okay so so the shamans will change into animals okay in order to better communicate with the animals and this explains all the cave paintings and how forty thousand years ago they were creating dolls of shamans dressed as animals okay because for them this is what is true okay does it make sense guys all right so any questions so far before i move on are you guys clear about what's going on okay all right now let's move to africa okay we were in south america and they're still there today if you want to go visit that tribe you can do so okay now let's go to africa and in africa there's a group of people called the ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 32:21 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=1941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: pygmies okay the pygmies um and there's a very famous book by a british anthropologist uh by the name of um colin turnbull okay and he discusses how the pygmies practice the religious religious beliefs at the very center of the religion is something called the okay which is a trumpet like instrument and the Malimo allows them to communicate with the forest it allows them to communicate with the spirit world and that's how they resolve every issue okay and the Malimo also captures the sound and spirit of the forest okay all right so even though we are in a different part of the world we're in Africa and even though the pygmies have different religious beliefs than the people of the Amazon what you will discover what you will notice is that essentially the same religion okay the same idea that we are part of nature and that our job is to help nature maintain balance and ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 33:38 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2018s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2018s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: harmony okay okay so what I'll do now okay is come on over here and I'm going to give you a little bit of a tour of the before okay so let's read I had no idea of how far we had come or in what direction so he's following the group of pygmies around as they hunt but I knew we had left the camp far behind it was the first time I had known a group of pygmies to be so silent normally unless hunting they are deliberately noisy but now just at the time they are no longer there so what does that signify now let's that leopards would be prowling about in search of food they seem unwilling to disturb the forest or the animals it concealed just the opposite in fact it was as if they were a part of the silence and the darkness of the forest itself and were only fearful lest any ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 34:43 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2083s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2083s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: sound might betray their presence to some person or thing not of the forest they stood there quiet and still and it struck me with a sudden shock that not one of them carried a spear or bow and arrow as they peered into the dust and cocked their heads first on this side then on that satisfying themselves that we were really alone it seemed that they felt themselves so much a part of forest and of all the living things in it they had no need to fear anything except that which was not of the forest one of them said to me later when we are the children of the forest what need have we to be afraid of it we are only afraid of that which is outside the forest okay so what I will do now is through by analyzing this passage passage explore how our minds are different from their minds okay so our ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 35:47 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2147s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2147s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: mind is what we consider modern and their mind is what we consider pre -modern okay what's the first major difference between I okay the British anthropologist and how we think and how they think what's the first difference you you notice from this passage okay first of all what is the word that tells us that he doesn't really understand how these people think and behave what's the word that tells us he doesn't really understand these people who are gonna win they're gonna bring the related blacksmith he doesn't really actually a great STT question if you guys plan on taking the SAT okay there's a word in this passage that that tells us he is actually so he is actually he doesn't really understand how these people think and feel what's the word shock right shock okay so he's surprised by their behavior why she's surprised what confuses him anyone why what yes exactly okay why does ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 37:11 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: that surprise him exactly okay so here's the first big difference why do we think that nature is dangerous why do they not think nature is dangerous what why why guys that's exactly right okay he thinks nature is dangerous because they're leopards they're predators okay they don't think nature is dangerous what's the difference what's the difference okay the major first major difference is it our minds think that we are separate from nature okay man versus nature man versus nature but they think they are part of nature okay so let me ask you this question why do we fear nature what makes us fear nature I put you know force you're afraid why yes okay why are you afraid of the unknown okay you You don't know what you encounter, but why does that make you afraid? Okay, why? Why would the unknown make you afraid? What is it that we are obsessed with? See what I mean? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 38:54 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2334s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2334s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Okay, we're obsessed with control, right? We have to control everything. We wanna know something because we want to control it, okay? We like animals in the zoo, right? We do not like animals in the forest. We can control animals in the zoo, we cannot control animals in the forest, okay? So, we're obsessed with control. Why aren't they afraid of nature? What's their attitude? What are the pygmy's attitude? We wanna control nature, but they, they what? Therefore they, okay, the word is trust, right? Trust. They don't have to control nature because they trust nature. They believe the leopards know them and they know the leopards, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so that's the first major difference between our world and their world. And we've been taught that nature is our enemy or nature is outside us, whereas they believe that they are part of nature, okay? Does that make sense, guys? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 40:19 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2419s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2419s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: All right, let's move on. All right, so this is about their religious practice, okay? So, they have a meal together. And then they sing, or they use the malomo to make noises and they sing and dance, okay? Everyone ate his fill as and when he pleased. A couple of the older men saying they would wait until the youngsters had finished before they ate. But they did not wait for long. I was told, however, that everyone had to eat just as no adult male was allowed to sleep, but to sing while malomo was singing was in progress. Apparently, one of the greatest crimes that a pygmy can commit, if not the greatest, is to be found asleep when the malomo is singing. One of the men stood up and miming, as all pygmies love to do, he showed how they used to search for sleeping men, a spear under each arm, and how if they found one, they would spear him in the stomach and kill him completely and forever. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 41:28 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2488s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2488s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: I was told that then his body would be buried under the malomo. The malomo is a great fire, in which they practice their religion, okay? And nobody would be allowed to mention his death, even to remark on his absence. The woman would be told that the malomo itself, the great animal of the forest, had carried off one of their number, but like the men, they would ask no questions and would never again mention the missing men. So in this world, the greatest crime you can commit is not to kill someone but to sleep during the religion can someone explain why that's the case in this world okay the pygmy world the worst thing you can do is sleep why is that the case okay let's just say that we're having a class and one of you is sleeping okay and I get so angry ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 42:40 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: that I want to kill that person why would I want to do that what's my logic it's disrespectful of what okay it's disrespectful of my authority that is true but then I just ask a person to leave my class right or I shut up at that person but I want to kill that person why what's happened okay what is a classroom what's a classroom okay a place to study what else what are we doing now yeah but what is class what is what is classroom what allows a classroom to exist what is the ritual we're practicing okay so a classroom you can understand as the collective experience okay the classroom happens when everyone is participating in it does that make sense that's what makes a classroom alive so why would why would be angry one of you one of you is sleeping but why does that matter if you're sleeping what are you telling me ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 44:27 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2667s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2667s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: yeah it's not a classroom it's not real this discussion is not real it's pointless you understand so that's what's happening here they're malembo singing the ritual it's meant for everyone to recognize that the religion is real it's more real than reality okay but if you're sleeping you're saying no guys this doesn't matter okay what we're doing does not matter and therefore what you're doing is you're not committing violence on one person you're committing violence on the community you're committing violence on the religion you're insulting the forest you're insulting the god does that make sense and that's the worst crime because reality happens this religion is only possible if everyone believes that it is true if you're sleeping it means you don't think it's true and therefore you are first of all rejecting the community right you're you're telling everyone you're all idiots okay second second is that you might endanger the community because you're insulting ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 45:43 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2743s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2743s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: the forest right does that make sense guys okay so for most of you of human history people take their religion extremely seriously so seriously that they think it's more real than reality as long as everyone believes in it it's true but if someone doesn't believe in it then we have to kill that person because if he doesn't believe in it then it might cause our religion to die okay does that make sense okay any questions so far any questions we're all clear right okay and what i'm trying to show you is the power of religion okay how once we have the religious imagination we can create things that are actually for us more real than reality okay so that's the second thing that's different about us from other human beings for most of human history we were spiritual okay we're spiritual meaning like we believe like the world of spirits our soul it exists okay ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 46:52 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2812s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2812s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: today the word we use is materialistic materialistic and the idea of materialistic is this if we cannot see it okay it's not real okay god can't be real because we can't find it the soul can't be real because we can't measure it imagination can't be real because we don't know where it comes from it doesn't make sense and obviously okay obviously this idea of materialism is wrong how can you say the imagination doesn't exist but unfortunately we have structured our society around this idea of science looking at intéressant sciences and other forms of literature we have such figures by way of when you go to science class they teach you this okay if it's real you can measure it you can see it you can feel it but for most of you of human history we didn't believe that we thought like okay there is a spiritual world and that matters just as much as ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 47:55 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2875s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2875s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: reality okay in fact it matters it probably matters more than reality okay so the so this is making sense right guys okay okay okay for a month i sat every evening at the common model listening watching okay if i still had little idea of what was going on at least i felt that ear of importance and expectancy every evening when the woman shut themselves up pretending that they were afraid to see the end of the forest every evening when the men gather around the four fire pretending they thought that the woman thought that the dream pipes were animals every evening in the trumpet drum drain pipes imitated leopards and elephants and buffaloes every evening when all this make -believe was going on i felt that something very real and very great was going on beneath it something that everyone else took for granted and about which only i was ignorant okay clearly he doesn't he ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 49:08 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=2948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: does not understand these people what word tells us he does not understand these people He doesn't know what's going on. Why? What word tells us this? Excuse me? Why is he ignorant? There's a word in here that tells us he doesn't understand these people at all. This word shows that there's a chasm, okay? A huge difference between the Pygmies and us. What is this word? What word would the Pygmies not use here? They'd be insulted by this word. What's the word? They use it over and over again, right? There's a word here that's insulting. No. What word here in this passage would the Pygmies find insulting? So if another teacher comes in to my class and he says, Wow, your class is a lot of fun. I'd be insulted. Why? I'd be insulted. Why? No. Wow, you guys have so much fun in this class. You play a lot. I'd be insulted. Why? Excuse me? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 50:55 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: Yeah, this is not studying, okay? This is not serious academic work. This is playing. It has no significance, no meaning, right? So what word implies that here? It repeats itself over and over. Pretending, right? Pretending. We think they're playing. What do they think? We think they're pretending. We think they're playing. What do they think? They think it's all true. Do you understand? For them, their religion is more true than this world, okay? That's a power of the human imagination. You can imagine a world, and this world, as long as many of you are imagining it together, it's more true, more powerful, more real than this world. That's a power of religion, okay? What we call the religious imagination. And we'll see this over and over again in human history, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay? So we've been taught that, oh, you can't see it. It must be pretending. It must be make -believe. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 52:16 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3136s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3136s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: But for most of human history, for most people, this is not playing. This is not pretending. It's true. It's real. It's what allows us to be close to God, okay? God is real. This world we live in, it's not real, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. Okay, so let's look at the last paragraph, and then we'll finish for the day. He went on to tell that the pygmies called the Malomo whenever things seemed to be going wrong. It may be that the hunting is bad, he said, or that someone is ill, or, as now, that someone has died. These are not good things, and we like things to be good. So we call out the Malomo, and it makes them good as they should be, okay? So this is very similar to the shaman going into the spirit world when things are bad, okay? Things are bad because the spirits aren't happy. Normally, ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 53:25 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3205s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3205s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) Text: everything goes well in our world, in our forest, but at night when we are sleeping, sometimes things go wrong because we are not awake to stop them from going wrong. Army ants invade the camp. Leopards may come in and steal a hunting dog, or even a child. If we were awake, these things would not happen. So when something big goes wrong, like illness or bad hunting or death, it must be because the forest is sleeping and not looking after its children. So what do we do? We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken happy. Then everything will be well and good again. So when our world is growing, then also we sing to the forest because we want it to share our happiness, okay? Do you understand? So this is like them going to the spirit world and communicating with the spirits. ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 54:27 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-can-protect-or-dominate) Text: So it's almost the same religion, okay? Maybe the details are different, but the idea is the same. The idea is that we are all interconnected, animals, plants, humans, all the same. This is not the real world. The spirit world, the forest, they're the real world. And for us to maintain our health and our happiness and our safety, we must always communicate with this other world and make sure they're happy, okay? Does it make sense? And because of this belief, it means we shouldn't go to war with other people, okay? Because then that causes mayhem and chaos in the spirit world. Our job is to maintain harmony and balance in this world. We're caretakers, okay? It means we should not be in conflict with each other. We should be egalitarian. We should be equal because we're all from the same mother goddess. We're all from the same forest. We're all from the same woman shaman, okay? ## The World More Real Than Reality -- 55:38 - Source title: Civilization #3: The Religious Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3338s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanPH0GFTsA&t=3338s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-vanph0gftsa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-vanph0gftsa.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-can-protect-or-dominate) Text: It means we have to be artistic because we have to celebrate and worship the spirit world. Does that make sense? So again, for most of human history, we were like this. And even today, in a lot of cultures around the world, they're still like this. So another question is, what changed? Why do we have war? Why do we have hierarchy? Why do we have patriarchy? Why are men superior to women? Why do some rich people have all the power, okay? This clearly goes against this religion. And why? What I will show you starting next class is the beginning of a new religion and how this new religion that worships wealth, power, and war conquered everyone, okay? Does that make sense? Any questions before we break? Anything you're unclear about? Okay. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: Okay, to review, last class we discussed three pre -historical sites, right? Including Gobekli Tepe, Jericho, and Kanahoyak. And the argument I made to you last class, which is the general scholarly consensus, is that what drove, what compelled the transition to agriculture was the religious beliefs of the people at that time, okay? So it was humanity's religious impulse that drove our transition into agriculture. What I will show you today, okay, my argument to you today is that this religious impulse, this need for religion, this need to understand why we are here today, and what we must be doing, and where we're going, it's always been there, okay? In fact, religion is what makes us fundamentally human. And to prove this case, I'm going to talk about Ice Age cave paintings. So I asked you to look at these cave paintings that we found all around the world, okay? That go back 30,000, 40,000 years. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 1:20 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And as you can see from those pictures, they're beautiful, right? And they're extremely creative, artistic. And so I want to look at three questions about the cave paintings today. First of all, how were they painted? They didn't have the technology we have today, so how did they paint these cave paintings? Second question is, why did they do this? Because when you're in a cave, it's very dark, it's very cold, and it's very hard to breathe. But they spent days in there painting them. So why did they do that? Okay, that's the second question. The third question is, and the hardest question is, what do these cave paintings represent? Or what do they mean? So the first caveat, the first thing I want you to be aware of is that there's absolutely no agreement on any of these questions. Cave paintings is something that we have a lot of around the world, but there's very little evidence as to what they are, what they represent, and how they were painted. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 2:37 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=157s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: So there are a lot of guesses, okay? And the case that I will present to you today is my own personal interpretation based on my research and my understanding of the evidence. Okay? But please be aware that there are many different interpretations, and the evidence is extremely unclear about many of these things, okay? So let's start. The first thing you need to understand is that for most of human history, it's been very cold, okay? So the Ice Age only ended about 12,000 years ago. Okay? And we've seen a general warming of the planet, which has allowed us to adopt agriculture. But before then, we're basically living on a very cold planet. Now the history of humanity is this. 300,000 years ago, we came into being in Africa. But because the world became very cold about 100,000 years ago, that meant a scarcity of resources. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 3:52 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=232s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=232s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And that forced us to seek food and resources elsewhere. And so that drove our movement into Europe, which then drove our movement into Asia, and then across the Bering Strait, remember, because this is all ice, right? Into North America and into South America, and then from Asia, we went down to Australia. Okay? So we basically colonized the planet. But there weren't that many of us. There was only about 100,000 people. One million of us, all around the world, 20,000 years ago. And the other thing to remember is that in this process, there were actually other human beings in other places. So the Neanderthals were here, the Nesavans were here. And we interbred with them until we became the dominant human species. Okay? Okay. So does that make sense? All right. So that's the background. Now, let's look at some cave paintings. Okay? Because this is in the Shovel Cave. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 4:57 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=297s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=297s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And this started about 30,000 years ago. So these cave paintings were a continuous process where different people at different times went to the caves and painted different pictures. They might have added more things to the pictures as well. Okay? But as you can see, this is clearly representing animals, right? Bisons, rhinoceros. The other thing that's interesting about these paintings is that... There's really no focus, okay? You see lions, you see horses, you see rhinos, okay? It's almost like nature is one interconnected picture, okay? These are lions, okay? This is Lacolle Cave, about 20,000 years ago. And the most... And a very famous artist, Papa Picasso, actually was invited into one of these caves. And the famous artist, Papa Picasso, actually was invited into one of these caves. And the famous artist, Papa Picasso, actually was invited into one of these caves. And he said that, wow, we learned nothing in 10 ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 6:04 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=364s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=364s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: ,000 years, meaning that they were just as good back then as they are today. Artistically speaking, humans have not improved at all. Okay? So these are horses, okay? This is Altamira, Spain, which goes back to 34,000 BCE. And you can see that they're not looking for a realistic picture. They're looking for a real depiction of animals, okay? They're trying to imagine the natural world in their own way. Okay. So another question then is, okay, how did they paint these pictures? So first of all, they mainly used red and black, okay? Red came from ochre, which is a type of clay, and black comes from a charcoal, okay? So that's the coloring they used. Now, inside a cave, it's very dark. So they had to use lighting, okay? So what they did was they got some animal fat and put fire on it, okay? So they could see some of the caves, but not all of them, okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 7:29 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-bridges-invisible-order) Text: And then, so another question is, why did they paint these pictures? And a lot of the clue is this. A lot of the clue is where we find them. We found these paintings. We found these paintings in a very special place in the cave. We found these paintings in the cave, a section of the cave where the acoustics was the best, the sound was the best. So what this means is we're fairly convinced that these paintings were part of a ritual, which included music, because we found musical instruments as well. Flutes, okay? So in other words, we think that these paintings are like Gopalpepepe, which is like maybe now and then, these hunter -gatherers would come into this cave for a religious festival where there's music, dancing, okay? And they are watching these paintings together. So these paintings are part of a ritual. They're part of a religious festival. In other words, these paintings are not about art. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 8:47 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: It's really about religion. It's expressing the religious beliefs of the people at that time, okay? So does this make sense, guys? All right. Yes. Okay. So I'm going to answer the question, what are the beliefs right now, okay? All right. So again, no one knows what their beliefs are because they wrote nothing down, okay? They are preliterate. Okay. We can't go back in time and talk to them, okay? So we have to use our imagination. So let's imagine that we go back in time to this time. It's very cold. And our memories have been wiped out, meaning like we've lost the knowledge of today. We've lost science. We've lost what we learned in biology class, okay? So my first question is, we're in this world. Okay. And what are things that amaze us or make us wonder or make us in awe? What are things that capture our imagination, okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 10:00 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Meaning like we see these things and we're like, oh my God, God must exist because there's no way I can explain what happened. What are these things that we would see and we would be surprised by, marvel at, basically be in awe of? Okay. We're in this world. What are things that make us wonder? What are things about our life that amaze us? What's the first thing that we can think of? What's the first thing? You're in this world, right? Use your imagination. What's one thing that's like, oh, okay, there must be a god or there must be some supernatural powers that govern our world. What's the first thing that comes to mind? How about childbirth? Childbirth, right? Does that make sense to you guys? Because I'm a father. I have three kids. And... I can tell you something. you when i first saw my child being born i was amazed because you have ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 11:10 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=670s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=670s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: this life come out of nothing right okay and if you don't if you have a psychology you can't explain what happened so that's the first thing that amazes about amazes us about being human childbirth right what's the second thing that would amaze you if you were back here yeah uh child growing up okay so child growing up yes what else how about yeah okay how about the stars right it's it's late at night and remember there's no pollution so you see out into the darkness and it's all stars glowing right that's pretty amazing so what do you think these stars are you're staring into outer space right and you see these stars glowing brightly in the sky what are they what's your explanation really to me okay possibly okay possibly souls or other worlds okay planets worlds in other words the first thing that you recognize is that our world is just one of many ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 12:38 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=758s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=758s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: worlds out there does it make sense all right what else amazes you about the world to me okay recovery from disease okay so healing right how do you explain healing then what thoughts save you oh that god save you okay all right yeah okay so there are some supernatural powers but another way to explain healing okay is that you have a body and you have a soul right and the soul could be one of the stars so what's causing disease in this world is the soul the body are in conflict and so healing is about bringing the soul and the body aligned together okay and we think this because look at chinese medicine right it's the same idea right where the soul and the body are in conflict right and you want to align it to you in order to heal okay so what so other things that would surprise you is nature right the ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 14:03 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: animals the trees the vastness of nature now these are things that surprise us and they force us to ask the question why so now let's try to construct a theory of how to connect all these things okay all right so we know that the stars there's other powers out there right there has to be gods or the soul of really uh great people or other planets or other worlds okay and then of course that is something that is the European era right first up we have one wonderful discovery at rótis of the new universe right now the portal that allows souls to come in into our world how do these souls return to their world again but what they do in death how do we so people die and then burial thank you we do understand so this so this is symmetry right the soul comes into our world from the mother's womb from darkness ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 15:57 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=957s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=957s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-bridges-invisible-order) Text: and then for us to return the soul back into the original world we bury this person in darkness and that carries that person back to the original world okay does that make sense okay so this is probably the simplest explanation for how life and death works okay all right so these there are these portals okay and what in nature most resembles a womb what in nature most resembles a womb what in nature most resembles a womb a mother's womb like a cave right you understand a cave so we can think like okay we humans come from a mother's womb which is a cave right a tunnel but animals also come from a womb which is the cave okay so the cave is a portal into another world so the cave is a portal into another world so why are we in the cave celebrating why are we in the cave celebrating why are we in ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 17:12 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1032s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1032s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: the cave celebrating animals why are we doing that why are we animals why are we doing that why are we animals why are we doing that why are we in a cave celebrating animals what are in a cave celebrating animals what are we really doing we respect what we we really doing we respect what we we really doing we respect what we respect the soul and what else are we respect the soul and what else are we doing because why are we respecting your doing because why are we respecting your soul yeah we kill them right so we kill soul yeah we kill them right so we kill them and now what are we trying to do them and now what are we trying to do once we eat them what what must we do now to me yes bring them back right you understand so we kill them we think they go back they ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 18:09 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1089s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1089s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: go back into the spirit world right so now we have to summon them back from the spirit world into our world okay does that make sense so in other words what this religion what this belief is really saying is that we are all interconnected and for every action that we make we have to do something else to compensate for action okay so if we kill an animal for to eat the meat then we need to ask forgiveness and then bring this animal back in the spirit world to maintain balance and harmony in nature does that make sense guys okay so why is it in this world there's balance and harmony why do we think there's balance and harmony because what gives life to everything what's the force that gives life to everything the mother goddess right mother nature okay and so if we think that there's one force the mother goddess that gives life to ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 19:23 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1163s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1163s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: everything that means that for us trees animals us are all equal we're all the children of mother nature we all have souls okay and so what gives us permission to kill other animals why are we allowed to kill other and other animals the other animals are our brothers and sisters right so what gives us permission to kill the other animals why are we allowed to do so okay because mother nature mother goddess has a plan okay each thing on this planet has a function the function is to maintain balance harmony if we do not kill the other animals that have ideas of a protocol that are the we will die okay but also if you don't kill the other animals they'll be there were too many of them understand so in other words the world is a cycle it's a circle and each person each animal has a part to play in this as long ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 20:31 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1231s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1231s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: as we play our part then the world will be harmonious and balanced and perfect okay does that make sense okay does that make sense guys okay so we have actually a word for this religion and this word is animism okay animism and what animism is it's a very it's probably the first religion okay it's a belief that each living thing whether it's a tree a mosquito a person or anything that's living has a soul okay and we're all interconnected because we all have souls and so we must maintain balance and harmony and so um many of the point of religions okay if you go to talk to native people in North America and South America in Australia they all have this belief but also there are many religions such as Buddhism which also has this belief okay and we believe believe that this is the first religion okay so let's go over some evidence that ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 21:52 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: this is in fact what they believed okay so a recent discovery that we made is that trees talk to each other you guys do you guys know this so what happens is that trees there are maybe thousands of trees in the forest and their roots can are connected through mushrooms for fungi and this allows allows them to share information so for example what we know is that if one tree in one part of forest lacks nutrients like water okay the other trees will send nutrients to that tree does it make sense okay so it's almost like the forest is one big brain or one big living organism and they're all trying to survive and they're trying to survive and they're trying to survive it's like the forest is one big brain or one big living organism and they're all trying to communicate with each other. Another thing that we discovered is that if there are ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 22:51 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1371s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1371s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: pests or insects that attack one tree, this tree will automatically communicate to the other trees and these trees will start to prepare for the pest or the attack. The third thing, which is the most interesting, is that trees will recognize their own children. So if the children, these children trees, need nutrients, the mother trees will send the nutrients to the children right away. Okay, does that make sense? So this is something that we've recently discovered, but if you think about it, if you're living back then, you can sense the, you can sense almost how trees communicate because you're always in touch with nature. Okay, does that make sense? All right, this is a cave painting and you can see that these animals, okay, gazelles, they're going somewhere and there are two beings here, okay? We believe that these two beings represent the mother goddess because as we discussed last class, the mother goddess comes in the form of a bird, right? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 24:18 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1458s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1458s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: The bird. The bird flies around the sky. The sky is the mother goddess. Okay, so it's almost like the mother goddess is channeling or herding the animals from the spirit world back into her own world. What you also notice is that these birds almost like humans, okay? And so what we think is that the shamans dress up like birds in order to channel the energy of the mother goddess, in order to channel the energy of the mother goddess, in order to control the animals, okay? Okay, and there's actually a lot of evidence for this. So this is clearly an animal, but this is also a person who's an animal, who's a human being, right? Because of the figure. So these are human beings, shamans, who dress up like animals in order to better communicate with animals, but also to better communicate with the spirit world, okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 25:18 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Okay, and this is actually a more clearer picture of shamans trying to access, you know, the spirit world. of shamans trying to access, you know, the spirit world. Okay, are we clear so far? So from this religion, we can guess that the people back then were extremely compassionate. They believed that everything has a soul, and every life is precious, okay? And one evidence for this is this. This is a skeleton. What's interesting about the skeleton is that it's a, it's a dwarf, okay? So there are some humans back then who are born with diseases, or handicaps, or physical deformities. This person is a dwarf. Now, this is interesting because dwarfs aren't able to contribute that much to your community, right? So as a hunter -gatherer, you need to hunt together to access meat, to get meat, to feed everyone. If you're a dwarf, you're not really doing that much. So in theory, because it's such a harsh life, ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 26:41 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1601s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1601s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: being a hunter -gatherer, you would think that they would discard the dwarf, kill the dwarf, or maybe leave the dwarf behind, okay? But, from DNA analysis, what we know is this. This skeleton, okay, this person had the same amount of food, the same quality of food, as everyone else. Meaning that, even though this person was not contributing to the community, everyone worked hard to make sure this person was treated well, and was fed as well as everyone else. And at the end of this person's life, he was granted a elaborate burial, okay? And we know this. This is from the archeological research, yeah? Yeah, okay. Okay, does that make sense, guys? Alright, so let me ask you this question. Let's make the assumption that he was, in fact, contributing to the community. How could he contribute to the community? How? They clearly thought he was special, but what made him special? If you're a dwarf, you can't hunt, what can you do? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 28:17 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1697s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1697s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: See what I mean? Okay, but what else can you do besides food? Why would they think he was a special person? What could he do that others couldn't do? Yeah? Thank you, okay. So maybe the religion back then is that everyone is special, everyone's the same, right? So if you're different, it doesn't mean you're less special, it means you're more special. It means you're not the same person, it means that the mother goddess has given you a special power. And maybe this power is to communicate with the spirit world, okay? So maybe the cave paintings, as you say, were done by people like this, who were in a constant state of meditation with the spirit world. And that's what inspired him to create the cave paintings. Okay? Because clearly, if you look at the cave paintings, they were done by a special mind. And if you are a dwarf, you clearly see the world in a different way. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 29:40 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And being a dwarf, it makes the most sense to be a shaman, not only because people think you're special, but because you can invest time into meditation, into religious practice, that enables you to communicate with the spirit world. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. And not only that, but what we found is that there are many burials like this, okay? So this is a passage from The Dawn of Everything, which is a fantastic book, okay? By David Grabber and David Wengro. They're both anthropologists. And this is a fantastic book, okay? But this is a passage from the book. So Roman II is the dwarf. He goes back 10,000 years. Okay? And it was a pretty elaborate burial. And as this paragraph says, we know he ate exactly the same food as everyone else. Okay? He was not discriminated against in any way. And the last passage here is, neither is Roman II an isolated case. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 30:48 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1848s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1848s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Okay? We have many examples of this. When archaeologists undertake balanced appraisals of hunter -gathered burials from the Paleolithic, okay, meaning the Ice Age, they find high frequencies of health -related disabilities. Okay? So the people who are buried tend to be the ones who are disabled. They have some form of disease, which makes us think that maybe they're shamans. Okay? They were picked to be shamans because hunter -gatherers thought, you're different, therefore you must be special. Therefore, the mother goddess favors you. Okay? And high levels of care until the time of death. Sometimes, their funerals were remarkably lavish, which meant that they were prioritized by the community. They were highly valued by the people around them. Okay? The best explanation is, well, they were shamans. They were people who could access the spirit world and communicate with it. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 31:54 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1914s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=1914s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Any more, any questions before I move on? All right. Now, another amazing thing that we found about Ice Age cave paintings is that they have symbols. Okay? So we saw pictures, but a Canadian anthropologist named Genevieve von Petzinger, she went all around the world and she documented symbols in these Ice Age cave paintings, and she found recurring symbols. For example, the hand. Okay? The hand is everywhere. The spiral, the quadrangle, the circle. Okay? The asterisk. Let me ask you this question. Why would paintings have symbols? Why would drawings have symbols? Why can't you just draw the thing? Why do you need to have symbols? Okay. So you're right. Okay? So we think that this is a written language. Okay? It's one of the first written languages, which meant that back then, they actually had the ability to read and write. Okay? So maybe this is a common language. What are some other possibilities? Why would you want to use symbols in a painting? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 33:44 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2024s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2024s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Excuse me? To keep the content mysterious. Okay, that's interesting. Okay? To keep the content mysterious. And so where do these symbols come from? To keep the content mysterious, right? You have these symbols and there's secret signs. Where are the secret signs from? I know, but where do they believe they got the signs from? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 34:19 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2059s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 34:20 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2060s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2060s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Do you understand? Okay. So another theory, okay, again, we don't know. Okay? No one knows. But like, let's look at different theories. Another theory is that this is the language of the gods. Right? As you say, to keep the content mysterious, to give it divine or holy or sacred meaning. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. What are some other possibilities? Yes, exactly. Okay. Yeah. So this can also be a shorthand. Okay? We call this shorthand. But also, like, there's some things you can't draw. For example, love or energy or repetition or balance, harmony, cycle. Right? These things you can't draw. So you have to represent them using symbols. Okay? So there are many different possibilities. Which means this, okay? Let's just summarize what the possibilities are. What are the symbols in art? Okay? The first is that maybe there are you're trying to visualize an idea. Okay? You can't draw energy or life force or cycle or repetition. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 35:38 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2138s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2138s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: So you just have to use a symbol to represent it. Okay? Which means what? Which means that each picture is a mythology. It's a story. Okay? Do you understand? The pictures aren't trying to show you a picture. They're trying to tell you a story about the world. And that's why symbols are important. Because in a story, there are that you cannot visually express. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that you're trying to visualize the language of the spirit world. Okay? So this goes back to making the mysterious. Okay? Why do we think this? The answer is this. Okay? We think that when they drew the way to access the spirit world is to use drugs. Okay? What we'll call psychedelics. So, in other words, there are certain plants that if you drink, okay, it makes you see things. And the things they see are in fact the symbols. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 36:44 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2204s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2204s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: The geometric signs. So in other words, they went to the spirit world or they think they went into the spirit world and then they're just trying to express the language of the spirit world. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, this is a complicated idea. Okay? But I want to introduce this idea to you. Like how we perceive or how we understand reality. So for most of human history, we thought that, oh, reality was just reality. And we are trying, just trying to see reality. Okay? Reality is something that you must see. And then along came a philosopher. And he's a very famous philosopher. I want you, I want you to remember the name. But his name is Immanuel Kant. Okay? And he is considered the greatest philosopher who ever lived. Immanuel Kant. German. And his idea is this. His idea is that reality is not something that we experience or we see. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 37:48 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2268s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2268s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Reality is something that we imagine. That we create with our mind. The example he uses is time and space. Okay? Like one, two, three, four. It does not exist in nature. It's not, doesn't exist. Okay? It's something that we, our minds made up. So our reality is something that we imagine every day. Okay? Does that make sense? Now, what's really interesting is that Immanuel Kant was writing maybe over 20 years ago. Okay? And today we have a new science called neuroscience. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 38:34 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 38:34 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Neuroscience is the study of the brain. And what's really amazing, okay, and we will discuss this in future classes, is that neuroscience has confirmed Immanuel Kant. Meaning, like, we now know that the brain imagines reality. Okay? It projects reality. Does that make sense? So what drugs do is they change the structure of your brain so that you, you see a different reality. Okay? Does that make sense guys? So that's what drugs do. And so when they see a different reality maybe they're seeing symbols. Okay? So that's the second thing about symbols in art. The last thing is these symbols are mysterious. Right? And mystery makes things sacred and divine. Right? So back to childbirth. Childbirth is something that back then they couldn't understand. Therefore, they have to believe that childbirth is sacred and divine and therefore women are sacred and divine. Because only women are are able to give birth. Men are allowed to give birth. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 39:47 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt) Text: Okay? So back then we believed that for most of human history either we were egalitarian meaning like men and women were equal than men. Only in recent history do men have more power. Okay? And how this happened I'll explain to you next week. Okay? But just remember back then there was no separation of sexes. If anything women were considered superior to men. Remember the god is a mother goddess a female. And therefore women are more special than men and they know this because women give birth not men. Okay? And childbirth is mysterious. Does that make sense? Okay. So we understand symbols and art as doing these three things. Now we have a more comprehensive or complete understanding of why they did art. Okay? The first reason is what they're trying to do is trying they're trying to visualize their mythology. Okay? They're trying to take this idea their understanding of how the world works their religion and they're trying to visualize it. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 41:02 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2462s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2462s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-religion-makes-society); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: Okay? So art is basically religion. There's no difference. Second thing is that they're trying to show to themselves how reality works. Okay? They're trying to show that the underlying reality is a soul or god. Okay? Does that make sense? The last thing which is the most important is they're trying to create a common memory and imagination. A language mythology that they all share together. Okay? And this is what we call society. Does that make sense? So in other words okay the argument I'm trying to make you trying to make you the argument I'm trying to make to you today is one religion has always been there since the dawn of humanity. Okay? That's the first. Second thing is that religion allows us to communicate with each other to be together in society. So the third thing the third thing is religion is what allows us to be fundamentally human. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 42:18 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Without religion we could not be human. We could not think. We could not communicate. We could not imagine. Does it make sense guys? Okay? Any questions about this? Okay. Now let's look at a quote. Okay? What is religion? Okay? And this is from Imel Durkheim. Okay? And I want you to remember the name Imel Durkheim. Okay? He's just as famous as Immanuel Kant. Imel Durkheim is considered the founder of sociology. Okay? So when you go to university and you study sociology guess what? You'll mainly be studying Imel Durkheim. Okay? So this is what he says about religion. Religion is above all okay? First and foremost religion is this a system of idea by which men imagine society of which they are members. Okay? And this is of understanding the world. All right? Does that make sense guys? All right. So let's look at what he says again in more detail. Okay. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 43:43 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2623s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2623s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: So the great service that religions have rendered to thought is to have constructed a first representation of the relations of kinship between things might be. Okay? So what this is saying is that religion allows us to construct an understanding of the world. Okay? So basically the first religion was this. Right? And this is just a theory of the world. This is important because from this theory we are able to construct more theories. All right. Given the conditions in which it was tried that enterprise could obviously lead only to makeshift results. Meaning that okay well listen religion it's all about guessing. It's all about hypothesizing. Okay? So you know a lot of these ideas aren't going to work out. That doesn't matter. But then are the results of any such enterprise ever definitive? And must it not be taken up again and again? Okay? So our desire to know our curiosity forces us to constantly reimagine our religion. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 45:01 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: Furthermore it was less important to succeed than to dare. The fact that we try is what's important. What has what was essential was not to be to was not to let the mind be dominated by what appears to the senses. Okay? But instead to teach the mind to dominate it and to join together what the senses put asunder. So as human beings we're not trying to see the world we're trying to imagine the world. Okay? That's what makes us human. Okay? Going back to Immanuel Kant our ability to imagine reality is what makes us fundamentally human. As soon as man became aware that internal connections exist between things science and philosophy became possible. So from religion we develop philosophy and science. In fact you can say that science today is our religion. Okay? There's really no difference. It's just an understanding of the world based on our imagination and some evidence. Religion made a way for them. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 46:11 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2771s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2771s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-religion-makes-society) Text: It is because religion is a social thing that it could play this role. To make men take control of sense impressions and replace them with a new way of imagining the real a new kind of thought had to be created. Collective thought. Okay? So religion is our collective consciousness. It's what allows society to come into being. If collective thought alone had the power to achieve this here is the reason. Creating a whole world of ideals through which the world of sense realities seem transfigured would require a hyper exaltation of intellectual forces that is only possible in and through society. Okay? It's only because we are together are we allow are we inspired to come up with religion. So it's fundamental to being human. Without religion there could be no society. Without society there could also be no religion. Okay? You understand? So the implication of all this is that as a human first of all you are not alone. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 47:20 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2840s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2840s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-religion-makes-society) Text: If you are alone you are not a human. You are a human because you live in society. You are with other people. And because you are with other people you must have a collective consciousness or an idea you share together and we call this thing religion. Okay? Does that make sense? Is this clear to you guys? Alright. Any questions? Anything you are not clear about? Do you see how all this connects together? Okay? The cave paintings is what started it. Cave paintings is the expression of a religion. Then when the Ice Age ended we had the chance to settle down we created communities to celebrate our religion and that's what gave rise to agriculture. Okay? And the religion that we use is probably something like this. Okay? The world is interconnected there's a mother goddess that gives light to everything. Okay? Any questions? Anything you are you are you are you are unclear about? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 48:27 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 48:37 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Yeah? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 48:50 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2930s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=2930s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Okay. So that's a good question. Okay? So the question is monotheism. Okay? So the more the three major religions of today are Christianity Islam um and and Judaism. Okay? They're all monotheistic meaning they believe in one God. Um so this is actually a very recent innovation. Okay? So um back then they wouldn't have a concept of power hierarchy. You understand? They wouldn't understand think that the mother goddess is the greatest God of all. They could only think of the stars. There's no hierarchy in the stars. They're all over the place. Okay? So maybe the mother goddess gives birth to our world but maybe there's another God that gives birth to another world. Okay? So they wouldn't think in terms of hierarchy. We think in terms of hierarchy today because of monotheism. But back then they wouldn't think so. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So maybe maybe today you can think of a pyramid. Okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 50:06 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3006s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3006s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: There's people at the top. But back then they would think think like it's a river. Okay? We're all part of the river. It's a cycle. It just goes in circles. And there's no differentiation or there's no power power hierarchy. Things go wrong when there's conflict inside this river. Okay? When people don't do things they're supposed to be doing. Okay? So and what and these things are what? What are things that defy the mother goddess or go against the the mother goddess? How about incest? Right? How about killing animals without making the proper sacrifices? Right? So you just kill the animals but you don't go in the cave to pray for them for for their return. Okay? So in other words in this world religion is basically ritual. And this is something that we'll study next class. How religion is just ritual. Okay? Just just habits and practices and actions. Any other questions? That's a great question by the way. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 51:19 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: But monotheism is something that we will look at very closely in future classes. It's very important because it's a basis for our society. Okay? Any other questions? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 51:29 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3089s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3089s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: Yeah? Yes. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 51:49 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: But you can't live in a cave though. Right? You can't live in a cave. You can only go there now and then. There's no oxygen in the cave. It's too dark. It's too cold. You can't live there. Right? So you're right in that okay if a cave were livable they could build farms around that cave. So okay that's actually a great question. Okay? Besides caves what are some other portals in the world? What are some other portals in the world that have like spiritual energy besides caves in nature? If you were back then you would think that this place is special because it both connects our world and spirit world and these places would be mountaintops. Right? Mountaintops. Guess what? Goblee Tepe was on a mountaintop. Okay? Where else would there be portals? Rivers. Okay? Rivers. It doesn't make sense? These are places that people would think are portals into the out into another world and therefore they are special. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 53:11 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3191s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3191s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And we find that when they settle down and build agriculture they did so on mountaintops and they did so around rivers. Okay? Does that make sense? But not caves because you couldn't actually live in caves. Does that answer your question? You can't live in a cave. There's no food and it's cold and it's wet. Oh. Great question. Okay. Yeah. So they lived outside in tents. No. No. You can't live in a cave. There's no oxygen. Any more questions? Okay. So your question actually makes me think of a point I want to end the class with. Okay? So today we think that we are either economic animals economic animals or biological animals. Okay? So the person who introduced us like who introduced to us the idea that we are economic animals is Karl Marx. Okay? And his argument is that we are driven by our need to have money. Okay? ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 54:30 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) Text: And that's what we believe today. Right? You're in school because you want to get good grades so you can go get into a good university and then you can go get a good job. Okay? Now there are other people who believe that we are biological animals and these are people people are called evolutionary biologists. They're inspired by Charles Darwin. So the idea here is that we are motivated by our desire to spread our genes. Okay? So if I'm a man I want to sleep with as many women as possible because if I sleep with as many women as possible I spread my genes. Right? But if you're a woman you want to find a man who will be loyal to you because the cost of childbearing child -rearing is very high. Okay? Does it make sense? So and we'll be discussing both these theories more throughout the semester. Okay? The argument I want to make to you today is that no. ## Humans Are Religious Before They Are Economic -- 55:35 - Source title: Civilization #2: Religion and the Dawn of Society - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-09-03, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3335s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1E5rRmCiT4&t=3335s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-x1e5rrmcit4.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-religion-makes-society) Text: We are first and foremost a religious animal. We have the fundamental need to understand why we are here. We have a fundamental need to connect with everyone. Okay? To connect with other people. But that does not mean that we are not economic and biological animals. Okay? They all interplay together. Do you understand? So what we'll see later in the semester is that you might have a religion but this religion is not meaning your economic and biological needs. Then you have to either abandon the religion or change your religion. Okay? But we'll also know that the economic need is not enough. You also need religion. So there is an interplay between economics, biology, and religion. Okay? And that's what drives human history. This is something that we will learn more about next week. Okay? Sorry, next week. Okay? So yeah. Any more questions? Okay. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 0:00 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Okay, so in this first lecture, I want to ask a question. The question is Why did humanity transition from hunter -gatherer society to agriculture? And in the traditional paradigm, a paradigm paradigm is a very sophisticated English word and all it means is Story or model or understanding. Okay, so in a traditional story paradigm we transition because We're first hunter -gatherers and we lived in groups about 20 to 50 people and we roam The land looking for food. It was uncertain. It was unstable and then suddenly There's a revolution. We discover farming and farming provided a Stable source of food that we could control. Okay, the word we use is domestication Okay, domestication just means that we bring it under our control and because of farming we can now create more food than we need and the word we use for this is surplus and Because there's a surplus People now could do things besides farming ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 1:35 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=95s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=95s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So for example, we could have Leaders which creates the idea of politics, right? We could also have priests Which introduces the idea of religion? and we can have creative people which then gives us arts and slowly over time These villages grew into cities and because there was a lot of people in our surplus we could now have literature reading and writing So we can now store knowledge and then pass it from generation to generation and across cultures okay, we're gonna have science and technology and slowly over the course of this process We create modernity, okay Which is the world that we live in today? So the pivotal step towards modernity was this transition into our culture and this is traditionally What we believed about the world Unfortunately, there's no evidence for this Okay, and in fact the more evidence we collect the more we realize This is not true. In fact, what we now know ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 3:01 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=181s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=181s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: is it was actually pretty stupid To transition from hunter -gatherer into farming Okay for a variety of reasons the first reason is that When you're a hunter -gatherer It's actually a pretty easy life because there's food everywhere. Okay, when you're a farmer It's a hard life because you have to grow that food. So maybe maybe it's a hunter -gatherer You're working maybe an hour a day, but as a farmer you were working six seven hours a day It was very hard to grow that food so in the book Sapiens the Israeli Israeli Historian named you well Harari. He's very famous it Sapiens also very famous book. There's a very famous sentence Okay, and so this is like this we did not domesticate wheat wheat Domesticated us. Okay, so we thought that we made wheat Okay, the food wheat into our slave, but in reality wheat made us its slave and the reasoning for this is ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 4:16 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: this out in nature if You're wheat and you want to survive you have to make yourself attractive to other people and to animals Okay, so you have to be tasty and you have to be easy to find You have to do a lot of work But when you're on a farm in your wheat, you can just lay back do nothing and make humans do all the work Okay, so it was a bad deal for humans and a very good deal for Wheat, okay, so that's the first problem you actually do more work on the farm than you do as a hunter -gatherer Which means that now you have to have more children, right? You need up labor to do all that work which creates a problem of overpopulation Which means that you are using too much land and then eventually the land becomes dead. Okay, or Not airboy anymore so it's the first problem second ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 5:14 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt) Text: problem is that we're able to dig up the skeletons of hunter -gatherers and farmers and what we read and what we see is that Hunter -gatherers are a lot taller than farmers. Why? protein right food as a hunter -gatherer you have access to Meat you have access to fruits and nuts and vegetables. Okay, your diet is very varied And very nutritious But as a farmer you're eating only what you grow which is mainly wheat and some vegetables Okay, so you're not getting that much nutrition then the third problem is that is as a Farmer you were much more likely to die early Than either hunter -gatherer Why have you guys been to a farm? What's the problem on a farm? Exactly. Thank you pigs, right? Animals they're everywhere plus where do you put the garbage? Where do you go to the restroom, right? So because people are together in a very unclean place It's much more likely to contract disease and then die Okay. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 6:34 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=394s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=394s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So for these three reasons the transition from hunter -gatherer to farming makes no sense and even today we are not able To explain to you why this transition happened Okay, we don't know why why we did this So the only thing we can do is construct theories as to why this might have happened so even though we can't go in the past and Look at why we did this We can do some research and collect evidence and then create theories as to why this might have happened. Okay, so There are four different disciplines From which we can collect evidence The first discipline is called archaeology Archaeology is just the study of the past. So basically you go and you pick stuff up and you see what you can find Okay, maybe you can pick up someone's house or you can pick up someone's skeleton or someone's ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 7:40 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=460s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Clothing okay, and from that you're able to figure out what happened in the past and so three pieces of evidence market archaeology We will look at today are Gobekli Tepe Jericho and Katara, Hawaii, okay, and these are places that we've actually dug up and we know what life is like in these three places That's so much archaeology Second discipline we can look at is anthropology and anthropology Is the study of other cultures So in other words, there are places still on this planet where people Live a hunter -gatherer lifestyle Maybe in the Amazon, maybe in Australia, maybe in Africa Okay, and so we're able to go and study these people to understand why how Originally we thought and why we might have transitioned into farming. Okay, so anthropology the third field that we can look at is psychology or neuroscience Basically how the brain works How do we feel? What motivates us? Why do we behave the way we behave? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 9:00 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=540s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=540s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Okay, so that's a third field we can look at the last field we can look at is primatology a study of primates, okay or monkeys Because guess what guys we're monkeys. We're primates 99 % of our DNA are monkey DNA so we can look at certain groups of monkeys to understand how they behave and there are three types of Primates that we look at very closely Okay, the first is gorillas. We also look at chimpanzees and we look at banal bulls. Okay Chimpanzees and bonobos are very close to us genetically, they're the closest to us of all the primates so By looking at these four different fields We're able to collect evidence to construct theories as to why we transition from hunter -gatherer into farming Okay So now I will share some of these Theories with you and again, what's really important to understand is we don't know what happened ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 10:07 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: We can only guess about what happened so the first theory is the idea of coercion Okay, and what this basically means is that there's an elite group of people who didn't want to work So they made everyone else work Okay, so that's coercion and the evidence for this is that well guess what? Gorillas do this right if you study gorillas, you will see that they always have an alpha male The male who's bigger than everyone else and who makes everyone do all the work He just sits and naps every day, but he gets all the girls and he gets all the food Okay, so gorillas That's the first theory. The second theory is war Okay, and the idea here is that if you are on a Farm, it's easier to protect yourself in a time of war if you're out in the forest, right? You can build walls around your farm you can Defend yourself a lot easier. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 11:18 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: You can see the enemy coming. Okay, so War the evidence for this is that Chimpanzees, okay again who are like us They go to war a lot. They're very violent. They're always fighting each other so the argument here is that We human beings are just a violent People who are always at war and we must be afraid of each other and therefore When we have the chance we'll settle down build fortifications build walls and fight each other Okay, that's the second theory. And again the evidence for this are chimpanzees. The third theory is respect for elders meaning that as a hunter -gatherer It's very hard on old people, right? so at a certain point You're gonna have to leave the old people to just stay there and die and maybe we as human beings we are biologically programmed to take care of elders for whatever reason okay, and again, the evidence for this is anthropology where every culture Respects its elders, right? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 12:40 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=760s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=760s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So that's a third theory the last theory is religion okay, meaning that we settle down in order to celebrate a religion to practice a religion and Just to be clear There's evidence and arguments for all four theories and there are scholars who argued for different theories Okay but the consensus what most people agree on Today, okay, most scholars not every scholar but most scholars is Religion, okay So let me explain why we think the answer has to be religion slowly. All right, okay so coercion While it is true that with gorillas, there's an alpha male Who controls everything? The problem is that if you look at gorillas the alpha male is huge, okay? Okay? And males are a lot bigger than females. So it's possible for one gorilla to exert force and pressure on the others, okay? With human beings, that's harder, right? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 14:01 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Because let's just say a nine foot giant human being comes into this room and is like, I'm now your boss, you have to grow fruit for me, you have to give me all your woman, okay? What can we do as a class? Beat the crap out of him, okay, you understand? Because we have big brains, and these big brains allow us to cooperate together, okay? So this guy's around, and at first we're afraid of him, so we let him do whatever he wants. But then he goes to bed, and then we as a class discuss, hey, what can we do? Well, we can make weapons, right? Or we can trap him, or we can trick him, we can give him poison food, okay? So coercion among humans is very, very hard to do. The worst case scenario, we can't beat him up, what we'll do is just run away, okay? Does that make sense? So we don't ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 15:00 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=900s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=900s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: think coercion is an explanation, because there's so many ways for us to fight back and to rebel against bigger people, okay? So coercion doesn't really work. War. Okay, so we don't think war is a good explanation either. So it is true that chimpanzees are naturally violent, okay? They're always beating the crap out of each other. But guess what? Bonobos, who are actually closer to us genetically than chimpanzees, they're actually very peaceful. They don't fight each other, okay? So there's no evidence. There's no evidence that we human beings are naturally violent. Also, if it is war, then we should be able to find weapons, and we don't really find weapons, okay? In archeology, we don't really find weapons of early humans. Now, there is a lot of violence in early human history, okay? There's human sacrifice, there's group burials, where a group of people are killed. But that's basically violence within a group. We don't find evidence of large violence among different groups, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 16:34 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: We don't find that. So, war, we don't really think is a possibility. Now, it's possible that in the future, we'll find evidence. But I'm just saying that right now, in archeology and anthropology, we do not have any evidence, okay? The last, let me look at respect for elders. The last thing, we look at respect for elders. And even though this is a valid theory, there's an argument that back then they didn't really care about dying that much. And the reason why is that for most of human history, we human beings have seen life, history, as a circle, right? So, for example, right now it's summer, it's going to turn into fall, then winter, then spring, then summer again, okay? So, the world, history, moves in a cycle. Well, human life also moves in a cycle. You're born, you die, then you're reborn, then you die again, then you're reborn again, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 17:45 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1065s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1065s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So, back then, they really didn't care if you died. In fact, if you're an old person. You're probably like, you know what, I'd rather be dead, and then, so, if I die, I'll either be reborn or go into the spirit world, okay? So, they didn't really fear death, or they really didn't see death like the way we saw death, yeah? Okay, that's a great question, okay? So, the evidence for this is what we understand about their religion, which we will discuss later on and in next class, okay? All right, the last, so, that leaves religion as the most likely. Possibility, and this, again, this is what most scholars believe happened, and so, we're gonna look at three different archeological sites. The first is Gobekli Tepe, the second is Jericho, and the third is Katahoyak, okay? All right, so, I'm gonna draw up a, I'm, we'll first see a picture of Gobekli Tepe, and guys, these pictures, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 19:01 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1141s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1141s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: These places were only discovered in the past few decades, okay? So, these are new places. We're only starting to understand these places, and so, this place is in Turkey, in central Turkey, and this dates back about 9,500 B.C. So, this is, this is about over 11,000 years old, and we don't even think this is the oldest place, okay? So, if you did your research, you will know that this is basically a place of religious worship. You can see that they constructed this place so that there are these T -shaped pillars, okay? And these things are huge, right? This is a human being, and this is a T -shaped pillar, okay? We think, again, this is all theory, okay? This is all what we know, and we don't know that much because this is all recent, okay? But we think that these T -shapes represent human beings, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 20:00 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1200s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1200s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-makes-settlement-livable); [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-gathers-settlement); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: These T -shapes are animals, and you can see that they align, or they built this, this T -shape in a way that they can practice a ritual or a worship, okay? So, the people who are leading this were probably who we call shamans, okay? Or religious leaders that help us bridge our world with the animal world and the spirit world, okay? So, these are shamans. Okay? And so, Gobekli Tepe is a place of religious worship. Now, what's interesting about Gobekli Tepe is that the religious site is the oldest, but we also find houses that are built later on, okay? So, what we think might have happened here is that hunter -gatherers will come to a place now and then to practice religion. Because ultimately, as human beings, and we discussed this last class, we have a yearning, or we have a need to understand why, and religion solves this problem for us. Also, as hunter -gatherer, you need to associate with other hunter -gatherers in order to find mates, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 21:25 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1285s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1285s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: To find husbands and wives to reproduce. And so, this sort of religious center, it's a great time to come and practice your religion, but it's also a great time to feast and to meet someone you can marry and have children with, okay? So, that was the original function of the temple. Now, these places are often led by shamans, and what makes them special is that they are charismatic leaders, okay? Charismatic leaders. Charismatic leaders are people like Mao Zedong, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, okay? They're people who, for whatever reason, people just love them and want to follow them, okay? And so, maybe what happened was that these charismatic leaders, they built this place, and they became like celebrities, and people came from all over to meet them, to hear the religion, and to meet other people. And over time, some people even chose to stay with them and build houses to celebrate them, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 22:43 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1363s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1363s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: And then, when they died, what happened was they still worshiped them in their death. And so, this place became a temple, okay? Does that make sense? So, that's one theory about Kobletepe. There are other theories, okay? There are some people who will tell you that, okay? Space aliens came down and built this place because it's so sophisticated, okay? But, so there are different theories, but the one that scholars most agree with today, okay, is that it was a religious center. Any questions before I move on to, before I move on? Okay, so that's a great question, okay? Where does religion come from? And this is something that we will look at very closely next class. And the answer is, is this, okay? Even though we all have the need for religion, we don't all have the ability to produce religion, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 23:54 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1434s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1434s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So, who these charismatic leaders are, are people who have visions or dreams of God or the spirit world, okay? And then, they present their visions to other people. And we have people like this throughout human history, right? So, think of Jesus. Think of Mohammed. Think of Buddha. Think of Confucius, right? These are people who have these visions of God or of spirituality or of a new world, and present to people. And because they're charismatic, they're able to attract followers and spread their religion. And that's what probably happened here as well. Because as you can see from this picture, it was very hard work to build this temple, okay? This is 11,000 years ago. They didn't have bulldozers. They didn't have shovels, okay? This is all by hand. So, for them to want to dedicate their lives to building this temple, because it took a long, long time, right? It took years and years and hundreds of people. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 25:06 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1506s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1506s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-bridges-invisible-order) Text: Well, you needed something called religious devotion, right? Faith. Does that make sense? Okay? And again, throughout human history, we've seen this, right? So, think of Christians. Think of Buddhists. Think of Muslims. Religious faith. So, that's what built this, okay? So, does that answer your question? Okay. Any more questions before I continue? Yeah? Okay. So, that's a good question. Why is a temple structured like this, okay? And the answer is that, there's cosmological significance to the structure, meaning that on a certain time of the year, what will happen is that the sun will hit this place in a certain way. So, it's almost like a clock. Does that make sense to you guys? They designed this in a way so they can tell time. But their intention was not to tell time. Their intention was to connect with the outer world, right? Does that make sense to you guys? So, they were extremely sophisticated. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 26:23 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: They knew a lot about the way the stars worked, okay? So, basically for them, this is science, okay? Today we say this is a religion, but their science back then is no different from our science today. Okay? Does that answer your question? Okay. And you had a question? Okay. So, if you talk to any religious people, they saw it, okay? They were there. They talked to God, right? So, we're like, well, you know, that doesn't make any sense, but they really believe it. And that's why they're able to convince their followers, okay? So, in the future, we will look at someone like Muhammad who had religious visions in a cave. And you're like, did he really see an angel? Well, he thought he really did, okay? And in fact, in our research, what we discovered is that people who use something called psychedelics, okay? Do you know what psychedelics are? Psychedelics are drugs. And ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 27:35 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: what these drugs do is they shift your neural system so that you see the world in a different way. When you do that, you're able to have different visions, okay? But we also know that if you go hungry for a long time or you meditate for a long time, you're able to see different things. So, from their perspective, they actually saw this thing, okay? Even though, like, we don't think it actually happened. Does that make sense? For them, it's true. But maybe for us, it's not so true, okay? All right. Any more questions before I go on? All right. So, these are great questions. And keep on asking them, okay? And these are hard questions that we will go over the next few classes on. So, let me show you another picture, okay? This is what is in the pillars at Goblete Tepe, okay? Now, what really is in the pillars? What's really interesting about these pictures, okay, is that these are animals in the motion of hunting. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 28:49 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1729s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1729s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So, the fox, right? The way the fox hunts is the fox jumps up in the air and then goes down and attacks the prey. So, this is in the motion of attack. Why would they do that? What's the point of having animals on these pillars? Why would they do that? Good. Okay. Yes. Okay. So, what's really important to understand is that back then, and again, I'll explain to you over the next couple of weeks. Back then, we human beings did not see us as separate from the other world, okay? Does that make sense? Animals, trees, humans, all equal. So, first of all, if you're going to kill these animals, you need to ask for their forgiveness. Otherwise, their spirit, their soul will haunt you, okay? They'll take revenge on you. So, if you kill them, you must ask for their forgiveness, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 30:00 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: And the one way to do that is by paying tribute to them. That's number one. Number two is that we can learn from these animals, right? They're the best hunters in the world. So, before we go on a hunting trip, we might have a ceremony to channel their energy and power and wisdom. Does that make sense? Okay? And the third thing is basically to appease them or to become their friends, right? Because we don't want to hunt foxes. We want to hunt gazelle. There's more meat than gazelle. They're easier to capture. But we want to be friends with the gazelle. We want to be friends with the lion, okay? We don't want to be enemies. So, it's a sign of respect. Respect to the animals. So, that was basically their religion. And coming together, the religious festival was about celebrating their relationship with these animals as well as channeling their power, their energy, and their wisdom so that they could go hunt as well. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 31:03 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1863s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1863s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so this is probably one of the earlier religions that we have. Is this clear to you guys so far? All right? All right. Let's move on. Okay. So, now this is Jericho, okay? And Jericho is part of something called the Natufian culture. And the Natufian culture appeared about 13,000 years ago or even more actually, maybe 15,000 years ago in a place we call the Levant, okay? The Levant is basically the Middle East, Israel and Syria. And what was special about the Natufian culture are three things. First of all, they were sedentary. Sedentary basically means that they basically stayed in one place, okay? Remember, hunter -gatherers, they roped around. They moved from place to place. But they were hunter -gatherers who were sedentary, okay? They were not farmers. They were hunter -gatherers. But they stayed in one place. And ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 32:21 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1941s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1941s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: the reason why we know, there's a lot of evidence, but one reason why we know is that they basically hunted gazelles. Gazelles are like deers, right? And the thing about gazelles is their teeth color is different according to the season. So, in the summer and in the winter, because they eat different foods, okay? So, their teeth color is different. So, we're able to dig up these gazelle bones, look at their teeth and recognize that, oh, they were hunting gazelle in this area both in the summer and the winter, which meant they did not move, okay? So, they were sedentary. That's the first thing. Second thing is that they had domesticated crops. And the reason why we know is we're able to dig up seeds of crops, okay? Vegetables and wheat and barley, which meant that they had the capacity, the technology to farm, but they chose not to farm. Does that make sense? Okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 33:18 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=1998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So, basically, the way they developed this technology is for gardening, right? They were hunting and gathering most of the time. But some of them, for fun, for pleasure, had their own garden. And that's how they developed the technology, okay? And the third thing that was very important is they had something called the cult of the skull, okay? So, they probably worshipped animals, but they also worshipped ancestors. And the reason why we think so is we're able to find a skull in these places. Okay? So, they basically took someone's head, skull, and put clay on it to protect it. And they put it in their houses to worship it, okay? So, this is the beginning of ancestor worship. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? So, I want to show you this. And it's called the Tower of Jericho. When we first discovered this, we thought, oh, this must be evidence. This must be evidence that Jericho went to war, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 34:34 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2074s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2074s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Because it had walls and it had a tower, right? The walls are to protect you from your enemies. The tower is to see your enemies coming. But then they did more research and realized that, oh, no, no, no. This tower is a religious monument. And it's the same as Gobletepe, where it is cosmological, meaning that at the longest day of the year, the mountain over here will cast a shadow over the tower. And the tower will cast a shadow over the entire village, covering it all up in darkness. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? Why would they want to do that? What does that do for you? Have the entire village cover up in darkness? Any guesses? Why would they do that? Excuse me? What do you mean by that? I know, but if that were the case, you'd just move, right? Okay, so what's really important is that this is like right after the last ice age, okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 35:58 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: So it's actually pretty cold, okay? They did this for religious reasons, right? Because when you cover your village in darkness, you feel as though you are in connection with the sky. Does that make sense? So they must have a religious belief in which part of the worship is to cover the village in darkness. That's a good question, okay? So space is dark, right? Do you understand? So when you're dark, you think that I'm bringing space to our village. So I'm collapsing the distance between space and my village, right? I understand that, but your village is bright anyway. And if you're able to make your village dark, that's magic, right? Do you understand? Okay? Because if you're able to make your village dark, that's magic, right? So they designed a tower in a certain way so that it would cover the village in darkness. And they could see that as magic, and that's evidence that your religion is correct. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 37:13 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Does that make sense? Right? Because otherwise, how do you know your religion is correct? Only by performing magic can you show that this charismatic leader, okay, who came up with this idea, speaks to God. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so let's look at sort of pictures of skulls, okay? Okay? Because this was actually very common back then. Okay? So basically, this is a skull. They covered it up with clay, and they carried it around with them all over the place. And this was true throughout the world at that time, okay? Ancestor worship. Okay? So this is another picture of the skull, okay? Let me ask you why they would do that. Their ancestor is dead. Why would they do that? Why would they have the skull around? Where's the ancestors now? Where's the dead person? The spirit world, right? Some place. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 38:34 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Another place. Another world. And therefore, having the skull around allows you to communicate with that world and learn its secrets. You understand? And some of the secrets may be like how to construct a tower in a way that you're able to cast a shadow over the village. Okay? So that's their method of scientific discovery. Does that make sense? To communicate with the spirit world through your ancestors. Does that make sense? Okay. The point I'm trying to tell you is that their level of intelligence or their understanding of the world is just as sophisticated as our understanding of the world. Okay? You understand? We think that when we go to science class, we're learning facts and knowledge. But guess what? Maybe a thousand years from now, people will look at our science, like the physics, and be like, oh, that was religion too. Okay? Does that make sense? So in terms of intelligence, they were just as creative and as sophisticated as we are today. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 39:36 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: But they just had a different set of beliefs. Okay? All right. So the last place I want to look at is Kanahoyak. Okay? So Kanahoyak is a huge place. Okay? In Turkey as well. Pretty far from Gopalantepe, but about the same place. And this dates back about 7500 BCE. And as you can see, it's a huge village. And we think that at its height. Okay? Maybe this was around for about 2,000 years. But at its height of development, of civilization, it had about 8,000 people. That's a lot of people, guys. Okay? And the thing about Kanahoyak that stands out is, first of all, it's huge. Okay? Second of all, they didn't have a place of worship or government. Okay? Meaning that all the houses were the same. It was a very egalitarian society. Everyone was the same. And what's even more interesting is that if you go to every house, there's a site. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 40:57 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-arranges-life); [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-makes-settlement-livable); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: The living room is basically a temple unto itself. It was a place of worship and religion. Okay? Meaning that the first, like Kanahoyak, is a place where religion permeated. Or was in every place. They were. Okay? So we think that Kanahoyak is one of the first religious communities. Remember that before, religious sites were places you went to maybe once in your lifetime or maybe once a year. Okay? But it wasn't part of your everyday life. Whereas in Kanahoyak, religion was in your life from birth to death. Okay? Does that make sense? And the thing about Kanahoyak that's very interesting is at this point, their religion is extremely sophisticated. Meaning that they can explain everything using their religion. Okay? So their everyday life and their religion was completely aligned together. So let me show you some evidence of this. Okay. So this is a painting that you will see in every house or most houses. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 42:19 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: In Kanahoyak. Okay? All right? So you're like, what is going on here? So again, there are different theories. But let me explain to you what most scholars believe to be the accurate theories. Okay? So this is just a theory. We have no evidence for this. But this is what we believe. We believe that the people at Kanahoyak, they worshipped a mother goddess. Okay? Because a mother goddess is what gives life to everything. Right? Think of mother nature. Think of a woman giving birth to a child. Okay? So they worshipped a mother goddess. And the mother goddess is represented by the bird. Because the bird flies all around the sky. Right? So the sky belongs to the bird. Now, the bird can take different forms. This is a vulture. Right? So the mother goddess can also take the form of a vulture. So what's going on here? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 43:20 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2600s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2600s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Civilization As Inner Order](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/civilization-as-inner-order.txt#civilization-inner-order-makes-settlement-livable) Text: Why is the vulture? The vulture is a vulture with headless people. Okay? Because the way that they combine ancestral worship with their belief in the mother goddess is they believe that when a person dies, what they'll do is they'll put that person's dead body out in the open. It's a sky burial. Right? You go to Tibet, they have sky burials. The vultures will come and eat all the flesh. And that is the tribute or the sacrifice made. To the mother goddess. Okay? So the mother goddess basically cleans the body. And then you take the bones and you bury it back in your house. And you take the skull and you keep the skull in your living room to worship your ancestors. Does that make sense? So in other words, it is an extremely comprehensive or complete religion. Understanding the world. Okay? Is that clear to you guys? What the religion is? Any questions so far? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 44:25 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Again, by the way guys, a theory. Okay? But right now, the most useful theory that we have about this place. Any questions before I move on? Okay. So what's going on here? Okay? Now, this again also is in Kadahoyak, in many houses. So what's going on here? Okay. So different scholars have different interpretations of this. Okay? Clearly, this is a hunt. Right? This is a hunt. And some people believe that these human beings who are part of the Kadahoyak people, they are mocking or taunting or laughing at the animals as a way to subdue them. To tame them. Okay? To domesticate them. That's one theory. But another theory is that what they're really doing is dancing. Because they are worshipping. Or paying tribute to these animals they are about to kill. Or they are trying. So let's go back to Kobayatepe. Right? Where they're trying to respect the animals. Right? Dance with you. We're friends. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 45:49 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: I'm sorry I have to kill you. But hey, we're only taking your meat. Your soul. Right? Is still going to be reborn. Or it's going to go to the spirit world. Okay? So this is a way of paying tribute. Or respecting. The animals they're about to kill or about to hunt. To maintain the harmony of nature. And their relationship with nature. Does that make sense guys? Okay? Again, what's really important is that this is a pretty complete religion. Right? That explains everything to these people. And that's why it's so attractive to people. Right? If you're a human being and you want to know why. Well, Kadahoyak, the religion there, explains why. Okay? Does that make sense so far? Any questions? Okay. So, this is a picture of the mother goddess. Okay? Again, we have debate about what this is. Some people believe that it's just a fertility goddess. Okay? But others still believe this is the mother goddess. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 47:03 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2823s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2823s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: And you think about it. If you are a place like Kadahoyak, you're most concerned about giving birth. Right? Because giving birth is what rejuvenates yourself. Your society. So, it makes sense that your god, the person you worship the most, would be a mother goddess. Okay? Okay? This is clearly a bull. And if you see pictures of Kadahoyak, you will see that they have many, many depictions or pictures of bull in their house. Okay? And what we believe, again this is a theory. Okay? What we believe is that if the mother goddess represents life. Okay? Giving life. The bull represents vitality, energy. And so, it's the bull that gives the mother goddess the energy to give birth. Right? Does that make sense? So, the bull represents the male. The mother goddess represents the female. But only if the male and the female conjoin, they come together, will you have life. Okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 48:17 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2897s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2897s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-gathers-settlement) Text: So, this is another picture. Clearly. Okay? They're not hunting. Okay? Clearly, they are worshipping the bull. Does that make sense? They're paying tribute to the bull. So, are we clear about this? How religion was a fundamental part of people's existence when they chose to become sanitary. Okay? Or they chose to settle in one place. So, let's go back to the original question. And I'll take questions. The original question is, why did people transition into religion? Why did they choose to do agriculture? And the theory that most scholars believe is because of religion. It was because people had a religious need that they came together to have these religious festivals. There were some charismatic leaders who were so brilliant that people chose to settle down with them. Okay? And so, they became sanitary. They developed a religion around the sanitary lifestyle, which included ancestor worship. But over time, because you're in one place, you're going to deplete the resources of the area around you, right? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 49:33 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2973s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=2973s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) - Related lens: [Sacred Machines](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/sacred-machines.txt#sacred-machine-gathers-settlement) Text: Of the forest. Which means that you must go to farming. Okay? Does that make sense? So, but then eventually, because you have so much population and you farm too much, you're forced to move somewhere else. And when you move somewhere else, you actually bring your religion with you. Okay? And that's how we can explain the transition from... From hunter -gatherer to agriculture. And there was no one spark or one moment when this happened. We think it took thousands of years over time. Because ultimately, the hunter -gatherer lifestyle was so much more attractive to people. So much easier and attractive to people than the farming lifestyle. Okay? But the benefit of the farming lifestyle is that you had a religion. And that's why people chose ultimately to farm. Okay? So that's... That's it. And next class, we'll continue this discussion about early religion. And how people develop these religious visions. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 50:35 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3035s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3035s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Okay? So next class, we'll look at Ice Cave Paintings. That goes back 40,000 years. Meaning that they practiced this sort of religion, or something like this religion, 40 to 50,000 years ago. And we know through Ice Cave Paintings. Okay. So, questions before we finish class. Is this clear to you guys? Okay? Anything you're confused about? Any questions? Before we conclude? Okay. Can you say it more clearly? And again, this is all on the internet, by the way. So if you're interested, you can go online and just read up more on Catahoyac. Okay? These places are very famous. We'll be discussing these places throughout the semester. Okay? Cabobo Tepe, Jericho, and Catahoyac. Excuse me? We discussed all three. Okay? But I'm introducing you to these three places. In future classes, we'll go more in depth into these places. Okay? Because Cabobo Tepe is a very interesting place. Okay? And we're only slowly discovering all that's there. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 52:07 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3127s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3127s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Basically, we basically uncovered about 5 % of Cabobo Tepe. So over the next few decades, we'll know more. ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 52:14 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Okay? ## Farming Won Because It Carried Religion -- 52:17 - Source title: Civilization #1: Explaining Humanity's Transition to Agriculture - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-08-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjqf9T59uY0&t=3137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jjqf9t59uy0.json) Text: Any more questions? Any more questions? Okay. All right. So next class, we will do ice cave paintings. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#living-school-forms-future-makers) Text: Okay, well, this is it. The end of the journey, the final class. So, we've done a lot this year, right? Last semester, we did the great books, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible, Republic, Divine Comedy. This semester, we did how screwed up the world is, right? The world is hopeless. We're all going to die. And in this final class, I want this class to be about hope. And I want to show you the future. And the argument I want to leave you with, the thing that I want you to remember is that remember Dante in Divine Comedy said that the future is not what happens to you. It's not something that you wait for. The future is what you imagine and fight for. The future is what you make happen. There is a God, but God gave us the ability to imagine and the capacity to love. And it's these two things that will guide us and enable us to move forward. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=85s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And it's these two things that will guide us and enable us to build a better world. Okay? So, that's the message I want to give to you today. The future is what we imagine, not what we have to put up with. So, if we don't like the future, if we don't like the way we live our lives, then we can change that with our imagination. And today, I want to show you how. So, just to summarize what we did this semester. Together, we analyzed the world. And we made certain predictions about the world, right? For example, that Trump will be elected again in November. And that he will declare war on Iran. And this war in Iran will be a disaster for the United States. And it will mean the end of the American Empire. And it would lead to a multipolar world, which will mean endless war. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 2:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=145s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=145s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And the deaths of millions and billions of people. And because of climate change, our world will eventually collapse at some point. Okay? So, this is an extremely hopeless and extremely bleak and dark picture of the world. But remember, where there is darkness, there can also be light. So, in this final class, I want to show you some hope and some light. Okay? So, this is what we call energy. This is what we call psychohistory. And psychohistory is the idea that the future can be predicted. And if it can be predicted, then it can be controlled and harnessed for the betterment of humanity. Okay? So, where does this idea come from, psychohistory? In the 1950s, there was an American science fiction writer named Isaac Asimov. And he's probably the most famous science fiction writer. Okay? If you happen to read science fiction, he's really famous. And he wrote a series called Foundation. And I think there's a TV series now based on Foundation books. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 3:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=228s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=228s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: It's terrible, but you can have a look at it. And in the Foundation books, he introduces the idea of psychohistory. And so, this book is set in the future, like a million years from now. Where there is a galactic empire. So, humanity has colonized the entire Milky Way. There are billions of planets. And there's an empire that brings peace to this Milky Way. But with all empires, it has to collapse. And this will lead to 30,000 years of war, violence, barbarity. And the Foundation proposes a new science called psychohistory. Which is to mathematically map out human behavior over the course of a million years. If you do that, what you discover is that there are certain patterns to human society. Okay? And if that's the case, then you can predict the future. If you can do that, then you can manipulate. The course of events to make a better future. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 5:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=306s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=306s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay? So, this is what he called psychohistory. And it's a science fiction concept. And a lot of people have been trying to make it into reality. Okay? So, there's this very prominent historian. His name is Peter Turkin. And he's one of the founders of something called Clio Dynamics. Okay? And Clio is the goddess of history. Dynamics just means movement. Okay? So, basically, Clio Dynamics is trying to figure out the mathematical movement of history. He's trying to create history as a mathematical model. And when he did that, there's certain interesting trends and patterns that he discovered. Okay? And one idea that he discovered. Is something called the overproduction of the elites. Okay? Overproduction of the elite. And this concept explains why societies collapse. Now, traditionally, we've understood the collapse of societies as having to do with maybe too much debt. Or too much inequality. Or maybe climate change. Or war. Right? What Peter Turkin points out. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 6:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And it's a really interesting idea. Is the reason why societies collapse in the end. Is you have too many elites. All right? So, let me explain the concept. Okay. So, society has many elites. Right? You have people like Jack Ma. Right? You have people like Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei. Right? Movie stars. You have famous military generals. Okay? So, overall. Over time, elites become more and more numerous. The number of wealthy people go up. The number of famous people go up. The number of entrepreneurs go up. Okay? The problem, though, is they all want power. Right? Now, wealth and fame are all infinite resources. Right? But power will always be a finite resource. In fact, it's what we call a zero -sum game. So, for example, in this classroom, there can only be one teacher. Right? If we're all teachers, there's no teacher. So, in society, there can only be a few powerful people. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 7:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=475s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=475s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: If everyone has the power, no one has any power. Okay? So, what happens over time is that all these people who believe they have power. They should have power. Struggle for power. And because there are too many of them, this internal struggle of the elites ultimately leads to social collapse. Okay? So, the most famous example is in China. In imperial China, where you have the system. Right? People taking the imperial examinations to become an official. Problem is, you have too many candidates, not enough positions. Right? And guess who ultimately gets upset with society and leads revolutions? It's the Kejiu candidates who do not become officials. And so, they become angry. And they lead revolutions to overthrow society. Right? So, the most classic example of the failed Kejiu candidate is Hong Xiuquan. Do you guys know who he is? The leader of the Taiping rebellion. Right? Why did he become a Christian? Why did he lead the rebellion? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 9:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=552s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=552s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Because he failed the Kejiu. Okay? So, that's the idea of the overproduction of the elite. And he discovered this principle using mathematically modeling of history. Okay? He just compared different societies and tried to figure out why they collapsed. Okay? And what he discovered is, well, it's because of the internal struggle. Among the different elite groups. Okay? And that's why the Roman Empire collapsed as well. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. What I'm proposing to you is that we can actually go a step further in what Peter Turkin is doing. Because we have something now called AI. Okay? Artificial intelligence. And we can harness the power of AI to create real psychohistory. Which is the ability to not just analyze the past, but to predict the future. Okay? All right. So, let's first figure out what AI is. Okay? So, first I want us to understand what artificial intelligence is. Because most of you think you know, but you don't actually know. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 10:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=630s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=630s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay? So, what is AI? All right. The AI, the technical term, is supervised intelligence. Supervised machine learning. Okay? That's the technical term. AI is the popular term. But supervised machine learning is the technical and correct term. Have you guys heard of this term? Supervised machine learning? Yes or no? Have any of you taken computer science? Okay. This is called supervised machine learning. Okay. So, what is this? Okay. So, in computer programming, you're taught to do this. You're taught to write the algorithm. Right? And then the input. You put in information, it gives you the output. Okay? And this is traditionally how computers work. You write the algorithm, the computer program, you put in information, and then there's an output. Right? For example, the algorithm could be like A plus B. Okay? So, you put in two numbers. Two, two, you get a four. Okay? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 11:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=700s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=700s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: That's how computers work. Right? Now, supervised machine learning is that. I will turn the output into the input. Okay? And the reason why I want to do that is that as a human being, I myself may not be able to write the best algorithm. So, I want the computer to refine the algorithm for me, to optimize it using the output. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So, let's talk about a very specific example. All right? So, let's look at facial recognition technology. All right? You go to the airport, and you're scanned, and they know who you are. Right? You go to a supermarket, you scan your face, and you pay. Right? And you're like, wait, how does that work? Okay. So, how this works is that there's a database. Okay? About one billion people, like everyone in China. And now, what I need to do is figure out how to differentiate the faces of everyone in China in this database. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 13:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? So, what I do is for the face, I create a mathematical model based on topology. Okay? Does that make sense? Topology. So, I turn everyone's face into a mathematical model. Okay? Which looks like something like this. Okay? And you're like, I don't know what this is. Okay. You don't need to know what this is. This is, like, super complicated. Okay? But, all you need to know is that, within this model, there are different equations. Okay? So, for example, this model is trying to analyze the distance between your eyes. Okay? And how big your nose is. All right? Does that make sense? All right? Um, and, so once I create this mathematical model, what I'm going to do is I'm going model I am now able to differentiate everyone in China does that make sense okay in fact this math about this mathematical is so precise ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 14:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=843s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=843s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: that I can only look at your eyes and I know who you are okay because what I'm trying to do is match what your model with the model in the database all right but what what's important to remember is that if you're not in this database you can't be recognized okay do you understand all right now what I will show you is how this model is created so what happens is this all right what I do is I teach the computer how to create this database so I've input of output and then what I do is I create a working thesis or a working theory of what this model should look like it doesn't make sense all right so it could be like this all right and then what I do is I put faces okay and the output should match what's in the database and if the model returns something that's different I tell ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 15:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=915s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=915s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: this is wrong and what the computer then does is we find this model until it becomes this doesn't make sense okay so what this what all AI is is infinite iteration okay it doesn't make sense all right okay so the problem with AI is I need to be able to solve three things if I can solve three things then I can create an AI okay the first thing is that I need clear metrics okay or clear outputs it doesn't make sense I need output like I can define as a mathematical model okay I can like Wirtschaft if for example if I'm an airline I'm use I'm gonna use AI to maximize the amount of money I make on a flight right okay that's my output how much money can I make of a flight I want to have the maximum amount of profit okay that's the first thing I need to solve second thing I ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 16:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=989s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=989s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: need to solve then is data okay for input but the thing about data is that it has to be cleaner than the score the okay does that make sense it has to be a clean data okay so for example if I want to teach this AI to recognize different animals I need to give it different data sets of different animals okay does that make sense I need to label my data but I can't tell I can't make an AI that's like this is the best ice cream in the world and the reason why is I can't find data on the best ice cream you understand these ice cream is the best ice cream is subjective so I cannot turn that into a data set it does that make sense okay the third thing I need to do is create a working algorithm structure you understand okay computer computers can only refine and optimize the algorithm ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 17:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1064s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1064s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: structure it cannot create by itself okay so if I'm able to do all three things then I'm able to use AI to optimize what I wanted to optimize okay all right any questions so far before I move on okay so what this means is that that there are certain problems that I can solve using AI, and there are certain problems I cannot solve using AI, okay? So what are easy problems that AI can solve, right? Well, for example, facial recognition technology, okay? Also, translation software, right? I can create an optimal translation software. Also, recommendation engines, right? So if you watch a movie on Netflix, it recommends another movie, right, okay? Now, let me ask you this question. Can I ever solve self -driving cars? Can I ever solve self -driving cars, self -driving cars? Can cars drive by themselves? Yes or no? Why yes, Sally? Okay, the answer is no. Why is the answer no? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 19:22 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1162s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1162s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay, the answer no is, whatever I do, okay, I cannot solve something called the edge case. The edge case is, if the car is on the road, what could happen that would screw up my AI system? You guys know? Why can't self -driving cars be solved? Why can't we have self -driving cars on the roads? What's an edge case, or this thing that I can never solve? What is it? Excuse me? Yeah. Yeah, and what is not planned? Hm? They can plan for traffic. What can they not plan for? And this is why we'll never have self -driving cars. They can plan for accidents. What can they not plan for? Easily plan for traffic rules. What can they not plan for? Okay, guys, the edge case with self -driving cars is, if I, as a human being, intentionally want to crash into that car. You understand? Does that make sense to you guys? Every other situation I can plan for. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 20:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1250s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1250s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: But in a situation where I'm the human being, and I don't like self -driving cars because I'm a taxi driver, and it's stealing my job, right? It's stealing my livelihood, and I want to crash into that car. There's no way for that AI to avoid the accident. Does that make sense? Okay. Listen, listen. AI is a scam, okay? It does not exist. What exists is super power. machine learning okay what is supervised machine learning what I just told you okay that's it that's the extent of our technology it can it does not have self -awareness it can only do what the algorithm tells it to do and there's no way you can design an algorithm that plans for and prevents a human being who who intentionally wants to crash into you okay does that make sense all right so AI in other words is actually limited tool okay so you ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 21:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1315s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1315s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: think about actual applications of AI it's it's very limited you also look at self -driving cars now there are cars that have self -driving features but they are not 100 % self -driving it doesn't make sense in fact they tell you don't don't rely on the autopilot okay it's there to help you you but don't sleep in the car okay right because they don't have an AI system in place to prevent people from crashing into them okay does that make sense all right so now that we know what AI is let's talk about how we can use AI to predict the future okay okay all right so basically what you need to do is three things right you need to be clear about the output you need to have clean data and you need to have a working algorithm okay does that make sense and so that's what I've been doing this semester okay so ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 23:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: for example remember what we remember my predictions the issue a lobby, Saudi Arabia and the American Empire, basically the need to protect the petrodollar, will force America to go to war with Iran. These are the push factors. The problem is that there are no forces to counteract this. For example, the military will be for this because they have shock and awe, and they are very confident they can win this war. Iran itself wants this war because it wants revenge against America. And then the President of the United States, who will be Donald Trump, he wants this war in order to cement his position as President. And so because of this, we can predict that there will be a war in Iran. Does that make sense? Now, given this prediction, what we can then do is use mathematical modeling and statistics to turn this into an AI model. Does that make sense? Now we have the AI model. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 24:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1492s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: Now that we have the AI model, what we need to do now is to refine it. And the way we refine it is by going back in history and looking at every single war that started. Does that make sense? You take this model and you look at the different wars. For example, the 415 BCE invasion of Sicily by Athens. You look at 1941 Operation Barbarossa. You have basically hundreds of wars that you can look at. And then you take this model, and then you test it using each of these wars. And what will happen is that the model will begin to refine itself. Does that make sense? So it becomes more and more refined. But then that's one model for what causes war. I've also said that Trump will become president, right? Well, then that's another model that you can use. And once you start putting all these models together, what eventually happens over time is you develop psychohistory. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 26:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay? Does this make sense, guys? All right. So now the question then is, okay, how would this AI model work? Or what are sort of the ideas behind this model? Okay? So we talk about game theory analysis a lot. All right? And the idea of game theory analysis is that, okay, guys, there's really no good and evil. Okay? There are different players in a game, and they're all self -interested. They all want to win this game. So they're going to develop strategies that optimize their ability to win this game. Okay? So you can use game theory analysis. But then you can also develop new ideas that would help you better understand how the world works. Okay? So let's talk about some ideas that have come up in this course. All right? So one thing I want to talk about is this week's European elections. Have you guys seen the news, the elections to the European parliament? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 27:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1665s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1665s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And the results are pretty shocking, because it signals a clear shift to the right. So, for example, Marylepaine's party in France picked up a lot of votes this week. of votes. The AFD, the Alternative for Germany in Germany, which is considered a right -wing organization, almost neo -nazi, has picked up a lot of votes as well. The results were so dramatic that Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, has called for an early election and it's possible in three months time Marine Le Pen's party will run and govern France. Okay? So how to explain this shift to the right and I want to explain three reasons, okay. The first reason is anti -immigration. Okay? So, for the past 10 -20 years, there have been a lot of immigrants to Europe from Libya, from Syria, from Iraq, Afghanistan. Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, okay? These are mainly Muslim people who threaten the Christian social fabric of Europe, okay? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 29:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And now Europeans are rebelling or revolting against that. Second thing that they don't like about Europe so far is the idea of federalism, okay? Or they can say bureaucratism. But it's the idea that a foreign power, Brussels, mandates rules that they must follow. So they think it's very anti -democratic, okay? And the third thing that they're rebelling against is the idea of pan -Europeanism. What the people of Europe are saying is there's no European identity, guys. There's a German identity, there's a French identity, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, but there's no European identity. They're rebelling against the entire project of the EU. In fact, I would bet that in about five years' time, the entire EU would be dead, okay? Why are they opposed to pan -Europeanism? Because ultimately, they believe that because ultimately, they believe that it's about destroying local identity. It's about destroying local community. It's about destroying my relationship with my neighbors and my friends and my relatives, okay? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 30:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1852s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1852s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And my family. Does that make sense? Okay, it's imposing a foreign identity on me. And proponents of the European Union would argue that, no, this is just a secular, liberal idea, okay? The entire idea of the EU is that for hundreds of years, thousands of years, Europe has been at war. Why has Europe been at war? Tribalism, right? Religion. So the entire project of the EU is to get rid of the factors that lead to war. Local identity, nationalism, religion, right? And what the European voters are saying to the EU is, sorry, we don't want secular liberalism because we want to be human, okay? What we strive for is not a abstract, liberal idea. We strive for structure, meaning, and power. And purpose in our lives, okay? What we really strive for is a capacity to love, create, and learn, okay? And grow. Does that make sense? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 32:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1947s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=1947s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: That's what we are fundamentally as human beings. And when you ask me to obey an abstract foreign entity that is very far from me, then you are, like, not human. You are limiting or destroying the structure, meaning, and purpose in my life, okay? And so that's what's going on, not just in Europe, but throughout the world. You think about Brexit, right? You think about the election of Donald Trump, right? All these things has to do with this fundamental human urge to have structure, meaning, and purpose in our lives, okay? To have agency, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right, any questions so far? Yeah, Eric? Okay, so Eric asked, okay, what is the source of all this? And what Dante and Homer would say is the human heart, okay? The human heart. This is just who we are. And if we cannot fulfill our human heart, we will rebel. We will destroy. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 34:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2042s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2042s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: We will want to kill, okay? And so, in other words, one idea in this AI model is that there is a fundamental underlying structure to human society, okay? If society conforms to the structure of the human heart, this society will prosper. For example, Athens, right? The ancient Greeks. That society prospered. The word we used was eudaimonia, right? Okay? But if society represses the human heart, then ultimately, the society will have to collapse at some point, okay? So that's another principle that we can use when developing this AI model. The last idea that we can use in developing this AI model is the idea of synchronicity, okay? Synchronicity. And the idea of synchronicity is, as a society, how willing are people... How willing are people in following the rules. Okay? Does that make sense? So when you drive the car, do you actually follow traffic rules? When on the subway, do people actually give up their seats for the elderly? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 35:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2135s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2135s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt) Text: For children? For pregnant women? Okay? When you go to the park, do people actually pick up garbage and throw it in the garbage bin, okay? Sequanticity tells us that there's cohesion and trust in society, that society is resilient, and that society can grow or learn from its mistakes. So societies that have high sequanticity will do better in the long term than societies with low sequanticity. And so societies with high sequanticity would include Japan and Germany, right? And societies with low sequanticity would include India and Brazil and China, okay? Does that make sense? All right? So these are all of the ideas that we developed this semester or in this year, that there's an underlying truth and meaning to human society. And if we embrace these truths, then society will prosper. But if we try to deny these truths, then eventually society will have to collapse and we're going to start over again, ok? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 36:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-needs-artificial-elites) Text: Does it make sense? Any questions so far? Yeah, excuse me? Okay, that's a great question, okay? So one thing that was not supposed to happen is the idea of mass estás? You can say that mass society is a complete, what's the word I'm looking for, deviation from human history. We're not supposed to have mass society. And mass society is completely an accident, a historical accident. But when you have mass society, what happens is that you need an elite. You need an elite. But guess what, guys? The elite, the people in charge, they're not better than you and me, do you understand? We in this classroom, we could swap for the leadership of the world, and guys, nothing would change. Do you understand? So you have mass society, and therefore, you have to have an artificial elite, because you need people in mass society. You need people in control. And because you're in control, they need to now maintain the illusion of their power. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 38:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-needs-artificial-elites) Text: They need to create fictions. For example, maybe, well, I went to Yale or Harvard, and therefore, I should be at the top. Or maybe I have a higher IQ than you do. Or maybe my dad or my great -great -great -great -grandfather was king. They have to create these fictions. Now. So what happens over time is that these fictions fall apart because they're not that competent. And the most recent example is, you look at the global management of the economy, and you look at the global management of COVID, you look at the global management of war, it's pretty incompetent. And so people wake up and are like, wait a minute, these guys don't really know what they're doing. Okay? And now, so now the elite is now forced to suppress us. Okay? They have to lie. They have to use force to make us obedient. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 39:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#human-heart-measures-social-order); [Mass Society As Political Constraint](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/mass-society-as-political-constraint.txt#mass-society-needs-artificial-elites); [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-human-heart) Text: Okay? And that's what's happening today. And so this repression can go on for a long time, but to control us, they must repress the human heart. Okay? Because it's in the human heart to want to question. To be curious. Okay? To grow. Okay? And if you think like the people in charge don't know what they're doing, then you're sort of compelled to challenge them. And so what they have to do is suppress the human heart. And they do that by trying to get you to focus on buying things rather than thinking. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? All right. Any more questions? Yes? Yes, Sally? Yes. Yeah. And it has to turn it into a mathematical model. Okay? Do you understand? The human heart has to become like a model, like facial recognition model. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So Sally's question is, isn't it true that we're all individual and unique? And isn't it true that over time we change? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 41:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2466s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2466s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#human-heart-measures-social-order); [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-human-heart); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: Okay? And that's a great point. But what Homer and Dante would say that, no. No. No. No. No. At the fundamental level, okay, we all have the same desires. We're motivated by the same needs. Okay? There's no one in this world that does not want structure, meaning, and purpose. Now, the way you want to achieve this may be different. Okay? But that's your underlying motivation. And there's no person in this world that does not seek to achieve these three things, like love, create, and purpose. Okay? That's when you grow as people. Okay? That's when you achieve full happiness as a person. When you feel that you're married to someone you love and you have children. When you're doing a job that is creative and when you're constantly learning every day and growing every day. Okay? When you achieve that, these three things, what do we call this? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 42:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2524s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2524s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#human-heart-measures-social-order); [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-human-heart) Text: When you achieve all three things, what do we call this? Eudaimonia. Right? This is eudaimonia. This is what the Greeks meant. By a happy. Happy. And self -fulfilled life. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, there may be differences in needs and motivation, but at the fundamental level, we're all human beings and we're all driven by the same fundamental needs. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 42:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2560s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2560s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Yeah. Yes. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 42:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2571s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2571s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: Okay. So, Sally asked the question, like, how do you construct this? This AI. Okay? And so, for this AI to be valid, okay, let me explain how we would actually implement. Okay? So, first of all, you need at least 50 to 100 years to actually create this AI. Okay? And the reason why is that for this AI to be valid, you constantly need to be testing it. Okay? So, what I've been doing in this class is basically doing a self -AI. Right? Where I have an analytical model and I have a prediction. But guess what, guys? We won't know if my predictions are fully correct until, like, 50 years from now. Is that correct? Okay? Therefore, I can't validate my analysis until 50 years from now. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? And you need to be constantly doing this where you have to be constantly making these predictions and seeing if they're correct or not. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 43:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: If they're not correct, what you have to do is go away. You have to change these predictions, okay? And analysis. Okay? Does that make sense? Then what you have to do is you basically have to, and this is actually what's the most time -consuming, is you have to rewrite history. Okay? Do you understand? Because most of the history is actually not correct. Okay? So, what you have to do is you have to take this AI model and look back at history. And says, according to this AI model, what actually happened in the Peloponnesian War? What actually happened in World War I? What actually happened during the Tang Dynasty? Okay? So, you basically have to challenge the entire discipline of history and reconstruct a new history that you think is more factually correct based on this AI. Okay? So, you have to be doing these two things at once. Okay? Making these predictions and seeing that you're correct. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 45:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2701s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2701s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: But also going back to throughout history and seeing how history can be revamped or changed so that it's more accurate. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? That's a project. But now, but then there's the technology. Because you actually need mathematicians and computer programmers and historians to collaborate together to build this AI. Right? Okay? So, I can tell you the... How I would analyze the issue. But then a mathematician has to turn this into a mathematical equation or a model. Okay? Because computers only recognize data and numbers. Okay? They don't recognize ideas. I can't talk to a computer. I have to give a computer a number or a equation or a model. Okay? For it to calculate on. Okay? Does it make sense? All right? So, it's not an easy project. Okay? But the argument is that if this project actually works, it would change the fate of humanity forever. Because if there's ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 46:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2773s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2773s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: one thing that you notice in this class, it's like we tend to repeat the same mistakes. Right? The question is like, why do we do that? It's because the history that we have is complete bullshit. It just is. It's not true. It can't be true. Okay? There are things that we believe, which if you just think about it, can't be true. Okay? And we did that like last semester when we talked about the rise of Christianity. Right? You're telling me that this illiterate guy named Jesus was able to spread Christianity all by himself after he died? I don't believe that. Okay? I think a much easier explanation is that it became co -opted by the Roman Empire in order to control the Empire. Right? But if you would talk to a historian, they would say you're just wrong. Okay? So not only are you trying to predict the future, but you're trying to also correct the past, which is, I think, an even more difficult job. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 47:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2839s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2839s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-edge-case-correctors) Text: Right? Any more questions? Yeah, Eric? Excuse me? Oh, so Eric asked a great question. Will this psychohistory model encounter edge cases? And the answer is, that's the best question. Okay? That's a great question. And the answer is, yes. What are edge cases? Okay? Do you guys know? What are edge cases in this model? What would be edge cases here in history? Okay. It's called great man theory. Okay? Great man theory. And this is a problem. Meaning, like, okay, we believe, we argue that these underlying historical forces control humanity. Right? But now and then, you have this great man coming out of nowhere, and he changes the course of human history forever. Example is, before we had Homer. Right? Then we had Dante. Then we had Plato, Jesus, Julius Caesar, Octavius, Putin today. Okay? We can't account for these people. Because by definition, they're beyond history. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 48:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2925s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2925s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-edge-case-correctors) Text: They can step outside of history and control history. That's what great men are. So, how does your model account for that? Okay? And the answer is, you cannot. So, in foundation, okay, the solution, okay, but there is a solution to this. The solution is to create another organization. Okay? Remember, that type of history is an AI model. It's basically a computer. But, as Eric points out, you will always have a computer. You will always have edge cases. You will always have someone appear out of nowhere. And for whatever reason, he's able to manipulate events to control and direct history in his favor. So, what you do to solve this problem is you create another organization. Okay? And in, I think, Asimov's foundation, it's called the second foundation. Okay? And the idea of the second foundation is that there is a computer. There is the AI. Okay? But behind the AI are a team of ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 49:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2995s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=2995s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-edge-case-correctors) Text: specialists who observe the AI and who observe history and who correct the AI for edge cases. Okay? Does that make sense? So, Putin appears and is like, okay, well, clearly, I'm not accounting for Putin. Well, then I change the equations in the AI to account for Putin. Okay? So, this team of experts, the second foundation, will correct the AI. All right? Now, what's interesting about the second foundation is that these people are telepaths. Okay? Telepaths. Meaning that they can read your mind. Not only can they read your mind, but they can troll your mind. Okay? So, and that's another really interesting thing about psychohistory. Like, okay, there's a promise that we can predict the future, but there's also a promise that, within our minds, there are some special abilities that we might have the potential for, but we never, ever fully attempted to achieve. Okay? Does that make sense? And is it possible in the future that telepaths will arise? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 51:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3073s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3073s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: I think yes. And the answer is that you can make the argument that these edge cases that Eric refers to, these great men of history, they're actually telepaths. Okay? Does that make sense? They're actually telepaths. So, someone like Putin. Why is Putin able to do what he does? And you can make the argument, like, he has almost some telepathic abilities. Okay? He can read other people's minds, and he can troll other people's minds. How else can you explain that someone who does not come from a special background, right? He's not of the Russian elite. Right? But he's able to amass so much power all by himself in only a few decades so that today, he's basically the emperor of Russia. And all of Russia heeds his command. Russia just moves the way that he wants it to move. Okay? So, you can make the argument that Putin is almost a telepath. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 52:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3137s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3137s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: And is it possible that in the future we'll have more telepaths? And we can, over time, harness the power of these telepaths to create the second foundation and to control psychohistory? Possibly. Right? Okay? Because, like, how else would we explain great men? Okay? You look at someone like Homer and Dante. Right? The only explanation that you can have for Homer and Dante is they were, they had God -given gifts. Okay? Or maybe God was speaking to them. Or maybe they were just speaking for God. Right? That's the only explanation that you can have for Homer and Dante because they so clearly stepped out of history and directed history. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? But thanks for the question, Eric. Okay? So, edge cases are great men who appear now and then. And you cannot ever predict these people. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. This... Yeah? Yes? Yes, Celine? Oh, that's a great question. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 53:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3220s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3220s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-human-heart) Text: Okay. Okay. How do you model love, learn, and create? Okay? And the answer is that there has to be a certain amount of autonomy or agency in the lives of people. Does that make sense? What we call freedom and liberty. Because if you have freedom and liberty, then you're able to do what you want. And what you want to do is love, create, and grow. Okay? Does that make sense? So you need to model agency and freedom into the structure. Okay? The second thing is social interaction. Okay? In other words, the more we're able to interact with each other, the more we're willing to love, create, and grow. Because these powers come from others. Right? You can't love yourself. You have to love someone else. You can't create by yourself. You have to create in a group. Okay? You can't learn by yourself. You have to learn from others. Okay? So you also have to model in as much group interaction as possible. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 55:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#psychohistory-needs-human-heart) Text: Okay? And the last thing is you also have to model in the idea of compassion. Okay? So the idea here is that if I all put you on an island together. Okay? And you must survive. Well, you will become compassionate with each other because that's the only way to survive. Right? But if I put you guys into a bank. And I say to you that if you make a million dollars. And I will give you two million dollars. Whoever makes the most money, I will give a Ferrari to. Guess what, guys? You will all hate each other. You will all want to kill each other. Okay? You understand? So this model also has to factor in compassion. How compassionate is this society? Okay? Because if you have compassion, then people are willing to work together. If people are willing to work together, then people will have the greater capacity to love, create, and grow. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 56:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3370s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3370s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Actually, guys, we have all these theories. It's just like no one is turning this into a mathematical model. Okay? For society. Any more questions? Yeah? Yeah. So Eric asked the question, is it possible to completely understand human behavior and motivation? And there are two different ways of looking at the issue. The first way is to use a social science approach. Okay? So you look at economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology. Right? What are they trying to do? They're trying to figure out mathematically what drives us. Okay? You understand? But there's another approach. It's called the literature approach. Which is that we can actually quantify or explain human behavior. Okay? But there are truths that can be expressed in literature. Okay? Does that make sense? So think about the very first book we read, the Iliad. Right? Where Achilles has killed Hector and Prime wants the body back. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 58:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3485s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3485s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: So Prime sneaks into Achilles' tent. And kisses his hand. Right? That moment. You can never mathematically express it. You can only write about it. But think about how much truth and power is in that one scene. Okay? Does that make sense, Eric? Okay? So again, I think someone like Homer and Dante, their mission is to express to us in the most beautiful way. The human truths. Okay? Like what drives us. And Dante is very explicit. He says that what drives us is love and the willingness to imagine. Okay? That's who we are. If we love, we'll be more human. If we imagine, we'll be more human. Okay? And that's really the argument I make as well. All right? And that has to be the underlying truth of whatever AI model you create. Okay? All right? Any more questions? Yeah? Okay. So Celine asked a great question. Okay. Well, if it says that we want to love, create, and grow, then why do we end up destroying ourselves? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 59:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Human Heart As Civilizational Measure](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/human-heart-as-civilizational-measure.txt#repressed-heart-reverses-into-destruction); [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt) Text: And the answer is that love and hate are one force. You understand? If I can't love you, I'm going to hate you. You understand? Okay? Guess what, guys? Creation and destruction. Destruction is one force as well. If I can't create, then I want to destroy. Because my need for creation can't be satisfied. Does that make sense? So a society that nurtures our willingness to love and create and grow, like the Greeks, will flourish. Okay? But eventually, you reach a point where the elite have amassed power. They've centralized and consolidated power. And so they want to turn everyone else into basically a slave. When you're a slave, you can't love. You can't create. You can't learn. You can't grow. Therefore, you rebel. And you destroy the society. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? But again, the fundamental human need are these three things. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:00:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3646s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3646s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#democratic-psychohistory-prevents-elite-machine) Text: But within each of these things is another force. And if love can't be satisfied. Love can't express itself. Then hate will express itself. Does that make sense? Okay? All right. Any more questions? Yeah? So Sally asked a great question. Which is like, who would control this AI? And how can we ensure that this AI is not exploited by the elite in order to justify their corruption and cruelty? Okay? And the answer has to be, you know, the elite. Really, the second foundation. Okay? Basically, a group of scholars, academics, experts who dedicate themselves to this AI. Okay? And this AI, the other thing is that it has to be open and transparent. That's why it's so hard to build. Right? It has to be open and transparent. Okay? If it's open and transparent, then everyone has to agree that this AI is going to be used for good. Okay? Meaning that what this AI does is, you're going to ask it different questions. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:02:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#democratic-psychohistory-prevents-elite-machine) Text: And it will give you different scenarios. And we can all agree on which scenario we want. And therefore, we can agree on what action to take. Okay? So, this AI has to be part of a democratic system where everyone is involved. Otherwise, as Sally points out, it can only be abused. Okay? It can only be used to oppress the elite. It can only be used to oppress others. Okay? But the point of this AI is that it gives us a platform as humans to agree on certain actions that we must stick together. Okay? Does that make sense? So, for example, we can all agree that climate change is bad. We can all agree that war is bad. Right? But this AI will actually give us solutions to these problems. Because this AI can map out the future for us. And AI will say, well, listen, if the United States intervenes in Ukraine, then this will happen. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:03:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3807s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3807s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#democratic-psychohistory-prevents-elite-machine) Text: Right? The United States attacks Iran, then this will happen. And that becomes a very powerful argument for correct and proper behavior. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. But again, guys, this is just conjecture. Okay? And I've already said this. It's going to take at least 50 to 100 years to build this AI. And you will be up against tremendous opposition. Right? Historians aren't going to like this. The elite aren't going to like this. Right? But at the same time, we have to remember, like, guess what? Homer, I'm pretty sure if Homer were living in a centralized society, the elite would be opposed to him. Okay? He was making fun of very famous Greeks, like Achilles and Menelaus and Agamemnon. Right? He was making fun of these guys. Well, guess what? When Homer was writing, society had collapsed. Right? When Dante was writing, society had collapsed. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:04:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3877s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3877s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: So, if it is true, if my predictions are correct and society is approaching collapse, then there should be a lot of space and leeway and flexibility to create this AI. Okay? Okay. Any more questions? Yeah? That's a great question. So, won't different people, different nations want different outcomes? And the answer is yeah. Like, if you are alive today, if you're America, you want America to be a hegemon. If you're Putin, you want Russia to be the hegemon. If you're China, you want China to be the hegemon. Right? You want different outcomes. So, my argument is that the structure of society today is not sustainable. Everything is going to collapse. And we are going to transition from a population of about 8 billion people to a population of 1 billion people. And when you have 1 billion people and, like, there's no place to grow crops and pollution is everywhere and war is everywhere, guess what happens? ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:05:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3949s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=3949s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Humans are united in their goals, which is basically how do we create a better civilization. Okay? Does that make sense? When all society has collapsed, everyone's like, how do we recreate civilization? That's the goal. But in a more progressive, more democratic, and more prosperous way. Okay? That's what I'm betting on. But I don't know. Okay? And, again, if everyone's fighting over the AI, this AI cannot be created. Okay? Because different people will want this AI to be biased in a different way. This AI can only work if it steps outside of history and steps outside of human interests. Okay? If it's speaking for all of humanity rather than one nation or one group of people. Okay? Any more questions? Is this clear to you guys? All right. So, all right. So, this is the very end. And I'll spend, like, five more minutes to talk about this year. Okay? So, this is the very first time I've taught both courses. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:07:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) Text: Okay? In the first semester, we read the great books. And I was blown away by how much you guys enjoyed the great books. And how much you benefit from reading the great books. Okay? And quite honestly, I don't think anyone has tried this before. I know there are great books courses in university. But not at the pace that we had. And certainly not at the level of difficulty that we had. Okay? So, you guys should be proud of yourself. Because the great books courses was very hard. And you enjoyed it. Even today, most of you really like the Iliad. Right? You guys still remember the Iliad and think very highly of it. Okay? So, that's very impressive. So, thank you. This semester is also a new course where we looked at geopolitics. And I'm also very impressed by how much you've grown as well in this course. The way you guys think, it's much more logical, much more analytical. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:08:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4105s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4105s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#school-dream-outlives-classroom) Text: You guys are asking great questions. Okay? So, thank you again. Because you don't have to work hard in this course. But you chose to work hard. And this is going to carry you very far in life. Okay? So, the course has come to an end. And I will share with you why I teach this course. Okay? Because some of you know. I do have a very prestigious education background as well as a career background. Okay? And I could have been, what, a lawyer, I think? A lawyer. A rich lawyer. A professor. Okay? But instead, I'm teaching high school in China. Right? Why am I doing this? It's because I have three kids. Okay? I have three young kids. My eldest is six. My youngest is only about eight months. Okay? And as a father, you have to believe in a better world. But not only ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:09:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4186s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4186s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#school-dream-outlives-classroom) Text: do you have to believe in a better world, you have to imagine and to fight for it. Because you have to leave behind a legacy for your children. Okay? So, why I teach this course is to bring you a message of hope. Okay? Like, through your own imagination, through your own hard work, you can create a better world. You don't have to sit back and just let the world happen. You don't have to wait for the future. You can make it happen. And if you really work hard at it, you can make the world a better place. And I think, like, this year has proven to me that I can make the world a better place if I work hard. Because I've seen the growth in all of you. Okay? So, I hope we can stay in touch. I hope that you will tell me how you progress. Because I'm very confident that all of you will do very well in university and in life. ## The Future Is What You Make Happen -- 1:10:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy END: Psychohistory (The Science of Imagining the Future) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-13, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4253s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_k6esWheqA&t=4253s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-s-k6eswheqa.json) - Related lens: [Living School For Psychohistory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/living-school-for-psychohistory.txt#school-dream-outlives-classroom) Text: And maybe at some point, we can share this dream of psychohistory. You know? I know it sounds very complicated. It's very abstract. But to make this work, you need a lot of people working together. Okay? And it's something that's going to happen tomorrow. But it's something that we might come back to later on in our lives. Okay? So, that's it. Thank you. And we'll stay in touch. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Today we will be discussing the second American Civil War. So I want to make the argument that a conflict is very likely and so we'll be discussing why it's likely, how this war will benefit itself, and what will happen after this war. So the first thing to know about America is that it is a country that enjoys violence. You can say that Americans are addicted to violence. For example, America has 434 guns, sorry 434 million guns. That's 1.3 guns for every one person and the guns they have a lot of them are are like semi -machine guns, okay? So it's a very gun -obsessed society. Not only that, but they believe that gun ownership is their sacred right as Americans. So the Second Amendment of the Constitution is that every American has the right to bear arms. Then there's American football. Have you guys seen American football? Where guys just bang at each other, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=96s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=96s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: It is an extremely violent sport. In fact, America is really the only country that plays this sport, and Americans love football. The Super Bowl is the most watched TV event every year. And the game, the game of football, causes a lot of psychological, psychological injuries, okay? So there are a lot of football players who at age 30, they either commit suicide or they will kill someone because their brains have been destroyed by the game, okay? It is an extremely violent sport, and even though it is barbaric, Americans love it. Americans also worship their history of wars, okay? They believe that fighting war, it's noble and it's sacred. Okay, so second thing to know, about America is that it has a long history of fighting wars. In fact, you can make the argument that America has been continuously at war since its founding in 1776, okay? Even before that. So the first major war that America fought, of course, was the Revolution, right? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 2:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: 1776, War of Independence. And the reality is that, The reality is that, Americans believed this war was sacred. And it was a revolution in human affairs. But if you actually look at the history of this war, you'll discover that the Americans didn't really fight this war for a good reason. They fought this war because the British were taxing them. But if you think about it, well, the British were providing defense. They were providing an army, right? So the British had a very good reason to tax the Americans. But the Americans didn't really like this, so they rebelled, okay? And the rebellion was actually the first American Civil War, because there were actually a lot of Americans who wanted to remain in the Union. And so these loyalists, a lot of them were terrorized by extremists who wanted independence, okay? So that is the American Revolution. But after the American Revolution, the Americans embarked on something called Manifest Destiny. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 4:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=247s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=247s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And the idea of Manifest Destiny is that it is God's will that America controls all of the Americas, okay? North America and South America. So the Americans embarked on a violent colonization of all lands, okay? Killing many natives and other peoples. Okay, around these little villages, control America, okay? Manifest Destiny. And then this led to, from 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War, which killed 800,000 a million Americans, okay? But it was the deadliest war that America ever fought, okay? Much more so than World War II and World War I. In fact, more people have died in this war than in World War I and World War II combined, okay? for America. And we looked at the reason for the Civil War. Again, you're like, they didn't actually have to fight this war. So at the founding of the nation, America was divided into North and South. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 5:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=319s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=319s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And the difference is that the North was very industrial and the South was agricultural. And because the economies were different, the way they instructed their politics and culture or society were different. So the North believed in free labor, meaning that you were free to do any job you want and employers were free to hire anyone they wanted. And this system is obviously much more efficient, because it's a much better use of manpower and so this caused the North to promote Hawa risking their lives and it was a much easier approach for North to and become very wealthy and expanded, okay? So at the start of the Civil War in 1861, the North had a population of 22 million people, okay? Very wealthy, very powerful. The South was an agricultural, was an agricultural -based economy, and therefore it had to rely on slave labor, all right? And even though slave labor made wealthy people very prosperous, it was not good for the economy as a whole, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 6:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: It was an inefficient use of manpower. And at the start of the war, they only had about nine million people, okay? But what's important to remember is that the North was an industrial -based economy. The South was an agricultural -based economy. So in terms of weapons manufacturing, in terms of logistics, in terms of organization, the North had a huge advantage over the South, all right? Now, why did they fight the war? And the standard explanation is because the North wanted to get rid of the evil of slavery. And that's not true, that's not what happened. So at the beginning of the founding of the nation, the Constitution permitted slavery, okay? Slavery was legal. And the Constitution allowed slavery. So the South were free to have as many slaves as they want. The North didn't need slaves because it was an industrial -based economy. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 7:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=465s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=465s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: The problem was the nation was expanding westwards, okay? The nation was expanding west. And they were adding more states into the Union. And the more states there are, they can send senators and representatives to Washington, D.C., okay? And the fear was that, if, you know, if the United States, if these Western states were pro -slavery, then that would tip the balance in favor of the pro -slavery cap. But if the reverse were true, if the Western states were anti -slavery, then the South would be marginalized, okay? So for decades, there was this fierce debate as to how to handle these Western states, which were admitted into the Union one by one, okay? And the solution, what they call the Missouri Compromise, is that for every one state that came in as pro -slavery, the other state, the next state, had to be anti -slavery, okay, does that make sense? To maintain the balance. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 8:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=536s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=536s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: But the problem, of course, is that a lot of these Western states had their own opinions. So the Western, so some of these Western states, for example, Kansas, they had their own opinions. But the problem was the United States would want to be anti -slavery, okay? So for decades, this was a huge issue politically in America, which divided the nation. The turning point was in 1860, when Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. And Lincoln was radically anti -slavery. He believed that slavery was evil, and had to be abolished at some point. The rest of the world abolished slavery. Why is it in America there are so many slaves? So that was Lincoln's agenda. But Lincoln was also a lawyer and he believed that the South legally had a right to slavery. But over time what we can do is limit slavery in the West and therefore over time, in maybe a hundred years time, slavery would naturally cease to exist. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 10:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=611s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=611s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: That was Lincoln's plan. Now the South did not like this plan and they were afraid of what Lincoln might really do as president so they declared independence from the United States. They basically succeeded from the Union. And Lincoln responds in this way, They invaded the South. So basically the Civil War was a battle over how much power the federal government had. So from the perspective of the South, they were fighting the war for their right to freely express their political views. And the North was fighting to maintain the Union. Slavery was not the main issue. Baptism is not the main issue. Lincoln himself said that if I could end the war without freeing any slaves, I would do so. Slavery was not the main issue. Keeping the Union intact was the main issue, okay? Does that make sense? But again um they could have chosen ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 11:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: to Just to keep the Union intact, that was the main issue. Does that make sense? Okay so but again, they could have chosen to Durham politically compromise. They could have had the discussions, right? They could have even broke apart, but they chose to fight a gruesome civil war. So the third thing you need to know about America is that America resolves conflicts through violence. It doesn't really have a history of diplomacy. It has a history of war making, okay? That's how America usually resolves issues. So given this history, now let's look at the conflicts in America today to see how serious the division is. And the reality is that today is actually very, very serious. Far more so than in 1861 when they fought the first civil war, okay? So let's look at the divisions. The first major division is basically the Civil War. The Civil War is a civil war that took place in the United States between the haves and the have -nots, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 12:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: So inequality and debt. So the wealthy, the top 1%, not only do they control most of the wealth in America, but they also control what we call the means of production, meaning that if new money comes into the system, they will seize it, okay? So basically, the top 1 % have a monopoly over the rest of the world. They have a monopoly over wealth production. And the way they make most of their money is actually through collecting debt, okay? By exploiting other people. And this is what we call a rentier economy, okay? Now, what exaggerates, makes the situation worse, are the culture wars. So America is divided between left and right. And this division actually goes back to the very founding of America in the 16th century. So the first division is the Civil War. The Civil War is a civil war that took place in the United States between the haves and the have -nots, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 13:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=819s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=819s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And this division actually goes back to the very founding of America in the 16th century. The Civil War is a civil war that took place in the United States between the haves and have -nots, okay? And this division actually goes back to the early 1900s, okay? So in America, in its founding, there were two opposing visions or strands, okay? The first strand are people who came to America to build a kingdom of God, a Christian nation that follows the laws of God, okay? These are the pilgrims and the Puritans, okay? And we've discussed them before. And they've always been there, okay? And they today comprise the right and the right are people who believe in conservative Christian values okay the left but there's also another strand of America and these are dissidents or political dissidents and they believe in the Enlightenment they ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 14:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=873s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=873s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: believe that reason should be the god of human affairs okay and these were the founding fathers okay the founding fathers believed in something called deism which is that there is a God but God gave us a power reason and logic to determine on our own affairs so the Constitution is a document based on deism okay separation of church and state and they want to create a multicultural secular Empire okay and today it met its met itself in the left okay now there's actually a lot of a lot of crossover between the left and the wealthy okay because if you look at the left it's usually urban liberal and college -educated okay and coastal okay and these are the people usually with all the money so the the inequality only makes the cultural wars much worse and so the inequality only makes the cultural wars much worse and so the right feel left out okay another ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 16:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=960s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=960s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: major division in America that's important is the one between Empire and democracy meaning that there are many a lot of people in America who benefit from America being empire but the rest suffer from the fact that America is an empire okay and then For example, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq made Wall Street very rich, but it was the poor, the right, who sent their sons to fight in these wars and who lost their lives or lost a limb. It was the poor who were taxed in order to fund these wars, and it's the poor who must pay off the debt from these wars. So the right is also very isolationist, meaning they don't want to fight these wars. They think that America should be an island. It should not intervene in the affairs of the world. So there are a lot of divisions in America. The problem today is that there's no actual solution to any of these divisions. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 17:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1041s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1041s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And the reason why, there are three major reasons why a civil war would probably break out. The first major reason is the over -militarization of America. And so what this means is that, first of all, we've already said that in America there are 434 million guns in private hands. So every individual has access to one or two guns. That's the first problem. The second problem is that if you go to a small town in America, and you look at the police there, you think that, okay, it's a small town, it's safe, they should have, I don't know, pistols, right? In fact, they have armored vehicles. Sometimes they have tanks. They have helicopters. They have bulletproof vests. They have machine guns. Okay? They got all this from the military. So that's just like a local police force. I'm not even talking about the state militias, okay? The National Guard. These guys are basically an army unto themselves. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 18:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1118s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1118s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Then you have federal agencies like the FBI and the CIA and Homeland Security, okay? NSA, okay? There's dozens of these federal agencies. They themselves are their own. They're their own army, meaning that the FBI and the CIA all have their special forces. Tanks, helicopters, jets, bombs, missiles, okay? So these guys can go to war against each other, okay? Then you have the U.S. military. The U.S. military is divided into the Army, the Air Force, the Marines, the Navy. Okay? And then you have something called the Space Force, okay? All right. To show you how powerful the U.S. military is, okay? Let's look at the top five air forces in the world, okay? The top five institutions or countries with the most powerful air force in the world. Who's number one? Who's number one, do you think? U.S. Air Force, right? Who's number two, do you guys know? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 19:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1199s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1199s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: The top five air forces in the world. Number one would be the U.S. Air Force, right? Who's number two, do you think? Guess. Take a guess. Who's number two? Yeah, okay. Actually, number three, okay? The Russian Air Force would be number three. Who's number two, though? The U.K., the British, right? Nope? Okay. Number two is actually the U.S. Navy. Who's number... Number three is Russia. Number four is who? Can you guys guess? The U.S. Army. And who's number five? Can you guys guess? It's the U.S. Marines, okay? So, four of the top five air forces in the world are an arm of the U.S. military, okay? Number one is the U.S. Air Force. Number two is the U.S. Navy. Number three is Russia, the entire country of Russia, okay? Number four is the U.S. Army. Number five is the U.S. Marines. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 21:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: That's how powerful America is. But then you have special forces. And, again, we've discussed special forces in this class before. And we said that special forces are good for special circumstances, like, for example, hijackings, okay? Or covert operations. The problem with special forces is they cannot be controlled, okay? So, for example, in Mexico, the people who run the drug cartels are former special forces, okay? Do you understand? The people who run the drug cartels in Mexico and who commit the most violence in the world are former members of their special forces. That's why you want to limit your special forces, okay? So, in the year 2000, America had 38,000 special forces. Today, it has 72,000 or 73,000. I can't remember, okay? That's a lot of special forces. These guys are trained in demolition, destroying buildings. They're an army unto themselves, okay? It would take exactly 1,000 of these guys, exactly 1,000 of these guys, to overthrow the U.S. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 22:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1359s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1359s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: government, okay? And guess what? Delta Force, which is the most elite special force unit in America, has exactly 1,000 members. So, you have this guy who runs Delta Force. He's like, I want to overthrow the U.S. government for whatever reason. He can do so because they're so powerful, okay? So, I think special forces, it's just a bomb waiting to explode. So, the first major issue is just the over -militarization of America where anyone who has access to weapons can choose to start a war, okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is the breakdown of narratives, okay? So, a nation is a fiction, a narrative that everyone believes in. And there are certain narratives that have kept America united, okay? So, for example, the first narrative is the American dream, right? The equality of opportunity. So, that as long as you work hard and you play by the rules, you will succeed in America, right? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 24:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: That's the American dream. Guess what, guys? No one believes in this anymore, okay? And the reason why is the inequality in America as well as the cultural wars. So, if you're a young person, you don't believe that if you work hard, you own a house, and you will be wealthy. You don't believe that, okay? You think like the game is stacked against you. You believe that Washington is corrupt. It only serves the interest of the rich. You believe that the wealthy have stolen everything. They've monopolized wealth. And you believe that whatever money you make will be stolen by the rich and by the government, okay? So, there's absolutely no reason to work hard. So, this idea that if you work hard, you will succeed, it's dead, right? Now, the new American dream is how do I stay out of debt, right? If you're a college graduate, you have tens of thousands of dollars in debt. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 25:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Consumers have thousands of dollars in credit card debt. You can no longer afford houses. If you buy a house, you can't pay off the mortgage, okay? So, this idea of the American dream, it's basically dead for most people. Then you have the narrative that America is good, okay? You believe that America represents democracy. It represents liberty. It defends freedom around the world. Guess what, guys? Most people in America don't believe this anymore, okay? So, for example, in the left, on the left, people are taught that America is a nation founded on security. Slavery, violence, and war. America is a force of destruction and evil, okay? That's what people on the left are taught. People on the right believe that America is an imperialist power that goes around and destroys countries for no reason, okay? So, most people don't actually believe that America is a force for good anymore, right? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 26:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1597s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1597s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And then you look at what's happening in Israel, right? Well, more young people now believe that America is a force of evil in the world. The other narrative that's really important is the narrative of liberalism. And the idea of liberalism is that even though we have differences, there are mechanisms for us to work out our differences. For example, the right to freedom of speech, okay? Freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want, okay? But what's important is to debate the opponent and come to a compromise based on logic, evidence, and the facts, okay? So, for the longest time, liberalism was what brought the left and the right together, okay? Liberalism tried to be in the middle. But now, liberalism is dead, okay? And the reason why is in 2016, Donald Trump became President of the United States. And the liberals in America went crazy. They could not believe that Donald Trump could be elected. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 28:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: So, they came to believe that the problem was democracy itself. The problem is that people could not be reasoned with. Therefore, liberalism makes no sense. If people are stupid, if people cannot be reasoned with, why give them freedom of speech? Why let them debate? Why let them vote? Okay? So, liberalism today is dead. So, the stories that basically bind the country together no longer work, okay? Does that make sense? Then the third problem is breakdown of authority or institutions, okay? What kept the country together was the fact that people believed that the elites in power knew what they were doing and they cared about the well -being of the nation and of the people, okay? But recent events have shown this isn't true, okay? So, for example, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, right? Well, why did America fight these wars? For no reason. Then you had the 2008 financial crisis where the banks basically stole from the nation, stole from the poor, and kept the money. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 29:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1777s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1777s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And everyone was screwed, okay? Then you had COVID, right? COVID. Where the... The government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could not go to school. The poor could not go to work and make a living. And there was absolutely no evidence that COVID was actually dangerous, okay? Then the government made everyone take an experimental vaccine. And people were like, why are we doing this? Okay? So, elite actions over the past 20 years have made people cynical of power. So that in today's world, there's actually... In today's America, there's no more trusted institution, okay? Before you had government, you had media, like New York Times, Washington Post, you had science, you had military, okay? Um... And the government is like, they're just corrupt, right? Screw them. Congress is just hated by everyone, okay? The military... The media is... Just speaks for the rich. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 31:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: They're always lying to us, right? New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, they're just liars, okay? So, no one trusts the media anymore. Then you have science. And you can't... You can't trust science because of COVID, right? Science made everyone take an experimental vaccine for no reason. So, you can't trust science anymore. The military goes fights wars for no reason. Look at Ukraine, look at Israel, okay? So, in other words, there's no institution in America that can bring people together anymore. They're not trusted. Oh, and also... Oh, sorry, I forgot about universities. Before people started universities, but not anymore because of the culture wars, right? So, that's the problem in America right now. You have three things going on. You have the militarization of society. Where anyone can start a war for no reason, okay? Second is that you have a breakdown of the stories and narratives that bind the country together. So, no one knows what it means to be American anymore. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 32:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=1937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And number three is there are no more authority figures, no more institutions that can bring people together. They're going to divide people, okay? Does that make sense? Okay? And this is getting worse. So... We've seen the government fall, the media fall, the science fall, military fall, universities. But there's also the justice system, right? The courts. And this is falling as well because of Donald Trump. Remember like last week in New York City, Donald Trump was convicted guilty of 34 felonies, okay? And so, people are now no longer trusting the court system, the justice system, okay? So, again... All these sacred institutions in America, they're all falling one by one. Okay? So, does this make sense? So, if you look at all this, okay? America's history of violence, the conflicts raging in America, and the fact that America no longer believes in institutions and in narratives, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 33:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2009s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2009s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Then the most likely outcome is a civil war. Okay? Does that make sense? So, any questions so far? Yeah. So, Celine asked a very good question. Like, how powerful is the American president? And the answer is that he's really a figurehead. Okay? He's not that powerful. Okay? Because, as Celine points out, power is diffused in America, in institutions. And if these institutions are corrupt, there's very little the president can do about it. And that's why this year, in November 2024, we will see the lowest rate of violence in America. One of the lowest turnout. One of the lowest turnouts of voters in American history because people just give up. Okay? Right? Four years ago, they came out to kick Trump out of office because they believed that Trump was a threat to democracy. And with Biden, people recognize that, no, it's all corrupt. Just burn the system down. Who cares? Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 34:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2079s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2079s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: So, no one cares who's president anymore. And that's going to help Trump in November. Okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So, Celine asked the question, what will the Civil War look like? Okay? That's a very good question. And the answer is it will look nothing like the first Civil War. Okay? Because in the first Civil War, there was clearly a division that divided the nation. Okay? A pro -slavery camp and an anti -slavery camp. Okay? But, as you can see from this chart, in today's America, conflicts, there are many sorts of conflicts. There are many sorts of factions in America. Okay? And therefore, the Civil War will not be one event. But it will be a series of violent episodes over 10, 20, 50 years. Okay? Does that make sense? So, let's go over these events. Okay? The first thing that would probably happen are sort of riots and unrest. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 35:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2151s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2151s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And we saw that during the first Trump presidency. Because of the George Floyd. Black Lives Matter protests. Okay? So, we'll see more of that when Trump becomes president, where people are so angry at this election, they'll start rioting. Okay? And there'll be a lot of unrest. Second is basically civil conflict. Meaning that neighbors take guns against each other. So, America is divided between left and right. But there are actually pockets of America. Where left and right are very closely, they live very closely with each other. Okay? So, it's very likely to take arms against each other. But these would be small, isolated affairs. Where maybe one or two people get killed. Okay? So, you have civil conflict. Then you have state or city secession. Secession. Sorry. I spelled this wrong. Secession. Meaning that you have maybe one city, New York City, or one state, California. And they're so disgusted by the state of affairs, they declare independence. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 37:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: They succeed. And guess what? They have their own army. Their citizens are armed. Okay? But they'll most likely be attacked by other states or different groups. Okay? So, that would be a more major conflict. Okay? Then you have what we'll call insurgencies. So, basically, a political group who's trying to... To form a government of some sort. Okay? So, it's possible that you have Christian extremists, or maybe left -wing extremists who try to overthrow the government of, I don't know, New York or Virginia. Okay? Right? Then you have coup d 'etats, where basically an arm of the military, maybe special forces, most probably special forces, tries to overthrow the government. Okay? So, I think because of the way things are structured, in the next civil war, all these things will happen at once. Okay? And they'll build on top of each other. But, remember that America is a very large country, so there could be a lot of places where it's very peaceful. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 38:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2308s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2308s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: There's no war. Okay? But there could also be some places, like New York City or Los Angeles, where there is just a lot of violence going on. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, whether or not the US government is overthrown, that's a very specific question. I don't know. Okay? The only thing I can do is look at the structural forces and conclude that a civil war is very likely and that the civil war will be very chaotic. But what will actually happen in a civil war, I don't actually know. Okay? But what I will say is that, given the nature of the civil war, I think once the war ends, the outcome will be that America becomes a Christian, isolationist, theocracy. Okay? And the reason is very simple. Okay? The reason is very simple. Remember that at the founding of America, there were two opposing visions of the country. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 39:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2382s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2382s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: The first was to build a military base. Multicultural, secular empire to spread democracy and freedom around the world. Okay? That was the first vision. And America has achieved this vision. Okay? And it's led to all this conflict. The second vision, which is also very strong, is to believe in America as a white, Christian nation dedicated to the rule of God. Okay? And so, I think there will be extremists in America. There will be extremists in America who will want to push this agenda. And why would they win? Why would they win? Why are they most likely to win this war? Okay. The answer is they're most willing to fight and to die for what they believe in. Okay? And guess what, guys? A lot of these people happen to work in law enforcement, the military, and especially the special forces. Okay? All right? Does that make sense? So, that's what I think will be the most likely outcome of the Civil War when it ends. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 41:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2460s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2460s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: But I don't know when it will end. Okay? And I don't actually know what happens in between. The specifics. Okay? All right? So, any more questions before I finish? Okay. The last thing I want to talk about is the specifics of how the Civil War will start. Okay? What will ignite this war. Okay? Yeah, Peter? Okay. So, Peter asked a great question, which is. Universities in the past few decades have become more politicized. Okay? Meaning, like, they're not actually interested in teaching you how to think. They're interested in teaching you how to think a certain way. Okay? Which is very left wing. Okay? So, for example, the belief that America is a society based on violence and slavery and exploitation of minorities. Okay? So, there's a lot of correctness in universities. Okay? And that's not going to change what the world will see today. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 42:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And Peter asked a question. Okay. So, what can we learn in university? And the answer is that even though universities have become more politicized, your education in university is up to you. Okay? Why? Because the university is very big. There are a lot of professors. And there are a lot of different classes. Okay? And so, it's up to you to structure your own learning and to be clear about what you want to learn. and to understand the limitations of the education you're getting, okay? Does that make sense? All right, any more questions before I move on? Okay, that's a great question, okay? So Jack asked a question like, who are the ones who don't trust universities? And the answer, of course, are people who are left out of the system, right? So people who don't actually go to university, the people on the right basically, okay? People on the left are composed mainly of college ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 43:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2587s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2587s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: -educated individuals who are wealthy, okay? But at the same time, there are many University who do not like what's going on. So there's a faction within the university professors and students who are dismayed by what's going on okay but they're only a, but they're only a small fraction of the total population, okay? Most universities have become extremely, extremely left -wing, okay? Any more questions before I move on? Okay, all right. So I'll move on to my next point, which will answer your question, okay? All right. Now let's talk about how the Civil War will actually start, okay? And it will start with the election of Donald Trump, the re -election of Donald Trump. And the reason why is that Trump is a unique figure in American politics. And the reason why is that he embodies the culture wars, okay? Meaning, like, the people on the left, all that they hate in the right manifests themselves in Donald Trump, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 44:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: He's white. He's sexist. He's racist. He's a pig. And he doesn't apologize. He doesn't apologize for any of this. He has no manners. He's not educated. He has no values, okay? All the left hate in the right manifests themselves in the body of Donald Trump. And that's why the right loves Donald Trump, right? Because their enemies hate them, okay? So, and for many in the right, Donald Trump is the messiah, okay? He's the Jesus. And everything that's happened in the past eight, nine years for them has confirmed that Donald Trump is Jesus, okay? And the reason why is Donald Trump, ever since he became elected president, the left, the elite, has been trying to persecute him, right? Remember that when he became president, they were spreading, the media was spreading stories that Trump was a Russian agent. He was a spy of Putin. That's just nonsense. There's no evidence of that. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 45:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2742s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2742s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: But people believe that, okay? Then they were trying to say, then they tried to use the justice system against Donald Trump, right? They impeached him twice. They raided his house, okay? They're trying to send him to prison. A judge in Colorado tried to remove Donald Trump from the ballot, meaning you couldn't vote for him. So, everything that the elite has done has been to... Destroy Donald Trump, and therefore, people on the right think this guy is our savior. He's Jesus. He's the messiah, okay? Does that make sense? Now, let's figure out this. If you are on the left, if you're the elite, if you're the rich, and you hate Donald Trump, there's exactly one way, and only one way, you can destroy Donald Trump forever. How? You guys know? What would you do? If you really wanted to destroy Donald Trump? And you were like rich, and liberal, and elite, you go to Donald Trump, you have dinner together, and you say three words, and you will destroy him. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 47:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: What are these three words? Okay. What you say to Donald Trump, what you do is you say, let's be friends, right? Why would I destroy Donald Trump? What's the appeal of Donald Trump? Why do people on the right love him? Why does MAGA love him? Because, that's right, because he is an outsider. He's the insider. He's the enemy of the elites, because the elites hate him, okay? So all the elites have to do is become Donald Trump's friend, right? Invite Donald Trump to his parties, say all these nice things about him on the media, and support Donald Trump. And then people on the right will be like, oh, we were fooled into thinking Donald Trump is an outsider when he's actually an insider. Okay? Then you've destroyed Donald Trump. Why won't the elite do that? No, it's not because they're too proud. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 48:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: It's because what? Why won't they do that? Like, why won't they become friends with Donald Trump? And you know, it's something that Donald Trump probably wants as well, right? Yeah, it's hatred, okay? Do you understand? It's pure hatred. I want to kill this guy, okay? Do you understand? So you can see, like, the hatred between left and right. Remember that Donald Trump manifests all the right, okay? All the cultural values of the right, okay? And so people, the elite, hate this guy so much. That they're willing to do anything to get rid of this guy. But the irony is that because of this anger and hatred, they're doing everything to make Donald Trump invincible, okay? This is what we call TDS, or Trump Derangement Syndrome. The inability to recognize who Donald Trump is, and the inability to think properly about how to deal with Donald Trump, okay? Not only are the elite trying as ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 49:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=2965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: hard as they can to destroy Donald Trump, but at the same time, they're destroying the institutions and the narratives that hold America together, okay? Ever since Donald Trump became president, the mainstream media, New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, have relentlessly attacked him. Therefore, destroying their credibility, okay? Therefore, destroying liberalism. It's the elites themselves. Okay? It's the elites themselves who have destroyed the narratives and the institutions that bind America together. And it's all because of the hatred of Donald Trump, okay? Does that make sense? So it's really going to be this hatred of Donald Trump that drives the second American Civil War, okay? All right? Does that make sense? All right. So let's see how this will play out. Okay. So what will start this Civil War is in November, Trump becomes president, okay? So Trump becomes president. And the first thing that Trump has to figure out once he becomes president is how does he stay in office for the rest of his life, okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 50:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3036s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3036s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And the reason why is the moment he leaves office, he's going to be sued. He's going to be put in jail. He's going to be attacked by the elites, okay? So the first thing he needs to figure out, the only thing that he actually cares about is how do I stay in office for the rest of my life, okay? Now, there's a trick he can use to stay in office for the rest of his life, okay? Because the Constitution says that you can only serve two terms as president. But there's nothing in the Constitution that says you can't serve as vice president for as long as you want. Do you understand? So what Trump can do in 2028 is have his son run for president, and he becomes the vice president. But everyone will know that he'll still be the president. You understand? Does that make sense to you guys? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 51:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: That's a trick he can use in 2028, okay? Because I guarantee you, the moment he steps into the White House, he's like, okay, how do I stay in here forever? Because it's either the White House or the jailhouse for me, okay? So he's going to think about how to stay in office. And the easiest thing he can do is have his son, Don Jr., run as president. He's run as president. He's run as vice president, okay? But everyone will know that he's still a president. Does that make sense? Okay? So you can imagine that if Trump does this, then this will create a constitutional crisis in the country where, like, the left go insane, okay? We're talking about, like, riots on the streets, civil conflict. Maybe New York City and Boston will be like, we're leaving the union if Trump becomes president again. Okay? You have these insurgencies all around America to rebel against the Trump regime. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 52:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3156s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3156s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Okay? So this is something that Trump can do in 2028, okay? Another question, then, is what can he do to ensure that he wins in 2028? And the easiest answer is in his, over the next two or three years, start a war with Iran. Okay? Start a war with Iran. The reason why this is important is that by starting a war with Iran, he wins over the deep state, right? He wins over the Israel lobby. He wins over the military industrial complex. He wins over a lot of the elite on his side. Okay? Does that make sense? Now, we discussed that America cannot possibly win a war against Iran. This war can only drag on, right? Now, let me ask you this question. Why would this be good for Trump? In 2028, okay? He's running for vice president. His son is president. He's running for president. And the war in Iran is dragging on. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 53:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3223s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3223s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Or it seems the United States is going to lose this war. Why would this be good for Trump in 2028? The entire society, the entire left is mobilized to get rid of Trump, right? Because they want this war in Iran to stop. So why would this war be good for Trump in 2028? Okay, I hate to say this, okay? But there should be a group of people who are doing anything they can to ensure that this war continues. And who are they? Within America. There's a group of people who are the most pro -empire of everyone else. And they fight a war. They want to win the war. And they'll do anything they can to ensure that this war is won. And who are they? Which part of the military? Exactly, okay? Do you understand? Special forces. Special forces. Okay? These guys are the problem. Special forces. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 54:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3296s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3296s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: In 2028, if there's a war in Iran and Trump is running again to maintain the war, I guarantee you, these guys and other steep state members will come in and commit acts of terrorism, acts of political assassination to ensure that Trump wins. Okay? You'll also have election meddling, election interference. Okay? They're going to cheat on behalf of Trump. You understand? But if that's the case, okay, if 2028 is an extremely contested election, then we can imagine at that point the entire civil war blows up. Okay? New York City declares independence. Boston declares independence. California declares independence. You have all these wars breaking out across America. Okay? Meanwhile, the United States is still fighting this pointless war in Iran. So I think that's what's going to happen. All right. Any questions? Or is there anything you're not clear about? So the U.S. military, so Jack's question is like, who are the U.S. military support? Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 56:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: So the U.S. military is very complicated because it's divided into a lot of different departments. Okay? So the military is not one beast. It's like many, many different beasts. Okay? Second problem is how the leadership of the military is actually extremely democratic. But the base, the soldiers, are extremely republican. Okay? So you have this ideological mismatch between the leadership, the generals, and the soldiers. Okay? So it's most likely that given these differences, the military does not intervene in the civil war. Okay? But there is a group in the military who has the leeway, the flexibility, and the will to intervene. To intervene in this war and its special forces. Right? Because they're not controlled by bureaucracy. Does that make sense? So the question then is, who will the special forces support? And the answer is that different special force units will support different factions. Okay? That's why the civil war can be extremely violent. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 57:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3449s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3449s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Right? Because Americans will have access to guns. But these guys have access to jets and bombs and tanks. Okay? Does that make sense? Plus, like, again, each one of these guys can be a general in a war. Okay? Special forces is extremely powerful. Okay? Does that answer your question, Jack? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. So Celine asked a great question. Okay? And this is actually the most fundamental question. It is really impossible for the left to imagine that Donald Trump will attack Iran. Because Trump is seen as extremely anti -war. Okay? Donald Trump, when he was a first -term president, didn't start any wars. And so the left is not expecting Donald Trump to declare war because he didn't do so, and he's declared he won't do so. Okay? But here's what we know. First thing we know is that presidents on the campaign trail do things radically different from when they become president. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 58:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Every president is the same way. What you say in public before you become president and what you do as president are two very different things. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that Donald Trump has recently said publicly that Joe Biden is not doing enough to protect Israel, meaning that he will do more to support Israel. Well, what does that mean? It means that he'll give Israel more weapons. And he will defend Israel against its enemies, which include Hezbollah and Iran. Okay? That's the second thing. The third thing is that there are now a group of billionaires who are coalescing around Donald Trump. Okay? And these billionaires are Miriam Adelson, who is the most pro -Israel billionaire in all of America. And she plans to give Donald Trump more weapons. Ninety million dollars. Okay? That's a lot of money. But then you also have some like Stephen Swartzman and Bill Ackman. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 59:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3598s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3598s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: All these guys are extremely pro -Israel. They're Jewish billionaires who are extremely pro -Israel. Now, why are they giving Donald Trump a lot of money? It's because they want something, right? And what I'm guessing is what they want is for Donald Trump to make Nikki Haley his vice president. Okay? And to staff his cabinet, his government, with pro -Israel individuals. Okay? Who include Mike Pompeo. Mike Pompeo and others. Okay? In other words, Donald Trump presidency, the government is going to be extremely anti -Iran and pro -war with Iran. Okay? Nikki Haley, a couple weeks ago, went to Israel. She visited Israel. Okay? And she took a picture of herself. And what she did was she signed a bomb. Okay? A bomb that was being dropped on Gaza and said, finish them. America loves Israel. Nikki Haley. Okay? She's calling for mass genocide against the Palestinians. That's Nikki Haley, guys. All right? So, given the way things are turning out, I imagine that Nikki Haley becomes vice president. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:01:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And that's good for Trump because she's a scapegoat now. Right? Trump can say, hey, this war, it's all Nikki Haley's fault. Right? Okay? Also, Trump believed that he won in 2020. Okay? He won in 2020. But why did he lose the presidency? Because a deep state rigged the election. And why did the deep state rigged the election? Because he refused to fight wars. So, if you want to become president. Then he has no choice but to play along with the deep state. Okay? Which means going to war. So, a lot of what he will do as president depends on if he picks Nikki Haley to be VP or not. And we'll know in August if he wants Nikki Haley to be his VP. Okay? But if he picks Nikki Haley as VP, that's a sure sign that he's going to go to war with Iran. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:02:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3741s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3741s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: I think. Okay? Because she'll be pushing for war with Iran. Okay? But then the question is, how will Donald Trump's base react? Okay? Because his base is actually extremely anti -Nikki Haley and anti -war. Right? And the answer is, at first, what will happen is that the elite, the mainstream media, will support Trump in his war with Iran. Okay? And you have a lot of people who support Trump who feel, who felt betrayed. Okay? But then, over time, what will happen is that Donald Trump will figure out how to manipulate his base. So that his base comes back to him. Do you understand? Okay? And so, there are different ways he can do that. First of all, what he can do is blame Nikki Haley in the deep state and says, oh, this is what happened. Oh, I was fooled. I was manipulated. I now want out of this war. Okay? ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:03:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3808s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3808s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: After he wins in 2028, he can change directions and say, I now want to end this war and make America into a Christian isolationist theocracy. Okay? Okay? Do you understand? That's something that he can do. All right? Something that he can do is go against Israel. Okay? And just say that it's Israel that... Plan all this. Okay? It's Israel that conspired to trick America into going to war. He can say that. And there'll be a lot of people who say that. Okay? It was the Jews who conspired against us. All right? So, there's a lot of things he can say. But whatever he does, all it's going to do is create more war. Okay? Within America. All he's going to do is inflame the Civil War. Okay? No matter what he does, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to say, okay, there's people who love him and there's people who hate him. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:04:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: And they're going to go to war with each other. And that's why I think Donald Trump, as long as he's in office, the Civil War is going to break out and it's going to be very, very violent. Okay? Because he's... I mean, again, I don't know what it is about Donald Trump, but he brings up the worst in people. Okay? In 2016, before Donald Trump was president, America was actually a pretty sane place. Now, it's insane. Now, it's like you can't recognize it anymore. Okay? Now, I mean, I'll be honest with you. Okay? I am very much on the left. Okay? I think like a person on the left. Now, my values are extremely liberal left values. Okay? And in 2016, when Trump became president, I was traumatized. I believed the world had fallen apart. Okay? I believed the world was destroyed. Everything that I believed in was destroyed. And it took me a long time to step out of the trauma. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:05:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3937s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=3937s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: But, you know, I still have these liberal friends. And the moment we talk about Trump, if I say anything nice about Trump, which is like, okay, you know what? Trump is an idiot, but he's representing people who feel marginalized. They become so angry with me. Okay? Like, I feel insecure or unsafe. I feel as though they're about to punch me. Okay? If I say anything nice about Donald Trump, then people will want to punch me. Okay? And, like, I'm their friend. I've known them for, like, decades. And they know that, like, I hate Donald Trump as much as anyone. Okay? But you are not allowed to say anything nice about Donald Trump among liberals and leftist people. Okay? So, does that answer your question, Celine? Okay? So, it's complicated. Okay? But I think this is what could happen. All right? Any more questions? Okay. So, this goes back to the question of empire. ## America Resolves Conflicts Through Violence -- 1:06:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #11: The Second American Civil War - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-07, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=4011s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go1bMQKnJBQ&t=4011s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-go1bmqknjbq.json) Text: Okay? So, again, unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who benefit from empire. Okay? That's why they want war with Iran. So, these people work on Wall Street. They work for the military industrial complex. And they tend to live in the suburbs. Okay? Okay. Any more questions? Is there anything you're not clear about? Does this argument make sense to you? Does the logic here make sense to you guys? Okay? Is there anything you don't... You want me to clarify? Okay. All right. So, next class, we'll talk about what happens afterwards. Okay? So, what this is telling us is that America is going to retreat from the world. But when America retreats from the world, it's going to be a very, very difficult time. Okay? We will live in a multipolar world. Okay? So, next class, we'll discuss what this multipolar world looks like. Okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#overextension-turns-empire-against-itself); [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt#strategy-tests-story-against-material-reality) Text: Okay, so today we will discuss Putin's plan to destroy the American empire. So last class we discussed that Putin loves his country, Russia, and he believes that Western consumerism has corrupted his nation. And he recognizes that the source of Western consumerism is the American empire. So, in order to completely free its people, he needs to destroy the empire, okay? And historically, empires die when three things happen concurrently, together. The first is overextension. And this is the main reason why empires die, when they fight too many wars at once. And the reason why they're overextended. extended is hubris and what hubris is in military strategy is the idea of blindness so you are blind to the fact of your own limitations you are blind to the strategy of your opponents you are blind to the overall geopolitical picture okay you're just blind uh and the example is american strategy nowadays where america is fighting russia and ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=94s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=94s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: ukraine where it is fighting uh hamas in israel and there's a threat of iran on the horizon but for whatever reason most american policy makers believe that the real threat is china we must prepare for china in the taiwan's straight okay eventually china will win will invade taiwan and we must be ready right now this week america also announced massive tariffs on chinese electrical vehicles um and so america is engaged in all these wars at once it's antagonizing russia iran china at the same time and so that's just over extension because of hubris okay um second second way to code empire is debt so the source of american power is the u.s dollar remember that in 1945 um bretton woods there was an agreement that the u.s dollar would become the reserve currency of the world okay and the word the phrase for that is exorbitant privilege exorbitant privilege just means that america ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 3:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=180s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=180s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt) Text: has the right to manufacture gold okay the world has to buy the gold okay now it's just that if you can't do that without okay but if the world can't do that then there's nothing and the world has to buy it because that's what underpins global trade okay but when you can do that what happens eventually is that your nation becomes fat lazy and corrupt when money just falls off the sky you're just used to to borrowing money, okay? So all America does right now is print money and not make money. The problem with this is that eventually the world is not gonna want the US dollars anymore because each time you use it, you're being taxed, right, by the Americans. And that's what BRICS Plus is. You may have heard of BRICS Plus. It is an organization established initially by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in order to create its own financial system to counter the US financial system. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 4:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=249s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=249s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: But now there are more countries that have joined BRICS. Most prominently are Saudi Arabia and UAE and Buran, these countries, okay? They're important because they are the basis for the petrodollar. Remember that all US dollars, US dollars can be used to purchase oil, and that's why US dollar is worth a lot of money, okay? So if these countries go to BRICS and opt out of the US financial system, then basically this American mountain of debt, okay, 35, 200 dollars of debt comes crashing down, okay? That's the second way to kill an empire. And the third way is civil dissent, or, uh, eternal discord. Civil war, basically. And so what we're seeing in America right now is growing political polarization, okay, between the left and the right. Why this happens is that people no longer believe the binding myths and stories that build a nation, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 5:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Nowadays, young people no longer believe that America is the source of good, of good in this world. An example, why this is happening is, of course, because Israel right now is committing genocide in Gaza. Right now, Israel is attacking Rafah, and they're killing a lot of children. Most people who are dying in this war are children. And America's not doing anything to stop this. In fact, America's the one who's providing Israel with all the weapons. So young people are turning against the idea of America, as the good empire. And there's this amazing statistic that one quarter of young Americans now believe that Osama bin Laden was a good guy, okay? And, you know, when I grew up, Osama bin Laden was considered Satan, because he was the one who was responsible for terrorism around the world and for the 9 -11 attacks. Okay, but this just shows you that the ideas and the myths, that bind the country together, are falling apart. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 6:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=392s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=392s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [Jiang Lens Atlas](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens.txt); [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And that's what's causing the nation to fall apart, okay? So the more over -committed America is, the more debt it creates, and the more civil discord it creates, okay? All right, so this is how you kill an empire. When all three things reach a tipping point, when it becomes too much, the empire dies, okay? And the most likely outcome for America is, it goes into civil war, okay? It descends. It descends into civil war. And that's something that I will discuss next class, all right? So let's discuss how Putin is doing this, okay? So the first thing that Putin did was the Ukraine War, right? So in February 2022, Putin invaded Ukraine. And at that time, America was confident that three things would happen, okay? The first thing that would happen is that Ukraine would destroy the Russian army, and perhaps even march to Moscow and overthrow Putin, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 7:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: At that time, that's what the news media was reporting. The Ukraine media was so much stronger and more confident than the Russian forces. Second thing was that the Russian economy would be destroyed. Why? Because America was imposing sanctions on Russia. So America, because it controls the global financial system, the ability to trade, America just basically sanctioned Russia and said, you are no longer allowed to sell your oil on the global market, okay? And the belief was that this would cause Russia to collapse overnight. A lot of Western multinationals left Russia, and the United States froze 300 billion people, billion dollars in Russian assets in U.S. banks, okay? So they thought that these U.S., the United States thought that these sanctions would destroy the Russian economy, okay? That's the second thing that they thought would happen. And the third thing that they would happen was that it would make NATO much stronger and more united, and ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 8:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=531s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=531s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: it would make Russia into a pariah state, meaning that no one would want to ever associate with Russia again, okay? So that was the argument back then. And today, what we have seen is that the complete opposite has happened, okay? So, first of all, Russia has basically won the war. And it's won the war because of attrition, right? Ukraine has lost maybe 500,000 men in this war, so they have no more manpower. If you don't have manpower, you're not gonna survive. You're not gonna be able to fight this war. So this war has basically been lost, and Russia is dominant, okay? Russia has basically achieved its main strategic objectives, which is basically the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. Secondly, not only has the Russian economy not been destroyed, but it's been doing extremely well, okay? And the reason why is that ultimately, all economies, China, India, Europe, Africa, Middle East, they all need resources in order for their economies to work. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 10:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=609s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=609s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: You need oil, you need food. And Russia has a lot of oil and food. And that's why countries have been going to Russia and making side deals, okay? Also, Russia has been transitioning to a war economy, so its manufacturing base has been increasing. So overall, the economy has been doing a lot better, okay? U.S. sanctions have not been working. And third of all, NATO has become more divided and less united. Why? Because Germany, which is the most powerful country in Europe right now, it's completely dependent on Russian resources to fuel its economy. That's how the German economy works. It's a manufacturing economy. It takes cheap Russian gas, manufactures it into cars, and sells it to China, okay? But the United States blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, okay? Blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, which basically delivered gas from Russia to Germany. And it's imposing a trade war on China. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 11:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=681s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=681s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: So basically, the German economy is about to collapse. And Germans are very angry about this. So the Ukraine war has been a tremendous success for Putin, and it's really shown that America is a paper tiger. And it's also creating a lot of civil dissent in America because the majority of Americans are asking the question, why are we giving Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars when our people don't even have health insurance? Our people are suffering, and we're giving Ukraine hundreds of billions of dollars, okay? The other thing that this Ukraine war has exposed is that the American empire is overextended. And what I mean by that is that in order to give Ukraine weapons, what America is doing is basically taking weapons systems from Japan and South Korea and other places and giving it to Ukraine, okay? So America is not manufacturing more weapons. It's just taking other weapons systems it has elsewhere and moving it to Ukraine. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 12:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=755s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=755s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: So America is badly overextended, okay? And of course, by giving all this money to Ukraine, it's causing American debt to go up. And after Ukraine loses war, this debt will be gone, okay? Because Ukraine cannot pay it back, okay? So right after the Ukraine war, what happened next was that on October 7th of last year, remember that Hamas, launched an attack on Israel that killed about a thousand people. And Israel responded by attacking Gaza. And by doing this, this has helped Putin and has hurt the United States, okay? Mainly by, first of all, diminishing American prestige, right? Because America right now is helping Israel commit genocide. So the entire world is basically churning against America. Even the young people in America are churning against America. You know, these college protests in America, they will only expand in the fall, okay? And the other problem is that America has shown it cannot control Israel. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 13:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=833s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=833s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: In fact, people say that Israel now controls America. And the third thing is that this war threatens to explode throughout the Middle East, okay? At any point, Iran can enter the battle. Hezbollah can enter the battle from the north, okay? So it's a powder keg. It's like a lake of gasoline about to be lit on fire. So America is badly extended, okay? So, and you can make the argument that either Putin knew about the Hamas attack, or even encouraged the attack, okay? Because the main winner of the Hamas attack is obviously Vladimir Putin. And the loser is America, okay? So does this make sense so far? All right, so let's talk about the future or what are predictions moving forward. So if it is true that Putin's intention is to destroy the American empire by focusing on these three fundamental weaknesses, in the empire, and if it is true that he ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 15:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=909s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=909s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#overextension-turns-empire-against-itself) Text: started the Ukraine war to further the deterioration of the empire, if he is the one who is abetting Hamas, then we can predict that Putin will continue to do certain things, okay? The first thing that he will do is he will drag on the Ukraine war. So he will not end it. He will not seek peace. He will not negotiate peace terms. He will continue to drag it on, okay? Why would he do that? Why not just declare victory? Or why not just negotiate peace? Why would he want to drag it on? Yeah, the Russian people will constantly be at war, but then the question then is, why would he drag it on and not expand it, right? He wants to drag it on, but he doesn't want to expand it. Expand it means he attacks Poland, okay? He doesn't want to do that. He just wants to drag it on. Why? Yeah, okay. So the reason is that Ukraine is turning out to be a black hole for NATO. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 16:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=993s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=993s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#overextension-turns-empire-against-itself) Text: NATO and the United States is putting in all this money, weapons, and manpower, and it's just losing it all, okay? So in other words, Ukraine is a battlefield to increase American debt, and create civil discord among NATO and America, okay? Germany does not want to fight this war. Germany wants out. You understand? So as long as this war keeps on going, it's going to create more friction between NATO and the United States, and that's what Putin wants. But if Putin attacks Poland, then all of NATO is forced to fight him, okay? Does that make sense? So he does not want to expand the war. He just wants the war to maintain a status quo and for it to drag on, okay? So that's the first prediction. Second is that to control the situation in Ukraine, he needs America to fight another war, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 17:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1052s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1052s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: He needs to distract America, and the distraction will be Iran. Remember how, for the past few classes, we've been discussing how America wants to attack Iran, and Iran wants revenge against America, okay? But for this to happen, what Putin needs to do is talk to Iran and guarantee that Iran will be protected by the Russian nuclear umbrella, which means that America will not be allowed to use nuclear weapons when it invades Iran, because Putin will respond with nuclear weapons of his own, okay? Does that make sense? So as long as Putin comes to an agreement with Iran and say that, I will use my nuclear weapons to protect you from U.S. nuclear weapons, then Iran will take initiative and start to provoke America into a wider war. And again, there are many ways Iran can do that. It can use Hezbollah to attack Israel. It can expand its nuclear program. It can disrupt Red Sea shipping. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 18:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: There are lots of ways that Iran can use to provoke America into a full -scale invasion, which is what Putin wants, all right? North Korea. So as the United States becomes distracted in Ukraine and Iran, North Korea can now take the initiative, right? Because, what North Korea can do is threaten to invade South Korea. And there are about 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea. So North Korea doesn't actually have to do anything, but the threat of North Korea will force America to divert resources to South Korea. Does that make sense? Okay? And this will probably even have to force South Korea and the United States to start to bribe North Korea. Okay? And we can expect that North Korea does this because Putin has given North Korea his assurance that he will protect North Korea in the event of a war. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 19:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: BRICS. We will see BRICS continue to expand, okay? We will also see BRICS maybe formally announce a new currency or a new trading system to counteract the American -led system. Now, what people have said is, that BRICS is not capable of replacing the U.S. dollar. And that is true, okay? But remember that BRICS doesn't have to actually replace the U.S. dollar. It just has to threaten. Because a lot of finance, a lot of money, it's just confidence, okay? You have the U.S. dollar because you're confident that it's valuable. But once you lose the confidence in the U.S. dollar, you will no longer want to use it, okay? Does that make sense? And the last thing is to maintain close relationships, to maintain a very close relationship with China. So Putin will come to China more often, and he and Xi Jinping will hug each other more, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 20:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1242s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1242s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: They might even kiss one day. Who knows, okay? But, and again, listen. The reality is, if you look at game theory, there are lots of geopolitical differences between Russia and China, much more so than between China and the United States. But again, Putin doesn't actually need China to do anything. All Putin needs is for China not to work with the United States, okay? Because in this situation, one way that the United States can survive or protect its empire is by working with China, right? To triangulate against Russia. Does that make sense? So as long as China remains neutral, then Russia and Putin can continue to exert pressure on the American empire, okay? So over the next three to four years, we should see all these things happen, okay? So first thing is the Ukraine war does not end. Putin will find a way for it to drag on, but actually expanding it, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is Iran takes the initiative against the United States. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 21:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1310s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1310s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Third thing is North Korea starts becoming much more belligerent against South Korea and Japan, forcing America to focus more attention in East Asia. Bricks will continue to expand, and then the Putin relationship with Xi Jinping will continue to blossom, okay? Does that make sense? All right, any questions so far before I continue? Excuse me? Okay, that's a good question. So why would America want China's help? Okay, the first thing is you have an overextension problem, okay? You don't want to be fighting too many wars at once. So you come to a peace with China, you don't have to worry about East Asia anymore, because the real threat from America's perspective is that China invades Taiwan, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that China is a major buyer of U.S. dollars because of its trade with America and because China buys a lot of oil, right? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 22:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1376s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1376s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: You want China to keep on buying U.S. dollars so you can sustain the debt, okay? Does that make sense? And third of all, there are a lot of geopolitical conflicts between Russia and China. If you think about it, Russia is more of a threat to China than the United States is, okay? Does that make sense? Historically, Russia and China fought wars, many wars, over the border, okay? So if you become friends with China, then Putin needs to take the defensive and focus more on protecting the Russia -China border, okay? Does that make sense? Because right now, Putin can just focus on the offensive, but if China is on the side of the United States, then Putin is forced on the defensive, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions you have, Peter? That's right. That's right, that's right. So basically, what's been happening is China is now no longer buying U ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 24:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1444s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1444s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: .S. dollars, and it's transferring its U.S. dollars into gold, okay? So China is encouraging everyone to buy gold. Don't buy any more U.S. dollars, guys. Buy gold, all right? And the reason why is because America's debt is a huge problem for America, and the only way for America to sustain its debt is if China continues to buy U.S. debt, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. But that's a great point, Peter. Any more questions before I continue? Okay. So Jack asked a great question. All right. It makes sense for... For China and the United States to be friends, right? Because China exports a lot of commodities to the United States. The United States is a huge market. The United States also provides China with a lot of technology, right? And Jack asked a question. Why would China want to be friends with Russia? And the answer is because China right now feels threatened by the United States, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 25:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1510s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1510s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: The United States is launching an economic war against China. And... If you look at a map, okay, China is surrounded by U.S. military bases. And the problem is that China needs imports of oil and food to sustain its economy. Does that make sense? So if America ever launches an embargo against China, China collapses, okay? So in other words, China needs to open up its borders and create new trade routes. And the only way... And the best partner right now is Russia because it has a lot of access to energy and oil, okay? So right now the situation in China is that Chinese policymakers know that the situation in China is terrible. The economy has collapsed. Demographics have collapsed. China is completely dependent on the world for oil and food, okay? China is extremely vulnerable right now. If America says to the world, China is our enemy, then China has no choice but to find a new friend. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 26:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1583s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1583s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And unfortunately, the only friend that China has right now is Russia, okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So... But look, I mean, the geopolitical situation for China, it's really, really bad, okay? Any more questions before I continue? Okay, so Selina asked a great question. Why does the United States think that China will attack Taiwan? And the answer is that America is always looking to start new wars, okay? It has something called the military -industrial complex. And America is always fighting wars. So to justify all this defense spending, it needs to find new enemies. And it believes that the greatest threat to the American empire right now is China, even though, by the way, there's no evidence this is the case. Okay? Right now, the relationship between the United States and China is China sends America a lot of cheap goods, and the U.S. gives China a lot of U.S. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 27:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1654s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1654s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: dollars. Okay? So basically, what's happening is that the Communist Party is storing the wealth of the Chinese people in American banks. This is a great deal for both America, Wall Street, and the Chinese Communist Party, okay? So there's no reason for these countries to be in conflict with each other. But unfortunately, the American policymakers always need an enemy to justify the incredible amount of money they spend on defense, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, any more questions before I continue? Excuse me? I didn't understand the question. Can you repeat that? Oh, that's a great question. So what happens if China takes over Taiwan? What does America lose? And the answer is not that much, okay? You can make the argument that Taiwan has a semiconductor industry, but guess what? You can move that semiconductor industry elsewhere. Okay? For America, it's just one of face. You understand? America doesn't really lose anything if China takes over Taiwan. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 28:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: But for America, it's the empire. It has hubris, and therefore it must save face. All right? Does that make sense? All right. All right. So this is Putin's plan to destroy the American empire. And so the question then is, well, this makes Putin a genius. So how is he able to do this? And the argument I want to make to you today is that for many reasons, Russian leaders have a strategic imagination. They just think differently. And more strategically than anyone else. Okay? And so the example I want to use is Joseph Stalin. Because we actually know a lot about Joseph Stalin. All right. So let's look at the world in 1939. And in 1939, there are about six global powers. Okay? There's Soviet Union. Okay? There's Japan. There's United States. There's UK, Britain, the British Empire, Germany, and France. Okay? So this is the map of the world in 1939. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 30:22 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1822s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1822s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Now, let's talk about each country. United States is far away, and it's neutral. It does not like to get involved in the affairs of Europe. But it's suffering from the Great Depression. Its economy has collapsed. Okay? Japan, the Japanese empire, is a war machine. But the problem for Japan is that it is completely reliant on imports. Okay? It needs oil for its empire, its war machine. And there are only two sources of oil close by. There's the Soviet Union far east, and then there's Southeast Asia. Okay? Now, Japan is getting most of its oil from the United States. But the United States is angry at Japan. Why is the United States angry at Japan? Do you guys know? Exactly. Because Japan invaded China. And the United States doesn't want that. Okay? So it's very likely that the United States will eventually cut off all exports to Japan. And so Japan has a choice. You can either invade here, or you can invade here. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 31:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1892s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1892s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: But those are your two choices. Okay? That's Japan. You can either invade the Soviet Union or Southeast Asia. Okay. The Soviet Union is a communist country. And for the past 20, 30 years, it's been trying extremely hard to industrialize. But it's hard. It's hard to industrialize because, first of all, no one wants to trade with the Soviet Union. Okay? So they can't get any resources. The Soviet Union is still very much an agricultural nation. And the Soviet Union doesn't really have that much technology and expertise. Okay? It doesn't really have that much human capital. So the Soviet Union, it's a huge country. It's the world's largest country. It's an empire. But in terms of manufacturing and technology, it's behind the West. Okay? Now in Europe, there are three nations. You have France, Germany, and the U.K. The U.K. is an empire. Okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 32:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1948s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=1948s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: It has colonies all around the world. Germany lost World War I. And so it has to pay all these reparations to U.K. and France. Okay? And now Hitler is in power. And Hitler is determined to reunite Germany. Okay? Because Germany lost a lot of land because of World War I. Okay? So he wants to reunite greater Germany. Okay? That's his ambition. It's not to conquer the world. It's to reunite Germany. All right? And then you have France, which is the weakest of all these powers, but it still has an empire. Okay? So looking at a map in 1939, and we use game theory, what should be happening or what should happen maybe five years from now, 1945? Okay? Let's use game theory to map out what should be happening or what will happen given this map and given the individual players, the interests of these different nations. What do you expect to happen? Who does everyone hate? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 33:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2020s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2020s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Who does everyone hate? Who does everyone want to, like, go invade? Why? Why does everyone want to invade the Soviet Union? Okay. Yes, first of all, it has a lot of resources, but it's not that strong. Okay? That's the first reason. But there's actually a better reason why everyone wants to attack the Soviet Union. Why? What's happening internally in the United States right now? The Great Depression. What ideology is a threat to the American government? Communism. Okay? Do you understand? So there's a global communist movement in the 1930s that's very, very powerful. In fact, in the 1930s, and you guys don't know this, but America was on the brink of revolution. Okay? The communists could have any time took over America. If America failed to stop the economic bleeding that was happening. All right? So everyone was afraid of communism. Japan would have loved to invade the Soviet Union because Japan hates communism. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 34:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2093s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2093s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And the Soviet Union has a lot of oil, right? So here comes Japan. Germany would love to destroy the Soviet Union because Nazis hated who the most? Who did Nazis hate who the most? Why did they hate Jews? What did Hitler believe about Jews? Okay, they control the world economy, but there's actually a better reason why he hated Jews. What was the problem with Jews? Okay, you guys don't know this, but they were all communists. Okay? Hitler thought that all Jews were communists. So Hitler hated first and foremost communism. Okay? Nazism hated communism the most. So Hitler wanted to invade the Soviet Union. How about France and the UK? How about France and the UK? What did they want to do? Who did they hate? Russia, right? Soviet Union. United States? Sure, why not? Okay, do you understand? So 1945, it was just game theory, okay? We should have expected that the Soviet Union would have been partitioned into different countries. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 36:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? These powers would have invaded the country together and colonized the Soviet Union and destroyed the threat of global communism once and for all. Okay? Does that make sense? But that's not what happened, right? That's not what happened. What happened was that in 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. Okay? And when the moment that Hitler invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany. And then Germany defeated France and Britain. Okay? Britain was forced to return to its, to, to its island. But Churchill refused to seek peace with Hitler. In fact, Hitler tried to seek peace with Churchill seven times. And each time Churchill was like, go to hell. We're going to fight this war till the end. Why was Churchill so angry at Hitler? What happened? Because Germany destroyed the British army, right? It's a complete loss of face for the British Empire. So Churchill was very, very angry at Hitler. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 37:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2256s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2256s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And Churchill refused to ever negotiate with Hitler. In fact, Hitler sent this emissary called Rudolf Hess to Britain, to Scotland, to negotiate a truth. And Churchill just put him in prison. Okay? But what's the irony of all this? Germany invades Poland. Why does Germany invade Poland? Do you guys know? Have you guys studied this history? Okay. It's because of something called the Molotov -Rippentrop Pact. So this was an agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany to partition Poland into two. Do you understand? So Germany and Soviet Union invaded Poland together. Soviet Union attacked from the east, and the Germans attacked from the west. But what happened was, Britain and France declared war on Germany, but not the Soviet Union. Okay? That's pretty clever of Stalin, don't you think? In fact, you can make the argument that if this thing was not signed, Hitler would not have attacked Poland. Okay? And the reason why is, the ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 39:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2340s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2340s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: other thing about this pact is that Soviet Union agreed to give Germany resources for its war machine, oil and food, and other inputs. Okay? Does that make sense? Because remember, the Soviet Union has the Ukraine, which produced a lot of food and oil. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Next thing that happened was that in June 1941, Operation Barbarossa. So Hitler invades the Soviet Union. Okay? And if you read history, anyone will tell you that this Operation Barbarossa was a tremendous success for Germany, and a strategic failure for the Soviet Union. It was a grave mistake, strategic blunder for Stalin. Okay? What did Stalin do wrong? Well, first of all, he refused to defend the border. Okay? There were 45 million Soviet troops at the border, defending the Soviet Union. But they were given direct orders to not, to not, sorry, given direct orders not to provoke the Germans. You understand? If the Germans fire at you, don't fire back. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 40:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And because of this order, the German army, which was about three to four million, was able to overrun the border and almost reach Moscow. Okay? That was a grave mistake on the part of Stalin. Second is that Stalin ignored intelligence. Okay? There was a lot of intelligence that said that Germany was in danger. He was going to invade the Soviet Union. How could you hide the fact that you have four million troops assembled to attack the Soviet Union? Okay? So there's a lot of intelligence going to Stalin and telling Stalin, hey, the Germans are coming. And Stalin said, nope, I refuse to believe this intelligence. In fact, you had German soldiers desert the German army, swim across the river to the Soviet side and tell the Soviets, hey, my comrades, the entire army is about to attack you. And the Soviets shot these German soldiers because they thought these German soldiers were spies. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 41:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2484s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2484s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? So Stalin ignored intelligence. The third thing that Stalin did was before the outbreak of war, he purged the Red Army, the Soviet Army, of its leadership of generals. Okay? So the top generals of the Soviet Army, the Red Army, were all dead or in prison because Stalin got rid of them for not being politically loyal enough. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 41:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2515s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2515s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 41:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2518s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2518s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And, but the fourth thing is, why is, why did Stalin do this? And the answer is, what historians will tell you is that Stalin trusted Hitler. Okay? This was the ultimate mistake that Stalin made. Stalin believed Hitler was his friend. He believed that Hitler would never invade him. Okay? And so this is what you're taught in history class. When you go to the United States, you'll be taught this. When you go on the internet, you'll be taught this. Okay? This is completely wrong. This analysis is completely wrong. All right? So we're going to use game theory to understand why this is wrong. All right. So using game theory, let's look at four possible scenarios. Okay? Scenario A is Soviets attack first. And they encircle Berlin. Second scenario is Soviets attack. Okay? And they're stopped at the border. Scenario C is Soviets attack, sorry, Germans attack, and the Soviets stop them. Okay? And Scenario D is Germans attack, and they reach Moscow. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 43:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2603s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2603s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? Which is actually what happened. All right? So these are four possible different scenarios that could have happened in June 1941. All right? Remember that there were four to five million Soviet troops at the border. Okay? What were they doing there? They were about to attack Germany. The Soviets had a plan to attack Germany. But the Germans struck first. Okay? So let's look at these four possible scenarios and see what happens. First scenario is the Soviets attack Germany first, and they reach Berlin. What happens now? What happens now? What do all, what do all the other countries do? Well, yes, do you understand? Stalin reaches Berlin. Boom! Japan comes from the east. Russia, Britain comes to the aid of Germany. United States comes to the aid of Britain. All the world unites against the Soviet Union. Okay? So what would happen in this war? The Soviet Union loses this war. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 44:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2677s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2677s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Do you understand? Okay? Now let's go look at B. The Soviets invade, but the Germans stop them at the border. Okay? The Soviet Union invades. Now what happens? Now what happens? Yeah, so Japan still invades. Okay? Um, and Britain starts to negotiate with Germany and seek a peace. Because Britain cannot afford for the Soviet Union to overrun Germany because then communism takes over Europe. Does that make sense? Okay? So in B, we can't say that Germany would lose, but they would not win the war. Okay? You understand? So B is not that good either. And let's look at C. The Germans attack, and the Soviets hold them at the border. Now what happens? Now what happens? They just destroy each other, right? United States, Britain, Japan, they're all laughing. They're like, oh, they're just killing each other. Who cares? Not, not a problem. Okay? But now let's look at situation D, where the Germans attack and they are about to destroy the Soviet Union. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 45:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: What happens now? The other countries have to come and help the Soviet Union. Why? Why, why, why is it the United States and Britain must come to help the Soviet Union? Why? What would happen if Germany takes over the Soviet Union? That's right. Okay? They take over the resources, therefore they take over the world. You understand? Because Germany has technology, it has military power, but it lacks resources. You combine the resources with the German military, they're invincible now. The United States will be forever shut out of the world. Germany will not invade the United States. The United States could never ever attack Germany again. Does that make sense? So what happens is after the Soviets invade, sorry, after the Germans invade and the Soviet Army is destroyed, America immediately gives the Soviet Union a lot of aid. Okay? It's what we call land lease. 1941 to 1945, America gave $200 billion to the Soviet Union for free. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 47:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2826s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2826s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? It gave weapons, resources, technology, and food. Basically, what America did was industrialize the Soviet Union. Does that make sense? That's what America did. Soviet Union could not industrialize by itself, but America helped the Soviet Union to industrialize. Let's look at land lease. Okay? Weapons. America gave the Soviet Union one -third of all ammunition used in the war. One -third of all explosives. One -half of all aircraft. One -half of all tanks. 14,000 airplanes. One -half of all tanks. 13,000 tanks. Okay? Resources. America gave oil and food. 80 % of all copper. 55 % of aluminum and steel. Okay? Technology. America gave the Soviet Union radio technology, radio communications, railroad, transportation, heavy industry, and lots and lots of food. Okay? In other words, America, basically, built the Soviet Union in heavy industry for it. Okay? Does that make sense? And also, ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 48:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: at the end of the day, what the Soviet Union can do is reverse engineer all this technology and build its own industry. Does that make sense? Okay? So, land lease really turned the Soviet Union into a superpower. And, Stalin could get all this for free because America could not afford for the Soviet Union to lose the war. Okay? What's the other benefit of having the Germans attack first and almost destroy Moscow? What's the other benefit? And Stalin really needed this. This is actually more important than land lease, which is what? National unity. Right? Now, all the Soviets were united in the fight against Nazi Germany. Before communism was tearing the country apart, there was a civil war. The rich people all fled the country, right? But now, because the Germans were invading, the entire country was united against Germany. This is what they call the Great Patriotic War. They were fighting this war for the love of their country, the love of Mother Russia. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 49:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2976s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=2976s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay? So, and what turned the war was the will to fight. The Russians lost 26 million people in the war. That's a lot of people. But by losing this many people, it made the entire nation refuse to surrender. They had the will to fight. Okay? Much more so than the Germans. Does that make sense? Okay? So in history, you're taught that Operation Barbarossa proved that Stalin was not a strategic genius. That he was played by Hitler. But if you just do game theory analysis, this was the best possible outcome for the Soviet Union. Okay? In 1939, the world should have united against the Soviet Union. But what happened was the world united against Nazi Germany and gave Soviet Union the technology, the money, and the resources to become a global superpower. Right? Does that make sense? And because Soviet Union became a global superpower, they turned into a communist country. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 50:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3051s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3051s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Does that make sense? If the Soviet Union did not become a global superpower with all this heavy industry, then China would not become a communist power. Moscow would not have won the war. Okay? So in other words, all this is telling us is that Stalin is a genius. He turned a losing war into a winning war. Okay? So the last thing I want to do is, okay, fine. How was Stalin able to do this? What makes the Russian imagination different from the Western imagination? Okay? So I would say three things. The first thing is just intuition. And intuition means that Putin and Stalin, they're able to read the political winds. Okay? They're able to sense the mood of the world. The German word for this is Zeitgeist. Okay? Spirit of the Times. But they're able to sense the mood of the world. Okay? Putin knows that the American empire is about to die. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 52:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3128s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3128s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And so he feels important to act. Okay? So it's intuition. Second is imagination. So Putin and Stalin both have a strategic imagination, which means like, okay, they sense these winds, but they can also imagine, hey, if I did this, how would these winds change? Okay? That's an imagination to able to predict or imagine the future. And the last thing, which is the strangest of all, is multiple personalities. Meaning that Putin and Stalin are such good men that they embody multiple personalities in them. And that's why they're so unpredictable. All right? So the example is this. Everyone says that Stalin trusted Hitler. So Hitler played Stalin. But if you just look at, if you just analyze the game, okay, then the conclusion is Stalin played Hitler. You understand? Hitler did everything that Stalin did. Poland, which caused Germany, which caused France and Britain to declare war on him. Okay? Then Hitler attacked Soviet Russia, which brought America into the war and helped the Soviet Union become an empire. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 53:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3219s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3219s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: You understand? So Hitler was completely played by Stalin. And the answer is, so the question then is, how? Okay? Because in 1941, June 1941, Hitler did not have to invade Soviet Union, okay? He could have waited for Stalin to invade him. Then the opposite would have happened, right? Then America would have joined the war on Hitler's behalf. And they would have defeated the Soviet Union, okay? So what convinced Hitler to do the most insane thing and invade Russia first? And the answer is, Hitler trusted Stalin. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So imagine this. Hitler and Stalin, they're having drinks, okay? They're both drunk. And they're on the porch and they're staring at the mountains and the moon, okay? And Stalin and Hitler are talking. And all Stalin has to do is say three words. And then Hitler is like, I'm gonna come and invade you. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 54:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3295s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3295s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: What are these three words? How can Stalin get Hitler to invade Russia? What are the three words that Stalin can say to Hitler? I trust you, okay? I, Joseph Stalin, trust you out of Hitler. I don't trust anyone. I don't trust my own mother, but I trust you, Hitler, okay? Then why would Hitler invade? Exactly, okay? Because Hitler thinks now that Stalin is his target, as Jacques says. Stalin is a sheep. I, Hitler, am a lion. I am a wolf. You are a sheep. Therefore, I eat you. You understand? Okay? But Stalin could only do this if he had multiple personalities, okay? Stalin had to be a sheep in front of Hitler. He couldn't pretend. He had to be. Does that make sense? Okay? So, this is, these three things are the Russian strategic imagination. The ability to feel the political winds of the moment. The ability to prophesize and predict. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 56:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3378s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3378s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: The ability to be multiple individuals at once. And that's how Stalin was able to win World War II, and this is why Putin will be able to destroy the American Empire. Okay? Any questions? Okay. So, Stalin asked the most important question, okay? Why are the Russians different? Okay. All right. So, the problem isn't Russia. The problem is us, the West, okay? So, when we talk about the West, Western thinking, it comes from British thinking. And there are three distinct characteristics of British thinking that's different from Russian thinking, okay? All right. Let's look at British philosophy versus Russian philosophy, all right? Okay. The first major difference is that British philosophy tends to be narrow, whereas Russia tends to be broad, okay? The reason why is Britain is an island, therefore it thinks very narrowly about the world, whereas Russia, it's a huge country, it's the world's largest country, therefore it thinks very broadly about the world. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 57:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And to understand the difference, what you do is you read British literature and compare it with Russian literature, okay? And then British literature, you have Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, they're great, okay? But they're very narrow in their focus. So that's the first big difference. Second big difference is British philosophy believes in the idea of empiricism, okay? Empiricism is a philosophy developed by British philosopher like David Hume. And the idea is we can only know what we experience. We can only know what we see, okay? So another word for empiricism is the idea of skepticism. Be skeptical of abstract philosophy, okay? Because we can never know it. For example, you can never really understand mathematics because mathematics is beyond your experience, okay? You can only know what you experience, okay? And it's true, but it's very, but it limits your imagination, okay? The Russians believe in mysticism, okay? So they're very spiritual religious people. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 58:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: So there are forces we don't understand. There are individuals who are prophets, who are sent to us by God. We can never know who they are. We can never know how they think, but we just have to believe that's the case, okay? So the Russians are going to be much more mystical in their thinking than the British are, okay? And the last thing is the British believe in logic, okay? It's like mathematics. You can go from one to two to three to four to five, okay? Everything has to be logical. Everything has to be connected together, whereas the Russians, they believe in intuition, okay? You can jump. You can imagine things. You don't have to be logical, whereas the British say you have to be logical. And these three ideas, Nero, empiricism, and logic, they created the western mind of today, okay? So this is what dominates in academia. So when you go off to university, they expect you to think in this way, narrow, empirical, and logical, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:00:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3607s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3607s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And if you think about it, this is perfect if you want to build a bureaucracy, right? This is bureaucratic thinking. This is the bureaucratization of the imagination, okay? You're not allowed to say things without evidence and logic and experience, okay? And the Russians don't have this, so they about the system than about this system. But the problem with the British system is like, no great man could ever arise from western society. Does that make sense? Because all this creates a process - orientated, systemized, bureaucratic style of thinking, okay? So, for example, I give this talk, right? I could never give this talk in America or Britain because they would all think I'm crazy, okay? Does that make sense? They're like, what's your evidence for this? Wait, are you refuting decades of scholarship about World War II? Are you telling me that Stalin was a genius when no one thought he was a genius? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:01:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3695s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3695s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: How dare you refute these thousands of scholars who have put all this work into World War II scholarship? Okay, do you understand? All right? So, in the British system, no one like Putin can arise. But, in the Russian system, someone like Stalin and Putin can arise. The problem though, is that what happens if you don't have Putin or Stalin? Well, then this system becomes very weak. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? So, the British system doesn't really need great leaders. But, the Russian system, you do need great leaders. And, if you are a great leader, then you are allowed to completely follow your intuition and imagination to do great things like Joseph Stalin in World War II and what Putin is doing today. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Oh, that's a great question. Okay? So, last semester we said the Greeks. ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:02:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: And, the Greeks are more like the Russians than they are like the British. Okay? So, the Russian system, the Greek system, it's a much more natural human system. Okay? And, the British system, basically, it's trying to remove intuition and imagination from the decision -making process, from the intellectual process, because intuition and imagination are too mysterious. Okay? So, in other words, okay, let's just say that I'm Joseph Stalin in World War II, okay, 1939. For me to execute my plan, I need to write a memo detailing my thinking. Okay? Now, obviously, I can't do that because if I did that, first of all, I couldn't execute my plan, but second, it would confuse everyone. Like, what are you trying to do again? Okay? Do you understand? Okay? And so, the Greeks believed in imagination and intuition as well. Okay? But not the British. And we live in the British system. All right? Any more questions? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:04:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Okay. So, Jack asked a good question, okay? How, like, how much did the Greeks influence the British? And the answer is not that much because remember, like, after the Greeks came the Romans, the Romans were like this. And there was a Roman who influenced the British who then influenced the Americans. Okay? So, we're living basically in a Roman world as opposed to a Greek world. Right? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? So, this is a really hard question, okay? What influences Russia? Well, I mean, what the Russians will say is that they're a Christian nation, that they come from a Christian tradition. And the Christian tradition comes from a Greek tradition, okay? Does that make sense? So, Christianity, they would say that Christianity is the main influence, okay? And there's some Greek elements to Christianity. What the Russians say is that their Christianity is a more pure or more ancient form of Christianity, okay? ## How Strategic Imagination Turns Empire Against Itself -- 1:05:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #10: Putin's Strategic Imagination - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-06-05, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3924s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_al2wgk49Y&t=3924s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-b-al2wgk49y.json) Text: Because remember, like, when we study Christianity, Christianity changed over the centuries, right? So, basically, this is a pre -Augustine Christianity, okay? Before Augustine. Any more questions? Great, great. So, next class, we do the American Civil War, okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: So, this week, Vladimir Putin, in a speech, said to his Russian people that all of Russia must now prepare for total war. Even if you are not fighting on the front lines in Ukraine, pretend you are. And because of this speech, there are many analysts who believe that Putin is preparing Russia for total war. And total war means that every aspect of your society is geared towards winning a war. And so we last had total war in World War II, okay? But not after that. So why is Putin doing this? Now, there are some people who believe that... It's because Russia is not doing so well in Ukraine. They lack manpower, and so they need to mobilize their society to fully win the war in Ukraine. Okay? Another explanation is that Putin knows that NATO is preparing to send reinforcements to Ukraine. Remember that because of last summer's offensive. Ukraine is desperately short of manpower, okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 1:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=86s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=86s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: The average age of their soldiers right now is over 40. They have men in their 60s who are fighting in the front lines. Emmanuel Macron of France has publicly stated that he is considering sending French troops to Ukraine. The British themselves are thinking of conscription, drafting all young men into the army. The American people are thinking of conscription. The Americans, American politicians have said that they're considering a new law that would give citizenship to illegal immigrants who join the army, okay? So it seems like NATO is only going to escalate the war in Ukraine. And so Russia is preparing for that. One more explanation, one more possibility is that Putin wants to expand the war, okay? So he knows he's winning in Ukraine. And he's thinking about attacking Moldova. Okay? And possibly the Baltic states, okay? These are all possibilities. Today, this morning, what I want to do is argue another possibility, which is ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 2:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: that Putin is mobilizing his society because he sees war as a tool, as a mechanism to radically reshape the people in Russia. Okay? So think of a metaphor, okay? You're fat and you're like, okay, how do I get fit? How do I get trim? Right? You go to the gym and you work out. And for Putin, that's what war is. War is a workout for society. When you enter war, you become a much more disciplined, unified, and prosperous society. Okay? So that's what I want to argue today. Okay. So why does Putin think like this? Well. Let's look at the current state of Russia. Okay? Russia, in many aspects, is a broken society. Corruption. Russia is the most corrupt society in all of Europe. The rich people steal and then they run off to Europe or the United States or Dubai. Okay? So corruption is a huge problem in Russia. And because of corruption. The GDP. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 4:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=240s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=240s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? The state of Russia is very low. So South Korea, which has about a third of the population of Russia, has a higher GDP. Okay? The state of Texas, this one state in the United States, has a higher GDP than Russia. So Russia, in many respects, is a very poor country. Okay? Second problem is alcoholism. One out of every six Russian males, about 16, 17 % of the population, they're alcoholics. Okay? It's a disease. They have the disease of alcoholism. One out of every three deaths in Russia is because of drinking too much. And because of alcoholism, the rate of young men dying is just increasing and increasing. Okay? The third problem is fertility. So right now, the fertility rate in Russia is 1.5. That is below 3%. That is below the replacement level. Remember that the replacement level for society is 2.1. Russia is 1.5. But probably you have a lot of men dying because of alcoholism. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 5:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=316s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=316s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? So since the year 2000, the population in Russia has been declining steadily. And all this means is that if current trends continue, then Russia will cease to exist as a society. Okay? The nation will die. So why is this happening? Well, okay. The Western explanation is that this is happening because Russia is not democratic. Right? If you have full democracy and you unleash the human potential of your people, then Russia will prosper. But Putin, Vladimir Putin, has a different explanation. Okay? His explanation is that this is happening to Russia. Okay? Corruption, alcoholism, and low fertility because Russians have been lied to, deceived, and manipulated by Western civilization. Western civilization preaches the gospel of liberal democracy, of freedom, of human rights, of consumerism. And these are all lies. They're hypocrisies. They have fooled the Russian people and have corrupted the Russian soul and destroyed Russian civilization. And because Russians are abandoning their soul, their civilization, their nation, this is why this is happening. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 6:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? That is Putin's argument. So why does Putin believe this? Well. In the late 80s, the Soviet Union had basically lost the Cold War. And they lost the Cold War because their elite basically gave up. They no longer believed in communism. They didn't believe in self -sacrifice for the nation. They thought that Western values, the Western lifestyle was much better. Okay? So they gave up. In the late 80s, there was an American historian. Yes. He actually works for the American State Department. His name is Francis Fukuyama. And he wrote an extremely influential essay called The End of History. End of History. Okay? With a quotation mark. And he argued that the Soviet Union fell and America became triumphant because liberal democracy is the best idea to have ever been invented. Okay? And to make his argument, he uses the philosopher Frederick Hegel. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 8:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=492s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=492s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? Now, Frederick Hegel had something called the theory of the dialectic. Dialectic. And what Hegel argued is that history is determined by a war of ideas. The progress of history is determined by the movement of ideas. And how ideas work is that. They have a pattern called the dialectic. Okay? So there's a thesis. A new idea comes into being. But then we recognize that this idea has problems. It's too extreme. It's too problematic. So we create an antithesis. Okay? But this antithesis itself is also too extreme. And this creates also problems. So then what happens is the thesis and antithesis come together and create a new idea. A more moderate, more efficient idea. Okay? Called the synthesis. And this is how history moves or progresses. And so Fukuyama takes this idea and says, okay, well, this explains what's happening today. Where at first you have a thesis called capitalism. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 9:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=575s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=575s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? Capitalism. And this creates the industrial revolution. Right? And because capitalism was too extreme, we move towards communism. Okay? Communism was created to counteract the extremes of capitalism. But communism itself is too extreme. So then we move towards the middle. Which is the right idea. Which is called liberal democracy. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 10:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=606s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=606s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 10:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=610s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=610s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: So what is liberal democracy? Well, at the core of liberal democracy is the idea of consumerism. And the idea of consumerism is that. We exist to buy things. And as long as we buy things. There'll be world peace. Why? Because consumers have a need to buy. And therefore nations have a need to produce. And nations produce the best when they're trading together. As opposed to warring against each other. Okay? So this is the argument that Francis Fukuyama. Makes in the end of history. I want to explain this argument further. Okay? What's he really saying? Okay. So throughout human history. All societies have struggled with one problem. Which is how do we optimize the workforce? How do we get each and every person to work as hard as possible for our society? And if everyone did that. Then our society would be strong. United. And prosperous. Right? Okay? So that's a fundamental problem of politics. How do you optimize workforce participation? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 11:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=694s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=694s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? And traditionally. Or historically. There have been three answers. The first is war. The second is religion. And the third is civilization. Okay? Now. As you can understand. These three things work. Because they give structure. Meaning. And purpose. To our lives. Okay? And we have structure. Meaning. And purpose. We are much more motivated to work hard. But as you can also see. There are actually lots of problems. With. All three. Right? War is you kill people. That's bad. Religion is superstitious. Okay? But civilization itself. Is also problematic. Because. The logical. Exchange. Of. Civilization. Is. Racism. Okay? Which is to say that. We. Russians. Are better than everyone else. We. Chinese. Are better than everyone else. Therefore. We can do whatever we want. Okay? And this naturally leads to. Imperialism. Right? We have. A duty. To go. Conquer. Other people. To civilize them. Right? Something called the white man's burden. And this leads to. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 13:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=786s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=786s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Fascism. Okay? Okay? War. And conquest. Are the ultimate good. So. Historically. War. Religion. And civilization. Have given. People. Structure. Meaning. And purpose. But they create. A lot of problems. They create. Suffering. And war. And. Pain. Okay? So. But over time. What has happened. Is. That. All. Of them. Over time. Have become. Abstract. And the reason why. They've become. More abstract. Is in order. To increase. The population. In order to. Create. Mass. Society. Okay? So let me give you an example of this. The earliest religions. In humanity. Have been. Polytheistic. Okay? And the gods. Themselves. Were very much like humans. Think of the Greeks. Okay? Zeus. Athena. Hera. Okay? It was a polytheistic society. And. They. Were very much like humans. But over time. This polytheism. Became monotheistic. And it became abstract. Okay? The idea of god. Was so much. Removed from us. And. The benefit of that. Is that. You can. You can have. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 14:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=868s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=868s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: More people. Believing in one god. And it. Motivate you. To work harder. Okay? Because it's such an abstract concept. And. Because of. Abstraction. We. Develop. New ideas. For example. Money. Okay? So. Rather. Than. Have. War. Religion. And civilization. As. The. Structure. And center. Of. Our. Society. Why not. Make. Money. The structure. Of. Your. Society. Okay? And. This. We. Call. Capitalism. And. Capitalism. Of. Course. Led. To. The. Industrial. Revolution. Industrialism. Okay? Capitalism. Meant. That. Societies. Were. Becoming. Welfare. And. Welfare. More. Industrial. And. More. Industrialized. Okay? Does. That. Make. Sense? All. Right. But. There's. A. Problem. With. Capitalism. Right? What's. A. Problem. With. Making. Capital. Or. Money. At. The. Very. Heart. Of. Your. Society. Exactly. Okay. So. The. First. Major. Problem. With. Capitalism. Is. It's. All. Consuming. So. As. Jack. Says. All. Capitalism. Cares. About. Is. The. Expansion. And. Growth. Of. Capital. Regardless. Of. Its. Effect. On. Society. Okay. Profit. For. The. Sake. Of. Growing. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 16:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=964s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=964s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Profit. It's. An. All. Consuming. Idea. Which. Can. Ultimately. Lead. To. The. Destruction. Of. The. Planet. Okay. That's. First. Problem. What's. Another. Problem. With. Capitalism. Or. The. Idea. Of. Having. Money. As. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. Okay. So. What's. What. This. Means. Is. That. Money. Likes. To. Consolidate. Itself. Okay. Consolidating. Okay. Meaning. That. If. So. The. Example. Is. Let's. Just. Say. That. Each. Of. Us. Had. A. Million. Dollars. Right. What's. Happens. Is. That. You. You. Exactly. Have. One. Person. Of. All. The. Money. Okay. Does. That. Make. Sense. Because. That's. The. Fastest. Way. To. Grow. Money. By. Consolidating. It. Okay. So. That's. Problematic. What. Else. Is. Wrong. With. Capitalism. Or. Money. Okay. So. Another. Problem. Is. The. Idea. Of. Alienating. Or. Dehumanizing. What. Does. This. Mean. Capital. Alienates. And. Dehumanizes. What. What. Does. That. Mean. Exactly. Okay. You. Are. You. As. A. Person. Cease. To. Be. Human. Right. To. A. Human. Is. To. A. Complex. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 17:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Multi. Faceted. Individual. Who. Likes. To. Create. And. Love. But. In. Capitalism. You're. Only. Your. Production. Value. You're. Only. The. Amount. Of. Money. In. Your. Bank. Account. Okay. Does. Make. Sense. All. Right. So. For. All. These. Reasons. Capitalism. Is. Really. Bad. There. Are. Actually. More. Reasons. Okay. So. Karl. Marx. And. His. Communist. Manifesto. Points. Out. All. These. Problems. Of. Capitalism. And. He. Proposes. A. Solution. Which. Is. Okay. Rather. Than. Make. Money. At. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Industrial. Society. Make. The. Worker. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. Okay. So. He. Makes. His. Argument. But. What's. Very. Revolutionary. Or. Present. About. His. Argument. Is. This. Is. A. Natural. Cycle. Okay. This. Is. You. Have. To. Survive. How. You. Feel. About. This. Your. Parents. Have. Died. Because. You. To. Support. You. So. At. Age. 16. 17. 18. You. Go. Off. To. A. Factory. To. Make. Money. For. Yourself. So. How. Do. You. Feel. About. This. Are. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 19:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1177s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1177s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: You. Happy. About. This. How. How. Do. You. Feel. Depressing. And. And. Lonely. And. Yeah. Exactly. You're. Bitter. And. You're. Depressed. Okay. You're. Alienated. So. Then. What. Do. You. Do. Now. You're. Bitter. You're. Angry. You're. Depressed. You're. Lonely. So. What. Do. You. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 20:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 20:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1227s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1227s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: You. Start. To. Think. About. Why. This. Is. The. Case. Right. You. Start. To. A. Political. Consciousness. Okay. What. Marks. Call. Political. Consciousness. From. This. Alienation. Of. The. Worker. Workers. Will. Start. To. Develop. A. Political. Consciousness. Right. They're. Like. Why. Is. Happening. Why. Has. The. Government. Abandoned. Me. Why. Has. Society. Abandoned. Me. What. Can. I. Do. About. This. Okay. So. Then. What. Happens. That's. Exactly. Right. You. Want. Change. Right. And. How. And. How. Do. You. Enact. Change. Yes. Okay. You. Spread. Your. Ideas. And. You. Organize. Right. And. You. Organize. What. You. Realize. Yeah. You. What. You. Recognize. When. You. When. You. Start. To. Organize. Is. The. Capitalist. Need. You. To. Do. The. Work. Right. The. Capitalist. Own. The. Capital. And. The. Factories. But. You. Are. The. One. Who's. Actually. Doing. The. Real. Work. So. About. You. The. Factories. Can't. Run. So. It's. Only. United. You. Can. Enact. Whatever. Political. Demands. You. Want. Okay. Does. That. Make. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 21:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: Sense. Okay. So. For. Marks. This. Is. Just. A. Natural. Evolution. Of. Capitalism. Capitalism. Leads. To. The. Alienation. Of. The. Working. Class. Which. Will. Lead. To. Their. Political. Consciousness. Which. Will. Lead. To. Their. Solidarity. Which. Will. Lead. To. A. Political. Revolution. And. So. You. Can. Make. The. Worker. As. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. Okay. Does. It. Make. Sense. Guys. All. Right. Now. What's. Amazing. About. Marks. Is. That. Today. We. Say. He's. Wrong. Right. Communism. Happened. In. The. Soviet. Union. And. Happened. In. China. But. It. Happen. In. Europe. And. United. States. Where. Mark. Said. It. Would. Happen. First. Because. Germany. Was. More. Industrialized. Than. Russia. Or. China. Okay. Does. That. Sense. That's. What. We. Say. If. You. Think. About. It. Deeply. Okay. Marx. Is. Right. After. World. War. Two. Every. Society. Every. Industrial. Society. To. Some. Extent. Adopted. The. Ideas. Of. Your. Society. And. Why. They. Do. That. After. World. War. Two. Exactly. Okay. Because. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 23:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1395s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1395s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Workers. Create. Value. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 23:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1399s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1399s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Money. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 23:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1400s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1400s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Doesn't. Create. Any. Value. Money. Just. Creates. More. Money. Okay. Speculative. But. The. Workers. Create. Value. The. Productive. And. Therefore. You. Have. To. Treat. Your. Workers. Properly. So. In. America. And. In. Europe. Workers. Became. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. And. The. Workers. Who. Unions. Could. Demand. Political. Reforms. And. So. All. Society. Was. Geared. Towards. Making. The. Lives. Of. The. Middle. Class. The. Working. Class. Better. Okay. So. In. 80s. We. Start. To. Change. This. Why. Why. We. Would. To. Change. The. System. It's. Great. System. Right. Marx. Is. Right. Having. The. Worker. As. The. Heart. And. Center. Of. Your. Society. As. The. Central. Organizing. Unit. Of. Society. Makes. A. Lot. More. Sense. Than. Having. Money. As. The. Heart. And. Center. Okay. But. Starting. In. The. 80s. We. Start. To. Back. To. Money. Why. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 24:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Excuse. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 24:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1490s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1490s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Me. Who. Wants. More. Yes. Exactly. So. What. Happened. In. The. 80s. Is. Something. Called. Not. Equality. You. Want. Difference. You. Want. To. Have. Power. And. Money. In. Your. Hands. Does. It. Make. Sense. So. The. Revolt. Elite. Happened. In. The. 80s. And. This. What. In. The. States. The. Reagan. Revolution. Okay. The. Reagan. Revolution. The. Beginning. Of. New. Liberalism. Free. Market. Capitalism. And. In. Britain. It. Was. Called. Thatcherism. Okay. Margaret. Thatcher. The. Thatcher. Revolution. And. So. Now. You. Need. To. Transition. Away. From. The. Worker. To. Something. Else. Okay. Another. Ideology. That. Allows. The. Elite. To. Amass. Power. Okay. So. Just. To. Show. You. How. Radical. This. Revolution. Was. In. The. 1970s. Okay. 1970s. If. You. Are. A. CEO. The. Head. Of. A. Company. Okay. You. Making. On. Average. One. Million. US. Dollars. A. Year. That's. Pretty. Good. Right. That's. Really. Good. Money. And. That. One. Million. Dollars. Was. More. Than. 20. Times. The. Worker. Okay. And. That's. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 26:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1595s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1595s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Pretty. Reasonable. Today. The. Average. CEO. United. States. Makes. 20. Million. Dollars. A. Year. And. That. Is. 200. To. 300. Times. More. Than. The. Average. Worker. In. The. Company. It. Doesn't. Make. Sense. So. In. The. 80s. Inequality. Start. To. Explode. Right. And. So. They're. Transitioning. From. The. Worker. To. A. New. Organizing. Unit. In. The. 80s. The. Government. Promised. You. A. Good. Job. You. A. Member. Society. If. A. Citizen. I. Promise. You. Good. Job. All. Right. So. This. Sounds. Like. A. Subtle. Ship. Going. From. The. Worker. To. The. Consumer. Okay. What. This. Meant. Was. A. Revolution. In. Society. A. Revolution. In. Politics. So. Remember. That. An. Example. The. Worker. The. Worker. Has. That. Political. Consciousness. In. Order. To. Protect. His. Or. Her. Rights. In. Order. To. Organize. And. Unify. And. Push. For. Favorable. Political. Reforms. Okay. That's. What. The. Worker. Must. Do. Okay. But. Now. Let's. Think. About. The. Mentality. Of. The. Consumer. And. To. Do. This. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 28:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1706s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1706s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Let's. Do. Another. Thought. Experiment. And. The. Thought. Experiment. Is. This. Everyone. In. The. School. About. 500. People. I. Decide. To. Give. Everyone. One. Million. U.S. Dollars. Okay. So. Everyone. In. The. School. Has. Exactly. One. Million. U.S. Dollars. To. Spend. What. Happens. Now. Think. About. This. What. Happens. Now. Use. Your. Imagination. What. Happens. What's. First. Thing. You. Do. What's. The. First. Thing. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 29:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1747s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1747s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Do. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 29:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1750s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1750s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: I've. Given. You. Million. Dollars. What. You. Do. Of. It. Well. The. First. Thing. You. Do. Is. Buy. Furniture. Then. What. He. To. Me. Buy. Furniture. Then. What. Does. He. Do. There's. Something. That. He. Must. Do. That's. Very. Important. What. What. What. Does. He. Want. To. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 30:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Take. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 30:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1800s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1800s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: Pictures. Post. On. Social. Media. Right. So. Everyone. Sees. On. Social. Media. Then. You. See. This. Now. Has. This. Huge. House. In. Beijing. With. Lots. Of. Fancy. Furniture. What. Do. You. You. Also. Want. To. Buy. A. House. But. What. Kind. Of. House. A. Bigger. House. Right. And. Then. What. Do. You. Do. Also. Post. Pictures. Okay. Then. How. Do. Other. People. Feel. You. Think. This. Is. Funny. Okay. But. This. Happens. All. The. Time. So. Very. Quickly. What. Happens. In. The. School. And. Yeah. All. Spend. Your. Money. And. All. Go. Into. Debt. Right. Because. You're. Competition. With. Each. Other. To. Buy. The. Biggest. Thing. And. One. Million. Dollars. A. Money. But. It's. Not. Enough. To. Buy. Everything. Right. So. You. Go. Into. Debt. You. Borrow. More. More. Money. To. Buy. More. Things. And. Then. What. Happens. And. Then. What. Happens. How. Do. You. Guys. Feel. About. Each. Other. You. Guys. Have. Lunch. Together. You. Guys. Have. Dinner. Together. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 31:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1879s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=1879s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: You. Guys. Hate. Each. Other. Right. At. End. Of. The. What. Happen. Is. You. All. Going. To. Debt. And. You. All. Hate. Each. Other. Right. So. That's. Consumerism. This. Is. What. What. Happens. This. Is. What. Happens. In. The. World. Of. You. Okay, it doesn't make sense? So, when you see someone, and you're like, okay, well, do I want to date this person? You don't ask, oh, is this person a nice person? You ask yourself, how much money does this person have? Okay, you understand? You use economic logic in order to understand the world, and to reason and analyze the world, okay? Now, let me ask you this question. Today, is this how China works? Is this how the world works? The answer is yes, okay? Are you like this? Yes, you are like this, okay? You've been brainwashed into thinking that this is the only way to behave and to think. You're in school, why are you in school? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 33:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2000s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2000s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: So you can get a good job, why? To make money, and so you can buy things, okay? You understand, that's how you all think. But there are different ways to think about school, right? You're like, I'm in school to learn, to open my mind, to have an imagination, to think critically about the world, right? And that was the way we thought about school when the workers were dominant. But now that consumers are dominant, all we think about is, how do I get a good job? How do I buy a bigger house? Because I want to post it on social media, okay? So, if you think about this, what this really is, is the perfection of slavery, does it make sense? What does this phrase mean, the perfection of slavery? Yeah, you become a slave of the money, but what? Why is this perfect? Yes, okay, if you're a slave, you rebel, right? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 34:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2068s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2068s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) - Related lens: [Attention Capture As Capital Extraction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/attention-capture-as-capital-extraction.txt#attention-worker-to-consumer-inversion) Text: But if you don't know you're a slave, and you like this, you choose this, then you will never rebel, okay? So the consumerism is the perfection of slavery. And that's why Francis Fukuyama thinks that consumerism is the end of history, because it is a system that achieves what the elites want, and the masses are unwilling and unable to protest and rebel, okay, does that make sense? It's a perfect system, okay? So, but there are certain civilizations that rebel against, against slavery intrinsically. It is in their nature to rebel against slavery. And one of these civilizations is the Russian civilization. Okay? So when you impose slavery on Russians, they become corrupt, they become alcoholics, and they refuse to have babies. That is why Russia is failing as a society. Because slavery is being imposed on Russians, by the Westerners, and the Russians refuse to be slaves. slaves but because this system consumerism is so perfect Russian ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 35:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2150s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2150s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: people lack a understanding of how to rebel against the system and that's why Russia is falling apart okay that is a Putin argument does it make sense okay in other words consumerism has corrupted the Russian soul and Russians have chosen to be corrupted by consumerism okay so does it make sense so what Vladimir Putin must do is free his people even though they may enjoy prison okay even though Russians may enjoy slavery Putin is still gonna free his people and he's gonna do it by creating a new concept to combat consumerism okay so we've gone from the worker to the consumer and Putin is going into this a new concept called the warrior the consumer is the perhaps превient Allesこんにちは person, an individual, who acts alone and does so to preserve his or her life. The consumer is a coward. The consumer lacks imagination. The consumer is alienated. The warrior is different. The warrior is ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 37:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2236s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2236s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: an individual who sees that through his actions, he or she can shape the direction of history. I can make my own reality through my courage, and through my imagination, and by acting with others. Does that make sense? So let's do another thought experiment to understand the warrior concept. Let's just say that in this school, I give everyone a million dollars, and now you hate each other. Then what happens is I put you on a plane, and I take you all to an island. And you're on this island. And you're on this island. Unfortunately, on this island, there are millions and millions of flesh -eating monkeys. They want to eat you, okay? But you hate each other. You don't want to work together. What happens now? What happens now? Yeah, that's right. If you don't do anything, everyone gets eaten by a monkey, right? But what are you going to do? You will fight the monkeys, but how will you fight the monkeys? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 38:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2321s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2321s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay. What's going to happen is that everyone is going to put aside the differences. And work together to fight the monkeys, okay? And how will you feel in this process? Are you going to be happy or depressed? You're going to be happy. Why? Exactly. You're all working towards the same goal, okay? Structure, meaning, and purpose. Okay? That's what war does. War gives you structure, meaning, and purpose, so you feel happy about yourself. Okay? Now, let's just say that during this war, Celine dies, okay? Now what happens? What does death do now? Yeah? Yes. And? So, Celine dies. She becomes a martyr. You all celebrate her. Remember her. You give her a great funeral. And then what do you do? You fight harder. Do you understand? Because death gives you purpose. Her death makes your life much more valuable to you and to others, okay? Not only do you celebrate her life, but you celebrate your own life, okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 40:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2403s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2403s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: All right. Now, let's just say that the monkeys are coming, okay? And there's a bridge. There's a bridge. And Jack is standing on this bridge. And there are 10 of you on the other side, okay? So Jack has a choice. He can either cut the bridge and kill himself and save the others, or he can run and possibly all get killed, right, by the monkeys. What does Jack do? For sure, he will do this. What will he do? He's going to sacrifice himself, okay? Do you understand? We've seen this in war over and over, okay? That's what war does to people. It makes you, it gives you structure, meaning, and purpose, and it makes you a stronger, more disciplined person, okay? Does that make sense? Right? So that's the thought experiment. So, in theory, then, when Putin launched this military operation, it's called a special ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 41:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2471s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2471s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: military operation in Ukraine back in February 2022, then we should see improvements in Russian society, okay? Does that make sense? So, what's happened in Russia since this war? Are people happier? Do you think people are happier? Do you think people are happier now? Okay, I think they are. Do you think people are more unified? I think they are, okay? So, one example of this is the Russian economy is surviving U.S. sanctions. In fact, it's getting stronger and stronger. Why? Because people are fully participating in the economy now, okay? So, an example of this is that every month, Russia is producing 150,000 ammunition cells, okay, for the war. Every month, Russia is producing more ammunition cells, shells, for the war, okay? 150,000. Can you guys guess how much the United States produces every month in comparison? Guess, guess the number. Do you hear me? 100,000? 2,000, okay? Do you understand? So, Russia is steering towards a war economy, okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 42:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2572s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2572s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: It's factories are producing more and more weapons, but that means more and more people are employed, which means that they're drinking less, okay? Okay? If you don't have structure and meaning and purpose in your society, all this goes down, okay? Corruption goes down, alcoholism goes down, oh, sorry, fertility goes up, all right? Does that make sense? So, last year, Putin made this statement, okay? He was asked, okay, you have a lot of Russians dying on the battlefield. And he said, well, when they die on the battlefield, we honor them. They sacrifice themselves for their country. They'll always be remembered as heroes. Their families will always love them. But if we just let them do whatever they want, all they're going to do is drink themselves to death, okay? Do you understand? So, Putin is saying is that what war is, ultimately, it is a mechanism for society to rejuvenate itself, okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 44:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2644s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2644s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: What war is, it's opportunity for society to cut away the fat. To make a difference. To make itself more lean. So, for Putin, this war, it's not really about conquering Ukraine or defending against NATO. It's really about saving Russian civilization. It's really about saving the Russian soul, okay? If you don't fight this war and you let these trends continue, then Russia will eventually cease to exist as a nation. Does that make sense? Okay? So, what's going to happen is that over time, a new concept will arise to challenge consumerism and liberal democracy. And we will call this concept Putinism. And the idea of Putinism is really continuous war. That as a society, you should be constantly fighting wars in order to discipline, unify your nation. Okay? And make your people stronger and more prosperous. That is Putinism. Okay? And I think this will be his defining legacy. And Putinism is a direct response to liberal democracy. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 45:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2733s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2733s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? So, we will shift as a society from one that is based on the consumer to one that is based on the warrior. Does that make sense, guys? Okay? Any questions? Oh. So, Selina asked a question. How is capitalism different from liberal democracy? That's a great question. Okay? So, capitalism is only concerned about capital. Okay? So, you can be a fascist country and be capitalistic. So, capitalism, many people will say, leads to fascism. So, Nazis were extremely capitalistic. They see communism, the Soviet Union, as a direct threat to its existence. Okay? The idea of a liberal democracy is the participation of everyone in the generation of capital. Does that make sense? So, in other words, and this is one of the ironies of the 20th century, is that capitalism and democracy are opposing forces. And the idea of liberal democracy is to put the two together in a synthesis as to explain away or ignore the contradictions. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 46:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2813s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2813s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? But capitalism and democracy are contradictions. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. So, Jack makes a great point, which is, like, wars that have been fought before have destroyed societies. Okay? So, think of Athens and Sparta. And think of World War II and World War I. Okay? Societies become exhausted and destroyed. So, the idea of continuous war is you fight small -scale wars. So, as to manage. Okay? The size of the conflict. Okay? And it's important to do that. Why? Why don't you want a large -scale war? No, no, no, no. You, what might happen in a large -scale war? That's right. Okay. The problem is you have nuclear weapons in place now. Okay? So, it is not, it's not smart to fight a large -scale war. When you fight a large -scale war, you can't really control the escalation. And eventually, say, the United States and Russia fight a ground war in Europe. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 48:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2894s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2894s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Eventually, they'll be so angry at each other. They might have to use nuclear weapons. Okay? That's why one of the major tenets of Putinism is you pick small, contained conflicts. So, Ukraine is a small, contained conflict. Okay? An invasion of France or an invasion of Britain would lead to nuclear war. Does that make sense? Okay? And that's why the United States would also pick Iran. Because Iran would be a small, contained conflict. Does that make sense? Okay? So, this is the Putinism. Okay? War is a mechanism to transform your society. Whereas before, we understood war as a mechanism to conquer others. Okay? As imperialism or the spreading of civilization. Now, the idea of Putinism is no, guys. We don't care about the other people. We care about ourselves. We're using war as basically a mechanism to discipline our bodies. Just like the gym. Okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 49:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2955s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=2955s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Does that make sense? Okay? The thing about global leaders, world leaders, is they're all insane, but they're not stupid. You understand? There's a difference. They're happy to kill millions of people. They're not happy to blow up the world. Okay? But Jack's other point is that Russia is not a very wealthy country. Right? Eventually, you're going to exhaust yourself. And that's why we think war is huge. Because war is usually a pyramid scheme. Okay? And what that means is... So, the example is Nazi Germany. When they were fighting these wars, it was costing their economy a lot of money. So, they were forced to fight even more wars. Okay? That's what eventually led to Germany's invasion of Russia because they needed the resources and the manpower. Okay? And that's the same thing that will happen here where, okay, Putin is spending a lot of money to fight this war in Ukraine. Okay? But after he finishes his war in Ukraine, he needs to go conquer more territory for their resources. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 50:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3029s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3029s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? So, in the long term, this could lead to disaster. Okay? This could lead to a large -scale war. But in the short term, it does work. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. So, Selena asked a great question, which is like, eventually, people are going to get exhausted. Okay? And what Putin believes is that the Russians are a warrior culture. Okay? Russians enjoy war. Russians are good at war. So, Russians won't be exhausted by war. They'll be galvanized and energized by war. That's a theory. Okay? And he's right. Okay? There are warrior cultures out there around the world that do enjoy fighting. Okay? So, you think of the German people. Right? The Germans have been fighting wars for a thousand years, and they've been really good at it. Okay? You think of Japanese. Okay? Japan is also a warrior culture that enjoys fighting wars. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 51:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3108s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3108s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? China is not a warrior culture. It's very hard for the Chinese to fight wars. And Chinese... Okay. I hate to say this, but China would probably lose most wars. Okay? It's not a warrior culture. So, for Chinese civilization, war would be exhausting. But for Russian civilization, war can be energizing and rejuvenating. Okay? Does that make sense? It depends on your civilization. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. So, what's going to happen? And the answer is that warrior culture works right now. Okay? Because warrior culture beats consumer culture easily. So, you see a war in Ukraine where Russians are destroying the Ukrainians, and the Europeans are like, I'm too busy watching TV. I'm too busy buying things. I'm too busy vacationing. Okay? So, consumers don't want to go to war. Okay? But eventually, Russia is going to reach a point where it directly threatens Germany, and France, and Britain. And then they will start to transition into a war culture. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 53:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? So, Putinism will become the dominant ideology for the next 50 years. Okay? But Putinism can spread to other countries. Okay? So, Japan can adopt Putinism. Germany can adopt it. Britain can adopt it. Okay? And so, when this happens, we call this world multipolar. So, the word we use is multipolar. Okay? Or multipolarity. Meaning that there are different centers of power throughout the world. Right now, there's only the United States. It's a global hegemon. But over the next 10, 20 years, we expect a multipolar world where each region has different hegemons. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. So, what happens to the United States? So, next week, we'll discuss the United States. Okay? But what I will show you is that if the United States fights this war in Iran, what happens What it has to do is retreat back to its borders. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 54:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? It has to become isolationist. But I'll explain that to you next week. Okay? Any more questions? Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. Okay. So, that's a great question. Okay? So, we just said that consumer culture is the perfection of slavery, but is war culture slavery? And you can make the argument that it's actually anti -slavery. Why? Why? What can the world do that the consumer cannot do? What's the problem with having a war culture, really? See what I mean? No. What can warriors do that the consumers would never do? Guys, warriors can rebel. Right? Warriors can mutiny. The army can be like, you guys are terrible. We're going to rebel against you. Okay? You understand? Does that make sense to you? Consumers don't do that. Consumers are like, hmm, I'm going to rebel. I'm going to stop buying things. No one's going to do that. Okay? You will never be like, I'm going to stop buying things. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 56:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3367s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3367s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Because I think it's bad for the environment. You won't do that. Whereas warriors are like, you know what? I don't like this leader. Let's march to Moscow and get rid of him. They can do that. And they do that all the time. That's why war culture is so destructive. And that's why war culture was so dominant before, and then we got rid of it. Because for political leaders, war culture is a direct threat. Does that make sense? Okay. So when in this question, this reveals a contradiction in Putinism. Okay? What is the ultimate problem in Putin turning his entire country into a war society? What's the problem with that? And it's a huge problem for Russia. And this is why, ultimately, Russia will not triumph in a multipolar world. In fact, it will probably fall apart. Why? For a war culture to triumph, what does it need? Warriors fight best when what? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 57:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3437s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3437s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: When there's a king, guys. When there's a king. That's why we have kings. Right? So what's the problem with Putin's Russia? What's going to happen to Russia? Guys, eventually, Putin's going to die. Do you understand? Eventually, he's going to die. And then what's going to happen? The country's going to fall apart because there's a war culture. And you have these different generals fighting each other for total control. It's going to be civil war. Okay? Putin right now is a strategic genius. He's the king. Everyone admires him. So he unites everyone. And he can direct officers out of the country. He can direct the entire society into total war. When he dies, this society is going to fall apart. Okay? That's why Putin's legacy will not be a strong Russia. It will be Putinism. Okay? The idea of continuous war. Russia may not survive without Putin. Okay? And quite honestly, when you have a great leader like Putin, it's impossible to replace him. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 58:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Right? No one would have his genius and authority and ruthlessness. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. All right. And David, you had a question? Okay. So David asked a great question. Okay? How much of society agrees with Putin? And the answer is most people don't like to go to war. Okay? Most people are scared by war. But ultimately, society is determined by those who are willing to act on their beliefs. Okay? So when we looked at America, look, they issue a lobby. They're only a small faction, small fraction of the American population, like less than 1%. Okay? But because they're willing to act and they're organized and they're determined, they get their way. Okay? Does that make sense? Same thing in Russia where at most, okay, I would say at most you have 10 % who are like, oh, Putinism is a great idea. Let's go conquer the world. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 59:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0052](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0052) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3579s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3579s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0052` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? At most you have 10%. Most people are like, we want peace. We want to live our lives. I have children. I want my children to be safe. I don't want to send my children to war. Okay? But again, history is determined by those who are determined to act in unison. Okay? So it's usually the most extreme individuals who get their way. Does that make sense? Okay? But thanks for the question. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. So Putin believes that Russia is first. And foremost, a great civilization. Okay? But as a great civilization, it also has to fight wars to protect itself. You understand? So Putin's like, you know what? If America left us alone, we would not fight wars. Okay? It's only because America insists on encircling us, insists on trying to destroy our culture, our civilization, that we must fight a war. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? And so ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 1:00:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0053](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0053) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3659s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3659s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0053` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: what people say is, listen, the war in Ukraine, it's ultimately caused by NATO encroachment into Russia. Right? So NATO, after the Soviet Union fell, expanded five times. Guys, NATO was set up as a defensive alliance against the Soviet Union. Well, if you don't have a Soviet Union, you don't need NATO anymore. So why is NATO expanding? In fact, NATO was going to expand into Ukraine. So Putin is like, we are fighting this war ultimately to defend our civilization. That's what matters. The defense of our civilization. And if it requires us into going, if it requires us to go to war, then we will do so. Okay? And this is this process that will create Putinism. Okay? Or continuous war. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Yeah? Okay. So even though only 10 % agree with Putinism, I actually don't know the real number. Okay? But I think it's only a minority. What happens is that in war, people become much more unified. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 1:02:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0054](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0054) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3751s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3751s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0054` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: Okay? So the example is Ukraine, where actually about 50 % of the people in Ukraine were Russian speakers. Okay? And there was a large group of people, at least a third, who were sympathetic towards Russia. But the moment that Putin invaded, they all united under Zelensky. Okay? So that's what war does. War unifies people. So again, back to the island example, you guys may hate each other when you land on the island, but hey, if there's a million flesh -eating monkeys that want to kill you, you guys are going to become a family. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. Is this clear to you guys? Okay? You look as though you want to ask a question. Are you confused by something, Celine? Excuse me? Okay. So again, Russia is a warrior culture. It enjoys war. It's good at fighting wars. Okay? But China is not a warrior culture. ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 1:03:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0055](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0055) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0055` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: And the reason why is that throughout most of Chinese history, China was the dominant power, the hegemon. Okay? Also, China is surrounded by natural defenses. So to the east, you have the sea. To the south and to the west, you have mountains. To the north, you have the Great Wall. Okay? So China doesn't feel threatened by anyone, and therefore, it doesn't have a warrior culture. Does that make sense? But Russia is a huge country that's been invaded multiple times. Okay? And all these invasions were traumatic for Russia. Okay? So you look at the German invasion of the Soviet Union in about 1941. That killed 20 million people. Millions of Russians died in that war. And people still celebrate that war. Okay? So China is not a warrior culture. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? Any more questions? Okay. So what we will do next week is we'll talk about Putin's strategic genius. Okay? ## Putinism Is Continuous War -- 1:05:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #9: Putin's War for the Soul of Russia - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-31, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0056](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k/transcript/#seg-0056) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3908s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPSUC-UQ5k&t=3908s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k@transcript:v1#seg-0056` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-aepsuc-uq5k.json) Text: And what I will show you, and this will be interesting, is that the way that Russians see the world is radically different from the way we see the world. Okay? So we'll discuss Putin's strategy moving forward. Next class. Okay? Does that make sense? All right, good. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay, let's start class. So let us summarize and review where we are so far in the story. So there are three major interest forces that are pushing the United States towards war with Iran. The first is the Israel lobby. Remember that the Israel lobby is composed of both Jewish interests as well as Christian interests, right? Representing the Jewish interest is something called AIPAC. And they have a membership of about 100,000. But they're very wealthy. There are many billionaires in this group. So this group has financial power. In fact, AIPAC is considered the second most powerful lobbying organization in the United States. The first is the pensioners. There's about 30 million of them. And their lobbying organization is the most powerful. But AIPAC is second. But also in the Israel lobby are the Christian Zionists, right? So for example, the organization Christians United for Israel has 7 million people. In its membership. So together, the Christian Zionists and AIPAC are extremely powerful force in government. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 1:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=92s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=92s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And they want a war in Middle East in order to advance Israel's interests. Also remember that America is now addicted to empire. Because empire represents easy money. All money has to be channeled through the U.S. And so there are many people in the U.S. who just basically make their money by speculating on money, okay? So for example, Wall Street. And that has made Wall Street extremely powerful right now in U.S. politics. And the third force is Saudi Arabia. Remember that in our discussion of Saudi Arabia, we learned that the major conflict in the Middle East is actually not between Israel and Iran, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran. For Israel, Iran is a security threat because it supports Hezbollah and Hamas. But for Saudi Arabia, Iran represents a threat to its very existence. So Saudi Arabia must resolve the Iran problem soon. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 2:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=172s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=172s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Now, how these three forces manifest themselves is through Trump. So basically, Trump is their champion. And privately, there's a man named George Kushner who is Trump's son -in -law. He's married to Trump's very daughter, Ivanka Trump, okay? And Jared Kushner happens to be very good friends with both Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the leader of Israel, as well as Mohammed bin Salman, who is the leader of Saudi Arabia. Now, Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, was a very prominent sponsor of AIPAC. In fact, when Benjamin Netanyahu comes to stay in the United States, he lives with the Kushner family. So one night, Benjamin Netanyahu had to stay in Jared Kushner's bedroom. And Jared Kushner had to sleep in the basement, okay? That's how close they are. And Jared Kushner is friendly with MBS, the leader of Saudi Arabia, so friendly that when Jared Kushner started a private equity fund, Saudi Arabia invested $2 billion, okay? So for Jared Kushner, these three forces are able to exert influence on Trump. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 4:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: As we also discussed, it's very likely that Trump will become President of the United States again in November, and he will pick Nikki Haley as his VP. And that means that Nikki Haley will be the one in the Trump White House pushing for war against Trump. As we discussed, Nikki Haley makes most of her money from the Israel lobby, okay? The anti -Iran lobby. We know from the first Trump administration that these forces are able to exert tremendous influence on Trump, okay? And the evidence is, one, Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal that would have secured peace between the United States and Iran. Trump moved the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Israel, which caused major friction in the Middle East, okay? We also know that Trump ignored the fact that MBS killed a journalist, okay? So we also know that Trump has been very friendly with Saudi Arabia. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 5:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=347s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=347s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: We also know that Trump sponsored the Abraham Accords, which is trying to bring peace between Israel and other Arab countries and unite them against Iran, okay? The last thing that Trump did, which is the most important, is that in January 2020, Trump ordered the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, okay? So from all this, we can suspect that in a second Trump term, war with Iran will be a major priority. So is this clear so far? All right. Now, we also discussed that, okay, even though there are these forces that want war with Iran, ultimately, it is the U.S. military that must implement this war. And if the U.S. military refuses to go to war, then the war can't happen. So we discussed that, unfortunately, the U.S. military is very different from what it was 30 years ago, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 6:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: 30 years ago, the U.S. military maintained very standard military doctrine, okay? They maintained three very important principles that all militaries must maintain. In a time of war. The first is mass forces. B is avoid encirclement, right? And the third is protect supply lines. Now, the important idea is that when you fight a war like this, okay, which is traditional warfare, you must have the consent of the public, okay? Because it is the public that sends soldiers, that provides money, that gives you political support. But in 2003, the U.S. military changed its military doctrine to one of shock and awe, okay? And what shock and awe means is that you don't have to follow these three principles anymore. You can use air supremacy. You also have technological omniscience. And you also have special forces. And this allows you to fight wars cheaply, quickly, and decisively so that you no longer need public political support for fighting wars. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 8:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=504s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=504s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And as we also discussed, this created the idea of hubris in the American military. So the American military, because of the 2003 war in Iraq, are confident that they can win any war, any place, against any enemy. We know that this doctrine is actually not true. And we know because of something called Operation Prosperity Guardian, okay? So a few months ago, the Houthis, which are a rebel group in Yemen, they started to attack ships in the Red Sea, okay? And a lot of trade goes through the Red Sea. So the American military dispatched a massive naval force against the Houthis. Were the Americans able to defeat the Houthis? No, they were not. And so what are the Americans going to do about it? What can they do about the Houthis? What's the solution to this problem? You have these pirates, the Houthis, going around and attacking these ships, which is affecting international commerce. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 9:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=584s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=584s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And that's why inflation is such a huge problem right now in the world. So what's the American military going to do about this? What can they do about this? The answer is nothing, okay? The American military has no solution. Why? Because they don't have the forces necessary in order to undertake an operation against the Houthis. They have special forces, they have air supremacy, they have technological omniscience, satellites, but they don't have infantry. They don't have lots and lots of ships. Therefore, they cannot stop the Houthis, okay? And what's really important is that Joe Biden has come out and said that, yes, we know we are losing the war in the Red Sea, and yes, we know that we cannot stop the Houthis, but we are going to continue on this path, okay? Does that make sense? This idea of hubris. Not knowing your limitations. And when you are faced with your limitations, you refuse to accept your limitations, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 10:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And that's why when the U.S. military is given the order to invade Iran, they'll probably go along with it because they cannot imagine the possibility that they could be defeated in Iran, okay? And then you have the Iran Revolutionary Corps, okay? The Revolutionary Guard. And as we discussed last class, they want war with the United States because they're very angry about U.S. interference in Iran, right? So during the Shah regime, which was a brutal police state from 1953 to 1979, the Americans were the ones who were backing this police state. So there are many who are angry about this. They're also angry about the fact that the U.S. continues to protect Israel and Saudi Arabia, okay? And they're also angry about the fact that Trump killed General Soleimani, okay? And as we discussed, it's possible that the Revolutionary Guard Corps killed last week the president of Iran, Ibrahim Raisi, because he was preventing war, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 12:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=739s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=739s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: So they want war with the United States. So you see the map, right? You see the logic of this, where there are powerful forces in the United States pushing the United States towards war. You have Trump, who has basically agreed in his first term to raise or increase escalation with Iran. Within the Trump White House, there'll be Jared Kushner and Nikki Haley to push this war both privately and publicly. The U.S. military has so much hubris that they think they can win this war, and Iran wants to provoke the United States into invading it, okay? And Iran has many, many strategies in order to provoke the United States into war, okay? Basically, the United States is looking for a reason, and Iran wants to give them a reason. And that's why I think war between the United States and Iran is very likely in the next two to four years. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 13:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=803s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=803s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay, any questions so far? Are we clear about where we are so far before I move on? Any questions? Okay, so now let's talk about the actual war. So here, most of this is speculation, okay? But I'm using speculation in order to help us better understand what happened. What a war would look like, okay? So let's pretend that it's March 20, 27, okay? And Trump goes on TV. He announces Operation Iranian Freedom, a full -scale U.S. invasion of Iran, along with Israel, Saudi Arabia as its main partners. But the United Kingdom, UK, will be involved. Australia will be involved. UAE will be involved. Poland will be involved. Okay, so you have many countries attacking Iran together. And Trump goes on TV and explains to the American public why the United States is fighting this war, okay? And this is what Trump says. First, he says that for the past year, there have been violent protests in Iran. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 14:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=884s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=884s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: You have religious protests. You have political protests. You have ethnic protests. The Iranian people are sick of the Ayatollah. They are sick of the dictatorship. They want democracy. They want freedom. In response, the Resident Guard are killing thousands of protesters. Iran is on the brink of civil war. Therefore, the United States has an obligation to protect the people of Iran. Okay? The people of Iran are praying for freedom and democracy. And the United States, the world's greatest democracy, must give them democracy. Okay? So the first reason is freedom and democracy. Second, U.S. intelligence, along with Israeli intelligence, have discovered that for the past two years, Iran has been working very, very hard on developing a nuclear bomb. In fact, Iran is only one month away from having three nuclear bombs so that New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles could all be destroyed. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 16:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? So to prevent this, we must strike first to stop Iran's nuclear program. Okay? Third, Iranian proxies, the Houthis, Hezbollah, many groups, have been disrupting shipping in the Middle East, in both the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz. Forty percent of the world's oil passes through that region, mainly to East Asia, China, Japan, South Korea. Our global prosperity is at stake. We must go to war to protect these shipping lanes and ensure that the oil goes to China, Japan, and South Korea so that they can continue their economic prosperity. So the United States, as the world's hegemon, has a responsibility to protect global prosperity. Okay? Four, Iran has been launching attacks against our allies, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hezbollah has been violently attacking Israel, killing dozens of Israelis, innocent Israelis. The Houthis have been attacking Saudi Arabia oil fields, damaging the economy. We have an obligation to protect our allies, our friends in the Middle East. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 17:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1061s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1061s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? And the last reason is we know for a fact that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a sponsor of terrorism. Last week, in a mall, there were gunmen who went and killed 107 people. Our intelligence says that it was most definitely an Iranian operation. Okay? So for these five reasons, we have decided to invade Iran. But don't worry. This invasion will be successful because we have a lot of allies. The UK, Israel, Saudi Arabia, all our friends will be part of this operation. Our special forces are already in the country looking for their air bases and their missiles. We can knock them out at the beginning of the war. Also, we have been in contact with Iranian opposition groups. They want to overthrow the regime. And when we help them, they will install democracy in the country. Our American military is the greatest in the world. In 1991, our military defeated Saddam Hussein in 100 hours. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 19:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: In 2003, our military defeated Saddam Hussein in less than three weeks. To prove that we are the greatest in the world, we will defeat Iran in only two weeks. So do not worry. We will be strong in protecting democracy, freedom, and global prosperity. So that's what Donald Trump will say to the people of the United States. And of course, you're going to have large -scale protests throughout the country opposing this war. But most people in the country will support this war. Okay? All right. So at this speech, the operation is launched. And on TV, we'll watch this on TV and the internet together, on YouTube together, okay? And we'll be so impressed by the power of the U.S. military. This is Iran. This is the Strait of Homs. Saudi Arabia. Israel is here. Red Sea is here. Iraq is here. Okay? So in the Strait of Homs comes the USS Gerald R. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 20:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Ford. It's a $13 billion supercarrier. Okay? This thing is designed to destroy countries. It is now prowling the Strait of Homs to ensure that shipping is safe. America establishes air supremacy very quickly. Okay? Meaning it has complete control over the skies. Nothing can move in the skies without America detection. Okay? And then a massive invasion force is sent to Iran in the south. 100,000 U.S. troops land. Maybe 200,000 Saudi Arabia troops land. Okay? Maybe you have 300,000 to half a million troops in Iran. And they are about to strike Tehran in the north. Okay? So in the south, the United States and its allies have established a foothold. They have a huge presence in the country and they are about to attack Tehran. Okay? All right. Do you understand what has happened? Okay. Now I want to ask you this question. At this point, I think the war has been decided. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 22:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1322s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1322s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Who has won the war? America has established air supremacy. It controls the skies. U.S. Navy controls the seas. You have 100,000 U.S. troops in country ready to strike Tehran. The war has been decided. Who has won the war? Okay. Obviously this is a trick question. Obviously Iran has won the war. Why? Why? What's the problem with this plan? Okay? This is typical American doctrine, shock and awe. This is how they fight wars. But there's a problem with this plan. What is it? Why would the Iranians want this? Okay. Let's go back to traditional military doctrine. Okay? In traditional military doctrine, you have three principles. Right? Mass forces, avoid encirclement, protect supply lines. Okay? These are three things you must absolutely obey if you are going to war. Okay? So using traditional military doctrine, explain to me why the United States has lost the war right now. Exactly. First of all, they're encircled. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 23:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1415s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1415s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: You know why? Because Iran are all mountains. It's a fortress. Okay? Meaning that to get these troops into the country, you have to air drop them. Right? But guys, once you're in the country, you can't get them out of the country. You understand? Okay? So that's the first problem. They've been encircled. Right? What's the second problem? Why not? That's right. And why else? Yeah. That's right. Okay? So they failed to mass forces. Okay? Iran is a population of 90 million people. You will need at least three to four million soldiers to even think about conquering the country. They've got 100,000 in this country. Okay? And as Jack says, you can't move tanks through mountains. They're not designed for mountain warfare. What are you going to do? Okay? So they can't mass forces and they can't and they've been encircled. And what else is the problem? And this is the biggest problem. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 24:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1494s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1494s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Exactly. They cannot be resupplied. Okay? They have no supply lines. For them to be resupplied, airplanes have to drop ammunition, food into the country. But again, Iran is all mountains. So it's very easy for Iranians to shoot down the airplanes. Does that make sense? When you pass through mountains, you can't see what's on the ground. A guy, a random guy with a rocket launcher can just shoot down the helicopter. Okay? Which is what the, what the Afghans did against the Soviets in the Afghanistan war. And that's why the Soviets lost the war. A drone can take down any airplanes. Okay? So in other words, these guys are trapped. They, you think they're soldiers, but they're not. What they really are hostages. Okay? Does that make sense? You have too many people in the country. So you can't get them out of the country. But you don't have enough people to actually launch a strike against Tehran. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 25:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: You can't resupply them. And they've been encircled by Iranian forces. All right? Does that make sense? Okay? Okay. Now, the logic of having 100,000 US troops in the country is that once in the country, all the resistance to the regime will rise up and strike against Tehran. The Iranian army will mutiny against the country. Okay? That's the hope. Why do we think this won't happen? Why won't the Iranians revolt against their government? Why don't they want to revolt? That's right. Okay. So Iranians hate Americans. Okay? Remember that Iranians remember the Shah. From 1953 until 1979, the Shah, the American supported Shah was running a brutal police state. So brutal. So brutal that everyone in Iran revolted against the regime. Okay? That's number one. Why else would the Iranians not support the Americans? Why? That's the first reason. Iran has a bad history of America. Why else? Guys, which country is next door? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 27:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1655s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1655s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: What happened in Iraq? America destroyed Iraq. Right? From 2003 until 2011, America was there destroying the country. America said that it would bring freedom of democracy. It would bring prosperity. It would bring wealth. But instead, it just destroyed the country. American soldiers were running into houses every night, pointing guns at children, destroying homes, and arresting men for no reason. Okay? Iranians saw all this on TV. They heard about all this from neighbors. Okay? So they know that if America comes, it's destroy the country. Not to bring freedom of democracy, not to bring prosperity, it's to destroy the country. That's why they're going to fight. Okay? And another reason is that Iranians think that they belong to a great civilization. So they value their freedom and independence. Okay? Does that make sense? They're not going to submit to a foreign conqueror. So why else would the Iranians resist? Okay. Also religion, right? The Iranians are religious. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 28:58 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1738s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1738s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: They believe that America is Satan. And they have a duty, a religious obligation to fight Satan. Okay? So for many reasons, there's just no way that Iranian people are going to stand with America. You might have a minority, but most are going to resist. Okay? Okay. So does that make sense? Okay. Any questions so far? Okay. So that's a great question. Why would the Americans think that the Iranian people will rise up? And the answer is that they need to justify the invasion. Okay? Does that make sense? They have to have a logical explanation for why this invasion will succeed. Because one of the criticisms against them will be like, you need 4 million people to invade Iran. They don't have 4 million soldiers. They have at most 1 million soldiers. Okay? Total, throughout the world. They have about 65,000 people. They have about 60,000 in the Middle East. So they can't get a million soldiers. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 30:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1805s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1805s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: So the only explanation is, okay, well, we're going to pretend that once we invade, the people of Iran will support us. Do you understand? So it's not based on truth, but it's an explanation for why the invasion will succeed. Does that make sense? Oh, you know, that's a great question. Okay. So that's their propaganda. But do they actually believe this? And the answer is hubris. Okay? They do believe this. Because they have hubris. And again, it's hard because we're not in a position. But once you're in that position where you have access to nuclear weapons, when you can kill anyone in the world, when you can see everything in the world, it makes you think you're God. Okay? And we remember, like, last semester we were reading the Greeks, and the Greeks believe the worst thing is hubris. Because it makes you think you're God. But you're not God. And you're going to get into a lot of trouble if you think you're God. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 31:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1872s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1872s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. All right. Any more questions? Okay. So Trump says that Iran is one month from developing a nuclear bomb. Right? America has been saying this for the past ten years. Okay? Just Google this. And America is like, oh, Iran is only one month away from a nuclear bomb. They've been saying this for the past ten years. So do you understand? When Trump gives a speech, there's absolutely no evidence. Okay? There's no evidence that any of this is true. Okay? But this is how he will explain the invasion. All right? And chances are that even if Iran possess a nuclear bomb, they won't use it. Why not? That's right. The reality is that there's only one way that America can win this war against Iran. Okay? They can just nuke the country. And America will do that. If it has enough, if it has a pretext. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 32:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1944s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=1944s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? So, nuclear weapons. It's something that Iran is very afraid of. Okay? So, does it make sense? All right. So, this becomes, so American soldiers are trapped in this country. Okay? So, now the question then is, wait a minute here. Why would America do something so stupid as send 100,000 soldiers into the country for no reason and get them trapped? Okay? So, that's a question. And what I want to do now is make you the argument that there are two ways that we can prove or provide evidence that this is true. Okay? The first is historical analysis. Historical analysis means that are there historical examples like this? Okay? Are there historical analogs? If there are, then this could be true. Okay? The second method is through game theory analysis. Why would the actors who are rational do something as stupid as trap 100,000 American soldiers in Iran? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 33:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: All right? So, we'll first do historical analysis to find historical analogs, examples, sort of similar to this. And then we'll look at game theory to sort of reason out the motivation of the actors. Okay? So, let's first look at game theory. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Let's first look at historical analysis. Okay. So, the year is 415 BCE, okay? In Athens. Remember that we studied Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War, last semester. Okay? So, we will now discuss the Peloponnesian War. The war is, the year is 415 BCE. And for the past 17 years, Athens have been fighting a brutal war against Sparta. Okay? It's a stalemate. And then for whatever reason, a man named Alcibiades, okay, has a suggestion. And his suggestion is, to win the war against Sparta, let's go invade Sicily. And Nicias, his opponent, is like, why the hell would we want to invade Sicily? It's far away. And Alcibiades is like, well, because it has a lot of money. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 35:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And if we invade the country, we can take their money. Okay? And it turned out, by making this argument, the people of Athens really support this argument. Okay? They, because, and the reason why is, war was costing them a lot of money. And they become addicted to the easy money of empire. Okay? So, they want to fight this war. So, Nicias has this great idea of how to convince people not to go to war. Okay? And what he says to the people is, okay, guys, I know you want to fight this war. I know you want to, I know that you think this war is a good idea. But Sicily is a huge place. It has a navy. Therefore, we need a massive expedition force against Syracuse and Sicily. Okay? We need at least 5,000 soldiers. That's a lot. Okay? Because the total Athenian population is about 50,000 people. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 35:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2155s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2155s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? 5,000 soldiers is a lot for expedition. That's a lot. And we need about 100 ships. And the idea is, Nicias is trying to scare people into not, agreeing to not fight. Okay? That's the idea. The Athenians say, that's a great idea. Let's send a massive force against Sicily and Syracuse so the war can be won just like that. Okay? Shock and awe. So, they, so, the problem, though, is that, never before in his history, there was a large expedition force against another power. Okay? Does that make sense? When the Persians invaded, they were invading Athens. Athens didn't go invade Persia. So when you have sent a massive expedition force against another country, what is your number one problem? What is the thing that you must resolve? The Athenians didn't really think about it because they had, actually, no experience in fighting a foreign war. Okay. Okay, so yeah, so the other, the enemy knows the terrain better than you do, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 37:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2233s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2233s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: But there's actually a much bigger problem than that, and it is what? Okay, the biggest problem is resupply. And this is something that the Athenians didn't think about, because they never thought, they never fought a war like this before, okay? So they sent this huge expedition against Sicily. And Syracuse, which was a naval power, were surprised, because they were like, why would the Athenians want to invade us, okay? So for the first year, the Athenians were destroying the Syracuse army. And the Syracuse army had to retreat back into their city, okay? And so the Athenians laid siege to the city. Okay, the Athenians, Syracuse is here, the Athenians are here. And the Athenians control the sea, right? Okay, so this situation is very similar to this situation. Okay, do you understand? But then what happened was that the Athenians couldn't resupply themselves. And the ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 38:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2299s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2299s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: reason why is Syracuse had also the navy, and they could stop the Athenian navy from resupplying the Athenian troops. And therefore, the Athenian army was wiped out in Sicily. And this caused the Athenians to ultimately lose the war against Sparta, and it caused the Athenian empire to collapse, okay? Do you understand? And again, historians have been trying to figure out for a long time why the Athenians would do such a stupid thing as to send a huge army against Syracuse. Because the risk of failure was catastrophic, okay? And the only answer is, well, the Athenians had hubris, okay? They never really lost the war, and they had become addicted to empire, which is the same situation America finds itself in, in today, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right? So this has happened before in history, when the Athenians invaded Sicily and lost to Syracuse. Their entire army was wiped out in Syracuse, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 39:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2369s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2369s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Because they couldn't resupply their army. Does that make sense? All right. The second example we can look at is the Vietnam War. So in the beginning of 1960, okay, the beginning of the decade, most Americans have never heard of a country, which we call Vietnam, okay? Most Americans didn't know what it was, didn't know where it was, okay? By the end of the decade, in 1969, half a million American soldiers were in the country, destroying everything, okay? But also getting destroyed themselves. 58,000 U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam. So the question then is, how did this happen? Why would this happen? 1960. Vietnam was a distant country no one's ever heard of. By the end of the decade, half a million U.S. soldiers were in country, fighting this war against an enemy they really didn't know, okay? In 1971, the Pentagon Papers came out. And the Pentagon Papers was a history of America's involvement in the Vietnam War, dating back to the 1950s, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 40:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And it made three major points. The first point, is that American leadership, military leadership, has been expanding the war in Vietnam without public knowledge, okay? This is what we call mission creep. So maybe at first, they sent some observers to the country, then they sent some advisors, then trainers, then soldiers, okay? So mission creep. Slowly over time, things escalate. And you don't really understand why things escalate, but they do, okay? Second point, is that American leadership from very early on knew the war was unwinnable. This was the greatest military in the world. They dropped more bombs in Vietnam in the 60s than all bombs were dropped in World War II, okay? And they could not win the war. And the reason why is, to win a war, you have to solve three problems, okay? The first problem is, clear strategy. Okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 42:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2527s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2527s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: What are you trying to accomplish in this country? What are your clear military objectives, okay? Second is, you must adapt to the battlefield, okay? Because all your best plans will change over the course of a battle, okay? So the adversary that is most willing to adapt to the battlefield will win, okay? The third thing is, the will to fight. So, if you want to look at a war, who is most likely to win the war, you ask these three questions. One, does this guy have clear military objectives that everyone understands? Because that will determine strategy, okay? Second is, is this guy adapting to the battlefield? And the third is, is this guy, does this guy still have the will to fight? If the answer is yes or no, or three questions, then the person will most likely win the war, okay? And if you look at the Vietnam War, even though America was killing a lot of people, ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 43:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: it killed three million Vietnamese during the course of the war, it was not destroying the enemy's will to fight. In fact, it was making them angrier. And therefore, more people were willing to fight the Americans, okay? So, from a very... So, very early on, the American political leadership knew the war could not be won. So, then the question then is, why did America stay in the war? And the answer is credibility, okay? Credibility just means they didn't want to lose face. They didn't want to be laughed at by the Chinese and by the Soviets and by the Europeans, okay? But there's actually another way to understand credibility, and it's what we call the sunk cost fallacy, okay? Have you guys heard of a sunk cost fallacy? And the idea is never, ever go into a casino. The reason why is that when you go in a casino, you start losing money. At some point, you cannot leave the casino. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 44:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2668s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2668s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Why not? Exactly. You want to reclaim the money you've lost, okay? You've invested so much that you cannot leave. You have to get that money back. And that's the problem with war. Eventually, you've invested so much, you cannot leave the war. And that's what happened in Vietnam. America invested so much, it didn't want to leave the war because it did not want to admit that all this has been lost, okay? It's what we call the sunk cost fallacy. And that's why, even though America could not win the war, it still wanted to fight the war, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so the Vietnam War is another example, okay, that is similar to this. Where America invests enough soldiers that it refuses to leave the war and admit defeat, okay? Does that make sense, guys? All right. Now, let's look at one more example. And this is the most recent example, and it's the Russian -Ukraine War. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 45:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2737s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2737s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Now, as you know, in February 2022, Putin ordered a special military operation against Ukraine, okay? And this is a military operation against Ukraine. And Russia attacked from three axes, okay? The north to take Kiev, the capital. You have the east to take Donetsk. And then you have the south from Crimea to take the south, okay? And as we know, the north failed, okay? The north attack failed, and the Russians had to turn back. But the east and the south were successful, okay? Now, let's think about this. You have an extremely powerful military attacking your country, the Ukraine. If you were the Ukrainian president, if you were the Ukrainian military, there's really only one way you can fight this war and win. And what is it? Using traditional military doctrine. How much you fight this war? You guys know? Let's go back to mass forces, avoid encirclement, protect supply lines. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 46:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2809s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2809s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: How much you fight this war? There's only one way you can fight this war. Excuse me? How do you disrupt supply lines? There's only one way you can fight this war and win. And what is it? The enemy is attacking you, right? So what must you do? Okay, the answer is you must retreat, okay? Why? The enemy is attacking, right? So you pull back your forces. Why would you do that? What's the logic of that? Exactly, okay? It's that simple, okay? You want to overextend your enemy. Ukraine is a huge country, right? And Russia didn't send out that many soldiers, maybe 160,000. That's not that many soldiers. So if you just give them space, they're going to outrun the supply lines, okay? And then when they outrun the supply lines, you can encircle them and you can disrupt their supply. And that's the only way you can win the war, okay? What did the Ukrainians do instead? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 48:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2882s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2882s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: That's the only way to win this war. But what did the Ukrainians do instead which made them lose the war? Yeah. So the Ukrainians refused to give up space, okay? They refused to give up land. They wanted to fight the Russians for every inch of territory. And eventually, because the Russians had more forces, mass forces, they were able to push through, okay? That's the first major mistake that Ukraine made. But then last summer, Ukraine launched something called a counteroffensive, right? So once Russia was able to take space, and because Russia is a land army, it started to develop fortifications, defenses, okay? Mainly artillery. And that's three lines of defenses. And in the summer offensive, the Ukrainian military, for whatever reason, sent tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of soldiers against this artillery, and the Russians blew everyone up, okay? Now, here's a question. Why are the Ukrainians doing this? They've lost the war now, right? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 49:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2959s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2959s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: They have no more soldiers. Right now, the average age of the Ukrainian army is about, it's over 40 years old. They have guys in their 60s and 70s fighting in the military. They don't have enough manpower. The war is lost. Why would the Ukrainians do this? First of all, why would they fight for every inch of territory? And why would they launch a counteroffensive against a superior enemy? What's the problem? Okay, the first is the president, Zelenskyy, the guy's a TV actor, okay? Which means that he doesn't think strategy. He just thinks what looks good on TV. So, for the first two years of the war, we're watching this on TV, right? It looked as though the Ukrainians were going to win this war, right? I remember, like, two years ago, people were saying that the Ukrainians are going to march to Moscow and overthrow Putin. People were saying that, okay? And the reason why is that Zelenskyy is a master of public image manipulation, okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 50:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3031s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3031s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: He was distorting reality for people through television. The problem with that, though, is it's not reality, guys, okay? Reality, the reality on the ground is very different from TV, okay? So, who else is like Zelenskyy in this world? Trump is exactly like Zelenskyy, okay? Do you understand? Trump is also concerned about what looks good on TV. He's like, I must look strong. We must look as though we're winning this war. He doesn't really care about strategy, okay? So, because of this, it's very likely that he orders a land invasion of Iran because it would look good on TV, okay? So, the problem with Zelenskyy is he cared about what looked good as opposed to what actually worked, okay? But you also have other problems, like you have extremists in the Ukrainian military, okay? And guys, these extremists, they're Nazis. They're neo ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 51:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3100s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3100s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: -Nazis. And so, the traditional understanding of neo -Nazis are people who kill Jews, okay? But the Russians don't understand Nazis that way because, remember, Germany and the Soviet Union fought this war. So, the Russians understood Nazis to be enemies of Russia who want to kill Russians. And there were many neo -Nazis in Ukraine. They hate Russia. They want to kill as many Russians as possible. Okay? And they're the ones who are pushing for as much war as possible. Okay? So, you have these extremists in the Ukrainian military. The last reason is NATO. So, it's an open secret that NATO is helping the Ukrainian military against Russia. You have NATO military advisors devising strategy against Russia. Okay? So, it's most likely that the summer offensive last summer was a NATO plan and not a Ukrainian plan. It's possible. We also know that NATO's special forces are in the country directing missile strikes against Russian forces. Okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 52:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3179s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3179s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Which means what? If this is true and if Ukraine loses the war, meaning that it doesn't have enough soldiers to continue to fight this war, what will NATO do? I mean, according to what happened to Vietnam War and the Athenians expedition against Sicily, it is most likely that the most likely outcome will be that NATO sends its own troops against Russia. Okay? So, Macron and friends have said that we want to send French soldiers and the British Prime Minister has said that he is considering conscription for British people. Okay? Which means that young British citizens will be drafted into the army to fight Russia. Alright? So, these are three historical examples that are very similar to what could happen in Iran. Okay? Does that make sense, guys? Alright. Any questions before I continue? Alright. Is this clear so far? Alright. Now let's use another mode of analysis called game theory analysis. Okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 54:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3267s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3267s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) - Related lens: [Game Theory](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/game-theory.txt) Text: And this is what I've been teaching you this semester. And the idea is that society, what happens in the real world, is a game among human beings. Okay? So, in each person is trying to play this game as to optimize the outcome for that person. Okay? So, the question then is why would the United States send 100,000 troops into Iran? So, let's look at the individual motivations of the individual players. Okay? So, you have the United States. What does the United States want to do? What does it want to do? By doing what? And accomplishing what? It wants to topple the regime in Tehran. Right? And you can only do that through a ground invasion. Okay? So, the United States is trying to topple Iran. But then you also have other actors. Okay? So, Iran. What does Iran want to do? What does Iran want to do? Well, they're basically the Revolutionary Guard Corps. What do they want to do? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 55:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3352s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3352s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Right? They want to kill as many Americans as possible. Okay? You understand? They want to force an American invasion. Okay? So, Iran wants to force a U.S. invasion, knowing that if the U.S. invades, it has to lose the war. Okay? It will lose the war. Because the Revolutionary Guard can just send suicide bombers against the United States. Okay? Now, let's look at Israel. Okay? We know that the United States wants to topple Iran. We know that Iran wants to force a U.S. invasion to defeat the Americans, to humiliate the Americans, and exact revenge for what happened in the past. Okay? What does Israel want to do? What is Israel's optimal outcome? You guys know? If you're Israel, what do you want to happen? Okay? So, you want Iran to defeat it. Okay? And then, what do you want to happen? You want Iran to defeat it, you want the proxies to defeat it, and then what do you want to happen? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 57:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3430s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3430s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Do you want the United States to stay in the Middle East? What happens if the United States and Iran both lose the war? I mean, Iran is destroyed as a country. The United States is destroyed as a military presence in the Middle East. What would happen? Israel becomes the top dog in the Middle East. Do you understand? Okay? Israel can now control the entire Middle East. So, the optimal outcome for Israel is Iran and the United States are both destroyed. Okay? Do you understand? How about Saudi Arabia? What is their optimal outcome? Exactly the same as Israel. Exactly. Okay? Do you understand? Okay? Which will lead the Middle East to Saudi Arabia and Israel, but Israel is a far superior military than Saudi Arabia. Okay? Remember, it's very easy to blow up Saudi Arabia. They have oil fields. Okay? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 58:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3493s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3493s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Not that easy to blow up Israel. So, Israel becomes the top dog. Do you understand? Game theory? In other words, all the major participants want an invasion of Iran. Okay? But they want different outcomes. And Saudi Arabia and Israel most benefit if this situation happens where you have 100,000 U.S. troops in the country and they can't get out. Okay? Because it becomes some cost fallacy. The United States can only point more soldiers. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. So, is this clear to you guys? Okay? You can either use historical analysis to get to this outcome, but you can also use game theory to get to this outcome. Any questions so far? Okay. Great. Okay. So, Celine asked the most pivotal question. Okay? The United States has nuclear weapons, which is its ultimate trump card. Right? So, what Trump can say to Tehran is like, I have 100,000 troops in country. You have to let them go or I will nuke you. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 59:34 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0047](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0047) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3574s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3574s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0047` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? Do you understand? Trump can say that. Listen, I'm Trump. I'm Donald Trump. I need to look strong. I have 100,000 troops in the country. I can't get them out of the country. So, he says to Tehran, you either let them go okay, you either guarantee safe passage out of the country or I will nuke you. Right? So, that's what will happen. That is what Donald Trump will do. Once the situation arises, the only way for Donald Trump to save face is to threaten Tehran and says, you either let my guys go or I will nuke the entire country. Right? So, how does Tehran get out of this situation? How do the Iranians protect themselves against this possibility? Because you're absolutely right. This is exactly what will happen if this situation will arise. Trump will respond with nuclear weapons or the threat of nuclear weapons. So, what must the Iranians do to protect themselves against this possibility? ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 1:00:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0048](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0048) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3636s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3636s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0048` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Who can help the Iranians now? Russia. Okay? Do you understand? So, before this war happens, Iran and Russia must come to an agreement where Putin says from the onset, no one is allowed to use nuclear weapons. Okay? If Iran uses nuclear weapons, I will nuke Iran. If the United States uses nuclear weapons, I will nuke the United States. If Israel uses nuclear weapons, I will nuke Israel. Okay? If Putin says that, how will the world react? If Putin says this, you are not allowed to use nuclear weapons, how will the world react? He's a hero, right? He saved humanity. But because he says this, the United States is now trapped. Okay? You understand? And so this becomes a black hole for the United States where they can only send in more troops. They can't get any troops out. They can only send in more troops. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 1:01:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0049](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0049) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3699s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3699s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0049` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: What's the problem with this? What's the problem with sending in more troops? No, there's actually a huge problem with this idea of sending in more troops. What is it? Okay, you can't, like, no one wants to go fight. You understand? The military cannot recruit soldiers. Alright? But even if you did have enough troops, as Jack says, you can't resupply them. Why? Why can't you actually resupply your army? Why not? But there's a bigger problem than the supply lines. What is it? What do you need to create bullets and ammunition? America has no manufacturing capacity because America moved all its manufacturing capacity to China. Okay? Remember this. So for every one ship that America can build, China can build 232 ships. That's what the Pentagon says. Okay, do you understand? So if this war were, if this war were to happen, there's actually no way America can win this war. It's just completely trapped inside Iran. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 1:03:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0050](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0050) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3780s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3780s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0050` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: And once it becomes trapped, some cost fallacy comes into play and America just puts in all its resources into the country, but it's a black hole. Okay? They cannot use nuclear weapons because Putin has said from the onset you are not allowed to use nuclear weapons. Alright? But now the question then is, why would Putin do that? Right? Why would Putin involve himself in this war? And that's what we'll discuss next class. Alright? How Putin sees this war and how Putin will react in this war. But before we end, are there any questions about any of this? Does this make sense to you guys? Is this clear? Any questions? Oh, that's a great question. Yeah. So the problem with Iraq is that Iraq is an independent country. You understand? There are 10,000 American soldiers in Iraq. So you would need their permission. Even if you have their permission, there's a problem here because there are lots of Shia militiamen in Iraq who are loyal to Iraq. ## The Iran Trap Turns Invasion Into Hostages -- 1:04:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-29, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0051](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo/transcript/#seg-0051) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3871s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=3871s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo@transcript:v1#seg-0051` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-7y-hbz6loeo.json) Text: Okay? And they would see the American invasion force as something, as an opportunity to attack the Americans. Okay? Because they're still angry about the Americans for what happened in Iraq. But even if they could have a staging area in Iraq, they still have to deal with mountains. Okay? Do you understand? Alright? I mean, the problem is you have 100,000 troops in the country. You have to get out of the country. Okay? And it's very hard to get them out of the country. If you go through the mountains, you're going to get ambushed in the mountains. If you go through the air, those drones are going to strike you down. That's the issue. Okay? Alright? Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Okay, great. So, on Friday we'll talk about Putin. Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 0:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay, so let's start class and start to think about the question, how and why did the Iranian president, Ibrahim Raisi, die? Okay, so when you do history or when you do analysis about current events, you're always going to encounter three major problems, okay? The first major problem is that there's very little information that you can work with, okay? Truth is very limited. That's the first problem. Second problem is that the information that you have may not be true, okay? So there's also misinformation. That's the second problem. And the third problem is that there's always going to be an official narrative that the media, the government publishes, and it may not be true, but it's the one that people accept, okay? So the challenge for us today is we know that the Iranian president, Ibrahim Raisi, died, and we will have to use analysis, okay? Game theory analysis to figure out how he died and who might have killed him. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 1:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=102s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Does that make sense? But the problem again is we are working with very limited information that the Iranian government chooses to disclose to the public, okay? So what do we know? We know that as a fact that on May 19th, the Iranian president was in Azerbaijan. For a damn opening ceremony. And then he got into his helicopter and he was flying back into the country. And when he was flying back, there was an accident that caused the helicopter to crash, killing all nine people on board, including the president, the foreign minister, three crew members. The president. The governor of a province, a local religious leader, the bodyguard of the president, and the head of the president's security detail, okay? So all nine people died. And we have reason to believe that the most probable reason is an accident, okay? That this was an accident, that it was bad weather, there was a fog. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 3:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=192s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=192s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: The pilot couldn't really see. And he crashed into the mountain. And the evidence for this is that, one, this happens a lot. For example, in 2020, the very famous basketball player Kobe Bryant, he died in a helicopter crash along with his daughter, okay? So this actually happens a lot. The second piece of evidence is that the helicopter they were flying in is very dangerous. It's very old. It was basically an American helicopter that they started to use in the 70s. And after the Revolution, America refused to cooperate with Iran, so they could never actually maintain the helicopter. So maybe it was just a malfunction, okay? So these are two compelling reasons why most people believe this is an accident. And this is, again, a good example. This is probably the cost that will go down in history, okay? But game theory analysis requires us to explore other possibilities. So there are two other possibilities. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 4:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=265s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=265s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Second possibility is foreign adversary, which means that either the United States or Israel or even possibly Azerbaijan, okay? But a foreign adversary was responsible for this. The problem with this theory, though, is one of opportunity and motive, okay? So what this means is it's very hard as a foreign government to plan an assassination of an Iranian leader in Iraq, okay? It's very hard. The opportunity isn't there. So maybe Israel, America want him dead. Well, how could they pull it off? It's very hard to do such a thing, okay? Second problem is motive. What reason would Israel or the United States have for killing the president? Now, in the past, the United States and Israel have killed Iranians before. So, for example, in January 2020, President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of General Soleimani in Baghdad, okay? But there was a motive here. And the motive is that Soleimani is responsible for Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East and therefore a direct threat to American interests, okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 6:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=361s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=361s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And Israel in the past has staged assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran. But again, the motive is, well, Israel is afraid that Iran develops a nuclear weapon. And therefore, the easiest way to stop that is to kill the scientists, okay? Israel, on April 1st of this year, also staged an airstrike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing two Iranian generals. But again, the motive is, what Israel said was that these generals were working with Hamas. Hamas to threaten Israel, okay? So the motive is very clear. And the problem here is it's very unclear what the motive is for killing the Iranian president, okay? In fact, there's a lot of risk in that. But again, I am not discounting the possibility it could be a foreign adversary. And the third possibility is an internal enemy, okay? Meaning that there were certain individuals or factions or groups in Iran that wanted the president dead, okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 7:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And so with this internal enemy idea, opportunity, this problem doesn't exist because obviously these enemies would have resources to track down and kill the president, okay? So an example of this is that, remember that when the president was flying home, he had, there were three helicopters, right? It was only his helicopter that crashed. The two other helicopters were fine. Now, in theory, and like we don't know who was in the other two helicopters, but we can guess that they were probably military escort, right? They were there to protect the president. But at the same time... If they wanted to kill the president, they could, okay? So was it the military? So the opportunity was there. But then the question then is motive. Why would they do that? And the answer is that the possibility, again, we are looking at possibilities, right? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 8:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=521s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=521s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Everyone agreed that Abraham Raisi would most likely become supreme leader. The supreme leader of Iran when the current Ayatollah Khamenei died, okay? So Raisi is 63 and Khamenei is 85. So we can expect that within the next five years, Khamenei will die and Raisi, who many see as Khamenei's prodigy, will become the Ayatollah. Now, the Iranian political system, it's kind of strange because it's an Islamic republic. And what that means is that the ultimate authority is God, the Koran. And it's the Ayatollah who represents the God and Koran, okay? So he's the ultimate authority. He has ultimate veto power. And the president is maybe like the CEO of the country. Okay? So the person with the real power in the country is the Ayatollah. And if Raisi becomes the Ayatollah, then we can expect major policy shifts in the country, okay? Okay? So then the question then is, okay, well, who would benefit from Raisi's death and stopping him from becoming the next Ayatollah? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 10:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And what people say is, and again, guys, I'm working with very limited information. I don't know Iran that well. I just read the news, okay? But what people say is that there are two top contenders to be the next Ayatollah. The first contender, the most likely, is Raisi. The second contender is actually Khamenei's son, Moshtaba Khamenei. Okay? So with him gone, Moshtaba Khamenei is most likely to be the next Ayatollah. Now, this presents a problem for Iran because it's an Islamic republic. It's supposed to be under the rule of God, right? And one thing that most Iranians oppose is the idea that, the idea of hereditary leadership, okay? A father passing on leadership to his son. Because remember that in 1979, the Iranians had a revolution to overthrow the king. And everyone was in favor of overthrowing the king. Okay? So if Moshtaba Khamenei did become Ayatollah, this would actually create a political legitimacy crisis in Iran. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 12:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=723s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=723s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? And then the question then is, okay, alright, so Moshtaba Khamenei benefits, but who would benefit from having him as Ayatollah? And the answer is actually very simple. There's a group in Iran called the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? Or the IRGC. Okay? We will call them the Revolutionary Guards. And what's interesting about them is that they are separate from the army, okay? The military. So where do these guys come from? And why are they separate from the army? Well, it goes back to 1979. Remember in 1979, there was a popular uprising against the Shah of Iran, the king of Iran. And the government brought back Ayatollah Khamenei from exile to run the country. And Khamenei at that time was afraid of the army because the army had sworn allegiance to the king. So to deal with this problem, Khamenei established another armed group called the Revolutionary Guard Corps. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 13:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=816s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=816s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? And what they do is actually very different. They are different from the military. The military has an obligation to protect the nation. But the Revolutionary Guard Corps has a responsibility to protect the revolution, the Islamic Republic. Okay? Which means ultimately that they are Khamenei's private army. They only obey him. And the other thing about the revolution is that not only were they trying to bring the Islamic Republic to Iran, but they were trying to export the revolution across the Middle East. Okay? So basically, the Revolutionary Guard Corps had two main functions. The first main function is to protect the Ayatollah and ensure the revolution succeeds in Iran. But the other function is to export the revolution to the Middle East. Okay? To spread Islamic revolution to Syria, Iraq. And that's why the Middle East was so disturbed and so angered by the revolution. All right? Now, this was why the IRGC was founded. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 15:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=905s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=905s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And because so many countries considered Iran to be a threat, they encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade the country in 1980. Okay? And this started something called the Iran -Iraq War. And it was not just the Americans who support this war. The Soviets also support Saddam Hussein. And the Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia also support it. Saddam Hussein. It was a brutal war. And a lot of Iranians died. But ultimately, the Revolutionary Guard Corps was able to protect the revolution from foreign invaders. And because of that, they became the most dominant military group in Iran. And so they almost had unlimited access to Iran. Okay? Not only to protect the revolution in Iran, but also to export it overseas. All right? So does this all make sense to you guys? But with so much power, they eventually became corrupt. Right? Today, people believe that they control about 10 to 50 % of the entire Iranian economy. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 16:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=996s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=996s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And because you have such a monopoly of power, it meant that over time, the Iranian economy stagnated. Okay? Now, Western sanctions, American sanctions played a major role. Iran couldn't really sell its oil overseas. But the real problem was the fact that you had a monopoly of power, this Revolutionary Guard Corps, controlling the entire economy. And this led to protests. Okay? So the first group's protest was in 1999. You had 50,000 students protesting the revolution. The lack of democracy in Iran. What they were really protesting, of course, was the corruption of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. But you couldn't do that. You can't say that. So they were protesting for democracy. They were crushed. Then, in 2009 to 2010, there's something called the Green Movement. And the idea of the Green Movement was that people wanted a new government that promised reform. And in the election, their candidate, the reform candidate, lost. And people suspected that the Revolutionary Guard Corps cheated. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 17:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1075s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1075s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And so there were violent protests. And again, the Revolutionary Guard suppressed the revolution. And at that point, basically, people lost faith in democracy. And so afterwards... In other words, every other president was basically a puppet of the regime. Okay? And the most recent protest, in 2023, there was a young woman named Massa Amani. And she was arrested by the police for failing to wear, like, head covering in public. And she died in custody. Okay? So people suspect that she was beaten by the police. And this caused massive protests. Okay? So for the past 10, 20 years, there have been continuous protests in Iran about the government and the economy, but mainly about the fact that the Revolutionary Guard Corps has monopolized the economy to its own benefit, which has caused the economy to stagnate and for people to become poorer over time. But... ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 19:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1153s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1153s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Because the protests are so widespread, the Revolutionary Guard Corps ironically has become more powerful because they are seen as the most loyal to the current regime. Okay? Their loyalty is not contested. And so what this means is this. What this means is that... Is there... If there's a change in leadership... Okay? If the Ayatollah dies and a new Ayatollah comes into power, what the new Ayatollah will do is reduce the power of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Does that make sense to you guys? Because he needs to establish his own power base. And the Revolutionary Guard Corps was loyal to the current... He's... The... The Revolutionary Guard Corps is most loyal to the current leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini. But if there's a new Ayatollah who comes to power, he needs to establish his own power base. So he'll bring his people into power. And that means reducing the power of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? Does that make sense? And so there'll be a direct threat to the Revolutionary Guard Corps. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 20:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1235s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1235s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Now, if... But if the current leader's son, Moshtaba Khomeini, were to become the new Ayatollah, then things would stay the same. And the Revolutionary Guard Corps would continue to control the economy. Okay? Does that make sense to you guys? All right? So again, I'm presenting a reason why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps would want to kill the current president. And ensure that the Ayatollah's son becomes the next leader. Because they want to maintain the monopoly of power over the country. Does that make sense to you guys? All right? Now, I now want to discuss who these people are and how they think about the world. Okay? Because they're corrupt, but they're ultimately religious fanatics. Okay? That want to export the revolution across the Middle East. Okay? So, let's talk about 1979. In 1979, the Shah left Iran because there were so many protests against him. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 22:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1320s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1320s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: He... The Shah realized that it was very hard for him to stay in power despite the brutality of the army and the police. There were just too many protests. Too many people wanted to see him gone. Okay? So, he goes to America. And there are many Iranians who are outraged by this for two reasons. The first reason is that they want the Shah, the king of Iran, to stand trial for all his human rights crimes while he was king of Iran. Okay? That's the first reason. But the second reason is they were afraid that the Shah had gone to America to win a war against Iran. And the second reason is that the Shah was trying to gain America's support for an invasion of the country. The Shah was trying to get America to invade Iran and put him back in power, which happened in 1953. Okay? And so, to counter the threat of the Shah, in November of 1979, 300 to 500 students, college students, stormed the U.S. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 23:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1386s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1386s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Embassy and took it over and held 53,000 people. These were the three Americans as hostages. Okay? And they demanded the Shah be returned to Iran to stand trial. Now, this is obviously an invasion of American territory. This goes against international law. But when the students did this, there was so much public support for the students that the authorities didn't really do anything. Also, the Ayatollah Khomeini supported the students. Okay? So, there was widespread public support for the students. When the students invaded the embassy, the first thing that diplomats must do is basically destroy all the files, right? All the secrets. So, all embassies come with some things called shredders. Do you guys know what shredders are? Okay? Shredders are just basically machines. And if you want to destroy paperwork very quickly, you put it in the machine. Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 24:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1453s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1453s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And the machine will cut the paper into about 100 different strips of paper. Okay? And this is the fastest, most effective way to destroy your documents. And there are about like tens of thousands of pages. Can you guess what the students did? Over months, the students slowly and methodically pieced the documents back together one by one. And what these documents revealed to the students, and to the public in Iran, is that the real center of power in Iran was not the palace where the Shah lived, but the U.S. Embassy. It was the U.S. Embassy that was directing policy in Iran. It was the U.S. Embassy that was responsible for the brutality of the regime. And it was the U.S. Embassy that in 1953 staged a coup d 'etat. Against the democratically elected government of Iran. And installed the police state of the Shah. Okay? So these students, when they read these documents, were really angry. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 25:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1539s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1539s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? And you can imagine that these students, because they pieced together these documents, right? They're fanatics. And guess what, guys? These students have gone on to become the top military leaders. Of the country. Okay? And I'll just give you three names. Hussein Dagan, who was the Minister of Defense from 2013 to 2017. Okay? He was a student protester in the U.S. Embassy. That's one person. Second person is Muhammad Ali Jafari, who from 2007 to 2019, was head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? And also, Muhammad Bagari, who is still the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Army. So the Revolutionary Guard Corps are staffed by individuals who hate America. And see America as the great Satan. And they basically want to go to war with America to avenge the wrongs and evils. And America did to Iran. Okay? Does that make sense? Second thing I'll mention is that when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in 1980, Iran didn't really have an army. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 27:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1632s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1632s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And the reason why is that the Revolutionary Guard Corps had arrested or exiled or executed the officers of the military. Because they were not seen as loyal to the Revolution. They were seen as loyal to the Shah. Okay? So Iran didn't have an army. And Saddam Hussein had airplanes. He had tanks. He had lots of soldiers. And everyone thought that the war would end very quickly. But then what the Revolutionary Guard Corps did was they organized a new army called the Bastaji. Okay? The Bastaji. And this was a volunteer army of poor religious people from the villages. And what the Alatullah Khomeini said to them is, we don't have weapons. But we have God on our side. Okay? The Iraqis have armor. But we have divine power. And what they did was. To these villagers. And these guys are about your age. Okay? They're 16, 17, 18. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 28:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1712s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1712s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And they gave each of these guys a rifle and a key to put over their necks. Okay? And the idea is that this key is your entry into heaven. Because when you die in war, you are granted automatic entry into heaven. And so these guys. And they were organized into groups of like 22. Okay? They would run ahead across Iraqi minefields. Tanks would strike at them. Okay? Helicopters would come and strike at them. And they would keep on running. And of course, they would die. Okay? Because they didn't have any armor. But. The Iraqis spent so much ammunition and bombs on them that eventually the Iraqi army became exhausted. Does that make sense? And so they withdrew. But then Iran took the fight to Iraq. But this shows you that the main power in Iran. Why Iran is such a powerful military is that their Revolutionary Guard Corps are run by fanatics with a passion for revolution. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 30:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1804s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1804s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And they're supported by the Bajajis who are these poor, illiterate religious volunteers. And there's tens of millions of them for Iran to draw on. Okay? And. What the Revolutionary Guard Corps has been doing after the Iraq war is they recognize that if an enemy comes to attack Iran, people are going to die. So they want to take the fight to them. Okay? And that's why for the past 20, 30 years, the Revolutionary Guard Corps has been supporting conflict in the Middle East. Okay? They started something called the Axis of Resistance. So the Axis of Resistance includes Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, Syria, the Assad regime in Syria, as well as Shia militia in Iraq. Okay? And so all the money that the Revolutionary Guard Corps brought to Iran. Mix in Iran is then sent to this Axis of Resistance to create conflict against Saudi Arabia, United States and Israel. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 31:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? But so you can imagine that there are some people and there are actually a lot of people in Iran who are like, why are we doing this again? What? What if we withdrew from the Middle East? And just focus on our own economy? Then Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States won't have a reason to attack us. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 32:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1926s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1926s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 32:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=1931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: So there are people who are thinking like, maybe the problem isn't Israel. Maybe the problem isn't the United States. Maybe the problem is these guys because they're fanatics. And they're creating all these problems in the Middle East. Which is crippling our economy. If we stop these conflicts and just focus on our own economic development, then maybe our people will be better off. Okay? And one reason to think that there are people in Iran, politicians in Iran, who are extremely skeptical of Revolutionary Guard policy in the Middle East. Is that in January 2020. In January 2020. Remember that General Soleimani was assassinated by the Americans. The Iranian response wasn't that big of a deal. Okay? The Iranians basically didn't respond. Whereas the Revolutionary Guard Corps, because their leader was killed, they demanded vengeance. Right? They wanted to go to war. But we can suspect that it was the politicians like Raisi who basically said, no guys, let's be patient. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 33:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2016s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2016s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? Going to war against Israel and the United States right now is suicidal. So they were urging caution and restraint. And the Revolutionary Guard Corps didn't like that. And then April 1st of this year, the Israelis struck the Iranian embassy. Right? Which made matters worse. And again, at that time, I'm sure the Revolutionary Guard Corps was, let's just go to war. And again, I'm sure Raisi and his team said to them. Guys, we cannot beat the United States and Israel in a war. Let's be strategic about this. Let's be patient. Our time will come. But we need to be patient. Okay? And I'm sure that because the fanatics, they were like, they are in a way, these politicians are cowards. They're weak. They're soft. They're not believers. Let's get rid of them. Okay? And then what happened on May 19th? Was an opportunity arise where there was fog. And they were like, well, here's our opportunity. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 34:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2085s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2085s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And so they caused an accident. Okay? Does it make sense, guys? All right? So again, I don't know what happened. But if we look at game theory and we examine who would benefit from the death of Raisi, this group of people, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, would most benefit. Because it is very likely that if Raisi died. Raisi became the next supreme leader, their authority and their policies would be challenged. Okay? And so by getting rid of Raisi, it makes Mojaba Khomeini, the son of the Ayatollah, that much more probable in ascending to the supreme authority. And that allows them to maintain their power, monopoly of power. And even if this accession causes a disaster. A legitimacy crisis. Well, it's good for them because then the regime is even more dependent on them. Okay? Does that make sense? So during these protests, especially the Green Movement, the Revolutionary Guard Corps was the ones responsible for cracking down. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 36:07 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2167s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2167s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And they were violent and brutal in cracking down. Okay? So, okay. Are you guys clear? About the logic here? Any questions? Okay, that's a great question. So Suning asked, does the military still exist? And the answer is yes, it still exists. Okay? But again, the Revolutionary Guard Corps has certain responsibilities that make it the most powerful group. Okay? So the first thing is that it's responsible for the navy. Okay? Why is this important? Because the Strait of Hormuz is a very strategic shipping lane. And so they're responsible to maintain that strait. Okay? And the navy allows them also to smuggle. Which means that they can make more money for themselves. Okay? So that's the first thing. Second thing is that they're also responsible for the missile program. The missile program. Okay? And this is where actually the military spends most of its money. The missiles. Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 37:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2246s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2246s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And the third thing is, of course, foreign policy. Meaning that the Axis of Resistance gets... Sorry, the Axis of Resistance only interacts with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? So General Soleimani and the two generals who died in the Israeli airstrike, they all belong to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? So these three things mean that the... The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, they control basically all the money and all the power in the country. Okay? But they're still military. Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. So Jack asked a great question. Why is the Revolutionary Guard Corps... Why do they believe that they can control Mashtaba Khomeini? Okay? Okay. So in 1989, the first Ayatollah Khomeini died. And Ayatollah Khomeini succeeded him. And the moment he became the new Ayatollah, he focused on cultivating his personal relationship with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? So basically, he knows... There's about 250,000 of them. And he made a point of meeting everyone and memorizing their names. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 39:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2344s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2344s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: He even knows the names of their children. So the current Ayatollah Khomeini has a great personal relationship with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Okay? They're basically his private army. And the reason why that the Revolutionary Guard Corps would transfer loyalty to Mashtaba is that Mashtaba himself is an extremely unpopular figure. If he were popular, if he were like a clever politician, then he would most likely become Netanyahu. He would become the next Ayatollah. But because he's very unpopular, there's a lot of resistance to him. So if he becomes next Ayatollah, it would be only because the Revolutionary Guard Corps put him there, which means that he must be loyal and obedient to their policies. Does that make sense, Jack? Okay. But that's a great question. Any more questions before I move on? Okay. So Celine asked a great question. What changes now that Raisi is dead? Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 40:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2417s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2417s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Now, all right. So if it was an accident, then in theory nothing changes because ultimately it's the Ayatollah Khomeini who is responsible for policy. Okay? But if I am correct and it was a planned assassination by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, then everything changes. Okay? What this means is that the political class goes away and the military class takes over. And they dictate policy. Okay? So you will see, first of all, there's going to be an election. Okay? So in late June, there will be someone to replace the president. Okay? And it's most likely that the current vice president, who is Mohammad Makbar, the current vice president, will become the new president. And this is important because Raisi does not come from the Revolutionary Guard Corps. He comes from the judiciary. Okay? That's a different power base. But Mohammad Makbar comes from the Revolutionary Guard Corps. So he would advance Revolutionary Guard Corps interests. Okay? ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 41:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2505s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2505s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And if that's the case, then what we'll see is the country, the leadership, preparing its people for total war. Okay? We will see that the rhetoric becomes more extreme and preparing its people for an eventual American invasion. There will be much more harsh crackdown on political dissent. Okay? So that's the first thing. Second thing is that the Revolutionary Guard Corps cannot defeat America face -to -face. Okay? The only thing that they can do to defeat America and Israel is to lure them into the country. And they do that by provoking them. Okay? So there are different things that they can do to provoke America. The first is to accelerate the nuclear program. Okay? What America and Israel have done. What America and Israel have said is they see Iran possessing nuclear weapon as an existential threat to the safety of Israel. So this is a no -no. Okay? So if Iran accelerates the program, this is a direct provocation. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 43:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2585s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2585s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is to encourage the proxies. Okay? So right now, Israel is very concerned about Hezbollah. In the north. Hamas has already attacked them. Hezbollah could also attack Israel. If Hezbollah attacks Israel, then Israel can only interpret this as Iran encouraging Hezbollah to attack them. Okay? But if Hezbollah attacks Israel, then Israel and the United States would see this as an escalation. And they would be much more determined to eventually attack Iran in some way. You also have Shia militias in Iraq who could attack U.S. military bases. Okay? You also have the Houthis in Yemen who can attack Saudi Arabia, oil fields. Okay? So you're encouraging your proxies to make things worse in the Middle East, in which case the United States can only conclude that we need to destroy the head of the snake, which is Iran. Okay? The second thing that could happen. The third thing that could happen is. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 44:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2669s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2669s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Basically, Iran starts to attack shipping lanes. Okay? It makes shipping much more difficult. Okay? And the fourth thing is basically terror. Basically, Iran, for its proxy, launches terror attacks against America and its allies. Okay? So there are many things that Iran can do to provoke a war. And again, if I'm right. And again, I don't know if I'm right or not. Then we should expect that in late June, Mohammed Markbar wins the election and his rhetoric becomes much more extremist. We need to take the fight to America. Okay? We need to avenge Soleimani. We can also expect that the fighting in the Middle East becomes much more extreme. Okay? And we should see escalation. The acceleration of the nuclear program. Proxies become much more violent. Shipping is disturbed. And you have a terror campaign throughout the world. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. But again, I don't know. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 45:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: And also, by the way. Just because these things might happen. Does not mean that. Raisi was killed by the Revolutionary Guard Corp. Okay? Do you understand? But I'm saying that. If in fact. The Revolutionary Guard Corp. Did kill Raisi. Then we should see these things happening. But just because these things happen does not mean. That. Raisi was killed. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any more questions? Okay. So. Celine's question is. How would they fight the war? And. They can only fight the war in one way. Which is to lure the Americans into attacking Iran. Okay? Does that make sense? It is suicide to attack America in the open. Remember that America has shock and awe. Which means that they have air supremacy. Which means they have satellites that can see everything that you do. Which means they have special forces. Okay? It is suicide to attack America in the open. So what Iran needs to do. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 47:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2832s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2832s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Is trick America into invading Iran. And then America would lose for sure. Okay? And that is something that we will discuss next week. But that is what they have to do. And again. If they provoke America enough. Then America will eventually get angry enough. To send an invasion force against Iran. Does that make sense? Okay. Any more questions? Is this clear? Is this clear to you guys? The logic here. Okay? So. Again. This is all speculation. I have no actual information or evidence. Okay? I am just saying. Okay. Raisi died. And it was probably an accident. But if it was not an accident. Then who would most benefit from killing him? Or his death? And the answer is. The revolutionary guard corps. Because they see him as a direct threat. To their authority. Okay? But at the same time. What is important to remember is that. Any new leader. Would see these guys as a problem. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 48:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Because they have too much power. And they are creating too much tension. Overseas. And they are too fanatical. Okay? And so. It is most likely. That they would want to elevate. Mostaba Khomeini. Because Mostaba Khomeini is not popular. And he would have to be loyal to. The revolutionary guard corps. Or he would need their help. To maintain power. Okay? But I. Okay. Does that make sense guys? All right. So next class. We'll discuss. What an actual war. Between the United States and Iran. Would look like. And what's important to remember is that. I've been saying all semester. That the United States will lose the war. But never have I said. That Iran will win the war. Okay? And the reason why is that. This war will be brutal. For Iran. Tens of millions of people will die. For no reason. And that's why. Politicians like Raisi and others. Are like. Let's not go to war. ## Raisi's Death and the Beneficiary Test -- 49:25 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #7: Who Killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi? - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2965s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRGvKxfLts&t=2965s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lsrgvkxflts.json) Text: Okay? All right. So I'll see you guys. Next week. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 0:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Let's start class. So, last week, we discussed the possibility that Trump will become president, and we discussed that if he does become president in a second term, there will be a very strong likelihood that the United States will go to war with Iran. Now, the question today is, okay, Trump wants to go to war, but will the U.S. military agree? Ultimately, it is the Pentagon that must implement this war, and if there is enough opposition from the military, then it is very hard for Trump to push a war. I want to make the argument today that the military will go to war. It will go along with the war, and it has to do with what happened in 2003, okay? So let's go back to the last time that America fought a major war. It was the 2003 invasion of Iraq called Operation Iraqi Freedom, okay? So at that time, President George W. Bush ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 1:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=77s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=77s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: and his people, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, they want this war. And they go to the Pentagon and say, listen, we want this war, give us a plan. And the Pentagon, the generals, they're very experienced and conservative people. And in general, when you fight a war, there are three things you must focus on, okay? The first idea is mass forces. When you fight a war, you want to overwhelm your enemy. So, when we say mass forces, we basically mean infantry and armor. Most wars are fought using tanks and soldiers. And the Iraq Army at that time had about 370,000 soldiers, okay? And in general, the general rule of thumb when you invade a country is you want to have a three to one advantage, okay? And the reason why is... The reason why is that when you invade an army, sorry, when you invade a country, you need to hold territory and resupply your soldiers, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 2:40 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=160s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=160s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: So you need to advance, but you also need to hold territory, as well as resupply your troops and have reserves, okay? So the general rule of thumb is that if your enemy has 300,000 soldiers, you need about a million, okay? So that's the first principle. Second principle is the idea of you want to avoid encirclement. Okay? The worst thing that can happen to your soldiers is if they become encircled by the enemy, okay? Because then it becomes impossible to defend yourself, all right? And the third idea is protect supply lines. Most of war is actually just logistics. How do you get oil and fuel and weapons from here to there, okay? Supply lines. So these are the three major principles. Okay? These are the three things that you must focus on when you fight a war. So when the Bush government asked the ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 3:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Pentagon for a plan, the Pentagon went to the drawing board and said, to invade Iraq properly, we need about a million soldiers, okay? And Donald Rumsfeld, who was Secretary of Defense, and his deputy, Wolfert, said, no, we're going to do it with less than a million soldiers. Give us a plan that requires less infantry. And the Pentagon said, okay, well, we shouldn't do this, but the most we can do is about 900,000. And Wolfert said, nope, go lower. And eventually, Rumsfeld and Wolfert said, we want you to fight this war with 100,000 troops. 130,000 troops. Okay? And the Pentagon said, no. And the Pentagon said to Rumsfeld and Wolfert, this is insane. We will be outnumbered three to one when we fight this war. How are we going to avoid encirclement? How are we going to amass forces? How will we protect supply lines? And Rumsfeld and Wolfert, who are not, by ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 5:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: the way, professional soldiers, they've never really fought a war before, they're like, well, we have this theory, a new theory of war called shock and awe. Okay? And the idea of shock and awe is that all militaries are hierarchies. Okay? You have command and control. So you have the head, and then you have the body, and then you have the arms and the legs. Well, if we can go and cut off the head, then the entire army falls apart. And we can do that because the nature of war has changed. What the US military specializes in. Okay? And then what gives us the advantage is three things, or three things. Okay? First is air supremacy. We control the skies because we have the greatest air force in the world. Okay? But second, what's most important is technological omniscience. Omniscience means to know everything. We're God. The reason why is, listen, we have satellites. They can see everything on Earth. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 6:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: They can see everything on Earth. They can see everything on the Earth. We have technology that allows us to eavesdrop on all electronic communications. When you talk on the phone, we can hear exactly what you're saying. We know everything on the ground. That allows us to have the power of God. Okay? That's the second thing. The third thing is we have special forces. So special forces are soldiers who go into enemy territory. Okay? And they are able to target and direct air power against the enemy. Okay? And we, America, have the best special forces in the world. And so with these three things, we have a new doctrine of war. We can fight war in a new way that's never been fought before, but which will guarantee that war will be quick. We'll do it very quickly. Cheap. It won't cost that much money. And third, decisive. We will completely destroy our enemy. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 7:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Okay? And the Pentagon was like, you guys are insane. This is not going to work. This is a theory, guys. Whereas this idea, mass forces, avoid encirclement, protect supply lines, we've been doing this for like thousands of years. This is just experience. This is just history. This is reality, guys. This is just a... This is just fantasy, all right? But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz insisted, and they said, you must fight this war this way. And they insisted. And it turned out that this plan that the Pentagon, most military planners thought is absurd, insane, unrealistic, worked 100 % the way it was supposed to work. Okay? The Second Gulf War in 2003 lasted exactly three weeks. Very quick. The US military, with only 130,000 troops, was able to destroy an army of 270,000 in three weeks. Okay? That's one. Second is that America lost, at most, 200 soldiers. And most of it was due to friendly fire. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 8:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#shock-awe-mistakes-performance-for-strategy) Text: Okay? It was accidental. This is insane. This has never happened before. Only 200 American soldiers died, at most, whereas tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers died. Okay? And the third thing that was most impressive is what's called thunder runs. Okay? This is just America flexing, okay, or showing off. So what was happening was that America was so dominant that you had these... Okay? These American soldiers in their armored vehicles drive into Baghdad, the capital city, and they just drive around, circle it, and no one could stop them. And this is what they call thunder runs. Okay? And they did three of these. It was purely an act of intimidation, but it's also just showing off. Okay? It's like you're in a fight, and you decide, you know what? I'm so much stronger than this guy, I'm going to do a backflip. Okay? I'm so bored by this guy. I'm going to do a backflip. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 9:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Thunder runs. Okay? So these three things show the incredible superiority of this doctrine of shock and awe. Okay? So how is America able to achieve all this? Well, I mean, the first thing is the idea of air supremacy. So one bomb, called a cluster bomb, can wipe out an entire nation. It can wipe out an entire tank division. And the reason why is that a cluster bomb inside has about 40 bombs. And these 40 bombs are equipped with GPS. So what they can do is each of these bombs can go and find a tank. It will latch onto a tank and blow the tank up. So this one cluster bomb, which doesn't really cost that much money, can destroy an entire tank division by itself. Okay? The other thing is special forces. So the theory is that special forces, if we make them the central core of our military, that will have a devastating impact. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 11:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=676s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=676s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#shock-awe-mistakes-performance-for-strategy) Text: And it was true. So what was happening was that special forces could drive around and look for military installations by themselves. Okay? We're talking like a few people. And then they could order in an airstrike. Okay? And. And then the planes were blowing up. So shock and awe was extremely effective. But the problem is that people don't really ask, what did Saddam Hussein do wrong? Why was this so effective against Saddam Hussein? And there are actually three reasons, okay, to think that what happened in 2003. Was not a revolution in military doctrine, not a revolution in warfare, but just a unique incident in war that doesn't really tell us that much. Okay? In other words, what was happening in Iraq could not be replicated. Okay? And there were three reasons why. The first is that Saddam Hussein had no air defense. Okay? He had no air defense. He didn't have weapons to counter the enemy. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 12:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=758s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=758s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: He didn't have weapons to counter the enemy. So he was really focused on fighting against America's air supremacy. And the reason why is that in 1991, Saddam Hussein fought a war against America called the first Persian Gulf War. Okay? Operation Desert Storm. And his army got destroyed by American air power. And at this point, America could have chosen to go invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein. And America didn't. so someone was saying learn two lessons from the Persian Gulf War which is number one I can never beat America there's no point in trying if America wants to beat the crap out of me I can't stop it okay that's the first first thing he learned second thing you learn is that America probably does not want to overthrow me because if he over froze me it would destabilize the country it would destabilize the region you would allow terrorists into the country ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 13:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=815s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=815s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: you would turn my people into terrorists you would empower Iran so there's no way that America could overthrow me would want to overthrow me so let me just focus my resources on suppressing internal dissent okay so he completely forgot about America so even when it was clear that America was about to invade he still did not put up any air defenses because he didn't have any air defenses okay so that's the first thing that was unique about the 2003 war okay second thing is that Iraq is a desert that makes it ideal for shock and awe right air power can go anywhere you have satellites that could see everything special forces can just drive around okay so a desert makes an ideal situation for shock and awe and the third thing is just surprise no one in human history has tried to fight a war like this okay and so no one knew how what ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 14:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=893s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=893s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt#shock-awe-mistakes-performance-for-strategy) Text: was going to happen so an example is that special forces were in Western Iraq blowing up missile bases because of the kind of concern was that Saddam Hussein would direct all his missiles his scuds against Israel okay so so much damage was being inflicted in Western Iraq that Saddam Hussein believed he was so confident that the that the that the main American military was actually in Western Iraq when in fact they were in eastern Iraq so he diverted all his forces to Western Iraq отв back that completely open to attacked from the east okay so no one had far a war like this before and no one knew what to expect okay but obviously you can you can only do this once right okay so there are three special conditions to make us think that silicon all in 2003 Iraq War which is a one -off it was unique OK unfortunately we have a new ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 16:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: expression this was Unfortunately, the Americans don't know this, okay? Right? The Americans are like, well, all this does is prove our theory to be correct, okay? So after 2003, America focused its military doctrine, its military on shock and awe, okay? So the example is special forces. So before 2001, America had about 38,000 special forces. Today, it has 73,000, okay? That's a lot, okay? Because America has a total army of 1.3 million. The budget for special forces, black ops, okay? It was about $2 billion in 2000, and today it's about $13.7 billion. So it's almost an increase of... Seven times, which is a lot. But this is just the public official number, because special forces are black ops. They can operate outside supervision of the military, okay? So in other words, their actual budget is probably 10 times, possibly 100 times more than the official budget, right? Now, special forces... I want to talk very briefly about why special forces is a problem, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 17:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1062s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1062s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Now, traditionally, militaries have been very strict hierarchies, and there are good reasons for this, okay? You have to enforce order and discipline, right? But you're also concerned about the military overflowing the government, right? That's always been a problem throughout history. So you must maintain complete control. But when you do that, you create... A lot of problems in the military. It is unable to react very quickly to hostile situations, okay? If terrorists come and attack you, your military can't actually go and defeat them. It's too slow, okay? Sometimes there are hostiles crisis, okay? So throughout the 70s, a lot of airplanes were getting hijacked by terrorists. For these circumstances, you need special forces, okay? Soldiers who are outside your immediate control, okay? Who can respond immediately to crises. That's why you have special forces, okay? But in general, you don't want that many special forces because, again, they're outside the control of your military, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 18:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1134s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1134s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: They're independent sometimes of your military. They have a lot of space to maneuver and to be independent. Now, why are special forces a problem? It's because the... People who volunteer for special forces are different from you and me, okay? To put it very lightly. So, for example, let's look at one of the top two special forces in the world called SAS, okay? This is British Special Air Services. The most... One of the most elite, certainly the oldest special forces in the world. The other is Delta. And so... You volunteer for special air services. You're applying, okay? And the first test is this. The first test... There are many tests, but the first test is... You have to run six marathons in five days, okay? Oh! That's just the beginning. You also have to carry a backpack of bricks while you are running six marathons in five days, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 20:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1206s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1206s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And you're like, okay, that's hard. Oh! One more thing. You're running the marathon on a mountain, okay? You understand? You have to run six marathons in five days with a backpack of bricks, and you have to do it on a mountain somewhere, okay? So even at that first test, there have been some individuals who've gone crazy, okay? You have to put them in a hospital because they've gone crazy. But that's just to be the first test. The last test is always torture. They will be tortured to see how much they can resist torture, okay? Because obviously when you're captured, the enemy is going to torture you to get information out of you, right? What are you doing here? Who is your commander? Are there other comrades with you, okay? You'll always be tortured. So they also have to withstand torture. There are some other tests. So, for example, in the French special services, one test is that you will have to wear a bulletproof vest, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 21:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1275s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1275s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And you will have to hold a clay disc, right? And then your comrade will shoot a gun at you. Most people are like, I'm not going to do this, okay? So, in other words, the people who are special forces, they're different from us physically, but they're really different from us psychologically. They have a different mentality. So one special forces was interviewed by a reporter, and the reporter asked him, why did you choose to become special forces? And his answer is, well, it's either I do special forces or I go rob banks. One of the two. In other words, special forces are individuals who are addicted to risk and violence. And guys, in America, there's 73,000 of them running around the world trying to protect the American empire, okay? So special forces have increased, and it's really changed the nature of the American military. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 22:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1350s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1350s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: So it's good for America because now what shotgun all allows America to do is be everywhere at once. And you'll never see them, okay? So for example, the example is when Gaddafi was overthrown in the 2011 Libya war, okay? That was special forces. But we don't know this because the special forces were hiding in the background, okay? Directing air power against Gaddafi. So in other words, what Shaw and all really is, is it's more than a theory of war. It's ultimately a theory of empire. America is an empire. But unfortunately, most Americans don't want to admit that. Because being an empire means doing bad things to innocent people. And what shotgun all allows is for America to be an empire without the guilt of being an empire, okay? You have special forces doing all the work necessary in order to maintain this empire without people actually knowing, right? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 23:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1426s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1426s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: So shotgun all is really a theory of empire as opposed to a theory of war, okay? So does it make sense to you guys so far? Okay, any questions so far? Yeah? Okay, so Celina asked a great question. Are there, there's more special forces. Is it because there's more people who want to be special forces or is it because America needs more special forces? The answer is both, okay? So again, the America, after the fall of the Soviet Union, no longer had a peer competitor. So the understanding of America is that from now on, they went to fight rogue regimes, okay? So small nations that don't really listen to America and these nations have to be toppled very quickly, okay? So the examples would be Iraq, Iran, North Korea, okay? The axis of evil. So America started to shift its doctrine. To shadow wars, okay? Wars that you don't really see, but which would be effective in toppling the regimes you don't like, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 25:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1517s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1517s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And so a lot of the resources were shifted into special forces and that allowed more people to enter special forces, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, all right. Any more questions before I move on? All right. Now the question then is, all right, shock and awe, where does this come from? It comes from one of the greatest disasters for America called the Vietnam War, okay? So from 1965 until 1973, there was a civil war in Vietnam between North Vietnam, which was communist, and South Vietnam, which is basically a US -controlled puppet state, okay? And America sent soldiers from 1965 to 1973 to protect South Vietnam from insurgents and rebels. And at the height of this war, 3 million US soldiers had to be deployed, okay? And at the height, in 1969, 500,000 soldiers, US soldiers, were in country to fight against the war. The rebels and the insurgents, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 26:39 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1599s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1599s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: 58,000 US soldiers died in this war. Three million, at least three million, Vietnamese died in this war. Two million of them were civilians, innocent civilians, okay? Over 300,000 US soldiers were wounded, okay? They went home without legs, without arms. And they were traumatized. And this was an extremely controversial war in America because they were trying to fight the war using standard military doctrine, mass forces, right? So they instituted something called a draft. So if you were a young American, you had to go fight in this war in Vietnam. But you didn't know why you had to go fight this war. And chances are that you would either die or you would lose a body part in this war. So it became extremely unpopular in America. The other thing is that there were a lot of journalists in Vietnam during this time. And they were reporting on how America was killing Vietnamese for no reason. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 27:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1672s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1672s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: So the most famous story is something called the Mai Lai Massacre where American soldiers went into a Vietnamese village and killed everyone there, okay? 300 people, 400 people, okay? And this was happening actually quite a lot. So there was widespread anger and protest in America at this time, which ultimately forced America to withdraw in 1973, okay? And the US military was very angry about this war because the thing about generals is they don't like to lose wars, okay? When they fight wars, they want to win at all costs. And they felt that they were betrayed by the country. They were fighting hard to maintain the American empire, to fight against communism. And this was bringing wealth, power, and prestige to America. But the American people, the American politicians, the American democracy republic, refused to make the necessary sacrifices in order to maintain this empire. And so many American generals felt betrayed by what happened in Vietnam, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 29:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1756s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1756s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Now, there's a very famous incident during this war called the Pentagon Papers in 1971. In 1971, a group of American analysts, okay? These were military analysts working in the military. They secretly got together and they tried to compose a secret history of the Vietnam War. And this was called the Pentagon Papers. This was meant to be classified. This was not meant to be read by the public. But one of them, Daniel Ellsberg, linked it to the newspapers, Washington Post and New York Times. And they published it. And people were angry by the Pentagon Papers because what the Pentagon Papers said is, one, America has been secretly fighting this war for a long time, okay? So many presidents, including Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, were expanding this war without public approval, without congressional approval, okay? So there was a lot of deception. That's the first thing. Second thing is that the politicians, the presidents, knew this war was not winnable. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 30:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1835s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1835s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: You couldn't win this war, okay? And the reason why is that these Vietnamese peasants, they were unbeatable. Because what they were doing was they were digging tunnels underground. And then when American soldiers were coming, they would just pop out of these tunnels, shoot at them, and then disappear back into the tunnels, okay? It was like as though they could swim underground. They were not beatable. Second thing is that they had an unlimited supply of weapons. And you're like, wait a minute. These peasants don't have weapons. And the answer is they got these weapons from their enemies, okay? So the first thing is that these soldiers, these American soldiers were in the jungle, and they were carrying backpacks of ammunition, right? And sometimes they would lose a fight or they would run away in the jungle because it's very hard to carry these backpacks of ammunition, right? They would drop these ammunition, and guess what? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 31:42 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1902s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1902s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: You're now arming the enemy, right? Because these peasants would pick up these ammo and use it themselves. That's the first thing. Second thing is that the U.S. military dropped more bombs on Vietnam than in World War II combined, okay? More bombs were dropped in Vietnam than in World War II combined. Does that make sense? And about 20 % of these bombs didn't explode. And if they didn't explode, the enemy could pick them up, and transform them into land mines. And it was these land mines that were killing more Americans than anything else. That's the second thing. And the third thing was that the South Vietnamese army was extremely corrupt. So they were taking these American weapons and selling them to the rebels, okay? So then the question then is, you can't really see this enemy. They're everywhere, okay? They can swim underground. And if you're supplying them ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 32:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1968s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=1968s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: yourself, no matter how much weapons you can bring into this country, how are you going to win this war? The other thing is that these peasants were getting angry at you because obviously in this war, you're killing a lot of innocent people, right? Who happens to be their brothers, their sisters, their children, their parents, okay? So as this war was dragging on, the Vietnamese were becoming more embittered and more angry. So there was no way you were going to win this war. Okay? That's a Pentagon paper, second thing. The third thing is, okay, the question then is, if these American presidents, these American leaders know for a fact that this war cannot be won, why were they fighting this war? Why were they continuing to fight this war? And the answer is, unfortunately, the answer is credibility, okay? We don't want to lose face, guys, okay? We don't want to lose face. If we withdraw ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 33:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2034s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2034s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: from Vietnam, if we admit that peasants in pajamas can beat us, Soviet Union would laugh at us. China would laugh at us. The entire world would laugh at us. We don't want to be laughed at. So that's why we're staying in this war, okay? So to summarize what the Pentagon Papers said, okay? Three things. One is that the American government lied to the people and turned this into a major war. That's the first thing. Second thing is that America cannot possibly win this war, okay? And the third thing is that America's only in this war to avoid losing face. That's it. There was no strategic purpose. There was no strategic objectives from fighting this war. It was just, like, we don't want to lose face. We don't want to be laughed at. That's it, okay? So obviously, when the Pentagon Papers were released to the public, everyone was angry, okay? And the anger was so tremendous that America had no choice but to ultimately withdraw from the war. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 35:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And so the Pentagon felt betrayed by democracy. The politicians were more concerned about winning elections than about winning wars, okay? People could protest and defy the military. They refused to make the sacrifices necessary to win this war. And the media could insult the military. So there were many in the military who thought that, listen, if we are to maintain the empire, we need to divorce the empire from democracy, okay? Empire, democracy, do not get along. If we want to win a war, our greatest enemy is not the enemy but democracy in America. And that's why you have shock and awe, right? Because the entire point of shock and awe is to minimize casualties. And if there are casualties, you can't see them because they're all blown up, right? And it's quick, so it's impossible for people to start to get angry, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 36:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2195s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2195s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Shock and awe means that America no longer has to make any sacrifices. You no longer need the consent of the people to fight the war. You don't even need congressional approval to fight the war. You can now escape the shackles of democracy in order to do what you must to protect the American empire, okay? Does that make sense? So shock and awe was really a response to Vietnam War. And what shock and awe means is that the empire is no longer burdened by democracy. Special forces can go and do what they must without any oversight and consent from the people, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay, so shock and awe is really a fear of empire, what America must do in order to maintain its empire around the world. Any questions before I move on about this? Okay, so Sunan asked a great question, which is, okay, I make the argument that shock and awe only works in Iraq, right? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 37:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2277s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2277s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And what would happen in other words? Okay, so the thing about America for the past 20 years, it's been mainly fighting wars in the Middle East. And it turns out the entire Middle East is a desert, okay? All right, so the shock and awe policy has had tremendous success in Iraq and then in Libya, okay? Because America overthrew Gaddafi in Libya. And it's also had some success in Syria as well, okay? So from the perspective of America, we're really only fighting wars in a desert. Shock and awe is fine, okay? But our next class, we'll discuss Iran. And Iran is not a desert, it's mountains. And I'll show you that shock and awe is not gonna work in Iran, okay? But that's next class, okay? Does that make sense? All right, any more questions? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So Jack makes a great point, which is, okay, yeah, but most people would say that America lost the Iraq war because of the insurgency, right? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 39:22 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2362s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2362s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Okay, so, okay, that's a great point, okay? You can make the point that America for the past 20 years have lost all wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because they have not been able to control the insurgency, okay? But the problem with this is that shock and awe, it's not designed to stabilize countries. Shock and awe is meant to topple and destroy countries, do you understand? And so the argument can be made that the real intention of shock and awe is to make sure that no power in the Middle East can arise to challenge America's support and supremacy, okay? So, yeah, in Iraq, the insurgents ultimately won, but is Iraq a functional state? And the answer is no, right? Is Libya a functional state? No. There's still a civil war going on in Syria, all right? So that's a great point, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 40:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2418s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2418s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And it comes down to what is the ultimate design and intention of the empire? Is it to replace regimes? Or is it to destroy countries? And you make the argument that shock and awe is really designed to destroy countries and not to replace regimes, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, now, what's important to understand is that one of the theories of the invasion of Iraq is to bring democracy to the country, okay? But the problem with that is, from the start, they did everything wrong, okay? So first thing is, they really didn't have enough soldiers to maintain peace, right, in the country, so there was a lot of looting. So the entire country broke down. Second thing is that during the air campaign, America destroyed all the infrastructure necessary for society, okay? So including water supply, including electricity grid. Why would you do that if your intention was to bring democracy to the country, right? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 41:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: The third thing is that the very first thing the American government did when they took control over Iraq is something called depopulation, okay? Which is to say that if you used to work for the old government, you're now out of a job. Hey, the Iraqi military, you're now disbanded. And then the question then is, huh, if your ultimate objective is to bring democracy to the country, why would you destroy all political infrastructure in the country? Why would you destroy the ability for the country to survive? Why would you destroy the ability for the country to govern itself as well as to maintain order, as well as to feed the population? Why would you do that, okay? So an argument can be made that the real intention was not to bring democracy to Iraq, it was just to destroy Iraq, to maintain American supremacy as well as to teach others a lesson. Don't mess with us, we'll come and destroy you, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 42:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2538s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2538s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Does that make sense? Okay, but this is something we will discuss later on, okay? In another class, okay? All right, all right. Let's now move to the last topic. Which is the theory of empire. So this is not the first theory of empire America had. It's actually the second theory of empire. The first theory of empire was in 1991. Remember that in 1991, America launched an attack against Saddam Hussein because Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, right? So at that time, 1991, the Soviet Union had collapsed. America was the only hegemon, was the only power, and it presented a new theory of empire, how America will rule the world, okay? So the first idea is limited strategic goals or objectives, okay? So for example, in 2003, when America invaded Iraq, its strategic goals were pretty unachievable, okay? It was basically like, we're gonna bring democracy and peace to Iraq and the Middle East, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 43:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2621s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2621s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Whereas in the Persian Gulf War, led by the father, right, George Herbert Walker Bush, the first and only goal was to remove Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. That's it, okay? We're not gonna go to Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein. We're not gonna inflict punishment on Saddam Hussein. All we wanna do is remove him from Kuwait, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that America did so with a coalition of countries, okay? Dozens of other countries were part of the war, and America played a leading role, but it also had to defer to its partners, okay? So for example, countries like Saudi Arabia, who participated in the war, were like, there's no way we'll topple Saddam Hussein. We'll only stop at Kuwait, okay? So the United States deferred to its partners, okay? And the third thing was, and this is the most important, is that the ultimate leader was the United Nations. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 44:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: The United States had to go and make a case to the United Nations. The United Nations gave its consent to the military action, okay? So the United States made the argument that this is not a U.S. military action. It is a U.N. military action, okay? And so the important principle is to maintain the rules based in national order, okay? So what America said at that point is, yeah, I know we are the greatest power in the world. I know the Soviet Union has collapsed. I know that militarily no one can challenge us. But with this power comes great responsibility. We must show humility. We must show discipline. We must show restraint. Our priority will be to maintain the national rules based order because this will bring prosperity, freedom, and stability to everyone, okay? And that means that if we use the military, it will only because it's the last resort, the last option, and only for a limited strategic objective. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 46:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2764s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2764s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: We will only do so with partners. And we will only do so under the umbrella of U.N. authority, okay? So this is the first theory of empire. When you think about it, wow, great! What a wonderful world, right? Here's a question then. Why did America not do this anymore? Why did it switch to shock and awe? Shock and awe is basically unlimited strategic goals, unilateral military action, right? We, America, will do this by ourselves. We don't really need anyone, okay? And America is just basically bullying. We make the rules. Why did America do this? Why this transition from the first theory of empire, which is great, it would allow America to rule the world forever, to now the second theory of empire, which is pissing the entire world off. Why? Okay, so this is really hard to understand, okay? But let's use an analogy, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 47:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2838s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2838s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: So Jack is my son, okay? And I'm a billionaire. I have $10 billion. Why do I have $10 billion? It's because, one, I'm smart, okay? I'm smarter than everyone else. Two, I work really hard, okay? And three, I bribe a lot of politicians. So I have $10 billion. But I'm like 95 years old. And I know I'm going to die, okay? So I invite Jack, who's my son, to dinner. And I say to Jack, Jack, I love you, and I want what's best for you. I'm going to die very soon, and you will inherit my empire, okay? And I want you to know that you don't have to worry about anything, Jack, because I have 100 advisors who control this empire, who manage this empire. And they are great. They're experienced. They're loyal. They're strategic. Every year, Jack, they make 10 % for us, okay? So $10 billion, they make $1 billion for us every year. When I go, they're still going to manage this empire for us. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 48:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0040](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0040) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2913s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2913s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0040` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: And you know what? They're going to give you every year, Jack, $100 million to do whatever you want. You want to go buy an airplane? Do that. You want to go buy an island? Do that. You want to party with movie stars? Do that. You can do whatever you want, okay? So, Jack, as my last wish, as my dying wish, I want you, Jack, my son, who I love, to promise me that after I die, you will listen to my 100 advisors. Okay? So, Jack, do you promise me? You promise me, right? And then I die. And then what is the first thing that Jack will do? The very first thing he will do. Come on, guys. It's not hard. Your first thing you will do, okay, is fire everyone. Get out of here, okay? What's the second thing you will do? You're going to hire all your friends, Jack, okay? ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 49:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0041](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0041) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2981s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=2981s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0041` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: You're going to hire all your friends, okay? And what's the third thing you're going to do? You're going to do something really stupid, okay? You'll be like, you know what? My dad only made $10 billion. Those advisors only make 10 % a year. I'm going to invest in Bitcoin. I'm going to invest in AI. I'm going to invest in the Chinese stock market, the Chinese real estate market, and make $100 billion, okay? And then he loses all the money. You understand? All right? This happens all the time, guys, okay? Right? Ask yourself. If your dad were rich and he was about to leave you a lot of money, would you listen to professional people? No. You'd be like, no. I want to have fun, okay? So the question then is, the first fear of empire, okay, which said that for America to maintain its empire, it must demonstrate to the world humility, discipline, and restraint. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 50:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0042](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0042) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3047s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3047s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0042` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Why did they get rid of this and move to shock and awe, which is like, we'll do anything we want. Why? Why? Why would they do that? Because it's fun. Okay? Do you understand? What is the point of having an empire if you cannot blow things up for nobody? There's no reason. There's no point. We have the greatest military in the world. Let's just blow things up for like no reason. Okay? All right? Now, there are three fundamental problems with shock and awe. Okay? The first problem is that you become overcommitted. Do you understand? You believe that shock and awe allows you to be God. You can be anywhere at once fighting all wars. Okay? You're overcommitted. Second is you lack strategy. You lack strategic focus. Meaning that you actually don't have a plan. You don't know what you want to do with this empire. You know you just want to maintain this empire. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 52:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0043](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0043) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3122s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3122s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0043` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Okay? So you don't actually have a strategy in place. Okay? And the third thing is hubris. You don't think anyone can challenge you. You don't think you can lose a war. Okay? And so, the idea of hubris is this. Right now, America has this huge empire. And it's refusing to spend the necessary resources to protect the empire. So, for example, the U.S. Navy. Okay? In 1945, it had 7,600 ships. Today, guess what, guys? That's 475. These 475 ships must go around all around the world to protect shipping lanes. Okay? The U.S. military, in 1991, during the first Persian Gulf War, had 2 million soldiers. Today, it has 1.3 million. 3 million soldiers. Okay? So, in other words, if America ever fights a war, a major war, it's gonna have a lot of problems. The other thing is that America doesn't even have manufacturing capacity anymore. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 53:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0044](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0044) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3193s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3193s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0044` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: Okay? It's not, it doesn't have any factories anymore, which means that if it fights a war, it can't fight a war for a very long time. So, the example is that for every, for every ship that America makes, China can make 300 ships. Okay? America no longer has this manufacturing capacity that it had during World War II. So, in other words, why will the military agree to the stupid war in Iran? Because it's overcommitted, it has no strategy, and it's because it's arrogant. All right? And the military is like this because of what happened in 2003, shock and awe. Does that make sense to you guys? All right? So, next class, we will look at what the Iran war will look like. And I guarantee you, that shock and awe is not gonna work in Iran. All right? And, but I'll explain why next class. Any questions before we end for the day? Oh, so Celine asked a great question. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 54:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0045](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0045) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3264s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3264s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0045` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: What's the difference between the people who believe in the first theory and the second theory? Okay? Okay. And the answer is this. The people who believe in the, in the first theory came from an older generation. Okay? This is a generation that fought in World War II and who fought the Cold War. So, they understand what war looks like. War is really bloody and it's terrible. And we must do our best to avoid war. Okay? The second generation, 2003, are individuals who don't know what war is. Okay? Like, if you actually look at videos from 2003, the war, it actually looks like a video game. You understand? You don't actually see what they saw in Vietnam, which was all these soldiers losing their arms and crying. Okay? I mean, the images from Vietnam were just terrible. It was hard for people to watch. But the, the, the, the, the Gulf War in 2003, it was just a video game. ## Shock and Awe Made Empire Feel Like a Game -- 55:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #6: America's Imperial Hubris - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-22, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o/transcript/#seg-0046) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3328s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieFC4Yww4o&t=3328s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-jiefc4yww4o.json) Text: It was just like, things being, getting blown up. Okay? You don't actually see the people dying. And again, only 20 people died, 20 soldiers died in the, in 2003. Okay? So, in other words, unfortunately, America is headed towards disaster. Okay? Because the people in charge have no experience. They don't know what war is. And they don't know what the horrors of war is. And, they've inherited a lot of money, and they want to enjoy the money. Okay? They want to have fun. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. All right, great. So I'll see you guys next class. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Okay, so let's begin class. And today we are discussing whether or not Trump will win in November. And I'm making the prediction that he will win in November and that he will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president. Okay, so let me make you the argument today. Okay, so let's first discuss why Biden won in 2020 and why it's possible that he may lose this year. Okay, so in 2020, it was a very special year in American politics because it was the largest turnout in American history since about 1900. Okay, so 74 million people voted for Trump. For Biden, 81 million people voted for him. And two... Two out of every three American adults came out to vote. Okay, so it was the largest turnout in American history. It doesn't... It sounds like a very lopsided victory for Biden, 81 million versus 74 million. But because America has an electoral college system, which is not a direct democracy, actually, the margin of victory was only 65,000 votes, votes. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 1:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=89s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=89s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Assuming that if 65,000 people in key battleground states flip their votes, then Trump would have won. Okay, so the margin of victory was very, very close, as is usually the case in highly contested American elections. So, let's understand the coalition that brought Biden into the White House, okay? So, the first major component of this coalition are Black people. 1 % of all blacks voted for Biden, only 8 % voted for Trump. That's a huge majority for Biden. So why did so many black people vote for Biden in 2020? Well, first of all, it's because Biden was Obama's vice president for eight years. And so a lot of older black people had a certain loyalty to him, okay? They felt that we owe this man because he served loyally to our man Barack Obama for years. And so now we must bring him into the White House. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 2:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=158s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=158s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: But this year the debt is paid off, right? So they won't feel so loyal to Biden, okay? Also in 2020, there's something called a George Floyd protest. So what happened was that in May 2020, a black man in Minneapolis, George Floyd, he was strangled to death by a white police officer. It was captured on video and it caused a national uproar. In fact, there were riots and protests throughout the country and Trump came out and did not acknowledge the pain that black people felt because of this death. And so black people felt antipathy towards Trump, okay? So these are the two major reasons why this happened. and why black people voted for Biden in 2020. But this year, Trump's not in office, Biden's in office. So black people are asking the question, what has Biden done for us these past four years? And unfortunately, the answer is not that much. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 3:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=230s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=230s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: And in fact, you can make the argument that Biden has really hurt the standard of living of black people, why? Because inflation has gone up, okay? When inflation goes up, it usually hurts poor people the most, okay? The standard of living goes way down. Also, illegal immigration has gone up, okay? So in 2020, when Trump left office, there were about 10 million illegal immigrants in America. Now there are 20 million illegal immigrants in America, and it seems like Biden's doing nothing to stop this trend. And of course, when illegal immigrants come to the country, they usually take the jobs of poor people, okay? They bring wages down, and that again, hurts black people. And then third is Ukraine. So while the standard of living for black people and other poor people in America are going down, America is sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine to fight a war that has nothing to do with America. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 5:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=301s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=301s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So many Americans see this as just bad leadership, okay? So that's black people. And recent polls show that actually Biden's lead with black people is not as much as it was in 2020, okay? So this lead is going down. Young people, okay? Well, young people tend to vote Democratic in all elections, and they were extremely galvanized. To vote in 2020, they say, saw Trump as this very hateful racist that they must remove from office, right? And they were driven to believe this because of the George Floyd protests. Unfortunately, this year, young people may not feel compelled to vote for Biden. In fact, a lot of young people are choosing to sit out this election. Why? You guys know? Gaza, okay? So as you know, right now, throughout America on college campuses, young people are protesting the war in Gaza. So these young people are not gonna vote for Trump, but they probably will not vote for Biden as a protest against American policy via the Israel, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 6:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=380s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=380s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Now let's look at the college educated. Okay, so 70 % of people with college degrees voted for Biden. These are what we call the, the coastal elite, right? The coastal professional managerial elite. And they usually overwhelmingly vote Democratic, and this year, they will still stay the same, but they will be less enthusiastic because of what they perceive to be poor global leadership. Biden, under Biden's watch, Ukraine blew up, but so did Gaza. And many are starting to feel that it's because Biden comes a crime, but so did Gaza. And so they're gonna vote for Biden as a protest against Putin. And so they're gonna vote for Biden as a protest against Putin. Okay? So college educated people will still overwhelmingly vote Democratic. That is the core Democratic base, but they'll be less enthusiastic about Biden, and they'll vote primarily against Trump, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 7:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Women, okay? So 54 % of women voted for Biden. 44 % voted for Trump. Okay? And again, because Trump is seen as this hateful figure, we expect that women will still consistently vote Democratic this year, okay? And also because of abortion issues, right? So women are very passionate about abortion, and they will come out and vote for Biden to ensure that abortion rights are protected. Last, let's look at suburban voters, okay? So the suburbs. The suburbs are between the cities, the urban areas, and the rural areas, okay? Cities, urban areas, overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party. Rural areas overwhelmingly support the Republican Party. So the suburbs are where the battleground is. And so if you look at 19, sorry, 2016, when Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, only 45 % of the suburbs voted for Clinton, which allowed Trump to defeat her in the election, okay? Now, what's interesting is that in 2020, this flipped, and 54 % of suburban voters voted for Biden. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 8:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=532s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=532s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: That's a flip of 2 million voters, okay? So in elections, usually it's a suburban vote that determines the election, because the swing voters. So for Trump to win this year, he needs to win the suburban vote. He won that in 2016, he lost that in 2020. So let's examine very quickly why the suburbs went Biden in 2020. And there are three major reasons. The first is the media narrative. So what's happening throughout Trump's presidency is basically the entire mainstream media got together and criticized Trump, okay? So the first major criticism of Trump, if you remember, is he was a Russian asset, okay? He was a paid Putin puppet. And of course, that was just a complete lie, what we call a Russiagate, okay? But then they start to say that Trump was a developed, developed, developed, developed, developed, developed, developed, developed, divisive figure, okay? And this idea caught the imagination of the suburbs, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 10:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=617s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=617s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Because if you live in the suburbs, you tend to be middle class, you tend to be pretty wealthy and more educated. So you like the status quo. You want a leader who's conservative and who's a unifier. And throughout the Trump presidency, we saw the polarization of politics. The left and the right hate each other, and they fought all the time. And what really showed this was the George Floyd protests, right? So you had protesters rioting in the streets. And Trump was like, let's send in the military to crush the protesters. And so people in the suburbs were very worried about this. They thought that a leader, the president, should be a uniter, right? And Biden came across as extremely steady, as very establishment. As someone who could unite both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, okay? That was his perception in 2020. So that's the first major reason why the suburbs went Biden. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 11:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=683s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=683s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Second was the pandemic. So as you know, COVID hit the United States, and the suburbs were extremely freaked out about this because they tend to have children who go to school, they tend to be older, and we see that as a big deal in the suburbs of the United States. And they thought that Trump's handling of the pandemic was very incompetent, okay? He was an outsider, a political outsider, but that meant he could not get things done in Washington. Okay, so that's the second problem with Trump. And the third reason why the suburbs went, Biden is Kamala Harris, okay? And this is key. Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his vice president, to be his running mate. And Kamala Harris, let me tell you a little about Kamala Harris. Her father is Jamaican, her mother is Indian. And she has a younger sister, but when she was young, her dad left the family. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 12:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=753s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=753s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So her mom raised the two girls by herself. And Kamala Harris is an extremely accomplished person. She went to Stanford. Then she became attorney general of California, then became a US Senator, okay? And there are three reasons why the suburbs love Kamala Harris, okay? First of all, like us, okay? Meaning like, she comes across as someone who speaks and thinks like people in the suburbs, okay? well -educated, articulate, smart, conservative, okay? Second is, she's seen as very establishment, meaning that she's not liberal. In fact, when she was Attorney General of California, she was extremely tough on crime. She was trying to send as many people to jail as possible. And sometimes, quite honestly, some of these people were innocent, okay? And she still sent them to jail. She was very controversial as Attorney General. But guess what, guys? People in the suburbs like tough on crime, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 13:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=831s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=831s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-reconciliation-theater) Text: They want safety, they want security, they just have kids. And the third reason why they like Kamala Harris is because of the redemption story. So, in 2019, there's a Democratic primary, okay? This is when the Democrats try to get a nomination for the general election, okay? And there was a lot of people who were vying for the nomination, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. In June 2019, there was the first Democratic debate, okay? And at this point, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were considered very heavy favorites to win a nomination. And in that first debate, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden got into a very nasty argument on television, okay? So what happened is that Kamala Harris turned to Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's kind of shell -shocked, okay? He's kind of old, and Kamala Harris is directing her words at him, and he doesn't really want to see her, okay? He doesn't really want to confront her. And what Kamala Harris says to Joe Biden is, Joe, you've been, you've been in Washington, D.C. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 15:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=916s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=916s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: for 50 years, and some of your policies I don't support. For example, you do not support the integration of black and white students together. Well, you know what, Joe? I'm a black student. I was a black little girl, grew up in the 70s in California, and I got my opportunity to succeed in America because of integration, because I could go to white school, and you opposed my idea. And I got my opportunity to succeed, okay? So basically, she was calling Biden a racist. And at that point, everyone thought that, okay, well, if Biden gets a nomination, there's no way he's gonna pick her to be the VP, okay? And then he picks her to be the VP. And so what do people think about Biden? What do people think of Biden? What impression do people have of him? What impression do people get because of this? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 16:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=979s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=979s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: Anyone? Yes, okay, exactly, okay? Doesn't hold grudges, what else? What else? What else? Doesn't hold grudges. He's a very forgiving man. What else? Good, yes, he listens, right? He's a listener. He's a team player, okay? And he has empathy, okay? He understands what voters want from that Harris, okay? And guess what, guys, these three things. Doesn't hold grudges, listens, team player, and empathy. This is anti -Trump, right? This is the anti -Trump. And because of this narrative, women, especially women in the suburbs, went for Biden, okay? Previously they had gone for Trump, now they went for Biden, because as it turns out, women want compassionate, empathetic leadership that is decisive and bold, but is also tolerant, okay? And this is also why, even though Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 and she was a woman, the suburbs didn't vote for her because she didn't come across as someone who was compassionate and forgiving and tolerant, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 17:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1071s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1071s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Does that make sense? And this is why Biden was able to win in 2020. So this year, what can Trump do to win the suburbs? What can he do? Yeah, he can copy this exact same thing, okay? And it turns out he can do this, okay? Why? Because on the Republican side, there's someone called Nikki Haley. Oh, sorry, Nikki Haley. And Nikki Haley is very similar to Kamala Harris, okay? Nikki Haley, her parents are Indian immigrants. Okay, so she's Indian. She's of South Asian descent. And her family was not very wealthy, but she worked hard and she became South Carolina governor for two terms. And then she joined the Trump administration as UN ambassador in 2016, okay? Now, what's interesting about Nikki Haley is that Nikki Haley ran against Trump, in the Republican primary, okay? And even though she lost to Trump, there was a group of people who loved her. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 19:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1166s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1166s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Guess who just loved her? Who voted for her in droves? Guess what demographic group? Anyone? Suburban woman, okay, do you understand? College educated suburban woman, okay? So in other words, if Trump brings her onto the ticket, then it's very likely, he can swing the suburbs back to him and win the election. But there's a problem. The problem is that Nikki Haley and Trump got into a very nasty fight during the primary, okay? So Nikki Haley said, listen, I served under Trump, and I think he's a divisive figure. And right now in our country, we need a unifier. That's why I'm running for president, because I wanna unite this country, whereas Trump can only divide this country, okay? And then Trump, being Trump, responds and says, Nikki Haley is a bird brain. She's stupid, okay? So you think, you see this, and you think that there's no way Trump will pick her, because Nikki Haley's not loyal to Trump, right? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 20:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1241s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1241s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt) Text: And Trump likes loyalty. Also, hey guys, Trump holds grudges, right? And he doesn't listen, and he's not a team player, and he lacks empathy. So there's no way he would pick Nikki Haley. And in fact, this past week, there's been news report that Nikki Haley is in consideration to be Trump's vice president. And Trump came out and said, I am not considering Nikki Haley, okay? But let me ask you this question. If in August, during the Republican convention, he does pick Nikki Haley, how would people feel about him? How would the media report this? Nikki Haley is an enemy of Trump. Trump called her a bird brain. Trump said, I will never pick Nikki Haley. And then in August, three months from now, he says, you know what, I was wrong. I think Nikki Haley is the best person to be my VP. That's why she'll be my running mate in November. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 21:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1314s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1314s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-reconciliation-theater) Text: How would people feel about him? Well, what would the suburbs say? think about Trump how do you feel if you saw this he's a changed man right Trump has grown remember like the narrative about Trump is he is a five -year -old child and remember that people were like don't insult five -year -old children like that okay five -year -old children are much more mature than Trump so the argument about Trump is he's divisive but much more than that he's immature he's incapable of growth okay but hey if in August he picks Nikki Haley to be his VP then the media will be like he is a changed man he's learned his lessons he's willing to let go of grudges he's willing to listen he now has empathy therefore he should be president okay you understand but then what happens is the suburbs switch over to you to Trump and then ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 23:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1393s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1393s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: he wins so if he picks Nikki Haley in August he will win okay I'm not completely sure that it will pick Nikki Haley I think that this is his best strategic move okay but Trump is not really predictable all right and who he picks as vice president will give us a good clue as to how he will govern when he when he becomes president okay does that make sense all right now the question then is okay who is Nikki Haley and what will she do as vice president okay now what's important to understand about Nikki Haley is that when she left office when she left Washington DC political office in 2018 she had nothing in her bank account okay she had no money in her bank account now she has ten million dollars in her bank account and she lives in a five million dollar mansion so where does she get this money okay she ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 24:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: got her she got this money mainly for an organization called United against a nuclear Iran okay and this organization's primary purpose is to create conflict between the United States and Iran okay they they go against any companies or individuals who support Iran United States who does business with Iran okay they are a very anti Iranian organization one of their main donors his name is Sheldon Alderson and Sheldon Alderson is extremely pro -Israel business person okay he owns a lot of casinos okay so MGM stands he's a billionaire and what's interesting about Sandal Sando He's dead, but he was the main patron of a man named Benjamin Netanyahu. He is the main political patron and financial donor to Benjamin Netanyahu. So Sheldon Ellison supports both Netanyahu and supports this organization called United Against a Nuclear Iran. And United Against a Nuclear Iran hired Nikki Haley and paid her a lot of money, okay? That's the first thing. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 25:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1557s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1557s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Second thing is that in 2019, she got a job at Boeing. Boeing is a weapons manufacturer. They make airplanes, but they mainly make bombs and missiles, okay? So they love war. She sat on the board of Boeing, an extremely prestigious job, and she was paid 300,000 US dollars just to sit on the board. She wouldn't do nothing, okay? She has also given speeches at an organization called Christians United for Israel. And you may remember that this is a 7 million strong organization that supports war in the Middle East. They are evangelical Christians. They are dispensation premillennialists who believe that war between the Middle East and between Israel and Iran will bring Jesus back to earth and establish the kingdom of heaven. And therefore, they want as much conflict in the Middle East as possible, okay? So all this is telling us is that if Nikki Haley becomes vice president, her main responsibility will be to agitate for war against Iran, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 27:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1638s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1638s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: She'll be the one in the White House pushing for war in Iran. Escalating tension in Iran, okay? So Nikki Haley, okay, what's also interesting is, okay, in January 2019, basically the primary is over. Trump has won everything, okay? But in January 2019, even after Trump won, Haley was able to raise more money than Trump. So Haley got about 12 million dollars from donors. Trump gets, got 11 million dollars, okay? And the only explanation for this is these donors knew that Haley would not become president. She could not beat Trump, but they were trying to position her to be his vice president by making her stay in the race and giving her as much publicity as possible. In fact, even though she dropped out of the race, she's still getting about 25 % of the vote, to 33 % of all Republican votes, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 28:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1713s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1713s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So she comes across as an extremely popular exception figure, okay? So this doesn't make sense, okay? So the conclusion is that given the way, the situation in the United States, it seems very likely Trump will win in 2024, okay? Because the Biden coalition will not hold together. Because of inflation. Illegalization. Illegal immigration. What's happening in Gaza. What's happening in Ukraine. Trump looks very strong right now. And the polls suggest that either the race is tied between the two, or Trump has slight advantage, okay? Trump can basically seal the victory if he picks Nikki Haley to be his vice president. Because Nikki Haley will turn the suburbs to him very strongly. And it's the suburbs that basically decide U.S. elections. And as vice president, what she will be doing is advocating for war against Iran, which means that she's on the payroll of anti -Iranian forces in the United States, okay? So any questions? Anything you're not clear about right now? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 30:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1818s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1818s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) - Related lens: [Legitimacy Fiction](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/legitimacy-fiction.txt#legitimacy-fiction-reconciliation-theater) Text: Okay. So Jack asked a great question, okay? He's like... He's like, what if Haley holds a grudge and says no, right? And quite honestly, she has been asked in the past, are you willing to serve as Trump's vice president? And she's like, no, because he's a divider. He's divisive. And we need to move on from Trump, okay? All right. Do you guys remember in class when we studied Trump very closely? His personality? We looked at his days in the WWE, okay? And there was a scene where Vince McMahon, the owner of WWE, a billionaire, challenges Trump to a fight, right? Well, guess what, guys? Politics is the same thing. It's all theater, okay? Politics is theater. What Nikki Haley and Donald Trump are doing is pretending to be bitter enemies so that, so that their reconciliation will be so dramatic, you understand? So Nikki Haley served under Trump in the first administration, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 31:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1898s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1898s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So from 2016 to 2018, she was UN ambassador for Trump. And everyone says that the two got along really well. In fact, Trump was considering having her be his VP, running mate, in 2016. In 2020, he was thinking of dropping Mike Pence and putting her on the ticket, okay? So the two of them together actually have a great rapport. The two respect each other. They get along very well, okay? So that's the first thing. Second thing is that the thing to know about very successful politicians is they are first and foremost opportunists. They have no ideas. They have no principles. All they care about is... Political power, right? So why would Nikki Haley agree to be vice president? Why? Because it's one step away from the presidency, do you understand? If anything happens to Trump, she's president. And in four years' time, she can run as the Republican nominee for the presidency, okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 32:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1969s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=1969s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Does that make sense? Okay? So that's the thing you need to know about politicians, okay? All they care about is political power. They will do anything to achieve political power. They will sell their own mother. Okay? To achieve political power. But it's the same thing for rich people, okay? Rich people love money. They will do anything to get money, okay? Sell their own mother? Fine. Okay? Do you understand? Also, celebrities, famous people, right? All they care about is fame. Okay? So do you understand, Jack? All right. Any more questions? Is this clear to you guys? Is there anything you're not clear about? I'll explain further. Okay. So Jack asked... Jack asked a great question. Okay? Well, listen. Like, I can figure this out just by reading the news, right? Biden has an amazing team of extremely well -paid, professional, experienced strategists working with him. They know this. They can see what's going on. So what can Biden do to counter Trump's strategy or the polls? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 34:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2059s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2059s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Okay? And the answer is this. If you look at 2020, everyone thought that Biden could not get the nomination. Okay? Why? Because he lacks charisma. Nobody really likes him. Okay? So when Biden goes to speak, there's no one there to listen to him. He's boring. And he has no idea. And he's old. I mean, Biden ran for president two times before, and he lost both times. And the reason why is he's not charismatic. And he has no idea. He has no ideas. Okay? But Biden's like, nope, I'm going to stay in the race because I believe I can win. And you ask him, Biden, what is your strategy? What is your reasoning going forward? I don't know. I'm going to win. Okay? So if we were discussing this in 2020, in May and June, I would be like, Biden has no chance. Okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 35:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2120s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Because Trump's going to go out there and give speeches to 100,000 people. And they're going to love him. And they're going to go and vote for him. Okay? Biden gives a speech. Everyone falls asleep. And under the debate stage, Trump will destroy Biden. Okay? So I was sure that in May, April 2020, Biden had no chance. But then what happened? Hey, the George Floyd protest happened. So all these young people who didn't really like Biden, they were now galvanized to go vote for him. All these black people, all these suburban voters, they wanted Biden to win because they thought Trump was the bison. Okay? And then what happened? The pandemic happened. So Trump couldn't go out to debate. Trump couldn't go out to campaign anymore. You understand? Biden could just sit in his basement and do nothing. Right? You understand? So unfortunately, Biden learned the wrong lessons from 2020. The lesson that he learned in 2020 is that, ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 36:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: hey, if I just sit in my basement all day and make no mistakes, my surrogates, the Democrats, they're going to be like, what? They'll fire up the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, they'll go out and give speeches for me. They'll fire up the base. And I'll win, because I'm not Trump. Okay? That is the entire Biden strategy. I'm not Trump. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 36:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 36:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2217s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2217s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: The problem with this idea is, okay, in 2020, the American people had four years of Trump, and they know he sucks. The problem now is the American people have seen four years of Biden, and Biden sucks as well, okay? And so it's a question like, who sucks more, Biden or Trump, okay? So in other words, people are not going to come out to vote because they think both suck, which means that the party with a coalition, with a base that feels more strongly about the issues is going to come out to vote, okay? And what we know is that the Republican coalition of rural voters, conservatives, Christians, white voters, they feel much more passionately about Trump than the Democratic coalition feels about Biden, okay? Does that make sense? So unfortunately, the answer is that Biden has no strategy going forward because he didn't have a strategy going forward in 2020. And he won in 2020. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 38:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2291s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2291s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So why can't the Senate? Why can't something happen this year, right? And unfortunately, because Biden is so old, he's 81, he doesn't have the energy to change the way he is, you understand? It's much easier for him to sit around and pray that I'm not Trump will deliver another election than it is for him to go out and change who we are. He can't change who we are, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, but that's a great question. All right? Any more questions before? Okay, so again, I am not sure who will win this year, okay? I think it's Trump. I'm not sure that Nikki Haley will be his vice president. I'm just making a guess. So the question then is, why are we doing this? And the answer is this. We try to think. We have to build an analytical model. Right? Of how the world works. And the only way we know if this model works or not is by making predictions and testing it against reality. ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 39:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: Okay? So you know what? It's possible that in August, Trump will pick someone else, okay? Possibly someone named J.D. Vance, okay? The only thing you need to know about J.D. Vance is he's very loyal to Trump. It's possible he picks J.D. Vance, okay? I think he'll pick Nikki Haley. Okay? I often actually... I often think that there's a very good chance he picks J.D. Vance as well, okay? But I'll make the bet that he picks Nikki Haley. Okay? So it's possible in August he does not pick Nikki Haley. He picks J.D. Vance or someone else instead, okay? It's also possible that in November, Trump loses, okay? Well, that's fine because if I'm wrong, then what I do is I go back to this analysis and I make changes to this analysis. Okay? ## The Haley Bet as Political Theater -- 40:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #5: Why Trump Will Win (And Pick Nikki Haley as VP) - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-17, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2427s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRK-85630k&t=2427s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-exrk-85630k@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-exrk-85630k.json) Text: So that it's much more reflective and accurate, okay? Does that make sense? Okay? And that's how we try to think critically about the world. By building analytical models that we can then test against reality and then based on what happens in reality, we can go and refine our analytical model. All right? Any questions? Okay. Okay. So next week, we discuss... So next week, we discuss the war in Iran, okay? Because if you look at this, again, if Nikki Haley becomes the vice president, it is very likely she will agitate for war against Iran, and Trump will go along, okay? And if that's the case, then we need to understand how America will fight the war and how Iran will respond. And that's what we will do next week, okay? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Okay, let's start class. So let's review where we are. We are discussing or exploring why the United States would want to invade Iran. And so far we have two good reasons. The first good reason is called the Israel lobby. There are, in the Israel lobby, millions of Christian Zionists who believe that a conflict in Middle East, especially between Israel and Iran, will bring Jesus back to earth. They want their God, Jesus, to return to earth, and they believe that a war in the Middle East will force him to return. That's the first reason. Second reason. Third reason is the idea of an empire. America is an empire, and as an empire, it has a lot of privileges. For example, it can just print as much money as it wants, US dollars. Right now, America is $34 trillion in debt, and the debt is growing by $20 every two months. America can do this as long as it is an empire. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 1:21 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=81s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=81s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: As long as people fear America. But as we discussed in the last class, with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, people are now starting to rebel against the empire, and therefore America must demonstrate it still is the military hegemon of the world, and therefore it can do this by invading Iran. Today we look at the third and final force driving conflict in Middle East. And it's really the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Most people think that Iran's major enemy in the Middle East is Israel. In fact, Iran's major enemy is Saudi Arabia. These two are bitter rivals. And to understand why, we have to look at their history. So the year is 1979. And there's a story. At the start of 1979, Saudi Arabia and Iran are very good friends. So let's look at a map of the Middle East. Iran is here. It's next to Iraq. Saudi Arabia is down here. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 2:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Then this is Egypt. You have Yemen here, Oman. This is the Strait of Hormuz. And this is the Suez Canal. Okay? The Red Sea, basically. And in 1979, Saudi Arabia and Iran were very good friends. They had a lot of similarities. They were both monarchies. They were ruled by a king. They were secular. They relied on American power to defend itself. And they were both oil exporters, both very prosperous oil exporters. But then, in 1979, Iran was in power. And in 1979, a political earthquake radically changed the landscape of the Middle East. In 1979, there was a bottom -up revolution called the Islamic Revolution. Before 1979, there was a general consensus agreement in the Middle East that religion and politics would be separated. But in 1979, the people in Iran... Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. Iran. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 4:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=269s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=269s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Iran. a Muslim people, as people who believe in the Islamic religion, the government should be focused on Islamic law, okay? So in a referendum, 98 % of the people of Iran voted to install an Islamic Republic to replace their monarchy and this was completely unexpected and this caused an earthquake throughout the Middle East. In November of 1979, 600 religious extremists tried to besiege Mecca, okay? Mecca is the holiest city in the Islamic religion because it is the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad. 600 extremists tried to take the city over and demand three things, okay? That the Saudi be the policies of the Islamist leaders, that the Saudi Arabian monarchy should abdicate. The United States should remove itself from the eternal affairs of Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia should be governed by Islamic law. Now this revolt was crushed by the military but from that day on Iran and Saudi Arabia became bitter enemies because they were both trying to install their vision of Islam on the Middle East. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 6:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: So this rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia took three forms. The first form is religious. So even though they're both Muslim countries, Islamic countries, they have different versions of the religion. So even though they're both Muslim countries, Islamic countries, they have different versions of the religion. So Saudi Arabia is Sunni and Iran is Shiite. Now you may ask what the difference between these two different branches of the religion are and the answer is no one actually knows. It's a very complicated issue. The major difference is this. In 610 the Prophet Muhammad in Medina in the city of Medina had a vision to found a new religion called Islam. Okay? And he spread this religion throughout the Middle East, throughout the Arab world, forever transforming the Middle East. When he died there's a problem of succession. Who would succeed the Prophet as the leader of the religion? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 7:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: The Shia people believe that only people who are the leaders of the religion will succeed. Only the person who can become the leader, of Muhammad's bloodline, can be the leaders of the religion. The Sunni disagreed and said that anyone who proved himself competent and faithful to religion could be the leader. And so for hundreds of years these two groups, the Sunni and the Shia, fought a war over the succession and this led to a bitter rivalry that's lasted to this day okay. Now Now, the majority of people in the world, about 8 % are Sunni, okay? The majority of Muslims in the world are Sunni. 10 % are Shia, okay? So, why this is important is that Saudi Arabia is a Sunni country. And Iran is a Shia country. And at the time of the revolution, Iran dedicated itself, committed itself to spreading the Shia revolution throughout the world, okay? Now, ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 8:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=535s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=535s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Saudi Arabia considers itself the leader of the Islamic world, because it is home to both Mecca and Medina, which are the two holiest cities in the entire Islamic religion. As you may know, there's a requirement that, as a, a Muslim, you must take a Hajj, a pilgrimage, to Mecca and Medina once in your lifetime. Okay? And, and because Saudi Arabia controls Mecca and Medina, that's really the source of Saudi Arabia's authority over the Islamic world. Iran says, Iran argued that because Saudi Arabia is ruled by a king, that's anti -Muslim. And because United States is defended by a Muslim, by the U.S. military that's also anti -Muslim. Saudi Arabia is a heresy, okay? So Iran is dedicated itself to subverting Saudi Arabia's authority, okay? So this is all makes sense so far, okay? Now, Saudi Arabia is Sunni, and it practices the most extreme form of Sunni religion called Wahhabism, okay? Wahhabism. In 1744, ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 10:24 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=624s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=624s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: the Wahhabis, okay, which again are the most extreme Islamic group, made an alliance with the Al -Assad family of Saudi Arabia. And the agreement was this, that the Wahhabis could, the Wahhabism would become the national religion of Saudi Arabia, and the Wahhabis would swear allegiance to the Al -Assad family, okay? Okay. But in the 1930s, oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia. In fact, Saudi Arabia proved to have the most valuable oil resources in all the world, okay? And at that time, as the world was modernizing, oil was becoming more and more important. And so that made Saudi Arabia extremely wealthy. And as it became more and more wealthy, it tried to become more Western, more secular. More progressive, more modern, which brought it into conflict with the Wahhabis, okay? Now, Wahhabism accounts for 20 to 40 % of all the people in Saudi Arabia. So it is a very significant group. More important, Wahhabi people tend to be extremely fanatical. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 11:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=710s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=710s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: So for example, in 1979, the people who laid siege to Saudi Arabia, they were the people who were the most important. The people who laid siege to Mecca were Wahhabis. And Wahhabis were also responsible for terrorist attacks against tourists, against foreigners in Saudi Arabia, okay? So Saudi Arabia has always had this problem with the Wahhabis. And the way that Saudi Arabia has tried to resolve the conflict is to export the religion of Wahhabism throughout the world. And the way that Saudi Arabia has achieved that is by the expansion of the Islamic State. So for example, Osama bin Laden was a Saudi citizen responsible for spreading Wahhabism in Afghanistan. And that's what started Al -Qaeda, okay? So Saudi Arabia was trying to export Wahhabism, Iran is trying to export the Shi 'ite religion, and so they come to the conflict with each other, okay? So the first source of tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia is over religion. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 12:56 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=776s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=776s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: And that's Second is economical, and what that means is that both countries are oil exporters. In fact, Saudi Arabia is completely reliant on oil for its economy. 40 % of Saudi Arabia's economy GDP is based on oil exports. Saudi Arabia is number one oil exporter in the world. 75 % of government revenues comes from its oil exports. In other words, Saudi Arabia does not actually collect taxes from its citizens. It just sells oil. Iran also sells oil. It's the number four oil exporter in the world, but it's less reliant on oil because it has a diversified economy, meaning that it has very strong human capital. It has a very rich economy. It has a well -educated population that does all sorts of different activities. Science, art, education. Saudi Arabia, for the longest time, has been trying to control the price of oil in order to maximize profits. For ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 14:11 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=851s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=851s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: example, it wants to cut back production in order to increase the price of oil, which will increase profits. But Iran often doesn't cooperate because Iran is trying to sell as much oil as possible in order to boycott oil. Iran is trying to buy oil in order to boost its economy. So there's economic conflict between these two countries. And the third and final conflict is geopolitical. And geopolitical means that both countries are trying to exert as much influence as possible over the Middle East. Now, Iran is trying to exert influence over the Middle East, because after the revolution in 1979, many countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United States, encouraged Iraq to invade Iran. And this invasion, called the Iraq -Iran War, lasted eight years, and it cost the lives of millions of Iranians. And from then on, Iran has adopted a policy of aggressive intervention in the Middle East, in order to distract the United States and Israel. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 15:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=931s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=931s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: So for example, in Israel, there are two groups opposing Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah. And they're both financed and supported politically by Iran. And the point of doing this is to distract Israel. Now, Saudi Arabia is trying to exert influence over the Middle East, because as the number one oil exporter, it needs to control shipping lanes. It needs to control this area and this area, the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal. And 40 % of all the world's oil passes through these two straits, and they go mainly to East Asia. China, South Korea, and Japan, mainly. So, because of these geopolitical tensions, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have fought three proxy wars, okay? They fought three shadow wars. The first is in Iraq. And now in Iraq, as you know, in 2003, America invaded Iraq and destroyed the country. And after they destroyed the country, there's a power vacuum. And so, basically, Iran came in and tried to take over the country. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 16:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1014s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1014s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: And it could do so because two -thirds of the population were Shias. And therefore, they had affinity with Iran. And a third were Sunnis. So, what happened was that to counter the Iranian influence in Iraq, Saudi Arabia started to finance the one -third of the Sunnis against the Shias. So, there was a very violent civil war fought in Iraq after the invasion, okay? Many people also believe that Saudi Arabia is responsible for the financing of the Islamic State, okay? Or ISIS. Because ISIS really hates the Shia religion, okay? But over time, because Iran has been so much more effective in projecting its power than Saudi Arabia, basically, Iran now controls much of Iraq, okay? So, in this first war, Iran defeated Saudi Arabia. Then they fought another war in Syria. Syria's leader, Assad, faced a rebellion. And Saudi Arabia, America, Israel support the rebels against Assad. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 18:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1095s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1095s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: And Iran came in to support Assad as well as Russia. And over time, Assad was able to crush the rebellion, okay? So, in the second proxy war, Iran won as well. Now, there's another proxy war in Yemen, okay? And it started in 2016. So, the wars in Iraq and Syria, they were important to Saudi Arabia, but they didn't really threaten Saudi Arabia. But this war in Yemen did threaten Saudi Arabia, okay? So, for the longest time, Saudi Arabia supported the Yemen political leadership. And then there was a rebellion by the Houthis, okay? The Houthis. And the Houthis were Shia villagers who lived in the mountains. And they were trying to overthrow the government. And Saudi Arabia was afraid that the Houthis would become friends with Iran. So, Saudi Arabia launched a massive invasion of Yemen. It was 150,000 Saudi Arabian troops. They had warplanes. They were backed by the most advanced American weapons and technology, okay? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 19:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1183s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1183s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: They also had a coalition of about 30 nations, including Egypt and the UAE. Saudi Arabia named this operation Decisive Storm, right? Which sounds like desert storm. And the strategy they used is what we call shock and awe. And shock and awe is basically, we have so many bombs. We have so many airplanes. We have so many soldiers that we can, in about a week's time, destroy you, okay? So, go in. Go fast. Be decisive. Destroy your enemy. Unfortunately, this, for Saudi Arabia, this did not work. And the reason why is, first of all, the Houthis were in the mountains. And so, your bombs didn't really... stop them. In fact, all your bombs did was make them really angry. Because with your bombs, you were killing civilians, okay? So, you're basically uniting the entire population against you. That's the first problem. Second problem is that the Houthis are in the mountains. But Saudi Arabia has oil fields. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 21:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1263s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1263s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: And guess what, guys? It's really, really easy to blow up oil fields. Okay? So, that's what the Houthis were doing. They were sending, like, these cheap drones. They might cost $1,000, $10,000. And they would blow up oil fields and ports. Okay? Saudi Arabia has another problem, okay? Saudi Arabia has no fresh water. It's in the desert. It is a desert. No water, guys. No rivers. So, it relies entirely on desalination plants. Okay? And this is extremely impressive technology, right? It takes salt water, seawater, and turns it into fresh water. It's very impressive. But it's on the coast. And guess what, guys? The coast. So, Iran can blow up these plants. And the Houthis can blow up these plants as well. Okay? So, Saudi Arabia basically lost this war. Because the Houthis could inflict massive economic damage on Saudi Arabia. So, from this war, Saudi Arabia learned three things, okay? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 22:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1337s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1337s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: The first thing it learned is that if it wants to defeat their enemies, the Houthis, the Syrians, and the Iraqis, they also need to be able to defeat Iran. Okay? That's the first thing they learned. The second thing they learned is that their economy is extremely vulnerable to attack. At any point, Iran, with its missiles and drones, could destroy the entire Saudi Arabian economy. Okay? It can easily blow up all the oil fields and the desalination plants. So, the third thing that Saudi Arabia learned from all this is we really need America to fight Iran for us. In the long term, that's the only way we're going to survive as a nation. Okay? We need to defeat Iran. And we can't do it by ourselves. We need America to do it for us. Okay? Unfortunately for Saudi Arabia, in 2001, 9 -11 happened, right? 15 of the 19 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia. Which meant that America was very unhappy with Saudi Arabia. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 23:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1423s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1423s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Okay? Americans didn't like Saudi Arabia. Americans also knew that there were a lot of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia. The other thing that happened is in 2003, America invaded Iraq. Saudi Arabia tried to exert as much influence as possible in Washington, D.C. to stop the war. Because they knew that if America invaded Iraq, it would make Iran more powerful. Now, as you know, Saudi Arabia could not stop the war. Okay? In 2008, Barack Obama came into office. And Barack Obama's understanding of the world was that, okay, the Middle East is a complete mess. And it's hopeless. I don't really want to deal with the Middle East. Plus, China is rising. The main threat to our economy, to American power in the future, will be East Asia. So he proposed something called the Asia Pivot, which is to transfer American military resources from the Middle East to East Asia to counter the threat of China. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 25:02 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1502s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1502s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: But to do that, you needed to reduce tensions in the Middle East. And so in 2015, he made a deal with Iran called the Iran Nuclear Deal. And the deal was basically, Obama said to Iran, listen, I know you're trying to develop nuclear weapons. Okay? So what we're going to do is, if you promise to not develop nuclear weapons, we will lift economic sanctions on you so that you can prosper. And Iran said, yes. Okay? And this really scared Saudi Arabia. Because if America leaves the Middle East and brokers a peace with Iran, then Saudi Arabia would be extremely vulnerable. Okay? So Saudi Arabia became very, very desperate. Its very existence was threatened. Also, the economic outlook for Saudi Arabia was not that great. Remember, the entire economy depended on oil. But guess what, guys? Oil is a finite resource. Eventually, you're going to run out of oil. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 26:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1580s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1580s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Okay? Now, if you're optimistic, you'll be like, well, Saudi Arabia would run out of oil in about 70 years' time or 80 years' time. Okay? But there are also some people who believe that Saudi Arabia will run out of oil in about 10 years' time. And if Saudi Arabia has no oil, then its entire economy collapses. Okay? Then you also have a problem with global warming, right? Climate change. You also have a problem with the entire economy because the entire global economy is slowing down. Therefore, the demand for oil is decreasing. So, the economic outlook for Saudi Arabia, it's extremely grim. Okay? And that's why, in 2017, Saudi Arabia appointed a new leader called Mohammed bin Salman. Okay? The crown prince. Whoever calls MBS. And MBS promised to be a new leader for Saudi Arabia. He was young. He was progressive. He wanted women to drive. He wanted young people to go to the movie theater. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 27:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1656s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1656s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Okay? And he proposed a new vision for Saudi Arabia called Vision 2030. Okay? But MBS' most important achievement is that he became friends with the new president, Donald Trump. Okay? So, in 2016, Donald Trump became president of the United States. And MBS decided that this is an opportunity for Saudi Arabia to reset relations, to reset relations with America. Okay? So, Trump, his first trip outside the United States was to Saudi Arabia. That was the first achievement. Second achievement is that Saudi, is that MBS became best friends with Trump's son -in -law, Jared Kushner. Okay? And Jared Kushner was Trump's Middle East advisor. And his job was to bring peace to the Middle East. Mainly, mainly between Israel and the Arab countries. And to that extent, Kushner did a great job because MBS helped him. Okay? So, his major achievement is something called the Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords is just to establish peace between Israel and the Arab countries so that they can unite against Iran together. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 29:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1757s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1757s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: So, MBS was looking very good. But then, in 2018, he did something that scared the world. Okay? MBS had, was a visionary. He had a plan for where to take Saudi Arabia. He wanted to modernize Saudi Arabia. But he was also young. He was a tyrant. He did not like to people who, he did not like people who criticized him. Okay? So, there's a journalist named Jamal Khashoggi who worked for the Washington Post and who was a permanent resident of the United States. He was a Saudi national. And, MBS had him killed. And this caused an international uproar. Okay? The CIA, the US government, conducted an investigation and they determined it was MBS who ordered the assassination. Trump protected MBS. Okay? And then, the most important thing that Trump did was in January 2020, Trump ordered the assassination of a ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 30:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1830s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1830s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: man named Qassam Soleimani who is considered to be the second most powerful man in Iran after the assassination of Ayatollah, the supreme religious leader of the country. It is Qassam Soleimani who was responsible for Iran's policies in the Iraq war, the Syria war, and in the Yemen war. So, from the perspective of Saudi Arabia, Qassam Soleimani is public enemy number one. He is the greatest threat to Saudi Arabia. Now, before, okay, America had many opportunities to assassinate Qassam Soleimani. George W. Bush had the opportunity, Barack Obama had the opportunity, and both, both believe that doing so would cause basically World War III, okay? Because if you kill the number two leader of Iran, Iran would have no choice but to go to war with you. And that's why they both decided killing Qassam Soleimani. In fact, when Trump made the decision to assassinate Soleimani, the entire military was stunned, okay? They couldn't believe this was happening. ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 31:59 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1919s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1919s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: So, how does this happen? Okay, so, for some time, there was some conflict between U.S. soldiers and Shia militiamen in Iraq. And the Pentagon thought it had to act, okay? So, in these situations, they had to go to the President and present options to the President of how best to respond. And usually, the Pentagon will design the choices so that the President does what the Pentagon thinks is best, okay? So, an example is that if I'm in the military and I go to Trump, I give you three choices, okay? The first choice is A, one, let's do nothing. Okay? Two is, what you should do. And three is, let's blow up the world. Okay? So, when I present these three options to you, you, as a President, being wise and strategic, will obviously always pick option two, right? What you should do, what the military suggests you should do, okay? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 33:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1994s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=1994s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: Unfortunately, in this instance, Trump chose option three. Let's blow up the world, guys. And so, they assassinated Qasem Soleimani, okay? So, in other words, it is very likely that if Trump stayed a second term, the United States would have gone to war with Iran given how things were progressing, okay? MBS was so happy about all this that he once bragged privately to a friend that, oh, Jared Kushner, Trump's son -in -law, the man responsible for all Middle East policies, well, he's in my pocket, meaning I own him, okay? And the evidence that suggests this is that after Trump left office, after Jared Kushner left office, Jared Kushner set up a private equity fund. And MBS and the Saudi government invested $2 billion into the fund, okay? Does that make sense? So, um, we don't know how, we don't know this for sure, but it seems like Trump is doing exactly what the Saudis want, which is to inflame tensions with Iran, okay? ## Saudi Arabia Needed America To Fight Iran -- 34:54 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #4: Saudi Arabia's Trump Card Against Iran - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-15, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=2094s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctUcVqhhns&t=2094s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lctucvqhhns@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lctucvqhhns.json) Text: And, um, this suggests that if in November Trump wins a second term, it is very possible that Trump will declare war on Iran. Or, at the very least, continue to escalate tensions with Iran, okay? Which will very likely lead to World War III. So, in that respect, the election in November, whether or not Trump comes back into office, um, is one of the most consequential elections, okay? Does that make sense, guys? Okay, any questions? Anything you want me to clarify before we end class? Okay. So, what we will do next class is figure out if Trump will win And I will make the argument to you that it is almost very certain, very likely, that he will win in November, okay? So, we will examine why next class. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 0:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Okay, let's start class. We're continuing the United States -Iran war. As I've said in the previous class, the United States will invade Iran. We don't know when. It might be two years from now. It might be six years from now, okay? But eventually it will happen. And in today's class, I want to go over some of the reasons why the United States will invade Iran. And I believe that there'll be three major reasons, okay? The first major reason is the United States must defend its empire. Second major reason is that the United States will be pressured by its allies, mainly Saudi Arabia and Israel, into invading Iran. And the third reason is the Israel lobby, okay? So in today's class, I want to explain to you what the Israel lobby is. But first, I need you to understand. What Christianity is, okay? So remember that Christianity, it's a religion about a man, Jesus, who we know very little about, okay? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 1:10 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=70s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=70s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: We think that he was born in 4 BCE, and then he died in 31 BC, sorry, CE, Common Era. We know that he is from a place called Galilee. We know that he is from a place called Jerusalem. We know that the Romans crucified him. And that's about it, okay? What his believers say is that he is God, come to earth, and he was preaching a gospel or a message that God is returning, the kingdom of heaven is coming. And after he was crucified, he was resurrected, and then he went to heaven. And what's really important is that Jesus will... He will eventually return, okay? And this is called the second coming, okay? This is the second coming of Jesus, and when he comes, he will bring heaven onto earth. And we will all live forever in peace. Okay, so that's the story of Jesus. Then the question then is, why this religion become so popular? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 2:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Why is it so popular? So popular, in fact, that today, about 2 billion people... believe in it, okay? It's the most popular, most powerful religion in the world. And at first, the appeal of Christianity is that it was a revolutionary religion that promised a better world to the world's oppressed, okay? So if you look at the early people who followed Christianity, it was slaves, peasants, women, okay? People who were... People who were marginalized in society. And the idea of Jesus is that a better world is coming where everyone will be equal, okay? The meek shall inherit the earth. So if you think about it, Christianity is appealing because what it is, it's a free lottery ticket. Okay, does that make sense? It's a lottery ticket. It costs you nothing, and hey, if it's right, then you go to heaven, okay? So at first, Christianity was an extremely revolutionary religion, ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 3:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=224s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=224s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: and its basic characteristics in the beginning were it was revolutionary, it was egalitarian, and it was anti -authority. And so these individuals who before were outcast from society, okay, like criminals, Jesus promised hope. Jesus promised hope. He promised salvation and redemption, okay? So before, if you were a criminal, there was really no way for you to redeem yourself in society. And Jesus is the promise of your salvation and redemption, okay? And that's why it was so appealing to a lot of people. It became so popular that it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Now there's a problem, okay? Because remember, Christianity is a revolutionary, egalitarian, and anti -authority religion. And now it's become an empire. So they had to develop new theories to reinvent Christianity as an establishment religion. And as we discussed last semester, the person who did it was Augustine, okay? Augustine. And remember that last semester, we read City of God and Confessions. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 5:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=313s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=313s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: And City of God and Confessions, it's really to adapt Christianity as an establishment religion, to reduce its revolutionary nature, okay? So is this all making sense to you? And one problem that Augustine had was the idea of a second coming, okay? That the world will end. He had a major problem with this idea for many reasons, okay? But the first reason is that, you know, if the world's going to end, why do we have to do anything? Why can't we just drink and party and play video games every day, right? What's the point of working? That's the first problem, right? Second problem is, well, why is Jesus coming back? It's because the world sucks, right? Well, who's in charge of the world? The Catholic Church is in charge of the world. You understand? So Jesus is coming back. They destroyed the authority of the Catholic Church. That's not good, right? So for many reasons, Augustine basically said, okay, the second coming, don't worry about it, okay? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 6:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=387s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=387s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Jesus will come back whenever he wants to come back. But before he comes back, we, the Catholic Church, will take care of everyone, okay? All right, so why is this important? This is important because from Augustine onwards, we've had divergent understanding of what the second coming means, okay? For people who believe in the second coming, the term we use is premillennialism. Premillennials, okay? Because the second coming promised a thousand years of peace. Okay, premillennialism is this, okay? Pre means before, right? So when Jesus comes back, he will give us a thousand years of peace and prosperity. Okay, do you understand? Before he comes back, okay? When he comes back, he will give us a thousand years of peace and prosperity. And what Augustine said is, no, no, no, no. That thousand years is just a metaphor. It's not actually going to happen. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 7:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=461s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=461s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: In fact, it's already happened because the Catholic Church is giving us this thousand years of peace and prosperity. Okay? So he's called a millennialist, which means no, okay? That thousand years is just a metaphor. It's not really going to happen, okay? So that's the second big idea. Now, as we know, because all power became concentrated in the Catholic Church, there's a rebellion against the Catholic Church called the Reformation, okay? The Reformation. And the idea of the Reformation is, God did not mean for his authority to be established in the church, to be held by priests. God is meant to speak to all of us through the Bible. Okay? So the major difference between the Catholic religion and the Protestant religion is Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible. They don't read the Bible. Whereas Protestants must read the Bible. They must seek meaning and guidance from their interpretation of the Bible. Okay? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 9:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=543s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=543s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: And because of the Reformation, you now have thousands, tens of thousands of different religions spawning up. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So you have different religions and you have different descent. So let's look at England. Okay? England. So England is a king. And before, the Catholic Church was supposed to have authority over the king. And of course, the king did not like that. So he supported the Reformation and he changed the Catholic Church into something called the Anglican Church, okay? Or the Church of England, which he would have authority over. But once the Reformation started, again, you are now allowed to read the Bible. And because of that, you have thousands of new religions coming up in England. Okay? And they believed different things. But one thing that they all believed in is the Bible is the supreme authority. Okay? The Bible is the supreme authority, not the king. Right? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 10:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=629s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=629s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: So this started a major conflict. A major conflict between these groups and the king. And these people are called dissenters. And eventually, this led to something called the English Civil War, where the dissenters, the Puritans, killed the king. Okay? But then the king was reestablished. And so this led to decades and decades of fighting in England. So one way that the king tried to resolve this conflict was through the Reformation. And the way that the king resolved this conflict is by sending all these dissenters to America. Okay? To America. And the idea is this. These dissenters believe that the Bible is the supreme authority. The Bible asks us to do certain things. Okay? Because it's written in the Bible. For example, you're not allowed to drink. You're not allowed to dance. You're not allowed to have any fun. You must focus on your own spiritual improvement. Okay? You're not allowed to have slaves. And so because they believed these things, they were constantly in conflict with the establishment. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 11:45 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=705s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=705s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Okay? With people in power. And so the king was like, guys, if you really believe in these things, go to America. Why? Because there's nobody in America. So you can build your own kingdom of heaven. Do you understand? Okay? So this is the origin of the United States. The United States was founded in America. It was founded as a Christian nation, which put the Bible as the supreme authority. Okay? Does that make sense? You guys probably don't know this about the United States. You think the United States, it's a non -religious, secular, multicultural nation that believes in science. Right? That's what it looks like from the outside. But inside its soul, its history, it is a Christian nation. Dedicated to achieving the kingdom of God on earth. Okay? And using the Bible as the supreme authority and guide to achieve this kingdom on earth. Okay? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 12:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=771s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=771s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. So these people in America, these dissenters. Okay? One question that they always ask themselves is, why isn't Jesus back yet? Okay? The second coming. Why isn't the second coming back yet? And different people have different explanations. Okay? And so from this group come two more groups. Okay? You have some people who are called the post -millennials. Okay? And post -millennials believe that Jesus will come back after we establish a thousand years of the kingdom. This is the order of the world, now. It's a religious world, but we have to prove that we are a Christian church in the world. Okay? Okay? It doesn't make sense. So we have to prove that we are worthy of God. God's not going to come back and establish this for us. We have to do it ourselves. Okay? So these are what people call post. Which is to say that Jesus will come after the thousand years. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 14:05 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=845s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=845s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: But then you have another group called dispensationalists. I don't even know how to spell this word, actually. Okay. Anyway, this is dispensationalists. Historic. okay all right so now the pre -millennials are split into two other groups so the historic pre -millennials are people who believe what the early christians believe which is like jesus is going to come back don't worry when he's coming back just be a good person and he'll come back eventually okay it's not up to us to ask when he's coming back he's god okay he has a plan he knows what he's doing just be patient guys okay that's the historic pre -millennials and then you have another group called the desperate destination list dispensation list pre -millennials okay and what they believe is something different they believe that oh in the bible if you read the bible very very closely it tells you how and why jesus will ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 15:17 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=917s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=917s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: return okay what the bible says is that there must be a nation called israel okay and israel is a nation of jews and then israel has something called the temple because that's where god resides okay it must have a temple and then what will happen according to the bible is that the antichrist okay or satan lives okay then and then there will be an antichrist okay satan who will be the great deceiver he'll pretend to be god he'll pretend to be messiah but he's really satan okay and then he will launch a war when they all the nations of the world will try to attack israel and at this point jesus will come back and he will destroy the antichrist he will save israel and he will usher in a thousand years of peace before and then a thousand years later you'll have the last judgment where god will judge us to be either worthy ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 16:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1004s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1004s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-promise-becomes-plan) Text: or not worthy if we are worthy we'll live on forever if we're not worthy then we'll burn in hell forever okay okay so there are different variations of this prophecy well that's what's a belief okay so in other words the historic historic pre -millennials what they believe about the coming of jesus is it's a promise okay jesus promises to return he's god he will keep his promise he's probably very busy right now with other things so don't worry about it guys okay let's just be patient and trust in jesus okay that's what they believe but the dispensationalist pre -millennials believe that the prophecy it's a plan okay it's something that we must achieve to bring jesus back and we do what the bible tells us to do which is to say to have israel as a nation run by the jews to um have the temple and then to face the antichrist save the people ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 18:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1092s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1092s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: of the kingdom and chiefly run away from the temple guys we want a map let's show the temple so let's go back to yahweh jesus okay this tabula verses 8 23 -29 and i'm going to read verses 3 through 4 of this and i'm going to read quanto al 1 i'm going to say a n like a create a holler andalahasd and also like something else that involved jesus played black Seongwu who is a black eyed boy the thousand years it's just a metaphor it's not gonna happen don't worry about it guys okay and then you have the post -millennials who believe that it's up to us to establish a good world Jesus is not going to do it for us if we do this then Jesus will return okay and so but remember guys okay this is a very simple version of the four different beliefs even within each belief there are variations okay ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 19:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1148s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1148s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: because again there are two billion people who believe in Christianity and they all believe something different okay does that make sense all right are we clear about the four different ideas any questions okay so okay okay so you know you don't have to have to remember this you don't have to remember this you don't have to remember this okay but but all I'm trying to show you is that even within Christianity there's a debate okay but there's a concern of the obsession as to when Jesus will return and how he will return okay does that make sense all right so um this is important now um most Christians don't believe in dispensation list premillennialism okay in fact most Christians believe that dispensation list premillennialism is actually pretty evil why why would it be evil we shouldn't we should not we cannot believe in dispensation list premillennialism because it's evil why as a Christian what would ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 20:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1226s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1226s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt) Text: you think this is evil what's a problem with believing that there's a plan in the Bible what would that be anti -christian okay so um this is hard okay but but the idea is that with this plan you're trying to manipulate God it does that make sense okay you're trying to force God to return and you shouldn't do that if you believe in God then you will trust God and you will try your best to be a good person which is what the Bible asks you to do and when God returns is none of your business okay it's not our concern so the dispensation list premillennialism are an extremely controversial minority within Christianity okay Christians most Christians don't actually believe it and they find that a lot of these believes to be evil and click and maybe even blasphemous okay you're insulting God with this sort of thinking okay the problem is that of all ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 21:51 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1311s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1311s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-promise-becomes-plan) Text: these groups the dispensation list millenials premillennial are the most organized and they're the most fanatical they really believe that this is true okay we know that throughout history those who achieve their objectives are people who tend to be the most United and who are the most fanatical in a you know in a achieving their objective okay that's the first point second point is that the this sort of belief um thrives in a time of massive uncertainty and inequality like the time that we are living in today okay where inequality is growing where there's more instability and uncertainty so in other words there are more and more people who believe in dispensation list premillennialism okay does that make sense okay all right so why this is important is that dispensation list premillennial as Christians have done a lot to cause conflict in the Middle East okay so they're the ones who are actively encouraging conflict between ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 23:16 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1396s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1396s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: the Palestinians and Israelis they're the ones who want Israel and Iran to go to war why why are they actively encouraging conflict between the and and the israelis why are they encouraging a war between iran and israel why would they want a war between iran and israel well no no well israel is already back why because it's part of the prophecy do you understand it's part of the prophecy the prophecy is that israel must be was first must first be we can reconstitute it as a nation okay this happened 1948 and then israel must go to war of other nations okay does that make sense so the these christians are actually promoting war between israel and its neighbors okay does that make sense all right okay so now the other thing is that after the reformation okay um they developed a new theology called christian zionism christian zionism okay what is christian zionism christian zionism ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 24:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1487s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1487s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: is the belief that as a christian you must support jews in the return to israel okay so because remember that um um israel as a nation was only found in 1948 and then um basically it um in about 70 b c e the romans burned down the temple okay so for about almost 2 000 years really the jewish people have not lived in sorry sorry sorry the jews were not in control of israel okay for about 2 000 years and there are christians who believe that it is our responsibility or duty to help jews take control over israel okay and they believe this for many different reasons so christian Zionist some may believe that that's what the bible says god promised israel to the jews okay so christian zionism intersects with dispensationless premillennialism there are christian Zionists who believe that okay for jesus to return we also we need Israel back and we need Israel ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 26:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1578s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1578s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: to be in conflict with the Middle East okay so in other words the Middle East okay yeah all of them all of them okay so um so Christian Zionism um I mean you can make the argument that it's a pretty evil idea why because they're using the Jewish people as a tool as a mechanism in order to achieve what they believe which is the return of Jesus okay does that make sense because Christianity believes that if Jesus returns then all Jews then do it then Judaism as religion will cease to exist two -thirds of all Jews will die in the battle and the and the rest a third will will immediately convert to Christianity okay so you can make the argument that Christianity is a good religion and it's a good religion and it's a good religion Christian Zionism it's a pretty cynical um and a pretty evil idea okay and then from Christian Zionism ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 27:33 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1653s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1653s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: we have the idea of Zionism okay and Zionism is the belief among certain Jews that two things okay one is that the Jews are the chosen people of God and that Israel is a promised land and therefore Jews must return to Israel okay does that make sense okay but what's important is before Christian Zionism came along Zionism was not Jews didn't really think this okay so it was it was the Christians who supported this idea of Zionism and even when this idea came about which which was about 20 years ago it was an extremely unpopular religion a very extremely unpopular idea the reason why is Jews didn't think they were a race of people they felt they were a religion okay they felt that okay um I'm in I'm in Iraq well guess what I'm an Iraqi like everyone else I might have a different belief but I'm still Iraqi okay they didn't put the ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 28:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1735s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1735s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: religion above their nationality or their race okay do you understand and Zionism is like no being a Jewish person is a race and therefore you must return to Israel okay the problem uh with with all this is that in Israel uh Palestine it was mainly Arab people okay so there are very few Jewish people and in fact Zionism couldn't convince anyone to come to Palestine okay but then of course the Holocaust happened in after the Holocaust many Jews start to go to Israel and in 1948 they established the state of Israel okay and the Christian Zionists and the dispensation list pre -millennial we're very happy with the establishment of Israel because they feel that we've achieved the first step in this plan to bring Jesus back okay okay does that make sense okay um so to summarize the main message is this okay here's what you need to know first is that which there are ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 30:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1829s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1829s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-promise-becomes-plan) Text: many Christians who believe that Israel and the Jews must be used as a tool to bring Jesus back, okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is that America was founded as a Christian nation. Therefore, its soul is Christian. Its first leaders were Christians who believed in Christian Zionism. Their descendants now control the military, and the foreign policy apparatus of America, okay? That's the second thing, okay? And the third thing is that Israel, as a nation, thinks that it can use Christian Zionism in order to advance its geopolitical interest, which is to basically gain control over the Middle East, okay? Do you understand? And that's what's driving the American civilization. It's driving the conflict between Israel and Iran. Does that make sense? Okay? What's driving the conflict between Israel and Iran is America believes it has a religious responsibility to protect Israel against Iran. In fact, if there's a war between Iran and Israel, that's a good thing because it's gonna drive this prophecy and the return of Jesus, okay? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 32:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1928s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=1928s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: And then they're, and people in Israel are like... you know what, if we go to war with Iran, America's gonna fight for us, so why not? Right? We don't have to fight this war. America is gonna do it for us, so why not fight this war? We lose nothing. We gain everything from this war, okay? So the idea is that all this is driven by a religious worldview, understanding the world, okay? And over time, this worldview will only become more popular in America, okay? Does that make sense? All right, okay, good. Any questions about this? Anything that's not clear about what I just explained? Do you mean to clarify anything? Okay, I don't understand the question. Can you repeat the question? So, okay, so both Judaism and Christianity are religions, okay? There's no race. There's no race to the idea of Christianity, right? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 34:09 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2049s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2049s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: You can be Chinese and Christian. You can be American and Christian. It doesn't matter, all right? And that's what the Jewish people say as well. I can be Chinese and Jewish. I can be American and Jewish because being Jewish is a religion. But the idea of Zionism is that being Jewish person is a race. In fact, you are directly descended from the Hebrews in the Bible, which is complete nonsense. This is not true, okay? So, Zionism is the main political belief of Israel, right? Why does Israel exist? Because Israel is the promised land that God gave to his chosen people, okay? And this was a promise that dates back, you know, 20 years. At least 3,000 years to the time of Abraham. And it's written in the Bible. Therefore, it must be true, okay? Does that make sense? All right. Any other questions? Okay, that's a great question, okay? All right. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 35:26 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: So, I'm making the argument that Christian Zionism and dispensationalist premillennialism will, over time, become more popular religions in America, okay? And the question, and Charles asked, like, well, why? Okay. Let's go back. Let's go back to the founding of Christianity. Why did Christianity become so popular? It became popular because it was in the Roman Empire, okay? At that time, there was something called the Pax Romana, which meant the Roman peace, okay? Which meant that the Romans controlled everything. Therefore, there were no wars. Therefore, people were at peace, right? And you think that's a good thing, right? The problem is that if there's peace, then you have massive inequality, okay? Because war is a mechanism, back then, of social mobility, right? War killed people. And if war kills people, that creates opportunities for the people who are alive. But if there's no war, then what happens is, if I'm a rich person, guess what, guys? I become more rich. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 36:36 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2196s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2196s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: If you're poor, what happens? You become more poor, okay? So, as a poor person, what do you think? You think that life is hopeless. Life is pointless. There's no future. There's no hope, right? And so, Jesus comes along and says, Listen, if you believe in me, then I will bring the kingdom of heaven onto earth, and I will destroy inequality. Everything will be the same, okay? So, again, back then, it was a free lottery ticket. Today, we live in something called the Pax Americana. And the Pax Americana, same thing, where for the past 70 years, there's been peace around the world, right? Very few people have died. But all that means, really, is that inequality has increased. Fewer and fewer people have money, okay? Guys, billionaires make no sense. Do you understand? Why should a few people have all the money? That makes no sense. Because money is meant as a mechanism of exchange and transaction, right? ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 37:50 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2270s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2270s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: You use money, you should spend your money. If it's all in the bank, what's the point of that? Okay? So, having billionaires is a bad thing. And if you go to America, you'll find that there are many young people who feel that life is pointless. Okay? So, they're looking for alternatives. You understand? And this idea of dispensationalist premillennialism, which is like what's happening right now in Israel will lead to a better world, that's kind of attractive to you. You understand? Right? Well, because you're poor, and you're stuck being poor. Guys, imagine you are a delivery person in China, in Beijing, okay? You're like a kuai di yuan, right? What hope do you have for the future? Your life is pointless and hopeless. No one's going to marry you. Even if someone marries you, you can't have children because you can't afford to have your children go to school. You can't buy a house. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 39:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2348s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2348s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) - Related lens: [Eschatology As Script](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/eschatology.txt#eschatology-promise-becomes-plan) Text: You can't afford anything. You're stuck being a delivery person for the rest of your life. Do you understand? Do you know how many delivery people there are in China? Millions and millions, okay? You have millions and millions of young men who have no... hope in the future, right? Yes, because Jesus is coming, and he's going to destroy the world we live in. That's exactly right. Christianity is a free lottery ticket. It costs you nothing, and if you win, you win big, okay? Right? What does it cost you? It costs you nothing, right? Okay? Do you understand? That's why it will become more popular over time. Excuse me? Right. So what you do is you support America, you support Israel, you support the war against Iran. You want more conflict in the Middle East because the conflict in the Middle East will drive the prophecy, right? Do you understand? That's what you want. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 40:43 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2443s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2443s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: You want more war. What good does peace do you? Right? Peace just means like tomorrow, you'll still be poor and hopeless. Right? But war, it's an opportunity for a new world. Exactly. Right? So all this inequality is making people much more extreme and desperate. Right? Which will lead people, more people to believe in dispensationalist premillennialism, okay? The government, of course, does not want any instability, but what can the government do about it? You're absolutely right, okay? So the government could provide social welfare to poor people, but where would the money come from? Right. You understand? Okay? Okay. Who's more dangerous to you, a few rich people or millions of poor people? No. No, no, no, no, no. A few rich people are much more dangerous than millions of poor people. You understand? That's right. United, right? Poor people don't know how to unite. That's right. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 42:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2561s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2561s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: . ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 42:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Yeah, but... ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 42:49 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2569s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2569s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: . ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 43:06 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2586s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2586s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: Right. Okay? Okay. So that doesn't make sense, okay? All right? So this is the... So it's hard because this is religion, okay? And we're not religious. I'm not religious. You're not religious. So we don't really understand how religious people think, okay? But remember that on this planet Earth, most people are religious, and they take their religion very, very seriously. Okay? Do you understand? They're willing to die for the religion because they think that if I die for my religion, I'll go to heaven.. Excuse me? Okay. All right. So that's exactly right. Do you understand? Okay?. All right? Because you're not giving people any hope, and religion gives people hope. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 44:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2658s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2658s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: ............ ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 44:38 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2678s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2678s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: . Listen. In the real world, the poor will always lose, the rich will always win. No matter what happens. ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 44:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2686s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2686s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: . ## Christian Zionism Turns War Into Prophecy -- 44:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East Conflict - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-05-08, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0039](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy/transcript/#seg-0039) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2687s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkKrZq4YdqY&t=2687s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy@transcript:v1#seg-0039` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-lkkrzq4ydqy.json) Text: That's right. That's why they're poor. Okay. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 0:00 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Okay, so as you know from your research, on April 1st, the Israelis struck the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, killing seven people, including two commanders. This is an act of war, because the embassy is considered Iranian territory, and never before has this been done intentionally, okay? And this follows the killing, the assassination of their general, Qasem Soleimani, in 2020, right? This is when the Americans launched a drone strike against him in Baghdad, and he was really the top, one of the top Iranian generals. And what both of these incidents show us is that the Americans and the Israelis have dominance over Iran. Okay? So, military dominance. So, the first thing is they have technology, right? So, technologically, America and Israel are so much superior to Iran, so that there's a jet that went from Israel and went to Damascus to carry out the strike. Now, if you did the research, you would know that the Canadian embassy is right next to the Iranian embassy. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 1:27 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=87s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=87s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: And the strike... The strike was so precise that it only hit the Iranian embassy, and didn't touch anything else, okay? That's a precision strike. That's how powerful the technology that the Americans and the Israelis have, okay? But the other thing that's important is the idea of intelligence. So, how did the Israelis know that these commanders would be there at that time, right? That's intelligence. And intelligence comes in two forms, right? There's the idea of human. And then signals. Signals is basically, I can listen in on your cell phone. I can track where you go. I know where your car is, right? That's signals. Electronic intelligence. The other is human. So, there are spies in the embassy who tell the Israelis that this meeting will happen. Okay? So, this is clearly military dominance that Israel and the Americans possess over Iran. And when this strike happened... As you know, the Iranians had to respond, and this was called Operation True Promise. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 2:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=161s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=161s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: And the idea of True Promise was that there's a strike package, okay, consisting of 300 drones and missiles that hit Israel. Now, what the Israelis say is that 99 % of these drones and missiles were intercepted. They caused no damage. And the Israelis says, this shows that our Iron Dome system is amazing. We're amazing. Iran cannot touch us. What the Iranians said is that, no, we designed the attack to be harmless. We intentionally designed the attack so that it would not cause that much damage. Okay? So, who's right? The Israelis or the Iranians? I want to make an argument to you today that the Iranians are more believable, more credible. Okay? And the reason why is that the Iranians have to be very strategic in their response to the Americans and the Israelis. And the reason why is the Americans and the Israelis have military dominance over Iran. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 4:03 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=243s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=243s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: But just because you have military dominance, it does not mean you'll win the war, okay? So, what I believe is that Iran and Israel are committed to a war. And it's possible that in two years' time, there will be a ground invasion of Iran, okay? But it's going to take time to build up to the ground invasion. But just because the Americans and the Israelis attack Iran does not mean they will win, okay? And the reason why is that, as you know from your research, in 2002, the Americans actually tried to invade Iran, okay? They ran a simulation called the 2002 Millennium Challenge. And the idea is, let's pretend that we will invade Iran and let's see what happens. So, they divide the military into two teams, right? Team USA and Team Iran. Now, if you know anything about the American military, you will know that it is the most dominant, powerful military ever to exist in the world. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 5:12 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=312s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=312s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: In human history, okay? It is crazy powerful. If the entire world were to get together and say, let's go fight the United States, the world would lose. The United States has the most powerful military in the entire world, okay? And Iran, it's a very poor country. So, the United States invaded Iran and they wanted to see what would happen. And it turned out that, who won? Iran won, okay? And the reason why Iran won is the idea of asymmetrical warfare, all right? And this is a very important idea that you must know if you are to understand this conflict. So, what is asymmetrical warfare? All right, let's pretend that Jack and I are enemies. We hate each other and want to kill each other, okay? Jack has armor and he has a machine gun. I have nothing, okay? So, in most battles, Jack's going to kill me. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 6:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=379s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=379s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: me right but let's pretend that i live in a dark forest and it's really hard to see in this dark forest but i've been living there for decades okay so i know it's dark forest very very well so if jack attacks me in this dark forest then it's possible for me to win because i can set traps right i can play tricks on jack and that's the idea of asymmetrical warfare okay even though jack is superior because i'm inferior i'm forced to be much more strategic in how i fight against jack okay and so asymmetrical warfare means that as long as you can define the terms of engagement as long as you can control how the war is fought you will win okay so let's look let's look at what this means for you, the United States has these aircraft carriers and they cost like a billion dollars okay they're very ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 7:31 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=451s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=451s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: expensive but they're very powerful now in a semi symmetrical warfare what happened is iran sends its entire navy against this one aircraft carrier of the united states and then what happens the united states blows up the entire iranian navy okay that's what would happen so you don't do that okay you do not send your navy against an american aircraft carrier what you do instead is you send drones okay or drone swarms so what they did in the millennium challenge was they had these suicide boats right charging these aircraft carriers and guess what guys if there's a lot of them like a thousand of them you can't stop all of them and if one hits then your boat sinks okay does that make sense okay this is what we call asymmetrical warfare now what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and we're going to what's important to understand is that in могли ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 8:28 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=508s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=508s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: I'mщat an asymmetrical warfare here people n't Jo and you have to control how much resources you use okay so for example this aircraft cure cost $1 billion that's wrong 2 forms Of a drone maybe a thousand dollars for a real one okay but then you have fake ones that cost $100 a thousand dollars are these drones I blow up right hundred dollars are chosen to blow up right you have a thousand of these and then you that's like $10 million and then you have 10,000 of these, and that's another $10 million, okay? So it'll cost you maybe $20 million to blow up a $1 billion aircraft carrier. Does that make sense? And this is why Iran would win a war, because Iran would employ, it's a medical warfare, drone swarms against American aircraft carriers, okay? And the true promise actually showed us that the Iranians would probably use this strategy. And the reason why ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 9:37 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0009](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0009) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=577s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=577s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0009` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: is that the total package, the strike package, that the Iranians used cost about $10 to $30 million. But how much money did the Israelis spend to bring down these drones? Did you guys know? How much did it cost? How much did it cost the Israelis to defend themselves against this attack, okay? It was one, at least $1 billion, okay, do you understand, all right? So this shows us that in a war, Iran would use asymmetrical warfare. And even though Israel and the United States have military dominance, they may not be able to win this war, okay? Okay, so does this make sense so far, any questions about this? Okay, that's a really good question, okay? And the question really is, okay, listen, the Iranians will use this asymmetrical warfare strategy against the Americans. And so shouldn't the Americans respond with more strategic thinking? And that's a great question. And the answer is the Americans would not do that, why not? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 11:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0010](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0010) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=674s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=674s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0010` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Why is it? Why is it? Why is it asymmetrical warfare is so effective against empires and dominant military powers? What's the problem of empires usually? What is the biggest problem? What is the fatal flaw? Okay, they have too much bureaucracy, but Iran also has bureaucracy. But the empires have a much bigger problem, okay? Now let's go back to the millennium challenge. Now in the first test, in the first battle, Iran won against the United States, right? So what did the United States do? And do what? They did it again. They did another second, they did a second simulation. And the second simulation, what did they do? Exactly, okay? What the Americans said is, nope, this is cheating, guys. Did you understand? Asymmetrical warfare is cheating. You cannot cheat. And then the Americans won. Does that make sense? Okay? So remember, in the first instance, where you are allowed to use asymmetrical warfare, the Iranians won. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 12:29 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0011](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0011) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=749s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=749s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0011` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) - Related lens: [When War Becomes A Story Instead Of A Material Test](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/when-war-becomes-a-story-instead-of-a-material-test.txt) Text: Now, the Americans won. In the second instance, the Americans said, no, asymmetrical warfare is cheating. So you're not allowed to use asymmetrical warfare. You must fight us directly. And the Americans won. What does this tell us about the American military? Exactly. Thank you, okay? They are inflexible. Empires are inflexible. And the reason why is the idea of hubris, right? If you're an empire, you refuse. You refuse to admit your failings and faults. You become very stubborn, okay? So it's back to the example of Jack has his machine gun, his armor, right? He comes into this dark forest thinking, like, I'm invincible, right? And everyone's like, Jack, don't go into that dark forest. It's stupid. But Jack's like, no, I have a machine gun. I don't care, all right? So that's the situation. That's why asymmetrical warfare is so effective. Because it allows you flexibility and creativity. And the empire, the dominant power, refuses to be flexible and creative. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 13:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0012](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0012) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=827s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=827s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0012` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? Does that make sense? All right? And so the classic example of this is Vietnam. Where the Viennese were clearly dominated by the Americans. But the Viennese were using extremely creative and flexible tactics against Americans. Whereas the Americans insisted on their power. Their main military doctrine. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? Great. Okay. Any more questions? That was a great question. Thank you. Any more questions before we move on? Okay. So now I want to talk about, okay. If the Iranians are going to use asymmetrical warfare, what would it look like? And the answer is this. When Americans invade, okay, the war started. Before the invasion, the Iranians must do four things. If it is to prevail in the war. Okay? And this is what we call the Iran strategy matrix. Okay? The Iran strategy matrix means that from now on, everything they do must fit into the strategy matrix. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 15:04 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0013](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0013) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=904s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=904s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0013` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? It must accomplish the objectives of the strategy matrix. So the first thing it must do is unite the population. Okay? The second thing it must do is build alliances. And the third thing is win global opinion. And the fourth is weaken the enemy. Okay? So, in other words, everything that Iran is going to do from now until the actual invasion will be to accomplish all four goals at once. And it must, if it is to survive a war. Okay? It must be a full -scale American invasion. Okay? Does it make sense? All right. So, unite the population. What does this mean? Okay? It means that you win the war depending on how much your population is willing to resist the invasion. And it turns out that even though the Iranians right now are divided, okay, there's a lot of opposition towards the current government in Iran. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 16:14 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0014](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0014) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=974s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=974s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0014` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: As some of you know, there have been some protests over the past few years, women protesting for more rights in Iran. Okay? So, there's a lot of division in that country. But I think that most Iranians would resist an invasion. And the reason why is that the Iranians have a very bad history with Westerners. Okay? So, the example is the 1953 coup d 'etat. Okay? So, what happened is that in 1909, the British discovered oil. In Iran. It was called Persia back then. So, they created a company called the Anglo -Iranian Petroleum Company, which we now know as British Petroleum. Okay? BP. And the idea is that this company would be responsible for extracting and selling all the oil. But, unfortunately, the deal was that Iran, Persia, would only get 16 % of the oil. Of profits. Okay? They only got 16 % of profits. So, the Iranians are very upset about this. It's their oil. It's their resource. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 17:35 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0015](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0015) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1055s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1055s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0015` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: But they're not getting that much money out of it. Okay? It's basically stealing. So, for decades, the Iranians have been trying to renegotiate the deal. In 1953, the democratically elected government of Iran said to the British, listen, let's do 50 -50. Okay? That's fair. 50 -50. 50 % for us. 50 % for you. Right? That's a fair deal. And the British, instead of saying yes, went to the Americans. And the British and the Americans together launched a coup d 'etat against the democratically elected government of Iran and installed a police state called the Shah. Okay? The Shah. Which is like the monarchy. Okay? And the Shah, the king of Iran, was so brutal that he created a police state. In 1979, the Iranian people overthrew the Shah. Okay? And so, the Iranian people do not like the idea of foreign invaders coming in and controlling the resources. Okay? Does that make sense? So, over time, ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 18:46 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0016](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0016) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1126s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1126s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0016` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: as Israel and as America continues to be aggressive towards Iran, the population will start to coalesce. And fight against the Americans. Okay? So, let's unite the population. Second is build alliances. Now, Iran has two layers of alliance. The first layer is called the axis of resistance. Right? Which I asked you to research. And the axis of resistance includes the Shia militias in Iraq. Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, and the Houthis in Yemen. Now, what's important to understand is that this is not an alliance. Sorry. What's important to understand is that this is an alliance. Okay? They agreed to fight together because they have common interests. Which is to remain independent of American influence. Okay? But that does not mean that Hamas is a terrorist. Hezbollah and Hufis take orders from Iran. They're not controlled by Iran. Iran supports them militarily and financially, but Iran cannot completely control their behavior. So the example is, on October 7, Hamas launched an attack against Israel, which resulted in this war. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 20:15 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0017](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0017) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0017` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: And Iran says, we were not involved. And Israel says, that can't be true because you control Hamas. So that's the first layer of alliance. But what Iran needs to do, if it is to win the war, is also bring in Russia and China. Russia wants the United States to fight Iran. Why? Yeah, but true, to distract and weaken the United States and also to move the attention away from Ukraine, right? Does that make sense? True, because Russia is about to win the war in Ukraine. And if there's a war in Iran, then the United States will be forced to divert resources from Ukraine into Iran, okay? What would Russia bring to the table? Russia will probably not deploy soldiers. But what Russia would do is say to the United States, when you invade Iran, you are not allowed to use tactical nuclear weapons, okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 21:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0018](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0018) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1290s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1290s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0018` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Understand? Russia, Russia would say that, hey, United States, if you use weapons, nuclear weapons against Iran, we will use nuclear weapons against you, okay? So basically, Russia would limit the military options of America in a war, which would be of tremendous benefit and advantage to Iran, does that make sense? China needs to help Iran, why? What does Iran have that China really needs? What does Iran have that China really, really needs? It really needs this. The Chinese economy needs what? Oil, right? So basically, China can afford for the United States to take over both Iraq and Iran, because then it can control the energy supply to China, okay, does that make sense? So China would involve itself over time in order to make sure that it's able to obtain oil from Iran. From the Middle East. China right now is getting most of its oil from the Middle East, okay? But it will take time for Russia and China to get themselves involved. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 22:52 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0019](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0019) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1372s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1372s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0019` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: For Russia and China to get themselves involved in this conflict, Iran must prove two things. What are these two things? What must Iran show to China and Russia in order to get China and Russia involved in this conflict? If you're China and Russia, you're an investor, right? You're an investor, right? Why will I invest in you, Iran? Why? Exactly, okay? So the first thing is, we will fight. Second thing is, we will win, okay? So this will take time for Iran to prove this to Russia and China. And the more that Iran can show it can win, the more that China and Russia will invest in Iran, both financially and militarily and politically, okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so this will take time. Okay. And the third thing is win global opinion. So how will Iran win global opinion? What's happening right now that's helping Iran win global opinion, basically? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 24:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0020) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1448s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1448s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0020` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: What's happening in the world right now that is helping Iran win global opinion? Or why is the world becoming more supportive of Iran? What thing is happening right now that is outraging or angering the world? What's happening right now? What's Israel doing right now that is outraging the world? Yeah, Gaza, okay? So this is really important for Iran. It must maintain the world spotlight on Gaza, okay? Because what's happening in Gaza, it's basically genocide, right? Where the Israelis are committed to solving the Palestinian problem once and for all. That basically means removing the Palestinians from Gaza. They can go to Egypt. They can go to Jordan. It doesn't matter, okay? But the Israelis want them out of Gaza, okay? And so this will go on for many, many years. And as long as the attention is on Gaza, then people will become much more sympathetic towards Iran over time, okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 25:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0021) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1523s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1523s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: If you've been following the news about America, there have been major protests at Yale and at Columbia and other universities about what's happening in Gaza. And the last is weaken the enemy, okay? So what does this mean? It means that when the United States invades Iran two years from now, six years from now, who knows? But when it does so, it wants to build a large coalition of forces, okay? Because then it gives itself legitimacy, right? So this coalition will consist of NATO, Middle East countries. And Israel, Saudi Arabia, many, many countries. And what Iran needs to do is create conflict and dissent in this coalition, okay? And the way it does that is by building up internal dissent, okay? Does that make sense? There are many people, most people in America do not support a war against Iran. Okay? And so Iran needs to encourage this internal dissent, okay? It can also create conflict between NATO and the United States, okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 26:53 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0022](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0022) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1613s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1613s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0022` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Because obviously, America will want NATO involved in its invasion of Iran, but why would France and Germany want to involve itself, right? Okay? Does that make sense? So these are the four major goals of Iran. And it must accomplish all four goals if it is to survive an invasion, okay? So from now on, everything that Iran does will be to accomplish all four goals, okay? And this is part of asymmetrical warfare. Does that make sense? All right. Now let's look at a concrete example. The concrete example is Operation True Promise. Why did Iran design Operation True Promise? Operation True Promise, the way it did. And the answer is to accomplish all four goals, right? The first is unite the population. The idea here is Iran needed to show its population that Iran can strike back against Israel, okay? So that's the first thing. Build alliances. Striking Israel is showing its allies and to China and Russia that Iran is willing to fight, okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 28:13 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0023](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0023) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1693s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1693s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0023` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Win global opinion. Now, what Iran said is we designed the strike to not cause damage in Israel. And the reason why is it wants to win global opinion, right? If it throws all these missiles and rockets at Israel and it kills a lot of people, then there'll be a lot of people sympathetic towards Israel. So the attack was designed not to cause any casualties. Okay? Does that make sense? All right. And if you are an observer, you think that what Iran did was right because it's a sense of fairness and justice, right? What Israel did was wrong. It attacked an embassy of Iran in Damascus. That's against international law. And Iran, to save face, to pursue justice, threw some rockets at Israel, okay? So most people think that Iran's response was... Showed restraint and it was a measured response. Okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 29:19 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0024](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0024) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1759s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1759s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0024` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. And the last thing is weaken the enemy. Why would this weaken the enemy? Well, because after Iran attacked Israel, Israel wanted to show a strong response. Okay? The reason why is that Israel has a policy of disproportionality. So Israel is committed to disproportionality. So what does that mean? It means that if you kill one Israeli, they'll come and kill about a hundred of you, a thousand of you, okay? If you throw one rocket at them, they'll throw a thousand rockets at you. And the idea here is deterrence, right? To make you afraid of Israel so you would not dare to think to attack Israel, okay? So when Iran attacked Israel, for the first time, by the way, this is the first time that Iran has attacked Israel. When Israel was committed to a disproportionate response, who stopped Israel from a disproportionate response? Who? Yes. Why? Why would the United States say, Israel, do not strike back disproportionately? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 30:41 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0025) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1841s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1841s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Why would the United States do that? Yeah. Okay? So the United States cannot afford right now to fight another war. And also, if the United States were to fight a war, it would have to do something. It would have to do so by itself, okay? NATO would not involve itself. The Middle Eastern countries, like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, would not involve themselves either, okay? So the United States had to restrain Israel. And so this is creating conflict between Israel and the United States, okay? So that's why... So in other words, from a military dominance perspective, Operation True Promise accomplished nothing, okay? Because you blew nothing up. But from an asymmetrical warfare perspective, you accomplish all your four major goals. And that's why the Iranians claim success. And you can make the argument that from a strategy perspective, it was a very successful operation. Okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 31:47 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0026](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0026) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1907s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1907s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0026` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Does that make sense? All right. Any questions about this? Anything you want to clarify or you don't really understand? Okay. Does this make sense to you? Okay. So Peter asked a great question, like, hmm, this war, how will it affect us? We're going to the United States for college. We're Chinese students. Okay. And the answer is this, okay? The answer is, in a war, there's something called rules of engagement. And so before they have a war, all the major parties agree on what the rules are, okay? So for example, you look at the war in Ukraine. Now. The United States and NATO are opening up. Okay? They're openly supplying weapons and financing and intelligence to Ukraine. But from the Russian perspective, we allow that. Okay? We will not allow NATO to send troops to fight with the Ukrainians, but we will allow NATO and the United States to provide weapons and financing. Okay? Does that make sense? This is what we call the rules of engagement, the rules of war. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 33:18 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0027](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0027) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1998s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=1998s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0027` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? So the same thing would happen if the United States were to invade Iran. Before the actual invasion, there would be an agreement among all major parties, which would include Iran, United States, Russia, China, Israel, about the rules of war. And so one important rule of war is you're not allowed to use tactical nuclear weapons. Okay? Iran, you may have nuclear weapons. You're not allowed to use them. United States, you have nuclear weapons. Israel, you have nuclear weapons. But you are not allowed to use them in this war. Okay? That would be the first agreement. Second agreement is that Russia and China are allowed to provide assistance in a very limited basis. Okay? So China would probably provide weapons and material. But this will not impact the relationship between China and the United States. Okay? And during this war, China will maintain a position of what we call strategic ambiguity. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 34:30 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0028](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0028) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2070s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2070s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0028` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: And all this is saying is that China is not going to say that we support Iran. Okay? Russia will not come out and say we support Iran. Never before this war happens, Russia and China could, if they choose, sign a treaty with Iran saying that if anyone attacks you, we'll come to your aid. Right? They will not sign this treaty because they need to maintain strategic ambiguity. Okay? China and Russia do not want to be dragged into this war. Does that make sense? Okay? So my guess is that China will provide assistance to Iran, but on a very limited basis and on a basis that the United States can accept. Okay? That's the first thing. Second thing is, listen, I'm just making a prediction that this war will happen. I don't know if it's going to happen. Okay? You understand? I'm just your high school teacher. I'm not making the decisions. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 35:32 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0029) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2132s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2132s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0029` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? I'm just teaching you how to think about geopolitics. And third of all, when you're actually in the United States, you'll find that there's so much anger at Israel that no one really cares about Chinese students. Do you understand? I mean, like, at that point, most Americans would... It would be like the Vietnam War, where you have this massive protest and civil unrest because there were a lot of Americans who were against the war. And quite honestly, it was a pointless war. America accomplished nothing by fighting the war. So great question, Peter. Does that make sense to you? Okay. Any more questions? Okay. Great question. Okay. So we talked about the idea of hubris, right? Emperors have hubris. And so Israel is a small nation, about eight, nine million people, right? It's not the American empire. The problem is this. The problem is that if you look at the Middle East, the strongest military power in the Middle East is Israel by far. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 36:55 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0030) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2215s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2215s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? Israel does not actually need American protection. If the entire Middle East got together... If the entire Middle East got together and attacked Israel, Israel would win because this happened twice before, right? In the Yom Kippur War and the Six -Day War. So militarily speaking, Israel is powerful. And quite honestly, if the United States were to retreat from the Middle East, Israel would dominate. Okay? So even though it does not look like an empire, it's basically an empire. You understand? So therefore, it suffers from hubris. Okay? It's not going to be strategic and flexible and creative. It doesn't have to be because it has military dominance over everyone. But that's a very good question. Okay? Just because Israel is small does not mean it is weak. It's very, very powerful. Okay? Any more questions? Okay. The question is very interesting. So is America constraining Israel? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 38:08 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0031](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0031) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2288s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2288s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0031` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: And you can make the argument both ways. Okay? You can make the argument that American presence in Israel is preventing Israel from starting a regional war. Okay? But you can also make the argument that Israel right now is using America to pursue a lot of its geopolitical interests. Okay? So it's a very complicated question. Okay? But I think that... I personally think that America is right now constraining Israel. Okay? Because Israel needs American support. And that constrains the actions of Israel. But if America were not around, then it's possible that Israel unleashes the full might of its military. And its military is very, very powerful. Okay? All right? But... But if America were to lead the region, then I think Israel would become the dominant power in the region. But I think the same is true for throughout the world. If America left Europe, who would become the dominant power? Germany. Right? And if America left East Asia, who would become the dominant power? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 39:44 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0032](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0032) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2384s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2384s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0032` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Japan. Okay? Okay? Does that make sense? So I would say that... The regional powers right now are Germany, Israel, and Japan. And it's an American empire that's constraining all three right now. And if America were just to go back home and isolate itself, then these three nations would rise to the top. Any more questions? That's a great question. Okay? So first of all, listen, this is all theory and conjecture, right? America has not expressed any intent of invading Iran. And if America does invade Iran, then chances are it will win the war. Okay? But an invasion of Iran, if it loses the war, it would basically mean the end of the American empire. Okay? And the reason why is, if you look at why empires collapse, it's because of three reasons. Okay? The first is the idea of extension. Okay? Over extension. It's doing too many things at once. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 40:57 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0033](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0033) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2457s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2457s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0033` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? It's fighting this war in Ukraine, it's fighting this war in Iran, it's fighting this war everywhere basically. Okay? The idea of overextension. That's the first reason. Second is the idea of debt. It basically just runs out of money. Right? Because it's overextended. And this leads to the idea of civil unrest. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 41:20 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0034](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0034) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2480s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2480s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0034` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 41:23 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0035](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0035) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2483s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2483s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0035` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: So the American empire is heading into a lot of trouble over the next 10 years because all three things are happening at once. Right? Over extension, debt, and civil unrest. At the same time, the American empire is extremely wealthy and extremely powerful. So, even though America loses the war, there's still no peer competitor to the United States. But all that means is that the world will divide into different regional blocks. Okay? Where maybe Germany controls Europe. Japan controls East Asia. Israel controls the Middle East. Okay? So, more of a parallel world. Okay? A multipolar world as opposed to a unipolar world where one nation controls everything. The decline of the American empire is going to take decades, possibly centuries. Okay? But we'll talk about this in a future class. Okay? What will happen to America if it loses the war? Okay? Any more questions? Yeah? Okay. So, that's a good question. Okay. Like, okay. The ground invasion. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 42:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0036](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0036) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2568s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2568s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0036` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: What will provoke it? Okay? And that's something that I want to spend a future class on. Okay? But, listen. We've done a lot of wars. Okay? And we know that America doesn't really need a reason to fight a war. Do you understand? It can just make up a reason. It doesn't care. So, basically, the argument is this. The argument that I want to make is that if Trump wins the presidency, then it is most likely that he will start a war against Iran. Okay? That's what I think. I think it will be Trump who initiates the war. And I think that it will happen maybe two years from now. So, this is a very complicated question. Okay? Like, what's the relationship between Israel and America? And the reason why it's complicated is that... There's something called the Israel lobby. And again, we need to spend an entire class on the idea of the Israel lobby because it makes no sense. ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 44:01 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0037](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0037) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2641s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2641s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0037` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Okay? It's really hard to understand by itself. So I'll spend an entire class on the Israel lobby. And then you'll understand why there's an alliance between Israel and America. Okay? All right. But thank you. Okay? Any more questions? So just to summarize, we will do a class on Jack's question. What will the war look like and what will it mean for America if it loses the war? We'll also do a class on David's question, which is, what's the relationship between Israel and America? Okay? Any more questions? We will. Yes. We'll also be talking about the rise of Japan and Germany. Okay? All right. Any more questions? Okay. Great. I'll see you next week. Okay? ## Military Dominance Is Not Victory -- 44:48 - Source title: Geo-Strategy #1: Iran's Strategy Matrix - Source class: episode - Date: 2024-04-24, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0038](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e/transcript/#seg-0038) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2688s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEEpOxqdU5E&t=2688s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e@transcript:v1#seg-0038` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-xeepoxqdu5e.json) Text: Bye. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 0:00 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0001](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0001) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=0s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=0s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0001` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-research-restores-exploration) Text: So this is a very exciting day because we are officially starting the Gay to Lease journalism course. Traditionally, we've understood journalism and research as this method of just collecting information, organizing it, and then expressing it. But then along came a man named Gay to Lease, and he transformed journalism, and he transformed the way we understood research. So we created something called literary journalism, which is the idea that journalism can be by itself be literature. But the Gay to Lease method is going to teach us how to be creative, how to be imaginative, and how to engage with reality and engage with people, because we don't teach you this in school. In fact, we teach you the opposite. Don't explore. Just do what the teacher tells you to do. Where did he learn this? Well, he learned this at home. The reason why is that his father was a tailor. His father was a tailor, and he had a tailoring business in New Jersey. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 1:20 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0002) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=80s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=80s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) Text: His mother took care of the business while his father made the clothes. So what does this have to do with exploration and reflection? ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 1:33 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0003](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0003) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=93s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=93s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0003` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) Text: Okay? Well, his mother was responsible for the business aspects. So these very wealthy people would come to the shop and order very nice suits. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 1:49 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0004](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0004) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=109s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=109s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0004` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-research-restores-exploration) Text: And her job was to deal with them. But it's actually very hard to deal with rich people. They can be very demanding. So her strategy was to become their friend. And how do you become someone's friend? What do you do in order to become someone's friend? What must you do? Talk. Wrong. Not talk. The opposite. Listen. Okay? You understand? So in the family living room, the mother would just sit down on the couch talking with these very wealthy people. And she would talk just by listening. Okay? So her strategy for this is that... I am interested in you. So that's how she became friends with all these very wealthy people even though she herself was not wealthy. Because she had a mindset that whoever came into her living room, whoever was a client, was first and foremost a friend. And she was interested in this person. She was interested in people. So she would spend hours and hours just listening to that person talk and talk and talk. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 3:10 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0005](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0005) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=190s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=190s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0005` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) Text: And so you can say that this is exploration. Curiosity. Okay? Exploration. But in the other room, the father would by himself sit and work on the clothes. Right? I am not sure if you have seen Taylor's work. They are very precise. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 3:32 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0006](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0006) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=212s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=212s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0006` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) Text: They are very exact. They are very meticulous. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 3:36 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0007](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0007) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=216s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=216s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0007` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-research-restores-exploration) Text: They are very disciplined. They are very patient. So you can spend days and days in this room just working on a topic. This is the only piece of suit. Right? This is the idea of reflection. The pursuit of perfection. So exploration is the pursuit of curiosity. And reflection is the pursuit of perfection. This is the Gay Talese. This is the Gay Talese research method. This is what I will be teaching you. This is something that will not just help you become a better writer but someone who will be much more creative and a much more effective researcher. So even if you are going to the sciences, I guarantee you that the skills you will be learning in this class will help you wherever you go. I want you to go around Beijing and take pictures. Again, the idea is contrast. Remember that here he says New York is a city of things unnoticed. ## The Talese Method Turns Listening Into Research -- 4:40 - Source title: Jiang Xueqin Teaching Gay Talese Research Method (Introduction) - Source class: episode - Date: 2023-06-21, day precision - Transcript: [seg-0008](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o/transcript/#seg-0008) - Video timestamp: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=280s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9Hv1PXx0o&t=280s) - Source ref: `video:predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o@transcript:v1#seg-0008` - Episode text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.txt) - Episode JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gp9hv1pxx0o.json) - Related lens: [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/docs/lens/education-as-a-soul-game.txt#education-research-restores-exploration) Text: New York is a city of contrast. I want you to do the same thing for Beijing. Take your camera and take pictures of things that other people would not notice. Okay? And take pictures of things that are contrast of each other.